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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Kuwait marks 50 Khalfan fires years of charter KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait yesterday marked the golden jubilee of its constitu- tion with a spectacular $15m fireworks fresh salvo at display which earned the state a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. “I am happy to verify that with 77,282 fire- works, a new Guinness world record has been set tonight” in Kuwait City, a representative Brotherhood of Guinness World Records announced on Kuwait television at the end of the display. On November 11, 1962, the late Emir Islamist body ‘dividing Sunnis’ Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Al Sabah promul- gated the constitution for Kuwait to become DOHA: Controversial Dubai leader of one of the biggest the first Arab state in the Gulf to issue a Police Chief Dhahi Khalfan Arab countries, who should constitution and have a parliament. has fired a fresh salvo at the actually be opposing Israel, is The Emir H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Muslim Brotherhood and said fondly describing its president Al Sabah reiterated in a televised speech the that while Ayatollah Khomeini as ‘dear friend’.” government’s unwavering commitment to divided Muslims along sectar- Taking another dig at Mursi democracy and called for national unity as ian lines (Shias and Sunnis), and his Brotherhood-led rule the state goes through a bitter political crisis. the Islamist body was creating in Egypt, the Dubai police chief Fireworks light the sky near the Kuwait Towers during celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of Human Rights Watch, meanwhile, called for a wedge within the Sunni sect said Jerusalem was still occupied Kuwait’s constitution, in Kuwait City, yesterday. Kuwait marked the celebrations with a spectacular Kuwait to revoke a ban on demonstrations and of Islam. by Tel Aviv and Israeli flags were respect the people’s right to peaceful assembly. $15m fireworks display which earned the state a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. In a bitter Brotherhood- flying in some Arab capitals. See also page 10 bashing which seems to be his “This was understandable favourite pastime, Khalfan said during the former regimes (a on his Twitter account yesterday reference to Hosni Mubarak’s that he expected the Islamist government), but Islamists are organisation to face popular in power now and that they are revolt after two years. reconciling to the situation is Labour complaints drop sharply in Qatar Daring country heads of something baffling.” the Brotherhood (known as Brotherhood operatives are DOHA: A senior official of the following intervention by the benefits, air tickets or non-pay- the Ministry in just three min- Murshids) to set foot on the using Twitter to communicate Ministry of Labour has said Ministry and only 10 percent are ment of salaries. “We can access utes. There is no much waiting, Gulf soil, he said they would be in the GCC but the latter would that the number of complaints it referred to the court, he added. data about any worker using his despite that the Ministry receives taken into custody the moment never ever fall into their hands, received from expatriate workers Most companies and employers are ID or visa. All the data related between 1,500 to 2,000 contracts they arrive here. “They are mafia Khalfan said on the Twitter. has dwindled significantly and a now showing readiness to resolve to foreign workers are saved daily at its various branches. bosses and so they shouldn’t be “Where is Libya’s petrol wealth majority of the disputes are now the disputes at the Ministry. electronically and can be easily “We continuously hold meetings spared.” going?” he asked, sarcastically, being resolved amicably. Only few of them are not respond- accessed when necessary,” said with firms and businessmen to raise Khalfan pooh-poohed Egypt’s launching a veiled attack on the The Ministry currently ing positively and that too due to the Al Shawi. awareness on workers’ rights. We Brotherhood rule and taking aim Brotherhood which is in com- receives 350 to 400 complaints financial or other problems they are The ministry provides interpret- also work jointly with the Qatar at President Mohammed Mursi, mand in Libya as well. “It’s a from workers every month. facing, said the official. Once the ers to assist the workers to lodge Chamber with this objective,” it but without naming him, he said simple question,” he said. “Earlier we used to get a about Ministry receives a complaint, it a complaint. The complaints re said. The Ministry has distributed it was ironical that he (Mursi) An outspoken Khalfan was, 1,000 complaints monthly,” Saleh tries to find an amicable settlement being received at the main offices a workers’ guide to all the foreign should refer to Israeli President however, soft on Iran and said Al Shawi, public relations direc- in one week. If this fails the case of the Ministry or at its different embassies to create awareness Shimon Perez as ‘dear friend’. whatever “our differences with tor at the Ministry told Al Sharq. will be referred to the court. branches in the Industrial Area, among the foreign workers being “Indeed, we are living today the country, it is after all a neigh- Some 90 percent of the dis- The majority of the complaints Muntazah and Al Khor. recruited to the country before in a world ruled by the Israelis,” bour of the GCC”. putes involving workers and the are from construction workers He said employers can now their arrival in Qatar. Khalfan said satirically, “as the Continued on page 6 employers are settled amicably and are related to end-of-service process contract documents with THE PENINSULA 25m Arab women ‘unmarried’

DOHA: There are an esti- spinsters each of marriagea- a staggering 700,000) account mated 25 million women aged ble age, according to the study for nearly 70 percent of the 24 and above in the Arab world conducted in 14 Arab countries overall local (citizens) female — including the Gulf region in 2010 by ‘Alrai’ newspaper population. — who remain unmarried of Kuwait, the social network- Bahrain with a figure of and large numbers of them ing site said. These are just 450,000 ranks next followed have crossed the marriage- rough estimates and not actual by Kuwait (70,000) and Qatar able age of 35, says a research figures. (30,000). Statistics for Oman whose findings were posted on As for other countries, Syria were not available but rough a social networking site here and Lebanon have a share of estimates suggest the ratio of yesterday. 700,000 and 450,000 each in the women in marriageable age Egypt, the country with the total spinster population. might not be less than 10 per- largest population in Arab Studies conducted in Jordan cent of the country’s female world, alone accounts for more show that the average marriage- population. than one-third (nine million) of able age of women has risen up Kuwait has taken some steps the total number of spinsters in to 30 while the average is 32 in to rectify the situation and nar- Arab world, followed by Algeria the case of men. row the gap with the parliament (four million), Iraq (three mil- Saudi Arabia tops the GCC recommending that state mar- lion) and Yemen (two million). states in terms of the number of riage loans worth 6,000 dinars Countries like Sudan, women aged 24 and above who (QR60,000) be given away to Morocco, Tunisia and Saudi are unmarried. Next is the UAE those eligible. Arabia have 1.5 million where spinsters (estimated at Continued on page 6

New Doha Port US plans $6.7bn jet deal with Saudi

WASHINGTON: The United States plans a $6.7bn sale of 20 heavy cargo aircraft and five refuelling planes to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon announced, in a deal to be approved by Congress. The deal includes the cost of training, logistical support, parts and associated equipment for the aircraft. The US Defence Security Cooperation Agency said the pro- posed sale of 20 C-130J-30 Super Hercules planes and five KC-130J An aerial view of the QR27bn new Doha port taking shape. Strategically aircraft — an extended-range located between Mesaieed and Wakra, the port will have a new base tanker version of the C-130s— for Qatar Emiri Naval Force and a marine canal for Qatar Economic would sustain Saudi Arabia’s “aging fleet”. Congress has 30 days to raise Zone 3. See also page 6 objections, otherwise the deal will be concluded. AFP SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Dhow fest from Tuesday

DOHA: The second Festival in the region, from Bahrain, Kuwait, The festival will be held annual Dhow Festival the Second Annual the Kingdom of Saudi until November 17, at will open on Tuesday Dhow Festival will Arabia, UAE, Qatar Katara’s Esplanade. under the patronage of showcase over 100 and Oman. Owners and The dhow festival the Emir H H Sheikh dhows which consist crews of the dhows will Committee Manager, Hamad bin Khalifa of 13 different types of be present to meet and Ahmed Al Hitmi, said: Al Thani, Katara, dhows from across the greet visitors, sharing “Building on the success of the Cultural Village Gulf. secrets of the trade in last year’s Dhow Festival we announced yesterday. This year the exhibi- an effort to preserve are proud to host this event As the only Dhow tion will display dhows Qatari culture. again, which honours Arab culture and turn it to an annual celebration. “The dhow festival pays homage to our ancestors who worked effortlessly to build a future for our coun- try. This event provides a platform for cultural exchange, promoting Qatari history, educating and pro- moting our legacy with the youth of Qatar,” he said. Associated with this event is the Pearl Diving competi- tion which was also a great success last year. The competition which begins on November 15 at 4.00pm will see 156 mem- bers from 12 teams embark on a three-day journey to collect as many pearls as possible using the tradi- tional methods and tools of diving. To mark the end of the festival, an award ceremony announcing the winners of the various competi- tions will take place on November 17 at 6.00pm. In addition to the well preserved dhows on dis- play, Katara will host a variety of events including dhow cruises, fireworks, traditional performers, live dhow building, a light show, a rowing competi- tion, children’s workshops and museum displays from galleries across the Gulf. The second annual Dhow Festival is made possible by Barwa Real Estate and sup- ported by Qatar Airways and Seashore Group. THE PENINSULA

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Croatian President arrives today Indian actor honoured DOHA: President Ivo Josipovic of the Republic of Croatia will arrive in Doha today for a state visit to Qatar that will last for several days. The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani will hold talks with the Croatian President on bilateral relations and other issues of common con- cern. QNA

Muhammad Atiq (second left), President Aalmi Mushaira, Marzouk Bashir Marzouk, from the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage, the Indian Ambassador, Sanjiv Arora (third right), Muhammad Sarfraz Ahmad Khanzada (second right), Ambassador of Pakistan; and M S Bukhari with Indian actor Naseeruddin Shah (centre) at the 16th Aalmi Mushaira 2012 held in Doha recently. ABDUL BASIT Film festival to honour women filmmakers

DOHA: Women film- makers are increasingly playing an active role in the Arab world’s film industry bridging the gender divide that had been cited as a chal- lenge faced by regional cinema. Evidence to the dramatic strides made by Arab women film- makers is highlighted at the fourth Doha Tribeca Film Festival, the annual cultural cel- ebration of Doha Film Institute (DFI), which opens with accom- plished filmmaker Mira Nair’s (pictured) The Reluctant Fundamentalist. DTFF will be held between November 17 and 24 with indoor and outdoor screenings taking place at Katara Cultural Village, Museum of Islamic Arts (MIA), and Souq Waqif. Eight Qatari films are helmed by women directors, eleven films by Arab women filmmakers are screened in the Festival’s Arab Film Competition, while the Contemporary World Cinema, Special Screenings, and Tribute to Algerian Cinema feature another six films directed by women, in addition to the opening gala. The films are distinct in their thematic and narrative approach, highlighting the imprint made by women film- makers globally. In the Arab Film Competition segment are Maggie Morgan’s Asham: A Man Called Hope, which narrates the stories of six couples at different stages in their relation- ship, set against the lead up to the 25 January Revolution; and Hanan Abdalla’s In the Shadow of a Man, that presents the personal revolutions of four women from different backgrounds in post-revolution Egypt. Also in competition are Tamara Stepanyan’s Embers, a touching tribute to the memory of the filmmaker’s grand- mother; A Deep Long Breath by Tahani Rached which documents the 18 days that brought about the end of dic- tatorship in Egypt; Rafea: Solar Mama by Jehane Noujaim and Mona Eldaief, which follows the story of a Jordanian Bedouin mother, who leaves her home to travel to India to obtain an education; The Lebanese Rocket Society co- directed by Joana Hadjithomas – a reflection of the reawakening of hopes in the wake of the Arab spring; Sanctity by Ahd Kamel, which documents the story of Areej, a pregnant, young Saudi widow, who will endure anything to protect her unborn child; L`Mrayet by Nadia Rais is about a man who is hired to write the future; Ismail by Nora Alsharif is about a young Palestinian boy living in a refugee camp who struggles to escape imminent death when he and his little brother stray into a mine- field; When They Slept by Maryam Touzani is about the relationship between a grandfather and a granddaughter and The Wall by Odette Makhlouf Mouarkech is about living everyday life in Beirut during the civil war. ‘Made in Qatar,’ includes Amna Al Khalaf’s Brains of Empowerment, an experimental film about the empower- ment of women in the Middle East; and Lyrics Revolt by Shannon Farhoud, Ashlene Ramadan, Melanie Fridgant and Rana Khaled Al Khatib, a documentary that started as a student project at Northwestern University in Qatar, exploring the events of Arab Spring through hip hop artists of the Middle East in addition to Ghazil - The Story of Rached & Jawaher by Sarah Al-Derham, Rain by Rehab El Ewaly, The Worker by Manal Ahmed , His Name by Hend Fakhroo, Bader by Sarah Al-Saadi, Maaria Assami, Latifa Al-Darwish and Crazy Calm by Noor Ahmed Yaqiub. As part of the Contemporary World Cinema line-up, DTFF will screen Children of Sarajevo by Marija Pikic and Ismir Gagula, the story of two siblings living in the harsh battle-scarred Sarajevo, Dominga Sotomayor’s Thursday Till Sunday, narrates the story of 10-year-old Lucia, her parents, and brother and their holiday in the north of Chile, which results in broken familial bonds, ending in an emotional farewell and a family in crisis and Venus and Serena by Maiken Baird and Michelle Major, document the story of the greatest tennis champions in the world. THE PENINSULA

SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Algerian, Yemeni youth bag honours in Doha 5,430 students from 13 countries across the region take part in INJAZ’s young Arab Entrepreneurs Competition

DOHA: ALGreenIA and Michael Bey, Vice President of Creative Generation from ExxonMobil Qatar Inc, and Abdul Algeria and Yemen respectively Hakeem Mostafawi, CEO of HSBC walked away with the top acco- Bank Middle East Qatar. lade for the ‘Best Company of Other awards of the night the Year’ award at the sixth included: HSBC Award for the annual INJAZ Al Arab Young ‘Most Innovative Product’ which Entrepreneurs Competition held went to Mathaq from Oman, a under the patronage of Qatar company that specialises in the Foundation. production of tea in an innova- The student companies were tive and time efficient manner; assessed on their ability to dem- FedEx ‘Access Award’ going to onstrate sound business insight, RecycloBekia from Egypt, a financial knowledge, marketing company which specialises in support and feasibility studies. electronic waste collection that In addition, competing students offers green recycling and data were required to spend one day destruction; NBK Award for the showcasing their products, pre- ‘Company with the Best Social senting to the public, and hold- Impact’ going to VISIO from ing a private question and answer Lebanon, a company which aims session with the judging panel in to educate communities to take order to present their business in care of the environment, and its entirety. Barwa Bank’s Award for the ‘Best The award was presented by Marketing Plan’ going to H2O Fadi Michael Bay, Vice President Meter from Palestine, an environ- Judges with the winning teams from Algeria and Yemen at the sixth annual INJAZ Al Arab Young Entrepreneurs Competition. of ExxonMobil Qatar to both com- mentally-friendly product which panies for their environmentally- aims to preserve water with high friendly products. efficiency and low costs. The jury comprised Fadi The INJAZ Al Arab Young Arab culmination of 5,430 participat- Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, UAE and Foundation said: “INJAZ Al proud to support an organisation Ghandour, Founder and CEO Entrepreneurs Competition was ing students working to create Yemen. Arab has highlighted the need that benefits Arab youth through of Aramex, Sheikha Hanadi Al launched in 2007 and is attended 240 student companies across Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali Al to encourage entrepreneurship education and motivation, and Thani, Founder and Chairperson by national competition winners 13 countries including Algeria, Thani, president of Hamad bin within each community in the we hope to continue supporting of Amwal, Slim Othmani, Vice from countries across the region. Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Khalifa University and vice region and after seeing the out- INJAZ Al Arab in the years to President of Afia Algeria, Fadi This year’s competition was the Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, president of Education for Qatar come of the competition, we are come.” THE PENINSULA

Qatar to represent ‘Fitness’ expo opens Asia at Interpol 10 Qatari teams take part DOHA: Qatar will repre- sent Asia in the executive in Malaysia robot contest committee of Interpol. The Ministry of Interior KUALA LUMPUR: Ten Alsmadi, two students partici- (MoI) has secured member- teams from Qatar have trav- pating from Nasser bin Abdulla ship in the committee repre- elled to Malaysia to compete secondary school in Qatar, said senting the Asian continent, in this years’ World Robot “the World Robot Olympiad is a the Ministry said yesterday. Olympiad (WRO) Finals as great experience for us. It is an Interpol is the largest police part of a technology and science exciting journey, we are learning organization in the world with education partnership between a lot of new ideas from the many 190 member countries. The Maersk Oil Qatar and College of countries and people we are meet- decision was made at Interpol’s the North Atlantic – Qatar, in ing out here.” ministerial meeting held in support of the Qatar National The World Robot Olympiad Rome, Italy on Thursday. Vision 2030. was first hosted by Singapore The Director of International The event was officially opened in 2004, followed by Thailand, Cooperation Department by YAB Tan Sri Dato’ Haji China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, the at the Ministry Brig. Saud Muhyiddin bin Haji Mohd. Yassin, Philippines and the United Arab Abdullah Zaid Al Mahmoud Deputy Prime Minister and Emirates (UAE) in subsequent will occupy this post repre- Minister of Education Malaysia years. Currently in its ninth year, senting the Asian continent. during an exciting ceremony Malaysia is playing host to the THE PENINSULA held at the Sunway Pyramid biggest Olympiad ever, hosting Convention Centre. 405 teams from 30 countries. The Qatari teams qualified for The overwhelming response New Doha Port the finals following their suc- from nations around the world cess in the Qatar National Robot demonstrates that the WRO has project work Olympiad held earlier in October, successfully raised interest among Mahmoud Al Raisi, the Executive Director at Heart Hospital, inaugurates an exhibition as part of the ‘Fit 4 and are participating in both the students in science and technol- in top gear Forum,’ a conference on plastic surgery, fitness and beauty at St Regis Hotel in Doha. Mohammad Al Noimi regular and open categories. ogy, robotics as well as ICT.

(left), Chief of Communication and Chief of Staff at the Managing Director’s Office of HMC, and Dr Habib Al Muaen Al Shear and Mustafa THE PENINSULA DOHA: Work on Qatar’s Basti, Consultant, Plastic Surgery at HMC are also seen. SALIM MATRAMKOT prestigious New Doha Port project is fast progressing. The preliminary stage of the project is in its advanced stage, Al Sharq has reported. QNB jobs for citizens with special needs The estimated QR27bn project is one of the most DOHA: Qatar National Bank special needs with the support Manager/Chief Operation Officer important ongoing develop- (QNB), has signed a memo- and guidance of the Qatar Society and Rabia bin Mohammed Al ment projects in line with randum of understanding for the Rehabilitation of People Kaabi, the Deputy Chairman the country’s National Vision with the Qatar Society for the with Special Needs. QNB aims of the Qatar Society for the 2030. Strategically located in Rehabilitation of People with to help these individuals secure Rehabilitation of People with South of Doha, between the Special Needs to train and rewarding careers and integrate Special Needs. emerging cities of Mesaieed develop people with special them better into society. Al Mohannadi said QNB aims and Wakra, the new port needs and involve them in jobs The memorandum was signed at encouraging this important will cover an estimated area that suit their type of disability. by Ali Rashid Al Mohannadi, category of the society, who has of 26.5km, with a new base QNB will employ people with QNB’s Executive General special talents and skills, helping for Qatar Emiri Naval Force them to be more self confident and a marine canal for Qatar and more giving, providing, at Economic Zone 3. the same time, the life they have The Emiri Naval Force always dreamed of. Teams at the opening ceremony of the World Robot Olympiad in Malaysia. Base that covers an area of Al Kaabi, highlighted QNB’s 4.5 sq km is capable of accom- initiative, as a great opportunity modating vessels of the Emiri to continue supporting people Naval Force, Special Forces with special needs and provide and the visiting naval forces. more vacancies in future, a mat- The basin will be 1.3km long, ter that will boost their self esti- Khalfan attacks supporters of Brotherhood up to 500m wide and 12.5m mation and encourage then to deep. The Economic Zone 3 is play a bigger role in this society. Continued from page 1 envisaged to become an inte- Al Kaabi also stressed that The Dubai police chief who earlier invited the wrath of the opposition grated economic development QNB was one of the first insti- groups in Kuwait by criticising their political protest maimed his guns at area that would utilise Qatar’s tutions that offered to employ them again — this time, targeting Brotherhood backers in the country’s resources in a sustainable people with special needs and sup- erstwhile parliament. “The comical parliament is over,” he said referring manner, bringing added value Senior officials of QNB and Qatar Society for the Rehabilitation of People ported all other activities related to the dissolved House. The supporters of Brotherhood in the dissolved to Qatar’s growing economy. to them. parliament were protagonists of ‘political hooliganism’, Khalfan said on with Special Needs after signing the agreement. The 7km access channel THE PENINSULA his twitter account on November 8. THE PENINSULA covers a basin over 1.5km in length and 500m wide. The dredging process is expected to excavate over 7m cubic metres of sand and rock from the basin. According to Concern over rising number of spinsters in the region the original project schedule the new port is to be opera- tional in 2016. Described as Continued from page 1 who are aged 34 and above remain four million over the next five blamed for the swelling num- members to marry even in other one of the deepest ports of Studies suggest that in Qatar, unmarried. years. Citing reasons for delayed bers of unmarried women. The GCC states. the world, Qatar’s new sea- Bahrain, Kuwait and the UAE The research paper quotes a marriages and the rising size of research calls on the govern- Another commentator said port is expected to attract the ratio of women who remain UAE journalist, Ayesha Reema, the population of spinsters in the ments and the charities to play that it is not only Qatari women huge mother ships. unmarried is 35 percent of the as telling Sharjah Radio recently Arab world, the research said an active role to help remove the whose marriages are delayed but A rail intermodal termi- total female population in these that there were an estimated 4.5 women outnumbering men, ris- imbalance. Qatari men are also facing similar nal is being planned for the countries. This ratio in Saudi million women of marriageable ing jobless rate, poverty and high The research has evoked reac- woes. port. There would be planned Arabia, Yemen and Libya has age in the GCC region whose costs of marriage were largely to tions from citizens on local social Yet another commentator connection with Qatar declined to 30 percent, while in marriages were being delayed. blame for the social malaise. networking sites and according wrote that the divorce rate in Railway and GCC Railway. the case of Sudan and Somalia it The research said given the As for the cash-rich GCC to one commentator, the problem Qatar was very high which meant THE PENINSULA has come down to 20 percent. In present situation the number of region, high rate of divorce and with Qatari families is that they that marriages were not stable. Qatar, some 30 percent of women spinsters in Saudi could soar to escalating wedding costs are don’t allow their male or female THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 SFS-Q to start Qatar University to host pre-COP-18 talk

DOHA: Qatar University will and global environment. COP18 host an internationally-recog- is the perfect catalyst to involve Climate Change nised climate change activist, the most valuable resource in who will lead a discussion on Qatar - the state’s youth – to the relevance of climate change build local capacity for global to young people in Qatar and challenges, by way of a dialogue the wider Arab world later this on climate change and environ- lectures today week. mental awareness.” The university’s Energy and The work of the forum is part Environmental Law Forum of the wider role Qatar University (QUEELF) at the College of Law plays in serving society in targeted Series to run till December 2 has organised the first youth- areas of national importance. focused lecture and workshop Wael Hmaidan said: “What the DOHA: Georgetown University ahead of the UN Climate Change region requires is a strong, long- School of Foreign Service in Conference (COP18), which will term movement that is working to Qatar (SFS-Q) is holding a be held in Doha from the end of address climate change and help series of Climate Change lec- November to 6 December 2012. eliminate greenhouse gas emis- tures from today to help inform The guest speaker at the public sions. This can only be achieved if the community and to foster event on November 15 will be Wael climate change becomes a priority discussions around the crucial Hmaidan (pictured), Director of focuses on serving academia, toward a knowledge-based econ- on the agenda of civil society, busi- topic of climate change. Climate Action Network (CAN)- governmental organisations and omy, as enshrined in the Qatar nesses, and government.” These public lectures held at International – a network of industry in the energy, environ- National Development Strategy Wael is a former Greenpeace Georgetown’s Education City over 700 Non-Governmental mental and climate law and policy 2011-16 and the Qatar National campaigner for the Arab world campus until December 2, will Organisations (NGOs) in more fields. Vision 2030. and founded IndyACT in Lebanon bring together thought leaders than 90 countries working to QUEELF was founded as an QUFEELF Director Rudiger in 2007. on this hot topic and provide the reduce human-induced climate independent incubator, research Tscherning said: “One of the mis- The free event, open to the community in Qatar, the oppor- change to ecologically sustain- and educational unit at QU in sions of QUFEELF is to inspire wider community, will be held in tunity to engage with experts and able levels. 2011, to assist the state of Qatar’s the youth of Qatar to take pride QU’s College of Business/College become empowered and informed The lecture and workshop is aspiration of achieving environ- in the management of the state’s of Law and will run from 10am- members of an active society. part of a wider programme of mental sustainability in parallel natural resources and in the 1pm on November 15. Dr Robert Wirsing, professor at events run by the QUEELF, which with an accelerated development protection of the local, regional THE PENINSULA SFS-Q will moderate the lecture series and commented: “SFS-Q is extremely proud to be hosting The Assistant Dean for Academic such a distinguished lecture series Affairs at SFS-Q, Dr Kai-Henrik on climate change. We want to Barth, who will talk about ‘The Traffic Dept to hold give people in Qatar the chance Debate over Climate Change’ today. to get involved and also become better acquainted with the issues that are really so important to all Dr Barth notes that, “a large awareness campaign of us.” majority of climate scientists “Qatar is making remarkable agree that humans are mostly progress in making environ- responsible for the warming, yet in expatriate schools mental challenges a top priority parts of the public remain uncon- toward human development, and vinced. In my presentation I will DOHA: As part of efforts to The training session led hosting COP18 is a clear state- address how politics entered this actively involve expatriate by experts on traffic safety ment of this. These lectures will presumably scientific debate.” schools in its ongoing traffic will cover various subjects explain the complexities of the On Tuesday Mari Luomi, safety campaign, the Traffic such as ‘pedestrian accidents discussions central to COP18 Research Associate, SFS-Q Department is organis- : reasons and remedies’, and and help put them into context will delve into the progress ing a training programme common traffic mistakes. The by demonstrating the real rele- with a lecture entitled, ‘From for representatives of these four-hour training session will vance of climate change for all of Kyoto to COP18’; on November schools. also discuss Qatar’s traffic law us. Now is the time for us to take 14 Dr Robert W Corell, direc- The first training session in detail, the fines for traffic care of the world we live in – and tor at the Center for Energy will take place on November violations and the black point Qatar should lead this,” Wirsing and Climate Solutions of the 17 from 4 pm to 8 pm at system. said. Global Environment Technology Capital Security Department The Department has asked The SFS-Q Climate Change Foundation, and chairperson in Doha. managements of expatriate Lecture Series begins today at of the Global Climate Action Officials in charge of trans- schools to nominate four rep- 7pm with session entitled, ‘The Initiative, will lecture on ‘Global port and safety at the schools resentatives from each school, Debate over Climate Change’ by Warming and The Oceans’, as well as those coordinating including the transport man- Dr Kai-Henrik Barth, Assistant taking an in-depth look at the the academic activities will be ager, traffic safety officer and Dean for Academic Affairs at issues surrounding the melting trained in conducting aware- two activity coordinators SFS-Q. of the ice caps, sea level rise and ness sessions for school driv- from different sections of the Dr Barth will set the tone Acidification. ers and students, respectively. school, who can effectively for the series, by informing the On November 18 Dr Brahma The Traffic Department conduct same training pro- community about what is truly Chellaney Professor for Strategic will be organising traffic gram for the students and the at stake and how might we be Studies, Centre for Policy safety awareness programmes bus drivers in future. impacted by it. He will present Research, New Delhi and Author, in future in coordination with The participants have been the issues and share the facts and Water: Asia’s New Battleground, these trainees at schools. asked to send their names, realities on the ground. will host the lecture ‘Global The new initiative is along with the name of the Dr Barth will address the fol- Warming and The Land: Are launched as a part of the school, telephone number lowing core questions in the cli- We Heading For Water Wars In “Pedestrian safety campaign and email to the fax number: mate change debate: Is climate Himalayan Asia?” while Nathan 2012 -2013” targeting differ- 44323339 or contact Faisal Al change real? If so, are humans Hultman will host the closing ent segments of the expatriate Hudawi of Public Relations causing it? How much is our cli- lecture on December 2 ‘Climate communities in Qatar. Department at the Ministry mate going to change, and how Change: Carbon Taxes, Cap and The Department recently of Interior fast? How certain or uncertain is Trade Renewables, Sequestration held a similar training pro- Email: Faisalhudawi@moi. our knowledge of climate change? and Other Remedies’ grammes for representatives gov.qa What should we do? THE PENINSULA of expatriate organisations. THE PENINSULA

Children from Best Buddies creating towel art. Best Buddies kids get art lessons from Marriott, Renaissance staff DOHA: Delegates of Marriott Hotels International Inc and its daughter company, Renaissance Doha City Center Hotel, paid a visit to Best Buddies Qatar Organisation recently to organise an event for 15 students with intellectual challenges from the Doha International Center for Special Needs. It was an event to teach the student the towel art, creating the shapes of different animals, and painting the Marriot Hotel Buildings with its and Best Buddies Qatar logos ended up with a healthy lunch. The delegation of 10 senior team representatives was headed by John Northern, the General Manager of the Marriott Doha City Center Hotel. “This is a Marriott International event which takes place in more than 70 countries in over 3,800 hotels all over the world. And this is a “Global Customer Appreciation Week” during with the representatives of Marriot hotels thank to the society and fulfil their policy of “The Spirit to Serve the Community,” explained the GM of the Marriott Doha City Center. THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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CHAIRMAN: SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: KHALID AL SAYED Kuwait crisis E-MAIL: [email protected] ACTING MANAGING EDITOR: HUSSAIN AHMAD As Kuwait celebrates the golden jubilee E-MAIL: [email protected] of its constitution, there is concern EDITORIAL: TEL: 44557741 / 44557743 FAX: 44557746 / 44557758 P. O. BOX: 3488, DOHA, QATAR. about political turmoil in the country. E-MAIL: [email protected] UWAIT yesterday celebrated in spectacular style the golden Will the leaders think of rewriting the constitution as a solution to ADVERTISING: TEL: 44557837 / 780 FAX: 44557870 jubilee of its constitution. In the process, it won a place in the current crisis? Kthe Guinness Book of World Records with a one-hour, $15m These questions assume significance because the political turmoil CLASSIFIED: 44557857 E-MAIL: [email protected] fireworks display (with 77,282 fireworks, as a Guinness official put in the country has assumed dangerous proportions. During the past SUBSCRIPTION / HOME DELIVERY it). Tens of thousands of Kuwaitis and expatriates filled the seaside 50 years, the parliament was dissolved nine times, six of them since Arabian Gulf Road to witness the fireworks and laser display staged mid-2006, while some articles of the constitution itself were frozen twice TEL: 44557809 /839 FAX: 44557819 to mark the 50th anniversary of the constitution. Addressing the to suspend parliament for a total of 11 years in the 1970s and 1980s. E-MAIL: [email protected] nation, the Emir H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah reiterated Yesterday’s celebrations assume significance for another reason: the government’s unwavering commitment to democracy and called the opposition has accused the government of staging a coup against SUBSCRIPTION RATES for national unity. the constitution because of a planned amendment in the electoral ANNUAL QR 675 Kuwaitis can definitely feel proud of their constitution, because the law. The opposition has been protesting violently against the proposed 6 MONTHS QR 340 democracy and freedom which they enjoy today is the result of a charter amendment saying it’s a violation of their freedom, while the govern- which was promulgated on November 11, 1962, by the late Emir Sheikh ment argues it’s in the spirit of the constitution. Abdullah Al Salem Al Sabah. It’s a constitution which has made people The latest developments show that Kuwait is going through a crucial in other Arab countries envious, because the freedom which Kuwait phase in its history. The intermittent disputes between the government enjoys still remains a dream for many Arab countries. and political parties, which have often paralyzed governance, have But 50 years on, a few questions must be tugging at the hearts of brought the country disrepute and sent bad signals about democracy several Kuwaitis and its leaders. Is this the freedom its rulers had to neighbouring countries. Both the government and the opposition PUBLICATION envisioned when they promulgated the constitution? Is the political need to find a permanent solution to the crisis and ensure a smooth crisis which the country is currently going through the result of some transition to democracy. Freedom and democracy are of no use if they unforeseen flaws in the constitution, or due to the lack of diligence on bring strife and instability. Kuwait must overcome this crisis, and the the part of leaders and wrong interpretation and implementation? challenges ahead are many.

After being married for The other side over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an Quote of extramarital affair. In Ukraine, a step backward the day David Petraeus Former CIA Chief IGHT years ago this month, an inspiring movement took hold in Ukraine. After the 2004 presidential election, demonstrators Efilled the streets to protest a vote marred by fraud and corrup- tion in what came to be known as the Orange Revolution. A runoff election was annulled, a new vote was ordered by the courts, and the second runoff was deemed free and fair. People power worked. Given that promising moment, it is distressing to see Ukraine’s politi- cal system now backsliding. The campaign leading up to the Oct. 28 vote for parliament was rigged to benefit President Viktor Yanukovych and his ruling Party of Regions. This time, there was no revolution, just relatively small but determined protests, and a brushoff from the prime minister, Mykola Azarov, who declared, “These were the best organized elections in Ukraine in the history of its independence.” In fact, they were “best organized” in a peculiar post-Soviet fashion now evident in Russia and elsewhere in Eurasia. The features of this system are slicker than some of the pitched battles for power in the 1990s, but they are onerous nonetheless, designed to give the ruling party an insurmountable advantage through subterfuge and subversion. In Ukraine, the rigging of the election began long before voting day. According to a report by international election observers, the cam- paign lacked a level playing field for all candidates: Those in power “abused” their state resources for political gain and benefited from “a lack of balanced media coverage.” Not to mention that former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Yuri Lutsenko, two prominent opposi- tion political leaders, have been imprisoned following trials that were widely criticized as politically motivated. While election day was largely peaceful, there have been allegations of fraud in the voting process and tabulation. The campaign was outwardly competitive, with a wide range of parties and candidates. But “harassment, intimidation and misuse of administrative resources” were used to prevent many candidates and parties from getting their message to voters. State-owned news- papers attacked the opposition; public workers such as teachers and nurses were required to attend rallies; events for the opposition were blocked and obstructed; state television “displayed a clear bias in favor of the ruling party.” Fortunately, there are other media channels and unrestricted Internet access in Ukraine, but their reach is limited. The United States invested heavily after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the idea that Ukraine, with a population of 45 million, could become a member of NATO and look westward. THE WASHINGTON POST Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Middle East greets Obama’s re-election with a shrug

BY ISSANDR EL under Sunni insurgent control. Benghazi consulate attack was terms of what it can do in the radical difference between the danger; and during the Arab AMRANI Over the next few years it would cause for concern. I have met region by its own economic cri- candidates when it came to the spring, when what was good for become one of the main areas Syrians who cheered Romney sis and by war fatigue among Middle East, just a difference in Tunisia was not necessarily good HAT a difference four of operations for the “surge” because they expected him to the electorate. emphasis. for Bahrain. years can make. In carried by the US military. He adopt a more muscular policy. The Obama administration Obama supposedly performed Over the next four years, W2008, Barack Obama’s asked me how, as an American, Then there are Egyptians who has found ways to pursue its a “reboot” in June 2009 with a some of these contradictions victory turned into a world- I felt about Obama’s re-election. feel that Obama has too quickly military priorities, of course – speech in Cairo, much lauded at will come to the fore again. wide celebration. Just as many I told him it was better than a embraced movements such as for instance, the expansion in the time as a piece of “engage- The topography of the Israeli- Americans took to the streets Romney victory. He shrugged. the Muslim Brotherhood as the the use of drones. The technol- ment” with the Arab world. Palestinian conflict is changing to express their joy, around the A shrug may well be the way new dominant political force. Or ogy, whatever its moral hazards, I still think of it as one of the because of shifts in Israeli and world the relief was palpable: most of the Arab world received Yemenis not particularly fond of still suggests a move away from worst moments of his Middle Palestinian politics. The spirit there would be no extension of the news of Obama’s victory. As the steady stream of bombings the overreach of the Clinton East policy, a superficial exer- of the Arab uprisings may well the policies of the George W in the US itself, the excitement and drone attacks the US has and Bush administrations. And cise in public relations which resurface in the monarchies Bush era. Nowhere was this felt over the prospect of a trans- launched in their country. this once-ossified region is now scandalously honoured his host, that are Washington’s closest more than in the Middle East, formational politician is gone The list could go on. What changing so fast that America’s Hosni Mubarak, at a time his remaining Arab allies. Syria where most people were aghast – the main reason many have is significant is that this elec- strategic planners, and its poli- regime was rapidly becoming offers a terrible conundrum, at Bush’s policies, still reeling preferred Obama is simply that tion seemed less important to ticians, are reluctant to get more repressive. Just as with his but also an opportunity to back from the “shock and awe” doc- Romney was seen to be in the the Middle East than any for dragged into what looks like efforts at resolving the Israeli- a regionally led solution to the trine he espoused in order to Bush mould. at least two decades, when, a very messy decade ahead. Palestinian conflict early in his conflict. fulfil his ambition of transform- This must be said with a just as the cold war was com- Events have overwhelmed them, first term, Obama promised Obama cannot offer grand ing the region. caveat: there are many attitudes ing to an end, the US massively and for all the talk of Romney’s more than he could deliver. This solutions to the Middle East’s I was reminded of this yes- to US politics and the policies of increased its military and dip- neoconservative foreign policy mismanagement of expectations problems, and Arabs are not terday in Cairo, during an the Obama administration in the lomatic presence in the region. team, one was struck by his soon came back to haunt him: expecting him to. All the bet- encounter with an Iraqi refugee region, and a shrug by an Iraqi In many respects, the identity rejection of US participation on Palestine, when he vetoed ter, perhaps, as Arab problems who had come to the Egyptian in Cairo might contrast with of the US president simply does in a no-fly zone for Syria dur- a Palestinian statehood bid at should have Arab solutions, not capital in 2005 after much of enthusiasm in Libya, where Mitt not matter here as it once did. ing the presidential debate on the UN even as he warned that US ones. his hometown of Diyala came Romney’s tough talk after the America is highly restricted in foreign policy. There was no the two-state solution was in THE GUARDIAN SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Republicans face five stages of political grief

reality-based community and realised Every defeated that even the most zealous ideology must defer eventually to the facts. Perhaps not. party has to travel Either way, such denial is not unique to today’s Republican party. In 1983 Tony Benn famously refused to see Labour’s from denial to pummelling as a disaster, celebrating instead that 8 million people had voted acceptance. At least for socialism. Next comes anger, often manifested in lashing out and blaming others. There in Mitt Romney’s was plenty of that in the ballroom in Boston, turned initially against what both case the loss was the right and hostile left call “the main- stream media”. When Candy Crowley – the CNN anchor who had moderated the unequivocal. second TV debate, arbitrating at one cru- BY JONATHAN FREEDLAND cial point in Obama’s favour – appeared on the giant TV screens, the Republicans in their suits and evening dresses began y election night was spent booing loudly. “It’s your fault!” they among the grieving. Most howled, echoing the Labour faithful in didn’t know they were going 1992 who blamed Rupert Murdoch for Mto a wake when they headed their woes, taking as truth the claim that to the grand ballroom of the Boston it was “the Sun wot won it”. Convention Centre on Tuesday night. Since then, Republican fingers have On the contrary, they were dressed for pointed in a dozen other directions. a victory party. Before the first results At Obama for practising what Charles trickled in, some even managed to smile. Krauthammer calls “the darker arts of But within an hour or two, once the elec- public persuasion” (a phrase that sug- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (centre-left) and his wife Ann Romney (centre-right), wave to supporters on stage toral map had turned Democratic blue gests the president hypnotised the US during the Romney Election Night event at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for the 2012 US presidential election in Boston, where it was meant to go Republican red, electorate into voting for him, perhaps Massachusetts, USA. the atmosphere turned funereal. A band via a secret, Kenyan strain of black struck up a tune or two, but no one felt magic); at the Mitt Romney campaign still ended with him campaigning in a voters their parties could, for example, to salvation in 2016. But this goes deeper like dancing. team, for promising a wave of “organic Keep the Pound truck. In the current be tough on crime. than a more diverse public face, though What began that night for the enthusiasm” among voters that failed to Republican case, you can hear it in the Sometimes, however, the required shift that certainly helps. (The only African Republican party is a process familiar materialise; and at the candidate himself, time-honoured admission that “we didn’t is demographic, as a party has to catch up American I spotted at the Romney vic- to all who have observed an electoral for being too stiff, too north-eastern, too get our message across” or “there is a with a changing population: it has grown tory party – and I looked hard – was defeat. Think of it as the political equiva- moderate under that fake conservative perception problem”. The party agrees to out of touch with who people are. Most the singer in the band.) It is also about lent of the five stages of grief. The ones veneer. tweak appearances, but remains unwill- often, this is the burden on conservatives. speaking to those new, rising groups that trigger the deepest anguish are This is the familiar lament of just- ing to undertake deep reform. It fell on the Tories after three defeats with respect – understanding, for exam- the serial defeats and the beatings you defeated parties: that they did not suf- After depression – common after a at the hands of Blair, – realising that, ple, that Hispanic or Asian Americans didn’t expect. That’s why 1992 was a dou- fer because they were too extreme, but string of losses, such as the five defeats for example, younger Britons did not don’t share the visceral loathing of ble trauma for Labour: the Tories had because they were not extreme enough. in the popular vote the Republicans have share their hostility to gay rights – and government that grips many white defeated them four times in a row and See those Tories who demanded a return suffered in the last six presidential elec- is the urgent task for today’s Republicans. Republicans. they had done it on a night Labour felt to uncompromising core principle after tions – comes acceptance. In politics, Reliant on a shrinking base of older white The curious problem for Britain’s destined to win. the defeats of 1997, 2001 and 2005, as that usually means a recognition that the voters, Romney was trounced among political parties is that the 2010 elec- Whether personal or political, the first well as the Bennite push after 1979 and country you seek to lead has changed and black, Latino and Asian Americans just tion left no clear winner and therefore stage is denial. That emotion will forever Militant in the 1980s. It’s tempting and that, therefore, you have to change with it, as all those groups form an ever-expand- no crushed loser. Labour lost, but it did be embodied by the electrifying sight of comforting, but almost always wrong. no matter how painful that process will be. ing share of the US electorate. As former not absorb into its marrow the pain of former Bush guru turned Fox pundit The third stage of grief is said to be These shifts usually fall into two broad Bush strategist Matthew Dowd puts it, defeat. That left Ed Miliband uncertain Karl Rove scolding Fox’s own number- bargaining, accepting that something categories, though there is much overlap the Republicans are “a Mad Men party whether he needed to make wholesale crunchers for calling the election for has to change but seeking to delay or between them. The first is a change in in a Modern Family America”. change or simply rely on one more heave Barack Obama, desperately pretending dilute what needs to be done. In politics, attitudes: the party realises it has grown Some think the remedy is cosmetic, – and denied him the emotional mandate two plus two did not, in fact, equal four. it’s the half-hearted attempt at reform, out of touch with what people think. that the problem will be solved by a mere for the former option even if he chose it. Who knows, perhaps that slice of TV often preceded by a party embarking on Successive defeats in the 1980s demanded change of personnel: David Cameron’s Paradoxically, given that they lead the gold will be remembered as the moment a “listening tour” of the country that such a move on the centre-left in both A-list after 2005 is matched by today’s government, the last election left the when the American right finally gave up has rejected them. But it rarely goes the Britain and the US, as Tony Blair and Bill Republican drumbeat for the Florida Tories in a similar limbo. its war against maths, science and the whole way. William Hague’s “fresh start” Clinton moved to reassure mainstream senator Marco Rubio to lead the party THE GUARDIAN Police commissioner elections are Morocco must answer for human rights abuses the first step on road to corruption BY BRAHIM DAHANE But my spirit is not broken. A couple of weeks ago I trav- wo years ago this week, elled with some colleagues to The Tories are pushing just outside my home Rabat to attend the trial of the town of Laayounne in prisoners, which was due to take for private companies TWestern Sahara, in place on 24 October, postponed the early hours of the morning, from 13 January. Even though all Moroccan police and bulldozers the defendants are civilians, the to take over major moved in to destroy a protest trial was to take place in a mili- camp called Gdeim Izik. tary court, contravening interna- police roles, with The camp was a peaceful mani- tional law. However, the Moroccan festation of the frustration felt by authorities announced they had the Sahrawi people over the poor postponed the trial again. No insufficient safeguards. living conditions, discrimination future date has been given. and human rights abuses they No doubt the presence of BY YVETTE COOPER suffer in their homeland, occupied Sahrawi human rights defenders by Morocco for 37 years – and a and international observers and t’s hard to believe that in just six days’ demand for the long-awaited ref- journalists played a major part time, almost 37 million people are being erendum on independence. in this decision. The Moroccan asked to join in the biggest vote since The brutal destruction of authorities are running scared. Ithe general election. Ministers seem to the camp resulted in dozens of They have got themselves in a be working hard to make their new police deaths, imprisonments, injuries mess with this case and don’t and crime commissioner elections a sham- and forced disappearances. Noam know what to do to get out of it. bles – providing too little information, costly Chomsky later went on to describe We were disappointed that the elections in cold dark November, the helpline these protests as the beginning trial was postponed but at least it not working, ballot papers reprinted. Little of public policing, yet there has been no debate for things like new technology. But all con- of the Arab spring. I would have shows that civil society and politi- wonder that the Electoral Reform Society is about the risks or the safeguards needed. tracts must pass tough tests. There should be been at Gdeim Izik myself had I cal pressure is working. predicting most voters will stay home. In the West Midlands and Surrey, the Home clear red lines drawn about what is accept- had not been in prison, accused Along with the families of the Yet there’s an awful lot at stake. People have Office is pushing the police to explore massive able to protect public policing, resilience and of “harming state security” along prisoners, Sahrawi human rights told me they are worried about what the posts long-term contracts with a single company public confidence as well as strong tests over with six other Sahrawi activists. defenders and international are for, the cost, and the impact of elections with nothing ruled out, even neighbourhood value for money. And there has to be stronger Two years later, 23 of those observers, I took part in a demon- on impartial policing. And indeed that is why patrols and investigations. Ministers don’t protection against corruption. arrested are languishing in the stration outside the military court Labour opposed the plans in parliament and rule out privatising police community support We need commissioners who will work with notorious Sale prison near Rabat, at the very time the trial should why we’ve said reforms are needed. officers either. Private companies are lobbying councils, communities and other organisations awaiting trial. During their have taken place. Largely thanks But now that the government has decided hard for business and there are insufficient to prevent crime, as well as making sure the imprisonment they have experi- to the presence of the observ- to go ahead, vital policing decisions will lie in safeguards against corruption. police can take strong action when problems enced torture, ill-treatment and ers, the police did not react with police and crime commissioners’ hands. And As the emergency service of last resort the arise. That is why Labour candidates are even rape, and have organised violence. Sadly, this was not the it is because we believe the future of public police rely on being able to switch resources highlighting the importance of partnerships several hunger strikes – some case in Laayounne, where police policing is at stake that Labour is standing quickly to deal with new threats – yet building to tackle issues such as antisocial behaviour lasting as long as 50 days. In fact, responded to protests about the candidates and urging people to vote. that flexibility into long-term contracts can and domestic violence too. they have just finished their latest trial being postponed with cus- The first task for new commissioners will be hard and costly. Accountability is also a But for all our campaigning we know many three-day hunger strike in protest tomary violence, badly injuring be to cope with next year’s budget cuts. David problem. The Independent Police Complaints people are still concerned about the impact against the trial being postponed. many protesters. Cameron and Theresa May are cutting 20 Commission has no jurisdiction over private of elections on public policing. More must Many of the prisoners are in Feelings are running high percent from police budgets and 15,000 offic- contracted staff even if their failure leads to be done to protect a long standing tradi- a bad way, physically and psy- about the fate of the 23 prison- ers, then expecting commissioners to take all serious harm. The public needs to be able to tion of impartial policing in Britain. That’s chologically. Several are suffer- ers, many of whom were arrested the flak. These elections are an important trust that policing decisions – whether to why Labour candidates have signed stronger ing from severe stomach, cardiac for their role as activists, not for chance for people to send a message to the investigate or to stop someone in the street pledges to maintain the operational independ- and kidney problems. I know only committing any crimes. The pris- government that they are cutting too far and – are made in the interests of justice, not the ence as we don’t believe the government has too well what they have to endure, oners were charged arbitrarily too fast. Cutting 15,000 police officers is a big corporate balance sheet. That’s why Labour done enough to protect the operational inde- having been imprisoned myself with, among other accusations, mistake and Labour candidates have said that, candidates are campaigning against these pendence of the police. three times. During one stay in “acting against internal and if elected, their first act will be to hammer on plans and are committed to more transpar- The government’s carelessness towards prison I spent four years blind- external state security, creation May’s door and use their mandate to demand ency too. Labour candidates are campaigning policing comes across loud and clear in its folded and handcuffed, forced to of a criminal organisation and a rethink of next year’s further budget cuts. hard against these plans, and we’re calling on approach to these elections. It is doing con- stand all day against a wall. We acting against public officials in The new commissioners will face serious the government to introduce more rules and siderable damage to effective policing at the experienced all kinds of torture the performance of their func- decisions on the future of policing and private safeguards too. A free-for-all by Tory or inde- national level. In the next six days we need to and humiliation. It was hell. The tions”. According to Moroccan contracts. A strong push is under way both pendent candidates over police privatisation campaign hard to stop it doing damage locally Moroccan authorities do eve- law, they could be sentenced to from Tory government ministers and from is positively dangerous. too. rything they can to break your life imprisonment. private companies to contract out large swaths Public-private partnerships can be effective THE GUARDIAN spirit and destroy your dignity. WP-BLOOMBERG SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST

Nato could arrest Assad in Syria: Twin suicide Ex-ICC prosecutor

MONTREAL: Luis Moreno- Ocampo, the International bombs kill 20 Criminal Court’s former prose- cutor, said yesterday that world leaders had a “good case” for asking Nato to prepare a war- Syrian soldiers rant to arrest Syrian President Bashar Al Assad. Moreno-Ocampo, an Argentine lawyer who was the ICC’s first Opposition talks intensify in Doha prosecutor, said given “it was absolutely clear” that as Syria’s DAMASCUS: Twin suicide car bombs in their fight against commander-in-chief Assad’s bombings killed at least 20 sol- Assad’s regime, with jihadist forces had killed civilians, Nato diers in Syria’s south on Saturday, groups such as the Al Nusra Front could execute such a warrant. as days of foreign-backed efforts often claiming responsibility. He told Canadian broadcaster to reorganise the opposition into Elsewhere, a rocket wounded CBC such a warrant, carried out a united body were coming to a two young girls in the capital’s by both international and Syrian head in the Qatari capital. Christian district of George forces, was “one possible solution The opposition talks in Doha Khoury, state television said. to the problem” of Assad, but the saw the Syrian National Council In Doha, the SNC — once seen world community must first reach vying to keep its leading role in as the leading representative of a consensus on Syria. the face of US- and Arab-backed the opposition but now derided in “We can have a new, more proposals to form a new govern- Washington as dominated by out- innovative approach, combining ment-in-waiting that could win of-touch exiles — said it would put justice and a real effort to imple- deeper international support. forward its own reform proposals, ment the warrant and then (have) The final talks amid a wide despite mounting frustration with A boy rides a bicycle past a house damaged after shelling by forces loyal to President Bashar Al Assad, in Al negotiations at the same time,” range of dissident factions kicked its stance among other dissidents. Atareb village in the western part of Aleppo yesterday. Moreno-Ocampo told CBC, as off under a cloud of SNC reserva- “We have started an open long as Assad had the presump- tions, with one senior official from dialogue with our brothers and tion of innocence. the bloc saying an agreement was looked at their initiative,” the Such a move would force Assad unlikely. SNC’s new leader George Sabra Fleeing refugees fear air strike to negotiate, the former judge Forces loyal to President said. “But we have our own point said, and possibly achieve a break- Bashar Al Assad, meanwhile, of view and our own ideas that we through in the near 20-month suffered a new blow, as two sui- plan to put forward.” CEYLANPINAR, Turkey: and all has calmed down,” said “The fighting has stopped uprising, but he noted that the cide car bombings tore through SNC senior official Ahmad Gun and mortar fire could be 40-year-old Gasan Alun, who but only for now,” said Ahmad, shadow of “regime change” hung an officers’ club in the southern Ramadan said it would be “difficult heard yesterday from the Syrian fled to the Turkish town of a Syrian teenager who had just over world leaders, noting that city of Daraa, the cradle of Syria’s to reach agreement” in yesterday’s border town of Ras Al Ain two Ceylanpinar several days ago with crossed into the Turkish border the protection of civilians was the nearly 20-month uprising. talks and that the meeting would days after it fell to rebels fight- 23 members of his family. town from Ras Al Ain through official reason for Nato interven- The blasts targeted the back more likely result in an announce- ing to oust President Bashar Al “I hope to God they don’t bring a hole in the barbed wire fence tion in Libya. garden of the club, killing at ment of “principles of cooperation Assad, and refugees who had the planes,” he said. “It’s the marking the border. In the end, however, Colonel least 20 soldiers and possibly so as not to end in failure”. fled to Turkey said they feared planes we’re scared of.” “They (Assad’s soldiers) will be Moamer Kadhafi was ousted from many more, said the Syrian The SNC would hold on to its retribution from the air. The rebel flag flew above the back,” he said. “Assad’s helicop- power following international mil- Observatory for Human Rights, “leading role in the Syrian oppo- Laden with what possessions town, a Reuters reporter on the ters have been circling, identify- itary action. a key watchdog. sition” and “reject any attempt they could carry, Syrians con- Turkish side of the border said, ing where the Free Syrian Army “The two bombings were the or initiative to cancel it,” he said. tinued to cross the border into and early on Saturday rebels soldiers are based.” Syrian minister result of suicide attacks, carried The SNC had asked for two Turkey, some saying they were could be seen driving freely in Ahmad’s friend, Mahdi, out by two men who drove vehi- postponements in the talks while scared the fighting was not over open pick-up trucks, guns slung said: “We will try and stay in calls for dialogue cles loaded with explosives into the it elected its own new leadership and Assad’s fighter planes and across their shoulders. Ceylanpinar but if we can’t we garden a few minutes apart,” the this week, amid strong resistance helicopters would be back. But as dusk fell, several mortars will have to go back. But we are to end crisis Britain-based Observatory’s direc- from some members to what they Some 9,000 fled the fighting on landed near Ras Alo Ain and gun- scared of the helicopters coming.” tor, Rami Abdel Rahman, said. see as the group’s sidelining in the Thursday and Friday, the United fire grew more intense, according With winter setting in, the DAMASCUS: Syria’s State news agency Sana new US-backed structure. Nations said, swelling to over to a witness in Ceylanpinar, just refugee influx is causing alarm in Information Minister Omran reported that two car bomb The SNC’s counter-proposal for 120,000 the registered refugees across the border. Turkey, and could spur calls for a Al Zohbi yesterday called for attacks had hit the city, causing reform envisages the formation of Turkey is sheltering in camps, Rebels of the Free Syrian Army buffer zone to be set up inside Syria a national dialogue to resolve casualties and significant damage, a provisional government pending testing the country’s resources have claimed towns before in the to house refugees and aid the rebels the country’s crisis and said the but provided no further details. a general congress of the opposi- and patience. 19-month civil war, only to be in a war that opposition activists army was fighting to protect Syrian rebels have increasingly tion, according to a document. “We will stay here until the pounded again by Assad’s air force say has killed 38,000 people. the chances for talks. turned to suicide attacks and AFP fighting has completely stopped or shelled by his army. REUTERS “The only way to succeed in Syria is to sit down at the table to launch a national dialogue,” Zohbi said in an interview with state television. “The opposition must accept Pentagon releases Benghazi timeline, defends response the choice of dialogue and ... the army, by facing down terrorism, is protecting this dialogue,” he said. WASHINGTON: Pentagon the consulate or using armed aerial highly charged political issue in response to the incident. It took of Staff, discussed potential President Bashar Al Assad’s leaders knew of the September drones to fire on the attackers. the last weeks of the presidential the drone more than an hour to responses to the unfolding events regime consistently refers to the 11 attack on the US Consulate “The Department of Defence campaign. The CIA, which had a arrive at the scene. in Benghazi during their meeting, armed rebels fighting against his in Benghazi an hour after it acted quickly after learning of the base near the consulate, and the Defence Secretary Leon which began 78 minutes after the regime as “terrorists”. Syria’s main began, but were unable to mobi- incidents unfolding in Benghazi,” said State Department have released Panetta’s office was notified of start of the Libya attack, accord- opposition factions have refused to lize reinforcements based in one official, adding that Marines, timelines on the incident. the attack 50 minutes after it ing to the timeline. negotiate with the regime as long Europe in time to prevent the special forces and other military According to the Pentagon’s began, and Panetta learned of it Panetta and Dempsey then as Assad remains in power. death of the US ambassador, assets had either been employed or timeline, the military’s Africa shortly thereafter as he and the returned to the Pentagon and Monitors say more than 37,000 according to a timeline released put in motion during the attack. Command, based in Europe, military’s top general headed to began a two-hour series of meet- people have been killed in Syria yesterday. “Unfortunately, no alternative ordered an unmanned, unarmed a previously scheduled meeting ings with General Carter Ham, since an uprising against Assad’s Senior defence officials, speak- or additional aircraft options surveillance drone diverted to the with President Barack Obama at head of Africa Command, and rule erupted in March 2011 as a ing on condition of anonymity, were available within a timeline city in eastern Libya just 17 min- the White House. other senior military leaders protest movement inspired by rejected criticism accusing the to be effective,” the official added. utes after the attack on the con- Obama, Panetta and Army from 6pm to 8pm EDT to organ- the Arab Spring before escalat- Pentagon of failing to move quickly The Obama administration’s sulate began about 9.42pm local General Martin Dempsey, the ize responses to the attack. ing into an armed rebellion. to send reinforcements to relieve response to the attack became a time, the first military action in chairman of the Joint Chiefs REUTERS AGENCIES

Homage to Ataturk HRW urges Kuwait to lift ban on Kurd politicians join demonstrations hunger strike in Turkey KUWAIT CITY: Human Rights Watch called yesterday DIYARBAKIR: Six of the matter. Most of the inmates for Kuwait to revoke a ban on Turkey’s leading Kurdish poli- are either convicted PKK mem- demonstrations and respect ticians have joined hundreds of bers or accused of links to the the people’s right to peaceful jailed militants and activists in group. assembly. a hunger strike now in its 60th The hunger strikers are con- “Kuwait’s authorities should day to call for a rebel leader to suming sugared water and vita- revoke (a law) ... to ban all dem- be allowed to see lawyers, one of mins that will prolong their lives onstrations because it denies the them said. and the protest by weeks, but right to peaceful assembly,” said Osman Baydemir, mayor of Turkey’s main medical association Joe Stork, deputy Middle East Diyarbakir in predominantly has warned fatalities are possible director at New York-based HRW. Kurdish southeastern Turkey, said from around 60 days without food. “The government has an obliga- in a statement yesterday that he EU Commissioner for tion to respect the right to gather had stopped eating. Five Kurdish Enlargement Stefan Fule raised peacefully regardless of whether members of the Turkish parlia- concerns about reports that the demonstrators support or oppose ment, named as Sirri Sureyya health of the prisoners was dete- its policies.” Onder, co-chair of the Peace and riorating in talks with Turkish More than 150 protesters and 24 Democracy Party (BDP) Gultan Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu police have been slightly injured at Kisanak, Aysel Tugluk, Adil Kurt, in Brussels on Wednesday. three demonstrations since October Sabahat Tuncer, were also on Erdogan’s government has 21 held to protest a decree by the hunger strike, he said. boosted Kurdish cultural and lan- emir to amend the electoral law. Some 700 Kurdish inmates guage rights since taking power “If force is required to quell in dozens of prisons are refus- a decade ago, but Kurdish poli- violence by protesters it should ing solid food. They want Prime ticians are seeking greater con- be the absolute minimum neces- Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s gov- cessions, including steps towards sary to protect lives and prop- ernment to allow the leader of autonomy for mainly Kurdish erty,” Stork said. “The right to the banned Kurdistan Workers southeastern Turkey. peaceful assembly is enshrined in Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, The PKK, which wants an inde- the constitution Kuwaitis will be imprisoned on an island south of pendent Kurdish state, has staged celebrating... Authorities should Istanbul, to have access to lawyers some of its bloodiest attacks in lift the ban and permit people to after 15 months of no contact. more than a decade this year as express their views,” he said. The militants appear to have tensions grow between Turkey The opposition has been pro- achieved the aim of being able to and its neighbour Syria, which testing the amendment to the People carry Turkish flags and portraits of Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk as they gather at his mau- speak in their own language in Ankara has accused of arming electoral law. soleum during a ceremony marking the 74th anniversary of his death in Ankara, yesterday. court after the government said it the separatists. AFP would send a bill to parliament on REUTERS SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Iraq cancels $4.2bn Russia weapons deal PM’s office cites graft concerns

BAGHDAD: Baghdad cancelled negotiations (with Moscow) a $4.2bn arms package with because we want weapons,” he said. Russia yesterday citing graft “These negotiations will be for concerns and instead opted for different kinds of weapons, more new talks, ending a deal that advanced weapons, and will use a dif- would have made Moscow Iraq’s ferent way of contracting,” Mussawi second-biggest arms supplier. added, without giving details. In a bizarre sequence, however, The Russian embassy in the acting defence minister who Baghdad was not available for negotiated the deal directly con- comment but a source in Moscow tradicted the prime minister’s pinned the blame on Washington. office, insisting nothing had been “Iraq’s declaration was forced by cancelled, a position that was the United States, which is trying swiftly denied by the premier’s to avert this agreement’s imple- spokesman. mentation,” an unnamed senior Officials said negotiations were official identified as being a mem- ongoing for a new arms package. ber of the Russian military indus- But a cancellation of the initial try told the state RIA Novosti news deal announced last month is a agency. Mussawi denied that US setback for Moscow’s attempts to pressure played any role. firm up its slipping foothold in the Had the announced deal, valued Middle East and also throws into at more than $4.2bn, been final- doubt efforts by Iraq to equip its ised and implemented, it would armed forces. have made Russia Baghdad’s “The deal was cancelled,” biggest arms supplier after the A Palestinian man reacts as he arrives at the Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City after being wounded in Israeli shelling as clashes erupted along the border Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki’s United States. yesterday. spokesman Ali Mussawi said. Russian media said the deliv- “When Maliki returned from his eries covered 30 Mi-28 attack trip to Russia, he had some suspi- helicopters and 42 Pantsir-S1 cions of corruption, so he decided surface-to-air missile systems. Gaza flares as Israel hits back killing four to review the whole deal... There is Discussions were also said to an investigation going on, on this.” be underway for Iraq’s eventual Mussawi declined to say who acquisition of a large batch of GAZA: Israeli tank fire killed mourning tent in the Shijaia the northern Gaza Strip. “Four sol- refugees, is controlled by Hamas specifically was being investigated, MiG-29 fighters and helicopters, four Palestinians and wounded neighbourhood was full of peo- diers were injured as a result,” a Islamists who reject Israel’s right or when a final decision was made along with heavy weaponry. 25 in the Gaza Strip yesterday ple paying respects to a bereaved statement said. In a separate inci- to exist.. to stop the deal, announced dur- The statement announcing after an anti-tank missile hit an family man when the tank shell dent at another location, four peo- One of these, called the Popular ing a visit by Maliki to Moscow the deals said they were secretly Israeli army jeep wounding four exploded. ple were wounded in an Israeli air Resistance Committees, said it had in October. discussed as early as April and soldiers, and Palestinian fight- Ambulances, private vehi- strike in the town of Khan Younis. fired four rockets at communities In a hastily-organised press revisited again in July and August ers fired rockets into south- cles and motorbikes rushed the The clash occurs at a time of close to the border and the towns conference, however, acting during visits to Russia by Iraqi ern Israel in a new flare-up of wounded to hospital, eyewit- renewed tension along the Israel- of Sderot and Netivot in southern Defence Minister Saadun Al delegations that included Dulaimi. fighting. nesses said. Among those killed Gaza frontier, only some two Israel, in what it called “the revenge Dulaimi insisted no deal had been The war ripping apart Syria In a major clash that carried was an 18-year-old youth. “The weeks after Egyptian mediation invoice” for the deaths in Gaza. cancelled, telling reporters: “We threatens to unseat Moscow’s the risk of escalation, Palestinian occupation’s targeting of civilians calmed an earlier flare-up. There was no report of casual- are still in negotiations.” sole unwavering Arab ally, Bashar militants vowed to take revenge was a grave escalation that must In an attack on Thursday, a ties on the Israeli side. Dulaimi said no contracts had al-Assad, and has made it all the for the deaths of civilians and not pass in silence,” said Fawzi 12-year-old Gaza boy was killed In December 2008, Israel been signed, adding: “We did not more crucial for Russia to forge Israel warned residents of com- Barhoum of the Islamic move- by Israeli gunfire as troops fought responded to repeated rocket transfer one dinar, we did not other regional alliances. munities near the Gaza border ment Hamas which rules Gaza. a gun battle with Palestinian mili- attacks from Gaza by bomb- agree in a finalised way. It was Russia also lost an estimated to stay within 15 seconds of their “Resistance must be reinforced tants. Shortly afterwards, mili- ing the enclave for a week then only an offer, like any other offer.” $4bn in outstanding contracts blast shelters. in order to block the aggression.” tants blew up a tunnel packed invading with ground forces in Asked about the minister’s in the Nato-led Libya offensive The casualty toll was one of Israel denies targeting civilians. with explosives near the border. a three-week war in which over remarks, Mussawi said simply: that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, the highest in a single incident The Israeli military said an anti- The Gaza Strip, a coastal ter- 1,400 Palestinians were killed and “The deal was completely can- a one-time friend of the Kremlin. in Gaza in recent months. tank missile was fired at an army ritory crowded with more than 13 Israelis died. celled. Now we have started new AFP Palestinians said a crowded patrol along the security fence in 1.5 million people, many of them REUTERS

Darfur rebels seize armoured vehicle in battle Kuwait frees royals accused of criticising government KHARTOUM: Sudanese rebels as well as equipment, weapons last year, the Small Arms Survey, a Darfur after the Addis agree- yesterday said they captured and ammunition, JEM said in a Swiss-based independent research ments as more rebels returned to KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait has released two members of the Al Sabah one government armoured vehi- statement. project, said in a July report. their home turf from the South. ruling family after holding them for two days allegedly over tweets cle and destroyed others in a It said its forces worked with the Sudan has accused South Since July, civilians have been deemed critical of the government, they said on Twitter yesterday. battle near the capital of North Sudan Liberation Army’s Minni Sudan of working with the JEM, increasingly at risk from inter- Sheikh Abdullah Salem Al Sabah was released late on Friday, while Darfur state, which has seen an Minnawi faction in the attack a charge denied by the South. But communal fighting, harassment Sheikh Nawaf Malek Al Sabah was freed yesterday afternoon. upsurge in violence. which “captured a number of suspected JEM fighters were seen by militia groups and sporadic “I asked them (police) to refer me to the public prosecution to defend The Justice and Equality government troops” and inflicted alongside South Sudanese troops clashes between rebel and govern- myself from the horrifying accusations, but they insisted that I sign Movement (JEM) said insurgents heavy losses. The statement gave during border fighting between ment troops, particularly in North a pledge and they released me,” late on Friday, Sheikh Abdullah said on Friday afternoon attacked a no specifics about casualties. Sudan and South Sudan in April. Darfur, UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Twitter. Sheikh Nawaf’s lawyer Khaled Al Suwaifan said yesterday large government convoy travel- Darfur rebels are allied with In September, the two nations said in a quarterly report issued that his client was released but provided no details. ling north from Shangil Tobay, insurgents from South Kordofan signed in Addis Ababa agree- on October 16. Sheikh Abdullah said he was questioned by the secret service police which is about 50km south of El and Blue Nile states in a ments on border security and Ethnic rebels from JEM and on accusations of insulting Emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah Fasher, the state capital. Revolutionary Front which aims other issues which they hailed as the Sudan Liberation Army began and instigating against the regime. Sudan’s army spokesman could to overthrow the government. ending their conflict. their uprising against the Arab- not be reached for comment. The Sudanese Armed Forces A Sudan analyst and humani- dominated Khartoum govern- Along with the armoured vehi- began using armoured fighting tarian sources have said they ment in 2003. UAE frees hundreds of Emirati cle, rebels seized trucks and cars vehicles in Darfur ground combat expected fighting to increase in AFP debtors from jail

DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has released from prison Four killed in Iran train crash around 290 people convicted of bouncing cheques, the state news Copter crash kills agency said yesterday, the latest step by one of the world’s richest countries to help its citizens deal with their debts. 17 Turkish soldiers The drive to help debtors underlines moves by the government to expand its support to the population, as the UAE and other countries DIYARBAKIR: Seventeen across the region boost welfare spending in the wake of last year’s Arab Turkish soldiers were killed Spring uprisings in the Middle East. yesterday when their helicopter Signing cheques without sufficient funds to back them is a crimi- crashed in southeastern Turkey nal offence under UAE law and the order to release citizens who had due to bad weather conditions defaulted on cheque payments was given last month by President H including fog, the area’s gover- H Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.In May, the president allo- nor said. cated around Dh5m ($1.4m) to settle defaulted loans for each indebted The Sikorsky helicopter crashed Emirati. The UAE central bank told commercial banks in August to on Herekol mountain, in the extend maturities on certain personal loans held by UAE citizens by Pervari area of Siirt province, Siirt more than four years. Governor Ahmet Aydin said. The victims were members of the coun- try’s gendarmerie special forces Two killed as Yemen militias, and there were no survivors, he said. tribe clash in south The Turkish military has been carrying out operations on the ADEN: Two aides to a tribal chief with alleged Al Qaeda links were mountain in recent months to killed in a clash with pro-army militiamen in the troubled southern flush out militants from outlawed province of Abyan yesterday, a local militia official said. separatist group the Kurdistan “Two aides of (Tareq Al Fadhli) were killed and another man was Workers Party (PKK) who have wounded” when the militiamen fired on Fadhli’s house in Abyan’s hideouts there. “Today at 7.15 in capital Zinjibar, the official said on condition of anonymity. the morning in the village of Bilgili On November 5, hundreds of the militiamen, known as the Popular around Siirt, we got 17 martyrs — Resistance Committees and who fought alongside the Yemeni army officers, non-commissioned officers to oust Al Qaeda from southern towns last May, surrounded Fadhli’s and soldiers,” Turkish President A general view shows the aftermath of a train crash in the Iranian city of Yazd yesterday, after a passenger home. They want the known warlord, who has fought in Afghanistan, Abdullah Gul said in a statement. train derailed late on Friday, killing four people and injuring 26. to turn himself into the police. REUTERS AGENCIES

SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL Vatican techie Having their fill convicted in leaks case Suspended sentence for two months

VATICAN CITY: A Vatican root out “evil and corruption” court yesterday convicted from the Vatican, telling judges a computer programmer at his own trial last month that employed by the world’s tiniest he believed the Pope was poorly state for helping Pope Benedict informed on important issues. XVI’s butler engineer a series The apparent ease with which of leaks that embarrassed the documents were smuggled out of Vatican. the Vatican has surprised observ- The court handed 48-year-old ers, and Italian media reports Claudio Sciarpelletti a suspended say there could have been a sentence of two months in prison wider conspiracy of disgruntled with a probationary term of five employees beyond Gabriele and years, meaning that if he respects Sciarpelletti. the terms of his probation he will Investigators said they found a likely not have to go to prison. mysterious envelope with an offi- Sciarpelletti was convicted on a cial Vatican stamp in a drawer in single charge of aiding and abet- Sciarpelletti’s desk after being ting, the panel of three judges tipped off anonymously. It con- said in its verdict published by tained copies of some of the the Vatican press office, adding documents which appeared in that the defendant had “helped to the book. Children drink and eat at Tarifa’s port, near Cadiz, yesterday, after being rescued off the Spanish coast. Spanish emergency services intercepted deviate the investigations”. Sciarpelletti said he never three boats carrying 45 African would-be immigrants, including five young children, off the Spanish coast, near Tarifa (southern Spain), as the country His lawyer, Gianluca Benedetti, opened the envelope but was faces several weeks to an influx of illegal immigrants trying to cross the Strait of Gibraltar. said his client will appeal the unclear about who had given it to sentence. him, initially telling investigators Sciarpelletti’s trial comes just it was Gabriele and later saying weeks after the disgraced former he had received it from a prel- butler, Paolo Gabriele, was sen- ate named only as “W” in court tenced to 18 months in prison for documents. Denmark to do away with fat tax leaking secret memos from the The defendant said this was papal residence and spreading due to his emotional state during COPENHAGEN: Denmark travelling across the border to the 2013 budget bill. The previ- pizzas, oils, meats and pre-cooked gossip about Vatican employees. questioning. said yesterday it would scrap make purchases,” it added. ous right-wing government intro- foods — in a costing system that Sciarpelletti has worked for the The court heard the prelate a fat tax it introduced a little “Against this background, the duced the fat tax in October 2011 Denmark’s Confederation of past 20 years in the Secretariat named by Sciarpelletti was his over a year ago in a world first, government and the (far-left) to limit the population’s intake of Industries has described as a of State — effectively the gov- superior, Carlo Maria Polvani, saying the measure was costly Red Green Party have agreed to fatty foods. bureaucratic nightmare for pro- ernment of the Roman Catholic a trial witness and head of the and failed to change Danes’ abolish the fat tax and cancel the According to the Danish ducers and outlets. Church — and was responsible for documentation service of the eating habits. planned sugar tax,” the ministry National Health and Medicines The measure added 16 kroner maintenance on all the computers Secretariat of State — the admin- “The fat tax and the exten- said. Authority, 47 percent of Danes per kilo of saturated fats in a used by Vatican employees. istration of the Roman Catholic sion of the chocolate tax — the Denmark’s centre-left minor- are overweight and 13 percent product. The leaks, which were pub- Church. so-called sugar tax — has been ity government is made up of are obese. As an example, when the tax lished in a book by an Italian Monsignor Polvani is the criticised for increasing prices for the Social Democrats, Social “Now we need to try to do was introduced the price of a pack journalist, revealed fierce infight- nephew of Carlo Maria Vigano, consumers, increasing companies’ Liberals and Socialist People’s something else to address pub- of 250 grammes (0.5 pounds) of ing in the highest echelons of the the Vatican envoy to Washington administrative costs and putting Party, and requires support from lic health,” Food Minister Mette butter rose by 2.20 kroner ($0.37, Catholic Church and allegations and a former governor of the Danish jobs at risk,” the Danish other parties to pass legislation Gjerskov said, news agency Ritzau ¤0.29) to more than 18 kroner. of serious fraud in the running of Vatican city state who complained Tax Ministry said in a statement. in parliament. reported. Several food chains said yester- the Vatican city state. in leaked letters to the Pope that “At the same time, it is believed The government and the Red The fat tax has been levied on day they would lower their prices Gabriele said he had acted out he was being handed out for that the fat tax has, to a lesser Greens reached the agreement all products containing saturated accordingly once the tax is abol- of loyalty to the Church and to stamping out fraud. AFP extent, contributed to Danes as part of their negotiations on fats — from butter and milk to ished, Ritzau reported. AFP

Armistice Day eve Platinum firm’s West Africa bloc plans workers reject company offer, more troops for Mali stay on strike ABUJA: West African nations late on Friday after adopting a on Friday plotted a mili- report ahead of today’s summit. JOHANNESBURG: Workers tary force to retake Islamist- A portion of the report seen by a for Anglo American Platinum occupied northern Mali as journalist stressed that talks were yesterday rejected a new offer ministers met on a strategy that the preferred means to resolve from the strike-hit mining included a possible expanded the crisis, but warned “dialogue giant and vowed to push on mission of 5,500 troops. was not open-ended.” with a wildcat stayaway that The proposal discussed by It spoke of a “leading role” for has crippled production since foreign and defence ministers Mali in military and diplomatic September. from the 15-nation Economic efforts as well as “the leadership Thousands of workers gath- Community of West African role of Ecowas in the deployment ered for a rally in a stadium in States (Ecowas) could see the bloc of an African-led international Rustenburg in the southwest of commit 3,200 troops and other force”. South Africa as a police helicopter countries a further 2,300, said a The leader of a Malian militia hovered above and officers kept source familiar with the talks. meanwhile said that local people watch. Representatives from South were ready to rise up against the “Nobody is going back to work, Africa, Mauritania, Morocco, Islamists. the strike is still carrying on,” said Libya, Algeria and Chad would “The local population is ready Amplats Workers’ Committee also be invited to participate in to go to war against these people representative Evans Ramokga. a regional summit on the mili- because they’ve finally understood “The workers are not happy tary strategy set for today in that they’re not dealing with with the conditions so nobody the Nigerian capital Abuja, the Muslims but terrorists,” Seydou is accepting the offer because source said. Cisse, the leader of the Ganda-Iso there is not even an increase in “Ecowas defence chiefs have self-protection militia in north- that offer.” People re-enact a historical march in World War One era French military outfits, the day before Armistice Day proposed a change in the composi- ern Mali, said from Niger’s capital Anglo American Platinum ceremonies, at France’s World War One military cemetery in Notre Dame de Lorette, northern France, yesterday. tion of the troops to be deployed,” Niamey. (Amplats) on Friday said it had the source from the bloc said on Cisse, whose militia was put forward a once-off payment condition of anonymity because defeated by the Islamists when of 4,500 rand ($517) and said it he was not authorised to provide they seized control of the region, had reopened talks with unions details. said he was in “advanced talks” in a bid to get its mines back to German Greens choose moderates “They are recommending with authorities in Niger and production. to the summit 5,500 troops as Mali for his troops to take part Amplats also said it had agreed against the initial proposition in a military intervention. to an early re-opening of wage of 3,200 by Ecowas. The dif- “We have 2,000 young men negotiations, though any pay to lead 2013 election campaign ference is expected to be con- assembled in Mopti (central hikes would only take effect from tributed by non-Ecowas states Mali) and ready to fight. The July 1 next year. BERLIN: Germany’s Greens of ecology as well as middle-class Evangelical church, while Merkel’s which have signified interest to sons of the territory must liberate If the offer was accepted, it was yesterday elected a former envi- values,” said political scientist father was a Lutheran pastor. contribute troops.” their area,” he said, calling war understood that workers would ronment minister and an east Gero Neugebauer. Both are seen as softly-spoken and The ministers’ meeting ended “inevitable”. AFP return underground tomorrow, German Lutheran to spearhead The Greens are currently consensus-oriented. it said. The world’s biggest plati- their campaign for next year’s in third place in polls behind “Goering-Eckardt poses a num miner fired 12,000 workers federal elections, when they Merkel’s conservatives and the danger for Merkel’s Christian in October after failing to reach have solid chances of returning opposition Social Democrats Democrats (CDU), and she is also Mayor on hunger strike in France a breakthrough at its Rustenburg to government. (SPD), possibly making them able to broaden geographically the mines whose output has been hit The two campaign leaders kingmakers in the next elections. Greens’ appeal to east Germans,” PARIS: The mayor of a French town struggling with poverty is since September 12 over demands reflect the broadening appeal of Both Juergen Trittin, 58, and said Neugebauer. on a hunger strike in front of the National Assembly to protest for wage increases. The workers Germany’s third largest party Katrin Goering-Eckardt, 46, are Goering-Eckardt said she what he calls “financial penury” and lack of support from the rejected a previous offer to be beyond left-wing eco-warriors seen as moderates within the wanted to fight for a more national government. reinstated that included a one- to more centrist voters, posing party. The similarities though just society and more solidar- Stephane Gatignon got some unexpected backing yesterday from time 2,000-rand payment. a threat to the two larger par- between Goering-Eckardt, dep- ity, and senior Greens member Manuel Valls, France’s highest security official, who stopped by his Amplats is the last big mining ties and especially to Chancellor uty president of the Bundestag Steffi Lemke described her as a tent in Paris to offer support. company still hit by a wave of ille- Angela Merkel’s conservatives. Lower House of Parliament, and “lawywer for the poorest in soci- “It’s my duty as mayor,” Gatignon tweeted on Friday as he began gal strikes which led to more than “This is a positive result for the Merkel are uncanny. Both women ety”. It was the first time a party his strike. 50 deaths, including 34 people Greens, representing all party grew up in former communist east in Germany determined its cam- He has said he will stay until at least Tuesday, when the National shot dead by police at platinum factions, both the old and the Germany. Goering-Eckardt holds paign leaders through a grass- Assembly takes up the budget for municipal financing. AP miner Lonmin in August. AFP new, the central political value a senior position within Germany’s roots vote. REUTERS SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 BBC in crisis after another abuse row Bad crisis of trust: Director General

LONDON: The head of the BBC film that was so fundamentally admitted yesterday it faced a wrong,” the BBC director-general “crisis of trust” after its flag- said yesterday. “What happened ship news programme wrongly here is completely unacceptable. implicated a British politician In my view the film should not in child sex abuse, just weeks have gone out.” after the Jimmy Savile scandal In a BBC radio interview, broke. Entwistle said he had not been Britain’s public broadcaster aware of the programme until it has suspended all investigations aired, but said it had been signed by its current affairs programme off by lawyers and senior manage- Newsnight following the report ment. He confirmed that he has that Director-General George suspended all Newsnight investi- Entwistle has condemned as “fun- gations and has asked for a review damentally wrong”. into what had happened to be on Newsnight was already under his desk by today. scrutiny for dropping an investi- Closing Friday’s edition of the gation last year into abuse claims programme, anchor Eddie Mair against the late Savile, one of the summed up the grim mood with BBC’s biggest stars who has now the sign-off: “Newsnight will be been accused of sexually abusing back on Monday. Probably.” hundreds of children over four Entwistle said it would be decades. “absolutely disproportionate” Last week, Newsnight reported to consider closing down the allegations by a man, Steve 32-year-old programme. Messham, that he had been But he admitted the damage Volunteers help to clean up in the heavily damaged Rockaway neighbourhood where a large section of the iconic boardwalk was washed away in the repeatedly abused by a senior the row has caused the corpora- Queens borough of New York City, yesterday. Conservative party figure from tion on the heels of the scandal the 1980s when he was a teenager surrounding Savile, which is cur- living in the Bryn Estyn children’s rently the focus of three BBC- Homeowners return to Sandy devastation home in Wales. commissioned inquiries and a Although the programme major police investigation. did not identify the politician, it “This is a bad crisis of trust,” NEW YORK: Homeowners East Coast on October 29, killing ground, full recovery would take and the entire island is without sparked a frenzy of speculation Entwistle said. He added: “It return to a 30km barrier island at least 120 people and causing a long time. “This is not going to gas. One community, Holgate, on leading to former Tory party treas- would be absolutely wrong to slur off New Jersey’s Atlantic coast an estimated $50bn in damage be a short journey,” New York the island’s southern tip, would urer Alistair McAlpine, an aide to by extension the rest of the amaz- yesterday, giving some of them or economic losses. It destroyed Governor Andrew Cuomo said at remain closed because it was still Margaret Thatcher, being widely ing work that is going on across their first view of the devastation homes along the New Jersey a news conference on Friday. too dangerous to enter. named on social networking sites. the rest of BBC News.” wrought by superstorm Sandy. Shore and around New York City, And New Jersey Governor Chris New Yorkers faced their sec- McAlpine went public on Friday The British press described the Long Beach Island, an enclave cut off electricity for millions of Christie, who toured the Jersey ond day of gasoline rationing to strongly deny the claims, and BBC as being in “chaos”, and one of mostly affluent vacation homes, people and knocked out much of Shore on Friday, said that many on Saturday. Under the system, hours later Messham said after commentator for The Guardian took a direct hit from Sandy, with the public transportation system. popular vacation spots will not be which was introduced in New seeing a photograph of McAlpine newspaper wrote: “The latest error some homes washed full of sand Days later, protesters were dem- fully rebuilt by next summer. “This Jersey last week, cars with odd- that he had been mistaken. could not be much more serious for and seawater and others com- onstrating in the streets because is our Katrina,” he declared, refer- and even-numbered license plates Messham offered his “sin- the BBC’s journalistic reputation.” pletely destroyed. they were still without power, gaso- ring to the hurricane that washed can fill up only on alternate days. cere and humble” apologies to The broadcaster said on Friday it The island, with some 10,000 line rationing was in effect, and out New Orleans in 2005. Some 28 percent of gas stations McAlpine and suggested in a was suspending all co-productions year-round residents and perhaps commuters struggled all week to As homeowners were to return in the New York metropolitan statement on Friday that it was with the Bureau of Investigative 10 times that number in the sum- get in and out of New York City. to Long Beach Island on Saturday, area did not have fuel available the police who wrongly identified Journalism, with which it worked mer, has been closed to residents Authorities warned that for an emergency website operated by for sale on Friday, the same level the politician as his alleged abuser on the programme into the chil- except for brief visits to retrieve coastal communities where thou- towns on the island warned that as on Thursday, the US Energy back in the early 1990s. dren’s home abuse. belongings. sands of homes were washed some areas were still without Information Administration said. “We should not have put out a AFP Sandy smashed into the US away, flooded, or burned to the sewer, water and electric service REUTERS

US Supreme CIA chief’s resignation shocks Washington Court to review WASHINGTON: Washington consulate in Libya from a deadly its essential mission” without the spy agency, will serve as acting his sensitive work as spy chief. was in shock yesterday after attack. famed general. The president, director, but there were indica- The affair came to light as the law on minority the sudden resignation of CIA “After being married for over fresh off his electoral triumph, tions he might be only a tempo- FBI was investigating whether chief and ex-US commander in 37 years, I showed extremely reportedly had no inkling that rary choice. a computer used by Petraeus Iraq and Afghanistan, David poor judgement by engaging in the CIA chief was about to resign Speculation on a possible suc- had been compromised, the New voting rights Petraeus, handing another an extramarital affair,” the CIA until Thursday morning. cessor focused on John Brennan, York Times and other US media major challenge to President director said in a message to When he met with Petraeus the White House counter-terror- reported, citing government WASHINGTON: The US Barack Obama just three days staff, released to the media on later that day, Obama refused to ism adviser and CIA veteran who officials. upreme Court agreed to review after his re-election. Friday. accept the resignation straight has played an instrumental role NBC News and other media a legal challenge to the Voting Petraeus said he resigned over Obama, in a written statement, away, saying he would think about in Obama’s drone war against Al reported the Federal Bureau of Rights Act, a landmark law an extramarital affair, bringing an acknowledged Petraeus’s depar- it overnight, the New York Times Qaeda militants. Investigation was investigating adopted in 1965 to protect ignomious end to a highly praised ture, praising his “intellectual said. Neither Petraeus nor the CIA Paula Broadwell, co-author of a African-American voters who military and government career. rigor, dedication, and patriotism.” But in the end, Obama con- explained exactly why he felt he favorable biography of Petraeus, had faced decades of discrimi- It also came shortly before the But at the same time, he cluded he could not push Petraeus had to step down over the affair, “All In: The Education of David nation at the polls. US spy chief had been due to tes- expressed confidence that the to stay on, according to the Times. and whether his liaison pre- Petraeus,” for possible improper The court’s decision comes just tify in Congress on the agency’s Central Intelligence Agency “will Michael Morell, Petraeus’s sented a purely personal prob- access to classified information. days after a presidential election alleged failure to protect a US continue to thrive and carry out deputy at the country’s lead lem or raised security issues in AFP in which Latino and African- American voters played a big role in re-electing Democratic President Barack Obama, reflecting a basic shift in national demographics. The high court accepted an Mourners bury family appeal brought by Shelby County, Alabama, challenging a core pro- vision of the act that requires nine states and several local gov- killed in Guatemala quake ernments with a history of bias to get federal permission to change SAN CRISTOBAL CUCHO: The quake destroyed roads and their election procedures. Ivan Vasquez cried as he forced evacuations as far away as Arguments in the case will likely hunched over the 10 wooden Mexico City. be heard by the Supreme Court in caskets of his parents, six sib- Officials estimate that 52 people early 2013, with a decision expected lings and two cousins who were have been killed and say at least by the end of June. Some justices on struck down in a rock quarry three more are missing. Most of the nine-member court, including collapse caused by this week’s the dead were buried under debris Chief Justice John Roberts, have powerful earthquake. in the San Marcos state, a moun- signaled in earlier cases discomfort Vasquez was studying to take tainous region near the Mexican with policies that draw distinctions an accounting exam when the border. based on race. 7.4-magnitude quake struck on Vasquez’s father Egidio, 45, In a 2009 Voting Rights Act case, Wednesday, killing his entire was well known around town as the Supreme Court avoided ruling immediate family as they dug in a skilled builder and president of on the law’s constitutionality. The the quarry for material to reinforce the local sports association. court suggested that the federal the walls of their adobe home. He left for work on Wednesday “preclearance” requirement may Braced by friends and relatives morning with his 43-year-old wife no longer be needed or constitu- as he neared collapse, the 18 year and their four sons, two daughters tional. Roberts, dissenting from a old dressed in a black sweater and and two nephews aged between 2006 voting-rights decision, criti- dark jeans choked down water three and 14. When the earthquake cized what he called “a sordid busi- between screams. “Why did you struck, the quarry wall caved in, ness, this divvying us up by race.” leave me,” he sobbed. “You were burying them all under tons of sand Congress passed the Voting all such good people.” and rock. “There were working for Rights Act after a watershed epi- Wednesday’s quake was the their lives and they lost their lives,” sode in Alabama on March 7, 1965, most powerful to hit the Central Egidio’s sister Albertina Vasquez when state troopers clubbed and American nation since 1976, said. “I’m never going to see my tear-gassed peaceful civil rights People receive water from volunteer firefighters after the earthquake in San Marcos, in the San Marcos region, when a 7.5-magnitude quake brother again.” marchers in Selma. about 250km from Guatemala City, yesterday. killed more than 20,000 people. REUTERS REUTERS SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES Myanmar govt urged to take stand on unrest Brussels-based rights group says leaders should show moral leadership to curb communal strife

YANGON: President Thein backward step,” from Myanmar’s The volatile Rakhine situation are seen by the government and criticised for failing to make her His visit will “strengthen the Sein and opposition leader reforms after decades of junta needs “decisive moral leadership... many Burmese as illegal immi- own position on the Rohingya resolve” of Thein Sein to “move Aung San Suu Kyi must show rule, the Brussels-based rights by both President Thein Sein and grants from their neighbour clear, aware that many in forward” with reforms, a spokes- “moral leadership” if Myanmar group said in a report on the cri- Aung San Suu Kyi to prevent it Bangladesh. Myanmar want the Muslim group man for Myanmar’s Presidential is to stem communal vio- sis due to be released tomorrow. spreading and contribute towards With around 800,000 stateless to be sent to another country. Office said late Friday. lence between Muslims and “This is a time when political long-term solutions”, the study Rohingya in Rakhine, the reform- Suu Kyi’s reticence has the Obama’s visit shows “concrete Buddhists, the International leaders must rise to the challenge said. ist government is under interna- potential to undermine her support for the democratisation Crisis Group said yesterday. of shaping public opinion rather Scores were killed and thou- tional pressure to give them a position as a democracy figure- process of President U Thein Unrest has left at least 180 than just following it. A failure to sands of homes were torched in legal status, with warnings that head and could also damage her Sein, Daw (honorific) Aung San people dead since June and dis- do so will be to the detriment of renewed violence last month and the conflict threatens its demo- National League for Democracy Suu Kyi, Members of Parliaments placed 110,000 -- mostly Rohingya the country,” it added. the ICG urged the government to cratic transition. (NLD) party, the ICG said. and the Myanmar people,” Zaw Muslims, in western Rakhine Urging the government to curb ensure camps for the displaced In rare comments touching on Meanwhile, Myanmar’s gov- Htay said in a statement. State prompting international nationalist rhetoric from the eth- do not become a precursor to the the incendiary topic, Suu Kyi last ernment has said it “warmly “President Thein Sein fully calls for the president and Nobel nic Rakhine, who are Buddhists, “segregation” of Rakhine and week urged the government to be welcomes” the historic visit of believes that the trip of President laureate Suu Kyi to defend the the report warned of the threat Rohingya. open in any discussions about the President Barack Obama later Obama will push the momentum minority group. of rising “identity politics” in The sectarian violence pivots citizenship status of the ethnic this month, expressing hope his of the process of democratic “The flare-up in Rakhine State Myanmar as reforms give new on the Rohingya’s lack of legal minority. trip will bolster the nation’s polit- reform,” he added. represents a deeply disturbing found freedoms to interest groups. status in Myanmar, where they But she has been widely ical reform drive. AFP

Troops reinforced as Lanka jail riot kills 27 Young Chinese reporter COLOMBO: Heavily-armed puts officials in a spot troops guarded Sri Lanka’s lone maximum security prison yes- terday after helping to crush BEIJING: Chinese officials at school, what can you do to put the country’s worst jail riot in accustomed to the tame ques- us at ease over food safety?” she three decades, which left 27 tions of a compliant state press asked. people dead and 43 wounded. were caught out by a plucky The Communist Party is pre- Army spokesman Brigadier 11-year-old reporter during the senting a tightly-scripted image Ruwan Wanigasooriya said the country’s sensitive Communist of national unity for the week- soldiers handed back the sprawl- Party congress. long congress that opened on ing Welikada jail in the capital Sun Luyuan, a Beijing sixth- Thursday. Colombo to the prisons depart- grade student, on Friday shook Held every five years, the con- ment after ensuring calm had up one of the tightly-controlled gress will end next Wednesday been restored following Friday’s party meetings on the congress’s with the unveiling of a new top riot. sidelines with a question that put leadership line-up widely expected “We have withdrawn troops officials in the spot over China’s to be headed by Vice President Xi from the prison, but we are still miserable food-safety record. Jinping, who will lead for the next maintaining a presence along the Noting that a steady stream ten years. perimeter,” Wanigasooriya said. of scandals and health scares Ma Kai, a top official in China’s Prisons Minister Chandrasiri involving tainted or unsafe food cabinet who presided over Friday’s Gajadeera said 11 of the dead were products had particularly affected meeting, passed the question to recovered from the prison where students, leaving many sickened Education Minister Yuan Guiren, inmates fought with elite police in various incidents, Sun asked the China News Service said. commandos who were carrying why China can’t clean up its act. Yuan offered a stock official out a search for drugs and mobile Police officers investigate a damaged three-wheeler after a clash between the Special Task Force (STF) and “I love snacks, but I don’t dare response pledging the govern- phones on Friday evening. prisoners at Welikada prison in Colombo yesterday. to eat snacks now because we ment was addressing the situation “Sixteen bodies are at the hos- see so many reports these days and putting proper safety meas- pital and another 11 were found of problems with food products,” ures in place, a line repeated for in the prison today,” Gajadeera onto the prison roof and fired at inmates seized 82 weapons, Jasinghe told the reporters. Sun asked high-level officials dur- years even as the scandals have told parliament yesterday. “I troops and police on the ground including automatic assault rifles, Officials said the 11 bod- ing a congress delegate meeting, persisted. have appointed a three-member while a handful hijacked a three- after storming an armoury and ies recovered from the prison according to state-run China Increasingly anxious Chinese committee to investigate the wheel auto rickshaw taxi which grabbing weapons from comman- Saturday would be taken to a News Service. consumers are regularly hit with incident.” was stopped by heavy gunfire dos. They were all later recovered. morgue for autopsies. During the meeting at Beijing’s food scares ranging from cancer- Friday’s violence was the worst from security personnel. The rioting caused extensive “Among those in hospital are cavernous Great Hall of the causing toxins found in cooking prison riot since July 1983 when Inside the jail there were damage to the prison headquar- 13 STF personnel, four soldiers People, Sun, who works for the oil to food items that are expired more than 50 ethnic Tamil pris- intense gun-battles lasting several ters inside the jail complex. and one civilian bystander,” Dr Chinese Teenager News, con- or contain dangerous chemicals oners were massacred at the same hours between rioting inmates “Sixteen people were already Jasinghe said, adding gunfire also tinued by asking “why are these and additives. jail by majority Sinhalese prison- and the police Special Task Force dead when they were brought to wounded the head of the STF, kinds of food products available In 2008, China was rocked by ers during anti-Tamil riots that (STF) commandos who had been hospital last night and another deputy inspector-general R M for purchase?” one of its biggest-ever food safety had gripped the country. drafted in to carry out the search. 43 are being treated,” Colombo Ranawana. “As many primary and middle scandals. A number of inmates climbed The prisons minister said National Hospital director Anil AFP school students eat our lunches AFP

Japan, US to discuss Beijing marathon defence guidelines Manila signs defence deal with Canada bars Japanese amid MANILA: Canada and the “This memorandum of individuals,” he added. areas that overlap with territory TOKYO: Japan and the United Philippines signed a deal yester- understanding will enable the Faced with communist and claimed by China. island dispute States have agreed to discuss day to help Manila buy military Philippines to acquire the equip- Islamist insurgencies and an Manila’s military treaty ally updating 15-year-old guidelines equipment to defend its terri- ment and expertise it needs to increasingly assertive China, the United States is set this year TOKYO: Organisers of the on their security alliance in tory, Canadian Prime Minister fulfil the country’s defence and Aquino noted that the military to deliver a second refurbished Beijing marathon have barred view of China’s growing mili- Stephen Harper and Filipino security agenda,” Harper said. had just two transport aircraft, Hamilton-class cutter, previously Japanese runners from taking tary presence in the region, a President Benigno Aquino said. Under the deal, Filipino pur- no fighter jets and just 132 mainly used by the US Coast Guard, to par t due to safety concerns after Japanese official said. The Philippine defence depart- chases of equipment and exper- World War II-era ships. the Philippine Navy. a fresh flare-up in a territo- After meeting high-level US ment and state-run Canadian tise from Canada’s $12.6bn “The fundamental issue is that Last month the Philippine rial dispute between Japan and officials, Senior Vice Defence Commercial Corp signed the (US$12.6bn) defence industry are we have a lot of outmoded equip- Coast Guard announced it would China, a report said yesterday. Minister Akihisa Nagashima told- agreement as Harper met Aquino guaranteed by the Ottawa gov- ment,” he said. buy five patrol boats from France “If they choose other nation- Japanese media in Washington at Malacanang Palace in Manila, ernment, according to a Canadian The Canadian Commercial for about 90m euros ($116m), alities including China, Japanese Friday (Saturday, Japan time) the two leaders announced at a government statement. Corp serves as a go-between partly to guard disputed areas in can take part,” the influential the two countries had “agreed joint news conference. “This will help us in our efforts between Canadian suppliers and the South China Sea. newspaper Asahi Shimbun’s to deepen Japan-US strategic The deal was inked amid to build our defence and security foreign governments to transact The Philippines and China online edition quoted a source at consultations”. a territorial dispute between capabilities,” Aquino said, declin- defence and security contracts. began a standoff in April over the organising committee of the He said the two countries were the Philippines and China over ing to elaborate. The Philippines has been in the Scarborough Shoal, a group of November 25 marathon as saying. oriented “in the same direction” islands and waters in the South “I cannot go into specifics lest the market for patrol vessels islets in the West Philippine Sea. The committee made the deci- on Tokyo’s proposal to revise China Sea. they be observed by less friendly to protect its waters, including AFP sion by taking into consideration guidelines on Japan-US defence the safety of athletes, the daily cooperation, which were intro- said in a report from the Chinese duced in 1997 with a focus on Bilateral diplomacy capital. possible conflict on the Korean Japanese companies such as peninsula. Canon had sponsored the annual Nagashima was speaking after Volunteer medics in frontline event until last year but they are separate meetings with Deputy not sponsoring it this year. Defence Secretary Ashton Carter Already 26,000 people have and Assistant Secretary of State of Thai’s southern insurgency signed up for the marathon since for East Asian and Pacific Affairs its registration process began on Kurt Campbell. BANNANG SATA: They are that the full body must be buried Thursday, Asahi said. The agreement comes at a time rubber tappers by trade but -- a challenge when corpses have Japan was included in the when state-operated Chinese every week are summoned to been torn apart by bombs. nationality section in the mara- ships have been spotted loitering the scene of beheadings, bombs Like many Hilal Ahmad thon’s online registration page in waters near Japan-controlled and shootings as volunteer med- Foundation volunteers he makes until last year but has been islands at the centre of a dispute ics dealing with the fallout from a living in the rubber plantations deleted this year, it added. with China and Taiwan, stoking Thailand’s southern insurgency. that dot the Muslim-majority In Beijing, officials from the fears of a maritime clash. Violence strikes with grim reg- Thai south, draining and collect- organising committee were not Japan’s nationalisation in mid- ularity in the lush, forested hills of ing milky-white sap from trees. immediately available to comment September of some of the islands, Bannang Sata, a militant strong- Drawn from the remote com- on the report. known as Senkaku in Japanese hold -- or “red zone” -- in Yala munities they serve, the volun- Tokyo’s nationalisation of and Diaoyu in Chinese, has stoked province, where locals are caught teers provide a safety net of sorts islands that are at the centre tensions in the East China Sea, between the warring militants in an area stalked by fear as the of a territorial row with Beijing with Japanese coastguard patrol and security forces. eight-year insurgency grinds on. sparked violent mass anti-Japan ships chasing away Chinese “It’s hard to collect a body when The Islamic charity, started demonstrations in Chinese cities flotillas. they have been burnt, beheaded or seven years ago with a handful of in September. Japanese nationals, In Washington the two sides hit by a bomb blast,” said father- volunteers now runs teams across businesses and diplomatic mis- confirmed they would discuss of-three Madanee Duereh. all the provinces of Yala, Pattani sions were targeted. reviewing their defence roles in “But it’s our duty to help the and Narathiwat. It also has its Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra (right) shakes hands with Japanese and Chinese athletes the face of China’s military build- people... to help them bury their own “1669” hotline, which villag- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak during a welcoming ceremony have since pulled out of several up and its naval expansion. dead the right way,” he said, refer- ers dial in the event of an attack. at Government House in Bangkok yesterday. sporting events in both countries AFP ring to Islamic rites decreeing AFP due to safety concerns. AFP SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17 Pakistan marks Malala Day as support grows Schoolgirl captures hearts of millions with her campaign

MINGORA: Pakistan marked fearful shadow, with students at to speak out and pledged to follow “Malala Day” yesterday on a Malala’s Khushal Public School Malala’s brave example. global day of support for the forced to honour her in private. “Malala is a good friend of teenager shot by the Taliban for “We held a special prayer for mine. She is brave and has hon- promoting girls’ education, but Malala today in our school assem- our and whoever attacked her did in her home town security fears bly and also lit candles,” school a terrible thing,” Asma Khan, 12, meant schoolmates could not principal Mariam Khalid said. a student in Saroosh Academy, honour her in public. “We did not organise any open close to Malala’s school said. Taliban hitmen shot Malala event because our school and “After the attack on her and Yousafzai on her school bus its students still face a security her injuries, we have now more a month ago in Mingora in threat.” courage to study and now we will Pakistan’s northwestern Swat Though their bid to kill Malala fulfil her mission to spread educa- Valley, in a cold-blooded murder failed, the Taliban have said they tion everywhere.” Students hold the portraits of Malala Yousafzai at a rally to observe Malala Day in Karachi, Pakistan, yesterday. attempt for the “crime” of cam- will attack any woman who stands Khan’s schoolmate Gul Para, 12, paigning for girls’ rights to go to against them. added: “Malala is the daughter of school. Fears are so great that Khalid the nation and we are proud of Karzai pledges to ‘hunt’ Malala’s attackers Miraculously the 15-year-old said even speaking to the media her. survived and her courage has could put students’ lives in “She has stood by us and for MUMBAI: Afghan President Miraculously the 15-year-old better for Pakistan and the better won the hearts of millions around danger. our education up to now and now Hamid Karzai yesterday prom- survived the shooting and her for India,” Karzai said. the world, prompting the UN to Two of Malala’s friends were it is time that we should stand by ised to hunt for the Taliban courage, which won the hearts The Afghan President regularly declare yesterday a “global day of wounded in the attempt on her her and complete her mission.” attackers who shot Pakistani of millions around the world, accuses Pakistan of supporting action” for her. life and one, 16-year-old Kainaat Nearly 100,000 people have teenage activist Malala prompted the United Nations to Taliban Islamist insurgents try- People around the world are Riaz, said she was still haunted by signed an online petition call- Yousafzai for speaking up for declare yesterday a “global day of ing to topple his government -- a expected to hold vigils and dem- memories of the attack. ing for Malala to be nominated girls’ rights to education. action” for her. charge Islamabad denies. onstrations honouring Malala “I am still terrified.” for the Nobel Peace Prize and The Pakistani Taliban has Speaking about Malala, who is Separately, at a meeting with and calling for the 32 million “I still get tears in my eyes on Friday UN special education admitted shooting Malala in the recovering in a British hospital, business leaders in India’s finan- girls worldwide who are denied whenever I think of that incident. envoy Gordon Brown handed a head on a school bus a month ago Karzai accused Islamabad of hav- cial hub Mumbai, Karzai promised education to be allowed to go to I saw Malala in the pool of blood separate million-strong petition to punish her for the “crime” of ing armed and trained the teen- a “red carpet” welcome for more school. in front of me with my eyes,” she in support of Malala to Pakistani campaigning for girls’ rights to go ager’s assailants. Indian investment in Afghanistan Demonstrations backing said. President Asif Ali Zardari. to school in the militants’ former “Terrorism is a snake and when as US-led Nato forces prepare to Malala were held in Islamabad, Malala rose to prominence with Islamabad on Friday also Pakistani stronghold of Swat. you train a snake, you can’t expect withdraw. Karachi, the eastern city of a blog for the BBC charting life announced a UN-backed scheme “Afghanistan will hunt for it will only go in the neighbour’s Islamabad was a close ally of Lahore and Muzaffarabad in in Swat under the Taliban, whose to give poor families cash incen- Malala’s attackers,” Karzai said house,” he said. “When the attack the 1996 to 2001 Taliban regime, Pakistan-administered Kashmir bloody two-year reign of terror tives to send their children to in an interview with India’s CNN- on Malala happened, this proved but formally sided with the US and Prime Minister Raja Pervez supposedly came to an end with school in a bid to get three IBN television network, aired as our point,” he added. after the 9/11 attacks that pre- Ashraf saluted Malala’s courage. an army operation in 2009. million more youngsters into he began a four-day visit to the “The earlier they (the cipitated the US-led invasion of But in Mingora, the threat of Despite the dangers, some chil- education. South Asian nation and as the Pakistanis) accept it and fight Afghanistan. further Taliban reprisals casts a dren in Mingora were determined AFP world marked “Malala Day”. radicalism, the better for us, the AFP

Unesco report places Islamabad names new envoy to China after internal tussle Pakistan low in ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani to be posted in Beijing. nomination. Top FO mandarins mostly served on administrative mate of Foreign Secretary Jalil female education president has finally backed However, succumbing to pres- have accepted the compromise positions and has little experience Abbas Jilani. Khalid is currently down from his controversial sure from the Foreign Office (FO) arrangement, but aren’t fully of the political side of diplomacy, serving as the country’s High ISLAMABAD: As the world choice for ambassadorship in top brass was not a complete loss happy with it. his colleagues argue. Commissioner to Malaysia. He expressed solidarity with Malala Beijing. Senior diplomat Masood for the Presidency either. Iqbal, They contend that Iqbal isn’t Controversy over the Beijing has previously served as ambas- Yousafzai’s stand on female edu- Khalid has now been named as who was said to be President experienced enough for an assign- posting had exposed the deep- sador in Seoul. At the headquar- cation across the planet yester- envoy to China - one of the most Zardari’s pick, has instead been ment in a major capital. rooted rivalry between the ters, his last assignment was day, Pakistan finds itself in the important overseas postings for compensated with an equally “Sanity prevailed in case of directly recruited Foreign Service additional secretary on the Asia- bottom 10 of new country rank- the Pakistani diplomats. important European posting - the appointment for Beijing. But FO officials and those inducted Pacific desk. ings for the education of poor The retreat by the Presidency Ambassador to France. officers are unhappy with the from armed forces. The directly The Beijing position had fallen females, according to a United over its choice of the Chief of Getting ‘his man’ posted in Paris posting because the nomi- recruited officers claim that those vacant after Ambassador Masood Nations Educational, Scientific Protocol, Ghalib Iqbal, happened Paris has long been Zardari’s nee does not have enough experi- coming from the military get a Khan moved to New York as the and Cultural Organisation as a result of intense lobbying obsession. In 2009 he had tried ence to head such an important head start in their careers and country’s permanent representa- (Unesco) report. by some senior members of the to appoint Dr Jehanzeb Khan, an mission,” a Foreign Service officer are given preferential treatment tive at the UN. Iqbal will replace Unesco’s Education for All Foreign Service, who were not officer of the district manage- said. during selection for overseas Safkat Saeed, whose service con- Global Monitoring Report pleased to see the plum posting ment group, as ambassador in Iqbal is a former navy officer assignments. tract has ended. Saeed was on a (EFAGMR) revealed Pakistan going to a relatively junior col- Paris, but a strong reaction from who was later inducted into Masood Khalid, the ambas- contract after retiring from the is in the bottom 10 countries, league. They had argued that the Foreign Service had then the Foreign Service. During the sador-designate for Beijing, is Foreign Service. according to the proportion of Iqbal lacked enough experience compelled him to withdraw the course of Foreign Service, he has a BPS-22 officer and a batch INTERNEWS poor girls who have never been in school. According to the report, only Afghan policemen six African countries fare worse than Pakistan in this respect. It revealed 62 percent girls in Two Afghan soldiers attack Pakistan, aged between seven and 15, have never spent time in a classroom. This is compared to Nato forces in Herat 30 percent in India and 9 percent in Bangladesh. HERAT: Two Afghan soldiers confirmed the incident but said The report showed Pakistan attacked US-led Nato forces that only one attacker, an ANA was also in the bottom 10 coun- (ISAF) in western Afghanistan soldier who “was suffering from tries ranked according to the time yesterday, in the latest “insider” mental problems”, was involved. young women spend in school attack in the country, injuring “The soldier who opened fire was in their lifetime. It stated girls, one foreign soldier, ISAF said. suffering from mental problems, between the ages of 17 and 22, An ISAF spokesman in Kabul he was wounded when ISAF forces on an average spend one year in said that the attack by two Afghan returned fire and later detained school in Pakistan. Girls in India National Army (ANA) soldiers by Afghan and ISAF forces,” and Bangladesh, in comparison, occurred in Muqur district of provincial governor spokesman spend 2.9 and 4.4 years in school Badghis province in the early Sharafudin Majidi said. on an average. hours of yesterday, which resulted Shootings by Afghan forces “Almost two-thirds of Pakistan?s in the injury of one Nato soldier have taken an increasing toll on poor girls have never been to and one attacker but no fatalities. Nato troops and have seriously school,” said EFAGMR director “Two ANA service members undermined trust between Nato Pauline Rose in a press release. turned their weapons against forces and their Afghan allies in “Without a real step change by ISAF forces in Badghis province. the fight against hardline Islamist the government they will be denied There was no fatalities, but one Taliban insurgents. equal opportunities in work and life ISAf soldier was injured and one In the most recent previous forever,” she added. attacker was also wounded when attack a man in Afghan police “As we stand together on ISAF troops returned fire. Both uniform opened fire on Nato- ‘Malala Day’, it is vital to stand attackers were detained by ISAF led coalition forces in southern up for what she believes in, and and Afghan forces,” the spokesman Helmand province on October 30, highlight difficulties many poor said without giving more details. killing two British soldiers. girls and young women face in A provincial spokesman AFP Afghan policemen patrol on the outskirts of Ghazni, Afghanistan, yesterday. Successful training of Afghan getting to school.” INTERNEWS forces is regarded the key to Nato plans to hand over frontline security to local troops in 2014. Varsity makes first indigenous wind turbine Three Shias shot dead in Quetta KARACHI: Pakistani uni- not been as yet. He, however, “International producers of The wind turbine of 6KVA QUETTA: Gunmen shot from the Jinnah road in a taxi- versity Szabist has installed compared that one megawatt wind turbines are delivering a was designed and fabricated by dead three Shia Muslims and cab when they were targeted by the country’s first indigenously foreign made wind turbine cost plant of 1.5-2MW in three years the Centre for Renewable Energy wounded three others yesterday two gunmen waiting for them at a designed and locally fabricated $1m, two megawatts $1.8-2m time from the date of booking.” Research (CRER) and headed in a fresh sectarian attack in traffic signal,” Anwar Ali, a senior wind turbine of at its Gharo and three megawatts wind tur- “The local production of such by Dr Imran Amin and his team Pakistan’s troubled southwest- police official said. Research Centre yesterday. bine cost around $2.7m. One technology would help Pakistan of engineers and technicians of ern province of Baluchistan, “Two persons were killed at “The turbine was fabricated in megawatt is equal to 1,000KVA. tap the available huge poten- Szabist Karachi. police said. the spot while one succumbed to Pakistan by using almost 85 per The higher cost of wind tur- tial of 50,000MW through wind “The design of the wind tur- The shooting took place in the his injuries in the hospital. .” he cent local components,” said Dr bine remained no more a hur- turbines. bine meets all the international provincial capital Quetta which said. Imran Amin, head of the project. dle in the way of wind power Pakistan can produce up standards and has been using the is rich in oil and gas deposits but Another local police official who “It costs around Rs1.2m.” production in the world but its to 110,000MW wind power,” modern technologies available,” deeply impoverished and unstable. reached the crime scene soon after Dr Amin refused to give the availability has come into ques- estimates of world renowned said Amin. “Six persons from the Shiite the incident confirmed the toll. cost estimates as the price has tion now, he said. agencies. INTERNEWS Hazara community were passing AFP SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Hazare announces new team, fresh campaign Nationwide anti-corruption campaign from January 30

NEW DELHI: Two months Sarvodaya Enclave in south Delhi into India. “Foreign companies after Team Anna was dis- today. Hazare’s new team comes must be stopped from entering banded, Anna Hazare yesterday as his former protege Arvind the country. Farmers are fac- announced a new 13-member Kejriwal has been holding a spate ing the brunt — lathicharge and team and said he would start of press conferences to “reveal” police firing — as the government a nationwide campaign against alleged corruption in high places gives out land to the foreign com- corruption from January 30 Hazare announced that his panies. Gram sabhas should be next year, the death anniver- movement would fight for a Jan given more powers and the right sary of Mahatma Gandhi. Lokpal bill, against FDI and crim- to decide on land acquisition. Hazare also termed as “misin- inalisation of politics. Privatisation of water and elec- formation” reports that his team “Corruption and system over- tricity cannot be allowed,” he said. had ended. “Our campaign has haul will be our focus. Our move- Former Supreme Court judge never stopped, we are taking it ment hasn’t weakened, it will be and a member of the old team, N forward,” he said. even tougher. There is rampant Santosh Hedge could not attended “We have formed a 13-member corruption because the Central the meeting due to “personal rea- team which will give a push to the Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is sons”, Hazare said. movement,” Hazare said. under government control. We had “The team members would be Hazare announced his new a five-hour long meeting to chart increased to 55. They will get train- team after a meeting with Kiran out the future. We need to unite ing and be tasked to mobilise the Bedi, Medha Patkar and some the country against corruption, people for the movement in several former Team Anna members at we need to launch a revolution to parts of the country,” he said. Maharashtra Sadan here. He change the system,” he said. “This movement is back. This Anna Hazare (centre), with former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and activist Kiran Bedi, social activist Medha also said that former army chief Hazare also said he would movement won’t stop until our Geneneral V K Singh is not a not accept the UPA govern- investigating agencies become Patkar and other supporters during a press conference in New Delhi, yesterday. member of his team, but the two ment’s Lokpal bill to set up an independent and non-partici- were in touch. ombudsman. pant,” said Bedi. “We aren’t for political campaigning. months back,” Hazare said at a my guru. I talk to him everyday. “Today (Saturday) there was a “We will not accept the govern- Jan Lokpal alone, we need a mass Meanwhile, India Against press conference at Maharashtra If he asks me to stop using the meeting among 13 old members ment’s version of Lokpal. People movement,” she added. Corruption (IAC) founder Sadan. IAC’s name I won’t use it,” said of our group. Soon there will be a should have right to reject. We On September 19, Hazare had Anna Hazare, who parted ways “The movement of India Kejriwal. national campaign against corrup- need to unite the country against announced breakup of the former with activist Arvind Kejriwal in Against Corruption was launched Kiran Bedi, who left the group tion. I will start a nationwide tour corruption. We need a Jan Lokpal team and from key associate September, yesterday laid claim by me to fight corruption, Hazare with Hazare, said: “They (Arvind from January 30, 2013,” Hazare told Bill by 2014, we need a revolution Arvind Kejriwal on the issue of to the name IAC. told reporters here. and his colleagues) moved out reporters after the meeting. to change the system,” said Hazare. forming a political party. He had “The movement was launched Kejriwal said he would not from IAC. They certainly must The activist also said he will Hazare said that he would stop also directed that his photographs on October 2010. Arvind, who was use the IAC’s name in his fight have a new name.” inaugurate his new office at the entry of foreign companies or name should not be used for earlier a member, had left us two against corruption. “He (Anna) is IANS

Aadhaar-based Action initiated on foreign bank accounts, says ministry direct cash NEW DELHI: The government tax authorities had been con- bank accounts in HSBC Bank in adjournment motion in the Lok allegations against 700-odd people yesterday said a probe was on to tacted to obtain more information Geneva, Switzerland. Sabha December last year and who hold Swiss bank accounts. transfer from elicit information and appropri- about “reported account holders”. “Information was received in answers were given in the Rajya “The government is follow- ate action had been initiated Rejecting the demand of the June 2011 by the government of Sabha in August this year. ing two yardsticks. The income under the Income Tax Act but Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and India from the government of Kejriwal on Friday accused some tax department is raiding only January 1 refused to divulge names pro- the Left to disclose names of those France relating to certain bank industrialists and a politician of the small players. Why isn’t any vided by France of people and mentioned in the list provided accounts reportedly held by cer- holding money in Swiss banks. The action being taken against HSBC NEW DELHI: The govern- companies who hold accounts in by France, the finance ministry tain individuals/non-individuals in allegations have been denied. (Bank)? The government is fool- ment set a January 1, 2013 Switzerland. said: “The information received a foreign bank,” the ministry said. Kejriwal had added that all ing the country,” Kejriwal told deadline for kick starting its In an apparent rebuttal to alle- from the government of France It said appropriate action has those whose names figure in the reporters here. ambitious scheme of directly gations levelled by India Against is covered by the confidentiality been taken on the cases and fur- list of 700 should be raided and Kejriwal asked Finance Minister transferring cash to beneficiar- Corruption (IAC) activist Arvind clause under the Double Taxation ther action including assessment, arrested if prima facie evidence is P Chidambaram why the govern- ies of welfare schemes and sub- Kejriwal of the government not Avoidance Convention (DTAC) tax collection and levy of penalty found that they sent their money ment was protecting HSBC Bank sidiaries, a project announced pursuing cases of those mentioned between India and France and will be taken based on the facts abroad through hawala. and why couldn’t India access the by Prime Minister Manmohan in the list provided by France in can be used only for the tax pur- of each case. He had also demanded that top list of all its citizens who have Singh over a month ago, in 51 2011, the finance ministry said in poses specified therein.” The government said former officials of HSBC Bank should be accounts in foreign banks, like districts across the country. a press release that the govern- The ministry’s release did not finance minister Pranab arrested for money laundering. America. “Do you agree that the The decision was taken ment had analysed the informa- mention the number of people in Mukherjee had mentioned the Kejriwal yesterday accused names and amounts we disclosed at a meeting of the execu- tion and further action would be the list provided by France. government receiving informa- the government of protecting yesterday, they appear in the list tive committee on direct cash taken on case-to-case basis. Kejriwal had said on Friday tion about foreign accounts in the super rich and targeting the of 700 people?” he asked. transfers chaired by prime min- The statement said that foreign that roughly 700 people had his reply to the debate on the small fish while investigating the IANS ister’s Principal Secretary Pulok Chatterji here. Under the plan approved for roll out, the scheme will cover No home for 25,000 Kerala SC families the 18 states and union territo- ries in the country by April 2013 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A survey years, only 830,000 were working and 51,000 had and it will be extended to another on the scheduled castes (SC) in Kerala has a permanent job. 16 states and union territories by revealed that of the 558,000 families, 25,408 When it came to educational qualifications, April 2014, according to a release have no home or land of their own. it was found out that 1,908 had an engineering from the prime minister’s office Out of the SC population in the state, 120,003 degree, while 212 were qualified doctors. Some (PMO). are females and 11.49 are males. 0.38 percent of the SC population had either a The prime minister will chair The survey under the guidance of S M degree or a post graduate degree, and 0.37 per- the first national committee Vijayanand, now additional secretary, Ministry cent were illiterate. Under health, 18,808 were meeting on November 26 where of Rural Development, was conducted by K both physically and mentally challenged, while the roadmap and timelines will Sukumaran and his team with the state owned 7,704 were mentally challenged. be presented. Kerala Institute of Local Administration as the Of the 478,000 ration card holders, 168,000 The executive committee nodal agency. were in the above poverty line category, while meeting was attended by sec- The elaborate field survey which took over two 310,000 card holders were below poverty line. retaries and representatives of years also revealed that 15,984 families had land Palakkad district had the highest SC popula- departments of financial serv- in their name but no home to claim theirs. tion with 57,083 families, and Wayanad with just ices, unique identity author- With regard to basic living conditions, it was 226 families, was the least among the 14 districts ity (Aadhaar), information found that while 172,000 families was huddled in in the state. technology, planning commis- a one room house, some 372,000 had a home with State Minister for Welfare of Scheduled Castes, sion, expenditure, posts, rural more than one room. A P Anil Kumar said that the state government development. The age profile of the SC revealed that in the had drawn out plan for the upliftment of the SC Representatives of social justice age group between 22 to 59 there were 1.36m families. “This year we will provide houses for and empowerment, tribal affairs, people, while above 60 age there were 235,000. 5,000 SC families and for 4,000 families, land will minority affairs, higher educa- When it came to use of electricity, in 2,262 vil- given. We have fixed a target that in three years tion, school education, health and lages, some 88,000 homes had no power. time there will not be a single SC family who will family welfare, women and child Regarding sanitation, 68,685 houses had no not have a home of their own. development, labour and employ- bathroom, while 62,645 had a non-functional one “More than one lakh bathrooms will be built ment, petroleum and natural gas, and 943 families was dependent on public toilets. for the SC community in their homes. For this fertilizers, and food and public For drinking water, only 259,000 families had we will provide Rs25,000 each,” said Kumar, who distribution were also present access. himself belongs to the SC community. during the meet. On employment, in the age group of 15 to 59 IANS IANS

VVIP copter deal details sought from Britain

NEW DELHI: India has sought details affairs) to take up the case with UK. We are arrested in Switzerland for allegedly paying from Britain in connection with corrup- making all efforts to find the truth in media kickbacks to secure the deal for 12 AW-101 tion allegations in a $800m deal with reports,” the defence minister told report- helicopters signed in 2010. AgustaWestland for 12 VVIP helicopters. ers on the sidelines of an IDSA awards Asked if a CBI probe would be ordered, Defence Minister A K Antony said yes- ceremony. Antony said they were waiting to get the terday that the government was making Antony said the government has writ- facts and details from Britain and Italy and “serious and sincere” efforts to find out the ten to the Italian government to get details “then we can see what can be done”. truth in the corruption allegations levelled on whether any middlemen are involved as The external affairs ministry called the in the media, adding that “strong action” “this is not permitted in our laws”. Italian envoy in New Delhi earlier this would be taken in case foul play is detected “If there is any iota of truth in media month to demand a response to the alle- in the procurement process. reports, if there is any foul play or mischief gations. India’s ambassador to Italy also “The contract is with a particular we will take strong action,” Antony said. took up the issue with Italian authorities company based in the UK. We have also The allegations surfaced when media on October 29. requested MEA (the ministry of external reports said that two people have been IANS

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Campbell bash’s In turquoise sea event manager Danish TV to focus arrested for loud more on men leads noise in India COPENHAGEN: Danish tel- appreciate the courage to stop.” evision drama is to abandon That courage was only too JODHPUR: Indian police its successful formula of strong evident as Sofie Grabol, whose arrested an event manager for female leads and focus on men depiction of enigmatic detective excessive use of fireworks at an with a batch of new series which Sarah Lund is key to the series’ extravagant party hosted by feature themes of finance, fraud success, was greeted with a roar supermodel Naomi Campbell in and fighting. of approval and clapping as she the desert city of Jodhpur, offi- Piv Bernth, executive producer entered the event. As the host, cials said on Friday. of The Killing has been promoted Danish ambassador to Britain Mumbai-based P K Pareek was to head of fiction at broadcaster Anne Hedensted Steffensen, held on charges of “noise pollu- Danish Radio and says it is time to noted: “She is Danish screen tion” at Campbell’s star-studded give men a turn in the spotlight. royalty.” party held to mark the 50th She said the way forward would Grabol, in a slinky gold top, birthday of her billionaire Russian be to “look at what was happening leather jacket and tight jeans, said boyfriend Vladimir Doronin at a to them while the women were the end of filming had come as a 15th-century fort. doing all these things, saving the shock. “It hit me like a hammer “He was arrested on Thursday world”, and create leading parts when I finished [The Killing]; it and released on bail today,” city for them. was an emotional series for me.” police commissioner Bhupendra One answer, she said, seemed to She added that in the very last Kumar Dak said in Jodhpur, be that they were making money. scene, filmed in September, “I was the second largest city in the Danish Radio is developing a fresh in my own little world, in a car, northern Indian state of 20-episode drama called Follow when the director said, ‘that’s a Rajasthan. the Money, “about financial fraud wrap’”. Bernth was standing out- Dak said the man was detained around the world, about finance side. “I opened the door, grabbed when local residents com- and economics”. the bottle, and ran off. I cried plained of excessive noise from “That’s for a male lead. We all the way home ... I kept the the fireworks at the celebra- think now we have to change. jumper.” tions in Mehrangarh Fort on It will be on air in 2015. We like Soren Sveistrup, the writer Wednesday. Indian dancers perform during the inauguration of the 18th Kolkata International Film Festival in Kolkata to tell big stories for the small and creator of The Killing, who The commissioner said the yesterday. More than 185 films from 63 countries will be screened during the eight-day festival which was screen. In the opening episode has introduced a more domestic party organisers had been allowed inaugurated by Bollywood actors Shah Rukh Khan and Amitabh Bachchan. we will be in London, for a short and world-weary side to Lund to use firecrackers and loud music while. If you ask Danes, they have in the final series, as well as a until 10pm and that police were been very affected by the closing natty sweater with a simple sent to the fort around midnight of companies, high unemploy- v-shaped pattern, said he is hav- when residents complained of ment, the financial crisis; I think ing a break before deciding what excessive noise. Mick Jagger’s letters to Marsha the Danes will associate with it. to do next. “We could have made “Till late at night there was Where you have fraud, of course 1,000 episodes about Sarah Lund, (the) loud sound of music from you will have murder! We will but they would not be very good. the fort and the huge explosions of have new male leads, you will see Television today is not about fireworks gave us mental stress,” Hunt go up for sale next month new faces.” quality, only entertainment. TV said Kamlash Prohit, who lives The broadcaster is also set to stinks. When I started writing near the complex which domi- LONDON: It was the sum- “They provide a rare glimpse One is dated “Sunday the screen a historical drama, called for television it talked down to nates Jodhpur. mer of 1969 and Rolling Stones of Jagger that is very different Moon” in reference to the Moon 1864, in autumn of 2014 to mark you, it was about, say, hospitals, Media reports said some 200 frontman Mick Jagger was the from his public persona — pas- landing on July 20, 1969; another the 150th anniversary of the bru- good-looking doctors, you know guests, including the Duchess poster boy for rebellious youth. sionate but self-contained, lyrical describes “John & Yoko boring tal national, character-forming the recipe. If something becomes of York Sarah Ferguson, But a cache of secret love let- but with a strong sense of irony.” everybody”; while a third tells of battle in which Denmark lost a success, it gets too big for itself. were at the fort, where Diana ters he wrote to US singer Marsha Hunt, a black American model a party where the girls are “so a large amount of territory to It is very, very important to Ross was flown in for a live Hunt, to be auctioned next month, and singer who was the face of the plain”, all he can do is “eat choco- Prussian invaders. This will have move on.” performance. reveal a more sensitive soul who West End musical “Hair”, went on late eclairs”. two male leads, teenage broth- That applies to Grabol, too, Campbell, 42, has been dat- read the diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky to have Jagger’s first child, Karis, The letters are expected ers going to war and losing their since Danish Radio currently has ing Doronin since 2008 and the and got excited about meeting the the following year, and was also to fetch between £70,000 and innocence. nothing planned for her, despite couple currently live together in writer Christopher Isherwood. the inspiration for the Rolling £100,000 when they are sold at Another series in production The Killing being watched by Moscow. “Here we see Mick Jagger, not Stones’ hit song “Brown Sugar”. auction at Sotheby’s London on is The Legacy, about four sib- 65pc of Denmark’s population. They have a record of throwing as the global superstar he has Written from various locations December 12. lings coping with growing up as “We are melancholy, it’s like a elaborate parties for each other, become, but as a poetic and self- in Australia, where Jagger was Hunt told the Guardian news- children of the permissive 1968 divorce. We have been together, with Doronin having hosted aware 25-year-old, with wide- filming the movie “Ned Kelly”, to paper she was selling the letters generation. working together, since 2001,” a major bash for Campbell’s ranging intellectual and artistic Hunt in London, the letters make to pay for repairs to her house in Speaking to an audience of said Bernth. 40th birthday on the French interests,” said Gabriel Heaton, references to literature, the land- France, but said she hoped they British fans at a special screening Grabol, who has just starred Riviera. books specialist at Sotheby’s auc- scape around him, news events would be recognised as a piece of the next series of The Killing, as a priest in a film, agreed only AFP tion house. and his social life. of history. AFP Bernth said: “I think you should partly. GUARDIAN NEWS Sunday 11 November 2012 26 Dhul-Hijja 1433 Volume 17 Number 5515 Price: QR2

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66,865 9.00 457,836 26.65 164,830 152.10260,441 15.54 23,773 76.90 120,096 29.00 92,905 24.20 126,142 73.10 30,688 52.40 Qatar capable of facing shale gas challenges: Sada Geithner to stay: BY SATISH KANADY White House export strategy’, Dr Al Sada said: to occur before it impacts global strategy, the Qatar Science and “When we embarked on the mas- LNG flows, Dr Al Sada said. Technology Park (QSTP) now WASHINGTON: US Treasury DOHA: H E Dr Mohammed sive expansion of our LNG busi- On Qatar’s increasing stakes hosts large research programmes Secretary Timothy Geithner bin Saleh Al Sada, the Minister ness 10 years ago, a key objective in energy projects in Europe and with many major international plans to stay on into early next of Energy and Industry and was to ensure we could respond Asia, the Minister said Qatar companies,” the Minister said. year to help the Obama admin- Chairman and Managing to changes in the market...The will continue to look at options The Organisation of the istration forge a deal with law- Director of Qatar Petroleum role that shale gas in the US to expand its upstream busi- Petroleum Exporting Countries’ makers to avert a looming fiscal (QP), has said Qatar is quite played was not anticipated to ness all over the globe in terms (Opec) just-released “World Oil crisis, the White House said. capable of responding to any pos- have as large of an impact as it of portfolio gaps and opportu- Outlook 2012” noted shale gas The Obama administration sible market challenges posed by did. However due to the built-in nities preferably with our long- development is in its infancy, and Congress have less than two the global expansion of shale gas. flexibility of our involvement in term international oil partners. and there are considerable uncer- months to stave off the “fiscal The international expansion the total value chain of the LNG Qatar has plenty of opportu- tainties about the size of the cliff,” a $600bn combination of of the shale revolution will take business, Qatar could address and nities to expand the country’s resources and the potential con- tax hikes and spending cuts that more time to occur before it signif- deal with the change in LNG downstream business. It is quite tribution to future supply. “Total could throw the economy back icantly impacts global LNG flows. demand in different regions, and natural that Qatar should look shale gas production in the US into recession if Washington does Qatar is capable of strategically we are prepared ourselves to at leveraging its own position jumped from 15bn cubic feet a not take action. responding to any possible market respond to these changes as and by moving down the value chain day (bcf/d) in 2010 to 25 bcf/d in Geithner has long said he challenges posed by the expansion when they occurred.” and enter similar businesses in 2012. Replicating the success of planned to step down if President of shale gas, the Minister said in According to the market ana- other countries. US shale gas development inter- Barack Obama won a second term, an interview appeared in inter- lysts, the Minister added, the US “Qatar is looking not just to nationally requires addressing after a grueling several years national energy publication “The will become a net exporter by the diversify into other parts of the many key challenges including dealing with the financial crisis, Oil l& Gas Year”. end of the decade. However, the hydrocarbons business but into water shortages, lack of infra- a deep recession and lackluster Replying to a query ‘in what international expansion of the new business areas as well. I would structure, higher population den- recovery, first as head of the New ways has the unconventional shale revolution outside of the like to emphasise the importance sities, a shortage of skilled labour York Federal Reserve Bank and gas revolution in the US and US, mainly in China, Argentina we attach to technology research and the NIMBY effect.” H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada later as Obama’s Treasury chief. elsewhere reshaped Qatar’s gas and Poland, will take more time and development. In line with this THE PENINSULA REUTERS

China’s export growth rises in sign of recovery

BEIJING: China’s export growth sped up in October in fresh evidence of a broader rebound for the world’s second- largest economy, as a top official all but declared the country’s slowdown over. Exports rose 11.6 percent in October from a year earlier, the national customs bureau said Saturday, accelerating for a sec- ond straight month just as the Communist Party discusses how best to achieve sustainable eco- nomic growth. “The trend of slowdown has been effectively curbed,” Zhang Ping, head of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), told reporters. “From October Officials with the award. economic data the trend for a rebound in the Chinese economy is all the more obvious.” Qatar receives award for China’s economic growth has slowed for seven straight quarters and hit a more than three-year gas flaring reduction low of 7.4 percent in the three months through September, but DOHA: Qatar Petroleum (QP) ”Maersk Oil Qatar is delighted recent data has fuelled optimism and Maersk Oil have received to receive this award. Together that the worst is over. an “Excellence in Flaring with QP we have successfully Industrial production for Reduction” award from the reduced gas flaring from the Al October accelerated to growth of World Bank-led Global Gas Shaheen field to a minimum - 9.6 percent on-year, the govern- Flaring Reduction public-private a rare accomplishment in the ment said on Friday. Retail sales, partnership (GGFR) at their industry and one to be proud of,” the main measure of consumer annual forum held in London. said Sheikh Faisal bin Fahad Al spending, also picked up to a 14.5 The award was presented at the Thani, Deputy Managing Director percent gain. Fixed-asset invest- GGFR’s Global Flaring Reduction of Maersk Oil Qatar. ment, a key gauge of infrastructure and Gas Utilisation Forum, held in “From 2007-2011, we have spending, showed improvement, London from 21-24 October, and achieved a 90 percent reduction in while inflation dipped to a nearly recognises the successful efforts flaring and over fifty percent reduc- three-year low of 1.7 percent. of the two companies to reduce tion in greenhouse gas emissions by The customs bureau also said flaring within Qatar’s Al Shaheen installing additional offshore facili- yesterday that October imports offshore oil field development. ties to capture previously flared gas increased 2.4 percent, matching “This award both reaffirms the and export it onshore for domestic September’s gain. China’s trade significance of our commitment use. As well as its direct environ- surplus, a source of friction with to minimise flaring in Qatar and mental and energy benefits, this the United States and other coun- recognises our determined efforts has helped to fuel local employment tries, widened to $32bn, up from to reduce greenhouse gas emis- and knowledge transfer within the $27.7bn in September. sions from our oil and gas opera- industry,” he said. The size was a surprise, sur- tions,” said H.E. Dr Mohammed GGFR Forum brought together passing the median forecast of bin Saleh Al-Sada, Minister of representatives from govern- $27bn in a survey of economists Energy & Industry and Chairman ments, oil and gas companies, by Dow Jones Newswires. & Managing Director of QP. international organisations, and “Today’s trade data, together “The State of Qatar is an oil technology and service provid- with improving domestic demand and gas producer that focusses on ers to discuss opportunities for indicators released yesterday, developing its resources respon- increasing the utilisation of gas continue to support our view that sibly, with like-minded partners. associated with crude oil produc- China’s growth momentum has Our activities with Maersk Oil in tion. The event marks the tenth picked up,” ANZ bank economists the Al Shaheen field are a testa- anniversary of the partnership. Liu Li-Gang and Zhou Hao wrote ment to this” he added. THE PENINSULA in a commentary. AFP SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Obama faces major challenges: QNB Group $600bn fiscal cliff main worry

DOHA: The new term in office This implies a likely continua- for US President Barack Obama tion of the status quo with ongo- could be even trickier than the ing lack of agreement and likely previous one from an economic delays in implementing fiscal con- perspective, according to QNB solidation. It is critical to the sus- Group analysis. The previous tainability of the US economy that term started in the midst of the action is taken to limit increases global financial crisis, while this in government debt. However, one is starting with a looming a lack of consensus between fiscal crisis. Unless Congress can Republicans and Democrats, reach agreement, $600bn of auto- essentially around whether to matic tax increases and spending cut spending or increase taxes, cuts are due to come into effect has led to delays in implement- at the beginning of 2013, creating ing fiscal consolidation. Therefore, what is known as the “fiscal cliff”. it is probable that the tax breaks The US Congressional Budget and automatic spending cuts that Office (CBO) estimates that are due to come into effect at the these would cut GDP growth by beginning of 2013 will be partially 4 percent, pushing the economy extended or delayed. This will also back into recession. lead to increases in government Rising government debt means debt and require that the debt that some fiscal consolidation is ceiling is raised further. needed. Federal debt reached The uncertainty created by $16.2 trillion at the end of October lack of political agreement and 2012, near the ceiling of $16.4 tril- the risks associated with rising lionn, which was set in August debt and no credible medium- 2011. The increasing federal debt, term deficit reduction plan, make which is already over 100 percent it more likely that the US will of GDP, could lead to downgrades face a sovereign downgrade from by ratings agencies Moody’s and at least one of the major rating Fitch in 2013. agencies in 2013. The economy was in a steep Since 2008, real GDP growth recession when Obama entered in the US has been 0.8 percent. the expansion of central bank bal- QE helps the jobs market by helped support US businesses as generally supportive to the office in 2009 as the financial cri- Although slower than emerg- ance sheets through the purchase keeping rates low and encour- through the recovery. The pur- economy. sis undermined the wider econ- ing economies, this is marginally of financial assets with newly cre- aging investment. Looking at chasing managers index (PMI), a In aggregate, improving jobs, omy. Government debt increased stronger than other advanced ated money. Ben Bernanke, the the jobs data – the economy has benchmark indicator of corporate housing and equities markets and sharply as efforts to support the economies (0.6 percent) and sig- Chairman of the Federal Reserve, only been able to recover about activity, rebounded from lows of a recovering economy and busi- financial sector and create jobs to nificantly stronger than growth is a leading proponent of this 4.5m of the 8.7m jobs that were 33.1 in December 2008 to 51.7 as ness environment appear to have stimulate the economy were put in in the European Union (-0.2 policy. Obama re-nominated Ben lost from December 2007 up at October 2012. However, it is had a positive impact on consum- place. As a result debt increased to percent) over the same period. Bernanke in 2010 and is now likely until early 2010. It is estimated only just above the 50-point mark, ers during Obama’s tenure. The 103 percent of GDP in 2011 and is This is an indication that the US to re-nominate him again in 2014 that an average of 176,000 jobs which is viewed as the dividing conference board’s consumer con- forecast by the IMF to reach 107 economy under Obama has per- or nominate a chairman that will need to be created each month point between expansion and fidence index has increased from percent by the end of 2012. formed relatively well compared continue the tendency towards from now for the next two years, contraction. 38.6 at the end of 2008 to 72.2 During Obama’s term, Congress with other advanced economies, loose monetary policy. just to get back to the December The increased likelihood of QE as at October 2012, rebounding has been unable to agree on a fis- according to QNB Group. This is Therefore, Obama’s re-elec- 2007 level of employment, and at was reflected by a sharp increase to levels not seen since February cal policy to lower the deficit and impressive, especially when it is tion makes the extension of loose a much faster rate to take into in the price of gold as Obama’s 2008, as consumers became more reign in public debt, which has taken into account that the finan- monetary policies, such as QE, account the new entrants into victory looked increasingly cer- optimistic. According to QNB led to the enactment of automatic cial crisis, in large part, emanated more likely, according to QNB the labour force. Statistics avail- tain. The gold price rose by about Group, this may have strength- spending cuts and tax increases from the US. Whether this is a Group. QE may have had some able for October 2012 shows that 1 percent to a high of $1,731 per ened Obama’s hand in the recent from the beginning of 2013. The consequence of Obama’s economic positive impact. By purchasing only 171,000 jobs were added to ounce. Gold prices tend to ben- elections, but the longer-term US elections have not changed the policy, or structural factors relat- US Treasury bonds, the Federal the economy in October, although efit from lower interest rates inflationary impacts of QE and political dynamics that drive US ing to the dynamism of the US Reserves has kept interest rates this was higher than in recent and a weaker dollar. Gold is also the risk that it is distorting fiscal policy, according to QNB economy and the flexibility of its low. This could have supported the months. regarded as a hedge against infla- financial markets, as well as the Group. Obama remains President, labour markets, is open to debate. housing market as the number of By expanding the monetary tion, which is likely to be driven heightened risk from the fiscal the Democrats retain control of On the monetary side, the dis- housing starts increased from base, QE also weakens the higher by expanding the money cliff and debt ceiling crisis could the Senate and the Republicans tinctive economic policy of Obama’s an average of 554,000 in 2009 to exchange rate, making US exports supply through QE. Stockmarkets create some major challenges for retain control of the House of tenure has been the continuation 745,000 as at September 2012. more competitive, according have also tended to react posi- Obama’s second term. Representatives. of “Quantitative Easing” (QE), or It has also been argued that to QNB Group. This may have tively to QE, as it is regarded THE PENINSULA

Car sales rebound in India Gulf Oil acquires Houghton IBQ unveils brand identity NEW DELHI: India’s car sales between one and three percent International for $1,045m jumped by 23 percent in October from an earlier 10 to 12 percent — the fastest rate in nearly two forecast due to the economic DOHA: Gulf Oil Corporation Ltd (GOCL), a Hinduja for private banking years — industry data shows, slowdown, higher import tariffs Group Company, through its subsidiary in the UK, is driven by greater demand dur- and labour trouble at the coun- acquiring a 100 percent stake in Houghton International DOHA: The International Bank of ing the festival season and a try’s biggest passenger carmaker Inc for $1,045m, subject to customary closing conditions. Qatar (ibq) announced yesterday the slew of new model launches. Maruti Suzuki. An agreement was signed for the acquisition by its re-launch of its private banking brand Some 172,459 cars were sold Mathur said seasonal factors wholly-owned subsidiary in the UK recently with the sell- identity, unveiling its new private in October, up 23.1 percent from helped spur the October rise—the ers, a US-based private equity fund. Houghton has a global banking logo. The rebrand initiative the same month a year earlier, religious holidays are seen as an footprint, with sales in more than 75 countries, which are reinforces ibq’s ongoing transforma- according to a Society of Indian auspicious time to buy in India, supported by 12 manufacturing facilities in 10 countries. tion to remain the customer–centric Automobile Manufacturers along with a raft of new models Houghton recorded, on a 12-month basis ending September, and expertise-led financial organisa- (SIAM) report. “The rate we rolling off assembly lines. sales of $858m and adjusted EBITDA of $132m. tion in Qatar. have seen in October is the best But he said the real test of the GOCL will operate Houghton as a separate company With a market leading, comprehensive since January 2011 when we had auto sector’s health — regarded and the rest of Gulf’s operations will be able to leverage suite of banking and wealth management 25 percent growth,” SIAM direc- as an important barometer of Houghton’s extensive base of industrial customers to offer products and services as well as access to tor general Vishnu Mathur said. overall economic performance them a complete end-to-end range of lubricants and, in National Bank of Kuwait’s regional and SIAM recently slashed its pro- — will come once the festival addition, there are various synergies that can be achieved international reach, ibq Private Banking jected car sales growth for the season was over. in manufacturing, strategic sourcing and distribution. has maintained its position as a leading financial year to March 2013 to AFP THE PENINSULA Qatari bank. It’s long-standing legacy within the local high net worth com- munity dates back to the early begin- nings of the bank in 1956 as Qatar’s first private bank. Jabra Ghandour and Chaouki Daher (below) Jabra Ghandour, Managing Director of ibq, said: “ibq was initially established in 1956 as the private bank of Qatar. Since this time, we have continued to build on this legacy, bringing to the market a unique combination of tradition, innova- tion and most importantly prudence in portfolio management. We have devel- oped enduring and long lasting relation- ships with our clients for more than five decades, making us perfectly positioned to help our clients meet their financial and wealth management objectives by offering them access to a global network and high-quality advisory services from identity for Private Banking is driven a truly trusted and reliable partner. by our client-oriented value proposi- “Our private bank is renowned for tion, recognising the need to provide its commitment and dedication to serve them with a differentiated client expe- the best interests of our clients and rience at all levels. Our strong under- the new identity reflects this. We pro- standing of the needs of our clients, our vide confidential and customised bank- proven wealth management expertise ing and investment services, combined across generations, product innovation with deep-rooted market knowledge and tailor-made services underline this and international experience. Our part- commitment. nership with National Bank of Kuwait “The global investment landscape is (NBK) provides unrivalled access to changing daily but our commitment to a regional and international network, a solid and sustained performance is not. offering day to day banking, wealth man- Our guiding principles rely on provid- agement, real estate financing, invest- ing true, long-term value to our clients ment and Swiss private banking. This and up-to-date perspectives as well as ensures that our Qatar-based clients a well-measured, cautious approach to receive the best possible support and risk and due diligence. We want to help advice wherever they are in the world our clients make informed decisions with complete confidentiality, integrity and build their wealth in line with their and privacy.” Ghandour added. expectations within a risk-controlled Chaouki Daher, Head of Private environment,” Daher concluded. Banking at ibq, said: “Our new brand THE PENINSULA SUNDAY11 NOVEMBER 2012 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 Al Khaliji outlines benefits, products Commodity prices drop in volatile trade of premium World oil prices experience roller-coaster rise; gold prices rally to $1,739.04; sugar slumps banking service LONDON: Commodities Wall Street gains and the weaker economy. By Friday on the New this list is the looming fiscal cliff dropped to $2,340 a tonne from DOHA: Al Khalij Commercial mostly fell in volatile trade this dollar, as Americans headed to the York Mercantile Exchange, West in the United States,” Natixis $2,435 for the December contract Bank (al khaliji)’s premium week as investors eyed demand polls. But prices plunged again on Texas Intermediate (WTI) or analyst Nic Brown said. a week earlier. banking service, recognised fears, presidential elections in Wednesday, mirroring global equi- light sweet crude for December By late Friday on the London COFFEE: Coffee prices also as the best premium bank- the United States and a loom- ties, as traders worried about the stood at $85.74 a barrel from Metal Exchange, copper for deliv- forged fresh multi-month lows as ing service in the region at the ing leadership change in China. fiscal cliff and after gloomy EU $85.32 a week earlier. ery in three months dropped to traders eyed plentiful supplies. By annual “Banker Middle East Investors’ focus was firmly economic forecasts. On London’s Intercontinental $7,534 a tonne from $7,687.50 a Friday on NYBOT-ICE, Arabica Product Awards’ hosted by fixed on US President Barack Sentiment was hammered after Exchange, Brent North Sea crude week earlier. Three-month alu- for delivery in December dipped CPI Financial earlier this year, Obama’s victory over Republican the European Union lowered its for delivery in December rose to minium edged down to $1,907 a to 151.45 US cents a pound from offers a range of benefits and challenger Mitt Romney in the economic forecasts for the euro- $108.23 a barrel from $106.49 a tonne from $1,938. Three-month 154.10 a week earlier. On LIFFE, products for the bank’s custom- United States, which is a major zone, to a contraction of 0.4 per- week earlier. lead grew to $2,141 a tonne from Robusta for January stood at ers that are unique to al khaliji. consumer of most raw materials. cent this year and miniscule 0.1 PRECIOUS METALS: Gold $2,099. Three-month tin increased $1,971 a tonne compared with To take advantage of al kha- Markets were hit as traders percent growth in 2013. prices rallied to $1,739.04 on to $20,250 a tonne from $20,200. $1,973 a week earlier. liji’s premium banking service, fretted over a looming “fiscal cliff” The market was also dented Friday, hitting the highest point Three-month nickel eased to SUGAR: The market plunged customers must first transfer following Obama’s re-election on by profit-taking, the recovering since October, lifted by hopes that $15,970 a tonne from $15,972. to lows last seen in August 2010 as their salaries to the bank. From Tuesday. Dealers are also await- dollar and rising US crude inven- Obama would keep ultra-loose Three-month zinc increased to sentiment was hit again by hopes of doorstep banking to a dedicated ing a once-in-a-decade leadership tories data that signalled weak monetary policy, dealers said. By $1,889 a tonne from $1,873.75. rising Brazilian output. By Friday personal relationship manager change in commodities-hungry demand. On Thursday, crude late Friday on the London Bullion COCOA: Prices hit three- on LIFFE, the price of a tonne of supported by the best contact China. Outgoing President Hu futures eked out slender gains Market, gold jumped to $1,738.25 an month lows, falling in line with white sugar for delivery in March centre team in Doha our com- Jintao is due to hand over the amid bargain-hunting after the ounce from $1,685 a week earlier. most financial markets. “Futures dropped to $505.60 from $520.60 a prehensive service is convenient, reins to Vice President Xi Jinping. sharp sell-off. Silver rose to $32.16 an ounce from closed sharply lower on follow week earlier for the December con- hassle-free and most impor- OIL: World oil prices experi- However, traders continue to $31.92. On the London Platinum through selling from specula- tract. On NYBOT-ICE, the price of tantly designed to provide a cus- enced roller-coaster trade as deal- worry that US political gridlock and Palladium Market, platinum tors,” said Price Futures Group unrefined sugar for March slipped tomer experience that is second ers took their cue from demand will prevent a compromise to avoid dipped to $1,559 an ounce from analyst Jack Scoville. “There was to 18.83 US cents a pound from to none. concerns and the US election, but the “fiscal cliff” of automatic tax $1,552. Palladium nudged higher no real news out there to affect 19.41 cents the previous week. “At al khaliji, the needs of finished the week in positive ter- rises and spending cuts at the end to $612 an ounce from $608. price action, but outside markets RUBBER: Prices declined fur- our customers are at the core ritory. Oil had tumbled to three- of the year, which could potentially BASE METALS: Base or were lower and this hurt cocoa.” ther as traders turned cautious of everything we do,” explained month lows on Monday as the tip the US back into recession. industrial metal prices enjoyed By Friday on LIFFE, London’s following Obama’s re-election. The Gary Mond, al khaliji’s Head of market fretted over uncertainty The Organisation of Petroleum mixed fortunes as traders fret- futures exchange, cocoa for deliv- Malaysian Rubber Board’s bench- Consumer Banking. “As a result, over the crucial race between Exporting Countries meanwhile ted over the US fiscal cliff. ery in March fell to £1,524 a tonne mark SMR20 ended the week at we have developed a very innova- Obama and Romney. held to its forecasts of demand “Once the Obama victory was compared with £1,573 a week ear- 276.00 US cents a kilo, down from tive line of products and rewards Prices swung higher on Tuesday, for oil this year and next despite secured, the market quickly began lier. On New York’s NYBOT-ICE 283.55 cents the previous week. from instant issuance of cheque soaring by more than $3 in line with uncertainty about the global to focus upon new risks. 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BRICS eyes forex reserves pool Toyota plans to Memac Ogilvy holds annual meet invest $1.3bn DOHA: Memac Ogilvy, one of the leading multinational communi- cations agencies in the Middle East, recently held its regional man- of up to $240bn, says report agement meeting in Lebanon to review the agency’s performance in in Indonesia 2012 and agree on plans for 2013. The five-day meeting was chaired by Memac Ogilvy Chairman and Mena CEO Edmond Moutran. WASHINGTON/BRASILIA: ahead of a BRICS leaders’ summit prodding global monetary reforms TOKYO: Japan’s Toyota group Pervasive creativity, digital communication, talent management and Leading emerging market in South Africa in March. along at a faster pace,” Prasad said yesterday that it will invest awards, were at the heart of the Memac Ogilvy’s agenda. Talent manage- countries are discussing pool- Planned currency swap said. Countries like China are about 13 trillion rupiah ($1.3bn) ment & training was also one of the meeting’s key focal topics. In placing ing up to $240bn in foreign arrangements would also give keen to see its currency, the yuan, over the next five years in people at the core of Memac’s business, Edmond Moutran shared plans exchange reserves to protect BRICS the ability to lend to added to the IMF basket of cur- expanding its vehicle produc- to embed the agency’s talents across Ogilvy’s best performing offices in themselves from short-term each other to keep markets liq- rencies, currently including the tion in Indonesia. a worldwide talent exchange programme. liquidity pressures, according uid. Officials at the G20 BRICS pound, yen, euro and dollar, that Toyota Motor and its five affili- The meeting comes in the last quarter of a year full of outstanding to documents outlining plans by meeting, who spoke on condition make up the IMF unit of account, ated firms are making the move accomplishments with the agency opening additional offices, winning new the five BRICS nations. of anonymity, said China had the Special Drawing Right. “considering the remarkable growth clients, and receiving accolades from the global advertising industry by BRICS countries China, Russia, emphasized that the size of the While a number of the BRICS of the (Indonesian) market in recent winning: 5 awards at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity; India, Brazil and South Africa reserve pool needed to be suffi- believe disbursements from the years”, a statement said. The invest- the exceptional Grand Prix and 5 additional awards at the Clio Awards announced a working group in ciently big to be taken seriously reserve pool should be made in ment will create 9,000 new jobs, rais- in New York; 2 Grand Prix and 29 additional awards at the Dubai Lynx; June to look into jointly pool- by markets. U.S. dollars, others preferred to ing the group’s total workforce in 7 awards at the One Show; 1 award at the D&AD; 2 awards at the New ing reserves and creating a new Officials believe that the BRICS use the SDR. “In terms of dis- Indonesia to around 41,000. York Festival; 3 awards at the Epica; and the acclaimed “Winner of Most development bank to fund infra- reserve pool should be similar in bursement, the preference would Toyota Motor’s Indonesian unit, Influential Ad” by TED Initiatives. THE PENINSULA structure projects in the develop- size to the Chiang Mai Initiative be to use the US dollar or other Toyota Motor Manufacturing ing world. of southeast Asian countries, reserve currencies, but the view Indonesia (TMMIN), will buy According to the documents, which was doubled to $240bn in was also expressed that part of the 150 hectares of land near its obtained by Reuters, the pool May to boost their protection disbursements could be made avail- two plants in Karawang outside of central bank money would be against external shocks. able in BRICS national currencies,” Jakarta to build a new engine available to BRICS facing bal- The Chiang Mai programme, according to the documents. plant, the statement said. TMMIN ance of payments difficulties. first agreed in 2000, has never been Discussions are also looking will increase annual production • Bullion - Mumbai Some, however, are also pushing put to use because it would require at what conditions should be at one of the Karawang plants Gold (10 gm) Standard Rs. 31200.00 for a precautionary credit line, the country to request a program attached to the reserve pool. One from 110,000 vehicles to 130,000 Silver (1 kg) Rs. 60290.00 similar to the IMF’s that provides from the IMF, which was blamed question is whether the scheme by September 2013 to reinforce • Indian Rupees QR1 = 14.86 countries with insurance against for insufficient bailouts during the should be linked to an IMF pro- supply of pickup trucks, minivans outside economic shocks. Asian currency crisis of 1998. gram, which could be a bitter pill and sports utility vehicles. • Sensex The move is part of growing Eswar Prasad, a Cornell to swallow for any of the BRICS. The five Toyota group firms BSE 18683.68 frustration among the BRICS University economics professor Some BRICS are arguing for a are Daihatsu Motor, Toyota Auto NSE 5686.25 and other developing countries and senior fellow at the Brookings partial link to the IMF, with an Body, Aisin Seiki, Denso and • LIC (International) launches New Gold Investment Plan ‘GOLD PLUS’ – with the continued dominance by Institution in Washington, said initial quick disbursement subject Toyota Tsusho. In the expan- which provides an opportunity to invest in GOLD ETF & GOLD SPOT, PAN the United States and European the proposed plan for pooling to rules of the pooling. sion project, Toyota Auto Body Card/Demat Account not required. countries of global institutions resources posed a “strong and The BRICS are also considering will begin vehicle production in • Short-term investment plan from LIC International upto 6.4 percent return like the International Monetary serious challenge to existing glo- creating a new development bank December, the statement said. p.a. (in dollar) Fund and World Bank. bal monetary arrangements.” to support financing of long-term Daihatsu Motor will also begin BRICS officials meeting on the “Irrespective of the logic and infrastructure projects for emerg- construction of its second test • Housing loan from HDFC LTD sidelines of a recent G20 sum- possible complications of these ing and developing economies, to track and design centre outside • Mutual Fund: Buy & Sell: SBI MF, HDFC MF, UTI MF, Birla Sun Life MF, mit of finance ministers from schemes to pool their funds, meet the pressing need for roads, Japan — at one of its Karawang Tata MF, Reliance MF etc. developed and developed nations these proposals from the BRICS railways, ports and electricity. plants—by the end of this year. Contact: Investec, Tel: 44325060/44365060 email: [email protected] sought to advance their plans may have the salutary effect of REUTERS AFP SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS VIEWS

Kremlin capitalism turns Danes next up in Nordic off equity investors BY MAYA DYAKINA corporate bond wave ladimir Putin is back and so is Kremlin capitalism, with a vengeance, leaving a dwindling band of Russia equity BY MIA SHANLEY AND OLE bulls clinging to hopes that delivery on his economic MIKKELSEN Dealogic data shows Nordic issuance is government is seeking ways to attract more Vreform promises will revive one of the cheapest emerg- not far off the record $34bn reached in 2009 pension and insurance assets into bonds, ing markets. when the financial crisis caused a surge in including the possible bundling of new sales Even with political order restored after a turbulent election enmark’s corporate bond mar- issuance. There have already been 225 sales so they are bigger and more liquid. cycle, Russian shares continue to underperform, market turnover ket is being brought to life as so far this year, up from 160 last year, but The likes of Carlsberg and the country’s has slumped and portfolio investors find themselves increasingly firms long reliant on banks only 14 Danish issues. biggest issuer, state-owned DONG Energy, marginalised by politically connected boards. seek to diversify their funding “I sense there is a change in sentiment are keen. A clean-up of corporate governance at the sprawling resource sources and exploit investor among companies and investors, and that “As a company that is located in Denmark behemoths led by gas export monopoly Gazprom - which together Ddemand for yield and Nordic assets. we will see more issues in Denmark,” said and functions in DKK, we would very much make up two thirds of Russian benchmark stock indexes - could With many banks in the region restrict- Jens Frederik Nielsen, Danske Bank’s head welcome the opportunity to have the possi- attract buyers. ing lending as they focus on building capital of debt origination. bility of issuing in Danish crown,” said Lars But with state-controlled oil major Rosneft poised to become - Denmark’s biggest lender Danske Bank Banks say they are building up teams to Cordi, Carlsberg’s group treasurer. the world’s largest listed oil firm by output through its $55 bil- recently wrapped up a share issue to boost provide investors with the credit research DONG said the bond market is currently lion takeover of TNK-BP, the direction of travel is the opposite, its buffers - Nordic firms are hunting out they need on new Nordic issuers, and that its most attractive source of financing. It investment analysts and strategists say. alternative sources of cash for refinancing in Denmark alone as many as 50 new firms borrows in euros and sterling but has con- “The overarching view on Russia is that people have given or growth. may consider tapping the market. sidered selling debt in Swedish markets and up on it,” said Milena Ivanova-Venturini, an equity analyst at Some are also eager to cut their reliance Until recently, Nordic issuance was largely would like to issue at home. Renaissance Capital in Moscow. on bank loans after finding themselves shut limited to governments, banks, municipali- “If we can do more attractive, cheap After his return to the Kremlin in May after four years as out of the market during the 2009 finan- ties and big industrial firms. But with the financing in the domestic market, we will prime minister, President Putin called for a “new economy”, order- cial crisis, and as the eurozone debt crisis imposition of tougher capital requirements consider this,” said Kristian Borbos, DONG ing ministers to boost investment and shake up inefficient state- that has hobbled many European lenders under new rules aimed at safeguarding the Energy’s lead investor relations manager, run industries to diversify the economy - long the holy grail for persists. global banking system, corporate lending noting the advantage of diversifying both those uneasy at Russia’s dependence on commodities. Strong public finances and positive per- has become less attractive for banks. the currency and investor base. In the months since, however, failure to deliver on those prom- formances by the region’s companies have “Long-term financing for corporates is This month, Nasdaq OMX will launch the ises of market-friendly reforms and the state’s further encroach- meanwhile drawn interest in Nordic bonds something that does not belong on a bank First North Bond Market in Copenhagen ment into the economy have helped drag trading volumes in from investors who fear rocky equity mar- balance sheet,” Nordea Chief Executive and Stockholm - a trading platform which Russian stocks down by 30 percent. kets but want better returns than those Christian Clausen told Reuters. targets small and medium sized firms in In October, trading volume in stocks that make up Moscow’s offered by low-risk government debt. Real estate and shipping firms getting the a bid to address thin secondary market benchmark MICEX index totalled $21bn, down 58 percent com- Data from fund tracker EPFR Global cold shoulder from their banks have already liquidity. pared with October 2011. That is the lowest since the height of shows a threefold rise in flows into Nordic- sold bonds in Sweden and Norway. Food company Danish Crown recently the global financial crisis in early 2009. focused bond funds in the year to date. Denmark has a handful of big Eurobond closed a sale of bonds that will be listed in Capital flight persists, reflecting low confidence among Russia- “We are starting to see a Nordic mar- issuers - shipping and oil group AP Moller- Copenhagen - the first in the local currency based investors and an aversion to the country risk among foreign- ket which has been heavily dependent on Maersk and wind turbine manufacturer in nearly a decade. ers. Also hitting equities, those who do want exposure to Russia bank financing, in a transformation phase Vestas - but its domestic bond market is SEB’s Engstrand sees strong double-digit can find safer, stronger returns from government bonds. towards more capital markets-based financ- almost non-existent. growth in overall Nordic bond issuance next Many analysts had hoped that a restoration of calm after ing,” said Anders Engstrand, SEB’s head of That is likely to change. Eager to unlock year, outpacing single-digit growth in con- Russia’s parliamentary and presidential elections - which sparked debt capital markets. much-needed funds for firms, the Danish tinental Europe. REUTERS the largest opposition protests since Putin first became president in 2000 - would revive investor interest. Reforms to Moscow’s market infrastructure, including the commissioning of a new central securities depository to simplify trading and settlement, have meanwhile been touted as part of a drive to create an international financial hub. But Peter Westin, chief equity strategist at Moscow broker- age Aton, is just back from three weeks of meetings with foreign investors and has concluded: “Russia remains unloved.” “People like Russia - potentially,” he said. “But it has been a momentum trade for the past three or four years and a total derivative of global events and the oil price.” The recent sale of a $5-billion stake in state-controlled Sberbank did draw buyers - thanks to the stock’s liquidity, strong manage- ment and restructuring potential. But those are rare qualities in a listed Russian company. Steven Dashevsky of Dashevsky and Partners, an investment boutique, is scathing about those making the rules: “Trading has died down,” he said, “Because the Russian government has made considerable efforts to demonstrate that it doesn’t need a stock market and doesn’t really need portfolio investors.” Stock markets worldwide have suffered declining turnover, as the fragile global economy fuels aversion to risk, but the slump in activity in Russia has been especially steep. Over the same 12 months to October, market turnover fell 34 percent in China and 22 percent in Turkey, Renaissance Capital calculates. Russia has also seen a widening of its traditionally large valua- tion gap compared with emerging market peers, and now trades at a 40 percent discount on a price-earnings basis. Much of that is due to global investors shying away from risk assets. “Russia is absolutely in the shadow of global trends,” said Chris Weafer, chief strategist at Sberbank CIB. “There needs to be a reduction in global risk phobia - no matter how cheap they are, investors won’t look at fringe markets.” Although the MICEX index and its dollar-denominated peer the RTS have eked out modest gains for the year, they are still down a quarter and a third respectively from the highs they set in April 2011. For those few Russia equity bulls, like Citi strategist Kingsmill Bond, the country now offers deep value and the market could rally if Putin’s “counter-reformation” makes headway in imple- menting a series of steps to make it easier to do business. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Delay on Bombardier’s new jet heightens price pressure BY SUSAN TAYLOR AND unit, compensating for sputtering planes. At list prices, the 110-seat Still, the plane’s order flow has cut an aggressive deal,” said Scott going to happen to Bombardier. NICOLE MORDANT demand for its small regional jets CS100 costs $62m. The 130-seat slowed. In 2009, the jetliner drew Hamilton, managing director of How will they sustain $2bn of and corporate Learjets. CS300 costs $71m. In contrast, 50 orders, followed by 40 in 2010 aviation consulting company spend year after year after year?” ombardier Inc’s decision Bombardier is very confident the Boeing 737 MAX 7 costs $82 and 43 in 2011. This year, just five Leeham Co. said Stonecap Securities analyst this week to delay the in its revised timetable, company million and Airbus’s A319 NEO orders have come in. The next test for Bombardier’s Scott Rattee. maiden flight of its new spokeswoman Marianella de la costs $88.8 at list prices. The industry has been watch- pricing will come between the Blaming a sluggish economic BC-Series jetliner raised Barrera said. Bombardier Chief Executive ing Bombardier pricing closely first flight, now set for the end recovery, Bombardier said this questions about the company’s But with delay concerns Pierre Beaudoin has been ada- since it snatched a provisional of June 2013, and the start of week that cash flow from its aero- ability to deliver the jet on time hanging over its biggest jet yet, mant that he will not “give away” order for 20 planes for AirBaltic commercial service a year later, space operations won’t be enough - and the amount it may have to Bombardier faces an even tougher the plane to ensure a fat order in June. That order had been said Robert Kokonis, managing to fund its $2bn worth spending, discount the price to boost sales. sales job, analysts say. book, and says the company widely seen as all but certain to director of Toronto-based airline and it will dip into company cash Tripped up by supplier delays, To overcome airlines’ reluc- has a “good level of orders.” In go to Airbus. Industry experts consultancy AirTrav Inc. resources for $500m. The com- Bombardier pushed back the inau- tance to place firm orders for an addition to the 138 firm orders, say Bombardier has been more The company has said it wants pany has about $3.5bn in short- gural flight by six months, a blow unproven aircraft that could be Bombardier also has options or aggressive with pricing since the to have 300 firm orders when the term capital available. that adds to a host of challenges delivered late, Bombardier will letters of intent for another 214 summer. jet enters service. The C-Series aims to deliver the world’s No 3 planemaker faces have to offer bigger discounts, jets. Earlier this year, Steven “If not much happens between 20 percent fuel-burn savings and in cracking the narrow body jet- financing, residual value guar- By comparison, Boeing’s 737 Udvar-Hazy, CEO of Air Lease (first flight) and the first cus- 15 percent lower operating costs liner market dominated by Boeing antees and walk-away rights, MAX has 938 firm orders, and Corp, said Bombardier needed to tomer delivery, the sales force than current jets, savings that Co and Airbus. said aerospace analyst Richard Airbus’ NEO family has 1449, make “some sacrifices short term would have to get more aggres- airlines appreciate amid rising The C-Series promised mar- Aboulafia, of Virginia-based Teal though only a small fraction of for the long-term benefit of the sive,” he said. fuel costs. ket-beating performance when Group. those orders are for the smaller programme.” Some also question whether Yet even if the jet performs as it was launched a few years ago, “The cost of developing a jet models that compete directly with “I think they really need to be Bombardier has the financial promised, arrives on time and due to new engine technology and is just the start,” Aboulafia said. the C-Series. aggressive. ... Without that, the strength to offer the kind of carries a bargain price tag it a lighter airframe. But Boeing “Now that they’re in, they need “What I said before, and I program is not going to get the incentives needed to book more faces other hurdles in taking on and Airbus have since launched to put an awful lot more on the remain firm, is we don’t need to momentum it needs to be com- sales. And if the first flight is Boeing and Airbus that are based similarly advanced planes based table.” go and give prices that we will petitive with Boeing and Airbus.” delayed again, analysts are con- on well-known planes. on their best-selling 737 and Without those incentives, regret when we deliver the air- Some say that all the C-Series cerned that Bombardier may lack Airline are keen to maintain a A320 models, eclipsing much of “They brought a creme brulee plane,” Beaudoin said on a confer- needs is one order from a big air- the resources to keep shouldering common fleet to keep a cap on Bombardier’s advantage. torch to a flame thrower fight,” ence call this week. line, and that it should go for it the large, expensive project. parts and maintenance costs and The Montreal-based plane he said. “This is a good airplane, with a at any cost. “At that point in time, I think have pilots certify for and fly the and train maker had hoped Bombardier’s jet already is huge competitive advantage and “I think they need to iden- people will start having major same type of aircraft, said Byron the C-Series would spark sales significantly less expensive than we can get the value for it, so I tify a blue-chip customer, like a considerations about cash flow Capital analyst Tom Astle. growth at its commercial plane comparable Boeing and Airbus remain firm on that.” Delta, and really go ahead and issues. People will look at what’s REUTERS SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 GECM & TENDERS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS MAP (GECM) Every Sunday China’s economic growth slows No rebound in house prices German exports fall at fastest pace amid global turmoil until 2019 since December 2011 BEIJING: China’s economy expanded at LONDON: House prices will not recover BERLIN: German exports slid at their fastest its slowest pace in more than three years to their 2007 peak until 2019, the pace since late last year and imports also fell as dire problems overseas started to hit Nikkei falls to 4-week slowest housing market recovery on in September, adding to evidence that the euro home, official data showed yesterday, closing low on US fiscal Canadian consumer debt increases record, according to a bleak industry zone crisis has begun to inflict a heavy toll on fueling expectations of more stimulus worries 53pc in 5 years forecast for homeowners. Once the the currency bloc’s largest economy. The trade moves. The world’s second-largest TOKYO: Japan’s Nikkei fell impact of inflation is stripped out, figures come after a string of disappointing MONTREAL: Over the past 5 years, the economy grew 7.6 percent in the second a four-week closing low on average UK house prices are unlikely data from Europe’s economic powerhouse, quarter year-on-year, the national bureau Friday, led by exporter shares, Credit Counseling Society has seen the where business sentiment has worsened, the to hit 2007 levels again in real terms of statistics said, the weakest since 6.6 as a looming US fiscal crisis consumer debt load of Canadians seeking private sector has contracted, joblessness has until 2031, Knight Frank said. percent during the depths of the global threatened to tip the world’s their help increase by 53pc, with the risen and industrial orders have fallen at their financial crisis at the start of 2009.” majority of this increase occurring in the sharpest rate in a year. largest economy into recession two years following the global economic and as uncertainty over a Greek crisis. Since that time, the numbers have bailout rekindled worries about continued to climb, and show no signs of the euro zone. turning around this year.

Indonesian growth slows to 6.2pc in third quarter Argentina faces tough choices after JAKARTA: Indonesia said Monday US debt ruling that its economy grew 6.2 percent in South African stocks inch lower, the third quarter from a year ago, its BUENOS AIRES: Argentina could face a slowest pace for two years due to a harmony surges Qld jobless rate still at GFC levels credit crisis a decade after its $100bn slowdown in major trade partner China. JOHANNESBURG: South African stocks default due to a US court ruling that says Growth slipped from 6.4 percent in the QUEENSLAND: Queensland’s jobless rate is ended slightly lower on Wednesday, tracking the country must pay creditors, who still second quarter, but it met expectations continuing to hover at levels not seen since similar moves in major overseas markets as hold defaulted bonds, every time it services and strong investment and domestic the global financial crisis. The latest figures a resurgent euro zone crisis offset early relief its restructured debt. About 93pc of spending meant Southeast Asia’s from the Australian Bureau of Statistics at US President Obama’s re-election. Argentine bondholders agreed to swap their biggest economy remains one of the (ABS) show that Queensland’s seasonally Companies that mine industrial metals adjusted jobless rate for October eased to defaulted debt for new issues in 2005 and best performers in Asia. 2010, but “holdout” creditors who rejected featured on the bottom performers’ list as the 6.2 per cent from 6.3 per cent in September. the swaps continue to press in courts price of copper fell, reflecting worries about Unemployment in the state peaked during worldwide for full repayment on the bonds. a weak European economy while a stronger the global financial crisis at 6.3 per cent in rand added to the bearish sentiment. September 2009.

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Supply, installation commissioning Epic feed stream integration and QR Qatar Media 21 GT12113600 QR 500 9/12/2012 1 8/2012-2013 of QMC broadcasting project for QBS QR 54,321 QR 500 20/11/2012 installation of fiscal mete 4,000,000 Corporation Radio ECS for emergency equipment storage 22 LT12113400 QR 112,000 QR 200 2/12/2012 facility in Dukhan Supply of mineral water, packaged 2 60/2012-2013 juices and consumable items (Sugar, QR 300,000 QR 750 12/11/2012 Ministry of tea, nescafe, tang, coffee-beans, etc) Inland transportation, customs Interior clearnance, freight forwarding and 23 Nakilat SAP-4600000293 QR 75,000 QR 500 20/11/2012 shipment of household efffects services 3 LTC-603/2012 Desktop environmental control QR 37,000 QR 500 25/11/2012

Call-off contract for the supply, 11/11/2012 4 LTC 609/2012 installation and connection of Energy QR 40,000 QR 500 before 12:000 ECS for emergency equipment storage 24 LT12113400 QR 112,000 QR 200 2/12/2012 meters, servcie cabinets and cutouts noon facility in Dukhan 18/11/2012 Supply of various furniture for 5 LTC 625/2012 QR 38,000 QR 500 (Before 12 entertainment floor Fire fighting vehicles-[Aerial form noon) fire fighting vehicle (1No.), Turntable 25/11/2012 25 GT12MT0068 QR 700,000 QR 1,000 11/11/2012 ladder truck (1 No.) & Aerial ladder (12:00hrs) Supply of 250 & 150 KVA diesel 6 LTC 615/2012 QR 20,000 QR 500 (before 12 platform truck 1 No.] generators noon) Supply of PCs, Workstations, 26 QMA-2012-91 QR 96,000 QR 500 15/11/2012 notebooks, LCD monitors..etc

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Beljan taken to hospital Bjorn takes slender lead after taking Northern Ireland’s McIlroy makes late charge, remains five shots behind PGA lead SINGAPORE: Thomas Bjorn early holes of his third round dur- proved a master of consistency ing the play. LAKE BUENA VISTA, to grab a one-shot lead before Starting on the 10th hole, FLORIDA: PGA rookie Charlie darkness descended to halt the Coetzee’s second round was Beljan was hospitalised with Singapore Open third round highlighted by a run of six bird- shortness of breath and an ele- yesterday as the weather gods, ies in eight holes but the 26-year- vated heart rate yesterday after for once, shone down on the old lamented a string of missed firing an eight-under par 64 to Sentosa Golf Club. opportunities that could have put seize the lead at a PGA event. The $6m tournament has suf- him in a stronger position. Beljan, a 28-year-old American fered three lengthy suspensions “When I was standing on ninth fighting to keep his playing rights due to heavy thunderstorms green (his last), I thought to for 2013 in this season’s final but with a rare dry day at the myself, ‘I lipped out on five, six, event, stood on 12-under par Serapong Course ending without eight and nine.’ If I’d made all of 132 with a three-shot lead after an interruption, the Dane sits at them it could have been 10 in a the second round of the $4.7m the top of the row,” he said. Children’s Miracle Network leaderboard on Golf: Singapore Open scores Italy’s Classic. nine-under after Leading incomplete scores during round Francesco But during a five-hour round in 39 holes. three of the storm-interrupted Barclays Molinari and which he told caddie Rick Adcox The Ryder Singapore Open (par-71) yesterday. first round leader that he thought his life was about Cup vice-captain Chapchai Nirat to end, Beljan learned from par- -9 Thomas Bjorn (DEN) has been bogey- of Thailand amedics that his blood pressure free for 27 holes -8 Chris Wood (ENG) share fourth spot was high and he had to sit down and the 41-year- -7 George Coetzee (RSA) on six-under, on several occasions. old attributed his -6 Chapchai Nirat (THA), Francesco while a group of “He was scared,” Adcox said. low scoring to Molinari (ITA) seven players, “He kept saying he thought he pinpoint accu- -5 Gaganjeet Bhullar (IND), Joost Luiten including three- was going to die. He just had that racy with the (NED), Anirban Lahiri (IND), Bernd times champion feeling. I don’t know why. But it driver. Adam Scott of was spooky.” Wiesberger (AUT), Matteo Manassero “This course Australia are Seconds after signing his (ITA), Adam Scott (AUS), Simon Dyson doesn’t really a further shot Thomas Bjorn of Denmark plays a shot during day three of the Barclays Singapore Open Golf tournament at the scorecard, Beljan was put on a (ENG) offer you that adrift. Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore, yesterday. stretcher and loaded onto an many wedges,” -4 Prom Meesawat (THA), Rory McIlroy World number ambulance just off the 18th green he told reporters (NIR), S.S.P. Chowrasia (IND), Louis one Rory McIlroy at the Disney complex’s Palm after the comple- Oosthuizen (RSA), Chinnarat Phadungsil admitted to course and taken to Celebration tion of his second (THA), Shiv Kapur (IND), Anders Hansen being frustrated Hospital for tests. round. (DEN), Rikard Karlberg (SWE) by the regular Stanford on top in Mexico “I thought they were going to “Your mid- weather delays stop him on 10 when they told irons have to be on but driving is but the Briton moved into con- Golf: LPGA Ochoa Invitational GUADALAJARA, Mexico: She also answered a bogey him what the blood pressure was,” also essential on this course. You tention at four-under after nine scores American Angela Stanford fired at the 15th with a birdie at the the caddy said. need to get off the tee well and holes of his third round despite a Scores yesterday after the second round four birdies in a row on her way 16th to stay atop the field at the “He just said, ‘I’m going to keep I’ve done that for two days, and slow start to the tournament with of the $1m LPGA Lorena Ochoa Invitational to a five-under par 67 yester- 36-woman event, the last tourna- going until either I pass out or long may it continue.” back-to-back 70s. (USA unless noted, par-72): day to seize the lead after the ment before next week’s season- they take me off.’ I kept saying, ‘It Chris Wood is hot on Bjorn’s The Northern Irishman roared second round of the $1m LPGA ending LPGA Titleholders event doesn’t matter to me. It’s only a 133 Angela Stanford 66-67 heels in second place after the out of the blocks in the third Lorena Ochoa Invitational. in Florida. golf tournament. You’ve got many 135 Inbee Park (KOR) 67-68 Briton followed up his second round and an eagle on the par- Stanford stood on 11-under “I love the golf course,” Stanford more.’” round six-under 65 with another five fourth took him to within four 136 Cristie Kerr 67-69 par 133 after 36 holes with South said. “Anytime you feel extremely Beljan said late yesterday birdie in the three holes the shots of the lead but a double- 137 Stacy Lewis 67-70, So Yeon Ryu (KOR) Korean Inbee Park, the season comfortable on the golf course, night he plans to play in today’s leading group played in the third bogey after finding the water on 67-70, Candie Kung (TPE) 66-71 money leader seeking her third you tend to relax. This week is so third round and his agent, Andy round to move within a shot of the sixth stalled his charge. 138 I.K. Kim (KOR) 68-70, Karine Icher title of the year, second on 135 and much fun because it’s so relaxed, Dawson, said he felt much better the Dane. He recovered quickly with a (FRA) 67-71 American Cristie Kerr another and it’s so laid back.” and planned on playing even if he George Coetzee registered a birdie on the next and with 27 139 Hee Kyung Seo (KOR) 70-69, stroke off the pace. Stanford, who won her fifth was kept in the hospital overnight second round eight-under 63, the holes still to play, McIlroy will Katherine Hull (AUS) 68-71 Stanford, birdied the par-4 LPGA title in Singapore in for observation. lowest score of the week, to surge fancy his chances of at least 140 Anna Nordqvist (SWE) 69-71 second and began her run of four February, was hoping to become “As long as they tell me I’m not up the leaderboard. claiming a top-three finish that birdies in a row at the par-4 sev- the first two-time winner of the going to fall over and die,” Beljan 141 Ai Miyazato (JPN) 73-68, Vicky Hurst The South African remains two would secure the European Tour enth, following with birdies at the event, named for the legendary told The Golf Channel. “I’m hop- 71-70, Yani Tseng (TPE) 70-71, behind Bjorn after cancelling out order-of-merit title with two par-3 eighth and par-5 ninth and Mexican golfer Lorena Ochoa who ing it was just a panic attack,” he Michelle Wie 66-75 a bogey with a birdie over the events to spare. REUTERS 10th holes. retired in 2010. AFP added. AFP Impressive Lakers cruise past Warriors IPL-style badminton

LOS ANGELES: The Los NBA results Angeles Lakers responded to Milwaukee 101 Washington 91 league to start in 2013 the axing of coach Mike Brown Brooklyn 107 Orlando 68 by belting the Golden State MUMBAI: India will launch bronze in this year’s Olympics Warriors 101-77 at the Staples Philadelphia 106 Boston 100 a franchise-based badmin- that took place in London, bad- Center yesterday for their sec- Ny Knicks 104 Dallas 94 ton tournament next year on minton has seen a surge in popu- ond win of the season. Miami 95 Atlanta 89 the lines of cricket’s cash-rich larity in the cricket-crazy country After a close first quarter, the Memphis 93 Houston 85 Indian Premier League (IPL) and the shuttler believes that the Lakers went on a tear with Kobe with top shuttlers from across hefty money on offer will further New Orleans 107 Charlotte 99 Bryant scoring 27 points, much the world, the organisers said boost the appeal of the sport. to the delight of the home crowd. Oklahoma City 105 Detroit 94 yesterday. “Post 2012 Olympics, badmin- Having fired Brown earlier in Minnesota 96 Indiana 94 The Indian Badminton League ton has reached a peak in India. the day after starting the sea- Phoenix 107 Cleveland 105 (IBL) will have six city-based I think the game has become big son 1-4 and losing all eight pre- San Antonio 97 Sacramento 86 teams vying for $1m purse in the in the country, that’s why the IBL season exhibition games, the June 24-July 11 event, which the is happening,” the 22-year old told Denver 104 Utah 84 Lakers showed new vigour and organisers claimed would be the reporters. style under interim coach Bernie LA Lakers 101 Golden State 77 richest prize-money tournament “I’m confident the IBL will Bickerstaff. in the world of badminton. make the game even more popu- But the home fans made no “We accept that cricket’s IPL is lar amongst the masses and ful- secret of who they wanted to fill rebounds and scoring 14 in the a great success and we are hopeful fill the high expectations it has the vacant position, chanting “We game. that the IBL will have the same raised.” want Phil” throughout the night “We just had to focus on our kind of path-breaking effect on Malaysia and Indonesia have in reference to former coach Phil execution. It was about coming badminton,” said Akhilesh Das already confirmed the partici- Jackson. out and playing hard,” Bryant Gupta, the president of the gov- pation of their top players while Atlanta Hawks’ guard Kyle Korver falls onto the Miami Heat bench during Pau Gasol stepped up for the said. “We really just went out erning body of the sport in the China’s have been approached, play in the second half of their NBA basketball game in Atlanta, Georgia, home side in support of Bryant’s there and played almost like a country. organisers said, yesterday. yesterday. scoring efforts, pulling in 16 pick up game. REUTERS Since Saina Nehwal won a REUTERS QCA cricket trials for women’s team

Women cricket players and officials pose for a picture at the new Cricket Stadium in Doha during the selection camp. RIGHT: A women cricketer practises batting in a nets session. The Qatar Cricket Association (QCA) held trials for the women of Qatar. Those selected by the QCA will represent Qatar in the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Women’s Cricket Tournament in January 2013. The Women’s Selection Committee was organised by MA Shahid, President of the QCA. The selection panel was headed by Manzoor Ahmad, General Secretary, with leading coach Malik Nazar Mohammed. SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 29

Mutombo, Hagi to attend Al Shamal stun Al Wakra ASPIRE4SPORT QBL: Defending champions Al Rayyan thrash Qatar SC 91-64 conference

BY DANOTZKI SANTOS Meanwhile, powerhouse Al An Al DOHA: ASPIRE4SPORT Rayyan beat struggling Qatar Rayyan 2012 has confirmed that NBA DOHA: Al Shamal rampaged SC, 91-64 in the one sided main player All Star Dikembe Mutombo, their way to a 65-59 win to game that took place later in the attempts and Romanian football leg- shock Al Wakra in the Qatar evening. to shoot end Gheorghe Hagi, nick- Basketball League (QBL) at the Yaseen Mousa and Boney named “The Maradona of the during his Al Rayyan Indoor Sports Arena, Harold Watson led Al Rayyan’s Carpathians,” will take part in team’s yesterday. second straight win with 26 and the Star Chat panels this week. The result gives Al Shamal 24 points respectively. Qatar Mutombo, is commonly their first win after suffereing Brian Rawsom’s side are locked Basketball referred to as one of the great- defeats against reigning QBL with Al Sadd, Eljaish and Al Arabi League est shot blockers and defensive champions Al Rayyan on Tuesday, at the top of the league standings. (QBL) players of all time, winning the and by Emir Cup titlists Al Sadd Each team has an identical 2-0 match NBA Defensive Player of the Year on their league debut. win-loss slates. Qatar SC went against Award four times. Down in the doldrums at down to 0-2. Qatar SC at He will join the first panel of 57-39, Al Shamal clamped down In tonight’s games, Al Sadd Al Rayyan the conference alongside London on coach Ihab Galal’s team and and Eljaish stake their unbeaten Indoor 2012 Olympic Boxing Super forged an awesome run to record records will clash against each Sports Heavyweight Gold Medallist, a score of 19-0 at one point. other. Arena Anthony Joshua, and Dean With the excellence of Mezie The match takes place at yesterday. Stoneman, a Driver Consultant Nwigwe, Al Shamal led 58-57. 5.00pm at Al Rayyan Indoor RIGHT: with Williams Advanced And after momentarily ceding Sports Arena. Players of Engineering and the 2012 FIA the upper hand, Shamal capped In the main game, Al Arabi Al Wakra F2 champion. their best showing so far with a will try to join the winner at the Hagi, selected Golden Player and Al 7-0 run in the twilight stage to top of the standings when they of Romania in 2003, is one of the Shamal try close the doors on Wakrah. take on Al Gharafa who will try few footballers in the world to Nwigwe spearheaded Al to improve their form, having won to get the have played for both the Spanish Shamal’s hard earned victory and lost one match this season so ball. rival clubs Real Madrid and FC with 34 points, 9 rebounds and 4 far. Barcelona. assists. After today’s matches, QBL He is considered one of the His team-mate William Tayof action resumes on Tuesday with greatest Romanian footballers scored 15 points, contributed with Qatar SC playing Al Ahli at having played with the national 10 assists and 4 rebounds while 5.00pm. Al Wakra play against team during World Cups 1990, Dauda Lhison added 10 points and Al Rayyan at 7.00pm. 1994 and 1998, and will take part 9 rebounds. THE PENINSULA in the Tuesday, November 13 panel. Speaking alongside Hagi will be Spanish striker Raul González, who currently plays for Qatar Stars League club Al Sadd. Spirit of Qatar 96 finish second, He will also be joined by retired Real Madrid defender Fernando Ruiz Hierro, who will share the invaluable insight gained from keep title hopes alive in Florida a career made up of 500 official games, four World Cups and two KEY WEST (USA): Sheikh European Championships. Hassan bin Jabor Al Thani and Pedja Mijatovi , owner of the throttleman Steve Curtis were golden goal in the 1998 UEFA classified second overall for the Champions League Final that second time in two days. brought the biggest European The pair is also second in the A file picture of FROM LEFT: Will Myers; Senior Financial Consultant Guardian Wealth title back to Madrid after an Superboat Unlimited class in race Sheikh Hassan Management (GWM), Phil Wright, Golf Operations Manager Doha Golf absence of 32 year, will also talk. two at the 32nd Annual Key West bin Jabor Al Club (DGC), Chris Myers, General Manager of DGC and David Russell, All Star Chats will take place World Championships in Florida Thani and CEO of GWM. from 2pm – 3pm and the public yesterday. Steve Curtis. can attend for free. The result keeps the Qatar duo Al Thani and THE PENINSULA in contention after two races of Curtis finished GWM to sponsor Doha the three-event boating festival. second in the NHL: No sign The result means that victory Superboat in today’s finale, which counts Unlimited class for double points and runs over Golf Club events for 2013 in race two of progress in twice the race distance, would be at the 32nd enough for the Spirit of Qatar 96 DOHA: Guardian Wealth friends on the Academy, or taking Annual Key lockout talks crew to win the 2012 Key West Management (GMW) Qatar the family to an evening barbeque World Championship. West World LLC, yesterday continued its on the veranda.” Victory in a dramatic second Championships sponsorship of competitions and He added: “It literally has NEW YORK: National Hockey race fell to Tor Staubo and John in Florida events at Doha Golf Club (DGC) something for everyone and I am League club owners and players Tomlinson in Gasse 8. yesterday. by endorsing a fourth year. delighted to have my company finished a fourth consecutive The Norwegian and the Chris Myers, General Manager associated with such an essen- day of talks yesterday with no American now head into the final of DGC, said: “We are very happy tial establishment. As part of sign of progress toward end- race with an unofficial 500 points to have Guardian Wealth commit our new agreement, GWM will ing a lockout that will reach its after taking two successive wins. to another full year of sponsorship be hosting four complimentary 56th day today. Despite a problem with a bro- and events.” investment seminars at the Majlis Both sides have been dead- ken water hose, Sheikh Hassan He added: “This is now the Suite throughout the year, which locked on how to divide $3.3bn and Steve Curtis managed to fourth year that Guardian has we hope attendees will find inter- in revenues since their collective complete one more lap than “We were able to coast round championship is the highlight sponsored the monthly medal. esting and beneficial.” bargaining agreement expired on Marc Granet and Scott Begovich and do one more lap and finish event of the year. In addition we will be rolling Will Myers, Head of Sports September 15. in Miss Geico to take second the race in front of Miss Geico, The competition attracts team out some excellent invitation- Marketing at GWM Qatar said: “Whatever it takes, we’re avail- position. which had broke down and was from all parts of the world. only events in 2013 on both the “We have launched an exciting able,” NHL commissioner Gary “We managed to snatch second stranded on the course,” he added Over 60 teams are participating Academy and Championship new Ryder Cup-style format for Bettman said. place and finish ahead of Miss yesterday. in this event. courses.” 2013, which will see the winners of Union executive director Don Geico, even though we broke a Sheikh Hassan arrived in the This year’s running of the David Russell, CEO of GWM our various competitions playing Fehr sent a memo to players water hose and had to go into the United States last Sunday and 32nd race will play host to more Qatar, said: “Doha Golf Club off for a slot on the 2014 Qatar Thursday night saying there was pits,” admitted Sheikh Hassan, spent the last two days working international powerboat teams really is a haven for so many of Masters Pro-Am. Those inter- a “significant gap” over some the president of the Qatar Marine with the team to piece together than previous years and to a new us here in Qatar, be it a challeng- ested in competing should email issues, although he said that the Sports Federation (QMSF) and for the final preparations. Superboat and Extreme Class of ing round on the Championship [email protected]” sides might not be as far apart as driver of Spirit of Qatar 96. The 32nd Annual Key West racing. THE PENINSULA course, a friendly game with THE PENINSULA owners might think. AFP Handball: The 15th Asian League Club Championship in Doha

Fathi Al Khodaheme (left) of Al Noor (KSA) shoots during his side’s second round match of the 15th Asian Handball League Clubs Championships against Samen Al Hojaj of Iran at Gharafa Sports Club, yesterday. CENTRE: A player of Samen Al Hojaj attempts to shoot. RIGHT: Selmi Hedoui (right) of Al Rayyan (QAT) tries to pass next to Hasan Alkhadrawi of Mudhar (KSA) in their side’s second round match. The Championship that started on November 2, will end on November 15. PICTURES BY: SHAIVAL DALAL SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 30 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Gayle ready for Test cricket’s Ulsan cruise to challenge

DHAKA: Opener Chris Gayle yesterday said he looked for- ward to the challenges of five- day cricket against Bangladesh Asian club title after playing a key role in West Indies’s World Twenty20 victory last month. The 33-year-old left-hander Korean club thumps Al Ahli 3-0 in final was one of the stars of West Indies’ triumph in Sri Lanka but ULSAN, South Korea: Ulsan the tournament unbeaten in front not because they didn’t want to England bowler Kevin Pietersen (right) celebrates with team-mates believed challenges were bigger in Hyundai thumped Saudi of an impressive crowd of 42,153. but because Ulsan are a strong after taking the wicket of Haryana batsman Sanjay Budhwar during the first of two Tests which starts Arabia’s Al Ahli 3-0 yesterday to “Ulsan have been waiting a long team and they played well,” said the third day of a four-day practice against Haryana at the Sardar Patel in Dhaka on Tuesday. lift their first AFC Champions time for this win and we knew we Jarolim. Stadium’s ground B at Motera in Ahmedabad, yesterday. The England “I am happy to be a part of the League trophy and become the had to win the game, but to do “Most of the players did their cricket team plays a four Test series against India from November 15. World Twenty20, it feels good. It’s third South Korean club in four that we had to play our normal best but Ulsan are strong and a milestone,” said Gayle of West years to be crowned kings of game just like before,” said coach they deserved to win. This is foot- Indies’s first world title since win- Asia. Kim, 61. ball. After the first goal I think ning back-to-back World Cup Goals from Kwak Tae-Hwi, “I wanted the players to put Al we created a few chances to score wins in 1975 and 1979. Rafinha and Kim Seung-Yong Ahli under pressure from the first at least one goal in the first half, Butt calls for probe into “But we have to play well in the raised the roof at Ulsan’s home minute and get the ball through but the strikers didn’t score and longer format of the game, that stadium and ensured Kim to the strikers. So today’s win is they didn’t work with the ball has been our major challenge. I Ho-Gon’s side followed in the because of the players.” very well. have made the necessary adjust- footsteps of Pohang Steelers and Al Ahli’s Czech coach Karel “I was planning to make some India-Pakistan Cup semi ments from limited overs cricket Seongnam Ilhwa, winners in 2009 Jarolim admitted his team had changes in the second half but I to Tests and it will be a challenge.” and 2010 respectively. under-performed, but he said was surprised when Ulsan scored KARACHI: The former head of The International Cricket The Test series will be only Al Ahli rarely troubled the Ulsan were worthy winners. and after that I thought our play- Pakistan’s cricket board yester- Council (ICC) rejected the allega- Gayle’s second after a two-year hosts’ defence throughout the 90 “Maybe we are expecting a lot ers lost their concentration and day called for an investigation tions in April 2011, saying there self exile following a fall out with minutes and in the end Ulsan ran from the players and it’s true didn’t focus well on the match.” into his country’s 2011 World was no evidence to require an the West Indies cricket board out comfortable winners to end they didn’t perform well, but it’s AFP Cup semi-final against India investigation into the match, but over multiple issues. after a new book raised the pos- Ijaz Butt, the chairman of the He plundered 150 and 64 in the sibility the game was fixed. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) at two wins over New Zealand ear- Britain’s Daily Mail newspa- the time, said there should be a lier this year and is looking to give per published extracts of a book probe. his team a promising start again. South Korea’s Ulsan by sports-betting journalist Ed “My suggestion would be that “Well, obviously we have to Hyundai players Hawkins in which he claimed an the matter should be investi- get off to a good start and start celebrate with the trophy Indian bookmaker had accurately gated,” Butt said. the series well. It’s a long series after winning the AFC predicted what would happen in “There were a lot of allegations ahead of us, so hopefully we can Champions League Pakistan’s innings against their in Indian newspapers and even in get a good start. We didn’t get a football final against Saudi arch-rivals. Pakistani newspapers but there game before the Test so it’s more Arabia’s Al Ahli in Ulsan, Hawkins said the bookmaker, was no investigation.” important,” said Gayle. yesterday. Ulsan Hyundai Parthiv, sent him a Twitter mes- Pakistan were in the thick of The West Indies were deprived thrashed Saudi Arabia’s sage during the Indian innings a fixing scandal a month before of good practice ahead of the first Al Ahli 3-0 to lift their first correctly calling that when the semi-final when three of Test when their three-day side Pakistan batted, they would their top players -- Salman Butt, game was called off due to wet AFC Champions League reach 100 easily then lose two Mohammad Asif and Mohammad ground in Savar, a town 40 kilom- trophy and become the wickets quickly, reach 150 with Aamer -- were handed long bans eters from capital Dhaka. third South Korean club in five down and lose by more than by the ICC for arranging no-balls West Indies also play five one- four years to be crowned 20 runs. to order during a Test against day and a Twenty20 international kings of Asia. India won the match by 29 England in 2010. on the tour. runs to book their place in the The PCB refused to give any Gayle said Bangladesh team final where they beat Sri Lanka official reaction to the allegations. were improving under captain to claim their second World Cup. AFP Mushfiqur Rahim. AFP AlBalooshi Al Baker wins fourth round of Qatar National Sprint DOHA: Qatar’s Ameer Al second in Baker driving in a Mitsubishi Evo7 emerged as the overall winner in the fourth round of California the Qatar National Sprint at the Losail International Circuit. A total of 19 cars divided into different five classes - 1S, 2M, qualifying The podium winners at the 3S, 4S and 4M- took part in the fourth round of the Qatar fourth round in the Qatar Motor POMONA, California: What a and Motorcycle Federation National Sprint pose for a difference 10 months can make. (QMMF) event. group picture at the Losail When the 2012 NHRA Full Al Baker who competed in the International Circuit. A Throttle Drag Racing season began 4M class registered a best lap total of 19 cars divided into here in Pomona last February, timing of 1:24:01. different five classes - 1S, Khalid AlBalooshi was the No. 7 Lebanese driver Wissam Asaf 2M, 3S, 4S and 4M- took qualifier and lost in the first round registerd a time of 1:24:07 with part in the fourth round of eliminations in his debut for a Lotus Exis 260 CUP in the 4S in the Qatar Motor and the Qatar AL-Anabi racing Top class to finish second overall. Motorcycle Federation Fuel team, the two-time, defend- The third best time was regis- (QMMF) event. ing NHRA Full Throttle Top Fuel tered by Talal Wehbe, also in the World Championship team, owned class 4S, with a time of 1:25:00. by Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al The trophies were given away Thani. by Sultan Al Morraikhi, Board Fast forward to today, and Member of QMMF. alBalooshi has won a race, has a The 5th round and last round semifinal finish and is currently of the championship will be on the No. 2 qualifier at the sea- December 7. THE PENINSULA son’s final race, the 48th annual Automobile Club NHRA Finals. Qualifying resumes today with eliminations set for tomorrow. AlBalooshi, who will finish the season in 11th place in the NHRA Ishtiaq, Perera excel in Four-medal Hosszu Full Throttle Top Fuel point standings no matter what hap- pens this weekend, ran a dazzling 3.781-second pass at 324.20 mph eyes World Cup prize to claim the No. 2 qualifying posi- QCA Division A matches SINGAPORE: tion with two rounds of qualifying Hungary’s with just one day of competition remaining. Katinka Hosszu all but wrapped left in the World Cup. Thursday’s first round of quali- DOHA: Ali Ishtiaq and Ashan batting first lost their first six up the overall women’s title in She stands to collect a fying was canceled due to persist- Perera produced outstanding wickets for only 65 runs on board swimming’s short-course World US$100,000 cash bonus as the top ent rain showers. individual performances to set due to some deadly bowling from Cup yesterday after a four- earner in the series if she can hold “I am very happy with our up impressive victories for their Perera. Perera took three wick- medal haul on the first night on to her lead today. run today,” AlBalooshi said. “Our respective teams in the Division ets while, Bodiya Baduge and of the competition’s final leg in In the men’s overall competi- Al-Anabi car is making good runs, A matches of Qatar Cricket Nadeesha took two wickets each. Singapore. tion, Australian Kenneth To looks and we are happy that our hard Association (QCA). Sajjad top scored with a quick The 23-year-old won the 200m set to claim the bonus after he work is paying off. We will try to Bangladesh CC electing to bat fire 48 runs, with three sixes and and 800m freestyle to increase narrowly beat Trinidad and get a little bit better in the two first lost their five wickets for only and equal number of boundaries. her tally of gold medals in this Tobago’s George Bovell in the rounds we have left, and maybe 62 runs on the board due to some CBQ were bundled out for only year’s eight-leg series to 37. She 100m individual medley. we can be the No. 1 qualifier sharp bowling from Abbas Shah 147 runs. In reply, Lion (RFC) has won both the 200m and 800m To edged Bovell by 0.19sec to before we race on Sunday.” who took three wickets. CC started on a promising note on six occasions this year. secure the biggest share of points Al-Anabi silver driver Shawn A sixth wicket partnership of with Asran (18), Lakshitha (11), But the event that provided yesterday which should help him Langdon was on a brilliant pass 55 runs between Syed Ahsanul Damith (25), but lost wickets at Hosszu with her biggest tally of to maintain his 20-point advan- before the clutch malfunctioned (32) and FaridulAlam (15) gave Ali Ishtiaq (left) and Ashan Perera regular intervals to some good points was second place in the tage over the Trinidadian in the causing the car to smoke the some hope for Bangladesh CC, but bowling from Sardar who took 200m individual medley behind overall ranking. Russia’s Stanislav tires. Langdon pedaled the car Ali Ishaq took three wickets for 14 three wickets and Sajjad who took her compatriot Zsuzsanna Donets claimed his sixth 100m but could only post a 4.063-second runs and Khurram Shahzad two Qamar (23), Mohammed Rizlan two wickets. The ninth wicket Jakabos, the only competitor backstroke win this season. pass at 289.45 mph. for 23 to bundle out Bangladesh (12) and an unbeaten 23 from pair of captain Ashan (38 not with any chance of denying her On the women’s side, America’s He is 14th with two rounds of CC for 145 runs. Only Iqbal Awais Malik. Asian CC reached out) and unbetean Madhava (5 the title. Olympic 4x100m medley gold- qualifying remaining. Hussain (23) and Mir Musharraf the target in 23 overs for the loss not out) helped Lion to reach the Hosszu, who also claimed 200m medallist Jessica Hardy won the “The Al-Anabi car was on a (10) were the two batsman to of five wickets. Muhjahed Hussain target in 41 overs. backstroke bronze, enjoys a mas- 100m breaststroke, Germany’s really good pass before we had reach double figures. took three wickets. Ali Ishtiaq Ashan of Lion (RFC) CC was sive 67-point overall lead over Beijing 2008 champion Britta that problem with the clutch,” In reply, Asian CC started well was awarded Man-of-the Match. awarded the Man-of-the Match. Jakabos and she is extremely Steffen took out the 50m freestyle. Langdon said. THE PENINSULA with Mohammed Jahangir (51), In the other match, CBQ THE PENINSULA unlikely to be caught by her rival AFP SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2012 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 31 Del Potro edges Federer to claim semi-final berth Paes, Stapanek advance after beating top-seeded Bryan brothers Britain’s Andy Murray waves after LONDON: Argentina’s Juan in the last set, then I served really beating France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Martin del Potro claimed a sur- well in the last game. I was very during their Group A singles match prise 7-6 (7/3), 4-6, 6-3 victory nervous but I closed out the in the round robin stage at the ATP over defending champion Roger match. World Tour Finals in London late on Federer yesterday to book his “It’s going to be a tough match Friday. place in the semi-finals of the against Djokovic or Murray, but ATP Tour Finals. I’m so excited to get into the Del Potro’s victory ended semis.” Federer’s 12-match winning run Federer had won 13 of his Murray meets at the season-ending event and previous 16 meetings, but the guaranteed he will qualify from Argentine has given him plenty Group B along with the Swiss of trouble at times. Muamba at star. As well as winning his only Federer, who has won the Tour Grand Slam title with a win over Tour Finals Finals title for the last two years, Federer at the 2009 US Open, del already knew he was through Potro also handed the 31-year-old after winning his first two group his only other indoor defeat in the LONDON: Britain’s US Open matches at London’s O2 Arena. last two years in the final of his champion Andy Murray met Victory for Ferrer would hometown tournament in Basle former Bolton Wanderers soc- mean it is Federer who plays last month. cer player Fabrice Muamba Andy Murray with del Potro That pattern continued as a after qualifying for the last four playing Novak Djokovic, while a tight first set saw sixth-seeded of the ATP World Tour Finals Tipsarevic win would reverse the del Potro save three break points late on Friday. fixtures. to keep Federer at bay. Muamba suffered a cardiac “I’m so happy to beat Roger Then in the tie-break, Federer arrest playing against Tottenham once again, I know he’s a favour- suddenly lost his rhythm and del Hotspur in an FA Cup tie in ite here but the crowd respected Potro took advantage to snatch March and needed life-saving me also,” Del Potro said. the first set. treatment after his heart stopped “I was a little lucky towards the Federer made a strong beating for 78 minutes. end of the match. Always when response, reeling off eight succes- Murray posed for photographs you beat these kinds of players sive points to break at the start with Muamba, 24, after beating you need luck on your side but I of the second set, and that was Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina celebrates after winning his Men’s singles match against Roger Federer of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-2 7-6. played well. enough to level the match. Switzerland during the ATP World Tour Finals in London, Britain, yesterday “I remember exactly where I “I took the break-point chances But del Potro’s big-hitting style was when it happened,” Murray blew Federer off course again in told reporters of the incident that ATP Tour Finals results the deciding set. first place in Group A at the ATP won on a tie-break. That meant That promises to be a bitter shocked British football. Results from the sixth day of the ATP Tour The 17-time Grand Slam cham- Tour Finals. a super tie-break was needed to battle after Bhupathi refused to “I was watching the match on Finals at London's O2 Arena yesterday (x pion was unable to survive the Paes and Stepanek had already settle the match and Paes and be partnered with Paes during the the TV in the States. Yeah, I sat denotes seeding): barrage and del Potro broke for a booked their place in Sunday’s Stepanek took it on their second London Olympics. in front of the TV. There was Singles Group B 2-0 lead before holding his nerve semi-finals after winning their match point. Bhupathi and Paes split nothing on the TV. I just couldn’t Juan Martin del Potro (ARG x6) bt Roger to serve out a superb win in two opening two group fixtures, but Paes and Stepanek’s victory up when their relationship believe it happened. Federer (SUI x2) 7-6 (7/3), 4-6, 6-3 hours. they didn’t take it easy against gives them the only 100 percent deteriorated. “When you heard a few hours Doubles Group A Elswhere, India’s Leander Paes Bob and Mike Bryan at London’s record of the eight doubles teams Paes and Stepanek will hope to later that he was okay, it was and his Czech partner Radek O2 Arena. competing at the season-ending repeat their victory over Bhupathi quite incredible. Yeah, it was very Leander Paes/Radek Stepanek (IND/CZE Stepanek enjoyed a surprise 6-4, After winning a tight first set, event and means they will play and Bopanna in the final of the cool to meet him. He’s got a pretty x3) bt Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan (USA/USA x1) 6-7 (6/8), 10/7 win over the top the pair were pegged back in the India’s Mahesh Bhupathi and Shanghai Masters earlier this incredible story to tell, so it was 6-4, 6-7 (6/8), 10/7 seeded Bryan brothers to clinch second, which the Americans Rohan Bopanna in the semi-finals. year. AFP nice.” REUTERS

Pedrosa takes Argentina shock Wales pole position CARDIFF, WALES: Rugby Scores counter-attack from the Pumas. in Valencia Argentina became the first Argentina 26 Wales 12 After turning over possession the team to beat Six Nations Grand England 54 Fiji 12 ball was spread wide to Imhoff. MADRID: Slam winners Wales at home Ireland 12 South Africa 16 The wing raced down the left Local favourite this year as they recorded a and threaded a kick through. But Dani Pedrosa broke the Valencia Italy 28 Tonga 23 come from behind 26-12 win despite winning the race Gonzalo circuit record on his way to pole over the Welsh here yesterday of their Grand Slam stars with Tiesi lost the ball under the tackle position for the season-ending at the Millennium Stadium. Adam Jones, Dan Lydiate, Ryan of Halfpenny. MotoGP round yesterday. Second-half tries by Juan Jones and Jonathan Davies all And Halfpenny punished the The Honda rider scorched Imhoff and Gonzalo Camacho ruled out through injury. Pumas for their inaccuracy as he round in one minute 30.844 sec- proved the difference as the The veteran play-maker sat out maintained his 100 per cent strike onds in the final minutes of a dry Pumas’ recorded only their sec- the recent Rugby Championship rate with another penalty but qualifying session at the Cheste ond win in Wales - their previous but was recalled for the autumn Sanchez made some amends with circuit. being 11 years to the day of their series and opened the scoring on a second opportunist drop-goal. Fellow-Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo, latest exploit. three minutes after Ian Evans The Pumas continued their who has already clinched his Following their involvement in was penalised for a high tackle. resurgence and sparked the game second world championship for the Rugby Championship there Wales quickly hit-back through into life with the opening try. Yamaha, was second fastest with were fears in Wales that the Halfpenny, after Jarvis settled any Juan Manuel Leguizamon created Honda’s Australian Casey Stoner South Americans could catch the early nerves with a penalty earned the opening with a superb offload third ahead of his last race before Grand Slam champions cold. at the scrum, but Argentina to Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe, retirement. And they took full advantage regained their lead thanks to a who released Imhoff. Britain’s Cal Crutchlow, with a pair of scintillating tries Nicolas Sanchez drop-goal. Sanchez continued to keep the Germany’s Stefan Bradl and from their wings to bring Wales But Argentina were dealt a scoreboard ticking and put the Italian Andrea Dovizioso will crashing down to earth and end major blow on 13 minutes when pumas 14 points and out of reach. start from the second row on the any hopes of them climbing to they lost Contepomi to a knee lig- Elsewhere, England overcame grid. AFP fourth in the world rankings ament injury and moments later a rusty start to sweep past Fiji which would have seen them be Halfpenny knocked over his sec- 54-12 Stuart Lancaster’s fledgling Motorcycling: Valencia GP grid Wales’ Rob McCusker (right) tackles Argentina’s Gonzalo Camacho during seeded top of a 2015 World Cup ond penalty. side ran in seven tries for a record 1. Dani Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) 1min the international rugby union match at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, pool. The full-back turned from point victory against the outclassed 30.844sec, 2. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Yamaha) Wales were without several scorer to saver after a clinical islanders. AGENCIES yesterday. at 0.351s, 3. Casey Stoner (AUS/Honda) 0.584, 4. Cal Crutchlow (GBR/Yamaha) Football: Qatar train for World Cup qualifier against Lebanon 0.668, 5. Stefan Bradl (GER/Honda) 0.913, 6. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/Yamaha) 0.951, 7. Nicky Hayden (USA/Ducati) 1.659, 8. Alvaro Bautista (ESP/Honda) 1.741, 9. Hector Barbera (ESP/Ducati) 1.761, 10. Aleix Espargaro (ESP/Aprilia) 1.990 Arsenal’s Walcott doubtful for England friendly

LONDON: Arsenal winger Theo Walcott could be ruled out of England’s friendly against Sweden on Wednesday after suffering a buttock muscle injury during his club’s 3-3 draw against Fulham yesterday. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admitted Walcott may not make the trip to Stockholm Members of the Qatar football team practise their heading skills during a training session ahead of their key World Cup qualifier against Lebanon on Wedneday. RIGHT: Ibrahim Khalfan and will be assessed by the medi- heads a ball. Qatar play their key World Cup qualifier at Al Sadd Stadium at 5.45pm. On Wednesday, Qatar, coached by Paulo Autuori beat Iraq 2-1 in a friendly match. Khalfan and Sebastian cal staff before deciding whether Soria scored for Qatar, while Hossan Ibrahim replied for Iraq. Qatar are in fourth position with four points in the FIFA World Cup 2014 qualification Asian Zone Group A. he can join up with Roy Hodgson’s squad. AFP Sunday 11 November 2012 26 Dhul-Hijja 1433 Volume 17 Number 5515 Sport Price: QR2

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GLASGOW: Aberdeen moved joint top of the Scottish Premier League with a 4-1 win away to to comeback win at Villa St Mirren. The Dons joined front-runners Celtic and Hibernian, who face Arsenal waste two-goal lead to draw with Fulham; QPR drop to bottom St Johnstone and Dundee United respectively today, at the top of the table on 21 points following LONDON: Half-time substi- English Premier League away side a 63rd-minute equal- their emphatic win. tute Javier Hernandez scored iser. Hernandez capped another Johnny Hayes fired the visitors LONDON: English Premier League results twice and made another as trademark United comeback by into a 10th minute lead before yesterday: Manchester United came from converting van Persie’s free-kick. Niall McGinn kept up his goal- two goals down to win 3-2 at Arsenal 3 Fulham 3 Meanwhile, Arsenal’s topsy- scoring exploits by adding a sec- Aston Villa yesterday and pull Everton 2 Sunderland 1 turvy season took another turn ond on the stroke of half-time. four points clear in the Premier Reading 0 Norwich 0 for the worse when they let slip The match had an explosive League. Southampton 1 Swansea 1 a two-goal lead and missed a late ending with three goals in three A brace of goals from Andreas Stoke 1 QPR 0 penalty to draw 3-3 at home to minutes. Chris Clark put the Weimann looked set to condemn Wigan 1 West Brom 2 Fulham. Dons three ahead in the 86th, United to their third loss of the The result left Arsene Wenger’s Mark Reynolds added a fourth Aston Villa 2 Manchester United 3 season, but Hernandez pulled side in seventh position. with a strike from outside the one back and then set up an own Playing today Everton held onto fourth place box a minute later before Steven goal by Ron Vlaar before heading Chelsea vs Liverpool (1600GMT), by beating Sunderland 2-1. Thompson scored an 88th minute home a sensational 87th-minute Manchester City vs Tottenham (1330GMT), West Bromwich Albion remain consolation for St Mirren. winner. Newcastle vs West Ham (1500GMT) level on points with Everton in Paul Heffernan scored twice as The result gives United a four- fifth place after a 2-1 success at Kilmarnock eased to victory over point lead over second-placed penalty box. Hernandez replaced Wigan Athletic. Ross County at Rugby Park. Chelsea, who host Liverpool today, Ashley Young at the interval but Southampton climbed off the AFP with champions Manchester City Weimann struck again five min- foot of the table despite being a point further back ahead of utes into the second half, slam- pegged back by Swansea City in Scottish Premier League Tottenham Hotspur’s visit. ming in from close range after a 1-1 draw at St Mary’s Stadium, Scottish Premier League results yesterday: Villa more than held their own Gabriel Agbonlahor got free down while third-bottom Reading in the opening 45 minutes at Villa the left. remain without a win after a 0-0 Inverness CT 1 Hearts 1 Park, and they took the lead in United hit back quickly though, draw at home to Norwich City. Kilmarnock 3 Ross County 0 first-half injury time. with Hernandez to the fore. In the day’s other game, Charlie Motherwell 1 Dundee 1 Christian Benteke resisted The Mexican finished between Adam claimed his first goal for Chris Smalling’s attentions wide Brad Guzan’s legs in the 58th Stoke City to give Tony Pulis’ side St Mirren 1 Aberdeen 4 on the Villa left before cutting minute to claim his sixth goal a 1-0 win at home to Queens Park Playing today Manchester United’s Javier Hernandez celebrates his goal against Aston the ball back to Weimann, who in six appearances, before see- Rangers that sent the London Celtic vs St Johnstone (1500GMT), placed a first-time shot into the ing a volley turned home by club back to the bottom of the Villa during their English Premier League match at Villa Park in Birmingham, roof of the net from just inside the Villa defender Vlaar to give the table. AFP central England, yesterday. Hibernian vs Dundee Utd (1245GMT)

Day two of Brisbane Test Mendis stars in Sri Lanka washed out one-day series victory BRISBANE, Australia: The HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka: Scoreboard entire second day’s play in Jeevan Mendis grabbed three the first cricket Test between wickets as Sri Lanka clinched New Zealand 1, Herath 6-0-23-1 (w1), Mendis 4-0-15-3 Australia and South Africa the one-day series against New R Nicol c Tharanga b Kulasekara ...... 11 (w1). was washed out in Brisbane Zealand with a comfortable BJ Watling run out ...... 15 Sri Lanka (target 131 in 32 overs): yesterday. seven-wicket win in the fourth B McCullum c Chandimal b Herath ...... 30 U Tharanga c Nicol b Southee ...... 27 Match officials called the day’s match in Hambantota yesterday. R Taylor c Sangakkara b Perera ...... 6 D Chandimal b Boult ...... 43 play off at 4:00 pm (0600 GMT) Sri Lanka achieved a rain- K Williamson b Mendis ...... 21 K Sangakkara (not out) ...... 42 after the pitch remained under revised target of 131 off 32 overs J Franklin lbw b Kulasekara ...... 21 L Thirimanne c Watling b Ellis ...... 0 covers throughout the day. with more than five overs to spare N McCullum b Mendis ...... 0 A Mathews (not out) ...... 2 The last full day’s wash out at to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in A Ellis lbw b Mendis ...... 0 Extras (LB6, NB2, W9) ...... 17 the Gabba ground was back on the five-match series. The opening T Southee (not out) ...... 7 Total (for three wickets; 26.2 overs) 131 November 29, 1983 on the final one-dayer was called off without A Milne (not out) ...... 12 Fall of wickets: 1-36, 2-123, 3-128. day of Australia’s second Test a ball being bowled due to rain. It Extras (LB3, W5) ...... 8 Bowling: Boult 7-0-32-1 (nb2, w4), Southee with Pakistan. was Sri Lanka’s third successive Total (for eight wkts; 32 overs) ...... 131 7-0-32-1 (w1), Milne 4.2-0-21-0 (w3), Ellis South Africa went to Friday’s win under the Duckworth-Lewis Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-45, 3-62, 4-73, 6-0-23-1 (w1), N McCullum 2-0-17-0. first day stumps at 255 for two (D/L) method in the rain-hit 5-105, 6-105, 7-107, 8-116. Result: Sri Lanka win by seven wickets (D/L with Hashim Amla not out on 90 series. Bowling: Malinga 6-1-38-0, Kulasekara 5-1- method) and Jacques Kallis on 84 after Opener Dinesh Chandimal 17-2 (w3), Mathews 6-0-19-0, Perera 5-0-16- Fifth one-dayer: Hambantota (Monday) winning the toss. (43), playing his first match of the The Proteas suffered a signifi- series after replacing unfit opener cant blow overnight with confir- Tillakaratne Dilshan, and Kumar mation that batsman JP Duminy Sangakkara (42 not out) added 87 was out of the three-Test series for the second wicket to ensure with an Achilles injury. their team’s victory. The lower-order batsman Sangakkara hit one six and five was warming down by kicking fours in his 55-ball knock. a rugby ball around with team- Leg-spinner Mendis (3-15) ear- mates on the Gabba playing field Australia’s Michael Clarke looks out through a glass as it rains on the lier bowled Kane Williamson and after stumps when he suffered the second day of the first Test match against South Africa at the Gabba in Nathan McCullum with googlies injury. Brisbane, yesterday. in his third over before trapping Duminy’s loss poses an imme- Andrew Ellis leg-before in his diate problem for the Proteas, next over, his three wickets com- who went into the first Brisbane was a “very unfortunate” mishap. unsure of who would come to ing off just five balls. Test without a recognised spin- “He just ran for some train- Australia for the remainder of Man-of-the-match Mendis was ner after preferring seamer Rory ing runs which is a standard the three-Test series. Team man- superbly backed by fast bowler Kleinveldt to leg-spinner Imran thing we do with the team and ager Mohammed Moosajee said Nuwan Kulasekara, who finished Tahir in an all-pace attack. it was literally as benign as Duminy would have an operation with 2-17 off five overs. Duminy’s off-breaks would have making a turn on a run and he in Brisbane. Sri Lanka, who elected to field come in handy to add balance to snapped his Achilles,” Kirsten “The diagnosis of an Achilles after winning the toss in overcast the South African bowling attack, told the Australian Broadcasting tendon rupture was confirmed by conditions, put in an impressive which will be spearheaded by Dale Corporation. the MRI scan and he will undergo bowling performance to restrict Steyn, Vernon Philander, Jacques “He will be out for about six surgery to re-attach the tendon New Zealand. Kallis and Kleinveldt. months. It’s been tough for him on Saturday morning. He is obvi- Brendon McCullum, who Meanwhile, South Africa will and the team, but we’ve just got ously disappointed, but JP, being smashed left-arm spinner be seeking a replacement for bats- to step up now.” JP, is trying his best to stay posi- Rangana Herath over long-off man Duminy, coach Gary Kirsten Kirsten said a replacement tive, he says everything happens for the first six of the match, top- Sri Lanka’s captain Mahela Jayawardene (second left) and Jeevan Mendis said yesterday. from South Africa would be for a reason,” ” Moosajee said. scored for the tourists with 30. (third right) celebrate taking the wicket of New Zealand’s BJ Watling during Kirsten said Duminy’s injury summoned, but as yet he was AGENCIES AFP their fourth One-Day International (ODI) match in Hambantota, yesterday.