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Thursday 3 July 2014 • 5 Ramadan 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6115 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Syria chemical Paediatric unit weapons loaded on US vessel

GIOIA TAURO, ITALY: The planned at international operation to destroy Syrian chemical weap- ons entered its final phase yesterday, with the stockpile loaded onto a US military ship Sidra Centre equipped to dispose of them. Mustard gas and ingredi- ents to make Sarin nerve gas Facility likely to be biggest in Qatar were transferred from a Danish freighter in the Italian port of DOHA: A paediatric emer- This unit has a capacity to Gioia Tauro amid tight security. gency unit with all the required handle 2,500 emergency patients “Italy has proven its capacity for facilities is to be opened at the a day, with the current daily turn- great efficiency in this delicate upcoming Sidra Medical and out being 1,500 to 1,700. operation of international secu- Research Centre in two years. “This is a very high turnout. In rity,” Environment Minister Gian It is expected that it would be emergency units in the UK the Luca Galleti said. AFP the biggest paediatric emergency turnout is only about 200 a day centre in the country. and despite that there are com- Qatar is making rapid strides plaints of delays,” said Al Amri. in the realm of paediatric emer- The doctors also denied gency healthcare and already has rumours that Rumailah Hospital enough child specialists, although was being turned into a herit- there is shortage of child special- age site. The fact is that a mod- ists internationally. ern hospital is coming up in its Hamad Medical Corporation premises and the old building (HMC) has some of the best child of Rumailah Hospital is being A Palestinian prepares to hurl a stone as he stands in a cloud of smoke from tyres set ablaze during clashes with specialists and chances are that retained. Israeli police in Shuafat, an Arab suburb of Jerusalem, yesterday. some of them might be shifted to The emergency unit there will >>Page 9 Sidra when it begins operating. be upgraded, said the doctors. This was disclosed at Al Sharq’s They said that it was very Ramadan tent attended by a cou- difficult for private hospitals to Palestinian teen killed in Jerusalem ple of HMC doctors recently. provide emergency medical serv- Dr Khalid Abdul Noor ices because that called for sub- JERUSALEM: The body of an settlers of killing Abu Khudair him the body was his son. Saifuddin, Director of Hamad stantial investment in medical abducted Palestinian youth was and demanded that Israel “mete An Israeli security source International Training Centre, facilities, including equipment, found in Jerusalem yesterday, out the strongest punishment said Israel suspected the youth and Dr Mohamed Hamoudi Al and staffing. raising suspicions he had been against the murderers if it truly had been kidnapped and mur- Amri, Assistant Director of The doctors said that private killed by Israelis avenging the wants peace”. dered, possibly in retribution for Paediatric Emergency at HMC, healthcare providers should rise deaths of three abducted Jewish Israeli Prime Minister the killings of the Israeli teens, took part in the debate. above profit-making considera- teens. Benjamin Netanyahu urged police whose corpses were discovered The doctors said that despite tions and invest adequately in News of the discovery of “to swiftly investigate who was on Monday, nearly three weeks that there are several paediatric emergency medical care. 16-year-old Mohammed Abu behind the loathsome murder and after they were abducted in the Ramadan Timing emergency centres in the coun- Very high standards have been Khudair, who was last seen being its motive”. He called on all sides occupied West Bank. Israel says try, including those in Al Khor, set for health services, includ- bundled into a van earlier in the “not to take the law into their Palestinian Hamas militants Todays Iftar: Al Wakra, Al Sadd in Doha, and ing emergency medical care, to day, triggered clashes between own hands”. killed them. 06:30pm Dukhan, among other places, be provided by the private sector rock-throwing Palestinians and Police said they had found a The Islamist group has neither Tomorrow’s sometimes people come to the and there will be no compromise, Israeli police in the city. body in the wooded outskirts of confirmed nor denied the allega- Imsak: main accident and emergency said the duo. Palestinian President Jerusalem. Abu Khudair’s father tion. REUTERS 03:08am unit at Hamad General Hospital. THE PENINSULA Mahmoud Abbas accused Jewish told Reuters the force had told See also page 13

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Cultural Café 86 cases of stomach Free buttermilk flows through opens tonight with symposium ailments in two days taps, thanks to Qatari household on poet Tawfiq DOHA: For a number of DOHA: The Cultural Café at years people of different Katara Cultural Market opens of Ramadan: HGH nationalities have been col- tonight with a symposium on lecting buttermilk in large the life of the late poet Hassan quantities free from the Tawfiq. house of a rich Qatari near Coinciding with the opening Overeating and spicy food main causes the Ramada traffic lights. of ‘The Quran and Astronomy Especially during Ramadan, Exhibition’ tonight, the sympo- BY FAZEENA SALEEM continue with a light starter such as people descend in larger num- sium will be the café’s first activ- soup and crackers. And then have bers on the parking lot out- ity during Ramadan. DOHA: The Emergency a healthy and balanced dinner,’’ she side the Qatari’s home to take The symposium ‘Biography Department of Hamad General said. “Do not overeat, and be sure to buttermilk stored in a huge and Life Experience’ will discuss Hospital has treated 86 people for drink enough fluid during evening tank. It flows through taps. Tawfiq’s innovation and creativ- stomach ailments in the first two and Suhour as the holy month coin- Everyday there are long ity in poetry and experiences as a days of Ramadan. cides with summer and avoid dehy- queues of people vying for reflection of Doha where he spent Such cases are common in the dration on the following day,” she a fill of buttermilk, many, 30 years and worked as head of first few days of the holy month, Dr added. carrying jerry cans and big the cultural section in Al Raya Warda Al Saad, Chief Consultant, Dr Al Saad also advised people to empty bottles, particularly in newspaper and columnist in Al Emergency Department, Hamad avoid spicy and oily food which may the morning hours. Sharq daily. Medical Corporation, told this daily. cause indigestion and heart burn and People usually begin crowd- The event starts at 10pm at the She advised people who fast to recommended light exercises such as ing the place by 7am when café on Katara Beach. avoid overeating, do simple exercises walking for 15-20 minutes at least the tank is filled, with but- Launched a week ago, the mar- and take more liquid to avoid stom- three times per week. termilk stock lasting mostly ket is on Katara Beach. ach ailments during Ramadan. In 2013, the department said an until 9am. Among the other features of People were treated for ailments average of 15 patients were admit- “If you go there after 9am, the market is a centre for Arabic caused by overeating, gastritis, gas- ted for stomach ailments each night chances are you might not get novels where visitors can see a troenteritis, billary colic — a type of during Ramadan. enough buttermilk,” an Indian People collecting buttermilk from the Qatari household in Doha on gallery of famous Arab novelists pain related to the gallbladder that In 2012, over 8,000 people were who has been frequenting the Tuesday. SALIM MATRAMKOT and a collection of their works. occurs when a gallstone transiently hospitalised with health problems place told this newspaper. Visitors can also buy Arabic, obstructs the cystic duct and the gall- such as indigestion. He said he visited the place foreign and children’s books at bladder contracts, and intestinal colic In 2011, the Emergency usually once a week and car- been shifted to the front, he “I began visiting the place bookshops. A readers’ club can — severe abdominal pain associated Department of HMC received more ried two large bottles to get said. some three years ago after a also be found in the market. with malfunction in the intestines. than 1,100 cases on the first day of his fill. “Many people go there “The buttermilk tastes fine friend took me there for the Stalls dedicated to calligraphy, Some teenagers were among those Ramadan and most of them were with big jerry cans. There is with curry leaves and salt. I first time.” sculpture, antiques, traditional treated, she said. related to stomach disorders caused no restriction on how much have become quite used to it.” In Ramadan, the Qatari accessories and clothing as well All patients have been discharged by overeating and fatty food and one can carry.” There are people who come family also distributes food as a photo and fine art gallery with medicine and diet advice. sweets. On the second day, around The tank was in the back of there regularly in cars from in the evening, he added. are also in the market. Cultural In Ramadan, people tend to eat a 400 cases were received, mostly the house earlier. It has now far-off places, he said. THE PENINSULA lectures, symposiums and related lot of rich food which causes discom- related to stomach illnesses. events will be held at the market fort and leads to indigestion. Kulluna, the national safety cam- which is open from 9pm to 1am If healthy and balanced meals are paign, has begun a programme to during Ramadan. taken, then fasting can prove to be urge people to stay healthy and fol- very beneficial, Dr Al Saad added. low a balance diet during Ramadan. Mowasalat deploys “We advise people who fast to have It says a diet that has less than the Traffic diversion from Saturday benefits from the month of Ramadan normal amount of food but is signifi- more taxis to meet to break fast with dates and milk, cantly balanced will keep a person water, or fruit juice. healthy and active during the holy Ramadan rush “After the Maghrib prayer, month. THE PENINSULA DOHA: Mowasalat has geared up for Ramadan by increasing the number of taxis, taking into consideration the difference in peak times and the increased traffic during the evenings. It has increased the number of airport taxis to meet increasing requirements of pilgrims going for Umrah and taxis lines at shopping malls given the large number of shoppers throughout Ramadan. Mowasalat has also increased the number of buses, taking into account the change of timings in Ramadan. Operation hours of public transport have been increased in line with change in work hours at companies and the DOHA: The Public Works street has been widened to The project aims to increase increased demand for service dur- Authority — Ashghal — make it a two-way street as per the capacity of roads and ing evenings. announced a traffic diver- the attached map to allow traf- support traffic in the area in The company is also preparing sion on the West Industrial fic in both directions without addition to providing integral to take part with Karwa team Street in the direction from any interruption during ongo- infrastructure. Ashghal apolo- in the Ministry of Transport Roundabout 15 towards ing works. gises for any inconvenience and Ramadan Football Tournament Roundabout 10 starting from The closure is part of the urges all road users to abide by in addition to the annual Suhoor, Saturday until the completion first phase of roads and infra- speed limits and traffic signs to distribution of free meals to driv- of the permanent road. structure project in Industrial ensure their safety. ers and Garangao giveaways. The other direction of the Area, undertaken by Ashghal. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA

Ooredoo and Qatar Charity officials at the event. Ooredoo SSMs to accept Qatar Charity donations DOHA: Ooredoo and QC with the amazing work Qatar Charity (QC) they do in Qatar and the yesterday announced a region and urge customers partnership to enable to donate during the holy donations to the charity month,” said Mohammed via Ooredoo’s nationwide Saleh H Al Marri, Chief Self-Service Machines Sales and Service Officer, (SSMs) network. Ooredoo. With over 200 SSMs “The ease of use of SSMs across the country, dona- means that donating will tions can be made by cash be easier than before. With or credit/debit card during several causes in need of Ramadan and beyond. funds and attention, we are Donations can be made delighted to be associated towards initiatives sup- with Ooredoo and together porting education, health, aim to bring about positive social welfare, emergency social change,” said Jassim and relief, and other Ibrahim Almansouri, projects. Marketing Manager, QC. “The exciting thing The initiative is part of about the service is that community and charity you can choose where you events hosted by Ooredoo want to donate your money, throughout Ramadan this making it more interactive. year. We are proud to support THE PENINSULA

THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Qatari team in Brazil to HMC begins second awareness gain first-hand experience in organising World Cup campaign for organ donations

DOHA: A 140-strong team Authority, who is part of the mis- of observers put together by sion, told Al Jazeera that eight Hiba experts, HMC volunteers offer guidance at City Center booth Qatar’s Supreme Committee years would be more than enough for Delivery and Legacy is in for Qatar to get ready for the DOHA: Hamad Medical Brazil to gain first-hand expe- tournament. Corporation (HMC) began its rience in organising the World Addressing differences second awareness programme Cup. between Brazil 2014 and Qatar of the ‘Organ donation cam- Government agencies, includ- 2022 — for example, Qatari alco- paign’ yesterday at City Center. ing Public Works Authority hol restrictions — Zainal said: The event is part of the (Ashghal), Electricity and “The Qatari government has Ramadan campaign with an Water Corporation (Kahramaa) announced it would allow for a information booth staffed by and Internal Security Forces certain level of freedom during experts from Qatar Organ (Lekhwiya) have joined the the tournament. Donation Centre (Hiba) and mission and are gathering data “The government is going to HMC volunteers. from the Brazilian experience, Al deliver what it has promised. The campaign aims at educat- Jazeera reported yesterday. But it will all be in the spirit of ing people on social and medical Qatar-based major engineering the host country. We will intro- benefits of organ donation. firms, including US consultancy duce our guests to the culture of The number of people who giant CH2MHill — responsible Qatar, like Brazil is doing with its have registered as organ donors for the programme manage- visitors,” Zainal said. in Qatar has increased signifi- ment of Qatar 2022 World Cup The mission has suggested cantly as a result of awareness — have also joined the mission to that Qataris remain confident campaigns, said Dr Riadh Fadhil, inspect Brazilian stadiums and about keeping the 2022 World Director, Hiba. major infrastructure related to Cup in Qatar, despite it being at People keen to become organ the World Cup. the centre of a row over alleged donors can sign the registry at “It is great to see everything corruption during the contro- the booth on the first floor of City coming together in Brazil and versial bidding process for the Center. in Qatar, where we’ve started tournament. One of Brazil’s Two people have to witness Officials inaugurating the booth at City Center. SALIM MATRAMKOT building the first stadium in Al largest newspapers, Folha de registration as the pledge is con- Wakrah. Things are finally mate- Sao Paulo, wrote last week that sidered an organ donation will. The number increased seven- tissue after their death, the more kidney failure and are on dialyses rialising,” Juan Ruiz, spokesper- FIFA President Sepp Blatter Details of the donor are kept fold, with 16,606 registering as people stand to benefit. and the increase in the number son for the committee, told Al has received the outcome of the in an electronic record and the donors during the campaign at Organs and tissue that can be of hypertensive patients. Jazeera. investigation by the FIFA Ethics person is given an identification City Center Mall over 40 days in donated include heart, kidneys, Kidneys and liver can be Hend Zainal, Head of Committee into the bidding proc- card. 2013. lungs, pancreas, liver, intestines transplanted in Qatar. Other Marketing, Qatar Tourism ess. THE PENINSULA However, once a death takes The campaign in 2012 received and corneas. organs and any organ that can- place, details are checked in the 2,500 donors. In Qatar, the major need has not be matched to any patient records. The team at the centre One donor can save the lives of been for kidney transplants here are offered to patients in also approaches families of people many people and the more people mainly because of the increasing Saudi Arabia. Cabinet approves panel to who haven’t registered. pledge to donate their organs and number of diabetes who develop THE PENINSULA review name change requests

DOHA: A committee is to draft law that specifies that the be set up at the Ministry of Supreme Education Council pay Vodafone Qatar wins Golden CSR Award Interior to consider name for textbooks and transportation change requests from Qataris, of Qatari schoolchildren and pay DOHA: Vodafone Qatar GCC nationals and expats for their tuition fee. was recently recognised by themselves and their children. The draft has amended a pre- Arab Organisation for Social It is proposed that the panel vious law (No. 7 of 2012) regu- Responsibility with the Golden should have five members, all lating the educational voucher CSR Award for being one of the from the ministry, and to be system whereby SEC pays edu- most active companies in the nominated by the minister. cational vouchers for all enrolled region in this space. The panel will have a head and Qatari students at schools cho- The award also attests to the his deputy and all applications sen by the council. company’s creative and innova- for name change will need to be The Minister of Education and tive approach to CSR that goes addressed to it. Higher Education has to issue beyond charity and philanthropy. A draft decision of the regulations for implementation Receiving the award at a cer- Cabinet to set up the panel was of the educational voucher sys- emony in Dubai, which saw in approved by the Cabinet at its tem. Those public servants who attendance scores of ministers weekly meeting yesterday, QNA get paid for education of their and high-profile attendees, Dana reported. children will not be entitled to Haidan, Head of Corporate Social The Cabinet also approved a the privilege, QNA added. Responsibility & Sustainability, Vodafone Qatar, said: “We’re honoured for being chosen out of many companies to receive this accolade. As a Qatari company with very local roots, corporate social responsibility ranks high Dana Haidan, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility & Sustainability, Vodafone Qatar (second left) with the Woqod inaugurates on our agenda and our aim is to award at the ceremony in Dubai. continue to make a real contribu- tion to society. Difference, which gives financial Qatar. It helps raise parents’ and Al Wakra station, Al “We use our expertise in com- grants to winners to carry out In 2013, the company selected children’s awareness about safe munication technology to make their creative ideas that gen- three Qatari winners out of 150 Internet use and their digital a positive social impact. We also erate tangible benefits to the applicants, a 35 percent increase rights. believe we can help build a more community. in the number of Qatari appli- In its first year, AmanTECH Shamal mobile facility sustainable future by delivering It was launched in 2011 and cants from previous years. will reach out to 50,000 students commercially viable products and awarded four individuals who It also launched earlier this aged 5 to 17, 15,000 teachers, and DOHA: Qatar Fuel (Woqod) which lacks such services. scalable services that transform helped address social issues in year AmanTECH, an aid pro- 25,000 parents. It will adopt a inaugurated Al Wakra pet- “Woqod decided to provide and improve the quality of lives Qatar. gramme for online child and three-pronged approach with a rol station after its renovation all petroleum products through and enable positive economic, In 2012, the programme youth safety. focus on awareness, education and and maintenance works, on specialised delivery tanks at Al social and environmental out- awarded two winners who helped AmanTECH, which stands for technical support. Tuesday. Shamal station round the clock, comes for our stakeholders.” disabled individuals in Qatar in ‘Safe Technology’, aims at pro- The company also places Engineer Ibrahim Jaham Al to be effective immediately as a Vodafone Qatar has recently sports through swimming and moting digital literacy among emphasis on the health and safety Kuwari, CEO, Woqod, said the temporary procedure while fin- launched the 4th edition of its diving, and brought attention parents and improving children’s of its employees and its commu- station was undergoing main- ishing construction of a portable annual programme, World of to the issue of animal welfare in digital safety. nity. THE PENINSULA tenance and renovation works station in a few days. in line with safety and security “This mobile station shall have standards adopted by the com- the capacity to provide essential pany throughout its stations. petroleum products (diesel and “But in light of the pressing petroleum) and services urgently need and increasing demand for needed by our customers in the Arabic Tent at Four Seasons Hotel marks Ramadan in style petroleum products in Al Wakra, area,” he added. He reaffirmed we decided to inaugurate the Woqod’s commitment towards DOHA: The Four Seasons station to better serve the local its clients and readiness to serve Hotel, Doha, has set the mood community and our clients in the them across all locations so as for the Holy Month of Ramadan area. not to leave any opportunity for a with a uniquely designed Arabic “Al Shamal petrol station third party to abuse the need and Tent at the Garden Terrace. needed significant renovation and specific circumstances of certain “Given the ongoing and exciting maintenance works, which will areas, in line with Woqod’s keen- plans to re-energise our food and take considerate time, but Woqod ness to fulfil its social responsibil- beverage offering over the com- sensed recently an urgent need ity always in all circumstances. ing months, including but not lim- among our clients in this area, THE PENINSULA ited to the opening of the most anticipated restaurant in Doha, Nobu, the hotel plans to celebrate Ramadan in style. “The exclusive, authentic Arabian Tent welcomes our guests for Iftar and Sohour. Popular Ramadan dishes and live music are on offer to complete what is a unique experience,” says Rami Sayess, Regional Vice-President and General Manager. With strategic partner- Staff at the Arabic Tent. ships with Maserati and Etihad Airways, the hotel shares the featuring international cuisine Khairy and his Halabi band. Iftar starts from 6 to 8.30pm, same values and philosophy with and local favourites. Following Both performances entertain costing QR225 and Sohour buf- both to provide the best of the Iftar, the tent offers a lounge the audience with the best of fet from 10pm to 2am, at QR275. best to guests or clients. The ambiance to enjoy shisha and live Arabic songs during Sohour. Children aged 5-12 receive 50 hotel’s culinary team creates a musical performances by Ahmed For football fans, World Cup percent discount on the regular delicious Iftar and Sohour buf- Dougan from Lebanon and well- games are shown live in the tent, price. The renovated Al Wakra petrol station. fet with an extensive variety, known Syrian singer Mohamed which opened on June 28. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 QA starts daily flight to Dallas/Fort Worth DOHA: Qatar Airways now have non-stop access to a new Dallas/Fort Worth at 8pm and lands (QA) yesterday com- destination in the Gulf,” said Sean in Doha at 6:20pm the following day. menced daily, non-stop Donohue, CEO, DFW Airport. “DFW The route is operated with a services between Hamad is an integral economic driver to Boeing 777-200LR configured with International Airport the region and this new service will 217 Economy Class and 42 Business (HIA) and Dallas/Fort add about $200m annually to our Class seats. Outbound passengers Worth International economy.” to Doha will enjoy fast, convenient Airport. The new route flies daily, departing connections to key destinations The new route increases from Doha at 8:10am and arriving throughout the world, including QA’s global network to at Dallas/Fort Worth at 3:35pm the Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo, Bangkok and seven gateways within the same day. Perth via HIA. US and 144 destinations Overnight service to Doha departs THE PENINSULA worldwide. Dallas/Fort Worth becomes QA’s second des- tination in Texas, rep- resenting the airline’s commitment to the region. Along with Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth will serve as a crucial junc- tion between QA’s global network, via Doha, and other key destinations across the southwestern US, including Austin, San Antonio and Oklahoma City, through its oneworld alliance partners. “We are delighted to welcome Dallas/Fort Worth into our expanding global network,” said CEO, Akbar Al Baker. “We are pleased to begin serving the home city of our oneworld alli- ance partner American Airlines. Together, we can provide North Texas and the surrounding region with unparalleled service and better connections to Doha and around the world.” Dallas/Fort Worth is a world centre for major US corporations, includ- ing Justin Boots, Texas Instruments, Frito Lay and AT&T. The region is also home to major oil and gas companies, including ExxonMobil. “Our partnership with QA and today’s inaugu- ral flight from Doha is exciting for the airport and the millions of pas- sengers we serve. Dallas/ Fort Worth customers THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME QA official carrier of Syrian, Jordanian Changes in Commercial sheep ‘fit for global forum on science consumption’ DOHA: The Ministry of Municipality and Urban parks and innovations Register law likely Planning clarified yester- day that the Syrian and DOHA: Qatar Science and Jordanian sheep being sold Technology Park (QSTP) has Cabinet takes measures to issue draft law out to nationals at subsidised announced that Qatar Airways rates at Widam (Qatar Meat (QA) will be the official carrier DOHA: The Prime Minister department will review applica- Scouts and Guides. The Cabinet and Livestock Company) of International Association and Interior Minister H E tions for commercial licences and reviewed a letter by the Minister outlets were fit for human of Science Parks and Areas Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser inform applicants of the decision of Development Planning consumption. of Innovations’ (IASP) 31st bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday of the administration on the same and Statistics, also Chairman Veterinarians of the minis- Annual World Conference chaired the Cabinet’s weekly day they made the request that of Permanent Population try inspect all sheep that are (IASP 2014 Doha). meeting at the Emiri Diwan. meets all documents and data Committee, on results of a study slaughtered at abattoirs. IASP 2014 Doha is a global The Deputy Prime Minister required. on the ministry’s visions about the There was concern in the gathering of science parks, entre- and Minister of State for Cabinet The session approved a Cabinet panel’s annual report 2013. Qatari community yester- preneurs and policymakers that Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah draft decision on Qatar National It also reviewed a letter by day as a video doing rounds will take place later this year. bin Zaid Al Mahmoud said the Commission for Education, the Minister of Transport on a on social media showed how a As the official carrier, QA will session reviewed programmes, Culture and Science. research paper on factors influ- vaccine for parainfluenza 3 had help bring about 1,000 leading plans and mechanisms devel- The panel is headed by the encing the increase in the use of caused black spots on the meat government, business and tech- oped by ministries to implement Minister of Education and public transport and metro net- of a slaughtered Syrian sheep nology innovation delegates from directives and guidelines included Higher Education, with a work, submitted by the ministry bought by a national at subsi- 45 countries to Qatar. innovative people around the in the speech of the Emir H H Supreme Council of Education at International Association of dised rate. The Head of IASP 2014 world to our home base of Doha. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al representative as vice-president, Public Transport’s conference in It was reported that at least Organizing Committee and QSTP “It is this same forward-think- Thani at the opening of the and a secretary-general along Dubai in April. 50 Syrian sheep were found to Managing Director, Hamad Al ing and innovative approach that Advisory Council’s 42nd session. with a representative from the A letter by the Ministry of be vaccinated once or twice. Kuwari (pictured), said: “For has helped propel QA’s excep- It decided that concerned Foreign Ministry, the Ministry Environment on the outcome The ministry said in a state- the first time in the Arab region, tional growth over the last 17 authorities would take measures of Culture, Arts and Heritage, of the 19th meeting of the GCC ment that the sheep vacci- IASP2014 Doha will gather entre- years. QA looks forward to wel- to follow up on implementation the Ministry of Youth and Sport Standardization Organization’s nated within three weeks were preneurs and policymakers from coming delegates on board as they of these programmes, plans and and the Ministry of Environment, board of directors in Kuwait in destroyed after being slaugh- different parts of the world to fly to Qatar for what is sure to mechanisms. Qatar Museums Authority, Qatar May and a letter by the National tered but those given vac- explore new models of support for be a stimulating and memorable The Cabinet took measures to University, and Qatar Foundation Committee on Arms Embargo on cines before that were fit for the world’s most empowered and event.” issue a draft law amending some for Education, Science and its 28th report for January 1 to consumption. connected generation of technol- IASP 2014 Doha will be the provisions of Law No. 25 of 2005 Community Development. April 30 were also reviewed. ogy startups and entrepreneurs. first IASP World Conference on Commercial Register after it It also approved a draft The Cabinet took measures to Xpress Money “I can think of no other airline in the Arab world. It has hit a looked at recommendations of the annual plan for Qatar Tourism ratify cooperation agreements on that embodies the innovative and major milestone by attracting 138 Advisory Council. Authority to participate in exhi- education, higher education and unveils Ramadan entrepreneurial spirit of the event abstract submissions and lining As per amendments, the bitions outside Qatar, and the scientific research with Hungary more than QA. We are grateful up 33 speakers, the highest par- Ministry of Economy and Scout and Guide Association of and in the legal field with Cyprus. promotion for the support of QA in making ticipation the event has seen in Commerce’s competent Qatar joining the Arab Union of QNA IASP 2014 Doha a success and the past four years. DOHA: Money transfer offering delegates the five-star It will take place on October major, Xpress Money, has experience they can’t get any- 19-22 at Qatar National rolled out a 49-day Ramadan where else.” Convention Center. W Hotel opens Sultan Tent for Ramadan multi-country incentive pro- QA Vice-President, Registration is open and online. gramme ‘Win Everyday’ for Commercial, Ehab Amin, said, Early bird fees are available with its remitters. It will run until “QA is pleased to be the official group discounts and special rates August 12 and will be appli- carrier of IASP 2014. It is a great for IASP network members and cable for customers transfer- honour to be associated with an affiliates. Learn more at www. ring money from Qatar. event that is bringing some of iasp2014doha.com Customers will get the the most forward-thinking and THE PENINSULA opportunity to win QR1,000 daily and a mega prize of QR20,000 at the end of the promotion. Forty-nine winners of the daily prize and one for the Forum focuses on trade in Islam mega prize will be named. DOHA: The Prime Minister Commerce attended. All daily prize winners will and Interior Minister H E Dr Tariq Swedan, Islamic be chosen through fortnightly Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin scholar who specialises in human electronic draws and the mega Khalifa Al Thani attended the development, Dr Nabil Al Awadi, prize winner will be announced Trade in Islam Forum which preacher, Dr Mohamed Gohar, through a special draw at the began yesterday under his member of QC, and Ali Al end of the promotion. patronage. Abdullah Al Sulaiti, Director- Sudhesh Giriyan, Vice- It is organised by the Ministry General, Sheikh Eid Charity, President & Business Head, of Economy and Trade in collabo- addressed the forum. Xpress Money, said, “The Holy ration with Sheikh Eid Charity. Participants reviewed work and Month of Ramadan is a time Ministers, businessmen and achievements of Qatari charities when, as a company, we have members of Qatar Chamber of at home and abroad. QNA Turkish Ambassador Ahmet Demirok (centre) with guests at W Hotel after the opening of its Sultan Tent for tried to give back to society and Ramadan yesterday. ABDUL BASIT our customers. “In keeping with this, our ‘Win Everyday’ incentive pro- gramme encapsulates the spirit of the season and we are con- 17 students attend SEHHA training fident that it will help further strengthen our bond with our DOHA: The Department of outbreaks, and body mass index people towards their entry into customers. Health Sciences (DHS) at the in the department’s laboratories, the labour market which has an “The ‘Win Everyday’ pro- College of Arts & Sciences at and met prospective employers ongoing demand for healthcare gramme is our way of wishing Qatar University (QU) held at healthcare institutions such as personnel in a host of disciplines.” Ramadan Kareem to our cus- a campaign on June 23-25 to QU’s research complex, Primary She said with committed tomers across the world. advance its Sciences Education Health Care Corporation, Hamad partners such as Ooredoo, and “Traditionally, remittance and Human Health Activity Medical Corporation and Biolabs collaboration with leading health- volumes and transactions (SEHHA). Qatar. care organizations, the college is tend to increase during the The event is the department’s On the final day, the depart- well-positioned to provide high holy month and this incentive second cycle of activity to orient ment celebrated the students’ school students with an invalu- scheme will give our custom- high school students on SEHHA’s experience and honoured spon- able opportunity to participate ers the opportunity to earn an role in supporting the healthcare sors and contributors in a closing in SEHHA to encourage their added bonus- that they could sector, acquaint them on various ceremony. interest in pursuing related stud- send to their families during health sciences, and orient them College Dean, Dr Eiman ies at the college to prepare for a Eid,” Giriyan added. on career options in the health Mustafawi, said: “The college con- professional career in the health The programme will also run profession. tinues to contribute to goals and sciences. “SEHHA is proving to in the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Seventeen students from values outlined in Qatar National be a success and will no doubt Jordan, the UK, Malaysia, international schools in Doha Vision 2030, national health gain popularity throughout high Greece, the Maldives and participated in hands-on experi- strategy and Qatarisation strat- schools in Doha,” she said. A student receiving her certificate. Brunei. THE PENINSULA ments on human genetics, disease egy to build the talent of young THE PENINSULA

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ILITARY policies of countries are not decided in a day. They take years to get moulded into shape, and a slew of factors are taken into consideration M– a country’s military past, its involvement or lack of involvement in foreign missions and its ambitions. For Palestinians, recent deaths So we have countries which can be classified as pacifist or jingoistic or those falling in between. Japan has been known for its pacifist military policy to which it has stuck stubbornly over the past few decades. highlight asymmetry of power But the country is going for a dramatic change after much deliberations. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced a BY AHMAD SAMIH KHALIDI reinterpretation of the country’s pacifist Constitution on into the Palestinian public’s long- punishment of the Palestinians. The Tuesday, freeing its military for the first time in over 60 standing concern over the thousands fact that two of the three youths were years to play a more assertive role in the increasingly tense HE kidnapping and killing of of prisoners in Israeli jails. This has 16 years old (the third was 19) is also region. In other words, the change will enable its military three young Israelis – whom been heightened by the Israeli govern- a poignant reminder that the cost of to come to the aid of friendly countries under attack. It’s a Palestinians regard as set- ment’s recent decision to renege on the conflict is not always borne by tlers – and the death of a its commitment to President Abbas those on the frontline. Palestinian change that has been necessitated by the latest developments T Palestinian teenager in East Jerusalem to release the last batch of prisoners minors accounted for some 25% of the in the region, and one that is completely justified. As one have reopened some of the deepest held since before the “peace process” 5,000 Palestinian deaths in the first of the superpowers, Japan needs to play a more active role. wounds on both sides of the ongoing began in 1993. (1987) and second (2000) intifadas. Pacifism is a great virtue, but that should not be interpreted conflict and are now threatening to The despair at Israel’s unwilling- According to the Israeli human rights as a weakness, and should not come in the way of helping engulf Palestinian-Israeli relations. ness to release what the Palestinian group B’Tselem, some 84 Palestinian friendly countries. It is not hard to see why Palestinian public perceives to be “hostages” minors and 19 women were killed by mothers and fathers may have been coincided with a hunger strike by 300 Israeli forces in the five years up to Abe had originally sought broader freedom for the bemused by the spectacle of world Palestinian “administrative detain- May 2014, compared with 10 Israeli country’s military but was compelled to compromise after leaders, including Barack Obama and ees” in protest at their incarceration civilians. Last year the UN Committee opposition from his own Liberal Democratic Party and a David Cameron, lining up to con- without charge, trial, or legal recourse, on the Rights of the Child estimated coalition partner, a small Buddhist demn the deaths of the three youths, renewable every six months – a sanc- that 7,000 children, mainly aged from party. But even the agreed changes while remaining largely unmoved tion that Israel has inherited from 12 to 17 but some as young as nine, are considered revolutionary by by the shooting British Mandatory rule. have been arrested, interrogated and Japan’s of two unarmed The depth of Palestinian public con- detained between 2002 and 2012 – an the current standards because Palestinian cern over prisoners cannot be exag- average of two per day. decision to give they will permit the military to youths last month gerated. Palestinian statistics suggest But this is not all. Israel’s ongoing use its large and technologically and the killings that there have been some 800,000 retaliation against Hamas is no more its military advanced forces in ways that of at least a fur- acts of detention and imprisonment likely to deter any future violence would have been unthinkable even ther six civilians of Palestinians (including multiple than it has in the past, and it seems wider powers The latest since Israel began detentions) since 1967 – an extraor- to be more an act of frustration at a decade ago when they were searching for the dinary proportion of a relatively small the fact that Abbas’s “reconciliation is a welcome limited to defending the country. killings bring kidnappers on 12 population base of around 4 million government” had successfully elic- move. There is no doubt that a major to the forefront June. people in the West Bank and Gaza ited broad western support, despite reason for the current shift is The latest today. Israel’s strong protestations. But the rising power of China, its Palestinians’ death of an East The release of prisoners has indeed Binyamin Netanyahu’s demand for threatening postures and the Jerusalem teen- been one of the main motives for a long President Abbas to choose between deep concern ager confirms series of Palestinian attacks stretching appeasing Israel and giving up on a changing power equations in the region. Beijing is mounting that Israeli vigi- bac k to the very beginnings of the significant sector of his own people is a serious challenge to the regional dominance of the United about prisoners lantism is on the 1967 occupation. In successive pris- neither workable or politically feasible, States and its allies, including Japan, and making assertive and reopen rise, inspired by oner exchanges, and as most recently for without Hamas there can be no claims to vast areas of two strategically important seas. a growing and demonstrated in the Shalit case, the Palestinian address to take responsi- Many countries in the region are locked in territorial wounds on both largely unre- Israelis seemed prepared to release bility for either peace or war. disputes with China, all of whom are helpless in front of strained tide of Palestinians only under duress and at As the entire region enters a new sides of the settler violence the tempting ratio for would-be kid- phase of profound uncertainty and China’s might. The new change in Tokyo will be welcomed over the past few nappers of around 1000:1. Eventually, severe security challenges, a total by all countries which have disputes with China. Also, a conflict. years. In light of Palestinian militants came to the con- breakdown in Palestinian-Israeli rela- weakening of the US power globally means the allies of the fury felt on clusion that the most effective way of tions will only highlight the difficulty of Washington need to devise their own mechanisms to protect both sides, it is releasing Palestinians from jail was to reconciling both sides’ core demands: their borders and interests. perhaps not hard take Israeli hostages in return. Israeli security, and Palestinian sov- to see why mutual None of this is meant to justify the ereignty and freedom. The hopes for Japanese leaders for years have been taking their country empathy is not the prevalent mode of killing of innocent civilians. But the a negotiated “two-state” settlement away from its passive security stance. They agreed to join interaction between Palestinians and three Israeli youths appear to have were already fading fast. The death Western efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan by transporting Israelis today. fallen victim to the asymmetry of power of the three youths and Israeli retalia- cargo and refueling other navies’ ships, bought weapons On the Palestinian side, the kidnap- between occupier and occupied, and tion may well make this more difficult that could be called offensive, and under Abe, gave military- pers – whatever their exact motives the inevitable consequences of nearly than ever. related aid to neighbours who share Japan’s anxiety over – seem to have deliberately tapped 50 years of occupation and collective THE GUARDIAN China. The other side Quote of Kidnap is a crime even when the US is the kidnapper the day HE real legacy of the so-called torture. What the United Nations call US “acquired” Ahmed Abu Khattala, It matters little whether Abu Khattala “war on terror” that the United “cruel or inhuman” treatment was the Libyan suspected of involvement is a “bad guy”; the principles of justice States prosecuted after the standard procedure at Guantanamo in the Benghazi embassy attack, it is must apply to everyone. To be a police- TSeptember 11 attacks has Bay, at the notorious Abu Ghraib hard to avoid the obvious conclusion. man means upholding the law; to be been the steady degradation of prison, and at prisons in Afghanistan Regardless of the veneer of legality put a global policeman means upholding international law. The conventions and around the world, in the secret on his case by putting him in front of a international law. that had held on the international “dark” prisons. Witness the disgusting US judge, it is obvious he was simply If the US goes around the world I demand the Israeli stage for decades were swept aside images of prisoners, naked and humili- kidnapped by the US from Libya and invading countries on flimsy pretexts, government to punish as, suddenly, the US felt they were no ated, leaked from Abu Ghraib. Listen held captive for two weeks on a US it cannot be surprised if others, such longer relevant to its wars. to the accounts of what “waterboard- warship. as Russia, decided to do so too. If the the killers if it wants Out of the window went the prohi- ing” – what is really simulated drown- It is important that such cases are US considers kidnapping to be a valid peace between the bition on detention without trial –hun- ing – entails. explained clearly for what they are. tool of diplomacy or law enforcement, it dreds were rounded up and thrown The war on terror also introduced The US media has been astonishingly should not be surprised when, as with Palestinian and the into Guantanamo Bay, many languish- the 21st century to “extraordinary rendi- complicit in this violation of international Bowe Bergdahl, its enemies consider Israeli peoples. ing for years, never told what they tion”, the process of kidnapping foreign law: not one major outlet has asked by that a valid tool as well. The law must were accused of. Some are still there. citizens without the consent of their what legality Abu Khattala was taken apply to everyone. Mahmoud Abbas Thrown away, too, were the curbs on governments. Looking at the way the and reached the US. The National Palestinian President THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 QATAR PERSPECTIVE / HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Why the US-Islamic World Forum?

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atar has shown its positively influence their societies commitment for the and preserve their own principles past 10 years to host and values. Qthe US-Islamic World But observers did not welcome Forum, which convened this year everything that came out of the from June 9 to 11. The forum forum. The forum also saw strong hosted a select group of experts criticism of the American admin- from around the world. Politicians, istration amid calls for an end to officials, academics, opinion-mak- the unipolar world order. ers, scholars, businessmen, cul- Personally, I agree with those tural experts and media persons who say the forum’s topics are from the United States and the almost the same every year. Islamic world attended the event. These topics have not evolved. The forum aims to promote Every rational person can easily cooperation between the Islamic see that relations between the US world and the US, and to show and Islamic countries have not the positive side of the Islamic improved. On the contrary, these religion and its adherents. It also relations have taken a turn for the seeks to counter wrong informa- worse. Israel’s brutality, backed tion about this religion circulat- by US arms and money and veto ing in Western societies. It seeks power in the UN Security Council, to create a positive relationship is one reason for this. between the Islamic world and The US-Islamic World Forum governments and people in the would do better if it gives priority West. in discussions to the Palestinian After the end of this year’s cause and the conflict in the event, it is necessary for us to see Middle East. This cause was, and if it achieved anything, especially still is, the main cause of tension in the light of criticism of the US in the region and the lack of con- regarding its policies in the Islamic fidence between the US and the Participants in the US-Islamic World Forum held last June. world. Islamic world. This year, the forum called for Though Qatar has been criti- considers the forum a venue for “The forum is not a political He added that the forum was bin Khalifa Al Thani, said interna- religious tolerance, enhancing cised for it, the country had good airing all opinions regarding the one or a venue for settling scores, important in that it offered space tional and regional developments dialogue, denouncing fanaticism intentions when it decided to host relationship between the Islamic but an occasion for exchanging to thinkers, politicians and aca- over the past few years had vin- and violence, addressing prob- the Forum. Our wise leadership world and Washington. opinions and ideas with others demics to exchange ideas and dicated the vision and ideas advo- lems between the two sides, and believes in the value of dialogue, Muslims have always com- by creating a platform for open points of view and to discuss the cated by the forum from the very strengthening civil society. which leads to results at the end plained about the actions of the and free intellectual dialogue best means for finding a common beginning. Notable among the topics dis- of the day. It believes in the impor- US, whether in Iraq, Afghanistan with academics, politicians and ground between the Islamic world “The forum was not only about cussed during the forum was the tance of talks, which solve prob- or in relation to America’s abso- specialists from both sides to find and the US. discussion, but it also offered issue of Muslim minorities in lems and remove tension between lute support for Israeli occupation the means for narrowing the gap Addressing the inaugural ses- important rules and solutions to Western societies and the need for two sides. of Arab lands. of difference between the US and sion of the forum, Qatar’s Prime a large number of international them to play a role in the coun- Qatar has tried to do everything A Qatari official had earlier the Islamic world,” the official Minister and Interior Minister, and regional problems,” the Prime tries they live in so that they can to make the forum a success. It answered questions in this regard. said. H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Minister said.

KHALED AL JABER Law needed to deter profiteers

The essence of a Gulf union only one or two workers remain MOZA ABDEL AZIZ ALISHAKQ on the job. n the beginning of the past century, Nicolas Craf Clergy, a senior politician, came up with a plan Lengthy wrangling then starts whereby European unity would be achieved in four stages. between you and the company. I In the first stage, preparations would be made and a conference held to explain and stress the very now and then, Qatari dealings. Even after hearing their flimsy importance of having faith in unity and an alliance between forums and media outlets Unbelievably high prices are excuses, seeing the poor quality European countries. Eaddress issues related to being imposed on us. However, of their work and the bad way In the second stage, a treaty would be signed to establish If officials in the Council citizens’ problems. we accept them. It is as if the they treat you, you are forced to a binding system or body for arbitration, which European These issues are often related citizens are paying tax for getting pay the second instalment. countries would resort to in order to resolve their disputes. In want its continuity for to health, education and services high salaries. These companies Most of the contractors do not the third stage, a customs union would take effect. In the last the sake of ‘necessary provided by individuals, compa- see us as prey. do what the customers want, and stage, a European constitution would be drafted and adopted. nies or government authorities. They have got bold enough to the customers are surprised by All these ideas seem to be just luxuries that cannot be sug- formalities’, they must Some of us facing these prob- quote these high prices with- what is accomplished as com- gested or used for interaction between the ruling authority, lems do not know how to deal out hesitation, and if you don’t pared to what is mentioned in elites, institutions and people when the issue of Gulf unity address fear and mistrust with them or how to recover our accept them, someone else will, the contract. is raised. The meaning of a Gulf union has not been agreed money, especially if it is the first so you don’t get to even open your At the end of the day, you find upon and it has no place in the political dictionary of the Gulf among the council’s time we are experiencing such mouth, as these companies only yourself going to police stations Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. painful and unusual situations. know the language of numbers and courts to get justice. Nearly It seems that the media campaign launched against Qatar member states, rearrange Due to the growth the coun- and profit, even if it is ten times every Qatari family is suffering in the beginning of this year failed because of public bitterness try is witnessing, numerous com- the normal profit. this. over the withdrawal of three ambassadors from the country borders in a just and panies and people of Asian and Despite all this, you don’t get Almost the same thing hap- — an unprecedented move in the history of the GCC. Arab nationalities now exist in what you pay for, and you don’t pens when you sign a contract There are real disputes between GCC countries. They can ‘brotherly’ way, and then the country. Ten years ago, most find any integrity or quality in with self-employed labour. They no longer be covered up or dealt with behind closed doors. start implementing an of the work of home mainte- what you get. insist on the first instalment, and These disputes, according to Ghanem Al Naggar, professor nance, construction and other For example, if you contract they can disappear with your of political science in Kuwait University, are in general about intensive programme to such jobs were done by workers with any of these companies, they money and you won’t see them a sense of insecurity within the system, border disputes, and of certain nationalities. will drain you dry, as they will again because they have already regional and international alliances becoming more important rebuild trust. Back then, all our needs of force you to make a huge down contracted with more than one than the internal unity of the council. As a result, mistrust construction, maintenance and payment in order to finish the customer. among GCC countries has grown. procurement were done honestly, job in the estimated time, and of The question is how are we Al Naggar suggests that if officials in the council want its continuity for the sake of “necessary for- and verbal agreements were course, you have to pay. going to get back our rights? We malities”, they must address fear and mistrust among the council’s member states, rearrange borders mutually respected. In order to pay these large need a deterrent law to face these in a just and “brotherly” way, and then start implementing an intensive programme to rebuild trust. We did not hear of or face sums of money, you must either merciless people who only speak The GCC countries must then start acting collectively to achieve joint security by enhancing and problems with construction com- get a bank loan or have savings of profits and manipulate and developing ruling systems that are open and connected to the people, else the council, whether it panies and workers that we expe- that cover the expense of building inflate prices at will. survives or ceases to be, would be merely about redundant or incomplete figures. rience nowadays. or maintaining your home. Ahmed Al Saadon, a former speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, has said: “We deceive our- Citizens are now crying out on After the first instalment is selves if we say we can establish a real union between Gulf countries without the need for concessions radio and in police stations and paid, the company will deploy an The views expressed in the articles on this from the political systems to the people of the region”. courts to recover their rights and uncountable number of workers page do not reflect the viewpoint of the financial dues from people who in the first week, then they start newspaper. do not show any mercy in their reducing the numbers so that

Youth get personality development tips at workshop DOHA: The Bedaya Center for captivate others. Charismatic per- to develop their skills and person- Bedaya Center offered consider- Entrepreneurship and Career sons also have the ability to inspire ality and become active, influential able help in her professional life Development, a joint initiative others and exceptionally attract leaders in all their fields of activ- through continual advice and by Qatar Development Bank and their attention. ity. This is entirely in step with guidance in terms of her career Silatech, last week organised the Seeking to help the younger my constant passion of helping and skills development. Charismatic Communication generation refine their person- younger generations and enabling “I had heard about Bedaya and Interaction with People alities and enhance their abili- them to make a positive impact in Center’s workshops and training Workshop. ties and skills in dealing with society,” said Haidar. courses to help and encourage University and high school others, Qatari human develop- Majed Fathallah, Career Qatari youth. This motivated me students and young workers and ment trainer Mohammed Haidar Development Manager at Bedaya to enquire about the workshops employees took part in the two- addressed a number of issues dur- Center, said: “The incentive behind and later participate in them, day event held at Movenpick ing the workshop, including how to the workshop is the critical need and while at the Center I made Tower Hotel in Doha. develop a charismatic and authen- to train young people in effective a few visits to Bedaya’s Career Charisma is a high level of tic character, communicate with communication skills and the Counselling service and it helped attractiveness, overwhelming people and influence them, quali- mechanisms of building relation- me shape my future career; I have presence and ability to influence ties of a charismatic personality, ships with others, which is one made great decisions with their people positively, which some peo- how to deal with different types of of the highly demanded skills in help. The most valuable thing I ple have. Despite the difficulty of characters and how to build trust the Qatari labour market. The learned was how our own values finding a comprehensively accu- with other people. workshop is also part of Bedaya control our choices and behaviour. rate definition, this personal qual- “I always look forward to work- Center’s mission towards finding I gained insight into managing my ity can be associated with a certain ing with Bedaya Center. I am a and building leadership personali- values to my benefit. The work- type of personalities, and allows strong believer in their mission, ties to guide the future of Qatar.” shop added so much to my experi- Participants in the Charismatic Communication and Interaction with People some people to have extraordi- which aims at empowering young Haifa Al Malki, a participant ence,” said Al Malki. Workshop at Movenpick Tower Hotel. nary abilities to lead, convince and people by offering them the chance in the workshop, pointed out that THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Iraq PM offers amnesty to turn tide of offensive Washington reaches out to Sunni, Kurd leaders

BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON: turn against their co-religionists The White House said Biden Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki and jihadists. and Nujaifi agreed on the impor- offered a general amnesty yes- The vast majority of Iraq’s tance of Iraqis “moving expedi- terday in a rare conciliatory Sunni Arab minority do not tiously to form a new government move to undercut support for actively support the Islamic State capable of uniting the country.” militants whose offensive has (IS) jihadist group spearheading Kerry stressed the important overrun swathes of territory the offensive, but analysts say role that the Kurds would play in and threatens to tear Iraq anger over perceived mistreat- a new multi-sect government in apart. ment by the authorities means Baghdad, which Washington says The offer comes after a farcical they are less likely to cooperate is vital to meeting the challenge opening to the new parliament, with the security forces. of Sunni Islamic State (IS) jihad- despite world leaders calling on Maliki’s announcement came ists who have seized vast tracts of Iraq’s fractious politicians to unite a day after an eagerly awaited Iraqi territory in recent months. urgently to help combat insur- opening to the Council of Barzani last week warned gents, as the military struggles Representatives descended into that there was no going back to seize the initiative. chaos and ended in disarray with- on Kurdish rule in the oil-rich Maliki’s surprise move, made out a speaker being elected. northern city of Kirkuk and other in his weekly televised address, Washington quickly warned towns now defended by Kurdish appeared to be a bid to split the that “time is not on Iraq’s side,” fighters against Sunni militants. Iraqi families fleeing violence in the northern city of Tal Afar, arrive at the Kurdish checkpoint in Aski kalak, in the broad alliance of jihadists, loyal- with State Department spokes- He also pledged, in an inter- autonomous Kurdistan region, yesterday. Saudi Arabia pledged $500m in humanitarian aid for Iraq to be disbursed ists of executed dictator Saddam woman Marie Harf calling for view with the BBC, to hold an through the United Nations to those in need regardless of sect or ethnicity, state media reported. Hussein and anti-government “extreme urgency.” independence referendum within tribes that has captured large Top US officials yesterday months, raising the specter of the president a Kurd. Presiding MP wilting before the onslaught. burned vehicles (en route to the chunks of five provinces, displacing upped pressure on key Iraqi lead- break-up of Iraq. Mahdi Hafez said the legislature They have since performed bet- city) have been rigged with explo- hundreds of thousands of people. ers as political chaos in Baghdad State Department spokes- would reconvene on July 8 if lead- ter, albeit with limited offensive sives, and militants have deployed “I announce the provision of clouded American hopes for a woman Jen Psaki said Kerry ers were able to agree on senior success. lots of roadside bombs and car amnesty for all tribes and all peo- unity government to tackle the emphasized with Barzani the posts. In another sign of political But the cost has been high. bombs,” said Ahmed Abdullah ple who were involved in actions country’s sectarian breakdown. urgency of Kurdish “participa- discord, Maliki rejected yesterday Nearly 900 security personnel Juburi, governor of Salaheddin against the state” but who now Vice President Joe Biden, who tion in the government formation an assertion by the autonomous were among 2,400 people killed in province of which Tikrit is the “return to their senses,” Maliki frequently burns up the phone process (and) the important role Kurdish region that its control of June, the highest figure in years, capital. Juburi said it would be days said. lines to Baghdad, talked to the the Kurds (are) playing moving disputed territory is here to stay. according to the United Nations. before security forces could make a But he excluded those involved speaker of Iraq’s previous parlia- forward.” Kurdish leader Massud Barzani Thousands of troops, backed by concerted push into the city. in killings, and it was not imme- ment, Osama Al Nujaifi, a promi- UN special envoy Nickolay has even said a referendum will tanks, artillery and aerial cover, Maliki’s security spokesman diately clear how many people nent Sunni leader. Secretary of Mladenov said Iraqi politicians be held in the coming months have made limited progress in also told reporters that loyalists might be eligible. State John Kerry meanwhile “need to realise that it is no on independence for the oil-rich retaking Tikrit, which fell on June had clashed with militants south Analysts have said some form of met a Kurdish delegation in longer business as usual.” region. 11, as a highly publicised operation of Baghdad. In an effort to break political reconciliation is needed Washington and also spoke to Under a de facto agreement, On the ground, Iraqi forces appears to have hit difficulties. the stand-off, the government has to convince Sunni Arabs angry Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud the premier is a Shia Arab, the were struggling to break a stale- “They are advancing slowly bought more than a dozen Sukhoi with the Shia-led government to Barzani by phone. speaker Sunni Arab and the mate with militants after initially because all of the houses and warplanes from Russia. AFP Lebanese wife-beater convicted under new law Al Jazeera defiant, won’t change policy BEIRUT: A Lebanese man who beat his wife has been jailed for nine months in the first such conviction under a domestic vio- DOHA: Al Jazeera, the Qatari- “The Brotherhood is a force lence law passed in April. funded television station whose inside and outside Egypt and can’t Hussein Ftouni, aged 30, will also be fined 20m Lebanese pounds reporting of the 2011 Arab be ignored by the media,” he said. ($13,258) for a brutal assault on his 22-year-old wife Tamara Harissi. Spring uprisings won it millions Even before the Arab Spring, Women’s rights group Kafa said the verdict, announced on of viewers in the Middle East, is Al Jazeera was making enemies. Tuesday, was a milestone first conviction, but criticised the short defiant following a backlash by Its journalists have not escaped sentence. “It’s the first case where the perpetrator has been sen- Arab governments that accuse unscathed: Sami Al Hajj, a tenced under the new law, that we are aware of,” Kafa communica- it of supporting Islamists. Sudanese national, was detained tions coordinator Maya Ammar said. On June 23, three Al Jazeera while in transit to Afghanistan “But we don’t see the sentence as sufficient. Of course it is better journalists were sentenced by in 2001 and held in Guantánamo than releasing him, as his attorney requested, but he was convicted an Egyptian court for up to 10 Bay until 2008. Held on suspicion of beating her, not attempted murder,” she said. years in jail for aiding a “terrorist of having ties with Al Qaeda, he “For us, the evidence clearly shows attempted murder, and we organisation” — a reference to the was released without charge. In think that is what he should have been convicted of.” Muslim Brotherhood that helped 2005, reporter Tayseer Allouni Speaking to AFP at her parents’ home, Harissi said: “Considering sweep Hosni Mubarak from was sentenced by a Spanish court all the pain I went through in the past year and a half (of marriage), power in 2011 only to be ousted to seven years in prison for being even a life sentence wouldn’t really be sufficient.” itself last year in an army-backed a financial courier for Al Qaeda. “Life with him (her husband) was no life at all... every week I was coup. Allouni denied the charges. beaten,” she said in a soft voice. The journalists denied the “Once, he dragged me by the hair onto the street, in front of eve- Egyptian charge and the verdict In addition to Egypt, there have ryone, just because I was wearing clothes he didn’t like,” she alleged. was denounced by press freedom been bureau closures in Iraq in Harissi married Ftouni in secret, because her family was against advocates. Al Jazeera said there 2004, in Bahrain in 2010, and in the union from the start. wasn’t “a shred of evidence” A woman, with a taped mouth, stands with a sign during a protest against Syria in the first months of what She said the last time her husband beat her was on June 8. She against its staff and they had been the detainment of Al Jazeera journalists in Egypt, in Beirut. started out as a popular revolt said he tied her feet up, poured alcohol over her and tried to set her convicted for “defending people’s against President Bashar Al on fire. He left the house briefly, threatening to kill her on his return. right to know what is going on in Assad. It had to freeze operations Harissi managed to escape, and phoned her sister, who then got their world.” The channel says it because “it is the most transpar- were frequently attacked by in Saudi Arabia after Riyadh the security forces to intervene. Ammar said Harissi had not yet provides objective coverage of all ent, balanced and unbiased of all “thugs” and authorities eventually withdrew its envoy in March. decided whether to appeal the nine-month sentence. opposition groups. Arab channels”. forced them to shut in July 2013 Qatar is planning to open a She called the case something of a milestone, praising the speedy “Al Jazeera’s editorial policy Founded in 1996, Al Jazeera after Mursi was ousted. Sisi was London-based news channel issuance of a protection order, Ftouni’s arrest and the verdict against is not a subject to be bargained has often adopted the role of sup- elected president in May. called Al Araby, industry sources him. But she also said Harissi faced the challenge of seeking a divorce about or compromised on and porter of the dispossessed. Despite the closure and arrests, have said. A source involved in the through a religious court. we’ll never do this now and there’s Al Jazeera’s troubles came the channel’s sister “Live” and project said the outlet will give no discussion about this,” Mostefa to a head in Egypt, after army “Egypt” stations have contin- voice to “all those who support Souag, the network’s acting direc- chief Abdel Fattah Al Sisi top- ued to beam live streams of the Arab Spring revolutions”. tor general, told Reuters. pled Mohamed Mursi of the Brotherhood protests and broad- Al Araby channel will be Egypt court jails Mursi’s son The channel, Souag said in Brotherhood following protests cast call-in shows whose par- managed by Azmi Bishara, a CAIRO: An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced a son of deposed an interview, is under pressure against his rule last year. ticipants inevitably back ousted Palestinian who runs a think tank Islamist president Mohamed Mursi and one of his friends to a from authorities in several places Souag said the network’s offices president Mursi. in Qatar. REUTERS year in prison each for possession and use of hashish. Abdullah Mursi, 19, and his friend were arrested on March 1 after allegedly being found in possession of two hashish joints while they were in a car parked by the roadside in Qalyubia province, north of Cairo. The two were freed the next day pending investigation after agreeing to give urine samples, which the prosecution says tested positive. Land mine kills 4 A court in Banha, in Qalyubia province, yesterday handed down Lebanese MPs fail to elect sentences of one year in jail and fines of 10,000 Egyptian pounds Tunisian soldiers (around $1,400) each. The defendants can appeal the verdict. Defence TUNIS: Four Tunisian soldiers lawyer Mohamed Abu Leila said the case “was fabricated”. “Rulings were killed by a land mine yes- nowadays don’t deserve comment; the entire system is defective,” president for eighth time terday in the country’s north- Abu Leila said. Since Mursi was ousted by the army a year ago, west, where the army has been the authorities have been accused of using the judiciary as a tool BEIRUT: Lebanese lawmakers parliamentarians turned up to powerbrokers Saudi Arabia battling Islamist militants, the of repression. Mursi himself and several leaders from his Muslim failed to elect a president yes- the assembly yesterday. Political and Iran support March 14 and defence ministry said. Brotherhood have been put on trial on charges that could lead to terday, for the eighth time, to groups have boycotted sessions March 8 respectively, complicat- “Four soldiers aboard a the death penalty. succeed Michel Suleiman whose in recent weeks and blamed each ing efforts to agree on a presiden- Hummer were killed by a land term ended in May, prolonging other for the deadlock. tial candidate. mine explosion during an anti- a political vacuum as the coun- Some of Lebanon’s deepest Prime Minister Tammam terror operation” at Jebel Grenade attack hurts 4 in Lebanon try struggles with violence, eco- political divisions come over the Salam’s government has taken Ouergha in Kef province, said nomic decline and an influx of handling of the Syrian crisis, over some presidential duties ministry spokesman Rachid TRIPOLI: A grenade thrown into a cafe hurt four people yes- Syrian refugees. which has driven around 1 mil- until a new president is chosen. Bouhoula. terday in Lebanon’s often-restive northern city of Tripoli, secu- The civil war in neighbour- lion refugees into Lebanon. The presidency was once the Weapons “caches of the terror- rity officials said. The motive for the attack was not immediately ing Syria has aggravated long- Politicians from the March 8 leading political office in Lebanon, ists were destroyed and units of clear, but there were suspicions the cafe was targeted for opening standing rivalries in Lebanon, coalition, which includes Shi’ite but that power was eroded under the security forces pursued these its doors during the fasting month of Ramadan. where political power is divided Muslim group Hezbollah, sup- the agreement which ended the elements,” Bouhoula said. “Four people, including two Syrian nationals, were injured when among religious communities — port Syrian President Bashar Al country’s civil war, handing The incident is the latest in a unknown assailants threw a grenade into a cafe in the Bab Al the presidency goes to a Maronite Assad. The rival March 14 coali- greater influence to the govern- string of fatalities caused by road- Tebbaneh district” in Tripoli, a security official said. Christian, the parliament speaker tion backs Assad’s opponents. ment and prime minister. side bombs and land mines in the The assailants approached the cafe on a motorbike and tossed the is a Shia Muslim and the prime The two blocs were formed Michel Aoun, a Christian remote border region, parts of device in before escaping. The official pointed out that “the cafe sells minister a Sunni. after the assassination of former leader allied with Hezbollah, has which have been declared closed coffee during the day in Ramadan, when most residents are fasting,” Parliament speaker Nabih Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri suggested that the constitution be military zones as the security without stating definitely whether that was why the establishment Berri said he would postpone a in 2005. March 14 accused Syria amended to allow voters rather forces press a campaign against was targeted. AFP vote for a new president until and Hezbollah of responsibil- than members of parliament to militants holed up there. July 23 because not enough ity, a charge they deny. Regional elect the president. REUTERS AFP THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Killing of Palestinian teen sparks rioting Israel responsible for murder, says Abbas; acts of vengeance would worsen situation: Kerry Israel boycott JERUSALEM: A Palestinian risks backfiring, teenager was kidnapped and killed yesterday, apparently in says Chomsky revenge for the murder of three Israeli youths, prompting inter- LONDON: The lead- national calls for calm as vio- ing American philosopher lence flared in Jerusalem. and political activist Noam Israel’s Prime Minister Chomsky has said efforts to Benjamin Netanyahu condemned force a change in Israeli poli- the “despicable” killing, urging cies towards the Palestinians both sides “not to take the law through boycotts risk back- into their own hands,” while the firing because of insufficient family of one of the Israeli teens, support. In an article for the still in mourning for their son, Nation, Chomsky courts con- called the revenge murder a “hor- troversy by arguing that paral- rendous act”. lels drawn between campaigns Palestinians held Israel respon- against Israel and apartheid- sible, demanding Netanyahu’s era South Africa are mis- government act to prevent leading and that a misguided revenge attacks. to have been carried out in strategy could damage rather “I demand the Israeli govern- revenge for the kidnap and kill- than help Israel’s victims. ment punish the killers if it wants ing of three Israeli teenagers, Chomsky’s target is the peace between the Palestinian with Israeli police raising the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and and the Israeli peoples,” said alert to the second highest level. Sanctions) movement, which Palestinian president Mahmoud Soon after dawn, crowds of angry has made significant strides Abbas. US Secretary of State Palestinians gathered outside the in recent years. It calls for an John Kerry warned acts of venge- teen’s home in Shuafat, with vio- A masked Palestinian protester carries a comrade injured by a rubber bullet fired by Israeli police during clashes end to Israel’s occupation of ance would worsen an explosive lence erupting within hours and in the Shuafat neighborhood in Israeli-annexed Arab East Jerusalem yesterday. Arab lands conquered in 1967 situation. “At this tense and dan- continuing for most of the day. and the dismantling of its West gerous moment, all parties must Hundreds of masked by firing rubber bullets, tear were hurt, three by live bullets. examining CCTV footage. Bank wall; recognising the do everything in their power to Palestinians hurled stones at gas and sound bombs. The Red At least 35 people were injured “We knew about Mohammed’s rights of Palestinian citizens protect the innocent and act with Israeli riot police, who responded Crescent said at least 65 people by rubber bullets, including six kidnapping by three Israelis just of Israel to full equality; and reasonableness and restraint, not journalists. before the dawn prayers. A wit- respecting and promoting the recrimination and retribution,” Shuafat’s normally-bustling ness saw them,” he said. rights of Palestinian refugees said Kerry. main road was littered with The family of 16-year-old to return to their homes. Eyewitnesses said 16-year-old stones and the light rail service Naftali Frenkel, one of the three Chomsky says that while Mohammed Abu Khudair (pic- which passes through the neigh- murdered Israeli teenagers, con- there is wide international tured), was seen being forced bourhood was suspended. demned the Palestinian teen’s support for the first two goals, into a car by three Israelis in east Tensions have soared across death as a “horrendous act”. there is only negligible back- Jerusalem. the region since June 12 when “There is no difference between ing beyond the BDS movement And police confirmed a body the three Israeli teenagers disap- Arab blood and Jewish blood. itself for the return of the 1948 had been found in a forest in peared while hitchhiking in the Murder is murder. There is no refugees — a key Palestinian Givat Shaul in west Jerusalem, West Bank. Their bodies were forgiveness or justification for any demand. Insistence on that “is although they refused to link the found on Monday, with Israel murder,” they said in a statement. a virtual guarantee of failure”. two incidents. But DNA tests blaming Hamas and vowing to hit But Hamas, accused by Israel Against a background of bit- proved the body was that of the it hard. Calls for revenge followed, of the triple killing, held Israel’s ter arguments over BDS activ- missing teenager, his father said. with more than 200 Israelis ram- government directly responsible ity on US campuses, Chomsky “The body belongs to my son,” paging through Jerusalem after for Wednesday’s death, warning invokes the “glass house” prin- Hussein Abu Khder said, add- they were laid to rest Tuesday, it: “You will pay the price for your ciple, writing that if Tel Aviv ing the cause of death was not dragging people out of cars and crimes.” University is boycotted because immediately clear. UN chief Ban chanting “Death to Arabs”. Meanwhile, nine mortar rounds Israel violates human rights at Ki-moon called for justice over As the clashes raged in Shuafat, fired from Gaza hit southern home, “then why not boycott the “despicable act”, while join- where the streets were littered Israel, the military said, adding Harvard because of far greater ing British Prime Minister David with burning dumpsters and it had targeted the source of the violations by the US?” Cameron and the International makeshift barricades, the only shells with an air strike. He also questions the “very Committee of the Red Cross in place of relative calm was the The army also said its Iron dubious” analogy made by BDS condemning the killing. family home. Suha Abu Khder, the Dome missile defence system had between sanctions against Israel “At this critical time, the ICRC mother of the slain Palestinian, intercepted a rocket from Gaza. and sanctions against apartheid calls on all sides to stand unequiv- sat in stunned silence, sometimes The area has seen a surge of South Africa. “While there is ... ocally against the abduction and breaking down in tears in a room rocket fire in the past fortnight, a growing domestic opposition murder of civilians,” said Red filled with loved ones. with Israel striking 34 Hamas tar- in the US to Israeli crimes, it Cross president Peter Maurer. A cousin of the teen, Ansam gets in Gaza overnight Monday, as does not remotely compare “The current spiral of violence, Suha, mother of Mohammed Abu Khudair, shows a picture of her son on Abu Khder, said witnesses had it cracked down on the Islamist with the South African case,” loss and suffering must stop now.” her mobile phone at their home in Shuafat, an Arab suburb of Jerusalem, written down the car’s licence movement’s West Bank network he writes. GUARDIAN NEWS The attack is widely believed yesterday. plate number and police were with a series of arrests. AFP

Libya government regains control of US, Iran trade barbs two oil terminals in nuclear talks finale TRIPOLI: Interim Libyan VIENNA: The US and Iran differences “significant”, a deal prime minister Abdullah Al fired opening salvos yesterday was “far from certain”. Iran needs Thani announced the end to the in a stormy Vienna as a final to be “realistic” about the steps it country’s oil crisis, saying the round of nuclear talks got under needs to take, he said. authorities had regained con- way with chances of a historic But Iranian Foreign Minister trol of two oil terminals that deal by a July 20 deadline on a Mohammad Javad Zarif, writing had been blocked by rebels. knife edge. in French daily Le Monde, said He made the announcement at The five permanent members that some among the P5+1 were a joint press conference in Ras of the UN Security Council plus suffering from “illusions” about Lanuf with rebel leader Ibrahim Germany want Iran to scale down Iran’s nuclear programme. Jodhran, who confirmed that the its nuclear activities in order to He said that contrary to fears in two ports had been opened. ease long-held fears that Tehran the West, Iran — even if it wanted The one at Ras Lanuf has a might develop atomic weapons. to — is “several years and not a daily capacity of 200,000 barrels Iran, subject to damaging UN few months” away from being able per day while the other, at Al and Western sanctions, insists to build an atomic bomb. Sidra, has a capacity of 350,000 its nuclear programme is purely Demands that Iran’s pro- bpd. “Today we regained control peaceful and even wants to gramme be “radically curbed” rest of the ports at Ras Lanuf and Al expand key parts of it. on a “gross misrepresentation of Sidra,” Thani said. “The oil crisis Supporters of Kuwaiti opposition leader and former parliament member Mussallam Al Barrak gather outside the This sixth round of talks starts the steps, time and dangers of a now over.” police headquarters where he is being questioned for alleged slander and insults to the supreme judicial council, officially on Thursday, but pre- dash for the bomb”, Zarif said. Libya’s economy took a heavy early yesterday in Kuwait City. liminary meetings — including “We are willing to provide hit after rebels blockaded export between Iran, the US and the EU assurances of the exclusively terminals last summer, slashing — took place yesterday afternoon, peaceful nature of our nuclear all-important oil revenues. officials said. program. But we will not abandon The seizure of four terminals in Kuwait opposition leader The talks could potentially last or make a mockery of our techno- July in pursuit of a campaign for until July 20 when an interim deal logical advances or our scientists,” restored autonomy for the east- from November expires, although he said. ern Cyrenaica region slashed out- this could be extended by up to In a video message Zarif said put from 1.5 million barrels per held ‘for insulting judges’ six months. US Secretary of State the talks represented a “unique day to just 200,000 bpd. John Kerry, in the Washington opportunity to make history”. In April, the government KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s opposition MPs gathered outside in foreign banks including one Post, said that the negotiations on “We are trying to reach a deal,” reached a deal to regain control of public prosecutor yester- the police headquarters where in Israel. The scandal was later what would be a fiendishly com- he added. “Not a good deal or a the terminals, and took over two day ordered opposition leader Barrak was held as opposition linked to claims that the same plex deal constituted “a choice for bad deal, but a doable and last- of them with a combined capacity Mussallam Al Barrak to be held groups called for a public rally in officials were seen in video foot- Iran’s leaders”. ing deal.” of 210,000 barrels per day. in custody after he was questioned Kuwait City later Wednesday. age plotting a coup. “They can agree to the steps Iranian nuclear negotiator But Ras Lanuf and Al-Sidra for allegedly insulting the judici- Barrak was questioned over two Those allegations were made necessary to assure the world Majid Takhte Ravanchi told the remained under rebel control. ary, his lawyer said. “The public lawsuits filed by the judicial coun- in a lawsuit filed last month by that their country’s nuclear pro- Isna news agency that Iran has Jadhran said the lifting on the prosecutor decided to detain him cil and Marshed over remarks he Sheikh Ahmad Fahad al-Sabah, a gram will be exclusively peaceful... set out clear “red lines”. closure was in line with the April pending further questioning later made at a June 10 public rally that senior ruling family member and Or they can squander a historic “The other side knows that deal and a sign of goodwill toward today,” Humoud Al Hajeri wrote were deemed offensive. former energy minister. opportunity”, Kerry wrote. these red lines cannot be crossed. the new parliament, elected last on Twitter after Barrak was ques- He had claimed that former The claims plunged the oil-rich The P5+1 powers have proposed If we reach a deal it will be one week and due to take office later tioned for several hours overnight. senior officials including mem- Gulf state into a political crisis to Iran a “series of reasonable, respecting these red lines. If not this month. However, government Mohammad Al Jassem, another bers of the ruling family had that prompted the emir to call for verifiable and easily achievable there will be no accord,” he said. spokesman Ahmed Lamine said lawyer for the former MP, said stolen tens of billions of dollars calm and let the judiciary handle measures”, he said. One such position is thought that exports could not resume his client was questioned for from public funds and engaged in the issue. Before being questioned, “What will Iran choose? to be on the key central issue of immediately for technical rea- alleged slander and insults to the money laundering. Barrak said the public prosecutor Despite many months of discus- enrichment, the process render- sons. “It will take a few days,” he supreme judicial council and its Barrak, who also criticised the was not impartial because he is sion, we don’t know yet,” he said. ing uranium suitable for power explained. chairman, Faisal Al Marshed. judiciary, charged that the former on the judicial council which sued British Foreign Secretary generation but also, when highly AFP Dozens of activists and former officials had deposited the funds him. AFP William Hague said that with purified, for a bomb. AFP THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL Private review Pistorius a panel backs NSA metadata suicide risk, collection WASHINGTON: An inde- pendent privacy review board yesterday defended the National Security Agency’s vast foreign intelligence data sweep efforts, says report despite objections from civil lib- erties activists. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a panel cre- ‘Athlete suffers from trauma’ ated on the recommendation of the 9/11 Commission, formally PRETORIA: Both sides had adopted a report which called Paralympian cherry-picked the NSA’s overseas surveillance a star sprinter from the report valuable and legal tool in thwart- Oscar Pistorius to back up their ing terrorism. (pictured) is cases. The report, which was released suffering from Prosecutor to news media on Tuesday before post-traumatic Gerrie Nel read the unanimous vote, came in stress after kill- excerpts which sharp contrast to the same panel’s ing his girlfriend said Pistorius had rebuke of domestic surveillance and is a suicide not suffered any efforts earlier this year. risk, a South mental illness The NSA’s foreign surveillance African court at the time he “is not a bulk collection program. heard yesterday. shot Steenkamp Instead, the programme only tar- The diagnosis and could be Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy leaves his home in Paris yesterday. gets communications of particular was contained in held “criminally persons,” said PCLOB chairman a psychological responsible” for David Medine. report read to the his actions. “It is not a widespread collec- court by lawyer Barry Roux, who Roux countered with a section tion of information other than is defending Pistorius on charges dealing with the prosecution’s Never went against the law, (for) those who were targeted that he deliberately shot and contention that Pistorius had a based on the belief that they’re killed model Reeva Steenkamp volatile temper. non-US persons outside of the on Valentine’s Day last year. “No evidence could be found to United States with foreign intel- “Mr Pistorius has been severely indicate that Mr Pistorius has a says Sarkozy in interview ligence value.” traumatised by the events that history of abnormal aggression or Board member James Dempsey took place,” Roux quoted the explosive violence,” Roux read. PARIS: Former French “The situation is sufficiently involved in the affair. Iweins said agreed with those remarks while report as saying. “He does not display the per- President Nicolas Sarkozy said serious to tell the French people the inquiry was weak as it relied saying the NSA “needs to do a “He currently suffers from a sonality characteristics of nar- yesterday the legal system was where we stand on the political on legally questionable phone taps better job of articulating” why post-traumatic stress disorder cissism and of psychopathy that being used for political means exploitation of part of the legal of conversations between Sarkozy certain people are targeted. and a major depressive disorder. are mostly associated with men after he was put under for- system today.” and Herzog as well as between The report said NSA foreign He is also mourning the loss of Ms in abusive relationships and have mal investigation on suspicions Magistrates are looking at Herzog and the president of the intelligence efforts are generally Steenkamp.” been linked to rage-type murders of using his influence to gain whether Sarkozy used his influ- French Bar. in line with the US constitution, Pistorius, 27, had received in intimate relationships.” details of a probe into his 2007 ence to secure leaked details of an Sarkozy’s allies cast doubts while raising some concerns about treatment for his condition and The defence has said it has election campaign. inquiry into alleged irregularities over the impartiality of one of unintentional data gathering of this should continue, the report no more witnesses to call after The step, which often but not in his victorious 2007 campaign. the investigating magistrates, Americans. The report appears said. “Should he not receive Wayne Derman, chief medi- always leads to trial, is a major He is suspected of influence-ped- with Christian Estrosi, the mayor to vindicate at least some aspects proper clinical care, his condition cal officer of the South African setback to Sarkozy’s hopes of a dling, corrupting officials, and ben- of Nice, telling France Info state of the vast NSA data sweep, is likely to worsen and increase Paralympic Team at the London comeback after his 2012 defeat by efiting from breach of professional radio that Hollande’s government while sidestepping questions on the risks for suicide.” Olympic Games in 2012, who Socialist rival Francois Hollande. secrets, the prosecutor’s office said. had whipped up “an atmosphere whether privacy protections of The report was the result of 30 testified on Pistorius’ physical The conservative politician The first former president of hate”. US law should be extended to days of court-ordered psychiatric vulnerability. denies wrongdoing in a string of to spend time in police custody, Prime Minister Manuel Valls “non-US persons.” The panel was and psychological observation of In harrowing testimony, investigations where his direct Sarkozy, 59, was detained for 15 dismissed accusations of a plot. largely supportive of the NSA’s the double-amputee athlete. Derman said “adults with disabili- or indirect implication has cast hours on Tuesday before being Investigating magistrates have handling of the programmes Judge Masipa ruled that only ties are at higher risk of violent doubt on his viability as a candi- transferred to appear before a unique and powerful role under authorised by Section 702 or the the conclusions of the report attacks against them than adults date in the 2017 elections. investigating magistrates who French law, both gathering evi- Foreign Intelligence Surveillance revealed in court can be pub- without a disability,” appear- “I say to all those who are lis- will run the inquiry. He was then dence and determining whether Act — the opposite of its conclu- lished after the defence said it ing to support the Pistorius tening or watching that I have released without bail. it is solid enough for a trial. After sion in January of the huge tel- contained “personal details” about defence claim that the runner never betrayed them and have Sarkozy “has gone through the inquiry, the magistrate can ephone metadata collection effort the Pistorius family that should shot Steenkamp because he has never committed an act against other ordeals of this nature, drop the case for lack of proof or by the intelligence agency. be kept private. a heightened fear of crime. the Republic’s principles and he has always known how to “charge” the accused, sending the The panel examined the pro- Her order came as a surprise Derman said that in his six the rule of law,” Sarkozy said, fight,” said Paul-Albert Iweins, case to trial. Influence-peddling gramme dubbed PRISM which since the contents of the report years working with Pistorius he according to extracts of his first the attorney for Sarkozy’s own can be punished by up to five collects data from major Internet had been broadcast by at least one knew him as “hyper-vigilant,” interview since losing the 2012 attorney, Thierry Herzog, who is years in prison and corrupting companies as well as a separate major news network and reported with an “exaggerated startle” election, to be aired on Europe 1 also being investigated for influ- officials can trigger a sentence of “upstream: collection via Internet on Twitter. response. AFP radio later last evening. ence-peddling along with a judge up to 10 years. REUTERS backbone firms. AFP US tightens security at Russia, Ukraine set to agree on new ceasefire BERLIN/KIEV: The foreign ministers Russian minister. That group, represent- of Russia and Ukraine agreed in Berlin ing Ukraine, Moscow and the rebels, with overseas yesterday to hold three-way talks involv- Organisation for Security and Cooperation ing pro-Moscow rebels by Saturday to in Europe (OSCE) mediation, should meet pave the way for a new ceasefire, despite “no later than July 5th with the goal of airports continued fighting that Kiev says has reaching an unconditional and mutually WASHINGTON: The now killed 200 of its troops. agreed sustainable ceasefire”, said a docu- United States said yesterday “It is a clear commitment to a multi- ment agreed by all four ministers. it would increase security at lateral ceasefire,” said German Foreign Klimkin added a note of caution, say- overseas airports with direct Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier after ing hostages must be released and Ukraine flights into the country and talks with Russia’s Sergei Lavrov, Ukraine’s allowed to control its borders to stop the US officials cited concerns Pavlo Klimkin and French Foreign Minister rebels receiving fresh fighters and weapons. Al Qaeda operatives in Syria Laurent Fabius. The document said Russia made a com- and Yemen were developing Russia and Ukraine continued to blame mitment to allow Ukrainian border guards bombs that could be smug- each other for the violence that marred the across checkpoints in Gukovo and Donetsk gled onto planes. 10-day ceasefire, which Kiev declared over to control this. “The de-escalation of the European airports would be on Monday before resuming its military situation will happen when the peace plan taking the extra precautions, offensive against separatists in the east, of the Ukrainian president is respected in the US officials told Reuters on many of whom had ignored the truce. its totality,” said Klimkin. condition of anonymity. But Lavrov told a joint news conference Lavrov said Ukrainian President The Department of alongside Klimkin and the two others that Poroshenko’s decision to end the ceasefire Homeland Security said they had agreed to work for a “stable, long- had cost “people’s lives and serious destruc- “enhanced security measures” term truce”. tion of civilian infrastructure ... but better would be implemented in the “We propose to achieve this through a late than never”. next few days at “certain over- Relatives of Ukrainian servicemen taking part in operations against pro-Russia separatists meeting soon of the Contact Group, which German Chancellor Angela Merkel had seas airports with direct flights in eastern Ukraine hold banners reading “Adopt a decree about demobilisation” and “Let my — we hope — will hold a meeting in com- warned Moscow shortly before the talks into the United States.” husband return home” during a demonstration demanding the rotation of servicemen, in front ing days and agree on the conditions for that economic sanctions remained an option It did not specify which of the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev yesterday. truce that would satisfy all sides,” said the unless it backed peace efforts. REUTERS airports or what countries would be affected, nor did it say what triggered the extra precautions. “We are sharing recent and relevant information with our foreign allies and are consult- United Nations calms west Africa over Ebola outbreak ing the aviation industry,” DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said in ACCRA: The United Nations dead. The new toll represented — so I’m quite confident that we there has been a “significant countries. The agency’s top a statement. reassured west Africa yester- a rise of 129 — or 38 percent — can handle this. increase” in the rate of new cases Ebola specialist Pierre Formenti Earlier, law enforcement day that the world’s deadliest- since the UN agency’s last bul- “This is, however, the most and deaths in recent weeks, the told AFP last month that the and security officials told ever Ebola epidemic could be letin given just a week ago. complicated Ebola outbreak ever organisation added. recent surge in cases had come Reuters the United States stopped in its tracks, telling the “These kinds of outbreaks, these because it is spreading so fast in Medical charity Doctors in part because efforts to con- and European authorities region’s health ministers: “We diseases, can be stopped,” Keiji both urban and rural areas.” Without Borders, known by its tain the virus had been relaxed were discussing measures can handle this.” Fukuda, assistant director-general Since the region’s first ever French initials MSF, said last too quickly after the outbreak that could include extra scru- The highly-contagious tropical for health security at the WHO, epidemic of the deadly and highly week that the spread of the virus, appeared to slow down in April. tiny of US-bound passengers’ bug has infected hundreds of peo- told AFP, as 11 west African health contagious fever broke out in which has had a mortality rate of Ministers from Guinea, where 413 electronics and footwear, ple in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra ministers gathered for a two-day Guinea in January, the WHO has up to 90 percent in previous out- confirmed, suspected and prob- and installation of additional Leone, with the latest World conference in Accra on combatting sent in more than 150 experts to breaks, was “out of control”, with able cases have surfaced so far bomb-detection machines. Health Organization (WHO) fig- the killer pathogen. help tackle the regional crisis. more than 60 outbreak hotspots. including 303 deaths, and Liberia, REUTERS ures showing confirmed or sus- “This is not a unique situation Despite the efforts of the UN The WHO has warned that which has seen 107 cases and 65 pected cases had left 467 people — we have faced it many times agency and other health workers, Ebola could spread to other deaths, are at the meeting. AFP THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 ASIA / PHILIPPINES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

China expels allies of former 500 arrested security chief BEIJING: Three officials believed to be right-hand men after protest of China’s former security chief were expelled from the ruling Communist Party yesterday over corruption, authorities said. The oustings were the latest in Hong Kong sign that Zhou Yongkang, once a member of the Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), China’s most Democracy march against China powerful body, is being targeted. His fall would send shock HONG KONG: Hundreds Activists who refused to leave waves through China’s political of Hong Kong police forcibly were taken in buses to the police establishment. PSC members removed kicking and scream- training school in Hong Kong. have generally been regarded as ing protesters from the Central More than 500 people were untouchable even after retire- business district yester- arrested, with some charged with ment. Ji Wenlin, formerly a vice day, holdouts of a mass rally participating in an unauthorised governor of the southern island of demanding greater democracy assembly and obstructing police. Hainan and before that a secre- from Communist Party rulers It was unclear how long they tary to Zhou, was stripped of his in Beijing. would be detained. About 50 were party membership, the Central The pro-democracy march on released without charge. Commission for Discipline and Tuesday, which attracted more “Our purpose is first universal Inspection (CCDI), the party’s than 510,000 people, and a sub- suffrage and second to let the gov- internal watchdog, said in a sequent sit-in by mainly student ernment respond to Hong Kong statement. groups could be the biggest chal- citizens’ voice for democracy,” Also expelled were Yu Gang, lenge yet to China which resumed said Frank Chio, a representative Policemen remove protesters in the central district after a rally seeking greater democracy in Hong Kong early an ex-vice director of the office control over the former British of the Hong Kong Federation of yesterday. of the Central Politics and Law colony on July 1, 1997. Students. “This is only step one. Commission (CPLC), and Tan Many of the more than 1,000 There will be other steps.” Hong, a former senior staff officer protesters linked arms in a bid While minor scuffles broke out leader, or chief executive, in 2017. Such protests, even by one or executive who has legitimacy.” of the Ministry of Public Security, to resist efforts to remove them between police and activists, the They want nominations to be two people, would be met by stern Occupy Central with Love and it said in separate statements. but they were taken away one at stand-off ended peacefully despite open to everyone. China’s leaders punishment elsewhere in China. Peace, the group behind an unof- Zhou used to head the CPLC, a time, in some cases by three or earlier fears of violence. want to ensure only pro-Beijing Anson Chan, the former head ficial referendum on democracy which oversees the public secu- four police, as activists kicked, Retired mainland officials had candidates are on the ballot. of Hong Kong’s civil service who which drew nearly 800,000 votes, rity ministry. Overseas Chinese screamed and punched before earlier warned that the local gar- Britain returned Hong Kong to served both before and after the has threatened to lock down reports claimed Ji, Yu and Tan being bundled on to buses. rison of the People’s Liberation China in 1997 with wide-ranging handover, urged Britain to push Central as part of its campaign. were all his secretaries. “I have the right to protest. We Army might be needed to restore autonomy under an agreed for- China harder to meet its promises “The voice of the Hong Kong All three took advantage of don’t need police permission,” the order in an increasingly restive mula of “one country, two sys- to Hong Kong. people has been loud and so their posts and “accepted huge crowd chanted as they sat swel- Hong Kong, but there was no tems,” allowing protests such as “I would like Britain to speak clear. If they (Beijing and the amounts of bribes by seeking tering in Hong Kong’s summer suggestion they were needed this Tuesday’s march to take place. up and say hey, we are noticing Hong Kong government) choose gains for others,” the CCDI said, heat and humidity. week as police threw 4,000 staff But China bristles at open dis- what is happening, you cannot to ignore it, they will have to pay adding that their cases have been “Civil disobedience is not a one- at the task. sent, especially over sensitive treat Hong Kong like this, you the price,” said Helena Wong of transferred to judicial authorities time matter. I will come out to In one of the first moves of matters such as demands for cannot walk away from your com- the Democratic Party. for criminal prosecution. protest again, it is the only way what is expected to be a hot politi- universal suffrage and the annual mitments,” she said yesterday. “Occupy Central is the last Yu and Ji were also accused of Hong Kong can change,” said To cal summer, the demonstrators June 4 vigil in Hong Kong to mark “And if you want to see stabil- resort ... We will keep it as our adultery, according to the state- Chun Ho, who was released yes- were demanding greater democ- the crackdown on pro-democracy ity and good governance in Hong last weapon if we do not have true ments. AFP terday without charge. racy in elections for Hong Kong’s protesters in Beijing in 1989. Kong, we have to have a chief democracy.” REUTERS

Damaged Vietnam boat Hunt launched Nepal recognises China climber’s for five Malaysia chopper-aided Everest summit terror suspects KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian KATHMANDU: Nepal has and climbing the mountain on skipped the section hit by the police said yesterday they were recognised a Chinese mountain- foot, said tourism ministry official avalanche, flying directly to Camp looking for a university lec- eer’s summit of Mount Everest Madhusudhan Burlakoti. 2, an advanced base camp at an turer and four others allegedly this season, a tourism ministry “We investigated the issue and elevation of 6,400 metres where involved in terror activities official said, despite controversy decided to recognise her summit. climbers spend time to adjust to and believed to be hiding in the over her use of a helicopter dur- We believe she returned to base the increased altitude. Philippines. ing the ascent. camp after using the helicopter to Nepal traditionally only allows The announcement came as Wang Jing summited the 8,848- deliver supplies and then climbed flights to Camp 2 to conduct res- authorities expressed concern metre peak on May 23, accom- on foot,” Burlakoti said. cues, but teams were allowed to about youth in the Muslim- panied by five local guides, but “We have awarded certificates use choppers to transport equip- majority country being radicalised Nepalese officials initially held to her and to the five Nepalese ment last season as the route and recruited to fight in hotspots back from logging the climb guides who accompanied her,” below, normally prepared by such as Syria. because she used a helicopter part Burlakoti added. Her ascent came guides with ropes and ladders, Police said the five, believed to of the way. just over a month after an ava- had not been completed. Most be in the southern Philippines, Wang, 41, told authorities she lanche killed 16 Nepalese guides mountaineers dropped plans to included an Islamic studies lec- used a chopper to drop off tent in the deadliest ever accident on scale Everest from the Nepalese turer and a stationery shop owner equipment at an advanced camp the world’s tallest peak. side after an avalanche that ended at Universiti Malaya, one of the Vietnam’s President Truong Tan Sang (right) with local officers near the before descending to base camp Officials had earlier said Wang this year’s climbing season. AFP country’s biggest universities. damaged fishing boat DNA90152, which was rammed and sunk by Chinese Three are suspected to be vessels, at a shipyard in central Danang City yesterday. involved in recruiting and sending militants to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, which has seized parts of Iraq and Syria. Thai military government looks to neighbours for support Two others are believed to have been part of an extremist group in eastern Malaysia and have BANGKOK: Thailand’s mili- workers who had fled home after condemnation and both the foreign minister since the coup. a 180-degree change in stance joined Abu Sayyaf militants in tary government is shoring the coup, fearing a crackdown on United States and European Myanmar’s army chief is due in by veteran Cambodian Prime the southern Philippines. up diplomatic ties with Asian immigrants, would be welcomed Union have downgraded diplo- Bangkok tomorrow. Minister Hun Sen. Universiti Malaya said the lec- neighbours to provide a coun- back. matic ties. The military authorities also Hun Sen rattled Thailand in turer, Mahmud Ahmad, 36, had terweight to criticism from the He returned from Cambodia The military’s National Council claim support from Vietnam. 2009 when he appointed former been absent and could not be West about its seizure of power yesterday, bringing with him Thai for Peace and Order has played Veera received a hero’s welcome Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra contacted for four weeks, vowing in May and its reluctance to set activist Veera Somkwamkid, an down these moves, focusing at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi air- as an economic adviser and “full cooperation” with police. an early date for a return to ultra-nationalist jailed there on instead on strengthening its rela- port yesterday from supporters refused to extradite him. “This is civilian rule. charges of espionage and illegal tionship with China and others shouting “Veera! Fight! Fight!” as a gentleman’s agreement between Ex-military men In the latest move, act- entry for pressing Thailand’s in Asia. he made his way through a media Cambodia and Thailand’s military ing Foreign Minister Sihasak claim to a disputed ancient tem- Last month, a Thai army scrum. government not to interfere in ‘arming rebels’ Phuangketkeow reassured ple on the border. delegation visited China and Cambodia’s pardon for the each other’s politics,” said Kan Cambodian Prime Minister Hun The May 22 military takeo- Malaysia’s defence minister came Thai activist suggests a thaw in Yuenyong of the Siam Intelligence PHILIPPINES: A security Sen on Tuesday that Cambodian ver drew swift international to Thailand, the first visit by a relations between old foes and Unit think tank. REUTERS official said some dismissed men in uniforms were providing ammunition support to the Abu Sayyaf group blamed for deadly bombings and attacks in south- ern Philippines. Imelda, son plot to reclaim presidency Senior Superintendent Angelito Casimiro, city police director, said BATAC: Imelda Marcos, the help to the Filipino people.” and sequester all Marcos wealth even they had received information Philippines’ most famous political She insisted that Ferdinand Marcos before we were tried, and that was about the participation of dis- survivor, toasted her 85th birthday Junior, her senator son and namesake illegal,” Marcos said. charged men from the security yesterday as the former first lady of her late husband, was “qualified” to She said she would prefer to have forces in aiding militants. made plans for a triumphal return contest the presidency in May 2016 the jewels put on public display “They are dismissed men in to the presidential palace. when Benigno Aquino, son of the “because I want the Filipinos to know uniforms helping in the acqui- The self-declared “poverty- Marcoses’ top political foes, ends his what is world-class and see that”. sition of ammunition (for Abu stricken” Marcos was serenaded by six-year term. Marcos did not discuss her fragile Sayyaf and other syndicates). supporters as she emerged from her “(Returning to) Malacanang would health. She was rushed to hospital That is one of the areas we are private chambers in the family man- be a great help,” in implementing her last year for extreme fatigue but later looking at,” Casimiro said. sion in her northern stronghold of projects,” said Marcos, referring to the recovered. He said they had coordinated Batac. presidential palace. The flamboyant matriarch became with police and Armed Forces to “My only wish is for God to give me Declaring herself the “mother of the symbol of excess during the brutal track down those dismissed and a little more strength to prolong my world peace”, Imelda hit out at plans 20-year regime of her late husband, suspected to be supplying support life,” Marcos told reporters who asked by the Aquino government to auction who was also accused of looting state to the militants. He said some about her birthday wish. off her jewellery collection. coffers and whose martial law rule was ammunition of Abu Sayyaf and She said she had seen “the best, She accused Aquino’s mother, the marked by human rights abuses. lost command groups were seized best, best and the worst, worst worst” late democracy hero Corazon Aquino The government conservatively Imelda Marcos blows out candles on a cake designed with a in encounters the group engaged in life, but insisted she has no plans who was installed as president after estimates that Marcos plundered gov- shoe during her 85th birthday celebration in Batac town, Ilocos against government forces in to ride into the sunset just yet. “I still the Marcos family fled, of persecution. ernment coffers of about $10bn. norte, north of Manila, yesterday. Zamboanga, Basilan and Sulu. have a vision and hope to bring more “Her first act was to confiscate AFP AGENCIES THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Modi meets Singapore FM Jaitley’s UFO US explanation Facebook post angers sought over ‘common men’

NEW DELHI: With many Indians worrying about the threat of tough measures in snooping row their new government’s first budget next week, a Facebook post suggesting the finance Delhi summons senior US diplomat minister might be pondering less earthly matters quickly NEW DELHI: Terming as India figures in the list of “193 roused anger yesterday. “highly objectionable” the foreign governments as well as Arun Jaitley, a key confidante reports that said the BJP was foreign factions, political organi- of Prime Minister Narendra among the parties which the US sations and other entities that Modi, published a message cel- National Security Agency (NSA) were part of a 2010 certifica- ebrating “World UFO Day” on was authorised to spy upon, tion approved by the Foreign his Facebook page, which is one India yesterday summoned a Intelligence Surveillance Court”, of the main forums in which he senior US diplomat and sought said an accompanying exhibit publishes official information. an explanation on the issue. cited by the newspaper. “This day is celebrated to raise External affairs ministry The Bharatiya Janata Party, awareness about the existence of spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin which leads the ruling National UFO’s (sic) and with that intel- said India has clearly explained its Democratic Alliance government, ligent beings from outer space,” concerns to the US government was one of the six non-US politi- Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with Singapore’s Foreign Minister K Shanmugam in New Delhi yester- said the post, which was followed and sought an assurance that it cal parties across the globe that day. Shanmugam is on a five-day visit to India. by Jaitley’s name and included a would not happen again. the NSA received official permis- depiction of a flying saucer in a He said intrusion of privacy of sion in 2010 to covertly spy upon, wheat field. individuals and institutions was the post reported. World UFO Day is a day dedi- highly objectionable. Akbaruddin said the govern- cated to spotting and proving the “We have already communi- ment had conveyed its message Export price of onion hiked by 67pc existence of Unidentified Flying cated to the government of the “clearly and lucidly” and will wait Objects. It was first celebrated United States. We have said that for a response from the US. in 2001, according to the website we have seen reports in the US “(We have) sought explanation NEW DELHI: The govern- in nearly two weeks to curb onion delayed monsoon, the Committee worldofuday.com. media regarding authorisation of press reports and sought an ment yesterday hiked the mini- exports. With a view to discourag- unanimously decided to fix the A member of Jaitley’s personal given to entities of the US govern- assurance that such authorisa- mum export price of onions by ing onion exports, government had minimum export price at $500 per staff, who declined to be named, ment to intrude upon the privacy tion will not be acted upon by 67 percent and brought it under on June 17 set a minimum price of tonne which translates to Rs.30 confirmed that their team had of communications of the Indian the US as far as Indian govern- the Essential Commodities onion exports at $300 per tonne. per kg with a view to arresting posted the message about World government, its citizens and ment or entities are concerned,” Act to curb hoarding as prices After the increase, the mini- domestic price rise and augment- UFO Day and said the account Indian entities. If such intrusions he said. soared in the domestic markets. mum export price of onions ing domestic supply,” a commerce had not been hacked. The post have indeed been authorised and Asked about the response of The Cabinet Committee on translates to Rs30 per kg. Onion ministry statement said. was deleted half an hour after have taken place, these are highly the US official, he said the US Economic Affairs chaired by prices have soared in the domes- The commerce ministry said Reuters contacted the team. objectionable,” Akbaruddin said. has conveyed that it will get back Prime Minister Narendra Modi tic markets in the recent weeks there was “no appreciable decline The post sparked a storm of According to a report in the after making a judgement on decided to include onions and and the vegetable is now sold for in the exports of onions” despite criticism among his followers and Washington Post, India was what information it would like to potatoes under the purview of Rs20-30 per kg in retail markets. the $300 per tonne minimum was deleted after a few hours. among 193 countries “concern- share. stock holding limits under the “I request the people that there is export price set June 17. “Sir FM, today we the people ing” whom the NSA has been Akbaruddin did not name the Essential Commodities Act, 1955. no need to panic. The government Rise in general price level, of India are celebrating the price authorised to intercept informa- US diplomat to whom India con- The step will empower the is committed to control the price especially in the prices of onions hike day instead of UFO day,” a tion by the Foreign Intelligence veyed its message. state governments to under- rise,” Minister of Law and Telcom and potato, has been a big worry Facebook user called V Bhushan Surveillance Court. The US has an interim ambas- take de-hoarding operations and Ravi Shankar Prasad told media for Modi government. Bhushansharma said in a com- The NSA exempted only four sador in India after former to control the prices of onions persons after the cabinet meeting. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley ment on Jaitley’s post, referring countries — Britain, Canada, American envoy Nancy Powell and potatoes, Telecom and Law Prasad also expressed hope said controlling inflation is one of to India’s recent moves to raise Australia and New Zealand — “in resigned from her post. Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad that monsoon would improve in the major challenges confronting rail fares and fuel prices. a group known collectively with Akbaruddin did not reply told media persons here after the the coming days that would have the government. India’s whole- “Sir instead of talking on outer the US as the Five Eyes” from directly to a question whether cabinet meeting. positive impact on food prices. sale price-based inflation rose to space, please confine your dis- such surveillance, the newspaper the snooping row will have an Earlier in the day the com- “Let’s not panic rain god will a five-month high of 6.01 percent cussion on the hardship faced by reported. impact on the ties between the merce ministry announced that smile on us...Government hopes in May against 5.20 percent in the common men,” a Facebook user The US has had broad no-spy- two countries. an Inter-Ministerial panel has that the rain will be ok,” he said. previous month due to a sharp called Ganesh Choudhary said in ing arrangements with these four He said the two countries share unanimously decided to hike The decision to hike the jump in food and fuel prices. a comment on Wednesday. countries, the Post said, citing a a multi-faceted relationship. minimum export price of onions minimum export price was Retail inflation measured in “People are confused and new set of top secret documents “The relationship is broadbased by 67 percent to $500 per tonne unanimously taken by an Inter- terms of the Consumer Price scared about the undefined mis- leaked by Edward Snowden, a and multi-faceted. Both India and in a bid to discourage exports and Ministerial Committee at a meet- Index (CPI) was recorded at 8.28 eries which are going to heaped former NSA contractor-turned- the US were committed to deep- improve local supplies. ing here June 30. percent in May, according to the upon them in the names of restor- whistleblower who has been given ening it,” he said. The government has taken “Keeping in view the rising latest government data. ing fiscal health of the country.” asylum in Russia. IANS tough steps for the second time retail and wholesale prices and IANS REUTERS

Chennai building collapse death Pushkar death controversy revives after doctor’s claims NEW DELHI: The contro- transparently”. Top officials of did not bow to pressure and gave As the controversy was raked speculation to rest,” Tharoor, the toll hits 47 versy surrounding the death the All India Institute of Medical a report stating that the former again, Tharoor in a statement former human resource develop- of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Sciences (AIIMS), India’s premier union minister’s wife died due to from Thiruvananthapuram, which ment minister, said in the state- CHENNAI: The toll in the Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, health and research institution, drug poisoning that could be both he represents in the Lok Sabha, ment issued in both English and 11-storey building collapse in was again revived yesterday categorically denied the allega- suicidal or homicidal he feared he said: “Upon the tragic loss of my Malayalam. Chennai continues to mount, after the chief of the AIIMS tions made by forensic depart- would be removed. wife Sunanda and from the very Tharoor’s statement came after with the number of people who forensic department reportedly ment chief Sudhir Gupta. Gupta in an affidavit before the beginning, I have requested for Union Health Minister Harsh lost their lives touching 47 yes- said he was pressurised to show “The AIIMS administration Central Administrative Tribunal, a thorough investigation by the Vardhan sought a report from terday, officials said. her death as “natural”. Even as categorically denies any such alle- which settles disputes regarding authorities to be conducted and the AIIMS director on the issue. A total of 73 people were caught union Health Minister Harsh gations. There was no attempt to recruitment and conditions of serv- concluded rapidly and transpar- “In context of his promotion, under the debris in the building Vardhan sought a report from change the post mortem report,” ice of people appointed to public ently.” The Pushkar family also Sudhir Gupta had written a let- collapse Saturday evening. Of the AIIMS, the institute denied the Neerja Bhatla of the department services, two months ago alleged took the same view, saying “we ter to the health ministry. It was total, 27 are alive and have been allegation made by its senior of obstetrics and gynaecology told that a decision was taken by AIIMS have all fully cooperated with the only after media reports emerged rescued. doctor. reporters. to promote his junior as the head authorities”. of Sudhir Gupta imposing specific Workers involved in the rescue Tharoor also requested the Media reports said Gupta of department and to remove him. “I reiterate my request to allegations, I have sought a detailed work going on since Saturday fear authorities to conduct a “thor- alleged that he was pressurised Gupta feared he was being removed bring this protracted inquiry to report on it from the AIIMS direc- some more people could be under ough investigation” to con- by top officials to show Pushkar’s as he gave the “right post-mortem a clear and definitive conclusion tor,” Harsh Vardhan told the media. the debris. clude the inquiry “rapidly and death as “natural” and that as he report”, sources said. at the earliest, so as to put all IANS A person who was rescued Tuesday told officials that several people were watching television in a room along with him when the Ramadan prayer building collapsed. As strong stench emanated Plea filed in Kolkata from the debris, rescue workers were vaccinated by the health department against infectious diseases. Some of the residents court for Paul’s arrest living near the accident site have vacated their homes unable to KOLKATA: With the Mamata loose his boys to rape their women. bear the stench. Banerjee government yet to ini- He also asked people to slit the The bodies that are being tiate action against Trinamool rivals’ throats to prove themselves. recovered now are in a decom- Congress MP Tapas Paul for his “If a CPM man dares to touch posed state, making it difficult for rape remarks, a PIL was filed anybody, I will take out my gun relatives to identify them. One of yesterday seeking penal action. and shoot him...I will destroy his the ways to identify the bodies is The public interest litigation entire clan... I will ask my boys by doing a DNA test. (PIL) was filed before the court to go there. They will rape them The residential project Trust of Justice Dipankar Dutta of the and leave,” Paul is seen saying in Heights was being developed by Calcutta High Court seeking a the first video while addressing Prime Sristi Housing Pvt Ltd. The direction to the police for initi- partymen in Choumaha village. project comprised two 11-storey ating criminal proceedings and Proceeding to Gopinathpur, 10 blocks — The Belief and The Faith. arrest of Krishnanagar MP Paul. km from Choumaha, Paul is seen in Most of the people trapped “He has publicly exhorted his the second video asking women to under the debris are said to be con- partymen to kill CPM activists and slit CPM throats and exhorts peo- struction workers and some might rape women. But, still this govern- ple to kill their rivals and show him. have taken shelter in the building ment has not initiated any action. “Till I am here, don’t spare as it was raining at the time of the So, we have pleaded before the court any CPM worker. Our men will collapse, people in the area said. to take cognizance and direct the kill them. I am also asking the Giant steel rod cutters and police to initiate criminal proceed- women to slit open CPM workers’ other equipment have been ings and arrest Paul,” counsel for throats. Use your bontis (sharp pressed into service, while sniffer petitioner Subrata Mukherjee said. vegetable-cutting instrument) to dogs and sophisticated cameras Addressing his party workers in slash their throats. Why haven’t are at the accident site to locate Muslims offer prayers after breaking their fast during the holy month of Ramadan at Jamai Masjid in Hyderabad his constituency, Paul was caught you done it till now? Don’t you trapped people. yesterday. on subsequent tapes threatening know how to use a knife? IANS to gun down CPM men and let IANS

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Afghan election Suicide bomber kills eight soldiers result delayed for fraud audit Air Force bus targeted in Kabul KABUL: Preliminary results from Afghanistan’s presidential KABUL: A Taliban suicide (west) Kabul, eight army officers election, due to be announced bomber in Kabul killed eight were martyred and 13 wounded,” yesterday have been delayed, the military officers yesterday in defence ministry spokesman head of the election commission an attack on an Air Force bus, General Zahir Azimi said in a said, amid accusations of fraud Afghan officials said, in the lat- statement. that threaten to split the fragile est strike against the national “The wounded personnel have country along ethnic lines. security forces as US troops been taken to hospital.” Votes from around 2,000 poll- withdraw. Sediq Sediqqi, spokesman for ing stations in the June 14 run-off The blast came the day after the interior ministry said that five are to be reviewed and recounted, presidential election results were civilians were also wounded in the Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani, chair- delayed in a worsening dispute attack that targeted the bus as it man of the Independent Election over alleged fraud that threatens took military staff to work. Commission (IEC) said. to tip Afghanistan into a pro- The Taliban used a recognised The contest pitted former for- longed period of uncertainty. Twitter account to claim respon- eign minister Abdullah Abdullah The next president must tackle sibility for the blast, adding that against former World Bank econ- the Taliban insurgency with the suicide attacker approached omist Ashraf Ghani. declining Nato military assist- the vehicle on foot before deto- “Due to the review and recount- ance, and a political stalemate nating his explosives-packed vest. ing of votes from 1,930 polling could wreck Afghan hopes for a Taliban spokesman Zabiullah stations in 30 provinces, the elec- smooth handover of power. Mujahid said that at least 25 peo- tion commission has delayed the Kabul has been relatively ple had been killed, though the announcement of the preliminary peaceful since the election on insurgents regularly exaggerate result till next Monday to further June 14, though supporters of death tolls after attacks. assure transparency,” Nuristani presidential candidate Abdullah Election day saw a sharp rise said. Abdullah have held demonstra- in nationwide violence, but there tions to protest against alleged has not been a major attack in the US envoy to ballot-box stuffing. capital since June 7, when 12 peo- “As a result of a suicide attack ple were killed in a suicide strike Afghanistan quits this morning on an ANA (Afghan against Abdullah, who escaped Military officers investigate the site of the attack in Kabul yesterday. National Army) air force bus in unharmed. AFP WASHINGTON: The US spe- cial envoy to Afghanistan is stepping down, Secretary of State John Kerry announced yesterday in a move which comes at a key juncture in trou- New anti-terror law raises bled US-Afghan ties. 10 more die as army continues raids James Dobbins, a veteran diplo- mat with deep ties to Afghanistan, BANNU: Pakistani military shelling,” a local security official Khan since the offensive began in fears over civil rights is retiring after just over a year in helicopters shelled militant said. mid-June. office and will be replaced by his hideouts in the country’s restive A local intelligence official con- Jets and artillery began hit- ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s offensive by the Pakistani mili- deputy Dan Feldman, Kerry said northwest yesterday as part of firmed the attack and militant ting militant targets in North parliament passed a law yes- tary against militant sanctuaries in a statement. a massive ongoing offensive casualties. Waziristan on June 15, launching terday giving security forces in the remote border region of The shuffle comes as the two against the Taliban and other Nearly 500,000 people have fled an operation to regain full control sweeping powers to clamp North Waziristan. candidates to be Afghanistan’s extremists, killing 10 insur- the offensive in North Waziristan, of the district after years of pres- down on militancy, but some Opposition senators had man- next president -- succeeding gents, officials said. which is aimed at wiping out sure from Washington and other activists and legislators criti- aged to water down some of the Hamid Karzai who has held the The helicopters pounded longstanding militant strong- powers. cised the provisions as too law’s most punitive clauses, said reins for 13 years -- wrangle over Islamist compounds in the Khar holds in the area, which borders The assault was finally harsh. Senator Afrasiab Khattak. alleged fraud in the elections. Warsak area, 12 kilometres north Afghanistan. launched after a dramatic attack The legislation, known as the “It is still a very harsh law The political crisis threatens of Miranshah, the main town Tens of thousands of families on Karachi airport last month Protection of Pakistan Ordinance, though,” Khattak said by the country’s first democratic in the North Waziristan tribal have left for the town of Bannu, which killed dozens of people and must now be signed into law by telephone. transfer of power, and tarnishes region. close to North Waziristan, while marked the end of a faltering the president. “We will be raising these issues US hopes of a smooth handover “The helicopters destroyed hundreds more have moved fur- peace process with the Pakistani The debate over the law fol- again when the law comes up for as it prepares to withdraw all US three militant compounds and ther afield to the towns of Lakki Taliban. lows months of high-profile renewal in two years.” forces by late 2016. killed 10 insurgents during the Marwat, Karak and Dera Ismail AFP Taliban attacks and this month’s REUTERS AGENCIES THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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Queen Maxima visits RBI QE extends rally China becomes biggest on banking exporter to Qatar in May stocks support DOHA: Banking stocks helped Qatar Exchange (QE) index extend its rally, rising 2.06 per- China accounts for 10.3pc of total imports cent yesterday. Banking sector rose 2.50 percent . QIB surged DOHA: The US has lost its 10.01 percent of the total imports of petroleum gases and other 7.10 percent and International ‘top Qatar exporter’ status to and the US accounted for 9.7 per- gaseous hydrocarbons like LNG, Islamic soared 5.73 percent and China for the first time in 2014. cent of the total imports. condensates, propane, butane, Rayan rose 3 percent. Qatar’s latest data on foreign The May 2014 figures show reaching QR27.2bn or a 10.7 per- Market cap rose to QR678bn trade showed China was the a 22.4 percent decrease in the cent year-on-year increase. The from the previous session’s leading country of origin of imports of ‘motor cars and other value of petroleum oils and oils QR666bn. Total traded value Qatar’s imports with QR0.9bn passenger vehicles’, which was the from bituminous minerals (not increased to QR947m from in May, a share of 10.3 percent top of the imported group of com- crude) reached QR2.3bn, up 4.2 QR848m. Traded volume rose to of the country’s total imports modities. The second and third percent. 25 million shares from 20 million. during the month. imported commodities were iron On the other hand, petroleum Telecom index nudged up to The US fell to second slot with ores and concentrates, includ- oils and oils from bituminous min- 3.95 percent with Vodafone Qatar QR0.87bn or 9.9 percent of the ing roasted iron pyrites, which erals (crude) showed a decrease gaining the most by 5.10 per- total imports to the country, with was increased by 96.0 percent to of QR6.9bn. The major countries cent. Ooredoo rose 3.60 percent. a value of QR0.8bn, or 8.8 percent QR0.5bn. The volume of aircraft of destination for Qatar’s exports Industrials sector edged down by share. UAE is the third biggest spare parts decreased by 10.7 were Japan with QR9.3bn, a share 0.6 percent Bellwether Industries exporter to Qatar. percent. of 22.1 percent of total exports, Qatar lost 2.16 percent. However, the total export value The total imports of goods in South Korea with QR 7.3bn (17.3 Elsewhere in the region, Dubai’s of the US stood QR5.27bn against May amounted to QR8.8bn, an percent), and India with QR5.7bn bourse jumped for a second day China’s QR4.5bn for the first five increase of 5.7 percent over the (13.5 percent). as investors bet on good news months in 2014. value recorded in the same month Unconfirmed figures show that from builder Arabtec, Reuters According to data available last year. In May, the trade bal- trade in goods between US and reported. from the Ministry of Development ance of goods, which represents Qatar reached $6.3bn in 2013, an The main index closed up 7.9 Planning and Statistics, US has the difference between total increase of more than $1bn com- percent, its biggest daily rise since been maintaining its status as the exports and imports, showed a pared to 2012. last September, while Arabtec top exporter to Qatar throughout surplus of QR33.3bn, an increase Additionally, goods and serv- Queen Maxima of the Netherlands is guided to her seat at a press con- surged its 15 percent daily limit, the year. of QR2.4bn or 7.8 percent com- ices from the US now account ference by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan at recovering further from a slump It was also the leading coun- pared to the trade balance of for nearly 20 percent of Qatar’s the RBI headquarters in Mumbai yesterday. Queen Maxima visited the that at one stage wiped out more try of origin of Qatar’s exports in goods of May 2013. imports worldwide, making it RBI in her capacity as Special Advocate of the UN Secretary-General than two-thirds of the stock’s 2013, except in December, when The year-on-year rise in total Qatar’s major import trading for Inclusive Finance for Development. value. China took over it by grabbing exports was due to higher exports partner. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

CBQ to buy State fund to privatise Malaysia Airlines out public Khazanah plans to take troubled airline private; working with CIMB Investment Bank on rejig shares in KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian the people said, adding that an state investor Khazanah announcement would be made Alternatifbank Nasional Bhd plans to take by the end of this year. Malaysian Airline System Bhd The state investor is working DUBAI: Commercial (MAS) private as the first step with CIMB Investment Bank on Bank (CBQ) will buy out in a major restructuring of the the restructuring, the sources the remaining publicly loss-making airline following added, but cautioned that the owned shares in Turkey’s the disappearance of its Flight plan, and its details, are subject Alternatifbank and then MH370, two people with direct to change depending on the ulti- delist the lender from the knowledge of the matter said. mate decision by the government. Istanbul bourse, it said A de-listing would pave the way Khazanah said last month it yesterday. for Khazanah to revive the ail- was considering all options and The second-largest lender in ing carrier, possibly by selling off would unveil plans within 6-12 Qatar bought a 74.25 percent its profitable engineering, airport months to restructure the air- stake in the Turkish bank last services or budget airline units, line, which has been squeezed into year, the lender said. trimming its bloated payroll and three straight years of losses by Two units of Anadolu installing a new management intense competition locally and on Holding own 25 percent, with team. The restructuring and long-haul flights. the remaining 0.75 percent potential sale of MAS is politically Hit by slumping ticket sales held by the public. fraught due to heavy opposition to in the wake of the baffling dis- A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 737-800 aircraft is seen on the tarmac at Kuala Lumpur International Airport. These publicly owned shares job losses from its powerful labour appearance of MH370 on March will be bought for the average union, which has hampered previ- 8, the company turned in its Asked to comment on the restructuring efforts by the union, was brought in. “This (privatisa- market share price over the ous revival plans, and its status as worst quarterly performance in privatisation plan yesterday, a which represents a workforce of tion) will remove pressure from last 30 days, Commercial Bank Malaysia’s national flag-carrier. two years in the January-March Khazanah official said the fund around 20,000, has hampered the the public, from politicians to said in a bourse filing yester- At MAS’s current price of 21 period and is currently burning had nothing to add to its June airline’s efforts to cut costs and the unions, hence focusing on day, after an application to sen per share, majority share- through its operating cash. Its statement. Officials at MAS improve competitiveness in the its turnaround,” said a Kuala “squeeze out” remaining share- holder Khazanah would need to shares have fallen 16 percent since and CIMB did not immediately face of fast-growing, low-cost Lumpur-based equity analyst. holders and delist the bank pay only 1.05bn ringgit ($328m) the disappearance compared to a respond to requests for comment. carriers such as AirAsia and Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia’s was made to Alternatifbank’s for the 30.6 percent of shares it 2.8 percent gain in the benchmark Taking MAS private could Indonesia’s largest private air- longest serving prime minister, board. does not already own. stock exchange index. enable Khazanah to restructure line, Lion Air. The head of the was quoted in local media as say- The statement did not indi- Khazanah’s board, chaired by MAS’s chief executive said last it with little interference from MAS labour union, however, was ing that taking MAS private was cate there would be any change Prime Minister Najib Razak, is week that the business needed to shareholders and the powerful recently quoted by local media the best option to enable a radical to Anadolu’s holdings. expected to meet at the end of embrace “radical or sweeping” airline union, analysts say. as saying he would support a restructuring from top to bottom. REUTERS July to discuss the plan, one of change to survive. Resistance to previous privatisation if a new leadership REUTERS

Mira Al Attiyah Amlak proposes new restructuring deal for $2.7bn debt is QNB Capital’s DUBAI: Dubai mortgage in June to make an initial down- of a number of restructurings of the trading of its shares which took hold. Earlier this year, the lender Amlak has made a payment of 20 percent, or about in the emirate including the has been in place since 2008,” the UAE’ economic minister said new CEO new proposal to creditors to Dh2bn ($545m), a company $25bn Dubai World debt deal, is statement said. trading in Amlak would resume restructure and extend repay- spokesman said in a statement. aimed at allowing asset values to Amlak has been in talks in the second half of this year. DOHA: The Board of Directors ments of about $2.7bn of debt, The remaining debt will be improve so that they can then be over the debt with a six-mem- Dubai’s property sector has of QNB Capital, the investment aiming to end protracted talks paid to lenders over 12 years, of sold to service debt repayments. ber creditor committee, which seen a sharp rebound in prices banking subsidiary of QNB over the last major hangover which Dh1.4bn would be swapped “Following the meeting, depos- includes commercial banks such over the last two years, with Group, has appointed Mira from the emirate’s property into a convertible instrument itors have been given two months as Emirates NBD and Standard some properties back to 2008 lev- Hamad Abdullah Al Attiyah as market crash in 2008. which will be repaid “over the to assess and accept Amlak’s Chartered and two government els, which has helped improve the its Chief Executive Officer. The Shariah-compliant mort- next few years” from Amlak’s restructuring package after funds. fortunes of Dubai state-linked Mira Al Attiyah had recently gage lender, in which Dubai’s big- real estate assets, the statement which Amlak will be able to start Its shares have been suspended entities that cut restructuring held the position of the Assistant gest developer Emaar Properties added. repaying its debt and take the since November 2008, when a deals after the crash. Undersecretary for Trade at owns a 45 percent stake, proposed The extended tenure, a feature next steps to lift the suspension credit crunch and market slump REUTERS the Ministry of Economy and Commerce. She has been occu- pying several senior positions within the Ministry and at the Supreme Council for Information and Communication Technology. Nissan is most effective She was also a key member of sev- eral national committees in the business and investment sector. QNB Capital, provides a wide auto brand in Mideast range of services to corporations, government and institutional DOHA: Nissan has repeated in the rankings reflects the con- clients locally and globally. The its top ranking as the Middle sistency of our product line-up, team’s extensive transaction East’s most effectively marketed customer service and after sales. experience and depth of advisory automotive brand following the The recently released rankings services in equity and debt capital announcement of the influential bear testimony to the fact that markets, mergers and acquisitions Effie Awards. Nissan is consistently delivering and project finance advisory are The Effies are the ‘gold stand- ideas and top-class marketing ini- unparalleled. It maintains a lead- ard’ in marketing communica- tiatives that work.” ing role and a position in Qatar tions effectiveness. They reward The rankings were determined while continuing to expand its campaigns, from any discipline, after evaluation of data collected strategic advisory and asset man- which have achieved success between June 2013 and June 2014. agement services to complement through proven, effective market- Experts analyse data, case studies its traditional investment banking ing communications. and ongoing work from 40 world- and corporate finance offerings. Nissan has been awarded ‘the wide Effie Award competitions to These services cover international most effective automotive brand’ arrive at their rankings. Nissan’s jurisdictions and are supported by in the Mena region (Middle East Mena points tally of 24 was its QNB Capital’s offices in London Officials at the opening of the outlet. and North Africa) for the third highest score for any region in the and Paris. year in a row and is ranked fifth world, while its global ranking of QNB operates across 26 coun- in the Mena area overall. This is 12th was also particularly impres- tries and three continents. The higher than any other car maker, sive. The annual Effie awards were bank was recently voted “The Intertec Group opens 11th outlet in Qatar with the next best automotive launched in 2011 and are the Best Bank in The Middle East” brand appearing in 12th position. most comprehensive global rank- by Euromoney Magazine. DOHA: Intertec Group, the middle of a campaign against Abdul Khalek, Manager Retail “The Effie Index benchmarks ing of marketing effectiveness, QNB Group has steadily grown Samsung’s sole authorised dis- grey market activities and Sales; Midhun Joseph, Asstistant the brands, marketers, agencies according to analysts. The Effies to be the largest bank in the tributor in Qatar, has opened its new showrooms will help us to Manager Marketing, and show- and game-changing companies accolade coincides with Nissan’s Middle East and North Africa 11th outlet in the country at Al enhance our goal,” he said. room staff attended the function. that are doing it right, it’s a great soaring sales in the Middle East. Region and is by far the leading Rayyan. George Thomas, Chief Kamal Sibai, Samsung Prize for the online contest for resource,” says Nissan Middle Nissan achieved record sales in financial institution in the coun- Financial Officer of Intertec Branch Manager, Qatar; Vikas Samsung Galaxy Game 5 was pre- East regional managing director the Middle East of 217,685 vehicles try with a market share exceed- Group, has said that the new out- Pachnanda, Manager Trading sented to Mr. Cleofo Nada during Samir Cherfan. “This is the third in the 2013 financial year, up 20.9 ing 45 percent of banking sector let will help the company serve Mobiles; Harsha Mangalpadi the inaugural ceremony. year running we’ve excelled in the per cent year-on-year. assets. THE PENINSULA its customers better. “We’re in Manager Retail Sales; Rima THE PENINSULA Effies and our prominent position THE PENINSULA

Investment banks jockey for $100m Samsung restructuring bonanza

HONG KONG/SEOUL: Investment Asia-Pacific head Stephen Bird trav- often retain a ‘house’ bank, bankers say a demanding client even by investment of electronics materials affiliate Cheil bankers are jostling to win plum elled to Seoul. A spokesman for Citigroup Samsung keeps them on their toes by banking standards. Industries Inc, and a potential ren- roles from the founding Lee family of declined to comment. fostering competition for each and every “For a one hour meeting with them, minbi-denominated bond for Samsung Samsung Group, South Korea’s top fee- Now, as the group’s restructuring deal as it believes it gets better service we’ll do thirty man-hours of prepara- Electronics. Banks are also pitching for payer, as it prepares to hand the baton accelerates, Korean and foreign invest- that way. Since 2010 the group has paid tion so we don’t waste their time,” said a at least three sell-side mandates from to the next generation in a restructur- ment banks are assembling large teams, an estimated $167m in fees, the most senior executive at a foreign investment Samsung, as it prepares to divest non- ing that could land more than $100m in sending their CEOs to pay their dues at among Korean corporates and the tenth- bank in Seoul core businesses, a person familiar with advisory fees alone. Samsung HQ and boosting research cov- highest in Asia outside Japan, according The sprawling Samsung conglomer- the process said. Foreign and Korean investment banks erage of the group to try and win lucra- to data from Freeman Consulting. ate, whose 2012 revenues accounted for The estimated $100m payday for banks are bringing in their chief executives and tive work from the conglomerate. So far this year, it has paid $21m in more than a quarter of South Korea’s in the next two years excludes fees from top dealmakers to pitch for a glut of deals “There are potentially hundreds of fees, compared with $13m for all of 2013. nominal gross domestic product, appears ancillary business such as providing for- as the $407bn Samsung Group untangles transactions that can be done to sim- Bankers estimate Samsung could pay to be accelerating a restructuring after eign exchange or hedging, which could an empire that ranges from electronics plify the Samsung group structure,” said more than $100m in fees over the next patriarch Lee Kun-hee, 72, was hospital- push the total even higher. “Samsung’s to financial services. Shaun Cochran, head of Korea at CLSA, two years. With revenues from trading ized in May. business style is ‘we won’t skimp on the Banks’ top executives have long an investment bank, which published a and dealmaking dwindling, global banks Last month, Samsung Everland Inc, a payment, let’s make sure the work is courted the Samsung Group as it’s among 178-page report on the group on June 16. in Asia have culled staff and focused on key holding company within the group, right,’” said a Korean banker working Asia’s top fee-payers. Citigroup’s Chief As well as untangling the group’s com- cross-selling to the region’s few serial fee announced plans for an IPO, following on one of the listings. A spokesman for Executive Mike Corbat flew to Korea last plex web of businesses, the restructuring payers. That makes a group like Samsung, a similar announcement in May by IT Samsung said in an emailed statement year to meet with Samsung management, could also ease a potential $6bn tax bill whose Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is the solutions unit Samsung SDS. that the group could not comment on fees according to a source with direct knowl- faced by the Samsung heirs. world’s biggest smartphone maker, a top Other mandates include battery or the details of its subsidiaries’ process edge of the matter, while last month Unlike large Western companies that target for banks. In return, Samsung is maker Samsung SDI Co’s acquisition of selecting banks. REUTERS THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 BMW to invest Facebook faces British investigation €1bn in new Probe over mood experiment study Mexican plant LONDON: British authorities was communicated terribly said yesterday they will inves- and for that communication we FRANKFURT: German top- tigate Facebook over an experi- have apologised,” Sandberg told of-the-range carmaker BMW is ment which manipulated the a women’s business seminar in to invest around €1bn ($1.3bn) feelings of users, as the social New Delhi when asked whether in a brand new factory in network apologised for its poor the study was ethical. Mexico, an industry source said handling of the row. “We communicated really yesterday. Facebook clandestinely altered badly on this subject,” she said, The plant will have capacity to the emotional content of news before adding: “We take privacy build around 150,000 cars each feeds of nearly 700,000 users at Facebook really seriously.” year starting in 2019, the source for one week in 2012 without The research, published last said, speaking on condition of their knowledge, in order to test month, involved Facebook giv- anonymity. The Munich-based whether it altered their moods. ing some users sadder news and maker declined to comment on News of the “creepy” experi- others happier news in order to the information, but a spokesman ment has caused outrage among better understand “emotional said the company was scheduled users, and yesterday Britain’s contagion”. to make an announcement today. independent data watchdog, the Researchers wanted to see if A factory in Mexico would Information Commissioner’s the number of positive or nega- boost BMW’s ability to supply Office, said it was now looking tive words in messages the users the North American market. It into the case. “We’re aware of read determined whether they already has an assembly plant for this issue and will be speaking to then posted positive or negative sports utility vehicles (SUVs) in Facebook, as well as liaising with content in their status updates. Spartanburg in the United States. the Irish data protection author- It did not seek explicit consent Mexico appears to be increas- ity, to learn more about the cir- beforehand, but claims its terms ingly attracting car makers. cumstances,” a spokesman said. of service contract with users Facebook chief operating officer (COO), Sheryl Sandberg addresses an interactive session organised by the Last week, Renault-Nissan and Facebook, the world’s most permits blanket “research”. women’s wing of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in New Delhi yesterday. Daimler announced they would popular social networking site Users, however, questioned the set up a joint venture in the coun- with 1.2 billion users, has its ethics of the study with some call- a Facebook spokesman said. “We Sandberg, who was is in India She declined to speak to report- try to make compact cars. European headquarters in Dublin. ing it “super disturbing”, “evil” want to do better in the future to promote her gender equality ers asking further questions about The Franco-Japanese and As the row grew, Facebook’s and “creepy”. and are improving our process book “Lean In”, gave a more gen- the study. The experiment was German groups, which have coop- Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Facebook said the company was based on this feedback. The study eral assurance about Facebook’s conducted by researchers affili- erated since 2010, said they would Sandberg admitted during a “happy” to answer the British reg- was done with appropriate pro- cooperation. “We work very ated with Facebook and Cornell create 5,700 jobs and invest €1bn visit to India yesterday that the ulator’s questions.c “It’s clear that tections for people’s information closely with the regulators all University and the University of in the construction of a brand company had communicated people were upset by this study and we are happy to answer any over the world... we are fully com- California at San Francisco in the new plant in Aguascalientes, badly on the experiment. “This and we take responsibility for it,” questions regulators may have.” pliant (with regulations).” United States. AFP north-central Mexico. AFP Orange drops Egypt eyes 5.8pc growth, 10pc budget gap in 3 years

French plans CAIRO: Egypt is targeting acceleration from 2.1 percent in education will offset the effects from 14 percent in June 2013. the government has introduced economic growth of between the fiscal year ending June 2013 of the annual reforms in energy After three years of political new taxes including a temporary PARIS: Orange has ditched 4 and 5.8 percent within the and the rate above 3 percent (subsidies).” turmoil including the ouster of 5 percent tax on the wealthy plans to take part in any tie-ups next three years while holding targeted this fiscal year. New A 2014-15 budget announce- two presidents, Cairo needs to over three years. in the French telecoms mar- the budget deficit at 10 percent President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi ment on Monday unveiled deep find additional sources of rev- Spending on health is due to ket, the former monopoly said of economic output, Finance has said growth should reach 7 cuts in energy subsidies aimed enue and curb spending on food increase by 22.7 percent to 51.7bn yesterday. Minister Hany Kadry Dimian percent by June 2018. at shrinking Egypt’s budget def- and energy subsidies which have pounds this year, and educa- Orange said in May it was said yesterday. Dimian said he expected the icit, which has swelled since a traditionally eaten up a quarter tion spending by 13.3 percent to examining what role it could play “It is expected that growth budget deficit to stay at around popular uprising ousted autocrat of state spending. 105.3bn pounds, as the govern- in such deal-making, and sources will rise gradually to between 10 percent of gross domes- Hosni Mubarak in 2011. As well as cutting planned ment seeks to fulfil social justice said that it had held informal 4-5.8 percent within the next tic product in the next three Elected in May, Sisi has said energy subsidies by 40bn pledges written into the newly talks with third-place mobile three years,” he said. years “as we expect the addi- he aims to cut the deficit to 8.5 Egyptian pounds ($5.59bn) in approved constitution. operator Bouygues Telecom. That would be a marked tional spending on health and percent of GDP by June 2018 the fiscal year that began July 1, REUTERS “Orange... believes that it can- not pursue this avenue at the present time as the conditions that the group has set have not been met,” the company said in Economic inequality a statement. A source familiar with the matter said Bouygues was seek- to get worse: OECD ing too high a price for its telecom unit. To appease potential anti- trust concerns, Orange had also PARIS: The economic inequal- Twenty-First Century,” a best- tried to bring in upstart operator ity seen in recent years will only selling book by French economist Iliad into the talks but the three get worse over the coming dec- Thomas Piketty. His work shows parties could not find a common ades as highly skilled workers the gap in wealth between the ground. “The discussions are reap bigger gains from techno- rich and the rest of the populace over,” the source said. logical advances, the OECD said is returning to levels last seen Bouygues and Iliad could not yesterday. before World War One. immediately be reached for com- Governments need to invest Wages of the top earners in ment. Economy Minister Arnaud more in education and build the OECD grew an average 0.6 Montebourg has said the govern- more progressive tax systems, percent a year faster than the ment — which holds a 27 percent the Paris-based Organisation wages of those at the bottom of stake in Orange — wants to reduce for Economic Development and the income ladder over the two the number of telecom players to Cooperation said in the latest of decades leading up to the financial three from four as tough com- a series of reports on long-term crisis, the 34-nation group said. petition in the sector is hurting economic trends. The debate over If nothing is done, inequality jobs and investment in high-speed inequality has grown more heated will keep growing at that rate over broadband. REUTERS since the success of “Capital in the the coming 50 years. REUTERS

Monetary policy not best financial stability tool, says Fed chief Yellen

WASHINGTON: Monetary policy faces “significant limita- tions” as a tool to address finan- cial stability risks, and would have caused major economic damage if it had been used to head off the US housing bubble, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said yesterday. Weighing in a global central banking debate, Yellen reiterated her view that regulatory policy needs to play the lead role in com- bating excessive financial risk- taking. She said, however, that an increased focus on financial stability in monetary policy delib- erations was appropriate, but that central banks should only shift interest rates to combat risks to IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde (left) applauds US Federal Reserve stability in rare circumstances. Board Chair Janet Yellen at a lecture in Washington yesterday. “The potential cost ... is likely to be too great to give financial sta- Yellen played down those concerns. for longer than financial markets bility risks a central role in mon- “I do not presently see a need for expect. It also warned, however, of etary policy discussions,” Yellen monetary policy to deviate from a financial stability risks as the pro- said at an event sponsored by the primary focus on attaining price longed period of ultra-low interest International Monetary Fund. stability and maximum employ- rates has prompted weak lending The US stock and bond markets ment,” she said. Last month, the standards and risky behavior by have soared on the back of the Fed’s IMF cut its growth forecast for the investors. “It is ... important that extremely accommodative mon- United States and said the econ- we monitor the degree to which etary policy, prompting warnings omy would not reach full employ- the macroprudential steps we have from some analysts and economists ment until the end of 2017, allowing taken have built sufficient resil- that new bubbles may be forming. interest rates to be held near zero ience,” Yellen said. REUTERS THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Indian stocks Arabtec claims hit new high on hopes of backing of key new budget

MUMBAI: Indian stocks ended at a record high yesterday on shareholder hopes the newly elected govern- ment will announce reforms to revive the economy in its first Egypt project to go ahead budget next week. The Bombay Stock Exchange ABU DHABI: The construc- Arabtec and Aabar are stronger climbed as much as 1.36 percent tion company at the centre of than before,” Qubaisi said. to 25,864.53 points before retreat- Dubai’s stock market meltdown In particular, a $40bn, state- ing marginally to end at 25,841.21 sought to calm investors yes- backed deal for Arabtec to build points, its highest-ever closing terday by saying it still had the one million homes in Egypt over level. backing of a key government coming years will go ahead; it has Yesterday’s surge was the sec- shareholder and would rein in almost reached the design phase, ond record high touched by the lavish salaries to reduce costs. he said. Sensex in less than a month. Khadem Abdulla Al Qubaisi, Arabtec has emerged as a tool “This is primarily a budget Chairman of Arabtec, was holding of the UAE government’s eco- expectation rally. People are hop- the company’s first news confer- nomic diplomacy through the ing to see some real policy reforms ence since management turmoil deal. The UAE wants to sup- in infrastructure, power and last month shook investors’ faith port the Egyptian government of taxation,” said Vikram Dhawan, in one of Dubai’s most prominent former army chief Abdel Fattah director of equities at brokerage corporations. Al Sisi in order to stop any resur- Equentis Capital. The Arabtec saga exposed gence of the Muslim Brotherhood. India’s economy grew 4.7 per- the dangers of investing in Gulf However, there were signs A worker walks past a picture of the London skyline outside the sales office of a property development in central cent last year, the second consec- stock markets, which benefit from yestersday that Qubaisi would London yesterday. utive year it has come in below strong economic growth but can moderate the breakneck pace of five percent, with the country fall prey to wild speculation by growth which Arabtec managed enduring its worst slowdown since local retail investors, weak cor- during Ismaik’s 16-month tenure. 1985 as it is hit by high inflation, porate disclosure and a hands-off Ismaik had the firm diversify London house prices soar 26pc low job creation and acute power approach by regulators. in new sectors such as oil and shortages. In early June, wealthy Abu gas work, real estate develop- LONDON: London house prices Bank of England Governor London house prices were 25.8 But the Sensex has soared more Dhabi state fund Aabar ment, and mergers and acquisi- soared 26 percent over the past Mark Carney has warned the percent higher than a year ear- than 22 percent this year, mak- Investments cut its stake in tions, and into new geographical year in the biggest annual jump housing market poses the biggest lier - an annual increase not seen ing it one of the best perform- Arabtec to 18.94 percent from areas such as Serbia. Qubaisi said since 1987 as the economic domestic risk to financial stability since 1987, a year best remem- ers in the region, largely thanks 21.57 percent, raising doubts Arabtec would now focus on its recovery and record-low inter- and signalled that Britain could bered in financial circles for the to the rise of Prime Minister over its willingness to support the core construction business, which est rates stoked a boom in one be the first major Western econ- Black Monday stock market Narendra Modi, whose right- company. Then on June 18, chief had current projects inside and of the world’s most expensive omy to tighten monetary policy crash. leaning Bharatiya Janata Party executive Hasan Ismaik, who outside the UAE worth about property markets. since the 2008 crisis. Prices in the British capital won a landslide victory in May’s had built a 28.85 percent stake in Dh26.2bn ($7.1bn). The rise, shown in a Nationwide He has also stressed that mon- are now around 30 percent above general election. Arabtec, abruptly resigned. He also said “a few people” survey yesterday, is expected to put etary policy will not be driven their pre-crisis highs and more Modi’s government has already Arabtec shares plunged 70 per- had been let go as part of a cost- pressure on the Bank of England to by house prices in its capital - than twice the level in the rest partially raised railway fares, auto- cent from a record peak in mid- cutting drive since Ismaik left; he bring forward its plans to raise inter- and that the central bank does of Britain, said Robert Gardner, mobile fuel costs and cooking gas May to their intra-day low on declined to give numbers. Earlier est rates, a move that would be the not target house prices or seek chief economist at mortgage lender prices to try to reduce the deficit. Tuesday, erasing about $6.5bn of this year, Arabtec said its work- first tightening by a major central to use higher interest rates as Nationwide which collated the data. These steps by the Modi gov- value, as the company’s silence on force totalled about 63,000. bank since the financial crisis hit. its main tool for curbing rising Countrywide, house prices rose ernment “signal a strong inten- issues such as its relationship to “We are reviewing a lot of Across Britain, house prices household debt. But the latest 1.0 percent in June after a 0.7 tion to pursue reforms”, said Aabar fuelled panic selling by lev- things. Yes, there were some peo- rose at their fastest rate in over rises raise questions about how percent rise in May, taking the Fitch Ratings in a note this week, eraged retail investors. This spread ple who were overpaid. We are nine years, Nationwide said, while long this position can stand. annual rate of increase to 11.8 per- raising its growth forecast to 5.5 through Dubai’s market, causing trying to introduce the right poli- the average London property hit a “The data signal a rapidly grow- cent — the biggest since January percent for the current financial the main stock index to tumble 31 cies for payment,” Qubaisi said. record £400,000, or $681,000 for a ing economy, one in which house 2005, according to Nationwide. year. A further uptick in stocks percent from peak to trough. Mohamed Al Fahim, a board dollar buyer forced to grapple with prices are rising very rapidly, That has helped fuel construc- may now depend on how the Qubaisi insisted yesterday that member from Abu Dhabi’s state- rocketing prices and the strongest employment is rising very rapidly... tion. Separate data yesterday government tackles soaring food his company had not been dam- owned International Petroleum pound in nearly six years. and interest rates right now are showed activity in that sector grew inflation spurred by a shortfall in aged. He said Aabar, which has Investment Co (IPIC), the par- Foreign money has poured at a record low,” said Rob Wood, in June at its fastest annual pace annual rains, analysts say. declined to comment on its inten- ent of Aabar, was appointed into London property, seen as an chief UK economist at Berenberg. in four months. Shares in Britain’s India is one of the world’s top tions towards Arabtec, still consid- acting CEO of Arabtec after attractive bet by everyone from “I think those sort of indicators biggest housebuilders including producers of rice, wheat and ered it a long-term investment and Ismaik’s departure. Qubaisi said Russian oligarchs to US technol- mean that it would be sensible Barratt Development, Persimmon sugar. It relies heavily on the might even raise its stake in future. on Wednesday there was no dead- ogy titans, prompting a domestic to begin the process of gradu- , Berkeley Group and Taylor southwest monsoon, which sweeps “There will be no cancellation line for announcing a new perma- scramble for homes that many ally withdrawing the exceptional Wimpey are up between 12 and 20 the subcontinent from June to of any projects and operations nent CEO. locals cannot afford without monetary stimulus this year.” percent in the last 12 months. September, to water its crops. are strong. The relations between REUTERS potentially crippling debt. In the three months to June, REUTERS AFP

QATARI MARKET Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Elsewedy Forint falls on mortgage relief plan Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 105.44 0.95% Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 120.63 1.98% Aa2 AA wins Egypt BUDAPEST: The Hungarian the latest measures could destabi- to see the forint fall sharply after Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 114.25 2.48% Aa2 AA forint fell to a three-month low lise the Hungarian banking sector, that, leaving hundreds of thousands Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 110.13 2.99% Aa2 AA tender for point yesterday when inves- which will foot most of the bill, esti- with soaring monthly instalments. Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 162.00 4.33% Aa2 AA tors showed alarm at a radical mated at several billion euros. The Hungarian households now owe Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 124.25 4.75% Aa2 AA government plan to ease house- first part of the package will be put about ¤10bn ($13.5bn) to the banks. Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 114.75 4.78% Aa2 AA wind farms hold debt and a warning from to a parliamentary vote on Friday The new proposal is just the latest Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 102.94 0.65% Aa2 AA Brussels over rising public debt. and is expected to be approved. in a series of measures introduced CAIRO: Egypt has named The forint has been falling It would allow the conversion in recent years to solve the prob- Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 112.50 2.74% Aa2 AA Elsewedy Electric, the Arab since details emerged last week of foreign-currency loans into lem, to no avail. Prime Minister Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 101.63 0.49% A1 A- world’s biggest listed cable about the new debt relief package, forints at below-market rates, Viktor Orban has meanwhile Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.50 1.70% A1 A- maker, as winner of a tender dropping to 312 forints to the euro and force banks to compensate insisted that the banks—mainly to build six wind power sta- yesterday, the lowest rate since borrowers for certain practices, foreign ones—must do more. QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 103.75 0.83% NR NR tions, the company said, as the late March. including unilateral increases in The forint’s fall also comes after QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.00 0.89% Aa3 A+ country battles a severe energy The government’s new plan interest due. the European Commission on QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.50 1.61% Aa3 A+ shortage. is meant to help Hungarians, Banks, if challenged by individ- Tuesday issued a statement threat- The issue of power supply is still struggling to repay foreign- ual debtors, will also have to prove ening to restart an “excessive deficit Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.50 1.77% A2 A- important in Egypt and a poten- currency loans which many took in court that their contracts were procedure” against Hungary unless Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 105.00 1.13% A2 A- tial test of the government’s com- before the 2008 financial crisis, fair. About a million Hungarians it takes urgent steps to cut its budget Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 125.00 2.45% A2 A- petence as it attempts to recover but then faced huge payments took out foreign-currency mort- deficit and its debt level, which is the Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 109.00 3.23% A2 A- from years of political upheaval. when the forint plunged. gages — mostly in Swiss francs highest in central Europe. Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 106.75 4.24% A2 A- Egypt relies heavily on gas to Analysts say investors fear that — before the financial crisis, only AFP Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 101.38 -0.52% Aa3 A generate power for households Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 106.88 2.63% Aa3 A and industry and near-daily power cuts this year emphasised Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 109.25 3.62% Aa3 A the extent of an energy crunch, Spain jobless rate down SOVEREIGNS which is unlikely to be alleviated Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P soon by the project which as yet Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 122.00 1.89% Aa2 AA has no expected finish date. Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 107.25 0.82% NR NR The government has said it would cut its huge energy sub- Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 109.13 1.57% NR NR sidies programme and support Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 125.38 3.23% NR NR renewables in the fiscal year that Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 120.38 3.45% NR NR started this week, but has given Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 102.00 0.25% Aa2 AA no details. Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 116.13 2.37% NR BBB Elsewedy said the tender for the Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 109.88 3.58% NR BBB wind power stations on the Red Sea coast with a capacity of around Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 104.25 4.90% Caa1 B- 100 megawatts (MW) each would Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 108.88 2.92% NR BBB- involve it building, owning and oper- ating them, as well as selling the

*Periodic Distribution Amount power they produce for 25 years. IMPORTANT NOTE: A final contract had yet to be Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which agreed on, the company said. It gave is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services no details on how much the project Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary would cost and could not immedi- data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not ately be reached for comment. take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds Egypt’s new President Abdel can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant Fattah al-Sisi said in the run-up liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not to his election in May that Egypt a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. can currently produce around 30,000MW and the electricity ministry has said peak consump- tion stands at 28,000MW, but some experts have disputed these A worker throws used cardboard boxes, picked from the shops along La Bola street, onto a truck in Ronda, figures, saying the grid is weaker. near Malaga, southern Spain, yesterday. The number of registered jobless in Spain fell by 2.68 percent in June. REUTERS THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

Ignore the predictions to Please stop starving the profit in the second half BY BARRY RITHOLTZ Internal Revenue Service ULY 1 is one of my favourite days of the year. In addition to a wealth of historical milestones (See Jason Zweig’s, This BY CATHERINE RAMPELL deficit — as Republicans generally say they taxpayers. Of the callers who wanted to Day in Financial History’), and the coming July 4 holiday do — gutting your chief revenue- collection speak with a customer representative, Jweekend, it also marks the start of the second half of the RETTY much everyone hates agency makes little sense. It’s a bit like a nearly 40 percent never got through, com- year. As such, it is a good time to look back to see how we got to the Internal Revenue Service. supermarket trying to save money by get- pared with 13 percent a decade earlier. Even where we are today. And I realise this is an especially ting rid of its cashiers. the lucky callers who finally reached some- We begin with the opening salvo from the economists, who when strange time to stick up for the The IRS generates way more money than one first had to spend an average of nearly surveyed by Bloomberg at the beginning of the year, all predicted agency, given the suspicious disap- it spends, after all. For every dollar appro- 18 minutes waiting. A decade ago, the aver- rising interest rates and falling bond prices. Ppearance of a few thousand key emails that priated to the IRS in the 2013 fiscal year, age wait time was 2.6 minutes. As Bob Farrell has admonished us so many times over the Congress wants to see. But right now, the the agency collected $255, according to the Perhaps most alarming, a shortage of funds course of his career, “When all the experts and forecasts agree — IRS desperately needs a champion. national taxpayer advocate’s office. That’s a has caused the bureau to chronically under- something else is going to happen.” Our country’s fiscal future — not to men- darn good return on investment. invest in infrastructure, threatening its ability Had you ignored the dismal scientists and followed Farrell’s tion taxpayers’ collective mental health — Some of that money comes from going to operate effectively and efficiently. Some IRS advice, perhaps purchasing the iShares Barclays 20+ Year depends on it. after tax cheats, and staffing in key enforce- computers, for example, run on an operating Treasury Bond exchange-traded fund, your year-to-date gain For several years, the IRS has been ment positions has been sliding. This again system so old and outdated that Microsoft would have been more than 11 percent. labouring under more expensive mandates seems like something you should care about has stopped supporting it. Given this, per- Alternatively, you could have listened to the economists, and but with fewer resources. Since 2010, when if you’re a member of the conservative haps it’s not so far-fetched to believe that lost purchased the ProShares UltraPro Short 20+ Year Treasury Congress first began hacking away at discre- contingent that suspects many Americans emails were the result of crashed computers ETF. In the first two quarters of the year, that lost more than 33 tionary spending, the bureau’s funding has aren’t paying their fair share. As several and bureaucratic incompetence rather than percent of its value. fallen 14 percent, in inflation-adjusted terms, cash-strapped European countries can con- malevolent cover-up and conspiracy. So much for expert predictions of a great shift out of bonds according to the Centre on Budget and firm, rampant tax evasion has a tendency to But then, for many conservatives, bureau- and into stocks. Policy Priorities. Its staff has also shrunk drive statutory tax rates higher so that the cratic incompetence may be a feature of IRS The equity side is a bit more complex. Markets rose so fast in by about 10,400 employees, or 11 percent, government can extract more money from budget cuts rather than a bug. After all, one 2013 that perhaps they got ahead of themselves. The first quarter over the same period. These cuts have come those poor saps still obeying the law. effective way to convince Americans that began with a stumble, especially among those high-flying tech even though the agency’s responsibilities For now, at least, the vast majority of the government deserves to be shrunk and stocks that had done so well the year before. Since then, many of and workload have increased, thanks to new Americans pay the full amount they owe defunded is by making it grossly dysfunc- them have rallied, recovering some or all of their losses. laws such as the Affordable Care Act and Uncle Sam under the law, but IRS budget tional through inadequate appropriations. Market capitalisation is calculated from the share price (as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, cuts could threaten voluntary compliance Budget cuts beget distrust in government, recorded on selected day) multiplied by the number of shares as well as the growing problems of identity going forward. That’s because one of the which begets more budget cuts. issued. Figures are converted into USD millions (using rate from theft and tax refund fraud. bureau’s core jobs is helping honest taxpay- “Starving the beast” doesn’t make agen- selected day) to allow for comparison. Now House Republicans want to hob- ers like you and me navigate the Byzantine cies like the IRS less wasteful, just less Standard & Poor’s introduced its first stock index in 1923. ble it even more. Last week, the House tax system that Congress — that’s right, functional. If, in the coming years, the US Technology has allowed the index to be calculated and dissemi- Appropriations Committee voted to slash Congress, not the IRS — has constructed. government looks increasingly inept, out- nated in real time. The S&P 500 is widely used as a measure of the bureau’s budget by another $340m. In fiscal 2013, for example, the agency dated and inefficient, that may be partly the general level of stock prices, as it includes both growth stocks If you care about narrowing the budget received 109 million phone calls from by design. WP-BLOOMBERG and value stocks. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index is up about seven percent for the year. If the second-quarter pace (4.7 percent for the period) continues the rest of the year, it would result in an increase of more than 20 percent. This is, admittedly, a big “if.” Small-cap stocks didn’t do as well, rising less than three per- cent. Again, looking at 2013’s scorching pace, this shouldn’t be a big surprise to anyone. So far, 2014 looks like a period of digestion for 2013’s winners. Emerging markets have only done marginally better than the small caps, up between 4 percent and 5 percent. However, their valuations are much lower than the mature markets in the US or Europe. And their volatility is higher. Sentiment remains decidedly mixed. As the second quarter began, the bulls were skittish and the bears were emboldened. Mr Market decided to frustrate everyone. As we observed back in October 2009, this remains one of the most hated stock-market rallies in history. Newsworthy events and problems were everywhere. First- quarter gross domestic product declined 2.9 percent. The problems in the Ukraine started and then faded; the ever-present mess in the Middle East got even messier. And all along, the market just continues to shrug off bad news and grind higher. That helped sustain demand for initial public offerings. According to a report from Renaissance Capital, in the second quarter “proceeds were up 42.4 percent year-over-year. IPO proceeds in the 2Q14 were led by the European and North American regions, which accounted for 43.7 percent and 34.9 percent of quarterly proceeds, respectively.” The market’s strength also is part of the reason mergers and acquisitions have reached a seven-year high, as The New York Times reported on Monday. Much of the increase can be traced to a series of blockbuster deals, aided by the huge reserves of cash companies have accu- mulated since the financial crisis. “2014 has so far been the kind of year that bankers and law- yers have been awaiting for some time . . . and it appears that the factors that have been driving the waves of consolidation will keep propelling mergers for the rest of the year,” the Times reported. Yet it still is a challenging environment. I am in the camp of Barron’s Randall Forsyth, who pithily observed, “Fade forecasts and diversify.” Sounds like good advice to me. WP-BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Solving the second-class stock conundrum of businesses

BY ROB COX The protagonists sort of agreed But unlike B shares, this would There’s a risk that as the con- filed with the Securities and super-voting founder, Mark to disagree. Investors don’t have only last for a defined period, say version date approaches, Class V Exchange Commission. Pincus, remains as hands-on VER dinner in San to buy shares if they don’t like the 10 years. In that sense, they would holders get antsy. They might try As well as its super-voting chairman despite having brought Francisco recently, an voting arrangements – though resemble voting options that need to use their soon-to-expire vot- Class B shares and regular Class in a chief executive last year. activist investor and an some might say that companies to be exercised before they expire. ing power to redraft company A paper, Google not long ago The company’s shares are OInternet entrepreneur often don’t have to seek money After a decade, Class V stock by-laws, extending their voting introduced Class C stock with no trading at under a third of the got into a heated discussion. The from public investors, either. would simply convert into regular rights, or eliminating the conver- voting rights at all. December 2011 IPO price. two men, with a gap of about But surely there is a way to Class A common equity. sion to Class A entirely. To be fair, investors have so far Contrast that with Microsoft. two decades between them, were square this circle. This would give founders time Or they might try to cram been well served by this arrange- Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates debating the practice of many What if a mechanism could be after going public to develop a through deals that many inves- ment. Since Google went public 10 probably stayed too long: in its young, growth businesses in the created that would allow founders company’s business with mini- tors would dislike while they can. years ago this August, the stock first decade as a public firm, the technology world — though it like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg mal scope for interference from Some risks could be mitigated price has risen nearly 10-fold. But stock surged some 6,000 percent, happens elsewhere too — to issue or GoPro’s Nicholas Woodman shareholders. by giving Class A shareholders the three key men are arguably but in the past 10 years the value multiple classes of stock, gener- to execute their plans for global Including the years before list- their own vote on certain things, less important to Google’s for- of the software giant has gained ally one for hoi polloi investors in domination, leavened with prom- ing, they should have long enough like changing Class V rights. And tunes at this stage. less than 50 percent, under per- public offerings and another for ises to make the world more awe- to navigate the headiest phase of overall, the dangers don’t seem While the departure of all three forming the broader market. founders and other insiders with some, without pesky shareholder growth unencumbered. any greater than those under at once would freak out investors In the absence of special voting super-charged voting powers. interference – but also preserving And winding down voting rights existing dual-share arrangements. and employees, the Googleplex rights, it was possible for share- This, the investor felt, violates in the long term the one share, at a defined date should reduce Google’s cofounders Larry would probably function perfectly holders, led by ValueAct Capital, a tenet of democratic capitalism: one vote concept? the risk that company bosses and Page and Sergey Brin, along with well with, say, only one of them to push for Ballmer’s resignation, “one share, one vote.” It treats Say hello to “Class V” stock. boards become entrenched. Chairman Eric Schmidt, own left in the building. which also led to Gates exiting as public shareholders of Silicon There are already lots of compa- The structure gives visionary approximately 92 percent of the And there’s also a case that chairman. Valley’s hottest properties as nies with Class A and B shares, founders the initial autonomy company’s Class B common stock, shareholders, even if they sud- The revamp of Microsoft’s second-class citizens. and a few — like Google — with C they want and investors are usu- giving them 61 percent of the vot- denly had more voting power, boardroom would have been Not so, argued the information shares. Going all the way to the ally willing to give them, while ing power for the whole company would want the trio to remain and impossible — or at least far more industrialist, now working in his 22nd letter of the alphabet sounds eventually allowing all sharehold- with a combined economic inter- would largely leave them alone. difficult and delayed — had the second mega-startup. Visionaries unduly complicated. But it’s just ers to have a say if company lead- est that’s only a fraction of that. That’s how it should be when founders held 10 times other need to build their businesses another symbol, standing for “vot- ers don’t deliver the goods – or “This concentrated control things work out. But Class V shareholders’ voting power. without the distraction of having ing,” or maybe “vision.” aren’t as good at managing busi- limits or severely restricts our equity would also address the For today’s tech wunderkind to please uppity investors every Class V shares would grant nesses as starting them. That’s a stockholders’ ability to influence hazards of founders overstaying who thinks he (or, very rarely, quarter. their owners extraordinary vot- better alignment of interests than corporate matters and, as a result, their welcome. she) is more of a Brin than a Giving them control of their ing powers, akin to the 10 votes the current Class A and B norm. we may take actions that our That’s arguably what has hap- Ballmer, Class V stock would be boards of directors and key cor- per share that Google, GoPro or The idea has drawbacks, of stockholders do not view as bene- pened, say, at once high-flying a way to show investors that self- porate decisions is vital. Facebook Class B shares carry. course. ficial,” Google warns in disclosures game maker Zynga, where the belief. REUTERS THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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7.2 185860 Himat Seide-B/D 74.4 0.1 55173 Kanoria Chem-B/D 49.25 0.75 55827 Orient.Carb.-T/D 265 -9.5 10914 Hsbc Holdings/D 603.9 5.7 5367508 Chambal Fert-B/D 58.45 0.45 273408 Hind Motors-T/D 10.53 0.39 383296 Kg Denim-B/D 19.7 -0.1 125289 Oudh Sugar-B/D 28.25 -0.9 19569 Imperial Tobac/D 2604 -5 365531 THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 ‘Greed and anger’ lead Stokes recalled for Vincent to disgrace

WELLINGTON: Disgraced “In my case because I was at cricketer Lou Vincent (pic- the top of the order it was bat 20 tured) was motivated by greed, balls and score 10-15 runs then his disappointment at the end get out. Simple as that.” first Test against India of his New Zealand interna- Vincent, however, made an tional career and the feeling he error in one match when he acci- could not say ‘no’ to his ‘hero’ dentally hit a six while attempting Under-fire Cook retains England’s captaincy for series to agree to get involved in fixing to get out as planned and said he matches. knew he was in trouble. The 35-year-old top-order “I could tell straight away that LONDON: Durham all-rounder Ben Stokes England Squad: Alastair Cook (Essex, capt), batsman was banned from I’d done wrong,” Vincent said. “I was recalled by England in a 13-man squad Sam Robson (Middlesex), Gary Ballance cricket for life on Tuesday after got the phone call to come meet yesterday for next week’s first Test against (Yorkshire), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Joe he pleaded guilty to 18 breaches the person I was working for. India at Trent Bridge, with national selector Root (Yorkshire), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), of the England and Wales Cricket “He sat me down on the bed, James Whitaker saying the 23-year-old had Matt Prior (Sussex, wkt), Chris Jordan board’s (ECB’s) anti-corruption walked away and got a cricket bat the “X factor”. (Sussex), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), regulations in three matches in and... he was walking towards me Stokes was the only addition to the 12-man Liam Plunkett (Yorkshire), James Anderson England. with a killer look in his eye and party chosen for England’s recent 1-0 loss in a (Lancashire), Ben Stokes (Durham), Chris “I think I felt greedy for the I thought ‘oh well this is pretty two-Test series at home to Sri Lanka Woakes (Warwickshire) first time in my life,” Vincent told serious’. Stokes was not chosen for that short campaign New Zealand’s TV3 in a televised “I was really surprised that he while he regained full fitness following an embar- some movement off the pitch.” “We’re excited interview yesterday about his rea- didn’t follow through and hit me.” rassingly self-inflicted wrist injury. about Ben,” added Whitaker, in an indication sons for agreeing to get involved Vincent, who had been prom- So angry was Stokes at being dismissed for a Stokes would make the XI at Trent Bridge, prob- in match-fixing. ised $50,000 per game golden duck against the West Indies in Barbados, ably at the expense of fellow all-rounder Chris “I probably had a said he never saw any he punched a dressing room locker at the Jordan, who has yet to deliver a substantial per- chip on my shoulder of the money, prob- Kensington Oval in Bridgetown and promptly formance at this early stage of his Test career. over my career, I left ably due to his error broke a bone in his hand. Chris Woakes, another seam-bowling all- New Zealand pretty and that he felt he That forced him to miss the ICC World rounder who was in the squad for the Sri Lanka heart broken and a bit had been ‘used and Twenty20 in Bangladesh and the start of the series but didn’t play, was retained. angry at the system. abused’. English season. Alastair Cook, despite a barrage of criticism “And as the match When he moved Since then the seamer has taken a career-best over his tactics during Sri Lanka’s 100-run sec- fixing world opened to England he was seven for 67 for Durham against Sussex -- and ond Test win at Headingley last week and con- up to me... I thought approached again and 10 wickets in the match -- although his batting cerns over his own form, retained the England ‘yeah, I’m going to told he could regain has been less impressive with 172 runs at 28.66 captaincy. make some big money the syndicate’s trust in four Championship matches. Although it’s now more than a year since Cook now, so stuff the by fixing matches However, Stokes has already shown his ability scored the last of his England record 25 Test world’.” there. at international level by providing England with hundreds, Whitaker was confident he would Vincent was first approached “It was a phone call out of rare highlights during their 5-0 Ashes thrashing come good again soon. while playing in a rebel Twenty20 nowhere by the person I was in Australia when he scored a maiden hundred in England. in the absence of retired off-spinner competition in India in 2008, working for in (India) who hap- his second Test at Perth and took eight wickets Graeme Swann, again entrusted slow bowling where he was invited to attend a pened to be in England at the in Sydney. duties to Moeen Ali, primarily a batsman who meeting with a local businessman same time,” he added. “Ben’s been frustrated at the start of the sea- scored a maiden century in only his second Test England’s Ben Stokes bowls on the to discuss promotional endorse- “I was forgiven and told that son from what happened at the back end of the at Headingley. first day of the fifth Ashes Test against ments of cricket gear. I had to earn trust back with winter,” Whitaker told Sky Sports News yesterday. Ali took three wickets in the Sri Lanka series Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground, At the meeting, however, he him and his people... I was told “He is a vivacious character, he’s got some ‘X but Cook seemed reluctant to use him, thereby in this January 2014 file photo. was offered the services of a to underperform and prove that factor’, he’s fantastic on flat wickets and gets increasing the workload on his seamers. AFP prostitute and a large stack of I was trustworthy. American dollars. “I thought that I might get He said he realised what was paid. I might see my money.” Q-Tickets pummel Al being offered, turned both down Vincent did what he was and then met a friend he was play- instructed and received payment ing with - who Vincent referred to for those performances, which as his hero - about the approach. ultimately lead to him being Noof in Challenge Cup “There was this moment of charged by the ECB. silence then he took a deep He pleaded guilty to all 18 DOHA: Q-Tickets registered a Nishantra and Kapica excelled for breath. I remember him saying charges and received a life ban on massive victory at the West End the winners by claiming three and ‘that’s a good cover because now Tuesday, hours after he released Park Challenge Cup Twenty20 two wickets respectively. you’re working for me’,” Vincent a statement to local media with when they routed Al Noof by The other match of the day saw, said. the opening line: 70 runs, here at the West End CNAQ defeating Garvey Lions by “That’s when I realised, ‘wow “My name is Lou Vincent and Park Stadium. four wickets. this is happening, there’s no turn- I am a cheat”. The winners, while batting first Batting first, the Lions scored ing back. He admitted last December he compiled a total of 175-8 in the 118 runs all out in 19.1 overs. “There was no way I could say had been co-operating with ICC stipulated 20 overs. Sanjeeva (47) and Dio Jaya (21) no, the person I was working for anti-corruption officials investi- Kapica blasted 71 while Kannan scored most runs for their side. was a huge role model to me.” gating alleged match-fixing but chipped in with 25 runs. Hadi & A. Kader took 2 wickets Vincent said he was then told had never spoken publicly about Al Noof failed to match the bat- apiece for the opponents. how spot fixing worked and what his involvement until releasing ting display and were bundled out Later, Mirza (52) & Faizan (15) to do for each match. Tuesday’s statement and yester- Mirza receiving the Man-of-the-Match award after scoring a brisk 52-run for only 105 runs in 18.2 overs. helped CNAQ reached the target “It’s pretty simple what you can day’s interview to the New zea- knock to help CNAQ in a four-wicket victory over Garvey Lions. Hassan (30) and Sharif (16) in 14.4 overs after losing six of control is to under-perform,” he land’s television channel. were the main contributors as their wickets. THE PENINSULA said. AFP

Agent refutes players’ pay MLB: Hutchison excels in cuts report Jays’ victory over Brewers

NEW YORK: The agent for NEW YORK: Drew Hutchison Miami Heat stars Chris Bosh struck out a career-best 10 and Dwyane Wade refuted a while Jose Bautista and Colby report yesterday that his clients Rasmus hit home runs as the were prepared to take signifi- Toronto Blue Jays defeated the cant pay cuts, which would free Milwaukee Brewers 4-1. up some salary for general man- Hutchison (6-6) held the ager Pat Riley to use to improve Brewers to three hits, two walks the roster. and one run in seven innings. The (Portland) Oregonian had Brewers right-hander Marco reported Bosh was expected to Estrada (7-5) allowed six hits, sign a five-year deal worth $11m one walk and two runs in six-plus for the first year of the deal while innings. Wade would sign a four-year deal Bautista homered in the first that starts at $12m for the first inning before Rasmus added to season. the lead when he led off the fifth But agent Henry Thomas said with his 12th homer of the season. the report was inaccurate and Centre fielder Mike Trout and that both players will be paid first baseman Albert Pujols hit more. If that is the case, the Heat back-to-back home runs in the will wind up with quite a bit less fifth inning to turn a 3-0 defi- than the reported $12m to use on cit into a 4-3 lead as the Angels Atlanta Braves’ centre fielder BJ Upton (left) and first baseman improving the roster. surged to an 8-4 victory over the Freddie Freeman watch USA player receiving a yellow card during LeBron James is demanding a Chicago White Sox in the first the FIFA World Cup Last 16 match against Belgium on Tuesday. maximum contract, which should game of a double header. pay the superstar in the neigh- Los Angeles (46-35) added runs bourhood of $22m. in the sixth, seventh, eighth and home run to lead the Detroit The Heat is expected to tar- ninth to give right-handed starter Tigers to a 3-0 victory over the Baseball Results get free agent guard Kyle Lowry Garrett Richards some added run Oakland Athletics. Toronto 4 Milwaukee 1 of Toronto or free agent centre support. Porcello turned in only LA Angels 8 C White Sox 4 Marcin Gortat of the Washington Designated hitter Josh the third complete game of Baltimore 8 Texas 3 side. Hamilton (2-for-4) provided a his career, throwing just 95 Tampa Bay 2 NY Yankees 1 Free-agent forward Carmelo solo homer in the seventh. pitches. Washington 7 Colorado 1 Anthony arrived amid fanfare in Richards (9-2) allowed the Starling Marte hit a two- Pittsburgh 3 Arizona 2 Chicago as he began his tour to 26th homer of the season by Jose run double in the ninth inning, Detroit 3 Oakland 0 possibly find a new team. Abreu in the first inning, but he moved to third on a throw- Chicago Cubs 2 Boston 1 The Bulls welcomed the seven- gave up only one other hit in his ing error on shortstop Nick Atlanta 5 NY Mets 4 time All-Star to the Windy City eight-inning outing, striking out Ahmed before scoring the win- Miami 5 Philadelphia 4 with signs at the United Center. nine. ning run on Ike Davis’ single LA Angels 7 CWhite Sox 5 After his trip to Chicago, Rick Porcello pitched a four- as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat Minnesota 10 Kansas City 2 Anthony reportedly will head to hitter for his second straight the Arizona Diamondbacks. Texas on Wednesday to meet with shutout, running his scoreless In other match, Steve Seattle 13 Houston 2 the Houston Rockets and Dallas innings string to 25 1/3, and hot- Pearce helped Orioles rout Cleveland 10 LA Dodgers 3 Mavericks. hitting J.D. Texas Rangers 8-3. San Diego 8 Cincinnati 2 AGENCIES Martinez clubbed a two-run REUTERS San Francisco 5 St Louis 0 THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Rossi signs Qatar’s Al Anabi eye repeat new contract with Yamaha

LONDON: Italian MotoGP great Valentino Rossi is set to show in Norwalk challenge see out his career with Yamaha after signing a new two-year agreement with the works team taking him through to the end of Defending champion AlBalooshi confident of retaining his title on Sunday 2016, they announced yesterday. Yamaha hoped the 35-year-old, a nine times world champion with NORWALK, Ohio: When advantage,” he sadi. “Norwalk is seven titles in grand prix motor- things are going as planned, also a very good race track for our cycling’s top category, would stay sometimes returning to a place team so that is good, too.” Khalid AlBalooshi with them for the rest of his rac- of great success can help get Yes it is. Seldom does a team begins a ing career. things back on track. dominate a race track the way the “We look forward to the next qualifying run For the Qatar Al Anabi Racing Al-Anabi Racing Team has domi- two and a half years together and on Saturday in Top Fuel team, the three-time and nated in Norwalk, Ohio. it is our intention that Valentino defending World Championship As the United States celebrates Joliet, Illinois. will remain with Yamaha until team owned by Sheikh Khalid bin is birthday this weekend, fans AlBalooshi is the end of his sporting career and Hamad Al Thani, the team hopes will enjoy fireworks at the race the defending beyond,” Yamaha Motor Racing that returning to a race track on track just an hour southwest of champion of managing director Lin Jarvis said. which it has won four of the last Cleveland, but AlBalooshi and this weekend’s “Since his return to Yamaha in five races will be just what the his team are hoping to celebrate NHRA Mello Yello 2013 it’s been a very positive expe- doctor ordered. another victory. Drag Racing rience for everybody involved,” he Khalid AlBalooshi is the They hope the return to Series event near added. defending champion of this week- Norwalk will help them solve Cleveland, Ohio. “His enjoyment is obvious to end’s 8th annual Summit Racing the mechanical issues the team all who meet him at the MotoGP Equipment NHRA Nationals, the has dealt with in the last several events or who see him race on TV 13th of 24 races making up the races. and is reflected in his excellent United States’ 2014 NHRA Mello Recent performance may not race results this year.” Yello Drag Racing Series. show it, but the team is fixing its Rossi is enjoying a strong sea- Qualifying is set for tomorrow problems one by one and slowly son and is currently second equal and the day after with elimina- gaining on the return to form for in the championship after four tions scheduled for Sunday. which everyone strives. second place finishes and five For AlBalooshi, going back to “With Jason (crew chief Jason podiums in eight races. the place where he won last year McCulloch) and the rest of our Honda’s Spanish MotoGP just feels good. Al Anabi team, I am always con- champion Marc Marquez has “I am very excited to back to fident,” AlBalooshi said. been dominant, winning all eight. Norwalk this week,” AlBalooshi “I know we are still finding out “I am very proud of this said. a lot of things about the car, but announcement,” said Rossi, who “From last year when I won the everyone is doing their job to get returned to Yamaha in 2013 after race there, I have been thinking our car back where it needs to a barren two year stint with about when I go back there. I be,” he said. Ducati. “It’s great because this think it will feel good to get back “The Al Anabi team is putting was my target; I wanted to con- to Norwalk because I know I have everything together to give me tinue, I am feeling good and I’m done this before. I will not have the best car it can, especially now motivated to keep giving my best. any thoughts about not being able that we found a big problem in I am very happy that I can keep to win there because I won there New Hampshire. riding my YZR-M1.” last year, and that will give me an THE PENINSULA REUTERS

Statistics for British Grand Prix British Grand Prix: Home favourite

Statistics for Sunday’s British Formula One Grand Prix at Silverstone, race nine of the Hamilton vows to fire on all cylinders championship:

Lap distance: 5.891 km SILVERSTONE, England: their own for the title, with Red memories of a home circuit that Total distance: 306.198km, 52 Silverstone celebrates its 50th Bull’s Australian Daniel Ricciardo brought them their first win in laps. British Grand Prix this week- a further 53 points adrift of 1979 and 100th in 1997. 2013 pole: Lewis Hamilton end with all eyes on Lewis Hamilton, that looks destined for McLaren’s Jenson Button, the (Britain) Mercedes One minute Hamilton as the home favourite one of them. 2009 champion, has never stood 29.607 seconds with a real chance of winning a Rosberg has finished first or on the podium at his home race Lap record: Mark Webber race he cannot afford to lose. second in every race this sea- and looks unlikely to rectify that (Australia) Red Bull 1:33.401, It has been six years since he son, which means that Hamilton this year. 2013. won at home in Britain and the could win the next four races “We won’t get on the podium Mercedes driver needs a change and still not be in front if the at Silverstone, no chance,” the Start time: 1200 GMT (1300 of fortune more than ever as he German carries on his remark- Briton, who is out of contract local) seeks to cut team-mate Nico able consistency. at the end of the year and hopes British Tyres: Hard (orange), Medium Rosberg’s 29 point lead in the Even with a controversial dou- Sunday will not be his last F1 driver Lewis (white) championship. ble points available for the final appearance at the circuit, told Hamilton WINS “I’m definitely gunning for race in Abu Dhabi, Hamilton British reporters while speaking poses for % Mercedes have won all but Silverstone,” the 2008 world simply cannot afford to lose more on the event.. a photo one race so far this season. The champion told reporters ahead ground. The home crowd, with more during the exception was Canada, won by of the next week’s ninth round of “He (Hamilton) needs to win than 300,000 expected over the unveiling of Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo. the season. this race big time,” former home three days, will still give the the Mercedes “Last year, I was more hopeful winner John Watson said last 34-year-old a lift on a weekend % AMG Petronas Red Bull’s quadruple world than ever... that weekend it was week. that will be of special significance champion Sebastian Vettel W05 racing definitely gutting not to win, to “It is make or break - as impor- personally. has 39 career wins, Fernando car during not bring it home for the country tant a grand prix for Lewis as any Sunday will be Button’s first Alonso 32, Lewis Hamilton 26, the Formula and for the fans. We have another in his career has ever been.” race at Silverstone without his Kimi Raikkonen 20 and Jenson One test chance this year and I’ll be doing The Mercedes pair will be father John, who died in January, Button 15. Championship leader absolutely everything to make favourites but may not have it and Button has launched a ‘Pink days at Jerez Nico Rosberg has six. sure we’re in front.” all their own way at a venerable for Papa’ tribute to raise funds for Racetrack in % Rosberg’s win in Austria Hamilton won in 2008 and circuit that hosted its first grand the Henry Surtees Foundation. Jerez, in this meant his career tally of wins qualified on pole position last prix in 1948, two years before it The charity was set up by 1964 January 2014 now exceeds that of his father year but an exploding tyre, a opened the first Formula One champion Surtees in memory file photo. Keke, the 1982 champion. feature of the race that forced world championship in 1950. of his son Henry, who died in a %Ferrari have won 221 races, Pirelli to make changes, wrecked Williams, with Felipe Massa Formula Two accident at Brands McLaren 182, Williams 114 and his chance and handed victory to and Valtteri Bottas, swept the Hatch in 2009. Red Bull 47. Rosberg instead. front row in qualifying in Austria “We’re trying to get as many % McLaren have not won for Rosberg has beaten Hamilton 10 days ago, while Red Bull and people wearing pink as we can,” 27 races, a run that dates back in the last three races, after the Ferrari are hoping to be in the he said and added: “I will be wear- to Brazil 2012. Briton won four in a row, and mix at a high-speed track that ing a pink helmet. So there will be has the momentum as the season has favoured them in the past. a lot of pink at Silverstone in sup- %Ferrari’s last victory was in nears the halfway point. Massa will be celebrating his port of my old boy,” said Button Spain in May 2013 - the last time a team other than Mercedes or The two men have the same 200th grand prix while former ahead of the race. Red Bull won. equipment and are in a duel of champions Williams have happy REUTERS POLE POSITION %Brazilian Felipe Massa’s pole for Williams in Austria ended Fernandes sells Caterham Mercedes’ run of seven in a row. It was also the first time since Brazil in November 2012 that a team other than Mercedes or team and quits Formula One Red Bull had started on pole. % Hamilton (Australia/ LONDON: Malaysian aviation Dutch retired driver Albers, principal when the Dutchman Malaysia/China/Spain) and entrepreneur Tony Fernandes who competed in 46 grands prix drove for the Midland and Spyker Rosberg (Bahrain/Monaco/ ended an unhappy Formula One with tail-end teams between teams that became Force India, Canada) had previously started adventure yesterday by selling 2005 and 2007, will take over the has been advising the consortium. every race on pole. his struggling Caterham team day-to-day running of the team The sale ended a costly and % Vettel took nine poles last to a group of Swiss and Middle with the assistance of Manfredi ultimately failed foray into motor year, and now has 45 for his F1 Eastern investors with former Ravetto. racing for Fernandes, whose main career. driver Christijan Albers at the Albers replaces the depart- sporting interests have increas- helm. ing Cyril Abiteboul, who was ingly become focused on his %Hamilton now has 35 poles, The team announced in a state- appointed principal by Fernandes Premier League’s QPR. more than any other British ment ahead of Sunday’s British at the end of 2012 when the Fernandes has been noticeable driver in the history of Formula Grand Prix that they would con- AirAsia boss decided to step by his absence from racetracks One. tinue to race as Caterham, from back and focus on other business this year and he heralded the % Malaysian chairman of British coach builder Caterham, Tony Fernandes Ferrari’s last pole position their existing factory at Leafield interests. end of his involvement when he was in Germany with Fernando speaks during a press conference at French carmaker Renault in Paris, in this file photo taken in November 2012. in central England, for the imme- Caterham said Romanian-born closed down his Twitter account Alonso in 2012. diate future. Colin Kolles, who was Albers’ last week. REUTERS THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 29 Murray dethroned by Dimitrov; Djokovic rallies to surpass Cilic Federer downs compatriot Wawrinka to reach his ninth Wimbledon semi-final

LONDON: The mayhem cre- ated by an Australian fire- Halep, Bouchard offer cracker the previous evening was continued in brutal fashion by Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov yesterday as he annihilated glimpse of the future defending Wimbledon cham- pion Andy Murray. LONDON: The women’s semi- slams. Not to be outdone, 13th With the dust still settling on finals at Wimbledon today seed Bouchard overcame her 19-year-old Nick Kyrgios’s fourth- will provide a glimpse into the ninth-seeded opponent Angelique round demolition of world No.1 future of the women’s game and Kerber - who shocked Centre Rafael Nadal, Dimitrov caused a nod to its recent past. Court with a victory over Maria the second seismic shock on Rising stars Simona Halep Sharapova on Tuesday - 6-3 6-4. Centre Court in the space of 24 and Eugenie Bouchard will meet The 20-year-old’s victory meant hours by outclassing Murray 6-1, in one semi-final after they she became the only woman on 7-6 (4), 6-2. impressed in quarter-final victo- the tour to make the last four at The Briton’s shattering defeat ries on Wednesday, while Czech all three grand slam events so far means that two of the so-called pair Lucie Safarova and Petra this year. Big Four in men’s tennis have Kvitova complete the contrasting “I am excited (but) she is a departed in quick succession from semi-final line-up. very good player so I am definitely the grasscourt grand slam, both With only one grand slam ready for another tough match,” walloped by members of a brash title between the quartet, there Bouchard told the BBC of her new generation of big hitters might be some raised eyebrows on challenge against Halep, who is with no fear and scant regard for Centre Court, yet it is the pres- the highest seed left in the draw. reputations. ence of veterans Safarova and “I am so pleased to reach the “Everyone’s starting to get Kvitova, the 2011 Wimbledon semi-finals again but I want to better,” a downbeat Murray said. champion, that is perhaps most go one step further this time “The younger guys are now obvi- surprising. around.” ously becoming more mature and Romanian Halep and Canada’s While considered bright tal- improving all the time.” Bouchard have been in sparkling ents, not many would have pre- It’s one thing surrendering form and are the only players dicted the rapid rise of both Halep your crown, but to suffer such a to have reached at least the last and Bouchard this year. remorseless beating on your own eight of all three grand slams so World No.6 Kvitova is trying to turf in front of Prince William far in 2014. get back to the top of the game and his wife, the Duchess of They are also the only women after winning Wimbledon as a Cambridge, was especially galling. from Romania and Canada to 21-year-old. Yet Murray said: “It’s not the make it this far at Wimbledon. She beat another Czech toughest loss of my career; that However, sixth-seeded Kvitova opponent, Barbora Zahlavova was losing in the final here in 2012 has not been in a grand slam Strycova, 6-1 7-5 in the quarter- (against Roger Federer). semi-final since the 2012 French finals on Tuesday. Safarova, 27, “I’ve had a good run here at Open, and 23rd seed Safarova will beat Russian Ekaterina Makarova Wimbledon over the past few be making her first ever grand 6-3 6-1. years. Obviously it’s disappoint- slam semi-final appearance at the Kvitova and Safarova met ing for it to end like that.” 37th attempt. at Eastbourne, the Wimbledon Novak Djokovic, the man Halep, the third seed, came warm-up tournament, last Murray beat a year ago to end back from losing the first three month, with Kvitova edging a Britain’s 77-year wait for a men’s games of the match to trounce three-setter. Wimbledon champion, nearly last year’s runner-up Sabine “It’s going to be my third went the same way before restor- Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov (left) shakes hands with Britain’s Andy Murray after he won the men’s singles quarter- Lisicki 6-4 6-0 and continue the match against a Czech girl dur- ing order by digging himself out of final on day nine of the 2014 Wimbledon Championships at the All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon, Southwest great championship form that ing Wimbledon, which is unusual,” a hole to beat dangerous Croatian London, yesterday. Dimitrov won 6-1, 7-6 (4), 6-2. has seen her record career-best Kvitova said. Marin Cilic 6-1, 3-6, 6-7(4), 6-2, results in consecutive grand REUTERS 6-2 and set up a clash with Dimitrov. Canadian Milos Raonic, who They will face-off today, when have been excused for thinking it The top seed, who was play- ended the remarkable run of both will become the first women was Federer in his prime on the ing on Court One, admitted that 144th-ranked wildcard Kyrgios from their respective countries to other side of the net. the unfolding drama in Murray’s 6-7(4), 6-2, 6-4, 7-6(4). play in a Wimbledon semi-final. Comparisons with the Swiss match was an unwelcome The Australian’s efforts in sav- Of the last four standing in maestro appear to have weighed distraction. ing nine match points to subdue the women’s draw, only 2011 heavily on Dimitrov since he won “(There was) so much noise Richard Gasquet and then slay Wimbledon champion Petra the junior title here, but with Simona coming from the Centre Court,” Nadal finally caught up with the Kvitova has tasted grand slam coach Roger Rasheed and girl- the Serb said. teenager as Ranoic blasted down glory. She now faces fellow Czech friend Maria Sharapova now in Halep of The Murray contest was one his 39th ace to become the first Lucie Safarova. his corner, the Bulgarian looks Romania everyone at Wimbledon wanted Canadian man to reach the last A growing sense of disbelief ready to jump the queue of those celebrates to watch, Djokovic said, adding: four here since Robert Powell in settled over Centre Court and waiting to get their hands on after “I said to the chair umpire, ‘Let’s 1908. outside on the sun-baked hill, some major silverware. defeating just stop the match, put it live on With cracks beginning to show where thousands had assembled “Dimitrov is in a semi-final Sabine the big screen and let’s watch it in the top echelons of the men’s to watch on the huge screen, and he will say, why can’t I beat Lisicki of till they’re done. It’s going to be game, Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard as Murray’s imperious charge Federer or Djokovic and win the Germany in better for all of us’.” and Romania’s Simona Halep towards a second consecutive title title?” former champion Jimmy their quarter- Seven-times champion Federer heightened the sense of a chang- came off the rails. Connors, who was commentating final match may be 32 but will be eager to ing of the guard in women’s tennis Murray had looked impecca- for the BBC, said of the player who yesterday. prove that he can still teach the as both reached the semi-finals. ble in reaching the quarter-finals won the Queen’s Club grasscourt young guns a thing or two after he Bouchard, 20, beat Germany’s without dropping a set but found title last month. advanced to his ninth Wimbledon Angelique Kerber 6-3 6-4 while himself a set down and in deep “He played spectacular tennis semi-final with a 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-4, Romanian third seed Halep, 22, trouble after only 25 minutes today. It won’t get easier, so he has 6-4 victory over fellow Swiss continued her fantastic year to against 23-year-old Dimitrov. to lift his level again. I don’t think Stanislas Wawrinka. overcome last year’s runner-up Such was the quality of the 11th he is just satisfied with being in He will face 23-year-old Sabine Lisicki 6-4, 6-0. seed’s tennis that Murray could the semi-final.” REUTERS Contador ready to take on Froome

PARIS: If last year’s Tour de The defending champion has a Therapeutic Use Exemption could do about it,” Contador told France often resembled a tri- not had a brilliant season, how- (TUE) to use corticosteroids to a Spanish newspaper. umphant Chris Froome march ever, and his lieutenant Richie treat a chest infection in April, “It was a strange feeling being to Paris, the road to the Champs Porte has also struggled. something that was granted by on the podium as winners of the Elysees may be more unpredict- In addition Team Sky recently the UCI in controversial fashion. team classification. It’s one of able this time especially with faced off-road, doping-related Contador, who was stripped of the things that motivated me.” Alberto Contador (pictured) allegations that the International his 2010 Tour title after testing Contador has moved from his likely to be back in the hunt. Cycling Union (UCI) positive for a minis- hometown of Pinto to Switzerland, The Briton took control in has yet to clear. Froome cule amount of the shifting from quantity to quality the eighth stage in 2013 before won four stage races in banned anabolic agent in terms of training. trouncing his rivals in the moun- 2013 but this season clenbuterol, must do Like Froome he will rely on a tains and the time trials as he has only triumphed without key team mate strong team to help him through Spaniard Contador struggled to in the Tour of Oman Roman Kreuziger. the cobbled roads and the find the form that helped him win and Tour de Romandie The Czech rider, fifth mountains. the race in 2007 and 2009. and crashed in the last in last year’s Tour, is The fight between the top Although Froome should warm-up event, the out of the Tinkoff-Saxo guns could start before the usual receive unprecedented support as Criterium du Dauphine, team because he faces a battlefields of the Alps and the the Tour starts in Leeds - the sec- before finishing 12th. possible UCI investiga- Pyrenees as the 10th stage takes ond Grand Depart from Britain It will be a treacher- tion into his biological the peloton to La Planche des in eight years - that will count ous 2014 Tour for him as it fea- passport data from 2011 and 2012. Belles Filles - where Froome took for little when the event enters tures stretches of cobbled roads in Contador, though, seems to his maiden Tour win in 2012 - France. northern France, a tricky cross- be in the form of his life, having with four category-one climbs on Froome will rely on backing ing of the Vosges mountains and beaten Froome in the Dauphine the menu. from a strong team that includes only one time trial - a discipline in to finish second overall and also This is where the outsiders may Geraint Thomas and Bernhard which he surpasses all his rivals. winning the Tour of the Basque try to blow the race wide open - a Team Sky staff member prepares a bike before a training session in Leeds, Eisel although the Sky outfit have Froome’s health has also been country and Tirreno-Adriatico. move that was attempted by the yesterday. The Tour de France cycling race will start on July 5. decided to leave out 2012 cham- a concern as he toiled with a “Last year he dominated the Garmin Sharp team last year in pion Bradley Wiggins. back problem and benefited from Tour and there was nothing we the Pyrenees. REUTERS THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 30 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Pekerman plots Brazil’s downfall Colombia one of two sides to win all four games without the need for extra time

FORTALEZA, Brazil: In the different means. The pressure closest set of last 16 matches and tension which surrounds Algerian ever at a World Cup, only Jose every game the hosts play is pal- Pekerman’s Colombia were pable not only within the stadium, comfortable victors, sweeping but around the entire country. team returns aside a despondent Uruguay 2-0 By contrast, Colombia, hav- to cruise into the quarter-finals. ing lost star striker Radamel Now, though, comes the real Falcao to a serious knee injury, to hero’s test for ‘Los Cafeteros’ and their have played in a more care-free Argentine manager as he aims to manner which has allowed their welcome bring down a 200 million people flair players, particularly James, strong expectant nation in Brazil to shine. riding a wave of emotion that saw “Sometimes a team with a lot ALGIERS: Algeria’s World them squeeze past Chile into the of potential, if they don’t find Cup team returned home to a last eight. the result and they need to win, hero’s welcome yesterday after Another James Rodriguez- they can’t play so brilliantly,” their historic progress to the inspired victory over Uruguay Pekerman said of Brazil after knockout stages was ended by means Colombia are one of only beating Uruguay. Germany in extra-time. two sides in Brazil to have won all “So the competition becomes As they got off the plane, the four of their games without the interesting because a team with Desert Foxes were met by Prime need for extra time. less individual stars can disturb Minister Abdelmalek Sellal, who James has been the star, scor- the balance of the other team.” embraced the team’s Bosnian ing five of his side’s 11 goals, but Colombia are expected to coach Vahid Halilhodzic. Algerian that they have also only con- do more than merely disturb social media is abuzz with ceded twice speaks wonders of Brazil come Friday in the heat of demands that he stay on amidst Pekerman’s ability to strike a bal- Fortaleza. In stark contrast to his rumours of his departure. ance despite possessing an array opposite number on the Brazilian “Allahu akbar, Halilhodzic,” of talented young forward players bench Luiz Felipe Scolari’s reli- shouted fans at Algiers airport and an ageing defence. ance on feeding the emotions of as the team emerged, a chant Pekerman is now also level with his players, Pekerman’s strength repeated later on the streets of double World Cup winner Vittorio lies in his tactical prowess. the capital. Pozzo as the only coach to go nine He has already shown his The squad boarded a bus games unbeaten in open play. Colombia’s Argentinian coach Jose Pekerman (centre) takes part in a training session at the President Laudo flexibility in this competition painted green and white, with However, the 64-year-old’s bit- Natel Athlete Formation Center in Cotia yesterday. by switching from a one striker each player’s name daubed in ter exit with Argentina in 2006 on system that worked so well in red -- the three colours of the penalties to hosts Germany has the group stages to playing two national flag --, and toured the left him with unfinished business semi-final in 16 years thanks to bench to try and see the game out. the chance to banish those ghosts up front when he knew his side capital. at the World Cup. Roberto Ayala’s headed opener. The decision backfired as and repay his own country as would have to take the game to a Thousands of supporters Having shone in the group With his side leading with 20 Miroslav Klose equalised, the well as his adopted Colombia by dogged Uruguay. cheered them on, despite the stages and beaten Mexico in the minutes to go, Pekerman con- Germans prevailed on penalties, knocking out Argentina’s eternal A switch back to a five man blistering heat and the obliga- last 16 thanks to Maxi Rodriguez’s troversially removed playmaker and Pekerman swiftly offered his rivals from their own World Cup. midfield is expected as Pekerman tory daytime fasting during the wonder strike, Argentina looked Juan Roman Riquelme and left a resignation. Brazil and Colombia have looks to frustrate Brazil and feed Muslim holy month of Ramadan. well set for their first World Cup 19-year-old Lionel Messi on the Eight years on Pekerman has arrived at the same point by very on their anxiety. AFP State television broadcast a special programme dedicated to the team entitled “Thank You Heroes.” The only Arab country repre- Slain Colombian star sented at the World Cup, Algeria lost their last 16 game 2-1 with all the goals at Porto Alegre’s Beira-Rio Stadium coming in extra-time. Escobar honoured in Rio AFP

RIO DE JANEIRO: is part of the peace process” in Campaigners using football to a country scarred by decades of ‘Happy’ Blatter underpin social development violence, Griesbeck said. yesterday met in Rio to honor Arriving back in Colombia after hails World the memory of Colombian foot- his own goal Escobar had said “life baller Andres Escobar, slain 20 doesn’t end here”. years ago to the day. Griesbeck said streetfootball- Cup success “Today, we are celebrating world was designed to show his Andres’ legacy,” said Juergen memory is a guiding light. RIO DE JANEIRO: FIFA Griesbeck, a German former aca- Some Colombian fans at this President Joseph Blatter demic moved by the shooting of year’s World Cup in Brazil have declared yesterday that the Escobar to create footballstreet- carried pictures of Escobar to World Cup in Brazil was a suc- world, a non-profit urban culture games. The team has reached the cess, saying that fears of anti- movement now present in some quarter-finals for the first time tournament protests had not 60 countries. and faces Brazil in Fortaleza on materialized. Griesbeck had just married a Friday. Alejandro Arenas, coordi- “I am a very happy man today,” Colombian woman when Escobar nator of Colombian NGO Football Blatter said at a sport manage- was gunned down days after his and Peace, said: “Escobar’s death ment seminar in Rio de Janeiro. own goal against hosts the United caused so much pain. “It is a success of the country, States knocked his team out of Children pose for a picture before “But despite the violence in of this game,” he said. the 1994 World Cup. His death the monument of late Colombian Colombia people kept playing The World Cup has escaped has been widely blamed on the footballer Andres Escobar in football as a way to transcend it. the massive protests that fury of Colombian drug lords at Medellin, Antioquia department, “Escobar inspired us to use marred last year’s warmup losing a gambling fortune because Colombia yesterday. football as a tool constructing tournament, the Confederations of the country’s World Cup exit. social identity, reflecting the Cup, when hundreds of thou- Various other theories exist as the Escobar case as a touchstone. country.” Andres Wiesner, a sands of people swarmed the to why Escobar was killed outside “We started out as a response Colombian movie director spe- streets to denounce the record a nightclub in Medellin, which to the thousands of violent deaths cializing in football’s unique role $11 bn spent on hosting the was also hosting a commemora- of young people which occur every as a social bond, also addressed a event. France’s forwards Antoine Griezmann and Karim Benzema (left) run tion of his life Wednesday. year” in Colombia. gathering which was treated to a The protests have been much during a training session at the Santa Cruz Stadium in Ribeirao Preto, Griesbeck said he set up “Football is not separate from samba-style rendition of ‘Hasta smaller during the World Cup, yesterday. streetfootballworld in 2002 as his social responsibility -- it must Siempre’, a Colombian soccer drawing a few hundred demon- response to urban violence, using be embedded in society. Football chant to honor Escobar. AFP strators still angry that the coun- try spent so much on stadiums instead of hospitals, schools and public transport. “I would like to address my I’m no miracle-worker, says Keane compliments to the people of Brazil. They accepted this World LONDON: New Aston Villa had no problems in being an bad ones as well,” added Keane, Neil Lennon stepped down as Randy Lerner said in May he Cup,” Blatter said. assistant manager Roy Keane assistant. who played under two of English manager of the Glasgow giants, wanted to cut his ties with the Chile around 10 people pro- refuses to “promise miracles” but “From my experience so far football’s legendary managers in said the chance to combine both club after they finished 15th in the tested against FIFA outside hopes to give the Birmingham alongside Martin I am a bit more Brian Clough and Alex Ferguson club and international football Premier League, just five points the seminar’s building, the club boss Paul Lambert every hands-on with the players, which during his spells at Nottingham had been a key factor in his deci- above the relegation places. “They head of football’s governing support to get the team back to I have enjoyed,” he said. Forest and Manchester United. sion to join Villa. (Villa) have had a difficult two or body asked: “Where is the winning ways, he said yesterday. “It is a different role with Villa “I’ll keep my job description “I have thought about it. I’ve three years but that is part of the social contest?” Former Manchester United but I can adapt and I think my pretty simple. I’m here to help had three years off, I should be challenge,” Keane said. “I am aware The tournament was a success midfielder Keane, who will com- experience as a manager will the team and get results. ready,” he explained. the club is for sale but that did not thanks to high television ratings, bine his Villa role with his exist- help because it is tough being a “I have some good experiences “It was the whole package: that put me off.” Meanwhile, Lambert stadiums that are “works of art” ing job as deputy to Republic of manager. as a player and a manager and I know Paul, Villa is a top club, insisted he’d have no problems and zero positive tests for doping, Ireland manager Martin O’Neill, “Hopefully I will make Paul’s obviously he (Lambert) thinks I that I could continue working working with Keane.“I wouldn’t he said. has been out of club football since job easier. Hopefully I am some- can bring something to the party. with the Irish team. bring in Roy for the sake of his “Let’s cross fingers, hoping that being sacked as boss of Ipswich one Paul can trust; (I can) talk to “I am not promising miracles “You weigh all these things up name, I think he can bring some- the last games will take place Town in January 2011. the players and staff. but hopefully an improvement.” and I kept coming up with the thing to the table and I’m looking with the same pattern, the same Keane, who was also previously “I have some good experience Keane, who had been linked same conclusion. Villa remain forward to working with him,” he atmosphere,” he said. manager of Sunderland, said he from my playing days -- some with the vacancy at Celtic after up for sale after US-based owner said. AFP AFP THURSDAY 3 JULY 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.comq 31

Brazilian man names son ‘Zidane Thierry Henry Barthez’

RIO DE JANEIRO: A seven- year-old Brazilian boy has been named after so many French football stars that he struggles to pronounce his own name. He is called Zinedine Yazid Zidane Thierry Henry Barthez Eric Felipe Silva Santos. The little Zidane, as he is sim- ply known, can pronounce his first three names without a prob- lem but stumbles afer that. “I don’t know them yet. I never learned them,” Zidane told the G1 news website. Even though France defeated Brazil in the 2006 World Cup, the boy’s father said he decided to pay tribute to three of the team’s stars: Barthez, Zidane and Henry. The name Eric is a tribute to French forward and Manchester Brazilian national soccer team head coach Luiz Felipe Scolari moves training dummies during his team’s training session at the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) Training Centre, United legend Eric Cantona also known as Granja Comary, in Teresopolis, Brazil, yesterday. Brazil will face Colombia in the FIFA World Cup 2014 quarter final match in Fortaleza, tomorrow. RIGHT: France’s forward while Felipe pays homage to Karim Benzema (front) speaks to assistant coach Guy Stephan during a training session at the Santa Cruz Stadium in Ribeirao Preto. Brazil’s manager Luiz Felipe Scolari. Silva Santos is the last name of the family, which lives in a suburb of Maceio, the capital of the northeastern state of Alagoas, where his father flies the flags of Brazil and France US coach Klinsmann eyes together. His father, Petrucio Santos, said he became passionate about France when he visited two daughters who live in the European country a few years ago. 2018 World Cup in Russia “I was won over by the friend- liness of French people and I decided to learn the language to German looking forward to the challenges ahead after Brazil exit be able to speak it without sound- ing ridiculous if I visit again,” the shopkeeper said. SALVADOR, Brazil: Jurgen year before opponent,” teenagers such as Julian Green, But when Zidane was asked Wilmots to target Klinsmann (pictured) has a 2016 which he said. who scored against Belgium, is whether he liked his name, he called on his United States play- includes the “No mat- bright, says Klinsmann. “We will said: “No. I would have loved ‘unbalanced’ ers to toughen their mental Centennial ter what find ways to introduce new young to be named Luiz Gustavo,” the approach as he begins to plot Copa their name players and develop our program Brazilian midfielder. AFP Argentina the long road towards the 2018 America, is, we cannot to develop the game at every World Cup. staged in just wait too level,” he said. “I think we’ve done Klinsmann and the United the United long to start a lot of work. Valencia fire SALVADOR, Brazil: Belgium States exited Brazil 2014 on States, and our game. “We’re excited about building a coach Marc Wilmots is tar- Tuesday after losing 2-1 to the Olympic “I think next Olympic team cycle which is coach Pizzi after geting a “lack of balance” in Belgium in a thrilling last 16 game Games in Rio there is a huge for us going to Rio de Janeiro Argentina’s ranks as the two which exploded into life during de Janeiro. little bit in two years (for the Olympics).” half season sides prepare for their World extra-time. Beyond too much The burgeoning popularity of Cup quarter-final showdown on The Americans, who had con- those events respect football in the US, reflected in Saturday. founded pre-tournament predic- looms the 2018 when it record television viewing figures MADRID: Six-time Spanish The Red Devils advanced to the tions by qualifying from a group World Cup in comes to the and huge crowds at World Cup champions Valencia have sacked last eight of the World Cup for the which also contained Germany, Russia, which big stage -- viewing events, also augurs well, coach Juan Antonio Pizzi after first time since 1986 on Tuesday Portugal and Ghana, ran Belgium Klinsmann why not play Klinsmann believes. just six months in the job, the with a battling extra-time victory to the wire and almost equalised said he plans to stick around for. them eye-to-eye? I don’t know “The way the people the fans club announced yesterday. over the United States. as they fought back from 2-0 But before then, Klinsmann how many years that takes to embraced their team and the Valencia, who finished eighth That Belgian campaign 28 down. wants to see his team adopt a change but it’s something we have sport over the last couple of in the first division last season, years ago ended in the semi-finals, While Klinsmann was delighted harder mental edge. to go through. years will only continue to grow, said they fired the 46-year-old when an Argentina side inspired with his team’s performance, the While basking in the success “The players have got to real- especially with a league which is Argentinian to give “stability by Diego Maradona defeated them former German international of their Brazilian campaign, ise they have to take it to the getting stronger and stronger, to the future sporting plans” of 2-0 in the Azteca Stadium. wasted no time in looking forward Klinsmann believes his players opponent.” and especially with the competi- the team, which has been sold Parallels with that meeting to the challenges ahead. are guilty of showing too much Klinsmann is confident how- tions we have ahead of ourselves,” to Singapore businessman Peter have been drawn in Brazil, not A busy schedule sees the US respect to opponents. ever that the foundations have Klinsmann said. “There’s a lot to Lim. least because Argentina so far play in the CONCACAF Gold “We are still in the process of been laid. build on going forward.” “The Valencia board, after have been heavily reliant on cap- Cup regional tournament next learning to take our game to the The future, as represented by AFP analysing all the possibilities at tain Lionel Messi. this complex and crucial point of Wilmots, who has yet to expe- time for shareholders, has taken rience defeat in a competitive the decision to dispense with match since he took over at the the services of Juan Antonio helm in 2012, spoke admiringly Neymar happy to settle Pizzi as coach,” the club said in a of Argentina but is confident the statement. South Americans can be attacked. “Valencia Football Club wish “I saw three central defenders, the best of luck to Pizzi and his two fullbacks who play very high, coaching staff, who have worked (Angel) Di Maria and (Ezequiel) for substance over style with the team with professional- Lavezzi, (Gonzalo) Higuain and ism and dedication.” (Lionel) Messi,” said the 45-year- TERESOPOLIS, Brazil: last thing we are trying to do. We in midfield by Paulinho. However, Pizzi, a former striker with old coach. Neymar yesterday insisted are not necessarily here to pro- the coach did also try out a Valencia, was only appointed to “But I also feel there is a lack that he is happy for Brazil duce a spectacle. We are here to 3-5-2 formation, with defender the coaching job on December of balance in that team. to win ugly as long as it gets run to the end, until we are tired, Henrique replacing striker Fred 26 to replace Serbian Miroslav “For once we’re not favourites them past Colombia in Friday’s and come out as winners. and Maicon replacing Daniel Djukic, who also survived just six but I don’t mind. Once you’re in World Cup quarter-final in “I would be happy to do noth- Alves at right-back. months before being axed. the quarter-finals the only thing Fortaleza. ing in this game if Brazil won 1-0. The chances of Brazil lining up Singapore’s Lim took a con- that matters you want to go all The occasional moment of gen- That would be marvellous.” in such a fashion against Colombia trolling stake of the financially- the way and that is what we want ius from Neymar aside, Brazil Earlier, Neymar came through are minimal, but Neymar insisted stricken club after his bid to buy to do.” have rarely sparkled at these training with no ill effects, con- he is ready to adapt to any tacti- a 70 percent stake was unani- Wilmots meanwhile said he finals but they remain in con- firming that he has overcome cal changes. mously accepted in May by the believed Belgium would cause tention to win the title after last the knee and thigh knocks that “I can fit into any formation. club’s foundation. problems for Argentina, and weekend’s agonising victory on he suffered against Chile. We have an excellent coach Valencia bosses had been look- insisted he would not focus exclu- penalties against Chile in the “I am fine. You can relax,” whose job it is to decide how the ing for investors since principal sively on stopping Messi. last 16. he told journalists after a ses- team will play. With or without a creditor Bankia refused back in “We won’t only be watch- “You can’t always enjoy your- sion in which coach Luiz Felipe centre-forward, we have to play December to refinance the com- ing Messi -- we’ll deal with this self and win 4-0 or 5-0. Football Scolari tried out different for- football.” bined 306m euro ($530 m) debt Argentina team as a whole,” he nowadays is so difficult, so even, mations ahead of the clash with Left-back Marcelo withdrew the club and its foundation had said. that the team who is most com- Colombia. from training early but the Brazil with the bank. “Switzerland did very, very well. mitted on the pitch ends up win- Scolari is likely to make just the camp confirmed that the Real Lim, 60, has a net worth of And we play the same way from ning,” the Barcelona forward told one change to his starting line- Madrid player had no problem $2.05bn, making him Singapore’s forward to back. I don’t know how a press conference at the Brazil up for the match at the Castelao and a full squad travelled north Brazilian striker Neymar attends fifth richest man, according to they will adjust to our game. team’s base in Teresopolis. Stadium, with the suspended to Fortaleza yesterday. his team’s training session. business magazine Forbes. AFP “I don’t want a show. That’s the Luiz Gustavo set to be replaced AFP AFP Thursday 3 July 2014 5 Ramadan 1435 Volume 19 Sport Number 6115 Price: QR2

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DOHA: Qatar launched cooled being developed to use on training fan zones for football fans wish- pitches and spectator walkways ing to watch 2014 FIFA World that will provide connectivity Cup matches currently taking between various locations in 2022. place in Brazil. Meanwhile, the Brazil 2014 The move is part of the coun- Fan Zone at Katara, has piloted try’s research efforts to develop the cooling technology that will efficient cooling technology to allow for large public gatherings counter the searing heat of the of spectators during the tourna- summer in its stadiums, where ment in 2022 and for many other summer temperatures average events in the future. around 40 Celsius, when it hosts Both facilities signal the the 2022 FIFA World Cup. progress being made towards and Qatar was awarded the right to demonstrate the plans to cater for host the competition in December a summer World Cup are fact on 2010 and the decision was based not fiction. on its plans to stage the event in The fan zone at Aspire, the size June-July using air-conditioned of a full scale football pitch, has stadiums to combat the heat. been designed to test the cooling Qatar has developed a small, technology capabilities for train- solar-powered prototype stadium ing sites and facilities in Qatar seating 500 during the bid process during the 2022 FIFA World Cup. but wants to develop more effi- For the use of the World Cup, cient technologies ahead of 2022. the interior has been designed in Two of those are the Brazilian line with traditional Qatari herit- World Cup fan zones at Katara age including Majlis seated areas. and Aspire Zone Foundation. While temperatures outside In line with a promise to deliver rise up to a scorching 40 degrees, an amazing fan and player experi- the fan zone is cooled to a tem- ence at the 2022 FIFA World Cup perature below 30 degrees Celsius Qatar, the Supreme Committee during the scheduled match for Delivery & Legacy (SC) is times, a challenge Qatar han- working with stakeholders across dled well, according to Executive Qatar, including Aspire Zone Director of Communications Hassan Al Thawadi, Secretary General of Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) yesterday speaking to journalists in Doha about the open- Foundation, to develop open-air and Marketing for the Supreme air cooling technology used at the two fan zones set for the 2014 FIFA World Cup at Katara and Aspire. Aspire Zone Foundation chairman Hilal Al cooling technology. Committee for Delivery & Legacy Kuwari was also present. This ground-breaking technol- Nasser Al Khater. ogy is currently being tested at “We had a challenge, which is two sites as the journey towards to try different cooling types and air, high level jet nozzles to Fan Zone, Abdullah Hosni, said. 2022 World Cup, the system will and welcomes all research and 2022 continues. technologies for public places. restrict prevailing winds and air- The Supreme Committee be further enhanced and refined insight from other organisations. To show the partnership Thanks to God, I can say that controlled modifiable dampers. for Delivery & Legacy said in a as other technologies are devel- Part of the testing programme between both organisations, we succeeded in this mission. Fans watching the matches on statement that the application of oped. Research and development has been to establish the most Aspire Zone Foundation chair- The temperature inside (the fan the weekend said the experience various cooling technologies in the for cooled open-air facilities in cost effective form of cooing tech- man Hilal Al Kuwari joined SC zone) is about 13 degrees less than was comfortable overall. fan zone will help its engineers Qatar began in 2004, with Al Saad nology ahead of the 2022 FIFA Secretary General Hassan Al the temperature outside. We had “The temperature outside develop an understanding of how Stadium becoming the first open- World Cup Qatar. Both sites have Thawadi this week to experience this challenge and we managed to ranges from 48 to 50 degrees with to create the perfect energy effi- air football stadium in Qatar. been well attended to date, with both facilities. respond to it”, he said. a high level of humidity. Here the cient system ahead of the 2022 Aspire Zone Foundation has football fans in Qatar getting a The Aspire Zone Foundation A range of methods were used temperature is suitable for us to FIFA World Cup in Qatar. worked closely with academics glimpse of what the 2022 FIFA Fan Zone has attracted fans to to cool the area, including dedi- watch the match. The tempera- The committee stated that over and students at Qatar University World Cup Qatar will look and experience the cooling technology cated ventilation units for cooled ture is good”, one visitor to the the coming years ahead of the to develop the cooling technology feel like. THE PENINSULA Scolari calls psychologist for nervy FIFA says no proof Brazil ahead of Colombia test of match-fixing RIO DE JANEIRO: FIFA serious allegation.” Fischer SAO PAULO: Brazil coach initial planning. I have classes Carlos Alberto, Brazil’s World said yesterday it had received reiterated that so far none of Luiz Felipe Scolari has sum- and I couldn’t be here for long,” Cup captain in 1970, said the no evidence of corruption the 56 matches played at the moned the team psychologist Brandao told CBF TV. Selecao should save their tears involving Cameroon as the World Cup had given cause for for an extra session with players “I speak constantly with the until after they have won the final World Cup took a breather concern. after crushing World Cup pres- players. We speak to each other in Rio de Janeiro on July 13. from football ahead of the “As mentioned on various sure left some of them in tears, on WhatsApp, we speak on the “The team is crying when quarter-finals. occasions, FIFA has carefully a report said yesterday. phone, we communicate by email,” they’re singing the anthem, when A spokeswoman for the monitored all 56 games to date Sports psychologist Regina she added. they get hurt, when they shoot governing body said FIFA and continue to monitor,” she Brandao made an “urgent” and The stark emotions of Brazil’s penalties! Come on... Stop crying! had requested all details of said. unscheduled visit to their training players have caused much debate Enough!” he said. communications between “So far we have found camp yesterday, ahead of Friday’s and concern over whether they “They say it’s the pressure from Germany’s Der Spiegel maga- no indication of any match quarter-final with Colombia, are psychologically equipped to playing at home. But they should zine and notorious Singapore manipulation on the betting Folha de Sao Paulo said. deliver a home World Cup win. have been prepared for this. They match-fixer Wilson Perumal. market in relation to any of The visit came after panicky Star forward Neymar cried knew they would go through this. Perumal yesterday denied the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil nearly crashed out against during the national anthem at Where’s the psychologist?” he had predicted the result matches.” Chile before squeezing through the tournament-opener against “This shows the team is not of Cameroon’s 4-0 defeat to The Cameroon Football on penalties, with Neymar, goal- Croatia, and tears have never 100 percent ready to face a World Croatia last month, which is Federation (FECAFOOT) said keeper Julio Cesar, David Luiz been far away since. Cup. When you are prepared to now the subject of an investi- its ethics committee was look- and captain Thiago Silva all seen “They cry during the national win, everything happens auto- gation by Cameroon’s Football ing into Perumal’s allegations, crying. anthem, they cry at the end of matically. When you’re not pre- Federation. reported by Der Spiegel, that Scolari called Brandao on extra-time, they cry before and pared, you cry when the result is “We have requested from he forecast the 4-0 victory Monday and yesterday, she held after the penalties,” said technical not positive. This is what’s hap- Der Spiegel all the communi- by Croatia and that a player a meeting with all the players and director Carlos Alberto Parreira. pening now.” Scolari has stressed cations with Perumal and any would be sent off. Brazilian striker Neymar (left) the technical team, according to World Cup legend Zico said a that Brazil are a young team, other material they claim to But Perumal issued a strong and head coach Luiz Felipe Folha. She did not speak individu- lack of self-control could damage while goalkeeper Cesar, who is 34, possess in order to prove the denial yesterday, saying he was Scolari attend their team’s ally with players. Brazil’s chances on the pitch. said he had every right to show allegations they have made in “shocked and amazed” at the training session at the Brazilian The psychologist, who has “There’s a lack of focus during his emotions. public,” FIFA spokeswoman report of his actions, insisting Football Confederation (CBF) worked with Scolari for more the game, which can hurt Brazil. “I never hid that I am an emo- Delia Fischer told reporters. he had only given an “informal Training Centre, also known as than 20 years, did not comment There are players who get emo- tional person. This match proves “The article has put the assessment” of the Cameroon- Granja Comary, in Teresopolis, on whether the meeting was tional and forget the game. They that if you have a dream you must integrity of the FIFA World Croatia game with a journalist. Brazil, yesterday. called urgently. need to have more control,” he chase it,” he said, after the shoot- Cup in question which is a AFP “The visit formed part of our said. out with Chile. AFP