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DOHA: Summer vacation normal schedule by 2018. for schools in Qatar may be Several Asian schools that advanced next year, with the begin their academic year in April Supreme Education Council will be affected if they are asked (SEC) hinting that Ramadan to follow the changed schedule. will fall within the holidays over However, details of the holiday the next three years. schedules are not yet known. The summer holidays may The SEC said that the aca- begin at least 10 days earlier next demic calendar is prepared taking year given that Ramadan gets several aspects into consideration, advanced by the same number like Eid and Ramadan holidays of days every year, based on the and the national holidays, lunar calendar. Teachers of Independent school This means that in 2016, the have been given a 70-day holiday holidays may begin in the first during summer and 15 days dur- week of June, earlier by about 20 ing winter while non-teaching days compared with the current staff are getting a maximum of A protester faces a water cannon during clashes with riot police at a demonstration in Ankara yesterday. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan schedule. 45 days of leave. rallied tens of thousands of his supporters in Istanbul, hours after ordering a crackdown on anti-government protesters in a city park and sending In a statement yesterday on its Reacting to the SEC statement, tensions soaring in two weeks of unrest. See also page 7 website explaining the academic several citizens have called to calendar in Qatar, the SEC said remove the irregularities in the that in the next three years, academic calendar and divide it Ramadan will be part of the sum- into two equal semesters, with 90 mer holidays. After that, it will days each. fall within the regular school days. Currently, the first term is Kuwait’s top court dissolves parliament This schedule would apply not longer with 106 days while the only to Independent schools but second term comprises only 73 KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s top that the court had ordered a dis- turned violent. The electoral law last October, which had set up a also to private schools, since the days, said a commentator. court yesterday scrapped last solution of parliament. Last June, passed in 2006 allowed each eligi- National Election Commission, SEC has unified the summer holi- They also suggested that the December’s parliamentary elec- it scrapped an opposition-dom- ble voter to choose a maximum of was unconstitutional. days of all schools in the country. academic calendar in Qatar be tion, which was boycotted by inated parliament, saying there four candidates. The amendment Islamist, nationalist and liberal This year the holidays begin unified in keeping with the system the opposition, but approved the had been flaws in the procedures reduced the number to just one. opposition groups had rejected the on June 26 and the schools will followed by other GCC countries. controversial electoral law that that led to its election. The court ruled the amend- electoral law amendment charg- reopen on September 7. The aca- Although the academic calen- sparked the boycott. Kuwait’s Emir, H H Sheikh ment is “in line with the consti- ing that it had enabled the gov- demic year in Qatar begins in dar is now unified, schools are fol- The constitutional court, whose Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al tution” and that it was made to ernment to manipulate election September. lowing different working hours. rulings are final, dissolved the Sabah, decreed the controver- “serve national interests” and give results and subsequent legislation. For several years, summer holi- Duration of the classes also vary loyalist-dominated parliament sial amendment to the electoral minorities the chance to be rep- Several opposition MPs spoke days here start by the end of June from one independent school to and ordered a fresh election, in law last October intensifying a resented in parliament. out strongly against the court’s or early July and this is going to another. This also has to be uni- the verdict read out by presiding bitter dispute that had engulfed It said it was scrapping the decision to uphold the amend- change over the next three years. fied, said another person. judge Yousef Al Mutawah. the emirate since 2006, sparking December election because a ment. AFP The schools may return to the THE PENINSULA It was the second time in a year street protests, some of which second decree issued by the Emir Picture on page 6

Pre-G8 meeting Saudi reduces Haj pilgrims this year QCB tightens curbs on

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has security investments cut back the number of pilgrims that may perform the Haj this DUBAI: Qatar’s central bank introduced a 15pc ceiling for total year due to construction work has tightened its curbs on how securities investment outside aimed at expanding the holy much banks can invest in stocks Qatar. site of Makkah, the Haj minis- and bonds, according to a circu- Real estate investment by ter said. lar released by the central bank Islamic banks will be limited to The authorities had decided to and seen by Reuters. 10pc of capital and reserves; ear- reduce by half the number of pil- Banks’ total investment in lier, the limit was 30 pc. grims coming from within Saudi equities and debt instruments The central bank did not give Arabia, and by about 20 percent must be limited to 25 percent of the reasons for its new rules, but those from abroad, said Bandar their capital and reserves, though Qatar is gearing up to spend tens Hajjar. debt instruments issued by the of billions of dollars on major See also page 7 government and national banks infrastructure projects, and it is are exempt from the limits. seeking to develop its government Previously, under instructions debt market partly to help finance Four knifed in to banks issued in November 2011, this. the limits were 30 percent each The circular did not say over UK mosque for equities and debt instruments. what time frame the new rules LONDON: A 32-year-old man Among other restrictions, the would be implemented and cen- is being questioned after four central bank set new limits for tral bank officials could not be people, including a police officer, British Prime Minister David Cameron (right) with Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of a meeting in investment in individual compa- contacted to elaborate. were injured in a knife attack Downing Street in London, yesterday. Russia and the West can overcome their differences over the conflict nies and unlisted securities, and REUTERS during evening prayers at a in Syria, Cameron said after a pre-G8 summit meeting with Putin. See also pages 6 & 11 Birmingham mosque. Chief Superintendent Alex Murray praised the “heroic” actions of officers and other wor- shippers who intervened during How the UK spied on its G20 allies at London summits the incident at the Madrassa Qasim Ul Uloom mosque, in the Washwood Heath area of the city, LONDON: Foreign politicians British intelligence agencies to the exercise is to be repeated this organised for the more mundane top secret — which were uncov- on Saturday. The incident comes and officials who took part in read their email traffic. week. purpose of securing an advan- ered by the NSA whistleblower amid an increase in police patrols two G20 summit meetings in The revelation comes as Britain The disclosure raises new tage in meetings. Named targets Edward Snowden and seen by the around mosques after a number London in 2009 had their com- prepares to host another summit questions about the boundaries include long-standing allies such Guardian. of attacks in the aftermath of puters monitored and their today — for the G8 nations, all of of surveillance by GCHQ and its as South Africa and Turkey. They reveal that during G20 the killing of British soldier Lee phone calls intercepted on the whom attended the 2009 meetings American sister organisation, the There have often been rumours meetings in April and September Rigby in Woolwich, south London. instructions of their British which were the object of the sys- National Security Agency, whose of this kind of espionage at inter- 2009, GCHQ used what one doc- Murray said the motivation for government hosts, accord- tematic spying. It is likely to lead access to phone records and national conferences but it is ument calls “ground-breaking the attack was unclear but there ing to documents seen by The to some tension among visiting Internet data has been defended highly unusual for hard evidence intelligence capabilities” to inter- was no evidence it was a hate Guardian. Some delegates were delegates who will want the prime as necessary in the fight against to confirm it and spell out the cept the communications of visit- crime or linked to any other inci- tricked into using Internet minister to explain whether they terrorism and serious crime. The detail. The evidence is contained ing delegations. dents. Full report on page 11 cafes which had been set up by were targets in 2009 and whether G20 spying appears to have been in documents — classified as THE GUARDIAN MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME UK envoy has three reasons to return O’Neill wants to fly from new airport, visit after completion of two projects

BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB He first visited Qatar five years ago when he was an envoy to Sharp rise in visa applications DOHA: The outgoing British Sudan during the Darfur peace Ambassador, Michael O’Neill, process in which Qatar was also DOHA: There was a sharp increase of 24 percent in the number yesterday expressed his desire involved. of applications by Qataris seeking UK visas until April this to visit Qatar again — at least “I learnt a little bit about the year compared to last year’s figures, said outgoing Ambassador, on three important occasions — country and became very keen Michael O’Neill, yesterday. to fly from the new airport, and to come to Qatar as an ambas- “The number of visa applications increased from 17,000 in 2010 the other two visits after the sador… Over the past 12 months to 34,000 in 2012. We do not have the exact figures for May and completion of Qatar National Qatar-UK relationships have June, but until April 2013, it increased by 24 percent compared to Museum and Musheireb deepened and strengthened in last year,” he said. Downtown projects. all sectors, including investment, Asked if the embassy would consider introducing any special “I take away many good impres- trade, commerce, education and provisions for Qataris seeking visas, he said: “We have standard sions with me about Qatar, but culture,” he added. rules that are applicable for every country. But keeping in view the some of them are very impor- “The boldness and the breadth increasing number of applications over the past several months, we tant. Since September last year of Qatar National Vision 2030 have introduced a number of changes to improve the visa assistance many senior officials from the is extraordinarily impressive. process, including the size of staff. We are very happy about the UK, including ministers and the It is not simply one part of the number of Qataris willing to travel to the UK.” mayor of London, visited the development, but it includes the O’Neill added: “The team that handles applications at the embassy country, and all of them were socio-economic and environmen- has grown in size. We try to make sure the process is as quick as impressed with the dynamism, tal aspects for all-round develop- possible. And we have also introduced a priority service, with an vision and openness of the lead- ment of the country.” extra amount of fee, for those seeking a quick service.” ership,” O’Neill said at a media He added: “I am also impressed THE PENINSULA briefing at the embassy yesterday. by the dynamism and the energy “Qatar is fortunate to have a of the leadership of Qatar. The Speaking about the Syrian community, including the UK, group of remarkably dynamic Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin crisis and Britain’s role, he said: the US and Qatar, is actively leaders which is very unusual in Khalifa Al Thani, Heir Apparent “There is an urgent need to looking for consideration for this region,” he said, adding: “I am H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad change the forces on the ground options. Discussions are going The outgoing British Ambassador, Michael O’Neill, addresses the press very sorry to leave this incredible Al Thani, H H Sheikha Moza in Syria for a cohesive and inclu- on in London, Washington, Paris conference at the embassy in Doha yesterday. KAMMUTTY VP country in the world so early for bint Nasser, the Prime Minister sive political settlement... Any and Doha at the highest level to personal reasons as I need to go and Foreign Minister H E political settlement without the explore possibilities to provide back home to join my family after Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin departure of President Bashar further assistance to the opposi- is a diverse country with multi- different ethnic groups, including three years.” Jabor Al Thani, Chairman of Al Assad would not be possible tion. They are in constant touch. ethnic groups and all of them Christians, Alawites, Sunnis and O’Neill has been ambassador the Administrative Control and to return peace and stability in I can’t tell you what the outcomes should have their representation others. So it is important that the to Qatar since May 2012 and is Transparency Authority H E the country.” of these discussions will be.” in the post-Assad government. opposition should be as inclusive expected to leave by the end of Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, He said that after the fall He said that the future of Syria “As we know, Syria is a com- as possible to represent everyone,” this week. and others. of Qusayr, the international has to be decided by its people. It plex country with minorities and he added. THE PENINSULA ictQatar event to promote e-accessibility for disabled DOHA: The Supreme “This event is an opportunity The highlight of the event will This includes Ooredoo, Vodafone, of ICT and to provide benefits responsible for implement- Council of Information and to hear firsthand from people be two panel discussions on the Qatar National Library, Qatar for the rest of society through ing the policy’s provisions to Communication Technology with disabilities regarding their right to access digital data and Foundation and the Supreme improving the general usability ensure smooth coordination and (ictQatar), in cooperation with experience of using accessible dig- building digital platforms. In addi- Education Council. In November of ICT products and services for implementation. Qatar’s Assistive Technology ital data and services and what tion to users with disabilities, the 2011, ictQatar issued the e-Acces- everyone. The event will be conducted Center (MADA), will host an e-accessibility means to them,” event will be attended by stake- sibility Policy to lay the foundation ictQatar has closely monitored in Arabic and English through event to promote e-accessibility said Policy Manager of Strategic holders from various industries, for an accessible ICT ecosystem the progress of this policy to date instant translation as well as sign for people with disabilities at Planning at ictQatar, Ahmed sectors, and organisations work- in Qatar to enable persons with through close interaction and col- language interpretation. Four Seasons Hotel, on June 19. Hefnawi. ing with people with disabilities. disabilities to take full advantage laboration with all stakeholders THE PENINSULA

The hawksbill turtle is one of the marine species whose habitat is benefiting from RasGas conservation efforts. RasGas issues sustainability report

DOHA: RasGas Company We measure ourselves against worked last year compared to 30 Limited (RasGas) has issued international benchmarks in envi- million in 2011. its Sustainability Report 2012, ronmental, social, economic and Construction projects such the fourth such report, with corporate performance in 2012,” as the Barzan Gas Project more the theme “Caring For Our he added. than doubled the scale of RasGas’ Resources”. As RasGas continues to make contractor workforce adding to its It closely tracks the company’s good progress on major construc- complexity. concern for the sustainability of tion projects like the Barzan Gas In spite of this, RasGas ranked the people who live and work in Project and Helium 2. It has as the best performer when Qatar, the sustainability of the maintained the highest stand- compared with 20 of the largest energy the company produces and ards of safety and health in both companies in the International the sustainability of the environ- these projects and existing opera- Association of Oil and Gas ment around us that is precious tions, as well as expanded its con- Producers’ safety performance for the long term health and tribution to Qatar’s sustainable benchmarking report. safety of the community. development. To reduce emissions, the com- RasGas’ Chief Executive “We are aware that in order pany agreed on a greenhouse gas Officer, Hamad Rashid Al to continue contributing to the strategy that sets the context for Mohannadi, said: “RasGas is State’s economy while meeting action that it will take over five aware that in order to continue the growing demand for clean years and beyond. to meet the growing demand for energy, we need to produce reli- Achieving the goals of the strat- clean energy, we need to opti- ably while minimising waste. This egy requires addressing the key mise operational output while Report highlights the efforts we drivers of emissions, and using the minimising waste. We work very make to care for our people and human and technical resources at hard to conserve and protect our our resources to honour our com- the Company’s disposal. resources such as energy and mitments,” said Al Mohannadi. In 2012, RasGas launched its water and enhance workforce and In its continued efforts to second five-year flare minimisa- community health.” operate in a sustainable manner, tion programme which is set to “Sustainable Development is RasGas achieved many notewor- continue the trend of downward

a long but essential journey for thy milestones in 2012. emissions of CO2, ultimately tar- every country and every company. RasGas continued to maintain geting 90 percent reduction from Our report has become an inte- a safe work environment for its the flaring levels of 2005. gral part of this journey and ena- employees and contractors. The Investments in new equipment bles us to transparently share our Company’s lost-time injury rate and technology have also reduced progress, challenges and achieve- (LTIR) was 0.01 in 2012, which GHG emissions of other pollut- ments with all our stakeholders. included almost 70 million hours ants. QNA MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

HMC medical staff conducting examinations on visitors at the City Center polyclinic yesterday. RIGHT: A booth explaining the proper method of providing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) to a person suffering from cardiac arrest. KAMMUTTY VP City Center clinic refers many to experts Polyclinic, as part of ‘Kulluna for a Healthy Heart’ campaign, has conducted over 55,000 check-ups

BY FAZEENA SALEEM to provide advice and check-ups hypertension. “Hypertension is The polyclinic promoting car- related to cardiovascular diseases. highly preventable. But if it’s not diac health and combating heart DOHA: A high number of visi- Many visitors were found to be controlled, it can lead to sudden disease will run until June 28. tors to the Hamad Medical suffering from hypertension or death. It’s a silent killer,” said Dr The next phase of Kulluna Corporation’s (HMC) tem- overweight. Saifeldeen. safety campaign will be on the porary polyclinic at the City “We receive an average of 1,000 Around 25 to 30 percent visi- advantages of fasting and how to Center have been referred to visitors; tests for cholesterol, tors were found to be having high beat the heat. cardiology specialists at pri- blood pressure, glucose, ECO car- cholesterol, while 50 percent were Special awareness programmes mary healthcare centres. diogram and EGC are done,” Dr found to be overweight. will be held for workers on how The polyclinic being held for Saifeldeen told a press conference Moreover, 3,500 people have to protect oneself from the heat. the past two weeks as part of the at the polyclinic yesterday. attended the booth which helps Launched in 2012, Kulluna is ‘Kulluna for a Healthy Heart’ About 30 to 40 percent of visi- quit smoking, and another 3,500 a five-year national campaign campaign, has referred 3,500 tors to the polyclinic are work- have sought advice on how to fol- to improve health and safety in people for further treatment, ers and a majority of them have low a healthy diet. Qatar. according to campaign Chairman been diagnosed with hypertension Besides, about 2,000 people It is sponsored by Dr Khalid Abdulnoor Saifeldeen. due to being overweight and their have learnt how to provide first ConocoPhillips. Over 55,000 tests for choles- lifestyle. aid to someone suffering from a The first part of the campaign, terol, blood pressure, glucose, Also, 30 percent of visi- heart attack or a cardic arrest. ‘Keep Us Safe’ was dedicated to ECO cardiogram and EGC have tors between 25 and 45 years “This means they can save children’s safety. been done at the polyclinic set up were found to be suffering from 2,000 lives,” said Dr Saifeldeen. THE PENINSULA. The Chairman of the Kulluna campaign, Dr Khalid Abdulnoor Saifeldeen. MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME More freedom for scribes urged Higher salaries will attract more locals to journalism and boost Qatarisation, say media experts

The Editor-in-Chief of The Peninsula, Khalid Al Sayed, (second right) and the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Al Sharq, Dr Khalid Al Jabor, (second left) with other panellists at the event yesterday.

DOHA: Senior Qatari media Qatarisation in the sector. Khalid Al Jaber, Dr Ilham Bader, their experiences and opinions Dr Al Jaber stressed that it He said that the number of professionals have urged more They were speaking at a semi- Editor-in-Chief of The Peninsula, and gave suggestions to boost was important to have more Qataris working in the media freedom for journalists and nar on Qatarisation in the media Khalid Al Sayed, and Professor Qatarisation in the field. Qatari journalists as they know is very less compared with for- higher salaries to attract locals sector, at the Qatar University of Mass Communications at the Al Harami spoke about his the country’s culture, traditions eigners. This could be overcome into the profession. yesterday. Qatar University, Dr Mohammed experiences and problems he and, more precisely, would help by raising salaries of journalists They have also suggested that The Editor-in-Chief of Al Qirat, discussed problems facing faced since he joined the pro- enhance the media sector. and the expected media law could the absence of a new media law Sharq Jabir Al Harami, Deputy Qatarisation in the sector. fession. He said that he worked The need for a sustainable eliminate the risk factor, he said. and journalists are a barrier to Editor-in-Chief of Al Sharq, Dr The media experts shared without a salary for some time career guarantee for Qatari jour- Dr Bader said that there are at the beginning and started off nalists and to reduce risks they enough Qatari journalists in with QR800 a month. face was also stressed. media institutions as in any place, He said that the sector needed Al Sayed explained that all while Dr Qirat said that chal- Lifting of censorship more investigative Qatari issues were discussed five years lenges faced in the Qatarisation journalists. ago and that the only solution will process in the media sector could According to him, Qatar has no be to raise the quality of media be solved if more citizens took up barrier for female journalists and studies at Qatar University and the profession. boosts Arab media there are many in the profession. reduce risks faced by journalists. THE PENINSULA

DOHA: Lifting of media censorship in Arab Spring countries has boosted local channels which have stepped into the role Aljazeera had been playing in the region for years, according to a new book. New Media in the Arab World: A study of 10 Arab and Muslim countries contains studies and articles by a group of prominent writers and intellectuals in the region and the West. Edited by Barrie Gunter and Roger Dickinson, the book in English is published by Dar Al Sharq, in collaboration with Bloomsbury. The authors say Arab revolutions have heralded a healthy competition in the media sector in the region, with several local channels now covering news in detail. Many viewers of Aljazeera are now switching over to these channels, they say. However, despite a decline in its popularity, Aljazeera remains to be the leading channel in the region, espe- cially in terms of covering the Arab Spring countries. The 10 countries covered by the book include Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Egypt, Iraq, Libya and Palestine. The authors include Dr Khalid Al Jabor, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Al Sharq daily, Professor Bari Gunter, Dr Roger Dickinson, Dr Ahmed Al Rawi, Dr Zaki Al Nashashibi, Dr Hamza Mohammad, Dr Mukhtar Al Arishi, Dr Ibrahim Al Sheikh and Dr Vincent Campbell. Aljazeera’ rivals in the region include Al Arabia, Al Hur, BBC Arabic and Arabic editions of French, Russian and Chinese channels. Numerous international news channels, radio stations and websites have contributed to Arab revolutions, the book says, adding that Arab governments have lost their control over the media. Now they can censor only the state-owned radio and news channels that are reaching a very limited audience, according to the authors. THE PENINSULA Some of the participants at the event. QU-Qatar Shell MoU to offer more opportunities to students DOHA: Qatar University (QU) greater collaboration in technol- Misnad and Qatar Shell Managing and Qatar Shell Research & ogy, innovation and research and Director and Chairman Wael Technology Centre (QSRTC) development, offering greater Sawan in the presence of QU Vice signed a Memorandum of opportunities for students and President and Chief Academic Understanding (MoU) yesterday faculty. Officer, Dr Mazen Hasna, QU to strengthen their long-stand- The agreement was signed by faculty members and senior Qatar ing partnership, committing to QU President Prof Sheikha Al Shell staff. The MoU will consoli- date the numerous collabo- rations that exist between Qatar University and Qatar Shell. Under the MoU, Qatar Shell will sponsor and support the educational programmes offered by QU; share industrial and tech- Prof Sheikha Al Misnad and Wael Sawan with faculty members and senior staff. nical knowledge with QU faculty and students; facil- between the two organisations introduce more research and student engagement through itate greater collaboration through expert lectures and development initiatives to expand internships, competitions, awards and recruitment of QU stu- dents by Qatar Shell. This is in addition to support- ing events organised by the university. A Joint Steering Committee, co-chaired by Prof Al Misnad and Sawan, will be established to manage, facilitate and implement the various pro- grammes. Prof Al Misnad said: “Strong partnerships between academia and industry offer great mutual benefits in terms of shar- ing skills and expertise and enabling students to receive a world-class education from those who are the best in their field.” Speaking at the sign- ing ceremony, Sawan said: “Qatar Shell has been working closely with Qatar University for many years and we are extremely proud to expand our long-stand- ing partnership. This MoU will further strengthen our cooperation with QU to fur- ther develop local human capacities and talents that will help lead to a knowl- edge-based economy in line with the Qatar National Vision 2030.” THE PENINSULA MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Katara brings Qatar Airways shows off Dreamliner in Paris DOHA/PARIS: Qatar Airways will showcase its newest Boeing 787 Dreamliner at the 50th collectors and International Paris Air Show which begins today. The Doha-based airline took delivery of its sixth Dreamliner this morning following its direct artists together flight from Seattle to the show venue Le Bourget. Thousands of trade visitors from around the world are expected to ‘Second life’ of art documented attend the Air Show, which runs until June 23. A limited number DOHA: An exhibition at SECOND LIFE OF ART of tours of the 787 are planned for Katara explore the role and select VIPs, industry guests and commitment of collectors in The relationship between the media during the show. the Community Supported the artist and the collector Qatar Airways Chief Executive Art (CSA) through a series of Officer Akbar Al Baker said: “We images documented from their is vital in establishing are delighted to have our brand Qatar Airways’ factory fresh Boeing 787 Dreamliner arrives in Le Bourget for the 50th International Paris Air Show. private spaces in which they the career of an artist, new 787 fly into Le Bourget have placed the works of art. yet the ‘second life’ of a direct from Boeing’s assembly 787s feature 254 seats – 22 in Airline’s five Dreamliners now in Munich and Dubai with more 787 Through this documentation, work of art after it leaves plant in Seattle for what prom- Business Class in a 1-2-1 configu- service fly from Doha to a select routes expected to be announced one can examine the direct and ises to be yet another exciting ration and a 232 seating capacity few destinations including London over the next few weeks. varied relationships that collec- the gallery and has been Paris Air Show. Qatar Airways’ in Economy with a 3-3-3 layout. Heathrow, Zurich, Frankfurt, THE PENINSULA tors may have with the works of acquired by a collector is art themselves. a rarely documented one. The relationship between the artist and the collector is a vital New Indian school in Qatar one in establishing the career of Emir sends the artist, yet the ‘second life’ of a work of art after it leaves the Andrew Jay Weir, who sought to condolence gallery and has been acquired by accurately depict the artworks in a collector is a rarely documented their new setting of the private cable to Kuwait one. spaces of the collector’s home. “Through this exhibition we CSA exhibition opened on April DOHA: The Emir H H wanted to provide a contextual 29 and featured the works of 14 Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al reading that is outside the white Doha-based artists. Thani yesterday sent a cable cube of the gallery, in this case, The project sought to feature of condolences to the Emir of in collector’s homes,” said artis- the work of artists producing Kuwait, H H Sheikh Sabah Al tic director and curator Mayssa work in Doha, and to develop a Jabar Al Ahmed Al Sabah, on Fattouh. new base of collectors for their the death of Sheikha Jawaher “The way we perceive artworks work, essential in developing a Al Malik Al Sabah. in various settings is important thriving art scene. The Heir Apparent H H for understanding them,” contin- The participating artists in Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al ues Fattouh, “and we wanted to the CSA were, Alanoud Alhajry, Thani and the Prime Minister give this extra layer, and invited Ben Barbour, Christto Sanz and Foreign Minister H E the collectors to participate in and Andrew Jay Weir, Erika Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin this exhibition and highlight their Blumenfeld, Faraj Daham, Jaber Jabor Al Thani sent similar commitment and responsibility AlAzmeh, Khalid Albaih, Khalifa cables to the Kuwaiti Emir. for the artworks they have chosen Al Obaidly, Maher Attar, Maria to live with.” Stabio, Mariana Heilmann, The documentation process Mohamed Abou El Naga, Rhys RAF opens was taken on by artist and pho- Himsworth, and Zachary Lewis tography duo Christto Sanz and Stensen. THE PENINSULA Islamic centre The foundation stone for Rajagiri Doha Public School was laid by Mohammed Nasser Khatab Al Kaabi, Chairman, Al Kaabi Contracting and Trading Company (Al Kaabi), in Abu Hamour area yesterday. Jose Alex, Manager, in North India Rajagiri Educational Management Group, Kochi, Kerala, India, George Jacob, General Manager, Al Kaabi, Dr Aju Abraham and other dignitaries were present. SALIM MATRAMKOT DOHA: Sheikh Eid Charity Foundation (RAF) has QU college gets inaugurated an Islamic centre in the northern Indian State of Uttar Pradesh. top accreditation RAF said in a statement yesterday that the centre DOHA: Qatar University’s Eiman Mustafawi and Mass consists of a large building of (QU) Mass Communication Communication Department several storeys and features Department in the College of head Dr Mahmoud Galander an Islamic school to teach Arts and Sciences (CAS) yes- together with journalists from the Holy Quran and Shariah. terday celebrated the accredi- Al Sharq, other media organi- The premises also includes tation given by the Academic sations and officials of the administrative offices, an Council of the Association ACAEJMC. auditorium, a fatwa section of Education of Journalism “This accreditation is an and an Islamic library. and Mass Communication evidence for the quality of our The centre, built in collab- (ACAEJMC). educational programs,” said Al oration with the Charitable The event to mark the inter- Misnad. Addressing the event Educational Association, will national accreditation sta- Dr Galander specified the role play an important role in tus was held in the presence of Al Sharq in training their supporting community activ- of the accreditation council students saying, “Al Sharq is ities, including cultural and and leading journalists from our media partner, because it recreational programmes, Doha. It was attended by QU has provided training for our besides its educational role, President Prof Sheikha Abdulla students and employed them.” the statement added. QNA Al Misnad, CAS Dean Dr THE PENINSULA Librarians get lessons in promoting reading habit among children

DOHA: Bloomsbury Qatar the library. The programme’s ses- not only inside the library, but Foundation Publishing (BQFP) sions covered strategies on how outside of it as well.” has concluded their Schools to add character to libraries in Head of Libraries and the Outreach Programme for the a child-friendly manner, how to Media Center at Qatar Academy, spring term of this year, which select appropriate collections of Beverly Stubbs, addressed the included a second season of books, and how to mobilise mem- qualities a librarian should Ready Steady Read, the librar- bers of the school community to embody to succeed. She encour- ian mentoring programme, campaign for the importance of aged them to embrace technol- as well as teachers and par- reading. Nineteen librarians rep- ogy and use it to their advantage, ents’ workshop and a student resenting sixteen schools joined rather than shying away from it, competition. the programme. and to network with one another Ready Steady Read was con- Educational Programmes to find a common vision. She also ducted for a second season, this Developer at BQFP, Amira Abed, urged librarians to use their pas- time covering a variety of prac- said: “An essential part of the sion as a driving force to deliver tices to help librarians promote workshop is to promote the vari- the message of reading. reading inside, as well as outside, ous extents of the librarian’s role THE PENINSULA

Some of the participants in the Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing Schools Outreach Programme. MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Putin blasts West over arming Syria rebels Saudi Arabia wants missiles for rebels: Report

LONDON/DAMASCUS: Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday insisted that Moscow had abided by “rules and norms” when providing weapons to Syria and demanded other G8 countries which are contemplating arming rebels do likewise. Putin was speaking in London after holding talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron which could set the tone for the G8 summit, with the West at odds with Moscow over the conflict. Cameron is seeking to forge an international consensus on han- dling the unrest as he hosts the leaders of the world’s top indus- trialised nations in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, from today. Putin, who has provided mili- tary support to Syrian President British Prime Minister, David Cameron (left), and Russian President Vladimir Bashar Al Assad despite pleas Putin speaking at Number 10 Downing Street in London, yesterday. from the West, has been dis- missive of US claims that the many estimates it will initially recognise that we share some regime has used chemical weap- be assault rifles and ammunition. fundamental aims: to end the ons and insisted Russia had acted The international community conflict, to stop Syria breaking appropriately. has long been divided over how apart, to let the Syrian people “We are not breaching any to tackle the Syria conflict, which decide who governs them and to rules and norms and we call on according to UN figures has cost take the fight to the extremists all our partners to act in the same at least 93,000 lives since March and defeat them,” he said. fashion,” he said. 2011. The British prime minister Cameron has not said whether Washington has vowed to send insisted that the talks had con- he favours sending weapons to military aid to rebel forces bat- vinced him there was still scope the rebels. Putin had to use the tling to topple Assad after saying for agreement when the world’s back entrance of Downing Street it had proof that his regime had top leaders meet next week. due to a large protest against the crossed a “red line”. “What I take from our con- Turkish government blocking the Putin warned that countries versation today is that we can main gates. A destroyed building in Sbeneh, south of the Syrian capital Damascus, yesterday. supplying arms to forces fighting overcome these differences if we The president’s plane arrived against Assad’s regime risked late at a military airbase in west powers to keep up the pressure or man-portable air-defence tarnishing their reputation after London and was further held up over the Islamic republic’s nuclear systems. footage emerged last month of one Canada pledges Jordan $25m by the protest. Putin will meet drive. Der Spiegel noted the shoul- rebel apparently eating the heart US President Barack Obama in Iran is a key ally of Assad, der-launched surface-to-air of a dead soldier. Northern Ireland today. staunchly backing his embattled missiles can target low-flying Human Rights Watch and to help Syria refugees The fighting in Syria has government. The Syrian oppo- aircraft including helicopters the Syrian opposition National taken on increasingly sectarian sition accuses Iran of providing and had given mujahideen fight- Coalition condemned the video AMMAN: Canada on Sunday pledged 25m Canadian dollars overtones, pitting a Sunni-led Damascus with weapons and ers in Afghanistan a decisive edge as “horrific”. “It is barely worth ($24.58m) to Jordan to help the kingdom cope with the hundreds opposition against the Alawite- encouraging Lebanon’s Shiite against Soviet troops in the 1980s. it (supplying arms) to support of thousands of Syrian refugees who have fled there, state media dominated regime. Hezbollah militia, which relies on Saudi Arabia is a key supporter people who not only kill their reported. US Secretary of State John Tehran for support, to dispatch of the Syrian rebels and has long enemies but open up their bodies “Following a meeting with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Kerry, who is pushing for an fighters to Syria. advocated providing them with and eat their internal organs in Judeh, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird announced today international peace conference on Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia plans better weaponry. front of the public and the cam- a direct assistance of $25m to the government help the refugees,” Syria, warned on Saturday that to supply the Syrian opposition Washington vowed last week to eras,” Putin said. state-run Petra news agency said. the chances for a political settle- with anti-aircraft missiles to send military aid to rebel forces “Do you want to supply these “Baird said Canada will give Jordan 75m Canadian dollars in ment could be undermined by the counter President Bashar Al trying to unseat Assad after say- people with arms? humanitarian aid over the coming two or three years,” the agency regime’s use of chemical weapons. Assad’s air force, German news ing it had proof that the regime “In that case this hardly has said without giving further details. The G8 summit is also likely to weekly Der Spiegel reported had crossed a “red line” by using anything to do with the humani- It quoted Baird as saying his country “will stand by Jordan, partic- consider the impact of the elec- yesterday. chemical weapons on a small tarian values which have for cen- ularly while the kingdom continues to receive more Syrian refugees”. tion of moderate cleric Hassan The article, citing a classified scale. The European Union lifted turies been preached in Europe,” Jordan, which says it is hosting more than 500,000 Syrian refugees, Rowhani as Iran’s new president. report received by the German an embargo on arming the Syrian he added. “At least in Russia we has repeatedly called for aid, complaining that limited resources are Putin urged him to forge closer foreign intelligence service and opposition last month, paving the cannot imagine this.” hampering its ability to cope with the crisis. ties with Moscow, while the the German government last way for greater Western support American officials will not King Abdullah II of Jordan told a university graduation ceremony United States offered the pros- week, said Riyadh was look- for rebels in a civil war that has reveal exactly what military sup- on Sunday that Amman is “working to secure international financial pect of direct engagement with ing at sending European-made claimed 93,000 lives. port will go to the rebel Supreme assistance to cover the costs of hosting the refugees”. AFP Iran but Israel called on world Mistral-class MANPADS, AFP Military Council, although by Israel, Palestinian Authority Kuwait court dissolves House Judge shot dead to resume economic links in Libyan city JERUSALEM: Israel and the Palestinian Authority decided to TRIPOLI: A judge was shot resume economic cooperation suspended by the Jewish state last dead outside a court in the east- year, at a meeting of their finance ministers yesterday. ern Libyan city of Derna yester- The Israeli finance ministry, announcing the agreement as host of day, an official said, just weeks the Jerusalem talks, said newly appointed Palestinian minister Shukri after courts resumed work Bishara met Israel’s Yair Lapid, who took office in March. there following the 2011 war. They discussed “the implementation of confidence-building meas- Assailants killed Mohammed ures”, it said, and a timetable was laid down after the meeting to renew Houidi yesterday morning as he economic ties between Israel and the Palestinians. came out of a court in the city, Palestinian finance ministry spokesman Rami Mahdawi said Israel which is known as an Islamist had agreed to hand over the monthly taxes it collects for the Palestinian stronghold. Authority. Between December 2012 and March 2013, Israel suspended “A car just stopped in front the transfer of the taxes in reprisal for the Palestinians being accorded and gunmen fired at him,” the status of observer state at the United Nations. Mansour Al Hasadi, a mem- The aim of renewed cooperation is to relaunch regular meetings on ber of Libya’s national assem- technical issues such as crossing points; fuel, power and water sup- bly from Derna, said. “He died plies; and payment for treatment of Palestinians in Israeli hospitals, immediately.” the Palestinians said. Israel halted the meetings in November after the Hasadi said courts in the UN General Assembly upgraded the Palestinians’ status in the face of city had only recently properly stiff objections from both Israel and the United States. resumed work following disrup- Lapid said economic cooperation would benefit both sides. tion due to the 2011 war that “There are problems concerning daily life for Palestinians that must ousted Muammar Gaddafi. As be coordinated and followed up with Israeli occupation authorities,” with elsewhere in the North Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said on Voice of Palestine radio. Kuwait Parliament Speaker Ali Al Rashed (centre) smiles as he leaves the National Assembly in Kuwait City, African country, state security yesterday. The constitutional court dissolved parliament and called for fresh elections under a voting system forces and courts there remain rejected by the opposition, a move that could bring more volatility to the Gulf Arab state hit by extraordinary weak. New Palestinian PM visits Al Aqsa street protests last year. REUTERS JERUSALEM: New Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah visited Al Aqsa mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem yesterday, in a first for a serving Palestinian premier, the official Wafa news agency reported. Al Aqsa, Islam’s third holiest site, is built on the Saudi plans to block WhatsApp within weeks site of the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. “Jerusalem is a symbol of the Palestinian question,” Hamdallah told the agency. “Our visit today shows how important Jerusalem is to the DUBAI: Saudi Arabia plans to more control over cyberspace as Asked when WhatsApp serv- percent by the end of 2012, CITC Palestinian government.” block Internet-based commu- Internet and smart phone usage ices would be blocked, the CITC data shows. Saudi Arabia now has Wa fa said Hamdallah also met the mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammed nication tool WhatsApp within soars, in part due to strict laws chief said it was highly likely 15.8 million Internet subscribers Hussein, and visited Al Maqased hospital in Israeli-occupied east weeks if the US-based firm fails that limit opportunities for people to be before the holy month of and the average user watches Jerusalem. The new Palestinian government headed by Hamdallah to comply with requirements to mix in person. Ramadan which is expected to three times as many online vid- was sworn in on June 6 in Ramallah in the West Bank. set by the kingdom’s telecom “We have been communicating start on July 9. The regulator eos per day as counterparts in regulator, local newspapers with WhatsApp and other similar issued a directive in March say- the United States, according to reported this week. communication platforms to get ing tools such as Viber, WhatsApp YouTube. Libya’s PM in Benghazi after clashes This month the them to cooperate and comply and Skype broke local laws, with- Conventional international Communications and Information with the Saudi telecom providers, out specifying how. calls and texts are a lucrative BENGHAZI: Libya’s premier was due to meet local authorities in Technology Commission (CITC) however nothing has come of this Local media reported at the earner for telecom operators in Benghazi today, a government source said, as special forces units banned Viber, another such tool, communication yet,” Abdullah Al time that Saudi Arabia’s three Saudi Arabia, which hosts around patrolled the city a day after clashes with gunmen killed six soldiers. which like WhatsApp is hard for Darrab, governor of the CITC, main operators Saudi Telecom nine million expatriates. These Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was due to travel to the eastern city the state to monitor and deprives told Arab News. Co, Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) and foreign workers are increasingly with members of his government to discuss the security situation, the telecom companies of revenue Al Darrab said Viber was Zain Saudi had been asked to tell using Internet-based applications source said on condition of anonymity. An onlooker in Benghazi said from international calls and texts. blocked last week for non-com- CITC if they were able to monitor such as Viber to communicate that “special forces soldiers have been deployed in the city and patrolled The kingdom appears to pliance, and that WhatsApp and or block such applications. with relatives in other countries, the streets, which are calm again”. AGENCIES be making a greater push for Skype may be next on the list. Mobile penetration was 188 analysts say. REUTERS MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 New Iran president hails victory for ‘moderation’ Rowhani is the ‘sheikh of hope’: Iran’s reformist press TEHRAN: Moderate cleric Iran presidential results Iranian people with respect and Hassan Rowhani hailed his win recognise the rights of the Islamic in Iran’s presidential election Final results for Iran’s presidential election. republic.” as a victory over “extremism” MAIN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES (among six ) Then they will “hear an as thousands of supporters cel- appropriate response,” he added. ebrated in the streets into the Rowhani is a former top nuclear early hours yesterday. negotiator who has championed Major powers quickly offered to a more constructive engagement engage with the former nuclear with world powers. He won out- negotiator, who has promised a right against five conservative more constructive approach to candidates with 18.6 million votes Hassan Rohani, 64 Mohammad Baqer talks, but Israel called for no let- Moderation and Development Qalibaf, 51 out of the 36.7 million people who up in Western sanctions that have Party Islamic Society of Engineers voted from an electorate of 50.5 bitten the Iranian economy hard. million, the interior ministry said. 50.71% 16.56% Iran’s reformist press hailed That was enough to ensure Rowhani as the “sheikh of hope” Source and photo: Reuters there would be no run-off against and said his victory promised Staff, 16/06/2013 Tehran mayor Mohammad Baqer a return to optimism after the Qalibaf, who came a distant sec- eight-year grip of conserva- of votes cast in Friday’s election. ond with 6.07 million votes, or tives under outgoing President In his first statement after his 16.55 percent. Supreme leader A supporter of moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani celebrates his victory in Iran’s presidential election on a street Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. win was confirmed, he called on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who in Tehran, yesterday. Tens of thousands of celebra- world powers to treat Iran with has the final say in all strategic tors took to the streets of Tehran, respect and recognise its rights, matters in Iran, including nuclear toting pictures of 64-year-old an apparent allusion to its contro- policy, congratulated Rowhani. “I Rowhani and chanting pro- versial nuclear programme. urge everyone to help the presi- US sends conciliatory signal reform slogans as news of his vic- “This is a victory of intelligence, dent-elect and his colleagues in the tory spread. Many were dressed of moderation, of progress... over government, as he is the president WASHINGTON: Iran’s new medical isotopes. and aspirations.” in purple, Rowhani’s campaign extremism,” Rowhani said. of the whole nation,” Khamenei president will find a partner in McDonough said if Rowhani, Rowhani, who succeeds colour, and others in green, the “A new opportunity has been said on his website. the United States if he comes a former nuclear negotiator who Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on colour of the reformist movement. created by this great epic, and the Reformist daily Etemad head- clean on the Islamic repub- has promised a more construc- Sunday hailed his own win as a Rowhani was declared out- nations who tout democracy and lined: “A salute to Ir0an and to lic’s controversial nuclear pro- tive approach to talks, lives up to victory over “extremism.” right winner with 50.68 percent open dialogue should speak to the the sheikh of hope,” above a pic- gramme, a senior White House obligations linked to the program, On the civil war in Syria, ture of a smiling Rowhani flashing official said yesterday. then “there’s a great opportunity McDonough said Washington had a V-for-victory sign. Conservative Moderate cleric Hassan for Iran, and the people of that decided to provide military sup- Saudi king congratulates Rowhani newspaper Jomhuri Eslami said Rowhani was elected president storied country, to have the kind port to rebels “because we want to his win was “Iran’s yes to modera- Friday, ending eight years of a of future that they would, I think, make sure that Syrians who want RIYADH: The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King tion and no to extremism”. conservative grip on the office justifiably want.” to take charge of their own coun- Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia congratulated moderate World powers expressed readi- marked by tension with the West On Saturday, the White House try have the ability to do that.” cleric Hassan Rowhani on his election as the new president of ness to take up Rowhani’s offer over Tehran’s atomic drive. said it was prepared to engage Washington announced on Iran, the kingdom’s Shia rival across the Gulf. of engagement. Rowhani said “If he is interested in... mending Iran “directly” over its nuclear Thursday it would be providing “We are glad to congratulate you in the name of the people and during his campaign that he was Iran’s relations with the rest of program in order to reach a “dip- military support to the Syrian government of Saudi Arabia... wishing prosperity to the people of the ready to hold bilateral talks with the world, there’s an opportunity lomatic solution that will fully opposition, saying it had proof that brotherly Islamic republic of Iran,” King Abdullah told Rowhani in a Washington on Tehran’s nuclear to do that,” White House Chief of address the international com- forces loyal to Syrian President letter carried by the official SPA news agency. It said the king hailed programme, “difficult” as that Staff Denis McDonough told CBS munity’s concerns.” Bashar Al Assad had carried out Rowhani’s views on regional cooperation and improving relations. would be after decades of enmity. News’s “Face the Nation.” It also said the election was deadly chemical weapons attacks. Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia, a key player in regional politics, He has also offered to restore “If he lives up to his obligations held amid lack of transparency, But US officials have yet to was the last Arab state in the Gulf to comment on Rowhani’s win. diplomatic ties with the United under the UN Security Council censorship of the media, the reveal exactly what that support The leaders of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, States, which cut relations in the resolution to come clean on this Internet and text messages, and will entail. “We have to be very and Oman earlier congratulated Rowhani, their respective state aftermath of the 1979 seizure of illicit nuclear program, he will “an intimidating security envi- discerning about what’s in our news agencies reported. The Sunni-ruled Gulf monarchies are wary the US embassy by Islamist stu- find a partner in us, and there ronment that limited freedom of interest and what outcome is best of their Shia-dominated neighbour, mainly over its nuclear ambi- dents. EU foreign policy chief will be an opportunity for that.” expression and assembly.” for us, and the prices that we’re tions. Rowhani is a former top nuclear negotiator who has champi- Catherine Ashton, who acts as The United States, Israel and McDonough referenced those willing to pay to get to that place,” oned more constructive engagement between Iran and world powers. chief negotiator for the six pow- the West suspect Iran’s nuclear “difficult circumstances” Sunday, McDonough said. Gulf states also accuse Tehran of meddling in their internal affairs, ers involved in the current nuclear program is aimed at developing adding: “I think we should all “We’ve rushed to war in this especially over its alleged support for the Shiite-led opposition in talks, said she was committed to weapons, while Iran insists it is be quite proud of the way that region in the past; we’re not going Bahrain, where authorities quelled protests in mid-march 2011. AFP working with Rowhani to find a for peaceful purposes such as Iranians turned out to vote and to do it here.” “swift diplomatic solution”. AFP generating energy and developing to express their democratic views AFP

Clearing protest park my duty: Erdogan Saudi cuts pilgrim numbers due

ISTANBUL: Turkish Prime to expansion work in Makkah Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday told a RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has cut “This is an exceptional and tem- crowd of more than 100,000 back the number of pilgrims that porary decision,” the minister said, supporters it was his “duty” may perform the Haj this year quoted by SPA state news agency. to order a crackdown on an due to construction work aimed at Some 3.1 million pilgrims performed Istanbul protest park, as expanding the holy site of Makkah, the Haj last year, most of them from police and anti-government the Haj minister said. abroad. Hajjar said the expansion of demonstrators faced off in The authorities had decided to the Grand Mosque in Makkah would fresh clashes. reduce by half the number of pilgrims add 400,000 sq metres (4.3 million A day after riot police dis- coming from within Saudi Arabia, square feet), raising its capacity to lodged thousands of protesters and by about 20 percent those from accommodate 2.2 million people at occupying Gezi Park, officers in abroad, said Bandar Hajjar. the same time. AFP the area were still firing tear gas and jets of water at pock- ets of protesters determined to regroup. Some 10km away, in a much larger park, Erdogan launched a show of strength for support- ers of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), drawing the largest crowd yet since the demos against his gov- ernment erupted more than two weeks ago. Addressing the cheering sea of people, many of whom wore white AKP caps, a com- bative Erdogan said protesters had forced his hand by defying repeated warnings to clear out of the park. “I said we were at People gather during a rally in Istanbul to listen to a speech by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an end. That it was unbearable. yesterday. Yesterday the operation was carried out and it was cleaned public offices across the country. Thousands of demonstra- 76 million. But the 59-year-old, up,” Erdogan said. “It was my The police intervention in tors later took to the streets of who has been in power since duty as prime minister.” Gezi Park came after Erdogan Ankara and the western city of 2002, remains hugely popular. The violence sparked by the issued a final warning to pro- Izmir in solidarity. The AKP has won three elec- Gezi Park evacuation marked a testers during a fiery speech at The political turmoil first tions in a row and took nearly major escalation in mass unrest an election rally in the capital began when a peaceful sit-in half the vote in 2011, having that has posed the biggest chal- Ankara on Saturday. to save Gezi Park’s 600 trees presided over strong economic lenge yet to the Islamic-rooted Two hours later, officers from being razed prompted a growth. government’s decade-long rule. with gas masks and riot shields brutal police response on May Erdogan has repeatedly urged Two of Turkey’s main trade stormed the patch of green. 31, spiralling into country- his supporters to answer the union federations, KESK and Thousands of campers scram- wide demonstrations against protesters by voting for his AKP DISK, announced they would bled to escape clouds of acrid Erdogan. in next year’s local polls. go on strike Monday in protest tear gas, clearing the site within The crisis has claimed four More election rallies are at the police clashes overnight. minutes and leaving a trail of lives and injured nearly 7,500 planned in cities across Turkey “Our demand is for police empty tents in their wake. people so far, according to the in coming weeks, Erdogan said. violence to end immediately,” Many sought refuge in the Turkish Medical Association. Mey Elbi, a 39-year-old yoga KESK spokesman Baki Cinar luxury hotels bordering the Opponents accuse Erdogan teacher, was in Gezi park when said. The unions represent park, prompting police to douse of authoritarian tendencies and police entered and said they hundreds of thousand of work- the lobby of at least one five-star of forcing Islamic conservative seized the protesters’ goggles ers and the stoppage is likely establishment with water as reforms on the mainly Muslim and gas masks. to affect schools, hospitals and guests choked on tear gas fumes. but staunchly secular nation of AFP MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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T’S not often that a state which is a member of ‘axis of evil’ makes an offer for talks to its sworn enemy. When such an offer comes, the onus is on the second party to Iran has changed course; Iaccept it wholeheartedly, because the act of making the offer itself is a huge, benign step when it’s to the Number One enemy. North Korea’s national defence commission has proposed now US must do the same “senior-level” negotiations aimed at easing tensions with the United States and forging a peace treaty to formally BY JONATHAN STEELE tensions with the west and to try to they showed “courage in making their end the Korean war. The offer came as a surprise because it end international sanctions, implicitly voices heard” and was rude in urging comes after months of tension in the Korean peninsula with ASSAN Rowhani’s victory in the blaming his predecessor Ahmadinejad Rowhani to “heed the will of the Iranian both sides talking war and retaliation. But unfortunately, Iranian election is truly stun- for provoking them with his rash state- people”. If the White House is really Washington hasn’t reacted with the same warmth to the Hning. It opens a window of hope ments and uncompromising line. Jalili “ready to engage the Iranian govern- for an easing of tension between Iran took a battering for his hardline posi- ment directly”, as it said on Saturday, talks offer, and on the contrary, has demanded more from and the west on the strained nuclear file tions in the latest round of talks this why did it not have the courtesy to send the repressive regime. A US official has said it’s open to but also on the more urgent issue – the spring with the permanent five mem- Rowhani a message of congratulations? discussions with North Korea over the nuclear weapons self-destructive clash between Shia and bers of the security council, though the At the heart of the conflict between programme, but only if Pyongyang lives up to its “obligations Sunni Islam that is killing thousands in toughest attack came not from Rowhani Iran and the west is the US’s unwilling- to the world”. “As we have made clear, our desire is to have Syria and Iraq and threatens the entire but from Ali Akbar Velayati, a former ness to accept Iran’s independence in Middle East region. foreign minister, who said that inter- foreign and domestic policies. Instead, credible negotiations with the North Koreans, but those Although Rowhani had been well acting with the world was better than the country’s government is constantly talks must involve North Korea living up to its obligations to ahead in the final pre-election polls, defying it. demonised, and its intentions deliber- the world, including compliance with UN Security Council no one expected him or anyone else to Sanctions have had a devastating ately put under suspicion. The psycho- resolutions, and ultimately result in denuclearization,” US receive enough votes to avoid a runoff. effect on Iranian lives and the econ- logical wounds of having US diplomats National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said That he did so in a six-horse race is omy. Ahmadinejad, who came to power taken hostage in 1979 have not been in a statement. astonishing. The result confirms that claiming to be able to do more for Iran’s allowed to heal, while on the Iranian Iran’s elections are always unpredict- poorest people, was exposed as a failure, side the US and British role in toppling That amounts to throwing able. The high turnout also shows that whereas Rowhani pointed out that in the their government in 1953 has also not Washington obstacles, and what the Obama Iranian voters felt several years when he was chief nuclear been forgiven. administration should be doing they had a gen- negotiator the issue was not taken to When the last moderate president, must accept is encourage Pyongyang to come uine choice, the security council. The clear message Mohammad Khatami, was in power, the to the negotiating table and give thereby confound- from the majority of the Iranian elector- George W Bush administration foolishly the offer of an opportunity to the belligerent ing the tired com- ate is that they prefer his more rational invented “an axis of evil” and claimed Hassan Rowhani’s ments from many approach. Iran was part of it. Today we have a new talks from regime to change itself. election victory can outside analysts Rowhani impressed viewers of the chance to turn the page. It is a crucial North Korea’s latest offer is help ease tension that little sepa- presidential debates when he said he issue for the whole Middle East, now North Korea. born of the realisation that it’s rates the can- had “never lied” to Iranians, and told that American hostility to Iran has locked in a dispute in which it is in the Middle East didates because a hardline rival candidate: “I’m not a helped to turn Saudi Arabia and other always the loser. By shutting itself and with the United they all had to be general but a jurist.” Arab Gulf states into an anti-Iranian vetted by theIs- How he will proceed once he takes alliance of Sunnis versus Shias. Because away from the outside world and pursuing a nuclear policy States. lamic republic’s office is not yet clear, but one of his of this unnecessary creation of tensions that has brought more harm than benefits, North Korea’s Guardian Council. former aides on the nuclear file, Hossein and its conversion into a proxy war, sec- new ruler has pushed himself into a hole, like his father, and Two things Mousavian, recently highlighted a pro- tarianism is destroying Syria and re- could be looking for alternatives. Pressure from China, its seem to have swung so many people to posal that Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran’s foreign emerging with lethal force in Iraq. staunchest ally, could be another reason for the change of Rowhani’s side. He was endorsed in the minister, made last year. Salehi offered In the wake of Rowhani’s victory, the mind. last few days (clever of them to wait to turn Khamenei’s 2003 fatwa banning first thing Obama should do is to drop until near the end) by former presi- nuclear weaponsinto a “secular document US objections to letting Iran attend the Pyongyang’s apparently softening line on relations dents Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and that would bind the [Iranian] govern- proposed Geneva conference on Syria. with the US comes after a period of relative quiet on the Mohammad Khatam. This meant that ment”. This would give much greater If Washington is ready to negotiate Korean peninsula. Until a few months ago, the situation the centrist and reformist camps had force to Iran’s longstanding denial of with Iran on nuclear issues, it makes was tit-for-tat threats, with missile and nuclear tests in coalesced behind one man, while the con- interest in having a nuclear weapon. In no sense to exclude it from the talks on the North countered with a stepping up of joint US-South servative vote was split between the five return, all sanctions should be lifted and Syria. The second thing is to accelerate Korean military exercises. It also comes just days after the other candidates. (Unlike 2009 – when Iran’s rights under the non-proliferation preparations for the conference itself he endorsed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for treaty to enrich uranium for peaceful by putting sustained pressure on Syria’s withdrawal of a proposal from the North over rare minister- a second term – Iran’s supreme leader, purposes should be openly recognised by rebel forces to come up with a negotiat- level talks with South Korea. A dispute over who would lead Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, offered no pub- the security council. Salehi’s proposal was ing strategy and take part. the delegations saw the negotiations fall apart before they lic support for anyone – a good move, ignored in the west, but it deserves seri- For Washington to change course had begun. given the surprising result.) ous consideration if Rowhani as president here would send an important signal, Pyongyang’s neighbours and Washington must seize every The second factor was Rowhani’s stel- re-confirms it. not only that Iran has to be part of any lar performance in the three televised The Obama administration needs to solution in Syria and the region, but also opportunity to engage with the communist regime. The talks debates and the poor presentation by take stock and think hard after this that the anti-Iranian cancer that has may not produce expected results, but they are definitely an Saeed Jalili, the current nuclear nego- surprise result, especially as its first affected American policy in the Middle alternative to tension • tiator, who had earlier been seen as the reaction was full of hasty blunders. It East since the axis-of-evil speech has at frontrunner. Rowhani promised to ease patronised Iranian voters by saying last been excised. THE GUARDIAN The other side Quote of A sad day: Attack on Ziarat residency the day DAY that began with the repudiating in a spectacular manner fury for the army-led security establish- in the shadows, dead bodies being the desecration of a secular shrine, the idea of Pakistan and broadcasting ment as it has for Baloch politicians who only evidence later, the insurgents rely the Ziarat rest house where its propaganda for a separate state. advocate addressing Baloch discon- on headline-grabbing attacks to make AMohammad Ali Jinnah spent That the state has again failed both tent within the federation of Pakistan. their case. Suffice it to say, attack- One does not really his last days, continued with another at the level of intelligence-gathering If Malik’s government is already in the ing a site so associated with Jinnah’s need to support the episode of violence in Quetta. The and preventing a terrorist attack from cross-hairs of the separatists, then what name and legacy is unlikely to signal perpetrators of these two crimes could succeeding is also obvious. Unhappily, chance of it helping establish peace in a reduction in the tit-for-tat violence in people who not only well be worlds apart in terms of ideology, the more obvious these truths, the less the province? Or was this yet another Balochistan. The attack in Quetta, on the but so is the vision for Pakistan of one likely it seems that anything will be done attempt to lash out against the army, other hand, could well be the work of a kill their enemies, of the great, secular, non-violent leaders to address them. part of an on-going dirty war that ebbs group representing a different ideology. of the 20th century and the reality of Shocking as the destruction in Ziarat and flows for reasons unknown far away But clearly, whether the violence being but open up their Pakistan today where women, students, is, the message it sends is equally wor- from the media spotlight and outside perpetrated is the work of separatists or bodies, eat their doctors and nurses are targeted in the rying. Was the bombing meant as a scrutiny? After all, the army controls religious extremists, the establishment’s name of a grotesque vision of the future. cynical welcome for the new Balochistan and directs the security policy in the approach is not working. Why not? In intestines in front That the Baloch Liberation Army knew government, led by the moderate Baloch province and has for years tried to that answer lies an even more depress- of the public and exactly what it was doing in destroying chief minister Abdul Malik? The BLA has crush the separatists with brutality. And ing truth. Vladimir Putin the Ziarat rest house is obvious: it was over the years reserved an almost equal where the state’s violence often occurs DAWN cameras. Russian President MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Rowhani’s triumph is mandate for change Millions of Iranians greeted Hassan Rowhani’s victory with a mix of euphoria and relief that eight years under hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were finally over.

BY MARCUS GEORGE leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose loyalists dominated the RANIAN voters weary of field of candidates. years of economic isolation From the streets of Tehran and tightening political came reports of a festive atmos- restrictions threw down a phere, as crowds of Rowhani sup- blunt demand for change porters dressed in his campaign on Saturday by handing a colour purple gathered to cele- Imoderate cleric a landslide vic- brate his emphatic victory. Some tory in a presidential election. chanted “Ahmadi Bye Bye” herald- Having waited through- ing the imminent end to incumbent out Friday night and most of Ahmadinejad’s presidency. Saturday, millions of Iranians at The long wait quickly became home and abroad greeted Hassan the subject of rich humour. “Don’t Rowhani’s victory with a mix of be in a rush. It is the first time euphoria and relief that eight they are counting votes. They years under hardline president didn’t expect it would take so Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were long,” quipped one Facebook mes- finally over. sage, alluding to the widespread That Rowhani, a former allegations of vote-rigging four nuclear negotiator, trounced years ago. hardline “principlist” rivals most loyal to the theocratic system and ECONOMY, SANCTIONS Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Victory will be followed by the Khamenei in Friday’s contest left colossal challenge of putting Iran many in the Islamic Republic in back on its feet, repairing the shock. A second surprise was that damage done by eight years of the country’s first presidential growing mistrust between Tehran poll since a disputed re-election and the West. Iran has been bat- Iranians gather under a giant portrait of Hassan Rowhani in Tehran. of Ahmadinejad in 2009 appeared tered by economic sanctions to be free and fair. imposed by the United States and of parliament Ahmad Tavakoli, eight years have been an aber- — took more than two thirds of “Iranians are worried about His victory goes some way to its allies over its nuclear activities, the ISNA news agency reported. ration,” said Ali Ansari, profes- votes cast. their future. (The prospect of) a repairing the legitimacy of the resulting in soaring inflation and Equally intractable will be the sor at St Andrew’s University in Even many conservatives had Jalili presidency and a harsh secu- Islamic Republic, badly damaged unemployment. issue of two reformist leaders who Scotland. “I don’t see that com- called time on Iran’s overtly ideo- ritised domestic environment - I four years ago when the disputed While Iran maintains it will have been under house arrest for ing from the pages of Kayhan (a logical stance for not providing think people thought it would lead poll led to mass unrest. And it not develop nuclear arms, it has more than two years over what hardline newspaper). I still have for the Iranian public. “The defeat to a situation of confrontation may herald an increase in politi- refused to curb what it says is critics have decried as their sedi- reservations,” he added. of the principlists was necessary,” inside the country,” said Farideh cal space for the sort of reform- its rights to nuclear power. With tious role in the post-election pro- read an editorial on the Tabnak Farhi of Hawaii University. ist groups which bore the brunt such a strong mandate and a tests in 2009. SUPPORT FROM LIBERALS news website affiliated to Mohsen Iranians may have to wait of the security crackdown that clear intent to reach out his Throughout the campaign The 64-year-old cleric has Rezaie, a conservative election patiently for change because of ended the disturbances. hand, there will be guarded hope Rowhani supporters have stirred pledged to draw up and implement candidate and former head of the Iran’s multi-tiered power struc- “Though hardliners remain in that the 64-year-old cleric can the memories of 2009, chanting a “civil rights charter” and has spo- Revolutionary Guards who came ture, which has gradually eroded control of key aspects of Iran’s progress nuclear talks. But with the names of the two imprisoned ken up for the rights of women and fourth in the election. “The prin- the office of the president over the political system, centrists and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah leaders, Mirhossein Mousavi and ethnic minorities. He was heavily ciplist current must understand last two decades. reformists have proven that Ali Khamenei, deciding state pol- Mehdi Karoubi, at campaign critical of the atmosphere of tight that one cannot be inefficient and “Rowhani’s upset victory has even when the cards are stacked icy, Rowhani will face limits to his events and intensifying calls for security ahead of the election and expect the people to still support effectively redeemed Iran’s elec- against them, they can still pre- area of operations. their release. But that means garnered strong support from lib- them in throngs.” toral system, which was tainted vail due to their support among “(Rowhani) will choose the confronting powerful elements eral Iranians as a result. Despite widespread calls from after the 2009 presidential the population,” said Trita Parsi, core cadre at the foreign ministry of the conservative establishment But voters seemed most preoc- conservative activists to get behind poll,” said Ali Vaez, an analyst president of the National Iranian and Supreme National Security who may not yet be prepared to cupied with the desperate state a single candidate, three big-hit- at International Crisis Group. American Council. Council and this can definitely welcome people they call “sedi- of the economy. Between them ters all remained in the contest, “Remember that Iran is gov- After final results were have an impact. But the gen- tionists” back into the fold. Rowhani and the runner-up pulling their shared power base erned by complex institutions announced and the nerve-rack- eral orientation is decided by the “A Rowhani landslide will have Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf — the apart at the seams. The man many and competing power centres that ing wait came to an end, Iranians Supreme Leader ... and naturally to deliver substance, not just cos- pragmatic modernising mayor of expected to be at the front of the inherently favour continuity over revelled in having delivered their Rowhani will cooperate with metics, and this requires quite a Tehran who is very popular in the pack, current nuclear negotiator radical change.” message to Iran’s theocratic him,” said conservative member few people to admit that the last city for his clear managerial skills Saeed Jalili, slumped to third place. REUTERS Don’t link N-arms to cyber war The royal baby must be BY RICHARD A CLARKE and Fortunately, Obama has both the STEVEN ANDREASEN authority and the opportunity to make clear that he meant what he said when S President Barack Obama he laid out his nuclear policy in Prague a boy, for all our sakes (pictured) is expected in 2009. For decades, presidential deci- to unveil a new nuclear sion directives have made clear the pur- BY BARBARA ELLEN what makes you love your job so much?” At policy initiative this week pose of nuclear weapons in US national times, that’s been my feeling about William. in Berlin. Whether he security strategy and provided broad AVING never had much interest in So imagine if he’d been “Diana’s girl”, Ucan make good on his first-term com- guidance for military planners who the royals, I find myself hoping for the sole female repository of a nation’s love mitments to end outdated Cold War prepare the operations and targeting a baby boy, almost fretting about and grief, but also of its insatiable hunger nuclear policies may depend on a firm plans for our nuclear forces. An update Hit. The Duchess of Cambridge has for gossip and drama. The endless mawkish presidential directive to the Pentagon to existing presidential guidance is one undertaken her final public engagements: comparisons, wailing headlines and maudlin rejecting any new missions for nuclear of the homework items tasked by the a ship-naming ceremony in Southampton snippets. “Walking among landmines, con- weapons — in particular, their use in 2010 Nuclear Posture Review. docks and the Trooping the Colour. tinuing her mother’s work”; “Looking just like response to cyber attacks. Cyber threats are very real, and there Now she will rest before the birth, in her mother”; “The tilt of her head reminding The Pentagon’s Defence Science is much we need to do to defend our mili- around a month’s time. As I said, I’m not everyone of her mother”; “Developing bulimia Board concluded this year that China tary and critical civilian infrastructure much of royalist (I’m not even interested like her mother”. Well, let us hope not the last and Russia could develop capabilities against what former defence secretary enough to be anti-monarchy), but purely one. The point is that whatever the princes to launch an “existential cyber attack” Leon E Panetta referred to as a “cyber on a human level, let’s hope that the child suffered in terms of unwanted attention and against the United States — that is, an threat into the equation means making Pearl Harbor” — including enhancing the is healthy and happy. On the same human irrational comparisons, a princess could only attack causing sufficient damage that clear to any potential adversary that ability to take action, when directed by level, let’s also hope that it’s a boy. have endured infinitely worse. our government would lose control of the United States is prepared to use the president, against those who would Outside the royal family, few know the That other princess, Anne, never the country. “While the manifestation nuclear weapons very early in response attack us. We also need more diplomacy sex of the baby, but that hasn’t stopped the seemed to make an impact in the same of a nuclear and cyber attack are very to a major cyber attack — and is main- such as that practiced by Obama with speculation. Prince Harry was rumoured to way – she made damn sure of that. Not different,” the board concluded, “in taining nuclear forces on “prompt his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, have said that it was a boy. The duchess was only was it different back then, but the end, the existential impact to the launch” status to do so. at their recent summit. Multinational thought to have almost blurted the word Anne managed to turn herself and, to an United States is the same.” Russia and China would certainly cooperation centres could ultimately lead “daughter” on a walkabout, though this was extent, her daughter into low-key stable Because it will be impossible to fully take note — and presumably follow suit. to shared approaches to cyber security, explained away as a misunderstanding. hands. Clever, stubborn Anne! Maybe it defend our systems against existen- Moreover, if the United States, Russia including agreements related to limiting Of course, if the baby does turn out to be was partly because of Anne’s determined tial cyber threats, the board argued, and China adopted policies threatening cyber war. a girl, it would be history in the making. A non-starriness, the fashion sense endear- the United States must be prepared to an early nuclear response to cyber attacks, US cyber-vulnerabilities are serious, first-born girl would succeed to the throne. ingly reminiscent of a docker, that Diana threaten the use of nuclear weapons more countries would surely take the same but equating the impact of nuclear war Imagine the succession blether – it would became such a powerful emotional figure- to deter cyber attacks. In other words: approach. It’s hard to see how this cyber- and cyber war to justify a new nuclear never (ever) end. It would swirl around that head for the nation and beyond. I’ll see your cyber war and raise you a nuclear action-reaction dynamic would deterrence policy and excessive Cold child’s head in the manner of a bad fairy The People’s Princess or the people’s nuclear response. improve US or global security. It’s more War-era nuclear capabilities goes too from a storybook bringing along a cursed spittoon? During Diana’s short lifetime it Some would argue that Obama made likely to lead to a new focus by Pentagon far. It diminishes the unique threat of gift to a christening. was never fully clear. However, even Diana clear in his 2010 Nuclear Posture Review planners on generating an expanding list national devastation and global extinc- But that wouldn’t be all. A first-born girl enjoyed a couple of decades growing up in that the United States has adopted the of cyber-related targets and the opera- tion that nuclear weapons represent, is one thing, but a daughter born to William relative normality, peace, and privacy, before objective of making deterrence of nuclear tional deployment of nuclear forces to undermines the credibility of nuclear and Kate at any point would still have to the relentless judgment began. attacks the “sole purpose” of our nuclear strike those targets in minutes. deterrence by threatening use for lesser contend with the thorny legacy of Diana. This is why the arrival of a girl would be weapons. Well, the board effectively Against that backdrop, maintaining contingencies and reduces the urgency William and Harry were fortunate in troubling. On top of the succession, that reviewed the fine print and concluded momentum toward reducing the role of for focused action to lessen nuclear dan- their gender — lucky to be boys. It was bad child would be the first direct female link that the Nuclear Posture Review was nuclear weapons in the United States’ gers. Excessive rhetoric on the threat of enough to be the sons of Diana. Could you to not only the heaving emotional tsunami “essentially silent” on the relationship national security strategy (and that cyberwar from the United States and imagine the feeding frenzy over the daugh- that was Diana, but also the cloying sense between US nuclear weapons and cyber of other nations) — a general policy blurring the distinction between cyber ter of Diana — then, tragically, the bereaved of public ownership of Diana. threats, so connecting the two “is not course pursued by the past five presi- and nuclear attacks just makes progress daughter? It’s hard to envision how she and her precluded in the stated policy”. dents — would become far more dif- toward cyber-peace more difficult. Even so, there have been times when parents could fail to be engulfed by it. So, As the board noted, cyber attacks ficult. Further reductions in nuclear With a stroke of his pen and his William has seemed barely able to contain health and happiness to that baby, just as can occur very quickly and without forces and changes in “hair-trigger” speech in Berlin, Obama can keep his contempt and rage for an outside world one would extend to any newborn. Still, it warning, requiring rapid decision-mak- postures, designed to lessen the risk of the United States from uploading the that wouldn’t stop scrutinising him. You might be better all round if the poor little ing by those responsible for protecting an accidental or unauthorized nuclear cyber-nuclear link. know those people you deal with where you mite were a boy. our country. Integrating the nuclear launch, would also probably stall. WP-BLOOMBERG end up wanting to say sarcastically: “So, THE GUARDIAN MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL Greek premier Bulgaria unrest dismisses talk of early poll Ruling parties to meet today

ATHENS: Greek Prime Min- has suffered since last year’s elec- ister Antonis Samaras yester- tion. No party has enough support day dismissed talk of an early to govern alone. election over the abrupt closure “Moves aimed to impress, in of the state broadcaster, which violation of basic principles of brought protests from viewers, parliamentary majority, are not workers, the opposition and his reforms,” Venizelos said. The deci- coalition partners. sion to close ERT was made by Samaras defended his deci- ministerial decree, meaning that sion to close ERT and relaunch it could be implemented without what he said would be a smaller, reference to parliament. more efficient version as a way Greece has won praise from for Greece to show it was serious its ‘troika’ of international lend- about implementing reforms and ers — the International Monetary saving money under the terms of Fund, the European Union and its international bailout. the European Central Bank — for But a clash between the prime its efforts to get its bailout pro- Protesters shout anti-government slogans during a demonstration in front of the government headquarters in Sofia, yesterday. The surprise minister and his two left-wing gramme on track and German appointment of a controversial young MP and media mogul to head Bulgaria’s powerful national security agency DANS on Friday drew fury from coalition partners over when and Chancellor Angela Merkel tel- the president and brought thousands of protesters to the streets for a third day. how to resume public broadcasts ephoned Samaras to “pledge her has raised the prospect of political support”, her office said. turmoil, just a year after Greeks “Now it is of clear importance went to the polls, and the derail- to push through all troika agree- ing of the bailout. ments, including those with Mandela showing “If some people naively believe regard to the reform of the public that they can trap us into an service,” it said in a statement. Three defence giants call for ‘improvement’ election dilemma, let them not Samaras has invited his allies, tire themselves,” Samaras told who want the immediate reopen- JOHANNESBURG: Nelson a gathering of his conservative ing of ERT’s television and radio Mandela is showing a “sus- New Democracy party in the stations, to a meeting on Monday. European drone programme tained” improvement after more seaside town of Nafplio in the They have so far turned down a than a week in hospital bat- Peloponnese. “Nobody wants it.” compromise involving rehiring a tling a lung infection although The opposition Syriza party smaller number of staff to resume PARIS: Three top European programme supporting the secu- Last month, Germany scrapped his condition remains serious, said Samaras’s decision to close news broadcasts. defence firms called yesterday rity needs of our European gov- a plan to buy four “Euro Hawk” South African President Jacob ERT was “the climax of his The government says ERT’s on governments to launch a pro- ernments and armed forces.” unmanned surveillance drones, Zuma said yesterday. “As you are authoritarian policy” and urged three domestic television chan- gramme to manufacture drones The pledge to work together much larger “strategic” planes, aware, president Nelson Mandela Greeks to rally in Syntagma nels and regional, national and that European countries are appeared to be a sign that Dassault citing fears that aviation authori- is still in hospital in Pretoria. We square in Athens today at external radio stations cost currently having to buy from and EADS were burying the ties would not certify them. are grateful that he continues 8pm, where party leader Alexis Greece ¤300m a year. Israel or the United States. hatchet after years of difficult rela- But the advantage of a joint to get better,” Zuma said. “Over Tsipras was to deliver a speech. Many Greeks have long viewed France’s Dassault Aviation, tions, notably over MALE drones. European drive, said the three the last two days, although he The Communist-affiliated trade the broadcaster as a wasteful European aerospace giant EADS The drones, until now manu- companies, would be that “critical remains serious, his doctors have union PAME also called a rally source of patronage jobs for politi- and Italy’s Finmeccanica argued factured only by Israel and its requirements around the certifi- stated that his improvement has near ERT’s headquarters, where cal parties, but the abruptness such a joint programme would chief ally the United States, have cation of drones... would inher- been sustained. He continues to workers had been gathering with which ERT was taken off air “support the capability needs of been used in modern warfare, ently be built into the programme engage with family.” since its closure. took many by surprise. Opinion European armed forces while opti- notably in Afghanistan and Mali. from the onset”. The decision to take the polls suggest a majority oppose mising the difficult budgetary situ- French Defence Minister Jean- “European sovereignty and Depardieu to seek 75-year-old ERT off air at mid- the move. ation through pooling of research Yves Le Drian said on Tuesday independence in the management night last Tuesday has split the Samaras argues that shut- and development funding”. that Paris intended to buy 12 of information and intelligence Algerian passport fragile coalition. Both junior part- ting down ERT is the only way They said in a statement they “Reaper” observation drones from would be guaranteed while at the PARIS: French actor and ners have said they want to avoid to restructure the broadcaster, were prepared to work together on the United States in a deal worth same time delivering a robust new Russian national Gerard a new vote, although PASOK after previous attempts at reform the creation of a European MALE some ¤670m ($894m). system resilient against cyber Depardieu said yesterday that leader Evangelos Venizelos told a failed. “This is what we are chang- (medium-altitude, long-endur- He criticised the fact that these attacks,” they said. Information he was applying for an Algerian Sunday newspaper he “was not ing because it’s right, because it’s ance) drone, which allows surveil- could not be manufactured and obtained from drones currently passport and possibly others, afraid” of an election. fair and because it should have lance of vast areas over 24 hours. bought in Europe, estimating that passes through the United States describing himself a “world citi- Opinion polls indicate that sup- been done years ago,” he said. The trio declared their “readi- European countries need as many or Israel as there is no “European” zen”. The 64-year-old star, one of port for all three ruling parties REUTERS ness to coordinate on such a of 40 of the high-tech craft. means of transmission. AFP the world’s most prolific actors, acquired Russian nationality in January after getting into a fight with the French authori- Spain air festival ties over a new 75-percent tax on the super-rich. “I would like to have seven” passports, he told Woman MP to run France’s Journal du Dimanche. “I’m going to ask for an Algerian one and others as well,” he said. “This will help me avoid visas.” for Mali president Czech PM faces BAMAKO: A female lawmaker control of the vast desert area will run for president of Mali in last year. “We must develop all of showdown elections due to be held in the Mali, although more must be done PRAGUE: Some members of troubled west African country in the north. But we have to be the Czech Republic’s governing next month. careful because if you focus devel- coalition are considering ditch- Aissata Cisse Haidara, 54, opment in the north, the south ing Prime Minister Petr Necas threw her hat into the ring on will itself revolt.” after his closest aide was charged Saturday at a rally attended by International mediators have with bribery and ordering illegal several thousand supporters, so far failed to secure a deal surveillance, his deputy said yes- mainly women and young peo- between Mali’s president and terday. Necas faces a showdown ple. “I am a candidate, not just the northern rebels that would with his coalition partners when to make up the numbers but to enable elections to go ahead as they meet for talks following the play a role in the rebuilding of the planned nationwide on July 28. arrest of his long-standing per- Mali, which has become an unrec- The polls are seen as a key step sonal assistant Jana Nagyova. If ognisable country today,” she said. in the recovery of Mali, a former Necas is forced to step down, the Haidara is an MP for Bourem French colony that was a stable government has to quit accord- in northern Mali, the centre of democracy until a March 2012 coup ing to the constitution, meaning a the conflict which erupted after triggered the occupation of the north period of instability in the repub- armed Tuareg rebels and Al by Islamist and Tuareg groups. lic. Prolonged horse-trading would A pilot performs in Yak 52 during the 8th Motril International Air Festival near Granada, Spain, yesterday. Qaeda linked extremists seized AFP be likely between the coalition, opposition and the president over how to form a new government. Rivals scared of defeat: Mugabe Merkel’s challenger wells up after yet more strife HARARE: President Robert Mugabe accused political rivals BERLIN: Peer Steinbrueck, the main spoke about how their lives had totally Merkel when it chose Steinbrueck last following a meeting in which Gabriel openly of seeking to delay elections in opposition challenger to German changed since her husband became lead September. He was seen as an acerbic, criticised him. “Only by concentrating all Zimbabwe because they fear Chancellor Angela Merkel, choked up challenger, and said he would never have conservative voice in the left-leaning SPD our strengths can the SPD oust this gov- defeat, after regional leaders during an interview yesterday when he taken this on, were it not for his convictions. who could woo less convinced voters away ernment and Merkel,” the former finance urged his ruling coalition to ask was asked about what motivated him “We were doing well ... we had freedom, from Merkel. But his message has been minister told Der Spiegel. the courts to extend a July 31 to carry on despite all the pressure and we had free time, we could decide what we clouded by mistakes. He became mired in “I therefore expect that everyone, includ- deadline for holding the vote. His criticism of his campaign. wanted to do,” she told the interviewer at a row over earning ¤1.25m ($1.7m) as an ing the party chairman, will over the next rivals said reforms to restrictive In an extraordinary display of emotion the televised event. “Then he became chal- after-dinner speaker, and bungled an ensu- 100 days get behind the chancellor candi- media and security laws were from a man known for his abrasive style, lenger, and gets nothing but criticism for ing public debate. date and the campaign in a loyal, construc- essential for any fair election to Steinbrueck struggled to find words, and everything he has done before.” Six days ago, he sacked his chief spokes- tive manner.” At the party event in Berlin be held and that it was Mugabe’s sighed heavily. As his eyes welled up, the When the presenter then turned to man, widely blamed for failing to pre- the men sat next to each other and denied party that was not ready to go audience at the event by his Social Democrat Steinbrueck to ask what his motivations vent damaging remarks he made — that any rift. Gabriel said there could sometimes the polls. Mugabe, Africa’s old- (SPD) party stood up and applauded. were, his eyes welled up. The SPD trail German chancellors were underpaid and be friction, much as in a marriage, but this est leader at 89, last week used Steinbrueck, who is badly lagging Merkel Merkel’s conservatives in opinion polls by Merkel was so popular because she was a ultimately only generated warmth. a presidential decree to bypass in the run-up to the September 22 election, about 15-16 points. In an Emnid poll pub- woman — from appearing in a newspaper Despite her strong lead, Merkel may still parliament and fast-track faced more controversy after rebuking his lished yesterday, they slipped a point to 25 in December. struggle to form a government if her allies, changes to election laws and party’s chairman for his disloyalty - yet percent, their lowest since January, and Deepening the sense of a lack of unity, the liberal Free Democrats (FDP), fail to declare the voting date, draw- another sign of disarray in his campaign. only 2 points above their poor showing in Steinbrueck, 66, told weekly Der Spiegel secure the 5 percent minimum for entry ing a sharp rebuke from Prime He gave an interview with his wife the 2009 election. he expected all SPD members, including into parliament. Minister Morgan Tsvangirai. Gertrude at the party event in which she The SPD had high hopes of beating chairman Sigmar Gabriel, to back him, REUTERS AGENCIES MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

G8 summit protest Call records of Four stabbed fewer than 300 people sought in British in 2012: US

WASHINGTON: The govern- ment last year searched for the mosque attack phone records of fewer than 300 people in a database containing tens of millions of Americans’ phone records, intelligence offi- Police question 32-year-old man cials said late on Saturday in a statement to Congress. LONDON: A 32-year-old man man who suffered a single stab The figure’s release is part of a is being questioned after four wound to the thigh, were also push by officials to allay privacy people, including a police officer, being treated in hospital on concerns following recent disclo- were injured in a knife attack Sunday for injuries, described as sures of National Security Agency during evening prayers at a serious but not life-threatening. surveillance programmes that col- Birmingham mosque. Another worshipper suffered a lect massive amounts of data in an Chief Superintendent Alex hand injury but did not require effort to thwart terrorist attacks. Murray praised the “heroic” hospital treatment. All of the The phone records programme, actions of officers and other wor- injured were given first aid at the until recently highly classified, shippers who intervened during scene by police officers as well as dates to 2006 and is authorized the incident at the Madrassa other worshippers at the mosque, under a still-secret interpretation Qasim Ul Uloom mosque, in the including an off-duty surgeon. of Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Washwood Heath area of the city, The man arrested by on sus- Amnesty International volunteers wearing masks and orange suits depicting detainees at Guantanamo Bay Under that “business records” pro- on Saturday. picion of attempted murder was call on US President Barack Obama to close the military detention camp, outside the Waterfront Hall in vision of the Patriot Act, the gov- The incident comes amid an a local, believed to be of Somali Belfast, Northern Ireland, yesterday. G8 leaders are set to gather in Northern Ireland for their annual summit ernment can seek an order from a increase in police patrols around origin, police said. He was attend- special surveillance court to direct talks expected to be dominated by Syria. mosques after a number of attacks ing the mosque for the first time. phone companies to turn over all in the aftermath of the killing Dr Arshad Mahmood, who was call detail records on a daily basis of British soldier Lee Rigby in at the mosque, told the BBC: “A as long as they are relevant to a Woolwich, south London. Murray man started stabbing one of the foreign terrorist investigation. said the motivation for the attack guys who was just sitting right The “metadata” collected was unclear but there was no next to him. I don’t know what includes phone numbers dialed evidence it was a hate crime or exactly was the reason but he just Key Republican senator still and length of call, but not call linked to any other incidents. started stabbing him. We went to content, caller identity or loca- Police were called to the mosque save him. He had multiple inju- tion information. by a worshipper just after 11pm ries, three or four wounds. Then “Only a very small fraction of and arrived within four minutes the policeman came and was also backs US immigration bill the [data] acquired under the to find three injured people. They attacked and stabbed.” program is ever reviewed,” the were directed to a side-room of the Mohammed Shafiq, the leader WASHINGTON: Republican toughening the language on bor- elements of how border security statement said, noting that the building where they found the sus- of national Muslim organisation Senator Marco Rubio said yes- der security. “If we fail, we’re can be further achieved, but not government may not query the pect armed with a combat knife. the Ramadhan Foundation, said terday that he still supports a going to keep trying, because at if at the end of the day you’re just database for a particular phone “They challenged the individual a nearby resident overheard an bill to overhaul the US immi- the end of the day, the only way simply using that as an excuse not number unless it has “reasonable and the individual ran at one of argument coming from inside the gration, but reiterated that he we’re going to pass an immigra- to permit a pathway to legaliza- suspicion” that the number is the officers with the knife,” said mosque and believes the attack fol- wants its stipulations on bor- tion reform law out of the House tion,” said Menendez on CNN’s related to a specific foreign ter- Murray “The officer deployed a lowed a dispute between members. der security to be tightened in and Senate so the president can State of the Union program. rorist group. Taser, the Taser had no effect “I have spoken to someone who order for the legislation to win sign it is, that it has real border Republicans and Democrats Nonetheless, the amassing on the individual and the indi- lives a few doors down from the approval from Congress. security measures within it.” are anxious to tackle immigra- of the database — code-named vidual stabbed the officer in the mosque and they described hear- Rubio, one of the so-called Gang Rubio declined to engage in tion reform, after the increasingly MAINWAY — from the records chest and in the stomach around ing an argument between some of Eight Republican and Democratic “hypotheticals and ultimatums” influential Latino vote turned of so many Americans who have the stab-proof vest that he was of the people inside the mosque,” senators steering the bill, has about whether or not he could out heavily in favour of President no conceivable tie to terrorism wearing.” he said. “It escalated into vio- been criticized by Conservative vote for the bill without added Barack Obama and his Democrats has stirred deep concerns from Despite being seriously injured, lence and a police officer has Republicans as being too soft and border security provisions. He in the November 2012 election. a number of lawmakers as well the 31-year-old officer detained the been stabbed. People, anti-Mus- there have been concerns he could played down accusations from This has not been lost on some as civil liberties advocates. They attacker with the help of a female lim extremists, are going to try to walk way from the legislation. conservative critics that he has Republicans, including South were not mollified by the release colleague. The wounded officer, take advantage of this – it’s very The lawmaker from Florida been influenced by Democratic Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, of the number. from the Yardley Wood area of serious that a police officer has said on ABC’s This Week pro- lawmakers in the reform debate. who said the immigration bill “Under the standards of Section Birmingham, who has served with been stabbed during duty.” gramme that the bill was about 96 The bill currently being debated would decide who wins the White 215, they should not be able to West Midlands police since 2007, Murray said: “This was a one- percent ready but should include in the US Senate was rolled out House in 2016. “If we don’t pass have that large database of phone was undergoing surgery in hospi- off incident, we’re not looking strong measures on border secu- in April and would provide a immigration reform, if we don’t records in the first place,” said tal yesterday. “The work of those for anyone else in relation to this rity to ensure there would not be 13-year path to citizenship for 11 get it off the table in a reason- Sharon Bradford Franklin, senior officers was heroic and the work incident. We don’t understand the another wave of illegal immigra- million illegal immigrants. Rubio’s able practical way, it doesn’t mat- counsel of the Constitution Project, of the some of the people in the motivation at the moment but it tion in the future. “If we do that, Democratic counterpart Robert ter who you (Republicans) run in a civil liberties organisation. The mosque assisting those officers was doesn’t appear at this very early this bill will have strong biparti- Menendez cautioned Republicans 2016,” Graham said. “The only way government “does not indiscrimi- also heroic,” said Murray. stage to be linked to anything san support,” Rubio said. against trying to use the border we can get back in the good graces nately sift through the telephony Two worshippers, a 28-year-old else that’s going on around the Rubio said he did not believe security issue to delay the pas- of the Hispanic community, in my metadata acquired under this pro- man who had suffered multiple country.” the Senate would try to push sage of the legislation. view, is to pass a comprehensive gramme,” the statement said. stab wounds and a 36-year-old THE GUARDIAN the legislation through without “We are open to constructive immigration reform.” REUTERS WP-BLOOMBERG Assange: A year in the embassy

LONDON: It is an odd sight: with the enemy — a death penalty WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange offence,” said Assange. “What’s at (pictured) is wearing a jacket stake in this trial is the future of and tie, but no shoes. Then again, press in the United States and in if you have not stepped outside the rest of the world.” Ecuador’s London embassy for a The name of the silver-haired year, shoes are largely pointless. WikiLeaks founder has come In an interview with AFP to up frequently during the court- mark this strange anniversary, the martial, which began on June 3. man behind the whistle-blowing He claims there is a sealed US website that unleashed the wrath indictment against him, and that of Washington insisted diplomats his conviction is a “99-percent have the potential to end the dead- chance” certainty if he ever ends lock that has left him trapped. up on US territory. Like something out of a spy Entering the embassy was the novel, Assange, a 41-year-old front room. “The physical circum- final twist in a long legal battle former computer hacker from stances are difficult. However, I’m over the allegations. But Assange Australia, walked into the embassy working every day.” claims Britain and Ecuador can on June 19, 2012 and claimed asy- He spoke as shock-waves rever- reach a deal that will see him lum in a sensational bid to avoid berated around the world over the leave “within a year”. extradition to Sweden for question- biggest US leak since WikiLeaks “I think the position in the Solar Impulse co-founder Andre Borschberg (left) celebrates with co-pilot Bertrand Piccard after landing Solar ing over alleged sex crimes. published the war logs and diplo- UK is softening. Of course, it will Impulse’s HB-SIA prototype at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, yesterday. Ecuador granted his request, matic cables in 2010: the exposure never publicly humiliate the United accepting his fears that if sent to of spy agencies’ massive electronic States by offering me safe passage Sweden he might be passed on surveillance programmes. in a manner that doesn’t seem to Solar plane lands in Washington to the United States and pros- Edward Snowden, an ex-CIA be forced,” he said. “But there’s ecuted for publishing thousands employee who says from exile in lots of ways of saving the pride of of classified war logs from Iraq Hong Kong that his conscience Sweden, Australia, the UK and the WASHINGTON: The solar- said shortly after landing, high- its Twitter feed shortly after the and Afghanistan and a cache of drove him to reveal the scale of United States,” he added. powered Solar Impulse aircraft lighting a decade of effort, includ- plane touched down, in a landing diplomatic cables. the government’s spying on the He insists Britain is break- landed near the US capital early ing developing the plane and broadcast live on the organizer’s But Britain has refused to grant public, faces a criminal probe ing international law by refusing yesterday on the second to last studying historical and current website, live.solarimpulse.com. him safe passage to Ecuador. For — and Assange fears he will be to let him travel to Ecuador as a leg of its cross-country journey, weather records. The final leg of the cross-coun- a year, police have maintained a treated as harshly as WikiLeaks’ refugee — but admitted it was organisers said. He said the flight has shown try journey will take the plane to 24-hour guard at the doors of the leaker Bradley Manning. difficult to imagine a scenario in The single-seater plane, which “we can achieve unbelievable New York City. embassy — a modest apartment “Snowden is as good an exam- which he could leave without being runs on four electric propellers things” with renewable energy, The aircraft can fly at night around the corner from the Harrods ple of a hero as any. He has per- handcuffed. Will there eventually powered by 12,000 solar cells saying his plane is “so efficient, by reaching a high elevation of department store — and are poised formed an extremely courageous come a day when he just gives up mounted on its 63-meter wing- so reliable it can fly without any 27,000 feet and then gently glid- to arrest him if he tries to leave. act,” said Assange, hailing him and walks outside? “When I’ve had span, touched down smoothly in fuel day and night.” The plane ing downward, using almost no The last year, Assange says, has for exposing America’s “creeping enough? I don’t know. It’s hard to the dark at Dulles International will spend around two weeks in power until the sun comes up to been like living on a space sta- mass surveillance state”. “What say. At the moment we’re doing Airport at 12:15am (0415 GMT). the Washington area and will be begin recharging the solar cells. tion. He has used a sun lamp to we don’t want to see is him end- such good work,” he said. The Solar Impulse usually lands available for public visits at the The flight from Cincinatti, make up for the lack of natural ing up the same way as Bradley Although its recent scoops have in the middle of the night, when Udvar-Hazy wing of Smithsonian Ohio took about 14 hours, after a light, and exercises on a treadmill. Manning — detained without been much lower-profile than the airport traffic has subsided. At the Air and Space Museum. 14-hour pit stop in the midwest- He has also been getting on with trial, abused in prison and now cables and war logs, it continues controls was Swiss pilot Bertrand “To be hosted by the ern US city prompted by diffi- the business of being a thorn in facing life imprisonment.” to publish leaks from around the Piccard, who is taking turns with Smithsonian Institution is an cult weather. The organisers had Washington’s side. Aiding the enemy can carry world, including millions of Syrian compatriot Andre Borschberg on honor for Solar Impulse,” Piccard planned for the solar craft to fly “You ask how I deal with the the death sentence, though pros- politicians’ e-mails and US files on the various legs of the flight across said, adding that he hoped his directly from St. Louis, Missouri difficulties of being confined. Well ecutors are not seeking it in Guantanamo Bay. Where will he the United States. plane might join the museum’s to Washington DC, but they said actually, my mind is not confined,” Manning’s case. “They’re trying to be this time next year? “Hopefully “It might seem easy, but it’s the permanent collection. “Congrats strong cross and head winds he said, leaning back in a chair in erect a precedent that speaking to Australia, Ecuador, travelling the result of a lot of work,” Piccard & welcome!” the museum said on slowed down the aircraft. AFP the embassy’s tastefully decorated the media is the communicating world,” he said. AFP MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES Bangladesh opposition Anti-Korean protest sweeps key city polls Setback for ruling Awami League ahead of general election

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s of general elections, while the country’s much criticised war Islamist-backed main oppo- growing influence of Islamists crime court that is probing sition yesterday swept may- who backed the BNP after their the atrocities committed dur- oral elections in four cities in traditional parties did not contest ing Bangladesh’s 1971 war of a major setback for the ruling contributed to the huge margins independence. party ahead of general polls. of victory. Four Islamist leaders have The centre-right Bangladesh “In mayoral elections local already been sentenced to death Nationalist Party (BNP) won by issues play important role but since January by the court but big margins in the major cities the results are a verdict against the verdicts triggered protests of Khulna, Sylhet, Rajshahi and the government’s poor perform- which killed 150 political activ- Barisal, Election Commission ance,” said Ataur Rahman, a ists, mostly Islamists, in some of spokesman S M Asaduzzaman former professor of political sci- the worst political violence in the said. ence at the National University country’s history. In the third largest city of of Singapore. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Khulna, home to about one “Many people believe this gov- centre-left Awami League party million people, BNP candidate ernment is anti-Islamic and they won the December 2008 polls by a Moniruzzaman Moni beat the did not like the way government landslide but her tenure has been incumbent Abdul Khaleque by a aggressively cracked down on hit by series of high profile graft margin of 60,671 votes. the Islamists in recent months,” scandals. Analysts said the results Rahman added. The BNP, led by former prime reflected a nationwide erosion Leading Islamists including minister Khaleda Zia, has won of support for the ruling Awami the entire leadership of Jamaat- power three times. Carrying Japanese national flags and navy flags, members of a nationalist group march on the streets of Korean League party six months ahead i-Islami have been tried by the AFP Town in Tokyo during a demonstration denouncing South Korean people, yesterday. Some 300 nationalists took part in the demonstration on the street crowded with Sunday shoppers.

Over 140 workers N Korea proposes high-level talks with US fall sick in Dhaka garment factory SEOUL/WASHINGTON: we propose to hold high-level spokeswoman for the National Studies. The recent summit War ended in an armistice rather North Korea yesterday offered talks between the DPRK and the Security Council. between US President Barack than a permanent peace treaty, it DHAKA: More than 140 work- high-level talks with the United United States,” said the spokes- “Our desire is to have cred- Obama and Chinese President Xi left the two countries technically ers, mostly women, at two States to ease tensions on the man for the North’s National ible negotiations with the North Jinping might have played a role at war. Bangladeshi garment factories Korean peninsula, but the Defence Commission in the Koreans, but those talks must in the North’s changed attitude, in The North has a long record of near the capital Dhaka fell ill White House said that any statement. North Korea’s official involve North Korea living up which the two leaders were on the making threats to secure conces- yesterday after drinking sus- talks must involve Pyongyang name is the Democratic People’s to its obligations to the world, same page regarding the North’s sions from the United States and pected contaminated water in taking action to show it is mov- Republic of Korea (DPRK). including compliance with U.N. nuclear development, Kim said. South Korea. their workplace, police said. ing toward scrapping its nuclear “If the U.S. is truly interested in Security Council Resolutions, and North Korea’s one major ally, North Korea’s 30-year-old A series of tragedies since last weapons. securing regional peace and safety ultimately result in denucleariza- China, has urged Pyongyang to leader, Kim Jong-un, took power November when a fire killed 111 The offer came only days after and easing tensions, it should not tion,” Hayden said in statement. abandon its nuclear weapons pro- in December 2011 and has since people in another factory have North Korea abruptly cancelled mention of preconditions for the “We will judge North Korea gram and return to talks. carried out two long-range rocket triggered renewed scrutiny of planned official talks with South talks,” the statement said. by its actions, and not its words In the statement, Pyongyang launches and a nuclear weapons “made-in-Bangladesh” clothes Korea, the first planned talks The United States will dis- and look forward to seeing steps reiterated it was willing to dis- test, as well as a campaign of commonly sold in the West. in more two years. The North cuss the new offer in meetings that show North Korea is ready cuss disarmament but the world threats against South Korea and Yesterday’s development comes blamed the South for scut- with Japan and South Korea to abide by its commitments and should also be denuclearized, the United States. less than two weeks after up to tling discussions that sought to in Washington on Tuesday and obligations,” she said. including its southern neighbor. Threats have waned in the past 600 workers at another garment mend estranged ties between the Wednesday, a senior administra- Earlier this year, North Korea North Korea agreed to a month, showing signs of easing plant were rushed to hospital rival Koreas. The North Korea tion official said. threatened nuclear and missile denuclearization-for-aid deal in tensions such as proposing talks after falling sick due to contami- National Defence Commission Washington has been skepti- strikes against South Korea and 2005 but later backed out of that with South Korea in early June. nated water. in a statement carried by KCNA cal of any move by Pyongyang the United States after it was accord. It has said its nuclear The talks had been intended to The incidents follow the col- news agency on Sunday said for dialogue as it has repeatedly hit with U.N. sanctions for its arms are a “treasured sword” that discuss issues resuming opera- lapse of a building housing five Washington can pick a date and backtracked on deals, the latest in February nuclear weapons test. it will not abandon. tions of joint commercial projects garment factories in April that place for talks and the two sides 2012 when it agreed to a missile “North Korea’s proposal for Pyongyang also said it wants and families split during the 1950- killed 1,129 people, highlight- can discuss a range of issues, and nuclear test moratorium, only dialogue to the U.S. is all part of the United States to sign a peace 53 Korean War. ing appalling safety conditions but no preconditions should be to fire a rocket weeks later. the game to get economic aid as treaty formally ending the 1950- In the coming days, North and in Bangladesh’s 4,500 garment attached. “We have always favored dia- U.N. sanctions were tougher than 53 Korean War that divided the South Korea will mark the 60th factories. “In order to ease tensions on logue and, in fact, have open before,” said Kim Seung-hwan, two Koreas. anniversary of the Korean War Police inspector Humayun the Korean peninsula and to lines of communication with the senior associate at the Center Korea was divided after World and the armistice. Kabir told AFP that several gar- achieve regional peace and safety, DPRK,” said Caitlin Hayden, for Strategic and International War Two and when the Korean REUTERS ment workers — most of them women — fell sick yesterday at two garment plants at Joydevpur, an industrial town north of Emergency exercise Dhaka. “At least 141 of them were Desperate hunt for ferry survivors rushed to one hospital. Some oth- ers were taken to other hospitals. MANILA: Philippine navy attempts by the navy divers to they were given orders to termi- The factories were closed for the divers battled strong ocean cur- reach the seabed, navy spokesman nate the search. day,” he said. rents yesterday in a desperate Lieutenant Commander Gerald Ferries are the main mode of “Primarily we suspect the hunt for seven missing passen- Fabic told reporters. transportation across the the water supply of the factories could gers of a ferry that sank with “They still have not (located) archipelago’s more than 7,100 be contaminated,” he said. dozens onboard. the ferry and they were not able islands. Officials said the workers were The Lady of Mount Carmel to go too deep,” Fabic said. But the country’s sea transport engaged in making garments for ferry mysteriously went down in He said there was a slim chance industry is notoriously disaster- Western labels but did not imme- calm weather on Friday about two that the seven missing had drifted prone, with sea accidents common diately identify the brands. kilometres from central Burias away to nearby islands. due to poor safety standards. island, killing two women pas- However, he added there was The world’s deadliest peacetime sengers. Officials said 61 of the also a probability that they were maritime disaster occurred near China hits out at US 70 people aboard the vessel had trapped inside the sunken vessel. Manila in 1987 when a ferry laden been rescued. Fabic said navy and coastguard with Christmas holidaymakers Prism programme Hopes of finding the remaining vessels would continue scouring collided with a small oil tanker, missing passengers were fading areas around Burias island with killing more than 4,300 people. BEIJING: China’s official army Reservists of the Philippine Navy unit wearing search and rescue gear fast as strong currents thwarted the help of local fishermen until AFP newspaper yesterday branded march at their camp during readiness inspection in Manila, yesterday. the United States Internet sur- veillance programme exposed by former spy Edward Snowden as “frightening”, and accused the US of being a “habitual Sri Lanka vows polls in ex-war offender” when it comes to net- Taipei, Manila agree to avoid work monitoring. The People’s Liberation Army zone but clips council powers (PLA) Daily hit out at the US for COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s will take place as planned,” his implying that spying on citizens President Mahinda Rajapaksa office said in a statement. force in fishing disputes from other countries was justified, pledged yesterday to proceed However, government spokes- and said that the Prism monitor- with the first-ever provincial man Keheliya Rambukwella TAIPEI: Taiwan and the zone. “Both sides have guaranteed criminal charges be filed against ing programme had probably been polls in the island’s former war said the council’s powers will be Philippines have pledged not to avoid the use of armed force or coastguards involved in the fatal used to collect large amounts of zone but his government said curtailed. to use force in fishing dis- violence in the implementation of shooting after coastguard chiefs data unrelated to anti-terrorism the powers of the elected coun- “A bill will be brought to parlia- putes, officials said, as they fisheries laws,” it said. in Manila initially insisted the operations. cil will be clipped. ment on Tuesday to take away the tackle a row over the killing The two sides agreed to share fishing vessel had tried to ram the The remarks about the pro- The ruling coalition had prom- powers of a council to unite with of a Taiwanese fisherman by their maritime law enforcement coastguard boat and their person- gramme are among the most ised to share limited power with another and create a bigger ter- Filipino coastguards. procedures and establish means nel had fired in self-defence. scathing to appear in China’s Tamils, pointing to elections to ritorial unit,” Rambukwella told The agreement was reached for notifying each other without The killing caused outrage in state-run press following Beijing’s local councils, after the military reporters. during their first preparatory delay whenever actions are taken Taiwan, with President Ma Ying- refusal to make an official crushed separatist Tamil rebels He said the government was meeting on fishery coopera- against vessels and crews of the jeou describing it as “cold-blooded comment. in May 2009 and ended 37 years also appointing a parliament tion held in Manila on Friday, other party, it said. murder”. “US intelligence agencies are of ethnic bloodshed. committee this week to suggest Taiwan’s foreign ministry said in They also agreed to develop His government ordered a ‘habitual offenders’ with regards Rajapaksa on Saturday vis- trimming of more powers of the a statement. a mechanism for the prompt freeze on the hiring of Filipinos to network monitoring and espi- ited the northern district of provincial councils established in It said the agreement was release of detained fishing ves- to work in Taiwan, issued a “red- onage,” the article, attributed Kilinochchi, the political capi- 1987 to grant a degree of auton- aimed at avoiding a recurrence sels and their crews, in line with alert” warning tourists against to the PLA’s Foreign Languages tal of the defeated Tamil Tiger omy to Tamils in exchange for of incidents such as the death international practice. travelling to the Philippines and Institute, said. rebels, and promised to hold elec- ethnic peace. of 65-year-old Hung Shih-cheng Further meetings would be held staged naval drills near Philippine “There is reason to believe US tions as scheduled in September, Rambukwella said the ground who died after his boat was fired on fisheries cooperation includ- waters. Philippine President intelligence agencies, while col- his office said. reality had changed after the upon by Filipino coastguards ing management and conserva- Begnino Aquino repeatedly lecting anti-terrorism informa- “President Rajapaksa, who was military crushed separatist Tamil while operating in waters near tion schemes, it said. Philippine apologised and sent an envoy to tion online have also ‘incidentally’ in Kilinochchi, said elections to rebels in 2009. a Philippine island that Taiwan investigators on Thursday said Taiwan, but these actions were collected a lot of information in the Northern Provincial Council AFP also claims as part of its economic they had recommended that rejected as insincere. AFP other fields.” AFP MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

Sunni rebels Police storm hospital claim twin attacks in Quetta, end standoff QUETTA: A Pakistani mili- tant group behind a series of bloody assaults on minor- 35 trapped inside building freed, 4 militants shot dead ity Shias has said it carried out attacks on a bus carrying QUETTA: Pakistani police women students and a hospital stormed a hospital that had that killed at least 25. been taken over by gunmen on The extremist Sunni out- Saturday, freeing hostages and fit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi said a ending a five-hour standoff that female suicide bomber struck began with a bombing just out- the bus in Quetta, capital of the side the emergency room and restive Baluchistan province left five dead, officials said. on Saturday, killing 14 women The attack in Quetta, capital students. of restive Baluchistan province, A follow up attack around 90 came just after another blast minutes later on a hospital treat- ripped through a nearby bus ing survivors left at least 11 dead carrying female university stu- and led to a prolonged gun bat- dents, killing at least 11 people tle between security forces and and wounding 19, police chief Mir militants occupying part of the Zubair Mahmood said. building. Soldiers and police comman- Abubakar Siddiq, a spokes- dos had rushed to the scene of man for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi the attack, where five to seven (LeJ), called newspaper offices gunmen had taken over different in Quetta to claim the killings. sections of the building, head of “The suicide attack on the bus police operations, Fayaz Sumbal, was carried out by one of our said. Security forces later man- sisters. She boarded the student aged to pen the attackers off into bus and blew herself up,” Siddiq Pakistani security personnel inspect the burnt student bus a day after it a certain area, Sumbal added, said. was destroyed by a bomb attack, in Quetta, yesterday. Weeping relatives as helicopters hovered overhead “Then we carried out a second gathered to identify the charred remains of loved ones killed in a double to keep the assailants off the suicide attack at the hospital and attack in the troubled southwest, claimed by a banned Sunni militant group. rooftops. Officials said at least our fighters killed several peo- four of the attackers died during ple. We did this because security the final assault by police. forces killed our fighters and population, and the city saw the intelligence-gathering and pre- A reporter outside the hospi- their wives in Kharotabad.” country’s two bloodiest attacks venting a terrorist attack from tal as the attack unfolded heard Pakistani security forces so far this year. succeeding is also obvious,” it intermittent gunfire as troops The security personnel at the damaged hospital a day after militants on June 6 killed at least three A giant bomb planted in a said in an editorial. took up positions around the attacked it, in Quetta, yesterday. militants and two women dur- water tanker being towed by a “Unhappily, the more obvious building. Later, as fighting con- ing a raid at a house in the tractor killed 90 Shia Hazaras these truths, the less likely it tinued into the evening, another had been visiting the wounded responsibility for the hospital Kharotabad neighbourhood in February, while another sui- seems that anything will be done loud explosion shook the hospital. female students died in the hos- attack or bus bombing, although of Quetta. Officials said they cide bombing at a snooker club to address them.” Inside, patients, visitors and staff pital blast, officials said. the vast Baluchistan region has belonged to Tehreek-e-Taliban in January killed 92 others. Both The bus targeted in Saturday’s hiding behind locked doors spoke Another four Frontier Corps been plagued by violence from Pakistan, with whom LeJ has were claimed by LeJ. attack was from Sardar Bahadur of the firefight. troops also died, said Interior Baluch nationalists, sectarian links. The attacks came hours There was fury in the Pakistani Khan Women’s University, which “Everybody is trying to take Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali militant groups and the Taliban. after a national monument press yesterday, both at the per- is located close to a Shia Hazara shelter — in the corners, behind Khan. But it was not clear A spokesman for the linked to Pakistan’s founding petrators and the security forces neighbourhood in Quetta, and the steel cupboards and tables,” whether they were killed in the Baluchistan government, father Muhammad Ali Jinnah for failing to prevent the third many Hazaras are students. Hidayatullah Khan, who had explosion or in the ensuing opera- Jan Mohammad Buledi, told was destroyed by separatist major atrocity in Quetta in six Baluchistan, which borders been visiting a niece wounded in tion to clear the building. He said Pakistan’s Geo TV that the two militants in Ziarat town, 80km months. Iran and Afghanistan, is rife the earlier bus bombing, said by at least 35 people trapped inside attacks were connected. Militants southeast of Quetta. Dawn, the country’s leading with militancy and a regional telephone. the building were freed. often stage coordinated attacks to Quetta is a flashpoint for sec- English-language newspaper, insurgency waged by separatists “Some armed people are roam- Besides the four attackers target rescuers and others as they tarian violence between major- said the state’s shortcomings had demanding political autonomy ing around but we closed the door killed, one was in custody, the rush to the hospital. ity Sunni Muslims and minority been shown once again. and a greater share of prof- and locked it,” he added. “We have minister added. Footage on Pakistani television Shiites, who account for 20 per- “That the state has again its from the region’s natural been hearing shots for some time.” Two of the attackers blew showed people fleeing from the hos- cent of Pakistan’s 180 million failed both at the level of resources. AFP Sumbal said the initial explo- themselves up as security forces pital after the explosion and hiding sion at the hospital went off as were closing in on them, said behind ambulances in the parking rescuers and relatives of the Mahmood, the Quetta police chief. lot. Earlier on Saturday, militants planted bombs at the 19th cen- said senior police officer Asghar many Pakistanis call Quaid-e- victims from the bus bombing He said security forces were now destroyed a house once lived in by tury residence in the mountain Ali Yousufzai. Azam, or “great leader.” Prime crowded the emergency room going methodically through the Pakistan’s founder, Muhammad resort town of Ziarat, about The attackers also shot dead Minister Nawaz Sharif con- where the dead and wounded building to make sure no more Ali Jinnah, who led the country to 120km north of Quetta. Three of a police guard outside the resi- demned the attack in a statement were taken. attackers were left inside. independence in 1947. the bombs exploded and ignited a dency, which had been turned and expressed his sorrow over the A top government official who No one immediately claimed Attackers on motorcycles fire that destroyed the building, into a museum about the man policeman’s death. AP

Gunmen kill two Afghan labourers at work Former PPP premiers spent polio workers in NW Pakistan millions for self-promotion ISLAMABAD: Former prime Ashraf. The finance ministry will- PESHAWAR: Gunmen on a minister in the Pakistan Peoples ingly issued the supplementary motorbike shot dead two health Party-led government of Yousuf budget to the PID, the documents workers during an anti-polio Raza Gilani spent as much as showed. drive in northwest Pakistan Rs22.3m on advertisements of The spending also highlights yesterday, police said, the latest the cabinet’s 100th session in the weak controls of the finance in a series of deadly attacks on December 2011, while his suc- ministry that released supple- vaccination teams. cessor Raja Pervaiz Ashraf used mentary budgets to appease the The killings took place in the Rs1.6m on high-definition cam- rulers of the time. town of Gadoon, some 120km east eras for better quality snapshots. After presiding the 100th of Peshawar where door-to-door According to budget docu- meeting, Gilani had announced vaccinations were taking place ments, a supplementary budget to form two different task forces since Saturday. of Rs22.3m was given to the Press for restructuring national assets “Gunmen on a motorcycle shot Information Department for in order to make them profitable dead two health workers who spending on the advertisement and resolve the energy crisis- the were administering anti-polio of the cabinet’s 100th meeting in goals that were never achieved. drops to children in the area,” dis- Karachi. The meeting chaired by To compensate the affected trict police chief Mian Saeed said. Gilani got wide coverage in the families as a result of the attack The victims, both male, had electronic media, courtesy of then on Joseph Colony in Badami Bagh refused to take security person- information minister Dr Firdous Lahore, the federal government nel along, he added. Ashiq Awan who broke into tears paid Rs56m, according to the Last month unknown gun- while tendering her resignation. documents. In March this year, men killed a female health The documents showed that more than 200 houses in Joseph worker taking part in a World Afghan labourers work at a brick factory on the outskirts of Herat, yesterday. Over a third of Afghans are liv- Rs1.6m worth of still cameras of Colony were attacked, looted and Health Organization — sup- ing in abject poverty, as those in power are more concerned about addressing their vested interests rather high resolution were purchased burnt by a mob. ported anti-polio drive on the than the basic needs of the population, a UN report said. for the coverage of prime minister INTERNEWS edge of Peshawar, near the restive Khyber tribal region where the military has been battling homeg- rown insurgents with links to the Taliban. No one has claimed responsi- Minister halts Pakistan diplomats’ new postings bility for the latest killings, but last year the Pakistani Taliban ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s by the new government. through the file,” said the aide, serving the same post in Paris on staff officer, has been posted in banned polio vaccinations in the Information Minister Parvez However, when contacted, the who did not wish to be identified. April 29, 2010. According to the Germany, the position many in the tribal region of Waziristan, alleg- Rashid has stopped officials principal information officer of One of the key objections raised ministry?s rules, he could only ministry aspire for. Although he ing the campaign was a cover for appointed for foreign missions the government said that his by the litigants concerned the be considered for a new foreign fulfills the criterion for the post- espionage. by the previous government office had received no official selection of Grade 20 officers for posting after April 29, 2013, after ing, several officials senior to him Polio teams came under attack in its last days from proceed- directive to the effect from the the posts in New York, Brussels, having served at home for three have been ignored in the process in Karachi and in the northwest ing abroad, sources said here information minister’s office. A and Paris when they were meant years. of selection. Shafqat Jalil, who has last year, with the killing of nine yesterday. few officers are known to have for Grade 19 officers. Dr Najeeb Ahmed has got been posted as press minister in health workers carrying out Sources say he took the deci- already left for their assigned One of them noted that the the post of press counsellor in London, has worked as press sec- vaccinations. sion in the light of the litigation stations. Finance Division upgraded the Washington DC, another attrac- retary with the outgoing premier Pakistan, Afghanistan and started by a number of informa- A close aide of the minister, posts at the recommendation of tive location. He was working as Pervez Ashraf. He last served as Nigeria are the only countries tion officers contending that the meanwhile said two options were the information ministry just a director in the office of former press counsellor in New York and where polio is endemic. Polio appointments were made in viola- being discussed to address the days before the newly elected information minister Qamar his mandatory period to serve in cases in Pakistan hit 198 in 2011, tion of government rules. issue: Either re-do the entire government took charge last Kaira and considered to be close the country for three years was the highest figure for more than During the hearing of the case selection process or remove the week. Officers whose selection has to him. He last served in Cairo to end on March 13, 2013. a decade and the most of any on June 6, Chief Justice Anwar anomalies pointed out by the lit- been questioned included Masood and his mandatory qualifying But just a week before that date country in the world, according Kasi of the Islamabad High Court igant officers. “The information Anwar of Grade 20 who has been period will end in October 2013. he was interviewed on March 5 to the UN. observed that whatever has been minister will decide which way posted as press counsellor in New Shafqat Abbas, who was and selected for the post. AFP done was expected to be rectified to go. At the moment he is going York when he had returned after working with Kaira as personal INTERNEWS MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Minister: Food Father’s Day security bill to be passed soon Special parliament session likely

NEW DELHI: Congress chief be taken up in the monsoon Sonia Gandhi’s pet food secu- session (in July-August),” said rity bill is not getting delayed Thomas. and will be passed soon, Finance Minister Food Minister K V Thomas P Chidambaram has indicated said after Prime Minister that a special session of parlia- Manmohan Singh deferred a ment could be called to debate on government decree on the flag- and pass the bill. ship welfare legislation and The Communist Party of India- gave one last chance to evolv- Marxist, the Samajwadi Party ing a consensus among allies that supports the government and the opposition. from outside and the Nationalist “There is no delay. The bill will Congress Party (NCP), a part be passed soon. It takes time in a of the UPA, have expressed res- democracy,” Thomas told IANS ervations against the bill and in an interview. have pressed for a parliamentary The bill, a part of the Congress debate on it. manifesto for the 2009 gen- Thomas welcomed a debate, eral elections, is seen as a big- saying the bill is a landmark leg- ticket legislation of the United islation and both the central and Progressive Alliance government state governments will have a role that could prove to be a game- in implementing it. changer ahead of the 2014 general “We are ready to discuss. It was elections. the opposition which did not allow Students make a sand sculpture on Father’s Day, near the Sangam in Allahabad, yesterday. The bill, which had been in the the bill to be passed in the previ- works for the past four years, was ous session. It is up to them to finally taken up for debate in the support it,” Thomas said. Lok Sabha during the budget ses- Work on the food bill had sion that ended May 8, but could started in 2009. The first draft not be passed as the BJP did not was introduced in parliament Quit post, Achuthanandan tells Chandy allow the house to run demand- in December 2011 and referred ing the prime minister’s resig- to a standing committee, which KOCHI: Kerala Chief Minister showd she had maintained close nation over allegedly irregular submitted its report in January Oommen Chandy, facing heat links with the office of Chandy, award of coal mining blocks to 2013. over the links of his office staff especially his personal staff. corporates. During the past two years, with a woman arrested in a With the assembly in session, The BJP’s stance prompted the said the minister, the govern- cheating case, got a further the Left opposition took it up in a government to contemplate the ment has been working on other jolt with leader of opposition big way and buckling under pres- ordinance route to indicate its aspects related to the food secu- V S Achuthanandan yesterday sure, Chandy had to dismiss his sense of urgency in implement- rity bill like improving food pro- demanding that he step down personal assistant Teny Jopan and ing the measure — that will pro- duction and procurement and and order a judicial probe. gunman Salim Raj, who was in vide subsidised foodgrain to 67 digitising the public distribution “His government has turned regular contact with Nair. percent of the population — but system (PDS) to check pilferage into a company that supports State Congress president would still have to be ratified by and building more space to store frauds, cheats and womanisers. Ramesh Chennithala, however, parliament. foodgrain. Has there been a chief minister in told reporters that the Left Thomas said that as directed “There is improvement on all Kerala like Chandy. It’s a shame... opposition is trying to politicise by the prime minister, discussions these fronts but more work is he has to order a judicial probe Oomen Chandy: In hot water over V S Achuthanandan: Got a stick to the issue. “A probe is on and they with the allies and the opposition needed,” said Thomas. and quit office. staff’s ties with arrested woman. beat Chandy with. should wait for it and not make parties have started to evolve a “The food security bill is for the “He can’t escape by putting the political capital out of this. If they consensus on the bill but hinted people of India. No other country onus of the present fraud on his are going to take this as a politi- they should not test the govern- has taken up such an ambitious staff members. We are going to her former live-in partner Biju in the state. Trouble started for cal issue, we will also do the same ment’s patience. welfare programme,” he pointed raise this again and again in the Radhakrishnan, had formed a Chandy after Nair was arrested thing,” he said. “If they (parties) are serious out. The food security bill aims assembly tomorrow (Monday) company ‘Team Solar’ that was June 3 following a complaint and, Meanwhile, a team of top about the bill, it will be passed to provide subsidised food grain onwards,” Achuthanandan told engaged in putting up solar pan- a few days later, a Communist police officials under Additional in a special session of parlia- to around 67 percent of India’s 1.2 reporters at his official residence els at offices and homes. They Party of India-Marxist-backed Director General of Police A ment. Otherwise, the ordinance billion people. yesterday. had managed to collect millions TV channel came out with a Hemachandran has been formed is still with the cabinet and can IANS The woman, Saritha S Nair and of rupees from influential people list of calls made by Nair, which to probe the scandal. IANS

Romantic pair 52 villagers marooned on New mental health bill gives river island patients more rights in Haryana NEW DELHI: The right number of people suffering from risky,” Samir Malhotra, head of CHANDIGARH: Rescue oper- of mentally-ill patients to mental ailments, the new bill aims the Department of Psychiatry at ations were on late yesterday to decide their mode of treat- at introducing progressive and the Max hospitals, told IANS. save 52 villagers marooned on ment, decriminalising suicide far-sighted steps for patients, a He added that the bill would an island in the flooded Yamuna for them and a ban on electric senior health official told IANS. significantly reduce the powers river, state government officials shock treatment without anaes- “If a person has given an of the doctors in deciding the said here. thesia are some of the pro- advance directive to the state that patients’ well-being. Indian Air Force helicopters gressive provisions of the new he or she should not be admitted The bill also provides the right have been pressed into service mental health bill proposed by to a facility without consent, it to confidentiality and protection and the army was on standby the government. will be heeded to,” the official said. from cruel, inhuman and degrad- to rescue at least 52 residents, “The bill was passed by the This was proposed keeping ing treatment, in addition to the including 15 children, of village union cabinet last week,” Health in mind that a person can be right to live in a community. Legal Lapra in Yamunanagar district, Secretary K Desiraju told IANS. branded mentally ill by family aid will also be extended to them. 110km from here. Once passed by parliament, the members in property or marital It bans the electric-convulsive They have been stranded on an bill will repeal the Mental Health disputes. therapy or the electric shock island in the Yamuna since yes- Act, 1987. The official said the 1987 Act treatment without anaesthesia terday morning. If passed, it will make mental had vested extraordinary powers and restricts psychosurgery. The people had gone to the healthcare a right for all. Also, in treating psychiatrists. The bill Under the provisions of the bill, island to collect musk melons and such services would be affordable, now states that an individual can the government has an obligation water melons. They got stranded of good quality and available with- himself or herself take a call on to provide half-way homes, com- after a flash flood following the out discrimination. the treatment. munity caring centres and other release of 3.4 cusecs of water An estimated 10-12 million or Psychiatrists, however, feel that shelters for mentally-ill people. from the Hathnikund barrage one to two percent of the popula- by giving powers to a mentally-ill Half-way homes, common in in Yamunanagar district. The tion suffers from severe mental patient to decide on the course of the western world, are for those release of water led to the river disorders such as schizophrenia treatment would put him at risk. patients who have recovered but flowing at the danger mark. and bipolar disorder and nearly “A patient in a psychotic phase need 24-hour monitoring and A Haryana government spokes- 50 million or five percent from or a mentally-ill person doesn’t rehabilitation. man said there has been no loss common mental disorders such as have the judgemental capacity It also envisages a mental of life and property. depression and anxiety, yielding to decide what is good or bad for health review commission, which Krishna Mohan, Haryana addi- an overall estimate of 6.5 percent him or her. So trusting that per- will review all admissions in men- tional chief secretary and finan- Bollywood actors Emraan Hashmi (left) and Vidya Balan during a pro- of the population. son to make the correct choice tal health institutions beyond cial commissioner, Revenue and motional party for the forthcoming Hindi film Ghanchakkar in Mumbai Keeping in mind the rising in such circumstances might be 30 days. IANS Disaster Management, said the on Saturday. state government is taking all steps to rescue the marooned people. He said a company of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), comprising 50 personnel, is en route to Lapra French diplomat’s mom wants to meet his three children from Ghaziabad and IAF heli- copters at Bathinda and Sarsawa BANGALORE: French diplo- “We have petitioned the city case for hearing July 19. Jones also to meet his kin, the 62-year-old he had not been allowed to meet were ready to take off. mat Pascal Mazurier, who is on family court July 12 for visiting filed an application in the fam- Maille came to Bangalore from them over a year,” Appaiah said. “They are equipped with bail in a sexual abuse case, has rights to Mazurier’s mother to ily court seeking suspension of France in March on a six-month Mazurier, 40, was arrested night vision facility. However, petitioned the family court here meet his three children — two Mazurier’s parental authority on visa to meet her grandchildren. June 19, 2012 after police regis- the weather does not permit the to allow his mother Jacqueline sons and a daughter — as he is their children, sons aged eight “We hope the court will con- tered a case against him June 15 helicopters to fly to Lapra now. Maille visiting rights to meet not allowed by their mother to and two years and a daughter sider our petition favourably as on a complaint by Jones accusing The army in Ambala is also on his three children staying with meet them,” Mazurier’s counsel aged four years. Maille is very keen to meet her him of abusing their four-year-old standby,” Mohan said. his estranged Indian wife Suja P B Appaiah told IANS here. As an accused in such a crimi- grand kids, as Mazurier is wor- daughter and alleging domestic IANS Jones. The family court has posted the nal case is not permitted by law ried about their welfare since violence against her. IANS MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Bitter end to BJP, JD-U alliance Shakeup in Congress; PATNA: Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United (JD-U) ended its 17-year-old alliance with the BJP yesterday after days of simmering tensions, marking cabinet rejig today a major split in the country’s main opposition grouping. In a bitter end to weeks of feud- ing, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Change in party posts aimed at 2014 elections told Governor D Y Patil to sack all the 11 Bharatiya Janata Party NEW DELHI: The Congress charge of the party’s central elec- Rahul Gandhi stamp on the lat- (BJP) ministers in his govern- yesterday effected a major tion committee. est reshuffle,” he said. ment for not working and vowed organisational reshuffle that Maken, 49, who resigned Party sources said several of to prove his majority in the seemingly had party vice chief as minister Saturday, will be the newly-appointed secretar- assembly Wednesday. Rahul Gandhi’s stamp, naming incharge of communication, pub- ies were young and had worked Simultaneously, JD-U president former ministers like Ambika licity and publication. He will closely with Rahul Gandhi in the Sharad Yadav announced he was Soni, Ajay Maken, C P Joshi head the wing in an election year Youth Congress. quitting as convenor of the BJP- and Gurudas Kamat as general and will be assisted by another Kamat, who was earlier a min- led National Democratic Alliance secretaries and several younger young MP Priya Dutt as secre- ister of state in the UPA govern- (NDA). leaders as secretaries. tary. The task was earlier being ment, will be general secretary “We are not responsible for end- Geared up for the 2014 polls, handled by Janardan Dwivedi. incharge of Rajasthan, Gujarat, ing the alliance. We are pushed to the changes were carried out Digvijay Singh, who for several Dadar and Nagar Haveli and this situation so as not to compro- During better times: Narendra Modi (at left) with Nitish Kumar. ahead of an expected cabinet years has been general secretary Daman and Diu, while Soni will mise with our basic principles,” reshuffle today and came on a in charge of UP, has now been also be incharge of Himachal Nitish Kumar said here. “We “We were forced to end our party won’t go back on the deci- day Congress’ main national rival, given charge of Andhra Pradesh, Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, don’t care for the repercussions, alliance with the BJP in view of sion to make Narendra Modi its the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Goa and Karnataka. and Uttarakhand. we are not worried.” some latest development that put election campaign chief. lost Janata Dal-United (JD-U) as Rahul Gandhi will be in charge C P Joshi, who resigned from The JD-U, one of the old- us in a difficult situation and so as “Whatever decision has been an ally. of frontal organisations that the cabinet Saturday, has been est allies of the BJP, is the 14th not to compromise with our basic taken on Narendra Modi, we will Party president Sonia Gandhi, include his earlier responsibili- given charge of Assam, Bihar, party to desert the NDA, which principles,” Yadav said. not go back at any cost, whether who made the changes, also recon- ties of Youth Congress and NSUI West Bengal and the Andaman was born in 1998 and ruled India He sought to draw a line the NDA alliance breaks once or stituted the Congress Working apart from Mahila Congress and and Nicobar islands. for six years under the leader- between a Modi-driven BJP 10 times.” Committee (CWC), the party’s Seva Dal. Dwivedi will be in charge of ship of the now-ailing Atal Bihari and BJP stars Vajpayee and However, BJP chief Rajnath highest decision-making body and Former union minister Shakeel All India Congress Committee Vajpayee. L K Advani, pointing out that the Singh was more guarded in his appointed screening committees Ahmed has been made general (AICC) meetings, AICC depart- “The JD-U is formally out of JD-U alliance with the NDA was reaction, even as he defended for poll-bound Delhi, Rajasthan, secretary in charge of Delhi in ments, CWC, organisation, organ- NDA and we have ended our alli- based on a national agenda forged the decision to elevate Narendra Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh place of Birender Singh, who has isational elections, sessions and ance with the BJP,” Yadav told a during the Vajpayee-Advani era. Modi. and Mizoram. been dropped. He has also been coordination. press conference also attended by “Now it seems the BJP is trying “Why did the JD-U snap ties Union minister Ghulam Nabi assigned the states of Haryana, Mukul Wasnik has been made Nitish Kumar. to bring controversial issues like (with the BJP)? What was our Azad and former minister Oscar Punjab and the Union Territory general secretary incharge Both stated they would not the Ram temple into its agenda,” mistake? They have disintegrated Fernandes were dropped as gen- of Chandigarh. of Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil dilute the party’s “basic princi- he said, referring to the raging our emotional relationship of 17 eral secretaries, while Soni and Mohan Prakash, who has been Nadu and Lakshadweep, while ples” — a political euphemism to temple row of Ayodhya that the years,” he said, while addressing general secretary Madhusundan elevated as general secretary, will Luizinho Faleiro will be incharge mean they would never accept BJP had put on the backburner the BJP’s youth convention in Mistry got a leg-up. be in charge of Madhya Pradesh of Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, a BJP seemingly led by Gujarat for years. New Delhi. Soni will be in charge of along with Maharashtra, while Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP hit back. Sushil Modi “To be successful in the general Congress president’s office even B K Hariprasad will continue to Sikkim and Tripura. The JD-U’s departure forced asked Nitish Kumar to resign on elections, we have made Narendra as Ahmed Patel continues to be general secretary incharge of Vilas Muttemwar has also been BJP leader and Deputy Chief moral grounds. Modi the chief of the election be political secretary to Sonia Chhattisgarh and will also have dropped as general secretary Minister Sushil Kumar Modi to “He was elected as head of the campaign committee. Is that my Gandhi. Soni, who had ear- charge of Jharkhand and Odisha. while Gulchain Singh Charak, demand Nitish Kumar’s resigna- NDA in Bihar when he was made mistake? Every political party lier been in charge of CPO, had Indicating Rahul Gandhi’s Jagdish Tytler, and Jagmeet Singh tion while Sushma Swaraj called the chief minister. Now that he is creates a campaign committee resigned last year as information influence in the reshuffle, a party Brar have been dropped as lead- the divorce “sad and unfortunate”. no more an NDA leader, he has no for any elections. Was the JD-U and broadcasting minister. leader said that the average age of ers having independent charge of The fissures between the BJP moral right to continue.” angered just by this and snapped Mistry, who contributed to CWC was now about 52. states. Maken, Joshi and Kamat and JD-U were triggered by Sushil Modi, once considered such old ties?” he said. the party’s victory in Karnataka, Another leader said that have also been inducted to CWC, Nitish Kumar’s opposition to close to Nitish Kumar, said the Earlier yesterday, Nitish has been given charge of crucial general secretaries have been which now also includes Mohan Narendra Modi and the BJP deci- JD-U decision was “a black let- Kumar met the governor and said Uttar Pradesh, and will con- assigned states that are adjoin- Prakash and Faleiro. New per- sion to make the Gujarat strong- ter day”. he wanted all BJP ministers out of tend against BJP’s UP incharge ing to each other which was not manent invitees to CWC include man its public face in the 2014 In Kanpur, BJP vice president his ministry as they had stopped Amit Shah, who also hails from so earlier. Capt Amarinder Singh, K S Rao Lok Sabha election. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said his attending office. IANS Gujarat. Mistry will also be in “This indicates an obvious and Muttemwar. IANS

Muslim NGO awards 15 scholarships to Hindu students

MUMBAI: Fifteen Hindu stu- dents were among 350 awarded academic scholarships by Muslim NGO Jamiat Ulama-e- Maharashtra (Arshad Madani) here yesterday. Awarding the scholar- ships, Maulana Azad Financial Corporation (MAFC) chairman Amin Patel said that education is the only solution for the uplift of Muslims who are more back- ward than the Backward Classes, as described by the Sachar Committee in its report of 2006. JUEM-AM legal aid cell chief Gulzar Azmi said this is the fourth year the NGO is giving scholar- ships to non-Muslim students who received between Rs1,000 to Rs10,000, which is generally suf- ficient to cover school fees. “This year, we disbursed around two million rupees to needy students in Class VI to A man pushes his stalled motorcycle in a flooded street with his friend Junior College, that is Class XII. beside him, during rains in Mumbai, yesterday. The amount of scholarships also keeps increasing depending on the number of applications we get Heavy rains cripple every year,” Azmi said. JUEM-AM president Maulana M Ahsan Azmi said that since its inception in 1919, the NGO has life in Mumbai shied away from making any kind of religious discrimination while MUMBAI: Heavy rains contin- Mahabaleshwar hill station helping the society. ued to batter Mumbai and most received 23cm, Bhira 22cm, “During the pre-Independence parts of Maharashtra for the Matheran 21cm and Kolhapur era, we fought the British and the third consecutive day yesterday, 20cm yesterday with no let-up in advocates of a separate Pakistan. crippling normal life. the intensity of the downpour. Now, we are present around the Due to heavy to extremely With Mumbai battered by country to provide emergency heavy rains forecast over the city incessant rains since this morn- assistance to anybody, whether in the next two days, Municipal ing, its lifelines — the railways one is Muslim or not,” Maulana Commissioner Sitaram Kunte and road traffic — were crippled. Azmi said. advised Mumbaikars to go out- The Central Railway and “There are many secular trusts doors only if necessary. Harbour Line services were sus- and NGOs which readily provide Local Cautionery Signal No III pended for nearly four hours help to needy Muslim students has been hoisted at all ports in from 10.35am due to flooding on in the country. In its humble northern coastal Maharashtra. railway tracks, leading to cancel- way, the JUEM-AM attempts to Fishermen have been warned lation of 340 scheduled services reciprocate the noble gesture,” he against going to sea, which will and other running up to 45 min- added. be very rough accompanied by utes late. The JUEM-AM is also at the up to 50 kmph strong gusts, the Several long-distance trains forefront of providing free legal IMD-Pune said. scheduled to leave Mumbai were aid to over 300 innocent Muslims Coastal town Pen, famous for delayed by three to six hours who were arrested for alleged its Lord Ganesh idol industry, yes- while incoming services were ter- involvement in terror activities. terday recorded a 26 cm rainfall, minated mid-way, inconvenienc- Its lawyers take up such cases. and the downpour continues. ing passengers. IANS Uran, Dapoli and IANS MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

PRAYER TIME Most parents News in Numbers SCH ANNUAL REPORT 2012 monitor kids CHART: 1 2 Fajr (Dawn) 3:14 Shorook (Sunrise) 4:43 on Facebook, Zuhr (Noon) 11:35 Asr (Afternoon) 2:57 says study Maghrib (Sunset) 6:27 LOS ANGELES: Some Isha (Night) 7:57 two-thirds of American par- ents monitor their children’s Facebook activities, but a large percentage say they trust their WEATHER youngsters to manage on their own, a study showed. The survey by the Annenberg Today Tuesday Wednesday Weather Conditions: Center for the Digital Future Clear Partly cloudy Partly cloudy at the University of Southern New Secondary and Tertiary Care Facilities Slightly dusty California found 70 percent of to dusty at parents keep tabs on their kids’ Facebook accounts. Some 46 per- • In January, the SCH and HMC opened the Cuban Hospital in Dukhan. It has High: 41° places. High: 41° High: 40° cent had passwords. Low: 31° Low: 31° Low: 31° Yet 30 percent said they allow 87 beds, employs over 300 Cuban Government clinical staff and includes their children to manage their specialty areas such as general medicine and surgery. own social media activities, with some saying it was because they • In April, the HMC opened a positron emission tomography – computed DOHA - SUN & SEA trust their children, or because tomography (PET-CT) facility, in Doha. This is Qatar’s sole integrated cancer monitoring would indicate a lack diagnosis and treatment facility. SUN TIDE SEA of trust. SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND Nine percent of those who allow • In December, the HMC opened Al Wakra Hospital in Al Wakra. It has 210 children to roam free on Facebook 04:43 18:27 beds, and provides a full range of specialties such as general medicine 12:15 & 22:45 05:45 & 15:45 18-25 / 40 KT said they did not know how to use the social network, and seven per- and surgery. THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW cent said they lacked time. (pc) HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER “It’s every parent’s dilemma to know when to trust their chil- MUSCAT 37/30 Partly cloudy 38/30 Partly cloudy dren,” said Jeffrey Cole, direc- MAKKAH 41/28 Partly cloudy 41/28 Partly cloudy tor of the center. “In the last five KUWAIT 43/32 Clear 42/33 Clear years, we have seen many new BAHRAIN 35/30 Clear 35/30 Clear issues about parenting and tech- SANAA 29/16 Partly cloudy 29/18 Partly cloudy nology evolve that previous gen- RIYADH 42/26 Clear 41/26 Partly cloudy erations never encountered. DUBAI 41/31 Clear 37/30 Partly cloudy “How parents cope with their HMC Secondary/ Tertiary Care Facilities (by category) and Hospital Beds, 2011- 2012 BAGHDAD 39/26 Partly cloudy 40/27 Clear children using social media like Facebook represents only one THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW aspect of these issues.” The survey also asked adults HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER at what age the children in their households should have a mobile ATHENS 32/24 Clear 31/24 Clear phone or Facebook account. They WASHINGTON 30/22 T-storm 27/19 T-storm responded the appropriate aver- SYDNEY 17/09 Clear 15/09 Chance of storm age is 13 for mobile phones and 15 LONDON 19/15 Mostly cloudy 21/17 Cloudy for a Facebook account. PARIS 29/22 Chance of storm 28/22 Partly cloudy The findings are part of the ISTANBUL 27/20 Chance of rain 28/18 Clear 2013 Digital Future Project, the MANILA 30/26 Mostly cloudy 32/26 Clear longest study of its kind of the DHAKA 35/26 Mostly cloudy 35/26 Partly cloudy views and behaviour of Internet DELHI 29/25 Chance of storm 30/23 Partly cloudy users and non-users. Source : http://www.sch.gov.qa/ ISLAMABAD 35/23 Chance of storm 35/22 Clear AFP

Russia celebrates Mother finds ‘stolen baby’ 44 years on 50th anniversary

MADRID: More than four 22 when she became pregnant out the regime or unmarried couples hold the relevant records. knew well. DNA tests proved the of first woman decades after her newborn was of wedlock. Her father, who she were removed from their mothers Marie-Jose, who is married mother-son link. “Since then, we snatched away, Marie-Jose E described as “very, very strict”, and adopted. Sometimes, mothers and has another son now aged 30, call each other every day,” Marie- in space has found her son after DNA took her to the “Santo Celo”, or were told the lie that their babies never gave up the search for her Jose said. tests proved they are related, “Holy Zeal”, convent to give birth had died after birth. first born. Her son discovered he Few families have been so MOSCOW: Russia celebrated a rare happy ending in Spain’s on July 12, 1969, she said. The guiding principle was that was adopted at the age of 14. “But lucky in Spain. “There are about yesterday the 50th anniver- “stolen babies” scandal dating Despite her father’s repeated the child would be better off they told him his biological par- a dozen,” said Soledad Luque, of sary of the maiden flight of the back to the Franco era. promises that she would be able raised by an affluent, conservative ents had died in a car accident,” CoordinadoraX24, which groups first woman in space — a Soviet “I am living a fairy tale,” said to keep her baby, he gave the new- and devout Roman Catholic fam- Marie-Jose said. such victims’ associations in national hero who went by the Marie-Jose, her voice trembling born to the nuns at the convent ily. The system outlived Franco’s After the death of his adoptive Spain. “The Spanish authorities call name “Seagull” and cap- with emotion in a telephone inter- without Marie-Jose’s consent. “It death in 1975 and carried on at mother in 2011, at the height of don’t help us. The complaints tured the imaginations of girls view from the central French city was a nightmare,” she said, still least into the 1980s as an illegal the stolen babies scandal in Spain, are shelved as quickly as possi- around the world. of Tours where she now works as recalling the “nastiness” of the baby trafficking network. Marie-Jose’s lost son noticed ble,” said Luna Garcia of the asso- Valentina Tereshkova, now a teacher. “It is incredible. I feel Mother Superior. “I never spoke But two years ago campaign- that his birth certificate listed ciation in Valencia that helped a lawmaker for Russia’s ruling euphoric. I have had terrible highs to my father again,” Marie-Jose ers began to gather the stories of his adoptive parents as being his Marie-Jose find her son. party, blasted off in a Vostok-6 and lows. When I wake up in the said. Her mother died of cancer those who were convinced their biological mother and father. He Maire-Jose hopes her story will spaceship two years after Yuri morning, I tell myself that he is three years after her son was babies were stolen. As news of decided to seek the truth. encourage others to keep search- Gagarin’s historic first manned there, that he exists and then I taken, and her father died two the campaign spread, hundreds “Finally, an older first cousin ing. She plans to meet with her flight in 1961. The 76-year-old am afraid of losing him.” years later of the same disease. of adoptive children and moth- told him everything three weeks son on June 21 and celebrate his remains the only women to have Her son, who turns 44 next Marie-Jose and her son are ers who suspected they had ago,” Marie-Jose said. “He had birthday July 12. ever made a solo flight in space. month, lives in Valencia, the among thousands of families been fooled by doctors and nuns been sold by the nuns, which hap- “He is married with an eight- “The importance of this event Mediterranean port city in east- said to have fallen victim to the joined in. More than 2,000 cases pened a lot at the time,” she said. year-old son. I am a grandmother,” is impossible to overestimate in ern Spain where he was born and stolen babies scandal in Spain. have been registered in Spanish Her son contacted associations Marie Jose said. “My grandson the history of Russian and world then adopted. Under the dictatorship of General courts, though many have run that help reunite such families in calls me yaya (grandma) on the space travel,” Russian Prime Marie-Jose, who had a Spanish Francisco Franco, the newborns into bureaucratic barriers, with Valencia, which quickly matched telephone. It is an incredible joy”. Minister Dmitry Medvedev said father and a French mother, was of some left-wing opponents of hospitals saying they no longer him up with Marie-Jose, who they AFP in a congratulatory message to Tereshkova. State television celebrated by running documentaries about Tereshkova’s life while the former cosmonaut herself spent the day commemorating a new space ‘Cronut’ craze grips New York museum in her native region of Yaroslavl. “You have to love NEW YORK: Some hungry queues of 150 to 200 people wind- Just behind Amaral in the your country — love it so hard customers began queueing out- ing down the street before the queue stood Steven Go, a chef that your heart is ready to stop,” side the pastry shop around bakery has opened. who arrived from his home in Tereshkova said in a documen- 3.30am. Others managed to Ansel settled upon the idea Staten Island shortly after 5am, tary aired on Russia’s state rolling keep their taste buds at bay for of the cronut after deciding he at the behest of his wife. Justin news channel. a few more hours, arriving at wanted to create a hybrid pastry Gorder, a 30-year-old salesman, Soviet authorities in April 1962 the patisserie around 6am. that would be instantly recogniz- travelled an hour from New had initially whittled down their They were all united by a desire able as a marriage of French and Jersey. Gina, meanwhile, arrived list to five prospective candidates to sample the food craze that has American food cultures. in a taxi at 6:30am, clutching her as they competed against the gripped New York since its debut His revolutionary confection four-month-old baby. United States for space suprem- a month ago. Half-doughnut, half offers the delicate puff pastry To satisfy the largest possible acy during the Cold War. croissant: the ‘cronut’ has left the of a traditional croissant shaped number of customers, patrons are Their choice eventually set- Big Apple’s gourmets in a frenzy. into a round doughnut, which is restricted to two cronuts each. At tled on textile factory worker By the time the Dominique then deep-fried, filled with cream, first, customers could snaffle six Tereshkova — the child of a Ansel Bakery in the heart of rolled in maple sugar and coated at a time, but Ansel restricted peasant family and a Communist trendy Soho opened its doors to with a light glaze. It’s soft yet it to two after discovering the Youth (Komsomol) leader who the public at 8am, the slavering crunchy, light and delicious, say cronuts he sold for $5 each were had already performed 90 para- customers were at breaking point. the cronut’s devotees. changing hands on the Internet chute jumps. Tereshkova was not Within the hour, every single cro- Ansel, regarded as one of the at up to $50 a piece. allowed to confide even in fam- nut available has been sold. most talented pastry chefs in New At 8am, the wait was over. Ansel ily members. They only learned The bakery’s owner, Dominique York, said settling upon the cronut flung open the doors and welcomed of her exploits when Moscow Ansel, says the crowd reflected recipe was a painstaking process. his first customers. By 8:56, almost announced it to the entire world. the typical pattern since the “It took me about two months to all of the approximately 250 to 300 She circled Earth 48 times dur- A cronut, a croissant-doughnut hybrid, the brain child of French pastry May 18 launch of the the cronut, perfect the recipe,” Ansel said. It is cronuts available have been sold. ing her three-day mission. In the chef Dominique Ansel, sits on a plate at Ansel’s bakery shop in New York. a food sensation powered by social so perfect that Jessica Amaral, 30, A bakery employee distributed past few years, press speculation Customers line up for hours before Ansel’s shop opens in the morning to media. On the first day, 50 were thought nothing of leaving home madeleine pastries, advising peo- has said that she was space sick have a chance to buy two cronuts per person out of the 200 cronuts Ansel sold. The next day 100 flew off the at 3am to get in line. The two cro- ple who arrived at 7am they had a for much of this time and unable produces daily. The cronut was introduced in mid-May and is retailing at shelves, within 15 to 20 minutes. nuts she is buying are a treat for “40 percent” chance of satisfying to perform some basic functions $5 a piece. Since then the bemused pastry her husband to mark the couple’s their craving. or respond to commands from chef has become accustomed to eighth wedding anniversary. AFP ground control. AFP Monday 17 June 2013 8 Shaaban 1434 Volume 18 Number 5733 Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Tunisia Islamic finance Record number Sudan shelves telecom of vessels profit tax for 3 years docks at Qatari DUBAI: Sudan has scrapped such as dollars or the euro, so the could reach 25-40pc a 30 percent profit tax on tel- pound’s plunge has upped expend- ports in 2012 ecom operators until 2015-end, iture at a time when average rev- replacing it with a 2.5 percent enue per user (ARPU) — a key Shariah-compliant business accounts for 2.5pc: Study DOHA: A record number levy on total income, the state industry metric — is in retreat. of 5834 vessels docked at news agency said, in a move that A Zain spokesman said the DUBAI: Tunisia’s fledgling that meant lower rates of return, central bank, said Islamic win- various ports of Qatar in should help a sector hurt by the profit tax exemption would be Islamic finance industry could while 40 percent would be open to dows — units of conventional 2012 with a gross tonnage plunging value of the Sudanese backdated to Jan. 1, 2013. take a 25 to 40 percent share switching even if their money was banks that offer Islamic financial amounting to 294.9m, up 8.1 pound. Sudan’s mobile penetration of the country’s financial sec- not guaranteed. services — would be permitted percent, compared to the Sudan had the highest sales tax was 58 percent in 2011, rank- tor in five years’ time if neces- But 64 percent of respondents to operate under central bank previous year. on mobile in services in the Arab ing it 159th globally according sary rules, consumer education said they were unclear about how guidelines that ensured opera- The annual bulletin of world, according to a September to data from the International and private investment plans Islamic finance worked. tions were segregated. maritime navigation statis- report by Arab Advisors Group, Telecommunication Union, and materialise, a Thomson Reuters One boost for Islamic finance in “There are four or five well- tics released by the Qatar deterring investment in what is a there remains plenty of room study found. Tunisia would be issuance of the known banks in Tunisia that are Statistics Authority yesterday vital industry for a country still for growth, although that could Islamic finance was previously country’s first sukuk, which the trying to facilitate the way for noted Ras Laffan Port record- reeling from South Sudan’s succes- require operators to expand and neglected by Tunisia’s rulers but government is planning. their Islamic finance businesses,” ing maximum number of ves- sion that led to the loss of three- improve their networks to reach in the wake of the 2011 revolution, “I expect the issuance process said Mahmoud Mansour, Deputy sels docking,2123, followed by quarters of Khartoum’s oil output. unconnected residents. the new Islamist-led government to take place in the second half General Manager of the Tunisian Mesaieed, 2082. Sudan’s decision, announced via Zain is the market leader with is promoting the industry. of 2013,” Chaker Soltani, General arm of Bahrain-based lender Al Net tonnage was 128.0m, an the official Sudan News Agency a 52 percent share of Sudan’s Currently, Shariah-compliant Director of debt management Baraka Bank. increase of 7.6 percent com- (SUNA), reverses a government mobile subscribers, according to business accounts for just 2.5 and financial cooperation at the He added that three takaful pared to 2011. Main types of tax increase in December 2011, its first-quarter results, while percent of the Tunisian financial finance ministry, was quoted as (Islamic insurance) companies vessels were oil and gas tank- which raised sales taxes on tel- South Africa’s MTN and state- sector, the study said. In the Gulf saying in the study. had applied for licences. ers amounting to 2636 vessels ecoms companies to 30 percent owned Sudani each had 24 per- Arab states, the ratio is believed The Jeddah-based Islamic Al Baraka, which entered with a tonnage of 238.7m, an from 20 percent and a profit tax cent. In the first quarter, Zain to be about a quarter. Development Bank (IDB) has the country in 1983, is awaiting increase of 3.7 percent com- to 30 percent from 15 percent. It is Sudan’s net profit fell 26 percent The study estimates that given Tunisia a financial guaran- approval for an onshore bank- pared to 2011 figures. unclear whether the new 2.5 per- to $38m and revenue dropped 41 Islamic financial assets in Tunisia tee to issue a sukuk worth $600m. ing licence so it can open more Main vessels’ country of cent tax on total income is in addi- percent to $154m. could reach $17.8-$28.5bn by 2018, Last week, the IDB extended said branches and serve a broader registration was Panama tion to, or replaces, the sales tax. Zain blamed these declines on up from $1.4bn at present. it would extend $1.2bn in funding client base, said Mansour. with 961 vessels, followed by Sudan’s three mobile opera- the plunging value of the Sudanese In a poll of about 700 ordi- to Tunisia for industrial, agricul- Zitouna Bank, the coun- Marshal Islands with 626 ves- tors - Zain Sudan, a 100 percent- pound - in local currency terms nary Tunisians conducted for tural and trade projects. try’s only full-fledged domes- sels and Bahamas with 402 owned subsidiary of Kuwait’s Zain’s profit and revenue actually the study, 54 percent said they Mohamed Sadraoui, Deputy tic Islamic lender, also plans vessels. Zain, state-owned Sudani and rose 25 and 58 percent respec- would consider switching to bank- Director of General supervision expansion. THE PENINSULA South Africa’s MTN — typically tively in the first quarter. ing with Islamic lenders even if and banking regulation at the REUTERS buy equipment in hard currency REUTERS MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Qatari exports to UK decline by 23 percent Qatar British investment at QR125bn

BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB collaborations with UK companies and institutions such as Imperial DOHA: The value of Qatari College London, Williams F1, exports to the UK has declined Sheffield University, Virgin by 23 percent from QR27.45bn Health Bank, Rolls Royce and (£4.8bn) in 2011 to QR21.16bn Shell. (£3.7bn) in 2012, statistics pro- In education sector, visibilities vided by the British Embassy in of British academic institutes are Qatar said. growing very rapidly. Sherborne Where as, the value of UK School opened its doors in goods exports to Qatar rose from September 2009 as part of Qatar’s QR2.07bn (£363m) in 2005 to Outstanding Schools Initiative. QR7.5bn (£1.3bn) in 2012, up 16 University College of London has percent compared to QR6.52bn a campus in Education City, the (£1.14bn) in 2011. first British university to do so. Notably, Qatar’s investments Among other important UK (government funded) in the UK investors in Qatar include major has reached to QR125bn (£22bn), companies in security, construc- according to the figures provided tion, education, retail, energy and by the embassy. transport infrastructure. With the given trade figures, Qatar has invested about Qatar has become the UK’s third QR125bn (£22bn) in the UK largest export market in the Gulf that include stakes in Sainsbury, A Falcon 7X is on display near the Dassault Aviation chalet at Le Bourget yesterday on the eve of the opening of the International Paris Air Show. after the UAE and Saudi Arabia. BAA, London Stock Exchange, In 2011, the UK exported serv- Barclays, the US Embassy build- ices to the value of QR3.25bn ing in Grosvenor Square and the Wide-body battle dominates Paris Air Show (£569m) (latest figures avail- Shard of Glass development in able), an increase of 10.7 percent the City of London. There are on 2010. The UK imported serv- also plans for a further £10-15bn PARIS: The Paris Air Show, said he expects a “few hundred” record, but one Boeing beat with American fighter jets aren’t ices from Qatar to the value of (QR57bn-QR85bn) worth of which opens for business today, new orders. Boeing executives, 601 deliveries, the first time since taking to the skies above Paris, QR617m (£108m) in 2011. In 2011 investment. brings hundreds of aircraft to meanwhile, downplayed the air 2003 it came out on top. nor will they be seen on the combined value of UK’s exports In 2011 Qatar invested in the the skies around the French show’s importance for orders, They have swooped into wild- ground, for the first time in more (goods and services) to Qatar Olympic Park (purchasing the capital, the usual tense compe- noting that the two companies fires to take temperatures and than two decades thanks to the were worth QR9.72bn (£1.7bn). Athletes Village) and the Shell tition between aircraft manu- have historically split the com- tracked animals across Africa. US government’s spending cuts Some of the major UK’s invest- Centre in London. Qatari Diar, facturers Boeing and Airbus, mercial aircraft market. They have guided a fuel tanker to — the infamous ‘sequestration’. ments in Qatar include Shell, the the real estate arm of the Qatar and a slew of innovations large A year ago, at the Paris Air safety through icy waters. Drones The US pavilion remains the Anglo-Dutch oil giant, which is Investment Authority, opened a and small. Here’s what to look Show’s sister event in Britain, are increasingly being used for largest, but the event will be less the largest foreign investor in London office in 2010. for over the show: Boeing beat Airbus for the non-military purposes and are of a sales showcase for latest mili- Qatar, followed by Vodafone. Among the recently singed The much-anticipated Airbus number of orders announced. expected to feature prominently tary hardware and more a place In addition, UK businesses agreements Qatar-UK A350 flew for the first time on The US company took in $37bn at the Paris Air Show. for suppliers to meet up with have a significant presence in Memorandum of Understanding Friday, launching a new air race in orders and commitments, well There are still tough restric- potential customers. the financial, business and legal for Cooperation between the between the European plane above Airbus’ $16.9bn. tions on their flight for safety Russia, on the other hand, is services sector such as Barclays, Public Prosecution of the State maker and Boeing for long-haul But the announcements dur- reasons, but while the Federal looking to make a splash by pre- Clyde & Co, Ernst & Young, of Qatar and the Government wide-body aircraft. ing the air shows are not always Aviation Authority works on new senting fighter jets and military Eversheds, HSBC, KPMG, PwC, of the United Kingdom is very Boeing has dominated the mar- a reliable indicator of business rules, the makers of drones will helicopters at the show for the RBS, Coutts, SNR Denton, important. The MoU was signed ket so far, but troubles with the since prices are often negotiated aim to show off innovation and first time since 2001. The Sukhoi Simmons & Simmons and in December 2012. lithium ion batteries in its 787 down heavily and big orders don’t technical prowess at the show. manufacturer will showcase its Standard Chartered. Both the countries also signed Dreamliner are giving custom- always coincide with the event. Eurocopter, a company based Su-35, a twin-engine multipurpose In the field of science and a Double Taxation Agreement in ers a reason to give a close look The race for the title of biggest in France, will showcase new fighter, for the first time outside technology, Qatar Science June 2009 which came into force at Airbus’ first all-new plane in plane maker is as tight as ever. technology that can transform a Russia. Britain and France also & Technology Park (QSTP) on January 1, 2011. eight years. The CEO of Airbus Over the whole of 2012, Airbus manned helicopter into one that will have fighter jets on display. has a number of important THE PENINSULA parent EADS, Tom Enders, has delivered 588 planes. That was a flies without a pilot. AP Detroit manager’s next India enhances limits on foreign move vexes creditors investments DETROIT: Now that Detroit’s safe and its streetlights on. DOHA: The federal govern- emergency manager has laid out Detroit, the centre of the US ment of India, in line with a a tough road that could include auto industry, is the poorest large discussion held by its Finance a bankruptcy filing for the city, city in the country, with more Minister P Chidambaram with the bondholders, pension man- than a third of its residents liv- Qatari authorities during his agers and others with a stake in ing below the official government recent Doha visit, has decided the outcome are left to assess poverty line. At a minimum, Orr’s to enhance that country’s for- his next steps while seeking to opening move could be seen as eign investments limits. minimise any possible losses. part of a checklist he needs to tick During the May 19 visit Qatar Kevyn Orr faces a difficult task, off in order to meet legal require- and India had discussed invest- for he must either coerce the ments needed to declare a bank- ments by Qatar’s Sovereign Wealth financially troubled city’s credi- ruptcy of America’s most troubled Fund (SWF) and other long term tors into cutting a deal that would metropolis. But some restructur- investments in India. India’s Finance leave many with just pennies on ing experts see in Orr’s approach Minister had conveyed that his coun- the dollar, or file for Chapter 9 an attempt to put together a pre- try would create a special window bankruptcy, where his powers packaged bankruptcy, a strategy in the Government Securities seg- would be greater but the likeli- that has been adopted for Chapter ment for SWFs and other long-term hood of long, costly litigation far 11 bankruptcies in the corporate funds, with ease of entry and exit. higher. world but never before used for a In a statement issued here yes- Rather than a corporate set- municipality seeking Chapter 9 terday, the Indian embasy noted ting, the city’s emergency man- bankruptcy protection. the Reserve Bank of India, and the ager is acting in a political realm “Kevyn Orr is a bankruptcy Securities and Exchange Board of where the interests of Detroit’s lawyer and he’s going down a India (SEBI) have issued notifica- citizens and even credit ratings checklist of the things he needs to tions enabling such investments. throughout the state of Michigan do,” said Michael Sweet, an attor- According to the notifica- may hang in the balance. ney at Fox Rothschild who helped tion, the government of India There was a forceful start to the city of Richmond, California, has enhanced the limit for for- negotiations with debtholders at restructure its finances to avoid eign investment in Government a Detroit hotel on Friday, with the bankruptcy. “He’s keeping all the Securities from $25bn to $30bn city represented by Orr saying it options on the table.” with immediate effect. The $5bn would stop making payments on A pre-packaged bankruptcy enhancement shall be available for some of its $18.5bn in debt, which occurs when an entity has nego- investments only to those Foreign would put it in default. tiated a deal with creditors Institutional Investors (FIIs) Orr also presented a proposal and other interested parties in which are registered with SEBI on Friday to creditors, bondhold- advance, put it into written form under the categories of SWFs, ers, pension funds and union rep- and received enough votes from Multilateral Agencies, Endowment resentatives, laying out his case creditors to get a judge’s approval Funds, Insurance Funds, Pension for concessions from them in a — forcing it on objecting credi- Funds and Foreign Central Banks. plan that ran to 134 pages. tors. Pre-packaged plans greatly Orr told reporters on Friday reduce uncertainty and legal fees. Metito gets funding there was a 50/50 chance of bank- Without a pre-packaged plan, ruptcy for Detroit, which would Chapter 9 proceedings for the for expansion be a first for a major US city. At city of 700,000 could be lengthy, the same time, he insisted this litigious and expensive, and cash- DUBAI: Un i t e d A r a b E m i r a t e s - was “not a jaded effort just to go strapped Detroit would have to based water and waste-water through the process to get to a foot the bill. Proving insolvency specialist Metito has secured bankruptcy filing.” and demonstrating a municipal- long-term financing to support The emergency manager’s ity’s inability to pay its bills would expansion plans in Indonesia, proposal went to great lengths be critical to filing for Chapter 9. Egypt and China. The com- to detail the city’s financial ruin, “He (Orr) will get a pre-pack- pany is also looking at enter- declaring in a stark subheader: aged plan,” said James McTevia of ing markets in Africa and the “THE CITY IS INSOLVENT” Michigan-based consulting firm Indian subcontinent, Managing and cataloguing Detroit’s disas- McTevia & Associates. Director Rami Ghandour said. trous record of keeping its citizens REUTERS THE PENINSULA/REUTERS MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 G8 leaders face gloomy global economy All eyes on US stimulus policy

ENNISKILLEN, Northern ruled out. Additionally, thou- Ireland: Europe is mired in sands of anti-capitalist and labor debt and recession. Financial union protesters are expected to markets have hit violent ups and march from the town to the sum- downs on fears that US stimu- mit fence today. lus efforts may soon be scaled Since last year’s G-8 meeting at back. Japan is finally looking up Camp David in the US, there has after years of stagnation — but been a modest economic upswing it remains an open question if throughout the developed world the recovery will stick. and prospects are brighter after That’s the global economy that five years of turbulence and reces- will confront the heads of the sion. Yet despite progress, the eco- Group of Eight leading economies nomic outlook remains fraught as they gather today and tomor- with uncertainties. row for their annual summit in Chief among the question marks: Northern Ireland. When will the US Federal Reserve British Prime Minister David begin to curtail its extraordinary Cameron will serve as summit stimulus, which has supported the host for US President Barack recovery in the US and helped send Obama and the leaders of markets around the world to new Germany, Italy, Canada, France, peaks? Global stock and bond mar- Japan and Russia. At the top of kets have whipsawed since May the agenda: New cooperation to 23, when US Fed Chairman Ben fight tax evasion and increase Bernanke said that the US central transparency among govern- bank might slow its drive to keep People carry a banner during a protest against austerity measures of EU in Barcelona yesterday. The banner reads “For a social and democratic Europe”. ments. Also on the table will be long-term borrowing costs low in how much help to give to rebels the coming few months. in Syria, and a push for lower If Europe is the weak link and trade barriers between the United Asia the strongest, then the US Spaniards march against govt austerity States and the European Union. and Canadian economies are On the sidelines and over din- squarely in the middle. The two MADRID: Thousands of peo- unemployed for nearly two years. in the northern region of Galicia, Carles Gallego, at the march in ner, it’s expected that the discus- countries are experiencing steady, ple protested in Madrid yester- Demonstrations were held in 28 Rosa Arcos, said before the start Barcelona. sions will broaden to include the if not spectacular, economic day against austerity policies other cities across Spain, includ- of a march attended by several The Spanish economy, the euro- election results in Iran and data growth and job gains. and record high unemployment, ing Barcelona, the country’s sec- hundred people in Santiago de zone’s fourth-largest, shrank by protection, following revelations In the US, the once-battered urging Prime Minister Mariano ond-largest city, and the Atlantic Compostela. 0.5 percent during the first three about a US counterterror surveil- housing sector has been recover- Rajoy to focus on creating jobs port of Vigo in the northwest. Rajoy’s conservative govern- months of 2013, its seventh con- lance programme. ing for the past year. Home sales to help pull the country out of They were organised by Spain’s ment has introduced a range of secutive quarterly decline, while As always, the summit takes have reached three-year highs. recession. three largest unions, the Workers’ spending cuts and tax hikes, as the unemployment rate soared to place under heavy security, And prices have jumped this To the din of whistles and Commissions, the General Union well as pension reform, to shore a record 27.16 percent, the highest guarded by 8,000 police backed spring by the most in seven years. drums, the demonstrators snaked of Workers and the Workers’ up strained public finances since level since the re-birth of Spanish by water cannon. The venue That has encouraged builders to through the central streets of the Trade Unionist Federation which it took office in December 2011 democracy after the death of itself is surrounded by extensive start work on more homes. Spanish capital under a blazing urged Rajoy to press for a change following a landslide general elec- General Francisco Franco in 1975. security fences, and on three The unemployment rate has sun, waving red and white union to the European Union’s focus on tion win. For those between the ages of sides by water. There’s only one fallen to 7.6 percent from 8.2 per- flags and carrying placards read- austerity during a summit of lead- It has vowed to find ¤150bn 16 and 24, joblessness has soared access road to the closest town, cent a year earlier. ing “Austerity Destroys and ers of the bloc at the end of the ($195bn) in savings between 2012 to 57.22 percent. Enniskillen, some 8km away. For all the G-8 participants, the Kills” and “Spending Cuts Are month. and 2014 as part of the painful “The government has to change While its peace process has most unsettling shift is the possible Robbery”. “The only thing which the pol- austerity programme that has course. It is obvious that the path been hailed worldwide as a suc- end of massive monetary stimulus “We hope the government icy of cuts which is being imposed sparked mass demonstrations. they are taking us on will just dig cess story, Northern Ireland from the Fed — a factor beyond realises that you can’t reverse by the more rancid right wing of “We demand a change to these us deeper into this mess,” said remains a society troubled by their immediate control. The Fed’s the situation with cuts, cuts and the European Union is achiev- policies which are leading us to Carlos Lago, a 32-year-old civil deep-seated divisions between injections of money into the econ- more cuts. It is time to change ing is to rob us of rights which a future of more poverty and servant who carried a sign read- Catholics and Protestants. omy through bond purchases had course and do more to foster took us many years to gain,” the economic depression,” said the ing “Without Bread, There Is No Officials have said trouble away helped send markets soaring. growth,” said Diana Rodriguez, 47, secretary general of the branch leader of the Catalan branch of Peace”. from the summit site can’t be AP a former bank teller who has been of the General Union of Workers the Workers’ Commissions, Joan AFP

Abe promotes nuclear exports at central Europe summit

WARSAW: Japanese Prime sides demonstrated keen interest Prime Minister Abe shows up Minister Shinzo Abe made a in concrete forms of cooperation in abroad, it’s Japanese nuclear tech- push yesterday for his country’s nuclear energy and safety”. nology that he promotes.” nuclear technologies at a summit Nuclear power has become a At talks yesterday ahead of in Warsaw with leaders of four sensitive issue in Japan after the the Visegrad summit, Abe and ex-Communist European coun- Fukushima Daiichi plant went Polish Prime Minister Donald tries, as part of his bid to boost into meltdown in 2011. Reactors Tusk agreed to hold further talks the Asian powerhouse’s exports. spewed radiation over a wide area, on nuclear power and renew- Abe recently unveiled plans after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake able energy. Warsaw is planning to treble Japan’s infrastructure triggered a massive tsunami. to build its first nuclear facility exports to 30 trillion yen ($300bn) In the wake of the disaster, by 2024, while the neighbour- a year, a target that could not be Japan turned off its 50 reac- ing Czech Republic has plans reached without nuclear reactors. tors for safety checks but has to expand its Soviet-designed At Japan’s first summit with restarted two of them, saying it Temelin plant. the so-called Visegrad Group — needs to head off possible sum- Both are multi-billion dollar the Czech Republic, Hungary, mertime power shortages. contracts for which Japanese Poland and Slovakia — Abe sought Despite vocal public opposition, companies have bid. to interest the four in Japanese Abe has said he wants to restart Poland, which currently relies nuclear technology. other units when they are proven on its vast coal reserves to pro- “We stressed the necessity of safe. In his first visit to Europe since duce about 90 percent of its strengthening cooperation, espe- taking office in December, promot- electricity, is scrambling to find cially in the area of energy policy,” ing his country’s nuclear technolo- alternative energy sources in said Abe after the meeting. gies was high on the agenda. order to meet European Union FROM LEFT: Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Polish Prime Minister A joint statement issued follow- Mariusz Dabrowski, a Japan spe- greenhouse gas emission limits Donald Tusk, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas yesterday at the Royal ing the talks said Japan welcomed cialist at the Poland-Asia Research by 2020. Castle, Warsaw. Abe met the leaders of four ex-communist European countries at the regional summit in Warsaw. the fact that “private sectors of both Centre, told AFP: “Now whenever AFP

Jittery markets await clarity from Federal Reserve board meeting

WASHINGTON: The Federal months? Or will the US central been bet on an aggressive inter- slowed slightly in the spring and Most analysts say that means The bond market has decided. Reserve’s policy board meets bank wait for stronger economic pretation of comments by Fed remains at risk to slower growth that the FOMC is likely to stay The yield on the 10-year Treasury tomorrow to review the econ- growth to take that step? chief Ben Bernanke that the Fed around the world, and with the the course in this meeting. bond shot up from 1.63 percent omy and its stimulus program, The markets eagerly await is about to turn the corner on five government slashing spending, But how Bernanke hones his at the beginning of May to 2.23 and markets are looking for one any meeting of the Federal Open years of stimulus. Fed stimulus is still needed, econ- hints on future policy in a post- percent in the past week, and the thing: clarity. Market Committee, which sets The belief that it will start omists say. meeting press conference on 30-year jumped from 2.82 percent After weeks of tumultuous the benchmark US dollar interest tapering its bond purchases The Fed’s guideposts, unem- Wednesday will be key. to 3.38 percent. stock market volatility and a rate and, at the moment, contin- within months has sent bond ployment and inflation, remain “We do not expect Mr Partly behind that were the sharp fall in bond prices, bank- ues to hold long-term rates down prices plummeting and inter- far off their target for a “nor- Bernanke to yet show confidence seeming at-odds comments by ers, investors and anyone else with its $85bn-a-month QE bond est rates shooting up, and that, malized” fiscal policy. The unem- that the time to taper QE is near,” Bernanke to Congress on the with a vested interest are wait- buying programme. in turn, has pulled stocks lower, ployment rate is hovering at 7.6 said Carl Riccadonna at Deutsche issue on May 22. ing to hear: Is the Fed really about But much more rides on this after they reached new records percent — the target is 6.5 per- Bank. “But the most important He first warned that tightening to reel in its quantitative easing FOMC meeting tomorrow and fuelled by the Fed’s easy money cent — and inflation is well below aspect of his media Q&A will be monetary policy now could stall programme? on Wednesday, because over the policy. the two percent level the FOMC whether he signals that a second- the US recovery. If so, could that be within past month billions of dollars have Yet US economic growth sees would be healthy. half taper remains plausible.” AFP MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Qatari bourse index loses 55.39 points Most regional markets fall

DOHA: Qatar Exchange index campaign of opposition street yesterday lost 55.39 points or protests, or whether the next 0.58 percent to 9,424.41 points parliament will be more or less from the previous closing of willing to work with the cabinet 9,479.80 points. to implement stalled economic The volume of shares traded fell projects. to 12,173,272 from 14,885,174 on “There are many people prais- Thursday, and the value of shares ing this resolution — but my decreased to QR440,948,178.34 only reservation is that we don’t from QR654,108,235.95 on need any more obstruction in the Thursday. movement of long-overdue eco- Among the top losers were nomic development,” said Fouad Industries Qatar whose share Darwish, head of brokerage at dropped 1.20 percent to QR164.50, Global Investment House. Commercial Bank of Qatar lost Darwish said the market out- 0.97 percent to QR71.30, Barwa look would depend on whether Real Estate fell 1.62 percent to the previous parliament was rein- QR27.35 and Masraf Al Rayan stated or new elections took place. down 1.80 percent to QR27.35. But political uncertainty The banking and financial may trigger government buying sector lost 0.48 points while the through the National Portfolio Officials during the Qatar Exchange forum in London. insurance sector was down 0.57 Fund, established to support the points. The industrial sector market, he added. “I’m sure the dropped 0.72 points and the serv- government had its hand in the ices sector added 0.32 points. market to lift prices.” Qatar Exchange hosts London forum Meanwhile, Kuwait’s bourse rose Elsewhere, most regional mar- yesterday on what traders said kets retreated. Dubai’s bench- DOHA: Qatar Exchange (QE), Khaliji Commercial Bank, Qatar focused on achieving growth in websites, Also there are a good was buying by government-linked mark lost 2.3 percent, cutting its in collaboration with HSBC, Electricity & Water, and Masraf a low interest rate environment number of listed companies who funds ahead of a politically sensi- 2013 gains to 44.6 percent. Abu hosted a two-day forum in Al Rayyan. educating the investor base as to have started to arrange a frequent tive court ruling. After the close, Dhabi’s measure retreated 0.9 London to attract investments Over the two days through a the merits of a companies’ invest- conference calls with investors the court dissolved parliament and percent. to Qatari listed companies. combination of one-to-one and ment story is becoming increas- and analysts and it noticeable called for new elections, bringing As the Syria crisis intensified, The forum was designed to group meetings the listed com- ingly important. We expect our that this exercise becoming an fresh uncertainty to the state. Egyptian President Mohammed complement the companies’ ongo- panies met with over fifty fund listed companies will benefit from effective element for the com- Most other regional markets fell Mursi said he had cut diplomatic ing investor relations activities managers representing thirty five the opportunity to better inform panies to communicate with the in heavy selling, dragged down by ties with Damascus and backed through providing an opportu- major institutions. Those insti- the market about their corporate investors. escalating geopolitical tensions sur- a no-fly zone over Syria. Saudi nity for the senior management tutions represented the most strategy. For fund managers the However, each method is rounding Syria and the shaky global Arabia’s king cut short a holiday of listed companies to meet key important funds allocating money benefit is unrivalled access to the designed to inform stakeholders environment for emerging markets. abroad to deal with the issue of decision makers from a number of to Qatar and the GCC; in the decision makers who are driving about the company, so that they Kuwait’s measure climbed 0.3 Syria, while the US said it would the world’s largest international entire event hosted over eighty the growth of some of Qatar’s can gain a better understanding percent, halting a two-session keep F-16 fighters and Patriot fund managers. The fact that meetings.” largest companies and contribut- of the company’s business, its poli- losing streak. The market is still missiles in Jordan at Amman’s portfolio investors continue to Abdul Aziz Al Emadi, Listing ing in a significant way to Qatar’s cies toward governance, financial up 34.1 percent year-to-date, in request. view Qatar as an exciting invest- Director at Qatar Exchange, growth,” he said. performance and above all future a rally driven mainly by retail “The biggest discount to this ment opportunity was evident described the event as an ideal Al Emadi added: “Qatar prospects”. investors, who have been encour- region by foreigners is politi- from the enthusiastic response to opportunity for a detailed two- Exchange has been actively work- QE is committed to the proc- aged by a government push cal risks, and although gener- the forum, the QE’s top officials way dialogue between investors ing with our listed companies for ess of transparency and improv- on economic development and ally this risk is misunderstood said here yesterday. and companies in a focused one- a number of years in the area of ing the standards of information expected improvement in corpo- and overdone, the situation in With eight listed companies, on-one environment. “We are IR so this is not a new initiative; in the market because investors’ rate earnings. Syria is a real threat,” said Amer representing more than half of all very aware that IR is a key it is however a further develop- needs and demands are increas- The Constitutional Court Khan, fund manager at Shuaa the QE market capitalization, component of a listed compa- ment of our focus in this area. ing. Our listed companies are threw out opposition challenges Asset Management in Dubai. The the Qatari companies that took nies’ communication strategy in Investor relations can come in investing time and resource in to changes to the electoral system instability in Syria could poten- part in the Forum were: Qatar today’s competitive market for many guises, for example, meet- ensuring they are meeting those which had been decreed by the tially affect the Suez Canal and National Bank, Doha Bank, capital. At a time when retail ings with investors such as these changing needs in part by being emir. It is not yet clear whether therefore oil supplies, he added. Ooredoo, Commercial Bank and institutional investors, both today, but also company news- here today, he said. this will prompt a stronger AGENCIES of Qatar, Industries Qatar, Al in Qatar and internationally, are releases, annual reports and THE PENINSULA

African summit on palm oil Waha buys 97pc stake Aramco-Dow JV raises in Anglo Arabian funding for ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi company’s stock through a flota- investment firm Waha Capital tion in London, it said in June. $19bn project has acquired a 97-percent stake Anglo Arabian owns and operates in a UAE healthcare company 16 assets, employs over 300 people DUBAI: Sadara Chemical Co, and plans to invest up to Dh250m including 60 doctors, and serves a joint venture between Saudi ($68.1m) over three years in the more than 400,000 outpatients. Aramco and Dow Chemical, has fast-growing sector, its chief “Healthcare has great potential signed a fundraising package executive said yesterday. for growth in the UAE with demand for the $19.3bn petrochemical Waha, which owns 26.3 percent rising for high quality healthcare,” complex it is building in the east in aircraft leasing firm AerCap Waha Capital Chief Executive of the kingdom, three banking Holdings, is entering the health- Salem al Noaimi told reporters sources said yesterday. care market through the acqui- in Abu Dhabi. “We expect quick The financing package totals sition of privately owned Anglo growth, will increase staff and around $12.5bn and consists of Arabian Healthcare for an undis- invest 200 to 250 million dirhams loans from banks, export credit closed amount. Healthcare busi- over the coming three years.” The agencies and the state-owned nesses in the Gulf are expected investment will be in more hospi- Public Investment Fund, as well to boom in coming years as rising tals, clinics and pharmacies, he said. as proceeds from an Islamic bond wealth leads to an increase in so- Anglo Arabian Healthcare issue. The remaining cost will be called lifestyle diseases. owns stakes of between 60-70 met by the two partners. Five of the six Gulf Cooperation percent in three entities that own The facility, located at Jubail Council nations are in the global hospitals, clinics and laboratories. Industrial City in Saudi Arabia’s top 10 for prevalence of diabetes, The stakes - which Waha will Eastern Province, will be the according to the International take over - include majority hold- world’s largest chemical complex Diabetes Federation. ings in the Sharjah Corniche ever built in a single phase. It will Abu Dhabi healthcare firm Group, the Ajman-based Ibn Sina produce more than three million A labourer gathers freshly cut palm fruits to be used in making palm oil, at a plantation run by an Ivory Coast Al Noor Hospitals plans to raise Group and Ibn Sina Hospital, and tonnes of petrochemicals each palm oil research centre, in Alame, near Abidjan. Abidjan hosted the first African summit on palm oil production. between $320m and $390m by Proficiency Central Laboratories. year when completed in 2016. offloading up to 34 percent of the REUTERS Sadara was not immediately available for comment. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity as the matter has not Co-op Bank close to rescue package been made public. The split between the differ- ent portions of the facility were • Bullion - Mumbai LONDON: Britain’s Co-operative “plug a shortfall of between £1bn fill a capital shortfall at its bank. changed from an original outline Bank is close to agreeing a res- and £1.5bn”, the source said. Analysts had said the hole could released in May 2012 after the Gold (10 gm) Standard Rs. 27690 cue package with the Bank of The Sunday Times newspaper be as much as £1.8bn. success of the sukuk, which was Silver (1 kg) Rs. 45332 England that will plug a capital said that more than 5,000 small The Co-op Group has installed completed at the start of April, • Indian Rupees QR1 = 15.75 shortfall of up to £1.5bn ($2.35bn) investors could see as much as 30 a new top team of chief executive two of the bankers said. • Sensex without state help, according to a percent of the money they lent to Niall Booker, finance chief Richard Sadara raised SR7.5bn ($2bn) BSE 19179.78 source familiar with the matter. the bank, in securities called per- Pennycook and chairman Richard from the local currency Islamic NSE 5808.40 The deal, which could be manent interest bearing shares, Pym to steady the bank, which saw bond, having increased the deal • Short-term investment plan from LIC International upto 6.4 percent announced early this week, will wiped out or transferred into a its credit rating cut to junk status size from SR5.25bn on strong return p.a. (in dollar) primarily involve a bail-in by new vehicle, citing insiders. by Moody’s last month. demand from investors. • Housing loan from HDFC LTD bondholders and support from the The Co-op, Britain’s biggest The Co-op has already agreed Also included is a $4.975bn • Mutual Fund: Buy & Sell: SBI MF, HDFC MF, UTI MF, Birla Sun Life MF, rest of the Co-operative Group, mutual business which also runs to sell its life insurance business direct loan from the US Tata MF, Reliance MF etc. but will avoid assets sales other supermarkets, funeral services to Royal London for 220 million Export-Import Bank. Signed in • Advise on Indian Income Tax matters for NRIs. than those already announced, and pharmacies, has until the pounds and has put its general September, it was the largest ever Contact: Investec, Tel: 44325060/44365060 email: [email protected] the source said yesterday. end of June to agree a plan with insurance business up for sale. loan from the institution. The additional funding would Britain’s financial regulator to REUTERS REUTERS MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Fed-induced sell-off Obama trade dilemma: Scant has investors hunting for bargains support from Democrats BY TOM RAUM Both deals generally have the support last weekend. At first, the deliberations BY LUCIANA LOPEZ, SAM FORGIONE and of US businesses. But labour unions and involved the US and 10 Pacific Rim nations: GERTRUDE CHAVEZ-DREYFUSS S PRESIDENT Barack Obama human rights and environmental groups — Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, pushes an ambitious agenda to core Democratic constituencies — have so Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and INCE Ben Bernanke unleashed a bombshell on May 22 by liberalise global trading, politi- far viewed them cynically. Vietnam. More recently, Japan has sought to suggesting the US Federal Reserve could before long start cal trade wars already are These organisations, and Democrats in join the talks, drawing the keen interest of Sto pull back on its massive monetary stimulus, big stock and forming, and they’re with fellow general, say that free-trade deals can cost the Chinese leader. Until now, China hasn’t bond markets have been feeling the pain. ADemocrats rather than with Republicans, American jobs and lead to environmental been included in the process. Rather than run for cover, a number of big money managers his usual antagonists. and workplace abuses that would not be “We have a half-a-trillion-dollar-a-year have seen the sell-off as a chance to invest cash in a broad array Obama is promoting free-trade proposals tolerated in the US. trade relationship with China,” said Tom of assets at lower prices. They believe the gloom may be overdone, with Europe and Asia that could affect up “We certainly have concerns,” said Celeste Donilon, Obama’s national security adviser. an overreaction to the concerns that the Federal Reserve won’t to two-thirds of all global trade. Drake, a trade and policy specialist at the “President Xi’s point ... was that the Chinese be throwing money at the economy forever. The ambitious deals would reduce or AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labour fed- would like to be kept informed and have The US economy has posted solid if still sluggish growth figures eliminate tariffs and other trade barri- eration. “I think Obama realises this prob- some transparency into the process.” this year, and jobs growth has improved. The eurozone debt crisis ers. But there’s trouble ahead for both the lem about Republicans always being the big But the possible inclusion of Japan, the has abated somewhat, with the monetary union no longer expected Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trans- supporters (on trade liberalisation) and he third-largest economy, after the US and to drag so heavily on world growth. And despite the jitters, global Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership would like to have our support. But overall China, generated heat from auto-state central banks are far from ending easy money policies, pumping — at the negotiating table and from Congress. we’re sceptical. We wish we’d see more.” lawmakers, who criticised Japan’s efforts money into markets around the world. The deal with Europe will be a top item It’s not a new problem. to restrict auto imports. Traders with big investors like Pacific Investment this coming week in Northern Ireland at the President Bill Clinton powered the Senator Debbie Stabenow, pledged to Management Company and Loomis Sayles & Company are Group of Eight summit of major industrial US-Mexico-Canada North American Free fight ratification if Japan won’t “stop block- taking advantage of buying opportunities they say they haven’t democracies. But French and other objec- Trade Agreement through Congress in 1993 ing American companies from its markets.” seen in some time, with in-and-out hot money having flushed tions have recently surfaced which could only by heavily courting Republicans and Michael Froman, a White House inter- out of the system. delay the planned launch of the negotiations. overcoming stiff Democratic opposition, national economics adviser nominated to be “We’re finding a lot of opportunities coming out of the volatility,” The Asia pact was brought up pointedly including from House Democratic leaders the next US trade representative, said the said Curtis Mewbourne, managing director and head of portfolio by the new Chinese President, Xi Jinping, and unions. auto industry concerns are “well-founded” management for the New York office of PIMCO, which manages in his California meetings with Obama last As he campaigned for president in 2008, and he suggested they would be addressed. more than $2 trillion globally. weekend. Obama courted blue-collar votes by criticis- Backers of a sweeping US trade deal with Bernanke said on May 22 the central bank “could in the next Republicans historically have supported ing NAFTA. Since then, he’s changed his the 27 European Union countries hoped to few meetings ... take a step down in our pace of purchases.” This free-trade agreements far more than have tune. get an enthusiastic sendoff from the G-8 sparked an uptick in volatility that hasn’t abated as investors Democrats, and a politically weakened Obama worked to overcome Democratic summit in Northern Ireland on Monday recalibrate expectations for low bond yields that have bolstered Obama may not have enough second-term resistance to win passage in 2011 of trade and Tuesday. borrowing and encouraged investors to take risks in other asset clout to successfully twist the arms of pacts with South Korea, Panama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, classes. enough Democratic lawmakers. Colombia, completing negotiations begun the host, has made trade liberalisation a Japan’s stock market has lost 19 percent since that day. The Some Republicans who usually vote for by his Republican predecessor, president priority, and many European nations are 10-year Treasury yield hit a 14-month high last week. The BofA easing trade barriers may vote “no” just George W Bush. hoping the promise of expanded trade will Merrill Lynch US high yield index slumped to a three-month because the agreements will bear Obama’s The talks for a new Asia-Pacific free-trade help reverse Europe’s spreading recessions. low. The benchmark MSCI EM stock index is down more than 17 signature. zone came up in the Obama-Xi meetings AP percent this year, and the dollar is near a four-month low against a basket of currencies. One place Mewbourne is focused is government debt, even though it is the most sensitive to Federal Reserve expectations. He said it is a good time to buy five- and 10-year Treasuries, since he sees yields falling as the Fed hints it has no intention of slow- ing its stimulus program. He also sees more potential for gains in mortgages not guaranteed by the government. The Federal Open Market Committee issues its next deci- sion on Wednesday, and recently Fed officials have remarked that inflation is worryingly low, which might prevent them from reducing the $85bn-per-month bond buying programme, known as quantitative easing. “We think that the Fed will signal to investors that the markets have overly priced in expectations for a reduction in quantitative easing,” he said. Among the other assets that big money managers are now eye- ing: high-yield debt; industrials and materials stocks; and some emerging market stocks and bonds. Junk bonds have been feeling the effect of the rise in Treasury yields, with the Bank of America/Merrill Lynch High Yield Master Index losing 2.91 percent from its peak in early May. The past two weeks have seen outflows of nearly $9bn from high-yield funds, according to Lipper, a Thomson Reuters company. The 10-year Treasury yield touched 2.29 percent this week, highest since April 2012. Loomis Sayles, which manages $191bn, is picking up what it sees as bargains, said Vice-Chairman Dan Fuss. The firm bought 30-year Treasuries last week, adding junk bonds “where appropri- ate” and some investment grade corporate bonds. “The high yield market has gotten disorderly,” he said. “When was the last time you had discounts like this? Yes, we are buying.” Investors have dumped US-based corporate junk bond funds in droves, pulling out a record $4.6bn in the week to June 5, accord- ing to Lipper. High yield spreads are almost 500 basis points over Treasuries, said Paul Zemsky, chief investment officer for multi-asset strate- gies and solutions at ING US Investment Management, which has $180bn in assets under management. “That represents good value, roughly six-and-a-quarter percent yield,” he said. “If you can earn 6.25 percent from a bond, that’s not so bad given we expect inflation to be low.” REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Fracking fuels water fights in US dry spots

BY GARANCE BURKE of Agriculture’s official drought In a normal year, Peppler said The Eagle Ford, extending from rest of the county, were declared frack with gray or brackish water. designations. he would pay anywhere from $9 to the Mexican border into East to be in a drought disaster area Halliburton, for instance, HE latest domestic While fracking typically con- $100 for an acre-foot of water in Texas, began to boom in 2011, just this year by the USDA. recently started marketing a new energy boom is sweep- sumes less water than farming or auctions held by cities with excess as Texas struggled with the worst “I was going to bed every night technology that allows customers ing through some of residential uses, the exploration supplies. But these days, energy one-year drought in its history. and praying to the good Lord that to use recycled wastewater, calling the nation’s driest method is increasing competition companies are paying some cit- While conditions have improved, we would get just one rain on the it an “investment to further the pockets, drawing mil- for the precious resource, driving ies $1,200 to $2,900 per acre-foot. most of the state is still dealing crop,” said Smith, who hopes to sustainable development of the oil Tlions of gallons of water to unlock up the price of water and burden- The Denver suburb of Aurora with some level of drought, and earn several thousand dollars for and gas industry.” The American oil and gas reserves from beneath ing already depleted aquifers and made a $9.5m, five-year deal last many reservoirs and aquifers have each acre-foot of water he can Petroleum Institute, the principal the Earth’s surface. rivers in certain drought-stricken summer to provide the oil com- not been fully replenished. sell. “I realised we’re not making lobbying group for the industry, Hydraulic fracturing, or the stretches. pany Anadarko 2.4 billion gallons “The oil industry is doing the any money farming, so why not said its members are working to drilling technique commonly Some farmers and city leaders of excess treated sewer water. big fracks and pumping a sub- sell the water to the oil compa- become less dependent on fresh known as fracking, has been used worry that the fracking boom is In South Texas, where drought stantial amount of water around nies? Every little bit helps.” water, and instead draw on other for decades to blast huge volumes consuming too much of a scarce has forced cotton farmers to scale here,” said Ed Walker, general The amount of water needed sources. of water, fine sand and chemicals resource, while others see the push back, local water officials said manager of the Wintergarden to hydraulically fracture a well “Recycling wastewater helps into the ground to crack open for production as an opportunity drillers are contributing to a drop Groundwater Conservation varies greatly, depending on how conserve water use and provide valuable shale formations. to make money by selling water in the water table in several areas. District, which manages an aqui- hard it is to extract oil and gas cost-saving opportunities,” said But now, as energy companies while furthering the nation’s goal For example, as much as 15,000 fer that serves as the main water from each geological formation. In Reid Porter, a spokesman for vie to exploit vast reserves west of energy independence. acre-feet of water are drawn each source for farmers and about Texas, the average well requires the group. In some states, reg- of the Mississippi, fracking’s new Along Colorado’s Front Range, year from the Carrizo-Wilcox 29,000 people in three counties. up to six million gallons of water, ulators have stepped in to limit frontier is expanding to the same fourth-generation farmer Kent Aquifer to frack wells in the “When you have a big prob- while in California each well the volume or type of water that lands where crops have shrivelled Peppler said he is fallowing some southern half of the Eagle Ford lem like the drought and you requires 80,000 to 300,000 gallons, energy companies can use during and waterways have dried up due of his corn fields this year because Shale, one of the nation’s most add other smaller problems to it according to estimates by govern- drought conditions. to severe drought. he can’t afford to irrigate the profitable oil and gas fields. like all the fracking, then it only ment and trade associations. In northwest Louisiana, as the In Arkansas, Colorado, New land for the full growing season, That’s equal to about one-half makes things worse,” Walker said. Depending on state and local production rush began in the Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, in part because deep-pocketed of the water recharged annu- West Texas cotton farmer water laws, frackers may draw Haynesville Shale in 2009, the Utah and Wyoming, the vast energy companies have driven up ally into the southern portion Charlie Smith is trying to make their water for free from under- state water agency ordered oil majority of the counties where the price of water. of the aquifer, which spans five the best of the situation. He plans ground aquifers or rivers, or may and gas companies to stop pull- fracking is occurring are also “There is a new player for counties that are home to about to sell some of the groundwater buy and lease supplies belonging ing groundwater from the local suffering from drought, accord- water, which is oil and gas,” said 330,000 people, said Ron Green, coursing beneath his fields to to water districts, cities and farm- aquifer that also supplied homes ing to an Associated Press analy- Peppler, of Mead, Colorado. “And a scientist with the nonprofit drillers, because it isn’t enough ers. Some of the industry’s largest and businesses, and use surface sis of industry-compiled fracking certainly they are in a position to Southwest Research Institute in to irrigate his lands in Glasscock players are also investing in high- water instead. data and the US Department pay a whole lot more than we are.” San Antonio. County. Smith’s fields, like the tech water recycling systems to AP MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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Five Below soars on teen shopping craze

BY LINDSEY RUPP error. “They can’t have supply- lost about $9m on an Internet year to bring its total to 244 as of double the $197.2m from two years competitors, slowing its store chain issues, and they can’t have retail investment. February 2, up from 142 two years earlier. Net income last year rose growth to 15 percent from 20 per- IVE Below founders inventory issues at this kind of In May 2001, Zany Brainy filed ago, and plans to open 60 more this 25 percent from a year earlier to cent would allow it to focus more David Schlessinger multiple — and all those things for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, listing year. The store base will expand at $20m. Through Friday, the shares on selecting the right locations and Thomas Vellios are really worrisome when you’re $131m in debt and $201m of assets. least 20 percent annually for the had advanced 13 percent, com- and hiring qualified staff, said have so far learned to growing this fast because you out- It was acquired in September of next five years, Vellios said on a pared with a 15 percent rise for Nemer, who rates the shares hold. avoid the pitfalls that grow your infrastructure,” Jan that year by Right Start, which conference call in September. Five the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. Another potential weakness Fundid their last business — the Kniffen, Chief Executive Officer bought FAO Schwarz and changed Below said in a March filing that The retailer is scheduled to report is that Five Below doesn’t carry bankrupt Zany Brainy toy com- of J Rogers Kniffen Worldwide its name to FAO Inc. Zany Brainy it could grow to more than 2,000 first-quarter earnings June 12. consumer staples. That leaves it pany. Still, the real test lies ahead. Enterprises, a retail consulting was shuttered in 2003, when FAO stores “over time.” The company’s total debt was vulnerable to the rapidly changing The duo are expanding the and equity-research firm in New filed for bankruptcy. The executives declined 73 percent of its $47.3m in trail- tastes of its teen and preteen cus- chain that sells teens discounted York, said in a telephone inter- Vellios in a May 2001 press to comment through Denise ing 12-month earnings before tomers, said Patrick McKeever, items from tie-dyed T-shirts view. “It’s a $2bn company that release blamed the company’s DiMeglio, a Five Below spokes- interest, taxes, depreciation and managing director for MKM to bedazzled iPhone cases at a trades like Amazon.” bankruptcy on its “rapid growth,” woman who works for Gregory amortization, less than half the Partners LLC in Stamford, Conn. breakneck pace, with a 72 percent Shares of Philadelphia-based which included opening 27 new FCA Communications. 1.8 times average for consumer “They really have to properly increase in its store base helping Five Below closed on June 7 at Zany Brainy stores and acquiring Five Below stores are usually discretionary companies in the identify what’s popular and what’s more than double sales in the past about 49 times its estimated the 60 Noodle Kidoodle shops. He small, located in strip malls and Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. going to be popular with teens — two years. earnings for the next 12 months, also cited declining sales in the opened in clusters in the same Analysts, however, are cautious. if they make some bad merchan- Zany Brainy, which sold chil- higher than any other retailer in absence of a “hot” product in a region at once, helping to gener- Of the 14 analysts that cover Five dising decision that could hurt dren’s toys and games, took off on the Russell 2000 Index other than slow retail environment. ate attention. The locations each Below, 36 percent recommend buy- the business,” McKeever said in a similar trajectory before flam- Office Depot, which is in the midst After Zany Brainy’s collapse, stock more than 4,000 items, ing it. That gives the company a a telephone interview. He has the ing out when an acquisition and of a merger, according to data Schlessinger and Vellios founded according to company filings. consensus analyst rating of 3.57, on equivalent of a hold rating on the losses on an Internet investment compiled by Bloomberg. Amazon. Cheap Holdings Inc. in January Five Below has no direct com- a scale in which five is a unanimous stock and cites its high valuation hurt it just as the United States com closed at about 70 times esti- 2002 and later changed the name petition for its concept, Kniffen buy and one is a unanimous sell. The as one reason he doesn’t recom- was heading into the 2001 reces- mated earnings on that basis. to Five Below, a nod to its prices said. While Wal-Mart Stores, average for the Russell 2000 is 3.76. mend buying the shares. sion. Now, Five Below’s shares Schlessinger, Five Below’s of $5 or less, with its first store in Target, major dollar retailers and Five Below risks competition Still, those risks aren’t as great have more than doubled since chairman, founded Zany Brainy Philadelphia. Claire’s Stores all carry some of from major retailers as well as as the ones that undid Zany Brainy, their July initial offering on pros- in 1991, and Vellios joined the The company, led by Schlessinger the same products, Five Below is the potential for an imitator, Wells Fargo’s Nemer said. Five pects that the retailer’s growth is company in 1995 before becom- as chairman and Vellios again as the only one with its particular Matt Nemer, a San Francisco- Below has a simpler model to exe- just beginning, while analysts say ing CEO in September 2000. The CEO, expanded throughout the assortment of items in one place. based analyst with Wells Fargo cute than Zany Brainy with small its rich price-to-earnings multiple company went public in June 1999, eastern US and is now branching The strategy so far is working. & Co, said in a phone interview. stores, flexible merchandise and few — the highest among its peers — purchased rival Noodle Kidoodle a into the Midwest and the South. Sales rose to $418.8m in the year While Five Below’s rapid expan- regionalised products, Nemer said. leaves the company little room for little more than a year later and Five Below added 52 stores last ended on February 2, more than sion may help it deter potential WP-BLOOMBERG MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 NBA: Pressure on Heat to win back-to-back games We have to find a way to put a string together: Wade

SAN ANTONIO, Texas: Miami has struggled to win two Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) Secretary General Sheikh Saoud bin straight games deep in the play- Abdulrahman Al Thani (right) signs a deal with the Korean Olympic offs, which comes as a surprise Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland. to a team that recorded the sec- ond-longest winning streak of all-time in the regular season. Miami Heat The Heat are looking for their head coach second consecutive NBA title Erik Spoelstra QOC join hands after compiling a league-best 66-16 record which included a responds to 27-game winning streak. a question But the Heat now have 11 alter- during a news nating wins and losses in these conference for with Ukraine play-offs, including trading the the NBA Finals first four games of the NBA finals basketball play- with the San Antonio Spurs to off series in San reach 2-2 in the best-of-seven Antonio, Texas, championship series. yesterday. and Korea Heat coach Erik Spoelstra says it’s an indication of how evenly LAUSANNE, Switzerland: In a press release following the matched the Heat and Spurs are. Qatar Olympic Committee deal, Sheikh Saoud lauded the “It’s not as if we have never (QOC) Secretary General relationship between Qatar and won two in a row,” Spoelstra said Sheikh Saoud bin Ukraine in all fields especially in during yesterday’s practice at the Abdulrahman Al Thani signed the sport domain. AT&T Center. “Our guys under- a sports co-operation deal with Sheikh Saoud said the agree- stand what’s at hand and what’s Ukraine in aiming to improve ment will support the construc- at stake right now. hopefully tomorrow we can have the series shifts back to Miami for are third. But if San Antonio is sports at both Olympic and tive partnership between the two “You do have to give credit to our best game of the series. It’s game six tomorrow. going to capture their first title non-Olympic levels. Sheikh countries. the competition both ways. When not about trying to win the next Miami guard Dwyane Wade, since 2007 they are going to have Saoud also signed a Sports Sheikh Saoud also appreciated you get to this level, it’s tough to two out of three, getting ahead of who is playing on a pair of balky to find a way to get Tony Parker Understanding Agreement the Qatari - Ukraine cooperation win two games in a row against ourselves or anything else. knees, said the Heat’s biggest healthy quick. with the Korean Olympic in the sport sector and described an equal opponent. “It’s can we play our best game challenge now is to string two Parker says he knows he won’t Committee. the agreement as a construc- “We want to make sure that of the series tomorrow.” wins together. be 100 percent in game five after The signing of the deals tive method to serve the sport we’re continuing to get better, and After game five in San Antonio, “If we don’t do two, we won’t suffering a mildly strained right were made during the QOC’s interests for both nations and win a championship. I wasn’t that hamstring in game three. He delegation visit, headed by will bring a valuable gains in smart in school but I do know played reduced minutes because Sheikh Saoud in the ANOC the future. that,” said Wade, who looked like of it in the Spurs’ game four loss. Extraordinary General Assembly In the Korea agreement, the D-Wade of old with 32 points Parker finished with 15 points in Lausanne, Switzerland, Korean Olympic Committee in Thursday’s 109-93 game four in the first half but had zero in the where all the National Olympic President Kim Jung signed the victory. second half and missed all four of Committee nations discussed the deal for his country. “We have to find a way to put his field goals. methods for developing sports After signing the deal, Sheikh a string together. This team has Parker says he realises that worldwide. Saoud gave Qatar’s support to always responded to a challenge. he risks a more serious injury by In the Ukrainian deal, retired the 17th Asian Games which Our challenge now as a team is to playing in game five but because pole vaulter Sergey Bubka, will be held in Incheon city in see if we can put complete games it is the NBA finals he is going to President of the National South Korea next year. Sheikh together, back to back.” give it a shot. Olympic Committee of Ukraine, Saoud also commented on the The Heat and Spurs are not “My hamstring can tear any signed the deal for the European significant and historic relations only the league’s best teams this time now. So if it was the regular country. As part of the agree- between Qatar and South Korea season but they have been two of season, I would be resting like 10 ment, the two countries will in the youth and sport activities the NBA’s most successful fran- days. But now it’s the NBA finals. work together by exchanging and exchange of expertise. chises over the past decade. If it gets a tear, it’s life,” Parker expertise, knowledge, training The deal will encourage the The Eastern Conference said during yesterday’s Spurs and sport medicine. two countries to organise joint champion Heat and the five-time practice. The deal will also enhance training camps, exchange tech- champion Spurs are meeting each Parker said he will see how it co-ordination between the two nical and administrative exper- San Antonio Spurs’ player Manu Ginoblili (centre) talks to the media other in the finals for the first goes in the first half of Sunday’s countries at different conti- tise and build projects for sport the day before game five of the NBA Finals at the AT&T Center in San time. Since 1997, the Spurs have contest and then spend halftime nental and international sports development. Antonio, Texas, USA. the best post-season winning per- getting treated by the medical events. THE PENINSULA centage in the league. The Heat staff in the locker room. AFP

Paille scores in Baseball Results Gay has triple medal haul in Chicago Cubs 5 NY Mets 2 extra-time as Toronto 6 Texas 1 Atlanta 6 San Francisco 5 Bruins tie series LA Dodgers 5 Pittsburgh 3 Boston 5 Baltimore 4 CHICAGO, Illinois: Dan mind for World Championships Paille scored in extra-time Milwaukee 6 Cincinnati 0 to lift the Boston Bruins to RALEIGH, North Carolina: in years,” Gay said a leading US Colorado 10 Philadelphia 5 a 2-1 win over the Chicago Former world sprint title holder US sprinter biomechanics expert recently told St Louis 13 Miami 7 Tyson Gay Blackhawks in Game Two of Tyson Gay has a lofty goal in him. Tampa Bay 5 Kansas City 3 the Stanley Cup Final yester- mind for August’s global cham- during a press A brighter outlook on his own day to level the best-of-seven pionships - three trips to the conference in achievements and prospects has LA Angels 6 NY Yankees 2 series. podium just like six years ago. this file photo. not lessened Gay’s respect for Bolt Washington 7 Cleveland 6 It marked the second straight Completely fit for the first time The American and his world records. Minnesota 6 Detroit 3 game that needed overtime to since winning gold in the 100 and clinched three “He is still going to be the man Seattle 4 Oakland 0 find a winner after Chicago 200 metres and 4x100 relay at the to beat regardless,” said Gay, golds at the Houston 4 Chicago White Sox 3 won Game One on Wednesday 2007 worlds, Gay said he will run Osaka World admiring the way the Jamaican San Diego 6 Arizona 4 in triple-extra-time. both sprints at next week’s US Championships bounced back from injury and Another tight game unfolded championships, then seek a spot in 2007 (100, defeat by training partner Yohan yesterday and it looked like on the relay team for Moscow. Blake at the island nation’s 2012 200 and multiple extra-time periods “I want to do the double for Olympic trials to win the 100 and Angels send 4x100m) and might be needed again until sure,” the 30-year-old Gay, 200 in London. Paille, who also assisted on American record holder in the two years later “He turns around and looks Yankees to fifth Boston’s other goal, took a short sprint, said in a telephone in Berlin, won like a totally different person,” pass from Tyler Seguin and interview from his central Florida silver medal in said Gay. straight loss unleashed a wrist shot that training base. the 100m. But the American believes he fluttered underneath netminder “I feel like I am actually able can be more competitive this Corey Crawford’s outstretched to and I always loved the 200,” he year, and could even challenge his LOS ANGELES: Erick Aybar glove off the far post and into said. “And I feel like I am healthy world leading time if it had not next I want to play it smart and 2009 US 100 metres record of 9.69 homered and drove in two runs the net. enough. been wind assisted. make the team and say the big seconds, compared to Bolt’s 9.58 and Albert Pujols had a pair The series now shifts to “I feel like it will prepare me “It makes me feel good, but I dance is not until August.” world record. of run-scoring singles to help Boston for Game Three today. for the worlds, and if I run the am a little surprised,” said Gay, The heartbreak of London “I think I can,” said Gay who power the Los Angeles Angels Patrick Sharp scored from 200 that will give me more success noting Bolt and others have had 2012, where he missed his first would have no problem with the to a 6-2 win over the New York a wild goalmouth scramble to for the 100.” more competitive races than his individual Olympic medal by one world joining in a delayed celebra- Yankees and extend their win- stake Chicago to 1-0 first period Hamstring, groin and hip inju- two 100 metres and one 200. hundredth of a second with a tion of his 31st birthday, which ning streak to three games lead and they dominated the ries, along with the emergence “I planned on racing a nor- fourth-place finish, has subsided. comes two days before the August yesterday. early play, outshooting Boston of Jamaican double world record mal schedule but coach (Lance) Time and the Americans’ silver 11, 100 metres world final. Howie Kendrick contributed 19-4. holder Usain Bolt, have denied Brauman wanted to take things medal in the 4x100 relay helped as He will run his first race after three hits and an RBI to the But the Bruins came out Gay an individual global title since slow this year. After New York did the encouragement of friends the American trials in the 100 Angels effort while Brett Gardner stronger in the second period his triple at the Osaka World we decided I had done enough to and even strangers who made him at Lausanne on July 4 and long- had an RBI triple for the Yankees, and were rewarded with the Championships. go on to the nationals,” added Gay, realise how much he has accom- range plans are to continue com- who had only five hits. equaliser when Chris Kelly But smart training and a more who won in 10.02 seconds in the plished in his career. peting through the 2016 Games While the Angels bats were banged home a rebound for his conservative running schedule rain and cold in the Big Apple. But he also finds it refreshing in Rio where he hopes his elusive booming it was another power first of the postseason. have limited the injuries and The US championships in to be healthy again. quest for an individual Olympic outage at the plate for the Game Two featured another made him the fastest 100 metres Des Moines, Iowa, which serve “I don’t have to rush. I don’t medal will finally end. Yankees, who have scored only sensational display of goaltend- runner in the world this year. as the US trials for the August have that extra stress on me,” There is a decision to be made 12 runs during a five-game los- ing at both ends of the rink but No one, not even Bolt, has been 10-18 Worlds in Moscow, begin on Gay said of the multiple times about his appearance. Gay had ing skid. Tuukka Rask was particu- quicker than the 9.86 seconds the Thursday. in recent years he has had to go an almost fuzzy look at May’s Angels starter Tommy Hanson larly brilliant in the opening slender American clocked at the Even the softly-spoken Gay flat out in last-minute practice New York Diamond League meet (4-2) picked up the win, striking period as the Blackhawks tried Jamaican Invitational in Kingston does not know what to expect of sessions after injuries in a bid to with his fuller beard and longer out a season-high eight while to deliver an early knockout in May. himself. be ready for US trials or global hair, the product, he said, of the yielding two runs on five hits over punch. REUTERS His 19.79 seconds last month “One minute I want to run a competition. amount of time devoted to train- 6 1/3 innings. in the 200 also would equal Bolt’s super fast time,” he said. “The “It is the best I have looked ing. REUTERS REUTERS MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Sikhs I was never interested in cleared to wear turbans in Quebec MONTREAL: Sikh football- ers have been cleared to wear United job, says Mourinho turbans while playing in the Canadian province of Quebec following clarification from I knew that Ferguson was retiring many months ago: Chelsea boss world governing body FIFA, officials said. The Quebec Soccer LONDON: Jose Mourinho because we are friends. So if I Federation provoked an outcry insists there was never any am Sir Alex’s friend to know he after ruling that Sikhs were chance he would try to succeed is going to retire, he is also my not allowed to take to the pitch Alex Ferguson at Manchester friend to know that the club wearing turbans, prompting the United even though he knew I want to coach in England is Canadian Soccer Association the legendary boss was set to Chelsea. to issue a suspension of the retire months before the rest of “Of course, I told him that. province. the world. I told him I want to come to However, after receiving Mourinho had long been linked Chelsea. I would turn down eve- clarification from FIFA, the with a potential move to Old ryone in the world for Chelsea. QSF has passed a resolution Trafford and many pundits felt “Come to England and not to allowing the wearing of turbans. he would be United’s number one come to Chelsea? Only if Chelsea Quebec officials appeared choice when it was revealed that doesn’t want me. If Chelsea to suggest yesterday that the Ferguson was going to step down doesn’t want me, I am a profes- controversy was the fault of at the end of the season. sional, I have to follow my life, I ambiguity in the wording of the Although Mourinho claimed have to be happy in another place. FIFA rules on headgear. Ferguson told him several months “But when at the same time, “It has been our intention ago he was planning to quit, even I want to leave Real, I want to from the onset to get a confir- that bombshell apparently didn’t come to England, and Chelsea is mation that the FIFA allowed persuade the Portuguese coach to waiting for me, so of course it is wearing of turbans, patkas or make a play for the United job. emotional because it is the only keskis,” QSF executive direc- It has been widely suggested decision I can make.” tor Brigitte Frot said in a that United’s decision to hire Now Mourinho is back at statement. Everton’s David Moyes instead Stamford Bridge six years after “We are very happy that the of attempting to lure Mourinho his sacking by Blues owner FIFA responded to our request from Real Madrid was prompted Roman Abramovich. and by the same token dispelled by concern over the former He sometimes had a fractious ambiguities created by a lack of Inter Milan manager’s volatile relationship with Abramovich, clarification. temperament. but he is keen to talk positively “Our intervention was solely But Mourinho is adamant he of his dealings with the demand- from a technical point of view was always determined to rejoin ing Russian billionaire. and had absolutely nothing to Chelsea if he ever came back to Even the decision to sign do with religious matters or the Premier League and that Andriy Shevchenko for £30m, Chelsea football club’s new manager Jose Mourinho addresses a press conference at Stamford Bridge in London, political issues. dream has now come to fruition which proved to be a disastrous in this file photo. The former Porto, Inter Milan and Real Madrid manager said in an interview yesterday that he “We were unwillingly led to after he was officially unveiled for move and was regarded as a sign had no plans to take the managerial position at Manchester United following Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement. this path while we were only his second spell as Blues boss last of Abramovich meddling in team trying to get information on week. affairs, is now seen in a positive a regulation issue that falls “I knew that Ferguson was light by Mourinho. “I was happy with Shevchenko. law to his squad when they meet “If you are selfish, if you don’t under the body that governs retiring many months ago. And “Do you want to know the Even with the top dogs that you for pre-season training. care about the club, don’t care our sport.” I’m so happy with this trust truth? I hope the board is not buy for millions, sometimes it “If you are a top professional, if about the fans, don’t care about Frot had earlier triggered because it’s big news for the upset with me,” he said. doesn’t work. It doesn’t mean you you are not a selfish person, if you the image, we are in big trouble. uproar when she was quoted as world,” Mourinho said. “We wanted to buy Samuel or the club made a mistake. It just put the club in front of yourself “Sometimes you a couple of saying that if Quebec children “I can imagine just a very close Eto’o and the boss (Abramovich) doesn’t work.” and if you are here to work 100 guys who are not so keen to wanted to wear turbans while circle around him knew that and did everything to bring him. In Mourinho had many supporters per-cent for me, for your fellow accept these kind of rules and playing football, they could it was a big responsibility for me the end, Barcelona said we don’t amongst the playing staff during players and for the club, we will this is where you have some prob- “play in their backyards.” to know. sell, forget it. So then we looked his first spell at Chelsea, but that have a wonderful relationship,” lematic relationships,” Mourinho AFP “Why do I know that? I know at Shevchenko. won’t stop him laying down the he said. added. AFP Egypt, Ethiopia Tiny Tahiti plot ambush German World and Ivory Coast Cup winners reach play-offs of jet-lagged Nigeria Flohe, Walter die BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil: of just 270,000, Tahiti have no JOHANNESBURG: Egypt, Nigeria’s status as resound- previous senior tournament BERLIN: Germany mourned Ethiopia and Ivory Coast yes- ing favourites to beat minnows experience. the death of two former World terday became the first coun- Tahiti in their Confederations Their preparations have Cup winners yesterday with tries to reach the play-offs in Cup opener today has been com- included a 7-0 thrashing by 1974 champion Heinz Flohe the Africa zone of the 2014 promised by a delayed arrival Chile’s under-20 side and a 1-0 passing away hours before 1954 World Cup qualifiers. that leaves them just 36 hours loss to Brazilian second-tier club winner Ottmar Walter. A spectacular own goal by to prepare for the game. Mineiro, and forward Steevy Flohe, who won 39 caps for Bernard Parker gifted lowest Tahiti became the first team Chong Hue knows his side could Germany spent 13 seasons at Group A seeds Ethiopia a 2-1 tri- to arrive in Brazil for the inter- be set for a rude awakening. home club Cologne who he led umph over 2010 World Cup hosts continental showpiece when they “For an amateur player, it is a to the domestic league and Cup South Africa in Addis Ababa and touched down on June 7, a full 10 dream to face the best players in double in 1978. an unassailable five-point lead days before the Group B clash the world,” he said. Walter, who along with his with one round left. with African champions Nigeria “However, for it not to become late brother Fritz, was part of Mohamed Salah followed up in Belo Horizonte. a nightmare, we have to keep Germany’s “Miracle of Bern” team a hat-trick against Zimbabwe In stark contrast, Ngeria finally working really hard so we are that beat the mighty Hungary 3-2 last weekend by scoring the goal arrived at their Belo Horizonte ready for the first game.” Brazilian national football team players Oscar, Neymar (centre) and Daniel in a dramatic final. that earned Egypt a 1-0 win over hotel at around 03:00 local time Despite the vast dispar- Alves (right) take some rest in the shade during a training session in Walter scored four goals in five Mozambique in Maputo and (06:00GMT) yesterday, hav- ity between the sides, Nigeria Brasilia, yesterday. David Luiz (in green, back) takes a photo with fans. games at the 1954 tournament. established an eight-point Group ing flown in from Windhoek in defender Efe Ambrose says the He was 89. REUTERS G gap over Guinea. Namibia via Johannesburg and risk of international humiliation Reigning African Footballer Sao Paulo. will keep his team-mates on their of the Year Yaya Toure netted A row over bonus payments toes. twice in Dar es Salaam as Ivory had put Nigeria’s participation in “We cannot afford to take any War of words adds spice to Coast recovered from conceding jeopardy, only for sports minister chances,” the versatile Celtic a second-minute goal to defeat Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi to bro- player told the FIFA website. Tanzania 4-2 in Group C and they ker a truce between the squad and “Big shocks have happened cannot be overtaken. the Nigeria Football Federation before in these kind of tourna- South Korea-Iran match Ghana, who were quarter-final- (NFF). ments and we don’t want to be ists at the last World Cup, took The Super Eagles have none- the victims this time.” SEOUL: A war of words between the coaches Queiroz, who wanted an apology from the South a significant step toward reach- theless gone 17 games unbeaten Tahiti, who qualified by winning of Iran and South Korea has spiced things up Korean coach. ing the play-offs with a 2-0 win and will expect to open their the Oceania Nations Cup, will between the Group A rivals as they bid to secure “Choi should apologise to the Iranian people,” the over Lesotho in Maseru thanks campaign with victory against hope to draw inspiration from the automatic qualifying spots for the 2014 World Portuguese told reporters upon arrival in Seoul in to goals from Christian Atsu and a side ranked 138th in the FIFA venue of today’s game, which was Cup. South Korea. captain Asamoah Gyan. ranking. the scene of the United States’ The top two sides in the group clash in Ulsan “He said the Korean team was badly treated in The ‘Black Stars’ moved one Representing the French shock 1-0 victory over England tomorrow, while Uzbekistan host Qatar looking for Iran but we gave the best treatment available. He point ahead of Zambia in Group Polynesian islands in the south at the 1950 World Cup. a big win to sneak in ahead of the Iranians in the humiliated the Iranian citizens.” D and host the shock 2012 Africa Pacific, which have a population AFP final round of matches. The war of words escalated after the former Real Cup of Nations champions in the In Group B, Australia are in the driving seat for Madrid coach accused the Koreans of not pushing final series of mini-league fixtures the second automatic berth and will seal a third harder for a bigger victory against the Uzbeks. during September. successive World Cup appearance with victory over “I will buy an Uzbek uniform and give it to Choi South Africa took on Ethiopia Iraq. Japan have already booked their spot in Brazil as a present,” the Iran boss quipped. needing at least a point to stay as group winners. Despite the heightened tensions, a draw in Ulsan in contention and an attacking South Korea, on 14 points, could still take one of should be enough to secure automatic qualification approach paid off on 34 minutes Group A’s two automatic berths even if they lose to for both teams at the soccer showpiece in Brazil as when Parker cracked a half-volley Iran but coach Choi Kang-hee has ensured tomor- Iran have a superior goal difference to the Uzbeks. into the far corner. row’s clash will not lack intensity. The two third-place finishers in the Asian quali- But the ‘Walyas Antelopes’ In comments that infuriated counterpart Carlos fying groups will face off over two legs with the 19 places below ‘Bafana Bafana’ Queiroz, Choi said he wanted revenge for October’s winners taking on a South American side in two (The Boys) on the African rank- 1-0 defeat in Tehran where his team were “badly matches for a berth in Brazil. ings levelled just before half-time treated”. The Uzbeks’ best chance of snatching an auto- when Getaneh Kebede rifled the “The manners they showed were not good ... they matic berth will be to beat Qatar and hope Korea ball into the net from close range were not hospitable. Aside from who makes it to defeat Iran. after a scramble. the World Cup, I would like to beat Iran no matter “Nothing has been lost, we still have a chance,” The decisive goal came after what,” Choi told reporters after his side’s 1-0 win Uzbekistan coach Mirjalol Kasimov said after an 70 minutes when Parker fluffed against Uzbekistan on Tuesday. own goal by Akmal Shorakhmedov just before half- an attempted clearance off an Players of Club Atletico Independiente leave the pitch after losing “Honestly, I dislike Iran more (than Uzbekistan). time handed the Koreans victory in their match on Ethiopian free kick, sending a fly- 1-0 to San Lorenzo and being relegated to second division B football I hope Uzbekistan make it to the World Cup.” Tuesday. ing header past goalkeeper and league in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires late on Saturday. This is the first Iran, who beat Lebanon 4-0 on Tuesday, have 13 “I really think Korea will win against Iran on June captain Itumeleng Khune into his time Independiente will play in the B league in its 108-year history. points while Uzbekistan have 11. 18 and we will also play well against Qatar and will own net. AFP Choi’s comments did not go down well with qualify for the World Cup,” he added. REUTERS MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

QMMF President at FIM Motocross World Championship in Italy US Open: Third Round Mickelson takes one-shot lead ARDMORE, Pennsylvania: final round of a US Open,” said Phil Mickelson moved a step Mickelson, who has three Masters closer to one of his biggest goals, and a PGA Championship title to a US Open title, as he emerged his credit. from a see-saw third round bat- “My ball striking is better than tle at Merion to take a one-shot it’s ever been. My putting is better lead into Sunday’s final round. than it has been in years, and I Mickelson rolled in a nine-foot feel very comfortable on this golf birdie putt at the 254-yard 17th course. I love it. FROM LEFT: Guiseppe Luongo, President of Youthstream, Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah, President of Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF), hole to leapfrog playing partner “Given that I’ve had some past Dr Wolfgang Srb, President of Motocross Commission FIM, and an official are seen at the FIM Motocross World Championship in Italy. The Italy leg Luke Donald, who slipped out major championships now and is the 9th round of the championship. Qatar hosted the opening round of the competition at Losail MX track in March, the first time the event was of the lead with a bogey on the some success here...I think it’s held in the Middle East. RIGHT: Al Attiyah (second left) is seen with Luongo and other officials. mammoth par-three. going to be fun. I don’t think I feel Four-times major winner any more pressure than anybody Mickelson, looking for his first US else who wants to win.” Open title after finishing runner- Six different players - up a record five times, bogeyed Mickelson, Horschel, Donald, the daunting 18th hole but still Rose, Australian John Senden and came away with the lead after Schwartzel had turns in the lead Patched up Lions braced completing an even-par 70 for a over the first nine holes. one-under-par 209 total. World number one Tiger “It is a hard challenge, but it is Woods, hoping to end a five-year a lot of fun,” said Mickelson, keen drought in the majors dating back for the next step in his quest for to the 2008 US Open, and world a first US Open crown. number two Rory McIlroy also for Brumbies challenge “Let’s go. I can’t wait to get moved within three shots of the back out playing.” pace with birdies on the first hole. Sunday could be a dream day However, the high-profile duo, The visitors face ACT Brumbies in Canberra tomorrow for Mickelson, who would add playing their third successive a missing line to his impressive round together, staggered through resume with an Open victory as the rest of the way. Woods shot 76 MELBOURNE: The British of fly-ins led by 36-year-old Shane he celebrates his 43rd birthday to plunge 10 shots off the pace, and Irish Lions’ hopes of victory Williams. and Father’s Day with his dad and McIlroy registered 75 to be in their last tour match before The former Wales winger, who watching him play at Merion. nine behind Mickelson. facing Australia will be tested toured with the Lions in 2005 and “I’ve had opportunities in years After the merry-go-round by a hastily-assembled backline 2009 and retired from interna- past, and it has been so fun, even of leaders in the front nine, and an ACT Brumbies side keen tional rugby at the end of 2011, though it’s been heart breaking to Schwartzel and Donald settled to inflict a timely psychological flies in from Japan and will slot in come so close a number of times into a tie for supremacy after blow in Canberra tomorrow. for just the one match before leav- and let it slide,” Mickelson said. the turn and were joined at two- Like all the provincial sides ing the squad to do media work. One shot back after a rousing under by Mahan when he birdied thrown to the Lions, the Brumbies Englishman Christian Wade, battle atop the leaderboard were the 16th. will front up with a starting 15 shipped in from Argentina, starts 2011 Masters champion Charl Mahan and Schwartzel both robbed of their best Wallabies on the other wing, with Brad Schwartzel, who posted 69, and bogeyed the last two holes to yield players but under strict orders Barritt landing from the United Americans Hunter Mahan (69) the top position to Donald, who to leave the tourists bruised, States and starting at centre in and Steve Stricker (70). was then overtaken by Mickelson. if not beaten, after full-time at the side captained by Ireland Former world number one Schwartzel said he knows what Canberra Stadium. hooker Rory Best. Donald, who double-bogeyed the it will take for him to add a sec- The Lions notched up their England’s Billy Twelvetrees 18th after struggling with the ond major title Sunday to his fifth win from five tour matches starts at inside centre against deep rough to finish with a 71, was Augusta triumph. against the New South Wales the two-time Super Rugby another shot adrift at one-over “You’re going to have to give Waratahs on Saturday, running champions. 211 along with fellow Englishman every single shot all your atten- out 47-17 winners at Sydney The cobbled-together backline, Leigh Halfpenny (centre) from the British and Irish Lions rugby team is Justin Rose (71) and 36-hole co- tion,” the South African said. Football Stadium, but the albeit complemented by a still- congratulated after scoring a try during the tour match against the New leader Billy Horschel (72). “There’s no hole where you can emphatic victory extracted a toll. formidable forward pack, offers South Wales Waratahs in Sydney on Saturday. “I should have done better,” sort of ease back and sort of free- Centre Jamie Roberts was left the Canberra-based Brumbies said Donald, who had taken wheel a bit. Every shot that you nursing a suspected hamstring arguably the best chance of the sole possession of the lead hit is really intense.” strain and could join England Australian provincial sides to other pretty well, Shane Williams the players, barring Williams, the after Schwartzel and Mahan Three shots off the pace was centre Manu Tuilagi in the treat- beat the Lions or at least leave will obviously come in. additional motivation of a spot in both bogeyed the 17th. “It was Australian Jason Day, who reg- ment room, leaving the Lions vul- the squad with a few doubts “Having worked with him for a the team to play the Wallabies at disappointing. istered a 68 for two-over 212 nerable in the one area they can before the first Wallabies Test on long time, I think he’ll fit in pretty Lang Park, despite his intention “But I’ll take the positives out despite a bogey at the last. One least afford it. Saturday. well with our game plan and will to have the side settled by the of today, a really solid 16 holes of more shot away was Rickie Fowler With Welshman George North “We realise it’s going to be understand what we’re trying to time of the Waratahs match. golf that I played and I’m only two who carded 67 for the best round also nursing hamstring concerns tough on a few players, but there’s do, so there’s some combinations “They have to have that belief back.” of the day. and fellow winger Tommy Bowe some combinations with experi- and players who been there, done that they can go out and perform Mickelson, the leader after Senden, who briefly led by one, injured with a broken hand, Lions ence we looked at,” Gatland told that before and knowing what’s on Tuesday and put your hand each round, fell from top spot faded with five bogeys in the last coach Warren Gatland has pad- reporters in Sydney yesterday. expected of them.” up and get selected for Saturday,” after a bogey on the third hole, 11 holes to post a 74, finishing six ded out his backline with a clutch “Billy and Brad know each Gatland has also offered all of Gatland said. REUTERS but came alive on the back nine strokes off the lead. with three birdies to fight his way Coming up big at the end back on a tumultuous day that was Mickelson, who was clearly saw a slew of competitors take excited about what Sunday could turns in charge. mean. The big left-hander said he felt “It’s got the makings to be better placed to tackle the chal- something special, but I still have Qatar aim to end campaign on a lenge of winning the US Open this to go out and perform and play time around. some of my best golf,” he said “I feel better equipped than I after the third round. have ever felt heading into the REUTERS winning note against Uzbekistan Third Round Scores DOHA: Qatar will be playing ARDMORE, Pennsylvania: Collated scores on Saturday after to win when they face hosts Abdulkareem Hassan the third round of the 113th US Open at at 6,996-yard, par-70 Uzbekistan tomorrow, team gets off the coach Merion Golf Club: after arriving in coach Fahad Thani said, fol- 209 Phil Mickelson (USA) 67-72-70 lowing the squad’s arrival in Tashkent, Uzbekistan 210 Hunter Mahan (USA) 72-69-69, Charl Schwartzel (RSA) 70-71-69, Steve Stricker (USA) Tashkent yesterday evening. yesterday. RIGHT: 71-69-70 Qatar face Uzbekistan for their Talal Al Baloushi 211 Justin Rose (ENG) 71-69-71, Luke Donald (ENG) 68-72-71, Billy Horschel (USA) 72-67-72 final 2014 FIFA World Cup quali- (left) and Wisam Rizq fying match for their Group A, (centre) are seen 212 Jason Day (AUS) 70-74-68 Asian Zone clash. prior to dinner after 213 Rickie Fowler (USA) 70-76-67 “For us this is an impor- arriving at their hotel. 214 Michael Kim (USA) 73-70-71 tant game,” coach Fahad said Tomorrow, Qatar will 215 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (ESP) 71-72-72, Henrik Stenson (SWE) 74-68-73, Ian Poulter yesterday. play their final FIFA (ENG) 71-71-73, Nicolas Colsaerts (BEL) 69-72-74, John Senden (AUS) 70-71-74 “We are playing to win this World Cup 2014 216 David Lingmerth (SWE) 74-71-71, Paul Casey (ENG) 73-72-71, Charley Hoffman (USA) 71-73- match,” he added. 72, Paul Lawrie (SCO) 76-71-69, Lee Westwood (ENG) 70-77-69, Bo Van Pelt (USA) 73-71-72, Qatar have been training in Group A, Asian Zone Ernie Els (RSA) 71-72-73 Doha since last Saturday for their qualifying match clash in Tashkent. against Uzbekistan in 217 Bubba Watson (USA) 71-76-70, Edward Loar (USA) 73-71-73 The Qatar squad - headed by Tashkent. 218 Jason Dufner (USA) 74-71-73, Jerry Kelly (USA) 70-73-75, Rory McIlroy (NIR) 73-70-75, chief coach Fahad, announced a Mathew Goggin (AUS) 68-74-76, Morten Orum Madsen (DEN) 74-74-70, Brandt Snedeker squad of 22 players for tomorrow’s (USA) 74-74-70 match. matches, ahead of Uzbekistan on Hassan Afifi, Hussein Ali Shihab Said, Ghasser Yahya Zakaria, Ali 219 Jamie Donaldson (WAL) 73-73-73, Pan Cheng-Tsung (TPE) 72-72-75, John Huh (USA) 71-73- “We have a few absent players goal difference. and Khalid Muftah. Asad, Hisham Kamal Hassan, 75, Matt Kuchar (USA) 74-73-72, John Parry (ENG) 76-71-72, Padraig Harrington (IRL) 73-71- but we also have decent replace- Iran has 10 points, Qatar has 7 Coach: Fahad Thani. Abdul Rahman Nasser, Aladdin 75, Matt Bettencourt (USA) 72-71-76, Tiger Woods (USA) 73-70-76 ments. The players have the points and Lebanon is last with Meanwhile, the Qatar Football Ahmed Badr, Mohamed Alaa El 220 Scott Langley (USA) 75-70-75, Hideki Matsuyama (JPN) 71-75-74, Adam Scott (AUS) 72-75- responsibility to give their best,” 4 points. Association, (QFA) yesterday Din Badr, Abdullah Al Alawi, 73, Kim Bi-O (KOR) 72-75-73, David Hearn (CAN) 78-69-73 he said. Qatar has missed out on the announced a batch of 31 players Muhammad Salah, Abdul Majeed, 221 K.J Choi (KOR) 70-76-75, Webb Simpson (USA) 71-75-75, Sergio Garcia (ESP) 73-73-75, Carl “I seek top effort from all the chance to gain an automatic spot for the Olympic squad’s summer Abdullah Al Talib, Abdullah Pettersson (SWE) 72-75-74, Marcel Siem (GER) 73-71-77, George Coetzee (RSA) 71-73-77, players,” he added. in next year’s FIFA World Cup training camp set to begin in the Hassan, Ahmed Saleh Khalfan, Russell Knox (SCO) 69-75-77, Geoff Ogilvy (AUS) 74-70-77 “We have important matches after they lost 1-0 to Iran in Doha. Netherlands later this week. Ahmed Youssef, Abdullah 222 Kevin Chappell (USA) 72-76-74, Josh Teater (USA) 74-74-74, Nicolas Thompson (USA) coming up later in the summer,” Qatar squad: Ibraheem Al The Qatar squad leaves for Mohammed Al Sulaiti, Ahmed 72-76-74 he added. Ghanem, Talal Al Baloushi, Netherlands tomorrow and head Fathi, Murad Naji Hussein, Faisal “The friendly we played against Wisam Rizq, Mohammed back to Doha on July 8, QFA Abdul Aziz Hussein, Abdulaziz 223 Martin Laird (SCO) 74-73-76, Scott Stallings (USA) 71-76-76, Steven Alker (NZL) 73-75-75, North Korea helped the players Kasoula, Khalfan Ibraheem, confirmed. Adel Bader, Ali Ahmed Qadri, Dustin Johnson (USA) 71-77-75, Mike Weir (CAN) 72-76-75 get the Iran match out of their Ibraheem Magid, Hassan Haidos, The Dutch trip is part of the Fahd Younis Ahmed, Saud Al 224 Alistair Presnell (AUS) 73-75-76, Jim Herman (USA) 76-72-76, Matt Weibring (USA) 75-73-76 system,” he said. Yousef Ahmed, Abdulkareem team’s preparations plans for the Mubarak Al Khater, Ahmed 225 David Howell (ENG) 77-71-77, Martin Kaymer (GER) 76-72-77 Coach Fahad said players Hassan, Mohanad Naeem, Magid GCC Cup (for Olympic teams) to Fadel, Hassan Fazli, Soud 226 Michael Weaver (USA) 74-74-78, John Peterson (USA) 73-75-78, Kevin Phelan (IRL) 71-77-78 gave their best against Iran who Mohammed, Mohammed Said be held in Manama, Bahrain, in Mohammed Khulaki, Hudhaifah 227 Peter Hedblom (SWE) 70-78-79 defended well for their 1-0 win on Abdulmotaleb, Ahmed Sufyan, August. Yahya Salmi, Mohamed Shaaban 230 Shawn Stefani (USA) 72-73-85, Kyle Stanley (USA) 71-74-85, Simon Kahn (ENG) 74-74-82 June 4. Musaab Mahmoud, Abdulgader Squad: Badr Al Yazidi, Muhammad and Said Haj. South Korea is placed at the top Elias, Saoud, Hamad Al Obaidely, Muhammad Naim Sheikh, Musab Coach: Julio Cesar 231 Kevin Sutherland (USA) 73-74-84 of Group A with 11 points from six Hamid Ismaeel, Adel Lami, Ali Al Khader Kamal, Hilal Mohamed THE PENINSULA 232 Robert Karlsson (SWE) 74-72-86 MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Pakistan need Misbah, Australia face do-or-die says Akram

ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram has thrown his support behind battle against Sri Lanka under fire skipper Misbah-ul- Haq after the national team’s disappointing Champions Trophy tournament. Defending champions keen to take focus off Warner in crucial match Misbah, 39, was the only Pakistani batsman to shine with two half centuries in England LONDON: Defending cham- as the Greenshirts lost all their pions Australia will have to Anderson three group matches to West put David Warner’s bar brawl Indies, South Africa and India. controversy and questions sur- The team’s disappointing per- rounding their team culture denies Willis formance has led to calls for behind them when they take on changes in the squad and for Sri Lanka in their final league the removal of head coach Dav fixture here today to decide allegations Whatmore by several former the last of the remaining ICC players. Champions Trophy semi-final CARDIFF, United Kingdom: But Wasim, who played 104 places. James Anderson has insisted tests and 356 one-day interna- It will be a virtual quarterfinal that allegations of ball-tamper- tionals, said while there was a clash between the two sides at ing levelled against England by need to rebuild the national side Kennington Oval. former captain Bob Willis are for the World Cup in 2015, Misbah If Sri Lanka beat champions “very disappointing” and defi- should not be removed from his Australia in the final Group A nitely untrue. post. fixture at The Oval. England limited overs coach “I think Misbah has been our New Zealand could reach Ashley Giles refuted Saturday best batsman in recent times and the semi-finals themselves if the claims made by Willis, now in the Champions Trophy,” the Australia win but fail to do so by a television pundit, who alleged 47-year-old told Geo News chan- a large enough margin to better the side were obtaining reverse nel here yesterday. the Black Caps’ net run-rate. swing by methods banned under “If Misbah had not stood his Yesterday, England entered the cricket’s laws. ground the way this team batted last four as one of two qualifiers “As a team we’re really sur- it could have been bowled out for out of Group A. prised by his comments,” England scores of 30. Sri Lanka’s recent success seamer Anderson told the Mail “His future should be secure. against Australia will provide a yesterday. “Even though there’s We need to rebuild with new psychological edge to them -- in nothing to them whatsoever they players.” the last 10 ODIs played between could stick for a while to us, which Zaheer Abbas, regarded as one the two sides, Sri Lanka have won England’s James Anderson (left) reacts as he bowls against Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara (second left) and isn’t wanted, needed or helpful. of Pakistan’s finest former bats- six while they drew the ODI series Nuwan Kulasekara during the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy against England at The Oval ground in London, “It’s come as a very unwelcome men, said a lack of role models 2-2 earlier this year in Australia. on June 13. Sri Lanka take on Australia today in a crucial Champions Trophy match. distraction and, frankly, we could for the top order was hurting Australia have just one point do without allegations such as development. from two games, starting their these.” Willis’s allegations domi- “Our problem is quality play- campaign with a defeat to against England to romp home involving Warner, who only three the English, suffering a 48-run nated the build-up to England’s ers are not coming through our England and then having their against the hosts. Led by Kumar weeks ago was fined over an defeat in what was dubbed as a key Champions Trophy match system. New players don’t have game against New Zealand Sangakkara’s unbeaten 134, they expletive-ridden Twitter tirade at prelude to the five-Test Ashes against New Zealand in Cardiff batting role models,” Zaheer washed out. chased down the 294-run victory two Australian cricket journalists, series in July-August. It will be yesterday, where victory for said. AFP On the other hand, Sri Lanka target with relative ease to keep reminding of another unsavoury a big test for stand-in skipper either side will see them through were skittled out for a paltry 138 their semifinal hopes alive. chapter in Australia’s question- George Bailey to turn Australia’s to the semi-finals. Anderson, who against New Zealand in their For Australia, it would not just able team culture. Australia’s fortunes around tomorrow. recently joined former fast bowler Pietersen tournament-opener but a superb be about tackling the threat posed regular skipper Michael Clarke Australia bowlers Clint Willis as one of only four England bowling show by slinger Lasith by in-form pacer Malinga but continues to battle back problems, McKay, James Faulkner and cricketers to have taken 300 Test Malinga saw them very nearly also to regroup in after Warner’s which saw him missing the first Shane Watson did a decent job in wickets, added: “It’s very disap- confirms defend the total before losing by altercation with England batsman two games, but is hopeful of a restricting England to 269 when pointing and frustrating that one wicket. Joe Root in the early hours of last return to action tomorrow. they were looking at a 300-plus anyone, but especially a former Sri Lankan batsmen, however, Sunday morning. The struggling side will have score at one stage but they still England captain, should say these Surrey return gave a better account of them- It happened close on the heels to work on its batting frailties need to add more sting to their things, especially when we’re pre- selves in their stunning run chase of another off-field controversy after proving to be no match to attack. AGENCIES paring for a massive game.” AFP LONDON: England bats- man Kevin Pietersen has con- firmed he will return to cricket with Surrey in their County Championship fixture away to Former Pakistan players Yorkshire next week. The 32-year-old South Africa- born shotmaker has not played since March because of a knee injury and now faces a race want coaching shake-up against time to prove his fitness for the first Ashes Test against ISLAMABAD: Pakistan measures to address this Khan said Misbah fought a lone Australia at Nottingham’s Trent cricket pundits yesterday problem.” battle at the crease while bowlers Bridge ground on July 10. called for an overhaul of the Only captain Misbah-ul Haq, were outstanding. Surrey’s match against team’s coaching after their dis- with 173 runs in three matches, “Our batsmen failed to support Yorkshire, which starts on Friday, mal showing at the Champions batted with any authority, while Misbah who did very well while has long been pencilled in as the Trophy ended with a humiliat- top-order stars Mohammad our bowling was outstanding but fixture where Pietersen would ing defeat to India. Hafeez (38 in three), Shoaib we lost all matches because of return to action. After a poor performance on Malik (25) and Kamran Akmal poor batting,” said Khan, a styl- It ought to be the first of two tour in South Africa the batsmen (23) were below standard. ish opener in his days. matches in which Pietersen can again let the side down, failing to Pakistan were bowled out for Former captain Rashid Latif play before the first Test and score a single total above 170 in 170 in their opening Group B was harsh on Whatmore. he said yesterday he would be three matches. match against the West Indies “Whatmore should be sent making his come back against Arch-rivals India’s confident before slumping to 167 against back because he and other sup- Yorkshire. display with the bat, easing to an South Africa and 165 against port staff has failed,” said Latif. Asked by a Twitter fol- eight-wicket win, was in stark India in a rain-shortened match. “New people should come and lower if he would be playing at contrast to the Pakistani top Khan, said the team appeared take over this team which has Headingley, Yorkshire’s head- order’s scratchy, nervous showing. to have no strategy to tackle the talent but need better planning.” quarters ground in Leeds, north- Former coach Moshin Khan batting slump. He also said the Pakistan’s ern England, Pietersen replied: said Pakistan needed better plan- “It’s no comment if you ask administrative set-up should be “YES I AM!” ning to overcome their now long- me about coach’s contribution,” streamlined. Surrey are not due to announce standing batting problems. said Khan, who was replaced as “We always make players their team until Thursday. “Our batting has been hurting coach by former Australian bats- accountable but don’t hold the After the Yorkshire match, us badly and if we don’t address man Dav Whatmore in March cricket board responsible,” said Pietersen -- if fit -- will aim to it quickly our team will go down last year. Latif. “We must streamline the India’s Virat Kohli (left) talks to Pakistan’s Misbah-Ul-Haq as they leave feature for England in their further at the international level,” “Just think of it, there was no board with some new and wise the field during the ICC Champions Trophy Group B match at Edgbaston warm-up clash with Essex before Khan said. planning, no strategy and no per- people and then build this team Cricket Ground, Birmingham, on Saturday. India won by eight wickets. the five-Test Ashes series gets “It is time we take strong manent batting slots.” with better planning.” AFP underway. AFP Dhoni urges high-flying India to stay grounded

BIRMINGHAM, United play with the same intensity that The build-up to the tourna- to put on a winning performance power-packed batting display Kingdom: Indian captain we have shown so far,” the Indian ment was overshadowed by a that impressed former players with two centuries and a 48, is Mahendra Singh Dhoni (pic- captain said. spot-fixing scandal in the Indian and fans alike. “This is the team the tournament’s leading scorer tured) has told his match- It has been a formidable dis- Premier League that led to the of the future,” India’s former so far with 264 runs. winning young team to remain play by the tournament’s young- arrest of three players, including World Cup winning captain Kapil Left-arm spinner Ravindra focused as it approached the est team in which Dhoni is the Test fast bowler Shanthakumaran Dev said. “They are playing fear- Jadeja is the top wicket-taker with business end of the Champions oldest member of the side at 31 Sreesanth. less cricket. Easily the best side nine scalps, with good support Trophy. and reserve spinner Amit Mishra At least two IPL franchise own- in the tournament so far.” from seam bowlers Bhuvaneshwar The reigning World Cup cham- is the only other player aged 30. ers were being investigated for Starting the Champions Kumar, Ishant Sharma and pions have enjoyed a remarkable Former Test batsman Sandeep betting and the powerful cricket Trophy as rank outsiders despite Umesh Yadav. Kumar, whose 2-19 campaign in the eight-nation Patil’s selection panel has been so board president Narayanswamy being the top-ranked one-day from eight overs against Pakistan tournament so far, becoming the ruthless in axing non-performers Srinivasan was forced to step side, India began with a 26-run earned him the man-of-the- only team to enter the semi-finals that the current squad has only aside over his son-in-law’s links win over South Africa in Cardiff match award, credited his success with an all-win record. three players -- Dhoni, Suresh to illegal bookmakers. before routing the West Indies by to the backing he received from But Dhoni knowns all the good Raina and Virat Kohli -- who Dhoni himself was facing a con- eight wickets. Then on Saturday, Dhoni and the team management. work will mean nothing if his played in the World Cup final two flict of interest issue after it was they registered their first suc- “He is a calm captain which team slips up in Thursday’s sec- years ago. revealed that he had a stake in a cess over arch-rivals Pakistan really helps you prepare for a ond semi-final in Cardiff against a Dhoni says the induction of management company that rep- in the Champions Trophy, win- game,” Kumar said of his cap- still unknown opponent from the young blood has made his team resented several national players ning a rain-marred encounter tain. “He tells us to forget previ- wide-open group A. the “top fielding side in world like Raina and RavindraJadeja. at Edgbaston by eight wickets. ous games and focus on the next “There are, hopefully, still two cricket,” a praise rarely associ- But the young side rallied Hard-hitting opener Shikhar one. He takes the pressure off.” more matches to go and we must ated with Indian sides in the past. around their unflappable captain Dhawan, who anchored India’s AFP MONDAY 17 JUNE 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27

A ‘dream come true’ for England enter semi-finals George Bailey

New Zealand suffer 10-run defeat; Cook rides his luck to top score LONDON: Stand-in captain George Bailey has insisted leading Australia during the CARDIFF, United Kingdom: Champions Trophy tourna- England put a ball-tampering ment in the UK has been a row behind them to book their ‘dream come true’ despite place in the semi-finals of the the distractions of the David Champions Trophy with a Warner affair. 10-run win over New Zealand in The 30-year-old Tasmanian, Cardiff yesterday. already Australia’s Twenty20 New Zealand, chasing 170 for skipper, has found himself in victory in a match reduced by charge of the one-day side while rain to 24 overs per side, were regular captain Michael Clarke held by the tournament hosts to has been sidelined with a recur- 159 for eight. rence of his longstanding back Victory saw England, yet to problem. win a major 50-over competition, Bailey responded by top- into the last four as one of two scoring for defending champi- qualifiers out of Group A after ons Australia with 55 in their their build-up for this match was tournament-opening defeat by overshadowed by ball-tampering England at Edgbaston and made allegations made against them by the same score in their no result former captain Bob Willis. washout with New Zealand when If Sri Lanka beat champions they returned to the Birmingham Australia in Monday’s final Group ground on Wednesday. A fixture at The Oval they will In between those fix- also feature in a last four that tures it emerged Warner had already includes Group B win- attacked England’s Joe Root in ners India and runners-up South a Birmingham bar in the early Africa. New Zealand could yet hours of Sunday morning -- reach the semi-finals themselves something Bailey tried to brush if Australia win but fail to do so aside as a “very minor incident”. by a large enough margin to bet- Nevertheless, Warner was ter the Black Caps’ net run-rate. suspended until the start of the James Anderson, who finished Ashes by Cricket Australia on with three wickets for 32 runs in Thursday and fined £7,000. five overs, reduced New Zealand However, the controversial to 14 for two by dismissing open- opener will be available for the ers Luke Ronchi and Martin first Ashes Test against England Guptill in the space of three balls. England’s Alastair Cook hits out as New Zealand’s Luke Ronchi (right) watches during the ICC Champions Trophy group A match at Cardiff Wales in Nottingham, which starts on Medium-pacer Ravi Bopara, Stadium in Wales, yesterday. July 10. in overcast conditions assisting Bailey, asked if leading seamers, took two for 26 in five Australia in a major international overs. McCullum on his way to top-scor- offering from his own bowling to short in the end. “We did drop needing 30 to win off 10 balls. tournament in England had been England captain Alastair ing with 64 in a total of 169 all out. dismiss left-handed opener Cook. some catches but Nathan is usu- It was just too much and James everything he dreamed it would Cook, the man-of-the-match, was Off-spinner Nathan McCullum “It was quite a stressful day. ally a good catcher so it is one of Anderson wrapped up victory be so far, replied: “Every day dropped three times by Nathan finally clung on to a return I always felt we were just above those things. We’ll be supporting when Nathan McCullum was brings something different and the rate but you can get as many Australia now, which is not some- caught behind off the final deliv- something unique, and something Scoreboard as you want but you always want thing that we normally like to do.” ery of the match. that’s sometimes challenging, more,” said Cook at the post- Coming into this match, After New Zealand won the sometimes enjoyable, sometimes ENGLAND NEW ZEALAND match presentation ceremony. England and New Zealand had toss, England were 25 for two a bit of both. A Cook c&b N McCullum ...... 64 L Ronchi c Trott b Anderson ...... 2 “It was a very fine bowling per- already played each other in six when Jonathan Trott chipped “Absolutely it is, it’s a dream I Bell c B McCullum b McClenaghan ...... 10 M Guptill b Anderson ...... 9 formance. We were very good in one-dayers this year, winning Kyle Mills to Nathan McCullum come true, really.” J Trott c N McCullum b Mills ...... 8 K Williamson c Anderson b Broad ...... 67 the field today and good with the three each across series in both at mid-wicket. Trott’s exit Bailey though cannot wait for J Root c Ronchi b McClenaghan ...... 38 R Taylor lbw Bresnan ...... 3 bat. countries. And the gap between gave Mills his 25th Champions Clarke’s return and is hopeful the E Morgan lbw Vettori ...... 15 B McCullum c Root b Bopara ...... 8 “We were 10 runs short but 170 the sides in this match narrowed Trophy wicket, surpassing the star batsman will be fit to face J Buttler c N McCullum b Mills ...... 14 J Franklin c Morgan b Bopara ...... 6 is still a very good score.” when Williamson completed a competition record of retired Sri Lanka at The Oval today in R Bopara c Williamson b McClenaghan ...... 9 C Anderson c Anderson b Bresnan ...... 30 After New Zealand slumped to 48-ball fifty by striking Anderson Sri Lanka off-spinner Muttiah the last game in Group A -- a T Bresnan (run out-Franklin) ...... 4 N McCullum c Buttler b Anderson ...... 13 61 for five, Kane Williamson (67) for his seventh four before lofting Muralitharan. James Franklin match Australia must win to have S Broad c N McCullum b Mills ...... 0 K Mills (not out)...... 5 and one-day international debu- Tim Bresnan for six. almost struck first ball when any chance at all of reaching the J Tredwell c McClenaghan b Mills ...... 0 Extras (LB-8, W-8) ...... 16 tant Corey Anderson (30) kept Suddenly, New Zealand needed Cook pulled him to mid-wicket Champions Trophy semi-finals. J Anderson (not out) ...... 0 Total (for 8 wkts in 24 overs) ...... 159 them in the hunt with a partner- 36 to win off 18 balls with five only for Nathan McCullum to “I’m pretty anxious for ‘Pup’ Extras (LB-2, W-4, NB-1) ...... 7 Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-14, 3-27, 4-48, 5-62, ship of 73 before they both fell in wickets left. But Williamson drop the chance. (Clarke) to come back. As a crick- Total (all out in 23.3 overs) ...... 169 6-135, 7-140, 8-159. the closing stages. then holed out off Stuart Broad, Franklin almost had him again eter and as a leader, I think it will Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-25, 3-100, 4-141, Bowling: Broad 5-0-25-1 (2w); Anderson 5-0- “England bowled outstandingly although the paceman had a only for Nathan McCullum to drop be good for this team to have him 5-143, 6-159, 7-166, 8-169, 9-169, 10-169. 32-3 (3w); Bresnan 5-0-41-2 (2w); Bopara well at the start of our innings and nervous wait before a review for a juggled chance at mid-wicket. back,” said Bailey. Bowling: McClenaghan 5-0-36-3 (3w); Mills 5-0-26-2 (1w); Tredwell 4-0-27-0. set us back,” said New Zealand a tight no-ball call went in his Nathan McCullum then put down “I know I’ve said it every game, 4.3-0-30-4 (1nb); Anderson 1-0-4-0; Vettori Result: England won by 10 runs captain Brendon McCullum, favour. And 135 for six became 140 a relatively easy catch when, at but I’m hopeful for the next game. 5-0-27-1; Franklin 2-0-20-0; N McCullum Man-of-the-match: Alastair Cook (ENG) Nathan’s younger brother. for seven when Corey Anderson backward point, he dropped But this time we’re certainly 4-0-30-1; Williamson 2-0-20-0 (1w). Note: Match reduced to 24 overs per side. “Kane and Corey gave us a was caught by James Anderson off Cook’s cut off Williamson. looking like we’re having him for real opportunity but we fell Bresnan. That left New Zealand AFP Monday.” AFP

Catalunya Grand Prix BARCELONA: Results of Lorenzo seals third Catalunya MotoGP win the Catalunya motorcycling Grand Prix at the Montmelo BARCELONA: Reigning world on their way into the first cor- Circuit yesterday: champion Jorge Lorenzo cut ner and almost collided with him MotoGP compatriot Dani Pedrosa’s lead before slipping down the inside 1. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Yamaha) 43min in the championship stand- of the Honda rider to move into 06.479sec, 2. Dani Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) ings to just seven points with the lead. at 1.763sec, 3. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) his third career win at the Marquez also had a great start 1.826, 4. Valentino Rossi (ITA/Yamaha) 5.874, Catalunya MotoGP yesterday. as he jumped from sixth on the 5. Stefan Bradl (GER/Honda LCR) 26.756, 6. The 26-year-old Spaniard, who grid to third by the first cor- Bradley Smith (GBR/Yahama Tech3) 32.228, was winning for the third time ner as he passed Cal Crutchlow, 7. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/Ducati) 32.692, 8. this season following his victories Alvaro Bautista and Nicky Aleix Espargaro (ESP/Aprilla) 58.615, 9. Colin in the Qatar and Italian Grand Hayden. Edwards (USA/FTR Kawasaki) 1.03.142, 10. Prix’, moved from third on the However, worse was to come for Michele Pirro (ITA/Ducati) 1.09.774. grid to first on his Yamaha before all three of those riders as with the first corner and was never many of the field struggling for Overall standings overtaken. grip on the sweltering track, they 1. Dani Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) 123 pts, 2. Pedrosa meanwhile extended crashed out with barely two laps Jorge Lorenzo(ESP/Yamaha) 116, 3. Marc his run of podium finishes to five of the race completed. Marquez (ESP/Honda) 93, 4. Cal Crutchlow races as he held off a late charge That left the path clear for six- (GBR/Yamaha) 71, 5. Valentino Rossi (ITA/ from his Honda teammate Marc time world champion Valentino Yamaha) 60, 6. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/Ducati) Marquez to finish second with the Rossi to move up to fourth, but 59, 7. Nicky Hayden (USA/Ducati) 45, 8. Stefan rookie back in third. the Italian never threatened to Bradl (GER/Honda LCR) 41, 9. Alvaro Bautista Lorenzo, who has hit back catch the Spanish trio at the front (ESP/Honda) 38, 10. Aleix Espargaro (ESP/ strongly in the title race hav- who began to build up a comfort- Aprilia) 36. ing won the last two races with able advantage. Moto2 Pedrosa having won the previous Pedrosa stayed on Lorenzo’s 1. Pol Espargaro (ESP/Kalex) 41min 17.307sec, two, said that it had been hell rid- backwheel for the first-half of 2. Esteve Rabat (ESP/Kalex) at 0.081sec, 3. ing in the race. the race but the world champion Thomas Luthi (SUI/Suter) 6.264, 4. Scott “I knew that the start would managed to pull away slightly Redding (GBR/Kalex) 9.061, 5. Takaaki be crucial and I couldn’t afford to in the closing laps to ensure his Nakagami (JPN/Kalex) 10.597, 6. Randy let Dani get away from me,” said position was never under any Krummenacher (SWI/Suter) 11.577, 7. Johann Lorenzo, who also won the world threat. Zarco (ESP/Suter) 15.569, 8. Dominique title in 2010. Yamaha MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo (centre) of Spain accompanied by compatriots Dani Pedrosa (left) and The focus then turned to a Aegerter (SWI/Suter) 28.280, Mika Kallio (FIN/ “I got lucky and actually passed Marc Marquez pose on the podium of the Catalunya Grand Prix in Barcelona, yesterday. fascinating battle for second as Kalex) 28.352, Simone Corsi (ITA/Speed Up) him and although he pressured Marquez showed little respect 28.461. me for a while he let up at halfway for the seniority of his teammate and I was able to relax a bit. It saw his lead reduced in a category feeling from this race but still I me to as well which cost me valu- Pedrosa as he chased down the Moto3 was a nightmare race to ride in he has yet to emerge from victo- am relieved to be in the overall able time,” he said. championship leader in the final 1. Luis Salom (ESP/KTM) 41min 15.331sec, because of the temperature.” rious having finished runner-up lead.” “I pushed 100% on the last stages with the two almost touch- 2. Alex Rins (ESP/KTM) at 0.211sec, 3. Lorenzo revealed touchingly in the world championship three Marquez, who earlier this lap and really made back that ing wheels at one point. Maverick Vinales (ESP/KTM) 0.634, 4. Alex that the special designed hel- times. season became at 20 the young- ground but he held on and I can However, Pedrosa held on to Marquez (ESP/KTM) 3.993, 5. Efren Vazquez met - it was designed by a friend “I had to ride a defensive race est ever winner of a race in the only be happy with finishing on move onto 123 points with six of (ESP/Mahindra) 6.243, 6. Miguel Oliveira of his who suffers from Downs for most of it as Marc (Marquez) category when he won the Grand the podium.” the 18-race long campaign gone, (POR/Mahindra) 9.295, 7. Jack Miller (AUS/ Syndrome - he had worn for the was really attacking me,” said the Prix of the Americas, said that In another day of baking hot whilst Lorenzo moves onto 116 FTR Honda) 13.164, 8. Alexis Masbou (FRA/ race would now be offered up for 27-year-old. Pedrosa had doena skilful job in conditions at the Montmelo and Marquez, remarkably in his FTR Honda) 21.174, 9. Zulfahmi Khairuddin sale. “It was not a perfect race for fending him off. track the majority of the action first season in MotoGP, strength- (MAS/KTM) 21.240, 10. Arthur Sissis (AUS/ Pedrosa was not too disap- me as I was never close enough to “As I prepared to attack Dani arrived very early in the race as ens his position in third ahead of KTM) 21.598. pointed at the end result even if it Jorge to pass him. It’s not a good he braked early and that forced Lorenzo got alongside Pedrosa Crutchlow with 93 points. AFP Monday 17 June 2013 8 Shaaban 1434 Volume 18 Number 5733 Sport Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Stefani bags Federer wins first weird ace at Britain’s Andy Murray poses with the trophy US Open after winning the final match ARDMORE, Pennsylvania: title of the year against Croatia’s Shawn Stefani aced the 17th Marin Cilic hole in the final round of the US for the Aegon Open yesterday -- the first time Championships that has happened in five tour- Swiss star ties McEnroe on 77 trophies at the Queen’s nament visits to Merion Golf Club in London, Club. HALLE, Germany: Roger Wimbledon defence. The top seed, yesterday. The American was way down Federer won his first title of Leading title winners who overcame veteran German the field after an 85 yesterday the year yesterday, the world Most number of singles titles won on the Tommy Haas in Saturday’s semi- and went out among the early number three beating Russia’s men’s tour final, was thrilled to finally get off starters. Mikhail Youzhny 6-7 (5/7), 6-3, 1. Jimmy Connors 109 (Retired) the mark for the year. He missed the green badly with 6-4 in the ATP final at Halle. 2. Ivan Lendl 94 (Retired) “Mikhail has produced a great his tee shot at the tough 213-yard This was the 31-year-old Swiss 3. John McEnroe 77 (Retired) tournament, that’s why I’m so par three but watched on trans- great’s sixth Halle title and the 4. Roger Federer 77 (Active) happy to have won,” he said. fixed as the ball bounced sideways 77th win of his career, but first “I had to fight hard to remain and made a beeline for the hole. 5. Björn Borg 64 (Retired) since Cincinnati on the eve of the in the race in the second set. I That helped Stefani come in US Open in 2012. His 77th title 6. Pete Sampras 64 (Retired) served well (he produced 12 aces) Murray rules at with a 69 and pocket some more also saw him draw level with John 7. Guillermo Vilas 62 (Retired) and that’s what saved me today.” prize money. McEnroe in third position in the 8. Andre Agassi 60 (Retired) Federer missed five break It was the 43rd hole-in-one in all-time career titles list. 9. Ilie Nastase 57 (Retired) points in the first set, four of them US Open history, the first com- After losing the opening set, 10.Rafael Nadal 57 (Active) coming in the opening game, Queen’s Club ing in 1907 and follows John the former world number one bat- before coming off second best in Peterson’s ace at the 13th at San tled back to preserve his perfect things I can work on but I can the tie break after one hour of Francisco’s Olympic Club last record over Youzhny in 15 meet- think about that between now and play. LONDON: Andy Murray was “Marin’s one of the best grass- year. ings in over two hours of play. the start of Wimbledon.” But he fought back to level the crowned king of Queen’s Club court players in the world. We had It was just the second hole- “Winning solves everything. I For Federer, beaten by Rafael encounter against the Russian, for the third time as the world a lot of close matches and I was in-one that Stefani has bagged, am satisfied with my game, con- Nadal in his only previous final going on to win the match with a number two roared back to lucky to come through at the end the first coming when he was 13 fident, fresh and excited about appearance of 2013 on the clay love game on his service. defeat defending champion because he was playing such good years old on his hometown course what lies ahead,” said Federer in Rome and brushed aside by Federer had won this grass Marin Cilic 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 in yes- tennis.” at Baytown, Texas. who will be chasing a record Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the French court title four years in succes- rerday’s final. Cilic added: “Andy showed he’s “I didn’t know what to do but eighth Wimbledon title from Open quarter-finals, this was the sion from 2003 to 2006 and again Murray was pushed hard by a great fighter and congratula- jump up and down for joy,” he said next week. “There’s always a few ideal preparation ahead of his in 2008. AFP the Croatian fifth seed, but the tions to him for his win here. of his ace. US Open champion responded “It was an extremely good week “I was actually trying to hit to the challenge with the kind of for me. I hope I can continue my the left side of the green and cut classy display that bodes well with good form and come back next it. And then I kind of pulled it. I Wimbledon just eight days away. year.” pulled it about five yards. Roger He picked up a cheque for Meanwhile, Daniela “And the wind was kind of Federer £73,315 for his latest triumph Hantuchova won the sixth title down off the left and it really (left) of at the pre-Wimbledon warm-up of her career and a battle of the didn’t help at all. It didn’t move Switzerland event, but more importantly his generations which saw the defeat it to the right. and Russia’s dominant week’s work served as of the new golden girl in the “And honestly I think I’ve seen Mikhail the perfect preparation ahead of Birmingham WTA final. a bunch of balls this week kind Youzhny his latest bid to end Britain’s long Many of the crowd came to see of not kick to the right and I was celebrate wait for a male winner of the sin- whether Donna Vekic, at 16 the really surprised to see the ball with their gles’ title at the All England Club. youngest player in the world’s top kick to the right. trophies The 26-year-old’s third suc- 350, could win the Wimbledon “And then once it did kick, it after the ATP cessful Queen’s campaign in five warm-up event. kept rolling and I was like, well Gerry Weber years, following previous victo- However after almost snatch- this could be good. And the fans Open tennis ries in 2009 and 2011, took his ing the first set the teenager was stood up and then it kept getting tournament career haul of ATP Tour titles to beaten by an opponent nearly a closer and closer and then when 27 and ended his wait for a first decade and a half older. it went in, I was just super excited in Halle, tournament win since the Miami The former world number five because it’s the first hole in one western Masters in March. from Slovakia showed she still I’ve ever had in a tournament.” Germany, However, Murray, who started has remarkable resilience as she Meanwhile, Hunter Mahan and yesterday. the week concerned by his fitness beat the sensational new girl from Justin Rose were leading the US Federer after a lower back injury forced Croatia 7-6 (7/5), 6-4. Open early in the final round yes- defeated him to miss the French Open, will Hantuchova had spent fully terday. AGENCIES Youzhny 6-7 hope a first set tumble that left 12 hours on court during a week (5/7), 6-3, him briefly clutching his groin in in which she had suffered from US Open 6-4 in the pain proves nothing serious. an ankle injury and three times ARDMORE, Pennsylvania: final. “It’s been extremely wet and I looked to be heading for defeat. Final round scores yester- just slipped. I was a bit sore in the But she was solid and punishing day at the 113th US Open golf groin area, thankfully it wasn’t off the ground and steadier in the championship at 6,996-yard, too bad,” Murray told the BBC. head than Vekic. AGENCIES par-70 Merion Golf Club:- 287 Hideki Maysuyama (JPN) 71-75-74-67 291 Martin Laird (SCO) 74-73-76-68, David Hearn (CAN) 78-69-73-71 292 Mike Weir (CAN) 72-76-75-69 293 Kevin Chappell (USA) 72-76-74-71, Balotelli gives Italy victory over Mexico Geoff Ogilvy (AUS) 74-70-77-72, Webb Simpson (USA) 71-75-75-72, RIO DE JANEIRO: Andrea action, had a penalty turned down K.J. Choi (KOR) 70-76-75-72, Tiger Pirlo celebrated his 100th inter- before bringing the Maracana to Woods (USA) 73-70-76-74 national appearance in style its feet with his 27th minute goal. 294 Carl Pettersson (SWE) 72-75-74-73, by scoring from a 30-metre Mexico levelled seven min- Scott Langley (USA) 75-70-75-74 free kick as Italy began their utes later when Andrea Barzagli 295 Steven Alker (NZL) 73-75-75-72, Confederations Cup campaign was dispossessed by Giovani dos Russell Knox (SCO) 69-75-77-74, with a 2-1 win over Mexico Santos and then barged over the Sergio Garcia (ESP) 73-73-75-74, Kim yesterday. Mexican forward as he tried to Bi-O (KOR) 72-75-73-75, Adam Scott Mario Balotelli won the game atone for his mistake. Hernandez Italy’s Andrea (AUS) 72-75-73-75 for Italy with a 78th minute sent Gianluigi Buffon the wrong Pirlo (21) 296 Scott Stallings (USA) 71-76-76-73, goal after Pirlo’s majestic effort way from the penalty spot. scores on Matt Bettencourt (USA) 72-71-76-77 had put them ahead and Javier Pirlo then produced outrageous a free kick 297 Dustin Johnson (USA) 71-77-75-74 Hernandez levelled for Mexico reverse pass to release Abete on during their 298 Nicholas Thompson (USA) 72-76-74- with a penalty. the right, the move ending when Confederations 76, Josh Teater (USA) 74-74-74-76 The match was again played Balotelli’s effort was blocked by Cup Group A George Coetzee (RSA), George against the backdrop of teargas Jose Corona from Abete’s low match against Coetzee (RSA) 71-73-77-77 and rubber bullets as riot police cross. Mexico at 299 Shawn Stefani (USA) 72-73-85-69, confronted protesters outside the Pirlo’s free kicks continued to the Estadio Martin Kaymer (GER) 76-72-77-74, Maracana stadium. cause trouble after the break and Maracana in Marcel Siem (GER) 73-71-77-78 The protests are against the he curled another effort just wide Rio de Janeiro, 300 Kevin Phelan (IRL) 71-77-78-74, Matt amount of public money being of the post from a similar position yesterday. Weibring (USA) 75-73-76-76 spent on staging the event and to his goal. next year’s World Cup. Italy grabbed the winner when 301 Michael Weaver (USA) 74-74-78-75 Balotelli had a couple of early Emanuele Giaccherini cleverly 302 Peter Hedblom (SWE) 70-78-79-75, chances for Italy while Mexico’s flicked the ball into the penalty David Howell (ENG) 77-71-77-77 Andres Guardado shaved the area where Balotelli held off 303 Kevin Sutherland (USA) 73-74-84-72, crossbar after a mistake by Francisco Rodriguez and fired John Peterson (USA) 73-75-78-77, Ignazio Abete in a lively start. the ball past Corona. Jim Herman (USA) 76-72-76-79, Pirlo, always at the heart of the REUTERS Alistair Presnall (AUS) 73-75-76-79