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DOHA: Qatar’s job market con- tinues to be heavily dominated Nationalisation by foreign workers, and there are as many as 16 expatriates drive in the for every Qatari in the work- place, official figures for the first private sector quarter (Q1) of this year show. Data also suggest that women generally put in more hours a bearing little fruit day in the workplace than men. The number of hours women as ratio of citizens worked in a week averaged 52 in Q1; the figure for men was 49. goes down. The situation in the construction sector was different as the aver- workforce in Q1 this year. age weekly work hours ranged The QSA data also show that The Heir Apparent and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Qatari Armed Forces H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani watching the Eagles Resolve between 52 and 56. unemployment was not restricted 2013 Military Exercise, in Al Qalayel area, yesterday. Also, the state’s job nationali- to the Qatari community. While sation drive in the private sector there were 1,357 people in the com- seems to be bearing little fruit munity looking for a job for the first as the ratio of citizens in private time, this number in the expatriate Obama under pressure over Gitmo force-feeding employment climbed down to a communities was higher at 2,958 in meagre 0.88 percent in 2012. Q1 this year. Women aged between Data released by the national 15 and 34 years accounted for the WASHINGTON: Controversy Earlier this week, Barack drone strikes, accused the Obama It said: “According to the World statistics agency for Q1 of 2013 largest share of those looking for over the Guantanamo Bay Obama vowed to make good on a administration of over-reliance Medical Assembly’s Declaration of say there were a total of 1.46 mil- jobs in both the communities — detention camp has intensi- broken promise, made during the on the attacks because it realises Malta, in cases involving people on lion workers in the country, of Qataris and expatriates. fied as United Nations experts 2008 presidential race, to get rid imprisoning them in Guantanamo hunger strikes, the duty of medi- which 86,000 were citizens and There were a total of 80,763 condemned the force-feeding of of the prison in Cuba. is too problematic. cal personnel to act ethically and the vast majority (1.38 million) students in the country last hunger-striking inmates by the It currently holds 166 detain- Released in response to the the principle of respect for indi- were non-Qatari. March-end, of whom 37,673 were US, and a former White House ees despite more than half having deteriorating situation in the viduals’ autonomy, among other The population of the country Qatari. In both, the Qatari and lawyer claimed that drone been cleared for release. Among camp, the UN experts’ declara- principles, must be respected. crossed the 1.9 million mark by expatriate communities, female strikes are being used an alter- them is Shaker Aamer, a British tion points out that force-feeding “Under these principles, it is the end of the first quarter of this students outnumbered their native to detaining Al Qaeda citizen, who has been held for hunger strikers is against inter- unjustifiable to engage in forced year to reach a record 1.93 mil- male counterparts. Interestingly, suspects. more than 11 years. national medical standards. feeding of individuals contrary lion (1,938,110, to be exact). Qatar arguably for the first time, the With more than 100 inmates Obama is likely to need the The declaration, released to their informed and volun- Statistics Authority (QSA), while national statistics office has refusing food, four senior UN Republicans’ support to close the through UN’s Office of the High tary refusal of such a meas- releasing the labour force fig- released the number of house- human rights experts and the base and rehouse the prisoners, Commissioner for Human Rights, ure. Moreover, hunger strikers ures, said that women accounted wives in the country, who totalled Inter-American Commission because they control the House also condemned the policy of should be protected from all for barely 11.9 percent of the nearly 111,000 by the end of the on Human Rights called for an of Representatives. indefinite detention as “a flagrant forms of coercion, even more so workforce. first quarter. Of them, 26,664 end to the indefinite detention The UN move came as John violation of international human when this is done through force Younger people (those aged were Qataris and 84,102 were of Guantanamo’s inmates and Bellinger, who worked for rights law which in itself consti- and in some cases through phys- between 15 and 44 years) had a expatriates. for their prosecution, transfer or President Bush and drew up the tutes a form of cruel, inhuman, ical violence. lion’s share (80.13 percent) in the THE PENINSULA immediate release. first White House policy on lethal and degrading treatment”. THE GUARDIAN

Qatari investor close to taking Sars-like virus kills 5 in Saudi Arabia stake in SolarWorld: Report RIYADH: Five Saudis have was first detected in mid-2012 contact with the infected people... World Health Organisation would died of a new Sars-like virus and is a cousin of Severe Acute and has taken samples from them not comment on why so many of DUESSELDORF, GERMANY: Debt-laden SolarWorld is close to during the past few days and Respiratory Syndrome (Sars), to examine if they are infected.” the cases have occurred in the securing financial backing from a Qatari investor, its chief execu- two more are being treated which triggered a scare 10 years However, the ministry gave no Saudi kingdom. tive said yesterday, the second major move in a week in its efforts in an intensive care unit, the ago when it erupted in east Asia, figures for how many people have “We have received a formal to get back on its feet. health ministry said. leaping to humans from animal been examined to see if they have notification from the Saudis about “We will publish the size of the potential stake at the extraordinary In a statement cited by the hosts. the lethal disease. these cases,” spokesman Glenn general meeting,” Frank Asbeck said yesterday, declining to name the SPA, the ministry said that all the hCoV-EMC stands for human Sixteen people have now died Thomas said. investor. One source familiar with the process said that Qatar Solar deaths as well as the infections coronavirus-Erasmus Medical from 23 cases detected in Saudi When asked if the WHO is Technologies (QSTec), a previous joint venture between SolarWorld occurred in the Ahsaa province Centre, after the Dutch health Arabia, Jordan, Germany and planning to issue a travel warning and the Qatar Foundation, was willing to take a minority stake in what in the oil-rich eastern region of institution that identified it. Britain. Riyadh has accounted for for Saudi Arabia, he said this was was once Germany’s largest solar company. the kingdom. The health ministry said it is most of the deaths, with 11 people “unlikely” since “there has been SolarWorld holds 29 percent of QSTec, and the Qatar Foundation 70 Known as novel coronavi- taking “all precautionary meas- including the five new fatalities. no change in the risk assessment.” percent. The remaining 1 percent is owned by the Qatar Development rus or hCoV-EMC, the virus ures for persons who have been in In Geneva, a spokesman for the AFP Bank. QSTec was not immediately available for comment. REUTERS Sheikh Salman wins FIFA executive seat

KUALA LUMPUR: Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa was US rethinking on arming elected on to FIFA’s executive committee after beating Qatari Hassan Al Thawadi in yesterday’s vote in Malaysia. The 34-year-old Qatari lawyer lost 28-18 in a head-to-head vote Syria rebels, says Hagel with the Bahraini, who also was elected Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president in an earlier ballot yesterday. WASHINGTON: The United voiced concerns that weapons “It’s not a blow at all,” Al Thawadi told reporters. States is rethinking its opposi- could fall into the hands anti- See also page 21 tion to a rm i ng the Sy ria n rebels, American Islamic extremists and US Defence Secretary Chuck that arming opposition groups Hagel said yesterday, as pres- may do little to end the conflict. Peace deal will go to referendum: Israel sure builds for a US response to “You look at and rethink all Syria’s suspected use of chemi- options. It doesn’t mean you do or JERUSALEM: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said cal weapons in its civil war. you will” choose them, Hagel said. yesterday he would put any peace deal reached with the Palestinians Hagel stressed that no decision “These are options that must to a referendum, in a meeting with the Swiss foreign minister. by US President Barack Obama be considered with partners, with “If we get to a peace agreement with the Palestinians, I’d like to bring had been made and did not signal the international community: it to a referendum. And I’d like to talk to you about your experiences whether one was likely soon on what is possible, what can help with that,” Netanyahu told Didier Burkhalter, the premier’s office said arming opposition fighters trying accomplish (our) objectives,” he Martin Keown (centre), a former British soccer player for Arsenal, with in a statement. “If you can come to Switzerland, where you are any time to overthrow Syrian President added. Syrian refugee children during the official opening of Save the Children’s invited, then I can show you the referendum, how it works, because Bashar Al Assad. REUTERS new soccer field at the Al Zaatri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of we have all the time referendums,” Burkhalter replied. US military commanders have See also page 4 Mafraq, yesterday. See also page 4 FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

PM meets GCC Secretary General Sheikha Moza at QF

The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani with the Secretary General of the GCC, Dr Abdul Latif bin Rashid Al Zayani, in Doha yesterday. H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser with students during one of her visits to Qatar Foundation yesterday. Showcasing art between cultures Twenty-two artists from 13 countries exhibit works at Qatar Foundation Recreation Centre in Education City BY RAYNALD C RIVERA experience through workshops conducted regularly. The works DOHA: A diverse collection on display offer every art enthu- of contemporary works of art siast a view of wide-ranging styles was unveiled on Wednesday at and subjects used by the artists. the opening of the third annual Indian painter Salim Abdulla, exhibition of International who started painting at a tender Artists Doha (IAD) titled age and began taking interest ‘Between Cultures’. in photography eight years ago, “With 22 artists from 13 coun- bases his paintings on images he tries, we can truly call this an captures through his camera. exhibition ‘between cultures’,” “Photography forms an essen- said co-founder and chair of IAD, tial component of my paint- Marjolijn Stolk, at the launch ings because some of the photos of the four-day exhibition at become an inspiration that I later the Al AaQool Atrium at Qatar take on to canvas,” he said. Foundation Recreation Centre in Using dots, Australian artist Education City. Pip Hoy creates beautiful and Hosted and sponsored by Qatar symbolic paintings based on com- Foundation, the exhibition show- mon sights, and one of his works cases the latest works of Doha- on display resembles the colourful based artists from Qatar, The and riotous bougainvillea. Netherlands, Germany, Croatia, “My other work is a collage The artists along with guests at the opening of ‘Between Cultures’ exhibition at the Qatar Foundation Recreation Centre. SALIM MATRAMKOT Australia, India, Egypt, Iran, which takes the form of beautiful Barbados, Portugal, Sudan, Arabic writing, and the design is The United Kingdom and the well-known in Turkey and other through a silent auction, proceeds which represents third country Other artists taking part in Jameela Al Shraim, Nigel Muter, Philippines. parts of North Africa; this is my of which will go to IAD to fund its nationals who are not compen- the exhibition include Annette Beverley Ross, Hannelore Seckel, “The strength of our group lies modern take on the evil eye,” she future public events. sated enough despite their effort,” Wendling-Willeke, Urvashi Verity Watkins, Pedro Boaventura on the diversity of the members explained. One of the interesting works explained Sarmiento, a Filipino Chauhan, Mohammed Al Atiq, and Sylvia Gomes. from various backgrounds shar- In addition to original works on auction was Arnel Sarmiento’s civil engineer who has been in Nourelhadi Awad, Mahgoub Al The exhibition is open today, ing ideas using art as a common on display, all artists have con- ‘Striver’, which pays homage to Doha for only a year and had Magboul, Dominika Bozic, Shihar from 12 noon to 6pm and tomor- language,” said Stolk, adding IAD tributed a 30cm x 30cm piece hard-working labourers here. earlier been working in the US Hamza, Behnaz Larsen, Willemien row from 10am to 4pm. members share knowledge and which will be offered to the public “Striver means hard worker, since the 90s. Mansell, Doerte Meichsner, THE PENINSULA

Hundreds take part in Labour Day events DOHA: Hundreds of work- at highlighting the role of labour- commitment of protecting the ers from various companies ers in building the society; intro- rights of labourers. Through and expatriate communities ducing the services QFCHT the ‘Wayakum’ campaign we took part in activities to mark provides; and raising awareness stress that labourers are indeed Labour Day, organised by Qatar among labourers about their our partners in development," Foundation for Combating rights and duties in relation to said Fatma Al Sahlawi, head of Human Trafficking (QFCHT), human trafficking. QHLHC. on Wednesday at Al Rayan "QFCHT launched the The event included a variety of Theatre in Souq Waqif. 'Wayakum' campaign this year for activities, including the screening The 600 participants were the first time to celebrate World of a movie, a silent show, sports workers from Ras Laffan Labour Day under the slogan, competitions, and song and dance Industrial City, CICC, Mshaireb 'Home is wherever you are sus- performances with the partici- Real Estate and NKOM as well as tained'. The campaign includes pation of the audience and with Qatar-resident communities. The a variety of activities to raise valuable prizes on offer. Philippine and Indian communi- awareness in the society about the The ‘Wayakum’ campaign, ties participated in the celebra- role of labourers in contributing which was launched through this tion through artistic shows. to building the state. event, will continue throughout The activities were organised “The event implicitly holds a the year, with a host of activities in coordination with the Qatari strong message from the entire that will stress the need to pro- House for Lodging and Human society to the labourers, stress- tect the rights of labourers. Care (QHLHC), and were aimed ing the ethical and valuable THE PENINSULA

HGH doctors conducting the trans-catheter pulmonary valve transplant using robotic surgery. Kid undergoes robotic heart surgery DOHA: A surgical team at Magdi Tofeig, both consultant provider of robot-assisted surgery Hamad General Hospital paediatric cardiologists at HMC. in Qatar and it is used across spe- (HGH) recently conducted The five-hour operation was the cialties including gynaecology, the country’s first successful first procedure of its kind in urology and ENT. trans-catheter pulmonary valve Qatar and used minimally inva- Dr Saloos said the young transplant, using robotic sur- sive techniques, also known as patient was discharged within 24 gery, on the heart of an 11-year- robotic surgery. hours of the successful procedure. old Qatari girl. Transplanting the trans-cath- He said the new technique meant This is a breakthrough pro- eter pulmonary valve can help the need for larger and more cedure that can improve life for delay the need for open heart invasive surgery was avoided. children with several types of surgery and improve quality of “The patient had a severe congenital heart defects (those life for the patient and the use reflux of the pulmonary valve, present at birth). Hamad Medical of robotic surgery techniques and had undergone several open Corporation (HMC) is one of ensures faster recovery. heart surgeries before,” Dr Al only a small number of health- Since robotic surgery was first Saloos said. care organisations internationally introduced in Qatar in 2008, HMC “The pulmonary valve has performing this procedure. surgeons have used the technol- been replaced by catheterisation A dance performed by a community group at the World Labour Day celebrations at Al Rayan Theatre in Souq Waqif. The surgical team was led by ogy in more than 40 cardiac oper- to avoid another open heart sur- Dr Hesham Al Saloos and Dr ations. HMC is currently the only gery.” THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

New premises Thailand to lure more Qatari tourists for Al Wakra Southeast Asian nation promotes new tourism destinations at roadshow in Doha Municipality BY RAYNALD C RIVERA local media at a pre-Arabian more of other destinations which one of which is focused on increas- promoting green tourism desti- DOHA: Al Wakra Travel Market roadshow at the offer beaches, mountains and ing revenue from tourism. nations,” he explained. Municipality headquar- DOHA: Qatar is emerging as a Oryx Rotana Hotel yesterday. forests for trekking,” said Thai Travel website TripAdvisor With almost 200 golf courses in ters will be shifted to a new very important tourism gener- The Thai tourism Middle East Ambassador Panyarak Poolthup, ranked Bangkok one of the top the country and golf tournaments premises at Abdurrahman ating market for Thailand, says roadshow was held in Qatar adding aside from Bangkok other cities in terms of best value for held, they are also looking into bin Jassem commercial street a Thai tourism official. and Kuwait, two very promising destinations also have hospitals money, he said. golf as a niche market. soon. “Qatar has a very high potential Middle Eastern tourism source for medical tourism. Another strategy is establish- For tourists to spend more time The four-storey building as a market for tourism. In 2012, markets for Thailand. Aside from The roadshow was an oppor- ing niche markets on medical and in Thailand, another strategy is will have a customer care Thailand received 37,718 tourists the popular tourist destinations in tunity to widely promote other wellness, wedding, golf, culture offering courses on Thai cooking centre and four counters for from Qatar, which has increased the Southeast Asian country, the destinations in Thailand to people and green tourism. and popular sports such as Thai services such as revenue, rent 36 percent compared the previous roadshow was primarily aimed at in Qatar by focusing on family- “We have very romantic areas boxing, he added. The Thai dele- contracts, archives and griev- year. This number is very big con- promoting new tourism destina- friendly destinations, value-for- in the south and north that are gation who came for the roadshow ances on the ground floor, Al sidering Qatar’s population,” said tions in Thailand. money and medical tourism. excellent wedding destinations included hotels, travel agents, Sharq reported yesterday, Chalermsak Suranant, Director “Apart from the usual destina- Thailand, said Suranant, has while Chiang Mai is a major amusement and theme parks as quoting the Director of Al of Tourism Authority of Thailand tions in Thailand, like Phuket, started implementing a number of culture destination. Since green well as the Thailand Convention Wakra Municipality, Hamdan Dubai and Middle East office. Bangkok and Chiang Mai, we strategies to further promote the activities are now becoming a and Exhibition Bureau. Khalifah Al Mansouri. Suranant was speaking to want Qatari people to know country as a leading destination, trend to tourists, we are also THE PENINSULA The second floor will have counters for commercial licenses (under the Ministry of Business and Trade) and Marking press freedom offices for staff working with various technical and admin- Qatar Career istrative departments. Director of the Municipality and heads of the departments Fair lecture will sit on the third floor. Archives, theatre, cafeteria, prayer halls and storerooms for women will be on the last floor.

DOHA: Qatar Career Fair (QCF) will be hosting its third Bus catches fire lecture in a series of lectures planned for the year in an in Muntazah area effort to raise career awareness DOHA: A bus parked near a among young Qatari men and building under construction women. in Muntazah area caught fire The lecture will focus on yesterday afternoon. The civil Qatari women in the workforce, defence team rushed to the including success stories, current spot and put out the blaze. No trends and developments, chal- injuries were reported. The lenges and expectations for the Ministry of Interior reported future. another fire in a residential The illustrious panel of speak- building in Mansoura area ers will include Buthaina Al yesterday. The fire emanated Ansari, Senior Director of Human from cooking oil used in the Resources at Ooredoo, Maryah Al house, said the Ministry Dafa Project Director at the pres- in a posting on its twitter ident office Qatar Foundation, account. None was injured in Aysha Al Mudehki, Executive the incident. Director Injaz Qatar and Najat, Panellists taking part in the seminar titled ‘The Landscape of Qatari Media — Past, Present and Future’, organised by the Doha Centre for Media Abdulraheem Abdulraheem, Freedom to mark World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday. Business Development and 21 eateries shuttered Innovation Manager at Ooredoo, and be moderated by Noora over violations Al Naemi Manager – Human DOHA: The Doha Resources Department at Qatar Over 70 treated for neurourology disorders annually Municipality shut down 21 Leadership Centre. food outlets over the past The event will be held between four months for violating the 5.30pm and 7.30pm on May 5 DOHA: An average of 70 Dysfunction Unit, Unfortunately some of problems will need a urinary health regulations. The action at Community College Qatar patients including children are Urology Department the workers don’t con- catheter to manage their bladder was taken after the civic (Ladies Campus). The event is treated annually at the Hamad at the HMC, yesterday. tinue treatment here problems. inspectors detected expired intended only for ladies who are Medical Corporation (HMC) for “We get men and because they go back People with a spastic bladder food items at the outlets. interested in this dynamic topic. neurourology disorders due to women of all ages, home as the employers should use a single-use, inter- “Qatar is one of the few coun- spinal code injuries, according even children,” he said. don take care of them,” mittent catheter or indwell- tries in the region to have made an expert. “Spinal inju- added Dr Ghafouri. ing (Foley) catheter. Males may Megaryef leaves Doha important political, educational Neurourology concerns nervous ries mainly happen Bladder problems choose to use an external condom DOHA: Libya’s National and social changes that expand system control of the genitouri- because of road traf- occur as a result of dam- catheter instead. Congress President Mohamed work opportunities for women. nary system, and of conditions fic accidents. Luxury age to the spinal cord. Complications of bladder prob- Youssef Al Megaryef left These factors have been crucial in causing abnormal urination. vehicles go very fast The sacral nerves at lems resulting from spinal code Doha yesterday wrapping up encouraging more Qatari women Majority of patients who come and many occupants the base of the spine injuries include urinary tract an official visit to Qatar. to enter the workforce and play to HMC with neurourology prob- don’t wear seat belts. control functions of the infections, sepsis, dyssynergia, He was seen off on departure a more significant role in moving lems are due to motor accidents The other main group is labour- bladder, so virtually any level of kidney stones or bladder stones at Doha International Airport Qatar towards a well-rounded, and falling form heights and the ers. When they work in sum- spinal cord injury may result in and bladder cancer in those who by the Minister of State H E knowledge-based society”, said number of cases increase each mer in construction sites they bladder control problems. use indwelling catheters for a long Abdullah bin Khalifa Abdullah Al Mansoori, Executive year, said Dr Ardalan Ghafouri, get heat attacks and fall, which Individuals with spinal code period of time, says Dr Ghafouri. QNA/THE PENINSULA Director, QCF. Urology Consultant, Voiding may result in spinal code injuries. injury and associated bladder THE PENINSULA The lecture will address the empowerment and entrepre- neurship landscape for women in Qatar, as well as the impor- Labour Day felicitation tant role that education plays. It will also shed light on personal Qatar to attend democracy meet in Egypt insights adding career women on how to overcome gender, cultural DOHA: Qatar will participate be held at the Arab League head- governance in the Arab region, and social barriers and excel in in an international seminar on quarters in Cairo on May 9 and task of transferring into democ- the workforce. the development of democracy 10. racy and its connection with good In recent years, Qatar has in the Arab world scheduled to The seminar will be organised governance, methods of develop- seen a tremendous surge in be held on May 9, in Cairo. by the Arabic Network for Human ment, and how to achieve social the number of women in the It was disclosed by the Rights Institutions (ANHRI) led justice will be discussed in the workforce. According to the Chairman of Qatar’s National by Qatar’s NHRC in collabora- seminar, Al Marrri added. International Labour Office, in Human Rights Committee tion with Arab League, United Nationalism and development 2010, women’s participation in (NHRC), Dr Ali bin Sumaikh Al Nations Educational, Scientific are basic factors for social justice, the labour force reached 52.1 Marri in a press conference held and Cultural Organisation empowerment of women in Arab percent in Qatar, 39.2 percent in here yesterday. (Unesco) and Arab Organisation region and upgrading them in the Bahrain, 43.3 percent in Kuwait, The event titled “Development for Human Rights. Arab League will also be in the 28 percent in Oman, 17.4 percent and Democracy and Developing Several Arab issues includ- list of discussion. in Saudi Arabia, and 43.7 percent the System of Arab Region”, will ing, the implementation of good THE PENINSULA in the UAE. Although predominantly employed in the public and the services sectors, Qatar has been witnessing a steady rise in women entrepreneurship as it provides President of the Indian Community Benevolent Fund (ICBF), Kareem social flexibility to balance tra- Abdullah (left) receiving a memento from the head of the Inspections ditional roles and their career Department at the Ministry of Labour, Khalid Al Ghanim. The ministry aspirations. honoured prominent members from different expatriate communi- THE PENINSULA ties at a function held to mark the International Labour Day that was observed on Wednesday. Oryx GTL to sponsor GCC gas conference

DOHA: Oryx GTL, Qatar's pio- of the Minister for Energy and industries and their suppliers; neering ultra-clean fuel manu- Industry, H E Dr Mohammed bin thus improving plant operations, facturer, yesterday announced Saleh Al Sada. health, safety and environmen- its sponsorship of the GPA – This two-day technical confer- tal performance in the GCC GCC 21st Annual Technical ence organised by Gas Processors countries. The opening session Conference to be held from May Association, GCC chapter, will of the conference will include a 7 to 8. serve as a forum for the exchange remark from the Chairman of the The two-day conference, of ideas, technology and infor- Chapter, and a keynote speech by with the theme ‘Operational mation that will be of immense MD and CEO of RasGas Company Excellence in the Gas Industry’, benefit to both upstream and Limited, Hamad Rashid Al Chairman of National Human Rights Committee, Dr Ali bin Sumaikh Al Marri, at the press conference yesterday. will be held under the patronage downstream Gas Processing Mohannadi. THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Israel says will put peace deal to referendum PM’s remarks ignite hope for talks

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime said a senior Israeli official who Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declined to be named. “People are said yesterday he would put any devoting a lot of time and effort to peace deal with the Palestinians this. It is possible and it is doable.” to a referendum, raising expec- US President Barack Obama tations that direct negotiations came to Jerusalem in March and might soon resume following a his secretary of state has visited two-year stalemate. the region three times in little It was the second time in just over six weeks. Kerry was due three days that Netanyahu has to see Israeli Justice Minister publicly mentioned the possibil- Tzipi Livni later yesterday in ity of holding a nationwide vote Washington. on an eventual accord and came Livni has been designated by as US Secretary of State John Netanyahu to be his chief peace Kerry met Israeli politicians in negotiator. She was travelling Washington to discuss talks. with one of the prime minis- “If we get to a peace agree- ter’s top officials and confidants, ment with the Palestinians, I’d Yitzhak Molcho. like to bring it to a referen- Direct peace talks between dum, and I’d like to talk to you Israel and the Palestinians broke about your experiences with down in 2010 over the issue of that,” Netanyahu said as he met continued Jewish settlement Swiss Foreign Minister Didier building on 1967 land. Palestinian Burkhalter. President Mahmoud Abbas says Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) meeting the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (third left), in Dubai, yesterday. Switzerland regularly holds he will not return to the table referendum on a broad range of until there is a construction issues. Israel, by contrast, has freeze. Israel says there should never held a referendum in its be no pre-conditions. 65-year history, and previous Unexpectedly highlighting the UAE signs nuclear deal with Japan peace treaties with Arab neigh- issue of referendum has fuelled bours Egypt and Jordan were hopes that the impasse might ABU DHABI: Japan and the japan’s Abu Dhabi Oil Co adding two of four nuclear power plants spokesman Yutaka Yokol told approved by parliament. soon be overcome. However, United Arab Emirates signed a new zone, WAM said. — each with a capacity of 1,400 reporters that Tokyo will “provide Netanyahu leads a centre-right there was little sign that the core yesterday a nuclear coopera- Making his second visit to the megawatts — in partnership with a small part of the technology for coalition that includes support- questions dividing the two sides, tion agreement during a visit by country as prime minister, Abe a South Korean consortium, as the facility,” which is being built ers of the settlement move- including the status of Jerusalem, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who arrived late on Wednesday in the part of plans to produce electric- by a South Korean consortium. ment, many of whom are fiercely were any nearer resolution. stressed Tokyo’s cooperation UAE, Japan’s eighth largest world ity from 2017. A Japanese-French consortium opposed to the idea of allowing “No one thinks we are near with its Middle East partners. economic partner, to take part in Despite being a major oil has won a $22bn contract to build the Palestinians an independent a historic agreement. But any Abe is on a regional tour a Japan-UAE Business Forum. exporter, the UAE has opted to a nuclear power plant on Turkey’s state on land seized by Israel in historic agreement will need he began in Saudi Arabia, in a Abe announced at the forum develop nuclear power, seeing it as Black Sea coast, a senior energy the 1967 war. national legitimacy,” the Israeli push to sell Japanese nuclear that Japan would sign a nuclear a proven, environmentally prom- ministry official said yesterday. By pledging to put any deal to official said. technologies. agreement with the United Arab ising and commercially competi- For his part, UAE Energy a referendum, Netanyahu could The Palestinians have also said The cooperation agreement Emirates. tive source of electricity. Minister Suhail Al Mazrouei, be hoping to avert any immedi- that they would hold a referen- over a peaceful use of nuclear “Japan can contribute to With four plants scheduled to called for stable world oil prices ate far-right backlash to a deci- dum on an eventual accord, with energy was signed in Dubai, in the UAE energy supplies by means be operational by 2020, the UAE at the forum. sion to talk land-for-peace with no guarantees that their diverse presence of Abe and UAE Prime of nuclear energy conservation hopes that nuclear energy would “We seek as an energy-pro- the Palestinians, promising that electorate, including the far-flung Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin and renewable energy,” he said provide up to a quarter of its elec- ducing country stability in world the Israeli people would have the refugee population, would accept Rashid Al Maktoum, WAM state according to translation from tricity needs, which are forecast prices, to enable exporting and final word. the likely compromises needed to news agency said. Japanese. to soar to 40 gigawatts from 15.5 consuming countries to steadily “There is a very serious effort seal a deal. The UAE also agreed to extend The UAE announced in mid- currently. develop and build their econo- under way to get talks to resume,” REUTERS an oil concession agreement with July that it would begin building Japanese Foreign Ministry mies,” he said. AFP

Over 60 killed in Sudan gold Assad forces retake mine collapse KHARTOUM, SUDAN: key Homs district More than 60 workers were killed when an unlicensed desert gold mine collapsed BEIRUT: Forces loyal to edge which would create a line of in an area of Sudan’s Darfur President Bashar Al Assad control locking down the eastern where hundreds died in retook a central district in the approaches to the city and close fighting over the precious city of Homs yesterday, driving off weapons supplies from the commodity in January- a wedge between two isolated Jordanian border. February, the district chief pockets of rebel resistance in A call issued by several activists said yesterday. Syria’s third largest city, fight- in the area warned the disparate It was not known how many ers and activists said. rebel forces to pull together or people may still be missing after The recapture of Wadi face defeat. Monday’s accident in Jebel Amir Al Sayeh, which links the besieged “If you do not unite under one district, more than 200 kilome- rebel stronghold in Khalidiyah flag the regime is going to hunt tres northwest of the North to the opposition-held old city, you down, one brigade after Darfur state capital El Fasher. appears to be part of a series of another,” it said. Production from unofficial carefully focused counter-offen- Assad has lost control of much gold mines has become a key sives that mark a shift from the of northern and eastern Syria in revenue source for Sudan’s indiscriminate campaigns earlier the fighting, which the United cash-strapped government. in the two-year-old conflict. Nations says has killed 70,000 It is also a tempting but Homs is a link in the corridor people, and is battling rebels in dangerous occupation for connecting Assad’s Damascus most cities. But he says his forces residents of Sudan’s poverty- powerbase with the traditional still hold the upper hand. stricken western region of Mediterranean heartland of his On Monday, his prime minis- Darfur which has been devas- minority Alawite community. It ter escaped assassination when a tated by a decade of civil war. was an early centre of the mainly bomb struck his convoy, killing six “The number of people who Sunni Muslim uprising against people. The president appeared died is more than 60,” said four decades of Assad family rule. two days later, touring an elec- Haroun Al Hassan, local com- Following recent gains in rural tricity power station and say- missioner for Jebel Amir. Residents inspect damage to a building after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syrian President areas around Homs, Assad’s ing he would not be forced into AFP Bashar Al Assad, in Raqqa province, east Syria, yesterday. forces surrounded the towns of hiding. Baida and Maqreb on the road “This is a challenge to us to to the coastal city of Banias yes- cower in fear or remain fearless. Saudi floods death terday, activists said, the latest We will not be afraid,” Assad said. Ban discusses Syria with major powers stage in a campaign to secure the In Homs, a rebel fighter told toll reaches 20 corridor. Reuters by Skype that pro-Assad They also seized Qaysa town forces from the paramilitary RIYADH: Twenty people have UNITED NATIONS: UN The permanent Security sensitivity. Brahimi has been crit- on the eastern edge of Damascus, National Defence Army were died and four people remain leader Ban Ki-moon discussed Council members — the United icised by the Syrian opposition, part of a steady move north from making gains. missing in Saudi Arabia after deadlocked efforts to end the States, Russia, China, Britain and and Assad’s government said last airport on the city’s south-eastern REUTERS heavy downpours triggered flash Syria conflict with the major France — have all been urging week it would no longer cooperate floods in the desert kingdom powers yesterday amid mount- Brahimi to stay in the position he with him. for nearly a week, civil defence ing signs that peace envoy took up in August last year after But the Arab League decision authorities said yesterday. Lakhdar Brahimi is to quit. former UN leader Kofi Annan to recognise the opposition Syrian People have drowned in several Diplomats and UN spokes- quit, diplomats said. National Coalition as the legiti- Iraq April death toll spikes areas of Saudi Arabia, according man Martin Nesirky confirmed Brahimi wants to leave out mate government of Syria was BAGHDAD: The United The UN says it recorded to a statement by the civil defence the meeting but declined to say of growing frustration with the the final straw for the veteran UN Nations mission to Iraq says 712 people killed last month, quoted by SPA state news agency. whether Brahimi has already deadlocked international efforts troubleshooter, diplomats said. more people were killed in vio- including 117 members of the Rescue teams evacuated six vil- told the United Nations and Arab to end the two-year-old civil war The aide said Brahimi has not lent attacks across the coun- Iraqi security forces. The capi- lages in the southwestern Bisha League that he would be leaving. in which the UN says well over yet resigned. “But as you know, try in April than in any other tal district of Baghdad was the province after a sand dam at the A senior aide to the 79-year-old 70,000 people have been killed. he said he thinks about this every month since June 2008. worst affected. Casualty tolls in valley of Tabala partially col- former Algerian foreign minister “People are saying ‘we want day,” the aide said. The UN figures released yes- Iraq can vary considerably, with lapsed, it said. Authorities have told AFP no announcement of any a political solution’ but no one Ban and the ambassadors from terday underscore concerns that official reports at times differing been urging people to avoid wadi resignation was likely to be made is taking serious steps towards the Security Council’s five perma- security is quickly deteriorating from accounts from local police valleys and plains flooded by heavy until mid-May. Diplomats say that,” said the aide, speaking to nent members held informal dis- in Iraq, where violence spiked in and hospital officials. rainfall which has continued since however that Brahimi is deter- AFP in Cairo on condition of cussions on Syria, said Nesirky. the last part of April. AP last Friday. AFP mined to leave the post. anonymity because of the topic’s AFP FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 ISLAM www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Islam for peace and moderation

BY SADULLAH KHAN done is okay; and just because something is done in religious fervor does not in any slam is salaam (peace) and tasleem way prove that it is Islamically correct. (submission to the Divine). In Islam According to the Quran (5:32); Peace is the standard, it is the prin- Muslims have inherited the command Iciple, and each person of faith has from that prescribed to the Children of the moral obligation to maintain peace, Israel “whoever takes a single life with- without compromising on justice and out justification is as if he has killed the truth. Islam invites to the subul assal- entire humanity.” aam (pathway of peace); peace of mind, Furthermore we are reminded, If Allah peace of conscience, peace in the fam- had not repelled some people through oth- ily and society, peace with one’s Creator ers, monasteries, churches, synagogues, and and His creation. One of the attributes mosques; all in which Allah’s name is much of the Divine is Assalaam (The Source of celebrated, would have been destroyed. Peace) and Muslim greeting universally, Allah will certainly help those who help His upon meeting and departing, is Assalamu cause and surely, Allah is All-Powerful, All- Alaykum or “peace be unto you”. The final Mighty’ (Quran, 22:40). and ultimate reward for human endeav- If we do not abide by these principles our is Paradise, referred to in the Quran established in the Quran, then we are as Darussalam (Abode of Peace) undermining the very spirit of our reli- The Believers were intended to be gion. We must heed the Quranic warning an ummah (community) that serves as against extremism in religion. ... Do not a standard/model for others; what the be extreme in your religion (Quran 4:171). Quran describes .”...And we have made Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon you a median community in order him) further warned: My intercession will that you may be a testimony or model not be availed two categories of my com- for humanity” (Quran 2:143). It is the munity; an oppressive/unjust ruler and a absence of the balance provided by mod- rebellious extremist (Tibrani). eration that extremism creeps in. I warn you regarding extremism, because communities before you were destroyed due INTOLERANCE WHENCE? to extremism (Nasa’i). How is it then that some Muslims are Some deviant people/groups are com- so intolerant, involved in atrocious and mitting acts in the name of Islam which heinous acts of violence and senseless are contrary to the fundamental of our killing? Are they oblivious to the historic faith, while not enough seem courageous example of how the Prophet engaged enough to openly stand up to these bul- those of different Faiths? It seems that lies who are denigrating the name and some among Muslims seem to have lost being Muslims however un-Muslim their as an unbeliever) and character assas- planning. Islam declares openly its aims image of Islam. sound understanding of the teachings of stance may be. Then there are those who sination as a tool for marginalising any and objectives and these are recognised Remember the words of Prophet our Faith and are substituting the sub- cheer acts of violence because they too criticism directed at them. by good people everywhere as pure and (PBUH): “A Muslim (one who proclaims lime message of Islam by a discourse of have degenerated into a hateful people. Radical extremists differ only in that congruent with their own wisdom and faith) is that person from whose hands and anger and the rhetoric of rage. There is Extremists, whether reactionary or they will use violence to further their traditions. Islam never allows a Muslim tongue other Muslims are safe; A Mu’min no command or teaching in Islam that radical are a bane to religion. Reactionary cause and that the end justifies the to kill the innocent and the helpless (one who manifests faith) is that person in can be referenced as the direct reason extremists do not want any pluralism; means. They see any act as acceptable if Desiring to implement Islamic values whom humanity find safety and security behind an extreme act, and killing. Those they view the world in black and white, it will further their ‘cause.’ This is bla- is always noble, but having a meaning- regarding their lives, property and honour.” who are planning and orchestrating any good and evil terms. They are good and tantly anti-Islamic. In Islam the means ful and effective strategy is indeed most (Baihaqi). senseless killings are the worst repre- anyone who opposes them is evil. From must reflect its noble ends. Any means significant. Forcing other is never an The Prophet (PBUH) further advised sentatives of their religions and enemies among the Muslims these are people who that does not embody the core truths and acceptable resort and certainly not the ...Allah is kind and loves kindness in every of their communities. Those who are per- ‘excommunicate’ any Muslim who fail to ethics of Islam is not from Islam and thus first resort; especially since our way of life matter, and kindness has been granted petrators acts of wanton violence in the share their interpretations of the Quran denounced as aberration. commands us not to use compulsion as a capacity which violence could never attain. name of Islam are doing a most grievous and their understanding of the faith. Islam is not a secret society of conspir- tool. Just because something needs to be (Sahih Muslim) disservice to Islam. Others take pride in They use takfir (denouncing a Muslim ators who no one knows what they are done does not mean that anything that is www.islamcity.com Why Islam is unique

BY WALEED AHMED NAJMEDDINE behaviour. Rather, it is only we who suffer from our own misdeeds. Ultimately, the only real guarantee slam is unlike any other religion because it is of salvation from Allah’s displeasure and wrath is not merely a belief to which one adheres, but from Allah Himself. We see this through the exam- rather Islam is a complete way of life. Muslims ple of His Noble Messenger Prophet Muhammad Iput their beliefs into practice on a daily basis. (PBUH) and Allah’s unfaltering promise in the Holy Islam provides guidance in all the spheres and activi- Quran, the final unaltered scripture of Allah. No one ties of life. Furthermore, it is unique in that it is not will be wronged by Allah an atom’s weight in this named after any person, tribe, region or culture. life or the next. Islam is named after a belief in one God, Allah, and Allah’s promise is reiterated many times in the submission to His will. In Holy Quran: If we believe other words, Muslims put and do good deeds, we will Allah’s Will before their be rewarded, while if we own. deny the message and do The message of Prophet Islam preaches the evil, we will be punished. Muhammad (peace be upon Islam offers guidance to him) is not new; his message oneness of humanity all humankind, regardless of absolute monotheism is a of race, culture, education reaffirmation of what came more than any other level, sex, and socioeco- before it. We as humans con- nomic status. stantly stray from guidance religious tradition. Through Islam, we if we are left on our own achieve peace with our- without a divine reminder, We are all sons and selves, with Allah, with our thus Allah the Merciful has fellow man and even with sent us prophets to remind the environment so that us. Islam preaches the same daughters of Adam we can live in harmony message of all previous with the entire universe prophets. That message is: and Eve (peace be as Allah intended. Allah is One, worship Him Then why Islam and not alone. upon them), and Judaism or Christianity? Additionally, human First of all, Islam is the society changes and devel- the most beloved message of the final ops with time, and so Allah Prophet to mankind, has adjusted His Laws human before Allah Muhammad (PBUH) and slightly over the centu- no other prophet has come ries to correspond accord- is the most god- with true guidance or a ingly. Thus while Allah’s new message from Allah message of divine oneness fearing. We are all since his time. has been the same since While all previous the beginning of time, His brothers and sisters prophets of Allah (such Sacred Law has been abro- as Abraham, Moses, and gated and amended with from a common Jesus) were followed by a the advent of each new subsequent prophet and prophet. The Sacred Law ancestor, and we a new Sacred Law that of Prophet Muhammad abrogated that which was (PBUH) represents the will all return to our before it, the prophethood final version of Allah’s of Muhammad (PBUH) commandments applicable Creator in the end. is final and complete — to all of humankind until no messenger will come the Last Day. after him. The example Islam invites us to what of Prophet Muhammad benefits us and all of human- (PBUH) offers solid guid- ity. It commands goodness ance for all times and towards all people and does not promote preferential places. Islam is the only true universal religion — it treatment for a certain group, be they believers or is open to people of all cultural backgrounds, man not. No one is immune from Allah’s commands and and woman alike. laws in Islam. Islam preaches the Oneness of humanity more Islam offers us eternity in Paradise if we obey than any other religious tradition. We are all sons Allah’s commands. Whether we believe in Him, and daughters of Adam and Eve (peace be upon follow His Guidance, practice good and forbid evil, them), and the most beloved human before Allah is Allah does not benefit anything from it. We are the most god-fearing. We are all brothers and sisters the ones who benefit from submitting to His Will. from a common ancestor, and we will all return to Likewise, if we refuse to believe, practice evil and our Creator in the end. prevent good, Allah is not harmed one bit by our www.onislam.net FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 06 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE prism of India-Pakistan relations has become foggy once again. With the death in a Pakistani hospital of Indian citizen Sarabjit Singh early Tyesterday, the bitterness between both countries Gitmo hunger strike renews — divided amid one of the worst carnages in the twentieth century — has returned. Sarabjit, a resident of Punjab, was convicted for spying and for the Lahore and Faisalabad bomb blasts that killed 14 people. A Pakistani court held Sarabjit debate on force-feeding guilty in 1991, an year after the blasts, and awarded him the BY PETER FINN AND death penalty. Sarabjit’s family, however, maintained that the JULIE TATE percent of his ideal body weight and detainees. “There could be transfers farmer was a victim of mistaken identity as he strayed across continues to refuse food, a military home in one month, two months.” the border in an inebriated state. His sister Dalbir Kaur led a medical doctor writes a prescription The White House would still need to forceful campaign for the last eight years to get him freed. But wice a day at the mili- for what officials at Guantanamo call engage Congress so it doesn’t further relentless Pakistani authorities refused to release the death tary detention centre at an “enteral feed.” restrict options for handling detainees, row prisoner. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, The hunger strike at Guantanamo said an administration official, who guards take a number of Bay began in early February over alle- spoke on the condition of anonymity. The row over Sarabjit flared up when he was critically detainees from their cells, gations that the guard force improp- The official, who was not authorised to injured in a bizarre incident inside the Kot Lakhpat Prison Tone at a time, to a camp clinic or a pri- erly handled copies of the Holy Quran discuss the issue, noted that 56 of the in Lahore. Authorities say he was severely assaulted by fellow vate room on their block. during searches — charges strenuously 86 cleared detainees are from Yemen. prisoners who used bricks and plates to attack him after a The detainees are offered a hot meal denied by the military. But the number The administration suspended trans- heated exchange. It is difficult to verify what happened inside or a liquid nutritional supplement and, of hunger strikes has since skyrocketed, fers to Yemen after a plot to bring down if they refuse, they are strapped into and the protest has taken on broader a US commercial airline over Detroit the walls of the incarceration facility, but a former Indian a chair. A nurse then passes a tube meaning for detainees seeking to pro- was found to originate in that coun- spy went on record recently saying it was difficult to believe through their noses and down into their test Guantanamo’s seeming permanence try. Any decision to lift that suspen- the official account of the attack. The Kolkata-based former stomachs; for one to two hours, they and the Obama administration’s failure sion would require the administration intelligence agent, who had spent years in Pakistani prison are fed a drip of Ensure while a Navy to make good on its promise to close to help Yemeni authorities manage a facilities, said in an interview that it is corpsman watches. the facility. staggered return of their nationals. The death of well nigh impossible for two or more Those who have experienced force- President Obama said on Tuesday Warner said visible movement on feeding have that he would renew efforts to shut the transfers, coupled with a willingness by Sarabjit in death row convicts to be taken out of described it as detention centre, a challenge that, if the military to negotiate with detainees, their cells at the same time. Sarabjit’s painful. But, as anything, is more politically demanding could end the hunger strike. hospital after attackers were reportedly death row the prisoners at than it was when he signed an execu- The American Medical Association Pakistan prisoners. A condemned prisoner has The American Guantanamo Bay tive order to close Guantanamo on his and the International Committee of ignored to be kept under the tightest security. are well aware, second day in office in January 2009. the Red Cross have said they oppose Sarabjit was under incarceration for Medical fasting and then White House officials said Obama is force-feeding. They each cite a declara- India’s plea for enduring the pro- considering appointing a senior State tion by the World Medical Association 22 years. How did a bunch of prisoners Association and cedure can also Department official to oversee the that states that “where a prisoner repatriation, manage to bludgeon another death row the International bring political transfer of detainees who have been refuses nourishment and is considered convict inside the jail when he was taken Committee of the advantage. cleared for repatriation or resettle- by the physician as capable of forming will affect out of his cell? From British- ment — the post is vacant — and will an unimpaired and rational judgment bilateral ties. As Sarabjit lay in hospital fighting for Red Cross have run prisons in also accelerate efforts to start a peri- concerning the consequences of such a Ireland to deten- odic review process for others being held voluntary refusal of nourishment, he or life, India more-than-once pleaded with said they oppose tion facilities in without charge. she shall not be fed artificially.” Islamabad for his release on humanitarian grounds. Though force-feeding. Israel, the hunger There are 166 detainees at Obama defended the practice on Pakistan allowed his family a hospital visit, the relatives were Obama defended strike has long Guantanamo, 86 of whom have been Tuesday, saying, “I don’t want these far from satisfied. New Delhi’s plea for sending him to a third been a political cleared for transfer by an interagency individuals to die.” country for treatment were also ignored. The two nuclear- the practice on weapon wielded task force. The policy of slowly emptying The Pentagon has not responded to a armed South Asian nations have historically had strained ties, Tuesday, saying, “I by the imprisoned the facility by sending detainees home letter from the AMA on the issue, but or the powerless. or finding them third countries in which Lt Col Samuel House, a spokesman for though efforts to improve bilateral relations have often come don’t want these With their pro- to live has been moribund for a year. Joint Task Force Guantanamo, said the closer to reconciliation. Islamabad should have shown a level of individuals to die.” test, the 100 men The administration blames the paral- military wants to preserve lives. maturity in dealing with the Sarabjit case. Even though doctors refusing food at ysis on congressional restrictions, but There are a handful of detainees at declared him brain dead, Sarabjit was not released. Finally, he Guantanamo — the secretary of defence can still act by Guantanamo who have been on a hunger came home —dead. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh 23 of whom are certifying that a particular transfer is strike and force-fed since 2005, accord- did not mince words while criticising Pakistan and demanded being fed through a nasogastric tube — in the national security interests of the ing to House. have forced the largely forgotten issue United States. Lawyers for the detain- But the scale of the current protest that those behind the killing should be brought to justice. of their indefinite detention back on to ees said the administration should move has forced the military to move addi- With Pakistan going to polls on May 11, the government Washington’s agenda. quickly to exercise that option. tional medical personnel onto the base probably didn’t want to be seen relenting to Indian pressure The hunger strike has also reopened “Let’s start with the 86; there can be to monitor detainees and cope with in the case. However, by not releasing Sarabjit when he was a debate about whether it is ethical no argument about that,” said Carlos the rising numbers of forced feedings. fighting for his life, Islamabad lost the opportunity to show for medical personnel at Guantanamo Warner of the federal public defend- There is nearly one nurse or corpsman Bay to force-feed some of the protest- er’s office in the Northern District of for every detainee, he said. that it wants to improve ties with India • ers. When a hunger striker falls to 85 Ohio, which represents 11 Guantanamo WP-BLOOMBERG The other side Quote of Catastrophe in Bangladesh the day

OR a week, rescuers in ethics policy, working with the Ethical of unrealistically high labor standards preserving the export economy. Bangladesh have sifted through Trading Initiative, a third-party standard- would have that effect. It’s good that lower clothing prices the wreckage of an eight-story setting organization, and conducting Inexpensive labour in population- raise living standards of the poor in Fgarment factory, listening to the thousands of audits in recent years. dense Bangladesh has encouraged Western countries. It’s also good that, It is particularly cries of people trapped in the rubble, However, its methods didn’t work. companies to source ready-to-wear in the process, workers in develop- regrettable that smelling the stink of rotting bodies, The company says it will pay more atten- clothing from factories in and around ing nations have access to jobs. They consoling the families who came to look tion to building safety in the future. But its sprawling capital, Dhaka. The result accept relatively low wages by Western the government of for loved ones whom they will probably this episode should prompt a thorough has been brisk economic growth. standards, but the result is better liv- never see alive again. More than 400 reexamination of corporate ethics codes Bangladesh’s per capita GDP has more ing standards than they would have Pakistan did not deaths are confirmed, and that total and the groups that companies tap to than tripled since 1987. The relatively had otherwise. The keys to improving will surely increase. Both Western monitor compliance. The public, mean- small country — it’s about the size of the country’s labor standards — and heed the pleas of consumers and the companies that while, should demand to see the results. New York state — now exports more to propelling future prosperity — are the government of serve them must respond to this At the same time, Western con- apparel than does its massive neigh- mostly in Bangladesh. Though wages tragedy. Primark, a European chain that sumers and policymakers should take bor, India, and millions of Bangladeshis are still very low, the Dhaka government India ... to take a got some of its clothes from a factory care not to do more harm than good for derive their livelihoods from the boom- significantly raised the minimum wage humanitarian view housed in the building that collapsed, Bangladeshi workers. Limits to trade or ing industry. It’s no surprise, then, that a few years ago and may do so again Manmohan Singh has insisted that it has a superior demands for the immediate application the government seems committed to soon. The Washington Post of this case. Indian Prime Minister FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Which Mexico for President Barack Obama? “From Darkness, Dawn.” And as the US continues to recover, reserves and a low ratio of debt to Washington that message has become a a prime explanation for Mexico’s gross domestic product. Inflation standard media refrain. Some in rising economic fortunes. was kept firmly under control. has viewed Washington talked about Mexico The future may be even For more than two decades as a likely failed state, but that brighter. Peña Nieto has launched now, Mexico has been building has been decisively debunked. an ambitious reform agenda to a modern economy with vibrant Mexico largely Mexico is now viewed as on the overcome the many obstacles to manufacturing and export sec- rise, though its homicide rate has stable, rapid economic growth. tors well integrated into US sup- as a source of fallen only slightly and no one is He is demonstrating the political ply chains. The Mexican economy sure that improvements can be talent needed to get his policies was never as troubled as it was sustained. approved and put into practice. portrayed — and now the oppor- problems for the In fact, there are many Mexicos The Mexican president, for tunities for improvement are for Obama to deal with — the suc- example, managed to negotiate greater than ever. United States cessful and prospering; the back- the Pacto por Mexico, an accord Still, Mexico is not the sure bet ward, corrupt and stagnant; and among the country’s three major that many believe it to be. It has in the past everything in between. parties that bridged many of their to demonstrate that it can make This mix is not unusual. It is long-held ideological differences its economy grow faster. The past characteristic of most nations, and secured their agreement 30 years offer little evidence that six years. even the United States. Obama on a broad package of economic Mexico has the potential for sus- needs to bring an optimistic per- changes. Despite suffering some tained, rapid expansion, or for BY PETER HAKIM spective with him to Mexico, tangles and setbacks in recent carrying out the reforms that reflecting the growing confidence weeks, the Pacto continues to such growth will require. hen President that Mexicans have in their coun- provide a path forward to far- The Mexican economy has long Barack Obama try — and the image they project reaching reform. suffered fundamental shortcom- meets President internationally. Peña Nieto plans to revamp ings that restrain its productiv- WEnrique Peña Nieto In this, Obama has little choice. Mexico’s oil industry and open it ity, job creation and capacity to in Mexico this week, he will be No country is likely to affect the to foreign investment, which could compete. The obstacles to change visiting a country that was much future of the United States more reverse the decline in oil produc- Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and US President Barack Obama. remain formidable. maligned throughout his first than Mexico, just as none will tion and ensure that the coun- Peña Nieto’s reform initiatives term. affect Mexico’s future more than try remains a leading exporter. are just getting started. The legis- Washington has viewed Mexico the United States. No two nations Proposed changes would also pave most encouraged by the pros- administration’s impressive start, lature has already given its initial largely as a source of problems for have more to gain from energeti- the way for the systematic exploi- pect of US legislation that would however, there is reason for cau- approval for changes in education, the United States in the past six cally pursuing closer cooperation. tation of Mexico’s huge, untapped include an expanded temporary tion in thinking about the future labour laws, telecommunication years. Many Mexicans, in a mir- Mexico’s reinvigorated economy deposits of shale gas and oil. worker programme and would of the country and its relationship policy and some other sectors. ror image, consider the United has proven more resilient and Other reforms are designed to provide immediate legal status with the United States. But in many cases, original pro- States the origin of their troubles. vibrant than anyone expected. It augment government revenue and and a path to citizenship for most Mexico clearly looks better posals have been watered down, They blame Mexico’s epidemic shrank by more than six percent improve fiscal management. Peña currently undocumented immi- than ever, but it was never as additional legislation will also be of violent crime on an insatia- in 2009, one year after the Wall Nieto wants to increase compe- grants — about half of whom are seriously endangered as it was required in almost every area and ble appetite for drugs and loose Street financial collapse, but eco- tition in telecommunications Mexican nationals. reported to be. It was never close effective implementation is still to control over gun and ammuni- nomic expansion since has been and other critical sectors, and These changes could substan- to being a failed state. It is true come. Success will depend heavily tion sales in the United States. faster than at any time in the past upgrade the country’s mediocre tially eliminate a persistent ten- that its homicide rate and vio- on Peña Nieto’s political skills — In addition, the US financial crisis two decades. schools and universities to raise sion in US-Mexican relations. lence rose rapidly in the past as well as the technical mastery of left the Mexican economy reeling Mexico’s growth, while modest productivity and create paths for Mexicans have long been angered five years — and the associated his advisers and managers. in 2009. by Asian standards, has in the social mobility. and insulted by US debates on brutality was unparalleled. But It will also hinge on whether But in the past year, particu- past three years been more robust This explosion of reform initia- immigration, including insist- Mexico’s murders per capita the fragile inter-party consensus larly since Peña Nieto’s election than that of Brazil, one of the tives has helped change opinion in ent demands that the border be are still far from the highest in backing the Pacto por Mexico can in July 2012, Mexico’s standing in region’s strongest economies. It is the United States about Mexico. walled up; the spread of anti- Latin America. They regularly be sustained and popular support the United States and interna- also competing successfully with Less than a year ago, Mexico was immigration (and often anti- trail those of Brazil, Colombia, mobilised for change. tionally has increased dramati- China in US markets. Mexico widely viewed as an increasingly Latino) legislation in many states Venezuela, most of Central Crime and violence are likely cally — along with its national will displace Canada as the larg- dangerous neighbour. Today, it is and communities, and absurd and America and the Caribbean. to remain unrelenting challenges self-esteem. est US trade partner within talked about as a promising eco- offensive proposals like GOP pres- On the economic side, yes, for Peña Nieto. They could even Though organised crime and roughly six years, according to nomic partner. idential nominee Mitt Romney’s Mexico has only recently emerged take central stage again. In violence remain key concerns for some economic projections. Close The partnership will be far call for migrants to “self-deport.” from some 15 years of listless fact, public security may not Mexico, stories of economic and US-Mexico economic ties, once stronger if — as now appears Equally important, immigration growth. During that period, improve anytime soon — despite social reform are now among the seen as the culprit in our south- likely — Congress passes sensible reform will offer an array of eco- however, the economy and the new government’s multiple headlines. A November Economist ern neighbour’s sluggish growth and humane immigration reforms. nomic benefits to both nations. banking system were well man- initiatives. article about Mexico was titled and sharp downturn, are now, The Mexican government seems Despite the Peña Nieto aged. Mexico maintained ample REUTERS Why Britain needs South Africa Bangladesh and the Quite apart from cost of doing nothing BY IAN BREMMER want action, and with an election Britain’s historic role coming later this year, they’ll have n Bangladesh, the search the government’s attention. for survivors has become an Sensing this, Bangladeshi offi- in apartheid, cutting effort to recover the dead. cials, after reportedly refusing IAfter a garment factory rescue help from Britain, have aid does nothing for its building collapsed in the Dhaka promised to take action to prevent suburb of Savar last week, resi- accidents like this from happen- dents and rescue workers spent ing again. Rana built his factory own interests. days digging through the rubble on swampland and then kept the hoping to save the lives of people building open after long cracks BY PETER HAIN caught in yet another Bangladeshi were discovered in its pillars. In industrial accident. At least 390 a country as reliant on one indus- nder British rule in 1900, 50 years people are thought to have died. try as Bangladesh, regulations are before apartheid was formally This type of accident is all just the first step; success depends institutionalised in South Africa, too common in Bangladesh. In on consistent enforcement. most of its features were already November, more than 100 peo- What does this mean for in place in the bustling gold-rush ple died in a garment factory Western corporations? In a Ucity of Johannesburg: Africans were prevented fire when workers could not eas- situation like this, a company’s from walking on pavements, had to carry ily escape the building. In 2006, imperative is to get ahead of gov- “passes” to work in the city, could not use 84 people were killed in a blaze ernment, to make rather than buses and trains designated for whites, were because fire exits were locked. simply accept new standards. dreadfully exploited in the mines, and had no This is what happens when a But until government acts, don’t political rights. Even as late as the 1980s a $20bn industry accounts for 3.2 expect much from the private sec- British prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, million jobs and 80 percent of a tor. Bangladesh isn’t the kind of was still siding with apartheid’s white oppres- country’s exports. It needs the country that will shame a com- sors, and denouncing Nelson Mandela as a industry too much, especially pany into compliance by tarring “terrorist”. when those jobs have helped push its reputation — it’s too small, Now, with similar high-handed arrogance female participation in the work- and media coverage of its labour and contempt for those millions still suf- A makeshift immigrants’ camp outside Johannesburg. A growing population, swelled by three million place from 26.1 percent in 2002-03 practices pales in comparison to fering from the apartheid legacy originally migrants from Mali to Zimbabwe, means demand for basic services seems insatiable. to a still-insufficient 36 percent China’s. Until pressure is added bequeathed by Britain, the government is in 2010. The globalised economy from outside Bangladesh, action chopping its £19m aid programme to South demands that Bangladesh provide inside the country won’t force Africa – itself a figure that has halved since it National Congress has delivered electricity, catastrophic for Britain. South Africa, a key cheap goods, and cheap goods are change in the private sector. peaked at £40m under Labour. (By the way, I water and sanitation to millions, built more strategic partner, is the sole African member easier to manufacture when there We’ve seen mass protest of checked, and South Africa was not consulted, than three million new houses, doubled the of the important Brics alliance, and is already aren’t strict rules to follow — or at labour practices in the past, most simply informed. When asked why the rush, number at school and is spending more per turning to those countries, away from its tra- least when they’re not enforced. famously when sweatshops became Justine Greening, the Conservative interna- head on education than almost any other ditional European trading links. In turn this It also helps when those rules a cause célèbre in the 1990s. It was tional development secretary, indicated on country in the world – some schools financed threatens the gateway the country provides to are set by the same people who mounting progress and pressure Tuesday to Pravin Gordhan, the South African by British aid. vast African markets – where it has close ties own the factory buildings. A sec- that changed work conditions finance minister on a visit to London, that she Nevertheless horrendous levels of black of friendship and mutually beneficial trade and tor that is too big to fail can repel then, thanks to non-governmen- had to tell the electorate in advance of local unemployment remain, worsened by apart- investment agreements. It offers a solid base government-induced regulation. tal organisations, celebrities and elections). heid’s deliberate policy of ensuring that black from which companies, including Britain’s, can Mohammed Sohel Rana, who major American brands trans- Yet three-quarters of the world’s poor now people had no skills. A growing population, develop their operations across Africa. owned the building that collapsed, forming consumer behaviour in live in “middle income” countries like South swelled by some three million migrants from And the continent is awakening, with huge was escorted to court yesterday in the United States. But Bangladesh Africa – where, according to the World Bank, Mali to Zimbabwe, means the demand for growth rates especially compared with sclerotic body armour and a helmet. But doesn’t have its own Kathie Lee. seven million people are living on under $1.25 basic services seems insatiable. Europe. Soon seven out of the world’s 10 fastest the factory wasn’t his only project Aside from disasters like this, the a day, and 15 million on under $2 a day. The But let’s leave aside Britain’s historic respon- growing economies will be in Africa. If Britain — he was also a local leader of the country rarely makes headlines United Nations reports that more than half sibility for all this. Let’s ignore the view that wants to be part of that future, then being ruling party’s youth wing. This is in the West, despite a population of South Africa’s children still live in poverty. insulting the South African government is small a respected partner of South Africa is key, partly why it’s so hard for devel- bigger than that of Germany and South Africa may be defined as middle beer compared with its value as a dog whistle, on accounting as it does for fully a fifth of total oping countries to bite the hand France combined. income, but apartheid’s legacy is a population the eve of the local elections, to Tory voters the GDP for Africa – despite having a population that feeds: It would require the When there’s money to be lost, still divided between a wealthy – sometimes party fears are haemorrhaging to Ukip. of just 50 million in a continent of one billion. powerful to bite themselves. it’s harder to build momentum for extremely wealthy – minority and a vast poor Let’s leave aside also the raids on Britain’s Sadly it seems that the era when Britain A groundswell of protest change. This was a horrific disas- majority. aid budget for defence and other purposes. under Labour could proudly lead the world might change things, and we’re ter — and a preventable one. Let’s Greening blithely ignores this destitu- And how even in the government’s own in cancelling debt, conquering world poverty seeing the beginnings of that. hope its human cost convinces tion – deepened by chronic rates of HIV/Aids increasingly hard-nosed terms aid is once and establishing a funding mechanism for Bangladeshis have burned facto- Bangladesh’s government and its and TB – in claiming that South Africa has again becoming a tool of trade rather than the millennium development goals, is now ries to the ground to make clear private sector that they can no made “enormous progress over the past two an agency for tackling world poverty. over. that the garment industry is not longer afford not to act. decades”. It is true that Mandela’s African Purely out of self-interest this decision is THE GUARDIAN as invincible as it seems. Citizens REUTERS FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL

Obama’s picks Over 270,000 US holds ‘last’ pedestrians killed each year: WHO GENEVA: More than 270,000 pedestrians are killed on the annual Green world’s roads each year, the World Health Organisation said yesterday, slamming decades of neglect in favour of vehicle transportation. Card lottery The UN health agency under- lined that pedestrian victims make up 22 percent of the total 1.24 mil- Some 100,000 names in first round lion people killed annually in road traffic accidents around the globe. WASHINGTON: Around More than 18,000 Africans got “More than 5,000 pedestrians are 100,000 people were chosen Green Cards through the lottery killed on the world’s roads each from several million to get a the year before, the most from week. This is because their needs head start on a US Green Card, any continent. Half of the lottery have been neglected for decades, in what could be the last such is reserved for applicants from often in favour of motorised trans- annual lottery, slated to vanish Africa, who could now lose out. port,” said Etienne Krug, head of under proposed reforms. Mamina Ezra, a 28-year-old the WHO’s injury prevention Created in 1995, the lottery Ethiopian, was one of the lucky department. system leads to the awarding of ones this year — her 11th try. “I’m “We need to rethink the way we 50,000 permanent residency per- still in shock,” she said. “I was so organise our transport systems to mits each year to people from used to losing that this has really US President Barack Obama announces Penny Pritzker (right) as his new nominee for the US Secretary of make walking safe and save pedes- countries that send relatively few shocked me.” Ezra, who earned Commerce and Michael Froman (left) as his nominee for US Trade Representative in the Rose Garden at the trian lives,” he said. Pedestrians are emigrants to the United States. an advanced business degree in White House in Washington yesterday. among the most vulnerable road But it has long been in the New York, was going to have to users, the WHO said. It pointed crosshairs of US Republican law- return to Ethiopia this summer to studies showing that males — makers, who control the House of if she couldn’t find an employer whether children or adults — make Representatives and have included willing to sponsor her for a visa. up a high proportion of pedestrian a plan to scrap it in the compre- French engineering student deaths and injuries. hensive immigration reforms cur- Nathaniel Assayag, 23, at New In developed countries, older rently being debated in Congress. York’s Columbia University, British fraudster jailed for pedestrians are more at risk, while A final vote on the reforms is wasn’t as lucky, but he is one of in low-income and middle-income not expected before this summer, the people who may fare better countries, children and young but if they pass, the so-called under the proposed reforms. adults are often affected. The pro- diversity visas would vanish from “Participating in the lottery was, selling fake bomb detectors portion of pedestrians killed in next year. This year’s crop of for me, a way to take the fast lane” relation to other road users is high- hopefuls did now know when they to immigration, he said. “Getting LONDON: A British business- the death and injury of innocent est in Africa, at 38 percent, and applied that this might be their an H-1B work visa (a temporary man was sentenced to 10 years people, the judge said. lowest in Southeast Asia, where last chance, as would-be immi- visa) is very difficult because, even in jail yesterday after a judge The detectors were sold for up the figure is 12 percent. grants had to file a free online if your company is ready to spon- described him as having “blood to £40,000 ($62,000)each. But “We are all pedestrians, and application in October 2012. sor you, the quotas are much lower on his hands” for selling fake they had no working components governments should put in place From 1600 GMT on Wednesday, than the demand,” he said. bomb detectors to Iraq and and lacked any basis in science, measures to better protect all of the candidates were finally able The proposed reforms mas- other countries and endanger- the court heard. McCormick was us,” said Oleg Chestnov, head of to check their status on the gov- sively increase the number of ing lives for profit. convicted of fraud last week for the WHO’s non-communicable dis- ernment website www.dvlottery. Green Cards and visas allo- James McCormick (pictured), manufacturing and selling the eases and mental health division. state.gov, using their personal cated to highly qualified work- 56, was convicted of fraud last hand-held “ADE 651” devices to “This will not only save lives, confirmation number. ers — and, in particular, students week for selling equipment based countries at serious risk from but create the conditions needed For Yuri Jacquet, 28, this is like Assayag, getting degrees in on a $20 novelty machine for find- bomb attacks such as Iraq, claim- to make walking safe. When roads his sixth failed attempt to win a science, technology, engineer- ing lost golf balls. McCormick ing they could detect explosives, are safe, people will walk more, visa. “It’s a little discouraging,” ing, and math. The winners of made more than $40m from sales drugs and other substances. and this in turn will improve admitted the entrepreneur, who this year’s lottery will be given in Iraq alone, British police say. During his trial, McCormick health and protect the environ- has built a website selling clothes interviews from October, where His customers also included the said he had sold his detectors to ment,” he added. and works between Martinique they will have to show proof of United Nations. police in Kenya, the prison service The WHO recommends a mix and the US state of Florida. “Each a high school diploma or at least Judge Richard Hone said at in Hong Kong, the army in Egypt of enforcement, engineering and time, you tell yourself the next two years of work experience, as London’s Old Bailey court that and border control in Thailand. education measures to improve time will be the one.” required under the programme. McCormick had blood on his They were also sold in Niger and pedestrian safety. They include Some 100,000 names were Countries that sent more than hands and used a callous confi- Georgia and between 2008 and boosting laws against speeding, selected in a first round, because 50,000 immigrants to the United dence trick likely to have con- any sense of remorse,” Hone said, 2010, Iraq bought 6,000 devices. drinking and driving, and mobile not everyone will complete the States in the past five years are tributed to the death of innocent quoted by the Press Association. McCormick, a former police- phone use at the wheel, as well as process for a visa, and a maximum excluded from the lottery. This people. “The device was useless, McCormick had shown a “cav- man and salesman from Somerset providing pavements, underpasses of 50,000 Green Cards will ulti- year that includes a range of coun- the profit outrageous and your alier disregard of the potentially in southwestern England, main- and decent road lighting, better mately be given out. In last year’s tries, including Bangladesh, Brazil, culpability as a fraudster has to fatal consequences” of his decep- tained the detectors did work. “I public transport and improved lottery, 7.9 million people, with Canada, mainland China, Mexico, be placed in the highest category. tion, he added. The useless devices never had any negative results design with soft vehicle fronts 4.6 million spouses and children, Pakistan, South Korea, and Britain, Your profits were obscene. You had promoted a false sense of secu- from customers,” he said. that reduce impact damage. submitted applications. except Northern Ireland. AFP have neither insight, shame or rity which probably contributed to REUTERS AFP

Royal visit Merkel’s partners to launch ‘survival’ UN sounds alarm over election battle record Arctic ice melt

BERLIN: German Chancellor GENEVA: The Arctic’s sea 1880, storms such as Hurricane Angela Merkel’s coalition part- ice melted at a record pace in Sandy are bringing more coastal ners kick off their battle for 2012, the ninth-hottest year on flooding than they would have September elections at the week- record, compounding concerns otherwise,” he added. end, under threat of being booted about climate change under- The WMO said that the 2012 out of parliament after failed scored by extreme weather such global land and ocean surface tem- promises and internal bickering. as Hurricane Sandy, the UN perature was estimated to be 0.45 The Free Democratic Party weather agency said yesterday. degrees Celsius above the 1961- (FDP) will hold a congress in the In a report on the situation in 1990 average of 14.0 degrees C. southern city of Nuremberg on 2012, the World Meterological That marked the ninth warmest Saturday and Sunday, two months Organisation said that during the year since records began in 1850 after choosing a former economy August to September melting sea- and the 27th consecutive year minister as their election candidate son, the Arctic’s sea ice cover was that the global land and ocean in a bid to breathe new life into the just 3.4 million square kilometres. temperatures were above the party’s flagging popularity. That was a full 18 percent less than 1961-1990 average, it underlined. Merkel says she wants another the previous record low set in 2007. Above-average temperatures term in government with the pro- WMO Secretary-General were observed across most of the business party but its fortunes are Michel Jarraud dubbed it a “dis- globe’s land surface areas, most uncertain as its ratings among turbing sign of climate change”. notably North America, southern Britain’s Queen Elizabeth (centre) and Prince Philip (right) speak with staff and patients during their visit to voters have plummeted since its “The year 2012 saw many other Europe, western Russia, parts of the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre at Headley Court, in Epsom, southern England, yesterday. historic showing in 2009 elections. extremes as well, such as droughts northern Africa and southern A series of disastrous regional and tropical cyclones. Natural South America, the WMO noted. election defeats have followed, climate variability has always Nonetheless, cooler than average with polls consistently showing resulted in such extremes, but the conditions were observed across the party hovering around the physical characteristics of extreme Alaska, parts of northern and east- five percent threshold for win- weather and climate events are ern Australia, and central Asia, it ning seats in the Bundestag lower being increasingly shaped by cli- said. Northern Europe, western BBC star admits sex abuse house of parliament. mate change,” he said. Africa, north-central Argentina, After clinching 14.6 percent in “For example, because global western Alaska, and most of north- LONDON: Veteran BBC broad- as an opportunistic predator.” 81, who has played womaniser 2009 in its best ever score, the sea levels are now about 20 cen- ern China were meanwhile wetter caster Stuart Hall pleaded Hall’s admission follows a scandal Ken Barlow in the ITV soap party faces being cast out into the timetres higher than they were in than average. AFP guilty to sex offences yester- centred on the late Jimmy Savile, opera Coronation Street since its political wilderness for the first day, the latest British TV star an eccentric former BBC TV pre- first episode in 1960, is accused of time in its 55-year history after from the 1970s and 1980s to be senter who police said in January attacking the girl in 1967. While September 22 if it does not win embroiled in abuse allegations. had committed sex crimes on an neither the cases of Hall nor back voter confidence. Hall, 83, who was best known unprecedented scale and was sus- Roache were directly linked to the That could force Merkel’s con- for hosting the family TV show pected of more than 200 offences. Savile case, the police inquiry into servative Christian Democratic Maryland abolishes death penalty It’s a Knockout and was still work- The revelations about Savile, one sex crimes has shocked Britons. Union (CDU) into an alliance with ing for the BBC as a soccer radio of the BBC’s biggest stars dur- Last week, celebrity publicist the centre-left Social Democrats WASHINGTON: Maryland Ashton quickly issued a statement commentator until recently, ing the 1970s and 1980s and who Max Clifford, 70, whose clients or the ecologist Greens, or even yesterday became the 18th US supporting the move, saying she admitted 14 counts of indecent was knighted by Queen Elizabeth, have included The X Factor real- hand the centre-left opposition state to abolish the death pen- hoped it would “encourage other offences against young girls over rocked the public broadcaster and ity TV creator Simon Cowell, was a majority. alty when Democratic Governor US States to follow suit.” two decades, with the youngest heralded subsequent allegations charged by police after he was Amid a tax evasion scandal Martin O’Malley, an outspoken In March, when Maryland state victim aged just nine. against a procession of ageing, accused of 11 offences of indecent involving Bayern Munich presi- critic of capital punishment, lawmakers voted to end use of the “Whether in public or private, high-profile names. assault between 1966 and 1985. dent Uli Hoeness, a political ally signed the measure into law. death penalty, O’Malley hailed the Hall would first approach under On Wednesday, William Australian children’s enter- of Merkel, her conservatives The death penalty will be development, calling capital pun- friendly pretences and then bide Roache, the world’s longest serv- tainer Rolf Harris, 83, former slipped three points to 39 per- replaced by life imprisonment ishment a policy “that is proven his time until the victim was iso- ing TV soap actor according to BBC radio DJ Dave Lee Travis, cent in a weekly poll published on without parole in the eastern US not to work”. The death penalty lated,” said Nazir Afzal, Chief Guinness World Records, was 67, and comedian Freddie Starr, Wednesday, pushing them below 40 state, which borders the US capital has been in use in Maryland since Crown Prosecutor in northwest charged with two counts of rape 70, are among those arrested. percent for the first time this year. Washington. The European Union’s 1638, when the territory was a England. “He can only be described against a 15-year-old girl. Roache, REUTERS AFP foreign policy chief Catherine British colony. AFP FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 PHILIPPINES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09

Number of Rebels open to talks but set terms jobless Filipinos up by 1 million National Democratic Front insists govt free communist leaders facing criminal cases MANILA: The number of unemployed Filipinos rose MANILA: The National Earlier, government negotia- by one million in the first Democratic Front (NDF) said tors blamed the NDF for the dis- quarter of the year, a recent yesterday that it remains open ruption of the peace talks, saying survey by the Social Weather to continuing the peace talks, the communists are setting too Stations (SWS) said. The but insisted that the govern- many preconditions for the nego- SWS poll, conducted from ment free communist leaders tiations to resume. March 19 to 22, placed the facing criminal cases. Government chief negotiator country’s unemployment rate NDF negotiating panel chair- Alexander Padilla said these pre- at 25.4 percent (about 11.1 man Luis Jalandoni said the free- conditions include the freeing of million), up from 24.6 per- ing of rebels covered by immunity jailed communists with pending cent (estimated 10.1 million) guarantees is an obligation of the criminal charges. in December. The jobless government and not a precondi- The government earlier said Filipinos who quit or were tion to the talks. that the JASIG has been rendered retrenched were at 12 and “The NDFP is willing to inoperative since the NDF can- eight percent, respectively, move towards the resumption not present proof that the jailed the SWS said. The remain- of formal peace talks, based on rebels are covered by immunity ing five percent without work the previously signed binding guarantees. were first-time jobseekers. Of agreements,” Jalandoni said in The NDF, however, said the the eight percent retrenched a statement. government should continue to workers, six percent had He said the government should respect the JASIG, which was their contracts terminated. honour previous accords like the inked in 1995. Those whose firms shut down Joint Agreement on Safety and “The Aquino regime has dipped from two to one per- Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) shamelessly continued the cent and those who were laid under which insurgents working Arroyo regime’s practice of off remained at one percent. as peace consultants cannot be arresting and detaining NDFP The number of Filipinos who arrested or jailed. consultants on false charges of resigned from their jobs rose “The public should be informed common crimes and thereby from 11 percent in December, that the GPH (government violating both the JASIG and while first-time jobseekers of the Philippines) under the Comprehensive Agreement on rose from three percent. Aquino regime has not released Respect for Human Rights and Communist rebels standing in formation during the 42nd anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of a single detained NDFP consult- International Humanitarian the Philippines, in Mindanao. Rebels kidnap ant in compliance with JASIG,” Law,” Jalandoni said. Jalandoni said. The NDF said the govern- on the precondition of indefi- as the final agreement,” Jalandoni capitulation or surrender of the local politician “All the five NDFP consultants ment was the one that set pre- nite ceasefires in violation of the said. NDF and the forces and people MANILA: Members of released since 2010 have been due conditions for the resumption Hague Joint Declaration which “The GPH also violates the under the guise of demanding New People’s Army (NPA) to legal actions undertaken by of the talks. puts the agenda on end of hos- aforesaid declaration by precon- indefinite ceasefire,” he added. seized a candidate for mayor their lawyers,” he added. “It is the GPH that insists tilities and disposition of forces ditioning formal talks with the THE PHILIPPINE STAR in Baganga, Davao Oriental, police confirmed yesterday Provincial police chief Senior Superintendent Jose Carumba said independent candidate Ronie Osnan was abducted by Manila third deadliest place for media Labour department job fairs the NPAs due to his refusal to pay the permit to campaign fee. Carumba said Osnan was MANILA: A New York-based million-strong population, key witnesses to the crime have attract 40,000 applicants kidnapped by at least 30 leftist journalists’ organisation identi- received an Impunity Index been murdered in the course of rebels at Campawan village in fied the Philippines as the third Rating of 0.580 unsolved jour- the investigation. MANILA: Thousands came, workers can apply for,” she said. Baganga town after a speaking deadliest place for journalists, nalist murders for every million The unsolved murders, how- but only a few were chosen. Baldoz said job seekers can still engagement. Police said Osnan following conflict-torn coun- inhabitants. ever, did not end even when Close to 40,000 job seekers find employment as the govern- was able to call his friends tries Iraq and Somalia. The group paid special atten- President Benigno Aquino III, trooped to the different govern- ment will continue to hold job today morning to tell them For the fourth consecutive tion to the 2009 incident in who took office in 2010, vowed ment-initiated job fairs nationwide. fairs for a month and provide that he is under the custody of year, the country ranked third Maguindanao that claimed that to reverse cases of impunity, CPJ However, only over a thousand necessary training to those who the NPAs. in Impunity Index of Community lives of 55 people, including 32 noted. went home with sure employment. failed to qualify. to Protect Journalists (CPJ) for journalists and media profession- “At least four journalists... Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz About 3,340 applicants will Two honoured having 55 unsolved cases of slain als. Suspects are yet to be pros- have been killed for their report- said as of noon yesterday, the undergo further interviews with journalists since 1992. ecuted for the attack. ing on Aquino’s watch. Despite Department of Labour and employers and close to 200 nearly at White House CPJ said in the report posted “Authorities in the Philippines, executive vows to turn back Employment (DOLE) recorded a hired were referred for training to CHICAGO: Myrna Baldo- yesterday that the index identi- ranked third worst on CPJ’s index, the tide of media killings, none total of 36,765 job applicants and the Technical Education and Skills nado of Chicago, Illinois wants fies countries where newsmen are have yet to make headway in the of the cases has been solved,” of the number, 1,274 were hired Development Authority, she added. to raise the salary of caregiv- “regularly” murdered and where prosecution of dozens of suspects CPJ Senior Southeast Asia on the spot. Baldoz said about 300 people ers, including the grant of over- governments are unable to punish in a politically motivated massa- Representative Shawn Crispin “This is just a preliminary were also provided government time pay and vacation leaves for perpetrators. cre in Maguindanao province. said in a statement. report, there are still many livelihood assistance in job fair. live-in caregivers. Catherine The Philippines, with 94.9 CPJ also pointed out how three THE PHILIPPINE STAR vacancies available that our THE PHILIPPINE STAR Eusebio of Fremont, California wants to promote change by empowering the youth to lead. Avian flu precaution Baldonado and Eusebio are two Filipinos among the 15 Asian Comelec launches American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women who will be video ahead honoured as “Champions of Change” at the White House. of May 13 polls The ceremony is part of the White House’s observance of MANILA: Less than two AAPI Heritage Month, which weeks before the May 13 polls, recognises Asian American, the Commission on Elections native Hawaiian and Pacific (Comelec) has released a voter Islander women for their education video reminding the extraordinary commitment to electorate of “Do’s and Don’ts” create a more equal, safe and on election day. prosperous future for their Comelec spokesman James communities and the country. Jimenez said the video has been “These 15 women represent posted on the video-sharing site the strength and diversity of YouTube and will be uploaded on the AAPI community. These the Comelec website. The poll body leaders – in business, advocacy, will also request television networks philanthropy, sports, the arts, to air the infomercial. Titled Boy and academia – are wonder- Bawal – Tina Tama, the new video ful examples for young women is the third instalment of Comelec across the country,” said videos for TV audiences showing the Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser proper way to campaign. A cleaner walks past cages of live chicken at a public market in Quezon City. The Philippines has implemented a ban on poultry and related products to the President. “This is the culmination of from China as a precaution against the entry of the H7N9 strain of avian flu. AGENCIES our bawal (prohibited) and tama (correct) campaign,” Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr said. Produced by the Education and Information Division of Comelec, Armed Forces to acquire Murder suspect escapes from jail the new video runs for 3:54 min- utes and features Boy Bawal and Tina Tama – the characters that MANILA: A former police- showed Mancao calmly leaving his Mancao and another police- separately encouraged candidates grenades worth $1m man on trial for murder in the cell before dawn carrying a bag man, Michael Ray Aquino, were to comply with campaign rules in Philippines escaped from jail containing his personal belong- charged with murder in 2001 over the first two Comelec videos. MANILA: The Armed Forces fragmentation hand grenades yesterday, then embarrassed ings, according to Rojas. the murder of publicist Salvador In the third video, Boy Bawal and of the Philippines (AFP) will are separate projects. Interested authorities further by speaking Mancao, who has been in Dacer and his driver. Tina Tama remind voters to look acquire close to P40m ($1m) parties can submit bids for one to media outlets over the phone. jail since 2009, then spoke with The two accused were prote- for their names in the voters’ lists worth of hand grenades to be project or for both. Ex-police superintendent Cezar national television and radio ges of then-national police chief posted outside the polling precincts used for security operations. To be qualified, prospective bid- Mancao, charged with murder stations to explain that he fled Panfilo Lacson, who headed a spe- and to present valid identification A bid bulletin published in The ders should have undertaken simi- over the 2000 killings of a well- because he feared he would be cial anti-crime task force which cards, not residence or barangay STAR showed that the AFP will lar projects within the last 5 years. known publicist and his driver, killed in detention. rights group said carried out certificates. They also remind the acquire 11,364 smoke grenades and Bidders should have inked a casually walked out of a detention “I reached the point where I summary executions of criminals. electorate not to “over vote” – to 11,460 fragmentation grenades. single contract equivalent to at centre in Manila with the help of could not take it any more,” he Mancao had told prosecu- vote only for 12 senatorial candidates The government has allotted least 25 percent of the approved prison wardens, authorities said. repeatedly said in the interviews. tors that Lacson, now a senator, and one party-list group. P19.944m for the smoke grenades budget for each project. “His escape is a big slap to the The escape is the latest embar- ordered the killing because Dacer Voters are also told that while and P19.998m for the fragmenta- They should also have com- bureau’s face,” National Bureau of rassment for Philippine law was seen as a critic of their politi- they are allowed to bring their tion grenades. pleted at least two similar con- Investigation director Nonnatus enforcers, who have long been cal patron, then-president Joseph cellular phones inside the polling The opening of bids will be tracts, the total amount of which Rojas said. dogged by accusations of incom- Estrada. precincts, they are not allowed on May 20 at the AFP Bids and should be equivalent to at least 25 The NBI is the investigative petence and corruption. Lacson fled the country for to take pictures of their ballots. Awards Committee Conference percent of the approved budget arm of the justice department, in In 2003, militant Fathur about one year to avoid prosecu- Doodling or making extra marks Room in Camp Aguinaldo. for the project. whose supposedly heavily secured Rohman Al Ghozi walked out tion and only returned after he on the ballots and drinking bever- The AFP assures the public The larger of the two contracts facility Mancao was held. of a high-security prison inside was cleared by a court. However ages inside the polling precincts that the process would comply must be equivalent to at least 12.5 Rojas said two guards who the national police headquarters authorities pursued the charges are not allowed, as these may with the provisions of the pro- percent of the approved budget apparently let Mancao escape had in Manila as then-Australian against Mancao and Aquino, who damage the ballots. curement law. for the project. been detained. Prime Minister John Howard remains in jail. THE PHILIPPINE STAR The acquisitions of smoke and THE PHILIPPINE STAR Footage from a security camera was on a state visit. THE PHILIPPINE STAR FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA North Korea jails American for 15 years Washington calls for amnesty; Kenneth Bae likely to serve sentence in special facility for foreigners

SEOUL/WASHINGTON: try to secure Bae’s release as it think tank in Washington. a willingness to live up to their crimes against the state, and used North Korea sentenced an sometimes has done. A North Korean defector said international obligations.” a Korean rendering of Bae’s name, American citizen to 15 years of The official said the United Bae will likely serve his sentence North Korea is the subject of Pae Jun-ho, when it reported the hard labour yesterday for crimes States has sought in recent in a special facility for foreigners, UN Security Council resolutions Supreme Court ruling. against the state, prompting a years to break out of its pattern not in one of the repressive state’s calling for an end to its nuclear Bae’s sentence was heftier US call for his amnesty in hopes of lurching from one crisis to forced labour camps. More than and missile tests, as well as puni- than the 12 years handed down of avoiding him becoming a bar- another with the North, only to 200,000 people are incarcerated in tive UN sanctions. to US journalists Laura Ling gaining chip between the two resolve them with transactional these camps, beaten and starved, “But thus far, as you know, they and Euna Lee in 2009. It took countries. deals with Pyongyang. sometimes to death, according to have flouted their obligations, a visit to Pyongyang by former Kenneth Bae, 44, was born in “We urge the DPRK (North human rights groups. engaged in provocative actions President Bill Clinton to secure South Korea but is a naturalised Korea) to grant Mr. Bae amnesty Human rights activists in and rhetoric,” he told reporters their release. US citizen. His sentencing comes and immediate release,” said State South Korea say Bae may have aboard Air Force One. According to North Korean after two months of sabre-rattling Department deputy spokesman been arrested for taking pictures Some media reports have iden- law, the punishment for hostile that saw North Korea threaten Patrick Ventrell. of starving children. tified Bae as the leader of the tour acts against the state is between the United States and South Bruce Klingner, a retired CIA He was part of a group of five group. NK News, a North Korea five and 10 years hard labour. Korea with nuclear war. North Korea analyst, dismissed tourists who visited the north- news website, said he was the “I think his sentencing was Pyongyang has previously the idea that Bae’s release would eastern North Korean city of owner of a company called Nation hefty. North Korea seemed to tried to use American prison- trigger the renewal of long-stalled Rajin in November and has been Tours that specialised in tours of consider his acts more severe,” ers as bargaining chips in talks diplomacy. US citizen Kenneth Bae held since then. northeastern North Korea. said Jang Myung-bong, honorary with Washington. A US official, “Previous arrests of US citizens White House spokesman Jay The reports could not be veri- professor at Kookmin University who spoke on condition of ano- didn’t lead to changes in North in US-North Korean relations,” Carney said any negotiations with fied and North Korean state in Seoul and a North Korea law nymity, said Washington was not Korean policy, resumption of bilat- said Klingner, a senior fellow North Korea are “dependent upon news agency KCNA did not list expert. currently looking for an envoy to eral dialogue or breakthroughs at the Heritage Foundation the North Koreans demonstrating any specific charge other than REUTERS

Floating art Yoghurt kills Myanmar leader plans two children

BEIJING: Two children landmark US visit died in northern China after drinking yoghurt which a dis- WASHINGTON: Myanmar’s gruntled kindergarten owner leader plans a landmark visit Blasphemy charge had injected with rat poison. to Washington this month, a The two girls in Hebei prov- source said yesterday, as the against woman ince drank the tainted yoghurt United States eased visa restric- YANGON: Police in after their grandmother found tions in a sign of support despite Myanmar, where mobs this it by a roadside, Xinhua news a surge in anti-Muslim violence. week desecrated mosques and agency said. President Thein Sein, who burned homes, said yesterday The children’s ages were not would be the first leader of the they would charge a Muslim given. One died before reaching country to visit in half a century, woman for blasphemy after hospital while the other died is planning to be in the American she apparently collided with on Wednesday. capital around May 20 or May 21, a young monk on the street, The yoghurt had been adul- a staff member at the US Congress sparking the unrest. terated with rat poison by a said on condition of anonymity. Win Win Sein and another female kindergarten owner The trip would include a sum- Muslim woman were detained competing for village students mit with President Barack Obama by police in Oakkan, around with the owner of a rival at the White House. 100km north of Yangon, fol- establishment. In another step towards thaw- lowing anti-Muslim attacks ing relations, Secretary of State on Monday that left one dead. 27th bird flu John Kerry yesterday ended a “Altogether 21 people will be 1996 ban on US visas to Myanmar charged over their involvement death in China nationals accused of hindering in the violence,” said a local democracy during the country’s police official, who said calm BEIJING: The death toll decades of harsh military rule. had been restored. AFP from the H7N9 bird flu Separate restrictions remain virus has risen to 27, state on visas for nationals accused of The United States is also Rubber Duck, by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman, is seen at Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong yesterday. media said yesterday after a human rights violations. A State looking at whether to include The 16.5-metre-tall inflatable art installation will be on display at the Ocean Terminal until June 9. man died in central China’s Department official said the 1996 Myanmar in the Generalised Hunan Province. ban was overly broad by including System of Preferences, through The 55-year-old whose sur- government workers, officers and which it offers duty-free access name was given as Jiao died even some pensioners. for up to 5,000 products from on Wednesday after receiving “Clearly many people in those developing countries that meet Anwar raises voter fraud alarm medical treatment, state news categories are now contribut- labour standards. agency Xinhua said, citing local ing to the reform process and It would be the first visit to KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian are government strongholds, the National Front faces a resurgent authorities. need to engage” through visits Washington by a head of the opposition leader Anwar mainland peninsula is home to opposition led by Anwar, who was More than 120 people have to the United States, the official country since military leader Ne Ibrahim said yesterday that several closely contested states, finance minister in the 1990s and been diagnosed with the virus told reporters on condition of Win was invited in 1966 by presi- tens of thousands of “dubious” such as Selangor near Kuala later jailed for six years on cor- since it was first reported in anonymity. dent Lyndon Johnson. voters may have been flown in Lumpur, which fell to the oppo- ruption and sodomy charges he late March, with most cases The US decisions recognise Thein Sein has previously vis- to key states to boost the gov- sition in 2008. said were trumped up. confined to eastern China. “the important changes the gov- ited the United States to attend ernment’s chances in this week- “The timing of this surge in Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, ernment of Burma has made and the UN General Assembly, but end’s election, an accusation arrivals and its sheer size natu- secretary general of the United UN slams Papua encourage and empower the gov- only held meetings in New York. denied by the ruling coalition. rally raise the question of whether Malays National Organisation, ernment and the people of Burma While Obama has suspended Anwar said the Prime they have been transported here which dominates the ruling coali- crackdown to continue on the path of politi- most sanctions, he issued a dec- Minister’s Office had been involved surreptitiously to vote in favour of tion, said the flights were normal cal and economic reform,” he said. laration on Thursday that keeps in arranging charter flights for the National Front,” Anwar said electoral practice. GENEVA: UN human rights The congressional source said measures on the books, allowing voters supplied by national car- in an emailed statement. “The flights in question were chief Navi Pillay yesterday the administration was consid- the United States to reimpose rier Malaysian Airlines. He A government spokesman organised and paid for by friends expressed deep concern over ering further steps during Thein them in response to setbacks. accused the government of flying denied the accusation. He said of Barisan Nasional. They brought a police crackdown on dem- Sein’s visit, such as starting to call The European Union last week at least 40,500 individuals since the flights were part of a normal registered voters to their home onstrators in the Papua prov- the nation Myanmar, the leader- dropped virtually all of its sanc- April 25 on chartered flights from “get out the vote” campaign and districts so that they may vote in ince of Indonesia in recent ship’s preferred usage, and not the tions against Myanmar with the the Borneo states of Sabah and had been paid for by “friends” the upcoming election,” he said in days that has reportedly left earlier name of Burma favoured exception of a military embargo. Sarawak to mainland areas. of the ruling Barisan Nasional a statement. several people dead. by exile groups. AFP While Sabah and Sarawak (National Front) coalition. The REUTERS “These latest incidents are unfortunate examples of the ongoing suppression of freedom Golden week of expression and excessive use of force in Papua,” Pillay said in a statement. Bangladesh court indicts Media reports show that police shot and killed two pro- testers in the city of Sorong British Muslim leader who were preparing to mark the 50th anniversary of Papua DHAKA: Bangladesh’s war Mueen-Uddin would face the becoming part of Indonesia, crimes court yesterday indicted death penalty if extradited and while at least 20 demonstra- a Bangladesh-born British convicted. tors were arrested in the cities Muslim leader and a US citizen State prosecutor Syed Haider of Biak and Timika on May 1. for their alleged role in the mur- Ali said that Mueen-Uddin “has der of intellectuals during the been indicted for crimes against Textile factories country’s 1971 liberation war. humanity and genocide”. Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, who “The charges include the killing resume work denies any wrongdoing, has held of the country’s top intellectuals positions in a host of top Islamic during the 1971 war of liberation,” DHAKA: Bangladesh’s gar- organisations in his adopted he added. ment firms re-opened and homeland. He was a newspaper Another prosecutor, Ziad Al rushed to complete delayed reporter in what was then East Malum, told AFP Mueen-Uddin orders for their Western cli- Pakistan when it broke away from faces a total of 16 charges, which ents yesterday after an eight- West Pakistan. include accusations of kidnapping day shutdown caused by the He is accused of being a leading and torture and the murder of 18 deaths of at least 433 people member of the notorious Al Badr top university teachers, journal- in a building collapse. militia and of the fundamentalist ists and writers. Millions of staff returned Jamaat-e-Islami political party, The court also indicted to production lines around which fought for the country to Ashrafuzzaman Khan, a United the capital Dhaka that make remain part of Pakistan. States citizen, on the same clothing for retailers such as “The court has taken into cog- charges as Mueen-Uddin. Walmart and H&M, which nisance the charges of war crimes Prosecutor Ali said that Khan, have come under huge pressure against Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin a Dhaka University student leader to review their contracts in the and issued a warrant to arrest who is believed now to be in New accident-prone country. A family walks beside colourful carp streamers flying above a park in Sagamihara, Kanagawa prefecture, him,” International Crimes York, was “chief executor” for the AGENCIES yesterday to celebrate Children’s Day, which falls on May 5 and is part of Japan’s ‘Golden Week’ holidays. Tribunal registrar Nasiruddin Al Badr militia. Mahmud said. AFP FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Over 600,000 personnel to monitor Pakistan poll 20,000 polling stations designated most sensitive

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will direct attacks on politicians and Most attacks during the cam- deploy more than 600,000 secu- political parties since April 11, paign have been claimed by the rity personnel during next according to an AFP tally. Taliban, which has branded week’s general election to guard Alam said the number of “sensi- democracy “un-Islamic” and a against Taliban attacks that tive” locations could be increased. system for infidels. have marred campaigning, an “The army has promised to The militia has levelled direct official said yesterday. provide 50,000 troops for election threats against the three main The May 11 polls will mark the day security,” he said, adding that parties of the outgoing govern- first time that a civilian govern- the number may be increased if ment. Opposition leader Nawaz ment has completed a full five- deemed necessary. Sharif and opposition politician year term and handed over to an “They will be part of a total Imran Khan are the only two elected successor, in a country deployment of over 600,000 secu- national party leaders holding ruled by the military for half its rity personnel and members of large public rallies. 66-year history. the other law enforcement agen- On Tuesday, Pakistan’s army The election commission has cies like police, paramilitary rang- chief General Ashfaq Kayani set up more than 73,000 polling ers, tribal police and national said the army was determined to stations, with 20,000 earmarked volunteers,” he said. ensure a peaceful election. as “sensitive or most sensitive”, Five security personnel will be “Our salvation resides in trans- spokesman Khurshid Alam told stationed at each polling station, forming the government into a reporters. and seven to 10 at sensitive and true platform of public represen- Paramilitary soldiers head to provincial capital Quetta, ahead of general elections in Loralai, in restive Baluchistan Bomb and gun attacks have most sensitive polling stations, tation,” he said. province, Pakistan. killed more than 60 people in Alam said. AFP Two polling Nawaz Sharif confident of election landslide ISLAMABAD: Thirteen years turning Pakistan into a nuclear life a misery for millions. Pakistan would do. “It’s up to the courts... of communication with the people stations ago Nawaz Sharif was sentenced power in 1998 and for building a does not produce enough power I’ve no personal vendetta against I think it is necessary there is no to life in prison. Today he is high-speed motorway from the to meet demand, and the govern- General Musharraf. If there was, barrier,” he said. confident of winning a historic northwestern city of Peshawar ment routinely fails to pay for I forgive,” he said as he prepared He also bats aside perceptions blown up third term at Pakistan’s general to Lahore, his home town and the electricity it does consume. to board a private jet to address that he and his conservative election and fixing the country’s Pakistan’s cultural capital on the Power companies in turn cannot a campaign rally in his Punjab PML-N party are less trusted in QUETTA: Bombers yesterday most intractable problems. Indian border. pay their own bills, and so supply political heartland. Western capitals than the PPP. blew up two schools designated Calm and collected at the end As the scion of one of Pakistan’s cuts out. “We had very good relations as polling stations for Pakistan’s of a quick visit to Islamabad, richest families, in the early 1990s But for all his promises of rapid CRITICISED with everybody in the world general election next week, where he addressed a hot and he privatised much of the indus- and effective change, Sharif is no Sharif has been criticised for and Pakistan was progress- police said. sweaty hotel meeting room try that the PPP had nationalised. stranger to allegations of incom- being soft on militant groups. ing, Pakistan’s economy was A boys’ primary school and a packed with businessmen, He said he would forge petence and graft. He was first Asked about Taliban attacks thriving. We were number one middle school were bombed at the the 63-year-old former prime a national consensus to fix elected in 1990 but sacked three targeting parties in the outgoing in fact, what I want to say is village of Chattar in Naseerabad minister presents himself as a Pakistan’s crippling power crisis years later on corruption charges. government, he stopped short of we were the leading nation in district in the southwestern prov- statesman-in-waiting. and repair its faltering economy, His second term from 1997 to condemning the insurgents by South Asia,” he said. ince of Baluchistan, “Our people are very excited. albeit without mentioning any 1999 ended in a military coup by name. Analysts consider the only bar “The school buildings were des- They are waiting for a response details that might expose the lim- general Pervez Musharraf, which “Well it’s very unfortunate. I’ve to a Sharif premiership to be ignated as polling stations for the from the field and things look its of his promises. the public widely welcomed at the extended my sympathies and con- Khan, whose call for change and May 11 general election and we good. They, in fact, look better time. dolences to all these people and I reform has resonated with the think that they were targeted for than what they were in 1997,” he FIXING PROBLEMS Thirteen years after Sharif appreciate their statement that urban middle class despite the this reason,” district police chief said referring to the landslide that “The problems of this country was sentenced to life in prison for no matter what, elections must fact that he has previously only Tahir Allauddin said. last swept him into power. are gigantic. You’ve got to fix the hijacking, attempted murder and be held on time,” he said. won one seat in parliament. He said three rooms of the mid- Businessmen and industrial- problem of power, that should be other charges, he says he forgives Like cricket legend Imran Sharif declined to criticise dle school, 350km southeast of ists traditionally regard Sharif’s the first priority. It needs a lot Musharraf, who now languishes Khan, the only other party leader Khan but was biting about the Quetta, were destroyed and both Pakistan Muslim League-N of resources, hard work and the under house arrest after a spell to address major rallies on a daily PPP, which won elections last rooms of the primary school were party as better on the economy right policy,” Sharif said in an in self-imposed exile. basis, Sharif has refused to shield time round in 2008. “Their per- demolished. than the outgoing Pakistan interview in the VIP lounge of The interim government last himself behind bullet-proof glass formance is zero, so they don’t Another police officer con- People’s Party (PPP) and he Islamabad airport. month refused to put Musharraf when addressing the crowds. have anything to tell the people, firmed the incident and comes back, time and again, to “About three to five years” is on trial for treason, saying it “The danger is there and one they don’t have anything to sell said nobody had yet claimed stressing his economic creden- all that is required, he says, to was up only to the next elected cannot ignore that. But in order to the people of Pakistan because responsibility. tials for the May 11 election. fix the energy shortages which administration. But Sharif ducked to establish eye to eye contact they didn’t do anything in the five AFP He won admiration for hammer businesses and make a question when asked what he with the people, to have that kind years,” he said. AFP

Karzai in Denmark Six Taliban killed in Musharraf questioned Nuristan by ISAF KABUL: Afghan security forces and the International Security Assistance Force on rebel leader’s death (ISAF) have killed five mili- tants and one Taliban sniper ISLAMABAD: Pakistani police statement in the case, he said. during the past 24 hours in yesterday questioned former Baluch nationalist leader, Nuristan. According to the military ruler Pervez Musharraf Nawab Akbar Bugti, was killed Afghan Ministry of Interior, over the 2006 death of a rebel in a cave on August 26, 2006 six armed Taliban were killed, leader -- one of three legal cases during a military crackdown one wounded and 10 other that have blighted his return ordered by Musharraf. armed Taliban were arrested. from exile, officials said. Bugti was the chief of the Also, during these operations, The retired general has been Jamhoori Watan Party and an Afghan National Police dis- humiliated since returning in influential tribal chief who con- covered and confiscated some March from self-imposed exile to trolled the gas-rich district of amount of light and heavy contest elections. He is currently Dera Bugti. round ammunition. During under house arrest in connection Two local police officials con- the 24 hour period, Afghan with two other legal cases and firmed yesterday that Musharraf National Police discovered has been barred from running had been questioned at his and defused seven different for parliament. Islamabad villa by Baluchistan types of mines in Kandahar “A three-member team of police. Musharraf is being held and Paktiya provinces. (the southwestern province of) under house arrest over the Baluchistan comprising senior 2007 murder of opposition leader Bomb attack injures police officials is investigating Benazir Bhutto and for sacking five in Karachi general Musharraf,” prosecutor judges in 2007 when he imposed Afghan President Hamid Karzai inspecting the guard of honour at the Citadel in Copenhagen yesterday. Karzai Hassan Kakar said. emergency rule. KARACHI: A bomb explo- is on an official visit to Denmark. He is accompanied by (from left) Danish Foreign Minister Villy Sovndal, They would also record his AFP sion wounded at least five Danish Defence Chief Peter Bartram and Danish Defence Minister Nick Haekkerup. people here yesterday, police said. The blast in the crowded Burns road area of the city targeted an election office of Mutahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan and Afghan forces (MQM), a secular party that Bomb kills eight Afghan police dominates the commercial hub. “The blast wounded at exchange fire along border PULI ALAM: A Taliban bomb provincial spokesman, confirmed often criticised as indisciplined least five people,” senior local killed eight Afghan police yes- the incident and the death toll. and poorly-trained. The Taliban police official Ameer Sheikh ISLAMABAD: An Afghan the withdrawal of Nato combat terday in Logar province out- “Eight local police are killed in a vowed their annual spring offen- said. He said the bomb was border policeman was killed troops by the end of 2014. side the capital Kabul, officials Taliban bomb,” he said. sive would target international planted in the ablution room and two Pakistani soldiers were But it doesn’t take much to said, four days after the insur- Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban airbases and diplomatic buildings of a Sunni mosque close to the wounded in an exchange of fire strain relations which have gents started their annual spokesman said the insurgent with multiple suicide bombings, as MQM office. Another local along the border late yesterday been marred by distrust for “spring offensive”. group was responsible for the well as featuring “insider attacks” police official, Imran Shaukat, officials from both countries decades. The members of the Afghan attack. “A big number of police by Afghan soldiers and “special confirmed the incident. Three said, a clash likely to unsettle The shooting was sparked by Local Police (ALP) force were are dead and a big number of military tactics”. bombs, two of which tar- already strained ties between an attack on a Pakistani check- on a joint patrol with Nato- them are wounded,” he said, with- No large-scale attacks have yet geted MQM and the Pakistan the neighbours. post. The senior Afghan offi- led coalition forces near Puli out giving details. been launched, but three British Peoples Party (PPP), killed A senior Afghan official said cial said trouble started after Alam town when the blast was Founded in 2010, the ALP is soldiers fighting in the Nato-led three people and wounded 49 hundreds of additional Afghan Pakistani troops attempted to detonated. a controversial unit tasked with coalition were killed by a roadside others in Karachi on Saturday. troops were sent to a disputed fortify the border gate. Two “One of the police vehicles community-level policing to sup- bomb in the southern province of Violence has spiked in the border gate after the exchange of Afghan border policemen were hit an IED (improvised explo- press violence in some of the Helmand on Tuesday. country ahead of national fire, which lasted for more than wounded. sive device) in which eight local country’s most dangerous areas. Shah Wali Khan, the head elections, with at least 61 peo- two hours. The latest tensions are focused police were killed and their pick- It was designed as a home- of the High Peace Council in ple killed in attacks on poli- The stakes are high. The on Pakistan’s building of a mili- up truck was totally destroyed,” grown force of locals ready to Helmand, was also killed in a ticians and political parties United States wants Pakistan tary gate which Afghan officials Rais Khan Sadeq, Logar provin- take on Taliban hardliners in similar attack in the province on since April 11. to help Kabul lure the Taliban say is inside Afghanistan. cial deputy police chief said. places where the national police Wednesday. AGENCIES to the negotiating table ahead of REUTERS Din Mohammad Darvish, the and army were scarce, but is AFP FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA PM demands justice over Sarabjit’s death Body arrives from Lahore; funeral today BJP calls for scaling down diplomatic ties with Pakistan

NEW DELHI: Anger erupted in India yesterday over the death of Sarabjit Singh after a barbaric attack in a Lahore jail with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding justice from Pakistan and BJP calling for scaling down diplomatic ties with that country. As an outraged government and political parties across the spectrum targeted Pakistan and showed solidarity with 49-year- old Sarabjit’s family, questions were also raised on future of India-Pakistan ties. A shattered Dalbir Kaur, sister of Sarabjit, urged political parties to unite for a strong collective response to Pakistan. Kaur wanted her brother to be declared a martyr. Hailing Sarabjit as a “brave son of India”, Manmohan Singh said it was “particularly regret- table” that Pakistan did not heed pleas to take a humanitarian view of the prisoner’s case. The Prime Minister underlined that the criminals responsible for “the barbaric and murderous attack Dalbir Kaur (right), sister of Sarabjit Singh, Singh’s wife Sukhpreet Kaur (second left) and his daughters Swapandip (left) and Poonam weep at their home in Bikhiwind village, near Amritsar, must be brought to justice”. yesterday. RIGHT: Villagers hold a picture of Sarabjit Singh as they shout slogans while burning an effigy of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari. Sarabjit’s body was brought to Amritsar by a special Air India flight sent to Lahore by the Indian local residents gathered at the handling of the case.” But Dalbir authorities. helipad to meet them and walked Kaur, Sarabjit’s doughty sister At 12.45am Pakistan time with them to their house. Pakistan charges two with murder who waged a long and hard bat- (1.15am IST), Lahore’s Jinnah Angry residents of Bhikhiwind tle to highlight her brother’s case, hospital announced that Sarabjit held protests and kept the entire LAHORE: Pakistan has at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat police initial investigation pointed to asked all political parties to come was dead, bringing an end to a town shut. Shops and educational charged two prisoners with the station said. an exchange of “hot words” with together and strengthen the gov- 23-year saga that began on a fate- institutions also remained closed. murder Sarabjit in jail, officials The two suspects were taken Singh. ernment’s hands. ful August day in 1990 when he Protestors gathered at various said yesterday. into custody immediately after Singh’s lawyer Owais Sheikh “He was martyred for India. crossed over to Pakistan. places and condemned the “cow- Sarabjit Singh, who was sen- last week’s attack. said his client had received (Pakistan President Asif Ali) Following his death, the author- ardly” act by Pakistani authori- tenced 16 years ago over deadly Pakistani police say Singh was threats following the execu- Zardari killed him because of ities in New Delhi and Punjab ties which led to Sarabjit’s death. bombings, died in the early hours hit with bricks and other blunt tion of a Kashmiri separatist elections,” Dalbir Kaur told announced a number of measures, Residents of the town mourned yesterday from injuries suffered objects by two inmates, who have in India. Mohammed Afzal reporters here. including state-level honours at his death and said the Indian and in an attack on April 26. been identified only by single Guru was hanged in New Delhi She said: “The entire country his cremation, financial assistance Pakistani governments could have “We have added a murder names Aamir and Mudasir. on February 9 for his part in a should come together. I appeal to the family and government jobs saved him. clause to the police complaint,” The motive has been deadly attack on the Indian par- to all parties to strengthen to both his daughters. Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Tariq Mehmood, a police official unclear, but police say an liament in 2001. AFP the hands of Prime Minister While Pakistan declared him Singh Badal announced three-day Manmohan Singh and Home a terrorist and convicted him for mourning for Sarabjit and said Minister Sushilkumar Shinde.” blasts in Lahore and Multan that that he would be given a state- India’s ministry of external was brutally assaulted by fellow president Rahul Gandhi, went to Dalbir Kaur, who along with left 14 dead, his family claimed level funeral. He announced gov- affairs did not mince its words inmates in a Pakistani jail,” said pay their condolences to Sarabjit’s Sarabjit’s wife and daugh- that the devoted brother, husband ernment jobs for Sarabjit’s two either and said Sarabjit’s death identical statements read in both sister Dalbir Kaur, the BJP upped ters returned from Pakistan and father from a poor rural fam- daughters of Sarabjit and finan- was “put simply, the killing of houses. the ante and demanded that dip- on Wednesday claiming they ily in Punjab had crossed over in cial assistance of `10m. our citizen while in the custody The statement was read out lomatic relations with Pakistan be were not being given informa- an inebriated state when he was The union government also of Pakistani jail authorities”. by Speaker Meira Kumar in the scaled down. tion on his condition, claimed just 26. announced assistance of `2.5m to Expressing deep shock and Lok Sabha, and Chairman Hamid “The level of diplomatic rela- Sarabjit had written to her that Sarabjit will be cremated in the distraught family. sorrow at the death of Sarabjit Ansari in the Rajya Sabha. tions should be scaled down and Pakistani authorities had asked his hometown Bhikhiwind in Most of the years spent in ano- Singh, both houses of parliament “The house condemns the for the time being Indian high him to undergo training in ter- Punjab’s border district of Tarn nymity but in death, Sarabjit — yesterday condemned the “inhu- inhuman treatment meted out commissioner to Pakistan should ror camps. Taran today, amid great anger in who had been brutally assaulted man treatment” meted out to him to Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani be called back,” BJP president She also alleged a prominent the town. A number of leaders are with bricks and plates in Lahore’s in a Pakistani jail. jail and hopes the culprits will Rajnath Singh said. Pakistani human rights activist expected to attend the cremation. Kot Lakhpat jail on April 26 and “This house expresses its deep be brought to book,” said the Attacking the government on had demanded money from her Sarabjit’s family, which was in had slipped into a deep coma — sense of shock and sorrow on resolution. the emotive issue, others spoke to secure Sarabjit’s release, and New Delhi, reached Bhikhiwind, became the latest bone of con- the demise of Sarabjit Singh, an As a string of VIPs, includ- out too, including Trinamool demanded the visas of all visiting 50km from Amritsar, by helicop- tention between the troubled Indian citizen in Jinnah Hospital, ing Home Minister Sushilkumar Congress’ Mamata Banerjee who Pakistani activists be cancelled. ter yesterday evening. Scores of neighbours. Lahore, in Pakistan, after he Shinde and Congress vice said: “This is the result of bad AGENCIES Speaker rejects demand to remove 2G JPC chief IKEA gets

NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Prime Minister Manmohan The Congress members had officer said. In her letter, the opposition members, includ- approval to Speaker Meira Kumar yes- Singh and Finance Minister P also sought imposition of a bar speaker has urged the warring ing former UPA allies DMK terday rejected the opposi- Chidambaram of any wrong- on the three BJP panel members members to sink their differ- and Trinamool Congress, wrote open stores tion demand for removal of P doing in the allocation of from voting, citing a conflict of ences, work a way out of the separate letters to the speaker C Chacko as the head of the spectrum. interest as all of them were either logjam, and adopt the report, that they had “no confidence” in NEW DELHI: The govern- Joint Parliamentary Committee According to the sources, the ministers or part of group of min- he said. Chacko as the panel chief and he ment yesterday approved a plan (JPC) looking into 2G spectrum speaker also rejected the demand isters on telecom during the NDA The JPC meeting on April 25 should be removed. worth almost $2bn by Swedish allocation, a parliament source of six Congress members for rule from 1998-2004. to finalise the draft report was In a counter attack, six furniture giant IKEA to open said. removal of three Bharatiya “The speaker has rejected postponed due to the death of Congress members wrote to the stores in India for the first time, The opposition had sought Janata Party (BJP) members — the demands of both the sides. Trinamool Congress MP Ambica speaker seeking the removal officials said. Chacko’s removal over a draft Yashwant Sinha, Jaswant Singh Separate letters intimating the Banerjee. A fresh date for the of the BJP members from the IKEA’s plan to invest in India report which blamed former tel- and Ravi Shankar Prasad — from members of the decisions have meeting is yet to be decided. committee. was approved in a cabinet meet- ecom minister A Raja but cleared the panel. been dispatched,” a parliament The same day as many as 15 IANS ing headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, according to officials. The Swedish firm, which sub- Sikhs protest mitted its application last June, hopes to open 25 stores in India Don’t wear skirts while in through a 100-percent owned unit called Ingka Holding. It comes as part of a wider push into emerg- India, ADB advises delegates ing markets such as China and Russia. NEW DELHI: Women attending the Asian Development Bank’s “The Cabinet Committee on (DB) annual meeting in New Delhi have been advised to avoid Economic Affairs today gave its wearing short skirts since they could lead to sexual harassment, approval to the proposal of Ingka according to a website notice yesterday. Holding as recommended by the The Manila-based ADB, whose board of governors is meeting this Foreign Investment Promotion weekend in the Indian capital to discuss the global economy, advised Board (FIPB),” a government delegates from nearly 70 countries to dress modestly in the sexually statement said. conservative nation. “The approval would result in Don’t bare legs or wear short dresses as it “could hurt Indian sen- foreign direct investment inflows sibilities and may lead to sexual harassment”, the advisory posted by amounting to `105bns ($1.95bn) the ADB told women delegates expected to attend the meeting. approximately into the country,” In a section titled “Common Faux Pas”, it says kissing and embrac- it added. IKEA’s entry into India ing are regarded in India as “part of sex” and asks delegates not to is being closely watched as a test engage in such activities. case for how a large foreign cor- “It is not even a good idea for couples to hold hands,” advises the poration might negotiate India’s ADB, which is hosting two days of seminars before the formal start notorious red tape. The FIPB of its meeting tomorrow. gave the plan the green light in The ADB later removed its dress advice from the site, with a spokes- January, two months after it had woman saying the agency had merely wanted to send a message to rejected 15 of IKEA’s 30 product “dress sensibly in a businesslike fashion”. lines, including food and textiles. The advice comes amid a national focus on sexual offences against Sikhs hold placards as they shout anti-government slogans in front of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi’s Following the FIPB’s approval, women following the fatal gang rape of a student on a Delhi bus in residence in New Delhi yesterday, against the acquittal of Congress politician Sajjan Kumar. A court has IKEA said it has a “long-term mid-December. The horrific attack sparked national demonstrations acquitted Sajjan Kumar in a trial linked to the massacre of Sikhs following the 1984 assassination of then vision” for India and saw huge over the lack of safety for women. prime minister Indira Gandhi. potential in its burgeoning mid- AFP dle class. AFP FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Qatar firms on expansion drive Despite acquisition activities, bonds of Qatari firms to remain in demand

DUBAI: A foreign acquisition on to fund their acquisitions, and But he voiced caution about the QNB’s most recent issue, drive by Qatari companies is the risks involved in operating in Maroc Telecom stake. “Qtel’s con- maturing in 2020, has struggled winning the country interna- unstable countries in the region. templated Morocco transaction is in the secondary market since its tional attention and economic QNB is probably the most a bit questionable and perhaps if issue in April. It was bid at 99.296 influence around the region. But acquisitive bank in the Gulf it finally goes ahead may result in cents on the dollar yesterday to it may have a less positive effect region. After securing stakes in some volatility on its bonds.” yield 2.99 percent, up from 2.98 on the bond prices of some of banks in Egypt, Libya, the United Last week, S&P placed its percent last week. the companies. Arab Emirates and Iraq, it is long and short-term corporate The bond is offering over 20 Blue-chip bond issuers such as scouting for a majority stake in a credit ratings for Ooredoo on basis points more than National Qatar National Bank and tele- top-ten Turkish bank. creditwatch “negative” after the Bank of Abu Dhabi’s 2019 matu- communications operator Ooredo, It is not the only Qatari lender company submitted a binding bid rity, for an extended maturity of are leading the M&A drive. which feels the need to move for the stake. “Any meaningful just eight months. Both banks are In the past, when their busi- beyond its crowded domestic mar- debt increases from the acquisi- rated Aa3 by Moody’s. ness focus was primarily domes- ket. Commercial Bank of Qatar tion will lead to a downgrade,” Commerzbank’s Bantis said he tic, these partly state-owned agreed to buy a 70.8 percent stake said the agency, which currently believed the underperformance of companies were viewed by many in Turkish lender Alternatifbank rates Ooredoo as A. Ooredoo is QNB’s last two bond issues had Trading value, volume investors as essentially part of in March, and has reportedly also majority shareholder in Iraqi more to do with overall spread the Qatar government, which is hired two banks for a potential telecommunications operator compression in global markets rated AA by Standard & Poor’s. bond sale to boost capital. Asiacell and holds 90 percent of and aggressive pricing than its The companies could price bond Outside the banking sec- Tunisiana in Tunisia. acquisition activity. rise on Qatar bourse issues very close to the sovereign tor, Ooredoo is going head-to- Regardless of acquisition activi- But the yield on Ooredoo’s curve, with almost no new-issue head with the UAE’s Etisalat ties, the bonds of Qatari compa- $1bn, 2023 bond has widened DOHA: Qatar’s main index services sector led traded number premium. for Vivendi’s stake in Morocco’s nies are likely to remain in demand over 20 bps since the beginning gained 155.42 points (1.81 per- of transactions last week with Spreads on their bonds may Maroc Telecom, which is val- among international investors of this year. By contrast, the yield c e n t) l a s t w e e k t o 8 ,74 8 . 6 8 p o i n t s . 24.44 percent of the total, followed now start to reflect the higher ued at about $6bn. “So far looking for exposure to the Middle on the Qatari government’s $2bn The trading value increased by the industrial sector (23.31 risk associated with their global Ooredoo’s acquisitions have been East, partly because of the scar- issue maturing in 2022 has actu- 31.40 percent to QR1.38bn com- percent), the real estate sector expansion strategy, even though successful, even the ones in the city of investment-grade credits ally narrowed by 1 bp - a major pared to QR1.05bn the previous (17.72 percent) and the consumer the companies can probably still riskier regions such as Iraq,” from the region. But the bonds of underperformance by Ooredoo week. goods and serv- count on government support if said Apostolos Bantis, emerg- both QNB and Ooredoo have come that appears at least partly due Trading ices sector needed. Investors may look at how ing markets credit analyst at under pressure in secondary mar- to company-specific factors. volumes on (14.81 percent). much debt the companies take Commerzbank in London. ket trading in recent weeks. REUTERS the bourse Of the 42 increased companies 28.21 percent listed, 26 ended to 38.51 mil- higher last US shale boom lion shares as week, while against 30 mil- 12 fell and Egypt’s main lion the previ- four remained ous week. unchanged. IMF negotiator The number of transactions Industries Qatar led traded that took place on the Qatar value last week accounting for Exchange last week rose 15.42 14.16 percent of the total,. Barwa stays in post percent to 17,895 as compared to Real Estate accounted for 8.37 15,504 the previous week. percent and Commercial Bank CAIRO: A senior Egyptian The market capitalisation rose 8.16 percent. finance ministry official involved 1.96 percent to QR483.95bn from For yesterday, Qatar Exchange in talks with the International QR474.66bn the previous week. ended in the green adding 80.83 Monetary Fund on a $4.8bn The banking and financial serv- points (or 0.93 percent) to loan is continuing in his post, ices sector led in terms of trading advance to 8,748.68 points from the government said yesterday, value with a 28.4 percent share 8,667.85 on Wednesday. Among reversing an earlier announce- in the total. The industrial sec- the top gainers were Qatar ment that he had resigned. tor accounted for 26.32 percent. National Bank which was up 1.71 Hany Kadry Dimian, who has The consumer goods and services percent to QR136.50, Industries been the point man in Egypt’s sector accounted for 15.11 per- Qatar rose 1.40 percent to protracted and so far fruitless cent and real estate sector, 14.6 QR173.70, Qatar Navigation negotiations to obtain a $4.8bn percent. gained 1.69 percent to QR66 loan from the IMF, had told The real estate sector led in and Barwa Real Estate was up Reuters on Sunday that he had terms of trading volume with a by 0.21 percent to Q23.46. quit his post but gave no explana- 25.35 percent share in the total. The banking and financial tion for his decision. The banking and financial serv- sector index was up 0.93 points, Cabinet spokesman Alaa El ices sector accounted for 21.33 the consumer goods and services Hadidi said Dimian was con- Pump jacks seen in the Midway Sunset oilfield, California. The nearby vast Monterey shale formation is percent. The telecoms sector sector index added 0.46 points, tinuing his duties “particularly estimated by the US Energy Information Administration to hold 15 billion barrels of technically recoverable accounted for 16.49 percent and the industrial sector gained 0.94 because the IMF negotiations oil, or four times that of the Bakken formation centred on North Dakota. Most of that oil is not economically the industries sector accounted points while the insurance sector are nearing completion”. Prime for 14.63 percent. rose 0.88 points. retrievable except by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a production-boosting technique in which large amounts Minister Hisham Kandil met with The banking and the financial THE PENINSULA of water, sand and chemicals are injected into shale formations to force hydrocarbon fuels to the surface. Dimian on Thursday afternoon to discuss preparations for further talks with the global lender, a gov- ernment statement said. Dimian said that he hoped to conclude the remaining stages of US jobless the negotiations with the global Glencore-Xstrata merger complete lender as soon as possible, saying that the Egyptian side had the GENEVA: The long-awaited London on May 3 starting at 0800 end of 2012. That target was only divisional manager from claims fall to capabilities to manage the nego- merger between Swiss com- GMT, while Hong Kong trading of pushed back to March 15, before Xstrata to come over to the com- tiations process and to implement modities trader Glencore and the shares will start at 0130 GMT again being shifted due to delays bined group — will take on coal the IMF programme. mining giant Xstrata was com- on May 6, it said. in China’s regulatory approval, mining, the source said. five-year low A senior technocrat appointed pleted yesterday and the new At the same time, Xstrata will which finally came through last In zinc, another key com- in 2007, Kadry survived five company will be listed on stock be delisted from the London stock month. modity for the combined group, WASHINGTON: The number finance ministers in office since exchanges in London and Hong exchange today and from the Glencore detailed the com- Glencore’s Daniel Mate will run of Americans filing new jobless the 2011 uprising that overthrew Kong, it said. Swiss stock exchange on Monday. bined group’s new management trading, while the mining opera- benefits claims fell sharply last former autocratic President As of yesterday, “the entire Shareholders will receive 3.05 to employees. A source famil- tions will be run by Glencore’s week to its lowest level since Hosni Mubarak. The report of issued ordinary share capital of new Glencore shares for each of iar with the company said Telis Chris Eskdale. the early days of the 2007-09 his departure had been seen as Xstrata is owned by the Glencore the shares they currently hold, Mistakidis, Glencore’s veteran Earlier, in a letter to employ- recession, a sign the job market a bad omen for Egypt’s hopes of Group,” the new company said said the new company, which head of copper, would lead both ees, Glencore lauded its success is still healing even though the reaching a deal on the IMF loan in a statement, adding that the now counts Xstrata’s former non- trading and industrial opera- in combining the two companies economy remains weak. next month, as the government company’s new joint name “is executive director John Bond as tions for the red metal within the but also pointed to more staff Other data yesterday showed a has said it aims to do. expected to become effective in its chairman. combined group. Glencore’s head and asset shake-ups ahead. “We narrowing of the US trade gap in After the announcement of Jersey later today”. Glencore Chief Executive Ivan of oil, Alex Beard, and its head see scope to improve the effi- March, although drops in imports Kadry’s resignation, the finance Glencore Xstrata thus takes Glasenberg will wear the same of agricultural products, Chris ciency of the group and optimise and exports offered warning signs minister appointed his economic the stage alongside leading global hat in the new company. Mahoney, will keep their roles in the combined asset portfolio and over the strength of domestic and adviser Abdallah Shehata to man- commodities companies such as Glencore and Xstrata’s share- the combined group. growth pipeline for the benefit of foreign demand. Initial claims age negotiations with the IMF, BHP Billiton, Vale and Rio Tinto. holders had voted in favour of In coal, Glencore’s Tor Peterson all stakeholders,” Chief Executive for state unemployment benefits state news agency Mena said on Trading in the new Glencore the merger last November, with will lead trading operations while Ivan Glasenberg said. dropped 18,000 to a seasonally Tuesday. REUTERS Xstrata shares will begin in a view to sealing the deal by the Xstrata’s Peter Freyberg — the AFP/REUTERS adjusted 324,000 last week, the Labour Department said. The claims report runs counter to a growing number of signals Porsche display that economic activity softened in March and April, a phenom- Intel names insider as CEO ena economists have dubbed the spring swoon because it also hap- SAN FRANCISCO: Silicon process, the board of directors is pened in the previous two years. Valley giant Intel Corp named delighted that Krzanich will lead “Growth slowed between the Brian Krzanich as its new chief Intel as we define and invent first and second quarters, but executive officer yesterday to the next generation of technol- the claims data suggest that the succeed Paul Otellini. ogy that will shape the future of extent of this slowing was lim- Krzanich, who has been chief computing,” said Intel’s chairman ited,” said Daniel Silver, an econo- operating officer since January Andy Bryant. mist at JPMorgan in New York. 2012, will assume the role at the “Brian is a strong leader with The data on claims has no company’s annual stockholders’ a passion for technology and deep direct bearing on the Labour meeting May 16. understanding of the business. Department’s monthly employ- The move comes with Intel, the His track record of execution and ment report for April due today. world’s biggest maker of chips for strategic leadership, combined However, it suggests employers personal computers, struggling with his open-minded approach are feeling less pressure to lay to keep up with a shift to mobile to problem solving has earned him workers off, even if they have cut devices such as tablets. Intel’s big the respect of employees, custom- back on hiring. push for “ultrabooks,” the thin PCs ers and partners worldwide.” Analysts had expected 345,000 that are competing with tablets, In the first quarter of 2013, new jobless claims last week, and has been a major disappointment. Intel said its profit fell 25 percent the positive signal from the data Krzanich, 52, will become the to $2b, while expressing optimism sent US stock prices higher, while sixth CEO in Intel’s history. Otellini over its new efforts in the mobile yields on US government debt announced last year he would step space. Revenues were down 2.4 rose. An interest rate cut from Shareholders watch Porsche cars during the annual meeting of Porsche in Leipzig recently. down as CEO and from the board percent for the year at $12.58bn, the European Central Bank also of directors on May 16. “After a mainly due to lower PC sales. lifted investor sentiment. thorough and deliberate selection AFP REUTERS FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Oil pushes up Syrian pound loses value Tablet sales rise toward $103 as consumers NEW YORK: Brent crude rose nearly $3 a barrel shun PCs: Report yesterday, closing shy of $103 as a rate cut by the SAN FRANCISCO: Global European Central Bank sales of tablet computers supported riskier assets, surged by 142.4 percent in the European stocks although a shaky outlook first quarter of 2013 as more for global oil demand and and more consumers chose ample supply capped gains. small-screen devices over PCs, Brent crude gained $2.90 research figures showed. rise as ECB cuts a barrel to settle at $102.85 The International Data after trading between $102.98 Corporation (IDC) research firm and $99.51. It fell more than reported that tablet shipments in 2 percent on Wednesday and the first quarter of the year had has lost over 7 percent this totaled 49.2 million units, eclips- interest rates year. US crude closed $2.96 ing the total for the entire first higher at $93.99 a barrel, up half of 2012. The research group 3.25 percent. said demand for tablet devices Euro tumbles against dollar; gold up “Oil is up because of showed no sign of letting up, with the stock market and the the introduction of Apple’s iPad LONDON: Europe’s stock markets Archer said the move had “looked Europeans lowering their mini helping fuel the boom. rose and the euro tumbled against ever more inevitable as latest data interest rate. The thought “Sustained demand for the the dollar on Thursday after the and survey evidence pointed to ongo- is that is going to improve iPad mini and increasingly strong European Central Bank cut key ing and widespread economic weak- their economy and increase commercial shipments led to a rates to a record low in its latest ness across the eurozone as well as demand,” said Mark An employee counts Syrian pound notes at the Syrian central bank in better-than expected first quarter effort to help break the eurozone below target and receding inflation.” Waggoner, president of Excel Damascus. The Syrian pound has lost about 60 percent of its value for Apple,” said IDC analyst Tom from recession. Analysts believe the rate cut was Futures in Bend, Oregon. against the US dollar in two years; many wealthy Syrians have been Mainelli. Although Apple’s share of At the close after choppy trade fol- unlikely to have a major impact on REUTERS the market had fallen to 39.6 per- unwilling or unable to move all their money out of the country. lowing the rate cut, London’s FTSE growth, especially given fragmented cent from 58.1 percent a year ago, 100 index of top companies rose 0.15 credit markets. There was more gloom the firm remained firmly on top of percent to 6,460.71 points. ahead of the rate call, with markets the tablet sales charts, shifting 19.5 In Frankfurt, the DAX 30 rose by digesting news that activity among million units in the first quarter. 0.61 percent to 7,961.71 points, while eurozone manufacturers fell at the Apple sales exceeded analyst in Paris the CAC 40 edged up 0.05 fastest pace in four months in April. forecasts of 18.7 million units, IDC percent to 3,858.76 points as the The Markit Eurozone Shell CEO to retire early reported. Number two vendor two markets re-opened following Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Samsung also posted better-than- Wednesday’s public holiday. Index fell to 46.7 points in April LONDON: Royal Dutch Shell’s 54-year old Shell said it would look outside and inside the predicted sales numbers, with 8.8 As widely expected, the ECB from 46.8 points in March. The data chief executive Peter Voser is to retire next company for Voser’s replacement. However, as million units compared to 2.3 mil- decided to reduce its key interest is based on a poll of manufacturing year in an early departure he said was driven with most big oil companies, new chief executives lion units over the same period rates amid mounting calls across the executives. The April outcome left by a desire for a change of lifestyle. traditionally come up through the ranks. last year. IDC said Samsung had eurozone to focus on growth rather the indicator below the 50-points His departure from a role he is seen to have Finance director Simon Henry refused to be harnessed the power of its popu- than austerity. boom-bust line, but beat market excelled in came as a shock to investors, analysts drawn on his prospects for succeeding Voser. Inside lar Android smartphone to bring “The market got what it wanted,” expectations for a reading of 46.5 and people inside Europe’s biggest oil company. Shell, Henry is regarded as a potential front-run- its tablet products into new mar- said Renaud Murail of Barclays according to Dow Jones Newswires. Two senior members of staff told Reuters ner along with Marvin Odum, the company’s head kets and channels. Bourse in Paris, with limited price On the London Bullion Market, they had no inkling that he would go. The softly of upstream operations in the Americas. The skyrocketing demand for movement as traders “had already gold rose to $1,455.20 an ounce from spoken and widely respected Swiss national has Henry has a mathematics and accounting tablet computers came after sales started integrating the decision in $1,454.75. US stocks gained sharply helped drive Shell’s recovery from sector laggard background even though, like Odum, he joined of personal computers nosedived the rebound of recent days.” after the expected ECB interest rate to a leading position in the burgeoning industry the company as an engineer, and is respected by 13.9 percent in the first quarter The rate cut quickly impacted cut and a strong report on US job- of liquefied natural gas in his nine years at the by shareholders who know him from his days as of 2013, according to IDC figures foreign exchange activity however, less claims. top of the company. head of investor relations. Odum, who is about released earlier in April. where the European single currency In midday trade, the Dow Jones He took over as finance chief in 2004 amid the Voser’s age, would be Shell’s first American CEO. It was the fourth consecutive initially skyrocketed to $1.3202 in Industrial Average gained 0.82 per- board-level upheaval that followed its dramatic Andrew Brown, who became head of interna- quarter of year-on-year declines the wake of the decision before tum- cent at 14,821.02. The broad-based downgrade of reserves estimates, becoming CEO tional upstream last year, could be a candidate for PC shipments, a fall attributed bling to $1.3060 from $1.3180 late S&P 500 added 0.88 percent at in 2009. His departure, scheduled for the first too, as could director of projects and technol- to the booming tablet and smart- Wednesday. 1,596.60, while the tech-rich Nasdaq half of next year and announced along with first- ogy Matthias Bichsel. One source said Brown’s phone markets. Elsewhere, ASUS The ECB trimmed its key “refi” refi- Composite Index surged 1.17 percent quarter results, comes as the company and its relatively recent appointment may make him an posted the third highest number nancing rate by a quarter of a per- to 3,337.74 points. industry face huge challenges. outside bet, while Bichsel, born in 1954, might be of tablet sales (2.7 million units) centage point to a new record low of Asian equities slid with Hong Kong Shell is the western world’s number two com- considered too old for the job. thanks to its Nexus 7 device, edg- 0.50 percent. The central bank also cut stocks down 0.30 percent and Tokyo pany by production behind ExxonMobil. But, like Voser said his decision to go was a personal ing clear of Amazon.com with 1.8 its marginal lending facility by half a off 0.76 percent. Shanghai was down its peers, it is struggling to replace reserves and one. “After such an exciting executive career I million units. Microsoft entered percentage point to 1 percent. But it 0.17 percent, one day after official boost production, and faces a squeeze on earnings feel it is time for a change in my lifestyle and I the top five for the first time held the interest rate on the deposit data showed that manufacturing as costs rise while the price of oil threatens to fall am looking forward to having more time avail- with its Surface RT and Surface facility unchanged at zero percent. activity in China slowed last month. decisively below the psychologically important able for my family and private life in the years Pro tablet devices accounting for IHS Global Insight analyst Howard AFP $100 a barrel level. to come,” he said in a statement. REUTERS nearly 900,000 units. AFP

Thailand economy slows down QATARI MARKET Asiacell annual Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid Price Yield Moodys S&P Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 104.31 0.46 % Aa2 AA profit up 31pc Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 106.44 1.34 % Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 125.38 1.99 % Aa2 AA BAGHDAD: Iraqi mobile oper- Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 118.50 2.26 % Aa2 AA ator Asiacell, majority-owned Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 114.38 2.64 % Aa2 AA by Ooredoo, posted a 31-per- Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 175.50 3.74 % Aa2 AA cent rise in annual profit in its first results as a listed company, Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 137.00 4.11 % Aa2 AA helped by an increase in cus- Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 127.75 4.10 % Aa2 AA tomers and revenues. Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 105.50 0.99 % Aa2 AA Iraq’s second-largest mobile Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 115.25 2.66 % Aa2 AA operator said it made a net profit Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 105.50 1.36 % A1 A- of 662bn dinars ($569m) last year, on an 18 percent rise in revenue Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.50 2.18 % A1 A- to 2.17 trillion dinars. QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.50 1.95 % NR NR Customer numbers increased QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 104.00 1.51 % Aa3 A+ by 12 percent to 10.1 million, QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.88 2.04 % Aa3 A+ helping to lift the firm’s market Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.50 2.28 % A2 A- share to 36 percent from 35 per- cent in 2011. Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 106.25 1.51 % A2 A /*- Asiacell’s market debut in Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 130.88 2.41 % A2 A /*- February was the first major flo- Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 112.63 2.92 % A2 A /*- tation in Iraq since a US-led inva- Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 111.00 3.88 % A2 A /*- sion toppled Saddam Hussein in Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 106.00 1.16 % Aa3 A 2003. It doubled the market capi- talisation of the Baghdad bourse Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 108.38 3.22 % Aa3 A A Thai man inspects televisions for sale at a shopping centre in Bangkok. Thailand’s economy faced a and was the largest equity offer in Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 111.50 3.52 % Aa3 A slowdown in March when private consumption contracted by 1.1 percent while the private investment index the Middle East since 2008, rais- SOVEREIGNS shrank by 0.7 percent from February. ing $1.27bn. REUTERS Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid Price Yield Moodys S&P Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 104.63 0.45 % Aa2 AA Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 127.00 1.91 % Aa2 AA Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 110.50 2.20 % NR NR Simon Casson to be GM of Four Seasons Resort Dubai Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 107.63 2.86 % NR NR Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 125.75 3.74 % NR NR DOHA: Four Seasons veteran President Hotel Operations As the GM of Four Seasons Hotel Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 118.38 4.00 % NR NR and thought-leader within the Europe, Middle East and Africa, Doha for the past nine years and Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 105.44 0.78 % Aa2 AA Middle East hospitality industry, said: “The Dubai resort is one a Regional Vice President Middle Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 116.75 2.97 % NR BBB Simon Casson (pictured), will of the most highly anticipated East for the past two years, Casson Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 110.63 3.74 % NR BBB take the helm as Regional Vice within our Middle East portfolio. possesses a deep knowledge of the President and General Manager We expect it to be a top player market and what works in this Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 93.50 6.94 % Caa1 B- of Four Seasons Resort Dubai at in its competitor set and Simon region, and has been instrumen- Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 107.00 3.42 % NR BBB-

Jumeirah Beach, when the prop- Casson is the right man to be in tal in guiding the Middle Eastern *Periodic Distribution Amount erty opens late next year. charge. Casson’s knowledge of property teams in a period of rapid IMPORTANT NOTE: Casson will make the transi- the industry, his years spent in growth and change. Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which tion from his current position the region and his astute sense “Dubai is the epicentre of is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services as Regional Vice President and for both the hard and soft skills high-end hospitality within the Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary General Manager of Four Seasons needed to run a highly success- Middle East and so I am excited data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising Hotel Doha, where he is currently ful resort means that the team in and honoured to have the oppor- A highly respected hotelier, out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds based, to Dubai leading the pre- Dubai will have a highly accom- tunity to lead the opening of our Casson was named among the can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant opening team in November 2013. plished hotelier at the helm, in a new resort on Jumeirah Beach,” “Most Powerful Hoteliers in the liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not He will continue to fulfill his role booming market.” said Simon Casson. “This iconic Middle East” in 2012 by Hotelier a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and as Regional Vice President – A 24-year veteran of Four site will provide the backdrop for Middle East. He was also recently consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. overseeing Four Seasons Hotels in Seasons, Casson fulfilled a career- a resort where we will deliver the named Chair of Four Seasons Damascus, Syria, Beirut, Lebanon, long goal to be a general manager renowned Four Seasons differen- Global Spa Task Force, leading a Riyadh, Baku and Tanzania, in with Four Seasons when he moved tiator…intuitive, natural service 20-member committee that over- addition to the Dubai property. to Doha in 2004, following time excellence. We aim to be a game sees award winning Four Seasons Commenting on the appoint- spent with the company at proper- changer in the Dubai luxury hotel Spas around the world. ment, Christopher W Norton, ties in North America and Europe. market,” he added. THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

Fresh optimism can be Boosting European lending

BY MIKE DOLAN initial push, forcing a tweaking of the almost another $5tn. Due largely to their own a double-edged sword scheme to target more businesses. regulatory pressures, the big insurance and ith a lack of bank lending to The ECB is widely reported to be work- pension funds are being increasingly herded BY ANATOLE KALETSKY European businesses stifling the ing on a similar plan, possibly hooked on away from equity and long-dated credit into region’s economy, sidestepping changes to its collateral rules — although it’s either government and high-grade corporate his is a critical week for the world economy and finan- Wthe middlemen — if not quite unlikely to be ready for this week’s council bonds where yields are evaporating. cial markets, especially in the United States. Today’s US cutting them out altogether — is becoming meeting. As an alternative, SocGen outlined five employment report will signal either a renewal of the more attractive. A UK guarantee scheme from 2012 works emerging asset classes with about $100bn Teconomic recovery or, much more likely, will confirm that Stricter regulation, higher capital buff- on similar lines to the FLS by offering gov- in annual loan origination that offer asset the economy is sinking into another seasonal “soft patch” for the ers and basic risk aversion among banks ernment guarantees for banks willing to managers assets “senior” to bonds, lower fourth time in four years. has meant floods of cheap liquidity from raise cash specifically for business lend- default and higher recovery rates and Despite this risk, stock prices on Wall Street are at record highs, central banks is still not getting to the real ing. Germany and Spain on Monday also higher and floating-rate yields. suggesting that equity investors see this slowdown as nothing economy. As the economy weakens, ebbing announced a government-led SME financ- These include loans guaranteed by export more than a temporary obstruction on the way to a sustained loan demand compounds the problem. ing programme. But if government and cen- finance agencies, commercial real estate recovery, just as in the summers of 2010, 2011 and 2012. For the debt-burdened and cash-strapped tral bank plans to target SME lending all loans, energy and transport project finance So should we prepare for more anxiety about a double-dip governments and taxpayers who were forced rely on banks as the middlemen, the prob- loans and direct loans to SMEs. recession, or can we feel confident that this summer will be fol- to bail out so many of their undercapital- lem potentially festers. The big price is a lack of liquidity, or the lowed by an autumn of strong recovery, as in the past four years? ised banks over the past six years, another So why not sidestep the banks and go ability to trade these in secondary markets. I had an excellent vantage point this week from which to assess rollback of regulation or capital buffers direct to investors? But this is where buy-and-hold investors this question: the global conference of the Milken Institute in can hardly be the answer. Yet if long-term An emerging, if only partial, solution is like insurers and pension funds can come California, which brings together 1,000 business executives, poli- strengthening of the banks is incompatible channelling some of trillions of euros of in and where regulations such as Solvency ticians and financiers in a US equivalent of the Davos economic with short-term relief for credit-starved European pension and insurance savings II may even push them. forum, transplanted to the warmer and even plusher surround- small and medium-sized enterprises into more targetted loan funds, unlisted Banks can still originate these loans and ings of Beverly Hills. (SMEs) that employ more than two-thirds loans, private placements or even direct overcome credit monitoring concerns by Clearly, there was anxiety about the flagging recovery and the of eurozone private sector workers, then business financing — stepping up the “dis- retaining a percentage of the loans — as self-inflected damage caused by January’s payroll tax hike and stalemate and stagnation loom. intermediation” of the hobbled banks. with deals between the big French banks the unplanned cuts to public spending caused by the sequestra- The European Central Bank’s latest loan With 80 percent of European corporate and insurers last year — or asset managers — tion process. survey showed lending to non-financial finance still coming from direct bank lend- like Allianz Global Investors or Blackrock’s But there was also a palpable resurgence of optimism about firms continued to contract in March by ing as opposed to securities markets such infrastructure loan push last year — can America’s long-term prospects: the opportunities created by three more than one percent on an annual basis. as corporate bonds or private loan place- target specific sectors. Other routes include billion new global consumers; the US track record of innovation and Bank of England data for the same month ments — the US ratio is 80/20 the other launching funds that lend directly. enterprise; the magnetism of US universities for global talent; the tell a similar story, showing lending to UK way — there is considerable scope to shift. Backed by another UK government promise of energy independence; the transformational opportuni- SMEs down more than three percent over Just like the market for private equity, or scheme from late last year to provide more ties from “big data” and robotics; the prospect of liberalised immi- the past year. unlisted shares, a market for private bonds than £1.2bn to increase companies’ non- gration policies; and, encompassing many of these issues, a sense And the problem extends across the con- and loans is developing, he said, adding that bank financing, asset manager M&G runs that the partisan warfare in Washington over healthcare, taxes tinent. Central banks have so far opted for US funds and insurers already have some a £450m UK companies financing fund that and public spending had reached a point of exhaustion. Both sides, carrots over sticks. 30 percent of assets under management in offers finance direct to firms alongside other it seems, might be ready for a ceasefire, if not yet a lasting peace. The Bank of England’s Funding for private bonds and loans. banks. A surprising highlight of the conference was an amiable hour- Lending Scheme (FLS), which makes cheap Domestically-sourced insurance assets This may still be seen as niche financ- long discussion between two of the most partisan antagonists in central bank financing to banks conditional in the UK, France, Germany and the ing in Europe, but there is huge potential if Washington’s political dramas — Democratic Senate Majority on onward lending to firms and households, Netherlands alone, for example, amount investors, companies and government can Leader Harry Reid and Eric Cantor of Virginia, the ultra- has had mixed results to date. Mortgage to more than $5tn, according to data from get it right. conservative leader of the Republican majority in the House of lending appears to have dominated the TheCityUK. Pension assets in those five are REUTERS Representatives. This ended with both politicians agreeing that there might be scope for a deal on the US budget and thanking the Milken Institute for bringing them to California so they could talk to each other constructively in a way that simply isn’t possible in Washington. Similar sentiments came from leaders of both parties, ranging from Tennessee Republican Senator Bob Corker’s appreciation that “President Obama has put himself to the right of the House Republicans on entitlement reform” to Senator Bob Casey, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, saying that “so many people have become intolerant of hyperpartisanship — this is an even bigger issue for voters now than unemployment.” If US politics is edging away from internecine warfare, this has big implications for the world economy — not all of them posi- tive. The good news is policy predictability and stability. Even the staunchest conservatives, such as Cantor, have accepted that Obama’s main legislative achievements will not be reversed. They are learning to live with healthcare reform (now generally referred to by its official name, the Affordable Care Act, instead of the contemptuous “Obamacare,” even by Cantor). They are embracing immigration reform, and some are even calling for greater government activism in areas such as education and healthcare research. At the same time, Democrats have sobered up after their elec- toral celebrations and are realising they may have to accept some long-term reductions in health and pension entitlements if they want to defend the discretionary spending priorities they hold dear: welfare, education, infrastructure investment and so on. But the newfound spirit of bipartisan cooperation could inspire misguided economic policies that delay recovery and damage the world economy. This is exemplified by the way recent tax hikes and spending cuts have caused an economic slowdown. Whatever deal on long-term deficit reduction might be agreed to in Washington this year is certain to be altered by unpredict- able events and is likely to be unravelled by a future president and Congress. Instead of spending huge amounts of political capital on promises that might or might not be kept by their successors, Obama and congressional leaders could serve the US economy better with a very different grand bargain: to stop worrying about deficits and guarantee not to damage the recovery any further with spending cuts or tax hikes. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate What taxpayer bailouts? Euro crisis saves Germany money

BY JAN STRUPCZEWSKI Chancellor Angela Merkel, bid- The other study, by Jens are not even redistributing these This year, the profit should Officials said that even if any of ding for a third term in office, will Boysen-Hogrefe of the IfW eco- direct and indirect benefits,” said rise to €360m. For any euro zone the bailed-out countries were to hroughout Europe’s have to reaffirm her commitment nomic institute, suggests that a senior official in Brussels. country that has provided bailout not pay back some of the money debt crisis, northern to protect voters from potential the German federal budget saved The heart of the misconception assistance to lose money, Greece, borrowed from eurozone govern- European leaders have losses. But the truth remains €8.6bn in 2011 due to low ECB about taxpayers losses is the fact Ireland, Portugal, Spain or Cyprus ments, the alternative — a euro- Toften said they will not that German taxpayers, as well as interest rates and the safe-haven that in public discourse, the dif- would have to default on the loans zone break-up would have been a stand for taxpayers having to fork those in Finland, the Netherlands impact of investors putting money ference between lending and giv- they have received. much costlier affair than any bail- out for other countries’ problems, and elsewhere, are no worse off at into Germany. Those savings rose ing has ceased to exist. But rather than being close out losses. A study commissioned and the notion of “taxpayer- all, and their finance ministries to €9.6bn in 2012 and the safe- And with anti-bailout senti- to default, Portugal and Ireland by the German Bertelsmann funded bailouts” has taken root. have racked up savings. haven effect will alone be worth ment so strong in much of north- are near to exiting their bailout Foundation showed this week that Yet despite three-and-a-half In fact, German officials are €2bn in 2013, IfW said. ern Europe, there has been no programmes and pose little risk, if Germany were to return to its years of debt and banking turmoil, well aware of their stronger “If we add up the interest rate willingness on the part of politi- while the chance of default by old Deutschmark, its annual GDP with bailouts totalling more than financing position, the result of a advantages gained in the period cians to correct that misconcep- Spain has always been minimal would be 0.5 points lower between €400bn, northern euro zone tax- more than two percentage point 2010 to 2012 and those that tion. The anti-EU True Finns and is closely managed in Cyprus. 2013 and 2025, resulting in a loss payers have not actually lost a cent. fall in borrowing costs, even as Germany will benefit from in party in Finland, for example, Greece, which has received of €1.2tn over the 13 years — half What is more, governments in politicians continue to lament the years to come, we arrive at draws support from the belief €166bn in bailout loans, poses the size of the German economy Germany, Finland, Austria, the the risks being piled on German cumulative interest relief for the that Finns are spending money the biggest risk, but even that is in 2012. Netherlands and France have taxpayers. German budget of an estimated on southern Europeans. changing. “It is possible that we will get saved billions of euros thanks to When giving presentations €67bn,” Allianz said in a paper The situation is quite different. “With every day, the risk that out of it without getting our feet a sharp fall in how much they pay in Germany, Klaus Regling, the published last September. While Finland may be providing Greece would cost taxpayers wet, or with getting our feet wet to raise money in financial mar- German who heads the euro “(That is) enough to slash lots of guarantees to the euro- anything decreases,” a second only a little bit,” Finland’s Salmi kets since their borrowing costs zone’s permanent bailout fund, around three percentage points zone’s bailout funds and has lent EU official said. “It is not doing said about the likelihood of a have dropped steeply. often cites two studies that show off Germany’s government debt money to bailed out countries, badly at the moment and there default on any of the bailout loans But that has not prevented that Berlin has reaped substantial ratio,” which reaps further saving. the Finnish finance ministry has is a possibility it may do better extended to rescued countries. the image taking root in voters’ savings as an unintended conse- Finland, the Netherlands, earned extra money from the than assumed.” “But if we end up forgiving a minds of hard working northern quence of the crisis. Austria and France may not crisis. Apart from the initial bilat- loan of €1bn to Greece sometime Europeans putting money on the One study, by German insur- have gained as much as Germany, Last year, the Finnish central eral loans to Greece in 2010 in the next 10 years, that’s noth- line to rescue profligate, work-shy ance giant Allianz, has calculated but have also seen a substantial bank contributed €227m to the which totalled €52.9bn, no euro ing compared to what we would southerners, fuelling resentment that Berlin saved €10.2bn in 2010- decline in borrowing costs over Finnish budget as a result of prof- zone taxpayer money was sent to have faced if we had a meltdown and undermining Europe’s unity. 2012 because of lower borrowing the crisis period. its made on the Greek, Spanish Greece, or any other country. All of the eurozone. It would be com- In the run up to German elec- costs, as yields on its 10-year “Northern European countries and Portuguese government the later bailouts were financed pletely insignificant compared to tions in September, that resent- bonds fell from 3.39 percent to are making a considerable profit bonds it holds, €40m more than on markets via the eurozone bail- that,” he said. ment is only likely to grow, and 1.18 percent now. out of these operations and they it made in 2011. out fund. REUTERS FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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Kings XI Punjab at the M.A. AB de Villiers (not out) ...... 50 earns ODI recall It had been widely expected Chidambaram Stadium here MC Henriques (not out) ...... 27 that Kallis, who turns 38 in yesterday. Extras (LB 1, W 11) ...... 12 COLOMBO: Left-arm fast October, would return to one- With their seventh consecu- Total (3 wickets; 20 overs) ...... 187 bowler Chanaka Welegedara day international action after he Chennai tive win, Super Kings consoli- Did not bat: KL Rahul, KB Arun Karthik, R was recalled after an was rested from games against Super dated their position at the top of Vinay Kumar, M Kartik, M Muralitharan, RP absence of three years to Sri New Zealand and Pakistan in Kings’ the table with 18 points from 11 Singh Lanka’s one-day squad for the recent home season, osten- batsman matches and almost have a foot Fall of wickets: 1-36, 2-99, 3-119 the Champions Trophy in sibly as part of a plan to manage Suresh in the play-offs. Bowling: B Kumar 3-0-20-0 (1w); BAW England next month. his workload. Raina For Kings XI Punjab, it was Mendis 4-0-25-0; TL Suman 2-0 -15-1; Welegedara, who last played Kallis is currently playing for celebrates their third consecutive loss and AD Mathews 2-0-23-0 (2w); R Sharma 4- a one-day international in June Kolkata Knight Riders in the after scoring their play-off chances are getting 0-36-0; Yuvraj Singh 1- 0-15-0; AB Dinda 2010, has struggled with injury Indian Premier League. a century tough as they are lying sixth with 4-0-52-2. problems. Selection convener Andrew in his side’s eight points from 10 matches. PUNE WARRIORS He was among three play- Hudson said Kallis had been una- Riding on Raina’s 53-ball 100, ers returning to the 15-man vailable for personal reasons. IPL match RV Uthappa c Singh b Kartik ...... 75 Super Kings piled up a mammoth squad along with Mahela “It was at Jacques’ request and against AJ Finch b Henriques ...... 15 186 for four in 20 overs. Mike Suman run out (Muralitharan/Arun Karthik) 11 Jayawardene, who missed the we are respectful of that.” Kings XI Hussey (35) and Albie Morkel, Yuvraj Singh c de Villiers b Vinay Kumar 16 home series against Bangladesh Asked how this would affect Punjab, 23 not out of 16 balls, also came SPD Smith c Arun Karthik b Vinay Kumar 4 due to a finger injury, and left- Kallis’ future career for South yesterday. up with valuable knocks. AD Mathews c Gayle b Vinay Kumar ...... 32 arm spinner Rangana Herath Africa, Hudson said: “It’s a little Shaun Marsh (73) and David AM Nayar c de Villiers b Kartik ...... 1 who was rested. too early to speculate. I’m sure Miller (51 not out) with their B Kumar c Kohli b Singh ...... 2 “Since he (Welegedara) in the next few weeks we’ll learn 95-run stand for the fourth wicket BAW Mendis lbw b Gayle ...... 2 returned home from Australia more.” got Kings XI close but they still AB Dinda (not out) ...... 6 with a hamstring injury he Kallis has played in 321 one-day fell short by 14 runs, managing 171 R Sharma (not out) ...... 0 has gone through a rehabili- internationals since making his for six in 20 overs. Extras: (LB 2, W 4) ...... 6 tation programme and has debut in 1995/96. Meanwhile, Robin Uthappa’s Total: (9 wickets; 20 overs) ...... 170 been declared fit by the team Coach Gary Kirsten admitted fighting knock of 75 went in vain Fall of wickets: 1-20, 2-46, 3-77, 4-81, physio,” said chairman of selec- that the absence of Kallis was a as Royal Challengers Bangalore 5-144, 6-153, 7-159, 8-162, 9-165 tors Sanath Jayasuriya. blow. restricted Pune Warriors India Bowling: M Kartik 4-0-29-2; RP Singh “We picked him in the “He’s a big player but this team to 170/9 to clinch 17-run victory 4-0-27-1 (2w); MC Henriques 4-0-44-1; R squad to give variety to the has progressed to a level where at Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium Vinay Kumar 4-0 -31-3 (1w); M Muralitha- bowling. He is an experienced we feel comfortable with whoever Scoreboard in Pune. ran 3-0-32-0 (1w); CH Gayle 1-0-5-1 bowler and could be useful in we pick. CHENNAI SUPER KINGS: Mandeep Singh c Raina b Sharma ...... 15 Murali Kartik’s double strike in English conditions.” Opener “Obviously he is two players in Wriddhiman Saha c Marsh b Awana ...... 18 Shaun Marsh b Bravo ...... 73 the 18th over brought RCB back Upul Tharanga and spinner one so it does affect our combina- Mike Hussey st Gurkeerat Singh b Chawla . 35 David Hussey c Bravo b Ashwin ...... 22 into the match. Kartik dismissed Singh and Steven Smith to dent Ajantha Mendis were the nota- tions but that’s the way it is. He’s Abhishek Nayar and Uthappa to Pune Warriors India’s chase. ble absentees from the squad. been a great player and ambas- Suresh Raina (not out) ...... 100 David Miller (not out) ...... 51 Sri Lanka: MS Dhoni run out (Sathish/Gurkeerat) ...... 2 Gurkeerat Singh c Hussey b Bravo ...... 0 end Pune’s hopes. Earlier, AB De Villiers played Angelo Mathews sador for this country. If he feels Albie Morkel c Miller b Awana ...... 23 R Sathish lbw b Bravo ...... 0 Uthappa revived Pune Warriors a blinder of an innings as he (captain), Dinesh Chandimal, personally he is not up for the Ravindra Jadeja (not out) ...... 5 Manpreet Gony (not out) ...... 0 India chase with his 34-ball fifty notched up an unbeaten 23-ball Tillakaratne Dilshan, Kusal tournament we have to respect Extras Extras after the hosts lost their top order 50 to help Royal Challengers Perera, Kumar Sangakkara, that.” (LB 1, W 2) ...... 3 (LB 3) ...... 3 Squad: Total (for four wickets in 20 overs) .... 186 Total (for six wkts in 20 overs) ...... 171 cheaply. Bangalore set a massive 188-run Mahela Jayawardene, Lahiru AB de Villiers (cap- Fall of wickets: 1-27, 2-82, 3-92, 4-166 Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-36, 3-73, 4-168, It was raining sixes in Pune target for Pune Warriors India. Thirimanne, Jeevan Mendis, tain, wkt), Hashim Amla, Bowling: Praveen Kumar 4-0-38-0, David 5-168, 6-171 when Uthappa and Angelo De Villiers smacked three fours Thisara Perera, Lasith Farhaan Behardien, JP Duminy, Hussey 4-0-31-0, Parwinder Awana 4-0-29-2, Bowling: Albie Morkel 4-0-20-0, Mohit Shar- Mathews were batting in tandem and two sixes in the last over of Malinga, Rangana Herath, Faf du Plessis, Colin Ingram, Piyush Chawla 4-0-32-1, Manpreet Gony 2-0- ma 4-0-31-2, Ravichandran Ashwin 4-0-33-1, as the duo added 63 for the fifth the innings to power RCB to Nuwan Kulasekara, Shaminda Rory Kleinveldt, Ryan McLaren, 29-0, Rjagopal Sathish 2-0-26-0 Chris Morris 3-0-31-0, Suresh Raina 1-0-19-0, wicket in 33 balls to give Warriors 187/3. Eranga, Sachithra Senanayake, David Miller, Morne Morkel, KINGS XI PUNJAB: Dwayne Bravo 4-0-34-3 a momentum. Saurabh Tiwary notched up Chanaka Welegedara. Robin Peterson, Aaron Phangiso, Luke Pomersbach b Sharma ...... 7 Player-of-the-match: Suresh Raina Royal Challengers Bangalore’s 42-ball fifty which is first for the REUTERS Graeme Smith, Dale Steyn, Vinay Kumar removed Yuvraj Royal Challengers. AGENCIES Lonwabo Tsotsobe. AFP

Bayern are Rodgers says Villas-Boas will be rewriting he’s in charge of Reds’ transfers surprised if Bale is sold history, says LONDON: As Gareth Bale Tottenham, Gareth can be even LIVERPOOL: Liverpool man- sweeps all the awards so the more assertive. Rummenigge ager Brendan Rodgers insisted speculation about his future “I would be extremely sur- Bayern yesterday he was in charge intensifies but Tottenham prised (if he left this summer), Munich’s of the Anfield club’s transfer Hotspur will not be sell- but in football anything can hap- BERLIN: The current Bayern policy. ing their most prized asset, pen. It is impossible to predict. Dutch Munich side are rewriting the Questions had been raised after according to coach Andre This is the assurance I have midfielder club’s history after their 3-0 the Merseysider’s US-based own- Villas-Boas (pictured). from the club.” win at Barcelona put them into Arjen Robben ers, Fenway Sports Group (FSG), Welshman Bale was named “Whatever the price tag the a third Champions League final arrives at made changes to the regular Footballer of the Year by player has doesn’t matter to us in four years in their chase for the airport in English system, where a manager England’s soccer writers yester- because he is our player,” added a historic treble of European, Munich after has total control. day after being picking up the Villas-Boas. league and cup titles, chairman his team’s They had wanted Rodgers to PFA Young Player and Player “He’s a player we have to keep Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has victory over operate as a coach under the kind of the Year last weekend and he hold of for the remaining sea- said. Barcelona of director of football set-up com- is regularly linked sons to make sure “This team can re-write the in the UEFA mon to many European clubs but with Europe’s top we are to achieve club’s history and I am convinced Champions instead settled for a committee clubs. our objectives.” that we’ll do it, you’re a deter- League semi- arrangement. Tottenham’s Tottenham are mined bunch,” Rummenigge told final second Now the panel features determination to just outside the the Bayern squad in the early leg match, Rodgers, head of recruitment keep a player who Champions League hours of yesterday morning after yesterday. Dave Fallows and chief scout has scored 24 goals qualification spots Barcelona lost 7-0 on aggregate Barry Hunter as well as analysis in all competitions in fifth place with over the semi-final’s two legs. chief Michael Edwards. this season will be 62 points but would For the first time, two German But Rodgers was adamant yes- severely tested if nail down a top- teams will contest a European Cup terday he makes the final choice, they fail in their four finish if they final after Borussia Dortmund subject to the financial back- bid for Champions won their remain- booked their place at Wembley ing of FSG. That was evident in League qualifica- ing four games. on May 25 with a 4-3 win over pre-season when the Americans tion, but Villas- They face Real Madrid on aggregate in the refused to sign Fulham’s Clint Boas says he has Southampton other semi-final. Dempsey as they believed he was received assurances tomorrow when vic- Bayern are bidding to become over-priced for a then 29-year- that the winger’s future is not tory would temporarily lift them the first team to win the tre- old. Dempsey subsequently joined dependent on a top-four finish. above fourth-placed Arsenal. ble having already won the Tottenham. “The information I have from Next Wednesday’s clash with Bundesliga title with a record six “We’re working on it and we before adding: “I wouldn’t want “There is absolutely no way a the club that was mistakenly third-placed Chelsea, who they games to spare and have reached want to finally bring this bloody to send out any challenges in player will come in here if I don’t written about last week is that trail by three points, could be the German Cup final, where they thing back to Munich: that’s what Dortmund’s direction, we are too want him,” Rodgers said. the player will remain here irre- decisive. will play VfB Stuttgart on June 1 we’re focused on.” stylish for that.” “I will always be the first person spective of Champions League “I firmly believe points will at Berlin’s Olympic Stadium. While Mueller insisted the Despite permission to indulge it comes to. That’s not being arro- qualification being achieved or be dropped by all the teams But after losing last year’s post-match celebrations had in a few celebrations, Mueller said gant, that’s how we operate here not,” Villas-Boas told reporters involved,” Villas-Boas said. final on penalties to Chelsea at been “slightly disappointing” the job is only half done. and how it works in this country. at Tottenham’s training ground “It will be extremely difficult Munich’s Allianz Arena, this as the Bayern team restricted “The motivation is extremely “Abroad it works differently yesterday. to win all four games because we Bayern team are determined to themselves to only a few beers in high, we are really up for it, that’s where you have a coach and the “This is the information I have Chelsea away but that’s our win the Champions League at the their dressing room, Rummenigge a good thing,” said the Germany club will bring in the players. The shared with you all of the sea- ultimate objective. third attempt, having also been made a cheeky joke ahead of star. coach then works with the players son. The more rewards, the “We have 62 points and eight beaten by Inter Milan in the 2010 tomorrow’s Bundesliga match at Regardless of the winner at he’s given. more recognition the player adrift from 70 which was the final. final opponents Dortmund. Wembley, the Champions League “A lot has been made of it but has, the more media attention, objective when we set out and “The joy of reaching the final is “You have an easy game com- trophy will be won by a German the fact is the process that hap- but this club can only move it’s perfectly achievable with huge, but we still have the two lost ing up. You don’t need to prepare, team for the first time since 2001, pens here is no different to what forward by keeping hold of its 12 points still to play for.” finals at the back of our minds,” let it rip, you’re already German but coach Jupp Heynckes has said happens at other English clubs,” players and next season for REUTERS said midfielder Thomas Mueller. champions,” he told the team Bayern can win the treble. AFP he said. AFP FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

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A combination of photos showing Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa celebrating his win as the AFC president during the presidential election at Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. A: Sheikh Salman smiles with Thailand’s Woraki Makudi (right) standing to congratulate him. B: Sheikh Salman acknowledges the AFC members. Makudi (centre) is seen along with UAE’s Yusef Al Serkal. C and D: Sheikh Salman (left) is congratulated by Al Serkal. Sheikh Salman registered 33 votes of a possible 46. Makudi got seven votes, while Al Serkal earned six. Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman voted as new AFC president The 43-year-old wins 33 votes out of a possible 46 in the election QFA chief BY RIZWAN REHMAT congratulates KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa yesterday the Bahraini was elected president of the Asian Football Confederation KUALA LUMPUR: Sheikh (AFC) against his two rivals Hamad bin Khalifa bin who failed to reach double digits. Ahmed Al Thani (pictured), The 43-year-old Bahraini foot- President of Qatar Football ball chief emerged as a landslide Association (QFA), yesterday winner with 33 votes out of a pos- congratulated Sheikh Salman sible 46 while rivals Thailand’s bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa after Worawai Makudi (seven votes) the Bahraini swept the elec- and UAE’s Yusuf Al Sarkel (six tion to become the new AFC votes) could barely create a ripple chief. with the AFC members. The 43-year-old Bahraini Earlier on Wednesday evening, football chief emerged as a outsider Hafez Al Medlej of Saudi landslide winner with 33 votes Arabia unsurprisingly withdrew out of a possible 46 while rivals after failing to win full support Thailand’s Worawai Makudi of the West Asian region. (seven votes) and UAE’s Yusuf Sheikh Salman now officially Al Sarkel (six votes) failed to replaces Qatar’s Mohammed impress AFC members with bin Hammam as the president their campaigns. of AFC for the next two years. “I congratulate Sheikh The 62-year-old Qatari, who Salman on his win,” Sheikh was elected for his fourth term Hamad said yesterday. in 2009, was disqualified as AFC The QFA chief said the result chief on allegations of vote buying was a surprise one as Sheikh in 2011. Salman bagged most of the The Bahraini receives the AFC votes. baton from care-taker president Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa poses for a picture after the AFC presidential election yesterday. RIGHT: FIFA president Sepp Blatter (left) He said not many experts China’s Zhang Jilong who was congratulates the newly-elected AFC president Sheikh Salman. thought Al Sarkel would get occupying the top AFC seat for only six votes. the last two years. The QFA chief said getting With FIFA president Sepp from the AFC family,” Sheikh I say that. If we have good under- wants to unite as football family,” “Yes, it’s a disease and it is only six votes showed that many Blatter and UEFA boss Michel Salman said in his first press brief- standing among our members, he said. spreading fast. We will have of the voters - despite making Platini in attendance, Sheikh ing as the AFC chief. then we can get many things “We need our voice to be heard to have a zero-tolerance policy promises to vote for the Emirati Salman emerged winner in the “I thank the members who done. not just in Asia but worldwide,” towards match-fixing,” Sheikh - changed their minds at the first round of voting during the voted for me and I hope to win the “I agree a lot of the issues Sheikh Salman insisted. Salman said. last minute. AFC Extraordinary Congress trust who did not vote for me,” have to be resolved,” Sheikh FIFA president Blatter was the “This can only be done with Sheikh Hamad said Qatar’s meeting held at Mandarin the Bahraini added. Salman said without elaborating. first one to congratulate Sheikh the support and backing from all Hassan Al Thawadi ‘did well Oriental Hotel. “My main task is to unite Asia “Hopefully we can get the job Salman on his lop-sided win. The members of AFC,” he added. to bag 18 votes’ against Sheikh With celebratory cheers rever- and the work starts now. We have done,” he added. Swiss also warned Sheikh Salman When asked about his alleged Salman in the race to secure a berating in the election hallway, many targets to meet in the next “We want a good relationship of the challenges that lay ahead. role in suppressing the freedom seat on the all-powerful FIFA Sheikh Salman was quick to vow two years,” Sheikh Salman said with FIFA, just like the way other “I congratulate Sheikh Salman movement in Bahrain, Sheikh Executive Committee. a fresh start for the scandal-hit while taking questions in Arabic confederations have (with the for his brilliant election to the Salman shot back at the ques- Sheikh Salman bagged 28 body. and English. world body),” he said. presidency of the Asian Football tion by saying: “I can answer votes while 34-year-old Al “It’s a new day for AFC. I am “I feel I have enough time to “I think the 33 votes today have Confederation,” Blatter later said that question. I will say where is Thawadi picked up an impres- delighted and humbled with the push for reforms that are needed set an example and this number in a statement. “One of the key the proof? If you have proof then sive tally of 18 votes. overwhelming support I have got at AFC. I am being realistic when gives a clear message that Asia missions he will have to ensure bring it forward.” “This is something we could is that unity prevails within the A disappointed Al Serkal prom- build on,” Sheikh Hamad said. AFC. ised to work with Sheikh Salman “I am sure Hassan Al Thawadi “United, as well as solidar- for the good of Asian football. will now work closely with AFC ity, are absolute key and neces- “I will have to work with him to promote the game of football sary pillars for any institution to and he will have to work with in our continent,’ he added. build solid plans and structures me,” he said as he walked out When asked about his rela- My main task is for its future,” Blatter added in of the hall to blinding camera tionship with Sheikh Salman, the statement. flash bulbs. “I’m not going to be a the QFA chief said: “My rela- to unite Asia and Blatter urged Sheikh Salman to cause or a reason to create fric- tionship with Sheikh Salman is the work starts keep stats in mind when dealing tion between my country or any strong on a personal level. We with football matters in Asia. other country. are equally good friends at the now. We have “With two thirds of the world “My job, my role, is to bring football level.” many targets to population, Asia clearly plays a people together, that is the spirit THE PENINSULA huge role in the international of sports, the spirit of football,” meet in the next community. But it certainly has Serkal said. two years. not yet reached its full potential,” Qatar’s Hassan Al Thawadi - The Sheikh’s CV Blatter said. who later lost to Sheikh Salman Bahrain Football Association vice- “AFC shall unite all its ener- in the race to get a seat on the president (1998-2002) gies to continue to strengthen the FIFA Executive Committee - said We need our growth of the game in Asia,” the AFC needed to work together for Bahrain Football Association presi- voice to be heard FIFA president added. a ‘bright future’. dent (since 2002) Sheikh Salman said it was “I have congratulated Sheikh not just in Asia wrong to assume that most of Salman on his win on both Asian Football Confederation dis- but worldwide. AFC’s leadership came from the accounts,” Al Thawadi said. ciplinary committee chairman Middle East. “If you look at Asia’s size, Asia’s (2003-2009) “I would say we are one family. potential, there’s plenty to be FIFA Disciplinary committee deputy Newly-elected I would like us to be recognised done. chairman (2003-2009) AFC president, as Asians,” Sheikh Salman said. “All Asia’s representatives “Yes, we (the presidents) come on various committees have a Bahrain Olympic Committee vice- Sheikh Salman from different backgrounds but responsibility,” he added. president (since 2009) bin Ibrahim Al we all have to be considered as “There’s so much of potential members of the same family,” he in this continent. We got to work General Secretary, Supreme Council Khalifa added. together to make things happen,” for Youth & Sports (since 2010) The new AFC president admit- Al Thawadi said in Kuala Lumpur Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain takes a seat on the FIFA 2014 World Cup committee main desk on the stage. ted that match-fixing was damag- yesterday. ing the image of the sport in Asia. THE PENINSULA cember FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

FIFA president Sepp Blatter addressing members of the AFC’s Extraordinary Congress at Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Kuala Lampur yesterday. RIGHT: Newly elected AFC president Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa is congratulated by Qatar’s Hassan Al Thawadi. Al Khalifa defeated Al Thawadi to win a seat on FIFA’s Executive Committee. New AFC chief edges Qatar’s Al Thawadi to win FIFA ExCo seat It was a great experience to be part of this election, says Thawadi

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Al Thawadi added: “I had prepares to host the FIFA World Just half an hour after win- thought I had sufficient number Cup in 2022.“The World Cup in ning the AFC presidency race, of votes but the real count is what Qatar is a World Cup to be held Bahrain’s Sheikh Salman bin you see in the ballot box. It was in Asia. It is our responsibility Ibrahim Al Khalifa made it exhilarating stuff to see AFC to support that event in any way a personal double by edging members get up and drop their possible,” Sheikh Salman said. Qatar’s Hassan Al Thawadi votes in the ballot box. I think “They (Qatar) will have our full for a seat on FIFA’s Executive I have got a great head start to commitment,” he added. Committee. build on something substantial. I Earlier, FIFA president Sepp The 43-year-old AFC presi- got a good tally (of 18 votes). That Blatter praised the job done by dent bagged 28 out of the 46 shows there are people who think China’s Zhang in leading the AFC votes to secure the FIFA ExCo I was worth backing.” during the last two years. seat for the next four years The Qatar Football Association “He did a very good job in a in a separate vote at AFC’s (QFA) president Sheikh Hamad very difficult situation, showed Extraordinary Congress. bin Ahmed bin Khalifa Al Thani a lot of commitment in a period, Earlier, Sheikh Salman said he was impressed at the as you know very well, wasn’t emerged a landslide winner ‘number of votes Al Thawadi very easy for the AFC,” Blatter when he bagged 33 votes in the managed to bag’ in what was the said. AFC Presidency election. Rivals 34-year-old’s first attempt at win- “Maybe we should regret he is Thailand’s Worawai Makudi ning an AFC nod. no longer in this position but it (seven votes) and UAE’s Yusuf Al Sheikh Salman, the new AFC was his decision to give it back. Sarkel (six votes) failed to reach president, hinted that Al Thawadi He deserves, from the Asian com- AFC election results double digits. could get another shot at what munity, a special reward,” the AFC president (2013-2015) Al Thawadi, 34, surprised seems to be a vacant ExCo seat FIFA boss said. Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa pundits by bagging 18 votes and at FIFA following the suspension Also yesterday, Northern (Bahrain) – 33 votes presented a brave look after the of Sri Lanka’s Vernon Manilal Mariana Islands were not enti- decision was announced by AFC Fernando for ‘alleged misuse of tled to vote as an associate mem- Dato’ Worawi Makudi (Thailand) – Secretary General Dato’ Alex AFC funds’. ber, while Brunei were approved Seven votes Soosay. “We will know in due course voting rights after winning a Yousuf Al Serkal (UAE) – Six votes The young lawyer, who played of time if that seat is vacant,” motion at the start of the con- a key role in Qatar’s successful Sheikh Salman said. “Once that gress despite not taking part in FIFA Executive Committee member 2022 FIFA World Cup bid, said: is decided by the AFC Executive the required two AFC competi- (2013-2017) “It was a good run for me. It was Committee, then anyone wishing tions in the last two years. Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa a great experience to be part to contest for the seat can apply,” Meanwhile, Moya Dodd of (Bahrain) – 28 votes of this election. Every effort is he added. Australia was yesterday re- Hassan Al Thawadi (Qatar) – 18 votes worth something and I am sure The Bahraini, however, hinted elected unopposed as the AFC it would be the case with me as that he would like to see a balance vice-president (Female) for the AFC vice-president (Female; well.” in the way FIFA ExCo seats are term 2013 until 2015. 2013-2015) The young Qatari added: “I occupied from Asia. Han Un-gyong (DPR Korea) Moya Dodd (Australia) - Unopposed congratulate Sheikh Salman on He said he would welcome par- and Susan Shalabi Molano his win - for becoming the AFC ties from all parts of Asia to con- (Palestine) were elected as AFC AFC Executive Committee members president and for winning the test for the FIFA ExCo seat in Executive Committee female (Two seats; Females; 2013-2015) Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Ahmed Al Thani, president of Qatar ExCo seat. The AFC will have our the future and not just the Middle members for the East and West Han Un-gyong (DPR Korea) - Unopposed Football Association (QFA) and Qatar’s Hassan Al Thawadi during the full support and commitment as East. respectively. Susan Shalabi Molano (Palestine) AFC’s Extraordinary Congress meeting at Mandarin Oriental Hotel. we look at developing the sport in Sheikh Salman said AFC would Their terms will run from our continent.” support Qatar ‘in every way’ as it 2013-2015. THE PENINSULA - Unopposed Braveheart Qatari eyeing the future despite election loss

KUALA LUMPUR: Qatar’s Hassan Al said. “Having said that I am very positive. I had to offer. It was my first campaign so I Thawadi refuses to be cowed down by his There’s a very good foundation to build on. can’t really tell how it was. All I can say I defeat in the FIFA ExCo race which was I believe that’s a very good step towards the got 18 votes. Eighteen members think I can won yesterday by Bahrain’s football chief future and I always believe you should walk build on my vision for Asia. That’s what I am Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa. towards the future. I will definitely do that,” looking at right now,” he added. Sheikh Salman, after becoming the AFC he added. Al Thawadi said he would now turn his president yesterday, managed to accumu- “I will be working with my colleagues within focus on preparing to host the 2022 FIFA late 28 votes against 18 secured by young Al the AFC to take the game of football forward,” World Cup. Thawadi. he said. “For me, I was always focused on Asia. “We have projects on the ground. In the Despite the defeat in his first attempt, Al “Asia’s strength is that 60 percent of the coming months we will get more work done. Thawadi promised to keep working for the world’s population is in our continent. Half of We will deliver on every statement we made development of the game in Asia. the FIFA’s business partners are from Asia. in our bid,” Al Thawadi, Secretary General “I think it was a decent run. In the end, For me, Asia remains the future. of the Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee, it was an election - there is a winner and “Maybe because it was my first campaign,” promised. there’s a loser. I congratulate Sheikh Salman Al Thawadi said when asked to reason his loss. “Our plans are there. We are moving today. on winning the presidency and the FIFA ExCo “But it was an exhilarating experience. It Vision is being delivered on the ground day seat. I wish him all the best,” Al Thawadi said. was an experience that you cherish regard- by day,” Al Thawadi told international media. The 34-year-old Qatari said he’s convinced less of what the results were,” Al Thawadi When asked about his future course of there are people in AFC who believe in his explained. action within the AFC, Al Thawadi said: vision that he has for the world’s most popu- “I spoke to the 46 members of AFC. I tried “There are options available. We will make lous continent. to present them a vision. the decision in due course of time.” “There’s no doubt about that there are peo- Like I said it was a great experience,” he He quickly added: “My passion is football. ple who voted for you because they believe in said. This is what keeps me motivated.” you, they believe in your vision,” Al Thawadi “My focus was always on my vision on what THE PENINSULA Hassan Al Thawadi speaking to journalists at Mandarin Oriental Hotel. FRIDAY 3 MAY 2013 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Football fixtures (All times in GMT) Win keeps Celtics’ English Premier League Tomorrow Fulham vs Reading (1400) Norwich City vs Aston Villa (1400) Swansea City vs Manchester City (1400) Tottenham Hotspur vs Southampton (1400) hopes alive in NBA West Bromwich Albion vs Wigan Athletic (1400) West Ham United vs Harden returns to haunt Thunder Newcastle United (1400) Queens Park Rangers vs Arsenal (1630) NEW YORK: Kevin Garnett three-point tries and nailing all Sunday finished with 16 points and 18 NBA Results 17 of their free throws. Liverpool vs Everton (1230) rebounds and Jason Terry had WASHINGTON: Results yesterday from the “In games one, two, three and Manchester United vs Chelsea (1500) 17 points as the Boston Celtics first round of the NBA playoffs (all series four we always had one quarter May 6 best-of-seven): staved off elimination with a that set us back. We talked before Sunderland vs Stoke City (1900) 92-86 win over New York in Western Conference this game about winning every game five yesterday. at Oklahoma City quarter,” Terry said. Scottish Premier League Paul Pierce scored 16 points Houston 107 Oklahoma City 100 Terry vowed to have a bigger Tomorrow and Terry went five-of-nine from (Oklahoma City leads 3-2) say in the outcome of this series. Dundee United vs St Johnstone (1400) beyond the arc for the Celtics, “I am a 14-year veteran. If you Eastern Conference Inverness Caledonian Thistle vs who now trail in the best-of-seven don’t know who I am by now you Motherwell (1400) first round playoff series three at New York will by the end of this,” he said. Regular - Champions Group games to two. Boston 92 New York 86 New York’s JR Smith struggled May 5 “We have got the heart of a (New York leads series 3-2) in his return to the lineup with 14 Oklahoma City Thunder guard Derek Fisher (left) defends against Houston Rockets guard James Harden during the second half in Game 5 of their champion,” Terry said. “We are at Indianapolis points on just three-of-14 shoot- Ross County vs Celtic (1100) NBA Western Conference play-off series in Oklahoma City, yesterday. not going to lay down. Every game Indiana 106 Atlanta 83 ing from the field. Regular - Relegation Group is a game seven for us. What do Smith served a one-game ban (Indiana leads series 3-2) Tomorrow we really have to lose?” in game four for throwing an shot from just past the free-throw All five games in the series have Hearts vs St Mirren (1400) In the other Eastern elbow at Terry. He missed his first line with 48 seconds left to seal been decided by double figures. Regular - Relegation Group Conference game yesterday, David cut out as no NBA team has ever 11 shots of yesterday’s contest at the outcome. James Harden scored 31 points May 5 West had 24 points, while Paul come back from a 3-0 hole to win Madison Square Garden. Boston’s Jordan Crawford and as Houston kept their NBA first- George finished with 21 points a best-of-seven series. Knicks star Carmelo Anthony New York’s Raymond Felton round play-off hopes alive with a Dundee vs Aberdeen (1400) and 10 rebounds in the Indiana Game six is set for Friday in went eight-of-24 from the field for exchanged words and had to be 107-100 win over Oklahoma City Kilmarnock vs Hibernian (1400) Pacers routed the Atlanta Hawks Boston. 22 points and missed all five of his separated at midcourt at the final in game five here Wednesday. Ligue 1 106-83 to take a 3-2 series lead. “It’s definitely on us still,” three-point shot attempts. buzzer. Playing against his former Today Like Terry, Jeff Green hit a Boston coach Doc Rivers said. “Nobody said it’s going to be In Indianapolis, West shot Thunder team-mates, Harden couple of big three-pointers in “It’s another game seven for us. easy, but now it’s a series,” Knicks 11-of-16 from the field and Roy drained his first seven three-point St Etienne vs Girondins Bordeaux (1830) the fourth quarter and tallied 18 That’s the way we’ve been view- coach Mike Woodson said. Hibbert finished with 18 points attempts for the youthful Rockets Tomorrow points, while Brandon Bass scored ing it. It’s still a ton of pressure Smith sank three three-point- and nine rebounds for the Pacers. who now trail the best-of-seven Olympique Marseille vs Bastia (1500) 17 for the Celtics who got off a on us. We have to be really good ers late in the fourth, the second Indiana will not only attempt series three games to two. ES Troyes AC vs wobbly start by giving up the first defensively.” of which got New York to within to wrap up the series in Atlanta “The guys are battling,” said Evian Thonon Gaillard FC (1800) 11 points of game five. After their sluggish start, 88-83 with just over a minute left today but they will also be seeking Houston coach Kevin McHale. Sochaux vs FC Lorient (1800) Boston now hopes to make his- the Celtics got their act on the clock. to snap a 13-game losing streak “You got to go out there and fight Montpellier HSC vs Stade Brest (1800) tory but they will have their work together, making half of their 22 But then Garnett nailed a jump there, dating back to 2006. every single night.” AGENCIES Stade de Reims vs Ajaccio (1800) Toulouse vs Lille (1800) May 5 Hend and Stade Rennes vs Nice (1200) Marquez Japan teen AS Nancy vs Olympique Lyon (1500) Hwang share Paris St Germain vs Valenciennes (1900) tipped to Serie A calm lead in Jakarta Tomorrow become Chievo Verona vs Cagliari (1600) Fiorentina vs AS Roma (1845) JAKARTA: ahead of Australia’s Scott May 5 Hend and Hwang Inn-Choon fastest Asian of Korea lead the field after Udinese vs Sampdoria (1030) Spanish the opening round of the CIMB TOKYO: A Japanese teen- AC Milan vs Torino (1300) Niaga Indonesian Masters yes- ager will this weekend bid to Catania vs Siena (1300) terday after each shot a six- become the first native Asian Genoa vs Pescara (1300) under-par 66. to run 100 metres under the Juventus vs Palermo (1300) MotoGP Reigning Open Championship 10-second barrier, joining an Lazio vs Bologna (1300) winner Ernie Els of South Africa exclusive world club domi- Parma vs Atalanta Bergamo (1300) JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA, was also in the mix after return- nated by black sprinters. Spain: Marc Marquez became ing with a 68 at the $750,000 Yoshihide Kiryu, 17, is Napoli vs Inter Milan (1845) the youngest ever MotoGP win- Asian Tour event at the Royale already the joint world record Turkish Championship ner a fortnight ago but he is not Jakarta Golf Club. holder for juniors, having this Today letting that success go to his Bernd Wiesberger of Austria, week clocked 10.01 seconds at Genclerbirligi vs Kasimpasa (1700) head as he and his fellow riders who finished tied-seventh last a meet in Hiroshima, mak- prepare for Sunday’s Spanish year, fired 67 for third while Thai ing him one of only three men Tomorrow MotoGP at Jerez. rising star Arnond Vongvanij, under-20 to have run that fast. Kayserispor vs Trabzonspor (1700) The 20-year-old Spaniard, last Jason Knutzon of the United The high-school student says Orduspor vs Bursaspor (1700) year’s Moto2 world champion, States, Adilson Da Silva of Brazil he is confident he can shave his May 5 showed few nerves in capturing and Australians David Lutterus time to become Japan’s quick- Eskisehirspor vs Besiktas (1300) the Grand Prix of the Americas and Scott Barr were a further est sprinter, but has his eyes Antalyaspor vs Akhisar Belediyespor (1700) in Austin, Texas, but he says he shot back with Els. on a greater prize -- taking on Buyuksehir Bld Spor vs Fenerbahce (1700) is not expecting other victories to “I’m in a good position. The Usain Bolt. fall into his lap. scores are going to be low this “It’s like a dream. Honestly, I Galatasaray vs Sivasspor (1700) “I have to keep my feet on the week so I’ve got to keep grinding am surprised,” he told Japanese Karabukspor vs Gaziantepspor (1700) ground after my success in the those numbers and add that into media after his show-stopping Mersin Idmanyurdu vs Elazigspor (1700) United States because here all the a good score,” said Hend while time in the 100m heats at the Bundesliga riders have a lot more experience talking to reporters, who traded Mikio Oda Memorial meeting than I do,” he admitted. six birdies and one eagle against on Monday, his first race with Today Chief among those who will one double bogey. seniors. Borussia Moenchengladbach vs be chasing him down will be Chinese 12-year-old golfer Ye Wocheng walks as he attends the 19th The big-hitting Australian won He won the final in 10.03, Schalke 04 (1830) the Yamaha duo of his compa- Volvo China Open in Tianjin, yesterday. Ye broke records by becoming the Chiangmai Golf Classic in beating London Olympic semi- Tomorrow triot and defending champion the youngest ever player to qualify for the European Tour. Thailand in March. AFP finalist Ryota Yamagata, 20, by Nuremberg vs Bayer Leverkusen (1330) Jorge Lorenzo and Italian legend one hundredth of a second. Eintracht Frankfurt vs Valentino Rossi. Lorenzo, who “Having come this far, I want Fortuna Duesseldorf (1330) along with Rossi dominated test- to become the first (Japanese) Hanover 96 vs Mainz (1330) ing in Jerez pre-season, said that to run under 10 seconds,” he the lay-out of the Jerez track Ye makes history but said. “If I tune up thoroughly, VfB Stuttgart vs Greuther Fuerth (1330) would suit him better than the I can run 10.00.” Werder Bremen vs Hoffenheim (1330) Austin circuit. He was, however, With his time at the top of Borussia Dortmund vs outridden in this race last year by this year’s senior world list, Bayern Munich (1630) Honda’s now retired Australian Kiryu’s next chance to beat May 5 star Casey Stoner, who beat him struggles in the wind the 10-second barrier will come Freiburg vs FC Augsburg (1330) by less than a second. on Sunday at the Seiko Golden Hamburg SV vs VfL Wolfsburg (1530) “The fast bends will make it BEIJING: China’s 12-year- -- Guan Tianlang was penalised Grand Prix, the third leg of easier for us here,” said Lorenzo, old Ye Wocheng became the China Open as well. I will pay more attention the 15-round IAAF World Dutch Championship whose third place in the United European Tour’s youngest ever Scores from the European Tour China Open to this.” Challenge series. May 5 States was his 100th podium fin- player when he teed off at the at the par-72 course yesterday in Tianjin Derksen shrugged off two early At Tokyo’s National ADO Den Haag vs Feyenoord (1030) ish 10 years after posting his first Volvo China Open yesterday, but 66 Robert-Jan Derksen (NED) bogeys with eight birdies around Stadium, he will race against Ajax Amsterdam vs Willem II Tilburg (1030) with victory in the Brazil Grand struggled in the stiff wind. the links-style course at Tianjin seven others, three of whom 68 Kiradech Aphibarnrat (THA), Raphael AZ Alkmaar vs PEC Zwolle (1030) Prix. Yamaha aren’t panicking However Dutchman Robert- Jacquelin (FRA), Brett Rumford (AUS) Binhai Lake Golf Club. Thailand’s have run under 10 seconds Heracles Almelo vs Twente Enschede (1030) because of Marquez’s stunning Jan Derksen made light of the 69 Park Sang-Hyun (KOR), Aaron Kiradech Aphibarnrat, France’s -- Americans Mike Rodgers victory as they had held the upper conditions to shoot a six-under- Townsend (AUS), Mikko Ilonen (FIN), Raphael Jacquelin and Australian (9.85) and Mookie Salaam NAC Breda vs Roda JC Kerkrade (1030) hand in the opening race when par 66 and take a two-shot lead Lee Slattery (ENG), Terry Pilkadaris Brett Rumford shared second (9.97) and Bahama’s Derrick PSV Eindhoven vs NEC Nijmegen (1030) Lorenzo won the Qatar MotoGP after the opening round. (AUS), Paul Lawrie (SCO) place, while six players were Atkins (9.91). Kiryu’s race RKC Waalwijk vs Vitesse Arnhem (1030) with Rossi second. Ye struck his opening drive 70 Garrett Sapp (USA), Mark Foster grouped a shot further back. up the ranks of the sprint- Heerenveen vs Utrecht (1030) “The podium is our target,” said firmly down the middle of the Defending champion Branden ing world has been rapid. He (ENG), Dou Ze-cheng (am, CHN), VVV-Venlo vs Groningen (1030) team chief Wilco Zeelenberg. fairway but finished only with a Grace, aiming to become the burst onto the scene last year, Stephen Gallacher (SCO), Yan Bin Portuguese Championship “There is no rush to win as 79, while his 16-year-old fellow (CHN), Alexander Noren (SWE), first person to lift the title for a twice breaking the world youth there are so many races still qualifier Dou Ze-cheng shot an Thomas Bjorn (DEN), Alvaro Quiros second time and against a field (under-18) 100m best -- first Today remaining.” impressive 70. (ESP), Estanislao Goya (ARG), S.S.P that boasts six other former win- with 10.21 in October, then Moreirense vs Braga (1900) Marquez’s team-mate Dani But Ye said he was proud to Chowrasia (IND), Ricardo Santos ners, ended with 74. “It was a with 10.19 one month later Tomorrow Pedrosa will also be keen to make have broken the age record set funny day because I started well when he was 16. (POR), Matthew Griffin (AUS), Nacional Madeira v Porto (1930) his mark after a disappointing last year by countryman Guan with a birdie from about five feet But those around the preco- Matthew Baldwin (ENG), Graeme May 5 start to a season he is hoping will Tianlang, who made history last Storm (ENG), Lee Hyung-Joon (KOR) but then three-putted the third ciously talented teen are keen see him finally land the world month by becoming the young- and fourth and ended up in three on keeping his feet -- however Beira Mar vs Maritimo (1500) title that has eluded him since he est player to take part in the teed off but I tried to forget the divots on the fairways later in fleet they are -- firmly on the SC Olhanense vs Rio Ave (1500) moved up to this category in 2006. US Masters. Guan was docked a nerves,” he said, in comments the round,” said Derksen. “But ground. Vitoria Setubal vs Academica (1500) Pedrosa, 27, has not won at shot for taking too long during supplied by OneAsia, who co- I made a lot of birdies (coming A request for a one-on-one Vitoria Guimaraes vs Gil Vicente (1700) Jerez since 2008 but will be look- the second round at Augusta and sanctioned the tournament. home), and I’ve ended the day in interview with Kiryu through FC Pacos de Ferreira vs Sporting (1915) ing to re-establish his pre-sea- Ye also came under time pressure “(Then) the referee timed me a really good position. I started his school in Kyoto was turned son status as number one Honda yesterday. -- and warned me to play more making a few putts and my con- down. AFP May 6 rider. AFP “I was a little nervous when I quickly. 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