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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Resolution of Emir attends camel race Emergency care at health centres rent disputes BY FAZEENA SALEEM people preferred the Emergency Department at HMC to the DOHA: Primary Health health centres. “The emergency Centres in the country will cases presented to the HMC need start providing emergency medical treatment for sub-spe- made faster care by the end of this year, in cialities, not available at PHCC an important move that will health centres as per its scope of help reduce the rush at the services,” explained Abdulmalik. Emir endorses Cabinet decision Emergency Department of the The five-year primary health Hamad Medical Corporation. care strategy launched last year DOHA: A Cabinet decision Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al A senior official of the Primary has recommended establishment issued yesterday paves the way Thani, yesterday. It is to be put Healthcare Corporation (PHCC) of urgent care treatment rooms for quicker disposal of disputes into force after being published in told this daily yesterday that new in health centres and a helpline between tenants and land- the official gazette, Qatar News initiative is part of an ambitious to support people with emergency lords over rent and occupancy- Agency reported. plan to improve and expand the care over telephone. related issues. According to the new deci- services of health centres. The official said the number of The decision bars the Rent sion, the head of a Rent Dispute As part of the PHCC strategy people seeking treatment at pri- Dispute Resolution Committees Resolution Committee must fix for continuous improvement, a mary health centres is increas- from postponing more than once the date of hearing of a dispute new initiative has been approved ing every day and there is more the hearing of a dispute due to and notify the plaintiff and the for equipping primary health demand for new services. non-availability of a document or defendant at least seven days in centres with facilities to provide “The primary health care cen- expert’s report. advance. emergency services to the com- tres in the future will play a key Each municipality has a Rent The notification is to be sent munity by the end of this year, role in ensuring that the most Dispute Resolution Committee by registered post or by email or PHCC’s Managing Director Dr common health care needs of the that hears disputes over rent and a sticker is to be pasted promi- Mariam Abdulmalik said in an population are met locally in the related issues between a tenant nently outside the property in email interview. community….” and property owner. The rent question. The remarks came in THE PENINSULA contracts signed between the two The Committee can take help The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at the annual camel reply to a question why more Continued on page 5 parties have to be registered with from engineers or other officials race festival which features contests for H H the Emir Silver Sword. the municipality concerned. who are employees of the munici- The committees sometimes pality in whose jurisdiction it (the keep putting off hearings of Committee) falls and seek some disputes due to lack of some documents or expert opinion that Iran excluded from necessary documents from the are needed to settle the dispute. authorities concerned or opinion The Committee has the author- Iran halts uranium enrichment Syria talks: UN of experts they have sought for ity to slap a fine of QR500 on an help in settling a dispute. official who ignores its request for TEHRAN: Iran yesterday Iran “has ceased enriching ura- The IAEA said Iran “is not UNITED NATIONS: The United The committees were set up in help. halted production of 20 percent nium above five percent” fissile conducting any further advances Nations yesterday cancelled an 2008 following a Cabinet Decision If a plaintiff or defendant or enriched uranium, marking the purities at the Natanz and Fordo to its activities” at Natanz, Fordo invitation to Iran to attend a (Number 37 of that year) when a their representatives fail to turn entry into force of an interim enrichment facilities, the IAEA or the heavy-water reactor under Syria peace conference this week severe housing shortage and rising up for the first or even later hear- deal with world powers on its said in a report passed to member construction in Arak, which could over its refusal to back calls for a population were leading to near- ings despite being notified, the disputed nuclear programme. states. provide Iran with weapons-grade transitional government in Syria, explosion in the number of disputes Committee can either set aside Western powers kept to their It said Iran was also converting plutonium. a spokesman said. UN leader Ban between landlords and tenants. the dispute that has been brought part of the deal reached in its stockpile of medium-enriched “It’s all fine, all their require- Ki-moon is “deeply disappointed” The Cabinet amended its to it for settlement or can pro- November, with the European uranium, a particular concern ments have been fulfilled,” a dip- at Iran’s statements rejecting a 2008 Decision vide a new deci- nounce its verdict in absentia, the Union and the United States to the international community lomat said. communique on ending the Syria sion (Number 4 of 2014) that Cabinet Decision specifies. announcing they were easing crip- since it could easily be purified to AFP war, said Martin Nesirky. AFP was endorsed by the Emir, H H THE PENINSULA pling sanctions slapped on Iran. weapons-grade. See also page 7 See also page 6 TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Type 2 diabetics could reach 500m by 2030 Better ways of prevention and treatment urged DOHA: By 2030, there could be around 500 organisations attended the lecture. million people with type 2 diabetes across “Obesity and diabetes are major public health the world, mostly in places not well-equipped problems nationally and internationally, and to deal with the chronic medical condition, have been increasing in frequency for the past according to an expert. 50-100 years,” said Professor O’Rahilly. Increasing prevalence of obesity is driven “We need better ways of preventing and treat- by the reduction of physical activity in gen- ing obesity and diabetes; obviously one way is eral life and working life, and this is combined through public health measures such as improv- with cheap, readily available and high-calorie ing diet and physical activity, but the other way food, said Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly, will be through better drugs. Chairperson of Clinical Biochemistry and “The work of my group involves studying Medicine at the University of Cambridge in patients with particular types of disorder that Doha. tell us about how body weight is controlled and He was speaking during a public lecture how insulin works in the body. organised by Hamad Medical Corporation “By understanding these patients, we can get (HMC) as part of the Academic Health System a better idea of what the normal control points (AHS) Lecture Series. in the body are, and working with the pharma- The genetics of human obesity and insulin ceutical industry, we can help them make better resistance was the focus of the lecture. drugs so we can improve the treatment of people Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly, Chairperson of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine at the University of Cambridge in Doha, About 140 physicians, clinical scientists and with diabetes and/or obesity, and perhaps help health professionals from a wide range of spe- prevent obesity and diabetes,” he added. discusses the latest research into genetic factors in human obesity and insulin resistance. cialities from across the eight AHS member THE PENINSULA Symposium eyes global network for Type 2 diabetes research DOHA: Qatar Biomedical Research stakeholders’ institutions and around Institute (QBRI), will host a sympo- the world. By assembling this all-star sium on ‘Systems Biology of Diabetes: team of systems biology and genomic Towards Precision Medicine’ to iden- medicine experts for two days in Doha, tify opportunities for creating a glo- we hope to lay the foundation for a global bal network for research of Type 2 network focused on innovative research diabetes. for diabetes.” The symposium will bring together Unlike traditional medicine, which leading scientists from around the world offers a one-size-fits-all treatment to discuss new developments in the field approach, genomic medicine looks at of systems biology and genomic medicine diseases’ characteristics among geneti- for the understanding and treatment of cally similar populations. diabetes on January 26 and 27 at Qatar The ultimate goal of such research National Convention Centre. is to discover innovative therapies that “Type 2 diabetes is a serious problem are targeted at small, genetically related in Qatar, and QBRI is focused on better groups, giving rise to the term “precision understanding this disease and finding medicine”. innovative treatments for it,” said Dr “The quality of this symposium’s Abdelali Haoudi, Executive Director, programme is superior to almost all of QBRI. its kind in the field of diabetes,” said “The best approach for such research Dr Philippe Froguel, Senior Scientific is not to work in isolation, but to collabo- Director of QBRI and one of the organis- rate with other researchers from local ers of the event. 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Deal signed for oil and gas e-Learning solutions

DOHA: malomatia, a leading provider of technology services and solutions in Qatar, signed a partnership agree- ment with the International Human Resources Development Corporation (IHRDC) to offer e-learning solutions to the oil and gas domain. In addition for being the managing company of Qatar National e-Learning Portal, the largest e-Learning project in Qatar by the Ministry of Information and Communication, malomatia serves different sectors and organisations and encourages them to implement the latest training and development technology by providing services focused on planning, Officials at the signing ceremony. deploying, marketing and managing the success for their respective e-Learning companies excellent products and serv- programmes. ices to train and develop their workforce. “Today we are teaming up with a IHRDC have developed a comprehen- reputable organisation, IHRDC to offer sive suite of e-Learning solutions that their extensive oil and gas e-Leaning delivers accelerated, effective, and on- catalogue and services and this part- demand learning and knowledge to the nership reflect our strong commitment oil and gas industry. IHRDC has also to bring the best of e-Learning content developed an industry–leading compe- solutions to Qatar,” said Yousef Al Nama, tency and compliance solutions to access, Chief Executive Officer of malomatia. develop and manage today’s workforce IHRDC was founded 40 years ago through its competency management with a commitment to offer oil and gas systems. THE PENINSULA

QU provides students with 15,000 new Microsoft tools DOHA: Qatar University has pro- applications such as Word, Excel, vided its students with over 15,000 PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook, with new Microsoft tools to expand their new capabilities being added all the time. capacity in and out of the classroom. “Secure mobile tools are increasingly Through a campus-wide migration to important inside and outside today’s Microsoft Office 365, QU students, fac- classroom and we continue to provide ulty and alumni have access to a secure our students and community with state- and reliable cloud computing platform of-the-art services and tools such as that provides tools to access course work Office 365 which help ensure that QU is on any device from any location, innova- an enriching environment for innova- tive messaging and videoconferencing tive learning and future success,” said applications, and easy file sharing. QU Vice-President and Chief Academic The platform is an innovative hybrid Officer, Dr Mazen Hasna system whereby QU members operate Office 365 works in the cloud to from an on-premises exchange server increase students’ capacity to work from and students experience the flexibility of any location on all devices, whether PC, working from Office 365 with up-to-date tablet or mobile. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Australia activists seek ban on sheep exports Rights campaigners renew push after 4,000 Australian sheep die on way to the UAE and Qatar DOHA: Reports of over 4,000 Qatar. Citing an official investi- ‘end of voyage’ report which report that it approved a subse- exports, was quoted as saying that of the voyage. Australian sheep dying while gation by the department, media said 97 percent of the deaths quent consignment on the same heat stress was a terrible way to But, unconvinced, the campaign being transported to the UAE reports said it found that deaths were caused by heat stress. “The vessel (Bader III) which left die, with animals suffering con- director of Animals Australia, and Qatar by sea last year has in two consignments of sheep remaining three percent mortali- Australia last November, on the vulsions and severe distress. an animal rights watchdog, Lyn led the country’s animal rights bound for the UAE and Qatar ties were due to enteritis, pneu- condition that 10 percent addi- “If the heat stress was sufficient White, said the suffering of the campaigners to renew their call were more than the reportable monia, inanition and trauma.” tional space be provided to the to kill 4,000 sheep it will also have animals was “too horrific even to for a ban on live exports. levels of two percent. According to the department, sheep. caused pain and suffering for the imagine”. Qatar, the UAE and other The consignments were loaded sheep were exposed to tem- This consignment showed no other animals,” he said, calling for “In these temperatures, the GCC states are big importers of in Adelaide and Fremantle (on a peratures above the heat stress evidence of heat stress, said the action against Livestock Shipping ship could have turned into an Australian sheep. single ship, Bader III) in the third threshold on the 21st and 22nd Department. Only 182 deaths Services (LSS), the exporter. oven, with these thousands of In Qatar, the government sub- quarter of last year. days of the voyage, and on the 31st were reported while the sheep LSS, in a statement, accord- sheep literally baking alive,” she sidises Australian sheep and mut- During the voyage in August- and 32nd days when the sheep loaded numbered 77,095. ing to the media, said the sheep said. White was quoted as say- ton so the meat is available to the September, some 4,179 sheep of a were being unloaded at Jebel Ali The Department pointed out had been loaded according to ing that even supporters of the common man at a fixed price of total of 75,508 died midway — the in the UAE. that it would continue to monitor Australian standards and met the live export trade should reach the QR14.50 ($3.98) per kg. mortality rate being a high of 5.5 Weather conditions were heat-related mortality on ships requirements for stocking density conclusion that animals should Australia’s Department of percent. extreme on the afternoon of day and insist on extra space on ves- and the amount of fodder. not be loaded into ships and sent Agriculture has said some 4,200 The department, in a report 21, when temperatures might sels that reported high mortality. The company said the major- into the extreme heat of a Middle sheep died due to heat stress on last Friday, according to the have reached 38 degrees Celsius. Australia’s Labour MP, Kelvin ity of the sheep died during an Eastern summer. a ship bound for the UAE and media, cited the veterinarian’s The department said in its Thomson, a critic of live animal extreme weather on the 21st day THE PENINSULA Three-year jail term, QR100,000 fine if Patient satisfaction with health engineering firms work without licence DOHA: A law to regulate the Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al It will have two members from centres improving: Feedback engineering profession and Thani. It amends some key pro- the ministry, one of whom will practice and work of engi- visions of a previous law (No. 19) head it while the other will be DOHA: The latest ‘customer Seventy-one filled feedback cards their satisfaction. Top dislikes neering consultancies passed of 2005, QNA reported. his deputy. feedback report’ released were received across all health were about long delays, appoint- yesterday stipulates severe Consultancies are to be Members will be from the by Primary Healthcare centres last month. The major- ments, overcrowding, attitude and punishment for violations of its licensed for two years while indi- Ministry of Interior (Civil Corporation (PHCC) indicates ity of feedback has been from behaviour of the staff and quality provisions. vidual engineers’ licences will be Defence), Qatar Petroleum, a steady improvement in per- patients visiting general clinics. of work, in the descending order. The law prescribes three-year valid for three years. Ashghal, Kahramaa, the formance of health centres, Overall the majority of patients “Earlier in 2013 the top dislike jail or a fine of QR100,000 for a Renewal of licences is to be Ministry of Energy and Industry, resulting in a higher patient waited less than 30 minutes at was: attitude and behaviour of firm that works without a valid done within 30 days following and Qatar University. satisfaction. the reception, shows the report. staff. It is really positive to see licence. their expiry. A fine of QR1,000 Licensed engineering firms Overall, the majority of patients However, there were few patients such a substantial decrease in the Licensed firms that are found per month in the case of indi- will have two representatives providing feedback were very who said they waited over two level of dissatisfaction related to breaching the provisions of the vidual engineers and QR10,000 on the committee, according to satisfied with the services they hours. this now,” said the report. legislation will face the music as for consultancies will be slapped the law. received at health centres. Only “The length of time patients Delays are being addressed their licences will be suspended. if the renewal is delayed. The onus is on the Minister 15 per cent of the respondents waited to be seen by a Physician as part of the Health Centre The law bars Qataris owning No renewal will be allowed of Municipality and Urban expressed dissatisfaction with the increases significantly from the Improvement and patient flow engineering consultancies from after the lapse of three months Planning, under the law, to services, says last month’s report. wait at reception. The nursing programmes. Accessibility to taking up public sector jobs. and a firm or engineer would frame executive regulations or Ninety three percent of project proposes the introduc- appointment booking, reschedul- However, Qataris hold- need to apply afresh for licence by-laws to help enforce the law. patients expressed satisfaction tion of triage, which is aimed at ing and cancelling is improving, ing a doctorate in engineering after paying the fines. Consultancies doing special with nursing services while 88 filtering patients appropriately with the introduction of a central- and teaching in a university The law reorganises the government projects are exempt percent of patients were satis- to ensure the patient is seen by ised call centre, the report said. are exempt from this rule. In committee at the Ministry from this law until the time they fied with physician services. The the right person at the right time, Majority of the respondents other words, they could set up of Municipality and Urban are engaged in the projects. satisfaction level with reception which it is anticipated will reduce wanted improvement in patient consultancies. Planning that is responsible for The law takes effect after its was 75 percent, dental services the time taken to be seen by the access. Other areas identified by The law (Number 2 of 2014) registration and classification of publication in the official gazette. 80 percent, pharmacy services 84 physician,” said the report. patients were improvement in was ratified by the Emir H H engineers and firms. QNA percent, appointments 73 percent, There is a “physician project” processes, more parking, more waiting time 57 per cent. that aims at introducing the aver- spacious facilities, more qualified The major areas that need age 12 minute consultation, that staff and reduce waiting time. further improvement have been would help standardize consul- “The suggestions for improve- identified as patient access, proce- tations and keep the consistent ment have been shared with the dures, parking, staff competence flow of patients, reducing back- Change Agent Team and Project and waiting time. log and waiting times. The areas Managers to ensure these are Health centres started dis- where improvements have already considered when planning and tributing new “feedback cards” been made at some health cen- implementing projects across all to the patients since November tres were front office and cus- areas of PHCC healthcare provi- last year through its redesigned tomer service, about which the sion,” concluded the report. customer service called “Hayyak”. patients have particularly noted THE PENINSULA Korean designer to introduce contemporary projects in lecture DOHA: Korean design con- ‘An Exhibition of Korean Crafts sultant and curator Byung-Soo — hidden match’ in Riyadh, Eun (pictured) will present a Saudi in 2013 and participated lecture entitled ‘Design beyond in the world Summit in 2012 tradition’ tomorrow at 6pm at in Chennai, India. His seminar the Virginia Commonwealth titled ‘The future is Handmade’ University in Qatar (VCUQatar) was about Korean Craft and its atrium. relevance in the contemporary This is the fifth of the six lec- world. He also participated in tures under VCUQatar’s Crossing the Seoul Design Festival 2003, Boundaries Lecture Series and is Theme: ‘Star designer’ where his open to the public. VIUM-brand products were rec- Eun will introduce contem- ognized for the unique way they porary design projects which he meld traditional Korean designs and other Asian designers have with modern interpretations. worked on during the last 15 years Eun has been one of the which take their inspiration from juries since 1995 for the Korea traditional culture. 212Design, the first industrial Industrial Design Award, Good He believes that traditional design consulting firm in Korea. Design Award, International culture is the most important Eun and 212Design were the Craft Biennale at Chungjoo, The factor in global markets and driving force behind the exhibi- 1st China Design Award, Asian society and he will explore this tion “The Vernacular Mirror: Design Award in Hong Kong and concept through case studies of Twentieth-Century Design,” the Singapore Design Award. projects by EUNcouncil such as which was the major event dur- He has also spoken at various the Gwangju International Design ing ICSID 2001 in Seoul. seminars and conferences since Biennale 2009; the Asian Design He now runs EUNcouncil, a 1995. The Crossing Boundaries Exhibition; collaboration project design council company, and was Lecture Series reflects the cross- between Korean college students a curator of one of the main exhi- disciplinary nature of the featured and workshops in Vietnam; and bitions of the Gwangju Design speakers who are representatives an exhibition of Korean craft, Biennale 2005, “Asian Design; of excellence in creative and inno- ‘Hidden Match’ in Riyadh. Hidden Treasure”. vative thinking. Eun is Founder of VIUM and Eun was artistic director of THE PENINSULA

QA adds three weekly flights to Khartoum

DOHA: Qatar Airways has added three flights hub to diverse cities like New York, Washington, per week between its hub in Doha and Khartoum, Chicago, London, Stockholm, Paris, Hong Kong, taking the total number of services to Sudan to 17 Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Dubai and many others,” weekly flights. said Al Baker. The route is operated by an Airbus CEO Akbar Al Baker said the extra capacity A320, featuring 12 seats in First Class and up to 132 would be a great boost as it would improve connec- in Economy. Selected A320s feature seatback TV tions from Khartoum to over 130 destinations across screens providing all passengers in both cabins with the airline’s global network, offering passengers more the next generation interactive on board entertain- choice for their travel plans. “QA can seamlessly ment system, a choice of more than 800 audio and connect travellers from Khartoum via our Doha video on demand options. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME FM receives new Russian envoy Plan to set up Al Asmakh International Museum of Art Eight artists begin first workshop to create three paintings each for museum

DOHA: A new art museum to be launched in three years is set to be home to a huge collec- tion of artworks produced from art ateliers organised as a long- term programme by Regency Art, a subsidiary of Regency The Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah yesterday Group. received new Russian Ambassador Nour Mohamed Kholouf who pre- Planned to be built in Al Shamal sented copy of credentials. Al Attiyah wished the envoy success. area, the museum will contain thousands of diverse artworks, from paintings and sculptures to ceramics and installations. Mohammed Al Atiq, General Share trading by Qatari Manager of Regency Art and General Coordinator of Al Asmakh International Symposium of Art, investors on the rise said Al Asmakh International Museum of Art will be a major BY SACHIN KUMAR increasingly buying and selling project which will house artworks stocks. produced at workshops, compe- Mohammed Al Atiq (fifth left), General Manager of Regency Art, and Ayman Lotfy (right), General Manager, Wyndham DOHA: Qataris are now more They bought 26 percent of titions and other events to be Grand Regency, with artists of Al Asmakh Art Atelier during a press conference at Wyndham Grand Regency Doha active in buying and sell- shares bought in December 2013 conducted by Regency Art in the yesterday. KAMMUTTY V P ing of stocks. Citizens bought from 21.5 percent in January coming years. 42.20 percent of shares sold in 2013. Sale transactions by Qatari He was speaking at a press con- said Al Atiq. Regency Holding Group, said in a key role for the future of local, December 2013, from 33 per- individuals went up to 26 percent ference yesterday at the Wyndham He said Regency Art has a a statement. Arab and international art scene. cent in January, according to in December 2013 from 24.6 per- Grand Regency hotel to launch number of future projects includ- Al Asmakh said organizing “Our organization has commit- Qatar Exchange data. cent in January. the first art atelier scheduled to ing an international sculpture such events shows the impor- ted to document international Similarly, Qataris sold 45.7 per- Non-Qatari companies did not be organised monthly. The ongo- competition symposium. Last tant role the private sector plays modern art, preserve works of cent of shares sold in December participate in a big way in share ing Al Asmakh Art Atelier sees year the same company hosted in developing culture and art by art, and shed light on authentic 2013, from 40 percent in January. trading last year. participation of eight artists from its first major project which was mustering the potential of art- creations through live workshops, The trend shows Qataris are The share of buy transactions the region, including Karieemh the ‘Al Asmakh International ists and showing their outputs in exhibitions and support art and diversifying their investment by these companies in total Hussain and Najibah Al Saihati Symposium of Art.” A second a most modern way in the hotel. artists hoping the best for the portfolio and investing part of number of shares bought declined from Saudi Arabia, Areej Rajab edition of the annual symposium The monthly ateliers will future and for the upcoming gen- their money in shares apart from to 17 percent in December 2013 (Bahrain), Ali Azzam (Egypt), will be held from March 3 to 12 attract over a hundred promi- erations,” he said. bank deposits and physical assets from 34.5 percent in January Bashir Al Ansary (Syria), Noura this year. The inaugural sympo- nent international artists yearly For his part, Ayman Lotfy, such as real estate. 2013. Sale transactions by these Abdulhadi (Kuwait), Ebtisam sium produced over 50 artworks providing a good opportunity for General Manager of Wyndham The number of transactions in firms went down to 11.5 percent Alsaffar (Qatar) and Islam Kamil displayed in Wyndham giving the artists to exchange experiences Grand Regency, said by host- QE rose 60 percent to 104,081 in in December 2013 from 23 per- Ali (Sudan). hotel an art museum ambience. and learn from each other. ing the workshops and display- December 2013 compared with cent in January 2013 For this workshop, each of the “The first edition of Al Asmakh Al Atiq underscored the signifi- ing the paintings the hotel has 64,943 in January 2013. Last year Non-Qatari individuals also artists is creating three paintings Art Atelier comes to accom- cant role of the private sector in been turned into an effective art was a good time to be in stock increased their share in stock which will be featured at an exhi- plish the quality and excellence supporting art and culture in the medium. trading as QE index rose 23 per- trading. The share of buy trans- bition at Wyndham and later be of Al Asmakh symposium in country as the company invests “This gives the hospitality sec- cent during 2013, up 1,931 points actions by them in total number kept until the museum opens. which a significant number of millions just to bring interna- tor a new dimension set to attract to 10,379 at the end of December of shares bought increased to 14 “These artworks can be used as international artists partici- tional artists here to take part at art lovers from different parts of 31, from 8,449 on January 2. percent in December 2013 from a reference for university students pated and whose paintings have the monthly workshops and other the world which in turn will help Following the individuals, 11 percent in January 2013. and will be stored until the launch made a mark in the local cul- major events held year round. to activate the tourism sector,” Qatar-based firms are also THE PENINSULA of Al Asmakh International tural and art scene,” Hassan Al He stressed Regency Art is an said Lotfy. THE PENINSULA Museum of Art after three years,” Asmakh, Deputy Chairman of art and culture project set to play Qatar Airways hosts ladies gala dinner for frequent flyers

Some of the participants at the event.

DOHA: Qatar Airways’ fre- regions they travel to with every three lucky guests won Business quent flyer programme, Qatar Airways flight. Class tickets each to any of Qatar Privilege Club, held a ladies- Since Qatar Airways is part of Airways’ 134 global destinations. only red-carpet gala dinner the oneworld alliance, Privilege Qatar Airways Frequent Flyer recently, in recognition of the Club members enjoy more benefits Program Manager for Qatar, May airline’s top platinum and gold on any oneworld flight, including Al Khalouti extended a warm card members. earning Qmiles and Qpoints as welcome to the guests by thank- Guests from the diplomatic well as redeeming Qmiles across ing them for their continued sup- community, businesses, corpo- the alliance. port in making the Privilege Club rates and social groups attended In true Qatar Airways flare, programme a huge success. the event held at the Ritz Carlton guests were treated to a delec- A few months back Qatar in Doha. table menu of fine dining cuisine Airways has introduced, among Privilege Club offers a wide and an entertaining evening with other enhancements, a new range of exclusive privileges and some memorable performances by Platinum tier as the highest benefits for frequent flyers with flamingo dancers and a live band level in the programme, offering Qatar Airways. Members earn with Arabic and English music. superior benefits and privileges to Qmiles based on the class of serv- The evening ended on a high members. ice they travel in, as well as the note with a raffle draw, where THE PENINSULA

Al Khalij Commercial Bank to hold career fair today DOHA: Al Khalij Commercial Bank (al khaliji) applicants looking to join the banking and finance will recruit Qataris at a Banking Career Fair sector. which will be held at Al Majlis Ballroom, Sheraton Applicants will be briefed on how they can play Doha, today. their part in the success of the bank and how their At the day-long event, a team of al khaliji pro- innovation, drive and inspiration will take the bank fessionals will be present to provide guidance to forward. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

Emir endorses setting up of Applicants may reach 200,000 as IPO closes today DOHA: Bankers estimate that subscription to the initial public not. Bankers are, meanwhile, rush increased. Nearly all the 12 rewarding shareholder loyalty the number of those apply- offering (IPO). The Peninsula’s gearing up to cope with a huge participating banks have set up program that gives investors the price panel ing for subscription to the pri- sister Arabic daily Al Sharq turnout of Qataris since subscrip- dedicated counters to serve IPO conditional right to receive incen- mary issue of the state-backed reported quoting banking indus- tion to the IPO closes by 1pm applicants—the issue is open for tive shares over five to years. DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Mesaieed Petrochemical try sources that there are an esti- today. “We have been witnessing subscription to Qatari individuals The statement said the allot- Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Holding Company (MPHC) may mated 350,000 Qataris and out of huge turnouts of IPO applicants and a few select institutions only. ment of shares on offer via the yesterday endorsed a decision reach 200,000 at the close of the them some 200,000 were expected for the past few days,” a banking Many banks were offering up to primary issue is to be finalized of the Cabinet (No. 3 of 2014) subscription process today. to apply for the IPO. industry source said. 100 percent financing to Qataris by January 30, and refunds are to amending some provisions of According to community The daily also reported that There was hardly any rush in to apply for subscription to the be made to the applicants for the Decision No. 32 of 2012 to set sources, this would be a good there has been confusion in the the days immediately after sub- issue. Qatar Petroleum, which set unsubscribed portion of shares. up a committee to monitor turnout considering that there community as some said it was scription to the IPO opened on up MPHC, said in a statement In February, the MPHC will stocks and prices of basic con- has been confusion over whether halal to apply for the subscription December 31, 2013. However, yesterday that many Qataris have be listed on Qatari bourse (Qatar struction materials. it was permissible in Islam (halal) to the MPHC’s IPO and own its according to bankers, as the clos- recognized the attractiveness of Exchange), said the QP statement. The Committee for or forbidden (haram) to apply for shares, while others said it was ing date approached nearer, the the initiative of the MPHC are THE PENINSULA Monitoring Stocks and Prices of Basic Construction Materials’ will function under the Ministry of Economy and Commerce. Two reprehensive from the ministry will be appointed as chairman and vice-chair- man of the committee. It will Healing through art initiative launched have representatives from the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Municipality and Hamad General Hospital leads the innovative approach in partnership with UCL Qatar Urban Planning, the Ministry of Development Planning and DOHA: Promoting the proc- decreasing stress, lowering blood Statistic, the general secretar- ess of healing through art is the pressure and even reducing the iat of the supreme committee theme of an ongoing initiative need for pain medication. for the projects and heritage, to benefit children, long-term “Safe art is quite beneficial to Kahramaa, Ashghal, Qatar patients or those recovering sick children, who usually don’t Chamber and Qatar Primary from surgery at Hamad Medical have much entertainment in a Materials Company as members. Corporation (HMC). hospital environment,” said Dr The Ministry of Economy and The initiative is led by Hamad Mohammad Janahi, Chairman of Commerce will issue a decision General Hospital (HGH) in part- Paediatrics at HMC. to nominate the chairman, vice- nership with UCL Qatar, linked “I appreciate the help of all in chairman and members. with Qatar Foundation. making our patients happy but in “Long-term patients, paediatric a safe way, as occasionally they PM receives US, patients or simply patients recov- could be harmed by infections ering from surgery sometimes especially those with immunosup- Croatia envoys have to spend many hours at the pression (meaning the body’s nor- hospital with no other pastime mal immune response to infection DOHA: The Prime Minister or leisure than watching TV or is lowered).” and Interior Minister H E conversing with their friends and Last year, various fun activities Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser family members. With such lim- for patients were organized such bin Khalifa Al Thani yes- ited activities, patients are likely as visits to HMC’s paediatric units terday held separate meet- to experience boredom and have by world-famous ‘clown doctor’ ings with the US Ambassador slow healing progress,” said Gilles Patch Adams, Mickey and Minnie Susan Ziadeh and Croatian Andre Gabel, Assistant Executive Mouse, a ventriloquist, entertain- Ambassador Tomislav Bosnjak Director for Hospitality at HGH. ing selected ambulatory patients and discussed cooperation. “Engaging our patients in art to the Disney on Ice show, and offers an innovative way to con- storytelling. Decorating paedi- Qatar to attend tribute to their healing and recov- atric units with child-friendly ery progress.” designs and colourful, child-safe Islamic forum The innovative approach, wall paintings is also part of the which is based on a growing body initiative. DOHA: The Minister of of research showing the healing “Recently children and other Culture, Arts and Heritage H powers of art, has been adopted patients were entertained by a A healing through art session in progress. E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al by world-renowned institutions ventriloquist with a puppet made Kuwari left for Madinah for such as the US-based Children’s in the likeness of one of the objects permanent collection. With the also included a training session children in the future,” accord- the 8th Islamic Conference Memorial Hospital and MD from the Museum of Islamic Art ventriloquist was another enter- for the staff and volunteers so ing to Antonia Rosati, Outreach of Culture Ministers of the Anderson Cancer Centre. Art – a 12th to 13th century tur- tainer who showed the children they can continue to use these Officer at UCL Qatar. Organization of the Islamic has been shown to contribute in quoise-glazed monkey from the and staff games and tricks. This games and tricks to entertain the THE PENINSULA Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization from today. The four-day confer- ence will discuss issues relating to heritage and culture in the member countries. It will also Six health centres to join insurance plan by March QA displays Boeing 787 include a round-table on the promotion of cultural rights in Continued from page 1 third phases are put into opera- Healthcare professionals at the Islamic world to serve dia- “This means more and bigger tion,” said Abdulmalik. health canters will identify and logue, peace and development health centres and it also means As part of expanding its serv- treat mild and moderate mental aircraft at Bahrain expo and a report of the ISESCO that the hospital sector will be ices health centres will help health problems such as depres- Director General on implemen- freed to concentrate on provid- people preventing and control- sion and anxiety. DOHA: Qatar Airways made concluded last weekend at tation of an information and ing specialised services,” said ling lifestyle diseases and other Doctors at the PHCC will be its presence felt at this year’s Sakhir Air Base in the Kingdom communication technologies Abdulmalik. chronic illnesses along with trained to identify people with Bahrain International Air Show of Bahrain, witnessed huge gath- strategy for the Islamic world. Six primary health centres screening programs as a step to common mental disorders, a sys- by displaying one of its Boeing ering of trade, media and public will be involved in the manda- reduce the burden on hospitals. tem will be developed to provide 787 aircraft. visitors. Advisory Council tory health insurance scheme by “Services will include health continuous treatment for such Addressing the media during Dignitaries from Qatar who the end of March this year, she promoting activities such as patients and an appointment the show, Qatar Airways CEO attended include the Minister of holds session added. helping people to quit smok- system will be introduced for Akbar Al Baker reinforced the Transport H E Jassim Seif Ahmed “Our health centres are being ing, reduce weight, screen for such patients at health centres. airline’s long-term commitment Al Sulaiti and the Chairman of DOHA: The Advisory Council equipped with necessary compu- illnesses such as breast and Four new health centres will to growth with continued invest- Qatar Civil Aviation Authority, yesterday held its weekly ses- ter systems to manage patients’ colorectal cancer and proac- be opened in 2014-2015 and ment in new aircraft, new routes Abdul Aziz Al Noaimi,. sion under the Deputy Speaker records in the right way, and the tive management for long term another 11 centres are likely and this year’s opening of the Qatar Airways has seen Issa bin Rabiah Al Kuwari. A electronic processing of insur- diseases like diabetes,” said to open in the coming years, Hamad International Airport in rapid growth in just 17 years of memorandum by the Cabinet ance claims. Abdulmalik. according to Dr Abdulmalik. Doha. operations. General Secretariat on a rec- “Then our staff will be trained Health centres will also play The Qatar Red Crescent will Held every year under the It is currently flying a mod- ommendation by the council in the these systems with support a major role in implementing be in charge of operating pri- patronage of His Majesty King ern fleet of 129 aircraft to 134 on the unification of the start from National Health Insurance the National Mental Health mary health centres being set up Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the key business and leisure desti- date of the scholastic year and Company administrators.” Strategy, in identifying people exclusively for low-income expa- show attracted leading aviation nations across Europe, Middle vacation of schools and Qatar “More health centres will join with mental disorders. Centres triate workers and two such cen- industry companies from the East, Africa, Asia Pacific and The University was discussed. implementing the insurance will function as the first point of tres have already been opened. region and around the world. Americas. scheme when its second and contact for the patient. THE PENINSULA The three-day event, which THE PENINSULA

Qatar Rail workshop highlights Doha Metro security, safety standards

DOHA: Qatar Railways Defence attaches special impor- Company (Qatar Rail) held a tance to the railway project and to workshop in co-operation with Qatar Rail, in case of emergency Ministry of Interior and other incidents. government entities specialised During the workshop Qatar in the safety field to introduce Rail showcased factors that it is security and safety standards focusing on during the construc- of Doha Metro, encompassing tion of the rail network, includ- from the initial design phase to ing the safety of work sites, exits the operation phase. and access to emergency services, The workshop was held on and telecommunications during Sunday at Wyndham Grand emergencies. Regency Hotel. The company also shared The Ministry of Interior was lessons learned from previous represented by Civil Defence, metro-construction accidents in Lekhwiya (Internal Security other countries and ways of avoid- Force) and Traffic Department ing them. at the workshop also with repre- During the workshop, a docu- sentatives from Hamad Medical mentary film was screened about Corporation. Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) Aim of the workshop was to introducing the audience to the showcase the best practices in new technology that will be used security, health and safety when in construction of rail tunnels. dealing with incidents and crises This was the first of a series of in all facets of projects overseen workshops planned by Qatar Rail by Qatar Rail. and Ministry of Interior. Officials taking part in the workshop. It is well known that Civil THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Syria talks in disarray after Iran invite Saudi Arabia rejects Tehran’s participation ISTANBUL: Syrian peace would shun the so-called Geneva a way out of the civil war that has talks were in disarray yesterday II conference, the most intensive claimed 130,000 lives and made even before they began after diplomatic effort yet to end the millions homeless. a surprise UN invite to Iran brutal three-year conflict. The invitation to Iran came as sparked an opposition boycott And a US official said an interim deal with world pow- threat and President Bashar Washington was in talks with ers aimed at containing Tehran’s Al Assad bluntly ruled out a the United Nations to retract nuclear ambitions came into power-sharing deal. Sunday’s invite in a last-ditch effect yesterday although it was In an exclusive interview, effort to keep Geneva II alive. not clear if the two events were Assad said there was a “signifi- “By 1900 GMT, they have to linked. “Based on the official invi- cant” chance he will seek a new confirm that Iran is not invited tation, Iran will participate in this term and said the talks opening to the conference or we will not conference without any precondi- in Switzerland tomorrow should attend,” Coalition member Hadi tions,” foreign ministry spokes- focus on what he called his “war AlBahra said in Beirut. woman Marzieh Afkham told the against terrorism”. Washington, London and Paris official Irna news agency. With just two days to go to said Tehran would have to clearly Western powers have opposed negotiations, UN chief Ban and publicly support the idea of a Iran’s presence on the grounds Ki-moon sparked a furore by transitional government if it was that it had not accepted a com- inviting Iran — one of Assad’s key to attend. munique adopted by major pow- backers — to take up a seat at the The conference, nine months in ers in Geneva in June 2012 calling table. Syria’s main exiled oppo- the making, is aimed at setting up for the creation of an interim sition group promptly warned it a transitional government to find government. Iran has “never endorsed the Geneva I communique” and “we expect the invitation will be Dismayed UN leader rescinded,” a senior US State Department official said. Regional powerhouse Saudi battles to save peace talks Arabia, which supports the Syrian NEW YORK: UN leader Ban Ki-moon battled yesterday to save rebels, also rejected Iran’s partici- The statue of the singer Carlos Santana is seen in front of the Montreux-Palace, the hotel that will host the “Geneva a Syria peace conference after the Syrian opposition threatened pation, saying it was “unqualified II” peace conference in Montreux, Switzerland, tomorrow. to withdraw if Iran takes part. to attend”. Ban’s spokesman said he was “dismayed” by Iran’s refusal to back The so-called Geneva I accord of the negotiations is to establish, and II. “In case of failure to obtain to agree with Iran at the table,” an international statement calling for a transitional government in made no mention of Assad’s by mutual consent, a transitional the pledge, we ask (Ban) rescind/ said the diplomat. “It’s complete Syria and the Syrian opposition’s threat to boycott the talks. departure, something the Syrian governing body with full executive withdraw its invitation to Iran. deadlock.” “The secretary general is currently urgently considering his opposition says is non-negotiable. powers”. Otherwise, the Syrian Coalition Both France and Britain said options in light of the disappointing reaction of some participants,” But Russia said Tehran’s “I believe strongly that Iran will not be able to attend the Iran’s participation was condi- UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters. absence would be a “unforgivable needs to be part of the solution Geneva II conference.” tional on clearly accepting the Nesirky said Ban is in contact with the US and Russian foreign mistake”. to the Syrian crisis,” he said. The deeply divided umbrella establishment of a transitional ministers over the mounting storm just two days ahead of the start Moscow along with Washington But his assurances failed to group had only decided on government. of the peace conference in the Swiss town of Montreux. has been one of the main back- pacify Western powers concerned Saturday to attend, a day after And the EU said it hoped Ban “is dismayed by the developments regarding participation in ers of Geneva II but is also over Iran’s deployment of military Damascus offered a number of Geneva II would be a “first step” the Geneva conference,” Nesirky said. Damascus’s main ally and its personnel in Syria and its support concessions including a ceasefire to genuine political transition. “Iran, despite assurances provided orally to the secretary general, major weapons’ supplier. for Lebanon’s Hezbollah move- plan for Aleppo and a prisoner But Assad adopted a combative has made a disappointing public statement that suggests Iran does Ban said Tehran vowed to ment, which has sent fighters to exchange. A Western diplomat tone in his interview, dismissing not accept” a statement agreed by the major powers in 2012 as the play a “very positive and con- back up Assad’s troops. described the invitation as a “cat- the Syrian opposition as having basis for the peace conference. structive role” in peace efforts. The exiled opposition said in a astrophic” decision. been “created” by foreign backers The Geneva declaration of June 30, 2012 calls for the creation of After two days of intense talks statement it wanted a clear public “The opposition had great dif- and saying he saw no reason not a transitional governing body in Syria with full executive powers. with Iranian Foreign Minister commitment from Iran to with- ficulty in deciding to attend when to seek another term in a June AFP Mohammad Javad Zarif, Ban had draw all troops and militias and to it was assumed Iran would not presidential election. said both agreed “that the goal commit to the terms of Geneva I be there. Now it is impossible AFP

Sisi supporter celebrates Clashes between Ex-PM Hariri to return rival sects in Yemen kill 12 to Lebanon for election SANA’A: At least 12 people were killed in northern Yemen PARIS: Former Lebanese supports the Sunni revolt against overnight after Sunni Muslim Prime Minister Saad Al Hariri Shia-backed President Bashar Al tribesmen fought with a Shi’a said yesterday he would return Assad in neighbouring Syria’s civil group which was trying to cap- to Lebanon ahead of parliamen- war. ture a mountain, tribal sources tary elections later this year “Lebanon’s interest is more said yesterday. and was ready to work with important than mine, he said The fighting in Yemen’s Omran his rivals for the good of the when asked if he was ready to province is the latest in a series country. share power with his rivals. of deadly confrontations in the Hariri, who has been living He added that it was certain north between Shia Houthis and in exile between France and that Assad was behind the death their Sunni rivals, who include Saudi Arabia since 2011 when of his father, former premier local tribes and Salafi Islamists. his government was toppled by Rafiq Al Hariri, whose 2005 car Months of intense sectarian Hezbollah, has been attending the bomb assassination was widely fighting have cast a shadow over trial in the Netherlands of four blamed on Hezbollah. national reconciliation efforts in of its members charged with his “Everyone knows who gave the Yemen, a neighbour of major oil father’s killing. order. It was Bashar Al Assad,” exporter Saudi Arabia and home Lebanon, still struggling to Hariri said. “One day we will go to one of Al Qaeda’s most active recover from its 1975-1990 civil and get them (those responsible). wings. Eight Houthis and four war, has been without a fully They will pay,” referring to those members of the pro-Salafi Al functioning government since facing trial. Ahmar clan were killed late on Prime Minister Najib Mikati He also blamed Assad for the Sunday after the Shia rebels tried A supporter of Egypt’s Army Chief General Abdel Fatah Al Sisi holds a poster of the military leader during resigned last March. assassination of one of his clos- to seize the mountain, the local festivities held to back his potential bid for presidency at a hall in Cairo stadium, yesterday. A caretaker cabinet with mini- est advisers, Mohamad Chatah, Sunni tribal sources said. mal powers is running the coun- in December. It was not immediately possi- try while parties try to reach a Syria’s war, which has claimed ble to independently confirm the deal to form a government ahead more than 130,000 lives, has clashes. Korean official kidnapped in Libya of parliamentary elections due in inflamed sectarian division November. in Lebanon, especially since “I will return to Lebanon for Hezbollah joined Assad in his Six dead in SEOUL/TRIPOLI: South (KOTRA), was kidnapped in the behind, according to the official. the elections and so that one day three-year-old fight against Korea said yesterday that a capital of Tripoli on his way home Han has worked in the KOTRA I can be prime minister,” he told majority Sunni rebels. government trade official had after work on Sunday, a foreign office in Tripoli since 2012, Yonhap Europe 1 radio. Syria peace talks are due to Lebanon clashes been kidnapped in Libya, amid ministry official who declined to news agency said, citing Seoul Until now Hariri has been begin tomorrow in Switzerland, TRIPOLI, LEBANON: Six ongoing instability following be named said. officials. reluctant to give any date for setting up the first meeting people have been killed in fight- the ouster and death of dictator Han was captured by four uni- Libya has been plagued by vio- his return. But a conciliatory between Assad’s government and ing in the northern Lebanese Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. dentified gunmen who dragged lence and sporadic armed unrest tone towards the powerful Shia its foes. city of Tripoli, where sectar- Han Seok-Woo, the head of the him out of his car, shoved him in many parts of the country since group would be a sharp turna- Hariri said the priority was for ian clashes linked to the Syrian Libya unit of the Korea Trade- into their own vehicle and drove Gaddafi’s overthrow. bout for Hariri and his Future Assad to go. conflict regularly break out, a Investment Promotion Agency away, while leaving his Iraqi driver AFP party, a Sunni Muslim group that REUTERS security source said yesterday. “Three people, a woman and two men, were killed in heavy clashes overnight in which heavy S Sudan army wrests back last key town from rebels artillery and rockets were used,” the source said. The three were from the JUBA: South Sudan’s army between troops loyal to President of the SPLA (South Sudan’s soldiers from entering their base President Kiir in a bid to help Sunni neighbourhood of Bab said it had seized back full con- Salva Kiir and rebels loyal to his army)... they (the rebels) were in Bor. The army has denied the broker a deal between the rival Al Tebbaneh, whose residents trol of the strategic town of sacked deputy Riek Machar. The flushed out of the town,” army incident, saying that they wanted forces. regularly clash with those in Malakal yesterday after almost conflict entered its sixth week spokesman Philip Aguer said. to investigate reports rebels may Regional nations are mediat- the adjacent Alawite district of a week of bitter street fighting, yesterday. The United Nations says that have thrown off their uniforms to ing talks in neighbouring Ethiopia Jabal Mohsen. A fourth person the last major settlement under But the recapture of the final atrocities including war crimes hide in the UN base, claims the but have already been drawn into wounded in fighting on Sunday rebel control. large town under rebel control are reported to have been com- UN has in turn denied. the brutal conflict, with Ugandan died of their wounds yesterday. Malakal’s recapture, one of opens up the possibility of a shift mitted by both sides, and on But Ban said the incident was troops battling alongside govern- In addition, two people from the main battlefields since fight- in ceasefire talks deadlocked for Sunday warned that soldiers “just one of a growing number ment forces. Jabal Mohsen were killed yes- ing erupted in the country last two weeks, with some suggesting had tried to forcefully enter a of violations” of the UN accord Rebels staged a fresh attack terday, including one shot by a month, comes just two days after the government had been reluc- UN base sheltering thousands with the government “mak- on Malakal last week to seize sniper, the source said. government troops celebrated the tant to strike a deal while rebels of civilians. ing it increasingly difficult” for the riverside town, the capital of The sectarian fault-line retaking of Bor, another key town still claimed urban centres. Secretary General Ban peacekeepers to implement their oil-producing Upper Nile state, between the neighbourhoods is and capital of Jonglei state. But rebels are reported to Ki-moon said he was “particu- mandate. which has been badly damaged decades old, but has been exac- Thousands have been killed remain powerful and in control larly disturbed” that UN staff African Union Commission in the fighting and has changed erbated by the war just across the and half a million civilians have of large areas of the countryside. were threatened by government chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma hands three times. border in Syria. AGENCIES been forced to flee the fighting “Malakal is finally in the hands troops when peacekeepers blocked on Monday flew to Juba to meet AFP TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Rocket hits US begins Iran relief; outskirts of Israel’s Eilat Canadian PM says no JERUSALEM: At least one rocket struck the outskirts of Israel’s southern Red Sea resort of Eilat yesterday, a security Geneva deal doesn’t stop Iran’s bid for a bomb: Israel source said. “At least one rocket was fired at WASHINGTON: The United will be a strong voice in the world deal between Iran and world pow- Eilat and they found the remains States has followed through on for renewed sanctions,” he added. ers, it said. on the outskirts of the city,” he promised sanctions relief for Iran yesterday halted produc- A US official said Iran was cur- said, speaking on condition of Iran covering oil exports, trade tion of 20 percent enriched ura- rently exporting about 60 percent anonymity, adding the searches in precious metals, and automo- nium, marking the entry into less oil than it was two years were continuing. tive services as part of a nuclear force of an interim deal with ago and would be held to those Neither the police nor the agreement that began taking world powers on its disputed reduced levels. army could confirm rocket fire on effect yesterday, US officials nuclear programme. The official said Washington the city, although residents had said. The US move is the controver- would allow Iran to access, in reported hearing several explo- In exchange for steps that sial culmination of a promise that installments, $4.2bn of oil rev- sions earlier in the evening, a Tehran took to halt its most sen- President Barack Obama made as enues frozen overseas in a set police statement said. sitive nuclear activity, the White a presidential candidate to engage schedule across the six-month The last time the resort city House said the United States, with US adversaries, including period. The last installment would came under attack was in August Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Tehran. It has tested ties with be accessible on the final day of 2013 when the Israeli army said China and the European Union top ally Israel and prompted both the period, he said. its Iron Dome anti-missile system “will today follow through on our fellow Democrats and opposition The United States also took had intercepted and destroyed a commitment to begin to provide Republicans in Congress to pur- steps to suspend sanctions on rocket but did not say where it the modest relief agreed to with sue legislation that would increase non-US people engaged in trans- came from. Iran.” sanctions against the longtime actions related to Iran’s pet- That attack was claimed by a “At the same time, we will con- US foe. Obama has vowed to veto rochemical exports, as well as Gaza-based Salafist group called tinue our aggressive enforcement such action. certain trade in gold and precious the Mujahedeen Shura Council, of the sanctions measures that metals with Iran and provision of which has previously said its mili- will remain in place throughout LONG-TERM DEAL goods and services to Iran’s auto- tants in Sinai had staged several this six-month period,” White State Department spokes- motive sector. rocket attacks on Eilat. House spokesman Jay Carney woman Jen Psaki said the Iran “This temporary relief will not Since the ouster of Egyptian said in a statement. Canadian deal would pave the way for fix the Iranian economy. It will president Hosni Mubarak in Prime Minister Stephen Harper negotiations on a long-term deal not come close,” a senior adminis- February 2011, Israel’s border yesterday said Ottowa’s sanc- to contain Iran’s nuclear pro- tration official, speaking on condi- with Sinai has seen multiple tions on Iran would remain “fully gramme. Those negotiations, she tion of anonymity, told reporters Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivers his speech in the Israeli security incidents, with militants in place” as an interim nuclear said, “will be even more complex, on a conference call. The official Parliament (Knesset) in Jerusalem yesterday. using the lawless peninsula to deal between world powers and and we go into it clear-eyed about noted that inflation in the country stage attacks on the Jewish state. Tehran took effect. the difficulties ahead.” remained near 40 percent - one of develop a military atomic capa- intention to develop nuclear The most serious incident was “We truly hope that it is pos- Because Iran had fulfilled its the highest in the world - and its bility, Israel’s prime minister weapons,” he said in a special ses- in August 2011, when gunmen sible to walk the Iranian gov- initial nuclear commitments economy was expected to contract said. sion also addressed by Canadian infiltrated southern Israel and ernment back from taking the under the deal, the administra- further. Addressing parliament just Prime Minister Stephen Harper. staged a series of ambushes that irreversible step of manufacturing tion had taken “the necessary “Iran is not and will not be hours after the deal took effect, “This objective is still before killed eight Israelis. nuclear weapons,” Harper said in steps to pause efforts to further open for business until it reaches Benjamin Netanyahu said the us.” an address to the Israeli parlia- reduce Iranian crude oil exports,” a comprehensive agreement with Geneva agreement did not go far His remarks were after the ment in Jerusalem. the US Treasury Department the international community that enough, and urged the world to UN’s atomic watchdog confirmed Kerry to meet “But for now, Canada’s own said. addresses all outstanding con- seek a complete halt to the “Iran Tehran had halted production of sanctions will remain fully in This will allow the six current cerns,” he said. nuclear train” in the planned per- 20 percent enriched uranium in place. customers of Iranian oil to main- A global interim agreement to manent arrangement. line with an interim deal between Palestinian and “Should our hopes not be real- tain their purchases at current halt Iran’s nuclear programme, “The interim agreement which Iran and the P5+1 group of world ised, should the present agree- reduced levels for the six-month which went into force yesterday, went into force today does not powers in Geneva in November. Israeli negotiators ment prove ephemeral, Canada duration of an interim nuclear will not stop Tehran trying to prevent Iran from realising its AFP WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Israeli negotia- tors in Washington today and Palestinian officials later next Israel policy week in US-brokered peace Qaeda tightens Fallujah grip; bombs kill 21 talks to end their decades-long splits Palestinian conflict, the State Department said. families: NGOs BAGHDAD: Al Qaeda-linked Kerry and US negotiator militants tightened their grip Martin Indyk will meet with JERUSALEM: Israel’s restric- on Fallujah, a city on Baghdad’s Israeli justice minister Tzipi Livni tions on Palestinian movement doorstep that has been out- and envoy Itzik Molho later on between Gaza and the West side of government control for Monday “to continue the discus- Bank is separating relatives weeks, as bombings in the capi- sion on a framework for negotia- and making family life impos- tal killed 21 people yesterday. tions,” the State Department said sible for tens of thousands of The latest violence came as in a statement. people, an Israeli human rights security forces pressed a massive Meetings between Indyk and report said yesterday. assault on anti-government fight- Livni, who heads the Israeli nego- Jointly published by rights ers in Ramadi, another predomi- tiating team, will continue today watchdogs B’Tselem and nantly Sunni Arab city where when Kerry travels to Switzerland HaMoked, the 42-page report swathes of territory have been for a Syria peace conference. documents the impact of Israel’s outside of the authorities’ control. “We expect the Palestinian policy of tightly restricting And a top official warned that negotiating team to travel to Palestinian movement into and militants had enough weaponry Washington early next week,” the out of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. to “occupy Baghdad”. State Department said. “Israel’s declared policy of iso- Diplomats have urged Iraq to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations lating the Gaza Strip severely vio- pursue political reconciliation in resumed in July after a three-year lates the right to family life of tens order to undercut support for halt, with Kerry leading the push of thousands of Palestinians living militants, but Prime Minister for an accord within nine months. in split families, divided between Nouri Al Maliki and others have But both Israeli and Palestinians Gaza and Israel, or between Gaza taken a hard line and trumpeted have expressed doubts about his and the West Bank,” it said. security operations. efforts. Current Israeli policy bars After days of tense calm in Palestinians see a major obsta- Gazans from travelling to the Fallujah, a former insurgent bas- cle in Israel’s settlements of the West Bank except in extremely tion a short drive from Baghdad, occupied West Bank where they rare circumstances. And although tribal chiefs and witnesses said seek statehood. Many Israelis West Bank residents are permit- Al Qaeda-linked militants were doubt Palestinian President ted to go to Gaza, they have to increasingly exerting their Mahmoud Abbas’s credibility as a commit to stay there, the report authority in the city on Monday. People look at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad yesterday. peace partner, especially as Gaza, said. “Israel prohibits all passage Fighters affiliated with the the other Palestinian territory, is between the Gaza Strip and the Islamic State of Iraq and the anything that we decide,” said one said militants had imposed strict the clashes and unrest caused governed by rival Hamas Islamists West Bank, except in very few Levant (ISIL) had set up an tribal sheikh, who spoke on condi- codes in some neighbourhoods, several casualties. who oppose peacemaking. exceptional humanitarian cases Islamic court, kidnapped senior tion of anonymity for fear of being including barring women from A bombing near Ramadi tar- While details of the talks have of first-degree relatives involving officials including a top police targeted by militants, referring to visiting local markets and men geting a group of policemen and been kept secret, Kerry has often serious illness, death or a wed- officer and several tribal sheikhs, ISIL by its commonly-used Arabic from wearing Western clothes or media going to ceremonially said progress is being made in ding,” it said. and broadcast calls over mosque acronym. “They want everybody shaving their beards. reopen a police station yester- the talks. But both Israel and the Even then, not all requests are loudspeakers for others to join to work under their command, Security forces continued to day killed three people — two Palestinians have predicted the accepted, or are granted too late. them in the fight against Iraqi under their regime.” mount major operations against policemen and a journalist — and nine-month target date for a deal After the 1967 Six Day War security forces. Another resident of the city, militants in Ramadi and rural wounded three others, including will not be met. when Israel seized Gaza and the “Daash does not accept who gave his name as Abu Osama, areas between the two cities, but another reporter. AFP AFP/REUTERS West Bank, it allowed Palestinians relative freedom of movement between the two territories, but during the first uprising (1987- 1993), restrictions were stepped up, ostensibly for security rea- sons. The policy changed in 2006 Arab bloggers aim to boost cyberactivism when Israel first imposed a block- ade on Gaza after militants there AMMAN: Arab bloggers Bloggers and social media activists Communications at Carlos III change makers for 2013. — and the increasingly central seized an Israeli soldier, and was yesterday discussed ways to from across the Middle East and University in Madrid. Also among the speakers role that the Internet and social tightened again a year later after boost cyberactivism at a meet- North Africa are taking part in Only Thursday, the final day of is Dubai-based commentator media are playing in shaping Hamas forcibly took control. ing in the Jordanian capital, the four-day meeting “to debate the gathering, is open to media. Sultan Al Qassemi, who was it — has added greater urgency Women were particularly faced with new challenges and develop new strategies to Bloggers are to discuss censor- listed in the “140 Best Twitter to the summit,” the organisers’ affected, the report said, noting three years after the start deal with the rising challenges,” ship and surveillance, as well as Feeds of 2011” by TIME magazine. statement said. that marriage meant a woman of Internet-fuelled revolts in organisers said in a statement. “the shifting winds of activism.” Many activists in the region “Uncertainty about the future was expected to leave her fam- their region. “The summit is very impor- Participants include Farea maintain that social media and political polarisation in the ily and move into her husband’s “Discussions today included tant to explore ways of report- Al Muslimi, a Yemeni activist helped keep up the momentum region have made attempted home. “Israel’s policy ... is espe- digital security and how to defend ing news in any country and and journalist who addressed of the protests that began in transitions to democracy diffi- cially detrimental to women ... as ourselves through the Internet,” enhancing our roles as activists the US Congress last year on Tunisia, toppled two more dicta- cult and often painful, especially the restrictions on their freedom Leila Nachawtai, a media coordi- and bloggers,” said Nachawtai, drone attacks on Yemen and tors in Egypt and Libya in 2011, for those of us, netizens, who of movement effectively sever nator at the launch of the Fourth a Syrian-Spanish activ- was picked by Foreign Policy and continue to shake the region. supported and helped drive it.” them from their families of ori- Arab Bloggers Summit, said. ist, writer and professor of magazine as one of 100 global “The dire state of the region AFP gin,” the organisations said. 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HE Syria peace conference scheduled to start in Geneva tomorrow has hit more obstacles. First is that an invitation extended to Iran by Tthe UN Secretary-Secretary to attend the talks Who are the new middle has created an uproar, triggering calls from the US for the withdrawal of the invitation unless Tehran fully and publicly endorses the formation of a transitional classes around the world? government for Syria that would pave the way for democratic elections. Not only Washington, several Arab countries are upset at the invite to Tehran because BY PAUL MASON and to live in smaller households (four factories. The cotton city of El-Mahalla that is seen as not helping the process of dialogue, but people). They would typically spend 2% el Kubra in Egypt remains the kind of complicating it. The second is a Guardian investigative HEN a million people of their income on entertainment – plus place that can pull a total work stop- report saying that Syrian officials could face war crimes swarmed on to the streets they would have better access to water, page and, as in December 2012, declare charges in the light of a huge cache of evidence smuggled of Brazil last June there sanitation and electricity. These, then, “autonomy” from the government. out of the country showing the systematic killing of 11,000 Wwas consensus that the are the “winners” from globalisation: But the ILO trend suggests that, by detainees. protest was a phenomenon of the “new an expanding group for whom global the second quarter of the century, the middle class” – squeezed by corruption growth has meant a serious rise in real typical social dynamics of a medium- The UN-organised Geneva II peace conference is and failing infrastructure. As the Thai income, year after year, compared with developed country will be a mixture of seen as an opportunity for all sides to come together protests continue, these too are labelled the recent near stagnation of incomes “workplace” conflicts and the more net- and present their ideas, and beyond that, expectations middle class: office workers staging for working and lower-middle-class worked, sporadic and volatile ones we were low. The Syrian crisis has become so complex and flashmobs in their neat, pressed shirts. families in parts of the developed world. saw in Turkey and Brazil last year. The complicated that it would take many conferences even But what does middle class mean in You might assume the “developing western left has lived through decades to see the living. The UN conference is a positive step, the developing world? About 3 billion middle class” are mainly factory work- of angst over the decline of the manual people earn less than two dollars a day, ers but they’re not. One of the most work, and its ideology of resistance, but has come too late. The opposition in Syria has now but figures for the rest are hazy. Now, startling results of the ILO survey is sometimes softened by the hope that it splintered into many groups. Without a united opposition, fresh research by the International that more than half the “developing would all be recreated somewhere else. an agreement is nearly Labour Organisation (ILO) economists middle class” works in the service sec- The ILO survey suggests not. impossible. shows in detail what’s been happening to tor. Factory workers form between 15% What was unthinkable 20 years ago The UN- The peace conference is the workforce of and 20% of each income group: they are is now becoming tangible: that the real the global south spread from the destitute to the above- incomes of skilled workers, knowledge designed to negotiate a way organised peace during 25 years $13 group. This, say the researchers, workers and managers in “developing out of the crisis by creating a conference on of globalisation: it reflects the fact that the industrial countries” are overlapping with those at transitional government. That’s The International is becoming more sector of the global south now offers as the bottom of the heap in western soci- Syria is hitting a credible objective and one stratified – with much skilled, high-value work as it does ety. But where once this prospect was more obstacles. which has been demanded by Labour the rapid growth sweated labour. understood to foretell stability, it does the rebels and their backers of what they term When Harvard economist Richard not. As the World Bank lead economist Organisation “the developing Freeman calculated the “great dou- Branko Milanovic has shown, when it in the Arab world. The UN middle class” – a bling” of the world’s workforce – as a comes to causing inequality, the impact must strive to achieve this has identified a group on between result of global development and the of class and location have reversed: objective. President Bashar Al Assad has already said that rapid growth of $4 and $13 a day. entry of former communist states into “Around 1870, class explained more stepping down is not an option, which effectively means This group has the market – the assumption was that than two thirds of global inequality. the opposition doesn’t have a partner for talks. The UN ‘the developing grown from 600 this would recreate a “proletariat” at And now? The proportions have exactly must pick the challenge dropped by Assad and force him million to 1.4 bil- the periphery of capitalism. It did, but flipped: more than two thirds of total middle class’ – a lion; if you include the ILO calculation is the strongest inequality is due to location.” to relinquish power. A UN-backed effort for democracy group earning around 300 mil- evidence to date that they are mov- Milanovic calls this the “non-Marxian in Syria can help find a solution to the current crisis. lion on above $13 ing steadily towards stratification and world”, in which class struggle becomes And it should not back down from its stated objectives. between $4 and a day, that’s now more service-oriented work, just as less useful as a strategy and the logi- The US, Arab countries and their European allies have $13 a day. 41% of the work- its rich-world counterpart did in the cal thing to do is migrate: “Either poor long insisted that all participants in talks to end Syria’s force, and on 1960s and 70s. Go to the reality of being countries will become richer or poor target to be over “new middle class” in Brazil, Morocco people will migrate to rich countries”. I three-year civil war commit to principles agreed at an 50% by 2017. But or Indonesia and the word “comfort- think, on the contrary, that the upsurge earlier Swiss peace conference, which seek to establish a in world terms they’re not really middle able” does not spring to mind. It means of unrest is a signal that the rising, “transitional governing body” backed by all sides in the class at all. That $13 a day upper limit often living in a chaotic mega-city, poor, new middle class – which can- conflict. corresponds roughly to the poverty line cheek-by-jowl with abject poverty and not migrate en masse – has decided to Secondly, the latest findings about massacres in the US in 2005. So what’s going on? crime, crowding on to makeshift pub- force poor countries to become richer in committed by the regime forces should be taken as a basis The ILO researchers mined data lic transport systems and seeing your democracy, sustainability, urban infra- from 61 household surveys across the income leach away into the pockets of structure, healthcare. They’re choosing to initiate action against Assad in the international courts. world to come up with these figures. all kinds of corrupt officials, middle- signal issues – corruption, transport, The UN and independent human rights groups have In the process they adopted a rough men and grey market people. This in green space as in the Gezi Park occupa- documented abuses by both Bashar al-Assad’s government definition of the lifestyle of the sub-$13 turn has shaped what people protest tion in Istanbul – but across the world and rebels, but experts say the latest evidence is more group. The key markers were: families about. There remain, of course, high- their determination to make life on detailed and on a far larger scale than anything else that had access to savings and insurance, profile workers’ struggles: in Argentina $13 a day less arbitrary and insecure is has yet emerged from the 34-month crisis. were likely to have a TV in the home there are still more than 180 occupied clear. THE GUARDIAN The other side Quote of No substance to spy proposals the day RESIDENT Barack Obama’s which spared almost nobody, not even dented by its relentless and indiscrimi- action. The eye-popping spy pro- long-awaited speech on its close allies. nate siphoning of information, needs grams have revealed that the US is overhauling the United States’ On average, the National Security to show genuine sincerity rather than deeply entrenched in paranoia. Given We truly hope that it Pcontroversial intelligence Agency gathers about 200 million text just promising not to bug the phones the status of the US as the world’s sole community had little substance, says messages worldwide every day, but of the leaders of its close friends and superpower, this paranoia is dangerous is possible to walk the a Xinhua News Agency commentary. few of them are believed to have con- allies overseas. and could result in catastrophe. Few were heartened by the speech, tributed to the stated aim of the spy It is noteworthy that Obama did not Instead of safeguarding its own Iranian government half of which was dedicated to defend- programs, namely fighting terrorism. list which countries fall under that cat- national security in such a disgrace- back from taking ing rather than reflecting on the coun- Americans can hardly pride them- egory, making it unclear how the pro- ful manner and at such a great cost, try’s surveillance programs. selves on being the citizens of a country posal would be carried out. No wonder the US should lead international the irreversible step Some are unhappy with the ambi- that proclaims itself to be the upholder Germany, whose chancellor is known to efforts to build trust among countries of manufacturing guity and the lack of details in the of human rights after hearing their have been a victim of the US’ snooping, and address the root causes of inse- speech itself; others doubt whether president call for an end to govern- wants to thoroughly study the wording curity, so countries can together push nuclear weapons. But the president’s words will be matched ment control over phone data, which is of Obama’s speech. for world peace and inclusiveness, as for now, Canada’s own with actions. All in all, the changes just one part of the organization’s huge To rekindle its cooled relations with well as common development and proposed by Obama are too weak to spying scheme. Globally, Washington, other countries, especially its allies, prosperity. sanctions will remain Stephen Harper remedy the damage of the US’ spying, whose trustworthiness has been greatly Washington will need to take concrete China Daily fully in place. Canadian Prime Minister TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 MLK’s struggles lead way for Obama Like Martin Luther King Jr, the president may find that as he holds onto his core ideals without compromise, he’ll be buttressed by public support and inner clarity that the purity of principle brings.

BY JOSHUA DUBOIS the Montgomery police commis- Montgomery would present King sioner had just joined the local and his compatriots with a “way hat advice chapter of the White Citizens’ out” of the bus boycott. They would the Rev Council, a violently racist offshoot offered half-measures instead Martin Luther of the Ku Klux Klan. of full integration: 10 full rows King Jr have What’s more, there was a reserved for blacks in the backs for the nation’s rumour spreading of financial of buses, or entire bus routes that Wfirst black president, who is malfeasance in the civil rights serviced African-Americans only, emerging from one of his tough- movement, with the implication no mixing required. est years? that King was involved. Even As tempting as these options We usually remember King members of his family were beg- sounded in the face of the expen- at his soaring moments, fully ging King to quit his activism and sive, difficult boycott, King held in command of the civil rights find a less hazardous occupation; firm. Compromise tends to be movement, confident and poised. his father, Martin Luther King a slippery slope, and if he had The booming oratory in front Sr, drove to Montgomery from agreed to one of these half-meas- of a bank of microphones at the Atlanta twice, pleading with him ures, he might have compromised Lincoln Memorial, unveiling fine to come home. himself out of the movement. But details of his “Dream.” The White All of this brought King nearly through this stubbornness, his Birds fly near the Martin Luther King Jr Memorial during the MLK holiday weekend in Washington, DC on Sunday. House meetings with President to his breaking point. As David resolve was strengthened, and his Lyndon B Johnson, hashing out Garrow describes in his biogra- mandate remained clear. grand legislative bargains. phy, “Bearing the Cross,” King In addition, in his lowest Finally, in his most devastated And, lo, I will be with you, even principle brings. But King was not always said that he had “a terrible sense moments King became buoyed moments, King found strength in until the end of the world.” Even And as the president hits the ascendant. Instead of a clear path of guilt” about his leadership of by the energy of the people a newfound faith. That night of though he was a preacher, it was road this year and surrounds from achievement to achieve- the boycott, and “I almost broke he was seeking to help. Every January 27, after the phone call the first time he had his own per- himself with those he’s trying to ment, his was a journey fraught down under the continual bat- Monday and Thursday evening, that threatened his family’s lives, sonal, intimate encounter with help — Americans who have lost with political and practical fail- tering of this argument” — the King would join the boycotters at King realised that even though God. It was an encounter that their health insurance, students ures, challenging relationships argument that he was doing more mass meetings hosted by one of he was a pastor, his faith was endowed him with a deep sense desperate for an affordable college and spiritual and emotional harm to the cause than good. Montgomery’s leading churches — much more brittle than he had of peace and purpose for the jour- education, unemployed workers depressions. At one point, King One late night phone call on Holt Street Baptist, First Baptist, imagined. ney ahead. seeking a lifeline — he may find, almost quit the civil rights move- January 27, 1956, sent him over St John AME and others. Growing up in a religious The challenges that Obama like King, that the cheers and ment, and the tools that he devel- the edge. The caller whispered, These gatherings would swell household — King’s father and faced last year and faces now are admonishments from everyday oped to persist and succeed might “N-----, we’re tired of you and with weary, dignified black grandfather were ministers — nowhere near those confronted people can provide fuel for his serve the president well in the your mess now. And if you are not Montgomerians, their feet sore he believed that his faith would by King in 1956. Instead of Bull final years in office. taxing months to come. out of this town in three days, we from walking the routes that be automatically conveyed from Connor and barking dogs and And just like King, the presi- It was January 1956, and the are going to blow your brains out buses could not take them. King generation to generation, like a institutionalised racism, Obama dent might be renewed by his bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala, and blow up your house.” King would approach the pulpit and surname or a favourite watch. faces unfinished legislative busi- inner compass, his sense of pur- had been raging for weeks longer later admitted that after this call, deliver powerful sermons about “It was kind of inherited reli- ness from immigration to cli- pose, his conversations with God. than anyone expected. King was “I was ready to give up. With my nonviolent protest, loving one’s gion,” King said, “and I had never mate change, a health-insurance It was these late-night conversa- the leader of the boycott, and cup of coffee sitting untouched enemies and enduring life’s felt an experience with God in the rollout that alternates between tions that allowed King to endure he faced public opposition from before me, I tried to think of a storms. way that you must . . . if you’re perils and promises almost daily, murderous phone calls and official white city leaders and a private way to move out of the picture And no matter how low he going to walk the lonely paths of an economy emerging from the intransigence. These same quiet whisper campaign charging that without appearing a coward.” was on a given day, the call and this life.” Great Recession and a recalci- chats with the eternal can be a he was not up to the task. So what brought him back response from congregations But the rumours and the whis- trant Congress determined not wellspring for Obama as he con- It had been a hellish month. from the brink? According to the gave him new life. Before his first pers and the threats forced King to make the resolutions to these siders not just the latest legisla- King was arrested for the first historical record, it appears that address at these meetings, King to his knees. In a moment of rev- matters easy. But the same eleva- tive manoeuvre or political stance time for a trumped-up traffic three factors helped the young said he was “possessed by fear” elation that Friday evening, King tor that King rode out of his low- but the lasting meaning of his violation, and he spent a fearful pastor push through this terrible and “obsessed by a feeling of inad- believed that he heard the voice of est moments might provide a lift time on Pennsylvania Avenue. few hours in a dirty group jail month and emerge stronger than equacy.” But after his remarks, he God channelled to him, providing to Obama, as well. A great deal can be learned cell. He began receiving threat- before: an unwillingness to com- left renewed as the congregation new purpose and security in those Like King, the president may from King’s triumphs and even ening phone calls at his home, promise on his core principles; the sent him out of the pulpit with a dark hours. find that as he holds onto his core more from his failures. There warning that he should pack up electric recharge that he received round of applause, “rising to their King recalled, “at that moment, ideals without compromise — as are lessons in these low moments Coretta and their young daughter, from the crowds around him; and feet.” It was a crowdsourcing of I could hear an inner voice say- we saw him do in the government for the president of the United Yolanda, and leave town — or else. a simple, even childlike faith. optimism, a collective strength ing to me, ‘Martin Luther, stand shutdown negotiations — he’ll be States, and perhaps for each of And he couldn’t trust the authori- First, the stubbornness. Over that he learned to draw from in up for righteousness. Stand up buttressed by public support and us, as well. ties to protect his family, because and over again, white officials in the most difficult times. for justice. Stand up for truth. inner clarity that the purity of WP-BLOOMBERG US on the wrong side in Egypt New Jersey Governor

but pro-American. The media they control have faces newest scandal Why not make it a US been orchestrating an orgy of vile propaganda, charging the United States with everything BY JENNIFER RUBIN priority to free Maher, from seeking to carve Egypt into pieces to sub- verting its morals. he George Washington Bridge scandal started out as a test Adel, Douma and Maher, Adel, Douma and Abdel Fattah aren’t for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Now it has become particularly pro-American either — no one in a test for the media. Egypt is these days. But they at least share T MSNBC, which long ago stopped being a news outlet in the Fattah and help them core American values. If they and their fol- sense of going out to find facts and is largely indistinguishable from lowers ever came to power, Egypt might come Democratic Party talking points, has been going 24-7 with the bridge organise a genuinely to resemble India or Brazil: a sometimes dif- story since it broke. No surprise there. But on Saturday MSNBC ficult partner but a democratic one. That is decided to throw even the pretence of journalism overboard. another reason they are in jail: The military’s It ran with a claim from Hoboken, NJ, Mayor Dawn Zimmer, D, — democratic mass strategy is to present Washington with a choice that Christie withheld Hurricane Sandy relief funds to gain approval between their secular thuggishness and that of for a business development. Christie’s office quickly denied the allega- movement? the Islamists. tions, as did the developers. MSNBC says the mayor has a personal Natan Sharansky, the former Soviet refusenik diary that corroborates her claim — a diary that has yet to be released, BY JACKSON DIEHL and Israeli politician who now heads the Jewish reviewed or verified. Agency for Israel, has been arguing for a decade Rather than investigate the story, MSNBC threw it out on the air, hile a minority of Egyptian voters that the West, led by the United States, should hoping that others would follow. straggled to the polls last week to A supporter of Egypt’s army chief Sisi dances base its policies involving Egypt and the rest of The Hill had the good sense to note that Zimmer had changed her ratify a new constitution enshrin- in Cairo. the Middle East on alliance with such democratic story from earlier claims that the funds were denied because she didn’t Wing a police state; while emerging dissidents. When I saw him last week, he was back Christie for governor. strongman Gen Abdel Fattah Al Sissi theat- despairing about the disastrous results of Obama’s By Saturday afternoon, Christie’s team had enough. It put out a rically prepared to announce whether he will Their real crime is known to everyone in decision to embrace first Mubarak, then Mursi written statement, saying, “MSNBC is a partisan network that has deign to become president; and while Secretary Egypt: They were the prime intellectual authors and now Sissi. been openly hostile to Governor Christie and almost gleeful in their of State John Kerry pronounced himself “hope- and organisers of the January 2011 demonstra- “Today in Egypt people believe that America efforts attacking him, even taking the unprecedented step of produc- ful — though not yet certain” that the military tions that brought down the military-backed is on the side of freedom even less than they ing and airing a nearly three-minute attack ad against him this week. regime’s promised transition to democracy is regime of Hosni Mubarak. They are leftist, did in the time of Mubarak,” Sharansky said. Governor Christie and his entire administration have been helping on track, the most genuine and committed sup- secular intellectuals who have devoted their “Such a huge change happened in Egypt, and Hoboken get the help they need after Sandy, with the city already hav- porters of a secular liberal order in Egypt were adult lives to fighting for human rights as the yet Washington remains the same. Whoever ing been approved for nearly $70m in federal aid and is targeted to get sitting in Cairo’s Tora prison. West conceives of them: free speech, free elec- takes power is supported — and with each cycle, even more when the Obama administration approves the next rounds According to the National Council on tions, gender equality, and religious tolerance. there is more instability and America is less of funding. The Governor and Mayor Zimmer have had a productive Human Rights, a nongovernmental organisa- They are in jail because the generals and secret supported by the Egyptian people.” relationship, with Mayor Zimmer even recently saying she’s ‘very glad’ tion, Ahmed Maher, Mohammed Adel, Ahmed police they ousted have returned to power, liter- Why not make it a US priority to free Maher he’s been our Governor. It’s very clear partisan politics are at play here Douma and Alaa Abdel Fattah were suffering ally with a vengeance. and his group and help them and the people as Democratic mayors with a political axe to grind come out of the from mistreatment, including confinement to Who are the allies of the United States in like them organise a genuinely democratic mass woodwork and try to get their faces on television.” their cells for more than 20 hours a day, and Egypt? The Obama’s judgment is crystal clear: movement? That used to be dismissed as unre- We’re supposed to take as reliable not communication with the had not been allowed to meet with their law- Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel has plied Sissi alistic; Egyptians supposedly weren’t interested governor but rather a personal diary that could have been written at yers. Naturally, they were unable to vote in the with more than two dozen phone calls since he in democracy. But 2011 disproved that canard. any point in time? A professional news operation must be more than referendum, which approved a charter that led a coup against the elected Islamist govern- That the country is reverting to authoritarianism a bulletin board for partisans. exempts the military, police and intelligence ment of Mohammed Mursi in July, while Kerry shows only that the old order and the Islamists Hoboken asked for more than $100m in Sandy funds and, as the services from civilian oversight and subjects has repeatedly endorsed the general’s increasingly were better organised to seize power after the Christie statement noted, has been approved for $70m. Last summer, anyone those agencies consider threatening to implausible claim to be building a democracy — as revolution. Shouldn’t the United States aim to Zimmer praised the Sandy relief. If this is “retribution,” every city in summary trial in a military court. opposed to restoring the pre-2011 dictatorship in correct that? New Jersey should be so lucky. The four men were jailed in late November a more repressive form. The administration just “If you were to start putting a focus on the Christie’s team also put out data showing MSNBC’s obsessive cover- for the crime of protesting a new law banning persuaded Congress to pass legislation exempting real democrats in Egypt, and on building civil age. The test for the mainstream media is whether they find the actual all protests, not long after Kerry proclaimed it from an awkward ban on giving aid to regimes society, and stuck with that, in a few years scandal: the MSNBC hit-squad that does not investigate, makes no that “the road map” to democracy “is being that gained power through a military coup so you would have a real democratic change,” pretence of balance or fairness and is nevertheless regarded by other carried out to the best of our perception.” On that the $1.3bn in annual US aid to Sissi’s army Sharansky said. Instead, this US president media as legitimate. In the meantime, Christie, in an odd way, may be December 22, Maher, Adel and Douma were can keep flowing. appears committed to repeating past mistakes. lucky here. MSNBC has turned a real news story into a vivid display sentenced to three years of imprisonment. Sissi and his cohort, however, are anything WP-BLOOMBERG of media bias. WP-BLOOMBERG TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL Yanukovich Flashfloods in Italy names aide for talks with Oppn Protesters still confronting police

KIEV: Ukrainian President 40 being taken to hospital, police Viktor Yanukovich named a said. Kiev’s medical services said top aide to organise peace talks about 100 civilians had sought with the opposition after violent medical attention. clashes between police and pro- Seeking to keep the advan- testers in Kiev, but the opposi- tage established on the streets, tion warned him yesterday not the opposition yesterday warned to play for time. Yanukovich that he should not try Yanukovich, facing unrest to buy time in the hope protesters which seriously threatens his re- would lose heart. election chances in 2015, agreed “It’s important that these to open a dialogue with the oppo- talks have a real result,” said sition after scores were injured boxer-turned-politician Vitaly in Sunday’s clashes, the worst in Klitschko, who met Yanukovich two months of protests over his late on Sunday at his country policy U-turn away from Europe residence as pitch battles went towards Russia. on between protesters and police With tension still high, about in the capital. “If the authorities 1,000 protesters confronted police again break their word, the situ- yesterday near Kiev’s main gov- ation will inevitably escalate,” he ernment headquarters and hurled said, adding that the president projectiles. Ukraine’s general must be part of any dialogue. prosecutor called on opposition Klitschko, seen as a potentially leaders to order them to desist. strong contender for the presi- Streets nearby were littered dency, later urged people outside An aerial view of the flood caused by the river Secchia near Modena, northern Italy, yesterday. According to reports, some 600 people were evacuated. with bricks and debris, includ- Kiev to come to the capital to ing burned-out buses and trucks swell the ranks of protesters. from Sunday’s mayhem in which The protests convulsing the protesters bombarded police with ex-Soviet republic stem from fireworks, flares and later petrol Yanukovich’s decision to ditch a Renzi to spell out reform deal with Berlusconi bombs. Police replied with rubber free trade deal with the European bullets, stun grenades and water Union in favour of closer eco- cannon. nomic ties with Russia, Ukraine’s ROME: Italian centre-left left-wing of the PD, who resigned Analysts say electoral reform is parties backing Letta’s coali- Yanukovich’s apparent conces- former Soviet overlord. He has leader Matteo Renzi can expect as deputy economy minister this vital for Italy to achieve the stable tion, including the New Centre sion came after the violence and been rewarded by a $15 billion aid a hostile reception from sections month after a dispute with the government needed to reform a Right (NCD) of Deputy Prime a rally attended by more than package from Moscow including of his Democratic Party (PD) more moderate Renzi, said he was chronically sluggish economy that Minister Angelino Alfano and the 100,000 people in Kiev. credits and much cheaper gas. when he gives details of an elec- “ashamed” to see Renzi meet with has not grown for over two years Civic Choice of ex-premier Mario The rally — held in defiance But the trigger for Sunday’s toral reform pact with opposi- a convicted criminal at the PD’s and tackle the euro zone’s second Monti, which fear it would put at of a court ban — was called large rally was the passage of new tion leader Silvio Berlusconi. headquarters. highest debt burden after Greece. risk their future survival. to denounce his rejection of a laws rammed through parliament Since being elected leader of Any deal on electoral reform In last year’s election, no party Renzi said on Monday the criti- European future for Ukraine and by Yanukovich loyalists which out- Italy’s largest party in December, between the two should be put to gained enough votes to govern alone, cism was based on speculation. the introduction of sweeping new law virtually all anti-government Renzi has held talks with all the a referendum of the PD’s mem- plunging the country into political “I invite the experts to read the laws which the opposition says protest and, the opposition says, other parties on how to reform an bers, he said. stalemate before the creation of a proposal before commenting, wait will usher in a police state. pave the way for a dictatorship. electoral law blamed for the coun- Renzi, the dynamic, 39 year- broad-based coalition government until 4 o-clock,” he tweeted. Despite opposition calls for The laws ban unauthorised try’s chronic political instability. old mayor of Florence, emerged which has constantly bickered and A source close to Renzi said the only peaceful action, the rally installation of tents, stages or But his meeting on Saturday from the meeting to announce struggled to produce reforms. reform was actually based on a two- descended into violence when use of loudspeakers in public and with former prime minister “profound agreement” over an The deal with Berlusconi was round voting system. This kind of masked youths detached them- allow heavy jail sentences for Berlusconi, who is barred from electoral law that would remove widely reported in Italian media system is favoured by Alfano as selves from the main protest site participation in “mass disorder”. parliament after a conviction the blackmailing power of small as being based on proportional well as by most of the PD, but has on Independence Square and tried They outlaw dissemination of for tax fraud, sparked discon- parties and ensure stable, durable representation, with small con- so far been resisted by Berlusconi, to march on parliament before “extremist” or libellous informa- tent from small parties backing governments. stituencies each electing four or mindful of the centre-right’s tra- being stopped by police. tion about Ukraine’s leaders. Enrico Letta’s government as well He said he would spell out the five representatives and a win- ditionally weaker showings in local In the ensuing clashes, more REUTERS as those in opposition. details at the PD meeting due to ner’s bonus of 15-20 percent of elections than in national ones. than 60 police were injured, with Stefano Fassina, from the begin at 1500 GMT. seats. It was attacked by small REUTERS

Shock in Italy Bangui mayor chosen president; EU to send military over little boy’s BANGUI: Central African stepped down this month under me and together lay down your and instability since independence the vote before deciding whether Republic lawmakers chose international pressure after fail- weapons,” added the Chad-born from France in 1960. to return home. mafia-linked their capital’s mayor, Catherine ing to halt bloodshed that erupted who moved to Central African But the scale of the latest crisis A spokesman for a major group Samba-Panza, to become after the revolt. Republic when she was 18. has been unparalleled. Nearly a of anti-balaka fighters, which interim president yesterday and Waves of killing and looting by The European Union will send quarter of the country’s popula- had earlier threatened protests killing lead the country out of months Seleka fighters triggered revenge up to 1,000 soldiers to help sta- tion has fled and a senior UN offi- against the vote, said they were of sectarian killings towards attacks by Christian militia bilise Central African Republic, cial warned last week the conflict happy with Samba-Panza’s elec- ROME: A horrific triple murder elections. known as ‘anti-balaka’, fuelling deploying its first major army could slip into genocide. tion. “It was women who started in southern Italy in an appar- Samba-Panza called on mainly unprecedented cycles of violence operation in six years, EU foreign Samba-Panza defeated seven the resistance to Djotodia. She is ent score-settling between rival Muslim former rebels and the between communities that had ministers decided yesterday. other candidates in yesterday’s a woman who can bring peace,” mafia drug gangs has shocked Christian militia battling them to previously lived side-by-side. The EU has been spurred into contest, winning a second-round Sebastien Wenezoui told Reuters. the country, with a chorus of lay down their weapons as people “I am the president of all action by communal bloodshed in runoff by 75 votes to 53 for her Samba-Panza became Africa’s outrage over the youngest vic- sang and danced on the streets Central Africans, without excep- Central African Republic that led closest rival Desire Kolingba, the third female head of state in the tim — a three-year-old boy. of the riverside city, Bangui, in tion,” said Samba-Panza, who had a senior UN official to warn last son of former president Andre post-colonial era, after Malawi’s The boy, a man believed to be celebration. to show she had no link to either week of a risk of genocide there Kolingba. Joyce Banda and Liberia’s Ellen his grandfather and a woman The 59-year old succeeds camp in the fighting to qualify for without a more decisive interna- Many of the estimated 500,000 Johnson-Sirleaf. A group of women believed to be his 52-year-old Michel Djotodia, leader of a mostly the post. tional response. displaced people in sprawling sang outside the National Assembly grandfather’s Moroccan girlfriend Muslim rebel coalition, Seleka, “I appeal to my anti-balaka Central African Republic has camps dotted around Bangui had chamber after her election. were found in a burnt-out car in that seized power in March. He and Seleka children to listen to seen little but sporadic rebellion been waiting for the outcome of AGENCIES an isolated spot in the Calabria region yesterday. “How can you kill a small human being like this? This Hollande visits Netherlands goes beyond any limit,” prosecu- tor Franco Giacomantonio was E Timor wants Australia quoted by Italian media yesterday as saying. “This is something unprec- edented, horrific. In many years to return documents of work I think this is the most vicious murder I have ever been THE HAGUE: East Timor hearings at the ICJ, which rules faced with,” the prosecutor said. was “shocked” when Australian in disputes between states. Investigators said they believed agents raided one of its lawyer’s “The government and the peo- the three were killed and their offices, the top UN court heard ple of Timor-Leste feel a real car was then set on fire. Forensic yesterday, with Dili demanding sense of grievance at the manner work is still going on to work out the return of sensitive docu- in which they were treated by our their identities. ments seized in the swoop. large neighbour,” Da Fonseca said. Nunzio Galantino, the bishop East Timor has dragged At the heart of the David of the mountain town of Cassano Canberra to the International and Goliath dispute is the allo Ionio where the three were Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague treaty signed in 2006 between from, held a special prayer on seeking the return of the docu- Canberra and Dili, shortly after Sunday by the car as police took ments relating to a controversial East Timor’s independence from out the skeletal remains — one oil and gas treaty between the two Indonesia. Australia allegedly of which was in the boot. “I am countries which Dili wants torn up. used an aid programme as cover shocked by the level of violence With billions of dollars in natu- to bug East Timor’s government shown by whoever carried out ral resources at stake, the cloak- offices so it could listen in on dis- these killings. How can you not and-dagger case could prove cussions about the treaty. hear the cries of a little boy?” highly embarrassing for Australia, The treaty “is invalid and ineffec- Galantino said. which yesterday again declined to tive because Australia secretly and The man is believed to be comment on the case. unlawfully spied on Timor-Leste, Salvatore Iannicelli, who was The raid “caused deep offence bugging its government offices and under house arrest for drug traf- Netherlands’ King Willem-Alexander (second right), Queen Maxima (left) and Princess Beatrix (right) pose and shock to my country,” East listening in to highly confidential ficking and had gone missing on with France’s President Francois Hollande at royal palace Noordeinde in The Hague, yesterday. Timor’s representative Joaquim discussions,” East Timor said. Saturday. da Fonseca told the first day of AFP AFP TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

Students who Something’s cooking fled from New Jersey Britain found in the Caribbean official denies

LONDON: Two teenage pupils who ran away from a board- ing school in northern England withholding aid a week ago have been found in a five-star beach resort in the Caribbean, police said yesterday. Row over governor continues to rage The two students, Edward Bunyan, 16, and Indira Gainiyeva, NEW YORK: Embattled New to come. Christie was credited with 17, were located “safe and well” Jersey governor Chris Christie’s decisive leadership when Hurricane at a hotel in the holiday resort second-in-command yesterday Sandy slammed into the East Coast of Punta Cana in the Dominican flatly denied allegations she and in October 2012, hitting New York Republic on Sunday night. Christie threatened to withhold and New Jersey particularly hard. The teenagers slipped away money for Hurricane Sandy relief He also had a reputation for being last week from Stonyhurst as a political quid pro quo. the kind of pragmatic Republican College near Clitheroe, These latest allegations of politi- who could work across party lines, Lancashire, about 380km north cal strong arm tactics add to the and could garner national support of London, and were last seen at increasing scandal surrounding the from Democrats, as he has in his Manchester airport around 0300 governor, after aides were accused majority blue state of New Jersey. GMT on January 13. of manufacturing traffic jams as Christie was forced last week to Fellow pupils took to revenge against another mayor who admit his staff lied to him about Twitter using the hash- US President Barack Obama and daughter Sasha take part in a community service project by mak- refused to endorse the governor’s re- their role in blocking commuter tags #WheresBunyan and ing burritos at DC Central Kitchen, in celebration of the Martin Luther King Jr Day, yesterday in election bid. traffic onto a major bridge in an act #WheresIndira to swap news of Washington, DC. Over the weekend, Hoboken mayor of political retribution against the the pair. Newspapers said they Dawn Zimmer, a Democrat, said Democratic mayor of Fort Lee. had told friends before they left Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno The scandal is being investigated that they were sick of the cold and told her Christie could withhold by federal prosecutors. rain in Lancashire. relief money for her city unless she After the “bridgegate” scandal A police spokesman said plans approved a redevelopment plan he came to light, Christie fired a top were being made for the couple’s Riled by flash mobs, Brazil supported. aide, Bridget Kelly, and was seeking return to the UK but that no date “The lieutenant governor pulled to put the matter behind him when had been set. me aside and said essentially, ‘you got the new allegations surfaced. “Our priority throughout this shops lean on govt backing to move forward with the Rockefeller The larger-than-life Republican has been to ensure the safety project,’” Zimmer told CNN Sunday, seen as a frontrunner for his party’s and welfare of these students referring to a planned 40-storey 2016 presidential nomination, said he and after they have been spoken RIO DE JANEIRO: centres in recent days. mobs, which have been going office tower and commercial devel- had been “embarrassed and humili- to on their return this will sig- Brazilian retailers yesterday Many of the youths involved on since late 2013, were “preju- opment in Hoboken. ated” by the alleged dirty tricks, nal an end of police involvement said they were seeking sup- are low-income black teens. In dicing consumers, officials and But Guadagno said Zimmer’s which, he said at a marathon press in this matter,” police said in a port from President Dilma some cases, the gatherings have retailers alike.” recounting of their conversation was conference last week, he had no statement. Rousseff after several shop- degenerated into disturbances JK IGuatemi management “not only false but it’s illogical.” knowledge of. Stonyhurst College is an inde- ping malls were closed to stop and store looting. said it decided to close the mall Speaking at a news conference In an interview published by Yahoo pendent Roman Catholic board- weekend flash mobs. Security was beefed up ahead temporarily “to guarantee the related to a Martin Luther King Day yesterday, the governor suggested his ing and day school that dates back Scores of youths, brought of one planned flash mob on security of its clients, store event, Guadagno said the allegations presidential ambitions had not been over 400 years and which charges together via social media, gath- Saturday at Sao Paulo’s JK owners and collaborators.” do not stand up to “scrutiny, when all squelched by the scandal, saying he annual fees of about £30,000 ered at upscale malls in several Iguatemi mall before man- A week ago, the mall secured of the facts are examined” and flatly felt “readier” to be president than ($50,000). major cities, including Rio and agement decided to close the a court injunction to block a denied any relief funding was tied to when the same question was asked Headmaster Andrew business hub Sao Paulo. center entirely. rolezinho. approving a separate project. in 2011. Johnson said he was “absolutely Fearing violence, authori- Similarly, Shopping Leblon Joselicino Junias, from anti- “Standing in Union Beach as we He said his experience since the delighted” that the pupils had ties promptly closed some was closed on Sunday. racism organisation Circulo are today, with some of the mayors “bridgegate” accusations first broke been found. of the malls — including the But the closures only served Palmarino, said on Saturday whose towns were devastated by had been “awful.” Describing them both as commercial centre in Rio’s to heighten tensions further, the flash mobs aim to challenge Sandy, and also being a Sandy victim “I’m trying to get my arms around “nice kids”, he said nothing had uber-swanky Leblon district — with some demonstrators the “fundamentally racist, seg- myself, makes the mayor’s allegations an awful situation,” he told Yahoo, been decided yet on the pos- sparking protests and claims of accusing malls of “denying regationist nature” of Brazilian particularly offensive to me. “and understand it, and then address sible consequences of their discrimination. entry to black and poor people.” society. “The suggestion that anyone would it, and then resolve it.” escapade. But yesterday, Brazilian Retailers for their part were However, retailers in city hold back Sandy relief funds for any The interview was conducted “Over the coming days we will retailer association Alshop unhappy at losing weekend centre malls, which generally reason is wholly and completely on Friday, before the latest accu- be having discussions with the voiced concerns over the lost trade and decided to take their attract well-heeled consumers, false,” she insisted. sations came to light, including a two young people and their fami- business that resulted. displeasure to Rousseff’s office. reject any suggestion of dis- A Christie spokesman, Colin Reed, separate allegation by Democratic lies about what has happened and “We can confirm we have Alshop said in a statement crimination or racial profiling issued a statement to various US Congressman Frank Pallone, who also what happens next,” Johnson called on the presidential office that, even when the shopping against black or poor people. media outlets late Saturday denying said he wants Christie investigated told Reuters. for help in this matter,” an centres remain open but add More than half of Brazil’s 200 Zimmer’s charges, accusing Zimmer over claims he improperly used tax “However, it is simply too early Alshop spokeswoman told AFP. security, it “believes this puts million people are of African of playing “partisan politics.” payers’ relief funds for personal polit- at the moment to speculate about A number of flash mobs — clients off and, as a conse- descent, the world’s second The statement said $70m in fed- ical gain in the run-up to his 2013 the future.” dubbed rolezinhos in Brazil quence, prejudices sales.” largest black population after eral funds had already approved re-election. REUTERS — have descended on retail And it complained the flash that of Nigeria. AFP for Hoboken with more potentially AFP

UK lawmaker suspended over harassment slur

LONDON: British Deputy made complaints of harass- procedure. As such, he cannot and said the peer “is having to Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s ment against Lord Rennard, 53, return to the Liberal Democrat take legal advice with a view to Liberal Democrat party yes- causing him to resign the “party group in the House of Lords,” a civil action against the party”. terday suspended a parlia- whip”, or his affiliation to the party spokesman said. Rennard had issued a state- mentarian who refused to Lib Dems, in 2013. Rennard “will now be investi- ment earlier yesterday in which apologise over harassment An independent investigation gated for bringing the party into he again denied the allegations claims. published last week found that disrepute on the grounds of his and said he was “certainly too Chris Rennard, the party’s the claims could not be proved failure to apologise,” added the ill” to take up his place in the former chief executive who to a required standard, but rec- spokesman. House of Lords yesterday. now sits in the House of Lords, ommended that Rennard should The portly Rennard was for He said of his alleged vic- the Upper Chamber of parlia- apologise. a long time a crucial figure in tims that “I regret that they ment, now faces investigation Rennard had been due to the Liberal Democrats’ elec- may have felt any hurt, embar- for bringing the party into return to the House of Lords toral operation, building them rassment or upset. But for the disrepute. yesterday, in a direct chal- up over the years from third- reasons given, I will not offer A row over the case had lenge to the authority of Clegg, placed laggards to members of an apology to the four women threatened to undermine who said the peer should say the government. complainants. Clegg’s authority as leader of the sorry first. The Lib Dem’s He resigned as chief executive “I do not believe that people Liberal Democrats, who are in main decision-making body of the party in 2009 due to poor should be forced to say what coalition with Prime Minister “today decided to suspend Lord health. A spokesman for Lord they know they should not say, David Cameron’s Conservatives. Rennard’s membership of the Rennard described the commit- or do not mean.” Four female party activists party pending a disciplinary tee’s decision as “extraordinary” AFP

California drought Terror suspect held at Stansted airport

LONDON: British police threat to the UK,” a police said yesterday they had spokesman told AFP. arrested a 21-year-old man The 21-year-old was stopped returning from Istanbul to at Stansted at 8:40pm (2040 London’s Stansted airport on GMT) on Sunday after fly- suspicion of being involved in ing in from Istanbul via the terrorism abroad. German city of Stuttgart, It is the sixth anti-terror- police said in a statement. ism arrest in the past week Shortly after 1am (0100 involving travel to Turkey, GMT) on Monday, he was for- which shares a border with mally arrested on suspicion of Syria. London’s Metropolitan being involved in the commis- Police declined to say whether sion, preparation and instiga- Brian Wiest from Lincoln, California, looks over remains of the old Gold the latest arrest was linked tion of terrorism offences. Rush settlement of Mormon Island which has resurfaced due to the to the conflict in Syria, where Detectives have since car- historic low water levels in Folsom Lake, California yesterday. Governor numerous Britons have trav- ried out searches of three Jerry Brown declared a statewide drought last Friday. elled to fight with jihadi addresses in connection with groups. “It wasn’t for any the investigation. AFP TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES

HK police nab Thailand mulls emergency state employer over ‘maid torture’

Shutdown of government offices forces Premier to shift workplace and create more traffic HONG KONG: A Hong Kong woman was arrested BANGKOK: Thai authorities The government has mostly yesterday on suspicion of are “very seriously” consider- avoided direct confrontation with abusing her Indonesian ing a state of emergency after protesters while the army, which maids in a case that has a weekend of violence in the has staged or attempted 18 coups sparked widespread outrage capital where protesters have in 81 years of on-off democracy, and drawn fresh attention been trying for more than two has stayed neutral. to the risks faced by the months to bring down the gov- The violence is the worst since migrant community. ernment, the security chief said 2010 when Suthep, at the time a A housewife surnamed yesterday. deputy prime minister, sent in Law, 44, was arrested at the Though the size of the demon- troops to end mass protests by airport when she was trying strations has declined, protesters pro-Thaksin supporters. to leave for Thailand, Hong have managed to shut down some Suthep faces murder charges Kong police said at a briefing. government offices, forcing Prime related to his role in the 2010 Erwiana Sulistyaningsih, Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to military crackdown when more a 23-year-old maid who said shift her workplace and snarl than 90 people were killed, and for she had been badly beaten by Bangkok’s traffic. insurrection in leading the latest her employer, is recovering “We’re prepared to use the protests. at a hospital in Sragen, a city emergency decree... Everyone Yingluck faces legal challenges in central Java, after flying involved including the police, with the country’s anti-corrup- out from Hong Kong in early the military and the govern- tion agency saying last week it January. ment is considering this option would start investigating her role A second maid, identified very seriously but has not yet in loss-making government rice only as Susi, who claimed to come to an agreement,” National purchase scheme. have been abused by the same Security Council chief Paradorn The scheme has won her party employer, also gave a state- Pattantabutr said after a meeting huge support in the rural north ment to police, saying she had with Yingluck. and northeast of the country. But frequently been beaten and “The protesters have said they there are signs of growing dis- abused. will close various government content among farmers who say Law was believed to have offices. So far their closures have they have not been paid for their a connection with the two been symbolic, they go to govern- rice and are threatening to block cases, which would be dealt ment offices and then they leave. Thai white shirt protesters hold up candles in a park calling for peace and expressing support for a right to vote major roads. with as wounding cases, the But if their tactics change and in elections during a ‘respect my vote’ campaign in Bangkok on Sunday. Chambers said the rise in vio- police said. No formal charges they close banks or government lence could suck the police into have been laid against her. offices permanently then the the fray. Hong Kong, an ex-Brit- chance for unrest increases and the country off limits. reaction,” said Paul Chambers, called by Yingluck and which the “(That would provide) Suthep ish territory that returned we will have to invoke this law,” One man was killed and doz- director of research at the main opposition has said it will with an excuse to accuse Yingluck to Chinese rule in 1997, he said. ens of people were wounded, Institute of South East Asian boycott, he said. of repressing the demonstrators, has around 300,000 foreign The emergency decree gives some seriously, when grenades Affairs in Chiang Mai, predict- The violence is the latest epi- the army may suggest that the domestic helpers, most of security agencies broad powers to were thrown at anti-government ing a measured increase in the sode in an eight-year conflict that Yingluck government step aside them from the Philippines impose curfews, detain suspects protesters in the city centre on violence. pits Bangkok’s middle class and or judicial cases against Yingluck’s and Indonesia. They are without charge, censor media, ban Friday and Sunday. That in turn could prompt the royalist establishment against government may be expedited to excluded from a minimum political gatherings of more than “I think these attacks have Election Commission to refuse to poorer, mainly rural supporters push (her party) Puea Thai from wage and other basic rights five people and declare parts of been designed to provoke an army oversee the February 2 election of Thaksin and his sister. power,” he said. REUTERS and services. Frenchman given parole New cyclone tears down JAKARTA: A French drug Anwar ‘shocked’ over Tokyo ban smuggler was freed on parole yesterday after more than Haiyan victims’ shelters KUALA LUMPUR: “It is not the way for a demo- “The barring of Anwar Ibrahim 14 years in an Indonesian Malaysian opposition leader cratic country to treat an opposi- from entering Japan raises seri- prison, a rare early release Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday tion political leader and a veteran ous questions on the involve- of a foreigner that raises MANILA: The United Nations Humanitarian Affairs said. he was “puzzled and shocked” politician.” ment of this (the Malaysian) hopes for Australian inmate warned yesterday more needed Guiuan, on Samar island, was at being barred entry to Japan, He called on Malaysia’s gov- government,” Anwar’s People’s Schapelle Corby. to be done to help millions the first area to be devastated as his party questioned whether ernment to “probe this incident Justice Party said in a separate Michael Blanc was arrested displaced by the Philippines’ when Haiyan hit on November 8. Malaysia’s ruling coalition was and lodge a strong protest against statement. the day after Christmas in 1999 deadliest typhoon, after a It left nearly 8,000 people dead behind the move. Tokyo.” Foreign Minister Anifah Aman at the airport on the resort new cyclone tore down flimsy or missing and more than four Anwar said he arrived at Anwar said he has visited later told reporters in Kuala island of Bali with 3.8 kilo- shelters. million others homeless. A UN Narita International Airport on Japan on three occasions since Lumpur that the Malaysian gov- grammes of hash. More than 1,000 survivors of aid appeal for nearly $800m last a personal visit early Sunday and 2006 without incident. He said ernment had nothing to do with The 40-year-old, who has Super Typhoon Haiyan fled to month for Haiyan relief is about was told by immigration authori- Japanese immigration officials the matter and that Japan’s bor- always maintained his inno- the safety of government build- 42 percent funded, but the com- ties he was barred because of his told him vaguely they were der controls were its own affair. cence, was originally given a ings in the town of Guiuan on ponent for shelters was “only a 1999 conviction for sodomy and responding to a recent “report” Anwar said Japan’s embassy in life sentence under Indonesia’s the weekend as a fresh tropical fifth funded.” Geekie said. corruption. involving him. Malaysia told him before the trip tough anti-drugs laws, which storm flattened tents and ripped British aid group Oxfam also The controversial conviction, Anwar said he was invited there would be no problem enter- provoked outrage in his native the roofing off other temporary warned the temporary shelters which cast the then-rising politi- by a Japanese NGO to deliver a ing the country. Embassy officials France. shelters, officials said. given to Haiyan survivors were cal star out of Malaysia’s longtime speech on religious harmony. He declined comment. “The cyclone is a reminder no match for the extreme weather ruling party and into jail for six returned to Malaysia on Sunday. Malaysia’s ruling coalition has Man jailed over that more needs to be done.... in the Philippines, which is hit years, is viewed by many as a set- In a blog, Anwar said “hidden steadily lost ground in parliament for vulnerable displaced people,” by an average of 20 storms and up by Anwar’s enemies. hands may be at work here” and since Anwar officially became poisoning Russell Geekie, spokesman for the typhoons each year, along with “I am puzzled and shocked by demanded an explanation from opposition leader in 2008. UN Office for the Coordination of frequent earthquakes. AFP the incident,” Anwar, 66, said. Malaysia’s foreign ministry. AFP BEIJING: A Chinese court yesterday convicted a man of poisoning dumplings causing around 13 people in Japan Balancing act and China to fall ill and sen- tenced him to life in prison, state-run media reported. 30 drug smugglers Factory worker Lu Yueting was reported to have injected the dumplings with insecticide sentenced to death in 2008 as a protest against his employer over pay. HANOI: Vietnam yesterday the verdict was read out in the Some of the contaminated sentenced 30 drug smugglers to northern province of Quang Ninh dumplings were exported to death in the communist coun- -- which borders China. Japan, where nine people fell ill, try’s largest ever narcotics case, “Because of the large number of the official Xinhua news agency involving scores of defendants defendants and the seriousness of previously reported, while four and nearly two tons of heroin, a the case, the trial was held at the were stricken in China. judge said. prison,” judge Duc added. The 30 men and women, all The trial, which lasted 17 days, Two bird flu Vietnamese, were found guilty began on January 3 this year. of drug trafficking and given the Investigators said that the deaths in China death penalty while a further 59 defendants belonged to four defendants were handed sen- international smuggling rings SHANGHAI: Two people tences ranging up to life in prison responsible for trafficking heroin have died from the H7N9 in connection with the case, pre- and other drugs from neighbour- strain of bird flu in China’s siding judge Ngo Duc said. ing Laos into Vietnam and China commercial hub Shanghai, “This was Vietnam’s largest since 2006. including a medical doc- ever trial in terms of defend- One of the leaders of the four tor, the local government ants, the number of death penal- smuggling rings broken up by the said Monday, the city’s first ties given out and the amount of police bust remains at large, state fatalities from the virus this heroin involved,” Duc said after media reported. AFP year. An Indian labourer works at a construction site of the Vaishno Devi Temple at the premises of Pashupatinath The victims included a Temple in Kathmandu yesterday. 31-year-old surgeon who worked at the Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Hospital, but gave no details Japan protests China memorial to Korean assassin as ties fray on how he was infected. Local media said the doc- tor worked in the emergency TOKYO: Japan yesterday of parts of the country and what Japanese chief cabinet secre- as we had made our stance and Ahn is seen in Korea as a sym- room and kept reporting for protested against a Chinese it sees as whitewashing of atroci- tary Yoshihide Suga told a news our concerns clear to the Chinese bol of the fight against Japanese duty even though he expe- memorial to a Korean who ties in school textbooks. conference yesterday that Japan and South Korean governments.” colonial rule. Ito served four rienced a fever for a week. assassinated a Japanese official The memorial honours Ahn would protest the move through Chinese Foreign Ministry terms as Japanese prime minister He left a pregnant wife, the over a century ago, branding Jung-geun, who in 1909 killed diplomatic channels. spokesman Hong Lei said Ahn and is viewed as a key architect Shanghai Daily newspaper him a terrorist and saying the Hirobumi Ito, a former top “The coordinated move by was well respected in China and of its first constitution. reported. move did not help repair dete- Japanese official in Korea, which China and South Korea based on that it was totally proper to set China’s ties with Japan have So far this year there have riorating ties. at that time was occupied by Japan. a one-sided view (of history) is up a memorial. deteriorated over the last year been at least six deaths in China’s ties with Japan have Ito was killed in the northeast- not conducive to building peace “We cannot accept this so- due to a row over a chain of dis- mainland China, according to long been coloured by what ern Chinese city of Harbin, the and stability” in East Asia, Suga called protest,” Hong said. “We puted islands in the East China local announcements. Beijing considers Tokyo’s failure site of the memorial, and Ahn was said. demand Japan earnestly face up Sea, among others. AGENCIES to atone for its brutal occupation convicted and executed in 1910. “The move is truly regrettable to history and reflect on it.” REUTERS TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Blast kills 13 in Islamabad Revenge for Red Mosque massacre

RAWALPINDI: A Taliban Earlier, Haroon Joya, a sen- suicide bomber killed 13 peo- ior police official at the scene of ple including eight soldiers and the blast, told reporters: “It was three children in a market next a suicide attack, we are collect- to Pakistan’s military head- ing evidence from the spot. We quarters yesterday, a day after have collected some body parts one of the deadliest attacks on suspected to be of the suicide security forces in recent years. bomber.” A further 29 people were The top government official in wounded in the blast which tore Rawalpindi, Sajid Zafar Dall, said through RA bazaar in Rawalpindi, the attack occurred as children Islamabad’s twin city, only 15 were going to school. metres (50 feet) from the army’s “Our initial assessment is that General Headquarters, at around the bomber was possibly on a 7.50am (0250 GMT). bicycle and he then approached It came a day after the Tehreek- the target on foot,” he said. Pakistani soldiers and rescue officials inspect the scene of a suicide bomb attack in the garrison town of Rawalpindi yesterday. e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) killed The blast left the market place 26 soldiers and wounded at least a mess of twisted shutters and 25 others in a suicide bombing in rubble, with pieces of human raid on a radical mosque in outside and saw smoke and smoke along Pakistan’s porous border in September. But so far little the northwestern town of Bannu. flesh scattered on the ground, a Islamabad in 2007. everywhere. I saw injured laying with Afghanistan needed to be progress has been seen and ter- Two high-profile attacks in 24 reporter said. “It was carried by one of our and screaming on the ground.” curbed and directed officials to ror attacks rose 20 percent in hours mark a sharp upturn in vio- The TTP have been waging suicide bombers to take revenge Police and commandos cor- form a joint-strategy with their 2013, according to the independ- lence from the TTP after a period a bloody campaign against the for the Red Mosque massacre,” he doned off the area as ambulances Afghan counterparts. ent Pakistan Institute for Peace of relative quiet following the Pakistani state since 2007, car- said. “We will continue our strug- took wounded to a nearby mili- But analysts said the Taliban’s Studies. death of their leader Hakimullah rying out countless bomb and gun gle against the secular system.” tary hospital. ability to carry out two such high- Retired brigadier Shaukat Mehsud in a US drone strike in attacks, often on military targets. Eyewitnesses described the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif profile attacks in quick succes- Qadir, a security analyst, said the November. The military headquarters power of the explosion. later chaired a meeting of the sion raised fresh questions about militants were taking advantage An army statement said “13 came under attack in 2009, when “I was reading a newspaper cabinet, declaring that “Pakistan the country’s strategy for deal- of the government’s lack of policy persons including eight security militants laid siege to the complex after opening my shop and all is facing a serious security situa- ing with the homegrown militant direction. “You can keep talking forces personnel, three school for 24 hours. A total of 19 people of a sudden I heard a big blast,” tion and to address the extraor- threat. about talks but this is what will children and two other civilians died including eight militants. Liaqat Ali, a grocery shop owner dinary situation, we need to take Sharif’s government has said happen to your talks. The Taliban embraced shahadat (martyrdom) TTP spokesman Shahidullah near the site said. extraordinary measures,” accord- it wants talks with the Taliban have stated it quite loud and while 29 were injured in this cow- Shahid claimed yesterday’s attack “The intensity of the blast ing to a statement. and received the backing of all clear,” he said. ardly act of terror.” as payback for a deadly military threw me off my chair. I rushed He added that illegal movement major political parties for dialogue AFP

Pakistan has Extremists kill Shia 141 women Pakistan President Hussain lawmakers scholar in Peshawar ISLAMABAD: The general elections of Pakistan in May PESHAWAR: Gunmen killed A government hospital spokes- defends anti-terror record 2013 not only gave a new life a Shia Muslim scholar in the man, Jamil Khan, confirmed the to the democratic system in restive northwestern Pakistani death. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s attack on a Kabul restaurant that is questioned. The reality is that, Pakistan, but also held dis- city of Peshawar yesterday, There has been a rise in sec- president said yesterday it was killed 21 people. leaving aside Afghanistan, there tinction of introducing new police and hospital officials said. tarian violence in Pakistan after unfair to question his coun- “Beyond the border” is a is no other country in the world trends with regard to wom- Allama Alim Al Musvi was shot several deadly clashes between try’s commitment to fighting phrase commonly used by Kabul than Pakistan that has paid en’s political participation in while walking to the mosque in Sunni and Shiite Muslim groups terror at home and abroad, to refer to neighbouring Pakistan, a higher price,” Hussain said, the country. the historic Kissa Khwani mar- near the capital Islamabad in after Afghanistan hinted that which was the main supporter according to a statement released One change it brought was ket of Peshawar, the capital of November. Pakistani intelligence was of the former Taliban regime in by his office. the overwhelming number of the Khyber Pakhtukhwa province On November 19 gunmen killed behind a deadly restaurant Afghanistan. “Pakistan stands for a peace- new entrants joining national that borders Afghanistan, police a senior Shiite university director attack. Afghan officials have long ful, stable, united and prosperous and provincial assemblies on said. along with his driver in Lahore, President Mamnoon Hussain, voiced suspicions about connec- Afghanistan.” reserved seats for women. “Two gunmen opened fire on while another Shiite leader and who has a largely ceremonial role, tions between the hardline move- “We have consistently An initial survey conducted the scholar and escaped in the his guard were killed in Karachi said Pakistan wanted a peaceful ment and Islamabad’s powerful maintained that the solu- by Aurat Foundation reveal narrow streets when he came out in early December. and stable Afghanistan. intelligence services. tion of Afghanistan lies within that there are overall 141 new- of his house and walked towards Three days later, Shamsur His comments came after Speaking at the launch of a Afghanistan.” comers out of a total number of the mosque,” local police official Rehman Muawiya, chief of the Afghanistan’s National Security new book about Afghanistan by Tasnim Aslam, a spokeswoman 211 women elected on reserved Fazal Jan said. Sunni extremist organisation Council, which is chaired by a Pakistani think-tank, Hussain for the Pakistani foreign minis- seats in National Assembly and Al Musvi was a locally Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jammat for President Hamid Karzai, said insisted his country’s support for try, declined to comment on the four provincial assemblies. respected scholar and used to Punjab province, was killed in “without doubt foreign intelli- the fight against extremism was in Afghan remarks, saying Pakistan The percentage of newcom- deliver sermons at special Shiite Lahore. gence services beyond the bor- earnest. had not been named. ers is around 66.8 percent of gatherings, he added. AFP der” were behind Friday’s suicide “Sometimes, our commitment AGENCIES the total number of women Parliamentarians. Ready for fire One category Sindh calls on Islamabad to for all pilgrims ISLAMABAD: This year Haj jpilgrims are likely to perform take away high-risk prisoners their sacred religious obliga- tion under a uniform category KARACHI: After the chief These 38 prisoners belong as ministry officials are poring justice of the Sindh High Court to the MQM, PPP, Tehrik-e- over plans to scrap the exist- (SHC) allowed the request, the Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and ing three categories. Sindh Home Department has other sectarian organization and An official of the Ministry of requested the federal Interior other sectarian organizations Religious Affairs and Interfaith Ministry to take necessary and majority of these prisoners Harmony said that the intend- action to shift 38 high-risk pris- are under trial while some have ing pilgrims would be provided oners from the jails of Karachi been convicted. uniform transport and resi- to Punjab and Balochistan. Sources in the Sindh Home dential services and the exist- Sindh authorities had decided Department said these prisoners ing three categories would be to shift these high-profile prison- could be shifted by the end of this scrapped. The officials said the ers at a high-level meeting last month. ministry has started preparing January 6, presided over by the According to the list, the 38 Hajj policy 2014, and the agree- chief minister and attended by prisoners include Saulat Mirza, ment would be signed with officials of the law enforcement Atif Nizami, Akbar Ali, Adil, Saudi Arabia this month. The agencies. Baqar alias Talha, Ismail, Yousaf, number of Pakistani pilgrims is Some of these prisoners were Asif Ali, Nizam Din alias Kala likely to remain 143,368 as the found involved in many illegal Nazim, Adnan, Usman, Abdul maintenance of Harm Sharif activities including target kill- Ghaffar, Niaz, Nasir Ahmed, Raza still continues. ings and other heinous crimes and Zaidi Riaz, Akbar, Sanna alias their phone calls were traced and Sunny, Zeeshan and others. Twin cities to recorded by the agencies. INTERNEWS O fficials count and adjust wads of Afghan currency before setting them on fire in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, yesterday. They burnt 587m used and tattered notes after taking them out of circulation. have metro bus RAWALPINDI: Initial work on metro bus service project for twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad has been com- Police turn to social media for better patrolling pleted and the ground break- ing ceremony for the project ISLAMABAD: Businesses The decision was taken dur- Court Bar President Haroonur open a Twitter account and cre- tool at police pickets for check- will be held on February 28. and political parties have ing a meeting between Inspector Rasheed, Islamabad Chamber ate a Facebook page which would ing car registration details to A senior official of City already taken to the social General of the Islamabad Police of Commerce and Industry both be used to inform the public recover stolen cars and catch District Government media to get their messages Sikandar Hayat and members of President Shaban Khalid, doc- about important incidents and get suspects. Rawalpindi (CDGR) said that out. Now it is Islamabad the central coordination committee umentary filmmaker Samar their feedback. The monitoring system appeared the project would cost Rs30bn Police’s turn. earlier this week. The coordination Minallah, Asad Ansari and Dr However, details on the Twitter to be quite successful in the begin- and it will be similar to the The capital’s police force has committee is part of an initiative Pervaiz Ahsan. handle or the Facebook page are ning, but later the system went Lahore metro bus service. The decided to activate social media to bridge the public-police divide The meeting focused on help- not yet available. under the radar. Sources suggest funding will be shared by the accounts’ for disseminating infor- in the capital. The committee will ing to create a people-friendly This is not the first time the it was put on the back burner after federal and Punjab governments mation to the public and getting liaise with the officials to inform policing environment in the Islamabad Police has tried its some of the cars it found to be sto- and the contract will be given recommendations from them to them of the concerns of residents. capital and resolve disputes hand at technology. len were in the possession of the to a Turkish company, he said. improve policing, according to a The central coordination com- with the involvement of civil In 2013, the police force city’s influential elites. AGENCIES police spokesperson. mittee includes Islamabad High society. The Islamabad Police will implemented a GSM-based INTERNEWS TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Marcos in action Sunanda died Number of terror due to drug overdose: attacks could Autopsy report

NEW DELHI: Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Minister rise: Narayanan Shashi Tharoor, died due to drug overdose, says the autopsy report, adding more than a dozen injury marks were also IM, LeT networks active: Ex-NSA chief found on her body. According to police sources, the NEW DELHI: It w i l l b e a g r iev- willingness to use the nuclear post-mortem report submitted to ous error to view the decline in option if India responded to ter- Sub-Divisional Magistrate Alok the number of terror attacks ror attacks like the one Mumbai Sharma said Pushkar died due to in India in the past two years witnesses in 2008. drug overdose. as evidence of terrorism com- “We have to be prepared for There were more than a dozen ing under check, West Bengal more attacks of this kind,” he injury marks on her person, sug- Governor M K Narayanan said said. “What is particularly wor- gesting a scuffle, it said. yesterday. rying is that Pakistan shows no Sharma, who got the report The former National Security inclination to desist from pursu- from All India Institute of Medical Adviser also noted that there was ing ‘high risk’ strategies.” Sciences (AIIMS), declined to a possibility of both the intensity Noting that the principal focus reveal its contents saying it was and the number of attacks being of the NIA should be proper inves- sealed. stepped up “in the period ahead”. tigation of terrorist incidents and The post-mortem was con- Delivering the first R V Raju crimes, he said the agency should ducted by a three-member team Memorial Lecture at the National not branch out into speculative of doctors headed by Sudhir K. Investigation Agency (NIA) Day analysis. Marine Commandos (Marcos) perform a mock search and rescue operation during a demonstration on river Gupta. function here, he said India Narayanan urged the govern- Ganges in Kolkata, yesterday. Marcos is an elite special operations unit of Indian Navy. “I will submit my report to would be the next target if the ment to avoid the temptation of police by tomorrow afternoon,” Taliban established its sway in using the NIA in areas that do not Sharma said. Afghanistan after the withdrawal fall within its core tasks. He said that further direc- of US-led troops this year. “There has, unfortunately, been tions on the criminal investiga- Narayanan said terrorism a tendency on the part of the gov- Nuclear capable Agni-IV test-fired tion would be given to police on remained a grave threat to the ernment, in case of other central the basis of the report. civilised world, contrary to the agencies, to employ them in areas After the initial post-mortem perception of some security and that do not fall within their core BHUBANESWAR: India yes- The Agni-IV missile propelled normally with inside temperature Saturday, doctors alluded that it strategic analysts in the West. responsibilities.” terday successfully tested its by composite solid fuel rocket remaining less than 50 degrees was a “case of unnatural, sudden Narayanan said both the Home Minister Sushilkumar long-range, nuclear-capable, motor technology was launched centigrade. Agni-I, -II, -III and death”. Indian Mujahideen (IM) and the Shinde, who presided over the surface-to-surface Agni-IV from its road mobile launcher, Prithvi are already in the arsenal Sunanda Pushkar was found Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) networks function, said India’s enemies, missile from a military base in DRDO spokesman Ravi Kumar of the armed forces, with reach dead under mysterious circum- remained active in the country. who were “against the idea of Odisha, an official said. Gupta said in a statement. of over 3,000km and giving India stances in her room at The Leela He said Pakistan appeared India will try to keep us on ten- The new generation missile, The long-range radars and an effective deterrence capability. Palace hotel here on Friday. determined to support jehadist terhooks and unsettle us”. with the capability to hit targets Electro-Optical Tracking systems “The event is of greater signifi- Police investigators had said it elements to keep India off balance. Referring to terrorism, Shinde 4,000km away, was tested for located all along the coast have cance since the system was tested could be a case of drug overdose “Both LeT and IM networks said: “The epicentre (of ter- its full range from the Wheeler tracked and monitored all the in its deliverable configuration or overdose of sleeping pills but remain active despite claims to rorism) remains in (India’s) Island off the Odisha coast near parameters throughout the flight. with the active participation of added that things would be clear the contrary,” he said. “It would neighbourhood.” Dhamra in Bhadrak district, Two ships located near the tar- Strategic Force Command (SFC) only after the detailed autopsy be a mistake to believe otherwise. Narayanan said the threat about 200km from the state capi- get point tracked the rocket and personnel,” said DRDO director report was read. “On the other hand, given the posed by terrorism in India tal Bhubaneswar. witnessed the final event. Agni-IV general Avinash Chander who They recovered two strips of new terrorist dynamic, one should was dependent on what pre- The missile took off majesti- is equipped with state-of-the-art commanded the launch sequence. alprax drug from her hotel room. envisage the possibility of both vails in the volatile and difficult cally, rose to a height of over 850 avionics, fifth generation on- “The missile is now ready for “The huge quantity of con- the intensity and the number of neigbhourhood. km, covered the intended range in board computer and distributed induction and its serial pro- sumption of such drug may affect attacks being stepped up in the “In Afghanistan and Pakistan, a about 20 minutes; hit the target architecture, he said. duction will now begin,” said functioning of brain and leads to a period ahead. combination of state weaknesses with two digit accuracy; meeting It has the latest features to cor- Chander, congratulating all the comatose situation,” said a police “The likelihood of possible ‘sui- and the presence of myriad ter- all mission objectives and proving rect and guide itself for in-flight team members from DRDO and officer. cide missions’ also needs to be rorist (groups) constitutes a the capabilities of the missile. disturbances. The most accurate SFC. “Today’s launch takes India’s Pushkar’s death followed days factored into future calculation,” direct threat. “The test was a 100 percent Ring Laser Gyro based Inertial level of deterrence and its pre- of public spat involving her and a he said. “Taliban extremism in both success. It has met all mission Navigation System and supported paredness and effectiveness to Pakistani woman journalist who He said separating terrorist countries shows no signs of mut- requirements. It was a develop- by Micro Navigation System, newer heights,” he pointed out. Pushkar said was pursuing her outfits from bodies that profess ing itself. Surrender to extremist mental trial by the DRDO. It was ensured the vehicle reached the Defence Minister A K Antony husband. The journalist denied to be political in character was forces like Taliban in Afghanistan a pre-induction test,” test range target within two digit accuracy, also congratulated the DRDO on the charge. At one time, Pushkar indeed a major challenge. and Pakistan’s willingness to hold director MVKV Prasad said. he said. the success. said she would divorce the minis- He said Pakistan’s new army unconstitutional talks with the The DRDO — Defence Research The re-entry heat shield with- The 20-metre tall missile ter. Later, she and Tharoor issued doctrine even stipulates “dispro- Taliban thus have gravest conse- and Development Organisation — stood temperatures in the range weighs 17 tonnes and has two a statement saying they were portionate response” in future quences for us,” he said. has developed and tested the new of 4,000 degrees Centigrade and stages of solid propulsion. happily married. wars with India, implying a IANS missile. made sure the avionics functioned IANS IANS

RD parade rehearsal Row in Andhra House over Nizam remarks HYDERABAD: Remarks Seemandhra to come out against ruler who set up educational made by some legislators in their own leadership for taking institutions in Hyderabad from Andhra Pradesh assembly on the decision. 1854, built electricity and drink- the Nizam during the debate on “If you scratch the old wounds, ing water projects, railway sta- Telangana bill led to an uproar they will bleed and hurt both the tion and airport. TDP legislator yesterday with MIM stating sides,” he said while referring to D. Narendra criticized Owaisi for that it is proud of the ruler of the events that led to Hyderabad praising Nizam and pointed out the erstwhile Hyderabad state. State’s merger with the Indian that he suppressed people fighting Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen Union in September 1948. for independence. (MIM) leader in assembly Describing the Nizam as a Telangana Rashtra Samithi Akbaruddin Owaisi termed patriot, the MIM leader pointed (TRS) leader E Rajender also Nizam as a good and able admin- out that Nizam donated 120 kg of defended Nizam and pointed out istrator, who set up many indus- gold for the army during India- that he set up many industries tries in Telangana. China war in 1962. The MIM including Nizam Sugars, which “We are proud of Nizam and his leader pointed out that the assem- was established in 1921. It was rule,” he said while responding to bly building where they were sit- then Asia’s biggest sugar factory. certain remarks made by legisla- ting and discussing Telangana bill Earlier, MIM lawmakers tors of both ruling Congress and was also built by the Nizam. rushed towards the speaker’s main opposition Telugu Desam Later participating in the podium when TDP member P. Party (TDP). debate, Owaisi said the Nizam Keshav made certain remarks Owaisi wanted to know how donated money and other valu- against Nizam while speaking the Nizam was responsible for ables to various temples includ- about the Telangana armed strug- bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh ing Tirupati, Bhadrachalam and gle against his tyrannical rule. Band members of Indian security forces rehearse for the Republic Day parade amid fog on a cold winter and dared Congress leaders from Yadgirigutta. He said it was the IANS morning in New Delhi yesterday. Sanjay Dutt’s parole Ex-navy chief for less adversarial civil-military ties extended by a month NEW DELHI: Terming the incapability of the latter to cope India Foundation, was held at the affected combat readiness”. relationship between the Indian with crises of this nature”. India International Centre. Admiral Arun Prakash said PUNE: Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, currently out on parole, got military and politico-bureau- He said the media report was Admiral Arun Prakash pointed with civil servants lacking the an extension of the parole due to his wife’s illness, here yesterday. cratic establishment “brit- made “to plant suspicion about out the “subordinate status” of the necessary expertise to decide Dutt, who secured parole on December 21 from Pune’s Yerawada tle and laden with suspicion”, the loyalty of India’s armed forces service headquarters as among on requirements of the services Central Jail (YCJ), was expected to return to the jail after completing former navy chief Admiral in people’s minds”, and added: “A the reasons of India’s failure to and with no system of consulta- his one-month leave from prison yesterday. Arun Prakash said yesterday deeply disturbing aspect of this epi- attain self-reliance in weapons tion with the armed forces, “the He had recently submitted an application seeking extension of parole the “widening chasm” between sode is the suggestion that media production and also “interminable preferred solution for the un- to the Pune divisional commissioner on account of Manyata’s worsen- the two was highlighted by the could not have dared to concoct delays” in deciding cases relating informed bureaucracy is to cast ing health condition. row over former army chief such a preposterous canard with- to acquisition of hardware, ord- the case in limbo. That is why Manyata is reported to be suffering from multiple ailments of the General V K Singh’s age and a out a nod from the establishment”. nance and manpower. delays ranging from 5-15 years heart and liver and was admitted to Global Hospital in Parel, Mumbai, media report “suggesting that He suggested that a “better Each case “is required to be are fairly common and moderni- over a week ago for treatment. an incipient military coup d’état system of higher defence manage- steered through multiple layers of zation remains stalled”. Prior to this, Dutt had been released on a fortnight long furlough, had been uncovered”. ment and a less adversarial civil- bureaucracy”, countering on the The former naval chief said “major which was extended by another fortnight in October 2013. Delivering the third K military relationship” could have way numerous questions that are resistance to change” has come from A convict in the March 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case, Subrahmanyam Memorial helped avert such episodes, add- “repetitive and often raised to pre- the civil services which have “reso- Dutt had surrendered before a Mumbai special court in May Lecture, Admiral Arun Prakash ing: “A strong political personality varicate; and every file movement lutely stalled every attempt at inte- 2013 after his conviction was confirmed by the Supreme Court. said the two controversies “dem- in South Block, too, could have takes weeks, if not months”, he said. gration” of the service headquarters Since he had already served 18 months of his five-year sentence, Dutt onstrated, yet again, not just the defused most of them.” This, he said, “has not only with the ministry of defence “since returned to YCJ to serve the remaining 42 months of his conviction widening chasm between the The lecture on “Civil-Military thwarted force modernisation, they apprehend erosion of their for illegal possession of weapons in 1993. military and politico-bureaucratic Dissonance: Chink in India’s in spite of recent reforms in pro- influence and authority”. IANS establishment, but also the sheer Armour”, organised by Global curement procedures, but also IANS TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Modi’s claim Kejriwal sits of ‘homeless’ Vajpayee is in protest at a lie: AAP

PANAJI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Goa yesterday Delhi police claimed that Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial hope- ful Narendra Modi was at his Cabinet members join CM “feku” (lying) best, in his speech during the January 12 rally in NEW DELHI: As Delhi’s com- student, was on his way to the Goa. bative Chief Minister Arvind north campus of Delhi University AAP national executive Kejriwal and his cabinet sat from south Delhi for his classes. member Dinesh Vaghela in his in protest in the heart of the The metro was extremely Facebook post said Gujarat Chief city, over the alleged inaction of crowded, as many were “con- Minister and BJP prime minis- Delhi Police, the “aam aadmi” fused”. The announcements on terial candidate Modi’s claim at (common man) bore the brunt the metro intercom system that the rally that, despite years in yesterday. stations would stay closed did not public life, the ailing BJP leader Four metro stations were appear to clarify matters either. and former prime minister Atal shut from 9am and major arte- “I saw a lot of confused people Behari Vajpayee has no house of rial roads were blocked in cen- stranded on the platform at the his own, is “a big lie”. tral Delhi, in a bid to foil a mass Central Secretariat metro sta- The Goa-based Vaghela claims protest called by the Aam Aadmi tion. Trains moved haltingly dur- Vajpayee not only owns a house Party. Commuters had a harrow- ing the morning rush hour, adding in Delhi, but has also a share in ing time. to the chaos,” Sharma said. another in Gwalior. “It is a Monday, most people “Although they were making A supporter of Aam Aadmi Party flutters the national flag as Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal (centre) takes “The details are there in have to get to office. We are not announcements about the closure part in a protest in New Delhi yesterday. Vajpayee’s pre-election affidavit. going to accept such political of the stations at the Rajiv Chowk Vajpayee owns a house in East of tactics. We have elected the chief metro station, I didn’t hear any Class 8 strapped to a wheelchair, Sachivalya station),” he said. public to join him in a ten-day Kailash in New Delhi according to minister to address and solve our when I boarded the train in the said Kejriwal could continue his Baton-wielding police were protest to demand the police be his affidavit filed before the 2004 woes, not to add to them,” said morning,” he added. protests if he chose, but “at a dif- deployed to prevent chief minis- transferred to his control. Critics Lok Sabha elections,” Vaghela said. 57-year-old housewife Neelam One woman who was in the ferent venue”. ter Arvind Kejriwal from taking say his demonstration was inviting Vajpayee’s Flat No. 509, SFS Kher, stranded as she set out to area during the protests said: “My daughter is wheelchair- his protest against alleged police chaos in one of India’s most sensi- Apartment at East of Kailash meet a friend near the Central “School kids were stranded, tired bound. I have no other way but inaction in crimes to the doors of tive security areas, minutes away has an area of 150.32sqmt and is Secretariat Metro station. and hungry. I saw ambulances to take her out of this place in her the colonial-era headquarters of from parliament and the prime worth Rs2.2m, the affidavit then People travelled hours to get trying to wade through oceans of wheelchair, no vehicle can come the home ministry. minister’s office. It has led to those said. The former prime minister across even short distances in vehicles. A life inside might have here,” her mother said. Delhi’s police are under closure of five metro stations. also has a paternal share worth the heart of the capital, what with been hanging by a thread. I saw Satwant Singh, 50, had to alight the control of Home Minister “Some say I am an anarchist, Rs6 lakh in his ancestral home at huge deployment of police person- old, angry people walking long from the Metro at Jor Bagh and Sushilkumar Shinde, an arrange- that I am spreading anarchy. I am Shinde ki Chhawni, Kamal Singh nel and double-layer bariccading. distances as metro stations were then wend his way back to Shastri ment that has irked successive willing to agree to that,” Kejriwal ka Bagh, Gwalior. “I was coming from Talkatora shut, and buses weren’t plying.” Bhavan. “It’s always the common chief ministers. In most Indian told demonstrators, saying police On his Facebook page, Vaghela Road and wanted to go to Shastri Kejriwal’s demand for swaraj is man at the receiving end,” he said. states, local government controls inaction against crime spread says: “It is a feku claim... This is Bhavan. The traffic is unimagina- “such a nuisance”, she said. “This is what happens every law and order. chaos. the big lie spoken by Modiji.” ble, moving at a snail’s pace. Many “He wants Delhi Police under time. The common man ends Kejriwal took office in “So, today I want to spread that Modi’s Goa rally was one of 100 roads in the area are blocked, and his control. For what? To sup- up suffering because of govern- December after a stunning debut anarchy to Shinde’s home too. I whirlwind rallies undertaken by it is taking hours to commute port the unlawful activities of his ment problems. I took an auto all in a state election, and is now try- have come to spread anarchy in the BJP leader across India, and short distances,” said Mukul law minister? Such acts will only the way from Jor Bagh, when I ing to build the party’s presence the police commissioner’s house drew a record crowd of nearly 1.25 Rana, an executive. erode his mass base,” she said. could easily have got off the train before a national poll due by May. too.” lakh. Shikhar Sharma, a 22 year-old Shilpa Mehra, a student of at Shastri Bhavan (Kendriya Yesterday he called on the AGENCIES IANS

National health This year’s 44-day long Amarnath Yatra to begin on June 28 mission for NEW DELHI: This year’s chaired by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. carrying capacity of the tracks to furnish a list of doctors/ insti- year, the revised food menu will urban poor annual Amarnath Yatra will The sub-panel was set up July and other available infrastruc- tutes who would issue compulsory be applicable to all langar (free start on June 28 and end on 2011 to advise the board regard- ture in the yatra area, the Board health certificates to the medi- kitchens) organisations as well as August 10. The yatra period ing the duration and schedule of decided 7,500 yatris, excluding cally fit yatris of the state/UT. to all food stalls/shops/any other unveiled would be 44 days, keeping in future yatras. those who would travel by heli- “The board further directed the establishment which comes up in view the safety and security of “Keeping in view the foremost copters to Panjtarni, would be CEO to compile state-wise lists the yatra area to serve/sell food BANGALORE: Indian Health pilgrims. This was decided at concern of safety and security of allowed to register for the pil- of the nominated doctors/insti- or beverages to the yatris/service Minister Gulam Nabi Azad yes- the 26th board meeting of the the pilgrims, the board decided grimage on per day per route tutes and upload the informa- providers during Yatra 2014,” the terday launched the National Shri Amarnath Shrine Board a 44-day yatra would commence basis. The board further directed tion on the board’s website www. SASB statement said. Urban Health Mission (NUHM) (SASB) held here yesterday. June 28, an auspicious day as per the registration process should shriamarnathjishrine.com for the The board also reviewed the here to provide health security Jammu and Kashmir Governor the Hindu calendar and conclude commence March 1, 2014. information of all yatris. action plan, drawn up for the to the urban poor, amounting to N N Vohra, who is also SASB on Raksha Bandhan - Aug 10. “The intending yatris must “The CEO informed the board conduct of Yatra 2014, particularly about 200 crore people. chairman presided over the “The board deliberated in furnish the prescribed compul- that in view of suggestions the arrangements being made for “The mission envisages setting meeting. detail on the number of yatris sory health certificate issued received from various quarters providing healthcare and sanita- up health check-up infrastructure On the duration and com- who would be allowed to register, by authorised doctors/medical and the experience gained dur- tion facilities to the yatris and the and create manpower for the wel- mencement of the 2014 yatra, the date-wise and route-wise, for this institutes. ing Yatra 2013, the designated measures being taken to preserve fare of the poor dwelling in cit- board relied upon the approach year’s yatra. “The CEO of SASB informed all expert committee had revised the the environment of the yatra area. ies and towns on the lines of the set out by its sub-committee, “Considering the present states and UTs have been asked food menu. “The CEO said this IANS National Rural Health Mission (NRHM),” he said on the occasion. The central government will bear 80 percent of the cost of implement- Militant killed in Srinagar ing the programme in 779 urban areas with over 50,000 population Haryana bus strike leaves across the country by 2015. “Primary health centres, sub- centres, referral units will be strengthened in urban areas and passengers harried manned by auxiliary nurse mid- wifes (ANMs). Mobile health CHANDIGARH: Tens of thou- leader Sarbat Singh Poonia said. check-up vans will visit these cen- sands of passengers were left He said that nearly 3,900 buses tres with two doctors, two nurses harried as employees of the remained off roads yesterday. and a pharmacist,” Azad said. state-run roadways buses yes- Haryana Transport Minister About 200 million people in terday went on strike. Aftab Ahmed said that maximum urban areas will have access to The four-day strike, called demands of roadways employees free healthcare. by the Haryana Roadways have been accepted but they still Lauding the initiative, Employees union, was largely continuing with the strike. Karnataka Chief Minister successful in most districts, union “On the issue of permits to pri- Siddaramaiah said focus should leaders claimed. vate buses, their stand shows their be on creating awareness towards Employees from other govern- stubbornness. Private bus permits prevention than cure. “Urban rich ment departments like electricity, will not harm the interests of the have access to healthcare facilities health, ministerial staff, water, government employees in any man- but for the urban poor, medical tourism, boards and corpora- ner. The state government would expense is beyond their means, as tions have also threatened to go increase the fleet of roadways buses 17 percent of them live in slums on a three-day strike from today. and not a single employee would and majority of them are migrant Barring minor clashes with police be retrenched,” Ahmed said, while labourers, rag pickers and margin- at 3-4 places, the roadways’ strike appealing to the striking employees alised sections of society,” he noted. remained peaceful across Haryana. to resume work. IANS Indian army soldiers return from the site of gunfight at the village Sempora of Qazigund, around 72km south of Haryana Roadways buses, which Haryana Director General of Srinagar, yesterday. According to local media reports, a militant of Hizbul Mujahideen was killed in a gunfight. ferry nearly 10 lakh people daily, Police S N Vashisht meanwhile remained off roads at most places. said that no one would be allowed Only a few buses plied on some to take law in their hands and routes with the local administra- all measures have been taken to tion engaging contractual staff, ensure that life was not affected Maharashtra slashes power tariff by 20pc new recruits and private staff. in the state. At most places, the The union had given the strike employees started the strike at call in support of its demands and midnight but the major effect was MUMBAI: In a major pre-elec- — around 1.30 crore in the state — of the city — like north-west and 300-units per month range, mak- had refused to heed an appeal by felt only in the morning when peo- tion initiative, the Maharashtra using up to 300 units per month. south Mumbai — which are serv- ing them eligible for the 20 per- the state government to call it off. ple, especially office-goers and stu- government yesterday slashed The move drew criticism from iced by private suppliers like Tata cent slashed tariff. The association is demanding dents, kept waiting for the buses. power tariff by 20 percent the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Power and Reliance Energy shall Maharashtra also has 3.60 mil- cancellation of 3,519 lucrative As a result, private buses, taxis across all sectors. Janata Party. be taken next week,” an official lion agriculture consumers, 1.60 route permits to private bus oper- and auto-rickshaws had a field The move will provide relief The decision will be imple- said. million commercial users, 300,000 ators across Haryana being given day as they fleeced passengers. to domestic, commercial, indus- mented in the entire state The MSEB has a total of 2.14 industrial and 100,000 power- by the Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led “I had to reach Panipat from trial and agricultural consumers, including north-east parts of crore consumers in Maharashtra, looms. Certain other consumers government in the state. They are Ambala for an important meet- according to an announcement by Mumbai which get power from of which 1.56 crore are domestic like the railways are no included also seeking regularisation of con- ing but I was stranded at the bus the Chief Minister’s Office. the Maharashtra State Electricity users, a MSEB spokesperson said. in the above list, the spokesper- tract employees and other perks. stand. I had to take a private taxi The 20 percent cut will be Board (MSEB). Of these 1.56 crore, a whop- son said. Over 19,000 employees are for Rs500 to reach there.” applicable for domestic consumers “A decision on the other areas ping 1.30 crore fall in the below IANS participating in the strike, union IANS TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

PRAYER TIME Hollande keeps  mum on First News in Numbers    CHART: 1 3 112 Fajr (Dawn) 5:01 Lady status of 3 Shorook (Sunrise) 6:21 Zuhr (Noon) 11:45 Trierweiler Asr (Afternoon) 2:49 AMSTERDAM: French Maghrib (Sunset) 5:11 President Francois Hollande Isha (Night) 6:41 was put on the spot over his absent partner, Valerie Trierweiler, during a state visit to the Netherlands yesterday. WEATHER Flanked by the Dutch king and queen, Willem-Alexander and Maxima, for the official photo- Today Wednesday Weather Thursday Conditions: graphs, the French first lady was Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Partly cloudy conspicuous by her absence. Partly cloudy. It was the first official trip for Hollande since the scandal of Reinsurance premium growth his alleged affair with a French High: 22° High: 21° High: 21° Pic by: Kammutty VP Low: 13° Low: 13° Low: 14° actress broke 10 days ago. Closer magazine claimed the 59-year-old president had been secretly leav- Reinsurance premium growth compares less favourably with GDP ing the Elysee Palace to meet Julie than reinsurance exposure growth. Only 53pc of respondents believe Gayet, 41. Trierweiler, 48, spent DOHA - SUN & SEA just over a week in hospital suf- that reinsurance business will expand at a faster rate than the MENA fering from shock and what was economies as a whole, down from 58pc a year ago. 39pc of interviewees SUN TIDE SEA described as “deep despair”, but even expect reinsurance premiums to fall short of GDP growth (up SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND left on Saturday and is recovering at La Lanterne, an official resi- from 24pc in 2012), pointing to continued pressure on reinsurance 06:21 17:11 08:00 & 20:15 00:45 & 15:00 03-12 KT dence at Versailles. Hollande has not denied the rates, rising retentions and a lower share of proportional business. THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW reported relationship with Gayet, All these factors have a dampening effect on premium volumes. but has refused to comment. HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER At the weekend the French magazine Paris Match — where MUSCAT 22/15 Partly cloudy 23/15 Partly cloudy Outlook on reinsurance premium growth Trierweiler works as a journalist KUWAIT 19/07 Partly cloudy 18/09 Partly cloudy — reported that the president had BAHRAIN 19/08 Clear 19/07 Clear told her he “needed more time” SANAA 22/04 Partly cloudy 23/04 Partly cloudy to resolve his emotional conflict. RIYADH 22/08 Clear 23/09 Clear Hollande said last week that DUBAI 22/15 Partly cloudy 23/15 Partly cloudy he would “clarify” the situation Premiums BAGHDAD 18/08 Partly cloudy 17/10 Partly cloudy before his planned state visit to grow faster Washington on February 11, but than GDP THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW at a press conference he refused to confirm that Trierweiler 53pc HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER remained his official partner and did not mention her by name. ATHENS 18/08 Partly cloudy 17/10 Partly cloudy At a press meet with the Dutch WASHINGTON 00/-11 Snow -6/-12 Partly cloudy Premiums prime minister, Mark Rutte, yes- Premiums SYDNEY 24/19 Chance of storm 25/20 Chance of storm terday, Hollande was asked again grow in line grow LONDON 09/06 Partly cloudy 11/04 Partly cloudy whether Trierweiler remained with GDP slower PARIS 07/04 Partly cloudy 07/05 Chance of rain first lady. “Thank you for your ISTANBUL 15/09 Mostly cloudy 14/08 Partly cloudy question,” the president said. 8pc than GDP MANILA 30/22 Partly cloudy 30/21 Partly cloudy “Valerie Trierweiler is better 39pc DHAKA 26/15 Clear 27/16 Clear and she is resting at the moment DELHI 19/12 Cloudy 20/13 Thunderstorm in La Lanterne residence. I have ISLAMABAD 19/06 Mostly cloudy 19/06 Chance of rain nothing else to say.” Source : http://www.qfc.com.qa THE GUARDIAN Filipina winner of X-Factor gets Italian conductor Claudio Abbado dies at 80 MILAN: Claudio Abbado (pictured), led the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin Grammophon, said: “The world has lost nod to sing and who decided to become a conductor after Philharmonic and made guest appearances one of the most inspiring musicians of our hearing a concert at La Scala at the age throughout the world. era, a man who put himself entirely at the stay in Israel of eight and went on to lead the Milan “The world of music and culture has service of the music he conducted and, in opera company and top orchestras for lost an absolute champion,” Italian Prime doing so, made listeners feel that they were JERUSALEM: A 47-year-old more than half a century, has died aged Minister Enrico Letta said. hearing it properly for the very first time.” Filipina care-giver who won 80, La Scala said yesterday. “At his concerts there were breathtak- Abbado’s recordings were honoured in Israel’s X-Factor talent show Abbado, who was known as a musician’s ing occasions for the audience and play- the classical music category at the Grammy has been granted permission musician, shunned the publicity and pomp ers alike,” Lennox Mackenzie, a violinist Awards, where pieces he conducted won to earn a living as a singer in often associated with leading conductors and orchestra chairman of the London gongs in 1998, 2004 and 2006. the Jewish state, officials said and staunchly supported young musicians. Symphony Orchestra (LSO), where Abbado Born in Milan on June 26, 1933, to a vio- yesterday. He died in the northern city of Bologna in was principal conductor from 1979-1988, linist father and a pianist mother, Abbado Rose Fostanes, the only foreign his native Italy after a long illness. told Reuters. “I remember some players said that early La Scala concert decided contestant on the show, moved to “We have lost one of the greatest musi- actually being in tears.” his future. Israel six years ago, obtaining a cians of the last 50 years and one of the Milan mayor Giuliano Pisapia said he “I remember when I was back home I visa to work as a care-giver for very few to have a close connection with would ask Barenboim to organise a memo- decided to become a conductor,” he told the sick and elderly. the spirit of music in all its various forms,” rial concert for Abbado, who was named the BBC in 1980. Her success, which saw her La Scala’s current musical director, Daniel an Italian Senator for Life by President He earned pocket money as a church winning last week’s final with Barenboim, said in a statement. Giorgio Napolitano last August. organist before joining the Vienna Academy a soaring rendition of Frank “He set an example for the world, show- Abbado’s surprise appointment as chief of Music in 1956. In Vienna, Abbado learned Sinatra’s “My Way,” sparked cel- ing that young and inexperienced musi- conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic in an economical style of conducting and Hans ebrations across the Philippines cians can make music at the highest level 1989 led music critics to call him “the Swarovsky taught him to conduct with one and praise from its President when they work with the right attitude world’s most powerful conductor”. He also hand tied behind his back. Abbado also Benigno Aquino. and commitment. We owe him this, and had a 46-year span recording some of the worked in the United States, often serv- But Israeli immigration officials much more.” world’s most cherished performances for ing as guest conductor of the New York said her visa did not allow her to In addition to serving as music direc- the Deutsche Grammophon label. Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra and work professionally as a singer. tor of La Scala for two decades, Abbado Mark Wilkinson, President of Deutsche the Philadelphia Orchestra. REUTERS However, yesterday, Interior Minister Gideon Saar issued a statement saying he had decided to allow Fostanes to work as an Sundance trio artist. The minister “ordered the Class and bad taste population and immigration authority to grant Rose Fostanes permission to work as a singer in Israel,” it said. meet for Versace “Minister Saar decided to agree to her request and allow her a MILAN: On the fashion matrix, were present and correct. work permit as an artist,” it said, Versace is located at the exact A cathedral-sized venue, chan- noting such permission was sub- point where high class meets deliers strung like fairy lights ject to the agreement of the fam- bad taste. The tailoring, corsetry from the high ceilings. Thirty ily she had been working for. and embroidery of Donatella two outfits, each created entirely Fostanes has been likened by Versace’s creations are second by hand by in the Versace atelier. fans to Susan Boyle, the middle- to none. Her skill at creating Fluffy white minks and chubby aged Scottish singer whose hum- dresses which elevate women has pelts of fox; reams of double silk ble looks and shy demeanour been demonstrated on a thou- satin, suede and tulle. belied a scintillating voice that sand Hollywood red carpets. But But the refinement was spiked captivated millions on the televi- what makes Versace compelling with acres of flesh, by embroidery sion talent show “Britain’s Got is the musky note of scandal deliberately worked to look like Talent” in 2009. Fostanes cur- which runs through it. To criti- body tattooing, by the paparazzi rently lives in a crowded apart- cise Versace for trashiness is to circus which accompanies ment in southern Tel Aviv. AFP entirely miss the point, for it is Donatella’s current muse, Lady this very element — this salty Gaga, who attended the show as aftertaste to the caramel-sweet guest of honour, and by catwalk femininity of gowns and sequins references to outrageous outfits — which has made Versace one by Gaga’s predecessors in pop. of the defining brands of the past Grace Jones was namechecked as three decades. an inspiration by Donatella, and Donatella Versace opened Haute Kylie Minogue’s infamous hood- Couture fashion week in Paris in and-hotpants look in the video for signature bold style. The lofty sig- Can’t Get You Out Of My Head From left: Actors Irmena Chichikova, Daria Vitkova and Kalina Vitkova at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival at nifiers of couture, fashion’s most was revisited on the catwalk. the Getty Images Portrait Studio at the Village At The Lift yesterday in Park City, Utah. expensive and exclusive arena, THE GUARDIAN Tuesday 21 January 2014 20 Rabial I 1435 Volume 18 Number 5951 Price: QR2

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DOHA: The 7th edition of Inter- our future generations”, Sheikh national Petroleum Technology Abdullah said. Conference (IPTC) began here Addressing the opening ses- yesterday with the energy lead- sion, the Minister of Energy and ers emphasising on the need Industry and Chairman of QP, for ‘significant investments’ in H E Dr Mohamed bin Saleh Al technology and innovation to Sada, called on the participants address the mufti-faceted chal- to give importance to achieving lenges faced by global energy two main goals: “Providing eco- industry. friendly, high quality, and low cost Opening the conference, Prime products and technologies and Minister and Interior Minister achieving the best added values H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser to quality, innovation and sustain- bin Khalifa Al Thani said the oil able development.” and gas industry face multiple Dr Al Sada said: “Experiences challenges, in terms of production have proven that scientific innova- cost, meeting future demands, tions and breakthroughs are the sustainable development and on means to overcome the challenges the issue of emission cuts. facing not just the oil industry, but Qatar is committed to invest also the various other industries in technology and innovation. around us. Therefore, this confer- The fact that Qatar launched the ence constitutes the ideal platform IPTC and the country’s decision to seek solutions to providing the to continuously host the high- energy the world needs — specifi- profile conference confirm its cally those related to the environ- commitment to explore the pos- ment and safety — in order to sibilities of cutting-edge technol- maintain the required levels of ogy and innovations to address living, health, and welfare.” the challenges faced by global The Minister expressed Qatar’s energy industry. pride in hosting this important Over the past two decades, he event for the third time, which said, Qatar has made great strides he said enhances its position an in developing its hydrocarbon economic, commercial and indus- sector, making it the largest pro- trial center, and emphasizes its The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdulla bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani (centre) with Minister of Energy and Industry H E Dr Mohamed ducer and exporter of liquefied growing role as an energy leader.” bin Saleh Al Sada (right) and Saad Al Kaabi, Director of Oil and Gas Ventures at QP, during the inauguration of the IPTC 2014 exhibition at Qatar National natural gas (LNG). The country Dr Al Sada said: “Qatar’s suc- Convention Centre yesterday. (SHAIVAL DALAL) has emerged as the world’s capi- cess in the development and the tal of gas to liquids (GTL) and optimum utilisation of its natural base, achieving a higher added Emir of the State of Qatar.” This year’s event, which will covers a comprehensive range occupies third place in the world resources was achieved by a long- value, and the adoption of the Held with the theme “Unlocking be held until January 22, brings of topics, from exploration and in terms of gas reserves. term strategy, which included best and latest technology solu- Energy through Innovation, together over 6,000 industry pro- drilling, field development and “We realise that the wealth is the development of an advanced tions. This strategy is part of the Technology and Capability,” the fessionals representing major oil production operations to reser- coming to us with responsibili- infrastructure, building a diverse Qatar National Vision 2030, the 7th IPTC is the third edition to be & gas companies from all over the voir management, geoscience, gas ties; and understand we have to and robust economy, a stable roadmap that was launched and held in Qatar, following its inau- world. The conference features processing and new technologies. make optimum utilisation of our investment climate, the expan- guided by His Highness Sheikh gural launch in Doha in 2005 and plenary and panel sessions as well THE PENINSULA resources and conserve it for sion of the county’s industrial Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the its fourth edition in 2009. as a technical programme that See also page 18

QP to spend $7bn LNG will continue to replace to boost crude, Doha Bank nets coal and oil: GECF official gas condensate production QR1.31bn profit BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB DOHA: Qatar Petroleum (QP) DOHA: Doha Bank’s net profit DOHA: As a result of grow- plans to spend around $7bn over for the full year 2013 reached ing environmental concerns, the next seven years to boost QR1.31bn, up 0.6 percent, com- the share of liquefied natural crude oil and gas condensate pro- pared to QR1.30bn recorded a gas (LNG) in the global energy duction from its Bul Hanine off- year ago. mix is set to increase from the shore field, two sources familiar Announcing the financial results current 23.5 percent to 26 per- with the plan said. here yesterday, Sheikh Fahad bin cent over the next several years, The field off Qatar’s east coast Mohammad bin Jabor Al Thani, said Dr Hossein Adeli (pic- produces around 40,000 barrels Chairman, Doha Bank, said the tured), the Secretary-General per day (b/d) of crude oil and QP Board of Directors decided to rec- of the Gas Exporting Countries hopes to more than double output ommend to the General Assembly Forum (GECF). to 90,000 b/d by 2020, they said. to approve the distribution of cash “The 21st century is the era of The volume of condensate, a light dividends of 45 percent of the paid- LNG, and the share of coal and oil oil, and associated gas that will be up capital or QR4.5 per share to will continue to decline in favour produced is unclear, but the high the shareholders. of gas and renewables” said Adeli investment cost should easily be Sheikh Fahad said that the Sheikh Fahad bin Mohammad bin at the GECF headquarters here recovered over time, they said. bank has achieved noticeable Jabor Al Thani, Chairman, Doha Bank yesterday. While the cost of boosting crude growth rates in all financial indi- Adeli, during his maiden inter- In the current global energy competitive, especially compared production and capturing the con- cators. The total assets rose from the shareholders on November action with the media after assum- mix, coal has the largest share to oil market,” Adeli said. densate is expected to be around QR55.2bn in 2012 to QR67bn 24, 2013 and issued the capital ing office in January, said: “The between 33 and 34 percent, fol- He also said that the oil-linked $7bn, the total cost of the wider in 2013 — a growth rate of 21.3 instruments amounting to QR2bn growing awareness campaign and lowed by oil and gas. But the or alternative fuel-liked LNG project, including refinery expan- percent. Loans and advances qualifying as additional Tier 1 louder voices about greenhouse share of coal is expected to come prices will continue to remain in sion work, could reach $12bn, three rose from QR33.8bn in 2012 to Capital as per the terms and gas emissions and global warm- down to 29 percent over the next place as long as buyers want to feel sources said. QP’s communications QR41.1bn in 2013, up 21.8 percent. requirements of Qatar Central ing at different forums, includ- decade which will be replaced by secure about supplies. Even from department did not respond to a Customer’s deposits grew by Bank. This issue will enhance ing Intergovernmental Panel on gas and other renewable forms of the investor’s point of view such request for comment. 23.6 percent, while the total Doha Bank’s Tier 1 Capital base, Climate Change (IPCC), have made energy, that accounts nearly 10 price mechanism will be preferred Over the past few years QP had deposits increased from QR34.4bn strengthen its Capital Adequacy the world more conscious about the percent in the global energy mix. as it is more predictable and help been receiving technical advice in 2012 to QR42.5bn in 2013. The Ratio and support bank’s pros- environment forcing economies to Commenting on the determi- in decision making process. from French energy firm Total total shareholders equity reached pects for achieving strategic goals substitute coal and oil with cleaner nants of gas prices in the inter- Established in 2008, GECF is on how to get more out of the age- to QR11.3bn by year end, an and improve its competitive edge. fuels such as gas.” national market, he said gas does a gathering of the world’s lead- ing Bul Hanine field, which began increase of 49.3 percent compared The audited financial state- Asked about shale gas revolution not have global market; rather it ing gas producers and was set up production in 1972. to previous year. ments declared net profit and in different countries, especially in has regional and local market due as international governmental QP is now ready to move for- He said the bank has achieved cash dividends percentage are US, and its implications on invest- to the nature of the product. organisation with the objective to ward with the project and may noticeable growth rate in the total subject to the approval of both ments in conventional energy, he Adeli said gas is traded through increase the level of coordination invite several foreign companies operating income. The operating the supervisory authorities and said: “Shale gas accounts only two different ways such as pipeline and to strengthen the collabora- to complete different phases. As income rose to QR2.5bn in 2013 the shareholders general assem- percent of the total gas production, trade, where you have single tion among member countries. part of the project, a QP-owned from QR2.4bn in 2012. The earn- bly, Sheikh Fahad said. which is estimated to reach up to buyer and single seller, with not The GECF’s 17 member coun- gas processing plant at Mesaieed ings per share was QR5.29. The He added that the Board of 10 percent over the next decade. many market forces working to tries, including four observer will be expanded to help collect return on adjusted average share- Directors and the Executive However, it suffers from many influence the price. And the other members, together control over the condensate, which can be holders’ equity and the return on Management will work together shortcomings such as technology, forms of gas trade are long-term 70 percent of the world’s natural used to make jet and vehicle fuels. average assets were 17.9 percent to achieve greater results and know-how, water contamination LNG contracts and LNG on spot. gas reserves, 38 percent of the The dry gas will then be pumped and 2.18 percent respectively. achieve the objectives that are and others. So the investments in “Barring the spot market, pipeline trade and 85 percent of back under the Gulf to boost field Sheikh Fahad noted that the outlined in the Bank’s strategy the conventional gas will continue in the other two forms of LNG the LNG production. recovery rates. bank has executed the EGM for the coming three years. to be robust.” trade, prices are relatively less THE PENINSULA REUTERS resolution which was passed by THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Future lies in technology, say energy industry captains

BY SATISH KANADY has high expectations on recovery of oil and gas.” DOHA: The future of energy Both the supply and demand industry lies in technology. sources are getting diversified in Technology must lead the indus- the changing landscape of glo- try agenda, captains of global bal energy. On the supply side, energy Industry said yesterday. he said, the US is set to emerge Attending a plenary session on as the world’s largest energy the opening day of International producer in the world by 2030. Petroleum Technology Conference North America will also reduce (IPTC), top executives of global the amount of energy depend- energy companies said the indus- ency. However, Middle East will try need a right key to reopen the still be important oil supplier in resource beds. the world, he said. Amin H Nasser, Senior Vice- The global energy map shows President, Upstream, Saudi that the market structure will Aramco, said that the energy continue to change. Natural gas producing countries must dem- consumption is rising by 2.5 per- onstrate immense boldness to cent across the world over the past form powerful alliances, which two decades. In China it has been is key to address the challenges growing by 17 percent since 2000. faced by the industry. They should Bo said the new era demands Bo Qiliang (left), Vice-President, PetroChina, and Amin H Nasser, Senior Vice-President, Upstream, Saudi Aramco. work for game changing innova- cleaner fossil energy. Natural gas tions, he said “Technology must production capacity has to be been projected as the world’s top international companies whose four years in high performance “The application of technol- lead industry agenda. Technology increased. Asia-pacific is witness- energy consumer by 2030. The recovery factor is 20 to 40 percent. computer to possess seismic data. ogy in the energy sector is hap- advancements are important for ing a huge demand growth. China country is looking for cutting- Commenting on the exploration Matthias Bichsel, Project and pening like never before,” said long-term strategy.” also attaches great importance to edge technology and innovation to side, Yves-Louis Darricarrare, Technology Director, Shell, said Jakob Thomasen, Chief Executive Bo Qiliang, Vice-President, the recovery of its ageing oil fields. revitalise its ageing major produc- President, Upstream, Total, said technology will play a key role in Officer, Maersk Oil. PetroChina, said: “The global Innovation is key for recovery of ing fields and its ‘poor to moder- improved imaging techniques are unlocking the shale and tight gas Nasser Al Jaidah, Chief energy landscape is changing oil fields. ate’ recovery fields. essential to reduce exploration resources. “If we really want to Executive Officer, Qatar remarkably. We always consider Sudhir Vasudeva, Chairman India’s major oilfields are risks and help optimising field unlock energy in emerging econo- Petroleum International, chaired new trends while we design our and Managing Director of India’s 25-30 years old. The country is development. He said total has mies, we need to invest in tech- the plenary session. corporate strategy. The world still ONGC, noted that his country has looking for collaboration with been investing 60m euro over the nology in the coming decades.” THE PENINSULA Energy demand to rise 30pc by 2040: Swiger Electricity to be the major growth driver

DOHA: With the projected gas resource, set between the In the exhibit hall, you can increases in population, along two dynamic markets of Europe also see a digital, interactive dis- with growing prosperity, global and the Asia-Pacific. To achieve play of how technology is trans- energy demand will increase by this vision of being a world leader forming today’s unconventional about 30 percent between now in LNG, Qatar embarked on an energy resources into tomorrow’s and 2040 – or more than the cur- ambitious development strategy – conventional supplies. In fact, in rent energy demands of Russia, underpinned by a comprehensive the decades ahead, we see the India, Africa, Latin America, partnership with ExxonMobil to potential for new opportunities and the Middle East combined. deliver the latest technologies and for our partnership with Qatar Natural gas will be the fastest innovate on an unprecedented Petroleum in North America and growing major energy source, scale.” in other parts of the world. with global demand rising by Today, Qatar is producing Technological innovation on approximately 65 percent by approximately 77 million tonnes such a scale is exciting to behold. 2040, Andrew P Swiger, Senior of LNG per year plus associated There is, however, another set of Vice-President, ExxonMobil products. This is made possible lessons we can learn here in Doha Corporation, has said. by cutting-edge technologies, – by taking note of the principles Addressing the opening session including sophisticated liquefac- that enable Qatar’s success. of IPTC here yesterday, Andrew tion trains, which benefit from The country’s goal to encourage noted one of the major drivers of state-of-the-art turbines and long-term, international invest- this growth will be the increase heat exchangers. And Qatar’s ment has led to the creation of in the need for electricity, which LNG is sent to world markets sound and stable legal and tax will grow by close to 80 percent on technological marvels of effi- policies – policies that provide a by the year 2040. ciencies: ships which are 80 per- lasting foundation for mutually And as the global demand for cent greater capacity than their beneficial partnerships. electricity increases, liquefied predecessors. At ExxonMobil, we The wisdom of this approach natural gas (LNG) will play a are working to build on our part- can be seen in the rapid growth critical role for fueling electric nerships in Qatar to create new of Qatar’s energy infrastructure power generation around the opportunities. and the resulting benefits to the world. Qatar is ideally positioned In December, we inaugurated Qatari people. to lead this global shift toward our partnership’s second helium With such a framework in the increased use of LNG, an facility in Qatar, a technologically place, Qatar has provided govern- Nasser Al Jaidah, CEO of Qatar Petroleum International, and one of the founding fathers of International opportunity that did not come complex task in which helium ment and industry with a clear Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC), being honoured with a special IPTC Distinguished Service Award at about by chance. must be transformed into a liquid roadmap for success – one that QNCC yesterday. The award recognises dedicated members who have distinguished themselves in a singular On the energy giant’s part- at just four degrees above abso- utilizes collaboration and coop- and beneficial long term service to IPTC. Al Jaidah’s support was critical to the organisation of the inaugural nership with water he said: lute zero. With the addition of the eration to deliver maximum value IPTC session in Doha in 2005. Andrew P Swiger, Senior Vice-President, ExxonMobil Corporation, was also present. “In the early 1990s, Qatar saw Helium 2 project, Qatar is now and ensure lasting contributions the potential for developing the the largest exporter of helium in to the nation. world’s largest non-associated the world. THE PENINSULA

China’s economy Growth in loans and deposits grew 7.7pc GDI takes possession of improved in December: QNB last year: Govt eighth jack-up drilling rig BEIJING: China’s economy DOHA: Gulf International Services, the largest service group in grew 7.7 percent last year, the Qatar, completed the acquisition of its eighth jack-up drilling rig DOHA: Growth in loans and Public sector deposits receded by 0.9 percent MoM after a weak government said yesterday, in by its drilling joint venture, Gulf Drilling International. “We are deposits improved in Qatar- by 0.6 percent MoM (+27.3 per- performance in November. On a line with expectations and the pleased to be receiving the first of two new rigs expected this year. based banks in December 2013. cent YoY), while private sector YoY basis, public sector loans same as 2012, when it recorded The rig will undergo upgrade work in a shipyard as part of its mobi- Loans climbed by 1.3 percent deposits gained by 4.5 percent grew by 9.7 percent in 2013. The its slowest expansion in 13 years. lisation to incorporate client requested equipment and features,” month-over-month (MoM) and MoM (+20.3 percent YoY). government segment’s loan book Growth for the October- said Ibrahim J Al Othman, Chief Executive Officer, GDI. “GDI’s finished up 13.3 percent for Delving into segment details, the grew by 2.8 percent MoM (+9.3 December quarter also came in at staff and crew have worked hard to enable the smooth transfer of 2013. Deposits also expanded by government institutions’ seg- percent YoY). 7.7 percent, the National Bureau this additional asset. This is another step in our expansion plan 2.8 percent MoM (+19.7 percent ment retreated by 6.6 percent On the other hand, the gov- of Statistics (NBS) said, slowing to grow our rig fleet and our client portfolio,” he said. A five-year YoY) in December, the monthly (+19.2 percent YoY) as against ernment institutions’ segment from 7.8 percent in the previous contract for this rig was signed earlier at a total value of QR865m, banking sector update released a 1.4 percent increase the previ- declined by 2.5 percent MoM three months. and GDI looks forward to many years of quality service to its valued by QNB Financial Services ous month. (+9.3 percent YoY). QNB believes The 2013 GDP figure was the clients with this rig. noted yesterday. However, the government seg- public sector loan growth will be same as the median forecast in a QNB expects activity in the ment expanded by 6.6 percent the primary driver of the overall survey of 14 economists by AFP banking sector to pick up in the MoM (+53.6 percent YoY) as loan book in 2014, based on the and as usual exceeded the govern- IILM issues $860m sukuk coming months. against a 16.4 percent drop in expected uptick in project mobi- ment’s growth target for the year, The banking sector’s loan-to- previous month. lisations in the coming months. which was declared as 7.5 percent. DOHA/KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysia-based International deposit ratio (LDR) decreased The semi-government institu- Private sector loans ticked up Growth for the fourth quarter, Islamic Liquidity Management Corporation (IILM) has successfully to 105 percent at the end of tions’ segment followed the foot- by 1.5 percent MoM (+13.9 per- meanwhile, was better than the conducted its sukuk issuance programme by auctioning $860m of December 2013 as against 107 steps of the government segment cent YoY). The industry segment AFP survey’s median forecast of three-month Islamic bonds at a yield of 0.55635 percent. The issue percent in November 2013. Going growing by 9.2 percent MoM posted the biggest growth, up 7.6 percent. “Generally speaking was sold to nine primary dealers from Asia, the Middle East and forward, some banks will be issu- (+17.3 percent YoY). On the pri- 15.8 percent MoM (+24.1 percent China’s economy showed good Europe, including Qatar National Bank. The issue brings the total ing Tier 1 bonds. Commercial vate sector front, the companies YoY), while the ‘Consumption and momentum of stable and moder- amount of the IILM’s outstanding sukuk to $1.35bn. The IILM is an Bank of Qatar (CBQ) raised & institutions’ segment expanded others’ loan book retreated by ate growth in 2013, which is (a) international institution established in 2010 by central banks, mon- QR2bn in Tier 1 notes at the by 7.3 percent MoM (+15.4 per- 2.4 percent MoM (+10.7 percent hard-earned achievement,” the etary authorities and multilateral organisations to develop and issue end of December while Doha cent YoY) and the consumer seg- YoY). Real estate rebounded 3.0 NBS said in a statement. short-term Shari’ah-compliant financial instruments to facilitate Bank announced it will be rais- ment ticked up by 2 percent MoM percent MoM (flat YoY). Specific “However we should keep in effective cross-border liquidity management for institutions that offer ing QR2bn in Tier 1 bonds in the (+25.4 percent YoY). loan-loss provisioning stood at mind that the deep-rooted prob- Islamic financial services (IIFS). The current members of the IILM first quarter this year to improve The overall loan book exhib- 1.4 percent of average trailing lems built up over time are yet to Governing Board are the central banks and monetary agencies of its capital adequacy ratio (CAR) ited improved performance in 12-months’ loan as against 1.4 be solved in such a critical period Indonesia, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nigeria, Qatar, as well as provide additional funds December. Total domestic public percent in November 2013. for China’s economy.” Turkey, the UAE and the Islamic Development Bank Group. aiding loan book growth. sector loans marginally picked up THE PENINSULA AFP THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19

Belgium auto show Turkish lira at Qatar bourse new low; rate hike ruled out index down by ANKARA: Turkey’s currency sank to new record lows yes- terday, pummelled by continu- ing political problems for the government of Prime Minister 0.19 percent Recep Tayyip Erdogan. But the country’s economy minister dismissed any likelihood Real estate boosts Dubai index of the central bank raising inter- est rates to prop up the lira at DOHA: Qatar Exchange ended the firm said it won a Dh5.7bn its monthly policy meeting today. in the red when trading closed ($1.55bn) contract to build a resort The lira fell to 2.2436 to the yesterday at 11,072.13 points, in the Aqaba area of south Jordan. dollar and 3.0419 to euro in mid- down 20.88 points or 0.19 per- Dubai’s index rose 1.5 percent to day trading, although the Istanbul cent from the previous closing 3,670 points, a new five-year high. stock exchange was up a narrow of 11,093.01 on Sunday. It is testing technical resistance at 0.25 percent to 65,798.63 points. Among the top losers were 3,625 points, the low of April 2007; a The central bank, which is Industries Qatar whose share was weekly close above that level would statutorily independent, has been down 1.06 percent to QR176.90, confirm a break. The index is also under pressure from Erdogan’s Islamic Insurance lost 2.37 per- nearing the 50 percent retrace- A woman poses inside a car on display during an auto show in Gent, Belgium. government not to raise interest cent to QR61.90, Barwa Real ment of its drop from the January rates to sustain growth and keep Estate fell 1.56 percent to QR31.45 2008 peak, which lies at 3,807 inflation in check. and Mazaya Qatar decreased by points and may provide resistance. Instead, it has been using its 2.63 percent to QR12.20. Shares In Saudi Arabia, the main index foreign currency reserves to prop in Qatar Islamic Bank rose 1.9 eased for a second straight session up the currency, selling around percent after it posted a fourth- from a five-year high as major sec- Barwa Real Estate to sell 37.34pc $17.6bn last year. “I believe that quarter profit that more than tri- tors declined following some disap- the central bank should not hike pled, beating analysts’ estimates. pointing fourth-quarter earnings. interest rates because it would be Meanwhile, Dubai’s bourse Shares in Savola Group fell 3.1 an inconclusive step and put a per- surged, led by real estate-related percent after the company posted stake in Barwa Bank for QR2.39bn manent burden on our economy,” shares, as investors bet on a fur- a net profit of SR564m ($150.4m), new Economy Minister Nihat ther rebound in the emirate’s up 37 percent from a year earlier DUBAI: Barwa Real Estate QR32.64bn on its books at the luxury villas and five floating hotels Zeybekci was quoted as saying. property prices. Other regional but well below analysts’ average (BRE) said yesterday it had end of the third quarter of 2013, to house fans during the tourna- He said Turkey’s economy was markets were mixed, with Saudi forecast of SR643m. Saudi Basic agreed to sell its 37.34 percent according to Thomson Reuters ment at a cost of $5.5bn. stronger than the economies Arabia soft after some high-pro- Industries Corp slipped 0.7 percent, stake in unlisted Barwa Bank data, down from QR50.47bn at Barwa Bank is a Shariah- of many other countries in the file earnings misses. extending its decline after Sunday’s for QR2.39bn ($656m) as part the same point in 2012. The devel- compliant lender with assets world, adding: “We don’t see the Dubai’s residential property lacklustre earnings. Egypt’s index of a wider deal to help the prop- oper has already taken a number worth QR28.65bn as of last weakening Turkish lira as an eco- prices in 2013 rose 22 percent on added 0.5 percent. erty developer cope with its of cost-cutting steps including the September, according to the latest nomic consequence but a psycho- average while rents improved 17 debt burden. sale of assets in Qatar and Egypt, financial statement on its website. logical and political one.” percent, consultants Jones Lang HIGHLIGHTS The deal, which still requires and redundancies. The bank has been planning to He said “as long as Turkey Lasalle said in a report on Sunday; DUBAI: The index rose 1.5 per- government approval, is part The latest transaction will go public for some time, with CEO has sound political and economic they predicted further gains this cent to 3,670 points. of an existing agreement with reflect positively in BRE’s fourth- Steve Troop telling Reuters last stability like today, I believe year, though at a slower pace as SAUDI ARABIA: The index Qatari Diar, the real estate arm quarter results for 2013, the April that it would offer 50 mil- the weakening lira ... will affect new supply comes onstream. slipped 0.1 percent to 8,728 points. of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund. statement said. The company’s lion shares to the public at a price foreign investors positively,” in Union Properties climbed 2.7 ABU DHABI: The index gained Under that agreement, BRE is nine-month net profit was down of QR21 per share as one part of remarks carried by the Anatolia percent and Deyaar Development 0.2 percent to 4,570 points. selling some of its assets to Diar 40 percent from a year earlier, it a QR2.05bn share sale process news agency. jumped 6 percent. In a fresh sign of KUWAIT: The index gained 0.5 to help eliminate its debts, BRE said in October. — pending approval by the local Economists have highlighted optimism in the sector, Kleindienst percent to 7,738 points. said in a bourse filing. BRE’s problems come despite a regulator. Turkey’s yawning current account Group said it had started build- EGYPT: The index rose 0.5 per- BRE said in June that Diar, massive building boom in the Gulf Qatar Holding, the main invest- deficit, currently at over 7.0 per- ing a huge resort complex on the cent to 7,038 points. which owns 45 percent of BRE, state, as the government spends ment arm of sovereign fund Qatar cent of gross domestic product, World, the man-made archipelago OMAN: The index advanced 0.4 would buy assets from it worth billions of dollars on new infra- Investment Authority, owns 12.1 as a key concern. The govern- off Dubai’s coast which has been percent to 7,165 points. QR26bn by the end of 2013, after structure and preparations to host percent of Barwa Bank, with the ment has sought to play down the left mostly vacant since the emir- BAHRAIN: The index rose 0.9 BRE struggled to service debt the 2022 soccer World Cup. BRE rest of the lender owned by sev- impact of the crisis on the once ate’s real estate crash in 2008. percent to 1,280 points. taken on to fund its expansion. announced plans last May to build eral local individuals and corpora- fast-growing emerging economy Arabtec gained 3.6 percent after QNA/REUTERS BRE had liabilities worth an island off the coast of Doha with tions. REUTERS as only “temporary”. AFP Peugeot car sales fall

Maxime Picat, Head of Peugeot Brand, poses near a Peugeot 308 automobile as part of a news confer- ence to announce sales figures in Paris, yesterday. PSA Peugeot Citroen, negotiating a tie-up with China’s Dongfeng, said its global car sales fell 4.9 percent as European demand hit a 20-year low in 2013. European stocks end mixed LONDON: Europe’s main stock Markus Huber, senior analyst 1.0 percent to 44.40 euros. markets turned in a mixed, at brokers Peregrine & Black, Meanwhile, shares in troubled lacklustre performance yester- said that “considering that mar- French carmaker Peugeot Citroen day with Wall Street closed for kets have risen sharply in the past tumbled 11.1 percent to ¤10.21 a holiday and China turning in few weeks today’s disappointing after the company approved in disappointing growth data. news by Deutsche Bank and out of principle a capital increase that London’s benchmark FTSE China might serve as a welcome will bring in Chinese carmaker 100 index ended the day up 0.11 excuse to take some profits and Dongfeng and the French state percent at 6,836.73 points, while money off the table.”. as major shareholders. Frankfurt’s DAX 30 slid 0.28 per- China’s economy last year reg- The company also announced cent to 9,715.9 points and the CAC istered flat growth of 7.7 percent, that global sales fell by 4.9 percent 40 in Paris dipped 0.11 percent to maintaining its slowest expan- in 2013, to 2.82 million vehicles, 4,322.86 points. sion in more than a decade as the on weakness in its main markets Milan nudged up 0.02 percent, government warned Monday of Europe and Russia, the third year while Madrid gave up 0.11 percent. “deep-rooted problems” including in a row of falling sales. “European markets have con- a mountain of local authority debt. In France, the Altice group, the tinued where they left off at the Shares in Deutsche Bank main shareholder in cable opera- end of last week drifting sideways, slumped 5.4 percent to ¤37.21 tor Numericable Group, said it but with a slight downward bias in after it announced late on Sunday would float on the Amsterdam fairly listless trade in the absence a surprise net loss of ¤965m in market on January 31, valuing the of US markets” which were closed the fourth quarter of 2013 because business at ¤5.1bn-¤6.25bn. for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, of litigation costs and weakening In foreign exchange activity, the said market analyst Michael revenues. European single currency climbed Hewson at CMC Markets UK. The news dragged down other to $1.3563 from $1.3535 late on He said the upside was “capped major banks in Europe, with Friday in New York. The euro due to a negative Asia session after Commerzbank dropping 4.5 per- edged up to 82.57 pence from 82.44 Chinese economic data failed to cent to ¤12.94, Barclays down pence on Friday, while the pound inspire, while Deutsche Bank fol- 2.0 percent to 282.8 pence, Royal rose to $1.6423 from $1.6414. lowed in the footsteps of some of its Bank of Scotland shedding 1.3 Gold prices gained to $1,255.75 US peers last week by disappoint- percent to 359 pence, Unicredit an ounce from $1,250 Friday on ing the markets, by releasing a losing 1.3 percent to 5.91 euros the London Bullion Market. profits warning over the weekend.” and Societe Generale giving up AFP TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS German car industry rocked by vote-rigging Revelations of cheating on award at ADAC shock Germans; carmakers, political leaders demand thorough probe

BERLIN/FRANKFURT: our credibility.” ADAC has over 18 himself a target of ADAC criti- Germany’s ADAC car club, million members. Its Yellow Angel cism at times. Dobrindt said the Europe’s largest and most award can give a fillip to sales in club founded in 1903 should start influential, said revelations a competitive domestic market. “showing a little more modesty” it had falsified results of its ADAC conceded that in the future. annual car award struck at the Ramstetter, the editor of ADAC’s The sharpest criticism of ADAC, core of its credibility and crit- popular ADAC Motorwelt maga- which stands for Allgemeiner ics raised questions about its zine that calls itself Europe’s Deutscher Automobil-Club, came car safety tests. biggest monthly with 18 million from Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, a Volkswagen said it was consid- readers, massively inflated the car expert at the University of ering giving back the award. results of votes, saying 34,299 Duisburg-Essen. He said ADAC’s ADAC communications direc- motorists had voted for the Golf reports and rankings need to tor Michael Ramstetter resigned as Germany’s favourite car when be reexamined. “The car break- in disgrace after conceding he it had only been 3,409 votes. down statistics and tunnel safety manipulated the results of the ADAC, normally a bastion of reports need to be re-examined,” car club’s coveted “Yellow Angel” integrity whose car test reports said Dudenhoeffer. “If there are award for Germany’s favourite are followed closely in a country lies told about the ‘Yellow Angel’, car, which was won last week by with a deep affinity for its auto- other areas can’t be ruled out.” the Volkswagen Golf model. mobiles, said the order of the ADAC has long wielded con- “We’ve got our work cut out results was not tampered with siderable influence in Germany. for us to repair the tarnished — only the total number of votes. It coined the slogan Freie Fahrt reputation,” said ADAC manag- But that caveat did little to calm fuer freie Buerger (Free travel for ing director Karl Obermair, who the storm of protest in Germany free citizens) that long served as called Ramstetter’s actions “an over the vote-rigging at what is a rallying cry against introducing inexcusable mistake”. usually ranked as one of the coun- a speed limit on motorways. “We’re very sorry,” added try’s most respected institutions The ball’s in the ADAC’s court Obermair, personally humiliated alongside the Bundesbank and now,” said Peter-Heinz Thul, head himself after he initially scolded the consumer watchdog Stiftung of VW’s product communication, media for reporting doubts about Warentest. in an interview with NDR radio. ADAC’s vote-counting. “This “It’s up to ADAC to come clean He added VW expects ADAC to People walk inside the ADAC headquarters in Munich yesterday. strikes at the very core of our with everything,” said Transport thoroughly investigate the scandal. existence. Our goal is to restore Minister Alexander Dobrindt, REUTERS

Energy network plan Taqa to invest $1.2bn Firm starts work on ‘Heart of in Kurdistan oilfield Europe’ project ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (Taqa) plans to invest about $1.2bn developing the Atrush oil and gas block in the off Dubai coast autonomous Kurdistan region, the head of Taqa’s Iraq operations DUBAI: A property developer said yesterday. Taqa, which is majority owned by the government of has started building a huge Abu Dhabi, won approval from the Kurdistan Regional Government resort complex on a man-made (KRG) to develop the block in late 2013. It expects to invest more archipelago off Dubai’s coast as than $300m in the first phase of the project, with first oil from the the emirate revives tourism and 30,000 barrel per day (b/d) first phase expected in early 2015. real estate projects suspended Subject to KRG approval and further field appraisals, a second phase after its property market crash could add 30,000 b/d of oil production, along with some associated gas in 2008. for the domestic market. “Iraq is very much core to Taqa,” Leo Koot told The “Heart of Europe” project, Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of a conference in Abu Dhabi. a complex of luxury hotels and “The investment in the next three phases will be similar to the first villas stretching across six small phase and production should be around 100,000 to 120,000 b/d of oil islands, is expected to be com- in four years,” he said. Deals between foreign investors and the KRG pleted at the end of 2016, the to develop oilfields have angered the federal government in Baghdad, Kleindienst Group said. which rejects them as illegal. Abu Dhabi’s former state utility is expand- Lying about 5km off Dubai, ing a power plant in Kurdistan, which should be completed in mid-2015, it will feature classic Italian, Pipes for a new natural gas pipeline are unloaded on the former airfield in Ellund, Germany, yesterday. The but it also hopes to build gas-fired power plants in southern Iraq to Spanish and German architecture pipes are aimed for the construction of a 64km-long natural gas pipeline between Fockbek and Ellund as help Baghdad to overcome power shortages. REUTERS as well as landscaped gardens and part of the trans-European energy network Deudan by Dutch operator Gasunie. streets that in some cases will be lined with artificial snow, the QATARI MARKET company said. Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Kleindienst, an international Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 101.00 0.40 % Aa2 AA developer based in Dubai, declined to reveal how much the project Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 105.13 1.37 % Aa2 AA China’s oil demand sees slowest rise would cost or how it would be Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 119.63 2.51 % Aa2 AA funded, saying an announce- BEIJING: China’s oil consump- barrels per day (b/d) on the year, a forecast by the country’s top oil Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 112.50 2.96 % Aa2 AA ment on this would be made next tion in 2013 posted the slowest according to Reuters calculations firm China National Petroleum Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 106.50 3.56 % Aa2 AA month. Local press reports have rise in more than two decades, based on preliminary government Corporation (CNPC), which last Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 154.50 4.88 % Aa2 AA put the cost at over $800m. data showed yesterday, as softer data and unrevised 2012 figures. week pegged 2013 oil demand at Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 116.63 5.22 % Aa2 AA The 60-square-km archipelago, economic growth sliced into Reuters started calculating 1.7 percent. Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 107.63 5.23 % Aa2 AA comprising over 200 islands laid demand for transportation and implied oil demand from 2005. CNPC has forecast China’s oil out in the shape of a world map, industrial fuels such as diesel. Waning momentum capped demand growing 4 percent this Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 104.00 0.82 % Aa2 AA was created from millions of While a slowdown in oil con- China’s annual economic growth year, with demand for gasoline Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 109.88 3.30 % Aa2 AA tonnes of sand and rock. It was sumption by the world’s second- at a six-month low of 7.7 percent being the main factor. Implied Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 103.25 1.01 % A1 A- completed in 2008 as a way to largest user was expected, the in the October-December quar- oil demand in December was Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 103.75 2.16 % A1 A- expand Dubai’s supply of beach- sluggish rise could pressure ter, a slowdown some analysts say 10.06m b/d, down 7.5 percent from QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.13 1.41 % NR NR front property. global oil prices at a time Opec may deepen this year as China a record high 10.88m b/d a year QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.63 1.11 % Aa3 A+ Until recently it looked like a member Iran’s nuclear deal with endures the short-term pain of earlier, but up 1.2 percent from QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 103.88 2.07 % Aa3 A+ costly white elephant. Most of the world powers is raising the pos- revamping its growth model for November’s 9.94m b/d. Full-year islands were sold to investors but sibility of the Middle Eastern the long-term good. consumption was 9.78m b/d. Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.00 2.18 % A2 A- Dubai’s financial crisis of 2008- nation being allowed to pump “China’s oil demand has Implied demand is a combina- Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 105.00 1.50 % A2 A 2010 then put plans to develop and export more oil. entered an era of moderate tion of crude oil throughput and Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 123.38 3.13 % A2 A them on hold. All but a handful China’s energy appetite has growth,” said an oil analyst with net imports of refined oil prod- Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 105.75 3.81 % A2 A remain empty, baking in the sun. driven global oil demand growth China International Capital Corp ucts. It also does not adjust for Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 101.00 4.89 % A2 A Over the last couple of years, for the past decade as usage slows (CICC). “Diesel demand was stocks changes, which are seldom Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 103.13 0.92 % Aa3 A however, a flood of foreign money in industrialised nations. Its slow- almost flat last year, but gasoline disclosed by the government. In Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 106.88 3.15 % Aa3 A into Dubai has revived the real ing demand last year capped demand kept rapid growth on its December report, the IEA estate market and begun to prices that would have otherwise rosy auto sales.” estimated Chinese oil demand at Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 107.38 4.03 % Aa3 A repair developers’ balance sheets, soared on the plunge in exports The 1.6 percent growth in oil 10.19m b/d in 2013, up 370,000 b/d SOVEREIGNS allowing projects to proceed. The from Iran, prolonged outages in demand lagged a forecast by the from 2012. The agency has fore- Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P project could encourage the devel- Libya and disruptions in Sudan. International Energy Agency cast similar, modest growth for this Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 101.13 0.10 % Aa2 AA opment of more islands. China’s implied oil demand rose (IEA) for 2013 growth at 3.8 per- year at 3.7 percent to 10.57m b/d. Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 121.50 2.35 % Aa2 AA REUTERS 1.6 percent in 2013, or 150,000 cent. The figure was in line with REUTERS Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 108.13 1.82 % NR NR Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 107.00 2.66 % NR NR Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 120.38 4.23 % NR NR Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 112.88 4.56 % NR NR Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 103.38 0.58 % Aa2 AA Shell sells stakes in Australian gas project for $1.14bn Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 113.88 3.16 % NR BBB Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 105.50 4.47 % NR BBB LONDON: Royal Dutch Shell said yester- Kufpec is focused on using Opec member outgoing boss Peter Voser at the start of the day that it had agreed to sell stakes in a gas Kuwait’s oil wealth to diversify into energy fourth quarter, the company has cancelled Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 99.00 5.94 % Caa1 B- project in Western Australia for $1.14bn as projects abroad. Wheatstone, one of the super- plans to build a gas-to-liquids plant in the Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 103.38 3.92 % NR BBB- part of the oil company’s drive to improve sized Australian LNG projects due to come United States, raising investor hopes of a return on investment. on stream over the next few years, is about tighter spending regime. *Periodic Distribution Amount Shell is selling an 8 percent stake in the 25 percent complete. With some 80 percent Shell is not the only big energy company IMPORTANT NOTE: Wheatstone and nearby Iago gas fields and a of its future production committed to Asian facing increasing investor pressure to hold Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which 6.4 percent stake in the related Wheatstone liq- buyers, the project is scheduled to cost about down spending as costs rise and prospects for is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary uefied natural gas project to the Kuwait Foreign $29bn. Chevron expects capital spending on higher oil prices wane. data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising Petroleum Exploration Company (Kufpec). it to peak this year. At $1.14bn, the Wheatstone disposal kicks out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not The move raises Kufpec’s holding in the Shell issued a “significant” profit warning off a year in which Shell said it would signifi- take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds Chevron-led LNG project, in which the state for the fourth quarter on Friday, in which it cantly step up disposals to keep cash flowing can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant company is already a partner, to 13.4 percent. detailed across-the-board problems, less than in. Recent media reports have suggested the liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and “We are making hard choices in our world- three months after its third-quarter profits company’s divestments could total $15bn this consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. wide portfolio to improve Shell’s capital effi- undershot analyst forecasts. Analysts and year, equivalent to around 6.5 percent of its ciency,” Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden, shareholders said the company’s weak results $232bn market capitalisation. who took over two weeks ago, said. “We are refo- would push the world’s number-three inves- “The thing that Shell has to do is accelerate cusing our investment to where we can add the tor-controlled energy firm to keep a tighter divestments and re-instill capital discipline so most value with Shell’s capital and technology,” control on costs after it said 2013 capital in that vein it’s positive,” Santander analyst he said, adding that the company would remain expenditure would peak at about $45bn. Jason Kenney said. a major player in Australia’s energy industry. Since van Beurden began working alongside AFP TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

We need both brownfield From scholarly Bernanke and greenfield sites BY CHRIS HUHNE to iconoclast Fed chief d Miliband name-checked the issue in his big economic BY ALBERT R HUNT This praise isn’t universal. reluctant Fed colleagues to present a pretty speech on Friday, but not much else. Nick Clegg is hav- The Fed’s unprecedented intervention in united front. ing a row with David Cameron about it, but no political hen President George the economy under Bernanke is reviled by After the meltdown, he played an impor- Eleader has yet gripped the full magnitude of Britain’s W Bush was consider- some politicians on the right such as Sen tant role in fashioning financial and bank- housing crisis. ing candidates to be Rand Paul, R-Ky, and is criticised by some ing reforms. There is a chronic and growing shortage of affordable housing chairman of the Federal mainstream conservative economists. He followed the advice of the central but the nostrums are a long way from getting the measure of the Reserve in the autumn of On the left, critics such as Sen Elizabeth bank’s skilful spokesperson, Michelle problem. If you care most about the cost of living, there is no larger W2005, the rap on Ben Bernanke, a brilliant Warren, D-Mass, praise his stewardship Smith, by initiating greater transparency item in most working-age budgets than housing costs – whether economist, was that he had never faced a during the crisis but say he hasn’t done about the Fed’s policies and increasing pub- rents or mortgages. But building 200,000 homes a year – Labour’s crisis, might be too soft for a challenge and enough in the aftermath to rein in the lic outreach to explain them. He even held pledge – is curiously faint-hearted. It is an increase of a third, wasn’t politically astute. power of big Wall Street banks. The five periodic news conferences. despite a rising backlog of need. The Labour government built As he prepares to conclude his eight-year largest banks today have more total assets As the US struggled to recover, Bernanke more than 400,000 homes a year in 1967 and 1968. tenure as central bank chief at the end of than they did six years ago. kept his foot on the gas. If you worry about the recovery, there is no faster way to jobs- the month, Bernanke is one of the most Still, few dispute that Bernanke’s bold, With interest rates at zero limiting mon- rich growth. Clegg is rightly backing new towns in the south-east. significant figures in contemporary US decisive and sometimes experimen- etary action, he pushed quantitative easing, As in the 60s, new town authorities could use the vast uplift in government. Few have risen more boldly tal actions in 2008-09 saved the global the purchase of long-term securities, to values from giving planning consent to farmland to fund social to confront a crisis, his political talents economy. stimulate the economy. housing. The result: jobs and fairness. But the prime minister were underestimated, and the 60-year-old “The Bernanke mantra: whatever it That controversial approach appears to and chancellor are running scared about losing nimby votes in scholar of the Great Depression is about as takes,” David Wessel wrote in his book In have been modestly successful, spurring the Tory heartlands of Kent and Buckinghamshire. Without new soft as cast iron. Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the faster growth without inflation. towns, the coalition has only a partial answer. The loosening of “History will ultimately judge how effec- Great Panic. When the chairman announced last planning controls has been half-hearted and ineffective. tive all of the innovations he led were, but He “would not go down in history as the month that the bank would begin cut- In central London, which has been leading house prices, the I think his leadership has been brilliant,” chairman of the Federal Reserve who dith- ting back its asset purchases, the mar- idea of allowing conversions of old offices to flats has ground to says Josh Bolten, who was Bush’s chief ered and delayed during a financial panic ket’s initial reaction was positive, though a halt as borough after borough followed the City of London in of staff. “He has led the Fed into new that threatened America’s prosperity.” some experts still believe this transition arguing that it would drive up rental costs for business. They won territory but probably territory where it As the global economy teetered, and with will be difficult. exemptions from the local government department. The City of needed to be.” his unsurpassed knowledge of mistakes As Bernanke completes his service, London, in particular, ought to be pilloried. Having spent years “He’s one of the best public officials I have made during the Depression, he opened the here’s the picture: a financial system arguing the merits of the free market, the Corporation seems to ever seen,” says former Massachusetts Rep. spigots of credit, took interest rates to zero restored to health, an economy on the be worried that banks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Barney Frank, a liberal Democrat who and rescued major financial institutions. way back and doing better than those could not afford a market price. The City is arguing for social served 32 years in the House and was one Again with the 1930s in mind, he was of Europe and elsewhere, one of his top rents for international bankers. of the authors of the Dodd-Frank financial willing to experiment much as Franklin D picks, Janet Yellen, on deck to succeed As a result of this nimbyism, whether in the home counties or reform legislation. Roosevelt did; some actions worked, oth- him as chairman, and his professor and inner cities, George Osborne has resorted to more of what landed “He was right during the crisis, has ers didn’t. mentor Stanley Fischer stepping into the us with a housing crisis in the first place, namely helping to stoke proven absolutely right about quantitative The supposedly naive academic was Fed vice chairman’s seat. demand through the Help to Buy scheme. Unless housing supply easing and the emphasis on employment, is remarkably persuasive in getting Congress And never again will anyone describe increases, Help to Buy helps some people only by knocking other opening up the Fed and has been coopera- to go along with huge government inter- Ben Bernanke as soft or naive. people off the housing ladder through rising prices. The big gain- tive on reforms.” vention. And he persuaded some of his WP-BLOOMBERG ers? Those already on the ladder, and the buy-to-let landlords (as I am) whose capital values will benefit. The Tories ought to be ashamed that the party that once prided itself on championing a property-owning democracy is now presiding over – and hasten- ing – a fall in owner-occupation from 69 percent at its peak in 2001 to 64 percent. The signs are that we are heading into another sharp rise in house prices, making matters worse. Last week the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors survey – one of the best lead- ing indicators of house prices – implied 15 percent to 20 percent price rises over the coming year were possible. The brave political promise would be to recognise that the supply of housing land and sites – brownfield or greenfield – is ultimately the government’s responsibility. Some of the cheapest housing of any major city in the US is in Houston, Texas, where there are no planning controls (as there were few in Britain before 1947). The tougher the planning controls, the higher are house prices. Much of the new site supply can and should be brownfield. The best change – as both Labour and Liberal Democrat land tax campaigners know – would be to charge business rates on vacant sites as if the development allowed by planners had already taken place. Where such a system exists – as in Denmark, Australia or Pennsylvania in the US – there is an immediate boost to construc- tion activity and building supply. You build, or sell to someone who will. Later marriage, longer lives and more divorce all dwarf immi- gration as factors driving housing demand, so we also need green- field sites. The issue is, who gets the extraordinary increase in land value when greenfield sites are given planning permission. Farmland can sell for £10,000 an acre, but can be worth £2m with planning permission. The new town corporations largely funded themselves through buying farmland that was then given plan- ning permission; but that is regarded as akin to communism by the local government secretary, Eric Pickles, and many Tories. The best solution, put forward by economist Tim Leunig, would be a community land auction that asked farmland owners to offer prices at which they would sell for development. This was meant to be trialled by the coalition but Pickles blocked it. There would be plenty of takers at even double farmland prices, leaving room to pay for social housing and infrastructure. Faced with a new housing crisis, we need daring solutions and much more ambition. THE GUARDIAN Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate America is number 2 – that’s great news to celebrate

BY CHARLES KENNY growth, rather than grow rapidly top spot, it will still lag far behind isn’t much sign that has spooked America have grown rapidly. security and comfort, and more but be overtaken by China. the world’s leading countries on global markets. Three-fifths of America’s exports places to learn, work or while merica will soon cease Certainly, China’s growth poses indicators reflecting quality of Of more concern to Washington go to the developing world, and away our retirement years. to be the world’s largest some challenges — but the oppor- life. For starters, there are a lot might be that having the world’s that suggests that about 6 million Americans can get health care economy. You can argue tunities it offers far outweigh more people sharing China’s GDP; largest economy helps the US Americans are employed provid- at Bumrungrad International Aabout why, when and them. And no matter the hand- even the rosiest forecasts for the maintain the planet’s largest ing goods and services to emerg- Hospital in Bangkok — accred- how bad, but the end is indeed wringing, losing the title of larg- country’s economic growth sug- defence budget. At the moment, ing markets. As the developing ited by the Joint Commission nigh. According to the Penn est economy doesn’t really matter gest that per capita income will be America accounts for about four world gets richer, it will import International, which certifies World Tables — the best data to much to Americans’ quality of life. lower than in the US for decades out of every 10 dollars in global more — and create more jobs health-care organisations world- compare gross domestic product Regardless of its current perch to come. The average American defence spending; China, in sec- here. wide — for a fraction of the cost across countries — China’s GDP atop the global economy, the US is lives five years longer than the ond place, accounts for less than Among the patents awarded in they can in Bethesda. was worth $10.4trn in 2011, com- only the 19th least corrupt nation, average person in China, and civil one out of 10. But one way to think 2011 to teams at the 10 most inno- Or their kids can attend college pared with a US GDP of $13.3trn. according to Transparency and political rights in the world’s about this is to ask how much the vative American universities, for at the University of Cape Town, But with China’s economy grow- International. It rates 67th in soon-to-be-biggest economy are three-quarters increase in defence example, three-quarters involved rated higher than Georgetown ing 7 to 10 percent a year, com- equality of pay between men and routinely abused. Living in an spending between 2000 and 2011 a foreign-born researcher, accord- University in international rank- pared with the recent US track women according to the 2013 America that ranks second in enhanced America’s well-being. It ing to the Partnership for a New ings but one-fifth as expensive. record of less than 3 percent, Gender Gap Report from the GDP to China will still be far bet- is distinctly unclear that having American Economy. Or perhaps they can get jobs China should take the lead by World Economic Forum. And ter than living in China. one of the world’s largest defence As more people in developing at one of the new breed of world- 2017 at the latest. among 31 high-income countries There are some real economic budgets, rather than the largest, countries go to college and as class multinational firms based in Already, China is the world’s belonging to the Organization costs related to losing the top spot poses an existential threat to US more firms there research and the developing world, such as Tata top trading nation, edging the for Economic Co-operation and in the GDP rankings, but they are citizens’ quality of life. develop new products, there’s a or Huawei. US in total imports and exports Development, the US ranked small and manageable. The dol- While the downsides are lim- potential for increased innovation America’s tenure on top is end- in 2012. third in GDP per capita as of lar might lose its dominance as ited, the upside to the US of los- in both the West and the Rest. ing because much of the world is Time to panic? A recent Chicago 2011 — but 27th in life expectancy, the currency of choice for central ing the top GDP spot is immense. That could bring faster progress becoming more like America in Council survey found that only 9 29th in infant mortality, 23rd in bank reserves and trading, and The country’s declining economic in a number of different areas many ways: richer, more demo- percent of Americans believe that unemployment, 27th in math test some predict that will increase primacy is mainly a result of the here at home, from connectivity cratic, more secure. The world Chinese growth will mostly bene- scores (as of 2012) and 30th in the cost of US borrowing and developing economies becoming to health. increasingly shares aspirations, fit the US, while 40 percent think income equality. exporting. In fact, the dollar share larger, healthier, more educated, And growth in the developing priorities and attitudes similar it will be mostly negative for us. In fact, the link between the of global reserves has already more free and less violent. And world, even if it means that some to ours. This is a success story And a 2012 YouGov survey sug- absolute size of your economy and fallen from about 80 percent in there is little doubt the US ben- populous economies may even- for US stewardship of the global gests that about half of Americans pretty much any measure that the 1970s to about 40 percent efits from that. Just over the past tually grow larger than the US, economy. So celebrate with me: would prefer to see the US stay on truly matters is incredibly weak. today, with the euro and the ren- few years, for example, US export also means that there are more We’re number 2! top, even with anaemic economic Whenever China takes over the minbi gaining ground, but there markets in Asia, Africa and Latin places for Americans to travel in WP-BLOOMBERG TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

QE Indices Summary QE Index 11,106.13 0.27 % WORLD STOCK INDICES GOLD & SILVER EXCHANGE QE Total Return Index 15,868.12 0.27 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 3,226.45 0.10 % RATE QE All Share Index 2,748.07 0.45 % INDEX Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low QE All Share Banks & Financial 2,627.36 1.05 % GOLD Buying Selling Services All Ordinaries 5319.4 63.929 1.22 5383.4 5215.5 QE All Share Consumer Goods & 6,086.31 0.33 % QR145.4073 US$ ...... QR 3.6305 QR 3.6500 Services Cac 40 Index/D 4323 -9.07 -0.21 4332.07 4213.57 QE All Share Industrials 3,701.13 0.17 % SILVER UK ...... QR 5.9416 QR 6.0285 QE All Share Insurance 2,490.16 0.61 % Dj Indu Average 16481.94 108.08 0.66 16588.3 13445.8 Euro ...... QR 4.8823 QR 4.9811 QE All Share Real Estate 2,049.15 0.34 % QR 2.3578 CA$ ...... QR 3.2938 QR 3.3639 QE All Share Telecoms 1,528 0.44 % Egypt Cma Gn Idx 1026.29 32.57 3.28 999.95 312.38 QE All Share Transportation 1,960.67 0.76 % Swiss Fr ...... QR 3.9855 QR 4.0423 Hang Seng Inde/D 22986.41 84.41 0.37 23469.33 22567.77 Yen ...... QR 0.0346 QR 0.0353 QE Market Summary Comparison Aus$ ...... QR 3.1607 QR 3.2409 Today Previous day Iseq Overall/D 4806.58 -10.84 -0.23 4820.03 4522.4 CRUDE OIL 20-01-2014 19-01-2014 Ind Re ...... QR 0.0583 QR 0.0596 Index 11,072.13 11,093.01 Karachi 100 In/D 26730.24 -31.54 -0.12 26876.63 25273.11 Pak Re ...... QR 0.0342 QR 0.0348 Change 20.88 13.12 BRENT Nikkei 225 Index 15747.2 -61.53 -0.39 16164.01 15383.69 Peso ...... QR 0.0793 QR 0.0818 % 0.19 0.12 $ 106.11 SL Re ...... QR 0.0276 QR 0.0282 YTD% 6.67 6.87 S&P 500 Index/D 0 0 0 1850.84 1463.76 Taka ...... QR 0.0462 QR 0.0472 Volume 8,940,487 12,918,352 DUBAI Nep Re ...... QR 0.0369 QR 0.0376 Value (QAR) 524,413,479.79 478,390,717.71 Straits Times/D 3140.44 -2.81 -0.09 3187.8 3115.8 SA Rand ...... QR 0.3313 QR 0.3379 Trades 4,699 5,692 Straits Times/D 2971.47 22.7 0.77 3035.78 2657.77 $ 103.08 Up 13 | Down 28 | Unchanged 02

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-1.85 11875 Dhampur Sugar-/D 33.35 -0.1 28875 Hous Dev Fin-A/D 860.2 15.25 258968 Lok.Hous&Con-T/D 15.35 -0.05 7106 Tanfac Indust-/D 8.7 0.04 1360 Pearson/D 1302 -9 535813 Alembic-B/D 14.75 0.09 50844 Dr. Reddy-A/D 2639.45 -10.9 5173 I F C I-A/D 24.45 0 550273 Lupin-A/D 915.7 -9.9 39717 Thirumalai-B/D 107.95 -0.05 21470 Prudential/D 1356.05 -21 805510 Alok Indus-B/D 8.13 -0.07 293948 E I H-B/D 57.65 -0.4 23974 Idbi-A/D 64.7 -0.45 73053 Lyka Labs-B/D 12.4 -0.15 16424 Timexgroup-B/D 11.16 0.1 11828 Rank Group/D 141.6354 -3.5 9643 Andhra Paper-B/D 262.15 -4.05 4002 E.I.D Parry-B/D 135.3 -0.25 6348 Ifb Ind.Ltd.-B/D 73.4 0.4 15658 Mafatlal Ind-B/D 147.85 2 8347 Tinplate-T/D 49.55 0.9 19441 Rentokil Initi/D 123.2 0.1 741493 Apollo Tyre-A/D 116.2 1.85 931088 Electrosteel-B/D 14.41 -0.07 55956 India Cement-B/D 55.85 -0.05 118795 Mah.Seamless-B/D 186.9 -0.4 1746 Ub Engineer-B/D 13.74 0.19 7866 Rolls Royce Pl/D 1249 3 1417120 Asahi I Glass-/D 47.3 -0.2 1706 Emco-B/D 26.4 -0.3 56456 India 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9.97 0.62 1185674 Kanoria Chem-B/D 26.75 0 2267 Orient.Carb.-B/D 109.1 -2.75 3815 Imperial Tobac/D 2203 18 976383 Cipla-A/D 412.65 -5.4 136512 Himat Seide-B/D 59.65 -2.15 50334 Kg Denim-B/D 16 0.25 9853 Oudh Sugar-B/D 18.05 0.2 2211 Kingfisher/D 388.1 -2.4 1658714 TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 Kane scores Broncos to face Seahawks as Chicago Blackhawks Manning comes up big for Denver’s first Super Bowl in 15 years edge Bruins NEW YORK: The Denver Broncos and the Seattle BOSTON: Chicago Blackhawks Seahawks won their National forward Patrick Kane broke Football League conference a nine-game scoring drought championships in brilliant style with the game-winner as the yesterday to set up a historic Blackhawks defeated the Boston Super Bowl between the top Bruins 3-2 in a shootout. two ranked teams in the United Kane’s goal, his first since States. December 28, was the deciding The Broncos, led by their tally after team mate Jonathan unflappable quarterback Peyton Toews and Bruins left wing Brad Manning, beat the New England Marchand had tallied for each Patriots 26-16 in Colorado to side in the shootout. make it to their first Super Bowl Boston centers Ryan Spooner in 15 years. and Patrice Bergeron missed their The Seahawks overturned shootout attempts, as did Chicago a 10-0 deficit to defeat the forward Patrick Sharp. San Francisco 49ers 23-17 in It was the first meeting between Washington state and advance the teams since last season’s to the NFL’s title game for just Stanley Cup finals. After losing the second time in the franchise’s six of 10 games, Chicago (32-8-11) history. “This feels even sweeter,” has now won three of the last four. said Seattle owner and Microsoft Boston, meanwhile, fell to 30-15-3 co-founder Paul Allen. “What for the season. an amazing job in a super tough Marchand also scored two game.” regulation goals for the Bruins The two teams will meet in while Marian Hossa and Brandon the 48th Super Bowl at MetLife Bollig tallied for the Blackhawks. Stadium in New Jersey on Feb. 2 Defenceman Mark Barberio’s first in a game that has all the mak- two career goals provided the ings of a classic with the Broncos Tampa Bay Lightning with extra boasting the best offense in the offense in a 5-3 victory over the league and the Seahawks the best Seattle Seahawks running back, Marshawn Lynch (24) rushes downfield against the San Francisco 49ers during their NFC Championship Game at Carolina Hurricanes. defense. Centurylink Field in Seattle, Washington, yesterday. The Lightning struck for three The Broncos will be appearing first-period goals, including twice in the Super Bowl for the seventh 1997 and 1998 seasons. Manning realise that we’ve done something one touchdown pass and rushed have now lost the last two AFC in the opening eight minutes, en time, one less than the record played in two Super Bowls with special here and you certainly for another but was unable to Championship games. “It’s tough route to only its second victory in jointly shared by the Pittsburgh his former team the Indianapolis want to win one more.” prevent his team from suffering to get to this point, two weeks from a five-game span. Steelers and Dallas Cowboys, Colts, tasting success in the 2006 Manning broke the record for another agonizing loss. now there’s only one team that’s Ondrej Palat, Nikita Kucherov and chasing their third win after season, and has the chance to the most touchdown passes in a Although New England has going to win that game and that’s a and Teddy Purcell also scored back-to-back victories in the win a second ring at age 37 after regular season with 55 strikes and been the dominant force in the tough one to win,” Brady said. for Tampa Bay, which raced out another masterful display against continued his devastating form NFL for the past decade and a “Anytime you come up short of to a 4-0 lead. Alexander Semin, NFL results the Patriots and his old rival Tom against the Patriots, completing half, winning three titles between what you’re trying to accomplish, Eric Staal and defenseman Ron Broncos 26 New England Patriots 16 Brady. 32-of-43 passes for 400 yards and the 2001 and 2004 seasons, the it’s not a great feeling but I’m Hainsey provided Carolina’s goals. “Well, it’s an exciting feeling,” touchdowns to Jacob Tamme and Patriots have lost their last two proud of our team and the way Tampa Bay goalie Ben Bishop Seahawks 23 San Francisco 49ers 17 he said. “You do take a moment to Demaryius Thomas. Brady threw Super Bowl appearances and we fought.” REUTERS stopped a career-high 48 shots. The Lightning (29-16-5) needed only 24 shots on goal. The New York Rangers moved into sole possession of second place in the Metropolitan Division after knocking off the Washington Capitals. New York (27-21-3) now Nick Young scores 29 has 57 points and is two ahead of the Philadelphia Flyers in the division. The Rangers received two goals from left winger Rick as Lakers beat Raptors Nash and used a three-goal first-period barrage, two from Nash and one from center Derek ONTARIO: Nick Young scored 13 rebounds to help the Orlando in points, but also being the pri- Stepan, to silence the Capitals. 24 of his 29 points in the second Magic snap a 10-game losing mary playmaker. Alex Ovechkin’s league-leading half and the Los Angeles Lakers streak by beating the Boston The Kings (14-25) ended up 35th goal cut the Rangers’ lead to defeated the Toronto Raptors Celtics. fouling Durant with 2:11 left in 3-1 just 59 seconds into the sec- for their second win in a row. Glen Davis had 17 points, the game. He hit both free throws, ond period, but they would get Pau Gasol added 22 points and including nine in the final seven which extended his streak of scor- no closer. Washington (22-19-8) had nine rebounds for the Lakers minutes, to spark the win. Magic ing at least 30 points to seven is 0-3-2 in its last five outings. (16-25), while DeMar DeRozan led (11-30) forward Tobias Harris had games. Oklahoma City (31-10) Pittsburgh Penguins center Toronto with 23 points and guard 18 points and hit a pair of free forward Serge Ibaka added 20 Sidney Crosby was named captain Kyle Lowry added 21 with nine throws with 10 seconds remaining points on 9-for-13 shooting. of the Canadian Olympic men’s assists for the Raptors (20-19). to provide the margin of victory. The San Antonio Spurs made hockey team for next month’s Toronto scored 36 points in Jeff Green led the Celtics (14- easy work of the NBA’s worst Sochi Winter Olympics by Hockey the first quarter and raced to a 28) with 22 points. Celtics guard team despite leading scorer Tony Canada on Sunday. 19-point lead midway through the Rajon Rondo, in just his second Parker sitting out with a leg The 26-year-old National second. Los Angeles fought back game after returning from knee injury. Milwaukee led 16-14 in the Hockey League superstar scored by closing the half with a 23-8 surgery, had six points and six first quarter but San Antonio (32- Los Angeles Lakers’ forward-guard Nick Young (0) gets by Toronto Raptors the gold-medal goal for Canada in run. assists in 21 minutes. 9) scored 15 consecutive points to forward-centre Amir Johnson during their NBA match at Air Canada Centre. overtime four years ago to defeat Arron Afflalo had 20 points and Kevin Durant scored 30 points end the quarter. Milwaukee (7-33) the United States in the cham- and handed out nine assists to was never able to get back in the have lost nine straight games. full games in front of the Nuggets pionship game of the Vancouver lead the Oklahoma City Thunder game. Channing Frye scored a season- in the battle for the final Western Winter Olympics. AGENCIES NBA Results to a 108-93 victory over the Tim Duncan had 11 points and high 30 points and the Phoenix Conference playoff spot. LA Lakers 112 Toronto 106 Sacramento Kings. 13 rebounds, but reserve guard Suns beat the Denver Nuggets for Markieff Morris added 16 Orlando 93 Boston 91 Durant did not come close to Patty Mills led the Spurs with 20 the third time in as many meet- points and guard Goran Dragic NHL Results Oklahoma City 108 Sacramento 93 racking up the 54 points he scored points, which equaled a season ings this season. had 15 points and six assists for Chicago 3 Boston 2 San Antonio 110 Milwaukee 82 in his previous outing on Friday. high. Frye hit 12-of-16 shots from the the Suns (23-17), who scored the Tampa Bay 5 Carolina 3 He did not need to, as he control- Guard Brandon Knight led the field and 5-of-7 from three-point first eight points on Sunday and Phoenix 117 Denver 103 NY Rangers 4 Washington 1 led the action by not just pouring Bucks with 21 points. The Bucks range as the Suns moved three led wire-to-wire. REUTERS

Romania win 2014 Fencing World Cup QSAA Heir Apparent Cup begins on Thursday

Abdulla Ali Al Mutawa Al Hammadi, General Secretary of Qatar Shooting and Archery Association (QSAA), Romania team members, Maria Udrea, Ana Maria Branza, Raluca Sbarcia and Simona Pop, winners of the speaking during a press conference ahead of the QSAA Heir Apparent Cup at Losail Shooting Range yesterday. 2014 Qatar Fencing World Cup Team Final, pose for a picture along with China team members consisting of Also seen are Fatima Al Jusaiman, Board Member of QSAA and Ibrahim Al Mohannadi, Tournament Director. Yiwen Sun, Anqi Xu, Yujie Sun and Mingfang Yin at the Gate Mall in Doha on Sunday. The Romanian team The championship will be held from January 23 to February 8 at Losail Shooting Range. Around 120 shooters registered an impressive 19-18 win in the final. Around 314 fencers from 50 countries took part in the Women’s will be taking part in both junior and senior and for men and women. More than 100 archers will also take part World Cup and the Men’s Grand Prix. in the archery event which will be held from January 25 to February 2. SALIM MATRAMKOT TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

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January event entry and all 28. (31) Bill Haas (US) 3.34 number and I did enough today.” each of the first three rounds, “I told my caddie I’m not evening entertainment) 29. (28) Ernie Els (South Africa) 3.34 Reed, 23, joined Harris English began the day with a seven-stroke watching scoreboards until the change my game plan if needed,” Entry is free for children under 30. (29) Bubba Watson (US) 3.26 and Northern Ireland’s Rory edge on compatriots Charley back nine. That’s when I would Reed said. AFP 15 years of age. THE PENINSULA Late penalties ensure win for Manchester City over Reysol

DOHA: Manchester City recovered area. Controlling the ball comfortably, minutes, Buckley-Ricketts appeared to from their defeat to Real Madrid yes- Joseph produced a crafty lob that looped lose his footing as he went one-on-one terday with a deserved victory over over Japanese keeper Taigo Someya and with Someya. Japanese side Kashiwa Reysol. One goal into the net. Stumbling over the ball, the striker fell to the good at half time, City converted Looking slightly off the pace for much to the turf, and may have been surprised two late penalties to run out 3-0 win- of the first half, the Japanese youngsters on getting to his feet to see that a penalty ners. In a competitive contest the late appeared to be paying the price of playing had been awarded. drama provided the game’s main talk- four games in just six days at the Al Kass To compound matters for the Japanese, ing points. International Cup. Someya was shown red and replaced by Unable to progress any further in Head coach Naoki Sakai had kept faith Masaya Takahashi, whose first act of the the knockout stage, and mindful of the in an almost identical starting line-up match was to pick the ball out of his net grueling loss the night before, City’s Head throughout the tournament, and made after a sweetly struck spot-kick from Coach Gareth Taylor made nine changes. just one change for this game by replacing Buckley-Ricketts. Opting for an attacking 3-5-3 formation, Taigo Ota with Riku Nakamura. Unusually, the substitute keeper’s sec- Taylor granted starting berths to highly- To their credit Kashiwa gave a far bet- ond meaningful act of the match also rated youngsters Brahim Diaz and Collins ter showing in the second half and, in involved picking the ball out of the net, Tanor. spells, had the best of the game, particu- following the granting of another pen- Registering five shots on goal in larly after Ota was restored to the line-up alty minutes later, with Buckley-Ricketts the first ten minutes, the new faces on 60 minutes. again making no mistake. rewarded their coach’s faith with capa- City could have added to their advan- The spot-kick was awarded after mid- ble displays that suggest they have a tage on 77 minutes when substitute Isaac fielder Hardy Joseph was upended by positive future. Buckley-Ricketts broke through after a Ryoto Sakamoto, although there was a Just 14 years old, Diaz looked one of the skilful turn before shooting narrowly suggestion that contact had taken place most composed players on the pitch and over the bar, although in truth the winger outside the area. tested Reysol keeper Someya early in the could have taken another touch before Manchester City will now take on game with several shots on target. getting his shot away. FC Barcelona for 5th place in the Al The youngster then turned provider Seven minutes later and City got Kass tournament, with Reysol playing in the 31st minute when he picked out the second goal that their patient play for pride against local favourites Aspire Manchester United’s Hardy Joseph with the Man-of-the-Match award. teammate Hardy Joseph with a delicate deserved, albeit in a manner they might Qatar. chipped pass on the edge of the Kashiwa not have chosen. Charging through on 84 THE PENINSULA Doha gets ready to host a slew of powerboat racing events

DOHA: The Qatar Marine held on the first day of the three- two categories, above 18 years and Sports Federation (QMSF) has day Qatar Cup. under- 18. lined up a number of powerboat On Friday, the Corniche will “To participate, one must take racing events on Corniche as host races for juniors in the form as many pictures from the race part of the Qatar Cup this week. of Formula Future (juniors) and site, upload and tag QMSF by Officials of QMSF informed Qatar Junior Marathon. adding @ QMSF when uploading that the Qatar Pro Class On the the last day of the cham- your photos. One must also follow Championship, Qatar Class 3 pionship, the final rounds of the QMSF on Instagram in order to Championship, Formula Future Qatar Pro Class Championship and ensure the photos are taken into (Juniors) and Qatar Junior the Qatar Class 3 Championship consideration for the competition. Marathon will be held from will be staged. On the same day, Pictures do not have to be of boats January 23 to 25. the final round of the Qatar Pro only; they can be anything within All the races which will be Marathon will be held. the race grounds. Winners will held next to Sheraton Hotel will Meanwhile, the QMSF has receive cash prizes and gifts. We consist of Round 3 of the Qatar announced that they will be invite all photographers to par- Young powerboat racers who will take part in the Qatar Open which will take place on Corniche from January Pro Class Championship and organising a competition on ticipate, both amateurs and pro- 23 to 25. Round 1 of the Qatar Class 3 Instagram during the Qatar Cup. fessionals,” said a QMSF official. Championship, both which will be Competition will take place in THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

Spanish King’s Cup quarter-finals Faltering Manchester Quarter-final, first leg Today (all times GMT) Espanyol vs Real Madrid (2000) Quarter-final, first leg Tomorrow Real Sociedad vs Racing Santander(III) (1900) United seek Cup fillip Levante vs Barcelona (2100) Quarter-final, first leg Thursday I want to give the supporters something to cheer about: David Moyes Atletico Madrid vs Athletic Club (2000) English FA Cup LONDON: Manchester United must shrug off the disappoint- Fixtures ment of their league title aspira- tions being all but ended if they Third Round, replay are to retain hope of claiming Today domestic silverware in David Oxford United(IV) vs Charlton Athletic(II) (1945) Moyes’s troubled first season in 4th Round the Old Trafford hot-seat. Friday, January 24 Sunday’s 3-1 defeat at Chelsea Manchester Arsenal vs Coventry City(III) (1945) virtually extinguished their slim United’s Nottingham Forest(II) vs Preston North End(III) chances of retaining the Premier Scottish League crown and defeat by (2000) manager David Swansea City in the FA Cup third Moyes (left) round means the League Cup is English League United’s last chance of a major and Chelsea’s English trophy this season. Portuguese Cup semi-finals They meet Sunderland in manager Jose Semifinal, second leg tomorrow’s second leg after los- Mourinho ing the first match 2-1 at the stand on the Today Stadium of Light, with the win- sidelines during West Ham United vs Manchester City (1945) ners progressing to the final and the English Semi-final, second leg an almost certain date with red- Premier League Tomorow hot Manchester City in March. (EPL) match at Manchester United vs Sunderland (1945) The loss to Chelsea was the lat- Stamford Bridge est in a poor run of results for in London on Scottish United who have slumped to sev- Sunday. Chelsea enth in the league, 14 points off won 3-1. Premiership behind the leaders and six short of fourth spot and entry into next Today season’s Champions League. Partick Thistle v St Johnstone (1945) Although the United support- Saturday, January 25 ers have continued to back Moyes Kilmarnock v Inverness Caledonian Thistle in the face of very disappointing (1500) results, the Scot, who replaced Motherwell v Aberdeen (1500) Alex Ferguson this season, said a good performance at home was Ross County v Hearts (1500) vital to boost spirits. St. Mirren v Partick Thistle (1500) “We’re going to go out and do absence of strikers Robin van Sunderland snatched a first- Sunderland’s website (www.safc. were determined to put in a good Sunday, January 26 everything we can to get through,” Persie and Wayne Rooney, but leg advantage through Fabio com). performance as they search for Hibernian vs Celtic (1245) he told the club’s website (www. other than 18-year-old Adnan Borini’s 65th-minute penalty, “We’ll go there knowing what form and a way out of the Premier Monday, January 27 (GMT) manutd.com) after the Chelsea Januzaj the rest of the squad has and Gus Poyet’s side came from we need to do and the players League relegation zone. Dundee United vs St Johnstone (1945) loss, their seventh in 22 league largely failed to fill the void left two goals down to draw 2-2 with have got the confidence to go out “It’s about playing a competi- matches. by the absence of their two best Southampton on Saturday as they and try and achieve that.” tive game of football tomorrow “I want to give the supporters players. continue to fight for their top- The winners will almost cer- and trying to win it. We’re play- Dutch Cup something to cheer about. Rooney is nearing fitness after flight lives. tainly face a daunting clash with ing for pride and we want to play “There’s not been an awful lot missing the last four matches with Midfielder Craig Gardner said City in the final as they hold a well,” he said. quarter-finals and I’m fully aware of that but I a groin injury, although no deci- the battling draw was a boost as 6-0 lead over West Ham United “Hopefully, we can give Today thought how we played today was sion has been made on his partici- they bid for a place in the final. from the first leg ahead of today’s Manchester City a really tough Roda JC Kerkrade vs AZ Alkmaar (1945) not bad. The players played well pation against Sunderland, and “Every game is a big game return match in London. game tomorrow night.” Tomorrow but if you are going to defend the United will definitely be without now, there’s the semi-final, and West Ham manager Sam City have named Jack Rodwell PEC Zwolle vs JVC Cuijk(III) (1745) way we did then we are going to defender Nemanja Vidic, who will although we’ve got the advan- Allardyce acknowledged that and Stevan Jovetic in their squad NEC Nijmegen vs Utrecht (1845) find it tough.” miss three matches after being tage it’s going to be a very tough overturning the deficit was as they return from injury layoffs. United have suffered in the sent off against Chelsea. game at Old Trafford,” he told unlikely, but said West Ham REUTERS Ajax Amsterdam vs Feyenoord (1945) Golf: Qatar amateurs chase big dreams at DGC

DOHA: Team Qatar amateurs Saleh Al ninth respectively. The outgoing Al Kaabi, Saleh and I are playing this time, so at least if Kaabi and Ali Al Bishi, both 19, are hoping shorter in stature but longer off the tee than I don’t play well, I hope he can play well,” said to become the first Qataris to ever make the his team-mate, believes he’s playing well Al Bishi, who has shot a low round of 69 over cut at the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters enough to challenge for a spot at the weekend. the Championship Course. when each makes a second appearance at “I hope this year to make the cut, to be in “We both play at Doha Golf Club in our this week’s $2.5m event. the top half of the field and to make the last training. Saleh hits much longer than me. Al Kaabi made his tournament debut last two days,” said Al Kaabi. “I’m playing really I’m average – from 280 to 300 yards. I like January, one year after Al Bishi competed in good compared to last year.” the short game, putting, irons. Maybe he hits the 2012 event when he was only 17. The pair play regularly at Doha Golf Club longer, but my short game is good.” Both players missed the cut on their debut (DGC) as part of their training, but the Team Qatar coach Mike Elliot, who has for- in one of the most prestigious events on The Championship Course proves a much tougher merly worked in the US and Germany, has European Tour, which has been held in Doha test during the week of the Qatar Masters as played a large part in the players’ develop- since 1998 and regularly attracts many of the the layout is made more challenging for the ment and will have a hands-on role this week world’s best players. European Tour pros. as Al Kaabi’s caddie. Anwar Ali, also part of World No. 3 Henrik Stenson, Ryder Cup Al Kaabi has shot a low round of 67 around the Team Qatar coaching team, will carry Al legend Sergio Garcia, PGA Championship the Championship Course, but he shot rounds Bishi’s bag. winner Jason Dufner, four-time major win- of 81 and 78 in last year’s Qatar Masters. The 2014 Commercial Bank Qatar Masters ner Ernie Els and former World No. 1s Luke “It’s really tough,” Al Kaabi said. “They runs from tomorrow to Saturday. Donald and Martin Kaymer are among this make the course much longer, the rough is Evening entertainment will begin from week’s field. really high and the greens are really fast. Now 6pm on Thursday and Friday. Both single-day Al Kaabi and Al Bishi qualified for this that it’s windy, it’s going be really tough.” (Thursday/Friday) and season tickets include week’s star-studded tournament as the The quieter Al Bishi also hopes that a entry to the concerts, which include American Team Qatar amateurs Saleh Al Kaabi and Ali Al Bishi, both 19, pose for top two locals in this month’s Qatar Open Qatari will make the cut for the first time in performers Divas of Soul on Thursday and the camera in Doha yesterday. The two players will feature in the $2.5m Amateur Championship, also held at Doha the tournament’s 17-year history. “I just hope Scottish band Texas on Friday. Qatar Masters starting at Doha Golf Club tomorrow. Golf Club, where they finished seventh and I can make the cut. I’m really happy that both THE PENINSULA

Qatar Total Open 2014 tickets available at shopping malls Siraj the hero as Kerala XI win

DOHA: Tickets for the Qatar Total Open 2014 are currently on DOHA: Siraj cracked a superb sale online and will be available for purchase in the malls beginning 82 to fuel Kerala XI to the QCA today, Qatar Tennis Federation (QTF) said. Division B Cricket League Title Tickets are available at Villaggio, City Center, Landmark, Lagoona with a three-wicket win at the and the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex. West Bay Complex. The event, to be played from February 10 to 16, 2014, will bring the Qatar Cricket Association biggest names in women’s tennis to the Khalifa International Tennis organised the Division B League and Squash Complex. Having crowned past champions such as Martina with the backing of the Qatar Hingis, Monica Seles, Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka, the Olympic Committee (QOC). event guarantees star power! Chasing a stiff 244-run target Players coming to Doha this year are a virtual who’s who in the in 40 overs, Kerala XI stayed on sport, including Top 10 players - world No. 1, Serena Williams, defend- the track as Siraj batted with ing champion, Victoria Azarenka, Agnieszka Radwanska, 2011 French responsibility. Open champion Li Na, 2011 Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova, Ana Israr was the pick of the bowl- Ivanovic and Caroline Wozniacki. ers for Khan XI, getting three Tournament Director, Saad Al Mohannadi, said: “The Qatar Total scalps. Open is a cornerstone in the Qatar sports calendar. The event began Earlier, Khan XI put up a in 2001 and the stars that have played here include legends of the healthy 243 for nine in 40 overs game. As a WTA Premier 5 event, the tournament brings with it the with Sayed smashing a fine 59. greatest names in the sport.” Kerala XI players and officials at the prize distribution ceremony. Kerala XI won the Zainu, Sameer, Nazim and Fans can go to www.qatartennis.org to purchase tickets. Division B title in the Qatar Cricket Association (QCA) League. Shani got two wickets each to THE PENINSULA their name. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT ‘Big Four’ safely through but Sharapova is shown the door Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Andy Murray reach quarters-finals in Melbourne

MELBOURNE: Rafa Nadal came through his first proper Spain’s Rafael Australian Open Results test to storm into the quarter- Nadal shouts during MELBOURNE: Results from the Australian Open yesterday (x finals of the Australian Open his singles match denotes seeding): yesterday but Maria Sharapova against Japan’s Men’s Singles - Fourth Round was ushered to the exit after Kei Nishikori on Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x22) bt Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP) 6-3, 3-6, a second big shock in as many day eight of the 6-2, 6-4; Rafael Nadal (ESP x1) bt Kei Nishikori (JPN x16) 7-6 (7/3), days in the women’s draw. 2014 Australian 7-5, 7-6 (7/3); Andy Murray (GBR x4) bt S Robert (FRA) 6-1, 6-2, Victoria Azarenka was left Open in Melbourne 6-7 (6/8), 6-2; Roger Federer (SUI x6) bt Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA as the only top-three seed still yesterday. Nadal x10) 6-3, 7-5, 6-4. standing in the last eight when won 7-6 (7-3), 7-5, Women’s Singles - Fourth Round Sharapova was scratched from 7-6 (7-3). D Cibulkova (SVK x20) bt Maria Sharapova (RUS x3) 3-6, 6-4, 6-1; the title race by Dominika Simona Halep (ROM x11) bt Jelena Jankovic (SRB x8) 6-4, 2-6, 6-0; Cibulkova, a day after Serena Victoria Azarenka (BLR x2) bt Sloane Stephens (USA x13) 6-3, 6-2; Williams had also tumbled out in Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x5) bt Garbine Muguruza (ESP) 6-1, 6-3. the fourth round. In the men’s draw, the “Big Quarter-final line-ups Four” look poised to scrap it out Men - Playing today for yet another grand slam crown Novak Djokovic (SRB x2) vs Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI x8) over the next week after Nadal, David Ferrer (ESP x3) vs Tomas Berdych (CZE x7) Roger Federer and Andy Murray Playing tomorrow all won yesterday to join Novak Rafael Nadal (ESP x1) vs Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x22) Djokovic in the last eight. Andy Murray (GBR x4) vs Roger Federer (SUI x6) Spaniard Nadal led the way Women - Playing today with a 7-6 (7-3), 7-5, 7-6 (7-3) vic- tory over Japan’s Kei Nishikori Ana Ivanovic (SRB x14) vs Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) Li Na (CHN x4) vs Flavia Pennetta (ITA x28) on Rod Laver Arena that was by no means as easy as the phrase Playing tomorrow “straight sets” would suggest. Simona Halep (ROU x11) vs Dominika Cibulkova (SVK x20) The world number one had Victoria Azarenka (BLR x2) vs Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x5) to contend with a blister on his hand, a tumble, a time violation Dimitrov for a place in the semi- Robert, the first lucky loser admitted after her 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 medical timeout after blowing five who beat rising Spanish talent at a crucial moment and his first finals, Federer and Murray’s to reach the fourth round in defeat to Cibulkova that the tour- match points. Garbine Muguruza 6-1, 6-3 in the losses of his serve in the tourna- quarter-final date ensures that at Melbourne, but blew a couple nament had probably come a little Both Azarenka and Stephens final match of the day. Cibulkova’s ment but most of all with some least one of the quartet of domi- of match points in the third set bit early for her. had played down the controversy reward for beating Sharapova is a inspired shot-making from the nant men’s players will go home and was dragged into a tiebreak, “I certainly would have loved and the second seeded Belarusian meeting with Simona Halep, who Asian number one. tomorrow. which the Frenchman won 8-6. to played a little bit more before said she could not have felt more beat eighth seed Jelena Jankovic “I didn’t play bad today, but I Federer’s quickfire 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 The Wimbledon champion playing a Grand sSlam, but this is at home on the same Rod Laver 6-4, 2-6, 6-0 to reach her first didn’t play as good as I did two victory over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga took out his frustrations on his the chance that I was given,” said Arena where she was booed last Grand Slam quarter-final. days ago,” Nadal said, reflect- was the most impressive of the a racket, changed his shirt and the Russian third seed, the 2008 year. “There’s no pressure on me so I ing on his brilliant performance day, particularly given the French then whipped through the fourth champion here. “I just love playing here,” she can just enjoy the quarter-finals,” in the third round against Gael 10th seed had taken him to five set to record a 6-1, 6-2, 6-7 (6), “It’s tough. I will be genuine said. “It feels so cosy. It feels like Romanian Halep said. “It’s my Monfils. sets in Melbourne and beaten him 6-2 victory. about it. It’s never easy (but) it’s I’m in my living room, on my chance and I have to fight for it.” “But today’s victory has much at Roland Garros last year. “I dominated 95 percent of the moments like this that ultimately couch. I can have some chips and Dimitrov, also entering more value than the victory of “I definitely felt momentum match, and for 15 minutes didn’t shape you and make you who you salsa - that’s how it feels.” unknown territory in the sec- two days ago. was on my side, no doubt,” said close the match out,” said the are.” Azarenka denied the departure ond week of a Grand Slam, beat “Because when you are playing the Swiss 17-times Grand Slam fourth seed. Azarenka was utterly dominant of Williams and Sharapova had Spain’s Roberto Bautista 6-3, 3-6, that good, the normal thing is to champion. “But I still created chances, as she swept into the quarter- made her a strong favourite for a 6-2, 6-4 to set up his last eight win. “I started the match well. Did even when I wasn’t playing so finals with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over third straight title. date with Nadal. “When you are playing normal I break first game? I think I did. well at the end of that third set. American Sloane Stephens that “We’ve seen over the last couple “He’s Rafa. We all know him,” and the opponent is a good one, I felt, alright, things are working So it was pretty good for the most extended her winning streak at of days that somebody can bring said the confident 22-year-old and you are able to keep winning, for me tonight. Let me try to run part.” Melbourne Park to 18 matches. their best game on any given day,” Bulgarian. “But I’m quite happy that has much more value.” away with it.” Like Murray, Sharapova The win had none of the edge she said. with the way I’m performing so While Nadal will meet Murray also looked to be rac- missed the back end of last sea- of last year’s semi-final between Next up for Azarenka is fifth far. So I like my chances.” Sharapova’s boyfriend Grigor ing to victory against Stephane son because of injury and she the pair, when Azarenka took a seed Agnieszka Radwanska, REUTERS Federer calls on Edberg A fan holds a sign during the singles match between Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France and for Murray advice Roger Federer of Switzerland at the MELBOURNE: Roger Federer Australian Open in is planning to tap coach Stefan Melbourne yesterday. Edberg’s deep well of experience BELOW: Federer to try some new things in his signs autographs quarter-final showdown with after he defeated Andy Murray at the Australian Tsonga. Federer won Open. Andy Murray 6-3, 7-5, 6-4. The record 17-time Grand Slam of Britain champion cruised into the last celebrates eight at the year’s opening Slam after winning with a consummate straight-sets his match victory over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga against yesterday. Stephane The Swiss great, seeded six, Robert of rolled back the years as he swept France in N avratilova reveals past the French 10th seed 6-3, round four of 7-5, 6-4 in one hour 52 minutes the Australian in an evening match on Rod Laver Open Arena. coaching ambition yesterday. Federer has now reached his MELBOURNE: Tennis great Martina 11th consecutive quarter-final Murray won Navratilova yesterday revealed she wants to in Melbourne and equalled the 6-1, 6-2, 6-7 become a coach, joining a growing number of record of 41 Slam quarters with (6/8), 6-2. former stars teaming up with the game’s top American Jimmy Connors as he players. set up a rematch of last year’s She said it didn’t matter if she coached a man or semi-final which Murray won in woman, as long as they got along. five sets. “I’ve had some possibilities but nothing specific Federer, who is working with yet,” the 18-time Grand Slam singles champion told the six-time Grand Slam cham- reporters at the Australian Open. pion Edberg for 10 weeks, said he “I love coaching and I love helping people at what- will draw on the Swede’s knowl- ever level. I think my biggest contribution would be edge to devise tactics for the comfortable, giving me right Federer also won 34 of the 41 at the top level because I’ve been there, done that. match with Wimbledon champion advice, pre-match, post-match, net points, illustrating his plan to “I’m sure that (calls) will come, and I’ll be helping Murray. discussing it with Severin Luthi take the game to Tsonga. somebody on the court, sitting in the box, sweat- “It’s not going to hurt. Yeah, my coach.” “I thought I played really ing it out.” it could be very helpful. We’ll Federer’s quarter-final with well tonight and clearly against If her wish comes true, Navratilova will join a talk about it a little bit about the Tsonga went to five sets in last Jo-Willy you have to bring your host of “super-coaches” that have flooded the men’s Murray match,” he said. year’s Australian Open but the best game because he dictates game. “It’s just a different perspec- Swiss sixth seed was always play and I thought I did well dic- Andy Murray blazed the trail, forging an unlikely tive. He did things his way back in command with his aggres- tating a lot of the plays,” Federer bond with the stony-faced Ivan Lendl to end his in the day and you can take so sive display, dominating the net said. run of four major final defeats at the 2012 US Open. many things from his experience. exchanges. “Jo makes you play an aggres- Since then, Boris Becker has ditched the com- “I want to maybe try out a few Federer broke Tsonga’s serv- sive game because if you don’t mentator’s microphone to guide Novak Djokovic, things that worked for him and ice three times, and only had one he’ll come and it’s tough to pass Stefan Edberg is working with Roger Federer and try out a few things that he thinks break point against his own serve. him. Michael Chang is advising Kei Nishikori. would work out for me this time He won 88 percent of his “Tactics worked well and we Meanwhile, France’s Richard Gasquet has hired around. first-serve points and more than spoke about it before the match. two-time Roland Garros winner Sergi Bruguera and “Sure, we’ll discuss it, assess twice the number of winners (43) “I don’t go unprepared former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic is it, but he’s here now more for than errors (21), in a clinical into matches like I used to.” in the corner of Marin Cilic. REUTERS just support, making me feel performance. REUTERS TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Bangladesh Cook to reconsider name rookie opener for Sri Lanka Test

England captaincy DHAKA: Bangladesh yester- day included uncapped opening batsman Shamsur Rahman in Johnson wins Allan Border Medal a 14-man squad for next week’s first Test against Sri Lanka in Dhaka. SYDNEY: England captain to remain in the job. However, comprehensively outplayed in all Sri Lanka, currently playing Alastair Cook has admitted the toll of more and more departments in Sydney. against Pakistan in the United for the first time that he will defeats seems to be wearing him Meanwhile, England tormen- Arab Emirates, arrive in Dhaka reconsider his leadership role down and a question about his tor Mitchell Johnson capped a Australian bowler Mitchell Johnson screams out an appeal on the on Friday for a tour of two Tests, after eight successive defeats to own future brought a different remarkable summer by shading third day of the fourth Ashes cricket Test match against England in three one-day internationals and Australia. response this time. Test and one-day captain Michael Melbourne. Johnson won the Allan Border Medal for Australia’s player two Twenty20 games. The hosts emphatically beat “I don’t really want to get Clarke to win the Allan Border of the year. Shamsur, 25, was rewarded England on Sunday night by seven dragged into it. It’s been two Medal for Australia’s player of the with a likely Test debut following wickets with 10 overs to spare to weeks since someone has asked year yesterday. a string of big scores in domes- seal the one-day series 3-0 and me that question and a lot has The fearsome paceman took tic first-class cricket, including a leave two dead matches still to happened in two weeks,” he 168 of the votes made by the Akmal, Malik in Pakistan’s double-century. play. admitted. media, players and umpires to The selectors also recalled Coming on top of a 5-0 Ashes “We have kept losing games of beat Clarke by 12 with James opener Imrul Kayes, who played whitewash, Cook said he would cricket and I haven’t been able to Faulkner a distant third. the last of his 16 Tests against the review his position as skipper turn it around.” It was the 32-year-old’s first initial Twenty20 squad West Indies in 2011. once the tour is over. Immediately after the loss Allan Border Medal win -- judged The pair replaced opener “I think I am going to have at the Sydney Cricket Ground, on performances in Tests and LAHORE, Pakistan: Wicket- after being sent home from the Anamul Haque and middle-order to make a decision on that stuff Cook set a target of a win from one-dayers throughout the sea- keeper batsman Kamran Akmal South Africa tour due to ham- batsman Naeem Islam. after we take stock after the next one the last two ODIs, in Perth son -- and denied Clarke a record and former captain Shoaib string injury last year. “Both Shamsur and Imrul have two games,” Cook told reporters. on Friday and Adelaide on fifth triumph. Malik were yesterday named in Pakistan won the 2009 event been in good form for the last six “We are going to have to sit Sunday. “It has been an amazing jour- Pakistan’s preliminary 30-man held in England. months,” chief selector Faruk down and talk about a lot of But reports later emerged in ney coming back from injury, hav- squad for the World Twenty20 Preliminary squad: Ahmed told reporters. things. the English media that Cook ing a lot of doubters out there,” to be held in Bangladesh. Mohammad Hafeez, Ahmad Sri Lanka will remain in “I think there will be some may stand down as one-day cap- Johnson said. Malik led Pakistan to runners- Shahzad, Sharjeel Khan, Shahzaib Bangladesh after the tour ends changes, I think English cricket tain after his scheduled return to “But I just knew in my own up spot in the inaugural World Hasan, Nasir Jamshaid, Khurram on February 22 to take part in needs a little bit of a change as England next Monday. heart that if I had that opportu- Twenty20 in South Africa in Manzoor, Shoaib Malik, Sohaib the five-nation Asia Cup in Dhaka well.” “We deserve the stick we get nity that I could make the most 2007 and was part of Pakistan’s Maqsood, Umar Akmal, Harris from February 25-March 8. “Obviously in the last few because we haven’t won any- of it.” Twenty20 squad to South Africa Sohail, Yasir Arafat, Yasir Sri Lankan cricket officials months we haven’t played the thing,” he said. While Johnson missed the first last year but was sent back home Shah, Hammad Azam, Kamran told AFP in Colombo that a cricket we are capable of and we “I have a job to do to try and Ashes series in England this year, after suffering a finger injury. Akmal, Shahid Khan Afridi, security assessment it carried have to look at the reasons why turn this around and try and win he more than made up for it on Kamran had not been selected Zohaib Ahmed, Sohail Tanveer, out last week showed it was safe but this is not really the time and one of these games, I am going home soil in Australia’s 5-0 white- since being omitted from the Mohammad Irfan, Umar Gul, for the national team to play in place to discuss that.” to leave everything out on this wash of their old rivals, claiming one-day squad which lost all Junaid Khan, Bilawal Bhatti, Bangladesh. After the final Test in Sydney pitch.” 37 wickets at 13.97. three matches in the Champions Anwar Ali, Asad Ali, Ehsan Adil, “We have assurances from two weeks ago, the England and England came very close on Shane Watson came fourth Trophy in England in June last Mohammad Talha, Saeed Ajmal, Bangladesh security forces that Wales Cricket Board backed Friday in Brisbane losing by one with George Bailey and Steve year. Zulfiqar Babar, Raza Hasan, there will be a very high level of Cook to remain as skipper and wicket after a competitive first Smith equal fifth. Allrounder Abdul Razzaq failed Abdul Rehman, Sarfaraz Ahmed. security,” an official, who asked he strongly declared his own wish ODI in Melbourne, but they were AGENCIES to find a place in the initial squad AFP not to be named, said. “We have been told that rival political parties in Bangladesh South Africa vs have said they want the cricket Australia Test series to go ahead and have been given Aussies bring in new blood for an undertaking that matches will Feb 12-16: 1st Test at SuperSport Park, not be targeted.” Centurion Bangladesh was rocked by some of the deadliest political violence Feb 20-24: 2nd Test at St George’s Park, in its history in recent weeks as Port Elizabeth the South Africa Test tour the opposition tried to derail the Mar 1-5: 3rd and final Test at Newlands, January 5 general election which Cape Town PERTH, Australia: After not out against South Africa for the Ashes, with strength in depth named captain after being it boycotted. a stunning Ashes triumph, Australia A last season. to cover the back-to-back Test dropped from the Test side to Bangladesh is also due to host Australia’s T20 Australia added specialist bats- “Shaun is a talented batsman schedule. tour world number one South the 16-nation World Twenty20, men to a 15-man squad unveiled who is striking the ball very well “James Pattinson is regain- Africa next month. its biggest sporting event, from schedule vs England: yesterday for the upcoming tour at the moment. He has the tech- ing fitness and form. At his best All-rounder James Faulkner is March 16-April 6. against world number one South nique and potential to do well.” he is a fine Test match bowler,” the only member of the T20 squad Sri Lanka will play at three Jan 29: Blundstone Arena, Hobart Africa. Doolan came in for particular Inverarity said. to make the tour of the republic venues during their tour. Jan 31: Melbourne Cricket Ground Uncapped Tasmanian Alex praise for his technique against “Jackson Bird shaded out with selectors deciding to priori- Bangladesh Test squad: Doolan joins Shaun Marsh who pace bowling. Marsh meanwhile Nathan Coulter-Nile for the final tise the Test side after the Ashes Mushfiqur Rahim (capt), Tamim Feb 2: Sydney Olympic Park returns to the Test scene after scored a century on his Test bowling position and each of these triumph. Iqbal, Marshall Ayub, Shakib Al almost two years. debut, but has struggled with bowlers is showing encouraging Australia Test squad: Michael Hasan, Nasir Hossain, Mominul Losing out is Ashes number six injury and form. form.” Clarke (capt), Brad Haddin (vice- Haque, Shamsur Rahman, Lee sets up George Bailey whose game is “less “He seems to be in a very good The squad departs January 29, capt), Jackson Bird, Alex Doolan, Mohammad Mahmudullah, Imrul suited to their (bowling) attack,” space mentally and fit,” Inverarity apart from all-rounder James James Faulkner, Ryan Harris, Kayes, Abdur Razzak, Sohag Gazi, said chairman of selectors John said. “He’s playing well and we all Faulkner who stays back to play Mitchell Johnson, Shaun Marsh, Robiul Islam, Rubel Hossain, big win for Inverarity. know that when Shaun plays his in the T20 series against England. Nathan Lyon, James Pattinson, Al-Amin Hossain. AFP “This was a difficult decision, best he’s a very good player.” He will join the team during the Chris Rogers, Peter Siddle, Steve but on this occasion we felt Alex Marsh built a patient innings warm-up game in Potchefstroom Smith, David Warner, Shane Sri Lanka’s Tour South Africa and Shaun have games that are of 71 on Sunday night to help (February 5-8). Watson. well suited to facing South Africa Australia wrap up the one-day Meanwhile, cricket Australia T20 squad: George Itinerary: DOHA: South Africa opener in South Africa. series against England with two Australia yesterday challenged Bailey (capt), Aaron Finch (vice- Jan 27-31: First Test, Dhaka Lizelle Lee hit her maiden “We consider that both are games still to play. its Twenty20 squad to use the capt), Dan Christian, Nathan Feb 4-8: Second Test, Chittagong Twenty20 half-century to set strong players of pace bowling Other changes see the return England series to fight for a place Coulter-Nile, Ben Cutting, James Feb 12: First Twenty20, Chittagong the foundation of a strong win which is important given the from long-term injury of pace in the side heading to the short Faulkner, Josh Hazelwood, Moises Feb 14: Second Twenty20, Chittagong against Ireland in the PCB strength of South Africa’s attack. bowlers James Pattinson and format’s world championship. Henriques, Glenn Maxwell, James Qatar Women’s 20-over Tri- “Alex was on standby for the Jackson Bird. Australia unveiled a 14-man Muirhead, Chris Lynn, Mitchell Feb 17: First one-dayer, Sylhet series here yesterday. recent fifth Test in Sydney and Australia’s first choice bowling squad for the three matches Starc, Matthew Wade, Cameron Feb 20: Second one-dayer, Dhaka The 46-run win helped South scored a most impressive 165 line-up remains the same from against England with Bailey White. AGENCIES Feb 22: Third one-dayer, Dhaka Africa catch up with Ireland and Pakistan on the points table. South Africa were put into bat but unlike their first match against Pakistan, their open- ers delivered a strong start this time. Lee served up a statement of intent in the first over smash- ing Louise McCarthy for a six. Lizelle Lee of South There weren’t many boundaries Africa, Player of the after that but the two batsmen Match award win- kept picking up singles to bring ner, at the Twenty20 up the team’s 50 in the in the 10th match against over. Ireland at West End Trisha Chetty was dismissed Park International in the 13th over after a 61-run Stadium in Doha opening stand but Lee continued yesterday. Lee pushing along. She brought up hit her maiden her half-century with a bound- Twenty20 half-cen- ary in the 17th over but was out tury to set the foun- two balls later. Marizanne Kapp dation of a strong and Mignon du Preez then took win against Ireland 29 runs off the last three overs to in the PCB Qatar help South Africa to 119. Women’s 20-over In response, Ireland lost their Tri-series. openers within the first five overs and never really recovered from RIGHT: Pakistan there. Then Dane van Niekerk players celebrate struck thrice in her first three during their match overs to leave Ireland reeling on against Ireland. 47 for 6 after 13 overs. They man- Pakistan won by 21 aged another 26 runs in the next runs. seven overs. PICTURES BY: Meanwhile, Ireland Women ABDUL BASIT fell to the bottom of the table with their second loss of the day, to Pakistan Women, as they fell short of their target of 133 by 21 runs. An unbeaten 44 from Elena Tice went in vain. THE PENINSULA Tuesday 21 January 2014 20 Rabial I 1435 Volume 18 Number 5951 Sport Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Ton-up Ali helps Pakistan to series-levelling victory Misbah’s side pulls off astonishing chase; captain leads from the front Jerome Champagne speaks SHARJAH, United Arab Sri Lankan during a news conference in a Emirates: Azhar Ali hit a bril- captain Misbah happy hotel in Central London, Britain, liant hundred as Pakistan pulled yesterday. Champagne, a former off a thrilling win in the third Angleo right-hand man to current FIFA and final Test against Sri Lanka Mathews at winning President Joseph Blatter, in Sharjah yesterday, levelling (left) the series 1-1. and his farewell for announced in London his inten- Set a daunting 302 to win in a Pakistan tion to run for the presidency at possible 59 overs, Pakistan owed coun- Whatmore the ruling football body in 2015. their successful chase to Ali’s terpart fifth Test century (103) as he and Misbah- Misbah-ul-Haq shared 109-run ul-Haq, at SHARJAH, United Arab Champagne stand for the fifth wicket. the end of Emirates: Pakistan cap- Misbah, who finished with 68 the fifth tain Misbah-ul Haq showed launches not out, hit the winning single and last delight in giving coach Dav with nine balls to spare in fad- day of the Whatmore a happy farewell campaign for ing light. third and by winning the third and Ali, ironically dropped for final Test against Sri Lanka last Test of the first two Tests, hit paceman in Sharjah yesterday. FIFA presidency the three- Suranga Lakmal for a boundary, Pakistan clinched a thrill- then twice took two to reach his match ing five-wicket win in the third LONDON: Sepp Blatter’s hundred off 133 balls. series in Test in fading light in Sharjah, former right-hand man Jerome He hit six boundaries before Sharjah, chasing their second best tar- Champagne officially launched falling caught behind with just yesterday. get in all Tests of 302 with nine his bid to stand for the FIFA seven still needed to win. Pakistan balls to spare. presidency yesterday, firing Pakistan’s chances seemed to won the That levelled the three- the first shot in a potential have faded away at 107-3 at tea, third Test match series at 1-1 and 15-month battle for control of as they needed 195 in the last 35 to level gave Whatmore a winning the world’s richest and most overs. But Ali upped the tempo the series send-off. influential sport. during a rapid 89-run partnership 1-1. “It was really a much Frenchman Champagne, 55, in 14.5 overs with Sarfraz Ahmed wanted win, especially for a former diplomat, worked at (48) which left Sri Lanka on the Dav (Whatmore). We wanted FIFA for 11 years between 1999 defensive. 35-run start by the sixth over but Scoreboard to win it for him and level the and 2010 and is a former deputy Even when Sarfraz was out, paceman Suranga Lakmal (3-79) series,” said Misbah of the head Secretary General of world soc- caught behind off paceman halted that progress by dismiss- Sri Lanka (I innings): ...... 428-9 decl 65-3 (2nb, 1w), Rehman 33-10-56-4, Ajmal coach whose two-year tenure cer’s governing body. Shaminda Eranga, Pakistan ing openers Shehzad and Manzoor Pakistan (I innings): 25.4-7-53-3. ended after the match. The presidential elections will needed 116. Sarfraz hit four within 13 runs. Younis Khan tried Sri Lanka (II innings): Pakistan (II innings): The former Australian bats- take place in June 2015 with boundaries and a six off 46 balls. to increase the pace before being D Karunaratne b Talha ...... 8 K Manzoor c Prasanna b Lakmal ...... 21 man, who coached Sri Lanka Blatter expected to stand for a But Misbah supported Ali as caught off Angelo Mathews two K Silva b Rehman ...... 36 A Shehzad c Karunaratne b Lakmal ...... 21 to World Cup glory in 1996, fifth term and facing a possible Pakistan achieved their second overs before tea, but the scenario K Sangakkara c Manzoor b Rehman ...... 8 Azhar Ali c P Jayawardene b Lakmal ...... 103 took over in March 2012. challenge from UEFA president best chase in all Test cricket, changed in the last session. M Jayawardene c Ali b Ajmal ...... 46 Younis Khan c Sangakkara b Mathews ...... 29 Under Whatmore, Pakistan Michel Platini for the role sec- behind the 314 they chased With the series tied, Pakistan D Chandimal b Talha ...... 13 Sarfraz Ahmed c P Jayawardene b Eranga ..48 failed to win a Test series, los- ond only to the presidency of the against Australia in Karachi in also remained unbeaten in A Mathews c Manzoor b Talha...... 31 Misbah-ul-Haq (not out) ...... 68 ing to South Africa (2013) and International Olympic Committee 1994. Sri Lanka had won the sec- five series in the United Arab P Jayawardene c Ali b Ajmal ...... 49 Asad Shafiq (not out) ...... 1 Sri Lanka (2012) and drawing in global sporting importance. ond Test in Dubai by nine wick- Emirates, which has become D Perera c Ali b Rehman ...... 8 Extras (B-6, LB-1, W-3, NB-1) ...... 11 the remaining three. Champagne, speaking at the ets while the first Test ended in their home since security fears R Herath c Younis b Rehman ...... 0 Total (for 5 wkts) ...... 302 But Misbah said his team London site where the English a draw in Abu Dhabi. -- sparked in the wake of attacks S Eranga c Rehman b Ajmal ...... 3 Did not bat: Saeed Ajmal, Junaid Khan, Abdur enjoyed Whatmore’s coaching. FA, the world’s oldest, was Pakistan had lost Ahmed on the Sri Lankan team bus in S Lakmal (not out) ...... 2 Rehman, Mohammad Talha. “We really enjoyed being founded in 1863, ended months of Shehzad (21), Khurram Manzoor Lahore in 2009 -- forced them to Extras (B-2, LB-4 NB-2, W-2) ...... 10 Fall of wickets: 1-35 2-48 3-97 4-186 with him for all two years. speculation by declaring his bid on (21) and Younis Khan (29) as they play at neutral venues. Total (all out) ...... 214 5-295 We love you and we wish him a platform of reform based on his were derailed in their chase. They twice drew series with Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-37, 3-66, 4-89, Bowling: Lakmal 12-0-79-3, Eranga 15.3-0- all success (in future),” said far-reaching 20,000-word docu- Needing to score at a rate of South Africa (2010 and 2013) 5-127, 6-189, 7-203, 8-203, 9-209. 68-1 (nb-1, w-1), Herath 19-0-100-0 (w-2), Misbah. ment “What FIFA for the 21st more than five an over to win, and beat Sri Lanka (2011) and Bowling: Junaid 20-6-34-0 (1w), Talha 23-2- Mathews 11-0-48-1. AFP century ?” published in 2012. Pakistan were given a rapid England (2012). AFP He said his election slogans: “Hope for Football, Hope for All” and “Re-Balance the Game in a Globalised 21st Century” empha- sise his message of curbing the polarisation of the game into Garcia inspires Qatari youngsters to win pockets of elite clubs in Europe’s richest leagues. In an interview, Champagne DOHA: World No. 11 Sergio well and had a good attitude. I said he was advocating four major Garcia and his two young Team think they had a good time and changes to modernise the organi- Qatar partners emerged victori- enjoyed it,” said Garcia, a 10-time sation: “It needs to be more trans- ous in the inaugural nine-hole European Tour winner. parent and more in tune with the Commercial Bank Challenge “He made the most putts for modern world. Match, which featured three of birdie,” added the Spaniard, “We need to redress the imbal- the world’s top golfers and six pointing at Al Naimi. ances in the world game, we need Qatari teenagers competing in The 15-year-old Al Qush said it to make FIFA’s executive commit- a fun team event ahead of this was a thrill to play nine holes with tee more democratic and trans- week’s $2.5m Commercial Bank one of the world’s famous players. parent, we need to introduce Qatar Masters. “It has been a great honour to technology to assist the referee World No. 3 Henrik Stenson, play with Sergio Garcia, one of and his assistants and we need to who topped the 2013 Race to Dubai, the top pros in the world. I really better handle the globalisation of and World No. 13 Jason Dufner, the enjoyed playing with him. He the sport. reigning PGA Championship win- gave me some tips and some facts “At the very least I want to ner, also captained teams in the about golf, gave me some advice open up the debate so these issues nine-man event at Doha Golf Club, about my swing and about the are examined properly,” he added. with each team featuring one pro short game, how to do chip and Since leaving FIFA in 2010 and two young amateurs.Garcia’s run. I did really benefit and it’s after being forced out by political group was the last to tee off and going to help me in the future. I infighting, that for once, he was after finishing on the ninth green, hope that I’ll be better than him,” powerless to stop, Champagne has the Spaniard was delighted to smiled the confident teenager, been working as an international learn that his team won the Texas who explained his brief Spanish soccer consultant in troubled Scramble event with a score of five- exchange with Garcia. regions such as Kosovo, Palestine under 67. Garcia was impressed Garcia clearly inspired a com- and Israel and Cyprus. with his young teammates for petitive attitude in his team- Although he is outside FIFA he the day – Sami Al Qush, 15, and mates, with the quiet Al Naimi, says he is eligible to stand for the Abdulrahman Al Naimi, 13. the youngest member of the win- Sergio Garcia (centre) and team-mates Sami Al Qush (left), and Abdulrahman Al Naimi (right), won the nine-hole presidency as he has the backing “It was very good. I thought ning team, also bidding to bet- Commercial Bank Challenge Match at Doha Golf Club yesterday. Henrik Stenson and Jason Dufner also cap- of at least five FAs and has been they played very nicely – very ter the livewire Spaniard in the tained teams in the fun team event, part of the lead-up to this week’s $2.5m Commercial Bank Qatar Masters. active in the game for at least two impressive. They hit the ball quite future. THE PENINSULA of the last five years. REUTERS