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Deputy Emir receives envoys’ credentials Emir, PM arrive Two human in Washington WASHINGTON: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani arrived in Washington last evening on an official visit trafficking to the US. The Emir is accompa- nied by the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani. QNA gangs busted Sabra named Syria Officials swoop on 28 hideouts opposition chief

BEIRUT: The Syrian National 141 runaway workers held Coalition named veteran dissi- dent George Sabra as caretaker DOHA: Law enforcement offi- Department of the ministry set leader of the main opposition cials have unearthed several up a team to conduct raids on grouping yesterday, following hideouts of runaway domestic the hideouts after tip-offs and the resignation of Ahmed Moaz workers in different parts of the sought legal clearance from the Al Khatib. country and busted two gangs Public Prosecution for its planned Sabra “was assigned today to of human traffickers who were action. carry out the functions of the harbouring these workers in Swoops by the Department’s head of the Coalition until elec- those places. sleuths led to the arrest of the tions for a new president,” one The first gang consisted of 18 gang members as well as the run- of the Coalition’s main constitu- persons from Southeast Asian away workers. ent groups, the Syrian National countries. They were running The gang members, according The Deputy Emir and Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with the Ambassador of Kosovo, Council, said in a statement. as many as 22 hideouts together to the ministry statement, con- Rajab Boya, at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. Sheikh Tamim received the credentials of ten new ambassadors AFP housing some 49 runaway maids fessed during questioning that to Qatar. and 39 drivers. they used to ‘smuggle’ the maids The other gang comprising 19 and drivers from their ‘sponsors’ persons from different nationali- homes for a fee and move them ties had an Arab national as its out of Doha. lynchpin. The Director of the This gang of traffickers was Department, Brigadier Nasser Al Crackdown on water, power wastage soon managing six hideouts in dif- Sayed, said the above acts that ferent places where 29 runaway are alien to the Qatari society, DOHA: Qatar’s utility distribu- air-conditioners to make sure The announcements were made He said a survey has revealed maids and 24 other workers amounted to human trafficking tors said yesterday they planned they are energy-efficient. by the chairman of Kahramaa, that 70 percent of the respond- were given shelter. According to under the country’s laws. The to employ and train national Similarly, discussions are also Essa Hilal Al Kuwari, at an event ents have accepted the rationali- a press statement issued by the matter has been referred to the workforce and arm them with being held with the ministry to yesterday to mark the first anni- sation drive of Kahramaa. Ministry of Interior, all those ille- Prosecution for action. judicial authority to enforce a introduce light bulbs that help versary of a utilities rationalisa- Al Kuwari said that as part of gally sheltered in these hideouts Al Sayed repeated the warn- law to control waste of electric- save energy and replace the exist- tion campaign launched by the the drive plans are afoot to reduce that the law enforcement officials ing in the ministry statement that ity and water. ing bulbs and tubes with them. Corporation. The event was held 20 percent of electricity and 35 zeroed in on and unearthed, were people should not employ or shel- The Qatar General Electricity Government buildings will not at the Doha Sheraton where the percent of water consumption per runaway workers and police com- ter runaway workers and should and Water Corporation, popu- be spared and soon it would be chairman of the Administrative capita. The energy minister said plaints had been lodged against report to the authorities immedi- larly known as Kahramaa, said announced how energy efficient Control and Transparency that water consumption per cap- them by their sponsors. ately if one is sighted. that once a trained workforce is they are and what steps are Authority, H E Abdullah bin ita in the country was the high- The ministry statement said He said his Department will in place, they would be required to needed to make them so. Hamad Al Attiyah, and Energy est in the world. “Being a major the gangs were also employing continue its combing drive in an conduct frequent raids and make From now, while awarding ten- and Industry Minister, H E Dr energy exporting country doesn’t these workers, without elaborat- aggressive manner and smoke sure that the precious resources ders to construct buildings for Mohamed bin Saleh Al Sada were mean that we should waste water. ing. It is possible these workers out and catch runaway work- are not wasted in any way. schools and mosques in the coun- also present. The law to enforce It is, therefore, our responsibility might have been engaged in work ers wherever they are holed up. The Corporation said dis- try, it will be made sure the new rationalisation was passed in 2008 to save energy and water and look illegally and were sharing their There is no escape from the law, cussions were on with the structures are built in a away that (law number 26 of 2008), with Al to improve our alternative energy earnings with their traffickers. said the official. Ministry of Environment to they help save up to 37 percent Kuwari saying it was going to be resources,” Al Sada said. The Search and Follow-Up THE PENINSULA develop new specifications for electricity and 4 percent water. effectively implemented. THE PENINSULA

Kerala family Passive House eyes $900m Qatar Stars League from Saudi offers tickets online KOCHI: One family in Kerala, the Keyis of Kannur district, may have struck DOHA: The Qatar Stars Tickets are available online for gold — the state has taken League (QSL) yesterday became the forthcoming prestigious the up with the federal gov- the world’s first football league Heir Apparent Cup. Hani Ballan, ernment the issue of about to offer fans the chance to pur- Deputy CEO of the Qatar Stars $900m due to them, being chase tickets online with print- League, praised the innovative held by the treasury of ing options at home or receiving system and the work gone into Saudi Arabia. them on a smartphone. delivering this project. The state is urging the Smart Gate is the latest devel- He said: “Smart Gate, our new federal government to inter- opment to the QSL’s world lead- ticketing initiative underpins vene to ensure the transfer ing ticketing system, which gives exactly the sort of excellence of the money, amounting, in football fans control of how they the QSL strives to achieve. Our the 1950s, to SAR1.4m, which purchase and receive their match supporters are crucial and we has been lying in the Saudi tickets and offers a dramatically are committed to making their treasury for the past nearly improved ticketing experience for experience of QSL as enjoyable six decades. supporters. as possible. I believe this cus- Speaking to IANS, Fans can log on to tickets.qsl. tomer friendly system does just P Naseer, Director of com.qa to purchase tickets. that.” the Minority Welfare Once registered, fans can select He added: “We will be the first Department, said that the their seat for any match, see the league in the world to offer this Keyi family had, for over ten view they will have from that experience for every game and years, been trying to gain The first Passivhaus (Passive House) villa opened at Barwa City in Mesaimeer yesterday. The house has an seat and purchase their tickets every club, which is something I possession of the amount. ultra-low energy and super-insulated airtight design that requires little energy to cool, resulting in a reduced securely online. am very proud of. A lot of people “The Kerala government carbon footprint. Report on page 6 (KAMMUTTY VP) Fans can also choose how they have worked very hard to ensure has now appointed a special wish to receive their tickets. this idea became a reality.” officer for this, to take up the Options include an email which Abdulrahman Al Dosari, Chief matter with the centre. The allows for tickets to be printed at Commercial Officer of QSL, centre will, in turn, have to home or which can be opened in said: “The Smart Gate project speak to the Saudi Arabian Palestinian prisoner ends hunger strike a smartphone and used directly proves the Qatar Stars League authorities. The Keyi fam- at a match. is constantly looking for ways ily has been trying for many RAMALLAH: A Palestinian The fast by Samer to serve eight months for alleg- The email once opened in the to improve the experience we years, but little headway has prisoner held by Israel has Al Issawi, a 32-year-old from edly violating bail conditions for smartphone can be scanned at the offer our fans. Our supporters been made,” Naseer said. agreed to end an on-off hun- a suburb of Jerusalem, had an earlier release, after which designated Smart Gates situated are the lifeblood of the game and Naseer said the matter was ger strike yesterday which has stoked weeks of street protests he will be freed to his Jerusalem at QSL grounds, allowing seam- any service which improves their something he studied as part lasted for over eight months in and concerns by Israel that his home, Qadura Fares, head of the less entry into the stadium. Fans match-day experience is worth of his doctoral studies. IANS exchange for an early release, death might lead to mass unrest. Palestinian prisoner organisation, may also choose to collect their investing in.” Continued on page 7 Palestinian officials told Issawi agreed on a deal brokered told Reuters. paper tickets from the stadium THE PENINSULA Reuters. by Israeli and Palestinian officials REUTERS on the day of the match. Continued on page 7 TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Emir sends message to Libya

The Charge d’Affaires of Qatar in Libya Nayef Abdullah Al Emadi with the President of the General National Congress of Libya, Dr Mohammed Yousef Almagarief, in Tripoli yesterday. The Qatari envoy handed over a letter from the Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani to Almagarief on relations and other issues of common concern. Education expo opens tomorrow

DOHA: The Minister of and Media Office at SEC Aisha There will be a number of semi- Education and Higher Education Jassim Al Kuwari called on stu- nars held during the exhibition and Secretary-General of the dents to attend the exhibition as to discuss the process of sending Supreme Education Council it provides them with an oppor- students to study abroad in coun- (SEC) H E Saad bin Ibrahim Al tunity to find out about the con- tries such as the UK, France or Mahmoud will inaugurate the ditions they need to meet to join US. “Education for All” exhibition a particular school or university. Parents will get an overview tomorrow. It will also help the student of how they can admit their stu- The exhibition will take place make a decision on their educa- dents to schools online, a new fea- at Qatar National Convention tional preferences, the Director ture that can help save time and Center, Qatar News Agency of Communication said. effort for families. Schools will (QNA) reported yesterday. The exhibition will also allow get an opportunity to promote The Ministry of Interior, teachers to communicate with their services to the parents who Kahramaa and a host of inde- the Supreme Education Council attend the exhibition. pendent and private schools in and the public to discuss educa- ‘Education for All’ will take Qatar will take part in the exhi- tional services and how they can place tomorrow, Thursday and bition. A number of officials in the be improved. Saturday from 10am to 8pm. SEC Ministry of Education in addition The exhibition will kick off invites all families and students to to experts and professionals in the with each school providing a brief visit the exhibition to get a closer education field will attend the introduction on its history, educa- look at the educational services conference. tional programme and its admis- provided in Qatar. Director of the Communication sion process. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Interfaith conference brings top scholars to Doha DOHA: The best practices in Interfaith Dialogue. The award (DICID) Dr Ibrahim Salih Al followers of different religions, Nuaimi, noting that the DICID tools in addition to cultural and interfaith dialogue and role of worth $100,000 will be given away Nuaimi said at a press confer- said Al Nuaimi. Elaborating the actively participated in the UN creative activities. religious scholars in resolving to an institution or individual for ence on Sunday. four topics of the conference, Al Climate Change Conference Nasr Abdelaziz Al Nasr, conflicts across the world will outstanding contribution in the Some 500 delegates from 75 Nuaimi said that the first one in Doha in December last year president of the Alliance of be discussed at the 10th Doha field of interfaith dialogue. countries, including religious will focus on research and aca- underlining the vital role of reli- Civilisations, Miguel Angel Ayuso Interfaith Dialogue Conference The winner will be announced leaders and scholars, research- demic excellence in the teaching gions in preservation of the envi- Guixot, deputy president of politi- that will begin at the Ritz- at the beginning of the ers in the field of comparative and study of interfaith relations ronment and the planet. cal council for inter-religious dia- Carlton hotel today. conference. religion and representatives and in the dissemination of aca- The third topic - conflict res- logue at Vatican City, Dr Ali Al The Minister of Justice The meeting this year will be of interfaith institutions and demic research in addition to olution and peace - will discuss Quradaghi, general secretary of H E Hassan bin Abdullah Al discussing a range of issues under organisations will take part in development of school and uni- the role of religious scholars in the International Islamic Scholars Ghanim will open the three-day four major topics — Academic, the event. versity curricula to encourage addressing these issues. Union and Claudio Gregorio conference. Justice, Conflict resolution and This conference is a continua- interfaith understanding. The fourth topic will highlight Epelman, executive director of The inaugural session will peace and Media culture, chair- tion of the series that started in The second topic — Justice — the vital role of media in inter- Latin American Jewish Congress see the presentation of the first man of Doha International 2003 to develop a common under- will include economic, social and faith dialogue through publica- will address the opening session. Doha International Award for Centre for Interfaith Dialogue standing for dialogue between environmental aspects, said Al tions and various communication THE PENINSULA

Banks warn Spotlight falls on green cities of fraudulent Arab smart city solutions on show emails, sites DOHA: Qatar’s key plans to Vice President, Urban Matters DOHA: Banks here have develop environment friendly and Public Security, SAP. warned customers not to dis- cities were discussed at the Many high profile city leaders, close online any information Middle East Arab Future City urban planners, developers, sus- about their accounts, credit Summit which opened in Doha tainability experts and investors, cards or automated teller yesterday. The summit will also along with the world’s largest machine (ATM) PIN num- discuss sustainable technologies technology firms are participat- bers if they receive emails for urban development. ing at the summit. purported to have been sent Rashed Saed Al Naimi, The event is a platform for the by banks with such requests. Director, Al Rayyan Municipality public and private sector to dis- Banks said they are not inaugurated the event organ- cuss the strategies and challenges sending any such mails to cus- ised under the patronage of involved in developing smart tomers although they (mails) Municipality and Urban Planning grids, integrated transport sys- have their official logos. The at St Regis Doha. tems, sustainable buildings and mails provide links to an online Features of the Qatar National ICT infrastructure. Cities are application form that the cus- Master Plan which would be becoming larger and more com- tomers are asked to fill. soon launched were discussed plex than ever, yet future cities The emails ask custom- by Ali Al Khayat, Senior Urban will be cleaner, more sustainable, ers to fill the form as details Planning Researcher, Ministry of and will offer an enhanced quality are required to upgrade their Municipality and Urban Planning. of life to their citizens, explained personal data. “The emails are The plan outlines spatial devel- Lynn C Reyes, Services Lead, forged,” Al Sharq reported yes- opment plan for the cities, town Smarter Cities - Middle East terday quoting banking indus- centres and urban settlements. and Africa Region, IBM Global try sources. Its planning policies enable sus- Business Services, in her pres- Banks in Qatar upgrade per- tainable planning decisions and entation on Smarter Cities for sonal data of customers only development applications, said Al Smarter Growth. physically and in the bank Khayat. Participants are also showcas- premises by asking them to The two-day conference is held ing their smart city solutions. The come over specifically for that to discover new environment BMW 6 Series Gran Coupé and purpose. friendly technologies, where many video presentations featuring the The banks said customers companies are showcasing their ongoing development and breadth who fill such forms and pro- smart city solutions. of BMW i8 attracted many par- vide their confidential bank Qatar’s future development ticipants at the conference, the account, credit card, ATM and is dependent on its effective fuel efficient plug-in Hybrid which Senior Urban Planning Researcher at the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning, Ali Al Khayat, discussing other details will be responsible embrace of sustainable technol- is expected to hit the Middle East features of Qatar’s national masterplan at the Arab Future Cities Summit 2013 held at St Regis Hotel, yesterday. in case of any problem. ogy driven development strate- market in 2014. QASSIM RAHMATULLAH THE PENINSULA gies, says Sean Patrick O’Brien, THE PENINSULA

Indian Embassy closed tomorrow Advisory Council holds weekly session DOHA: The Embassy of India will remain closed DOHA: The Advisory meeting, the approved services, and decided a draft law regulating nurs- tomorrow on the occasion Council held Monday its agenda was read out, and to refer it to the Legal eries, and decided to refer it of Mahavir Jayanti, a press regular weekly session then the Council endorsed and Legislative Affairs to the Services and Public release issued by the mission under its Speaker H E its previous minutes. Committee to study it and Utilities Committee to said yesterday. Mohammed bin Mubarak The Council reviewed submit a report thereon to study it and submit a report THE PENINSULA Al Khulaifi. a draft law regulating the the Council. thereon to the Council. At the outset of the practice of Hajj and Umrah The Council also reviewed QNA

Fahad Esmaeil Darman from Ooredoo presents the donation cheque to members of the organising committee. Ooredoo sponsors free medical camp

DOHA: Ooredoo presented the organisers of the 12th Free Medical Camp with a significant donation, to sup- port the costs of the 2013 event, as well as for future camps, the company said yesterday. Organised by the Indian Islamic Association Qatar (IIAQ), the Indian Doctors Club (IDC) and the Indian Medical Association’s Qatar Chapter (IMA), the camp was attended by more than 5,000 low income workers who do not have easy access to healthcare facilities. Thousands of people received free consultation, diag- nostic tests, eye tests and health education at the camp, which was organised at the Tariq bin Ziyad Independent School for Boys. Sponsored by Ooredoo, the camp was held in coordina- tion with the Supreme Council of Health (SCH), Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), and the Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC). “Ooredoo sponsors a wide range of community health initiatives to support every section of society. The Free Medical Camp has become an important annual fixture that protects the health of low income expatriates in Qatar, and we’re delighted to work with the network of volunteers and healthcare organisations that make it possible,” Fatima Sultan Al Kuwari, Director, Public Relations, Ooredoo, said. “We hope our sponsorship will enable the camp to con- tinue in the future,” she added. Ooredoo works on a wide range of corporate social responsibility initiatives throughout the year, including healthcare programmes. THE PENINSULA

TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Experts on Iran Qatar gets first ‘passive house’ and Saudi meet Villa consumes 50 percent less electricity and water; families to move in by autumn this year at QU seminar DOHA: Qatar University (QU) DOHA: Green building con- and the Barcelona Center for cepts in Qatar have got a major International Affairs (CIDOB) boost with opening of the first hosted a one-day workshop with Passivhaus (Passive house) villa international experts, examin- in the country yesterday that ing the relations of Iran and claims to consume at least 50 Saudi Arabia with Afghanistan percent less electricity and and Pakistan. water compared to a conven- The roundtable seminar titled tional villa. “Exploring Iran and Saudi Arabia’s The villa was built at Barwa interests in Afghanistan and City in Mesaimeer, along with a Pakistan: Stakeholders or spoil- conventional villa under a joint ers – a zero-sum game?,” was project — Baytna — launched by co-hosted by the Gulf Studies pro- Qatar Green Building Council gramme at the College of Arts & (QGBC), Kahramaa and Barwa Sciences. The seminar looked into Real Estate Group (BRE) last CIDOB’s policy research project year. entitled “Sources of Tension in A passive house (Passivhaus Afghanistan and Pakistan: A in German) boasts an ultra low Regional Perspective”. energy, super insulated airtight The CIDOB project explores building design that requires little the main sources of tension in energy for space cooling, reducing Afghanistan and Pakistan, against its environmental footprint. the backdrop of the withdrawal The opening ceremony was of international troops from attended by a large gathering Afghanistan, and regional actors’ comprising senior officials of the roles in relation to these. It maps Ministry of Environment, QGBC, their interests; produces specific Barwa and Kahramaa and rep- policy analysis useful for UN, EU resentatives of the partnering and European government stake- companies. holders, as well as Afghan and Under the Baytna project, two Pakistani policymakers; and clari- 225 sq m villas were constructed fies the type of regional, compre- side by side for a compara- hensive approach required of the tive study on the benefits of the international community in this Passivhaus design in Qatar’s hot strategic region. and arid climate. One of a series of meetings being The Passivhaus villa was Kahramaa President Issa Hilal Al Kuwari (second right), opening the ‘Baytna’ Project yesterday. Deputy Group CEO at Barwa Real Estate Co Ahmed Abdullah held this year on the issue, the QU designed with all the comforts of (right), President of Qatar University Dr Sheikha Abdulla Al Misnad, Chief Executive Officer of Msheireb Properties and Chairperson of Qatar Green Building seminar focused on Iranian and modern living while consuming at Council Eng Issa M Al Mohannadi (second left), Barwa Chairman Hitmi bin Ali Al Hitmi (third left) and other officials were also present. KAMMUTTY VP Saudi Arabian perspectives on least 50 percent less energy, water Afghanistan and Pakistan, and and operational carbon dioxide how these play out, given the role emissions. partners in Baytna to be launch- projects,” said Amato. The target energy and water consumption. heater, thermo-plaster insulation, of ideology, national and foreign “This is a landmark day for ing Qatar’s first Passivhaus, a pilot was to keep the additional capi- After a period of monitoring to LED lights with lighting control, policy aims and geo-strategic con- Qatar’s construction industry. project for more environmentally tal costs for the Passivhaus within establish a regular base for energy recycled water irrigation and siderations in Iranian and Saudi With the opening of Qatar’s first friendly and energy-efficient real 15 percent to 20 percent over the and water consumption patterns, water retainers, recycled water Arabian strategic policy in the Case Study Passivhaus, we have estate around Qatar.” conventional villa’s costs. an intense educational and opera- flushing, low consumption sani- region. “The seminar was a great paved the way for a more sus- Work on the project began in A six month period of test- tional training will be delivered to tary ware and recycling waste opportunity to get together some tainable future for generations to August 2012 and construction of ing and commissioning will now both families. bins and compost for food wastes. of the best minds in the region to come. By testing energy efficient the two villas was completed in commence to compare the villas’ The passivhaus villa differs The conventional villa is have a frank and informative dis- solutions, we support Qatar’s eight months. baseline performance without from the conventional villa in a totally relying on electricity from cussion on these important issues,” shift from a carbon economy to a The passivhaus villa cost occupants. After this period, the number of features. The former Kahramaa, while a major part Gulf Studies Director Dr Abdullah knowledge-based economy in line QR1.74m approximately, about two villas will be occupied by two uses cement based plastered of the energy needs of the pas- Baabood said. with the Qatar National Vision 16 percent more than the cost similarly-sized families, with at walls, acrylic based paint, ceramic sivhaus is met by some 130 solar Senior Research Fellow 2030”, said QGBC chairman Eng of the conventional villa, accord- least one child, for further moni- flooring, electrical water heaters, modules supplied by Qatar Solar Associate at CIDOB and Director Issa Al Mohannadi. ing to Dr Alex Amato, head of toring for one year. The two fami- standard lights, more cooling, Technologies (QSTec). for the CIDOB project Emma Eng Ahmed Al Abdulla, Deputy Sustainability at QGBC. lies, to be selected by Barwa, are potable water for flushing toilets, “We still cannot say how much Hooper said: “This was an excel- Group CEO at Barwa Real Estate “About 10 percent of the cost expected to move into the three- standard sanitary ware and one of the electricity requirements lent and most informative round Group, said: “Today our ambitions was only for insulation to stop bedroom demos by autumn this waste bin. can be met by solar power. The table seminar, with a strong pro- are translated into actions on the heat from coming into the inte- year. The passivhaus villa has resin idea is to export back the excess filing of local perspectives and a ground; it is a pleasure and a great rior of the villa. The cost can Occupants will not be given any flooring with recycled compo- electricity to the Kahramaa grid,” wide-ranging exchange of views.” success for Barwa and all the be further reduced in future prior training on how to minimise nents, less cooling, solar water said Amato. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA QMA launches bus service

DOHA: Qatar Museums facilitate the discovery of the rich Islamic Art, and we congratulate Authority (QMA) yesterday and diverse offerings of QMA's QMA on this exciting endeavour.” launched the Mathaf Shuttle contribution to this growth.” This complementary shut- Bus service to operate between “This iconic bus will connect tle bus service project consists the Museum of Islamic Art two of the greatest highlights of two light buses of 25-35 seats (MIA) and Mathaf: Arab that tourists and residents have each that will pick up tourists, Museum of Modern Art, allow- at their fingertips. We are looking visitors, as well as MIA and MIA ing tourists and residents to forward to welcoming new, first Park patrons from allocated bus connect the two world-class time visitors, as well as repeat stops at MIA and Mathaf. These museums. guests,” she added. buses will operate in both direc- Sponsored by Occidental Stephen Kelly, President and tions from Wednesday to Sunday Petroleum of Qatar (Oxy Qatar), General Manager of Oxy Qatar, from 11am to 5pm. Schools may the free to the public service said: “One of the focus areas of also benefit from this shuttle bus aims to increase awareness and Oxy’s social responsibility pro- service. patronage of Mathaf, whilst add- gramme is to promote the arts This free service will also high- ing value to the MIA experience. and culture here in Qatar. Our light and connect the incredible “We are thrilled that Oxy has support of the Mathaf Shuttle Bus cultural developments taking supported this unique initiative,” Service exemplifies that commit- place in Qatar, facilitate the dis- said Michelle Dezember, Mathaf ment. Oxy is proud to play a role covery of two of the country’s cul- Acting Director. “Qatar's cultural in expanding access to the collec- tural landmarks, and encourage landscape is developing at a rapid tions and educational activities at public engagement. pace and this free service will both Mathaf and the Museum of THE PENINSULA Fans try out their football skills at the Qatar Foundation—FC Barcelona Fan Zone. FCB Fan Zone invites football buffs

DOHA: Football enthusiasts will take place at Awsaj Academy’s Along with her eight-year-old son are once again invited to cele- football pitch. Fan Zone attendees Martin, she will be watching the brate the spirit of competition by will again be invited to enter a live game amidst all the fanfare attending the Qatar Foundation ‘Golden Goal’ contest where they at the Allianz Arena tomorrow. and FC Barcelona (FCB) Fan attempt to guess the correct time After the game, Domville and Zone event this evening, where of the last goal scored in the live her young son, who is a massive they will watch the much-antic- game. FCB fan, will return with the ipated Champions League semi- The lucky contestant whose FCB team to Barcelona where final first leg tie between FCB guess is closest to the right they will be given a tour of the and Bayern Munich. answer will win a set of tickets famous Camp Nou stadium and Qatar Foundation’s partnership to Barcelona to watch FCB play FCB museum. with FCB is dedicated to encour- a live game at Camp Nou. There Qatar Foundation’s partner- aging youth across the world will be a number of other givea- ship with FCB has succeeded in to tap into their potential and ways for fans and snacks will be capturing the global community’s passions through the pursuit of provided for all. At the last Qatar interest. Its Fan Zone generates excellence within numerous fields, Foundation Fan Zone 25-year-old a heady atmosphere as hundreds such as sports and education. Ishak Thandankolil, from India, of enthusiastic supporters come Before settling down to watch a correctly guessed the time of the together to watch two top football live screening of the big match, first goal and went home with teams battle it out. And tomor- Fan Zone visitors will be given two tickets, courtesy of Qatar row’s game is guaranteed to be the opportunity to participate in Foundation. action-packed, as it paves the way a selection of fun-filled football- Another ecstatic contest win- for the exhilarating prospect of a themed competitions. ner is Lucia Domville from New Champions League Final between Visitors are encouraged to York City who won the lat- FCB and Real Madrid, should Officials of Qatar Museums Authority and Occidental Petroleum of Qatar during the launch of the free shuttle bus arrive as early as possible to the est Qatar Foundation ‘Passion both sides prevail. service between the Museum of Islamic Art and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, yesterday. event, which kicks off at 8pm and Drives Our World’ competition. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 HOME / MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Kahramaa honours winners of green contest

DOHA: The Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) yes- terday honoured the five win- ners of its recent competition for the best energy-efficient buildings in the country. Ras Gas headquarters, Al Majaz building number 3, Ministry of Business and Trade headquarters and house of Abdul Razaq Abubakar Al Muslih won the first prize in industrial, com- mercial, governmental and resi- dential categories, respectively. FROM LEFT: Executive Director of QEERI, Dr Rabi Mohtar, Dr Emily Pidgeon of Conservation International, These buildings have incorpo- Research Scientist at QEERI, Dr Rodrigo Riera, Moza Al Naimi of Qatar Science and Technology Park, and QFI rated a number of energy saving Youth Ambassadors Muhammed Al Muhannadi and Sahar Al Ansari at the Blue Carbon panel discussion. methodologies and techniques matching with the required standards and specifications. The prizes were given away at the first anniversary of the The Chairman of the Administrative Control and Transparency Authority national campaign for conser- H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah presenting an award to Mohammed Experts take part in vation and efficient use of water Rashid Mubarak Al Naeimi of Al Zubara Elementary School. The Minister of and electricity – Tarsheed - Energy and Industry H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada is also present. which was held at Sheraton Doha. Kahramaa also honoured winners of painting and photog- Al Shaima Secondary School was the best conservation idea went raphy contests on energy conser- the winner in the photography to Dream Laundry. QFI Earth Day meet vation at schools. contest. The Chairman of the Mohammed Rashid Mubarak Qatar 2022 Supreme Administrative Control and Al Naeimi of Al Zubara Committee, QNFSP, Qatar Transparency Authority H E Elementary School and Zaba Foundation, Ministry of Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, Spotlight on blue carbon and coastal conservation Ali Saeed Ali AI Azba of Fatema Endowment and Islamic Affairs, the Minister of Energy and bint Waleed School won the first Qatar Sports League, Barwa, Industry H E Dr Mohammed DOHA: Qatar Foundation plastic pollution in the Midway occupy 2 percent of the planet and prize in painting in the elemen- Qatar University, Qatar Green bin Saleh Al Sada and Kahramaa International (QFI) yesterday Islands (www.midwayfilm.com) account for 50 percent of carbon tary and preliminary group, Building Council and Unilever President Eng Essa bin Hilal Al celebrated Earth Day with the followed by a Q and A online capture,” said Dr Pidgeon. respectively. were also honoured for their Kuwari were present at the cer- “Climates Change, Can You?” session with the filmmaker and The event continued with stu- Asma Hamoud Al Mannai of support to Tarsheed. Prize for emony. THE PENINSULA conference focusing on blue car- renowned environmental activist, dent showcases, in which four bon and coastal conservation. Chris Jordan. groups of students from local Bringing together local and glo- Experts from Conservation high schools “pitched” their bal environmental organisations, International (CI) and Qatar environmentally-focused ideas in Q22 to unveil Safety robot on duty educators, and students from high Environment and Energy a competition to win seed money schools across Qatar, the confer- Research Institute (QEERI), to further develop their projects. workers’ charter ence raised awareness and urged along with QFI Youth Students from Al Wakra individuals, communities, organi- Ambassadors, Muhammed Al Independent Secondary School tomorrow sations, and governments to take Muhannadi and Sahar Al Ansari, for Boys, Al Resala Independent action to protect our planet. then participated in a panel dis- Secondary School for Girls, and DOHA: Qatar 2022 Supreme “With the Environment as a cussion on the importance of Omar bin Khuttab Independent Committee (Q22) will pillar of Qatar’s National Vision mangroves and sea grass in the Secondary School for Boys pre- announce its “workers’ char- 2030, Qatar has shown its com- effort to combat climate change. sented ideas ranging from re- ter” and preparations for mitment to sustainable growth,” Leading the panel was Dr Rabi using, rather than the current workers to stay safe and said Maggie Mitchell Salem, QFI’s Mohtar, Executive Director of system of burning, palm tree healthy during construction Executive Director. “In hosting Qatar Environment and Energy fronds for wood, handicraft and of venues for the 2022 FIFA Earth Day Qatar, QFI brings Research Institute (QEERI). silk to re-purposing and recy- World Cup at the Institution young people together with the Panellists included Dr Emily cling used plastic materials. The of Occupational Safety and organisations that are furthering Pidgeon, Senior Director of winner of the seed money will be Health (IOSH) Middle East the environmental commitment Conservation International’s announced later this week. Annual Conference here of Qatar and supporting the excit- Marine Climate Change In addition, this Earth Day tomorrow. ing environmental initiatives of Programme; Dr Rodrigo Riera, in Qatar, QFI and its partner Qatar 2022 Supreme the next generation.” Research Scientist at the WeVideo launched a global, col- Committee Technical Director In the special event at the Department of Biodiversity at laborative story-telling space Yasir Al Jamal said: “The safety, Student Center in Hamad Bin QEERI; and Moza Al Naimi, focused on climate change. The security, health and dignity of Khalifa University (HBKU), QFI Research Executive-Marine at year long campaign allows ordi- all workers are of paramount convened experts, educators, Qatar Science and Technology nary citizens from across the importance to the Qatar 2022 students and panellists to engage Park (QSTP). world to record their personal Supreme Committee. We look with environmental and climate- The panel discussed the impor- message on climate change, remix forward to a long term part- change issues and celebrate Earth tance of coastal areas, such as the their voice with those of other nership with IOSH to ensure Day 2013. mangroves and sea grass in car- contributors, and submit a short a lasting legacy of worker wel- Focusing on coastal conserva- bon sequestration. video that could be submitted to fare standards in Qatar.” A safety robot deployed by a contracting company near the Doha tion and blue carbon, the event “Coastal areas like sea grass, film festivals across the globe. THE PENINSULA Exhibition Center to alert commuters about ongoing road works in the kicked off with a short film on salt marshes, and mangroves THE PENINSULA area. QASSIM RAHMATULLAH

Buying tickets Egypt says Russia will not easy: Official Continued from page 1 help revive nuke drive He added: “It has never been easier to buy tickets for matches. CAIRO: Russia will help Egypt “We spoke on this issue and The fact we chose to launch this develop its nuclear power pro- agreed that the Russians will initiative to coincide with an gramme, Trade and Industry help us in conducting studies at event as prestigious as the Heir Minister Hatem Saleh said the Dabaa nuclear station and to Apparent Cup highlights the yesterday, signalling that the develop the experimental reactor belief we have in the merits of Islamist-led state will press in Anshas,” Saleh said. this system.” ahead with its quest for atomic “There will be a Russian del- Al Dosari said the new move energy. egation to lay out the details of would help in easier communica- Egypt froze its nuclear pro- these issues as soon as possi- tion between QSL and the fans. gramme after the 1986 nuclear ble,” he added. Russia’s Energy “This is a way forward for us disaster at Chernobyl, but in Minister Alexander Novak was when we communicate with our 2006, the government of deposed quoted by Russian news agencies fans. The more games we go to, President Hosni Mubarak on Friday as saying Egypt had the better a relationship we can announced it would revive the proposed that Russia participate build with them,” Al Dosari said. programme. in construction of a nuclear power “We can find out what they Five months before Mubarak plant and in development of the like and what they want and was swept from power in country’s uranium deposits. eventually reward them. There is February 2011, his administra- Mursi met Russian President another aspect. The Qatar Stars tion announced plans for an Vladimir Putin last week during League has heavily invested in the international bidding process an official visit to Russia. Saleh vision of 2030 and is helping the to build Egypt’s first nuclear denied that Egypt had sought environment. power station at Dabaa near the financial support from Russia This system takes away the Mediterranean coast. to ease a severe economic crisis, need to print tickets and saves The agreement on Russian sup- which saw its foreign reserves paper and trees,” Al Dosari port was reached during a visit drop to a critical low of $13.4bn pointed out. to Russia by President Mohamed in March, less than three months’ THE PENINSULA Mursi last week. worth of imports. REUTERS

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Continued from page 1 family has been able to effectively the Saudi treasury would now be “The history of this treasure is stake its claim to the money, with worth about $900m. Under Saudi like this: 136 years ago, a member proper records,” Naseer explained. law, if the family gets the money, of the Keyi family purchased land As per Wakf rules, any prop- it will have to use it there itself. in the Makkah, and built a rest- erty dedicated to Allah can be The sum is enough to build resi- ing place for Haj pilgrims,” Naseer claimed by none other than the dential properties for accommo- said. person himself or his descendents. dating the faithful who arrive in “In the 1950s, when the author- The Keyi family is thus entitled the holy land,” Naseer said. ities, as part of modernisation of to the money, the director of the Since 2001, the Keyi family has the infrastructure in and around state minority welfare depart- been trying to claim the money. Makkah, acquired this property, ment said. The then A K Antony govern- they set aside as compensation “According to current esti- ment in the state had entrusted SR1.4m. No one from the Keyi mates, the deposit that is with the matter to an official. IANS TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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WO months after inconclusive elections, Italy is firmly moving towards breaking a deadlock that has cost the country dearly. The biggest sign of it came Atrocities such as Boston bombing Tafter President Giorgio Napolitano was elected to a second term after accepting a last-minute appeal from party leaders to run again. Soon after his reelection, Napolitano delivered a tough message to the country’s warring parties – are hard to tackle, gun crime isn’t that they must agree to form a government without delay. In his inaugural address to parliament after an unprecedented BY GARY YOUNGE re-election, the 87-year-old head of state attacked the parties support for gun control would violate the Murray, whose son was shot dead on his for their endless conflict and failure to reach agreement since second amendment “right to bear arms”. grandmother’s lawn in a Chicago suburb, an election in February. He told the parliamentarians only OBODY knows why he did it. While the authorities denied the still does not enjoy much in the way of “social a broad coalition was possible in the current circumstances But that hasn’t stopped them unconscious Dzhokhar his Miranda slumber”. She has become so accustomed and they must swiftly form a government capable of winning Nspeculating. In retrospect, from rights (informing him that he has to gunfire at the weekends she could call confidence votes in both houses of parliament. the testimony of those who knew him, the right to remain silent), some the police and tell them what calibre there were signs. But nobody could have Republicans insisted he be tried as “an was used and the direction of the shoot- Napolitano is in a position to get tough with the parties in predicted anything on this scale. What enemy combatant” – the legal aberration ing, just by listening in bed. Put bluntly, the interest of the nation because he has been elected with influences came to bear? What motives and moral abomination that paved the a significant section of America lives a huge majority – winning 738 votes, winning the backing of could there be? What would drive a way to Guantánamo Bay. Their devo- in constant terror and Congress just parties led by former premier Silvio Berlusconi, caretaker young man to wilfully murder as many tion to constitutional rights, it turns decided they should continue to do so. prime minister Mario Monti and outgoing Democratic Party innocents as possible, leaving the coun- out, is partial; their embrace of guns is In the hierarchy of suffering and try both vulnerable and mournful? complete. The NRA even opposes leg- security in America there are, in short, leader Pier Luigi Bersani, easily surpassing the 504 votes I pose these questions not of Dzhokhar islation banning gun sales to people on places where you are supposed to be safe needed in Parliament. He has emerged from the turmoil Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old chief surviv- the terrorist watchlist, meaning those – marathons, suburban schools, cinemas with his power greatly enhanced compared to the previous ing suspect in the Boston bombing saga who can’t board a flight can still lock – and places where you are apparently few months, when as an outgoing president his arms were that left three dead and injured more and load. entitled to no such expectation: particu- constitutionally tied. There is another than 170 last week, but of Adam Lanza, As John Oliver, a UK comedian on the larly poor black and Latino neighbour- President reason the president will succeed who shot 20 children and six teach- Daily Show, noted: “One failed attempt hoods. Only in a handful of exceptions ers in Newtown, at a shoe bomb and we all have to take – when the killers are white, American- Napolitano has in his efforts to break the deadlock: Connecticut in off our shoes at the airport. Thirty one born Christians (the media has devel- the parties have become tired of the December. The school shootings since Columbine and no oped no default anxiety about them), the emerged from stalemate, with each side sticking contradictions change in the regulation of guns.” dead mostly white and the murders in the turmoil stubbornly to its positions. The greatest threat in the political The ramifications of this neglect can- large numbers – do shootings stand a responses to the not be overstated. More than 85 people chance of attracting mainstream politi- with enhanced A continuation of the stalemate to US citizens is will have disastrous consequences as two tragedies and – including eight children – are killed cal attention. Even then, only rarely, and not one-off terror the issues they with guns on an average day in America even then, as last week proved, to little powers and will the country is passing through an raise could not be and more than twice that number are tangible effect. be able to force economic crisis, which would require attacks, but the more glaring or injured. Even taking into account the The uncomfortable reality is that parties to form tough and unpopular decisions. The menace that obscene. fact that most gun deaths are suicides, there is precious little that can be done new government will have to combat comes with mass On Monday the that’s still several times the death toll of to prevent an atrocity such as that in a government. the longest recession in more than Boston Marathon 9/11 every year. Boston. “We’ve had a lot of successes gun-ownership. was bombed. Numbers alone, however, don’t quite in degrading the ability of al-Qaida to two decades and tackle public debt Within a day of do the cognitive dissonance justice. launch massive attacks,” Democratic that will reach 130.4 percent of gross domestic product this suspects being The effect of a terrorist attack such congressman Adam Schiff, a former year, more than twice the euro-region limit. A coalition identified, politicians who defended as Boston cannot be measured in the federal prosecutor and member of the government will be in a better position to face the economic the status quo on guns were calling for number of slain alone. Terrorism cre- house intelligence committee, told the challenges than government which is a weak and lacks the “increased surveillance of Muslims” and ates a culture of fear and suspicion Washington Post. “But we’ve had a pro- majority. A consensus among parties on the reform measures addressing “loopholes in the immigra- that spreads beyond those immediately liferation of one-off, foreign-born plots tion system” (Tsarnaev and his brother, affected and impacts upon our under- and self-radicalised individuals … We’re will be tough, but they will be guided by a consensus that there Tamerlan, who was killed in a firefight, standing of risk. It means no one feels going to have to recognise a certain vul- is no alternative to forming a coalition government. grew up in Kyrgyzstan). safe, anyone is a potential suspect and nerability, and adopt a determined view Italy’s credibility improved during Monti’s tenure, but On Wednesday the Senate declined to danger could be anywhere. “Terror is that we will go on as we have, taking the former EU commissioner’s mix of spending cuts and tax pass even the most anaemic gun control first of all the terror of the next attack,” prudent precautions, but not changing increases pushed the nation deeper into its fourth recession measures in response to the Newtown writes Arjun Appadurai in Fear of Small the way we live.” since 2001. The economy contracted 2.4 percent in 2012 as shootings. Twenty children, aged Numbers. “Terror … opens the possibility Conversely there is a great deal between six and seven, are slaughtered that anyone may be a soldier in disguise, that can be done to change the way unemployment remains close to a two-decade high amid in school and the American polity takes a sleeper among us, waiting to strike at Americans die daily. Gun rights advo- falling household and business confidence, as well as shrinking five months to decide do nothing. Unable the heart of our social slumber.” cates insist the gun-control measure domestic demand. Even if a new government is formed, its to break the filibuster limit, it didn’t The trouble is this is precisely the cul- that had the best chance last week, life is expected to be short. According to experts, it might last even come to a vote. Hiding behind the ture that many Americans have lived in which demanded background checks between one and two years, if it doesn’t face serious threats to National Rifle Association’s (NRA) talk- for years. It’s estimated that in Chicago for guns sold online and at gun shows, ing points, gun rights senators cloaked 20-30 percent of the children have would not have prevented Lanza’s crime. its survival. But Italy badly needs a government now • themselves in the constitution, insisting witnessed a school shooting. Carolyn THE GUARDIAN The other side Quote of Ballot in Iraq the day PART from low turnout, the and that also include pockets repre- the dictatorship are yet to be realised. That is why Prime Minister Nouri Al elections seem to be an senting the minority vote in the south The government, however, claims that Maliki’s call that Iraqis should come out exercise undertaken in political of the country. Around 14 million Iraqis Iraq is now a better place to live in and in droves to cast their ballot is signifi- Aexigency, rather than one to are eligible to vote for more than 8,000 the security forces have been largely cant. He rightly says, “all those who are Nothing in the free usher in popular representation. That candidates competing for 378 seats in successful in eradicating the remnants afraid for the future of Iraq and afraid is so because sectarian and linguistic provincial councils. of Al Qaeda — and the like. Likewise, of a return of violence and dictatorship trade agreement identities are too strong to be ignored, Though this is the second time that it boasts of its sovereignty as it has should fight it out by casting ballots.” and Iraqis have not really come out of the Iraqis are queuing up to vote since been able to send the foreign troops This vote will, indeed, come to test with the United that kaleidoscopic prism. The country the fall of Saddam Hussein, enthu- packing, and boosted its own security not only the resilience of the Iraqis but and its vote bank are clearly split in siasm is widely lacking. People are edifice, which includes the police and also cast a verdict on the future politi- States will harm three constituencies of Shia, Sunni and sceptical over the affairs of the state, the armed forces. cal stability of the nation — a decade - or even have the Kurds that also come to represent the and they complain that the government Notwithstanding the successes that after it overthrew a dictator and a year prevailing status quo. has not been able to deliver. Lack of the new dispensation had achieved in after US troops pulled out. Whatever potential to harm With reports of widespread violence basic amenities and soaring unem- the last couple of years — in terms of may the outcome of poll, it’s time to in the run-up to the election, the gov- ployment, coupled with an eroding nation-building and fighting terror, it magnify the task of creating a pluralistic - Europe’s cultural Karel De Gucht ernment has been forced to postpone infrastructure, is what irks the people has not yet been able to beat parochial society in Iraq. diversity. European Union Trade polls in several of the constituencies, who say that the fruits of overthrowing tendencies. Khaleej Times Commissioner TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 How do you spell Singapore without ‘LKY’? LKY built the tiny Southeast Asian island into one of the world’s wealthiest nations with a strong, pervasive role by the state and no patience for dissent.

BY JOHN O’CALLAGHAN In online chatrooms, letters to state-linked newspapers and at hey crammed into an the “Our Singapore Conversation” art cafe in Singapore sessions, they are pressing for and pulled no punches, answers from the ruling People’s deriding authoritar- Action Party (PAP) which is doing ian officials who ruled more to listen but struggling with Twith an “iron fist” and complain- how to change after five decades Miniature models of Lee Kuan Yew along a shopping street in Singapore. ing that government ministers in power. with million-dollar salaries were Despite the new climate of debate, the outcome illustrates With the PAP under pres- out of touch. open criticism, there is still why speculation may be over- sure to listen, the year-old “Our One woman, a middle-aged pro- some trepidation about speak- blown about a split in the ruling Singapore Conversation” is fessional, got nods of agreement ing out in front of journalists. At party or major shifts in policy assuming greater resonance. when she said modern Singapore’s the recent “conversation” ses- when LKY is no longer around. In a Singaporean twist, the dia- founding father, Lee Kuan Yew, sion, the organisers asked not to “They still have this pretty logue about the role of the state had done great things but that identify the participants so they much authoritarian kind of mind- is organised by the government at new ways were needed from cur- could talk freely without being set,” said Kumaran Pillai, a busi- venues such as The Connoisseur rent leaders still practicing a “do- intimidated by the presence of a nessman and former chief editor Concerto, a boutique cafe where as-I-say style of parenting”. foreign reporter. of The Online Citizen, a popular about 50 people from diverse Singapore remains regimented LKY’s long-standing openness public affairs website. backgrounds recently gathered. but the unusually frank criticism to foreign workers clashes with “I don’t think the split would Crowded around low tables, at the recent gathering, part of the current mood and detractors happen so soon. The main reason they tucked into a buffet dinner a government-run national “con- decry his paternalistic and stern Singapore’s former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew. is a lot of PAP cadre members, and then engaged in a feisty chat versation” about the city state’s ways, including defamation law- grassroots members and the elite about the PAP listening but not future, reflects the reality that suits against critics. are vested in the system and they really changing and about well- this is no longer the era of Lee But his legacy as Singapore’s That adjustment is already the way ahead, there are internal aren’t going to let it fall apart just paid officials being out of touch Kuan Yew. first prime minister for 31 years happening, senior officials say, differences over what approach to because Lee Kuan Yew has passed with anxiety over public transport LKY, as he is widely known, and then advisor emeritus is not with LKY leaving the current take, senior officials say. away.” and home prices. built the tiny Southeast Asian in doubt. leaders to set policies without him Some of those divisions were on The government has taken “They don’t take the train, they island into one of the world’s Last August, rumours spread pulling the strings. The pace of display in parliament in February steps to restrict immigration, don’t take taxis, they don’t live in wealthiest nations with a strong, that LKY was gravely ill or change is the big question. over a government document that cool the property market, build HDBs,” said one woman, refer- pervasive role by the state and no had died. When he disproved Hit by voter discontent in envisioned the population swelling up infrastructure and broaden ring to the state-built Housing & patience for dissent. the chatter by appearing at the 2011 and again in a by-election by as much as 30 percent by 2030, social safety nets. But it did itself Development Board apartments Now 89 and in declining health, National Day parade, the flag- in January, the PAP must walk largely due to more foreigners, to no favours with the population where most Singaporeans live. LKY has receded from the pub- waving crowd erupted into cheers. a fine line in pacifying the pub- maintain economic growth. white paper which sent pub- “So how do they know?” lic and political scene, leaving the In February, he was hospital- lic’s concerns without abandoning “I have very serious reserva- lic anger into overdrive and, for Lee Kuan Yew, who continues government of Prime Minister ised when an irregular heartbeat policies that have created a finan- tions about the white paper,” PAP many, reaffirmed the PAP’s repu- to espouse the need for immi- Lee Hsien Loong, his elder son, interrupted the flow of blood to cial powerhouse where stability member Tin Pei Ling said during tation for prescriptive policies. grants and scolds Singaporeans to deal with economic and social his brain. But he turned up at and an ease of doing business are the five-day debate. “I just want more opposition for not having enough babies, is challenges roiling the country of a forum a month later and took magnets for investors and multi- Inderjit Singh, also from the voices,” said Brendan Mok, a also seen as out of touch as citi- 5.3 million people. the stage with Paul Volcker, national companies. PAP, said: “Our past decade of university student with a dragon zens challenge the government’s “The time has come for a the former chairman of the US “We have to work in a more rapid population growth has tattoo on his arm. “At the same top-down approach and demand younger generation to carry Federal Reserve. open way. We have to accept more already created too many prob- time, I don’t feel the opposition their voices be heard. Singapore forward in a more diffi- Replying to questions about of the untidiness and the to-ing lems which need to be solved first is solid enough for anything that With characteristic bluntness, cult and complex situation,” LKY US-China relations, Europe’s woes and fro-ing, which is part of nor- before we take the next step.” could deliver positive change. But he summed up his own legacy said in 2011 as he resigned from and Asia’s future, LKY showed mal politics,” Prime Minister Lee During LKY’s time, it was very we do want more debate.” in the book Hard Truths to Keep the cabinet after the ruling party his intellect remains intact and told the Washington Post. rare for PAP politicians and civil Mok and his friend Ron Ho, Singapore Going, published in suffered its worst election result powerful. But his speech was slow “It is a major change, of course, servants to publicly voice any dif- who both voted for the opposition 2011, just before the election that in history. and sometimes difficult to under- which we hope we will be able to ference of opinion. But the new in 2011, said the priority was to led to his retirement. Saying they feel inundated by stand. Many of his answers were navigate safely over a period of scope for dissent extends only so narrow income inequalities and “It’s irrelevant to me what foreign workers and priced out of short and trailed off. time and not suddenly.” far. address concerns about housing, young Singaporeans think of me,” their own homeland, Singaporeans Volcker prompted nervous While the PAP’s majority in In the end, no PAP member good jobs and living costs. he said. “I’ve lived long enough to are angry. And with the hugely laughter from the crowd when parliament has shrunk to 80 of 87 voted against the white paper and “A lot of Singaporeans aren’t know that you may be idealised respected figure of LKY retired he said: “Singapore is going to elected seats, few expect the oppo- it passed by a 77-13 margin. Singh happy and one of the reasons is in life and reviled after you’re from the political stage, they are have to adjust to Lee Kuan Yew at sition to prevail in the next elec- was not present for the vote. because there’s a lot of status dead.” no longer hesitant to show it. some point not being the guide.” tion in 2016. But as the PAP charts Despite the unusually heated anxiety here,” said Ho. REUTERS Fault lines between countries and cultures Myanmar’s winds of

BY FOUAD AJAMI fixed identities and whole, intact worlds, and we find instead the change blow unevenly he world, in all its tan- shaking up of continents, the gled webs, will be read intermingling of peoples and into the Boston bombing ways. BY DESMOND TUTU newspaper censorship has Tsuspects. For me, the earliest evidence also been put away; the print- For some, the Tsarnaev broth- of the foreign birth of the bomb- n Myanmar, the word “kular” ing presses are whirring, and ers are Chechen avengers, young ers was not their features, as we is an insult that you hear Myanmar, which is also known men seared by the long war in saw them in the grainy early foot- shouted at Muslims. You as Burma, enjoys a newfound Russia’s “southern backyard.” age, but the baseball caps — one Ican see it printed in vicious freedom of expression that many For Vladimir Putin and his turned backward — and the back- pamphlets about the Rohingya, young people there had never regime, this deed of terror in an packs. This was Americanism as Myanmar’s largest Muslim ethnic experienced. American city is, doubtless, a the two assailants understood it group, calling for them to be kept But I departed with a heavy vindication of the iron fist with — easily available, the kind that away from towns, kicked out of heart. I was shattered by the which the Russians fought their could slip across boundaries, the country or murdered. poverty, the decaying buildings, long war against Chechnya, proof evade detection. American urban Kular is a slang word for “dark- the uncertain electricity sup- of the malignancy of the Islamist culture fashioned the look, but it skinned” — a form of abuse I know ply and the broken sidewalks. menace. is now the property of one and all. something about. And I, like mil- Driving into Yangon, our group Foes of immigration can be We know the pattern. These lions of South Africans, know that paid a number of tolls for which expected to offer the Tsarnaev assailants live on the seam such abuse can never last. God we received no receipt, noth- brothers as evidence that a nation between countries and cultures. did not create us for such hatred. ing. How blatantly can you steal that throws its gates wide open Think of Faisal Shahzad, the I know also that a country is money that should be used to ben- courts this kind of calamity. One young Pakistani who, three years never truly free or prosperous efit ordinary people? way or the other, the matter of ago, sought to detonate a car until it is at peace with itself — I am worried that the winds Islamist radicalism hovers over bomb in Times Square. He had The Tsarnaev brothers. until a nation, be it South Africa of change are not blowing evenly, this episode. driven his car from his home in or Myanmar, loves and raises all that some of the weak and the There are other testimonies Bridgeport, Connecticut. He had the controls of the plane forced media. Investigators found explo- its children equally. A nation must poor will be left behind. that speak to the puzzlement of worked for Elizabeth Arden, and down by its heroic passengers sives and a trigger on his body work hard and come together to And then there are the our time, to the difficulty of draw- completed that all-American in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on after his death in a police chase. realise this. Rohingya — just one poign- ing hard lines between cultures degree, the MBA. Neighbours September 11: “He never missed a Civilizational battles were once So we must be very measured ant example of Myanmar’s new in conflict. recall him jogging in the evening party in Beirut and never missed waged by warriors who donned in our praise of Myanmar’s new freedoms becoming exploited by A classmate who knew near his home. The US was his a prayer in Hamburg.” the garments of different lands openness while its poorest and bullies and extremists. How can Dzhokar, the younger of the two home and wasn’t; Pakistan, the Jarrah had been the quintes- and spoke the languages of dif- most vulnerable people, such as people be treated in such a way brothers, from Cambridge Rindge land of his birth, was no longer sential party boy in Lebanon, hip ferent worlds — the Moors on one the Rohingya, are not living in — hunted down, homes torched, and Latin School described him as home. It could no longer answer and trendy; he and his sisters side, the Castilians on the other. safety and dignity. beaten and killed — in the name of a cool guy, a regular American kid his needs. were strangers to traditional The borders were easy to see and I travelled to Myanmar recently a warped sense of nationalism? Do on the wrestling team. Another He came to militant Islam Islam. The pampered boy of an to make out. The global landscape and saw for myself a great number the perpetrators not know that we classmate, Ty Barros, describes a after personal failure and dis- affluent family was unhinged is different today. It is boys with of the positive developments that are from the same human family? boy who liked sports and listened appointment. For him, the faith by a radical reading of the faith baseball caps who carry death and others around the world have This inter-religious strife, to rap music and hung out with had become a weapon. He found that he found in the storefront ruin in their backpacks. been cheering. previously confined to one state, other kids in the neighbourhood. it online, on the World Wide Web mosques in Hamburg. Modernity Home is neither in the lands I met with several political is spreading to other parts of Dzhokar never discussed religion — that mix of modern technique failed and unsettled Jarrah. of their birth nor in the diaspora prisoners who had been released Myanmar. Protests are being vio- and politics, this acquaintance and belligerent enmities. There are echoes of Jarrah’s communities where people flee by the new government after lently quashed. Swaths of land in adds. Pamela Rolon, a residen- Of all that has been said and story in reports about the older the fire and the failure of tor- decades of detainment under villages are being confiscated. I tial adviser in the dorm where written about this breed of Tsarnaev brother, Tamerlan. Like mented places. No “intel” can find the junta. I was thrilled to finally hope that President Thein Sein, Dzhokar lived, at University of “nowhere men” who have risen to Jarrah, Tamerlan was in his mid- and identify this unsettled breed hold hands with Aung San Suu his colleagues and the rest of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, said war against the very messy world 20s. He had become a legal US — ordinary neighbourhood types Kyi, who is no longer under house the leadership of Myanmar can that the young man “studied hard that forged them, the most poign- resident in 2007; he had shown no who step forth to do battle against arrest and proudly stands in the all apply their impressive will- and spoke English beautifully.” ant was said about the Lebanese- early interest in Islam. His pas- a modernity, and an order, they parliament. We were free to walk power so these tragedies can be The world outwits us, fur- born terrorist, Ziad Jarrah, sion was boxing, but then Islam had once yearned for. the streets of Yangon together. addressed. rows run across it: We look for who is thought to have been at entered his life through the social WP-BLOOMBERG The dreaded red pen of WP-BLOOMBERG TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST

Abbas in Turkey Saudi Shura Over 100 dead Council calls for weekend in army capture change

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s of Syria town Shura Council, which advises the government on new laws, has recommended changing the country’s official week- West appalled by reports of massacre end to Friday and Saturday to boost the economy, local media BEIRUT: More than 100 peo- western censure in the wake of reported yesterday. ple have been found dead in a opposition claims of hundreds Some local business leaders town near the Syrian capital of people killed in a new “mas- and economists say the existing of Damascus after a five-day sacre” during recent fighting in Thursday-Friday weekend is bad operation to retake the town by the Damascus countryside. for the economy because it limits regime troops, a watchdog said William Hague, Britain’s for- the amount of time Saudi com- yesterday. eign secretary, called reports of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, yesterday. panies can work with partners “There are 101 martyrs who the killings a reminder of the overseas during the week. Turkey expressed its dismay at the way US Secretary of State John Kerry asked Prime Minister Recep Tayyip have been identified in Jdaidet Al “callous brutality” of the Assad However, some members Erdogan to delay a visit to the Gaza Strip planned for next month. Fadl, which was taken completely regime and “the terrible climate of the powerful conservative by the army on Sunday. The vic- of impunity” in Syria, as well as clergy have opposed the move tims are 10 women, three children of the urgent need to end the in the past, citing concerns it and 88 men, including 24 rebels,” 25-month conflict which has is intended to bring the king- Rami Abdel Rahman, director claimed over 70,000 lives, dis- Saudi sponsors to pay for dom closer to the Jewish and of the Syrian Observatory for placed 2 million Syrians and Christian traditions. Human Rights, said. destabilised the wider region. Oman said this month it would On Sunday, the group said it But Russia and Iran both shift to a Friday-Saturday week has confirmed the deaths of at expressed firm support for in May. That will leave the big- least 80 people killed during shell- President Bashar Al Assad. deporting illegal workers gest Arab economy as the only ing on the area, fighting and in The Local Co-ordination Gulf Arab state to maintain a summary executions. Committees — a network of anti- RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will Labour Minister Adel Al Fakieh roughly 9 million foreigners in the Thursday-Friday weekend. The organisation distributed regime activists — said in a state- make sponsors and employ- said the kingdom would impose kingdom come, have expressed “Especially for the financial several gruesome videos shot by ment that government forces had ers of foreigners working ille- tough penalties, including jail concern about the impact of sector it’s vital. They’re only con- activists showing bodies that bore killed 350 “martyrs” in Artouz, gally in the country pay the sentences and fines, on owners of deportations. Many other expa- nected three days a week now to signs of torture or mutiliation. south-west of the capital, on cost of deporting them, under small businesses which harboured triates come from Pakistan, Sri the international financial system. An activist in Damascus said Sunday. Three days earlier 100 new rules approved by the cabi- illegal workers. Lanka, Indonesia, the Philippines, For other companies it would also on Sunday that all communica- people had been killed — a total net, the Saudi Gazette reported The new cabinet ruling will Ethiopia and Arab countries. be much more convenient, with tion, water and electricity had of 450 dead. The figures could not yesterday. end the government’s respon- Under Saudi law, all expatri- one more day when we overlap,” been cut off in Jdaidet Al Fadl, be independently verified as the The world’s top oil exporter is sibility for paying deportation ate workers must be sponsored said Les Jenka, chairman of the adding that some of the corpses area is inaccessible to the handful cracking down on illegal expatriate costs, reported the Saudi Gazette, by a Saudi company or individ- American Business Group in of were “found in one of the hospi- of foreign journalists and NGOs workers in an effort to move more a major newspaper, saying it had ual. Many workers then leave Riyadh. Any switch might have tals” in the town. She said some in Damascus. Saudi citizens into private sector seen an advance copy of the ruling. that employer to look for a bet- important ramifications for the of the bodies had been beaten, and The UK-based Syrian jobs. Tens of thousands of peo- Expatriates who violate labour ter job elsewhere, or set up their Saudi bourse, which is heav- others burnt. Observatory for Human Rights ple have been deported in recent laws, or overstay Haj and Umrah own businesses. Some sponsors ily influenced by international Since last year, the army has said some of the victims were months as government inspec- pilgrimage visas, will be deported connive in violating the rules, energy prices and world equity tried to root out rebels positioned summarily killed. Videos posted tors descended on businesses that and then banned from returning charging expatriates whom they markets, but only shares three southwest and east of Damascus, online showed rows of corpses have long bent the rules to hire to Saudi Arabia, it added. Officials do not employ money to renew working days with them. in a bid to secure the capital. wrapped in bloody blankets. foreigners, who are often paid less in Yemen and the Indian state of their visas. The websites of Al Riyadh and Syria’s government faced fresh AGENCIES than Saudi nationals. Last week Kerala, from which many of the REUTERS Al Madina newspapers reported yesterday that the Shura Council, a body appointed by the king that has advisory powers but no veto on new laws, had decided to recommend to the government it should change the weekend days. Mursi in crisis talks with judges over reform Al Madina reported that 83 Shura Council members voted to recom- CAIRO: Egyptian President “Brotherhoodisation” of the judi- resignation on Saturday follow- forcing hundreds of members of demonstrations outside the Shura mend while 43 voted against it. Mohammed Mursi held cri- ciary and called for demonstra- ing a protest by Mursi’s Islamist the judiciary to step down imme- Council (upper house) tomorrow Most laws passed get an initial sis talks with the country’s tions outside parliament. backers to demand that judges diately. Critics say it would elimi- to protest against what one sen- go-ahead from the council, but a top judges yesterday after the A presidential source said appointed during ousted former nate more than 3,000 judges at ior liberal politician, Mohammed recommendation does not neces- justice minister resigned over Mursi met the Supreme Judicial President Hosni Mubarak’s nearly a stroke, including most mem- ElBaradei, called “the judges’ sarily mean it will be become law demands by the ruling Muslim Council and the prosecutor gen- 30-year rule be purged. bers of senior bodies such as the massacre”. “The true goal of this any time soon. Brotherhood for a “purification” eral to discuss a draft law reform- A key provision of the draft constitutional court which has project is to ‘Brotherhoodise’ the Saudi law sets the weekend for of the judiciary. ing the judiciary due to go through proposed by the Brotherhood’s repeatedly stymied Mursi’s legis- judiciary and replace independent the large government sector, but The secular, liberal and left- the Islamist-dominated upper Freedom and Justice Party would lative and election plans. judges with Brotherhood elements,” private companies are only offi- wing opposition denounced house tomorrow. Justice Minister lower the mandatory retirement Leaders of the opposition the umbrella group said in a state- cially required to give one day of what it called a planned Ahmed Mekky tendered his age for judges to 60 from 70, National Salvation Front called for ment. REUTERS holiday a week. AFP

Kuwaiti politician gets bail in insult case KUWAIT: A prominent Kuwaiti opposition poli- tician convicted of insulting the ruling emir was granted bail yesterday, his lawyer said, prompting celebrations by supporters packing the court building and defusing tensions in the oil-exporting Gulf state. Kuwait, a US ally, has avoided a mass Arab Spring- style uprising but unrest flared last year after the emir changed the electoral law before a parliamentary election, a move opposition figures said was meant to deny them a parliamentary majority. The opposition boycotted the December 1 election. Musallam Al Barrak, an outspoken former member of parliament, was accorded bail from his sentencing to five years in jail last week for remarks made at a rally last year. The jail sentence triggered a series of street protests that underscored increasing friction between opposi- tion figures and the government, headed by a prime Kuwaiti opposition leader and former MP Musallam Al Barrak with supporters as he minister picked by the emir. REUTERS leaves the court in Kuwait City, yesterday. Israel, Turkey hold compensation talks

ANKARA: Israeli and If resolved, an major stum- activists on a Gaza-bound flotilla. upset them,” he said. But he Turkish officials failed yes- bling block to upgrading bilat- US President Barack Obama had urged the families to “trust the terday to agree compensation eral diplomatic ties would be pressed Israel to make the ges- government” and avoid public over a deadly 2010 Israeli raid overcome, Arinc said. ture to mend relations between statements which could lead to on a Gaza-bound aid ship, but He, however, acknowledged two of Washington’s key allies in misunderstandings. officials said they still hoped that neither the timetable nor the region. Israel imposed its blockade on a crucial step would be taken the venue for a second get- Compensation and Ankara’s Gaza in 2006 after Gaza mili- towards restoring once-solid together were yet clear. demand that Israel’s punishing tants seized an Israeli soldier, ties between the two countries. Yesterday’s meeting was the restrictions on Gaza are the who was eventually freed in 2011 “This problem will be solved first stage of what Turkish offi- two sticking points in the talks, in a trade for 1,000 Palestinian at a second meeting, and if not cials have said would be a multi- according to lawyers for the raid prisoners held by Israel. enough, at a third one,” Deputy step diplomatic process. victims’ families. Arinc warned The blockade was strength- Prime Minister Bulent Arinc, The Israeli Embassy in the final word on whether a ened in 2007, when the Islamist who leads the Turkish team, Ankara refused to comment on deal would work rested with the Hamas movement took con- told reporters after meeting the the closed-door talks, which saw families of those killed. trol of Gaza, then eased some- Israeli officials in Ankara. Israeli officials visit their for- “It’s a legal right for vic- what following an international “We both agree that this merly strategic ally for the first tims’ families to demand com- outcry over the killing of the is a problem that needs to be time in almost three years. pensation,” said Arinc, adding Turkish activists. swiftly resolved after a signifi- The high-stakes negotiations that it would be up to them Observers point to the fact cant acceptance (on the part follow a formal apology Israel to accept a possible deal or go that the prime ministers of both of the Israelis) on the need to made last month for the botched ahead with the court proc- Turkey and Israel are directly lift the embargoes and blockade raid on May 31, 2010 in which its ess. “We, the government, will involved in the process as a imposed on Gaza,” he added. commandos killed nine Turkish not take any action which will cause for optimism. AFP TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Five dead EU opens to in Seattle shooting WASHINGTON: Gunfire erupted at an apartment com- Serbia after plex in a city south of Seattle and five people were shot to death, including a suspect who was shot by arriving officers, police said early yesterday. Officers responding to an emer- Kosovo deal gency call at 9:30pm on Sunday at the apartments in Federal Way encountered a chaotic scene, with Thousands of Serbs protest bullets flying. “When officers arrived there LUXEMBOURG/ agreement to normalise relations were still shots being fired,” said BELGRADE: The European with breakaway Kosovo, a poten- Federal Way police spokeswoman Commission encouraged EU tially landmark deal that could Cathy Schrock. governments yesterday to start end years of tensions between the They found two wounded men membership talks with Serbia, Balkan antagonists and put them on the ground in a parking lot. in recognition of Belgrade’s both on a path to European Union One of the men reached for a gun accord with Kosovo last week membership. as police moved in to assist the that marked a milestone for the Up to 10,000 flag-waving two, she said. Balkans’ recovery from the col- protesters gathered in the At that point, officers opened lapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. divided northern Kosovo town fire. The suspect died but police Talks could start within the of Mitrovica, demanding that said it wasn’t immediately clear if year — if all European Union the EU-brokered agreement it was from their gunfire. capitals agree at a meeting in be annulled and branding the The other man on the ground June — provided Serbia puts in Serbian officials who endorsed and a third man in the parking place all the conditions of the deal it “traitors.” Thousands also lot were found dead. meant to address the status of the marched in Belgrade, the Serbian In a search of the complex, Serb-populated northern part of capital. People wave flags during a protest against an EU-sponsored deal to normalise ties between Serbia and breakaway police found a fourth man dead its former province. The Serbian government yes- Kosovo, in Belgrade, Serbia, yesterday. in one apartment and a slain “It’s a game changer for Serbia terday approved the deal unani- woman in another unit. Schrock and Kosovo, it’s a game changer mously at an extraordinary step forward. It can mark a his- from Pristina’s ethnic Albanians The deal allows Serbs to police said police were trying to deter- for the whole region of the west- session and ordered ministries toric turning point for the two and consider the region a part and manage the north of Kosovo, mine if the woman was hit by a ern Balkans,” EU commissioner to implement it. countries, but also for the entire of Serbia. In Mitrovica, hardline which is inhabited predominantly stray bullet. for enlargement Stefan Fuele told The prime ministers of Serbia region if it is implemented,” Kosovo Serbs said they will pre- by ethnic Serbs, in exchange A total of eight officers fired reporters in Luxembourg where and Kosovo reached a tenta- German Foreign Minister Guido vent the implementation of the for nominal recognition of the their weapons, Schrock said. All EU ministers discussed Serbia’s tive deal in Brussels on Friday Westerwelle said at an EU meet- agreement and form their own, authority of the Kosovo govern- have been placed on administra- EU path. The negotiation process that would give Kosovo’s ethnic ing in Luxemburg. self-ruled region in the north. ment. It also calls for the two tive leave, per standard policy, as would help drive reforms in the Albanian leadership author- Kosovo, which is considered by On Sunday, Kosovo’s parliament sides not to obstruct one another the investigation continues. largest country to emerge from ity over rebel Kosovo Serbs. In nationalists to be the medieval voted in favour of a resolution as they seek eventual membership There was no immediate word federal Yugoslavia, luring inves- return, the minority Serbs would cradle of the Serbian state and to support the agreement. The in the EU. what set off the shooting. tors to its ailing economy. get wide autonomy within Kosovo. religion, declared independence Serbian parliament is expected Serbia relinquished control “We still don’t have any idea The EU executive said Belgrade After Serbia’s approval, the in 2008. Serbia has vowed never to do the same later this week. of most of Kosovo in 1999 when what started this disturbance had met a key condition of vis- EU’s executive Commission rec- to recognise it, and Serbian offi- The influential Serbian Orthodox Nato chased its troops out of tonight,” Schrock said. ible and sustainable improvement ommended yesterday that the bloc cials insist that the latest agree- Church, however, denounced the the region after a three-month After police flooded the area in relations with Kosovo, which start membership negotiations ment does not mean Belgrade deal as a “clear surrender” of “our bombing campaign. Ending the and carried out searches, authori- broke away from Serbia in a war with Belgrade. The Commission has de-facto recognised Kosovo’s most important territory,” and partition of Kosovo between the ties said they were confident there in 1999 and declared independ- said in a report that “Serbia statehood. urged the country’s lawmakers Albanian majority and the Serb- were no more casualties from the ence with Western backing in has taken very significant steps It is not clear how the deal will to reject it. controlled north — about a fifth shooting. 2008. towards visible and sustainable be implemented on the ground The church said in a statement of the country — is a key condi- They said they did not think Thousands of Serb demonstra- improvement in relations with in northern Kosovo where hard- that the deal amounts to “indi- tion of Serbia’s further progress another shooter was on the loose tors, chanting “Treason, Treason,” Kosovo.” line Serb leaders vehemently rect and silent, but still de-facto toward EU membership. or that there was an immediate protested yesterday against the “This agreement is a huge reject any authority coming recognition” of the Kosovo state. AGENCIES threat to the public. AP

Nigeria clashes Boston suspect not leave 187 dead KANO: Heavy fighting between enemy combatant: US Nigerian troops and suspected Islamist insurgents has killed WASHINGTON: The White combatant,” which would give 187 people and injured 77 oth- House yesterday insisted that him the same status as detainees ers, with massive blazes that the surviving suspect in the held at the Guantanamo military raged after the clashes leaving Boston bombings would not be prison. nearly half the town destroyed, treated as an “enemy combat- Tsarnaev is currently being the Red Cross said yesterday. ant” but would be tried through treated in a hospital in Boston for The bloodshed in the remote the US civilian justice system. injuries including a throat wound, northeastern town of Baga likely “He will not be treated as but has reportedly been commu- marks the single deadliest event an enemy combatant,” said nicating with a special investiga- in the insurgency being waged by White House spokesman Jay tion team, which handles high Boko Haram, the radical Islamist Carney, following calls from value targets, by writing. group blamed for scores of attacks some Republicans for 19-year- The 19-year-old was initially in northern and central Nigeria old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to be not read his legal rights or offered since 2009. granted the same status as “War access to a lawyer, after officials Conflicting reports have on Terror” detainees. invoked a special exception for emerged of the fighting that broke “We will prosecute this terror- security reasons. But the White out Friday, but residents and offi- ist through our civilian system of House statement on his status cials have said the high death toll justice,” Carney said, arguing that means he will eventually be proc- included soldiers, insurgents as US law prohibited a US citizen essed through civilian courts. well as scores of civilians. being tried in the military court The Federal prosecutors “So far 187 dead have been system. Carney said that since charged badly wounded Boston buried, while 77 are under admis- the September 11, 2001 attacks Marathon bombing suspect sion in hospitals,” Red Cross the US government had repeat- Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in his hos- Spokesman Nwakpa O Nwakpa edly and successfully used civilian pital bed, but details of the said. More than 300 houses in courts to try terror suspects. charges were sealed, a US court the fishing town on the shores of “The system has repeatedly official said. Tsarnaev, 19, an Lake Chad “were burnt down”, proven that it can successfully ethnic Chechen college student he added. handle the threat we continue to suspected of carrying out the Another rescue official who did face,” Carney said. attacks with his older brother, not want to be named said “40 Republican Senators John was unable to speak after he percent of the town has been gut- McCain and Lindsey Graham was captured with throat inju- ted by fire”. have led calls for the teen- ries sustained during shootouts AFP ager to be declared an “enemy with police. AFP

Briton in death row loses bid for funds LONDON: A British grand- had recommended jailing her for to do more,” she said. mother on death row for traf- 15 years. She added: “If I should die — ficking drugs into Bali lost her Police said Sandiford was at and I hope I don’t, but I fear I may attempt yesterday to get the the centre of a drugs-importing — then I hope that my execution government in London to fund ring involving three other Britons, will prompt the British govern- a last-ditch appeal against her but she claimed she was forced to ment to do more for others.” sentence. Three Court of Appeal transport the drugs in order to Sandiford lost her first appeal judges upheld a previous court protect her children whose safety to the Bali High Court on April ruling that the British govern- was at stake. 8 after a closed hearing of three ment was not obliged to pay The Court of Appeal in London judges decided the lower court’s for an “adequate lawyer” for heard that Sandiford needs about original sentence had been “accu- 56-year-old Lindsay Sandiford. £8,000 (¤9,400, $12,200) to con- rate and correct”. Her lawyer The Foreign Office has refused tinue her fight against her death Fadillah Agus said she would lodge as a matter of policy. sentence, and only £2,000 had an appeal with Indonesia’s highest Sandiford was sentenced to so far been raised. In a state- court today or tomorrow. If the death in Indonesia in January ment issued by the legal charity Supreme Court rejects her appeal, after cocaine with a street value Reprieve ahead of yesterday’s she can seek a judicial review of of $2.4m was found in her suit- ruling, Sandiford said she was the decision from the same court. case as she arrived on the resort “desperate”. “My family has done After that, only the president can island of Bali last May. The ver- all they possibly can to support grant her a reprieve. dict was a shock as prosecutors me and nobody could ask anyone AFP TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES

Thai soldiers killed in blast EU ends Myanmar sanctions NARATHIWAT: Four sol- diers were killed and another four seriously injured while Arms embargo to remain; rights group accuses govt of ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas attempting to defuse a bomb at an army base in Thailand’s LUXEMBOURG: EU foreign The European Union began eas- imports of the country’s lucrative forced displacement affecting tens standing by, or even joining in, unrest-plagued south yester- ministers agreed yesterday to ing sanctions against Myanmar a timber, metals and gems. of thousands. as Rakhine Buddhist mobs killed day, police said. lift the last of the bloc’s trade, year ago as the military, in power To help Myanmar’s economy, HRW Asia head Phil Robertson men, women and children in June The blast happened after economic and individual sanc- for decades, progressively ceded the EU will also look at the fea- said lifting the sanctions was and October 2012, HRW said. troops moved the device, which tions against Myanmar, hailing power to civilians and imple- sibility of a bilateral investment “premature and regrettable,” The failure to investigate prop- was hidden in a gas tank and “a new chapter” with the once mented reforms of the economy. agreement, as well as more devel- warning that the move lessens erly or punish officials had embold- placed under a bridge, to a base pariah state. In April last year, foreign min- opment assistance. leverage over Myanmar. ened those behind campaigns in Narathiwat. “In response to the changes isters agreed to a one-year sus- Ministers noted, however, that To help the country deal with against Muslims elsewhere, said “They were inspecting and that have taken place and in pension of measures targeting there were “still significant chal- inter-communal violence, the Robertson, referring to violence in defusing the civilian-made the expectation that they will almost 500 individuals and more lenges to be addressed,” in par- EU is studying the possibility central Myanmar that killed more bomb” when it exploded, said continue, the Council (of minis- than 800 firms to bolster a reform ticular an end to hostilities in of assisting reform of the police than 43 people in March and dis- local police lieutenant colonel ters) has decided to lift all sanc- process which the same month Kachin state and improving the service, in partnership with its placed at least 12,000. Sanit Suwanno. tions with the exception of the saw opposition leader Aung San plight of the Rohingya people. parliament, the statement said. Ye Htut, a presidential spokes- embargo on arms,” said a state- Suu Kyi’s election to parliament. New York-based Human The government yesterday dis- man and Myanmar’s deputy Chinese ships ment approved without a vote. Among the sanctions, hundreds Rights Watch said yesterday missed the charges by HRW as Minister of Information, said the “The EU is willing to open a of people were targeted by a travel that Myanmar had waged “a one-sided and “unacceptable”. government would pay heed only near Japan isles new chapter in its relations with ban and asset freeze, while on campaign of ethnic cleansing” Security forces were complicit to its own probe panel set up after TOKYO: Three Chinese gov- Myanmar/Burma, building a last- the economic front the EU had against Rohingya Muslims, cit- in disarming Rohingya Muslims the initial violence in June. ernment ships moved into ing partnership,” it added. barred investments and banned ing evidence of mass graves and of makeshift weapons and AGENCIES territorial waters off disputed Tokyo-controlled islands late yesterday, Japan’s coastguard said. China-US diplomacy The maritime surveillance ships entered the 12-nauti- S Korea cancels Japan cal-mile zone off Uotsurijima, one of the Senkaku islands which China claims and calls the Diaoyus, after 7pm, the trip over shrine visits Japan Coast Guard said in a SEOUL: South Korea yester- — including 14 leading war crimi- statement. day shelved a proposed trip by nals — is seen by Japan’s Asian The islands are also claimed Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se neighbours, including China by Taiwan. to Tokyo in protest at visits by and South Korea, as a symbol of Japanese cabinet ministers to a Tokyo’s imperialist past. Orangutan born controversial war shrine. Discussions on a visit to Japan “We express deep concern and later this week by Yun — his first in Indonesia zoo regret over the visits... to the since taking office in March — SEMARANG: A Borneo shrine that glorifies an invasion were called off in protest, a min- orangutan has been born at a that inflicted great loss and suf- istry spokeswoman said. zoo on Indonesia’s main island fering on Japan’s neighbours,” Tokyo said the visits were made of Java, providing a glimmer the foreign ministry said in a in the ministers’ personal capac- of hope for the endangered statement. ity and that the government had primates, a zookeeper said Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister no official involvement. yesterday. Taro Aso and Keiji Furuya, the Japanese Prime Minister Belia, a female, arrived on chief of the National Public Safety Shinzo Abe did not make a pil- Saturday in the first success- Commission, separately visited grimage but paid for equipment ful birth of an orangutan at the the Yasukuni shrine on Sunday. made of wood and fabric — which zoo in Semarang, Central Java Internal Affairs Minister bears his name and title — which province. The fourth orangu- Yoshitaka Shindo also visited the is used to decorate an altar. tan at the zoo, she was born shrine at the weekend, his office Ties between Tokyo and Seoul naturally to 18-year-old Bella, said yesterday. are already strained by a territo- and 20-year-old Billy, zoo The memorial, which hon- rial row over a chain of islets. head Kusyanto, who goes by ours around 2.5 million war dead AFP one name, said. US General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (right), and Fang Fenghui, chief of the People’s Liberation Army general staff, walk after inspecting a guard of honour during a welcoming ceremony in Beijing. Bangladesh elects president DHAKA: The speaker of Sri Lanka north to vote Bangladesh’s parliament, Philippine rebels warn politicians Abdul Hamid, was elected unopposed as president yes- MANILA: Philippine commu- that Guingona, a member of terday, a potentially crucial nist rebels warned politicians Radio broadcaster President Benigno Aquino’s rul- for provincial council role as the restive country yesterday to seek their permis- ing party, had been previously COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Tamil- turned Sri Lanka into a de facto heads for elections next year, sion before campaigning in the shot dead warned that entering rebel areas dominated northern region will federal state, but the Tamil- officials said. insurgents’ strongholds follow- ZAMBOANGA: Gunmen with armed escorts could touch hold its first elections for a pro- dominated north has never Hamid is a 69-year-old ing an ambush that wounded a shot dead a radio broadcaster off violence. vincial council that will grant elected such an administration stalwart of the ruling Awami town mayor and killed two of in southern Philippines yes- “Our fighters are calling poli- limited autonomy to the former although it has had elections for League party who has been her aides. terday, police said as fears ticians on the phone to inform war zone, the president’s office less important bodies. serving as acting president of The New People’s Army grew of mounting violence them we are serious in imple- announced yesterday. The government has governed the Muslim-majority nation (NPA) launched an attack with ahead of national elections menting our policy,” Jorge Madlos President Mahinda Rajapaksa the northern province, whose after the death of his pred- grenade launchers on a convoy next month. added. told newspaper editors that con- capital is Jaffna, through direct ecessor Zillur Rahman on carrying Ruth Guingona, the Mario Baylosis Vendiola, 33, “They are free to campaign in ditions were right to hold the presidential rule even after troops March 20. He is known for his 78-year-old mayor of Gingoog host of DXLM, was gunned our areas, but they should first northern provincial council elec- crushed Tamil separatists in May friendly ties with opposition on Saturday, killing two of her down by two men on a motor- coordinate with us.” tions in September, more than 2009 in a military campaign that parties. aides and leaving her and two cycle in Kabasalan town on the The military has accused the four years after fighting there sparked allegations of war crimes. policemen wounded. island of Mindanao. communist guerrillas of extorting ended, his spokesman Mohan Sri Lanka is under interna- Taiwan live-fire Gingoog lies in a remote, moun- The victim was returning money from politicians in exchange Samaranayake said. tional pressure to hold council tainous area in the southern from hosting his radio show for letting them campaign. “The president said that the elections to allow the ethnic Tamil drill in Spratlys island of Mindanao where the when he was killed. The NPA is the armed wing environment was conducive for minority a degree of autonomy TAIPEI: Taiwan’s coast- rebel group has been fighting the Police said he hosted an of the underground Communist holding the NPC elections in and a greater say in the day-to- guards said yesterday that government since 1969. entertainment show and they Party of the Philippines, which September, but he did not give day administration in areas where Taipei had staged a live-fire Jorge Madlos, a spokesman for did not know the motive for the has been fighting the government a specific date,” Samaranayake they are concentrated. drill within a hotly-contested the NPA, said it would continue attack. But he had previously since 1969. The military estimates said. “It will be some time in The United States, which led island chain in the South to man checkpoints to “impose reported a threat to his life. it has about 4,000 fighters. In year September.” international censure against Sri China Sea, in a move that revolutionary policies” on can- AFP 2011, the military said the rebels Rajapaksa’s remarks were the Lanka at the UN Human Rights may stoke regional tensions. didates for the May 13 local earned at estimated 300 million first public announcement that Council in Geneva last month, More than 2,000 rounds elections. and they should also not have pesos ($7.3m) in illegal “revo- the government was gearing up has said it was looking forward of ammunition were fired by “They should secure permis- armed escorts,” he added. lutionary taxes” collected from for council elections. to early council elections in the garrison forces on Taiwan- sion and coordinate with our local Madlos said Saturday’s ambush individuals and businesses. Provincial councils were estab- former war zone. administered Taiping, the larg- forces when entering our area, was unfortunate, but stressed AFP lished in 1987 under a law that AFP est of the Spratly Islands, Wang Chin-wang, chief of the Coast Guard Administration, told Land rights protest parliament. It was Taipei’s first live-fire drill in the Spratlys — claimed in whole or part Quake rescuers battle landslides by Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and LUSHAN: Clogged roads, clogged by huge queues of traffic. Brunei. debris and landslides impeded New bird flu case The 6.6-magnitude quake, rescuers yesterday as they bat- which hit Sichuan province on Bhutan to elect tled to find survivors of a power- in northeast Saturday, has left 23 missing and ful earthquake in mountainous more than 11,000 injured, local new parliament southwest China that has left at BEIJING: A man in the authorities said, while some 17,000 THIMPHU: The tiny least 208 dead. northeastern Chinese prov- families have lost their homes. Himalayan country of Huge boulders blocked rescue ince of Shandong has been Forecasts of rain in the disaster Bhutan begins electing a new vehicles along roads leading to infected by a new strain of area yesterday increased fears of parliament today for only the some of the worst-hit areas, and bird flu, the first case found deadly landslides. second time in its history, some areas were only accessi- in the province, state news The constant sound of ambu- five years after the Buddhist ble by foot along broken passes agency Xinhua said yesterday, lance sirens heading to Lushan monarchy gave up its abso- through the rough terrain. bringing the total number of People’s Hospital, near the quake’s lute power. Survivors, including the eld- victims in China to 105. epicentre, was a reminder that Voters will first choose erly, were carried out on the A 36-year-old man from the the earthquake was still claiming members of the upper house backs of neighbours as well as by city of Zaozhuang in Shandong victims two days after it struck. National Council today, a non- helicopter, as rescuers were also was being treated in hospital, Premier Li Keqiang left the party body, then in the follow- bolstered by thousands of civilian while two more people were quake zone on Sunday, state ing weeks will decide which of volunteers who rushed to the area infected in eastern Zhejiang media reported, after rushing to five parties will form the next to help. province, Xinhua said. the area the day before to direct government in the National State broadcaster CCTV REUTERS rescue efforts, in his first major Assembly. A public holiday showed orange-suited emergency public test since being appointed has been declared today and A woman is dragged by police officers during a protest near Cambodian workers making desperate dashes Industrial diggers clawed to the senior post in March. Bhutan’s land borders will be Prime Minister Hun Sen’s house in Phnom Penh yesterday. The resi- past cliff-edges, trying to avoid through debris, including the More than 17,000 Chinese sol- closed for 24 hours over the dents of Boeung Kak Lake have been embroiled in a long-running land sudden landslides in a region mangled remains of cars and diers and police have joined the election period. dispute with a real estate development firm in the capital. weakened by more than 2,000 motorbikes crushed by tum- rescue mission. AGENCIES aftershocks. bling rocks, to clear roads also AFP TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Afghan Taliban Guns for sale hold foreigners from helicopter Eight Turks among 11 civilians held

PULI ALAM: Afghanistan’s working on a road project. Taliban insurgents have seized The Afghan interior ministry 11 civilians including eight said a police team had been sent Turks after their helicopter was to the area and a search for the forced to make an emergency passengers and crew had begun. landing, officials said yesterday. It could not confirm the number Police sent to the area where or nationality of those held. the helicopter came down on “Police were sent to the area Sunday, in a rugged rural area of where the helicopter made an Logar province south of Kabul, emergency landing and engaged had a firefight with the militants in a firefight with the Taliban,” but pulled back for lack of sup- Abdul Saboor Nasrati, Logar pro- port, the Logar police chief said. vincial police chief, said. The Taliban claimed the 11 “We pulled the police back were US military personnel. After because there was no help from the helicopter came down in bad the Afghan army or foreign forces. weather, they “were captured The police were unable to secure alive and were then transferred the area, which is very rural, and A man sells weapons in Kabul, yesterday. to the most secure region of the we were worried,” Nasrati said. nation”, the militants said in a Hamidullah Hamid, governor statement. of Azra district near where the The US-led International helicopter came down, said the Security Assistance Force (ISAF) detained Afghan was acting as an said no foreign military were interpreter. Govt refuses to try Musharraf for treason involved and the helicopter was An ISAF spokesman said a civilian one. Nato troops were ready to assist ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s “The caretaker government used to periods of military rule. Chak Shahzad on the edge of Turkey’s foreign ministry Afghan security forces but there caretaker government yester- should avoid taking any con- The administration will step Islamabad. said eight of its nationals were had been no request so far. day refused to put former mili- troversial step and should not down after the new elected gov- His arrest was ordered by an seized and its diplomats were A Logar provincial government tary ruler Pervez Musharraf commit any process that is not ernment takes office and as a result anti-terrorism court on Saturday holding “intensive talks” with spokesman, Din Mohammad on trial for treason, telling the reversible by the incoming elected said it had no mandate to order a in connection with the sacking of Afghan authorities to trace their Darvish, said provincial officials Supreme Court that it was government,” the administration trial of Musharraf for treason. judges when he imposed emer- whereabouts. have been talking to village elders beyond its mandate. said in a statement read out in With less than three weeks to gency rule in November 2007. “We hope that our nation- to try to persuade the Taliban to The move will give at least Pakistan’s top court. go, it said overseeing the vote was On Sunday, his party spokes- als will be rescued as soon as release the captives. temporary breathing room to The Supreme Court is hearing a full-time job, not least given the man said he had been confined possible and safely returned to The helicopter had been travel- Musharraf, who is already under a petition from lawyers demand- threat level against candidates. to two rooms and stripped of his the regions where they work,” ling from the eastern city of Khost house arrest in connection with ing that Musharraf face trial for The Taliban have claimed a series personal staff, with his lawyers Turkish Deputy Prime Minister to Kabul when it was forced to one of three other cases dating treason for subverting the con- of deadly attacks on politicians also denied access. Bulent Arinc told reporters. land. The Taliban claimed it had back to his 1999-2008 period in stitution. In Pakistan only the and political parties. Musharraf faces separate Russia’s foreign ministry said 11 US military members, including office. The cases are being heard state can initiate charges of trea- The government cautioned charges of conspiracy to murder two pilots — a Russian named two translators, on board. “The in lower courts. son, which can carry the death there was “no urgency” to try opposition leader Benazir Bhutto Pavel Petrenko and a Kyrgyz foreign forces, by disassociating He has been threatened with penalty. Musharraf and said it needed “to in 2007 and over the 2006 death national who was not identified themselves from the helicopter, death by the Taliban and barred The interim administration, confine their work to day-to-day of a Baluch rebel leader. — were among those captured. An are trying to make it seem as the from running in next month’s which took office last month, is routine matters” and “maintain The Supreme Court adjourned Afghan was also detained. detainees are civilians but denial general election, a humiliating tasked with guiding the nuclear- the status quo” for the incoming hearing the treason petition until The Afghan-based charter will not benefit them as all were blow to the retired general who armed country of 180 million elected government. today and ordered the authorities firm Khorasan Cargo Airlines, captured while wearing American returned home in March promis- towards the May 11 vote, which Musharraf is serving his two- to allow Musharraf’s lawyers to which operated the MI-8 heli- military uniforms,” it said. ing to “save” Pakistan after four will mark a historic democratic week arrest order in his luxury meet him. copter, said the Turks were AFP years in exile. transition of power in a country villa in the upmarket suburb of AFP

Court lets ex-PM Afghan girls’ school feared hit by poison gas contest polls LAHORE: A Pakistani court TALUQAN: As many as 74 stop girls from going to school. search the grounds for suspicious yesterday allowed former prime schoolgirls in Afghanistan’s far The girls were taken to the objects and to test the water for minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to north fell sick after smelling gas provincial hospital and most contaminants. contest May 11 polls, striking and were being examined for were released after being treated, Takhar has been a hotbed of down a disqualification order by possible poisoning, local officials though several remained in a crit- militancy and criminal activ- an election tribunal. said. ical condition on Sunday evening, ity since 2009, with groups such Ashraf was earlier this month While instances of poisoning the head of the hospital, Dr Jamil as the Taliban and the Islamic prevented from standing in his are sometimes later found to Frotan, said. Movement of Uzbekistan active. native Gojar Khan district in be false alarms, there have been “We have already sent samples Since the 2001 ousting of the central Punjab province after his numerous substantiated cases of of their blood to the Ministry of Taliban, which banned education opponent accused him of corrup- mass poisonings of schoolgirls by Public Health and it will soon for women and girls, females have tion. He filed an appeal but both elements of Afghanistan’s ultra- become clear what the reason returned to schools, especially in high court judges on the election conservative society that are for their illness was,” Frotan said. Kabul. tribunal rejected it and disquali- opposed to female education. The apparent poisoning came But periodic attacks against fied him from standing. Local officials said the girls three days after more than a female students, their teach- “A full court bench of Lahore became ill after smelling gas dozen students fell ill in another ers and their school buildings, High Court today struck down at their school, Bibi Maryam, girls’ high school in Taluqan. No continue. the election tribunal’s order on in Takhar province’s capital, one has claimed responsibility for Afghan women have won back our appeal and allowed Ashraf to Taluqan. The city is about 250 either incident. basic rights in education, voting contest the election,” his lawyer kilometres north of the country’s Between May and June last and employment since 2001, but Sardar Latif Khosa said. capital, Kabul. year there were four poison- fears are growing that such gains Ashraf was sworn in as prime The Takhar governor’s spokes- ing attacks on a girls’ school in could be traded away as Western minister last June after Pakistan’s man, Sulaiman Moradi, blamed Takhar. forces prepare to leave and the top court sacked his predecessor “enemies of the government This prompted local offi- Afghan government seeks peace Schoolgirls who fell ill after smelling gas at their school receive treatment for contempt over his refusal to and the country” for the mass cials to order principals to stay talks with the Taliban. ask Switzerland to reopen corrup- at a hospital in Takhar province, Afghanistan. illness and said the aim was to in school until late and staff to REUTERS tion cases against President Asif Ali Zardari on the grounds that he has immunity as head of state. Pakistanis vote on May 11 in an election that should see power pass from a civilian government Ahmadis to boycott Pakistan Kerry to host Afghan-Pakistani talks that has served a full term to another for the first time. BRUSSELS/KABUL: US responsibility to Afghan forces spokesman, Aimal Faizi, said election: Spokesperson Secretary of State John Kerry this year. in Kabul. “This time we will $1.66bn released will host talks between Afghan “This is the year of transi- tell Pakistan that our people’s LAHORE: Some 200,000 mem- for Jamaat-e-Ahmadiya said. President Hamid Karzai and tion. This is the critical year in patience is running out and we for development bers of Pakistan’s minority He said the community wanted senior Pakistan officials in Afghanistan,” he told US diplo- can’t wait for Pakistan to deliver Ahmadi community will boy- its voters to be included in the Brussels tomorrow, officials mats in Brussels. on Afghan peace promises.” ISLAMABAD: The federal cott next month’s election in joint electorate system. said, with the aim of calming “We are going to have a trilat- As well as Karzai and Kerry, the government of Pakistan has protest at their treatment by “We will stay away from elec- tension over border disputes eral and try to talk about how meeting will include Afghanistan’s released Rs162.9bn ($1.662bn) the authorities. tion and boycott it like in the past and a flagging peace process. we can advance this process in defence minister, Bismillah Khan by April 19, 2013 against the Ahmadis, who believe that to register our protest,” he said. The meeting is part of a series the simplest, most cooperative Mohammadi, Pakistan’s army total annual allocation of the founder of their sect was a Pakistan goes to the polls on of on-off discussions between and most cogent way, so that we chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, and $3.67bn under the Public Sector prophet, were declared non-Mus- May 11 for a general election that Afghanistan and Pakistan at the wind up with both Pakistan’s and Pakistan’s foreign secretary, Jalil Development Programme lims by the Pakistani government should see the first democratic behest of the United States, a sen- Afghanistan’s interests being sat- Jilani, the US official said. (PSDP) of 2012-13. in 1974 and now suffer discrimi- transition from one civilian gov- ior State Department official said isfied, but, most importantly, with Although there have been sev- The total Rs162.9bn PSDP nation and violent attacks. ernment to another after the com- yesterday, confirming that Kerry a stable and peaceful Afghanistan eral meetings in Western capitals released under the developmen- It is against the law for pletion of a five-year mandate. had offered to host the gathering. which is worth the expenditure over the past few months in which tal budget is further classified Ahmadis to call themselves Election registration forms Afghanistan has grown increas- and the treasure and effort of representatives of the Taliban as Rs82.6bn for the infrastruc- Muslims, but they still see them- require voters to give their reli- ingly frustrated with Pakistan these last years.” have met Afghan peace negotia- ture sector, Rs74.4bn for the selves as such and object to being gion and address and Ahmadis over efforts to pursue a peace An Afghan spokesman said tors, there have been no signs of social sector, Rs1.9bn for oth- treated as a religious minority at refuse to complete them for fear process involving the Taliban, sug- earlier that Karzai would travel a breakthrough. ers sectors and Rs4bn for the election time. of being attacked. Their grave- gesting that Islamabad is intent to Brussels for the talks, which Kabul accuses Pakistan of har- Earthquake Reconstruction and “We have been boycotting yards are often targeted and in on keep Afghanistan unstable follow weeks of tension with bouring the Taliban leadership in Rehabilitation Authority. These the election process since 1985 2010 nearly 100 people were killed until after foreign combat forces Pakistan over their 2,600km bor- the city of Quetta and using mil- releases are made for 1,136 vari- when Ahmadi voters were put in Lahore after militants stormed have left at the end of 2014. der and stalled peace efforts. itants as proxies to counter the ous developmental projects of in the list of religious minori- two Ahmadi prayer halls. Kerry said the meeting would “Our message to Pakistan influence of India in Afghanistan. national importance. ties,” Saleemuddin, a spokesman AFP discuss the handover of security is enough is enough,” Karzai’s REUTERS AGENCIES TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Second man BRIEFLY in gang-rape

SFI activists held for case arrested heckling Mamata NEW DELHI: Six activ- Parliament debates rising depravity ists of the SFI were arrested yesterday for heckling NEW DELHI: Police slapped direction of modernity, influence West Bengal Chief Minister gang-rape charges on the two of globalization and effect of con- Mamata Banerjee and state men, including a 19-year-old sumerist culture. Finance Minister Amit who was nabbed from Bihar There were also demands to Mitra here on April 9, a Delhi yesterday, in the barbaric rape check spread of pornographic Police officer said. of a five-year-old girl as parlia- material and complaints about The arrested activists ment hotly debated rising rapes obscenity in films and TV. include a general secretary and “depravity” in society, with Communist Party of India- of the Students Federation of many demanding death for Marxist leader Sitaram Yechury India, the students’ wing of child rapists. said: “Can you imagine how the Communist Party of India- Even as protests continued in depraved a society can be? And Marxist (CPM). the capital, a rape attempt was this is happening when we con- “The SFI’s general secre- made on an 11-year-old girl by sider ourselves as being an emerg- tary, Rita Brathogosh Banerjee, a 22-year-old rickshaw puller in ing economy and pride ourselves two women activists Anju Jha west Delhi. in being a modern society.” and Asha Sharma, besides The second accused, Pardeep Yechury said the “depravity” Suman, Nathu Prasad and B Ram, was nabbed from Bihar’s in society was due to “moder- S Aggarwal were arrested in Lakhisarai district in the wee noxicity” — intoxication with A man holds a placard as he stands on top of a police barricade during a protest outside the hospital where a connection with the case,” said hours and remanded in judi- modern things — and the “neo- five-year-old girl who was raped and tortured is admitted in New Delhi yesterday. an officer. cial custody till May 4. He was liberal economic reforms” that They were booked under the brought to Delhi. Police had had unleashed “a new animal in saying the joint commissioner of Activists of the Aam Aadmi Delhi flat rented by Manoj Kumar. sections of rioting, obstructing arrested Manoj Kumar, 22, on India”. police (Vigilance) has been asked Party and Bharatiya Janata She was sexually assaulted and public servant in discharge of April 20 from his in-law’s house Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to conduct an inquiry into the Party and others held placards brutalised, with a small glass bot- public functions, assault to in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district. chief Mayawati yesterday said rape as well as probe allegations and demanded the resignation of tle and candle bits. deter public servant from dis- The two have been booked an all-party meeting should be that local police paid some money Delhi police chief Neeraj Kumar. Delhi has seen as many as 463 charge of his duty, and volun- under section 376-D of the Indian held to suggest amendments to to the father of the victim to hush The top cop however brushed rape cases in the first four-and-a- tarily causing hurt to deter Penal Code (IPC) relating to tackle any shortcomings in the up the case. aside the demands. half months of 2013 — an increase public servant from his duty, gang-rape, Deputy Commissioner anti-rape law and also called for But opposition members were Many protesters also demanded of 158 percent over the same the police officer said. of Police Prabhakar said. death penalty in cases of barbaric not to be placated. BJP members the resignation of Home Minister period last year, Delhi Police said. The savagery of the rape saw rapes involving children. demanded Shinde’s resignation Sushilkumar Shinde and slammed There has been at least a 600 Coast Guard ship parliament members voice out- Bharatiya Janata Party mem- over the issue. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila percent rise in molestation cases rage as they debated the issue, bers Maya Singh and Smriti As parliament debated the Dikshit. while 783.67 percent more har- commissioned which saw participation of several Irani demanded death penalty issue, protesters continued to hold The second accused Pardeep assment cases have been noted in KOLKATA: Indian Coast women members. Many members, for child rapists and an all-party demonstrations in many areas Ram, a garment factory worker the same period, said an officer. Guard Ship Rajdoot, designed especially from the BJP, asked meet to discuss amendments to of the capital — at ITO, Jantar was nabbed from his uncle’s Last year, as many as 179 rapes, and built by Garden Reach for death penalty for rapists of strengthen the anti-rape law. Mantar, Parliament Street and house. He told police that he had 139 molestations and 49 cases of Shipbuilders and Engineers children. In the Lok Sabha, Home at AIIMS, where the girl is being committed a mistake. harassment were registered till here, was commissioned by A cross section of MPs also Minister Sushilkumar Shinde laid treated. Doctors said her condi- The girl had been abducted April 15. Controller General of Defence raised questions about the a statement on the rape incident tion is stable. April 15 and kept hostage in a east IANS Accounts Arunava Dutt at a function here yesterday. ICGS Rajdoot, the sixth in the series of eight inshore patrol vessels (IPVs) displaces 300 tons and can achieve a Trinamool MP was only a Saradha Group employee: Mamata maximum speed of 34 knots. It is capable of several tasks including surveillance, inter- KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief that he was only a salaried reporter: “The organisation of journalists of trying to “pro- Banerjee claimed that she had diction, search and rescue and Minister Mamata Banerjee yes- employee of the group’s media where you worked earlier was also tect” the erstwhile Left Front given Rajya Sabha nomination medical evacuation. terday tried to defend a party unit and had put in his papers. funded by a chit fund. Journalists government. to three journalists including Inspector General K C MP who headed the media “I was never a director or owner. work for various organisations at “What has happened is a seri- Ghosh as a gesture. “They were Pande, Commander, Coast operations of the chit fund- I was never connected with any various points of their career. ous matter. Don’t belittle it by not in our party. I had given Guard Region (Northeast), was funded Saradha Group which other aspect of the business of the They have every right.” asking political questions at the them as a gesture towards the among officials present at the has gone bust, but said “the law group,” he said in a Facebook post. “I am very rough and tough. behest of the CPM (Communist media. Next time I can’t include function. would take its own course if he Banerjee virtually echoed The government will take strin- Party of India-Marxist). Don’t journalists.” has done any wrong”. Ghosh while replying to queries gent action. There will be a thor- give protection to the LF govern- When a scribe asked about Armed forces to DNA Trinamool’s Rajya Sabha mem- from scribes. ough investigation. Names of lot ment. If you individually try to do her and other Trinamool leaders’ ber Kunal Ghosh, who was CEO Asked whether her government of journalists will also crop up. If so, that is wrong”. presence at various programmes profile soldiers of the group’s media ventures that planned to bring the MP to jus- any MP has done any wrong, law Naming the CPM mouthpiece of the Saradha Group, Banerjee NEW DELHI: DNA pro- included a slew of television chan- tice, Banerjee replied: “The per- will take its own course,” the chief Bengali daily Ganashakti and two said: “What is the harm in that? files of armed forces per- nels and newspapers, has come son you are referring to was just minister said at the state secre- other channels, she said: “They If some media houses invite us, sonnel would be stored in a under fire after the company an employee. If he has done any tariat Writers’ Buildings. carry large number of ads from shouldn’t we go? I have also gone. data bank to help in identi- downed shutters after defaulting wrong, the law will take its own Banerjee, who repeatedly chit funds. Why does Ganashakti I have also attended programmes fication during operations or on repayment to depositors. course”. lost her cool during the media splash advertisements of chit organised by your house.” any other contingency from However, Ghosh has claimed She then hit back at the interaction, accused a section funds on its front page?” IANS any fragment of body tissue, the Lok Sabha was informed yesterday. Defence Minister A K World Earth Day Antony told the house that the Armed Forces Medical Supreme Court defers Research Committee (AFMRC) has approved a pilot project (2012-2014) titled “Development of Protocol for ruling on Italian Marines DNA Profiling (Identification) and Repository of Personnel of NEW DELHI: The Supreme However, the Italian govern- Armed Forces”. Court will pronounce on ment and the marines moved the “This pilot project is in Thursday its order on the Italian apex court after they were booked progress at Armed Forces government’s plea against the under the act and investigation Medical College, Pune. The invoking of a stringent act and was entrusted to the National objectives of the project are to the NIA investigation into the Investigation Agency (NIA). devise a protocol for collection, killing of two Indian fisher- In the course of the last hearing preservation and transportation men off Kerala coast by its two of the case April 16, senior coun- of blood samples of the soldiers marines on February 2012. sel Mukul Rohtagi had assailed and to devise protocol for pro- A bench of Chief Justice the NIA for invoking SUA, under cedure for identifying service Altamas Kabir, Justice Anil R which, he had said “death is personnel from any fragment of Dave and Justice Vikramajit Sen, answered by death”.” SUA has a body tissue,” Antony said. which was to pronounce its order mandatory death penalty, he noted. Monday, said that it would do so Section 3(g)(1) of SUA says Father flings son to on Thursday. that the if the offender causes The Italian government has death to any person (he) shall death in Delhi contended that if convicted, its be punished with death. The NEW DELHI: A father two marines would face death section deals with the offences fatally flung his one-and-a-half A man stands in a field as factory chimneys from an industrial area loom in the background in Mumbai yesterday. sentence, a mandatory pun- against ship, fixed platform, cargo year old child from the third Environmental groups are pushing for stronger forest and wildlife protection and conservation. ishment if a person is con- of a ship, maritime navigational floor balcony of a house in east victed under the Suppression of facilities, etc and provides for Delhi after a violent quarrel Unlawful Acts against Safety of punishments. with his wife, police said yes- Maritime Navigation and Fixed On February 15, 2012, the two terday. The father, a casual Platforms on Continental Shelf marines, posted on security duty worker, has been arrested. Shinde pitches for NCTC post-Bangalore blast Act (SUA), 2002. aboard an Italian-registered oil According to police, Hari On March 22, after the return tanker, Enrica Lexie, mistaking a Om, a resident of Gujarat, had NEW DELHI: Home Minister the Lok Sabha. “We also need to has been a bone of contention with of the marines from Italy, External boat of fishermen for pirates, shot come to his in-law’s house in Sushilkumar Shinde yester- strengthen the intelligence set-up several states which have contended Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and killed two Indian fishermen, New Usmanpur area in east day said there was a need to of the states. We have been advis- that it would affect the federal struc- told parliament that India had Ajay Binki and Gelastine. Delhi to take his wife and son strengthen the intelligence set- ing the states on this, but we have ture of the constitution. The home offered Italy an assurance that The incident occurred about back to his home. up of states and quickly put in not seen much progress.” minister also said there was a need its marines, Massimiliano Lattore 20.5 nautical miles off the coast His unwilling wife resisted and place the proposed anti-terror “We are trying to strengthen to have tighter laws on explosives. and Salvatore Girone, would not of Kerala. a quarrel ensued between the hub, NCTC, to prevent incidents the human intelligence compo- Giving details on investigations get the death penalty if they The case was initially tried in two. Om then flung his son from like the April 17 Bangalore blast. nent in our intelligence agencies. into the Bangalore blasts, Shinde returned by the deadline set by Kerala. The Italians have been the balcony to “teach his wife a “We have now a revised formu- That will start yielding results. said: “The FSL (Forensic Science the Supreme Court. contesting the jurisdiction of lesson”. The child was taken to lation of NCTC which takes care We also need to quickly put the Laboratory) experts opined that Khurshid said the case did not Indian courts in the matter, say- Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital but of the objections of the states,” NCTC in place,” Shinde added. explosive materials used could be fall in the category of “rarest of rare ing the incident occurred in inter- died on arrival, said an officer. Shinde said in a statement on The setting up of the National nitrate compounds.” cases” that attract the death penalty national waters. AGENCIES the Bangalore blast tabled in Counter-Terrorism Centre (NCTC) IANS in India, so there was no fear of that. IANS TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Akhilesh calls for third front

Advani accused of taking bribe CHENNAI: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav yesterday called for a third front at the national level as the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have both failed in their promises. BJP rubbishes allegations by Karnataka Janata Party “Samajwadi Party believes that there should be a third front at the national level. The policies of Congress and BJP are not pro-poor,” he told report- BANGALORE: BJP leader L K leaders were known to take money from post, Yeddyurappa has been saying that he ers here, claiming that both the parties and their allies have failed to fulfill Advani had taken money from erst- party chief ministers. was “a victim of conspiracy by state and their promises and there is a bright opportunity for an alternative political while Karnataka chief minister B S BJP President Rajnath Singh and state central BJP leaders”. grouping. Yeddyurappa to allow him to remain in BJP leaders lashed out at Dhananjaya Meanwhile, Advani and Sushma Swaraj He said some parties have urged the Samajwadi Party chief and his father office after corruption scandals involving Kumar for making “baseless” allegation. yesterday launched the ruling party’s cam- Mulayam Singh Yadav to lead the nation and for that, the support should him surfaced, Yeddyurappa’s Karnataka Rajnath Singh, who was in Bellary in paign for the May 5 Karnataka assembly start from the south. Janata Party (KJP) alleged yesterday. north Karnataka for election campaign, told with a scathing attack on central govern- Akilesh Yadav was here to attend an event organised by PMK party. The BJP rubbished the allegations. reporters that the claims were not worth ment’s corruption and promising “zero tol- IANS “I have documents and will release them at taking note of. erance” against graft. the appropriate time,” V Dhananjaya Kumar, State BJP chief Pralhad Joshi told report- Advani addressed public meetings in this a former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP ers in Shimoga, about 280 km from here: north Karnataka town, about 350km from and junior central minister in the BJP-led “Let him release the documents instead Bangalore, and in Davangere in the central National Democratic Alliance (NDA) gov- of simply leveling allegations and we want part of the state while Sushma Swaraj spoke ernment at New Delhi, told reporters here. Yeddyurappa to respond.” at a rally in the state capital. Dhananjaya Kumar, the KJP’s spokesman, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar dis- Both indirectly referred to corruption made the claim a day after Advani indirectly missed the charges as “baseless” while his scandals that rocked the first three years attacked Yeddyurappa for tarnishing BJP’s predecessor D.V. Sadananda Gowda said “if of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rule under image by indulging in corruption. he proves the allegations, we will shut down Yeddyurappa and said the party has given Advani was here to launch BJP’s cam- BJP in Karnataka”. scam-free administration in the last two paign for the May 5 assembly poll. Yeddyurappa, BJP’s first chief minister in years under his successors D V Sadananda “Advani has no moral right to criticise Karnataka, was forced to quit in July 2011 Gowda and Jagadish Shettar. Yeddyurappa as he had used his children to over mining bribery charges. He left BJP Advani told the rally that BJP policy was threaten Yeddyurappa and extract money to late last year and is heading Karnataka “zero tolerance against corruption in gov- allow him to remain in office,” Dhananjaya Janata Party. ernment and indiscipline in the party”. Kumar alleged. He said several central BJP Ever since he quit the chief minister’s IANS

Former chief Modi may meet Cardinal in Kerala justice J S THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Gujarat Chief Modi has featured in recent debates in the Verma dead Minister Narendra Modi’s proposed visit here state, after state Labour Minister Shibhu Baby has already kicked up a row in Kerala, but it John met him in Gujarat last week. Top Congress NEW DELHI: Justice J S could become more “colourful” as he may meet and Left leaders have condemned that meeting, Verma, who headed the panel a cardinal of the Catholic Church while here. and the engineer-turned labour minister was which suggested changes to the There are reports that Modi might meet forced to admit that the visit was ill-advised. anti-rape laws in the aftermath 53-year-old Reverant Moran Mar Baselios On Sunday, CPM State Secretary Pinarayi of the December 16 gang-rape, Cleemis Catholicos, head of the capital-city head- Vijayan said it was wrong for the Hindu mutt to died due to liver failure and quartered Syro Malankara Catholic Church, in invite Modi. The General Secretary of the mutt, bleeding in the stomach here the state capital. Rithambharananda Swamikel, retorted that the yesterday. He was 80. According to a top BJP source, Modi is likely invitation was no political matter, and the reli- The former Chief Justice of to call on the new cardinal at his headquarters gious institution had also extended invitations for India died at Gurgaon’s Medanta here on April 24, as the Gujarat chief minister the celebrations to Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi Hospital. “Justice Verma was arrives in the state to take part in the Sivagiri and Defence Minister A K Antony. Only Modi admitted to the hospital on Friday Mutt’s silver jubilee celebrations. had accepted the invitation, he said. with complaint of liver failure. “It’s all a question of timing for the cardinal. State BJP President V Muraleedharan He died at 9.30pm of liver fail- If the timing is right, the meeting could take slammed the CPM for its “restlessness” over the ure and bleeding in the stomach,” place. Modi will drive from the airport to the visit of a chief minister. “They accuse Modi of the Medanta’s official spokesperson Church headquarters. If he is not meeting the Gujarat riots (of 2002) but the CPM shared the said. Cardinal, he will take a helicopter to Varkala stage with Abdul Nasir Maudany, an accused in Justice Verma was the 27th (where the mutt is located) to take part in the Coimbatore blasts (he was later acquitted) and Chief Justice of India from March celebrations. After the celebrations, he will fly in the Bangalore blast case. They have no right 25, 1997 to January 18, 1998. back in a chartered flight,” said a source in the to say whom not to invite,” he said. IANS BJP requesting anonymity. IANS TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

PRAYER TIME Frenchman News in Numbers QATAR ECONOMIC OUTLOOK aims for both 2013 5 Fajr (Dawn) 3:44 Shorook (Sunrise) 5:04 poles in a year Zuhr (Noon) 11:32 in world first Asr (Afternoon) 3:01 OSLO: A French adventurer Maghrib (Sunset) 6:02 hopes to reach both the North Isha (Night) 7:32 and South Poles alone and unaided within one year in what would be a world first, he said yesterday after completing the WEATHER first half of his trek. Faysal Hanneche, 40, reached the Today Wednesday Thursday Weather North Pole on April 15 on his own, Conditions: pulling two sleds loaded with 120 The global market in gas remains highly segmented, with prices across Clear Fair Clear kilos of equipment across hundreds major regions diverging . The gap between Japanese prices and Henry Slight dust and of kilometres in temperatures drop- partly cloudy. ping to -42 degrees Celsius. Hub prices (in the US) widened in August 2008 and more significantly “It’s a French first. I did it High: 34° High:33° High:33° again from July 2011 through the first half of 2012, albeit with a slight Low: 24° Low: 23° Low: 22° alone, without anything to pull me (such as a sail), I pulled eve- reversal in the trend in September and October. Recent price dynamics rything myself, all alone,” he said have been dominated by regional developments. In the US, fast-expanding on his return to Oslo. supplies of unconventional (shale and lean) gas have driven down prices. Hanneche, who divides his time between Norway and France, said But in Asia, the vast majority of trades are linked to the price of crude DOHA - SUN & SEA he was surprised by the constant oil, and a liquid hub market that reflects natural gas supply–demand SUN TIDE SEA movement of the Arctic’s pack ice, which could in one night leave balances (“gas on gas” pricing) is yet to form. Options for Asian LNG hubs SUNRISE | SUNSET WIND HIGH | LOW him 8km further from his goal, are being considered in the Republic of Korea, Shanghai and Singapore. 05:04 18:02 02:30 & 15:45 09:15 & 21:30 18-25/35 KT erasing half the distance he had Asian regulatory, financial and infrastructure challenges will take time to progressed the previous day. THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW “It’s actually a game of chess,” overcome but are not insurmountable. he explained. HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER “The pack ice moves and you Natural gas prices ($ per million British thermal units) adapt to the movement. After two MUSCAT 34/28 T-storms 33/28 T-storms weeks, you start to move with it. MAKKAH 38/22 Partly cloudy 40/26 Partly cloudy You don’t look at the sun anymore US (Henry Hub) Europe LNG - Japan KUWAIT 32/21 Clear 30/21 Partly cloudy (which never sets at this time of BAHRAIN 31/24 Partly cloudy 30/24 Partly cloudy year), it’s the pack ice you have to SANAA 27/16 Showers/clear 28/15 Showers/clear watch,” he said. RIYADH 32/18 Partly cloudy 30/17 Clear His journey took him on a DUBAI 35/25 Partly cloudy 35/25 Fair 400km roundtrip from the float- BAGHDAD 27/14 Fair 29/14 Clear ing Russian base Barneo to the North Pole, and was peppered THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW with frightening moments. An ice barrier several kilo- HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER metres long forced him to leave behind most of his equipment to ATHENS 24/13 Partly cloudy 25/13 Partly cloudy cover the final 17km to the pole, WASHINGTON 16/09 Partly cloudy 22/07 T-storms not knowing if he would be able SYDNEY 23/10 Clear 23/10 Clear to recover his tent and sleds on LONDON 19/08 Partly cloudy 21/09 Partly cloudy the way back for his trek home. PARIS 18/07 Partly cloudy 20/08 Partly cloudy “I only had my skis, a satel- ISTANBUL 17/04 Showers/clear 18/04 Clear lite phone, food for 24 hours and MANILA 35/27 Showers/clear 36/27 Partly cloudy my flags,” he said. “When I told DHAKA 34/20 Fair 34/21 T-storms experts of polar expeditions what DELHI 35/23 Fair 37/23 Partly cloudy I’d done, they said it was a suicide ISLAMABAD 27/17 T-storms 30/18 Partly cloudy mission.” Source : http://www.qsa.gov.qa/ REUTERS Reverse extinction: Should we redo the dodo?

PARIS: Woolly mammoths take maybe a year or two years. 2011 they planned to use DNA stomp through the Siberian For a mammoth maybe 20, 30 from frozen carcasses to resur- tundra as the giant moa strides years, maybe sooner,” evolution- rect within six years the woolly the forest floor of New Zealand ary geneticist Hendrik Poinar of mammoth which died out during and Tasmania’s dog-like “tigers” Canada’s McMaster University the last Ice Age. stalk their prey under the cover said of ongoing “de-extinction” And in Britain, Oxford of night. efforts. University scientists have obtained This is not a snapshot of times In 2009, researchers announced genetic data from museum-held past, nor next year’s sequel to they had cloned a bucardo, also remains of the dodo, the flightless Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park. called a Pyrenean Ibex, using Indian Ocean island bird hunted Instead, it is a scenario that DNA taken from the last member to extinction by 1680. some biogeneticists see as plau- of this family of Spanish moun- Scientists believe reconstruc- sible in our own lifetimes: the tain goats before she died in 2000. tion would be feasible for most resurrection of species driven to This was the first cloned ani- animals for which DNA has sur- extinction, sometimes thousands mal born from an extinct subspe- vived, possibly going back 200,000 of years ago. cies, but the success was mixed years — a limit that would exclude Next Thursday will be 60 years — the kid, borne by a domestic a Jurassic Park-like revival of the since Francis Crick and James goat, died within 10 minutes from dinosaurs. Watson published their paper a lung abnormality. “The way it is going now, I can unveiling the structure of DNA, Just last month, a team at see why people would imagine it the double-helix genetic code for Australia’s University of New (de-extinction) is possible,” said life. South Wales said they had cloned Poinar. Today, some experts believe embryos of the gastric-brooding “I could envision that if there that by harnessing this break- frog which died out in 1983 and were no laws preventing it and through knowledge, the first was named for its weird repro- the ethics had been worked, out, extinct species could be revived ductive technique of swallowing swathes of land in Siberia repopu- within years. its eggs, brooding them in its lated with mammoths and cave They could be cloned from stomach and then spitting out lions. “The discussion is really: genetic material teased from the offspring. ‘Should we?’” preserved tissues, with the repro- The cloned embryos all died London School of Economics grammed egg implanted in a within a few days. sociologist Carrie Friese fears that cousin species. Australian teams are also work- ethics have been left by the way- Farther down the road, other ing on reviving the Tasmanian side in the rush to resurrect. “My species could live again through tiger with DNA obtained from concern is that the focus is too artificially-reconstituted an ethanol-preserved pup of the much on: ‘Can we do this?’ rather sequences of their DNA, goes the dog-like, marsupial predator that than what we do with the living argument. died out in the 1930s. being that is the result,” she said. “For the gastric frog it would In Japan, geneticists said in AFP

Gil takes road trip to find musical origins in Viramundo

NYON, Switzerland: Noted Saturday night at the “Visions du Dalva, across the southern hemi- Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil, Reel”, an international documen- sphere, from Brazil’s Bahia to who says that struggle has been tary festival in Nyon, Switzerland. Australia’s Northern Territories a counterpoint to his successful “Through musical encounters we and South Africa before returning musical life, takes a road trip in were looking at the links between to the Amazon. the film Viramundo to seek out countries and their peoples who It opens in Salvador where the his musical origins in Brazil, were submitted to domination and slim Gil was born, 70 years ago. Africa and Australia. colonisation, that was the case of He takes part in the pulsating The documentary by Swiss Brazil, Australia and South Africa,” Carnival. He then flies to Sydney, filmmaker Pierre-Yves Borgeaud, Gil told a group of reporters prior to where he meets Peter Garrett, which uses the lens of indigenous a sold-out screening at the festival. Australia’s education minister and communities struggling to pre- In the film, producer Emmanuel a former lead singer in the rock serve their cultural identity Getaz accompanies Gil and his band Midnight Oil. after colonial rule, premiered on faithful percussionist, Gustavo Di REUTERS Tuesday 23 April 2013 13 Jumada II 1434 Volume 18 Number 5678 Price: QR2

www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Stock brokers warned against giving huge discounts DOHA: Stock brokerages have Brokerages charge QR2.75 Some large brokerages, includ- brokerages to give as much as liquidity level indicators like trad- bourse regulator might reduce been warned by the regulator of per QR1, 000 worth of sell or ing the banks, were giving away 60 percent or more discounts to ing value and volumes have been speculation in the market. the Qatari bourse against giving buy transactions carried out by high discounts to their big and customers, said Al Kahloot. He falling by the day. “Most of the speculators were more than 50 percent discount in them for their clients. The circu- prized customers and that might said the new rule would severely Discounted commissions mat- getting discounts, so they may commissions they charge on sells lar says brokers who violate the have enraged others, said the affect the bigger brokerages and ter in such a situation, said Al clear out now since it will be and buys from stock traders. directive of the QFMA would be sources. their smaller counterparts who Kahloot. If the equity market that much more expensive for In a circular issued to the bro- taken to task. Some brokerages serving large do not have shark investors as were vibrant, such discounts entry (buys) and exit (sells),” kerages, the Qatar Financial There are 11 brokerage asset management firms were giv- their regular customers would wouldn’t have mattered at all, the agency quoted an analyst as Markets Authority (QFMA), the houses and three of them are ing away discounts of up to 100 benefit. he added. saying. regulator of Qatar Exchange (QE), banks. Sources at the bourse percent to their prized customers, The problem with the market International wire agency Liquidity in the market might said in a stern tone they must not told this newspaper the QFMA stock analyst Bashir Al Kahloot right now is that it has been facing Reuters that broke the news yes- be hurt. It might be reduced cut their commissions by more might have acted on complaints told this newspaper. a severe liquidity crunch. Trading terday, meanwhile, said quoting slightly, the analyst said. than 50 percent. from some brokerages. And it was common for some sentiment remains subdued and analysts that the decision of the THE PENINSULA

Bali summit to Deputy Premier focus on select ICC action plan: calls for revival WTO Dy Chief

DOHA: A top World Trade Organisation executive yesterday of ‘Doha Round’ made it clear that the 2013 Bali WTO summit will not be focus- ing on all the five recommenda- World Chambers Congress opens tions laid out by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) to BY SATISH KANADY lifting of barriers and customs resolve the much-delayed “Doha restrictions and protectionist Round” deadlock. DOHA: The 8th edition of measures imposed by the major Valentine Sendanyoye World Chambers Congress industrialised countries. Rugwabiz, Deputy Director kick-started here with a call to In contrast, he added, the devel- General, WTO, Geneva, said the unlock the 12-year old deadlock oping countries are working to cut Bali Summit will be focusing only over the “Doha Round”. taxes and custom tariffs on goods on three potential deliverables, Opening the four-day event, imported from industrialized out of the five-point recommen- Deputy Prime Minister H E nations to increases the volume dations of the ICC. According to Ahmad bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud of trade between world countries. her, the three ‘deliverables’ are urged the international business He noted that the international the trade facilitation agreement, leaders to revive the Doha Round trade agenda initiative, launched implementation of duty-free negotiations for an equitable glo- by the International Chamber of and quota-free market access for bal development . Commerce in conjunction with exports from least-development The Deputy Premier said that Qatar Chamber of Commerce countries and phase out of agri- the industrialised nations’ adher- and Industry, aims to reach new Deputy Prime Minister H E Ahmad bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud addressing the 8th edition of World Chambers cultural subsidies. ence to the protectionist pro- global rules for trade and invest- Congress in Doha yesterday. Trade facilitation covers series cedures and their insistence on ment that leads the WTO beyond of measures whereby countries demanding developing countries to the Doha Round. protectionist restrictions hamper- The Deputy Prime Minister General, ICC, Paris; Gerard reduce red tape and simplify cut custom tariffs on their indus- The Deputy Premier said the ing the entry of the products of pointed out that the global trade Worms, Chairman, ICC, Paris; customs and other procedures trial commodities has caused the establishment of a balanced, fair those states to their markets. body, though made significant Victor K Fung, Chairman, ICC; for handling goods at borders. global economy to lose at least and multilateral global economy He hoped that the summit’s progress in the resolution of com- Remy Rowhani, CEO, Qatar An agreement on trade facilita- $170bn per year should the Doha must take into account the needs, agenda would be an approach mercial disputes between its mem- Chamber, were among others tion should significantly reduce agreement had been signed. benefits and common interests of and base for the return of the ber states, need to further keep who addressed the opening ses- costs, speed up and streamline Doha Development Round was all its parties. It is no longer accept- negotiations to the right track to pace with the changing times and sion . The International Chamber administrative and other official aimed to support the global econ- able to ask developing countries to achieve real and balanced devel- to attract new important and influ- of Commerce World Chambers procedures, and create a more omy and to help developing coun- cancel or reduce tariffs and open opment for all member states ential parties in its membership. Federation, in association with transparent, predictable and effi- tries and least developed countries their markets to the products of through global trade liberalisa- Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim Al the Qatar Chamber, is organis- cient environment for cross-border to integrate into a balanced one. the industrialized nations while the tion. Liberalisation is a means and Thani, chairman, Qatar Chamber; ing the event. trade. The ICC recommends that The Doha round envisaged the industrialized countries still impose not an end, he reminded. Jean Guy Carrier, Secretary THE PENINSULA the WTO agreement on trade facil- itation should be concluded by the 9th WTO Ministerial Conference in Bali in December 2013. Global trade deals could create 21 million jobs: ICC On the duty-free and quota-free market access, the ICC recom- BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB question. Negotiating with 159 mended that the developed WTO member countries to find a com- members that have not already DOHA: Duty-free and quota- mon interest is not easy. What agreed to provide duty-free and free exports from least-devel- I can speculate that at the end quota-free commitments should oped countries will boost global of the day it up to the members fulfill their commitments unilat- GDP by about $1tn. Free mar- who have to decide. As far as erally as of now. It recommended ket access and reforms in the trade facilitation agreement is that the large developing counties existing trade agreements will concerned, it is doable.” should also consider extending create over 21 million new jobs On the issue of multilateral the DFQF commitments to LDCs across the globe, International trade, Fung said: “We need to (least-developed countries) Chamber of Commerce (ICC) realise that over the last 50 years On the phase out of agricul- said here yesterday. the world has changed a lot. The tural export subsidies, the ICC The ICC, in association with way production is done today is recommendation notes that Qatar Chamber, on behalf of glo- very different. Today more than members have already reached bal business finalised five impor- 50 percent of trade is of compo- a conditional agreement during tant recommendations for World nents and semi-finished goods. So the 6th WTO Ministerial in 2005 Trade Organisation (WTO) mem- the ‘sustainability’ and ‘fair distri- to phase out the export subsi- ber countries to salvage parts of bution of income’ need to be taken dies and disciplines on all export on-going Doha trade negotiations into account while formulating measures by the end of 2013. that could boost global GDP by long term development goals.” The members must now agree to $960bn. The recommendations have phase out agricultural export sub- The initiative could achieve been endorsed by the executive sidies by the 2013 Bali Summit. tangible outcomes by the end FROM LEFT: Valentine Rugwabiza, Deputy Director General, World Trade Organisation (WTO); Gerard Worms, board of the ICC’s governing “Renunciation of food export of 2013, to harvest gains from Chairman, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and Vice Chairman, Rothschild Europe; Harold McGraw III, council. And they will be deliv- restrictions”, ‘Expansion of trade the WTO’s Doha Development Vice Chairman, ICC, and Chairman and CEO, The McGraw Hill Companies; Jean-Guy Carrier, Secretary General, ered to G20 leaders and WTO in IT products and encourage Round. These recommendations ICC; Remy Rowhani, Director General, Qatar Chamber; Victor K Fung, Honorary Chairman, ICC; and Peter Mihok, ministers ahead of the next G20 the growth of e-commerce” are include: Conclude a trade facilita- Chairman, ICC World Chambers Federation (WCF); at a media briefing during the ICC WCF 8th World Chambers Summit in Saint Petersburg and among other two recommenda- tion agreement; Implement duty- Congress at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha yesterday. SALIM MATRAMKOT also to the WTO Ministerial tions made by the ICC to unlock free and quota-free market access Conference in Bali later this year. the “Doha Round”. Valentine for exports from least-developed in a press conference held on General, QC; Harold McGraw where the Doha Round of trade “We are urging to the world called up on the 1,000-odd busi- countries; Phase out agricultural the sidelines of the first day of III, President and CEO, McGraw- talks stalled over 10 years ago. It leaders to implement these rec- ness leaders attending the Doha export subsidies; Renounce food the ongoing ICC WCF 8th World Hill Companies; Victor K Fung, intends to inject a new vigour in ommendations which have been summit to chip in critical inputs export restrictions and Expand Chambers Congress. Present were Honorary Chairman of ICC making globalisation an inclusive quantified by Petersons Institute to make the Bali summit success- trade in IT products and encour- Valentine S Rugwabiza, Deputy Business World Trade Agenda. process. in Washington. They have come ful and chart ‘Bali and beyond’. age growth of e-commerce Director-General, WTO; Gerard The recommendations are part Replying to a question about out with unbelievable figures “You are the ultimate beneficiar- worldwide. Worms, Chairman, ICC; Jean- of the ICC Business World Trade the deliverability of these rec- related to output and employ- ies of trade rules and you have the The findings of a detailed Guy Carrier, Secretary General, Agenda, also known as “Beyond ommendations, Rugwabiza said: ment,” added Rowhani. legitimate voice,” she said. market study were announced ICC; Remy Rowhani, Director Doha” that aims to pick up “This is a 100 million dollar THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS QCB to flexibly adjust regular debt issues QNB plans to issue 7-year No plan to introduce reverse repo in immediate future, says Central Bank Governor bond worth DUBAI: Qatar Central Bank “We, however, would con- would take stock of the evolving June 2011. It rose again to 1.03 not finance the government by (QCB) will, if needed, flexibly tinue to keep a close watch on situation in future and react flex- percent in February but is still purchasing government bonds in adjust the amounts of local cur- the evolving domestic and global ibly if there is any need to change well below the March 2012 peak the primary market, there is lit- up to $500m rency bonds and Treasury bills developments and would react the current practice,”Sheikh of 1.75 percent. tle scope of enhancing its stock which it offers, and believes the accordingly, if required.” Abdullah said. In January, the International of securities substantially in the DUBAI/DOHA: Qatar issues will reduce Qatar’s reli- In March, QCB placed QR1bn In the wake of the 2011 inter- Monetary Fund said Qatar’s cen- near future,” he said. National Bank plans to issue ance on foreign funding, the of Islamic bonds and QR3bn of ventions in the money market, tral bank needed to start man- “Therefore, the QCB is opera- a seven-year bond of at least Governor said here yesterday. conventional bonds, half with total available liquidity dropped aging liquidity fluctuations more tionally constrained to move $500m in a swift one-day deal The QCB launched quarterly three-year maturities and half to a mere QR5.8bn at the end of finely through more flexible open towards the introduction of reverse to take advantage of favourable issues of riyal-denominated bonds with five-year, directly with local that year from QR73.2bn a year market operations. repo at the present juncture.” conditions in the debt market. in March, giving it a tool to man- banks. In addition, the central earlier, the QCB has said. Asked if the QCB planned to The new bond issue programme The lender set final price guid- age excess liquidity in the banking bank has been holding monthly But excess liquidity has begun launch a reverse repo instru- will, however, deepen the local ance of 3 percent for the deal, sector as the economy gears up auctions of 91-, 182- and 273-day building again. Funds parked ment to absorb liquidity in case debt market in the long term. tighter than price talk of 3.125 for heavy infrastructure spending Treasury bills since 2011. The vol- by banks at the central bank’s of short-term fluctuations, as Asked whether domestic bond percent released earlier in the in the next few years. ume of funds drained through this low-yielding deposit facility hit the IMF recommended, Sheikh issues meant Qatar would be day, indicating healthy investor “As of now, we plan to issue tool has stayed in recent months a two-year high of QR204bn in Abdullah said there were not less active in issuing US dollar- demand. Final pricing could be 2 the same amounts in every quar- at QR4bn per month, despite a January this year, though they enough government securities denominated sovereign bonds, basis points above or below 3 per- ter. Cumulatively, that would build-up in surplus liquidity in the subsequently fell back to QR138bn outstanding at present to use Sheikh Abdullah said: “A local cent. Arranging banks said order imply total issuances of QR16bn banking system. in February, the latest QCB data such an instrument in a sustained debt market would enhance books were over $2bn in a sales ($4.4bn) during the year,” H E “As of now, we intend to con- show. Loose liquidity pushed the manner. “As of now, we are not options for domestic financing document informing investors of Sheikh Abdullah bin Saud Al tinue with the Treasury bill auc- average three-month interbank contemplating the introduction and reduce reliance on foreign final guidance. Thani said in written answers to tions of the same amount as done lending rate down to 0.76 percent of reverse repo in the immedi- funding.” He did not elaborate. QNB is expected to print a questions from Reuters. hitherto. As mentioned before, we in November, the lowest since ate future... Since the QCB does REUTERS benchmark-sized deal, typically at least $500m, taking advantage of low interest rates to lock in longer- term funding which will help the Al Sada meets Bulgarian Deputy PM bank extend its debt maturity pro- file. “It is not related to a political deal or buyout. My understand- Masraf Al Rayan nets ing is that it’s for general funding purposes only. They want to take advantage of the current condi- QR400m profit in Q1 tions in terms of rates,” said a senior Doha-based banking source. “The thinking seems to be that DOHA: Masraf Al Rayan achieved deposits increased by 48.3 percent to it’s better to go to the market now a net profit of QR400m for the first QR45.51bn compared to QR30.69bn. rather than wait for a potential quarter of 2013, an increase of 13.3 Total returns on shareholders’ liquidity squeeze down the road.” percent compared to the corre- equity increased by 9 percent to QNB is one of the Gulf’s most sponding period in 2012. reach about QR9.24bn; earnings per acquisitive lenders, with ambitious The outstanding results confirm the share reached QR0.53 compared to expansion plans in the region and success of the strategy adopted by the QR0.47 and the book value per share further afield. It completed the bank in managing its banking, invest- increased to QR12.33 compared to purchase of a majority stake in ment and commercial operations in QR11.31.” Societe Generale’s Egyptian arm line with the Shariah guidelines and Mustafawi also said that signifi- for $2bn earlier this year. The principles, said Dr Hussain Ali Al cant progress has been made regard- bank said in December it was Abdulla, Chairman and Managing ing fulfilling the requirements of looking at a majority stake in one Director of Masraf Al Rayan. acquiring a stake in Islamic Bank of the top 10 Turkish banks. “We are pleased of these exemplary of Britain. “We are at an advanced QNB last tapped the US dollar results, we aim to scale even higher stage regarding fulfilling the require- The Minister of Energy and Industry H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada with Ekaterina Zaharieva, Deputy bond market in November when it heights of success in the coming ments of the concerned authorities Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development & Public Works of Bulgaria at Qatar Petroleum priced a $1bn long five-year bond, months, especially in the light of the in the UK. Regarding the acquisi- headquarters yesterday. Talks during the meeting covered a number of bilateral projects under discus- maturing in 2018, at 2.125 percent. massive increase in the state’s gen- tion of a stake in a Bank in Libya, sion between Qatar and Bulgaria and the ways to further strengthen and develop relations between the The bond was bid at 2.40 percent eral budget for the year 2013-2014, we are in the final stages of prepar- two countries. yesterday afternoon, according to in which over QR 210bn have been ing the required studies. This will be Thomson Reuters data. allocated for government spending, followed by the signing of a memo- At initial guidance, the new an 18 percent increase over the pre- randum of understanding with our bond was expected to offer a new vious year; and over QR 40bn have partners before we proceed to secure issue premium of at least 25 bps, been earmarked for major projects,” the required approvals from the con- QR40.4m profit for QIMC in first quarter according to calculations by IFR he added. cerned authorities in both Qatar and Markets, a Thomson Reuters unit. Announcing the results, Adel Libya,” he added. DOHA: Qatar Industrial March 31, 2013. The state- a statement. The earnings per Deutsche Bank, HSBC Holdings, Mustafawi, Group CEO, said: “The Mustafawi also reiterated the Manufacturing Company ments revealed a net profit of phare amounted to QR1.02 as JP Morgan , Mitsubishi, Standard bank’s total assets increased to bank’s commitment to exert every (QIMC) disclosed the interim QR40.4m compared to QR52m of March 31, 2013, as against Chartered and QNB itself were QR62.5bn compared to QR57.87bn effort to provide its customers with financial statement for the for the corresponding period QR1.31 during the same period mandated to arrange the deal. recorded in the first quarter of 2012, the most innovative and competitive three month period ended in 2012, the company said in in 2012. QNA REUTERS an increase of 8 percent. Financing products and services and to real- activities increased by 20.4 per- ise the best possible returns for its cent to reach QR43.29bn compared shareholders. QATARI MARKET to QR35.96bn while customers THE PENINSULA European stocks waver on Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 104.44 0.49 % Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 106.50 1.34 % Aa2 AA Italy progress, US data Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 124.88 2.09 % Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 118.38 2.29 % Aa2 AA LONDON: European stocks were mixed yesterday as trad- Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 114.38 2.65 % Aa2 AA ers balanced political progress in Italy with disappointing Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 174.50 3.80 % Aa2 AA earnings and housing data from the US. Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 135.75 4.17 % Aa2 AA On the the foreign exchange markets the dollar dominated Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 126.25 4.17 % Aa2 AA sentiment as it spiked close to the 100 yen mark after the G20 Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 105.50 1.02 % Aa2 AA cautiously endorsed the Bank of Japan’s huge stimulus measures despite wariness from emerging countries. Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 115.00 2.71 % Aa2 AA At close, London’s FTSE 100 index of leading companies was Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 105.75 1.27 % A1 A- 0.09 percent lower at 6,280.62 points, in Paris the CAC 40 was Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.75 2.12 % A1 A- flat at 3,652.13 points, while in Frankfurt the DAX 30 gained QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.50 1.97 % NR NR 0.24 percent to 7,478.11 points. The best performing European QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 104.25 1.43 % Aa3 A+ market was Italy’s FTSE MIB index, which jumped 1.57 percent QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 105.00 2.01 % Aa3 A+ to 16,007.10 points on investor relief after the surprise re-election Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.75 2.22 % A2 A- of President Giorgio Napolitano over the weekend. Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 105.75 1.67 % A2 A US stocks were also mixed with off the mark earnings from Caterpillar weighing on sentiment. In midday trading, the Dow Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 130.88 2.43 % A2 A Jones Industrial Average fell 0.33 percent, the broad-based S&P Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 112.38 2.96 % A2 A 500 added 0.07 percent, and the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 111.25 3.86 % A2 A Index climbed 0.57 percent. The National Association of Realtors Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 106.13 1.19 % Aa3 A meanwhile reported that US existing-home sales declined in Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 108.25 3.27 % Aa3 A March by 0.6 percent from February. Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 111.13 3.58 % Aa3 A In foreign exchange activity, the dollar spiked to 99.90 yen in Asian trading hours, reaching the highest level since April 11. SOVEREIGNS It later stood at 99.32 yen in London deals, up from 99.52 yen Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P late in New York on Friday. The dollar has not breached the Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 104.88 0.37 % Aa2 AA key 100-yen barrier since April 2009. Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 126.63 1.99 % Aa2 AA Meanwhile, the euro edged down to $1.3048 from $1.3049 Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 110.25 2.37 % NR NR late on Friday. On the London Bullion Market, gold climbed to $1,424.50 an ounce from $1,405.50. Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 107.25 2.98 % NR NR Asian markets mostly climbed, with Tokyo surging in value Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 125.63 3.77 % NR NR on the back of the falling yen, which boosts exporters. Tokyo Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 117.63 4.09 % NR NR jumped 1.89 percent, while Seoul was up 1.03 percent, Sydney Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 105.50 0.82 % Aa2 AA rose 0.70 percent and Hong Kong added 0.14 percent. Chinese Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 116.63 3.01 % NR BBB stocks dipped 0.11 percent. AFP Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 110.00 3.84 % NR BBB Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 93.25 6.98 % Caa1 B- Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 107.00 3.43 % NR BBB- *Periodic Distribution Amount IMPORTANT NOTE: Oil prices rise on bargain hunting Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services LONDON: Oil prices rose yesterday as bargain-hunt- Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary ers moved in following a price plunge last week that has 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 prompted speculation about a possible cut to Opec output, as take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds investors waited for fresh economic data from China, ana- can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant lysts said. Brent North Sea crude for delivery in June gained liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not 38 cents to $100.03 a barrel in late London deals. New York’s a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and main contract, light sweet crude for May, added 32 cents to consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. $88.33 a barrel. “Crude oil prices started the week on the positive side, follow- ing a strong rebound in the global equity markets that spread optimism and increased risk appetite,” said Myrto Sokou, senior research analyst at Sucden brokers. AFP TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19

Barwa Bank Q1 Qatar index up 0.19pc profit up 53pc DOHA: Barwa Bank’s net profit Dubai, Abu Dhabi bourses hit new highs; Kuwait up for the first quarter of 2013 reached QR156.7m, up high 53 DOHA: Qatar Exchange pur- after posting a big first-quarter 7,124 points - its third successive percent, compared to the bank’s sued its upswing trend yes- loss and warning about second- gain. Last week the index was net profit for the corresponding terday, adding 15.88 points (or quarter earnings. pushed down by sliding global oil period in 2012. The bank’s total 0.19 percent) to advance to Dubai’s index advanced 1.4 prices but it tested and held chart income increased to QR364m, Sheikh Mohamad bin Hamad bin 8,442.66 points from 8,426.78 percent to its highest level since support around 7,050 points. up by 36 percent compared with Jassim Al Thani Steve Troop on Sunday. Among the top December 2009. Abu Dhabi’s In Kuwait, the measure recov- the first quarter of 2012. gainers were Industries Qatar benchmark registered its big- ered early-session losses to hit a Barwa Bank Group also Shariah-compliant banking cost-income ratio. Our core busi- which was up 1.03 percent to gest one-day gain in more than new 29-month peak. It rose 0.3 increased its investment portfolio group. We look forward to further nesses are now firing on all cylin- QR156.60, Commercial Bank two years, climbing 1.8 percent. percent, with Zain and Boubyan by 14.3 percent to QR7.6bn while growth, our continuing contribu- ders and our major commitment rose 0.31 percent to QR64.30, The index, which closed at 3,153 Bank reversing falls in the previ- total shareholders’ equity reached tion to development of the Qatari to treasury & capital markets International Islamic gained points, is at its highest level since ous session with gains of 1.4 and QR5.3bn as at March 31, 2013. economy and Shariah-compliant capacity and capability is now 0.78 percent to QR51.40 and November 2009. 1.6 percent. Sheikh Mohamad bin Hamad financial services, as well as creat- generating real momentum. We Vodafone Qatar was up by 0.67 In Saudi Arabia, PetroRabigh Egypt’s benchmark declined for bin Jassim Al Thani, Chairman ing value for our customers and have been particularly pleased percent to QR8.98. The con- slumped 9.9 percent, dropping the second day this week, slip- and Managing Director of Barwa shareholders.” with the impact of two recent sumer goods and services sec- the permitted daily limit, after ping 0.7 percent. Telecom Egypt Bank Group, said: “Our strong Steve Troop, CEO, Barwa initiatives: The debut of our pri- tor index dropped 0.12 points, reporting a big loss in the first slumped 8.2 percent as the stock financial performance for the first Bank Group, said: “We continue vate banking proposition and the the industrial sector added 0.30 quarter due to a major disruption went ex-dividend; Palm Hills quarter of the year is a validation to achieve strong financial results launch of our debt capital mar- points while the insurance sec- in its supplies of power and steam. Development dipped 1.8 percent of our strategy and represents with return-on-equity trend- kets capability. We will continue tor lost 0.42 points. Saudi Telecom, which reported and Ezz Steel fell 2.2 percent. progress on our journey to becom- ing very positively coupled with to build on our success.” Meanwhile, markets in the disappointing first-quarter earn- Oman’s benchmark dipped ing Qatar’s most recommended progressive improvement in our THE PENINSULA United Arab Emirates rose to ings on Sunday, dipped 0.5 per- 0.3 percent as financial stocks multi-year highs as investors cent. However, trading on the continued to weigh; many have positioned themselves for first- Saudi bourse was broadly posi- reported below-forecast earn- quarter earnings, while Saudi tive, with the Gulf region’s larg- ings for last quarter. Arabia’s PetroRabigh plunged est exchange rising 0.4 percent to QNA/REUTERS Dreamliners set BA signs $12bn deal with Airbus

to fly in a week LONDON: British Airways yesterday announced a deal to buy up to 36 long-haul Airbus A350 passenger planes worth almost $12bn TOKYO/LONDON: Boeing at list prices. BA said parent group IAG, which owns also Spanish Greece offers residence Industries Qatar began installing reinforced lith- carrier Iberia, had signed a Memorandum of Understanding to buy ium-ion batteries on five grounded 18 Airbus A350-1000 aircraft with an option to purchase 18 more. profit up 33pc 787 jets in Japan yesterday, start- Each plane has a catalogue price of $332.1m, according to European to foreign investors ing a process that should make planemaker Airbus’ website, though airlines tend to receive significant DOHA: Industries Qatar (IQ) the first commercial Dreamliners discounts on bulk orders. AFP ATHENS: Greece will be offer- The recession gripping Greece has recorded a net profit of ready to fly again in about a week. ing residence to non-EU investors for a sixth straight year and QR2.54bn for the first quarter Boeing’s Dreamliners have been purchasing or renting property heavy taxation has crippled the of 2013, a 33 percent increase grounded since regulators in the over ¤250,000 ($326,000), in a bid country’s construction industry. over the first quarter of 2012, United States and elsewhere to revive its moribund real estate The Greek crisis has put half a and representing an EPS of ordered all 50 planes out of the industry, officials said yesterday. million sector staff out of work QR4.21 per share. The com- skies in mid-January after batter- The initiative, voted into law and sidelined 12,000 companies, pany’s total assets reached ies on two of them overheated. US • Bullion - Mumbai by parliament last week, comes in Dimitris Kapsimalis, chairman of QR33.38bn during the period. regulators approved a new bat- Gold (10 gm) Standard Rs. 26120 response to strong demand from the confederation of construction Shares in IQ closed 1 percent tery design on Friday. Silver (1 kg) Rs. 46035 Arab, Chinese and Russian inves- firms, said. higher yesterday, prior to the The grounding has cost Boeing an • Indian Rupees QR1 = 14.73 tors, the officials from the interior Under the terms of the multi- results being announced. estimated $600m, halted deliveries ministry and property groups said. billion EU-IMF bailout that saved “With major expansions now and forced some airlines to lease • Sensex Valid for five years and open to its economy from bankruptcy, the complete, significant cost-advan- alternative aircraft. Several airlines BSE 19016.46 renewal, the residence plan fol- Greek state itself must raise 2.6 taged volume growth in fertilizers have said they will seek compensa- NSE 5783.10 lows similar measures adopted by billion euros through asset sales and petrochemicals should allow tion from Boeing, potentially adding • Short-term investment plan from LIC International upto 6.4 percent return Hungary, Spain and Portugal in this year. In addition to control- for decent earnings growth in to the plane maker’s losses. p.a. (in dollar) the past. The permits will enable ling stakes in state entreprises, a 2013 even if economic conditions The first five jets to receive the • Housing loan from HDFC LTD the holders, their spouses and large number of state real estate deteriorate,” Reuters quoted QNB new strengthened battery system • Mutual Fund: Buy & Sell: SBI MF, HDFC MF, UTI MF, Birla Sun Life MF, children under the age of 18 to has been put up for lease or sale, Financial Services as saying in a all belong to All Nippon Airways, Tata MF, Reliance MF etc. freely travel — though not work including ministry buildings and research note issued after the the airline that launched the first • Advise on Indian Income Tax matters for NRIs. — in the Schengen area for three consulate buildings abroad. results were announced commercial Dreamliner service. Contact: Investec, Tel: 44325060/44365060 email: [email protected] consecutive months at a time. AFP THE PENINSULA REUTERS TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

QE Indices Summary QE Index 8,442.66 0.19 % WORLD STOCK INDICES GOLD & SILVER EXCHANGE QE Total Return Index 12,062.63 0.22 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 2,574.19 0.64 % RATE QE All Share Index 2,149.91 0.10 % INDEX Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low QE All Share Banks & Financial 2,002.03 0.03 % GOLD Buying Selling Services All Ordinaries 4955.433 32.478 0.66 5174.4 4664.6 QE All Share Consumer Goods & 5,251.06 0.12 % QR168.1676 US$ ...... QR 3.6305 QR 3.6500 Services Cac 40 Index/D 3674.63 22.67 0.62 3871.58 3584.38 QE All Share Industrials 2,991.58 0.30 % SILVER UK ...... QR 5.5154 QR 5.5927 QE All Share Insurance 1,980.93 0.42 % Dj Indu Average 14547.51 10.37 0.07 14887.5 12035.1 QR 2.7756 Euro ...... QR 4.7198 QR 4.7857 QE All Share Real Estate 1,557.43 0.95 % CA$ ...... QR 3.5195 QR 3.5888 QE All Share Telecoms 1,193.26 0.25 % Egypt Cma Gn Idx 1026.29 32.57 3.28 999.95 312.38 Swiss Fr ...... QR 3.8733 QR 3.9277 QE All Share Transportation 1,418.24 0.55 % Hang Seng Inde/D 22044.37 30.8 0.14 23944.74 21423.25 Yen ...... QR 0.0362 QR 0.0369 QE Market Summary Comparison Aus$ ...... QR 3.7093 QR 3.7830 Iseq Overall/D 3856.85 45.86 1.2 4009.59 3396.67 CRUDE OIL Today Previous day Ind Re ...... QR 0.0666 QR 0.0679 22-04-2013 21-04-2013 Karachi 100 In/D 18605.55 -25.66 -0.14 18791.22 16036.31 Index 8,442.66 8,426.78 BRENT Pak Re ...... QR 0.0367 QR 0.0375 Change 15.88 4.52 Nikkei 225 Index 13568.37 251.89 1.89 13568.25 10398.61 Peso ...... QR 0.0874 QR 0.0891 % 0.19 0 . 0 5 $ 101.04 SL Re ...... QR 0.0285 QR 0.0291 YTD% 1.00 0.81 S&P 500 Index/D 1555.25 13.64 0.88 1597.35 1266.74 DUBAI Taka ...... QR 0.0463 QR 0.0472 Volume 6,649,838 2,606,885 Straits Times/D 3308.92 14.87 0.45 3331.26 3160.83 Nep Re ...... QR 0.0418 QR 0.0427 Value (QAR) 181,573,895.08 85,552,139.51 $ 100.38 Trades 2,823 1 , 5 6 4 SA Rand ...... QR 0.3894 QR 0.3971 Straits Times/D 2971.47 22.7 0.77 3035.78 2657.77 Up 14 | Down 21 | Unchanged 04

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TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 Australian Spurs cruise past Lakers swimming, athletics get NBA: Thunder tame Rockets in first game of best-of-seven series funding cuts SAN ANTONIO, Texas: Thunder’s rout of the Rockets. San Antonio’s star trio of Tim Russell Westbrook delivered SYDNEY: Two of Australia’s Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu 19 points, 10 assists and eight biggest Olympic sports, swim- Ginobili combined for 53 points rebounds while Serge Ibaka added ming and athletics, had their yesterday to lead the Spurs to 17 points and seven rebounds for annual high-performance fund- a 91-79 victory over the Los the victors. ing cut yesterday by the govern- Angeles Lakers in their NBA James Harden, traded by the ment-backed Australian Sports play-off opener. Thunder to the Rockets prior to Commission (ASC). With Lakers superstar Kobe the season, connected on just 6-of- Swimming, the best-funded of Bryant sidelined by a torn 19 from the floor but led Houston Australian sports saw its 2013-14 Achilles tendon, the result was with 20 points. He got little help allocation from the ASC reduced exactly what many expected in from fellow starters Jeremy Lin, by 5.8 percent to Aus$8,165,000 the first game of the best-of-seven Omer Asik, Chandler Parsons ($8,389,000). Western Conference first-round and Greg Smith, who combined Athletics Australia’s high-per- series. for just 28 points for a Rockets formance funding was cut by 3.8 And it was just one of the lop- team in the playoffs for the first percent to Aus$6,570,000 for the sided results in the West yester- time since 2009. same period. day, followed by the top-seeded After what coach Kevin Swimming Australia was told Oklahoma City Thunder’s 120- McHale called a “nervy” start, by the ASC that it needed to 91 triumph over the Houston Houston settled down, but never reduce overheads and “to dem- Rockets. got their potent offense firing. onstrate effective leadership and Duncan posted the 139th play- “We just didn’t play well -- governance of the sport”. off double-double of his career that was the bottom line,” said Wholesale reforms are tak- with 17 points and 10 rebounds. McHale. AFP ing place in swimming with the Parker added 18 points and appointment of two new bosses eight assists and also made three to Swimming Australia and new steals, while Ginobili, showing no NBA First-Round programmes to boost high per- sign of the hamstring strain that formance, team-building and sidelined him late in the regular Play-off Results address psychological issues for Oklahoma City Thunder forward Nick Collison (left) and Thunder guard Kevin Martin (centre) battle with Houston season, contributed 18 points. Eastern Conference athletes. Rockets guard Patrick Beverley (for a loose ball in the second half of their Game 1 NBA Play-offs game in Spurs point guard Parker noted At Indianapolis Leigh Nugent also recently Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, yesterday. that without Bryant, the Lakers Indiana 107 Atlanta 90 resigned as head coach of the were “a totally different team.” (Indiana lead series 1-0) national team. “It’s not an excuse,” Lakers do anything about it,” he tweeted -- clearly have a tough task ahead turnovers and lacklustre 3-of-15 At Miami The funding cut follows a coach Mike D’Antoni said of after the game ended. of them when the series resumes shooting from three-point range. Miami 110 Milwaukee 87 lacklustre showing at last year’s Bryant’s absence. “I thought we “It’s great to have that com- on Wednesday. “We can’t get discouraged that (Miami lead series 1-0) London Olympics by the once- had good shots, we’ve got to knock mentary,” D’Antoni dead-panned, Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol we lost the first game,” Howard dominant swimming team, which Western Conference them down.” drawing a laugh when asked about did what they could. Howard said. “We saw a couple of things delivered its lowest tally in the Recuperating from tendon sur- Bryant’s mid-game critiques on scored 20 points with 15 rebounds that we could have done a lot bet- At San Antonio pool since Barcelona 1992 -- one gery, Bryant still made his pres- the social networking site. and Gasol delivered 16 points, 16 ter, and we’ll do a better job in the San Antonio 91 LA Lakers 79 gold, six silver and three bronze. ence felt with a few pointers for Even with point guard Steve rebounds and six assists. second game.” (San Antonio lead series 1-0) It was also Australian swim- his team-mates on Twitter. Nash back from an extended Nash scored 16 points in 29 In Oklahoma City, Kevin At Oklahoma City ming’s first Games without an “Nothing worse than watching injury absence, the Lakers -- the minutes on the floor, but the Durant scored 24 points with six Oklahoma City 120 Houston 91 individual gold medal since the your brothers struggle and u can’t last team to clinch a playoff berth Lakers couldn’t overcome 18 rebounds and four assists in the (Oklahoma City lead series 1-0) 1976 Montreal Olympics. Two inquiries commissioned after the disappointing perform- ance found the squad lacked lead- ership and that “toxic” incidents such as drunkenness and bullying Royals complete Red had gone unchecked. Rangers eliminate Devils The ASC said it was aiming for a top-five finish at the 2016 NEW YORK : The New York “We’re playing our best hockey Olympics and Paralympics, top 15 Sox clean sweep Rangers insist they are focused NHL Results we’ve played all year,” Callahan at the 2014 Winter Olympics, first much more on their drive Boston 3 Florida 0 said. “Now is the time to do that. place on the medals table at next BOSTON: The Boston Red Sox timely hitting to come away toward the playoffs than ending NY Rangers 4 New Jersey 1 We’ve been playing playoff-style year’s Commonwealth Games and had the emotion and a seven- with a doubleheader sweep. the New Jersey Devils ‘ postsea- Carolina 3 Tampa Bay 2 hockey the last couple of games. 20 or more world champions per game winning streak on their Lorenzo Cain walked with the son hopes. Calgary 4 Minnesota 1 These are must-wins for us. It year. side. The Kansas City Royals bases loaded in the 10th inning With a thorough 4-1 vic- gives us a dress rehearsal for the ASC chairman John Wylie said Colorado 5 St Louis 3 had the pitching and enough to give Kansas City a 5-4 victory tory yesterday, the Broadway playoffs.” the funding allocations reflected in the second game of a double- Blueshirts took care of both. Columbus 4 San Jose 3 Callahan made it 4-0 at 5:13 of the plan to move Australian sport Baseball Results header yesterday as the Royals Ryan Callahan scored a goal in Anaheim 3 Edmonton 1 the third with a power-play goal, from “world class to world best”. Toronto 8 NY Yankees 4 swept a Red Sox team coming off the opening minute and another Los Angeles 4 Dallas 3 flipping a shot over sprawled-out “Our investment decisions were an emotional week. in the third period, and Henrik goalie Martin Brodeur, who tried based on a set of principles that Cincinnati 10 Miami 6 “Doubleheaders haven’t fared Lundqvist made 26 saves as the alive. Now we’re down to nine to poke away the puck. Brodeur assessed sports’ ability to provide NY Mets 2 Washington 0 too well for us. We haven’t won Rangers eliminated the Devils teams, so the odds are better.” heard derisive chants of “Mar-ty, sound evidence that they can con- LA Dodgers 7 Baltimore 4 many series here,” said Billy from the Eastern Conference Of the teams behind the Mar-ty” throughout and finished tribute to the targets,” Wylie said. Kansas City 4 Boston 2 Butler. playoff race. Rangers, only Winnipeg can catch with 18 saves. Australian Olympic Committee Pittsburgh 4 Atlanta 2 “We were real close to win- Callahan provided the lead 34 them. New York is even in points “It’s difficult to take,” Brodeur president John Coates supported Tampa Bay 8 Oakland 1 ning all three of them. (Daniel) seconds in, Derek Stepan added a with seventh-place Ottawa, but said of the elimination. “We’ve the moves. Minnesota 5 Chicago White Sox 3 Nava had the big hit yesterday, goal in the first period, and Taylor the Senators have four games competed real hard all year.” “Sports are now more account- and we had the big hits today.” Pyatt snapped a long drought in remaining - one more than the Lundqvist was solid in his able and they are not only judged Milwaukee 4 Chicago Cubs 2 Ervin Santana (2-1) pitched seven the second for the eighth-place Rangers. Winnipeg is three points 12th straight start, allowing only on performance but governance,” Cleveland 5 Houston 4 strong innings in the opener, Rangers, who are inching closer behind with three games left. Andrei Loktionov’s goal with he said in a statement. Texas 11 Seattle 3 when Kansas City won 4-2. to a playoff berth. New York has won three 6:30 remaining. The Rangers Football Federation Australia LA Angels 4 Detroit 3 Kelvin Herrera (2-2) got the win “It’s always nice to beat them,” straight and is 8-2-1 in its last 11. had more space between games had their allocation cut by 15 per- San Francisco 5 San Diego 0 in the night game, a makeup of said Brad Richards, who had two The Rangers aren’t looking too recently. The extra rest has cent, but sailing received a 16.7 Arizona 5 Colorado 4 the one postponed on Friday night assists. “It was a big win for us. far ahead. After a trip to Florida helped Lundqvist stay sharp. percent increase to Aus$6.3 m on Kansas City 5 Boston 4 because of the city-wide lockdown They’re out now, but that’s not and Carolina, they will wrap up He told coach John Tortorella the back of three gold medals at during the hunt for the Boston why we were playing. We were their season at home Saturday he won’t ever ask out of the the London Olympics. Philadelphia 7 St Louis 3 Marathon bombers. AGENCIES playing because we need to stay against the Devils. lineup. AGENCIES AGENCIES Hassan Al Thawadi meets Prince Ali of Jordan Al Arabi avoid relegation

DOHA: Al Arabi on Sunday Abdullah Al Araimi, Al Arabi beat QSL tier whereas Muaither will survived the drop from the Muaither in the tense play-off. remain in the second division Qatar Stars League (QSL) with The only goal for the losers was from the next season. a hard-fought 2-1 win over sec- scored by Letola when he con- Al Arabi suffered in the first ond division side Muaither. verted a penalty kick a minute three months of the QSL season Relying on goals from from the first-half whistle. and fired as many coaches in an Australian import Matthew By virtue of Sunday’s win, Al effort to get positive results. Spiranovic and midfielder Arabi will now stay in the 12-team THE PENINSULA

Action from the match between Al Arabi and Muaither on Sunday. Al Arabi defeated Muaither 2-1 in the play-off match to retain their place in the Qatar Stars Hassan Al Thawadi (fourth left), Secretary General of the Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee, who is contesting League (QSL). for the FIFA Executive Committee post, poses for a picture along with Prince Ali bin Al Hussein (fifth left), FIFA Vice President, President of the West Asian Football Federation and the Jordanian Football Association during his visit to Jordan on Sunday. The elections to the FIFA Executive Committee seat representing the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) will take place in Kuala Lumpur on May 2. Al Thawadi is visiting member associations of AFC to drum support for his candidature. The 34-year-old is accompanied on the tour by Qatar Football Association (QFA) President, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (sixth left) and other QFA officials. TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Dance wins Qatar Junior Open McDowell tops Simpson in play-off at Heritage Northern Irishman grabs first PGA Tour title of the season

HILTON HEAD, South par. Simpson, who missed the Carolina: Northern Ireland’s green, nearly holed his next shot Graeme McDowell defeated with his putter from the green, Webb Simpson at the first only to see it caught by the wind hole of a sudden-death play-off and roll six feet past. yesterday to win the US PGA After McDowell had safely Tour’s Heritage tournament. parred, Simpson missed his par McDowell, the 2010 US Open attempt coming back. champion, defeated the reigning McDowell thought the wind US Open title holder Simpson was a factor in Simpson’s miss. with a par at the first play-off “I’m disappointed for Webb,” he hole. said. “He hit a great putt up there McDowell had fired an impres- on this play-off hole -- he got a sive two-under par 69 at wind- terrific gust of wind.” Yoseph Dance (left), receiving the Qatar Junior Open Championship swept Harbour Town Golf Links, But McDowell was pleased with 2013 winner’s trophy from Mohammed Ibrahim Al Muhannadi, Board marred only by a bogey at the his first PGA Tour win of the sea- Member of Qatar Golf Association during the award ceremony. final hole that left him on nine- son -- a first for a European on PICTURE BY: KAMMUTTY VP under 275. the US circuit in 2013. He was joined there by Simpson, “I played nicely all week,” he who carded an even-par 71 that said. “I played great Friday. The included three birdies and three putter was cold most of the week bogeys to force the playoff. and I really got it going today.” RBC Heritage Scores England’s Luke Donald also McDowell briefly took the lead posted a 69 to share third place after a birdie at 16. But at the HILTON HEAD, South Carolina: Leading final-round scores with American Kevin Streelman, final hole of regulation, his 13-foot here yesterday in the $5.8m US PGA Tour Heritage tournament who carded a 72 for seven-under putt for par stopped inches from (x-won in play-off; USA unless noted, par-71) 277. the cup and he tapped in for a 275 x-Graeme McDowell (NIR) 71-67-68-69, Webb Simpson 68-71-65-71 Overnight leader Charley bogey. 277 Luke Donald (ENG) 69-68-71-69, Kevin Streelman 66-70-69-72 Hoffman struggled in the windy Simpson, meanwhile, followed a 278 Jerry Kelly 69-72-66-71 weather and his six-over 77 saw birdie at the 12th with six straight 279 Russell Henley 73-70-67-69, Chris Stroud 70-70-69-70, Charley Hoffman 66-70-66-77 him fall into a tie for sixth place pars. 281 Mark Wilson 69-75-67-70, Rory Sabbatini (RSA) 69-69-72-71, Trevor Immelman (RSA) 72-72- on five-under 279. He did have a chance for the 66-71, Marc Leishman (AUS) 67-71-71-72, Richard H. Lee 68-71-69-73, Jordan Spieth McDowell notched his first US victory with a 22-foot birdie putt 70-69-69-73, Billy Horschel 71-68-68-74, Camilo Villegas (COL) 68-71-68-74, Brendon de PGA Tour of the season. at the last hole of regulation, but Jonge (ZIM) 70-69-67-75 When they returned to the it missed left. 18th for the play-off, McDowell “You’re never out of this tour- 282 K.J. Choi (KOR) 70-71-71-70, Ken Duke 70-70-71-71, Johnson Wagner 67-71-71-73, Pat shrugged off his regulation nament,” McDowell said. “You Perez 68-70-70-74, Steve LeBrun 68-68-71-75, Justin Hicks 69-70-68-75 bogey at the hole and landed his just have to hang around and Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland poses with the trophy after defeating 283 Scott Langley 71-69-72-71, Stewart Cink 70-69-73-71, Robert Garrigus 70-71-70-72, Darron approach shot some 15 feet from hang around, and I did that,” he Webb Simpson in a play-off during the final round of the RBC Heritage at Stiles 70-69-71-73, Bill Haas 68-69-70-76, Tim Clark (RSA) 68-71-68-76 the pin, and then two-putted for said. AFP Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, yesterday.

IRB promises England to start fairer World South America West clinches seventh spot; Cup schedule tour in Uruguay LONDON: England yes- WELLINGTON: The terday announced that rookie Sucipto retires in Texas International Rugby Board said their summer tour to South yesterday it has revamped the America will begin in TEXAS, USA: Qatar Motor Qatar Motor 2015 World Cup match sched- Uruguay on June 2. and Motorcycle Federation and Motorcycle ule to stop giving top nations Stuart Lancaster’s team will (QMMF) Racing Team rider Federataion an unfair advantage by allow- meet a CONSUR XV repre- Anthony West scored his first ing them a week’s rest between senting the South American top result of the season, storm- (QMMF) Racing games. nations in Montevideo before ing to seventh place at the Team rider Anthony IRB chief executive Brett playing two Tests against Grand Prix of the Americas. West (95) takes a Gosper also said he had moved Argentina. The Australian rider was bend during the to clamp down on clubs prevent- The first Test will be staged tenth after the opening lap and Moto2 race at the ing players from smaller nations in Salta, the setting for the the 31-year-old quickly moved up US motorcycling attending the tournament, Pumas’ 24-22 victory in 2009, to fifth behind eventual winner Grand Prix of although he admitted it was a on June 8 and at Velez Sarsfield Terol, Mika Kallio, Dominique the Americas at difficult problem to solve. in Buenos Aires on June 15. Aegerter and Scott Redding. the Circuit of the Small nations complained bit- It will be the first two-match But West couldn’t keep his Americas in Austin, terly during the 2011 World Cup series between the teams in position due to some problems Texas, USA. in New Zealand that the timetable Argentina since the 1997 tour with chattering and a lack of was skewed towards the game’s and Lancaster is set to name front end grip. traditional superpowers because his squad in early May. He still managed to defend I had was front end chatter, the terms of the information we got After the race, Sucipto said: their matches were scheduled at “Argentina is a formidable sixth place until the last lap, when other was that in return for for the continuation of the season. “When I would downshift the weekends to maximise televi- rugby nation and we’re looking Frenchman Johann Zarco took improving the rear tyre grip, we We are getting closer and closer through the gears under brakes sion audiences. forward to facing the Pumas advantage of West’s increasing lost some grip in the front and I to the front group, we just need in the race, I ended up in neutral This gave them six or seven in back-to-back Tests, which a problems with tyre grip. was losing the front a lot. I was to sort a few set-up issues. But several times, which caused me days to recover, while the less young and developing side will Speaking of his performance at the limit with how far I could the guys are doing a really good to run wide and got me close to high-profile sides often had need to be at its very best to in Texas, West said: “My start push it and I was borderline to job and I am sure we can fix these crashing. I thought there might to play midweek and weekend win,” Lancaster said: was good and the first laps went crashing. I still felt I had the issues for the next races!” be something wrong with the matches. “Together with matches quite okay. I was not amazingly speed to catch Redding in the end, Meanwhile, the difficulties of bike, so I pulled in for a check.” Gosper said the timetable for against the Barbarians at fast, but I felt comfortable where because he dropped of a little bit, Rafid Topan Sucipto continued. He added: “It turned out that the 2015 tournament in England, Twickenham and the CONSUR I was. I passed a few people, they but my bike wasn’t allowing me This time, the GP rookie from my problem had only to do with had been altered to fix the team in Uruguay, the summer fought back, but I passed them to do it. I am also bit upset that Jakarta, Indonesia, struggled with our set-up change and with using problem. programme gives this group a again and made a bit of a gap. I Zarco passed me on the last lap.” a gearbox change from using sec- first gear, which we hadn’t done in “There’s very strong fairness in real opportunity to measure really felt like I could have caught The Australian said despite the ond through sixth to first through the practice sessions. I was con- terms of rest periods and so on. It their progress and continue to the front group once I got passed problems, he was satisfied with fifth gear, which improved his sidering to go out again after my will be the same for all teams,” he learn what they need to suc- those guys that were holding me his performance in Texas. speed in some sections of the pit stop, but I had lost my rhythm told reporters. “It will be far more ceed at the highest level,” he up, but there was enough of a gap He said: “Overall, it is a good track, but also caused him to hit and my confidence entirely so we equal compared to the last World said. AFP that I couldn’t catch them.” result for us, good for the cham- neutral several time. He decided decided to stop!” Cup.” AFP He added: “One problem that pionship to get points and good in to pull into the pitstop for good. THE PENINSULA

Marathon winners pose with trophy Farah eyes marathon record

Kenya’s Priscah Jeptoo LONDON: Olympic champion Mo Farah has set “But it will be my first marathon so we don’t know (left) and Ethiopia’s his sights on adding to his growing collection of what to expect. Tsegaye Kebede pose British long-distance records when he makes his “Yes, I am good at the half marathon, but that with the trophy the full London Marathon debut next year. doesn’t necessarily mean I am going to be great at day after winning the Farah, who already holds national records on the the marathon. women’s and men’s elite track at 5,000 and 10,000 metres, ran half of the “You’ve seen someone like Zersenay Tadese, who’s races in the 2013 London Marathon course during Sunday’s race to get a taste the world record holder at half marathon and it just Marathon in central for the unique challenges of the event so he can last hasn’t quite worked out for him at the marathon. London yesterday. the distance in 12 months time. It’s a challenge.” Jeptoo won the race Having kept up with the leading group as they While Farah’s first taste of the race has left in 2:20.15 seconds covered the first half in world record pace, Somalia- him thirsty for more, the 30-year-old knows the following a dramatic fall born Farah, who won gold in the 5,000 and 10,000 last British man to win the London Marathon was metres at the London Olympics last year, will look Eamonn Martin 20 years ago. by Olympic champion to shatter Steve Jones’ British record of two hours Expectations will be high in his first 26.2 mile Tiki Gelana who collided seven minutes 13 seconds when he competes for real. outing, but Farah admitted that the pace as the with a wheelchair racer. “I’m looking forward to it and I hope that I can leaders went over Tower Bridge just before halfway Kebede overhauled 2011 do it,” Farah said yesterday. was a shock. champion Emmanuel “I would like to get close to it. It would be nice to “You can’t just think, ‘This is my first marathon, Mutai in the closing come out in my first marathon and to smash that I’m going to smash it’,” he added. stages for his second rather than having a bad one and running 2:13 or “It doesn’t happen like that. It might happen one win in 2:06:04. 2:10. I would like to go inside 2:09 and then anything time and you might get it right, but it’s a challenge,” can happen. he said. AFP TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

Qatar to play Latvia Last-16 berth in sight as in friendly next month Al Gharafa host Al Ahli

DOHA: Qatar will host Latvia in an international AFC Champions League: Qatar’s Al Rayyan visit Esteghlal friendly on May 24, con- firmed the Qatar Football Association (QFA). DOHA: Qatar’s Al Gharafa Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal Coached by Fahad Thani, only need to avoid defeat in Today’s AFC speaks during a press conference at Qatar will take on the visitors their AFC Champions League the Royal Tennis Club in Barcelona, at Al Sadd Stadium. match against Saudi Arabia’s Al Champions Spain, yesterday, before competing Qatar, who play two key 2014 Ahli today to reach the last-16 at the Barcelona Open. FIFA World Cup qualifying stage of the tournament. League Fixtures matches in June, are sched- Australia midfielder Mark uled to play a series of interna- Bresciano remains sidelined SINGAPORE: AFC tional friendlies in the coming while defender Bilal Mohammed Champions League group Nadal eager months. will also miss the game due to games to be played today. Qatar host Iran on June 4 injury as Al Gharafa seek a place Group C and then play Uzbekistan in in the last 16 for the first time In Doha to maintain an away clash on June 18. since reaching the quarter-finals Al Gharafa (QAT) vs Al Ahli (KSA) at 6:30 pm Last Wednesday, Qatar beat in 2010. (1530 GMT) Palestine in a separate friendly. “We want to have a positive good form In Dubai Also known as ‘Al Anabi’, result against Al Ahli because we Qatar are in fourth place in want to advance from the group. Al Nasr (UAE) vs Foolad Mobarakeh Sepahan despite loss Group A, Asian Zone, qualify- The match is very important (IRI) at 8:00 pm (1600 GMT) ing phase behind Uzbekistan, because we are playing against the Group D Korea and Iran. group leaders and for me this is In Tehran BARCELONA: Rafael Nadal The fifth side in the group, the most important match for us A-League Central Coast Mariners defender Patrick Zwaanswijk speaks to is determined to put aside his the media at Sydney Airport before flying out to play an Asian Champions Esteghlal (IRI) vs Al Rayyan (QAT) at 9:00 pm Lebanon is at the bottom of the as winning the match will get us (1630 GMT) first loss in a decade in Monte points table. through,” said Al Gharafa coach League match against South Korea’s Suwon Bluewings, yesterday. Carlo as he searches for peak In Riyadh Meanwhile, Qatar’s Olympic Habib Tounsi, who saw his side physical condition this week in squad will not travel to beat Qatar SC 2-0 in Thursday. Al Hilal (KSA) vs Al Ain (UAE) at 8:50 pm Barcelona. Indonesia for the Islamic “We have prepared the team to qualify. We see this game as a draw against Chinese out- (1750 GMT) The world number five brushed Solidarity Games, it emerged. well and have focused more on the being definitive about our future fit Guizhou Renhe to join Saudi Group G off his 6-2, 7-6 final defeat to Qatar were ready for the mental aspect because the players in the group. The pressure is Arabia’s Al Ahli and Al Shabab. In Beijing Novak Djokovic at the weekend, event - which was to be held should concentrate until the end really on us but I think that is But most teams’ fortunes are Beijing Guoan (CHN) vs Pohang Steelers which ended his bid for a ninth from June 6 to 17 - but will of the match. We have good play- a good thing to try and help us still far from clear with Central (KOR) at 7:30 pm (1130 GMT) straight Monte Carlo title, saying train elsewhere instead. The ers and hopefully our defenders reach the next round.” Coast Mariners, buoyed by claim- it was “no tragedy”. In Taskhent Qatar Olympic Committee can stop the good attacks of Al He added: “We’ve found our- ing Australia’s A-League title for Instead of moaning about miss- (QOC) on Sunday received con- Ahli,” he added. selves in difficult situations before the first time, among those hoping Bunyodkor (UZB) vs Sanfrecce Hiroshima ing out on another clay record, the firmation that the 3rd Islamic Elsewhere, Al Rayyan, who and managed to succeed and I to make a late sprint to the line. (JPN) at 6:00 pm (1300 GMT) 26-year-old merely re-dedicated Solidarity Games to be held in departed Doha yesterday, visit hope this is the same.” Graham Arnold’s men, fresh Group H himself to the Roland Garros run- Pekanbaru-Riau, Indonesia, Iran’s Esteghlal. Elsewhere, China’s Guangzhou from beating Western Sydney In Kashiwa up, starting in the Catalan capital have been postponed. Diego Aguirre’s side is bottom Evergrande stand poised to reach Wanderers 2-0 in Sunday’s grand Kashiwa Reysol (JPN) vs Guizhou Renhe where he makes his second-round The competition has been in Group D, but is three points the eliminators in what will be a final, visit South Korea’s Suwon (CHN) at 7:00 pm (1000 GMT) start tomorrow. moved to a further date due to behind their opponents. make-or-break week. Evergrande Bluewings with three clubs sep- “Hopefully I can play another In Suwon “technical reasons”, QOC was Goalkeeper Keeper Omar Bari face Urawa Red Diamond. arated by just a point behind great week in Barcelona, play informed. THE PENINSULA said: “The game is very important Japan’s Kashiwa Reysol are Kashiwa in Group H. Suwon Bluewings (KOR) vs Central Coast some matches that will keep to us because we are determined handily placed, needing just AGENCIES Mariners (AUS) at 7:30 pm (1030 GMT) helping to put me in the 100 per cent condition physically,” said Nadal, who has won at Barcelona Suarez charged in seven of the last eight years. “If we talk about tennis, I was pleased about my tennis,” he said by FA after after Monte Carlo. Nadal is ranked as the second biting incident seed on his home clay at the Real Club de Tenis, with friend and LONDON: Liverpool striker rival David Ferrer taking the top Luis Suarez was charged with spot by virtue of his number four violent conduct by the FA yes- world ranking. terday after his shocking bite The classic hard-working on Chelsea defender Branislav underdog has lost three Barcelona Ivanovic. finals -- all to Nadal -- in 2009, Suarez sunk his teeth into 2011 and last year. Ivanovic’s right arm during The only year that Nadal did Sunday’s 2-2 draw at Anfield in not play was 2010 when he sat the Premier League. out with an injury, but the title A statement released by the remained in Spanish hands as FA explained that the incident Fernando Verdasco triumphed. can be retrospectively reviewed Ferrer should be refreshed because it was missed by the after skipping Monte Carlo due match officials and hinted that to the thigh injury he suffered Paris Saint-Germain’s Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic (right) controls the Uruguayan faces a lengthy during his losing Miami final with the ball during the French L1 match against Nice (OGC Nice), at the Parc ban. Andy Murray last month. des Princes Stadium in Paris, on Sunday. Paris won 3-0. “It is alleged that the conduct In opening day first-round play, of Suarez constitutes violent con- Croatian Ivan Dodig beat Aljaz duct and it is The FA’s contention Bedene of Slovenia 6-7, 6-3, 6-2, that the standard punishment of Russian Alex Kuznetsov put out three matches that would other- Igor Sijsling 6-1, 6-3 and Italy’s PSG ease past Nice, wise apply is clearly insufficient Paolo Lorenzi won over Guillaume in these circumstances,” the Rufin of France 6-4, 6-2. statement read. Well over a third of the 48-man Suarez, who has been given field is Spanish, with home play- edge closer to title until 1700 GMT today to respond ers taking three of the top four to the charge, was earlier fined seedings. AFP PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain Javier Pastore’s clipped through by Liverpool following the inci- moved another step closer to ball. But the hosts didn’t have dent and asked that the money Liverpool’s Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez (right) clashes with Chelsea’s Italy’s Vinci seals claiming their first Ligue 1 to wait long to break the dead- be donated to the Hillsborough Serbian defender Branislav Ivanovic after appearing to bite the Chelsea crown in 19 years with a com- lock as Ibrahimovic picked out Family Support Group. player during the English Premier League football match at Anfield stadium manding 3-0 victory over Pastore at the far post with the The ugly incident has sparked in Liverpool, northwest England, on Sunday. Liverpool striker Luis Suarez, Fed Cup final 10-man Nice on Sunday. Argentine managing to maintain widespread condemnation of yesterday apologised for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic. Jeremy Menez struck a 10th- control despite a despairing dive Suarez and both the player against Russia minute opener at Parc des from Ospina before laying the ball and Liverpool were forced to Princes, while Zlatan Ibrahimovic on for Menez to stab home from apologise, while Reds man- Cup semi-final at Hillsborough me today,” Suarez wrote on netted his league-leading 27th six yards. ager Brendan Rodgers claimed in 1989 will help calm the storm Twitter yesterday. MILAN: Roberta Vinci secured goal from the penalty spot follow- Only a sharp reflex save from his star forward’s actions were surrounding Sunday’s events. “I have asked the club to Italy’s fifth Fed Cup final ing goalkeeper David Ospina’s dis- Ospina denied Ezequiel Lavezzi unacceptable Last Monday’s 24th anniversary donate the money to the appearance in eight years yes- missal before Clement Chantome a second shortly after, but the But Suarez will hope giving of the tragedy was marked by a Hillsborough Family Support terday after battling past Lucie added a late third to leave Carlo Colombian’s evening was to come the money to the families of memorial service at Anfield. Group for the inconvenience I Safarova of the Czech Republic Ancelotti’s side needing just to an abrupt end just past the the 96 Liverpool fans who died “For my unacceptable behav- have created to the Liverpool to give the hosts an unassailable seven points from their final five hour as he was shown a straight in a terrace crush before an FA iour yesterday the club has fined fans and to Ivanovic.” AFP lead on the red clay of Palermo. matches. red for scything down Lavezzi Vinci’s 6-3, 6-7, 6-3 win over “I’m very happy tonight. We’re inside the area. Safarova handed Italy a 3-1 lead nine points ahead, that means the A loose touch from Ospina fol- ahead of the dead doubles rubber title is close,” said Ancelotti. lowing a Didier Digard back pass Bayern aren’t Euro chokers: Lahm to be played yesterday afternoon. “The attitude was very good allowed the Argentine to nip in Italy will now meet Russia, tonight. I think everyone was and steal the ball before he was winners Sunday over Slovakia, in annoyed after the (defeat to sent tumbling by the Nice ‘keeper. MUNICH, Germany: Captain Philipp Lahm has Bundesliga rivals, winning 26 of their 30 games the final on November 2-3. Evian),” added the Italian, refer- Ibrahimovic calmly drilled the insisted Bayern Munich will not choke again in to date, and they are now closing in on a third The hosts had powered to a 2-0 ring to PSG’s midweek French resulting penalty past substitute the Champions League at the Allianz Arena as Champions League final in four years. lead on Saturday after straight Cup quarter-final exit. custodian Joris Delle to put PSG they prepare for today’s semi-final, first-leg at “It was a huge disappointment to lose the final singles victories for Sara Errani Marseille’s 1-0 win at home 2-0 ahead before Ospina’s replace- home to Barcelona. at home, but we see we have learnt from that and and Vinci over Safarova and Petra to lowly Brest on Saturday had ment made a fine low block to The pain of last May’s Champions League final come back much better, especially in this season’s Kvitova respectively. seen the gap at the top tempo- deny the Swede. defeat in Munich on penalties to Chelsea clearly still Champions League,” said the Germany captain. Former Wimbledon winner rarily reduced to six points, but Delle was helpless as the hosts smarts. “Cruel,” replied Lahm when asked for one “We have just developed further and strengthened Kvitova gave the Czechs hope of the capital club put Wednesday’s netted a third two minutes from word to sum up the moment Chelsea’s Didier Drogba our squad over the summer. launching a fightback when she disappointment at Evian behind time though as Ibrahimovic slotted home the winning spot-kick. “Everyone in the squad can come in and give a defeated Errani 2-6, 6-2, 6-0 on them to record their fifth win in exchanged passes with Blaise When a British journalist asked Lahm if he knew performance. I think that is what has helped us.” Sunday. six league matches. Matuidi before squaring for the English expression “chokers”, the Bayern cap- A key factor for this semi-final is whether However, the day’s play, was Ibrahimovic almost gave Chantome to guide into an empty tain’s reply left no doubt that the term was not in Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi will start. soon halted by rain which had PSG the lead inside five min- net. his vocabulary: “No, I don’t know that one,” he said Despite struggling for fitness, Messi had a huge already disrupted proceedings, utes only for his fierce effort to Earlier, Lille climbed to fourth with a smile. impact when he came off the bench to help his team prompting the decision to carry rattle the post after Nemanja after a dramatic 2-1 victory at Lahm insists Bayern have learnt the lessons draw with Paris Saint-Germain in the second leg of the tie over to yesterday. Pejcinovic had failed to cut out Bastia. AFP from losing last year’s final by sweeping aside all their quarter-finals. 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FROM LEFT: Mansour Al Helai, Krzysztof Holowczyc, Faisal Al Attiyah, Jean- Louis Schlesser, Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah, Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah, President of QMMF, Marc Coma, Adel Hussain, Francisco Lopez, Paulo Goncalvez and Mohammed Abu Issa during a pre-event press conference at Losail International Circuit yesterday. Record entries at Qatar event Sealine Cross-Country Rally flagged off at Doha Corniche by QMMF President

DOHA: Competitors from a in confident and upbeat mood at record 27 countries and virtu- the pre-event media gathering at ally every region on the planet Losail. were flagged away from the “It has been a strange year,” ceremonial start of the 2013 said Coma, who will start the Sealine Cross-Country Rally by opening stage today from 10th Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah, position on the road. President of the Qatar Motor “I was forced to miss the Dakar and Motorcycle Federation with a problem with a nerve in (QMMF) yesterday. my shoulder after I dislocated Four days of gruelling desert it in Morocco. Then I won the motor sport action awaits 50 driv- Desert Challenge and now I am ers and co-drivers, 13 motorcy- here to try and win again. I have clists and seven quad riders before good memories of my race here the survivors reach the finish last year. I won on my first rally podium at Sealine, south of Doha, in Qatar. It will not be easy this I hope to win here. This is on Friday afternoon. time. The entry is strong and the my second time at the Sealine Top seeds in the car and bike stages are long and demanding Cross-Country Rally. I want to categories are Qatar’s Nasser and the navigation is sure to be pace myself well in the race. At Saleh Al Attiyah (Buggy) and difficult.” the Abu Dhabi Challenge last Spain’s Marc Coma (KTM), Frenchman Jean-Louis week, there was a lot of sand. although riders crossed the start Schlesser finished fourth in last But in Qatar you got to see a lot podium in reverse order with the year’s inaugural Sealine event of rocks and hard gravel. I am UAE’s Mohammed Al Shamsi and arrives at the start this year looking for a good race. leading the motorcycles and with a superb opportunity to quads from the start yesterday. improve his campaign to win this Mohammed Abu Issa, Several of the leading drivers year’s FIA World Cup for Cross- Qatar’s quad bike rider, and riders joined QMMF presi- Country Rallies. who won the Abu Dhabi dent at the official pre-event press “With the big man sitting next Challenge last week. conference at Losail International to me (Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah) Circuit yesterday. here I am not really looking at Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah, President of QMMF is flanked by Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah (left) and Marc Coma Other competitors from as far a chance to win this rally,” joked during a pre-event press conference at Losail International Circuit yesterday. PICTURES: SHAIVAL DALAL afield as Europe, Kazakhstan, Schlesser, a twice Dakar winner. Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, “But, for sure, I am looking at the Peru, Argentina, Australia, New podium and a chance to gain some until the final stage last year and but I am ready for the challenge.” the Desert Challenge in the UAE Zealand and the USA finalised more points.” returns to exact revenge on his Yayha Al-Helai was present you are going to face sand dunes. their preparations for the start Local rider Adel Hussein Polish rival. in Losail at the start of the race, I think here, in Qatar, we have a of the action today morning. Abdullah was the third classi- “I had a podium last time and but the Emirati opted to cede his totally different challenge. There The scrutineering of the fied quad finisher last year and I would like to finish my fourth place on the starting list after a will be some very tricky naviga- remaining cars was completed at lines up against six other rivals on Qatar Baja,” said Hussein. “A big disappointing performance in Abu tion and, for sure, we have dunes the Losail International Circuit. this occasion, including the Polish thank you to Nasser Khalifa, our Dhabi. His son Mansour duly car- and we also have a lot of rocky Spaniard Coma was forced to defending champion Rafal Sonik president, for his support to ena- ried the family mantle into the and stony areas to give competi- miss the Dakar Rally through and Qatari Mohammed Abu Issa. ble me to take part in these rallies. Sealine event and the experienced tors the complete challenge. None injury, but the KTM rider was The UAE’s Obaid Al-Kitbe led It will be a long and difficult rally navigator Khalid Al-Kendi sat of the stages are the same.” alongside the youngster. Competitive action gets under- Peruvian Raul Orlandini faced way from the Sealine bivouac at Leading starters at Sealine Cross-Country Rally a race against time to prepare 5.45am for the motorcycles and 75 I want to thank QMMF for Cars his car for the event after suffer- minutes later for the cars today. their support. Last year I was 401. Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah (QAT)/Lucas Cruz Senra (ESP) Desert Buggy ing an engine failure in the Abu Ahead of the international field on the podium. This year also I 402. Jean-Louis Schlesser (FRA)/Konstantin Zhiltstov (RUS) Schlesser Original Dhabi Desert Challenge. lies a demanding selective sec- want to be on the podium. My 404. Krzysztof Holowczyc (POL)/Andreas Schulz (DEU) Mini All4 Racing His team managed to fly in tion of 405.12km that starts 5.5km target is to win this rally on my 405. Vladimir Vasilyev (RUS)/Vitaly Yevtyekhov (RUS) G-Force Proto 275kg of spare parts for the Jaton from the campsite and finishes home soil. That will make me 406. Miroslav Zapletal (CZE)/Maciej Marton (POL) H3 Evo 5 Racing Toyota Land Cruiser and just 4.49km away. really happy. We can expect a 407. Reinaldo Varela (BRA)/Gustavo Guglemin (BRA) Mitsubishi Pajero the engine was replaced in Qatar The opening timed test fea- tough race as there’s a lot of 408. Peter van Merksteijn Jr (NLD)/Eddy Chevallier (BEL) HRX Ford before the final technical checks. tures a series of sand dunes at gravel and plenty of stones on 409. Nunzio Coffaro (VEN)/Daniel Meneses (VEN) Toyota Hilux “I think competitors will be the start and then runs through the route here. pleasantly surprised by the vari- an area near a series of small Bikes ety of the terrain,” said Iain Black, hills before the terrain gives way Adel Hussein Abdullah, 1. Marc Coma (ESP) KTM 450 Rally Replica clerk of the course for the motor- to faster tracks. Competitors will the Qatari rider, who was 3. Jakub Przygonski (POL) KTM 450 Rally Replica cycle and quad categories. again tackle a series of tricky the third classified quad fin- 4. Paulo Gonçalves (PRT) Speedbrain 450 Rally “Every event is characterised sand dunes en route to the finish. isher in April 2012. 6. Quinn Cody (USA) Speedbrain 450 Rally by certain things. When you go to THE PENINSULA 7. Francesco Lopez (CHL) KTM 450 Rally Replica 8. Khalid Khamis Ozair (ARE) Honda CR 450 X 9. Pal-Anders Ullevalseter (NOR) KTM 450 Rally Replica 10. Luis Carlos Gonzalez (ESP) Honda CRE 450 X 12. Stuart Charleston (AUS) Kawasaki KLX 450 R

Quads 201. Rafal Sonik (POL) Honda TRX 700 203. Obaid Al-Kitbe (ARE) Honda TRX 700 205. Adel Hussein Abdullah (QAT) Suzuki ATV 207. Atif Al-Zarouni (ARE) Honda TRX 700 208. Pablo Copetti (ARG) Yamaha Raptor 700 209. Mohammed Abu Issa (QAT) Yamaha Raptor 700 Paulo Gonçalves of Portugal 210. Mohammed Al-Shamsi (ARE) Honda TRX 700

Jean-Louis Schlesser of France Francisco Lopez of Chile Faisal Al Attiyah of Qatar Drivers and riders participating in Sealine Cross-Country Rally are seen attending a pre-event briefing session at Losail International Circuit yesterday. TUESDAY 23 APRIL 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Al Attiyah has all bases covered The Qatari to rely on co-pilot support, road book information for win at home event BY RIZWAN REHMAT Fit-again Coma taking DOHA: Home advantage would be of little use if road book information and quality co-pilot support are not uti- one step at a time lised with common-sense intel- ligence, rally star Nasser Saleh DOHA: Bike legend Marc Coma of Spain, the defending champion Al Attiyah said yesterday. at this week’s Sealine Cross-Country Rally, is targeting to finish The 42-year-old Qatari is races without injuries or mishaps. seeking to defend his title at the Coma has regained full fitness after a shoulder injury sustained Sealine Cross-Country Rally last October that forced the Spaniard out of Dakar Rally in January which will be held on rugged ter- this year. rain across the country this week. “I sustained the injury in October last year. Initially we thought it “Yes, I have the advantage of was a small injury that would heal with rest but it turned out to be a knowing the race area but that nerve issue,” Coma, the three-time Dakar Rally champion, said. won’t help if I didn’t have the sup- “At that time I thought my shoulder was broken. Thankfully though, port of a quality co-pilot or if I the injury wasn’t as bad as I originally feared,” the Spaniard said. didn’t use the information in the “I just dislocated my shoulder. It was unfortunate that this has hap- road book, Al Attiyah said. pened but as bad as it was, things could have been a lot worse,” he said. “Thankfully, I have Lucas (Cruz “I’ve fallen, and it’s not the first time nor the last. Whenever that Senra) as my co-pilot. Lucas is a has happened. I’ve gotten up and we’ve always continued, we have very reliable hand to have because become stronger,” he said. we are going to race on a tough “I missed the Dakar Rally (in January this year) but now I am fit. route,” the Qatari said. I took part in the Abu Dhabi Challenge without thinking of a win,” “We have stones and hard Coma added. gravel here. It is not just sand in “I made a nice competition there,” he said. our route. Then I also have the “I just wanted to finish the race. Fortunately I won and now I am get- road book which helps us in our ting back into completing races without incidents,” the KTM rider said. navigation,” he added. “I must say I am happy to be back here. This is my second time in Al Attiyah said a winning run Former Dakar Rally champions Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah (left) shows his cellphone to Spain’s Marc Coma Qatar. against a ‘field of tough competi- during a press conference at Losail International Circuit yesterday. PICTURES: SHAIVAL DALAL “The course set out this year looks good but challenging. tors’ would help in his preparation “I give credit to QMMF for setting up things perfectly here. The for next year’s Dakar Rally, the logistics here allow us to push our limits. The overall support for rider world’s biggest off-road challenge. London Games in August 2012, us since he is in the same class (of “It was an amazing feeling and drivers is great,” Coma said. “We have tested our new car confirmed he was running his new riding),” Al Attiyah said during a to win that medal for Qatar. “I’m pleased with my riding. My navigation is strong, my speed is but we will know more after we ‘Desert Buggy’ this week. pre-event press conference. Personally, it was a great moment good and I know my fitness will be fine,” Coma said. are done in Qatar. This will help “It is a new car. We have done When reminded about of for me to win the bronze,” Al “My plan is to simply assess each day as it comes and take it from us at the Dakar Rally next year,” a couple of tests, small tests in 2012 Olympic Games heroics, Al Attiyah said. there. I believe that there are many riders now capable of winning Al Attiyah said. Morocco, but we are eyeing big- Attiyah presented a huge, boyish French driver Jean-Louis this race but I feel as capable as anybody else of getting the job done,” “It is always helpful if you have ger races now. The cross-country smile. Schlesser, who will be behind the he added. a reliable car at the Dakar Rally,” rally is big in Qatar,” he said. “Yes, many drivers and rid- wheels of his Schlesser Original, “I have had my rest and now I feel fine,” Coma said. “I was not 100 Al Attiyah said. “It is not an easy “We don’t have much experi- ers asked about it when I was at echoed Al Attiyah’s comments on percent ready for Dakar Rally and that’s why I did not take part in it. race for any of the participants,” ence with the Buggy right now the Dakar Rally (in January this the tough route. “We have a lot “But now, I am ready to race here. he said. “But we have the experi- but we like our chances,” he said. year),” Al Attiyah said. “They of competition on a very tough “Last year, the route surprised me. We have to use the GPS here ence,” Al Attiyah warned. “We had a few wheel bear- wanted to know how I did it. I route,” Schlesser said. “There but the riders are not worried since the organisers have done a great Al Attiyah, who famously won ing problems (during the Dakar shared my experience with them, are many corners so I guess this job in setting up the logistics (on safety),” he said. “I will try to win the bronze medal in the skeet Rally) but we have fixed those telling them how it was like to will be a race for the co-pilots,” he again like last year. I feel that there’s a perfect route for a perfect race shooting competition at the problems now. Jean-Luis helped compete at the Olympic Games. added. THE PENINSULA here,” he said without elaborating. THE PENINSULA

“Yes, many drivers and riders asked about it when I was at the Dakar Rally (in January this year). They wanted to know how I did it. I shared my experi- ence with them, telling them how it was like to compete at the Olympic Games. It was an amazing feeling to win that medal for Qatar. Personally, it was a great moment for me to win the bronze.”

Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah recalls his bronze medal win- ning show at the London Olympic Games last year

Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah (left) is seen with Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah, President of Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF), during the ceremonial start of the Sealine Cross-Country Rally at Sheraton Park in Doha yesterday. Al Attiyah will be driving his ‘Desert Buggy’ at the four-day event. RIGHT: Atif Ahmed Al-Zarouni on his Honda TRX700 during the same ceremony. Young Wolff unfazed Williams F1 team drivers Valtteri by Moss’ comments Bottas, Pastor Maldonado, BY DENZIL PINTO Aspire Academy facilities with like that all the time. The gender and Susie fellow Williams Formula One questions will be there, and there Wolff during DOHA: Williams’ Development drivers Pastor Maldonado and will always be a stereotype that the visit of Driver Susie Wolff is unfazed Valtteri Bottas yesterday, said: “I women cannot drive. It is up to the ‘Olympics at gender comments made by think everyone is aware that peo- me to follow my path and prove - Past and British racing legend Stirling ple are entitled to their own opin- the critics wrong.” Present’ Moss, who recently caused a ions and there are many (people) exhibition at media stir when he said ‘women who feel a woman should compete Tough to replicate Al Riwaq Doha lacked the mentality to succeed in Formula One but many believe exhibition in Formula One’. it may never be possible. But in Grand Prix win, Moss said in a BBC interview: some parts of the generation, you space “I think they have the strength, put yourself in a car and you put says Maldonado yesterday. but I don’t know if they’ve got your life at risk and things move PICTURE BY: the mental aptitude to race hard, on.” DOHA: Pastor Maldonado, the KAMMUTTY VP wheel-to-wheel.” The 30-year-old, who started Williams Formula One driver, During the same interview, her career in kart racing in 1996, believes it will be difficult to Moss added: “We’ve got some added: “I am not doing what I am replicate his stunning victory very strong and robust ladies, but, doing to prove a point or to try at the Spanish Grand Prix last when your life is at risk, I think and show that women in Formula year on May 12. the strain of that in a competi- One can succeed. I am simply a Maldonado said: “It is diffi- tive situation will tell when you’re racing driver who is trying to cult to say. I think this year is a single point in their four races so to 500 people working flat out He added: “It’s been a good trying to win. The mental stress chase a dream, and the same bit more difficult than last year far this season, the Venezuelan to improve our performance and start to my Formula One season I think would be pretty difficult dream that every racing driver especially with the car perform- said he is hungry to achieve suc- pretty soon we hope to get to - I am quite happy, but I do feel for a lady to deal with in a practi- wants - to sit in a Formula One ance. But you never know. The cess. “There are still many races where we want to be,” Maldonado there is room for improvement.” cal fashion. I just don’t think they car. So for me, it is difficult to (upgrade) package can put us in to go,” the 28-year-old said. said. Meanwhile, Maldonado’s The 23-year-old said the Aspire have aptitude to win a Formula cope with the gender questions a good way, in terms of team posi- “We’re a bit disappointed team-mate Valtteri Bottas said he Academy facilities are ‘impres- One race.” because I think to succeed in any tions and we need to work every- because we have not scored any is happy with his performances so sive’ and wishes to visit again. Wolff, who said it was ‘dif- sport, you have to be good and fast thing together.” points at the moment. But, I am far but is eager to improve. “The facilities are very impres- ficult’ answering gender ques- talented, whatever you have to do He added: “This year is quite really looking forward to these The Finnish driver, who made sive,” he said. “This is the first tions, pointed out that women in sport. It does not always come difficult in Formula One because situations where you are not scor- his debut in Formula One at time I visited Aspire. I have never could prove Moss wrong if they down to gender.” you have new tyres, new changes ing points, it makes you strong the Australian Grand Prix last seen anything like this. I want to remained motivated enough to When asked about what she and have to put everything and it makes you hungrier to do month, said: “I really want to look at my calendar so that I can succeed. first thought of Moss’ comments, together which is not easy.” your best. We are experiencing raise my game. I learnt a lot of come and train here.” The Briton, who visited the Wolff replied: “I hear comments With Williams yet to score a difficult times but we have 400 things in the first four races.” THE PENINSULA Tuesday 23 April 2013 13 Jumada II 1434 Volume 18 Number 5678 Sport Price: QR2 LATEST NEWS UPDATES URDU FROM PHILIPPINPHILIPPINES Spurs cruise Rallying: WEEKLY NEWSPAPER AVAILABLE past Lakers; Record entries AT ALL LEADING BOOK STORES / Available every Tuesdays in SUPERMARKETS Thunder win for Qatar event all leading supermarkets and IN QATAR shops in Qatar & Bahrain FOR ADVERTISEMENTS CONTACT: FOR ADVERTISEMENTS CONTACT: TEL: 4465 0600 EMAIL: [email protected] TEL: 4465 0600 EMAIL: [email protected] Sport | 23 Sport | 26

www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 IPL: Hussey Man United are EPL champs upstages Watson as Ferguson guides club to 13th title triumph with easy win over Aston Villa Chennai win MANCHESTER, United Factbox: Alex CHENNAI: Michael Hussey Kingdom: Robin van Persie overshadowed Shane Watson’s hit a first-half hat-trick as Ferguson’s 49 titles special effort and helped Manchester United cantered to LONDON: Alex Ferguson is the most Chennai Super Kings beat an unprecedented 20th English successful manager in British football and Rajasthan Royals in the Indian league title with an emphatic Manchester United’s league title success Premier League here yesterday. 3-0 victory at home to Aston yesterday was his 49th club trophy since Watson (101 runs off 61 balls) Villa yesterday. he began his managerial career with East struck the first hundred of this Manchester City’s 3-1 loss at Stirling in 1974. IPL and propelled his team to 185 Tottenham Hotspur a day ear- The following is a list of his honours: for four, before Hussey’s 88 off 51 lier had handed United a chance * St Mirren balls proved crucial in his team to regain the title and Alex 1 Scottish First Division (second tier) title overcoming the stiff target in the Ferguson’s men needed no sec- 1976-77 40th over. ond invitation, swamping Villa to * Aberdeen: Suresh Raina (51) contributed claim the championship with four 3 Scottish Premier League titles: 1979-80, to the exciting win by scoring his games to spare. 1983-84, 1984-85 first fifty of the competition. Van Persie, United’s number 20, 4 Scottish FA Cups: 1981-82, 1982-83, The win pushed the two-time was the man who brought United 1983-84, 1985-86 champions to top of the points their 20th top-flight crown, net- 1 Scottish League Cup: 1985-86 table with 10 points from seven ting inside 90 seconds and then 1 European Cup Winners Cup: 1982-83 games while Rajasthan have four scoring a breath-taking volley wins from seven matches, keep- 1 UEFA Super Cup: 1983 before completing his hat-trick ing them at fourth spot in the * Manchester United 12 minutes before half-time. standings. With 13 Premier League titles, 13 Premier League titles: 1992-93, Chennai were cruising for vic- United manager Ferguson and 1993-94, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1998-99, tory, needing 32 off the last 24 veteran midfielder Ryan Giggs, 1999-2000, 2000-01, 2002-03, 2006-07, balls and having six wickets in creator of two of van Persie’s 2007-08, 2008-09, 2010-11, 2012-13 hand. But Hussey’ run out and goals, have now each won as many 5 FA Cups: 1989-90, 1993-94, 1995-96, the back of Ravindra Jadeja in the English league crowns as Arsenal. 1998-99, 2003-04 17th over spiced things up. Eternal rivals Liverpool, mean- 4 League Cups: 1991-92, 2005-06, 2008- It became tricky or the home while, now trail United by two 09, 2009-10 team when its skipper Mahendra championships on the all-time 10 Charity/Community Shields: 1990 Singh Dhoni (21) was caught at honours board. (shared), 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, long-on off James Faulkner, leav- Villa never threatened to poop 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011 ing Dwayne Bravo and Chris the party and remain under Manchester United’s Rio Ferdinand (left) and Michael Carrick celebrate after they clinched the English Premier 2 Champions League: 1998-99, 2007-08 Morris to get 11 off the last over. threat from third-bottom Wigan League title with a win against Aston Villa at Old Trafford in Manchester, yesterday. Manchester United won their 1 European Cup Winners Cup: 1990-91 Bravo (15 not out) delivered Athletic, who could suck Paul 20th league title yesterday when a Robin van Persie hat-trick led them to 3-0 victory over Aston Villa. 1 UEFA Super Cup: 1991 the knock out punch by hitting Lambert’s side into the relega- 1 Intercontinental Cup: 1999 Watson over cover for a six. With tion zone if they win their game End as United continued to press, the box that rocketed past goal- Liverpool striker’s mood after 1 FIFA Club World Cup: 2008 a ball left in the match, it was in hand. Rafael hitting the post with a keeper Brad Guzan and into the he was charged by the Football yet another tense finish for the The evening’s outcome was crisp strike from 20 yards. net. On a night rich with symme- Association for biting Chelsea’s English Premier home side. Earlier, Watson paced never in doubt from the moment, Villa threatened to spoil try, van Persie’s third goal arrived Branislav Ivanovic on Sunday. his innings to perfection for his just one minute and 23 seconds things when Christian Benteke in the 33rd minute. Van Persie further illustrated League results first big score in the competition. into the game, when van Persie side-footed over from Andreas Shinji Kagawa freed Giggs, who his value by heading off the line LONDON, United Kingdom: English Premier He was in attack mode from the put United in front. Weimann’s pass, only for van unselfishly squared to van Persie, from Weimann early in the sec- League result yesterday: ball one and took the team to 71 Rafael da Silva’s delivery from Persie to double United’s lead and the former Arsenal striker ond half, while David de Gea Manchester United 3 for no loss in seven overs. Ajinkya the right appeared overhit, but with a strike to rival any goal neatly side-stepped Guzan before saved smartly from Benteke and (van Persie 2, 13, 33) Aston Villa 0 Rahane scored only 16 runs in the Giggs rescued it by volleying a scored in Europe this season. lifting the ball into the roof of the Karim El Ahmadi. opening partnership before being Played Sunday cushioned cross across goal for Wayne Rooney floated a net. Kagawa spurned a glorious bowled by Ravichandran Ashwin. the Dutchman to tap in from 40-yard pass behind the Villa With 24 goals, United’s £24m chance to make it 4-0 when he Liverpool 2 (Sturridge 52, Suarez 90+7) Chennai was able to restrict barely a yard. defence and van Persie met the man now leads Luis Suarez blazed over the bar, but by then Chelsea 2 (Oscar 26, Hazard 57-pen) the flow of runs for a brief period A chant of ‘Championey!’ rang ball first-time with a technically by a goal in the top scorers’ the match, like the title race, had Tottenham 3 (Dempsey 75, Defoe 79, Bale until Watson cut loose again. He out from Old Trafford’s Stretford immaculate volley from outside chart, to further blacken the long been decided. AFP 82) Manchester City 1 (Nasri 5) smashed the opposition bowlers all over the park with Ravindra Jadeja leaking the most number of runs, 45 from three overs. Germans, Spanish battle for Euro crown Watson’s memorable knock con- sisted of six huge hits and as many fours. The Australian got out in PARIS: It is somewhat appro- intimately having joined them the 18th over playing a tired shot. priate the four Champions Champions League from Dortmund before being sent Stuart Binny (36 off 22) was set- League semi-finalists should on loan first to Liverpool and now tled at the crease by then and come from Spain and Germany. Fixtures back with Dortmund. came up with the blows needed For on a national level they All times in GMT (1845) While he acknowledges that in the final few overs. IANS have been the two most eye- Playing today Spain holds the upper hand for catching of the European coun- Bayern Munich vs Barcelona the moment he believes that it Bayern Scoreboard tries in the past five years. won’t be England who topple Playing tomorrow Munich’s Spain have bested them twice them from the top of the national French mid- Borussia Dortmund vs Real Madrid RAJASTHAN ROYALS by the narrowest of margins -- 1-0 and club perch but Germany. fielder Franck S R Watson c Hussey b Bravo ...... 101 in the Euro 2008 final and then term. “It’s undisputed that the Ribery (left) A M Rahane b Ashwin ...... 16 the 2010 World Cup semi-final. Chelsea bowed out in the group Spanish are the absolute number and his team- D H Yagnik c&b Ashwin ...... 7 The Germans were favoured stage -- the first time the defend- one in the world,” said the mate Brazilian R Dravid c Dhoni b Bravo ...... 6 to meet the Spanish again in last ing champions have exited at the 24-year-old. defender S T R Binny (not out) ...... 36 year’s Euro final but two moments first hurdle -- whilst Bayern have “But if one nation and one Dante joke B J Hodge (not out) ...... 9 of magic from unpredictable gone from strength to strength. league can adopt their supremacy, during their Extras (LB-3, W-6, NB-1) ...... 10 Italian striker Mario Balotelli in Now they face the daunting then it is the Bundesliga and the Total (for 4 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 185 the semi-finals denied them the task of taking on Barcelona, but national German team.” team training ahead of 0the Fall of wickets: 1-71, 2-84, 3-113, 4-159. chance. given the Spanish side labour- Barcelona are probably more Bowling: M M Sharma 2-0-19-0; J O Holder Champions Admittedly at club level there ing to a narrow win over Paris representative than Real of 4-0-30-0 (2w); C H Morris 3-0-32-0 (1w); R League semi- is a diluted country v country Saint Germain in the quarter- Spanish football at a national Ashwin 4-0-20-2; R A Jadeja 3-0-45-0 (2w); sense with all four clubs peppered finals they can have good cause level with their ‘tiki-taka’ pass- final first leg D J Bravo 4-0-36-2 (1nb, 1w). with foreign-born stars, but the for optimism. ing game and 33-year-old mid- match against CHENNAI SUPER KINGS quartet’s presence in the last four Borussia Dortmund have field general Xavi Hernandez FC Barcelona M Vijay c&b Chandila ...... 3 highlights the standards in their reserved their best perform- highlighted his side’s attitude to at the train- M Hussey (run out-Dravid) ...... 88 respective leagues. ances for the Champions League the game. “Football is played to ings area S K Raina lbw Faulkner ...... 51 Defending Spanish champions this season and even in the group win, but our satisfaction has to in Munich, M S Dhoni c Binny b Faulkner ...... 21 Real Madrid, champions elect and stage were being touted by mana- be double,” Xavi has said. southern R A Jadeja b Faulkner ...... 0 bitter rivals Barcelona, last sea- gerial greats such as Manchester “Javi Martinez has spectacu- Germany, D J Bravo (not out) ...... 15 son’s German champions Borussia United’s Alex Ferguson and Real lar physical power,” he told yesterday. C H Morris (not out) ...... 1 Dortmund and their successors Madrid’s Jose Mourinho as poten- Barcelona’s website. The semi-final Extras (LB-4, W-3) ...... 7 Bayern Munich have made non- tial winners of the trophy. Whatever the reasons for their match will Total (for 5 wkts in 19.5 overs) ...... 186 sense of the hype that the English Dortmund have yet to be respective teams being in the last take place Fall of wickets: 1-22, 2-112, 3-154, 4-154, Premier League is the strongest beaten by semi-final opponents four, the stage is set for what today. 5-175. on the continent. Real Madrid this season having could be the fourth Champions Bowling: A Chandila 3-0-16-1; R Shukla Whilst Chelsea were the drawn in Madrid and then beaten League final between teams from 2-0-24-0; J P Faulkner 4-0-20-3; K Cooper defending champions, many con- them in Germany in the group the same league with Real and 4-0-49-0; S K Trivedi 3-0-32-0 (1w); S R sidered their penalty shootout win phase. Barcelona bidding to make it a Watson 1.5-0-21-0; S T R Binny 2-0-20-0 over Bayern to be a case of resil- Dortmund’s Turkish inter- second all-Spanish one after Real (1w). ience winning over the stronger national midfielder Nuri Sahin played Valencia in the 2000 final. Player-of-the-Match: M E K Hussey (CSK). side and so it has proved this certainly knows his opponents AFP