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Freak accident Switzerland HMC warns of lifts sanctions against Iran improper use ZURICH: Neutral Switzerland will officially lift today sanc- tions against Iran that had been suspended since January 2014, the government announced yes- of antibiotics terday, citing a deal last month between Tehran and six big powers to curb Iran’s nuclear programme. Plan to control antimicrobial drugs “The Federal Council (govern- ment) wishes today’s steps to be DOHA: People should exer- of drug-resistant infections. seen as a sign of its support for cise caution in the use of anti- “Microorganisms exposed to anti- the implementation of the nuclear biotics and other antimicrobial microbial drugs adapt to the mol- agreement and its interest in medications in order to com- ecules of these drugs and develop deepening bilateral relations with bat antimicrobial resistance resistant traits so that standard Iran,” a statement said. (AMR), which is becoming a treatments become increasingly The government said major threat to public health ineffective. This results in an Switzerland wished to “promote across the globe, warns Hamad increased risk of serious illness a broad political and economic Medical Corporation (HMC). and death among patients with exchange with Iran” but would Antimicrobial resistance occurs infections caused by drug-resist- monitor implementation of the when microorganisms such as ant bacteria or pathogens.” A motorist rammed his car into a shop inside a Woqod petrol station at Umm Salal Mohamed on Tuesday, after nuclear deal. bacteria, viruses, fungi and para- “At HMC, we have observed an he mistakenly pressed the accelerator instead of the brake. He suffered minor injuries but the shop was damaged. REUTERS sites develop resilience to the increase in antibiotic resistance drugs commonly used to treat or over the past few years. The main prevent infections, QNA reported driving force for this increase yesterday. was abuse or overuse of antibiot- HMC’s Infectious Diseases Unit’s ics, especially for upper respira- Senior Consultant, Dr Hussam tory tract infections which are Yuan fall fuels fears of currency war Al Soub, said: “HMC launched mostly caused by viruses that do the Antimicrobial Stewardship not require antibiotic treatment”, SHANGHAI: China’s yuan fell to a four- devaluation as a one-off step to make the yuan today’s setting. “Apparently, the central bank Programme this year in an effort said Al Soub. year low yesterday, slumping for a second more responsive to market forces, yesterday does not want the yuan to run out of control,” to combat antimicrobial resistance According to the World Health day, after the central bank devaluation on sought to reassure financial markets that it said a trader at a European bank in Shanghai. at the hospital level. Organization (WHO), antimi- Tuesday, and sources said the government was not embarking on a steady depreciation. However, sources involved in the Chinese “This programme involves crobial resistance threatens the may let the currency slide even further to The devaluation had sparked fears of a global policy-making process said powerful voices many interventions including effective prevention and treat- help exporters. currency war and accusations that Beijing was within government were pushing for the yuan enforcement of the antibiotic ment of an ever-increasing range Spot yuan in China hit a low of 6.4510 per unfairly supporting its exporters. to go still lower, suggesting pressure for an restriction policy in Qatar, edu- of infections across the world. The US dollar, its lowest since August 2011, after “Looking at the international and domes- overall devaluation of almost 10 percent. cation of physicians on the proper WHO has noted an emerging the central bank set its daily midpoint refer- tic economic situation, currently there is no Tuesday’s yuan devaluation followed a run use of antibiotics, and infection resistance to drugs used in the ence at 6.3306, below the level set by Tuesday’s basis for a sustained depreciation trend for of poor economic data and resulted in the big- control. More efforts are needed treatment of certain urinary tract devaluation. The currency fared worse in the yuan,” the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) gest one-day fall since 1994, raising market at the level of primary healthcare, infections, tuberculosis, malaria international trade, touching 6.59 to the dollar. said. Foreign exchange traders later said state- suspicions that China was embarking on a the private sector and the public.” and human immunodeficiency The yuan has lost 3.5 percent against the owned banks were selling dollars on behalf of longer-term depreciation of its exchange rate Al Soub explained how the virus, among others. US dollar in China in the last two days, and the PBOC to restrain the yuan’s fall and the that would make Chinese exports cheaper. overuse or improper use of Continued on page 6 around 4.8 percent in global markets. spot market rate rallied strongly late in the See also page 17 drugs accelerates the emergence THE PENINSULA The central bank, which had described the day to close 6.3870, a rate which will influence REUTERS

Migrants’ woes

A migrant tries to get onto a train heading to the border with Serbia at a station in Gevgelija, on the Macedonian- Greek border, yesterday. Turkey, Iran help broker Syria truce

BEIRUT: Syria’s warring a result of mediation by Turkey, major obstacle to the new diplo- parties declared a 48-hour which backs rebels fighting matic effort. ceasefire in a frontline area against President Bashar Al The Iranian foreign minister is yesterday after a month of Assad, and Iran, whose support expected to discuss a new peace unprecedented mediation from has been vital to his survival. plan for Syria in Damascus. Turkey and Iran, signalling a It was among the strong- “A ceasefire began at 6am today new approach by some regional est signs yet of a new regional for 48 hours to halt military oper- powers backing opposing sides approach towards a conflict that ations in Zabadani,” Hezbollah’s Al in the conflict. has killed a quarter of a million Manar TV reported. REUTERS The ceasefire halted fight- people, made 10 million home- ing between insurgents on the less, left swathes of Syria in one hand, and the army and its the hands of Islamic State mili- Lebanese militant Hezbollah allies tants and divided the countries Today’s edition on the other, in the rebel-held of the Middle East on sectarian town of Zabadani and in a pair grounds. includes 12-page of Shia villages in Idlib province. After four years in which The two areas are strongholds international diplomacy made no supplement on of each side under ferocious attack headway towards peace, countries by the other, meaning both could that support Assad and his oppo- benefit from a ceasefire by evacu- nents have been quietly discussing ating civilians or combatants. ways to end the war and tackle AUGUST 14, 2015 Three officials close to the common threat from Islamic Damascus described the truce as State. But Assad’s fate remains a THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 HOME 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com QA deploys A350 on Doha-Dubai route World’s newest jet on 28 frequencies until September 1

DOHA: Qatar Airways (QA), Singapore and this month turns shoulder level for passengers in global launch customer for Singapore route into a triple daily the window seats due to the verti- A350, has deployed the world’s flight with a third A350. cal side wall panel design. newest aircraft on Doha-Dubai QA has four Airbus A350 and A350s also feature Oryx One route. 76 on order, and is the only air- entertainment system, with Commencing August 8, the air- line in the world to operate every over 2,000 options on individual line is showcasing A350 on 28 of family of Airbus’ modern airliner screens in all classes. The jet also its Dubai shuttle frequencies until portfolio. offers advanced air conditioning September 1. Passengers on A350 will ben- technology and LED mood light- Ishfaq Jalal, Acting Vice- efit from a new boarding experi- ing to enhance passenger comfort President, GCC, Levant, Iran, ence achieved by a dome-design while reducing fatigue after a long Iraq and Yemen, QA, said: “The entrance with welcome light flight. It will also offer in-flight introduction of A350 aircraft to distribution. The aircraft offers Wi-Fi connectivity for passengers the Doha-Dubai sector, a stra- extra wide seats with generous allowing them to surf the Web on tegic route for QA, will redefine room in all classes of service, the go. in-flight experience for our trav- thanks to design developments QA operates 133 weekly flights ellers. “A350 provides passengers offering greater comfort to all to Dubai, connecting to over with an unmatched travel experi- passengers. 150 international destinations, ence, thanks to its modern tech- A350s feature 36 seats in including five added this year — nology and spacious innovative Business Class in a 1-2-1 con- Amsterdam, Zanzibar, Faisalabad, design and features,” Jalal added. figuration, with an 80-inch full Sialkot and Multan. QA introduced its first and flat bed and 17-inch HD in-flight Following addition of Ras Al second commercial A350 serv- entertainment screen. Khaimah, Abha and Durban this ices to the German market with The Economy Class features year, QA will expand its net- flights to Frankfurt in January 247 18-inch wide seats in a work further next year with new and March. 3-3-3 configuration, each with routes to Los Angeles, Boston and It has also recently launched a 10.6-inch in-flight entertain- Atlanta in the US. third and fourth A350 aircraft to ment screen, and more space at THE PENINSULA

Ooredoo begins Hala Pakistan Pack promotion

DOHA: In its latest move to will be charged a discounted rate to help an estimated 90,000 offer more value for Hala cus- of 40 dirhams per minute. Pakistani expatriates in Qatar to tomers, Ooredoo has expanded Customers wishing to subscribe stay connected with friends and Hala international offers with to the service can activate it by family back home. the launch of Hala Pakistan sending SMS ‘PAK’ (English] and Customers can also enjoy simi- Pack. ‘???’ [Arabic) to 121. lar international saving options At QR5 a week, the pack offers Subscriptions will automati- with keys for Egypt, India, customers 20 bonus minutes with cally renew every week, so that Bangladesh, and the Philippines, the lowest rate of 40 dirhams per customers can continue to enjoy along with International Saver minute for calls to Pakistan from benefits of the pack. Key for 121 countries. Qatar. To cancel it, they can SMS Ooredoo offers international The bonus minutes for QR5 ‘STOP PAK’ to 121. The bonus calling saving options on Qatar’s give subscribers 25 dirhams per minutes will be valid for seven network for customers wanting to minute, saving 20 per minute on days. adapt Hala or Shahry services to International Saver Key rate. The pack, available from better suit their monthly needs. For additional calls, customers August 11 for one month, aims THE PENINSULA

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Al Wakrah Port clean-up

The Beaches and Islands Section at the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning has cleared Al Wakrah Port of tyres, fishing nets, Gargoors and other submerged objects in addition to plastic cans and timber from the wharf. Fishermen and the owners of ships and boats were urged not to dump waste in the sea as part of efforts to preserve the marine environment and the general view of the area.

2009-2012 MAN trucks recalled over Qatar Red Crescent to open faulty brake pipes DOHA: The Ministry of Economy and Commerce has announced the recall of 2009- two eye camps in Mauritania 2012 MAN trucks due to the possibility of lack of air in brake pipes leading the vehicle to DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent During the eight-moth first stop. (QRC) is preparing for a new phase, a medical team visited According to a minis- relief project involving two eye 60 schools and examined 18,404 try statement, the vehi- diseases camps in Nouakchott students. cles recalled have numbers and Boutilimit in Mauritania, Results showed that 2,072 WMAHW2ZZ2AM549730- with an initial budget of (11.26 percent) needed treat- AJ+ appoints new WMAHW2ZZ2AM549761 QR400,000 to serve about ment. Consequently, 1,295 cases — WMAHW2ZZ3AM549770. 10,000 poor patients. received refractive error checks, managing director The ministry said the recall Launched under QRC’s 261 were referred to hospital, DOHA: Al Jazeera Media is within the framework of its Ramadan campaign, the project 15 underwent surgeries, 525 Network has appointed Dima coordination and follow-up to is in continuation of QRC’s sus- received eyeglasses, and health Khatib (pictured) as Managing ascertain the extent of dealers’ tainable services in the field of education brochures were dis- Director of AJ+. commitment to follow up vehicles’ eye diseases and prevention of tributed to 114 teachers. Khatib joined Al Jazeera in 1997 defects and repair them to protect blindness in the poorest African The project also involves as a broadcast journalist in Doha consumers’ rights. and Asian countries. It will offer health education for students, newsroom where she became a The ministry stressed that it services to the vulnerable groups training for teachers to discover news producer. will coordinate with dealers to fol- at minimal cost and near their vision disorders and the project’s She participated in managing low up maintenance and repairs homes. technicians, and developing a coverage of the Iraq War which and communicate with custom- Over the past 10 years, QRC follow-up and evaluation system. brought Al Jazeera international ers to ensure implementation of has conducted eye diseases and QRC is committed to working recognition. She also helped procedures to fix defects. blindness prevention campaigns towards the goals of Vision 2020, launch the first Al Jazeera show It urged consumers to in several countries, serving a global initiative to eliminate dedicated to women in the region, report any irregularities to nearly 900,000 patients and avoidable blindness involving 80 while setting up bureaus in China the Department of Consumer school students. percent of the world’s visually and Venezuela. Protection and Commercial Fraud The latest was a health pro- A Qatar Red Crescent volunteer escorts an old patient out of an eye camp disabled people. Khatib has reported from over Combat which receives com- gramme to treat eye diseases in Sudan. QRC adopted the commit- 30 countries, interviewing presi- plaints, suggestions and inquiries among schoolchildren in Dhaka, ment during the first GCC dents and people from all walks through various channels. Bangladesh, with a budget of It has been launched in Organisation and Al Basar forum on avoidable blindness. of life. In 2012, she was classified QNA $174,428 (QR634,813). partnership with Islamic Call International Foundation. THE PENINSULA as the most connected woman on Twitter in the Middle East. Khatib said: “I’m honoured to step into the role of the Managing Russia-Georgia War expo Director of AJ+. It is an exciting and enriching challenge for me Senegal envoy presents credentials to work on pushing the project DOHA: Assistant Foreign Minister H E Mohammed bin Abdullah Al forward. Rumaihi received Senegalese Ambassador Mamadou Sall who presented “We’re experiencing rapid a copy of his credentials. change in the news industry, Al Rumaihi wished him success and relations further progress. Several where digital platforms require a Foreign Ministry officials were present. QNA new form of communication from within the digital world. “Through AJ+, Al Jazeera has pioneered a world of digital story- telling that encourages its young audience to engage in conversa- tions, build communities and challenge everything they see and hear. “It is time for AJ+ to be taken to the next level of success. I feel fortunate to be part of that,” Khatib added. AJ+ was launched as a digital- only news platform last year, highlighting stories that matter to people through innovative and informative ways. Georgian Counsellor Mikheil Patashuri and Financial Manager Vasil Katsiashvili explain one of the exhibits THE PENINSULA during August 2008 Russia-Georgia War Photos Exhibition at the embassy yesterday. BAHER AMIN

Officials sign the contract. New Al Fazaa premises deal DOHA: The Ministry of Interior, represented by Brigadier Hesham Ibrahim Al Qusaibi, Director General, Supply and Equipment, signed a contract w ith a local firm to set up new premises for Al Fazaa police. The project, costing over QR196m, consists of six build- ings, including the main, and others for patrols, officers club, mosque and parking for about 500 cars. In a statement, the ministry said the project will be implemented over an area of 50.787 square metres in Messaimer. THE PENINSULA HOME THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 QC improves skills of Gaza fishermen Training part of project to better lives of fishermen

DOHA: Qatar Charity con- ducted 50 training courses for fishermen in cooperation with Gaza’s Fishermen Association in the Palestinian enclave. This comes as part of Qatar Charity’s urgent project that targets the fishing sector as well as fisher- ies recovery with a total cost of QR20,000. The project aims at developing the capacity of the fishing sector in the Gaza Strip as well as the abilities of the fishermen and their organisations. This was under- taken by providing training to 1,000 fishermen to improve their fishing skills by raising awareness in areas like first aid, firefight- ing, environmental awareness, fish trade and preservation, use of electronic devices, improving administrative and logistics capa- bilities of the association, and ren- ovating the training halls of the General Fisheries Management Department at the Ministry of Agriculture to make them suit- able for training. Several fishermen were happy to participate in the training that helped raise their awareness and improved capabilities. “This,” they said, “will boost their fishing skills and help them avoid unexpected fires or fish spoilage.” The over- whelming participation of fisher- Fishermen being trained as part of the project. men in the training shows their enthusiasm. The project also helped ports, building small storage units, The project is part of the empower poor fishermen’s fami- improving fishermen’s homes, Food Security Protection and lies by providing equal and sus- providing fishermen with income- Enhancement Program in tainable means of living and generating projects after fishing Palestine with a budget of more enhancing the food security of season, and finally improving the than QR30m. The programme the Gaza Strip by increasing fish capabilities of the representative, is being implemented in coop- production, distribution, and corporate, and grassroots fishing eration with the Ministry of marketing. associations. Agriculture through the General The project also included sev- Prior to this, QC implemented a Fisheries Management and had eral vital activities like restor- project to improve the skills of the an immense impact on improving ing the fishing sector, providing sons of fishermen through “aca- the work and living conditions of fishermen with essential fishing demic and vocational training”. fishermen. equipment, remodelling fishing THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Filipino culture, friendship celebrated

The Philippines embassy, in association with Cultural Village Foundation (Katara), organised BalletPhilippnes in MasterPieces as part of celebration of the Tapestry of Filipino Culture and Friendship, at Katara Drama Theatre yesterday. Ambassador Wilfredo C Santos, Katara General Manager Dr Khalid Al Sulaiti, and other diplomats and guests attended. SALIM MATRAMKOT House rents expected to rise due to growing demand DOHA: House rents are Meanwhile, a real estate expert, Ahmad Al Orouqi, told The expected to maintain the Khalifa Al Muslemani, said more Peninsula that the low weekly real upward curve, thanks to grow- land must be developed to meet estate transaction figures were ing demand for residential the growing demand and only an exception. “This happens at space. then would the soaring prices times. The real estate market is Rents were up 14 percent last ease. The real estate sector is expected to pick momentum next year due to the population grow- calm due to the summer vacation, month when the summer holidays ing at the rate of nine percent he added in remarks to another end and people return from over- annually. Citing reports, local local Arabic daily. seas vacations,” said Al Orouqi. Arabic daily Al Watan reported Real estate transactions were The market will pick momentum yesterday that real estate had worth barely QR410.54m in the in a gradual manner, he added. been growing, too — six per- week from August 2 to 6, accord- Rashid Al Dosri, another cent last year. However, as for ing to Real Estate Registry fig- property market expert, said commercial space, there are no ures quoted by QNA yesterday. in remarks published by a local shortages as supplies will outstrip The Registry is at the Ministry Arabic daily that land prices had A Qatar Red Crescent clinic in Myanmar. demand, which has been increas- of Justice. doubled in the past two years. ing seven percent annually. Another real estate expert, THE PENINSULA QRC begins projects for Myanmar flood victims

DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent further flooding. The Ministry of mobilisation of relief workers, (QRC) has initiated an urgent Agriculture and Irrigation said among others.” He said QRC is relief programme for victims of flooding had inundated nearly the only Qatari and Arab organi- heavy rains in Myanmar over 400,000 acres of farmland and sation working in Myanmar and the past few weeks, which have damaged another 103,000 acres. welcomed cooperation with any caused widespread floods and QRC mobilised the emergency organisation in relief projects. landslides. mobile hospital to offer emergency Thousands have been evacuated Healthy ‘lifestyle can prevent infections’ Cyclone Komen, which made care to the inured. Tarpaulin to higher ground and temporary landfall in Bangladesh on July 30 sheets will be distributed to 1,600 sites, including monasteries and Continued from page 1 up-to-date,” said Al Soub. off infections. Observing proper after sitting off Western Myanmar families until the needs assess- schools. The problem of antimicrobial He urged doctors to ensure personal and food hygiene will also for several days, brought intensi- ment is done and larger interven- The population sheltering in resistance is compounded by the they prescribe right antimicro- help prevent the spread of infec- fied winds and heavy rains, lead- tion plans are outlined. temporary sites fluctuates as some fact that very few new antibiotics bial drugs to treat specific infec- tious diseases that can be trans- ing to more floods and landslides Saleh bin Ali Al Mohannadi, return home to recover belong- are discovered, limiting options tions and avoid prescribing them mitted through physical contact, in the west and north. Forty-eight Secretary-General, QRC, said, ings and look after their live- to treat these drug-resistant unnecessarily, such as in cases through the air and contaminated people have died and over 178,000 “We have been present in stock and fields. Contamination organisms. where infections are known to be food. Good hand-washing habits, have been affected. Myanmar since September 2012, of water sources is an issue in “In Qatar, antibiotics and other self-limiting (meaning the infec- proper handling of food, avoiding Communications and trans- and have a representative office many places, especially due to the antimicrobial drugs are allowed tion is expected to go away on its close contact with people with portation infrastructure has been to supervise our relief and devel- dependence on community water to be sold over-the-counter only own within a certain period of infectious illnesses and disinfect- damaged, and flood waters have opment projects for communities ponds in many villages. with a doctor’s prescription. This time, without treatment or only ing frequently touched surfaces not receded in many areas, mak- affected by the three years of In Chin state, concerns over helps prevent people from trying with support therapy). and soiled items are some of the ing it difficult to access areas and armed conflict. possible food shortages, especially to self-medicate with antibiotics. He said: “A healthy lifestyle, ways we can protect ourselves and information scarce. “This has helped us take action in the city of Hakha, mean short- “Health authorities strive to including a well-balanced diet others from getting infections and According to forecasts, promptly during the current term assistance is vital, especially ensure that drugs and treat- and physical exercise boosts your needing antibiotics to treat them.” rains will continue for several disaster, without having to wait in hard-to-reach areas. ments are of high quality and immune system’s ability to fight THE PENINSULA more days and could result in for entry visas, approvals and THE PENINSULA

QC projects to provide water in Bangladesh

DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) has started a project in Nouga in Bangladesh, which has suf- fered drought and a shortage of drinking and irrigation water and other basic services. The project at a cost of over QR2m comprises 12 water units with networks for the targeted people and lands, a health centre with outpatient clinics, inpatient beds and laboratories and a school for children. The project aims to help over 18,000 people and 20,000 patients a year. They are treated at the centre and the number of ben- eficiaries has increased to 38,000. Over 1,200 farms are benefit- Street to close for 30 ing from the water grids. The project works automatically; months for highway work local committees were trained to operate machines and beneficiar- Officials at the inauguration of an irrigation project in Nouga. DOHA: The Public Works Motorists on Al Luqta Street ies pay monthly subscriptions to Authority (Ashghal) has from Doha to Dukhan can skip cover operation and maintenance established Drought Areas Water a vocational training centre, farm the neighbourhood. Its staff visit announced that Al Shahama Bani Hajer Roundabout and con- expenses. Department to fight drought and lands, homes for employees, play- nearby villages to spread health Street between Bani Hajer tinue until Al Ghawth Street and All water sources in Nouga, help people get clean water. grounds, and a mosque. awareness and treat the sick. Roundabout and Al Afaf Street turn right to get to the internal one of the arid areas, suffer dur- QC has set up centres which It provides shelter for 400 The centre also offers seasonal will be closed for a stretch of local areas of Bani Hajer. ing drought or are polluted for six include homes for sponsored orphans, 40 employees and work- projects such as Iftar banquets, about 210 metres and traffic The closure aims to facilitate months. During this time of the orphans, and provide services for ers and their families. Around zakat and udhiyya. The training will be diverted to Al Ghawth construction of Dukhan Highway year, there is shortage of clean target families in addition to pro- 400 students attend the school. centre teaches women sewing, Street Junction after the exist- East project. Ashghal will install drinking and irrigating water ductive and development projects A comprehensive curriculum has tapestry and handcrafts. ing diversion on Bani Hajer signs to advise motorists of the and the polluted water causes such as Khubayb Ibn Adiy Centre been designed for them, including The centre supervises QC’s Roundabout. diversion. It urged road users to diseases. People cannot farm for orphans, their families and general, religious and vocational projects, including mosques, com- The closure from tomor- abide by speed limits and follow lands and suffer financial loss and the neighbourhood. This centre subjects. The centre’s health unit plexes and income-generating ini- row morning lasts signs to ensure their safety. shortage of food supplies. consists of an orphanage, a school treats students, orphans, employ- tiatives, in Rangpur District. two-and-a-half-years. THE PENINSULA The government has (Grades 1 to 10), a health centre, ees, their families and people in THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Libyan premier IS affiliate ‘beheads’ Croatian hostage

CAIRO: The Islamic State group Britain condemned the “apparent said yesterday that it has beheaded a murder” of Salopek, and France called Croatian hostage, and released a picture it a “despicable assassination”. threatens of a body after what would be the first The 31-year-old father of two was such killing of a Westerner in Egypt. working with French geoscience com- Croatian Prime Minister Zoran pany CGG when seized from a car some Milanovic told reporters he could not 22km etres west of Cairo. resignation “confirm with 100 percent certainty” His abduction has rattled foreigners that Tomislav Salopek, who worked for working for multinationals and under- French company CGG, had been mur- scored the jihadists’ reach, despite the dered. “But what we see does not look massive military campaign against IS. Peace talks end with optimism good,” he said, adding that his govern- “If these reports are true, I condemn ment would not give up searching as long in the strongest terms the apparent bru- TRIPOLI: The future of Libya’s resign if people wanted him to. as there was hope. tal killing” of Salopek, British Foreign internationally recognised gov- That’s it,” Ouraybi said. He said Salopek was abducted last month Secretary Philip Hammond said. ernment was uncertain yes- no resignation letter had been west of Cairo. The jihadists had issued a Egypt had said it was intensifying terday after Prime Minister submitted to parliament. 48-hour deadline that expired on Friday efforts to locate Salopek after IS released Abdullah Al Thinni threat- Libya has two rival governments threatening to kill him if Muslim women a video of him last Wednesday. Al-Azhar, ened to resign, and as the latest and parliaments vying for power, as prisoners were not freed from Egyptian a prestigious Sunni Islam learning cen- UN-brokered peace talks ended well as several militia groups battling jails. The authenticity of the picture tre, condemned the reported beheading. amid optimism about a deal. to control its oil wealth. The country could not be immediately verified. “The killing of the Croatian hostage is a Thinni made the resignation is gripped by unrest, with Benghazi Salopek’s abduction and purported Satanic action that has nothing to do with threat during an emotional live caught in a daily war between pro- killing were unprecedented in Egypt, religions and traditions,” Al Azhar said. television appearance in which and anti-government forces. which is battling an IS insurgency in In last week’s video, Salopek, kneel- he faced a barrage of angry ques- Thinni’s government has been the eastern Sinai Peninsula. ing next to a masked militant holding tions from citizens, but it was working out of the small eastern State-run Croatian news agency a knife, was forced to read a state- unclear whether he planned to port of Tobruk near the Egyptian HINA quoted a foreign ministry source ment saying he would be executed in 48 follow through. His remarks border since an Islamist militia Wednesday as saying it “does not have hours if Cairo failed to release female added to the political uncertainty alliance captured Tripoli last confirmation that abducted Croatian cit- prisoners. Salopek’s abduction had been as Libya’s rival factions met for a year. A partial peace deal aimed A file image grab taken from a video made available by izen Tomislav Salopek has been killed”. treated by police as a criminal kidnap- second and final day. at restoring stability was reached Egyptian affiliate of the Islamic State group’s media outlet The picture was posted on IS-affiliated ping before the video emerged. A UN statement said the talks last month, but leaders of the Welayat Sayna on August 5 shows Croatian national Tomislav Twitter accounts with the caption: In Salopek’s home town, neighbours in Geneva had been held in a “pos- Islamist-backed General National Salopek kneeling on the sand next to an IS flag, in front of a “Execution of prisoner from Croatia — described him as a friendly young man itive atmosphere” and that there Congress that sits in the capital man, while holding a piece of paper. which has participated in war on Islamic who had gone to Egypt to earn a living. was optimism that the process of boycotted the pact, calling it State — after deadline ended.” AFP dialogue was approaching its final “unsatisfactory”. stages. The parties “underscored UN special envoy Bernardino their determination to conclude Leon has urged the camps to reach the dialogue process as soon as a deal on a unity government that possible”, aiming for the coming could enforce a ceasefire. He laid three weeks, followed by adoption out an ambitious timetable, call- Heatwave kills of a political agreement and for- ing for a comprehensive agree- Obama to host anti-IS summit mal endorsement at the “begin- ment before the next UN General ning of September”. Assembly meeting in September, UNITED NATIONS: US Libya, Yemen and elsewhere in forward in the campaign to 61 in Egypt In a Tuesday night talk show, although he warned the process President Barack Obama will the Middle East, with alliances defeat Islamic State. CAIRO: A heatwave killed at citizens blamed Thinni’s govern- would be difficult. host a summit in New York as far afield as Nigeria’s Boko Obama last year hosted a least 61 people across Egypt ment for the lack of basic serv- Representatives of both fac- next month of leaders of the Haram. Security Council meeting during from Sunday to Tuesday and ices, such as electricity, and poor tions were seen together in the international coalition fighting The United States last year which a resolution was adopted caused nearly 600 people to be security in areas it controls. “If same room with Leon a day after Islamic State jihadists in Syria assembled a coalition of 50-plus to curb the flow of foreign fight- admitted to hospital, Egypt’s my exit is the solution, then I he told reporters he was meeting and Iraq, diplomats said. countries to beat back Islamic ers joining islamic State extrem- health ministry said yesterday. announce it here,” Thinni said. them separately but hoped to even- The summit on countering State, which declared a caliphate ists on the battlefields in Iraq Heatstroke killed 21 people on “My resignation will be submit- tually get them in the same room. violent extremism on September in June 2014 after seizing the and Syria. Tuesday and 40 people on Sunday ted to the parliament on Sunday.” Delegates said a key sticking point 29 comes one year after Obama Iraqi city of Mosul. But UN monitors report that and Monday. Most of Tuesday’s But government spokesman was the future role of controversial vowed to crush IS during his Diplomats said the summit, to the number of foreign jihadists victims were elderly. The min- Hatem El Ouraybi said Thinni’s General Khalifa Haftar, installed United Nations speech. be held on the sidelines of the has grown to at least 22,000 and istry said 581 people have been promise had been conditional. by the Tobruk government as its Since then, the jihadists have annual UN General Assembly there is no sign that the flow is admitted to hospital for heat “The prime minister said dur- army chief in March. captured territory in Syria and meeting, will allow leaders to abating. exhaustion, with 204 remaining ing the interview that he would AFP Iraq and gained a foothold in take stock and chart a way AFP in hospital care. REUTERS Iraq PM sacks cabinet official BAGHDAD: Iraq’s prime min- predecessor Nuri Al Maliki, whose leaders have become far ister dismissed his cabinet sec- whose post of vice president is more powerful over the past year retary yesterday as part of an one of those to be abolished. as their forces have played the ambitious reform drive he said An official in his media office main role in battling Islamic State was under threat from corrupt described Abadi’s decision to militants that seized northern and politicians and Shiae militia sack his cabinet secretary and western Iraq. “We should remove leaders who use their armed fol- his aides as “part of a push to cut the Hashid Shaabi from the polit- lowers for political ends. unnecessary government jobs”. ical field,” he said, referring to a A year in office, Haider Al Abadi Abadi’s reform package has government body that acts as an has launched the biggest overhaul garnered public praise from umbrella for the militias. of the political system since the end across party and sectarian lines Abadi insisted his reforms were of US military occupation, enact- as well as from Western govern- not targeted at anyone in par- ing a risky package of measures ments. It is also backed by Grand ticular, although he warned that designed to enhance his own power Ayatollah Ali Sistani. opponents might try to portray and strip authority from political Abadi said yesterday that he him as hostile to particular com- chieftains who have run Iraq since still expected resistance from munities to stir up resentment. the fall of Saddam Hussein. beneficiaries of the old system. “I fear some will try to direct Lawmakers unanimously voted “The corrupt will not sit idly by,” my words towards one individual on Tuesday to eliminate a layer said Abadi. “Those with interests or another, against a certain group of senior government posts, scrap and privileges will defend their or organisation. I do not have sectarian and party quotas for interests and privileges. Some anyone specifically in mind,” he state positions, reopen corrup- of them will even fight for them. said. While Abadi’s backing from tion investigations and give Abadi They will attempt to sabotage Sistani makes it difficult for the power to fire regional and provin- every step we take towards it.” prime minister’s rivals within the cial bosses. While he did not name those Shia majority to oppose his meas- The bold moves will strip some he accused of plotting sabotage, ures publicly, they could still try of Iraq’s most powerful people of he issued a warning against the to spoil the reforms from behind official titles, including Abadi’s politicisation of Shia militias, the scenes. REUTERS

‘Man lets daughter drown’ Bahrain to try an old report: Dubai police opposition figure DUBAI: Dubai police said yesterday that a report of an Asian woman drowning after her father blocked lifeguards from rescu- DUBAI: A prominent opposition ing her, which was widely discussed on social media, dated from figure who has just been released nearly two decades ago. from jail on a royal pardon will go The report, first published by the Dubai-based Emirates 24/7 news on trial in Bahrain this month on website and picked up by several media including AFP, quoted a police new charges of urging the over- official as saying the father had blocked lifeguards from saving his throw of the government, state daughter because it would “dishonour” her to be touched by strange news agency BNA said yesterday. men. Responding to a question from AFP on Twitter, Dubai police said BNA did not name the accused the incident was not new. “This is an old incident that dates back to man but Akhbar Al Khaleej and Al 1996,” police said, without providing any further details about the case. Wasat newspapers said it refered Emirates 24/7 published the story this week without provid- to Ibrahim Sharif, the former head ing the date of the incident. It generated widespread interest on of the secular National Democratic social networks including accusations media were disseminating Action Society, or Waad. an old story. The website later updated the story clarifying that The Advocate General said the source of the information on the incident, the deputy director public prosecutors had referred of Dubai police search and rescue department Lieutenant Colonel him to the High Criminal Court Ahmed Burqibah, was “recounting some of the worst incidents he on charges that also included had encountered in his tenure”. “threats and inciting hatred Burqibah had told Emirates 24/7 that when two lifeguards tried against the political regime”. The to help the drowning 20-year-old woman, her father “started pulling trial will start on August 24. and preventing the rescue men and got violent with them”. In June, Sharif was released by “He told them that he prefers his daughter being dead than being a royal pardon after four years in touched by a strange man,” Burqibah said, adding that the father prison. He was re-arrested three was then arrested and prosecuted. The Asian man had “considered weeks later following a July 10 that if these men touched his daughter, then this would dishonour speech in which he had allegedly her. It cost him the life of his daughter,” Burqibah said. AFP called for the overthrow of the government. REUTERS THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE GREEK island of Kos has become a microcosm of the refugee crisis plaguing European nations. This newspaper yesterday carried a photograph on its Tfront page of a fainting woman among a group of migrants on the island. She was one of a throng of migrants Cecil stirs world, but Africa from Syria and Afghanistan waiting to be registered for onward travel. As Greece grapples with a debt crisis, the problems of migrants from Syria, Afghanistan and some African nations vie sees two sides to hunting row for attention. Fortunately, amid the din of debt restructuring and bailout financing, the situation of migrants in Greece has BY CHRIS MFULA sportsmen are its biggest market. “Lions are difficult for herders,” been receiving attention. International aid bodies have been Besides lost revenue for nations such Hunter said. “If we are to save lions in making themselves heard about the poor situation of migrants hen Zambia banned lion as Zambia, it could also mean people these landscapes, we need solutions that in the country, which is reeling from a debt crisis. hunting in 2013, animal paying the price for life with lions. reduce the conflict.” Kos is in the glare of international media as the police on welfare groups roared “We were also prompted to lift the Rwanda is going down the South Tuesday sprayed migrants with fire extinguishers and beat Win approval, but rural ban because of the increasing cases of African route of fenced off reserves, Zambians who face a threat from big people and cattle being killed by lions. and last month reintroduced seven lions them with truncheons to avoid what it called a stampede cats and receive a slice of hunting- Recently a community leader in my — flown in from South Africa — to its inside the stadium where they were getting their papers related revenues complained, causing home area was eaten,” Kapata said. Akagera National Park, whose last lions processed. Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors the government to change its mind. When Zambia first announced the were poisoned by farmers who resettled Without Borders) held Greek authorities responsible for Leopard hunting will resume this sea- resumption of leopard and lion hunting the park after the 1994 genocide. migrants’ denouement. It blamed conditions inside the son with “cautionary quotas”, while lion in May, there was no outcry beyond the “What we have done since then is stadium for the chaos. MSF said the police had locked up hunting will be allowed to restart the world of animal welfare groups — and build an electric fence around it,” Chief year after that, according to the tourism certainly none of the Internet rage that Tourism Officer Yamina Karitanyi said, about 1,000 people inside the complex with no access to minister, Jean Kapata. followed Cecil’s killing. outlining a strategy for a nascent eco- drinking water, toilets or shaded spots. As a result, many “We decided to lift the hunting ban Zambia estimates its lion population tourism industry that will benefit local started passing out in the blazing sun. Kos mayor Giorgos after receiving numerous complaints at 2,500 and believes it can have a sus- communities with 5 percent of park Kiritsis has warned of “bloodshed” from the communities where the hunt- tainable hunting industry that protects revenues. Much of the debate around if the situation is allowed to spiral ing blocks are located,” Kapata said, humans while also conserving overall hunting focuses on who gets the money out of control. adding that 50 cat numbers. the industry generates. This is subject Refugee crisis percent of the “Trophy” animals are supposed to to dispute. on the Greek Athens yesterday took steps money from be old males that are beyond breed- One study, published in 2007 in the to control the situation. More hunting goes back ing age and have been pushed from the journal “Biological Conservation”, island of Kos is riot police has been deployed on When Zambia to communities. pride, meaning their killing has minimal found African trophy hunting gener- Kos from nearby islands. What Before the 2013 impact on lion populations. ated annual revenues of at least $201m. a reflection of is laudable is Athens’ decision first announced moratorium on “In many instances they resort However, a 2013 study commissioned killing big cats, to eating cattle and human beings,” by IFAW and other animal welfare to send a ship for housing the the complexity the resumption of Zambia earned Kapata said. However, critics contend organisations found that only 3 percent migrants. The ship would also serve $3m from game that enforcing such regulations and of the hunting revenue reaches the rural of migrants’ as a processing centre where the leopard and lion hunting. practices is impossible given that hunt- communities where hunting occurs. migrants would be able to show hunting in May, “People com- ers operate deep in the bush in poorly Charles Jonga, director for the issue in Europe. their papers to authorities. plained they were governed and deeply impoverished coun- Community Areas Management European migration there was no no longer benefit- tries such as Zimbabwe and Zambia. Programme for Indigenous Resources ing from wildlife Zimbabwean conservationists allege (CAMPFIRE), run by district gov- commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos is visiting Athens today outcry beyond the resources,” Kapata that Cecil was lured out of the sanctu- ernments in Zimbabwe to distribute for emergency talks with Greek ministers in Prime Minister added. “I know of ary of a national park with bait before fees from wildlife conservation, said it Alexis Tsipras’ government. This shows despite being mired world of animal several schools being shot by Walter Palmer, the den- received $2m from hunting fees. in multiple issues, the European Union has not completely lost welfare groups — and clinics built tist, with a bow and arrow. “The money goes to various commu- sight of the problem. from this money.” “The hunting industry cannot be reg- nities that have wildlife in their areas,” However, the mounting dimension of the refugee crisis is and none of the However, ulated because of the high price tags,” he told Reuters. Western outrage said Jason Bell, southern Africa director “So we ask the question to those who threatening to dwarf all measures taken by Brussels and other Internet rage that over the killing for the International Fund for Animal want to stop animal hunting whether European capitals. Kos is an island of 33,000 inhabitants, but of Cecil the lion Welfare (IFAW). “People are going to they have given any thoughts as to has been swamped by 7,000 refugees. The ship dispatched by followed Cecil’s in neighbouring do anything they can to bag the trophy.” what will happen to the wildlife after Athens is meant only for 2,500 people. The rest would have killing. Zimbabwe by an One solution is the South African people stop realising economic benefits to wallow in the outdoors. There have been complaints about American dentist model of fencing off big, dangerous ani- from it.” In two districts in Zimbabwe, has put Africa’s mals to minimise the conflict between he said, lions had killed 200 cattle and private security guards misbehaving with migrants and not multi-million dollar hunting industry humans and wildlife and prevent epi- three people between 2011 and 2014. allowing them to use park benches on the island. in the crosshairs like never before. sodes similar to Cecil’s. In South Africa, much of the money What has been done till date is outsized by the scale of the Three US airlines have stopped car- The killing of lions by livestock spent on hunting accrues to private crisis in Europe. The European Union has to become more rying lion, leopard, elephant, rhino or owners is a key threat to the animal, landowners, who may also own the ani- mindful of the problem. It needs to work more sincerely to buffalo trophies — the so-called “Big 5” according to Luke Hunter, President of mals their guests pay to kill. summon all its resources and divert more energy towards most-desired by hunters — in a move Panthera, an organisation focused on Supporters say this provides an that could hurt the industry as American the global preservation of wild cats. incentive for conservation. REUTERS addressing the issue• The other side Quote of Ghani’s remarks the day HE WAVE OF Taliban attacks towards Pakistan is hardly going to help Taliban leaders, the fact is that it was The Afghan president’s frustration across Afghanistan, and matters. Perhaps Ghani and his sup- Ghani’s own government that broke the notwithstanding his present accusa- especially in Kabul, were porters ought to recall recent history. news of Mullah Omar’s death. tions mirror the anger and suspicion always going to elicit strong Ahead of the first round of the After that, it was almost inevitable of earlier this year when he accused condemnation T from the Afghan Murree talks, there had been much talk that the talks would be thrown off Pakistan of not delivering on what it had government. of a growing understanding between course and that the succession issue pledged — only for Pakistan to even- Rather worryingly though Afghan the Pakistani and Afghan states. The would take centre-stage. tually in fact nudge the Taliban to the I am and remain President Ashraf Ghani chose to direct mood in the short run-up to the second On that count at least, the Pakistani preliminary negotiating table. confident that we will his anger at Pakistan, claiming that the round of talks was almost celebratory. position has been relatively clear: dis- Perhaps Ghani ought to have waited massive attacks have been orches- Then, on the eve of the second round, courage factionalism and help keep as until the senior Afghan political delega- succeed in reaching a trated from inside Pakistan and that it was the Afghan government itself that much of the Afghan Taliban as possible tion visits Pakistan this week before deal and loan support the Pakistani security establishment threw the talks into disarray by assert- under one central leadership. Surely, raging against the Pakistani state. After has done little to stem the tide. ing that Mullah Omar had died two whatever Mr Ghani may claim and all, by his own admission, Mr Ghani had ... that will end Much as it is possible to under- years ago in Karachi. Afghan officials may believe, the secu- only hours before his diatribe spoken to economic uncertainty. stand Ghani and other Afghan officials’ While Afghan officials claimed they rity establishment here could not have both Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and concerns about the grave instability only confirmed what had become wanted a bitter leadership struggle to army chief Gen Raheel Sharif. Alexis Tsipras inside Afghanistan, the anger directed known to a growing number of Afghan have erupted inside the Taliban. DAWN Greek Prime Minister THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 What US hasn’t learned about race relations Fifty years ago, the Watts rebellion demonstrated that eventually people will violently reject the brutality produced by state-sanctioned violence. This sadly remains all too familiar in many American communities today.

BY JAMES BRAXTON Black Panthers, US Organisation, public transportation — when PETERSON the origins of Kwanzaa, the emer- these needs are not being met, gence of gangsta rap and the LA then you have a cauldron for revo- HE WATTS upris- Rebellion film movement — a lutionary actions. ing was a harbinger groundbreaking group of power- Watts is a relatively small of things to come. ful black moviemakers including neighbourhood, slightly more Ignited 50 years ago Charles Burnett — just to name than 2 square miles in South- on August 11, 1965, a few. Central Los Angeles. Its slight the Watts rebellion The Watts uprising, like so physical geography, however, Tstill challenges all Americans to many of the racial incidents today, will never match its cultural and consider whether the nation has started with a minor traffic stop. conceptual hold on the national made the progress that has been On August 11, 1965, a white cop imagination. The Watts uprising easily symbolized but rarely real- in Watts pulled over a 21-year- is America’s permanent and pre- ised in the movement for equal old black man, Marquett Frye for scient reminder of what happens justice under the law. suspected drunk-driving. It was when the nation socially and civi- With Ferguson, Missouri, near Frye’s house so a neigh- cally ignores entire communities. locked down in its second state bor went to get his mother, who Its enduring legacy encom- of emergency on the anniver- walked over to see what was hap- passes African-Americans’ black Protestors carry signs during a demonstration by “Black Lives Matter” in Los Angeles, California. sary of a white police officer kill- pening. It all escalated from there. revolutionary history and also ing Michael Brown, an unarmed In a sense, as Tim Watkins, today’s Black Lives Matter move- civil-right achievements. convened the Kerner Commission There is plenty of evidence today black teenager, the possibility of president of the Watts Labor ment. Watts is a touchstone - a The nation celebrated 60 years to find out what was happening that this is still the case. progress over a half-century arc Community Action Committee, municipal “canary in the mine” of the US Supreme Court’s land- in America’s cities and why. The Revisiting Watts with these his- remains in doubt. recently explained, it looks pre- — foretelling the current unrest mark ruling Brown vs. Board commission, chaired by then-Illi- toric benchmarks in mind should Serious reflection on the rebel- ordained. Prior to this traffic stop, in American cities like Ferguson, of Education in 2014 — even as nois Governor Otto Kerner, was a force Americans to confront these lion, the biggest US black upris- folks in Watts had already had Baltimore and North Charleston, some US school districts are more who’s who of contemporary poli- facts. And maybe demand a new ing since the era of slavery, should enough of police mistreatment South Carolina. racially segregated than they tics, including New York Mayor Kerner Commission. rightly disrupt the joyous com- and brutality. So when police When police stops turn vio- were 40 years ago. This summer John Lindsay, Senator Edward We are now less than two memorations of the 1965 Voting arrested Frye, his mother, Rena lent, the black community does we are celebrating 50 years of the Brooke (R-Massachussets), years from the 50th anniversary Rights Act and other Great Price, took issue with how offic- now what it did in response to Voting Rights Act. But, just two Senator Fred R Harris of the creation of the Kerner Society advances. Because it ers were handling it, members of police brutality 50 years ago — we years ago, the Supreme Court (D-Oklahoma), Roy Wilkins, Commission and one year out forces the nation to wrestle with the surrounding community were protest. And protest ain’t always altered the legislation, removing NAACP executive director and I from the Ferguson uprising. Not continuing civil rights problems ready to take issue with how the pretty. But one way or another, the federal oversight formulas W Abel, president and co-founder enough has changed. and examine the terrible legacy of officers were handling Price. Six people who feel oppressed will that successfully held state and of the United Steelworkers of This commemorative moment, police brutality in black commu- days, 34 deaths, 1,000 injuries and fight the state powers and this local discriminatory disenfran- America. The panel’s mandate however, is more historical nities. The systemic concentrated nearly 4,000 arrests later, “calm” can lead to confrontations that chisement practices at bay for was essentially to figure out how present than historical past. poverty and police oppression was restored to Los Angeles. too often end in unarmed young decades. These historical and to ensure that similar outbreaks Fifty years ago, the Watts rebel- that triggered the rebellion still black men lying dead in the street. commemorative ironies abound, of violence would not occur again. lion demonstrated that eventu- marks the United States — from CIVIL RESISTANCE A return to black progres- but our reflections on Watts may The commission’s report, ally people will violently reject Ferguson to Baltimore, Maryland. Whenever a community feels sives’ radical roots in the West escape this conundrum. released February 29, 1968, sug- the brutality produced by state- Revisiting the Watts uprising under siege by those sworn to is welcome. But there are also The Watts uprising clearly gested that blacks in America sanctioned violence. This sadly also expands the accepted geogra- protect and serve it, the possi- substantive payoffs in commem- foreshadowed things to come. In lived in a kind of apartheid state, remains all too familiar in many phy of the civil-rights movement. bility for civil resistance arises. orating the 1965 Watts upris- the summer of 1967, Newark, New their lives constricted by law American communities today. Nostalgia often limits commem- But when being under siege is ing along with other major civil Jersey, and Detroit, Michigan, enforcement - sometimes bru- (James Braxton Peterson is direc- orations to the South, almost just another symptom of being rights advances. Doing so effec- erupted. Other cities followed a tally so. This, in some ways and in tor of Africana Studies and associ- exclusively east of the Mississippi under-served; when the full set tively highlights the work yet to similar course of events. National some places, remains true today. ate professor of English at Lehigh River. Yet the West Coast was of basic civic services — access be done. In addition, it helps in and civic leaders were increas- The Kerner report also argued University. The opinions expressed where some of the most radical to healthcare, building grocery revealing the sustained efforts to ingly confused and afraid. that the United States was mov- here are his own.) elements took shape. Consider the stores rather than liquor stores, erode the gains of these significant President Lyndon B Johnson ing toward a segregated nation. REUTERS With Ocalan sidelined, Turkey risks violence Political honeymoon BY JONNY HOGG reluctance to help their brethren in Syria defend Kobani against an IDELINED on his Islamic State siege. over for Italian PM island prison, the one While Ocalan remains the rec- man who might have ognised leader among core PKK BY JOHN FOLLAIN peak of 70 percent a year earlier, helped quell a surge fighters, his years of isolation have according to an Ipsos poll for the in violence in Turkey’s eroded his influence over the day HE political honey- newspaper Corriere della Sera. A SKurdish southeast appears to day. Qandil, shorthand for the moon is long over separate survey for the daily La increasingly powerless as a three- PKK field leadership, was always for Italian Prime Stampa said Renzi’s popularity year-old peace process teeters on more hawkish on the peace process, Minister Matteo was 35 percent in July from 67 the brink of collapse. while youth groups with less regard Renzi, and it will be percent after the European par- Abdullah Ocalan, whose for Ocalan’s authority have risen to Ttough to square his latest vote- liamentary elections of May 2014. Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) prominence and are thought to be catching plan with the debt- The tax cuts would abolish all first took up arms against the behind much of the recent violence. plagued economy. The timid exit levies on first homes starting in Turkish state in 1984, had been “The Turkish security services from a record-long recession has 2016, a popular move in a country Ankara’s main counterparty have cut off Ocalan. As a result, left many Italians frustrated, with where more than 70 percent of in talks launched in 2012 by he has not been able to have much youth unemployment at 44.2 per- the people own where they live. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan influence during the recent out- cent in June. His popularity at a Cuts for businesses would follow to try to end the insurgency. break of conflict,” said Jonathan record low in public opinion polls, in 2017, and on personal income But as Turkish war planes bomb Friedman, Turkey analyst at Renzi has pledged three years of tax in 2018, the year Italy is PKK camps in northern Iraq and Stroz Friedberg, a global risk tax cuts worth ¤35bn ($39bn) scheduled to hold elections. The Kurdish militants step up their consultancy. from 2016 to 2018 to regain estimated cost of the cuts due in attacks on Turkish soldiers and While neither side has an inter- momentum. 2017, some ¤15bn, risks forcing Italy police, leaving in ruins a ceasefire A man makes the victory sign while holding a placard reading “peace block” est in a return to all-out war, nor The forecasts for growth make to ask the European Commission called by Ocalan in March 2013, his next to a picture of jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan during a peace do they have much incentive for those pledges challenging. The for more flexibility on its budget voice is nowhere to be heard. gathering in Istanbul recently. an immediate truce. For the PKK, Bank of Italy forecasts the econ- target, said Loredana Federico, an Pro-Kurdish opposition politi- such is the fury among Kurdish omy will expand only 0.7 percent economist at UniCredit in Milan. cians who acted as intermediaries will be able to put it back into facilitator in the peace efforts, youth at the renewed violence this year, less than a quarter of “It’s difficult to bring down the in the talks have been prevented the bottle. That’s the fear,” said holding state-sanctioned meet- that to back down now would be the 3.1 percent projected by Spain’s debt ratio just with austerity, you by the state from visiting the PKK Gareth Jenkins, an Istanbul-based ings with Ocalan and sending to lose face. Erdogan, meanwhile, central bank for that country. also need growth,” Federico said. leader, imprisoned on Imrali island author and veteran researcher on delegations to speak with PKK has political ambitions on his mind. “The financing of the tax cuts A government spending review in the Marmara Sea, since before a Kurdish issues in Turkey. fighters in the Qandil mountains Turkey could face another elec- is a little dubious because Renzi is aims for ¤10bn of savings in 2016. June parliamentary election. of northern Iraq. Their visits had tion later this autumn if the AK going to be relying on the economy But given how deep Italy’s econ- Senior government officials say UNFULFILLED PROMISES been the only known way for the Party which he founded is unable picking up further,” said Marc omy had sunk, Ostwald at ADM pledges made by him during the Erdogan, who braved nation- militant leader to communicate to form a coalition after losing its Ostwald, a strategist at ADM Investor Services predicts “a long peace process have gone unful- alist anger in launching negotia- with the guerrillas. majority. Continued violence could Investor Services International hard battle ahead” for pushing filled, notably the withdrawal of tions with the PKK three years In late July, Erdogan urged par- stir up nationalist sentiment in Ltd. in London. reforms through. PKK fighters to bases in north- ago, has said the peace process liament to strip politicians with support of the AKP and remind Renzi, 40, who came to power Support for Renzi’s Democratic ern Iraq, and that until those are has become impossible, but has militant links of their immunity non-Kurdish voters, some of whom in February 2014, has promised Party has also slipped in recent honoured, Ocalan has no further so far stopped short of formally from prosecution, a move seen as backed the HDP, of the violent side to chip away at Italy’s record debt months, according to public opinion role to play. declaring it over. targeting the HDP in revenge for of Kurdish nationalism. of ¤2.2 trillion, the highest of any polls including those conducted by “Our fight will continue until In a statement on Monday, the the June election, when it won 13 In a Reuters interview, Demirtas euro member after Greece as a the Ixe institute and IPR Marketing. not one terrorist is left within PKK’s political umbrella group percent of the vote and entered last month accused the AKP of proportion of the economy. He is Still the party has stayed far ahead our country and until concrete called for a quick resumption of parliament for the first time, dragging Turkey into conflict in protected at least for now by the of the Five Star Movement and the is poured over (their weapons),” talks between the state and Ocalan depriving the ruling party of its revenge for its weaker election per- European Central Bank. Northern League, its closest rivals, Erdogan said on Tuesday. but set the release of political pris- majority. formance, a charge the government Its quantitative-easing pro- the surveys show. It was a change of tone from oners and a strengthened ceasefire Its leader Selahattin Demirtas, strongly denies. It says the mili- gramme of asset purchases has After months of Renzi’s pop- the early days of the peace proc- agreement as preconditions. a charismatic former human tary campaign against the PKK is helped keep borrowing costs down. ularity making an alternative ess, which he promoted with slo- Ankara looks unlikely to con- rights lawyer who campaigned a response to a surge in attacks on Italian 10-year bond yields have highly unlikely, his inner circle is gans including “stop the blood, we cede. “Ocalan is an actor in the on a progressive platform that the security forces. been below 2 percent since last beginning to sound worried about don’t want the mothers to cry”. peace process, but the problem is took the party beyond its roots “Erdogan is taking a huge gam- month, a far cry from the more the threat from anti-establish- Unkept promises and the rising that for him to step in, the PKK in Kurdish nationalism, urged ble,” said Jenkins, the Istanbul- than 7 percent when the euro ment parties challenging his rule. power of the Kurdish political group and the HDP (Turkey’s the PKK to “remove its finger based author, warning that the region’s debt crisis rocked the Maria Elena Boschi, parlia- opposition have angered national- pro-Kurdish opposition) must ful- from the trigger”. Reviving peace PKK could increasingly stage country in November 2011. The mentary affairs minister, warned ists, and forced him to recalculate. fill their promises,” said a senior efforts hinged on reviving Ocalan’s attacks in urban centres outside 10-year yield was little changed at dissidents in Renzi’s Democratic Violence has spiralled, with at government official familiar with ability to negotiate, he said. the largely Kurdish southeast, 1.78 percent at 10:32am yesterday Party that “those who fight against least 26 members of the security the peace efforts. Ocalan’s intervention helped such as Monday’s bombing in in Rome. reforms take responsibility for forces killed since July 20. “Ultimately, the group has not quell a previous spasm of violence Istanbul, or lose control of angry Renzi’s approval rating has handing over our country” to popu- “If it gets out of control neither done what Ocalan wanted.” which left dozens dead last year Kurdish youths altogether. plummeted by almost half to 36 list, right-wing movements. the Turkish state nor the PKK The HDP has acted as a as Kurds rioted over Turkey’s REUTERS percent of voters in June from a WP-BLOOMBERG THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE / AMERICAS 60 migrants Bush, Hillary missing after dinghy sinks trade blame ROME: Around 60 migrants are missing in waters off Libya, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said yes- terday after interviewing survi- over Iraq war vors who were picked up from their stricken craft. An Italian corvette picked up dozens of migrants from a sinking Clinton blamed for emergence of IS rubber dinghy on Tuesday after the vessel was spotted by a naval WASHINGTON: A decade of personnel with Iraq forces. helicopter. While those who run anger over the Iraq war resur- Bush also noted Clinton only into trouble during the perilous faced in the 2016 US election visited the country once during Mediterranean crossing usually race, with Jeb Bush and Hillary her four years as America’s top send distress calls to the Italian Clinton’s campaigns trading diplomat. His remarks dredged coast guard, this time rescue work- blame about that country’s con- up a bitter debate that has long ers had heard nothing and it was tinued instability. bubbled in Washington and that only due to chance that the patrol Twelve years after president has tarnished his brother’s legacy. helicopter spotted the craft. George W Bush led the United A wildly successful invasion of “We can say how many peo- States into an unpopular and Baghdad was followed by a ham- ple arrive but we never know troubled conflict, his brother, now fisted occupation that fuelled bru- Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump walks toward the media to answer a few questions after delivering how many set off. It’s rarer now a Republican presidential hopeful, tal sectarian violence and left the the keynote address at the Genesee and Saginaw Republican Party Lincoln Day Event in Birch Run, Michigan. because of the number of ships in accused Democrats of abandoning central government debilitated. the area, but it’s sure there are Iraq before the job was done. In addition to being a point of shipwrecks no-one knows about,” Jeb Bush blamed his Democratic contention between Republicans IOM spokesman for Italy Flavio White House rival, former and Democrats, the conflict may Trump leading everywhere: Polls Di Giacomo said. Secretary of State Clinton, for have also cost Clinton the 2008 Fifty-four people plucked allowing the brutal emergence of Democratic nomination to anti- WASHINGTON: The Donald last week’s debut Republican percent and Senator Marco Rubio from the water were brought to the Islamic State group by with- war candidate Barack Obama. Trump bullet train charged presidential debate, when he of Florida with 10. The survey also the Italian island of Lampedusa, drawing troops from Iraq too fast. In 2002, Clinton voted in favour full speed ahead, as the unfil- refused to pledge he would not showed Bush, a one-time front- but according to testimony from “It was a case of blind haste to of authorising Bush’s invasion as a tered US presidential hope- run as an independent and runner, slipping to seventh spot. survivors, the craft had set off get out,” Bush told an audience in Senator for New York, a vote she ful slammed China, Barack clashed with a popular Fox News But in a warning of sorts to with between 117 and 120 people California, “and to call the tragic later said was a mistake. But on Obama’s administration and moderator. But Trump, himself Trump, 55 percent of Suffolk on board, all of them from sub- consequences somebody else’s Tuesday her campaign defended Republican rival Jeb Bush while a former reality TV impresario, respondents said his debate Saharan Africa. problem”. her later record. reveling in fresh poll results said he was responsible for draw- performance made them “less Over 30 of the passengers were “That premature withdrawal Long-time foreign policy aide that he said show him “leading ing millions to that prime-time comfortable” with Trump as women, fewer than half of whom was the fatal error, creating the Jake Sullivan — a frontrunner everywhere.” debate broadcast. a candidate. In a Rasmussen survived according to the testi- void that (Islamic State) moved in to become Clinton’s National Ignoring warning signs that “Who do you think they were Reports poll, Trump led with 17 mony. One of those aboard saw her to fill.” Rushing away from dan- Security Advisor if she is elected his campaign may be running watching, Jeb Bush? Huh? I don’t percent — a significant drop from sister drown. Two other migrants ger can be every bit as unwise as — accused Jeb Bush of a “pretty into trouble, the brash celebrity think so,” Trump quipped. the 26 percent he enjoyed in the were rescued by helicopter, rushing into danger, and the costs bold attempt to rewrite history billionaire held a wide-ranging Asked if he would acknowl- same national poll conducted late winched to safety after they were have been grievous,” he said. and reassign responsibility”. press conference before a speech edge he has gone over the top last month. spotted near the dinghy, clutching Taking a political risk, Bush “They cannot be allowed to escape in Michigan and lashed out on with some of the criticism and The Donald in Michigan let loose a water butt to stay afloat. even suggested it might be neces- responsibility for the real mistake several subjects but declined to his braggadocio, Trump merely on Beijing, saying something ought According to the latest IOM sary to send more troops back to here,” he said, saying Islamic provide policy details. pointed to the polls. “Leading in to be done to “reign in China” — but figures compiled yesterday, over Iraq. “Right now, we have around State emerged form Al-Qaeda in “We’ll be announcing over the Iowa, leading in New Hampshire... again offered no specifics — after 101,700 migrants have arrived in 3,500 soldiers and marines in Iraq, Iraq, which flourished amid the next two weeks numbers and spe- leading in South Carolina, leading its sharp currency devaluation, Italy by boat since the start of the and more may well be needed.” occupation. cifics,” he said when asked of his in Nevada,” Trump said, rattling a move Trump blasted as a “dis- year, while more than 2,040 oth- “We do not need, and our “It didn’t exist before the inva- jobs plan. “You have to be flexible off several early-voting states. grace.” “China has no respect for ers died in their bid to cross. friends do not ask for, a major sion. It emerged in no small part as on jobs and everything else.” “Leading everywhere.” President Obama whatsoever,” he The official tally provided by commitment of American com- a result of president Bush’s failed He used his take-no-prisoners A new Suffolk University poll in boomed. “They think we are run by the interior ministry showed that bat forces. But we do need to strategy. And it gained strength by style to batter Bush in particular, Iowa, which holds the first presi- a bunch of idiots.” On domestic race by the end of last month, 93,542 convey that we are serious, that signing up former Sunni military saying the former Florida gover- dential contest early next year, relations, Trump said there were people had arrived — slightly up we are determined to help local officers — officers from the army nor “will not be able to negotiate has Trump ahead with 17 per- “powder kegs all over the country on the 87,915 people who arrived forces take back their country.” that the Bush administration dis- against China (or) Mexico”. cent support, Wisconsin Governor waiting to explode”. during the same period in 2014. He advocated embedding US banded,” he said. AFP Trump lit a powder keg during Scott Walker in second with 12 AFP AFP

Strike in Britain Sweden, Ecuador Mother arrested Ukraine bans dozens of aim to break after killing baby deadlock in in Spanish chapel ‘fascist’ Russian books KIEV: K ie v ’s publ ic r el ation s w a r have appeared on Russian tel- Assange case MADRID: A woman was with Moscow scaled new heights evision throughout the course of arrested yesterday in central yesterday as Ukraine released a Ukraine’s separatist conflict to STOCKHOLM: Sweden and Spain after killing her three- list of prominent Russian report- defend Moscow’s annexation of Ecuador have agreed to hold month-old baby in a chapel, ers and authors whose books will Crimea in March 2014. talks to break a deadlock over police said. The incident took be banned from sale. Some of them have also branded questioning Wikileaks founder place La Villa de Don Fadrique, Ukraine’s tax and customs serv- as “neo-Nazis” the pro-Western Julian Assange, but investiga- a village of around 4,000 people ice said 38 works by such Russian leaders who emerged in the wake tions into three of four cases near the city of Toledo. media celebrities as Sergei of the February 2014 ouster in Kiev against him are likely to be “She killed her baby in the Dorenko and critically acclaimed of a Moscow-backed president. dropped in the coming days due cemetery chapel,” a police source author Eduard Limonov were tar- The subsequent pro-Krem- to statutes of limitation. said, adding that the woman had geted under the ban. lin uprising that broke out in Assange, 44, has been holed up apparently slit the child’s throat. The original request to seize Ukraine’s Russian-speaking east inside Ecuador’s London embassy A knife was found at the scene. the works was made in July by has claimed the lives of more than since June 2012 to avoid extradi- The 37-year-old woman, who also the state media committee — a 6,800 people and sunk Moscow’s tion to Sweden to answer allega- has another child, was arrested controversial organisation that relations with the West to a post- tions of sexual assault and rape. at the village church where she had earlier forbidden the broad- Cold War low. The Australian, who denies sought refuge after the attack. cast of Russian movies and TV But it has also created furious any wrongdoing, fears Sweden Local residents called police series that allegedly disparaged battles in Ukraine and Russia for may extradite him to the United after they saw the woman “crying Ukrainian history. the hearts and minds of both local States, where he could face trial out and covered in blood” at the The television and radio watch- and global audiences. over Wikileaks’ publication of cemetery just before 0600 GMT, dog accused the listed Russian The propaganda campaigns huge amounts of leaked govern- the mayor of town, Jaime Santos authors of “promoting fascism” have been accompanied by state- ment documents including clas- Simon, said. and “humiliating and insulating sponsored censorship and crack- sified US military and diplomatic When police officers arrived a nation and its people”. downs on independent artists documents in one of the largest the woman fled in her car to the They were also accused of “pro- in both countries. Ukraine has leaks in the country’s history. church, where she was arrested. moting war, racial and religious forbidden several Russian sing- Ecuador this week agreed to Workers demonstrate on a picket line at the entrance to the National Local media cited neighbours as strife... and threatening the ter- ers from performing in Kiev- discuss a general bilateral accord Gallery in London yesterday. Gallery workers are opposed to privatisa- saying she suffered from mental ritorial integrity of Ukraine”. controlled towns and cities. with Sweden on legal assistance illness. AFP Most of the people listed AFP tion plans and have staged indefinite industrial action. in criminal matters, thereby providing a potential opening for Swedish prosecutors to question Assange. But it remains unclear when the talks will occur. “Normally, these kinds of nego- Unpaid UN intern quits after uproar over Swiss tent home tiations simply take time. This is nothing you do in a hurry,” said Cecilia Riddselius, a senior GENEVA: A young New and an outpouring of offers of prestigious position, but said his “The UN was clear about their lead by example. “They cannot Swedish justice ministry official. Zealander yesterday quit a pres- accommodation, according to the family was unaware of his pre- intern policy from the start: No allow there to be this discrepancy Three cases of sexual molesta- tigious but unpaid internship at Tribune de Geneve, which broke carious situation in the Swiss city, wage or stipend, no transport help, between what the say (on labour tion and unlawful coercion against the United Nations in Geneva the story. But yesterday, Hyde, where rents are among the highest no food allowance, no health assist- rights) and what they do,” he said. Assange will almost certainly lapse after revelations he was sleeping unshaven and wearing a rum- in the world. ance. I understood this, and in that UN spokesman Ahmad Fawzi, because of a five year statute of in a tent to get by created uproar. pled shirt, stood in the glaring “I just want to make it clear regard, I have to take responsibil- with three of his own interns in limitation expiring today and next David Hyde, a 22-year-old with sun outside the gates to the UN’s that no person forced me to sleep ity for taking the internship in the tow, spontaneously addressed the Tuesday. A more serious charge of a degree in international rela- European headquarters and told in a tent, but rather my circum- first place,” he said. story during a weekly UN briefing rape has five more years to run. tions, on Tuesday saw the story a handful of journalists he had stances and the conditions for this But Hyde said that knowing the on Tuesday, insisting to reporters Claes Borgstrom, a lawyer rep- of his struggle to support him- decided to resign. internship made it the only real policies did not make them right. that the world body was barred resenting the woman who filed the self in the pricey Swiss city while “It’s my own decision and I possibility that I could see,” he “I do not feel that this is a fair from paying interns by a General allegations against Assange, said working for the UN splashed chose to resign because I felt that told reporters Wednesday. system,” he said, urging interns Assembly resolution. her client had “naturally wanted across the front page of a Swiss it would be too difficult to con- He acknowledged lying during worldwide to “push for the recog- “We’re not allowed to even if we Julian Assange to answer in newspaper. tinue to focus on my work as an his internship interview when nition of our value and the equal want to, and believe me we want court”. Assange’s lawyer, Thomas Pictures of him standing in an intern at this stage,” said Hyde, asked whether he would be able rights that we deserve.” to. We would welcome a change Olsson, said his client was also immaculate suit, UN entrance who started his internship two to support himself during his stay A member of the organisation to that resolution,” he said, urging unhappy that legal procedures badge around his neck, next to weeks ago. in Geneva. But he said he had Generation Precarious organi- UN member states to put forward rather than the facts of the case a small, blue tent and rolled up To the Tribune de Geneve, he previously answered that ques- sation, located in neighbouring a new resolution making the old would put an end to three of the foam mattress near the shores described the excitement at home tion truthfully and had found all France, voiced outrage at Hyde’s one redundant. charges against him. REUTERS of Lake Geneva, caused outrage when he was accepted to the doors closed to him. case, insisting the UN should AFP THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 ASIA / AFRICA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 North’s ex-vice premier Hostage beheaded in Philippines executed: South Korea Govt rejected ransom demand; militants hold two port officials captive

SEOUL: North Korea’s vice execution has been employed MANILA: A Filipino village premier Choe Yong-Gon has for senior officials who the chief held hostage by Islamic been executed for voicing frus- leadership wished to make militants has been found tration at the policies of leader examples of. beheaded on a highway on the Kim Jong-Un, South Korea’s The North has not confirmed remote southern island of Jolo, Yonhap sources said. Hyon’s execution but announced police officials said yesterday. Choe, who took the job in June his replacement, Pak Yong Sik, Rodolfo Boligao was captured 2014, was executed by firing squad in July. in May by the Abu Sayyaf, an in May after voicing opposition The South’s spy agency claimed Al-Qaeda-linked group in the to forestry policies promoted in May that Kim had executed SouthernPhilippines. by Kim, Yonhap said, citing the dozens of officials -- including Boligao’s handcuffed remains source “with knowledge of the his own uncle -- since taking were found last Tuesday evening, North”. power after is father’s death in with his severed head placed by Choe was last seen in the December 2011. his side, said Walter Anayo, police North’s state media last December Pyongyang in December chief of Maimbung town. at the death anniversary of the 2013 made an unusually public “The body was intentionally left late leader Kim Jong-Il, South announcement of the shock exe- in the middle of the road so that Korea’s unification ministry said cution of the uncle, Jang Song- people could find it,” he said. Abu yesterday. Thaek, for charges including Sayyaf bandits seized Boligao and Seoul was “closely monitoring treason and corruption. two members of the coast guard the possibility of any changes in Kim, believed to be in his early from the port city of Dapitan, Choe’s circumstances”, said the 30s, has repeatedly reshuffled some 250 kilometres from Jolo ministry, which is in charge of senior army officials in a move in May and demanded a ransom cross-border affairs. analysts say was aimed at forc- amount. The government rejected Choe’s death, if confirmed, ing them to remain loyal to the the demand with the fate of the would be the second reported young ruler. coast guard members unknown. Policemen stand next to the beheaded remains of Rodolfo Boligao, who was captured in May by Abu Sayyaf, an this year. Defence minister Hyon The Kim dynasty has ruled the Jolo island is a known hideout of Al-Qaeda-linked group, outside the provincial hospital in Jolo town, Sulu island, in the southern Philippine island Yong-Chol was said to have been impoverished and isolated North the Abu Sayyaf, a loose band of of Mindanao yesterday. executed in April by anti-aircraft for more than six decades with an several hundred armed men that fire for insubordination and doz- iron fist, a pervasive personality was founded in the 1990s with foreigners when possible. is currently holding at least firebombing of a ferry off Manila ing off during formal military cult and almost no tolerance for seed money from the Al-Qaeda. It has beheaded several of its seven hostages, according to the bay in 2004 that killed over 100 rallies. dissent. The group often resorts to kid- captives including American military. people. Such a violent method of AFP nappings for ransom, targeting Guillermo Sobero in 2001. It The group was blamed for the AFP

US chopper crashes in Villagers recount ‘horror’ of Nigeria market bombing KANO: Nigerian villagers The explosion went off at about “We believe they managed to stations, markets, mosques and attacks targeting civilian inter- Japan, 7 hurt yesterday described the car- 1:15pm, Biu said, just after the flee the scene with injuries from churches during its bloody six- ests across much of Nigeria, Boko nage unleashed by a huge mar- market had entered its most busy the explosion but died on the year insurgency. Haram has created the demoral- TOKYO: A US military heli- ket bomb explosion in jihadist trading hours and the immediate way,” he said. Washington condemned the ising perception that it is a threat copter crashed in the waters off group Boko Haram’s northeast- vicinity of the bomb was packed Dozens of soldiers formed a attack and said it would continue which is omnipresent, capable of the Japanese southern island of ern heartland as the death toll with merchants and shoppers, security ring yesterday around to provide “a range of counterter- inflicting harm on Nigerians in Okinawa during a training mis- rose to 50. witnesses said. the market, which was littered rorism assistance to help Nigeria any given place at any given time,” sion yesterday, injuring seven The bomb -- concealed in a Authorities said in the immedi- with footwear and clothing and and its regional partners”. “We he said. people and prompting Japan’s crop-spraying backpack -- ripped ate aftermath 47 people had been still spattered with congealed will continue to work closely with Cummings said such acts of government to demand a probe. through the weekly market in the killed but upped the toll by three blood, and patrolled the streets the Nigerian government to com- mass violence helped the jihadist The US Army H-60 helicop- village of Sabon Gari, around 135 overnight. nearby. bat Boko Haram.” group to over-inflate the public ter was damaged during a “hard kilometres (85 miles) south of “One more person died from “The village is still in shock Boko Haram has killed more perception of its strength while deck landing” aboard the USNS Borno state capital Maiduguri, his wounds and two more bodies although most of the victims were than 15,000 people since 2009, undermining the legitimacy of Red Cloud about 20 miles east of during peak trading last Tuesday. were later brought to the morgue from other places far and near increasing the frequency and the government as a guarantor Okinawa, Japan said. “When the blast happened from near the scene of the blast. who came to attend the market,” intensity of its attacks since of security. The injured were taken to people in the market fled in fear. Now there are 50 dead and 51 Bura said. President Muhammadu Buhari “By conducting attacks outside the US Naval Hospital at Camp They abandoned their wares. injured,” a nurse at Biu General “The villagers can be seen in took the helm in Nigeria on May of its primary strongholds, par- Foster. The accident comes as Some managed to return for their Hospital, around 50 kilometres groups talking about the inci- 29. ticularly when targeting urban Japan’s central government wares but some never came back,” away said. dent while soldiers and vigilantes Ryan Cummings, chief security locales, Boko Haram is effectively begins talks with Okinawa’s gov- Samaila Biu, a local trader said. Yuram Bura, a member of a remain on alert.” analyst at South African consul- absorbing and occupying security ernor over contentious plans to “The market was littered with local vigilante group fighting Boko No one has claimed responsibil- tancy Red 24, said the attack resources which could otherwise relocate a US Marines air base all sorts of articles. The mobile Haram alongside the army, said ity for the attack but witnesses demonstrated the “reversion have been used to counter the to a less crowded part of the phone section was a mess with the two bodies recovered later had said the blast bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram to a traditional group in its operational strong- island. Residents of Okinawa, many dead and pieces of flesh and been found in bush land some dis- of Boko Haram, which has pre- asymmetric warfare”. holds,” he added. the site of bloody battles between blood splattered all over.” tance away from the market. viously targeted crowded bus “By conducting sporadic AFP US and Japanese forces near the end of World War Two, have long objected to the US troops and mil- itary installations on 18 percent of their island. Japan’s central government UK wants flights over S China Sea Landslide in central earlier this month suspended construction of a replacement BEIJING: British Foreign the South China Sea without tak- of restricting navigation and facility for the US Marines’ Secretary, Philip Hammond ing a position on territorial issues. overflights. Kerry told a meet- China traps 40 people Futenma air base for a month for called for freedom of navigation China, the Philippines, Vietnam, ing of regional leaders in Kuala talks between Tokyo and island and overflights in the disputed Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei have Lumpur that China’s construction authorities opposed to the base. South China Sea yesterday, overlapping claims. of facilities on man-made islands The island’s governor, Takeshi but stopped short of criticising “We want to see claims dealt for “military purposes” was rais- in mining town Onaga, won office last year largely China. Speaking in Beijing days with by rules-based, not power- ing tension and risked “militari- on his stand against the US bases, after a visit to Japan, Hammond based, solutions, with freedom sation” by other claimant states. and has accused Prime Minister said post-World War Two rec- of navigation and overflight in China responded that freedom BEIJING: About 40 people vanadium producer. Shinzo Abe of looking down on onciliation was “not yet com- accordance with international of navigation and overflights did were missing in China yester- Separately, an accident at a the island’s people. He said “It is plete” in Asia. law,” he said. not mean allowing other coun- day after a landslide buried the coal and gas mine last Tuesday hard for people living near the Hammond said Britain had a The US Secretary of State John tries to trample on sovereignty living quarters of a mining com- night in the southwestern prov- bases.” REUTERS great interest in the stability of Kerry last week accused China and security. REUTERS pany under one million cubic ince of Guizhou killed 10 people, metres of earth, local authori- provincial work safety authorities ties said. said in a statement. The landslide shortly after Yesterday those 56 miners left midnight covered 15 employee the shaft safely after the accident, Mudslides wipe out scores of Myanmar homes dormitories and three houses in with five injured and three more Shanyang county in the northern still missing. province of Shaanxi, an official at China -- the world’s largest YANGON: Myanmar was the county’s propaganda said. producer of coal -- is grappling evacuating parts of a city yes- Around 40 people were missing, to improve standards in the sec- terday after mudslides wiped said the official, who declined to tor, where regulations are often away hundreds of houses and be named. flouted and corruption enables torrential rain threatened fur- The state-run Xinhua news bosses to pursue profits at the ther damage in the worst floods agency said four people had been cost of worker safety. to hit the country in decades. rescued by mid-morning and Accidents in Chinese coal mines The government in Hakha, the rushed to hospital. killed 931 people last year, a top capital of impoverished Chin Another 10 at the site had work safety official said in March. state in northwest Myanmar, avoided being trapped when the The official number of mining was moving nearly 4,000 people landslide struck, it added. fatalities is declining but some to safety after landslides caused Police, firefighters, mining res- rights groups argue the actual by rains destroyed 375 houses, cuers and medical staff had been figures are significantly higher Chin Finance Minister Nan sent to the scene and residents due to under-reporting. Zamon said. in the area evacuated, the county The country is also prone At least 103 people have been government said in a statement. to landslides, often caused by killed and more than one million Photos posted on news websites floods but with lax management “critically affected” by the flood- showed rescue workers in orange of industrial sites sometimes a ing, according to the govern- jumpsuits standing next to a pile factor. ment and the UN Office for the of earth and rocks at least four In 2008, 277 people died in a Coordination of Humanitarian times their size. mudslide in the northern prov- Affairs. It is the worst natural Mechanical backhoes were atop ince of Shanxi after an illegal disaster since Cyclone Nargis the mound. mining waste reservoir burst its killed nearly 140,000 people in People drive through a flooded road near Dar Ka township of Ayeyarwaddy, Myanmar, yesterday. President Xi Jinping said he banks following heavy rain. May 2008. Five out of six town- was following the rescue efforts A total of 58 government and ships in Hakha, population 50,000, completely damaged,” he said. and appealed for international States pledging funds for the closely and every effort should be company officials were convicted had been hit by landslides and Hakha is 970 km (600 miles) help. At least a dozen countries relief effort. made to prevent casualties and over the disaster and sentenced to another 900 houses were in dan- to the northwest of Myanmar’s have donated cash, with China Nan Zamon said another 3,000 further disasters, according to prison terms, some to life. ger of being damaged, Nan Zamon largest city, Yangon, and is the dispatching a convoy of trucks people from nearby villages were state broadcaster CCTV. In 2013 a vast volume of rock said. capital of one of the poorest and with relief supplies, India and also being moved to temporary The mine’s operator was iden- crashed down a mountainside “We are carrying out the evac- least-developed regions. The gov- Australia flying in military air- shelters at government buildings tified by Xinhua as Wuzhou min- east of the Tibetan capital Lhasa, uation now, giving priority to ernment has declared Chin and craft to deliver supplies and the and churches. ing company, which according to burying 83 people in a minework- people from the houses that are three other areas disaster zones European Union and United REUTERS its parent company is mainly a ers’ camp. AFP THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Taliban flay ‘brutal’ IS video Suspected militants Afghan militant group says execution of elders intolerable abduct 12 Hazaras

KABUL: The Taliban have con- explosives,” the Taliban said in a announcement of the death of condemnation the Taliban want KABUL: Unknown gunmen under the Taliban’s hardline demned a “horrific” video that statement last Tuesday. longtime Taliban leader Mullah to project themselves as a legiti- kidnapped 12 ethnic minor- Sunni Islamist rule, although appears to show fighters from The video, more than four Omar. mate group waging an Islamic ity Hazaras from a car in east sectarian violence has been rare the Islamic State group blow- minutes long, appeared on jihadi Even before news of his death war -- and IS are a foreign phe- Afghanistan, days after sus- since the end of the Taliban rule ing up bound and blindfolded social media forums on Sunday the group suffered a string of nomenon trying to weaken Islam. pected Taliban fighters kid- in 2001. Afghan prisoners with explo- and contained commentary in defections to IS, with some insur- But the Taliban’s crimes are not napped and killed four Hazaras Last Sunday, suspected Taliban sives, spotlighting the growing Arabic and Pashto. gents voicing disaffection with the hidden from the Afghan people.” in the same province, officials fighters, seeking to re-establish rivalry between the militant Apparently shot in man described as a “ghost leader” Experts say the gravitational said yesterday. their hard-line Islamist regime networks. Afghanistan’s restive east against -- he had not been seen in public pull of IS, renowned among jihad- Last Tuesday’s kidnappings in after it was toppled by US-led IS insurgents have been making the backdrop of hilly grasslands since the Taliban were toppled ists for establishing an Islamic the province of Ghazni follow a military intervention in 2001, kid- gradual inroads into Afghanistan, enveloped with fog, it describes from power in 2001. “caliphate” across a swathe of spate of suicide bombings in Kabul napped four Hazaras while they challenging the Taliban on their the prisoners as “apostates” The announcement of Omar’s Syria and Iraq, is only likely to last week and add to fears of an were travelling from the Jaghori home turf at a time when an aligned with the Taliban or the death, observers say, could be a grow amid a bitter power struggle increase in sectarian violence as district to Ghazni. increasingly bitter power transi- Afghan government. But the very effective recruitment tool within the Taliban. the Taliban’s anti-government “The Taliban kidnapped them tion is roiling the Afghan militant Taliban described them as “inno- for IS, potentially helping it lure Some top leaders including insurgency gathers pace. from a car in a same way and movement. cent civilians”. “This un-Islamic more Taliban turncoats in a Omar’s son and brother have The passengers were travelling later security forces found their The Taliban have themselves act... can never be justified,” their region where it is still struggling refused to pledge allegiance to Ghazni city when the gunmen bodies,” Ahmadi said. often been accused of savagery statement said. to gain ground. to new leader Mullah Akhtar stopped their car in Jaghuri, offi- In February, masked gun- during their 14-year insurgency “This offence and other such The Taliban warned IS recently Mansour, saying the process to cials said. men kidnapped 30 Hazaras in against the US-backed Afghan brutal actions by a few irrespon- against expanding in the region, select him was rushed and even “We are currently in contact the southern province of Zabul. government but they were blunt sible ignorant individuals under but this has not stopped some biased. with local elders. They will speak Nineteen were freed in May, two in their condemnation of the new the guise of Islam and Muslims fighters swearing allegiance to Tayeb Agha, the head of the with the kidnappers to free our were killed and nine are still IS video. are intolerable.” IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Taliban’s Qatar political office Hazara people,” Mohammad Ali missing. “A horrific video... (shows) The Taliban are blamed for the “Right now the Taliban’s set up in 2013 to ease talks with Ahmadi, a deputy governor of Almost 5,000 civilians were kidnappers who associate them- vast majority of civilian casual- number one enemy is IS,” Kabul- Kabul, resigned last week in pro- Ghazni, said. killed or wounded in Afghanistan selves with Daesh (IS) brutally ties in Afghanistan as the coun- based military analyst Atiqullah test at Mansour’s appointment Hazaras, an ethnic group in the first half of the year, martyring several white-bearded try battles a growing wave of Amarkhil said. and two more members of the belonging mainly to the Shi’ite according to UN figures. tribal elders and villagers with insurgent attacks following the “With (last Tuesday’s) office followed suit. AFP branch of Islam, were persecuted REUTERS Security foils Surge in Taliban I-Day bomb plot: Military attacks blamed

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani security forces said yesterday on leadership row they had foiled a plot to bomb Independence Day celebrations PESHAWAR: A spike in direct contact has not been pos- in Karachi after arresting a attacks in Kabul was designed sible because of security concerns, Taliban gang in the city. to prove the Taliban’s new according to people close to him. Militants had been planning leader was firmly in charge, the The fact that Omar had to detonate a van loaded with group said, but Mullah Akhtar apparently been dead for two explosives in the country’s larg- Mohammad Mansour’s position years before the announcement est city during last Friday’s remains precarious as clerics and that Mansour, his longtime celebrations marking independ- and top militants meet secretly deputy, was appointed leader by ence in 1947, a statement from the to decide whether to back him. a body based in Pakistan rather military said. Divisions are deep over than Afghanistan, has deepened “In an intelligence-based opera- Mansour’s appointment as head resentment. tion security forces have foiled of the hardline Islamist move- Mansour’s legitimacy has been a terrorist bid planned to sabo- ment fighting since its ouster in challenged by Omar’s family, as tage 14 August celebra-tions in 2001 to overthrow Afghanistan’s well as by longtime rivals and the Karachi,” the statement said. Western-backed government and former top official at the Taliban’s The military released photos re-establish strict Islamic rule. Qatar office, who resigned last showing four men detained in A Taliban spokesman con- week. the operation along with the van, Demonstrators with banners and posters protest against a child sex abuse scandal in Karachi yesterday. firmed two of three big suicide “The majority of people are a motorbike and bomb-making bombs last week within 24 hours with us. We aren’t going to form a equipment. were in response to rumours the faction but we are the representa- Police and government para- insurgents had been weakened by tives of the Islamic Emirate,” said military forces have been mount- disputes following confirmation Mullah Manan Niazi, spokesman ing an operation against militants Child abuse case: Cops transferred of the death of founder Mullah for an anti-Mansour faction. and criminals in Karachi since Mohammad Omar. “If Mansour and his few men September 2013. LAHORE: Three Pakistani police had not investigated their alleged sodomy, kidnapping and “The aim was to convey a mes- refuse to accept the decision of The city of 20 million people, police officers have been trans- complaints. torture, police official Muhammad sage to those saying the Taliban is religious scholars, then we call Pakistan’s economic capital, has ferred to other districts accused The officers were removed Amin said. split into factions,” said Zabihullah whatever they do in Afghanistan been racked in recent years by of negligence amid a deepening from their posts “for their negli- The accused would be tried in Mujahid. “We wanted to con- un-Islamic and against the criminal, ethnic, political and scandal over a paedophile ring gence on the Kasur sex scandal”, an anti-terrorism court, Amin vey a message that the Emirate Islamic Sharia,” he added. religious violence. alleged to have abused hundreds Nabeela Ghazanfar, a spokesper- said. Law enforcement officials of Afghanistan is still intact Niazi said Mullah Omar’s In June last year the mili- of children for nearly a decade, son for the provincial police said. frequently use the anti-terror and is capable of carrying out 26-year-old son Yaqoob had the tary launched a major operation officials said yesterday. District police chief Rai Babar courts to bypass Pakistan’s mori- attacks on highly guarded support of the group to take over against Taliban strongholds in A prominent family in the and two deputy superintendents bund judicial system. installations.” the leadership. Pakistan’s tribal northwest aimed central Punjabi village of Husain were reassigned out of the dis- Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz According to several Taliban For their part, Mansour’s fol- at ending the bloody insurgency Khan Wala allegedly used guns, trict. Police in Pakistan are rarely Sharif, the brother of the prime sources, a group of around 1,000 lowers appear unwilling to budge, that has plagued the country for knives and axes to force children - sacked. minister, said on Tuesday that religious scholars has been meet- saying that whatever the decision more than a decade. some as young as five - to perform Parents said that police had he was “personally monitoring” ing senior figures in the move- of the scholars, he would not give The offensive intensified after sex acts on video, which they sold refused to register some com- the case. “We will not let anyone ment opposed to Mansour. up the title “emir”. December last year when Taliban or used to extort money from the plaints and treated some of the involved in this incident escape He was named leader by a “He has been appointed emir militants attacked a school in victims’ families, villagers said. victims “like criminals”. the law. All victim families will “shura” leadership council in the by the shura, so there is no way Peshawar and killed over 150 peo- This weekend, the prime min- The police have arrested 14 get every assistance to identify western Pakistani city of Quetta. he will step down on demands of ple -- mostly children. ister vowed an investigation after suspects so far. Seven cases have culprits without any fear,” he said. They are also due to meet these people,” Mujahid said. AFP protests by parents that Kasur been registered against them for REUTERS Mansour himself, although REUTERS Four Karachi MQM lawmakers quit en masse over political vendetta cops shot dead KARACHI: Lawmakers from provincial assembly, said the at eatery a major Pakistani opposition party was being singled out in the party resigned their seats yes- operation in Karachi. KARACHI: Four policemen terday in protest at what they “We resigned because the were shot dead and another describe as a campaign of vic- MQM is being victimised in the wounded in Karachi yester- timisation against them garb of the targeted operation in day in the latest bloodshed to The Muttahida Qaumi Karachi for elimination of terror- hit Pakistan’s violence-plagued Movement (MQM), the fourth ism,” he said. economic capital. largest party in the National A spokesman for the National A spokesman for the police said Assembly or lower house of par- Assembly said the speaker had the men were eating at a road- liament, quit all its seats in the received 23 out of 24 resignations side restaurant in the city when assembly, in the Senate (upper and would pass them on to the unidentified gunmen rode up on house) and in the Sindh provin- Election Commission. motorcycles and opened fire. cial assembly. The rift between the MQM They were rushed to hospital The party, which dominates and the military widened in where all the four succumbed to politics in the country’s largest June, when Hussain, who lives their injuries, the spokesman said. city Karachi, says it has been in exile in London, in an address Attacks on police and law unfairly targeted in a police and to his workers accused the para- enforcement agencies have been paramilitary crackdown on vio- military Rangers of torturing rampant in Karachi, a volatile city lence in the city, the Sindh pro- and killing party workers and of 20 million people, and dozens of vincial capital. dumping their mutilated bodies policemen have been killed during Tensions have been ris- on roadsides. the current year. ing between MQM chief The MQM has itself often been However, attacks have Altaf Hussain and the powerful accused by critics of using extor- fallen somewhat as police and military establishment in recent tion and murder to cement its government paramilitary Rangers weeks. power over the city. have mounted an operation at “The members of parliament The party has accused law curbing the city’s rampant vio- from MQM, eight senators, 24 Pakistani Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Farooq Sattar (centre) speaks after party lawmakers submitted their enforcement agencies of the lence. The security forces have MNAs (members of the National resignations to the speaker of national assembly in Islamabad yesterday. extrajudicial killing of 40 of its launched an offensive to curb Assembly) and 51 members of workers and the forcible “disap- militant activity. provincial Sindh assembly, have injustice, political victimisation senior party leader Farooq Sattar Khawaja Izharul Hassan, a pearance” of 150 more. AFP resigned in protest against the and pushing the party to wall,” told reporters in Islamabad. senior MQM figure in the Sindh AFP THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Govt blames Congress for Azim Premji, Shiv Nadar among world’s ‘wrong steps’ on Lalit issue tech billionaires WASHINGTON: Two Indian spanning big data, analytics and Sushma rejects allegations against her family; Congress stages walkout tech tycoons, Wipro chair- software. man Azim Premji and HCL co- Syntel, co-founded by Desai NEW DELHI: The ruling Directorate investigation. for her resignation) was only a Lalit Modi and why did she help founder Shiv Nadar are in the and his wife Neerja Sethi, now BJP yesterday attacked the In his spirited reply to the pretext,” he said. him in a “humanitarian” way in Forbes’ first ever list of the 100 generates over $900m in revenue, Congress in the Lok Sabha for debate after a strong attack by Jaitley accused the Congress of a hidden manner. richest people in the technology has a market cap of over $3bn the “wrong steps” taken to bring the Congress, Jaitley said steps having run “a failed government, Sushma Swaraj, who spoke field, dominated by Americans and more than 24,500 employees back former IPL chief Lalit taken by the United Progressive a corrupt government”. amid constant sloganeering by with Microsoft founder Bill across the globe. Modi and rejected the opposi- Alliance government to bring “You want to sabotage the Congress members, said she had Gates at the top. While 51 American billionaires tion party’s allegations against back Lalit Modi from abroad Indian growth story, go back on not helped Lalit Modi but his Two Indian-Americans tech are on the list, tech barons from External Affairs Minister “could never succeed”. the Goods and Services Tax bill,” ailing wife who was to undergo czars, Romesh Wadhwani, CEO Asia made a strong showing as Sushma Swaraj. He said Lalit Modi was the finance minister said. a medical procedure for cancer and chairman of Symphony well, with 33 people hailing from Sushma Swaraj countered alle- largely being probed by the UPA Jaitley also attacked Rahul treatment in Portugal. Technology Group, and Bharat that region. Forty of the 100 live gations concerning her family under the Foreign Exchange Gandhi over his jibes at the prime The minister, who spoke in Desai, co-founder of IT consulting in California. and denied her husband Swaraj Management Act (FEMA), which minister and Sushma Swaraj. the house earlier on allegations and outsourcing company Syntel Bill Gates, who’s also the world’s Kaushal was a lawyer for Lalit had far softer provisions com- “The problem with Rahul against her, said she had made no also figure on the list released last richest man, ranks number one Modi in his passport case. pared to the Prevention of Money Gandhi is that he is an expert mistake. week. among tech tycoons, with a net She said her daughter Bansuri Laundering Act (PMLA). without knowledge,” Jaitley said. She targeted Congress presi- Premji, 70, with a net worth of worth of $79.6 billion. was a “junior at ninth number Jaitley said an FIR was regis- Earlier, Rahul Gandhi launched dent Sonia Gandhi and Rahul $17.4bn is ranked 13th on the list Number two on the list is Larry in the appearance list (in the tered against Lalit Modi under a strong attack on Narendra Gandhi over their alleged links followed by Shiv Nadar, 70, in the Ellison, founder of database soft- passport case)” and “not a single the PMLA in 2012 but the case Modi. with Bofors accused Ottavio 14th spot with $14.4bn. Wadhwani, ware firm Oracle, with a net rupee was taken by her”. did not take off and the the “(Narendra) Modi had prom- Quattrocchi and for “letting 67, is ranked 73rd with a net worth worth estimated at $50 billion. The acrimonious debate former Indian Premier League ised the nation that `15 lakh Warren Anderson (accused in of $2.8bn while Desai, 62, with The third richest on the list in the Lok Sabha saw Rahul chief became liable for arrest only black money would go into every the Bhopal gas tragedy) go scot $2.5bn is in the 82nd spot. is Jeff Bezos with a net worth of Gandhi accusing Prime Minister after concrete steps were taken by bank account. He had also prom- free”. Premji’s Wipro, India’s third- $47.8 billion followed by Facebook Narendra Modi of lacking guts to the Narendra Modi government. ised that he will not allow cor- “During one of his long holidays largest outsourcer, reported a 10 founder Mark Zuckerberg in the face the house over the charges “He became liable for arrest ruption. He has failed in both,” abroad, the Congress vice presi- percent rise in revenues to $1.9 fourth place with $41.2bn. against his minister. for the first time in August 2015,” he said, adding that Lalit Modi dent should reflect on his family’s billion in the last quarter, on the Google co-founders Larry Page The Congress staged a walk- Jaitley said. is the symbol of black money in history,” she said. back of new business from clients and Sergey Brin are ranked fifth out as soon as Finance Minister The minster said Sushma this country. The minister said the British such as ABB and Philip Morris, and sixth respectively. Arun Jaitley began his reply to Swaraj had spoken to the British “They (the treasury benches) government conveyed that Lalit the magazine noted. Altogether, the world’s 100 the debate as it wanted the prime government at a time when Lalit are trying to silence me. The Modi was given the travel docu- Nadar, Forbes noted, has diver- richest tech billionaires are worth minister to do so. Modi was not facing a criminal Congress will not keep quiet; ments according to appropriate sified into healthcare with HCL $842.9bn. Just seven women made The nearly five-hour debate case or had arrest warrants pend- we will keep protesting,” Rahul rules. Avitas, a new firm in partner- the list, the wealthiest of whom is under an adjournment motion ing but only FEMA proceedings. Gandhi said. Citing instances of conflict ship with John Hopkins Medicine Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow moved by Congress leader He accused the Congress of He said Sushma Swaraj asked of interest of Congress leaders, International, which has opened of Steve Jobs, with an estimated Mallikarjun Kharge took place at making a “mountain out of a him on last Tuesday about rea- she said when P. Chidambaram 10 clinics in Delhi. net worth of $21.4bn. Nearly all of the fag end of the monsoon session molehill”. son for his anger. “I said ‘I respect was the finance minister in the Wadhwani has a degree in the 100 are self-made billionaires: which has been virtually washed “The government entirely you’. I looked into her eyes and UPA government, his wife Nalini electrical engineering from the 94 made their own luck, 3 inher- out over the Congress demand for rejects the allegations. The ques- said I am speaking the truth. But Chidambaram was appointed Indian Institute of Technology ited their fortunes, and 3 have the resignation of Sushma Swaraj tion of Sushma-ji’s resignation she looked away,” he said. a lawyer by the income tax and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon. inherited fortunes but have been for her alleged help to Lalit Modi, does not arise.... My entire sympa- He asked how much money department. His Symphony Technology Group actively expanding them. who is facing an Enforcement thy is with Sushma-ji. It (demand Sushma Swaraj’s family got from IANS is a collection of 20 companies IANS

Colourful kites RJD, JD-U to contest 100 seats each PATNA: The RJD and JD-U Lalu Prasad accused Prime jointly fighting an assembly elec- Bihar. Some BJP leaders want to yesterday announced they will Minister Narendra Modi of tion since they parted ways while give no more than 70-80 assem- contest 100 seats each in the insulting Biharis with his DNA being part of the Janata Parivar bly seats to its allies — the Lok Bihar assembly election, leaving remark on Janata Dal-United in the 1990s. Janshakti Party of union min- 40 seats to the Congress and (JD-U) leader and Chief Minister After turning bitter rivals, ister Ram Vilas Paswan, the three to the NCP. Nitish Kumar. Nitish Kumar joined hands RLSP of union minister Upender Friends-turned-foes-turned- “We will reply to Modi’s remark with the BJP while Lalu Prasad Kushwaha and the HAM of allies Chief Minister Nitish about the DNA of Nitish Kumar became part of the Congress-led former chief minister Jitan Ram Kumar and Rashtriya Janata Dal at our joint rally,” he said. “Modi UPA alliance. Manjhi. (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad proved has insulted Bihar, and Biharis The two embraced once again But the LJP has alone staked sceptics wrong by declaring that will take revenge.” after Nitish Kumar dumped the claim to over 80 seats. The RLSP they had reached a consensus Added Nitish Kumar: “We will BJP following the rise and rise of wants to contest more than 60 over seat sharing for the 243-seat jointly campaign across the state.” Narendra Modi in the party. seats while the HAM is eyeing 50 assembly. Most political watchers had Lalu Prasad hinted yesterday seats. Lalu Prasad insisted that “We are united. There are feared that the two main parties that should there be problems on the RJD, the JD-U, the Congress no differences amongst us. We ranged against the BJP in Bihar any issue, Nitish Kumar and he and the Nationalist Congress will defeat the NDA,” Lalu would run into problems over seat would resolve them. “Both of us Party (NCP) were confident of Prasad, referring to the National sharing, with each insisting on a will meet and discuss any issue defeating the BJP and its allies. Democratic Alliance led by the higher share. But Lalu Prasad that need to be tackled.” In the outgoing assembly, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). and Nitish Kumar surprised eve- Yesterday’s announcement is JD-U has more than 110 mem- He said a ‘Swabhiman Rally’ of ryone by announcing that they expected to put pressure on the bers and the RJD 24 seats. The the grand alliance would be held had overcome the major hurdle. BJP-led NDA, which, after its BJP has around 85 legislators in on August 30 in Gandhi Maidan This is the first time Nitish sweep in the Lok Sabha polls, is Bihar. here. Kumar and Lalu Prasad will be determined to come to power in IANS

Will seek rapid Alert in Assam over bicycle bombs nod for Metro GUWAHATI: Militants in the anti-talk faction of ULFA, is IEDs in busy areas in the past Assam may use petty criminals likely to plant IEDs in bicycles for too,” Director General of Police project: Chandy to explode bombs concealed in causing explosion,” a police note Khagen Sarma said yesterday. bicycles ahead of Independence said. “They are likely to outsource He said that besides the anti- THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Day, police sources said yester- (the work to) petty criminals,” it talk faction of ULFA and the The Kerala government will day. Assam Police have sounded added. National Democratic Front of A kite-seller arranges his wares at his shop ahead of Independence seek the central government’s an alert in all districts follow- The Assam government has Bodoland (NDFB), there were Day celebrations in Jammu & Kashmir, yesterday. Independence Day support for speedy clearance ing a warning from intelligence sounded a high alert across the reports of Islamists also trying will be celebrated on August 15 to commemorate the country’s inde- of the proposed Light Metro agencies. state. to carry out disruptive activities project in Kozhikode and “Intelligence inputs indicate “There have been instances of ahead of August 15. pendence and its birth as a sovereign nation in 1947. Thiruvananthapuram, Chief that militant outfits, particularly using cycles and vehicles to plant IANS Minister Oommen Chandy said yesterday. After the weekly cabinet Inmates beat up Tihar meeting, Chandy said that he along with minister in charge of the Light Metro, V K Ebrahim Kunju, is leaving to Delhi to meet undertrial to death Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu to ensure that NEW DELHI: A 29-year-old alarm. He was rushed to the Deen speedy clearance for the project undertrial was killed inside Dayal Upadhyay hospital where is granted. Tihar jail by four murder con- doctors declared him brought “We will be going to Delhi just victs, police said yesterday. dead,” the police officer said. for this and at the same time, now Victim Deepak was killed with Deepak was in Tihar Jail since that the project has been cleared a sharp-edged weapon between 2008 in connection with over 14 by the cabinet, we are going ahead 10pm and 10.30pm last Tuesday cases of dacoity, robbery, kid- with land acquisition,” Chandy in jail number 8. napping, attempt to murder said. “Deepak was attacked and and murder. The attackers have The project is expected to ease killed inside his ward where four been identified as Satpal Bedi, traffic congestion in the busy cap- other high-security criminals Manpreet, Sooraj and Riyaz. ital city and in Kozhikode. were lodged,” Deputy Inspector Satpal is a convict in a dou- ‘Metro Man’ E Sreedharan General (Tihar Jail) Mukesh ble murder case while Manpreet would be overseeing the project Prasad said. allegedly killed another inmate and 40 percent of the project cost Prasad said a Tamil Nadu inside Tihar earlier. is expected to be shared equally Police personnel posted at the “The four have been regularly by the state and central govern- prison saw the four accused beat- violating the prison norms and ment and the rest through loans ing up Deepak. have been involved in many cases from the Japan International “Deepak was lying unconscious of assault and criminal force Cooperation Agency (JICA) with in a pool of blood when the Tamil inside the jail,” Prasad said. very low rates of interest. Nadu police personal raised an IANS IANS THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Maran gets SC stay on Roadside store his bail cancellation Apex court slams CBI for slack two-year investigation

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Question is why custody. Unless and Maran and it was a case Court yesterday stayed the there is any other purpose. Is under Prevention of Corruption Madras High Court order can- there any political vendetta Act.” celling former telecom minister for pushing his arrest?” Justice The AG said that telephone Dayanidhi Maran’s anticipatory Thakur said apparently not per- connections were given at the bail in an alleged illegal tele- suaded of the submissions by residence of Maran at Chennai phone exchange case as it asked Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi. to facilitate his work as commu- if any political vendetta was in “He is a politician. There may nication minister, but same were play for CBI seeking his custody be people. All kind of things are instead used to benefit the Sun for interrogation. going on. Less said the better,” TV in transferring date, films and It slammed the Central Bureau Justice Thakur said as Rohatgi other materials and bills were not of Investigation (CBI) for doing contended that there was no raised on instructions of the min- nothing for over two years since “any other purpose” or “political ister (Maran). 2013 when the case was registered vendetta”. An unimpressed court asked: and now pressing for Maran’s Wondering why the first law “How you come to the conclusion custody for interrogation. officer was appearing in a mat- that bills were not raised because A bench of Justice T S Thakur, ter where the challenge is to the the minister had said it.” Justice V Gopala Gowda and cancellation of anticipatory bail, It asked the AG to show the Justice R Banumathi chided the court gave the CBI three basis of Maran having asked the A vendor attending to a customer at a make-shift roadside shop in New Delhi, yesterday. the CBI for not arresting even weeks to respond to the petition telephone officials not to raise one person in the `8,000 crore by Dayanidhi Maran and directed the bills of those line that were National Rural Health Mission the next hearing of the matter on installed at his Chennai residence scam in Uttar Pradesh, but seek- September 14. from the records. Thakur appears ing Maran’s custody for an out- Taking exception to the whim- As Rohatgi said that Maran Chopper, bodies located standing bill of about `2cr. sical ways the investigating was not co-operating in the inves- The CBI has alleged that agency functions in different tigation, the court said, “If you ITANAGAR: Search and res- bodies due to the hilly terrain. before police as Maran entered into a conspiracy cases probed by it, the court said: say that Maran is not co-oper- cue teams looking for a heli- Paratroopers of the Indian with BSNL officials to use tel- “You must be aware of NHRM ating and not responding to your copter that went missing in Army and some mountaineers probe begins on ephone facilities installed at his scam in Uttar Pradesh. Not even questions, then you can draw an Arunachal Pradesh with three will be pressed into service today Chennai residence to benefit the a single person has been arrested. adverse inference against him.” people on board have spotted to find out the Pawan Hans family-owned Sun TV. `8,000cr have gone down the The court adjourned the hear- bodies, an official said yesterday. chopper and its passengers that Yadav complaint However, this did not wash drain.” ing till September 14 as Rohatgi The bodies were spotted along went missing in Tirap district of down for the apex court. “For `8,000cr, we will not arrest sought time to produce the record with the wreckage of the Pawan Arunachal Pradesh last week. LUCKNOW: Suspended IPS “How this conspiracy was even a single person. For `1.87cr, to address the court’s queries. Hans chopper that went missing The aerial search operations officer Amitabh Thakur yes- hatched. Why have (you) not which may be on account of abuse The Madras High Court had on August 4 in a deep gorge in have located the main portion of terday appeared before Police arrested them (BSNL officials and misuse of official position last Monday cancelled Maran’s a remote forested area in Tirap the wreckage of the Pawan Hans Recruitment Board Director allegedly involved in the con- (by Maran), you want custodial anticipatory bail that was granted district of Arunachal Pradesh. chopper lying in a gorge between General V K Gupta as part of a spiracy). You should have caught interrogation.” to him on June 30 for six weeks Arunachal Pradesh Chief two hills last Tuesday, but the departmental inquiry launched hold of these officials. We will not At this, Rohatgi said, “We tagged with condition that he Secretary Ramesh Negi con- steep downward climb has made against him. approve of this (taking Maran want to unearth the conspiracy would co-operate with CBI in the firmed this yesterday but said it difficult for the rescue teams to The proceedings were video into custody for interrogation). between Sun TV, BSNL officials investigation. IANS it will take time to recover the reach to it. IANS recorded, where Thakur was formally intimated about the charges against him and was asked whether he accepted them or not. The inspector general had crossed swords with Samajwadi Court rejects AAP Naidu urges Modi to give special Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav by alleging that he had threat- ened him over telephone and had leader’s bail plea status to Andhra Pradesh lodged a police complaint. Thakur, however called the NEW DELHI: A court here words used by the legislator was probe against him “politically yesterday rejected the antici- an insult to the Scheduled Castes VIJAYAWADA: Under pres- hand-holding from the central in every matter since bifurca- motivated” and a “direct offshoot” patory bail plea of AAP legis- and they were uttered in public. sure to get special status to government till it achieves level- tion. The state has been facing of his complaint against Yadav. lator Surinder Singh who was It also observed that the facts Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister playing field. problems from division of educa- He said that even the inquiry booked for beating an on-duty of the case, which stated that the N Chandrababu Naidu yester- The chief minister said he spoke tional institutions to shifting of officer was appointed in violation New Delhi Municipal Council worker was part of the NDMC day spoke to Prime Minister to central ministers Venkaiah employees. of rules because neither his expla- (NDMC) employee. team and belongs to a Scheduled Narendra Modi over phone and Naidu, Arun Jaitley, Nirmala “Most states in India have capi- nation was called for nor was he Additional sessions judge Caste. urged him to do justice to the Sitaraman and Bharatiya Janata tals that support the states eco- given the mandatory personal Reetesh Singh dismissed the bail Delhi Police, opposing the bail state. Party president Amit Shah over nomically. Andhra Pradesh has hearing. application of the Aam Aadmi plea, told the court that antici- Naidu said yesterday evening phone last Tuesday. been left in the lurch without a Thakur requested Gupta to Party legislator who allegedly patory bail was barred under the that he conveyed his views to the Stating that Andhra Pradesh capital,” he said. wait for the final order by the assaulted the NDMC employee on special legislation of the SC/ST prime minister over the issue of inherited many problems from “We have revenue deficit, no Central Administrative Tribal, August 4 for clearing footpaths Act. special status. bifurcation of the state, he said major industries or revenue Lucknow where he had chal- illegally occupied by hawkers. Legislator Singh, while seeking “I conveyed to him that injus- he so far spoke to the prime min- sources. This has made our youth lenged the probe and also the On the complaint of NDMC anticipatory bail, told the court tice was done to Andhra Pradesh ister eight times over the issue of go without jobs. Yet, we are trying appointment of the inquiry officer. sanitary inspector R J Meena, that he was falsely implicated in at the time of bifurcation and special status and also discussed to progress,” he said. Gupta rejected it, saying it can police lodged a case against the case and alleged that the com- reminded him that BJP had then with several union ministers. Naidu recalled that Telangana be decided only at the state gov- Surinder Singh last week and plaint was registered for harass- raised its voice for doing justice Naidu reminded the central with 42 percent of population ernment level. booked him under the Scheduled ing and humiliating him. and he (Modi) had made the government that special status was given 56 percent share in He asked Thakur to present his Castes and Scheduled Tribes The incident dates back to promise. I told him that it is now was given to 11 states,, which revenues while Andhra Pradesh facts on the next date of hearing (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, August 4 when the legislator the time to fulfill it,” he said. helped them get 90 percent which had 58 percent population on August 28. and under various sections of the intervened during a routine Modi invited Naidu, also the grant and 10 percent loan from was allotted only 44 percent. Thakur has been suspended Indian Penal Code. checking drive by NDMC in Telugu Desam Party (TDP) the central government. “Andhra The TDP chief also targeted after he filed a complaint against The court, while denying him Tughlaq Road area of New Delhi. chief, to come to New Delhi after Pradesh should not be compared Telangana government for its Yadav. A host of inquiries against bail, observed that a prima facie Police said fourth-grade NDMC August 15 to meet him. with other states,” he said refer- attitude on various issues. He said him, including two in rape cases, case under the SC/ST Act was employee Mukesh was allegedly Naidu, whose party is a part- ring to the recent statement since Hyderabad was declared have been initiated against him. made out against the accused as beaten up by the legislator when ner in BJP-led NDA government, made by the government in par- joint capital for 10 years, the Thakur and his social activist the words alleged to have been Mukesh along with an official said he would discuss special sta- liament that special status will governor should be given special wife Nutan Thakur have alleged used fell within the category of team was trying to clear the foot- tus and all the issues in Andhra not be accorded to any state. powers to maintain law and order that this was being done as they verbal abuse as per law. path occupied by hawkers. Pradesh Reorganisation Act with He pointed out that injustice in the city. had filed a petition against the The court also noted that the IANS Modi. He said the state need was done to Andhra Pradesh IANS state’s Mining Minister Gayatri Prajapati, who is close to the Yadav family. IANS Funeral prayers Go to HC first, SC tells Farmers get lessons on PDS scam litigants pesticide use NEW DELHI: The Supreme Telling the court “Why I said KOCHI: Farmers of car- Court yesterday asked petition- what I had said”, Sibal added damom-growing villages in ers seeking a court-monitored that even the head of the Anti- Kerala’s Idukki district will be CBI probe into the public dis- Corruption Bureau has said in a educated on the judicious use of tribution system (PDS) scam in video that some dimensions of the pesticides, the authorities said Chhattisgarh to approach the PDS scam reaches a place which yesterday. A team of scientists high court as it was in a better they cannot investigate. and officers from the Spices position to address the issue. When high dignitaries are Board will visit 34 villages in A bench of Justice T S Thakur, involved, what investigation August and September for this. Justice V Gopala Gowda and will take place, Sibal asked, and The board said the step is Justice R Banumathi said, “the quoted the ACB chief as saying, a part of an initiative for an high court will be in a better posi- “There are certain people we can’t Integrated Pest Management tion to examine the matter and reach.” awareness campaign aimed at the record the findings”. As Attorney General production of quality cardamom. “If you have any difficulty, you Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for The board has constituted seven can always come to us. It will not Chhattisgarh, sought to dispute teams for the programme. be right (for the apex court) to what was being attributed to the Kerala accounts for 70 percent listen to everything,” the bench Chhattisgarh ACB chief, Sibal of the country’s cardamom pro- told the petitioners. took out a mobile phone, urging duction, with around 15,000 to At the outset of the hear- the apex court to listen to the 20,000 tonnes produced annually. ing, when Justice Thakur asked video recording of what the ACB The programme involves a counsel Kapil Sibal, appearing chief said. combination of measures to Kashmiri villagers offer prayers at a funeral service for Bilal Ahmed Bhat at Larkipora Malangpora in Pulwama for one of the petitioners, to go to Sibal said the state corporation ensure effective pest manage- District, south of Srinagar, yesterday. Bhat was killed after Border Security Force opened fire on civilians the Chhattisgarh High Court, he was purchasing paddy from farm- ment without disturbing the who were protesting against the killing of two Lashkar-e-Toiba militants in an encounter with Indian security replied, “In this case, top authori- ers and giving it to rice mills, and ecosystem and steps to reduce ties are involved. You name them, they in turn were returning third pollution. personnel. they are there.” rate rice. IANS IANS THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 FEATURES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

Insulin pump may insulin pump method is accompanied by sleeping too much at night as well who had major depression disorder use these devices over a long period of by more extensive patient training and as excessive daytime sleepiness. participated. time, and we found the design of the curb heart disease more frequent blood glucose monitor- “Identifying these biomarkers, com- Researchers found that reductions device is critically important,” said ing, Steineck said. bined with new understanding of the in two biomarkers - brain-derived Lucas Carr, assistant professor of health risk by half “There is a rationale for insulin pump important role of exercise in reducing neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and and human physiology at the University eople with Type-1 diabetes who use treatment resulting in more stable hypersomnia, have potential implica- Interleukin-1 beta - are related to of Iowa in the US. Pinsulin pump therapy face almost blood glucose concentrations than mul- tions in the treatment of major depres- reductions in hypersomnia. Another essential component was 50 percent less risk of dying from car- tiple daily injections” she said. sive disorder,” said study senior author The findings appeared in the journal privacy. Place a high-end exercise bike diovascular disease than those who take “Previous studies have shown that Madhukar Trivedi from University of Translational Psychiatry. or treadmill desk in the hall as a shared insulin by multiple daily injections, a insulin pump can reduce the frequen- Texas Southwestern Medical Center in device, and very few employees will use new study says. cies of severe hypoglycemic episodes. the US. them, Carr said. The findings suggest that insulin Severe hypoglycaemia can be a risk People with hypersomnia are com- Keep pedalling at “It is a great idea in theory, but it pumps not only make life easier for factor for cardiovascular events, par- pelled to nap repeatedly during the day, does not work over the long haul for patients, but represent a safe and effec- ticularly among high risk individuals,” often at inappropriate times such as at work to stay healthy most people,” Carr noted. tive treatment method. Steineck explained. work, during a meal, or in conversation. Carr’s research over the years has The researchers monitored 18,168 The study was published in the They often have difficulty waking orget treadmill work stations, a found that the best way to get people people with Type-1 diabetes from 2005 British Medical Journal (BMJ). from a long sleep, and may feel diso- Fportable pedalling device under the moving at work is to change the envi- to 2012 in Sweden. riented upon waking, according to desk can provide a convenient way to ronment in a way that makes being While 2,441 of the participants used the National Institute of Neurological keep sedentary workers active at work, active easier -- a strategy his lat- insulin pump therapy, the others relied Exercise helps reduce Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part and improving their health, says a new est study shows can pay off for both on multiple daily injections. of the US National Institutes of Health study. employees and their employers who The study found that insulin pump daytime sleepiness (NIH). People who sit all day -- even if spend huge amounts of money in pro- users had a substantially lower risk of Other symptoms may include anxiety, they are active outside of work--are at curing fitness equipment for workers. dying of cardiovascular disease than the f you find it too hard to stay awake increased irritation, decreased energy, increased risk for serious health condi- The new 16-week pilot study tested daily injection group. Iat work despite a good night’s sleep, restlessness, slow thinking, slow speech, tions such as multiple chronic diseases, the effectiveness of portable pedal “We carefully analysed the findings to daily aerobic exercise can help you loss of appetite, hallucinations, and poorer cognitive function, and mental machines among 27 workers with sed- eliminate the risk of bias or confounding focus, say researchers, including one of memory difficulty. distress. entary jobs. and concluded that the effect had been Indian-origin. The researchers looked at blood sam- The researchers found that workers At the end of the study, 70 percent of fully verified,” said Isabelle Steineck, Exercise reduces the levels of two ple provided by study participants who who pedalled more were more likely to participants chose to keep their pedal- researcher at Sahlgrenska Academy in proteins, resulting in reduced excessive were randomly assigned to two types of report weight loss, improved concentra- ling device. Sweden. sleepiness, the findings showed. aerobic exercise to determine the effects tion while at work, and fewer sick days The study appeared in the American One reason for the difference The study involved people with of exercise on their depression. than co-workers who pedalled less. Journal of Preventive Medicine. between the two therapies is that the hypersomnia, which is characterised More than 100 adults ages 18 to 70 “We wanted to see if workers would AGENCIES Recycle kitchen scraps into plants

By Dean Fosdick perennials), just keeping them alive. But once they’re out again, in summer, arbage gardening is an easy and they’re wonderful.” inexpensive way to grow flow- Marianne Ophardt, Washington State ers and edibles using kitchen University Extension’s Benton County Gscraps — the pits, seeds and director, added, “Garbage gardening is roots that otherwise would be headed done more to teach children about plants to a landfill. It’s a fun way to recycle. than it is to create new gardens.” Educational for the kids, too. “Most of your kitchen scraps will be “Almost every unprocessed fruit or thrown away, but some can be used to vegetable can be grown into a decorative provide a unique learning opportunity,” houseplant,” said Deborah Peterson, co- she said. author of Don’t Throw It, Grow It (Storey Children often want instant gratifi- Publishing, 2008). cation, so keep things simple. Choose “Some are perennials, others are quick-sprouting plants like potatoes, annuals or biennials,” Peterson said. “You beans, carrots, melons and radishes. will be amazed as you discover how these “Pineapples wouldn’t be a good idea,” beautiful plants can develop.” Peterson said; it takes pineapples two or Chickpeas, for instance, can be coaxed more years to fully mature and produce to flower in hanging baskets, and beets flower stalks. can be transformed into showy dish gar- Beware trying to grow plants from dens with their colorful purple and green imported fruits or vegetables, like the A Meyer lemon that was part of a fast-growing miniature hybrid photographed indoors at a home near New Market, Virginia. RIGHT: A foliage surrounding contrasting blooms. papaya, kiwi or pomegranate commonly sweet potato vines growing from a patio container. Start new plants on the windowsill by found in grocery stores during the win- using the byproducts from roots, nuts, ter, Peterson said. Study labels for the tubers, beans, bulbs, seeds or cuttings. fruits’ origin. Many have been irradiated, Choose self-pollinating produce, like according to a University of New Some recycled remnants can do dou- The “garbage,” if you will. making them sterile, meaning they won’t tomatoes, Ophardt said. “You can save Hampshire Cooperative Extension fact ble duty as ornamental and edible. Take Water, pebbles, soil or peat can be used sprout. those seeds and get the taste you want.” sheet. sweet potatoes, for instance. as a growing medium. “I love mangos and every year try to Citrus seeds are capable of becom- “Indoor citrus plants seen with flow- “I use them in my window boxes as “Every plant you grow should go get one to grow, but they just don’t,” ing flourishing houseplants because ers and or fruits are special miniature decorative vines,” Peterson said. “I have a outside for five months or so, depend- Peterson said. they tolerate home temperatures and varieties,” it said. “Plants grown from collection of small (sweet) potatoes about ing upon where you live,” said Peterson, Also, avoid hybrid fruits and vegeta- dry, indoor air. But under most home standard eating varieties will make deco- the size of my thumb when I take them from Scituate, Massachusetts. “Winter bles because their seeds won’t deliver the conditions, citrus plants started from rative foliage specimens and attractive out of the box in November. They really becomes a holding pattern (for same taste. seed will not flower or bear fruit, floor plants.” taste good.” AP Architecture, nature: Myriad inspirations for bridal wear

By Natalia Ningthoujam translated into a solid and dedicated expression. Falguni said: “It draws inspiration from French & Durga Chakravarty This is that moment for us. And the collection opulence with the ethnic roots of Indian art...from is the result,” Jani said. the ancient intricate embellishment techniques f nature continued to inspire designers Their collection showcased the rich legacy of India and fuses it with the graceful silhouettes of bridal wear, others chose to create of silks, brocades, gold and silver thread work from the western lands.” collections that reflected the gran- and carpet weaving. There were bling embellishments like rhine- Ideur of cities or even an empire at the Ashima and Leena Singh, on the other hand, stones, crystal, glass sequins and feathers, which star-studded seventh edition of BMW India showcased a ‘Dakshna’ range that brought added a glam factor to the range. Bridal Fashion Week in New Delhi. temple worship of south India and traditions Ace designer JJ Valaya’s ‘The Bolshoi Bazaar’ The five-day fashion gala that concluded of Indian brides alive. With 18 ensembles, the showed a cultural mix of elements from Russia and on Tuesday saw 11 designers showcasing collection consisted of bright coloured lehenga India. Valaya’s line was created by using signature their interpretations of bridal wear at the choli and saris. weaves, crepes, georgette and other fine fabrics capital’s DLF Emporio luxury shopping Designer duo Shantanu and Nikhil Mehra with techniques like digital printing, applique and destination. showcased the beauty of their journey to Valaya’s signature embroidery. As the opening designers, Abu Jani and Jodhpur through their collection ‘The Mahal’. Ace fashion designer Tarun Tahiliani created his Sandeep Khosla presented their bridal col- Calling Mehrangarh Fort “such a spectacle”, ‘Our Electic New World’ through panelled veils, lection titled ‘Varanasi’, which paid homage Nikhil said that they had taken reference of the jackets, corsets kurtas, sarees, lehenga saris and to the city. Sheesh Mahal. “The silhouette is also inspired lehenga-cholis, dhotis and sherwanis. “Varanasi has always left a deep impres- by the shapes of Mahal which is more angular And then there were designers who brought the sion upon us. Its history, energy, spiritual- and geometric,” he said. “freshness of the flowers” and more on the ramp. ity and symbolism as well as its astonishing Internationally acclaimed designer duo Rina Dhaka’s inspiration for her line was “inno- legacy of craftsmanship. Falguni-Shane Peacock went with the ‘A French cence and freshness of the flowers in bloom”. She “We’ve worked with weaves indigenous to Rendezvous by Peacock Bride’, which featured showcased lehengas, saris, capes and and sari the city over the years. But there is always a voluminous and slim-fit floor scraping gowns, gowns. moment... a time when those impressions are dresses, saris, lehengas and sari gowns. Designer duo Gauri and Nainika Karan also showed their love for nature by using floral tex- tures and dazzling renditions of zebras and giraffes to pay tribute to nature through their collection. Suneet Varma brought the curtains down on the event through his collection titled ‘Couture- A Love Story!’, based on the Ottoman Empire and the beautiful poetry of the renowned poet Omar Khayyam. There were floor length coats, knee- length kurtas with wide pants, saris and more. There was a strong Bollywood presence at the gala in the form of showstoppers like Sonam Kapoor, Lisa Haydon, Akshara Haasan and Pernia Qureshi. The front row also saw veteran actresses like Jaya Bachchan and Dimple Kapadia. IANS THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BREAK

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A NUSwan (New Smart Water Assessment Network) autonomous watercraft disguised as a swan monitors water quality at a reservoir in Singapore yesterday. The robot swans, developed by a team of researchers, blend into the environ- ment, using GPS to navi- gate their way in a water body to test water quality and watch for pollutants and contaminants. They transfer real time data through WiFi-network in range and return to shore autonomously to recharge batteries. Is there a ‘woman’ living on Mars?

NEW YORK: NASA has not reported as saying that he was not Meanwhile, another photo that confirmed what actually is the familiar with the Martian woman Curiosity took on the same day ‘woman-like’ figure in a Mars his team had “discovered”. (May 31, 2015), sheds some light picture that has kept UFO and But, he added, he fields requests on the humanoid figure. alien life enthusiasts hooked almost every day involving ama- This shot was taken from a for the past few weeks, CNET teurs who believe they have iden- slightly different angle using the reported. Over the past sev- tified signs of life in the massive rover’s right navigation camera, eral weeks, UFO and alien life archive of publicly available which allowed it to also catch a enthusiasts have been poring images sent back from Mars. part of one of the rover’s wheels over this picture and some have “It iss really easy to pick out in the frame. This provides a reached the conclusion that it rocks or other things that look sense of scale that the original shows a humanoid figure on a like something else in pictures photo of the “woman” does not, rocky Martian outcropping. like this,” he was quoted as saying. allowing us to see that if there is Guy Webster, who han- Nevertheless, he has offered to a Martian humanoid in the shot, dles media requests related to look for a JPL scientist to analyse she would have to be about the Mars exploration at NASA’s the photo to see what might actu- size of a pebble. Jet Propulsion Laboratory was ally explain the feminine figure. IANS Thursday 13 August 2015 28 Shawwal 1436 Volume 20 Number 6521 Price: QR2

Russian banking woes mount

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Qatar banks’ private sector credit jumps Credit to government sector slips to QR136bn during the first quarter from QR137bn DOHA: Qatar banks’ credit to The central bank’s quarterly The QCB data showed the pro- The banking system’s net foreign assets that can quickly be con- 2016, respectively. Slowing export private sector rose to QR394bn bulletin indicated the country’s vision ate of Qatari banks rose assets recorded QR105bn in Q2, up verted to currency. M2 includes growth has already negatively in the second quarter of 2015 commercial banks’ domestic to QR11bn in June 2015, from from QR102bn in Q1. Net domes- savings deposits, money market impacted the country’s interna- (Q2, 15), up 6.7 percent, com- investments slipped to QR127bn QR10bn in March. Banks’ provi- tic net assets jumped to QR426bn mutual funds and other time tional reserves. pared with the previous quarter. from the previous quarter’s sion stood at QR10bn in June 2014, from QR405bn in the previous deposits, which are less liquid and The report noted Qatar’s ele- But the banks’ credit to govern- QR129bn. but declined to QR9.9bn by the end quarter. Qatar’s total money sup- but can quickly converted into vated government spending and ment sector declined to QR136bn The banks’ foreign invest- of December before rising again to ply (M1) rose to QR130bn in Q2, cash or deposits. Overall, Qatar’s declining revenues are expected to during the first quarter from ments increased to QR51bn, from QR10bn in January 2015. The QCB from QR126bn recorded in the pre- banking system grew 1.1 percent narrow the country’s fiscal surplus QR137bn on quarter-on-quarter QR50bn. Credit outside Qatar rose data said the estimated total assets vious year. The country’s average in the second quarter. from 10.8 percent of gross domestic basis. The banks’ domestic credit to QR74bn from QR72bn in March touched QR210bn in Q2, up from movement in money supply (M2) Meanwhile, NBK’s Qatar eco- product (GDP) in 2014 to 2.2 per- increased to QR617bn in Q2, 15, 2015. QR203bn from the previous quar- surged to QR531bn, or 4.5 percent, nomic outlook for the third quar- cent of GDP by 2016. This is pri- from QR599bn recorded in the The combined assets of commer- ter. The central bank’s net foreign compared to the previous quarter. ter noted the country’s current marily due to the decline in energy previous quarter, Qatar Central cial banks scaled up to QR1.06 tril- assets increase to QR151bn in the M1 measures a country’s most account surplus is forecast to prices, with hydrocarbon receipts Bank’s (QCB) preliminary esti- lion from QR1.01 trillion recorded Q2 from QR142bn recorded in Q1, liquid components of the money narrow to 4.4 percent of GDP in likely to drop by 33 percent in 2015. mates noted. in the previous quarter. 2015. supply, as it contains cash and 2015 and 3.1 percent of GDP in THE PENINSULA

IMF hails China’s Vietnam doubles trading yuan shocks band for dong WASHINGTON: The exchange rate within two to three HANOI: Vietnam doubled International Monetary Fund years. “The exact impact will the trading band for the welcomed Beijing’s newly depend on how the new mecha- dong yesterday, allowing the announced system to value the nism is implemented in practice,” currency to weaken to try to country’s currency, saying it the spokesman said. make exports more competi- will allow market forces to play China has been criticised by tive as China devalues. a greater role in the nation. some for keeping its currency The new band allows the China cut the yuan’s value undervalued to gain a trade dong to trade by up to two per- against the dollar for a second advantage for its exports. cent on either side of the mid- day yesterday, sending ripples Beijing also seeks to have the point set daily by the central through financial markets and yuan included in the IMF’s basket bank. The dong weakened by raising fears that the currency of special drawing rights (SDR) one percent to 22,040 a dollar could fall further. basket reserve currencies. early yesterday. The reference After Tuesday’s devaluation The new change has no “direct rate was unchanged at 21,673. Chinese authorities said they implications” in the measure “As China is Vietnam’s larg- were seeking to push market used for creating that basket, the est trading partner, an adjust- reforms in a one-time move. spokesman said. ment of Chinese currency will Officials say they will now use “Nevertheless, a more market- have a negative impact on the previous day’s close, foreign determined exchange rate would Vietnam’s economy,” the cen- exchange demand and supply and facilitate SDR operations in case tral bank said in a statement. the rates of other major curren- the renminbi were included in the cies to decide the daily rate around currency basket going forward.” Pedestrians stand before a markets indicator board in Tokyo yesterday. Tokyo stocks dropped after China’s central Ringgit slumps which the Chinese currency can The cuts have already jolted bank devalued the yuan for the second time in two days, to aid a slowing economy. The Nikkei Stock Average trade. The IMF said the step could global share and commodity mar- lost 327.98 points, or 1.58 per cent, to close at 20,392.77. be a boon in the long run. “The kets and Asia-Pacific currencies to 17-year low new mechanism for determin- have suffered as investors fret ing the central parity of the yuan over the impact on economies KUALA LUMPUR: announced by the People’s Bank of closely tied to the Asian giant. Malaysia’s ringgit currency China appears a welcome step as it Analysts said the move could S&P praises yuan devaluation slid past 4.0 to the dollar should allow market forces to have also delay an expected US hike in yesterday for the first time a greater role in determining the interest rates and even threaten a NEW YORK: Credit rating surprised financial markets by The shift is part of an effort to in 17 years, pounded by con- exchange rate,” an IMF spokes- currency war as other countries agency Standard & Poor’s praised devaluing yuan by nearly two per- comply with conditions set by the cerns over economic growth man said in a statement. come under pressure to devalue China’s devaluation of its cur- cent against the US dollar. A second International Monetary Fund to and political uncertainty “Greater exchange rate flex- as well. “China has indicated that rency and said the move did not cut yesterday brought reductions qualify the Chinese currency in stemming from a govern- ibility is important for China as the changes announced today are threaten a currency war. this week in the yuan to 3.5 percent the IMF’s “special drawing rights” ment financial scandal. it strives to give market forces a another step in its move to a more “China’s surprise move to allow to its lowest level in four years. basket. China wants to expand use Analysts said China’s sur- decisive role in the economy and market-determined exchange for more exchange rate flexibility The move to allow more flexible of the yuan by having it included in prise devaluation of the yuan is rapidly integrating into global rate,” the US Treasury said, add- makes good economic sense and is trading “could help maintain the the SDR, an international reserve also pressured the ringgit, the financial markets,” the statement ing: “Any reversal in reforms not the start of a currency war or flexibilty of the country’s monetary asset that currently comprises four worst-performing currency in said, adding that China “can, would be a troubling develop- an attempt to jump-start growth,” policy as cross-border financial currencies: the dollar, euro, pound Asia over the past year. AFP and should” achieve a floating ment”. AFP S&P said. Beijing on Tuesday flows increase,” S&P said. and yen. AFP

Latin American business aviation meet Oil glut persisting, but demand to grow at fastest pace for five years

LONDON: World oil demand is production forecasts, signalling It added that persistent macr- expanding at its fastest pace in that a 60 percent rout in bench- oeconomic strength will support five years thanks to rebounding mark prices since last summer above-trend growth at 1.4 million economic growth and low prices, may finally be weighing on shale bpd in 2016, up 410,000 bpd from but global oversupply will last output. its previous forecast. through 2016, the West’s energy Oil prices have fallen to below The decline in crude prices has watchdog said yesterday. $50 per barrel, pressured by an prompted oil companies to cut their The International Energy abundance of supply and a strong investment plans. “While a drop Agency said in a monthly report dollar. The views from the IEA in costs and efficiency improve- that it was steeply raising its are more bullish than those of ments will help to offset some of demand growth outlook for this Opec, which on Tuesday raised the spending cuts, output is likely year and 2016, and expected non- its forecast of oil supplies from to take a hit soon,” the IEA said. Opec supply growth to decline non-member countries. The IEA said it saw non-Opec next year, with US producers The IEA said it saw global oil supply growth slowing sharply hardest hit. “While a rebalancing demand rising by 1.6 million bar- from a 2014 record of 2.4 million has clearly begun, the process is rels per day (bpd) in 2015, up bpd to 1.1 million bpd this year likely to be prolonged as a supply 260,000 bpd from its forecast and then contracting by 200,000 overhang is expected to persist last month, citing solid economic in 2016 1 with the United States through 2016 — suggesting global growth and consumers respond- hardest hit. The prediction sig- inventories will pile up further,” ing to lower prices. “That’s the nals that Opec’s strategy of not Visitors look at aircrafts during the Latin American Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (LABACE) the Paris-based IEA said. biggest growth spurt in five cutting output, and hurting rival at Congonhas Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil. LABACE, the largest business aviation event in Latin America, The view from the IEA chimes years and a dramatic uptick on a producers instead with lower will end today. with that of the US government, demand increase of just 0.7 mil- prices, might be finally working. which on Tuesday lowered US lion bpd in 2014,” it said. REUTERS THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Creditors to subject Greek deal to Oct test Lenders want to be sure reforms are implemented

ATHENS/BRUSSELS: The have to submit viable business expedite its approval so com- European Union moved to keep plans to European authorities mittees can discuss the agree- Greece on a tight rein after before fresh support is disbursed ment before a vote expected its latest bailout, with sources and will only receive cash once today evening. That would allow saying the €85bn (£60bn) deal authorities sign off on the plans. eurozone ministers meeting in will be reviewed by lenders in The bailout agreement reached Brussels tomorrow to sign off October and any discussion of on Tuesday gives Greece some on the deal and pave the way debt relief will only come at a respite after months of acrimo- for aid to be disbursed before a later stage. nious talks with its creditors, €3.2bn debt repayment falls due Greece was forced to accept the imposition of capital controls on August 20. tougher terms than were initially and a three-week shutdown of its The legislation covers tax and on offer and its creditors want to banks. pension reform, public admin- be sure that reforms are being It has however caused a rebel- istration reform, the relaunch carried out as promised. Germany, lion in Prime Minister Alexis of a privatisation scheme which for one, said the agreement lacked Tsipras’s Syriza party and could stalled earlier in the year and the clarity on Greece’s policy direc- force early elections in the establishment of a wealth fund tion. “There will be a strong first autumn, while doubts remain for privatisation projects which Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Greek Economy Minister Giorgos Stathakis at a press conference after review of the implementation about whether a leftist gov- will be supervised by European their meetings at the Greek Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks in Athens yesterday. of measures in October,” an EU ernment elected on a pledge to institutions. source said. reverse austerity can implement According to the 29-page mem- At the same time, rescue funds the tough terms of the deal. orandum of understanding Greece in Berlin. “So one can say that “no full clarity on the direction of long-running and often bad-tem- for Greek banks will be placed in The bailout, Greece’s third agreed with creditors Greek must the agreement goes in the right policies”. pered negotiations on the bailout a special account and the lenders since 2010, must still be adopted move to rapidly privatise its ports, direction,” said Steffen Seibert, In a two-page paper entitled improved after combative finance will receive fresh equity only after by parliament in Athens and regional airports and its power Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “preliminary check of MoU” that minister Yanis Varoufakis was a “stress test” is finished by the approved by eurozone countries. grid operator. Greece would also spokesman. “But at this hour it was sent to officials in Brussels removed from the talks. end of October, sources said. Tsipras said the agreement take steps to tackle the mountain is not yet possible to say whether on Wednesday, the ministry The mood apparently changed An initial €10bn will be made would end economic uncertainty of bad loans weighing on its banks. we are at the point where we described Greek reform plans on after the appointment of Euclid available “immediately” to shore as his government submitted a Germany, the major eurozone can start the national process, in debt sustainability and privatisa- Tsakolotos as finance minister up confidence in Greek banks, bill outlining a three-year bailout contributor to successive Greek other words call for a vote in the tions as “not yet compliant”. in place of Varoufakis early last while authorities conduct a programme to parliament, push- bailouts, welcomed the deal as a Bundestag.” But reports that Germany had month. “There was a sea change detailed asset quality review ing for quick approval that would “substantial result” but wanted Germany’s Finance Ministry rejected the Greek rescue pro- in the negotiations with the Greek that is expected to take several allow rapid disbursement of aid. to study it further before submit- criticised the memorandum of gramme were wrong, the minis- authorities in recent weeks,” one of months. Greek banks will also Tsipras wants parliament to ting it for approval by parliament understanding (MoU) as showing try said. EU sources said that the the EU sources said. REUTERS Iran reassures India Lower bonuses hit wage growth in UK LONDON: British wage growth The ONS said the figures versus the euro after the data a rise in borrowing costs against fell to a three-month low in strengthen the possibility that and British yields fell as traders expectations that two or more over development June and rapid gains in employ- “the jobs market is levelling off”, viewed the data as further reduc- would do so. ment seen over the past couple while economists had mixed ing the chance of any BoE action With inflation at zero and a of years ground to a halt, official views, with some seeing weakness on rates in 2015. “The latest UK strong pound keeping price pres- figures showed yesterday, rein- while others pointed to a stronger labour market figures showing a sures in check, the BoE is closely rights of gas field forcing the view that the Bank underlying picture for wages and fall in employment and weaker eyeing Britain’s labour market as it of England is in no rush to raise productivity. wage growth support the consen- judges when to raise interest rates NEW DELHI: Iran has said told lawmakers yesterday. India interest rates. The unemployment rate held sus view on the Monetary Policy for the first time since the start the development rights for its signed a deal with Iran in 2005 Headline annual earnings steady at 5.6 percent after an Committee that interest rates do of the financial crisis in 2008. The Farzad-B gas field will be avail- to buy 5 million tonnes a year of growth fell sharply to 2.4 percent unexpected rise in the three not need to rise before the end of nearly 12 percent drop in bonuses able to Indian companies after LNG but the contract was never in the three months to June from months to May, while the total the year,” Samuel Tombs, an econ- in June — the largest in more than concerns in New Delhi that implemented. 3.2 percent in the three months number of people in work was omist at Capital Economics, said. a year — reflected one big com- cash-rich European firms could Separately, Oil India said the to May, the Office for National 63,000 lower than the near-record Markets pushed back expecta- pany having lower bonuses than clinch the contract. first delivery of LNG cargo from Statistics said, after a fall in level of 31.1 million reached in the tions for an interest rate rise in in the previous year and another A consortium headed by Mozambique’s offshore Area 1 bonuses took a bigger toll than first three months of 2015. Britain last week after only one changing the timing of pay-outs, ONGC Videsh, the overseas Block in the Rovuma basis was economists had forecast. Sterling hit a one-month low Bank of England official voted for the ONS said. REUTERS investment arm of India’s Oil expected in the first quarter of and Natural Gas Corp, in 2008 2020. “There is a delay of 7-8 discovered the Farzad-B gas field months in LNG supplies from in the Farsi offshore block. The Mozambique, as their parlia- IBQ’s thanq winner Indian consortium, which also ment only recently passed the include Oil India and Indian Oil law supporting development of Kraft Heinz to McDonald’s Corp, has been seeking develop- (an) LNG hub,” Roy said. ment rights for the field. He said Mozambique’s Area cut 2,500 jobs An Indian delegation that went 1-operator Anadarko Petroleum apologises for to Iran in the last week of July had signed initial deals with in US, Canada was told Tehran was working out Japan, South Korea and ‘don’t feed the a new production sharing con- Singapore-based entities to sell NEW YORK: Kraft Heinz tract, said B Roy, head of busi- 60 percent of the gas to be pro- plans to cut 2,500 jobs in the homeless’ note ness development at Oil India duced from the phase 1 of the US and Canada as it eliminates Ltd. “The outlook is upbeat,” he project. duplicative positions follow- MARSEILLE: McDonald’s said. It was reported last month ing the merger of the two food France was forced to apolo- Iran has asked Indian firms that Anadarko was in talks giants, a company spokesman gise yesterday following the to submit a development plan with Japanese joint-venture said yesterday. emergence of an internal note for the Farzad-B gas field, Roy vehicle Jera, set to become the The job cuts will hit just over reportedly ordering staff not to said, adding Tehran had offered world’s biggest buyer of LNG, to five percent of the company’s hand out food to “tramps” at a a draft contract, known as the sell long-term supply from its workforce. About 700 of the restaurant on the swish Cote Iran Petroleum Contract (IPC), Mozambique export scheme. affected jobs will come from d’Azur. The note was revealed to Indian companies. Roy said banks had committed the company’s headquarters in on Twitter by consumer group The new contract for the block $16bn for the project that would Northfield in the midwestern “60 Million Consumers”. is a mix of production sharing cost about $23bn. state of Illinois, said spokesman “Following an incident on and service contract, he said. “The financial closure for the Michael Mullen. July 25, it is formally forbidden The delegation also renewed project is expected by the end of Employees who work in sales, to give food to tramps,” says the talks over the purchase of Iranian this year or early next year,” he marketing and finance are note, which is signed by “the liquefied natural gas (LNG) once said. expected to be among the most management”. sanctions against the country The project also include setting affected. “As a reminder, staff meals are lifted and Tehran sets up a up two LNG trains of an annual The job cuts come about six International Bank of Qatar (ibq) official honouring Qatar Airways Captain must be eaten on the premises. liquefaction facility, Indian Oil capacity of 6 million tonnes each. weeks after the merger between Athanasios Kolovos as the winner of the monthly prize draw for the Staff meals are a personal ben- Minister Dharmendra Pradhan REUTERS Kraft and Heinz closed. AFP bank’s loyalty programme, thanq. Kolovos received his prize at the efit and should only benefit the bank headquarters in the presence of Sherif Gamil, Head of Sales at ibq. staff member in question,” the note continued. “McDonald’s is not here to feed all the hungry people in the country!”. The association cited on its website a McDonald’s employee Indonesia’s trade minister plucked from executive suite who said he had given some of his food to homeless people outside JAKARTA: Thomas Lembong from the executive suite of his particular in Indonesia, Malaysia been tested after it slashed the the restaurant last month. (pictured) has mingled for Singapore-based private equity and Singapore. “Tom’s appoint- number of cattle import permits “The smile of the people to years with bankers and private company as part of a wider cabi- ment is excellent,” John Riady, last month. Australia supplied whom I gave my meal was price- equity executives, but yesterday net reshuffle, which followed a director at Indonesian retail- around 40 percent of the beef less,” the consumer group quoted swapped that to take up the post weeks of criticism that his origi- to-property conglomerate Lippo consumed in Indonesia last year. the staff member as saying. of Indonesia’s trade minister, an nal economic team had failed to Group, said. “I believe the mar- “The introduction of market- The fast-food chain responded appointment designed to shore halt a slide in growth to its slow- ket will respond very positively friendly Lembong in the trade in a statement: “After a serious up investor faith in Southeast est pace in six years. “We face to a trade minister who brings ministry is positive given the incident with homeless people on Asia’s largest economy. a heavy economic challenge,” together a deep understanding outgoing trade minister adopted the evening of July 25 in front of Eloquent, urbane and with a Lembong said in a speech after of how global markets work, how nationalist policies that failed to the McDonald’s in Hyeres, the degree from Harvard, Lembong the new ministers were sworn in. business functions and has a heart energise the country’s exports,” restaurant sent out a note to pre- breaks the mould of staid and “The president, vice president and for the Indonesian people.” said Achmad Sukarsono, an ana- vent these incidents and to ensure often feckless politicians that ministers strongly believe that Lembong becomes trade czar lyst at Eurasia Group. its clients’ safety.” Indonesians have come to expect Indonesians have the strength to at a time when Indonesian shoe, Lembong was the Indonesia “The procedure and the word- from their government ministers. overcome this. It’s a question of garment and other businesses representative in a group of global ing was clumsy and the manage- But then he was appointed by utilising the resources.” have been struggling to compete institutional investors overseeing ment swiftly withdrew the note. Joko Widodo, a former furniture Now in his early 40s, Lembong with Chinese goods, which could trillions of dollars who visited McDonald’s contacted the restau- businessman who last October worked at Deutsche Bank and become even cheaper after the Jakarta after Widodo took office rant to apologise to anyone who became the country’s first presi- Morgan Stanley before co-found- world’s second-biggest economy last year. Lembong said that the might have been shocked by this dent from outside the political or ing Quvat Management private devalued its currency this week. new president was “a huge mag- note and to recall that the chain is military establishment. equity firm that specialises in Indonesia’s relations with a key net for investors” who “speaks the there to serve any client, without Widodo plucked Lembong growth capital and buyouts, in trade partner, Australia, have also language of business”. REUTERS distinction,” the firm added. AFP THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Russian banking woes mount India’s economic Central bank revokes licence of Probusinessbank Rouble slides data brings cheer MOSCOW: More Russian to six-month banks are feeling the strain amid reform worries from the country’s economic slump, highlighted yesterday low on yuan NEW DELHI: India’s retail by the central bank’s decision inflation cooled to a record low to pull the licence of mid-sized MOSCOW: Russia’s cur- in July and annual growth in Govt to sell Probusinessbank. rency fell to a six-month industrial production hit a four- Banks are under pressure as low yesterday as oil prices month high in June, bringing 10pc stake low oil prices and Western sanc- were forced down by China’s cheer to investors fretting that tions over the Ukraine crisis have devaluation of the yuan for gridlock in parliament is stall- in Coal India caused a sharp economic contrac- the second straight day, with ing reforms. tion, leading to a deterioration the dollar topping 65 roubles. Consumer prices rose 3.78 per- MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: in banks’ assets. “The financial The rouble hit 65.25 to the cent year-on-year in July, their India is aiming to sell a crisis of the last year has defi- dollar and 72.48 to the euro in slowest pace on record, compared 10 percent stake valued nitely accelerated and increased early trading before recover- with a 4.42 percent rise predicted at around $3.7bn in top the need to reduce the number of ing slightly, approaching the by analysts. The sharp cooling, coal miner Coal India Ltd banks, because banks are facing a lows of over 67 roubles in early however, was in large measure through a stock market auc- new round of bad loans,” said Alfa February. The rouble’s creep- due to a favourable base effect. tion, as part of the govern- Bank economist Natalia Orlova. ing 20 percent slide over the Output at factories, utilities ment’s drive to raise money The central bank said it had last two months has given rise and mines expanded an annual from reducing its holdings in revoked Probusinessbank’s licence to new fears of destabilisation 3.8 percent in June, helped by companies. as the bank had failed to meet and a run on the currency a sharp rebound in demand for The government, which minimum capital requirements. similar to one in December consumer goods. The economic owns 78.65 percent of Coal Probusinessbank had “carried that was brought on by falling data comes as a political logjam India, has sought bids from out a high-risk policy connected oil prices and Western sanc- in parliament has stalled Prime banks by September 2 to man- with placing its monetary means tions over Ukraine. Minister Narendra Modi’s reform age the share offering, accord- in low-quality assets,” the central Russia’s government has agenda, putting in doubt the fate ing to a notice issued by the bank said, adding that the bank predicted that the economy of a major tax overhaul that will Department of Disinvestment, had exhausted its capital as a would have hit the bottom create one of the world’s largest which oversees stake sales in result. in the second quarter, when single markets. A crash in glo- state companies. Five banks In emailed comments, central it contracted by 4.6 percent bal commodity prices has helped will be selected for the offer- bank deputy chairman Mikhail year-on-year. Analysts have inflation slip below the Reserve ing, it said. New Delhi is seek- Surkov said the bank’s liabilities said they expect a recovery will Bank of India’s (RBI) medium- ing to raise as much as $11bn exceeded its assets by at least start in the current quarter. term target of 6 percent, giving by selling stakes in state-run 67bn roubles ($1.04bn). “The The ruble is highly depend- it room to cut interest rates by companies this fiscal year, hole was caused by the presence ent on oil prices, as oil and gas 75 basis points this year. crucial to narrowing the fiscal at the bank of various financial is the main source of Russia’s The central bank left the policy deficit to a planned 3.9 percent assets that had signs of being fic- income. Russia’s optimism repo rate on hold last week, leav- of gross domestic product in titious,” he said, adding that the regarding an oil recovery ing the door open to ease further 2015/16. REUTERS central bank intended to inform has been “short-lived,” said depending on the inflation out- law enforcement agencies if its a note by ING Bank’s chief look. The latest inflation data, the yuan’s devaluation will flood suspicions were confirmed by A woman walks past a currency exchange office in Moscow yesterday. Russia economist Dmitry coupled with China’s move to the local market with cheaper documentary evidence. Russia’s currency fell to a six-month low yesterday. Polevoy. AFP devalue its currency, has bolstered Chinese imports, worsening the The bank was the 51st largest hopes of further monetary easing. bilateral trade deficit. by assets, making it a relatively “The number is a big down- “Along with the yuan devalua- big player in a country with over closure of relatively small bank 27 of the largest banks, financed to its second-quarter accounts. side surprise,” said A. Prasanna, tion move, I think there is a case 700 banks, but not one of systemic could cause a banking crisis — it from the government budget. The withdrawal of its licence an economist at ICICI Securities for more (and) not less accom- importance. Russia’s top 20 banks can’t be excluded.” The government has also dou- comes two weeks after the central Primary Dealership. “This modation,” said Jyotinder Kaur, account for three quarters of the So far, government measures to bled the size of the pay-outs it bank closed mid-sized Rossiyskiy increases chances of RBI cutting principal economist at HDFC sector’s assets. bolster banks appear to have been makes to compensate depositors Kredit Bank and three smaller interest rate one more time in Bank. “The sooner the Reserve Maxim Osadchiy, head ana- effective in preventing recent in failed banks, insuring 1.4m banks linked to it, which the state this fiscal year ending March.” Bank of India steps on the easing lyst at CFB bank, said that while financial turmoil from eroding roubles ($21,800) per person per deposit insurance agency said This is bad news for Indian pedal, the better it is.” there was little likelihood of an overall public trust in the bank- bank. While the insurance scheme would cost it an estimated 62.2bn exports, which have fallen for The RBI, however, is worried immediate domino effect from ing sector. has helped to reassure savers, it roubles ($967m). seven straight months. Exporters about entrenched high inflation- Probusinessbank’s closure, the The most recent June data also means that the government Last December the central are already complaining about a ary expectations which are feeding trend of bank failures could yet shows retail deposits up 15.7 per- is facing a growing bill as more bank took measures to shore up relatively stronger rupee that into higher wages and other prices. dent public confidence in the sec- cent compared with a year earlier. mid-sized banks are closed. Trust Bank, another sizeable mid- has appreciated by 10 percent on A central bank survey last week tor. “The situation is getting worse The support measures have Probusinessbank held some sized bank, providing 127bn rou- a real trade-weighted basis since showed households expect con- and worse,” he said. “If there are included a one trillion rouble 27bn roubles ($420m) in retail bles in emergency financing. the middle of last year. sumer inflation to hit 10.1 percent several more cases then even the ($15.55bn) capital injection for accounts and deposits, according REUTERS Indian companies are worried within three months. REUTERS

Almotahajiba gets ISO certification Boeing sees strong jetliner demand; focus on cost-cutting

NEW YORK: Boeing Co is still 787, which costs about $260m at Titanium is among the 787 costs seeing strong demand for civilian list prices, is Boeing’s most recent Boeing is evaluating, given the high aircraft and pressure to increase commercial jet. It is loaded with cost of the material. its production rates, despite con- high-tech features, but continues Smith said stable 787 production cerns about slowing growth in to lose money. “There’s no question at a rate of 10 per month has helped China and several years of record getting 787 unit cost down, unit Boeing find cost savings. Demand aircraft orders. over unit, is a big if not the biggest for the 787 variant is being affected “We’re not seeing a slowdown in focus area we have at the company,” by the long wait time and faster demand,” Chief Financial Officer Smith said. production would help, he added. Greg Smith said at an investor Boeing has not met its own “If we had the opportunity to bring conference yesterday hosted by expectations in cutting 787 costs rate up faster, we would.” investment bank Jefferies. Airlines and has roughly 1,100 cost-cutting Boeing lost about $23m on every from many countries are buy- projects it is evaluating with a spe- 787 it delivered in the second quar- ing significant numbers of planes cial team, he said, noting there is “a ter, but expects the 787 to turn to replace old aircraft, providing lot of work do to” and time required cash-flow positive by the end of “more confidence in this cycle” he to wring savings out of the produc- the year. The programme has run added, addressing concerns by some tion system. “That’s what we have up about $30bn in production, tool- Officials of Almotahajiba Factory, a garment factory under Al Siddiqi Holding, with the ISO 9001:2008 investors that the cycle has peaked. an entire team focused on right ing and one-time costs building the certification. It is the first and only readymade garment factory in Qatar to establish a quality manage- Cutting production costs on the now,” Smith said, “looking at all plane, which will begin to be paid off ment system for manufacturing and supply of readymade garments and fulfill the requirements needed 787 Dreamliner is a top priority at aspects of the build and in the sup- when the 787 becomes profitable, the Chicago-based company. The ply chain.” expected in 2016. REUTERS to achieve the certification.

Facebook in India Facebook struggles to sell ads in India While Asia Pacific accounts for a third of Facebook’s ...But in India alone, Facebook makes the most monthly active users, it generates less than one ad impressions by far, more than double its sixth of Facebook’s advertising revenue... nearest competitor. SAN FRANCISCO/MUMBAI: brings in $15m a quarter, far behind provide specific figures. “Since our and the company. But Indian adver- Share of total Top 10 web content publishers in India Facebook is trying to lure skepti- the $350m he estimates Google customers are on Facebook, we are tisers still overwhelmingly flock to Q2 MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS (MAU) BY AD IMPRESSIONS, PCT OF TOTAL* cal advertisers in India with fea- earns there per quarter. on Facebook. It’s that simple.” television ads and remain skeptical Asia Pacific: 33.3% Rest of world: 66.7% Facebook 26.7% tures such as free email support Google, which set up in India in Facebook declined to say how of the value of advertising on social Google sites 12.0% for questions about advertising 2004, has been in the Indian market many staff members it has in India media, analysts and business execu- Q2 ADVERTISING REVENUE Yahoo sites 11.9% and advice on increasing sales in six years longer than Facebook, and or how much it has invested since it tives said. “Advertisers in India are 15.8% 84.2% Rediff.com 3.5% a bid to boost revenue from its its search ads are more familiar to launched operations there in 2010. not warmed enough to social media Average advertising revenue per user $3.00 second biggest market. advertisers there than the display But the world’s largest social net- as a concept of marketing,” said Asia Pacific Worldwide Microsoft sites 3.4% 2.50 Facebook has 132 million users ads Facebook offers. work says it has seen early signs its Shah, the Counterpoint analyst. Times internet 3.3% 2.00 in India, trailing only the 193 mil- The business-boosting features, efforts are working. The company “We really need to help them see ESPN 2.6% 1.50 lion in the United States, according described by company execu- unveiled a new type of ad designed how Facebook pages and advertis- Network18 1.9% 1.00 to the company, and the country tives and Indian business people, specifically for India last year, called ing will help grow their businesses,” India Today 0.8% is critical for the Menlo Park, are aimed at advertisers such as “click to missed call.” said Andy Hwang, Facebook direc- 0.50 Dainik Jagran 0.6% 0 California, social network’s global Mohit Khattar, managing director Users click a button on an ad, tor of small- and medium-sized Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 2014 2015 expansion. But so far, the payoff has at online grocery company Godrej which automatically calls an adver- businesses for Asia Pacific. * Home and work locations, excludes text ads in searches been small: Facebook earns 15 cents Nature’s Basket, one of the roughly tiser. The user hangs up — to save For instance, the company Sources: Facebook; Comscore; eMarketer per user in India every quarter, 60 to 65 million small- and medium- them the charge for the call — and advises businesses to create compared to the $7 to $8 it makes sized businesses in the country. the advertiser calls back with a pre- interactive Facebook pages and two-thirds of the world’s popula- markets such as Brazil, Indonesia on each US user, according to ana- He said he began advertising on recorded message. Garnier Men, a use Facebook Messenger to inter- tion. Asia is Facebook’s fastest- and Mexico, which are Facebook’s lysts. Facebook does not break Facebook about two months ago as leading men’s hair care company in act with customers as a way of growing region, with 57 percent third-, fourth- and fifth-largest out its revenues in India, but Neil the company ramped up its online India and a unit of beauty products increasing sales. Technology com- year-over-year growth in monthly markets by users. Shah, an analyst at Counterpoint presence. He found that advertis- giant L’Oreal SA, saw online sales panies have turned to India and active users. That makes success in India Research, a Hong Kong-based tech- ing in-store events and sales helped more than double by using click to other markets in Asia for growth Facebook said it plans to use its even more important for its global nology consulting firm, estimates it attract customers, but would not missed call, according to Facebook because the region contains strategy in India for other emerging expansion. REUTERS THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Alibaba shares Pearson moves out hit record low after of The Economist poor earnings BEIJING: Alibaba’s shares Exit follows sale of FT as Pearson focuses on education skidded to a record low in New York yesterday after China’s LONDON: Britain’s Pearson To finance the purchase The and policymakers with authorita- biggest e-commerce company brought an end to its near Economist, founded in 1843, tive stories to boast a paid circula- posted its slowest revenue 60-year ownership of The said it would sell the Economist tion of 1.6 million a week. growth in over three years. Economist yesterday, agreeing building in London’s exclusive St Under the terms of the deal, The shares fell as much as 7.9 to sell its 50 percent stake in a James’s district, its home since the Exor will pay £287m to increase percent in the opening minutes of deal that makes Italy’s Agnelli 1960s. “The board’s priority was its stake to 43.4 percent from trading and the number of shares family the largest shareholder to secure the independence of the 4.7 percent and The Economist exchanged was already more than in the weekly title. ownership of the Group and the Group will pay £182m to repur- 85 percent of their full-day aver- The £469m ($731m) deal had continued editorial independence chase Pearson’s remaining ordi- A man walks past the headquarters of the Economist editorial offices in age. The share price has now been expected after Pearson sold of The Economist,” said Rupert nary shares. London yesterday. dropped by nearly a third since the Financial Times newspaper Pennant-Rea, the chairman of The other shareholders will the beginning of the year. last month to Japan’s Nikkei to The Economist Group. “The see their holdings rise due to the As well as missing revenue focus on its education business. strength of the Group’s balance group buying back the remain- one individual or company can “We are convinced of the huge forecasts, Alibaba announced The Economist, a famously sheet meant that we could reor- ing shares from Pearson, with own more than 50 percent of the potential that still lies ahead and a $4bn share repurchase pro- opinionated advocate of free mar- ganise our shares so as to rein- Rothschild the second-biggest group’s shares. particularly in The Economist’s gramme over two years, which kets, said the deal would be struc- force our editorial independence investor at around 27 percent. Exor, which also holds a con- ability to seize the many develop- it said was primarily aimed at tured in such a way as to guarantee and benefit our shareholders.” Exor added that, subject to a trolling stake in carmaker Fiat ment opportunities linked to the offsetting the impact of the com- its editorial independence. While many publications have shareholder vote, the governance Chrysler Automobiles, among digitisation of the media indus- pany’s share-based compensation Pearson said it would sell its been convulsed by the rapid shift rules of The Economist would be others, has been investing to try,” John Elkann, the CEO of programs and other factors that stake to Exor, a holding vehicle of both readers and advertisers amended to limit the voting pow- diversify its portfolio away from Exor and a scion of the Agnelli could dilute the share price. for the Agnelli family, and to The online, the Economist has grown ers of any single shareholder to the capital intensive and cyclical family, said in the statement. China’s economy is expected Economist Group. in strength, targeting executives 20 percent, and to ensure that no automotive business. REUTERS this year to see its slowest growth for a quarter of a century. Alibaba’s Chief Executive Daniel Zhang told US broadcaster CNBC yesterday that the company was closely monitoring the economy but was “confident for long-term Moody’s cuts Brazil growth”. In a bid to stem slowing growth in both revenue and the value of sales over its websites, Alibaba is rating to near junk now branching out from its core online-only shopping platforms. NEW YORK: Moody’s cut The situation “will prevent the Its revenue for the three Brazil’s credit rating to near authorities from achieving pri- months through June rose 28 junk, reflecting growing strug- mary surpluses high enough to percent to $3.27bn, well below a gles with debt and looming arrest and reverse the rising debt forecast of $3.39bn in a Thomson recession in the seventh largest trend this year and next, and chal- Reuters SmartEstimate poll of economy in the world. lenge their ability to do so there- 28 analysts. The drop in revenue Moody’s Investors Service said after,” Moody’s said. growth came as gross merchan- it “downgraded Brazil’s govern- It predicted government debt dise volume (GMV) — the total ment bond rating to Baa3 from will continue to deteriorate, value of goods transacted across Baa2.” but said that Brazil “retains a Alibaba’s platforms — rose 34 per- However, the agency also said in number of credit strengths that cent to 673bn yuan ($105bn), also a statement that it had “changed are reflected in its Baa3 rating.” the slowest growth in more than the outlook on the rating to stable These include ability to with- three years. from negative.” stand external financial shocks “(We) made significant The downgrade was yet another given ample international reserves, progress monetising our mobile piece of bad news for President limited foreign currency debt, “and traffic, with our mobile revenue Dilma Rousseff, who is facing a large and diversified economy.” exceeding 50 percent of our total opposition threats of impeachment On July 18, Stand and Poor’s China commerce retail revenue proceedings and whose govern- credit rating agency lowered for the first time,” Maggie Wu, ment is deeply unpopular. Brazil to BBB-. Last month, Brazil Alibaba’s chief financial officer, According to Moody’s, a weak- slashed its fiscal savings goal to said in a statement. ening economy, rising government 0.15 percent of GDP from an orig- Alibaba’s non-GAAP net income spending and “lack of political inal 1.1 percent of GDP. Finance rose 30 percent from a year ear- consensus on fiscal reforms” are Minister Joaquim Levy said the lier to $1.5bn for the three months Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (right) and Vice-President Michel Temer attend the launching ceremony of the damaging Brazil’s ability to get its reduced target reflected a drop in through June, the first quarter of financial house in order. tax revenues. AFP Investment Program in Energy at Planalto Palace in Brasilia. its fiscal year. REUTERS New Google chief joins illustrious Indian club of chief executives MUMBAI: India’s high flyers have Banga at MasterCard. The 43-year-old “Engineering as a discipline has been one after reportedly winning a scholarship to the adaptability of Indian professionals to proudly welcomed the appointment as also follows a well trodden path of Indians of the most sought after in India, so it’s Stanford University and later studying at the local system and environment. That is Google’s new chief executive of Sundar — including Microsoft boss Satya Nadella very logical that the best and the brightest the Wharton School at the University of the key. I think there has absolutely been Pichai, the latest home-grown engi- and Nokia head Rajeev Suri — who have aspired to get into that,” human resources Pennsylvania. some Americanisation of these individu- neer to rise to the top of the US corpo- trained at the prestigious engineering expert Padmaja Alaganandan said. Alaganandan said the tough and com- als,” he said. rate world. Pichai, named head of the institutes, where competition for limited “The students have already demon- petitive atmosphere at IITs coupled with a Dhawan said multinational corporations Internet titan on Monday, was born to places is fierce. “Congrats @sundarpichai strated determination and resilience to get masters from elite American schools was were increasingly looking to developing humble beginnings in the southern city of well deserved,” Nadella posted on Twitter. in, so from there if launched on a global a winning formula. “They have come up countries for the “next big name”. Chennai and studied engineering at the “I am sure all IITs are celebrating today. canvas it represents a very, very strong pool through a very competitive stream and Indians often had an advantage over Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Proud of you @sundarpichai,” tweeted of talent,” added the executive director at have taken on adversity in that sense. many of their Asian peers thanks to their Kharagpur before heading to America to Padmasree Warrior, Cisco’s outgoing chief PricewaterhouseCoopers in Bangalore. With exposure to different cultures it’s an proficiency in the English language, he said. further his studies and career. technology officer who studied chemical Pichai’s family lived in a two-room apart- extremely successful combination,” she said. India, with a population of 1.25 billion, Pichai, who started at Google in 2004, engineering at the IIT in New Delhi. ment where he slept on the living room Vikram Dhawan, director of Equentis produces about a million engineering grad- joins an illustrious club of Indian-origin Hundreds of thousands of aspiring engi- floor, according to local media. He was Capital in Mumbai, said many Indians who uates a year and has earned a reputation business leaders who have made it to pres- neering students sit a gruelling exam every attracted to technology partly because of have succeeded at the very top overseas for its booming IT outsourcing business, tigious chief executive positions overseas, year to battle for a place at the publicly his father’s job as an electrical engineer have been able to quickly adapt to America’s thanks to its large English-educated work- including Indra Nooyi at PepsiCo and Ajay funded IITs dotted around the country. at a factory. Pichai left India for America workplace cultures. “A common thread is force. AFP

Gulf Air welcomes Russian trade representatives Commonwealth Bank posts record $6.6bn net profit

SYDNEY: Australia’s big- Australia Bank and ANZ. Authority, for the biggest banks gest bank, the Commonwealth, “Maintaining a flexible and strong to hold more reserves as a buffer yesterday reported a five balance sheet, including a strong against mortgages — part of a glo- percent rise in full-year net capital position, continues to be bal effort after the 2008 financial profit to a record Aus$9.063bn a strategic focus for the group,” crisis. (US$6.62bn), although results chief executive Ian Narev said in Narev said the bank, the slowed in the second-half. a statement. country’s largest lender, had a The nation’s largest company “We now have greater certainty long-term “positive view” of the by market capitalisation said net regarding the key requirements Australian economy. profit for the year to June 30 of global relativity and mortgage But he cautioned about risks in rose from Aus$8.63bn the previ- risk weights. Our announcement the short-term from global eco- ous 12 months, broadly matching today strengthens our position in nomic volatility. “The Australian expectations. response to those requirements,” economy has some good foun- Cash profit, the bank’s pre- Narev added of the capital raising. dations,” Narev said of the out- ferred measure of earnings that Commonwealth Bank’s capital- look for the next year, noting strips out one-off costs, increased raising is the second-largest in that the central Reserve Bank by five percent to Aus$9.137bn. Australia’s history after NAB’s of Australia’s decision to slash Shares in the financial institu- Aus$5.5bn announcement in May. interest rates to a record-low of tion went into a trading halt as ANZ announced a Aus$3bn rights 2.0 percent was stimulating resi- it announced a Aus$5bn capital- issue last week. dential construction. Gulf Air officials with Russian travel trade representatives to Bahrain as part of a familiarisation trip to Bahrain raising to meet tougher regula- The moves followed new rules The bank declared a final divi- to explore the country and visit a number of its tourist attractions. tory requirements, which follows released by financial regulator, the dend of Aus$2.22 per share, a lift similar moves by the National Australian Prudential Regulation of 1.8 percent. AFP THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

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aYESTERDAY’S ANSWER THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 Upbeat Johnson sets sights on third major ‘I feel like I’m a better player than I was five years ago’

CARY, North Carolina: Zach Johnson acknowledges Tiger Woods hits a tee shot on the 18th hole during a practice round that long, difficult Whistling for the 2015 PGA Championship golf tournament at Whistling Straits, Straits is not his favourite PGA yesterday. Championship venue, but do not rule him out this week. He tied for third at the Wisconsin course in 2010 and Woods still searching returns on an emotional high as the current holder of the oldest Zach Johnson trophy in golf, the Claret Jug. of the US St. Andrews is not his pre- climbs onto for consistency ferred British Open venue either, the twelfth but that did not stop Johnson green after KOHLER, US: After missing which he had embarked on the from winning there last month chipping the cut in back-to-back majors first reconstruction of his swing. and becoming a dual major cham- up during and slumping to 278th in the That victory, however, was just pion eight years after claiming a a practice world rankings, golf superstar one of his eight on the US tour Masters green jacket. round for the Tiger Woods heads into the 97th that year – a drastic contrast to “This isn’t my favourite golf 97th PGA PGA Championship talking of his fortunes in 2015. course that we stop at for the Championship relatively modest goals. Woods, 39, has missed the cut PGA Championship, but St. golf The 14-time major champion, in three of his nine starts this Andrews is not in the top two who has spent his career looking year, including at the US and tournament or three (British Open venues),” for a win every time he tees it up, British Opens. at Whistling Johnson told reporters, emphasis- spoke on Tuesday about finding He shot an 82 in Phoenix and ing that he loves all British Open Straits in the consistency he needs just to an 85 at the Memorial, his worst venues, though some more than Kohler, put himself into contention. pro rounds, and admits he never others. Wisconsin, “I don’t know my exact rank- thought it would take so long He also made clear on Tuesday USA, on ing right now,” Woods said as he to put things together after his that St. Andrews and Whistling Tuesday. prepared for the final major of 2014 back surgery was followed Straits, though both adjacent to 2015, which tees off at Whistling by swing changes he has yet to water, have little in common. Straits on Thursday. fully dial in. “This golf course is the furthest “I know I’m in the 200s some- Without a solid showing at thing from links,” the 39-year-old where. But as far as paying atten- Whistling Straits to boost his American said. tion to it, no. chances of making the US PGA “Outside of maybe the sand “I’m just trying to get better. Tour’s FedEx Cup playoffs, Woods traps and the way they look, it’s I’m just trying to get up there could find himself finishing a dis- not a links golf course. where I can win tournaments, get appointing season on a low note. “Links golf is using the land, my game organised so I can be “I don’t look at it that way,” using trajectory control, running consistent on a tournament basis Woods said. things on the green, using the “I feel like I’m a better player you have to do here, and I hit a lot of lifting the Wanamaker Trophy where I’m going to give myself a “I’m just looking at getting my bounces and the rolls. than I was five years ago,” he said. of greens in regulation,” he said. on Sunday. He said he was in chance to win each and every game better for years to come,” “This course is all aerial. It may “I feel like my technique and fun- “I missed a lot of makeable, short “shock and awe” after winning event I play in. he added. look like links, standing from the damentals are probably a bit more putts that week and still had a the 2007 Masters but felt only Woods has lifted the PGA “If I play well, I’ll play in tour- clubhouse looking down, but it polished.” chance to win coming down the “awe” when he triumphed at St. Championship trophy four times naments. If I don’t, then I have does not play like a true links Johnson said he struck the ball stretch.” Andrews. and recalled his first victory, at more time to practice and get course.” great at Whistling Straits in 2010 The low-profile Johnson may Who knows how he would Medinah in 1999, as pivotal. It was ready for the following events, for Johnson is not a long hitter, but but his putter let him down. not be a flashy pick, but it would feel should he win a third major. his second major title – after his the next season and what I do on that does not rule him out. “I hit a lot of fairways, which be foolish to write off his chances REUTERS 1997 Masters triumph – after a global level.” AFP Mosquitoes add extra Whistling Straits loss was springboard for Bubba KOHLER, US: Bubba Watson “It’s all about fairways around bite to PGA has come a long way since a here. I’m looking forward to the play-off loss to Martin Kaymer week because I’ve played here in the 2010 PGA Championship before. I’ve got some good memo- Championship at Whistling Straits. ries here, and hopefully (I’m) up As the final major of the sea- Bubba Watson to the challenge.” KOHLER, US: Whistling son returns to the 7,514-yard, reacts after a Meanwhile, Justin Rose said Straits will have extra bite par-72 Pete Dye-designed course birdie putt on he’s moving in the right direc- for players competing at this on the shores of Lake Michigan the 17th green tion – toward the winner’s circle week’s PGA Championship, and this week, Watson recalled the during the final – as he prepares to tee off in the not just because of the countless near-miss as a confidence-builder round of the PGA Championship at Whistling bunkers which litter the ultra- that helped catapult him from a World Golf Straits on Thursday. long Straits Course. player “scared to death” to play Championships The 2013 US Open champion An added challenge at the in major championships to a two- - Bridgestone was in scintillating form at the year’s final major is provided by time Masters champion ranked WGC Bridgestone Invitational Invitational the abundance of mosquitoes number three in the world. last week, although his putter let at Firestone buzzing across the 7,514-yard “It just showed that I have the him down in the final round of an links-style layout that hugs the ability to play golf in a tough com- Country Club eventual third-place finish. shores of Lake Michigan. petition like that, have the ability South Course “It’s a bit of a consistency “I’ve never seen mosquitoes like to perform at a high level, under on Sunday. thing,” said Rose. “I think my this, like they have here,” former stressful situations” said Watson, good putting has been pretty good. world number one Tiger Woods who had won his first US PGA I just need to find that level of told reporters on Tuesday. Tour title just a fortnight earlier. consistency.” “I live in Florida and we go out “It gave me confidence in all While it was frustrating not in the evenings and you may get parts of my game, in every tour- to be able to capitalize on his beaten, but here you get eaten nament, not just majors,” said the share of the 54-hole lead, the alive,” he said. golfer. like, ‘How can it be in the water?’” anything. I remember the lay- that, but as in 2014 he missed the 35-year-old Englishman said his “Everywhere you walk there After exchanging birdies at the Watson recalled. “I thought I hit outs and how difficult it was, but I cut this year in both the US and Bridgestone performance -- in the are mosquitoes, and especially first two playoff holes, Watson and a decent shot.” don’t remember about emotions ... British Opens and will be trying wake of his tie for sixth at the for the gallery (the fans),” the Kaymer were tied going into the It’s an indelible memory, but I can’t remember the score, what to bounce back in the final major British Open and share of fourth 14-times major winner smiled. third hole of the aggregate play- much of that week is a blur for was shot. But I remember the golf of the year. at the Quicken Loans National -- “We’re walking down the fair- off – Whistling Straits’ difficult Watson. course being tough.” Although Whistling Straits has left him with plenty of confidence. ways where it’s not so bad but the 500-yard 18th. “Obviously, in 2010 I was still The 36-year-old American is a reputation as a bomber’s course, “I feel like I’m trending in the galleries are kicking up the long With 206 yards to the front of new to the game, I never had coming off a runner-up finish at Watson said accuracy will be as right direction,” Rose said. stuff (grass) where all the mos- the green from the rough, Watson a win until two weeks before the WGC Bridgestone Invitational important as length off the tee. “Tied sixth at the Open, tied quitoes are. pulled his six-iron approach and the PGA Championship. I was last week, where he was two shots “If you don’t hit the fairways, fourth, tied third -- I’m moving “They (the fans) are tough. You dunked it in the water 30 feet scared to death playing PGA behind Ireland’s Shane Lowry. it’s going to be very difficult to towards the winner’s circle so guys are pretty hearty up here (in short of the green. Championships and majors. He also finished second at the make pars and have a good fin- I’m coming into here with a lot Wisconsin).” REUTERS “I heard the moans and I was “So I can’t remember really Canadian Open a fortnight before ish,” he said. of confidence.” AFP

Baseball Results Toronto Blue Jays down Oakland 4-2 Toronto 4 Oakland 2 Blue Jays’ NY Mets 4 Colorado 0 right fielder NEW YORK: Jose Bautista winning streak by the Athletics eighth inning of a 4-0 win over Tampa Bay 2 Atlanta 0 Jose homered while Drew Hutchison (51-63). the Colorado Rockies. Harvey Bautista Cleveland 5 NY Yankees 4 pitched into the eighth inning as Rays 2, Braves 0 (11-7) walked none, struck out Miami 5 Boston 4 hits a home the Toronto Blue Jays defeated Erasmo Ramirez pitched seven four and was in cruise control in Chicago Cubs 6 Milwaukee 3 run against the Oakland Athletics 4-2 to shutout innings while center lowering his overall ERA to 2.61. Oakland extend their winning streak to fielder Kevin Kiermaier delivered Marlins 5, Red Sox 4 Minnesota 3 Texas 2 Athletics nine games. a two-run homer in the seventh Second baseman Dee Gordon Chi White Sox 3 LA Angels 0 in the fifth Bautista stretched his hitting to lead the Tampa Bay Rays to a hit a triple to lead off the 10th Kansas City 6 Detroit 1 inning at streak to seven games with his comfortable 2-0 victory over the inning and scored the winning St Louis 4 Pittsburgh 3 Rogers fourth home run in the past six Atlanta Braves. run on first baseman Justin Bour’s Arizona 13 Philadelphia 1 Centre in games. Mets 4, Rockies 0 single as the Miami Marlins beat Seattle 6 Baltimore 5 Designated hitter Chris Right-handed pitcher Matt the Boston Red Sox 5-4. Toronto on LA Dodgers 5 Washington 0 Tuesday. Colabello added three hits, includ- Harvey allowed four hits over Gordon’s drive to left-centre ing two doubles, for the Blue Jays eight shutout innings while the eluded the diving attempt of San Diego 11 Cincinnati 6 (62-52), who ended a three-game New York Mets pulled away in the fielder Mookie Betts. AGENCIES San Francisco 3 Houston 1 THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Rugby: USA Track & Field refutes Humbled Boks change eight for allegation by athlete Pumas American athletics body releases details on how it spends money rematch DURBAN: South Africa have NEW YORK: USA Track email yesterday. “I am hoping that changed eight of the team humil- & Field (USATF) yesterday my meeting with the lawyer can iated at home by Argentina last released a detailed breakdown shed some light on where I can go weekend for a Test rematch in of how it spends its money in from here.” Buenos Aires on Saturday. response to an allegation made Symmonds also dismissed In come full-back Zane by runner Nick Symmonds that USATF’s financial breakdown. Kirchner, winger Lwazi Mvovo, the body spends a tiny propor- “Statement says 2015 budget is fly-half Patrick Lambie, front tion of its income on athlete $30 million. Is USATF’s budget rowers Trevor Nyakane, Adriaan support. somehow shrinking after new Strauss and Marcel van der Symmonds, who won the 800 $500million dollar deal with @ Merwe, lock Victor Matfield and metres at the US trials, was Nike?” he tweeted. loose forward Willem Alberts. excluded from the US team for And out go injured quintet this month’s world championships Kenyan great Keino Willie le Roux, skipper Jean de in Beijing after refusing to agree Villiers, Vincent Koch, Lood de to conditions required of team says doping cases Jager and Marcell Coetzee, plus members and said yesterday he Handre Pollard, Tendai ‘The was considering legal action. taking too long Beast’ Mtawarira and Bismarck Symmonds said he is meeting a du Plessis. lawyer on Wednesday to “discuss NAIROBI: Kenya’s athletics There is also one positional my options,” after taking special great Kipchoge Keino says the switch with Jesse Kriel moving exception to USTAF rules gov- IAAF should act more quickly from the right wing to outside erning the wearing of team spon- on doping cases as the sport’s centre, from where he scored sor Nike’s apparel. governing body begins discipli- tries against Australia and On Monday, Symmonds cited nary action against 28 athletes New Zealand in other Rugby what he said was an analysis by an who took part in the 2005 and Championship games. economist that showed that eight 2007 world championships. With the Championship fin- percent of expected USATF gross With the world champion- ished, the Buenos Aires Test is revenue in 2015 would be distrib- ships nine days away in Beijing, the last for both countries before uted to athletes. track and field is gripped by they name 31-man squads for the USATF said it spends about another doping saga after the Rugby World Cup, which kicks off half its budget on athlete sup- International Association of on September 18 in England. port and released a detailed Athletics Federations on Tuesday Veteran lock Matfield leads breakdown. said 32 adverse doping cases had the side in the absence of injury- “USATF in 2015 anticipates come to light after the re-analysis plagued centre De Villiers, who that we will spend roughly of samples from nearly a decade fractured his jaw during the 37-25 50 percent of our $30 million ago. loss to the Pumas, but will be budget, or more than $15 million, The re-testing took advantage available for World Cup selection. on a combination of cash paid of new technology and the 10-year It was the first time the directly to athletes, USATF pay- period now offered under IAAF Springboks lost to the South ment of athlete costs and High rules and the World Anti-Doping Americans in 20 Tests and the Performance Programs that sup- Agency (WADA) code. most embarrassing defeat for the port elite athletes,” the body said None of the 28, the majority of green and gold since a 49-0 melt- in a statement. whom are retired according to the down in Australia nine years ago. “All revenues and expenditures IAAF, were named. “We are all looking forward are accounted for and reported.” “Why should WADA (World to going to Buenos Aires and Symmonds, who finished sec- Anti-Doping Agency) and IAAF improving on our performance ond at the 2013 worlds and fifth sanction athletes for doping issues A combination picture shows Jamaica’s runner Usain Bolt (left) crossing the finish line at the 2014 Commonwealth of last weekend,” coach Heyneke at the 2012 Olympics, balked at taken in 2005 and 2007 now?,” Games in Glasgow, Scotland in this August 1, 2014 file photo, and US runner Justin Gatlin during the men’s 100 Meyer told reporters. signing USATF’s statement of Keino, Kenya National Olympic meter semi-final during the US Olympic Athletic Trials in Eugene, Oregon in this June 24, 2012 file photo. Bolt’s “A few more players in our conditions that requires athletes Committee president and winner clash with Gatlin in the 100 metres was always going to be the highlight of this month’s 15th world athletics enlarged squad will get oppor- to wear Nike to official functions, of Olympic gold in the 1968 and championships but after the doping allegations that have rocked track and field it is starting to take on the look tunities this weekend and I am claiming the terms are too vague 1972 Olympics, said. of a battle for the very soul of the sport. excited to see what they can do. and restrictive. “Surely, can’t a way be found “The circumstances will be dif- Symmonds, who is sponsored where decisions are taken imme- ficult, playing away in front of a by rival company Brooks, said he diately after tests are done as was Kenya boasts some of the tests performed between 2001- act on hundreds of suspicious very noisy crowd against strong hopes his legal consultation will the case with (Canadian) Ben world’s best middle and long dis- 12 came to the attention of the results, many involving Olympic opponents. shed light on what recourse, if Johnson in 1988 (Olympics)?” tance runners but over the past Sunday Times newspaper and medallists. “Our physicality was not what any, he has against USATF. Keino, also an honorary mem- few years claims of widespread German broadcaster ARD this Athletics Kenya has dismissed it should have been last weekend “I currently do not know what ber of International Olympic doping have surfaced. month, leading to accusations the latest allegations as a smear and we need to make a big step my options are,” he said in an Committee (IOC), added. Data from thousands of blood that the IAAF had failed to campaign. AGENCIES up in that department,” stressed Meyer Powerful scrummaging in Durban was a major contributor to one of the greatest Argentine Ashes buck stops with me, says rugby triumphs. Meyer has reacted by choos- Haddin to return home ing a new front row, bringing in Australia boss Howard props Nyakane (loosehead) and MELBOURNE: Cricket Australia’s high performance director Van der Merwe (tighthead) and Pat Howard (pictured) has taken the blame for the Ashes capitu- hooker Strauss. lation and put himself forward as the first person to be held to Durban tighthead Koch, who from Ashes early account in a post-series review. would surely have been axed had The 3-1 series loss with the fifth and final he not been injured, was brutally SYDNEY: Australia wick- lead in the five-match series with test still to play has sparked recrimination in exposed in the set pieces by vet- etkeeper Brad Haddin (pic- an innings and 78-run victory in Australia, with local media tearing into the eran Marcos Ayerza. tured)has left the Ashes tour of the fourth Test at Trent Bridge in team’s woeful batting and blaming selectors Another change that came as England and is returning home, Nottingham on Saturday. for picking a ‘Dad’s Army’ of ageing players. no surprise was at fly-half with local media said yesterday. “Our blokes scored more runs Former rugby international Howard, who Lambie getting his first start of The 37-year-old, who was not than their (England’s) top-order, recently signed a contract extension until the season in place of Pollard. expected to be selected for the but our middle-order scored no 2017, conceded he was uncomfortable about Nothing went right for Pollard fifth and final test at the Oval runs and that was the big differ- a number of decisions made under his watch. last weekend and a performance- after being replaced by Peter ential - we just didn’t score any “I need to be reviewed and I have abso- to-forget ended with the play- Nevill, was returning for per- runs in the middle,” Marsh, speak- lutely no problem with that,” Howard told maker being booed by the crowd sonal reasons, Melbourne’s The ing to reporters in Northampton, local media after returning from England. after a kick-off went directly into Age newspaper reported. where Australia plays a three-day “Clearly I have got to take leadership over touch. England have already regained tour match ahead of next week’s this. We lost and someone is accountable and The return after a lengthy the Ashes after a comprehensive Ashes finale at The Oval, told the ultimately I am accountable. The first person injury of Alberts will be welcomed innings and 78-run victory in the cricket.com.au website. I want people looking for is me rather than anyone else. We will do by Meyer, who lamented the lack fourth test at Trent Bridge gave “If you have a look at our first an internal review first and see where that gets to.” of ball carriers against the Pumas. them a 3-1 lead in the five-match innings batting it’s been deplor- Howard said it was his fault paceman Ryan Harris, who suffered Kirchner, who plays for Irish series. able, it’s all you can say,” added a knee injury and promptly retired days before the first test, had province Leinster and has long Haddin had been granted leave Marsh, one of Australia’s great- been unable to get fit for the series. been admired by Meyer for his earlier in the tour and missed the est wicket-keeper/batsmen, who “I put the (fitness and rehab) programme in with the guys to take fielding of high kicks, gets a second Test because his daughter made his first tour of England in him out of Sheffield Shield cricket to get him ready,” the 41-year-old chance at full-back after a long was ill in a London hospital. They then play Ireland in a the drawn 1972 Ashes series. added. “I am certainly going to review that decision. Test absence. He was not selected for the one-day game before meeting “How the hell do you (foresee) “We went for experience in the English conditions, we had plenty South Africa are in Pool B at third test when he returned to the England in a six-match limited that, how do you see some of the of experienced guys that had scored centuries in England before. It the World Cup with Japan, Samoa, squad due to an impressive per- overs series that includes one best batsmen in the world make was a strategic decision -- but did we get that right? It is going to Scotland and the United States, formance by Nevill, who made his Twenty20 fixture and five ODIs. no runs in the first innings of four sit in the back of why head whether that was right or not.” while Argentina are in Pool C debut in the second test at Lord’s Test matches basically. Head coach and selector Darren Lehmann also apologised for alongside Georgia, Namibia, title- -- the only game Michael Clarke’s Australia batting “It just staggered me”. the team’s performance in a lengthy column on Cricket Australia’s holders New Zealand and Tonga. side have won in the series. Marsh was adamant he and his website (www.cricket.com.au). Team (15-1) Zane Kirchner; The Age reported that a Cricket ‘staggers’ Marsh fellow selectors had picked the “We have been poor, we have been outplayed by a superior oppo- Lwazi Mvovo, Jesse Kriel, Damian Australia spokesperson had asked best available squad. nent, and as coaching staff, players and selectors we fully accept de Allende, Bryan Habana; Patrick the media to respect Haddin and LONDON: Australia selection “You’ve got to be held account- the blame for our losses at Edgbaston and Trent Bridge,” he wrote. Lambie, Ruan Pienaar; Schalk his family’s privacy when they chief Rodney Marsh said yes- able - fine, I agree with that,” said Lehmann came under fire on social media for using Twitter to Burger, Willem Alberts, Heinrich returned to Australia. terday he was “staggered” by his the 67-year-old Marsh, appointed try to source tickets for an English soccer match only hours after Brussow; Victor Matfield (capt), Haddin had started the tour side’s “deplorable” first-innings in May last year on a three-year his team’s humbling loss at Trent Bridge. Eben Etzebeth; Marcel van der as first-choice wicketkeeper but batting in their Ashes series contract to head up the four-man “We spend a lot of time in each other’s company, from functions Merwe, Adriaan Strauss, Trevor has been usurped by Nevill after defeat by England. selection panel. after Test matches that are solely for the team to lunches like the Nyakane Replacements: Schalk a lean spell with the bat over the Marsh insisted he and his fel- “But I’m just racking my brain one we had for the group when we arrived in Nottingham, and even Brits, Tendai Mtawarira, Frans last 12 months. low selectors had picked the best to try and think of who else we the gym sessions for players and support staff that leave me feeling Malherbe, Flip van der Merwe, Australia are due to play available squad but they’d been could have picked...I just couldn’t sore for days,” he said. Pieter-Steph du Toit, Cobus Northants in a three-day match taken aback by their repeated think of anyone else who could “But there comes a time when people also need to be able to do Reinach, Handre Pollard, Jan starting on Friday before the final batting failure. have done the job,” he said. their own thing.” REUTERS Serfontein. Coach: Heyneke test begins on Aug. 20. England took an unbeatable 3-1 AGENCIES Meyer REUTERS THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Ashwin grabs six wickets

to stun Sri Lanka in Galle Darren Lehmann Hosts bowled out for 183 on day one, Sangakkara fails in first innings Aussie coach

GALLE: Off-spinner Ashwin said the two early Ravichandran Ashwin grabbed wickets taken by seamers Ishant apologises for six wickets as India bowled Sharma and Varun Aaron, which out Sri Lanka for 183 but then reduced Sri Lanka to 15-2, made stumbled briefly in reply in a his work easier. Ashes defeat rousing start to the first Test “Once the seamers did their job, yesterday. it was very simple after that,” he SYDNEY: Australia’s coach Twelve wickets fell on the said. Darren Lehmann took responsi- opening day and India were them- “I just wanted to get into my bility yesterday for the crushing selves reduced to 28-2 before they stride pretty strongly and start Ashes defeat to England, saying recovered to post 128 without fur- with a good rhythm,” said the that his players were desper- ther loss by stumps at the Galle off-spinner. ate to make amends in the final International Stadium. Ashwin said he expected the Test at The Oval. Opener Shikhar Dhawan was pitch to play slower as the game Australia are 3-1 down in the unbeaten on 53 and skipper Virat progressed, making it tough for series after a humiliating fourth Kohli was on 45 during a third- both batsmen and bowlers to excel Test drubbing by an innings and wicket stand of 100, leaving India on the surface. 78 runs at Trent Bridge when the just 56 runs away from the lead. “The wicket was really tacky in tourists were bowled out for 60 Dhammika Prasad trapped the morning and the ball was just before lunch on the first day. Lokesh Rahul leg-before for seven deviating enough,” he said. “We have been poor, we have and Rohit Sharma fell in simi- “But as the game goes on, it been outplayed by a superior lar fashion to Angelo Mathews is going to get really slow. One opponent, and as coaching staff, for nine, but Dhawan and Kohli will have to work harder to get players and selectors we fully stepped in to deny Sri Lanka fur- wickets. accept the blame for our losses ther success. “From that aspect, we need to at Edgbaston and Trent Bridge,” Ashwin, playing a Test match bat really well and see where we Lehmann said in a column for the on Sri Lankan soil for the first go from here.” Cricket Australia website. time, finished with six for 46 – Mathews top-scored for Sri “On behalf of our team I want his 11th five-wicket haul – as the Lanka with 64 and Dinesh to apologise for the manner in home team were bowled out in Chandimal led a charmed life to which we have lost, especially to 49.4 overs after they won the toss make 59, the pair sharing a valu- those tour groups and individual and elected to bat. able 79-run partnership for the fans who paid to travel to the UK Leg-spinner Amit Mishra, one sixth wicket after their team had to watch us and to the millions of the three spinners in the Indian collapsed to 60-5 before the lunch Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin (right) successfully appeals for a LBW decision against Sri Lanka’s more tuning in at home.” team on an unusually dry pitch, break. Rangana Herath during the first day of their opening Test match at the Galle International Cricket Stadium in Lehmann attacked the sug- took two wickets off successive Chandimal – lucky to survive a Galle, yesterday. gestion that the players’ wives, balls to hasten the end. dropped catch by wicket-keeper partners and families who had accompanied them on this tour Scoreboard Wriddhiman Saha off Ishant the day,” Chandimal added after applause from some 1,500 home had somehow contributed to the in the second over after lunch the day’s play. fans turned out to watch the their lack form on the field. Sri Lanka (I innings): 6-139, 7-155, 8-179, 9-179, 10-183. when he was on five – hit nine “We have not seen so much opening day’s proceeding of the “There’s no question we haven’t D Karunaratne c Rahane b Ishant ...... 9 Bowling: Ishant 11-3-30-1 (nb3); Aaron 11-0- boundaries. turn on the first day at Galle first Test. performed as we expected and we K Silva c Dhawan b Aaron ...... 5 68-1; Ashwin 13.4-2-46-6; Mishra 6-1-20-2; Mathews brought up his before. This sort of turn, one But the left-hander, the leading appreciate that in those circum- L Thirimanne c Rahane b Ashwin ...... 13 Harbhajan 8-1-17-0. half-century with a six over usually gets on the fourth or fifth run-scorer in Tests among those stances we have to accept negative K Sangakkara c Rahul b Ashwin ...... 5 India (I innings): long-on against veteran spinner day,” he said before hoping his side still playing, faced just 12 deliver- criticism from the media because A Mathews c Rohit b Ashwin ...... 64 L Rahul lbw Prasad ...... 7 Harbhajan Singh. He also hit six will also restrict India for a small ies before falling in the first over we’ve had so much positive cover- Jehan Mubarak c Rahul b Ashwin ...... 0 S Dhawan (batting) ...... 53 fours. total. after the drinks break for five. age during our success over the Dinesh Chandimal c Rahane b Mishra ...... 59 R Sharma lbw Mathews ...... 9 Chandimal said the early mois- “We will try to restrict India Sangakkara punched the third past two years,” he said. D Prasad lbw Ashwin ...... 0 V Kohli (batting) ...... 45 ture in the wicket made batting as much as we can and obviously ball from Ashwin straight to silly- “And while we’re happy to R Herath b Ashwin ...... 23 Extras (LB-6, W-2, NB-6) ...... 14 difficult, but acknowledged that try and bat better in the second point fielder Rahul, who gleefully cop criticism for the way we bat, T Kaushal c Rohit b Mishra ...... 0 Total (for 2 wkts) ...... 128 the Indians bowled well. innings.” held on to the sharp chance. bowl, field or prepare I believe it’s N Pradeep (not out) ...... 0 Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-28. “It was not easy to bat in the Kumar Sangakkara, playing Mishra removed Chandimal unfair to suggest having families Extras (B-1, LB-1, NB-3) ...... 5 Bowling: Prasad 7-0-22-1 (nb1); Pradeep morning and India used the con- the first of his last two Tests and Tharindu Kaushal off suc- with us as a reason for our on- Total (all out) ...... 183 8-1-32-0 (w2); Mathews 4-1-12-1; Kaushal ditions well to make it tough for before retiring from international cessive deliveries, but last man field efforts.” Fall of wickets: 1-15, 2-15, 3-27, 4-54, 5-60, 8-0-41-0 (nb5); Herath 7-1-15-0. us,” he said. cricket, walked in to the burst- Nuwan Pradeep denied the bowler Lehmann said the reality of “The pitch eased out later in ing of firecrackers and warm a hat-trick. AFP international schedules was that some in the squad would have only been home for three or four days since the Boxing Day Test Smith to lead new-look Australia ODI squad last December. “I can’t think of any other sport in which the players are away SYDNEY: Cricket Australia the wicketkeeping position from from their homes and their loved yesterday named a refreshed Australia Squad Haddin and will play his first ODI ones for such long stretches of squad for one-day internation- Steve Smith (captain), Ashton Agar, George since November 2014 while Steven time,” he said. als against England, with all- Bailey, Joe Burns, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Patrick Smith, expected to be named as “And as such we will continue rounder Marcus Stoinis, spinner Cummins, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Marsh, Test captain following Clarke’s to welcome families as part of any Ashton Agar and batsman Joe James Pattinson, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, retirement, is named skipper. tour because it is simply unrealis- All-rounder Burns set to make debuts. Matthew Wade (wk), Shane Watson, David Current T20 captain Aaron tic to expect them to spend those Marcus Stoinis Australia claimed their fifth Warner, Cameron Boyce (T20 only). Finch was not selected after frac- long periods apart.” World Cup in the 50-over game turing his foot while playing for is set to make Lehmann also rounded on criti- in March but since then wick- for Australia A, where last week Yorkshire last month. “The real- Australia debut cism directed towards captain etkeeper Brad Haddin and Test he blasted 154 from 131 balls ity is Aaron isn’t fit for selection after being Michael Clarke, who announced captain Michael Clarke have against India A in Chennai. at this stage and he also hasn’t included in that the fifth Ashes Test at the announced their retirement from Burns proved he was “a very played as much cricket as we the squad for Oval would be his last. the format. capable young batsman who has would have liked him to follow- ODIs against “Michael is one of our most Fast bowlers Mitchell Johnson experience opening”, said Marsh. ing a couple of serious injuries,” England to committed trainers who will go and Josh Hazlewood are also being Stoinis, 25, was considered Marsh said. replace James to the nets every day even when rested after Australia’s unsuc- a handy all-rounder to replace “He will return to Yorkshire, Faulkner. we have optional sessions or give cessful Ashes campaign against James Faulkner who was not fitness dependent, for a few games guys a day off, and on practice England, which followed a Test considered for the series after of four-day cricket at the end of days he’ll travel to the ground series in the West Indies. being convicted of drink-driving the season as he prepares for the early with the support staff who “The squad we have selected in England last month. Australian summer.” go ahead to get everything set up,” has a few fresh faces in it as well Left-arm spinner Agar, who Leg-spinner Cameron Boyce he said. as some experienced players that scored a memorable 98 in his has been included for selection He said the team hoped to send will provide us with the right bal- Test debut against England in for the T20 International game. off Clarke with a win. ance,” said selectors’ chairman 2013, also hit form in India after The Australian Test team has begins at The Oval on August 20. against England on 31 August in “From there, we enter a new Rod Marsh. returning from shoulder surgery, endured a tough tour in Britain so Australia will play a one-off Cardiff. They will then play five era of Australian cricket that Marsh said Burns, 25, had Marsh said. far, losing the Ashes series ahead ODI against Ireland in Belfast ODIs against England beginning everyone in our set-up is really impressed while playing in India Matthew Wade takes over of the fifth and final Test which on 27 August and a T20 match from September 3. AFP excited about,” he added. AFP Depleted NZ look to continue momentum on SA tour

DURBAN: Despite miss- long way since World Cup final and the World Cup final against fellow South Africa vs New Zealand Squads ing several key players, New their previous visit the Test team mov- co-hosts Australia this year. Zealand are confident they can to South Africa in ing up the rankings “A true test of a side is how DURBAN, SA: Squads for Twenty20 and one-day interna- continue their growth as a team 2012-13 when they steadily.” well they go away from home,” tional series between South Africa and New Zealand, starting at when they take on South Africa were thrashed in Hesson started said Hesson. Kingsmead in Durban tomorrow: in two Twenty20 internationals two Test matches the 2012-13 tour New Zealand beat South Africa South Africa T20: Faf du Plessis (capt), Kyle Abbott, Hashim Amla, Farhaan Behardien, AB de Villiers, and three one-day internation- before coming back with major question by four wickets with one ball to Eddie Leie, David Miller, Morne Morkel, Aaron Phangiso, Kagiso Rabada, Rilee Rossouw, Morne van als this month. strongly to win a marks over his role spare in the World Cup semi- Wyk (wkt), David Wiese The first T20 is at Kingsmead one-day series. as coach after Ross finals, but hopes of a meaning- Note: De Villiers takes over as captain for the one-day internationals and Imran Tahir, Vernon Philander in Durban tomorrow and New Coach Mike Taylor was contro- ful rematch have effectively and Dale Steyn replace Leie and Morkel Zealand go into the match fresh Hesson (pictured) versially deposed as been dashed in terms of playing New Zealand: Kane Williamson (capt), Doug Bracewell, Grant Elliott, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Tom from a crushing 80-run win over says that tour was captain. personnel. Latham, Mitchell McClenaghan, Nathan McCullum, Adam Milne, Colin Munro, James Neesham, Luke Zimbabwe in a one-off match in the start of a New But New Zealand McCullum has been rested Ronchi (wkt), Ben Wheeler, George Worker Harare last Sunday. Zealand renaissance. have soared since the appoint- for the tour together with fast Fixtures (all times GMT) The Black Caps also won a one- “We hadn’t won a series in SA ment of Brendon McCullum as bowler Tim Southee. Injuries day series in Zimbabwe, recover- and we were under-strength, so skipper. have ruled out Taylor, all-rounder August 14: First T20, Durban 1600; August 16: Second T20, Centurion 1200; August 19: First ODI, ing from a surprise seven-wicket to win that was a big achievement They have won four and drawn Corey Anderson and Trent Boult, Centurion 1030; August 23: Second ODI, Potchefstroom 0800; August 26: Third ODI, Durban 1030 defeat in the first match to win for us. three of their last seven Test who formed a highly effective Previous Results: ODI: South Africa won 36, New Zealand won 21 and there were five no results; the next two convincingly. “That was the start of a pretty series, while the one-day side fast bowling combination with T20: South Africa won nine and New Zealand won three New Zealand have come a big two years, culminating in a played thrilling cricket to reach Southee. AFP THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

ATP Montreal Results Djokovic starts US Open Results on Tuesday from the second day of the ATP Montreal Masters (x denotes seeded player): Second Round: Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt Thomaz Bellucci (BRA) 6-3, 7-6 (7/4); Ivo buildup with Montreal win Karlovic (CRO) bt MIlos Raonic (CAN x8) 7-6 (7/1), 7-6 (7/1). First Round: David Goffin (BEL World number one beats Thomaz Bellucci 6-3, 7-6 (7/4); Kyrgios wins x13) bt Steve Johnson (USA) 6-2, 6-2; Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x14) bt Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR) MONTREAL: Top-ranked 6-4, 7-5; Jack Sock (USA) bt Novak Djokovic began his prep- Adrian Mannarino (FRA) 6-2, aration for the US Open by 2-6, 7-6 (7/5); Mikhail Youzhny defeating Thomaz Bellucci 6-3, (RUS) bt Viktor Troicki (SRB) 7-6 (7/4) on Tuesday, advancing 6-3, 7-5; Roberto Bautista Agut to the third round of the ATP (ESP) bt Janko Tipsarevic Montreal Masters. (SRB) 6-3, 6-4; Nick Kyrgios But there was no luck with the (AUS) bt Fernando Verdasco weather for Andy Murray, with (ESP) 6-3, 4-6, 6-4; Jo-Wilfried the British second seed forced Tsonga (FRA x10) bt Borna off court at 4-4 against Spain’s Coric (CRO) 6-4, 6-4; Lukas Tommy Robredo when rain Rosol (CZE) bt Kevin Anderson struck less than an hour before (RSA x12) 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 (7/4); midnight, postponing the finish Pablo Andujar (ESP) bt Frank of the contest until Wednesday. Dancevic (CAN) 6-2, 6-4; Jeremy Serbian top seed Djokovic made Chardy (FRA) bt Nicolas Mahut his first appearance since winning (FRA) 6-1, 7-5; Vasek Pospisil Wimbledon more than a month (CAN) bt Lu Yen-Hsun (TPE) ago. He also created a bit of per- 6-4, 6-3; John Isner (USA x16) sonal history with his 250th win bt Benjamin Becker (GER) 6-4, at the Masters 1000 level. 6-7 (6/8), 6-3; Ernests Gulbis Djokovic is riding a win steak (LAT) bt Dominic Thiem (AUT) in the elite series, winning the 3-6, 7-6 (10/8), 6-1. last five he has contested dating to Paris Bercy last November. He WTA Canada remains undefeated in his last 27 matches at the Masters. Results Djokovic will now wait for a winner from American Jack Sock Results on Tuesday from the and 14th seed Grigor Dimitrov. second day of the WTA Rogers Sock beat Adrian Mannarino Cup (x denotes seed): 6-2, 2-6, 7-6 (7/5) while Dimitrov Second Round: Serena eliminated Alexandr Dolgopolov Williams (USA x1) bt Flavia 6-4, 7-5. Pennetta (ITA) 2-6, 6-3, 6-0. “It was a very intense match First Round: Daria Gavrilova for both players,” Djokovic said Novak Djokovic of Serbia returns against Thomaz Bellucci of Brazil (not pictured) during a Rogers Cup match at the Uniprix Stadium on Tuesday. (RUS) bt Samantha Stosur of his fourth win over Bellucci (AUS) 6-4, 6-4; Ekaterina and his first on hardcourt in the him past 10,000 for his career. Australian Nick Kyrgios began his own business on court as he long it will last but it is a great Makarova (RUS x11) bt Anna series. “There was a lot of tension In the first round, holder his hardcourt run with a 6-3, goes into the final months of a help.” Tatishvili (USA) 6-3, 6-3; and a very high quality. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the French 4-6, 6-4 victory over Fernando career due to end early in 2016 Kyrgios has not played since Roberta Vinci (ITA) bt Karin “I managed to stay cool and 10th seed, opened his campaign Verdasco under the watchful eye after playing in his last Australian losing his only singles rubber in Knapp (ITA) 6-0, 6-0; Mirjana mentally tough in the right with a defeat of Borna Coric 6-4, of new mentor Lleyton Hewitt. Open. Davis Cup play last month after Lucic-Baroni (CRO) bt Karolina moment. That’s what I take out 6-4 while Czech Lukas Rosol Kyrgios, the world number 41, “He’s not my coach. Let’s clear finishing a turbulent Wimbledon Plishkova (CZE x10) 3-6, 7-6 of this match — the ability to upset South African 12th seed is working alongside Australia’s that up now,” said Kyrgios after fortnight which was marred by (7/5), 6-2; Barbora Strycova play my best and stay calm in the Kevin Anderson 7-6 (7/2), 7-6 double grand slam winner in his victory in 95 minutes over outbursts and controversy from (CZE) bt Varvara Lepchenko right moments and overcome this (7-4). an informal capacity, with the Spain’s Verdasco in a first-time his side. Kyrgios called his win (USA) 6-2, 6-4; Polona Hercog tough challenge.” Belgian 13th seed David Goffin 34-year-old elder statesman of meeting featuring 15 aces off the over Verdasco acceptable. (SLO) bt Alison Van Uytvanck Ivo Karlovic beat eighth seed put out American Steve Johnson the current Aussie game happy Aussie racquet. “I was pleased to get a win over (BEL) 6-4, 1-6, 6-3; Jelena Milos Raonic 7-6 (7/1), 7-6 (7/1), 6-2, 6-2. John Isner, the number to help out the 20-year-old “He’s more of a mentor. a quality opponent,” he said before Jankovic (SRB) bt Caroline after the Canadian saved three 16 and a finalist last week in youngster. Lleyton is very kind to take time moving into a second-round clash Garcia (FRA) 7-6 (7/4), 6-2; match points before losing for his Washington, struggled past But Kyrgios said the arrange- away from his family and his with French Open champion Stan Angelique Kerber (GER x13) earliest exit in Montreal since Germany’s Benjamin Becker 6-4, ment remains flexible and fluid, career to help me and Thanassi Wawrinka. “I’m really happy with bt Misaki Doi (JPN) 6-0, 6-1; 2010. The winner’s 22 aces sent 6-7 (6/8), 6-3. with Hewitt also attending to (Kokkinakis). We don’t know how myself.” AFP Alize Cornet (FRA) bt Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP x9) 6-3, 6-7 (2/7), 6-4; Carina Witthoeft (GER) bt CoCo Vandeweghe Serena shakes off rust, Bouchard woes continue (USA) 6-3, 3-6, 6-1; Lesia Tsurenko (UKR) bt Yanina TORONTO: Serena Williams third as the 21-times grand slam women’s tennis just 12 months Wickmayer (GER) 6-3, 7-6 shook off some hard-court rust champion finished off Pennetta ago, Bouchard’s downward spiral (7/3); Monica Puig (PUR) bt before rolling to a 2-6 6-3 6-0 with a thundering backhand shows no signs of coming to a halt Mariana Duque-Marino (COL) win over Italy’s Flavia Pennetta winner. as the 21-year-old fell at the first 6-4, 4-6, 7-5; Victoria Azarenka at the Rogers Cup on Tuesday, “It was tough holding serve hurdle for the eighth time in 10 (BLR) bt Elina Svitolina (UKR) but the home crowd failed to today for me,” said the world tournaments. 6-1, 6-4; Sara Errani (ITA x15) fire up local favourite Eugenie number one, adding that she In other first round upsets on bt Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) Bouchard, who slumped to could not recall another match Tuesday, France’s Alize Cornet 5-7, 6-1, 6-0; Julia Goerges another first round exit. where she had been broken four dispatched ninth seeded Spaniard (GER) bt Zarina Diyas (KAZ) Williams, playing her first times in a single set. Carla Suarez Navarro 6-3 6-7(2) 2-6, 6-1, 7-5; Alison Riske (USA) match of the North American “It was definitely good for me 6-4 while Croatia qualifier bt Timea Bacsinszky (SUI x12) hard-court swing after pulling to have a match like this, to play Mirjana Lucic-Baroni disposed of 3-6, 7-6 (7/4), 7-6 (7/3); Madison out at Stanford last week with a a good player like her, especially Czech 10th seed Karolina Pliskova Brengle (USA) bt Carol Zhao sore right elbow, endured a rag- since I haven’t played a match on 3-6 7-6(5) 6-2. (CAN) 6-1, 6-1; Olga Govortsova (BLR) bt Irina-Camelia ged opening set in which she was hard court since early April.” American Alison Riske out- Begu (ROM) 6-3, 7-6 (7/4); broken four times and fired four While all four grand slam titles lasted 12th seed Timea Bacsinszky Andrea Petkovic (GER x16) bt double faults. are already in her possession, a of Switzerland 3-6 7-6(4) 7-6(3) in Francoise Abanda (CAN) 3-6, But the 33-year-old American, successful defence of her US a three-hour marathon. 6-4, 6-2; Belinda Bencic (SUI) bt a three-time champion on the Open crown next month would Russian 11th seed Ekaterina Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) 6-0, Toronto hardcourts, eventually put Williams in an exclusive club Makarova was a 6-3 6-3 winner 5-7, 6-2; Heather Watson (GBR) found her rhythm in the second along with Maureen Connolly, over American Anna Tatishvili bt Irina Falconi (USA) 6-1, 6-2; round match. Margaret Court and Steffi Graf while 13th seed Angelique Kerber Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) bt While Pennetta would break on as the only women to have swept of Germany stormed into the sec- sloane Stephens (USA) 6-3, 6-4. her next opportunity to lead 2-1 all four in a single season. ond round with 6-1 6-0 rout of in the second set, Williams shifted While Williams continues to Japan’s Misaki Doi. champion Azarenka, who with- into another gear and stormed dominate the game, the once- Two former world number drew from an event in Washington through the next four games on bright star of Canadian Bouchard ones Jelena Jankovic and Victoria with a sore shoulder, opened with Serena Williams of the USA celebrates a point against Flavia Pennetta of her way to levelling the match at lost even more of its lustre with a Azarenka made smooth passage a 6-1 6-4 win over Ukraine’s Elina Italy during a Rogers Cup match at the Aviva Centre in Toronto, Ontario, one set each. 6-0 5-7 6-2 loss to Swiss teenager to the second round with straight Svitova while Jankovic stopped on Tuesday. Fans were treated to the sight Belinda Bencic in the first round. sets wins. Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia of Williams in full flow in the Hailed as the new face of Twice Australian Open 7-6(4) 6-2. REUTERS beIN Sports, other broadcasters join NBA Africa game charities JOHANNESBURG: The of Boys & Girls Clubs of South As part of BWB and NBA (BWB) campers throughout the National Basketball Association Africa, SOS Children’s Villages Africa game efforts, NBA Cares, week. (NBA) yesterday announced Association of South Africa and the league’s global social respon- On July 30, the NBA and NBPA that beIN Sports (France and the Nelson Mandela Foundation. sibility program, and the National held a basketball court dedication MENA), BT Sport (UK), Nova The EMEA (Europe, the Basketball Players Association and Jr NBA clinic presented by (Czech Republic and Slovakia), Middle East and Africa) broad- (NBPA) Foundation hosted a Nike at the newly built Boys & OTE (Greece), Sport 1 (Hungary), casters supporting these charities series of events to leave a lasting Girls Club at Protea Glen. Dolce Sport (Romania) and all aired the NBA Africa game legacy in the community. On July 31, marked the third Sportklub (Pan-Adriatics) have in their respective regions and With support from Ford, consecutive year that NBA play- all chosen to join the NBA in made a contribution to the affili- local youth participated in a Jr ers visited SOS Children’s Village supporting the charities that ated charities. NBA clinic on July 29 at the Ennerdale, an organization that were affiliated with the first “The first NBA game on American International School builds families for orphaned and NBA game in Africa, which African soil was incredible and of Johannesburg. Also at the abandoned children. NBA Cares took place August 1 at Ellis Park we are delighted by the positive school, Hoops 4 Hope conducted and the NBPA Foundation under- Arena in Johannesburg. response from these partners who life skills sessions presented by took their largest commitment to The sold-out NBA Africa Game took it upon themselves to sup- South African Airways. the village to date, working on a 2015, which aired in 215 countries port a number of worthy causes NBA players, coaches and range of projects from the refur- and territories, featured a Team in the region,” said Elsa Memmi, legends held sessions on lead- bishment of the local library to Africa versus Team World for- Vice-President, Global Media ership and health and wellness the construction of a new basket- Local youth participate in a Jr NBA clinic in Johannesburg on July 29. mat and was played in support Distribution, NBA, EMEA. for Basketball without Borders ball court. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Judge grills NFL and Brady’s lawyers Kessler calls ‘Deflategate’ case ‘most overblown issue in my 40 years of litigation’

NEW YORK: A federal judge years of litigation,” Kessler said. yesterday fired tough questions Brady’s presence drew a throng at a National Football League of reporters and photographers (NFL) lawyer about whether outside the courthouse in down- New England Patriots quarter- town Manhattan, as well as a back Tom Brady’s four-game handful of fans wearing copies of “Deflategate” suspension is sup- the player’s jersey. ported by the evidence. Some called Goodell a “liar” as US District Judge Richard he walked in. As Brady entered, Berman in New York, who is another yelled: “Give ‘em hell, overseeing litigation between the Tom!” league and the players union over Trevor Schramn, 20, was wear- the penalty, pressed lawyer Daniel ing a “Free Tom Brady” T-shirt Nash to cite direct evidence link- and said he had come to “support ing Brady to an alleged scheme our boy.” to deflate footballs in a January “The Patriots are winners, and playoff game. people are always going to hate Nash acknowledged that there the team on top,” he said. was no “smoking gun” but said The NFL has already fined there was plenty of circumstan- the Patriots $1m and stripped tial evidence — including a series the team of its first-round draft of texts between Brady and the pick in 2016 and fourth-round Patriots employees accused of let- selection in 2017. The lawsuit in ting air out of the balls — that New York only challenges Brady’s Brady was aware of the deflation. suspension. Both Brady and NFL New England opens its presea- Commissioner Roger Goodell, son on Thursday night at home who imposed the suspension, against the Green Bay Packers. attended the 90-minute hear- While Brady’s suspension does ing. Brady, 38, sat stone-faced not take effect until the regu- throughout the proceeding, even lar season, the team has not when a few light remarks from New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady arrives at the United States Federal District Court in New York yesterday. RIGHT: NFL commissioner announced whether he will play Berman drew laughs from the Roger Goodell arrives at the US Federal District court yesterday. on Thursday. rest of the courtroom. If the suspension is upheld, Berman also met privately 19 for oral arguments on whether to the Super Bowl, where they Brady lawyer Jeffrey Kessler why Kessler, however, said Brady second-year backup Jimmy with each side, including Brady he should uphold or vacate the defeated the defending champion the quarterback refused to turn had followed the advice of his Garoppolo, who played spar- and Goodell, before and after the suspension. Seattle Seahawks, giving Brady over any texts or emails to NFL lawyer in declining to hand over ingly last year, would likely start hearing in an effort to reach a Goodell suspended Brady, one of his fourth championship title. investigator Ted Wells, whose his communications, and said the at quarterback in Brady’s place. settlement before the Patriots’ the NFL’s biggest stars, following Brady has denied knowing report was the basis for Goodell’s quarterback routinely destroys In an ironic coincidence, Brady season begins on September 10. an investigation into the footballs about any plan to deflate footballs, suspension. Brady had his phone his old phones to avoid unwanted would be eligible to return on Unless there is a deal, the two used in the Patriots’ 45-7 play- which can make them easier to replaced and destroyed, a point leaks to the media. October 18 in a nationally tel- sides are scheduled to appear off victory over the Indianapolis grip. Goodell emphasized when he “This is the most overblown evised game against the Colts. before Berman again on August Colts. That win took the Patriots At the hearing, Berman asked rejected Brady’s appeal. issue in the history of my over 40 REUTERS

Man City’s Barcelona seek fifth trophy Al Rayyan lose to Dzeko signs against Bilbao amid Pedro saga Al Khor in friendly year loan deal BARCELONA: Barcelona can DOHA: Al Khor defeated Al Al Kharaitiyat travel to with Roma extend their trophy haul this Rayyan 2-1 in a pre-season Slovenia year to five when they face friendly on Tuesday night in Al Kharaitiyat left for Slovenia LONDON: Roma have signed Athletic Bilbao in the Spanish the Netherlands. on Tuesday morning. The team Bosnian striker Edin Dzeko on a Super Cup while much of the Al Rayyan took the lead and will be in Europe until the end one-year loan from Manchester attention will again be on the scored first via their new sign- of the month for training. City, the Premier League club’s future of unsettled striker ing Sebastian Soria in the 12th The delegation is supervised official website reported on Pedro and whether he starts in minute of the first half. by the club’s Sports Director Tuesday. the first leg on Friday. Al Khor replied through Nasser Al Fadalah and consists Dzeko, who joined City in Despite Neymar’s illness Pedro Brazilian forward Julio Cesar, of 48 individuals who make up January 2011, has been loaned was surprisingly left out of the who scored the equalizer on the the squad and support staff. with a view to a permament starting lineup to face Sevilla in 21st minute of the first half. Both The training sessions will transfer to the Serie A club “if Tuesday’s European Super Cup teams went into the break with commence shortly as the team certain conditions are met”. but they needed him to come on one goal apiece. gets ready for the new Qatar Dzeko joined City in January and score an extra-time winner During the second half, both Stars League season. 2011 and scored plenty of impor- in the nine-goal thriller. coaches made several changes Both Al Kharaitiyat and tant goals for them during his Tiredness in the first competi- in order to identify the players’ Mesaimeer are holding their four-and-a-half year stay. tive match of the season certainly level of performance. overseas training camps in “I came here to win titles with played a role as Barca squandered Al Khor scored their second Slovenia this year. Roma. Hopefully, we will win a three-goal lead and there will be goal in the 63rd minute of the El Jaish coach satisfied with many, many trophies but first we no let up as they face a physical second-half courtesy of Nayef foreign players have to work hard on the pitch Bilbao team. Al Briki. El Jaish club’s head of Football and at the end, hopefully we will It is a repeat of the King’s Cup The game ended 2-1 to Al Youssef Dasmal expressed his get where we want to be,” the final where Barca had a comforta- Khor as Al Rayyan continued full satisfaction with the team’s 29-year-old told Roma TV after ble victory but they will now need to struggle in their pre-season performances during the two completing his medical in the to improve defensively if they are games. recent pre-season friendlies Italian capital. to add to their four pieces of sil- Al Gharafa’s Claudiu played in Austria. Dzeko made a particularly huge verware in 2015 having won the Keseru moves to Ludogorets Dasmal said in a statement to contribution to City’s history- treble last season. Al Gharafa has agreed to the club’s official website that the making 2011/12 Premier League “We will have to examine what Barcelona’s midfielder Andres Iniesta (left) and forward Pedro Rodriguez sell Romanian forward Claudiu team had a good match against campaign, scoring 19 goals in 42 happened and there is work for us celebrate with the UEFA Super Cup trophy at the Boris Paichadze Dinamo Keseru to top Bulgarian side Serial A side Hellas Verona. games, including the injury-time to do ahead of the next Super Cup Arena in Tbilisi on Tuesday night. Ludogorets. “The friendly versus Hellas equaliser against QPR that set up game,” said coach Luis Enrique The deal was done in light of a Verona was tough and competi- the incredible climax which saw after the Sevilla victory. with Rafinha. It is my job to pick Mikel Rico and Inaki Williams strong offer from the Bulgarian tive, the management which is them snatch the title in the dying “I am though very happy with the team and that is what I did,” among those set to be absent. side and the player will start led by Sabri Lamouchi, felt that seconds. the way that we won and showed added Luis Enrique. “They have important players with his new side from the start the team benefitted from this Yet he only made 11 appear- the hard work that is necessary.” Neymar will still be missing out but so have we,” said Athletic of the season. pre-season clash and that the ances for the club last year and Barca’s technical secretary against Bilbao with mumps and forward Aritz Aduriz. Keseru had joined Al Gharafa players are starting to gel,” he opportunities to break into the Robert Fernandez has said Pedro Pedro will again be in the frame “We need to have all our play- during the winter transfer win- said. starting line-up were likely to be wants to leave but Luis Enrique to start but at the same time ers available and it is a big blow dow last season. But with new Dasmal praised the new even more limited this term. denied that was why he left him rumours continue to circulate of for us that we haven’t.” The Super coach Pericles Chamusca bring- foreign signings, especially Noting how Dzeko scored 50 out of the side. a move to Manchester United. Cup return leg is at the Camp ing in new signings, regular play- the Moroccan Abdel Razaq Premier League goals in 130 league “He had to stop training two Barca will also be without Jordi Nou next Monday ahead of the ing time would not have been Hamdallah and the Uzbek appearances for City, winning two days ago due to a problem with Alba while Bilbao are not at full start of the La Liga season the guaranteed for the Romanian. Rashidov. THE PENINSULA league titles and winners’ medals his leg and so I decided to start strength with Iker Muniain, following weekend. REUTERS in the FA Cup, League Cup and Community Shield, Roma’s web- site claimed the club had signed “one of the most sought after for- wards in Europe.” I’m not back, was always there: Toure “A firm favourite with the City fans and backed by an adoring LONDON: Manchester City bad season. Twelve goals and back like we did two seasons ago. nation of Bosnians, ‘The Diamond’ midfielder Yaya Toure says he I won the Copa (Africa Cup of “The Premier League is very shone brightly during his time Manchester was “unfairly” criticised last Nations) for my country. It’s not tough. There’s a very long way with the Blues and will be fondly City’s Yaya season for a perceived dip in bad at all. I know what I want, I to go. There’s 37 more games, we remembered for having a pivotal Toure (right) form but insisted he could not know what I have to do. I don’t want to be fully aware of all that’s role in City’s glorious past five tries to win care less. care what people are saying about coming,” he said. years,” City’s website reported. the ball from The Ivory Coast captain was me,” he said. City host champions Chelsea “His record of 72 goals from just West Brom’s at his marauding best against One of the most dominant play- at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday 117 starts was comparable with Craig Gardner West Bromwich Albion, scoring a ers in European football when and the importance of the match any top striker in European foot- during an brace in his club’s Premier League on song, Toure insisted he was is not lost on Toure. ball,” it added, describing Dzeko’s English opener on Monday. “not back”, as had been widely “We have a massive game on service to the club as “excellent”. Premier “For me, I’m quite surprised. reported. Sunday against a direct rival. I City’s striking option include last League Last season was not the best “I’ve always been there. People hope it will be a good one for us,” season’s leading Premier League match at The season for us, but second in the have to understand football is not the former Barcelona player said. top scorer Sergio Aguero and Hawthorns in table, I think, is not bad at all,” talking about one player, it’s about “Sunday is going to be tough Wilfried Bony while Raheem Birmingham the 32-year-old was quoted as the team. I hope this year is going again — after that we have Sterling became the most expen- on Monday. saying by the British media. to be fine for us,” Toure said. Everton. I think it is a strong sive English player signing in the “There has been a lot of criti- “The important thing is we start. We are fully focused this Premier League when he joined cism about me but it was not a have a target. That is to bounce year.” REUTERS from Liverpool. 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YEKATERINBURG, Russia: Croatia edged out Qatar 25-24 to record their maiden win at the 2015 IHF Men’s Youth World Championship in a thrilling Group C match, in Yekaterinburg, yesterday. There was a lot at stake and the game between the two very different, but fairly well-matched, teams reflected that. From the start it was close, but Croatia held a slight edge, leading more often than Qatar throughout the first half. After 15 minutes the Balkan team were in front by two, but Qatar kept coming back. After 23 minutes, when the score was equal (10:10), Qatar brought goalkeeper Bilal Lepenica on in place of Ahmed Abdelrhem for his first real court time of the championship. Croatia welcomed him with a fast break goal from David Mandic just a minute later (11:10, 24th minute), and retained the one-goal advantage created there into the half-time break. The second half was just as up and down as the first. Croatia’s Petar Medic put his side in front with a strong ground shot in the 36th minute before right wing Ivan Martinovic took them two goals ahead (18:16, 37th minute). But then it was Qatar’s turn – they levelled the score before Action during the Group C match between Qatar and Croatia at the IHF Men’s Youth World Championship in right back Abdulaziz Helali cre- Yekaterinburg, Russia yesterday. Croatia won 25-24 after a tough battle. ated a one-goal advantage with a penalty goal in the 41st minute (18:19). points and now look to their final game at their end of the court score was level at 4:4. Algeria an advantage at the break. At victories, Switzerland are now The one-for-one game con- game against Algeria, another very messy as Switzerland strug- were playing Rassa Nadher the 40-minute mark Switzerland through to the Eighth-Finals tinued as the clock ticked on. In must-win match that could put gled to find a way through. in goal for the first time in retained their lead (19:17), and regardless of the result in their the 25th minute Qatar left wing them through to the Eighth- Switzerland were also keep- the championship, with their though Algeria were in hot pur- final match. The other match Mohamed Abdelraouf missed a Finals yet. ing Algeria off the board, though usual player between the posts, suit, the European team began to of the day ended in a draw that penalty shot that kept the score Meanwhile, Switzerland their trouble was the tall, solid Ghedbane Khalifa, coming in to increase the score line. meant Russia and Denmark split at 24:24. Left wing Marin Jelinic recorded their third win, against 6-0 wall they faced. Right back save a penalty that kept the score When they were still ahead by the points then scored the crucial goal that Algeria, adding another two Abdi Ayyoub scored the first goal at 6:6 with eight minutes left in four goals as the last quarter of Last time these teams met gave Croatia the lead and Spikic points to their tally that put them of the game in the fifth minute, the first period. the match began (22:18), it looked Denmark came out on top – way made a save to retain the advan- through to the Eighth-Finals. followed soon after by a break- But then Switzerland began as though Switzerland would on top, with a 17-goal win – but tage in the 29th minute (25:24). Algeria needed two points to through from Florian Leitner at to take control, with a goal from comfortably record their third coach Morten Henriksen knew Abdelrhem came back onto the keep their Eighth-Finals hopes the other end. star left back Albin Alili (nine victory. Julian Klaiber scored the they were coming up against a court and saved a Jelinic penalty alive, and they made it clear they The defence from both teams goals) putting them two in front final goal, again in the dying sec- tougher opponent, who he said shot with a minute left on the were willing to do whatever it made for a low-scoring opening, as the half neared its end (9:7, onds of the half from well out- were looking a lot better since clock, but Jelinic had already won took to secure them. though Algeria dropped back to 28th minute). Alili scored 15 side the nine-metre line, to seal the European Championship and the match with his previous goal. The African team started with a slightly less active 3:3 system. metres out from the goal in the Switzerland’s nine-goal win. had the support of a home crowd Croatia took their first two man-on-man defence, making the Midway through the half the last seconds to give Switzerland With six points from three behind them. THE PENINSULA

Qatar’s Zurich training camp in full swing Pedro strike hands Barcelona Super Cup in nine-goal thriller

TBILISI: Barcelona added the UEFA Super Cup to their tre- ble win of trophies last season despite blowing a 4-1 lead with a stunning 5-4 win over Sevilla thanks to Pedro Rodriguez’s extra time winner. Two magnificent free-kicks from Lionel Messi plus goals from Rafinha and Luis Suarez looked to have Barca well on course to claim their fourth trophy of the year after Ever Banega had given Sevilla a shock early lead. However, Jose Antonio Reyes reduced the arrears before a Kevin Gameiro penalty and a debut strike from Yevhen Konoplyanka forced the game into an extra 30 minutes. Barca weren’t to be denied, though, and in what could be his last game for the club, Qatari players take part in the training session in Zurich Pedro pounced on the rebound FC Barcelona’s team celebrates with the trophy after winning the UEFA yesterday under coach Jose Carreno (not pictured). The after Beto had denied Messi his Super Cup final against Sevilla FC on Tuesday in Tbilisi. national team is preparaing for the 2018 FIFA World Cup hat-trick. Russia and AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 qualifying tournaments. “I got the goal but it was down The Zurich camp will conclude on August 23 following which to the work of the team and I am “When you know you may leave the game but as always I tried to happy with the win,” said Pedro it is difficult,” he said. be professional and go out and the Maroons will head for the Manchester training camp. after the match. “I was angry about not starting help.” AGENCIES