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THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 • 24 Shaaban 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6458 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Call to counter anti-2022 campaign GCC information ministers decide to set up legal panel to study media laws

DOHA: Information ministers media organisations in member- from the GCC states have called states to counter the propaganda on the media in the region to of extremist ideologies which counter all those who question target the GCC youth and send Qatar’s right to host the 2022 a positive message to the people FIFA World Cup. so that such ideologies do not The GCC countries have prosper. expressed full solidarity with This decision taken by the infor- Ali bin Hamad Qatar and encouraged their mation ministers will need to be media to continue to counter followed up by all media commit- Al Attiyah dies campaigns against Qatar whether tees of member states, including in the region or overseas. the GCC Media Federation. In this DOHA: Ali bin Hamad bin In recommendations they issued regard the role of all media organi- Abdullah Al Attiyah died here at their 23rd meeting, held here, sations including that of radio, TV, yesterday, aged 86. Funeral the GCC information ministers print, and wire agencies will be prayers will be performed today said that among the simplest duties made amply clear, reports QNA. at Old Al-Rayyan Mosque. of the media in member states, is The ministers also decided to Condolences can be offered at to highlight the cultural and eco- set up a technical committee of the house of the deceased in Al nomic gains of Qatar’s 2022 bid legal experts to study media laws Sailiya area. win and its positive impact on the being framed in GCC member May the Almighty Allah have youth in GCC states. states so that a unified set of mercy upon him, make paradise The ministers agreed that GCC media guidelines could be his abode and grand his relatives Qatar, in coordination with the developed and these guidelines solace and fortitude. QNA GCC General Secretariat, should will cover all media organisations, Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani with GCC Information develop a strategy for joint media including the online media. Ministers in Doha yesterday. Strong winds likely initiatives to counter such cam- With regard to foreign TV paigns and stress the right of channels that are trying to malign “We will continue to counter such it can take more initiatives to fight intensified, according to Manama’s DOHA: The Meteorology the GCC states, as represented the image of GCC states against campaigns,” the minister said. the propaganda of vested interests proposal. Such a uniform media Department has forecast by Qatar, to organise this impor- Arab and international laws, the Bahrain proposed at the meeting against GCC member-states. In policy is a must for GCC states, strong winds tomorrow and on tant event. ministers said they were having a to make a joint GCC platform to emergency situations, coordination the ministers noted. Saturday. An increase in humid- The ministers have asked all negative impact on GCC societies. make the media more effective so among member-states should be THE PENINSULA ity levels is expected today, espe- cially in the evening making the weather misty and hazy in some places. Maximum temperature during this period is expected to vary between 39 and 42 degrees Expat gets three years jail, fine over bribe 54pc marriages ‘endogamous’ Celsius in Doha and could be higher in some other places. DOHA: A criminal court has A tip-off was given to the The engineer was caught red- DOHA: Some 54 percent of marriages taking place in Qatar are THE PENINSULA sentenced an Arab expatri- police about the engineer putting handed and questioned and the endogamous (within relatives or particular ethnic groups) and most ate internal design engineer to a demand for a ‘gift’ for award- matter was referred to court with such marriages are among paternal cousins, which leads to heredi- TODAY’S EDITION three years in jail and fined him ing some work to a carpentry at the audios and videos as evidence. tary diseases among their offspring, suggests a study. INCLUDES A 32-PAGE SPECIAL QR10,000 ($2,746) for demand- Katara. The police sought for- Taking a serious view of the Dr Taufiq bin Imran, from Weill Cornell Medical College, presenting ing and accepting a bribe of mal approval from the Public crime, the court sentenced him a paper at a seminar on the adverse impact of endogamy in the Qatari SUPPLEMENT ON QR20,000 from a carpentry Prosecution to investigate the to three years in prison and fined community, said that marriages among first cousins were a common for awarding it some work at matter and if found to be true, use him and ruled that he be deported feature in the GCC region and the Middle East as a whole. The seminar PHILIPPINES Katara Cultural Village where audio and video devices to capture after serving the jail sentence. was conducted by Qatar University. Many sociologists, medical experts INDEPENDENCE DAY he was employed. the bribe-giving and taking. THE PENINSULA and others also presented papers at the event. THE PENINSULA

THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Traffic chaos after major road closure Congestion on C-Ring Road

DOHA: Closure of the busy Road from Rawdat Al Khail two-lane road between Al intersection to Najma intersec- Nuaija intersection on D-Ring tion (near Al Mana towers). Road (near the Mall) and All roads leading to the Nuaija Mansoura intersection near intersection on D-Ring Road Najma from Tuesday night and the Mansoura Intersection has caused heavy traffic snarls on C-Ring Road also witnessed on the surrounding roads and heavy traffic until late evening intersections. yesterday. This road has been closed for “I am stuck on the D-Ring one-and-a-half months as part road. Traffic is at a standstill Traffic at the Al Nuaija intersection near The Mall. The stretch of road from this junction to the Al Mansoura intersection near Gulf Cinema has been of expansion works, Ashghal had near the Mall (Nuaija) intersec- closed to convert the roundabout near Woqod Petrol Station into a signalised intersection. (QASSIM RAHMATULLAH) said. The two-lane road will be tion,” an expatriate heading to expanded into a three-lane one Al Salata from Old Airport area in both directions and the small told this daily at around 10.30pm Al Khail intersection to reach airport. It took more than a hour linking C-Ring and D-Ring roads road near the Commercial Bank roundabout near Woqod petrol yesterday. Najma, Mansoura and neighbour- to reach the airport from my yesterday made the situation to reach D-Ring Road. But to my station will be converted into a With closure of this key section ing areas. house in New Salata area. All the worse, said some motorists. surprise, entry to that road was signalised intersection. of the Najma Street, as it is offi- Many people who didn’t know roads leading from Gulf Cinema “I was coming from Najma closed using concrete barricades,” Being a key road in the central cially known, motorists heading about the closure, despite an intersection to the Al Mana towards Lulu Hypermarket at said another expatriate. part of Doha, connecting the D- from E-Ring Road and the Old announcement by Ashghal, were intersection witnessed the heavi- around 5pm and found the road “Then I had to go all the way Ring and C-Ring roads, the clo- Airport area towards C-Ring caught unawares in the heavy est traffic jams,” said an Indian to the Mall intersection closed. to Al Mana intersection and then sure has led to chaotic traffic on Road must either rely on inter- traffic yesterday. expatriate yesterday. Then I took a left turn at the Gulf take a right to finally reach the the surrounding roads, especially nal roads or drive all the way to “I was held up on C-Ring Road Closure of at least one major Cinema signal towards Al Mana D-Ring Road,” he added. on a major stretch of the C-Ring Najma intersection or Rawdat this morning while going to the entry point to the interior roads signal hoping to take the interior THE PENINSULA

Ooredoo launches exclusive cloud computing platform from Microsoft

DOHA: Ooredoo and Microsoft first-of-its-kind cloud-hosting platform Al Thani said: “Ooredoo strives to sup- With the new upgrade, Ooredoo’s breakthrough solutions aligns closely Qatar yesterday announced a signifi- will enable businesses to deploy the lat- port the growth of the knowledge-based QDC5 Smart Data Centre is being sup- with Microsoft’s own National Plan and cant upgrade at Ooredoo’s next gen- est generation of solutions quickly and economy and to enable the nation’s busi- ported by the Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud vision. We are truly proud to part- eration Smart Data Centre QDC5 in cost-effectively, in a flexible and scalable nesses to achieve their full potential. We Pack, running on the latest Windows ner with Ooredoo on such an important Mesaimeer, which will see the facility manner. have designed the Ooredoo QDC5 Smart Server and System Centre. The solution project,” said Yazbeck. deploy Microsoft solutions to make the A special ceremony was held at the Data Centre to sit at the cutting-edge of enables cloud infrastructures to feature For years, Microsoft has been building delivery of cloud-based services more Ooredoo QDC5 Smart Data Centre to business technology, which is why this rich, self-service capabilities and support and operating some of the largest cloud efficient and effective for companies mark the implementation of the platform, new upgrade using the Microsoft Azure the automation of complex processes that applications in the world. Microsoft’s across the country. attended by Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad Pack as the gateway to deliver a range of make the delivery of cloud-based data Cloud OS vision combines Microsoft’s Cloud-based services — which include bin Nasser Al Thani, Chief New Business IT services on top of storage and network services more efficient. knowledge and experiences with today’s security, customer relationship man- Officer, Ooredoo, and Naim Yazbeck, resources is so important. There is a ris- “Microsoft Qatar is keen to play a key trends and technology innovations to agement and file-sharing applications General Manager, Microsoft Qatar, along ing demand for cloud-based services and role in the development of Qatar’s digital deliver a modern platform of products — are becoming increasingly impor- with senior executives of both companies. we need to ensure the best possible per- future. Partnering with strategic tech- and services. tant for Qatar’s companies, and this Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad bin Nasser formance on our bigger, faster network.” nology providers like Ooredoo to power THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME WISE session in Madrid with 33 learners Focus on knowledge of education

DOHA: The second residential building their knowledge of edu- session for the 2014-2015 WISE cation and social entrepreneur- Learners’ Voice Programme is ship, as well as their leadership taking place this month in the and communication skills. Spanish capital Madrid. Part of In a key component of the pro- a year-long Executive Education gramme, the learners form teams programme, the session engages to conceive and design grass roots a group of 33 learners, including projects that address critical edu- a number of Qataris, in a series cation challenges. The students of dynamic workshops on social collaborate with the Learners’ entrepreneurship and disrup- Voice team and visiting faculty to tive thinking, led by faculty support the development of their from Babson College, Boston, projects. This year, the projects USA, and the Madrid-based address challenges as diverse as Qassim Abdulla Al Mahmoud, (fifth left), Head of Design Engineering at Kahramaa, and Rashd Mohammed Al Musallam, (fourth left) Head of building Studio Banana. accessibility and special needs Project department, receiving the Energy Globe Award Qatar 2015 from Gerd Bommer, (fifth right), Commercial Counselor, Advantage Austria, in the The WISE Learners’ Voice pro- education to character-building presence of Sieglinde Fedele di Catrano, (fourth right) Charge d’ Affaires, Markus Jordan, (left) Managing Partner, Innovations Unlimited ME, and other gramme is supported by Banco and mobile learning methods. officials at Palm Tower B yesterday. (KAMMUTTY VP) Santander, through Santander “When I first heard about Universities, headquartered in the WISE Learners’ Voice Madrid. The first residential Programme and its objectives, I session in the 2014/2015 WISE knew it was something I had to Learners’ Voice Programme took pursue. As a constant seeker of Kahramaa Awareness Park wins award place earlier this year in Doha. knowledge and a strong believer WISE was inaugurated by in the power of education, I have DOHA: The National Energy and Rashid Al Musalam, Head 3 x 10 kW wind turbines. These The Austrian Commercial Qatar Foundation in 2009 under always wanted to give those who Globe Award Qatar 2015 goes to of Building Projects & General systems together offset over 37 Counselor, Gerd Bommer, con- the leadership of its Chairperson do not have the basic right of Kahramaa Awareness Park, an Facility at Kahramaa received tonnes of carbon dioxide. gratulated Kahramaa and H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser. education a chance to have one, innovative project designed as a the winner’s certificate from Speaking on behalf of Innovations Unlimited ME for the The WISE Learners’ Voice but I never knew how. The WISE science museum for disseminat- Austria’s Commercial Counselor Innovations Unlimited ME, achievements of this outstand- Programme brings the perspec- Learners’ Voice Programme gives ing information on ways to con- Gerd Bommer. Managing Partner Markus ing project and appreciated the tives of young people to the chal- me the ideal venue to take an serve water and electricity, and Innovations Unlimited ME Jordan commended Kahramaa on efforts being undertaken in Qatar. lenge of rethinking education, active part in the debate and do serves as an original source of submitted the project on behalf the win and expressed the com- “Best of all is that Kahramaa and equips them to take on lead- what I have passionately believed knowledge for young visitors. of Kahramaa — Qatar General pany’s gratification for playing a Awareness Park is not only about ing roles in their fields and in in for a long time,” said Ahmed Its goal is that of educating Electricity and Water Corporation, role in this visionary project that sustainability in energy produc- the world of education. The ini- Fahad Al Qahtani, a Qatari the future generations in the as Innovations Unlimited ME stands to become one of Qatar’s tion and usage, but also achieves tiative is based on the idea that participant from the 2014-2015 understanding of environmen- installed three renewable energy sustainability landmarks. sustainability by educating its when learners are co-creators programme. tally conscious, sustainable living systems at the project, which con- The park is built with materials visitors, thus making Kahramaa of their learning environments, Selected projects will be pre- systems from the inside and the tribute to power generation and that can be recycled or reused, Awareness Park a great contribu- they become active participants sented at the 2015 WISE Summit outside. A representative group water heating for the building: A and do not involve much energy tion to alternative energy aware- invested as stakeholders in the to be held from November 3 to from Kahramaa was honoured 63.3 kWp photovoltaic installation, consumption, it offers noise insu- ness for generations to come in progress of their communi- November 5 in Doha. in a ceremony at the Austrian 41 square metre of flat plate col- lation and controls indoor pollut- Qatar,” said Bommer. ties. The programme focuses on THE PENINSULA Embassy — Commercial Section lectors for solar water heating and ant sources. THE PENINSULA

Seminar sheds light on meat processing

DOHA: Qatar National Import and consider it our responsibility to provide a global leader in meat science, tech- Export Co (QNIE) sponsored a Food safe, nutritious, wholesome and quality nology, research and development.” He Safety Seminar throwing light on products as well as world-class services said that Qatar is a valuable importer world-class practices within the meat to our customers and their consumers,” of Australian meat and livestock, with processing and supply chain industry. said Sameer Mazhar, Senior HR and the market showing continuous growth. The seminar, held on Tuesday at Adminstration Manager for QNIE. “This “It’s a privilege to be invited to Doha, Crowne Plaza Doha, was presented seminar is yet another step towards to work with QNIE and to present and by leading research and development ensuring quality meat import and con- share knowledge with Qatari authorities experts from Meat and Livestock sumption in Qatar,” he added. and the food industry”, he said. Australia (MLA) Limited. Dr David Dr Beatty briefed the food industry Chef Tarek Ibrahim gave a presenta- Beatty, International Business Manager professionals on the safe and hygienic tion on the excellence of Australian red for MLA-MENA, and Tarek Ibrahim, handling of red meat and its various meat processing. Corporate Master Chef and Business attributes. He said, “Australia is known Ibrahim spoke about his own experi- Development Manager, MLA, and celeb- globally as a great food producing nation ences in Australia, of visiting various rity chef of Fatafeat TV fame, chaired and is recognised for its integrity in the farms and meat processing facilities, the seminar. supply of meat, including Halal certified affirming Australia’s Halal integrity as FROM LEFT: Tarek Ibrahim, Dr Shadi Salah Ziyada, Hassan Alkhiyami, and Dr David Beatty “As one of the largest food import red meat. Australia exports more than one of the finest in the world. at the Food Safety Seminar. and distribution firms in Qatar, we 60pc of the red meat it produces and is THE PENINSULA HMC honours 32 medical graduates

DOHA: Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) recently recognised the latest group of medical graduates from its Internal Medicine Residency Program (IMRP) in a ceremony held at the Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City. A group of 32 residents, representing many nation- alities, were formally recognised at the event for pass- ing the exams and fulfilling their training requirements. More than 200 participants, including Department of Medicine’s senior leaders and programme faculty, attended the ceremony. The four-year IMRP, which is now well-established at HMC, is considered the largest training programme for residents offered by the corporation. More than 200 graduates have completed their residency training since 2007. Every year, more than 300 medical graduates, seek- ing higher medical training and education, apply for the programme from which about 50 are placed, according to Dr Ahmed Al Mohammed, IMRP Program Director. Dr Al Mohammed is also Vice-Chair for Education and Training at the Department of Medicine as well as Senior Pulmonary Consultant in Internal Medicine at Hamad General Hospital (HGH). “This is a rigorous residency training programme and follows a comprehensive curriculum which is continually developed to offer the best possible training to our resi- dents. We have specified goals and objectives for each year of residency training, and residents are expected to com- plete a total of 12 months out of the first three years in General Medicine and then rotate between different spe- cialties such as medical Intensive Care Unit, Cardiology, Emergency Medicine, Neurology, Rheumatology and oth- ers,” said Dr Al Mohammed. “During the years of training, residents are regularly assessed and evaluated by senior faculty to ensure they attain the required competencies and the necessary clini- cal knowledge,” he said. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 French mission Forum discusses role of GCC media in crises DOHA: A seminar on the role of GCC media in dealing with crises was held at Sheraton braces for rise Doha Hotel last evening as part of activities of the 3rd Gulf Media Forum organised in the context of the 23rd meeting of GCC information ministers, in visa demand held yesterday morning. The seminar was attended by Chairman of Qatar Visa centre adds staff to meet rush Media Corporation Sheikh Hamad bin Thamir Al Thani, DOHA: The French embassy example) and enhancing security Assistant Foreign Minister and CAPAGO-Mena (French in all tourist locations”. for International Cooperation visa collection centre) in Doha Capago MENA has increased Affairs H E Sheikh Mohamed Al-Sharq Editor-in-Chief Jaber Al Harami (right) at the 3rd Gulf Media Forum at Sheraton Doha Hotel last evening. are all set to meet an expected its staff to further improve its bin Abdurrahman bin Jassim surge in tourists from Qatar to service during the high sea- Al Thani, CEO of Qatar France this summer. son including for the Premium Media Corporation Sheikh Salem Al Ghassani, a number of by Dr Mohammed Al Misfir, and Chairman of International Last year, the French embassy Lounge section. Abdurrahaman bin Hamad Al high ranking officials and GCC a professor of political science Justice Organization and issued almost 27,000 visas in During summer, applications Thani, Bahraini Information mediamen and journalists. at Qatar University, Dr Ahmed Dr Abdullah Shayeji, professor Qatar. Since the beginning of for Schengen visas rise dra- Minister Isa bin Abdurrahman The seminar, which was mod- Al Tuwaijri, Dean of the Faculty of political science and Head of 2014, a 50 percent increase in the matically. The French Embassy Al Hammadi, GCC Assistant erated by Editor-in-Chief of of Education at King Saud the Faculty of Political Science at number of visas has been regis- and Capago MENA Qatar have Secretary-General for Cultural Qatar’s Al-Sharq newspaper University, former member of Kuwait University. tered, as more and more Qatar advised travellers to take an and Media Affairs Khalid bin Jaber Al Harami, was addressed the Shura Council in Saudi Arabia THE PENINSULA residents choose France as a appointment as early as possible vacation destination, the mission during this period by registering said. directly on the website (http:// Last year, more than 84 mil- www.capago.eu). lion tourists from all over the For Qatari citizens, the visa can world visited France. The French be granted in a maximum of 48 Ambassador, Eric Chevallier, said: hours provided a complete appli- Lane closure at Al Khor City roundabout “We are proud to be the number cation has been filed at CAPAGO. one tourist destination in the “We want to make your visit a DOHA: The Public Works Authority — World and we encourage tourists success from day one. Visas are Ashghal — has announced the closure of from Qatar to visit our beauti- now delivered in a maximum of 48 one lane on the Corniche roundabout in Al ful country and its regions! The hours for Qatari citizens. There Khor City for two months beginning from French government is increasing is no need for hotel booking and Saturday. its efforts to welcome its guests in flight ticket. All you will need is a One lane in both directions from Corniche the best possible way, by further Schengen form and a certificate of Street to Al Amir Street will be closed for developing infrastructure (bet- insurance,” said the ambassador. traffic, while the second lane will remain ter taxi services at airports, for THE PENINSULA open in each direction. The median and shoulders (emergency stopping lane) on all streets leading to the roundabout will also be closed. The closure is to facilitate infrastructure Doctors told to write reports in English development works on Al Khor Commercial Street and to convert Al Khor Corniche DOHA: The Supreme Council of Health (SCH) has asked all doctors Roundabout to a signal-controlled intersec- to use English to prepare “patient referrals” and medical reports. tion, said Ashghal. A circular issued by the Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety Ashghal has announced another closure at Department at SCH to all public and private health care facilities in Al Kassarat Street in Industrial Area for six Qatar has asked them to advise their medical staff to strictly comply months, also starting from Saturday. with this rule. An official of a private hospital told this daily yester- The road extending from Roundabout 23 to day their doctors are using only English for medical prescriptions. Roundabout 33 will be closed. “However, there are some patients who insist for medical reports to Traffic will be diverted to the opposite side be written in Arabic,” he said. He said the SCH had informed hospitals of the road which will be expanded to accom- about plans to introduce a special software for medical prescriptions. modate traffic in both directions. “Already there are instructions to use English for prescriptions. May The closure is part of the roads and infra- be they are now strictly implementing it as a preparation for launching structure development project in Industrial the software,” he added. THE PENINSULA Area. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Number of tourists up 10 percent Arrivals in first five months 1.32m DOHA: The number of tour- plans and priorities for the ists visiting Qatar in the first remainder of 2015. This quar- five months of the year rose ten terly marketing meeting brings percent to 1.32m, putting the together more than 60 private country on track to increase sector stakeholders from local annual arrivals this year to well hotels and other industry sup- in excess of the 2014 total of pliers to meet personnel from 2.83m. QTA’s local head office and inter- According to the Qatar national representative offices in Tourism Authority (QTA) Chief the UK, France, Germany, GCC Marketing & Promotions Officer and Southeast Asia. Rashed AlQurese, the numbers “This meeting is important during the January-May period in ensuring that all parties of 2015 stood at 1,316,831 visitors, involved in promoting Qatar an increase of 10 percent over the are in harmony in understand- first five months of last year, with ing QTA’s vision, mission, values gains recorded for most major and marketing philosophy,” said source markets. AlQurese. A major highlight of 2015 has “It also ensures that our inter- A Qatar Red Crescent course on disaster management being attended by national service students. been the 20 percent growth in national representatives are fully visitor numbers from the neigh- updated on the latest develop- bouring GCC markets, with the ments and are familiar with newly National service students learn disaster management strongest performance being a opened hotels and other tourism 31 percent increase from Saudi related attractions. To be 100 DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent sanitation, shelter, and camp disaster victims, removing human Camp site planning is a com- Arabia during the first five percent effective, they need to be (QRC) recently organised a management. In disaster man- and solid waste and disease-bear- plex process that requires input months of the year. knowledgeable and authoritative four-day disaster management agement, the lecturer discussed ing insects, and raising awareness from multiple experts and stake- “This follows the establish- spokespersons in their respective course for national service stu- the definition of a disaster, way of personal hygiene. holders. The planning starts from ment of QTA’s GCC representa- markets,” he noted. dents, in coordination with the to deal with it using a set of basic In relation to the shelter and family to cell, block, and section. tive office last year and reflects AlQurese pointed out that in training officers of the national principles, such as preparedness, registration programme, the Every group of four sections con- the various trade and consumer- order to maximise the impact of service center, as part of QRC’s recovery, assessment, response, trainees were introduced to the stitute a whole refugee or IDP centric joint promotions, the the nation’s marketing efforts, it efforts to promote the cul- and risk analysis. standards of healthy, safe, and camp. Qatar annual calendar of festi- is vital that all parties are focused ture of preparedness and risk The water and sanitation pro- environment-friendly household. Finally, food and distribution vals, events and other initiatives on promoting the key attractions reduction among all segments gramme is one of QRC’s main The lecturer explained the needs involved two parts: (1) theoreti- launched to attract visitors,” said and resources that give Qatar of the Qatari society, towards aspects of humanitarian inter- of disaster-stricken communities cal concepts of food security, such AlQurese. a distinctive edge in cultural the goals of Qatar National vention. QRC has procured the for shelter and nonfood items such as food provision, access to food, He noted that the important authenticity. Vision 2030. world’s latest water and sanita- as clothes, blankets, mattresses, nutrients, eating, digestion, and European and Asian markets “As a relatively fresh destina- Attended by 500 conscripts, the tion system, an emergency quick heaters, fuel, etc, depending on the malnutrition; and (2) emergency were also performing well, with tion, our aim is to spread a clear, course was taught by a number of response unit called Kit 5, which type, scope, and impact of the dis- supply of food and water and the overall increases of 4 percent consistent, and positive brand disaster management instructors can provide clean water to up to aster. As illustrated in the course, necessary hygienic standards, and 7 percent respectively in the positioning that resonates in our from QRC. The agenda covered 5,000 people. The trainees learnt it is crucial to assess the damage of with examples of food distribution number of visitors to Qatar in key overseas markets.” training in disaster manage- about the importance of providing buildings and infrastructure and during fires, cyclones, and storms. the January-May period. Stand- He stressed that a major high- ment, food security, water and safe drinking water for IDPs and the cost of reconstruction. THE PENINSULA out performers among markets light of the meeting’s agenda was covered by the QTA’s representa- examining the performance and tive offices included France (up achievements of each region. 11 percent) and Austria (up 13 “We adopt a target-based sys- percent). tem to ensure that all QTA mar- Qatar Duty Free AlQurese was addressing a keting resources are deployed to meeting of top representatives of optimise effectiveness. The offices opens sportswear Lekhwiya official invents device QTA’s Head Office and its inter- will also present their detailed national marketing network. strategic marketing plans and concept store The meeting was held in Doha targets for the remainder of 2015,” to detect suspicious activity yesterday to review progress and he said. DOHA: Qatar Duty Free highlight key tourism promotion THE PENINSULA (QDF) yesterday announced DOHA: A new device which algorithm and detects crimi- “When someone behaves dif- the opening of its new sports- can sense abnormal changes nals, terrorists, and drug users. ferent, looks confused or suspi- wear concept store, InPlay, at in human body and create an This device is a new addition cious, we would decide to check Hamad International Airport alert, will be soon introduced to the security system and has the person. Also, when we do (HIA). The store offers a wide at important places, espe- been registered at the Ministry random checks, the device will range of sportswear, equipment cially at the airport, to detect of Economy and Commerce, as identify the person if he is abnor- and accessories for men, women trafficking. an intellectual property,” said mal. But only after investigation and children. The device, invented by Captain Captain Rashed while addressing we will ascertain if he is a crimi- “Qatar Duty Free is delighted Ali Al M Rashed, Head of Security a press conference at the Hamad nal or has health problems,” he to introduce InPlay, a new multi- Technology Unit of Lekhwiya, will International Airport yesterday. said. brand sports concept store that be initially fixed for a trial. The device will be used for ran- Although the accuracy of the we have developed internally with The device, which was devel- dom checks on people at places ‘Smart Security Investigation our retail team,” said Senior Vice oped in nine months, can detect like the airport, important con- System’ could be only ascertained President, Qatar Duty Free, Keith and analyse abnormal behaviour ferences and sports events. The after the device is experimented, Hunter. in human beings, especially by experimental scans with the Captain Rashed says that it would “We believe we have brought scanning their eyes. However, device will be held in collabora- act as a helpful mechanism to together a strong collection of the actual reason behind the tion with the Ministry of Interior identify criminals. sporting items, clothing and behaviour has to be found out by and Supreme Council of Health. Captain Rashed is an engi- brands that cater to the type of investigations. “Hamad International Airport neer from Qatar University. He passengers travelling through The ‘Smart Security is one of the main destinations completed his Masters at the Qatar on both business and Investigation System’ can sense through which many people come Liverpool University, specialising Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) Chief Marketing & Promotions Officer Rashed leisure. psychological reactions by analys- into the country and ‘Smart in radiation and robotic work and AlQurese at a press conference in Doha yesterday. THE PENINSULA ing changes in the eyes and body Security Investigation System’ has more than ten years of expe- temperature of a person. will be used there in collaboration rience on the field of information “The device is a new sys- with the Ministry of Interior,” technology. tem which works according to said Captain Rashed. THE PENINSULA

Captain Rashed, Head of Security Technology Unit of Lekhwiya, introducing the new device to media and security officials at a press conference at the Hamad International Airport yesterday. (QASSIM RAHMATULLAH) THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Obama okays 450 more troops for Iraq Lebanon receives US missiles to fight militants

WASHINGTON/BEIRUT: IS fighters have sought to exploit. Lebanese soldiers fired artil- US President Barack Obama The larger US deployment is lery, drove through the hills of yesterday approved the deploy- expected to mean increasing the the Bekaa Valley, and flew over ment of up to 450 more US mili- number of training sites from the the area in helicopters. tary personnel to Iraq, in a bid four currently being used. The four-year civil war in to reverse gains by the Islamic Taken together the measures neighbouring Syria has seen vio- State (IS) group. would significantly scale up US lence spill over into Lebanon. The White House said the activities in Iraq, but stop short Jihadist fighters, including Al forces will take part in an already of a strategy overhaul. Qaeda’s Syria affiliate and the 3,000-strong US mission to “train, Obama’s Republican political extremist Islamic State group, advise, and assist” Iraqi army and adversaries seized on that aspect have sought refuge in the rocky Sunni tribal fighters. of the announcement. terrain on the Syrian-Lebanese Recent IS victories in Ramadi “It’s a step in the right direc- border. in Iraq and Syria’s Palmyra seem tion, but as the president admit- In August last year, Lebanese to have rubbished Obama’s strat- ted the other day, he has no security forces clashed with these egy of depending on US airpower strategy to win. And this is groups when they briefly overran Lebanese Armed Forces carry out live fire exercise with newly arrived TOW-II anti-tank missiles at a base in and an amalgam of disparate another tactical move,” said the border town of Arsal. Taybeh, Baalbeck, Lebanon, yesterday. ground forces to “defeat and House of Representatives Speaker Since then, the US has pro- degrade” the Islamic State. John Boehner. vided Lebanon’s armed forces Amid the criticism, the White “I support the tactical move the with $82.5m in weapons and House also announced the “expe- president is taking, but where’s ammunition, according to the US Hezbollah, IS fight on border dited delivery of essential equip- the overarching strategy?” embassy. ment and materiel” for tribal and Meanwhile, Lebanese and “This is a long term com- BEIRUT: The head of intervened militarily in Syria saying they were IS fighters. Kurdish Peshmerga fighters — in American officials gathered yes- mitment, and we will stand by Lebanon’s Hezbollah move- on behalf of President Bashar “These are fighters’ corpses coordination with the central gov- terday in Beirut to mark the deliv- Lebanon’s side in this regard until ment announced yesterday that Al Assad, saying it is protecting and the spoils that the resistance ernment in Baghdad. ery of more than 200 anti-tank these terrorists are defeated,” the powerful Shia militia had Lebanon from the threat of jihad- (Hezbollah) has seized during Until now, Baghdad funneled missiles the United States says Hale said. The US-made TOW- begun to fight the Islamic State ists in the neighbouring country. clashes outside the town of Ras weapons and oversees the train- will help Lebanon’s army defend IIs are the same kind delivered by group along the rugged Syrian- IS has made a series of major Baalbek,” a town near Lebanon’s ing of Sunni tribal fighters, seen its borders against terrorists. Western backers to Syrian rebels Lebanese border. gains in Syria and Iraq in recent border with Syria, the channel as likely to be key to victory in The 200 US-made TOW-II mis- in April 2014. “The battle with Daesh in months, one year after it declared said. Ramadi and the surrounding siles and launchers, valued more The new delivery comes in Qalamun has begun, in the east- an Islamic “caliphate” over areas Nasrallah said that Syria’s Anbar province. than $10m, were delivered in late addition to artillery and ammu- ern (mountain) chain and on under its control. army and Hezbollah were in con- The Obama administration is May as part of a joint US-Saudi nition that the US provided to the Syrian-Lebanese border,” Nasrallah vowed yesterday to trol of Qalamun’s major moun- now looking at having American effort to support Lebanon’s army, Lebanon in February. Hassan Nasrallah said in a tel- see the fight with the jihadists tains and hills after defeating IS’s troops more directly involved in said US ambassador to Lebanon A $3bn Saudi-funded pro- evised speech, referring to IS by through. “I assure you that defeat jihadist rival and Al Qaeda’s Syria training those Sunni volunteers. David Hale. gramme also brought French- its Arabic acronym. will come to these men. It’s a mat- branch, Al Nusra Front. Iraq’s Sunni Muslim com- “We are absolutely committed made anti-tank guided missiles He said fierce clashes had left ter of time, and we are not in a The joint Hezbollah-Syrian munity has yet to join the fight to making sure that the army to Lebanon in April, to be followed dozens of IS fighters dead, and hurry,” he said. army offensive to clear the border against the self-proclaimed has the capacity to be the sole over the next four years by com- that Hezbollah had lost men, Hezbollah’s official television area of rebel militias began about Islamic State in large numbers. defender of Lebanese territory bat and transport vehicles, three without specifying a number. station Al Manar, which aired a month ago, and Nasrallah has Among Sunnis there is sim- and its borders, and is answerable small warships, and a range of “They (IS) began the fighting, Nasrallah’s remarks, had ear- included updates on the assault mering distrust of the Shiite-led to the state and to the Lebanese surveillance and communications. but we will continue the battle,” lier broadcast video footage of in numerous televised speeches government in Baghdad, which people through the state,” he said. AFP Nasrallah said. Hezbollah has bodies lying on rocky terrain, since then. AFP

US blacklists 43 killed in Yemen clashes key Hezbollah as parties prepare for talks network ADEN: At least 43 people were they were caught in the middle of killed in heavy fighting in Yemen fighting between the Houthis and WASHINGTON: The US overnight and yesterday between local resistance fighters aligned with Treasury placed on its sanc- supporters of exiled President Hadi. tions blacklist yesterday three Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi and the Representatives of Hadi’s govern- Lebanese men and companies country’s dominant Houthi group, ment are scheduled to begin talks in they are tied to, calling them residents, tribal and medical Geneva with representatives of the part of a “key Hezbollah sup- sources said. Houthi group and Saleh’s General port network.” The clashes erupted ahead of People’s Congress party on Sunday, The Treasury placed asset UN-sponsored talks in Geneva next amid reports of disagreements about freezes and restrictions for doing week aimed at ending a conflict the agenda. business on real estate business- that has drawn in Saudi Arabia and Mohammed Abdel Salam, spokes- man Adham Tabaja and his some of its allies on one side and the man for the Houthi group, said late Al Inmaa group of companies, Iranian-backed Houthis and former on Tuesday that their representation Kassem Hejeij and Husayn Ali president Ali Abdullah Saleh on the at the conference was still under dis- Faour, and the company he man- other. cussion and had yet to be finalised. ages, Car Care Center. Residents and fighters said fight- Hundreds of thousands of people It said Tabaja is a member ers opposed to the Houthis advanced have been displaced by the fighting in of Hezbollah, which is officially from a district of Aden known as Yemen, which escalated sharply after labeled a terrorist organization by ‘workers’ island’ towards the port Saudi-led Arab forces waded into the Washington, and that Al-Inmaa is city’s Houthi-held international air- conflict in March to try to shore up used by Hezbollah for investment port. They said five local fighters and Hadi and stop the Houthis advancing and holding properties. 11 Houthis had died in clashes. Eight on areas held by his supporters. It said that Al Inmaa fighters from an anti-Houthi force Iran and the Houthis deny hav- Engineering and Contracting called the Southern Resistance were ing any military or economic links. has recently obtained oil and also wounded in the clashes, they said. The Houthis say their seizure of the construction projects in Iraq that Migrants arrive at the port in the Tunisian town of Ben Guerdane, some 40km west of the Libyan border, Residents said warplanes from a capital Sanaa in September and their “provide both financial support following their rescue by Tunisia’s coastguard and navy after their vessel overturned off Libya, yesterday. Saudi-led coalition flew sorties over- advance south is part of a “revolu- and organizational infrastructure night against Houthi outposts in the tion” against a corrupt government. to Hezbollah.” Bir Ahmed area north of Aden, kill- Humanitarian conditions have Hejeij, the Treasury said, works ing 12 members of the Zaydi Shia deteriorated sharply, with shortages with Tabaja and also provides 356 migrants rescued off group. of fresh produce, poultry, flour, fuel financial support to Hezbollah. Saudi-led air strikes on Houthi and other basic needs. Residents also It said that Faour is a mem- fighters in the oil-producing Marib complain that uncollected garbage, ber of Hezbollah’s operations unit province also killed 10 Houthis, tribal rotting under sizzling temperatures Islamic Jihad, and the company Tunisia’s southeast coast sources said. Separately, in the cen- of nearly 50 degrees Celsius in Aden, he runs, Car Care Center, helps tral city of Taiz, medical sources said has caused the spread of disease such Hezbollah with transportation. five civilians had been killed when as dengue fever. REUTERS TUNIS: Tunisia’s navy yesterday rescued 356 more than 450 migrants trying to make the dan- migrants including a two-month-old baby girl gerous crossing. Kuwait donates off the country’s southeastern coast near Ben Libya has a coastline of 1,770km and has long Guerdane, the Red Crescent said. Red Crescent been a stepping stone for Africans seeking a $300m humanitarian official Ammar Lamloum said that the group better life in Europe. Most head for the Italian of migrants, mainly Africans, had been trying island of Lampedusa which lies some 300km from aid to Iraq, Yemen to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa when Libyan shores. they were rescued. People smugglers, who have operated in Libya KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait is to “They are now at the port in Ben Guerdane,” for years, have increased their lucrative trade, send $300m in humanitarian he said. Tunisian and Italian authorities have feeding on the political divisions and lawlessness aid to conflict-hit neighbours been at the forefront of rescue efforts for a flood that has gripped the country since the end of its Iraq and Yemen, the foreign of mainly African migrants fleeing Libya and 2011 uprising. ministry announced yesterday. bound for Europe on unseaworthy boats that On April 19, some 750 migrants were killed The oil-rich Gulf state will run into trouble. Four of the rescued migrants when their trawler sank between Libya and send $200m to Iraq and $100m including a pregnant woman were being treated southern Italy, sparking global outrage and to Yemen “amidst a humanitarian in hospital, Lamloum said, adding that 38 women demands for action. crisis in the region”, said the min- and seven children had been on the boat. The number of migrants entering the EU ille- istry’s international organisations He said the migrants, who as well as sub- gally in 2014 almost tripled to 276,000, according head Jassem Al Mubaraki, quoted Saharan Africans included Syrians, Moroccans, to European Union border agency Frontex, nearly by state news agency Kuna. Malians, Egyptians and Pakistanis, had left Libya 220,000 of them arriving via the Mediterranean. Fierce battles have been rag- aboard the makeshift vessel but it had broken The International Organization for Migration ing in Iraq between Islamic State down off the Tunisian coast. said in April that some 1,750 migrants had jihadists and the army backed by “We don’t for the moment know where we will already died trying to cross the Mediterranean Shia militia. house them,” he said. to Europe this year, 30 times more than during Yemen has been under Saudi- With Tunisia struggling to deal with the influx, the same period in 2014. led air strikes targeting Shia the Red Crescent has taken charge of assisting The United Nations said on Tuesday that Houthi rebels and forces loyal to many of the rescued migrants, often with chari- since January 103,000 refugees and migrants had former president Ali Abdullah table help from local residents. risked their lives often on flimsy boats to reach Saleh. AFP In April and May, Tunisian vessels rescued Europe. AFP THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST France nears Egypt police foil suicide attack $1.1bn Kuwait deal to sell Two attackers killed outside a famed Luxor temple Airbus copters CAIRO: Police said they averted of the car, ran away and deto- a “massacre” after foiling a sui- nated his explosive vest. PARIS/KUWAIT: France is cide bombing and gun attack In the ensuing confusion, the on the verge of finalising a con- yesterday on one of Egypt’s most other passenger emerged from tract worth about ¤1bn ($1.1bn) popular ancient attractions, in the car and, joined by an accom- for the sale of 24 Airbus-built a rare assault on the country’s plice who had come in on foot, military helicopters to Kuwait, vital tourism sector. pulled assault rifles from the bags a deal that highlights Paris’ Egypt has been shaken by a tide and started shooting. growing commercial ties in the of attacks claimed by jihadists The police responded, killing Middle East, officials said. since the army toppled the demo- one and seriously wounding the The contract — the latest to be cratically elected government two other. agreed between Paris and a Gulf years ago, but the incident in the Arab state, comes after French southern city of Luxor was the AIM TO DESTROY TOURISM President Francois Hollande was first in years targeting tourists. Health ministry official Nahed invited by Gulf Arab leaders in This has added to fears that Mohamed said two civilians and May to address their summit in unrest could scare off the visitors two policemen were wounded in Saudi Arabia, a rare privilege for who are crucial to the economy in the shootout, but not seriously. a foreign head of state. a country where tourism accounts Police said the taxi driver was “In the framework of the for more than a tenth of GDP. not a suspect. “If they had man- defence partnership between Police said two attackers were aged to enter the temple, it would France and Kuwait, the emir has killed and another seriously have been a massacre,” said the expressed the wish ... to equip wounded near the Karnak tem- general, as 19 fully loaded maga- his country’s air force with 24 ple in Luxor, a popular site close zines for the rifles were found in Caracal type heavy helicopters. to the famed Valley of the Kings. the bags and there were 604 tour- The contract will be signed soon,” No tourists were hurt in the ists were in the temple. Hollande’s office said after a tel- mid-morning incident and visi- “We have enhanced security ephone conversation between the tors were kept inside Karnak’s measures in place at all our sites Debris seen near damaged shops after a foiled suicide attack in Luxor, Egypt, yesterday. French leader and Emir Sheikh ruins, an antiquities ministry and we continue to take every Sabah al Ahmad al Jaber al Sabah. official said. possible measure to ensure that attacks on local targets were not Years of instability scared off which runs completely counter to The French army uses the The incident unfolded after no harm comes to anyone visiting drawing international attention, visitors from overseas, damaging our work to end extreme poverty Caracal helicopter to transport a taxi carrying two passengers Egypt,” Ramy said. he said. Karnak in central Luxor the economy and sending Egypt’s in the world,” he said in a state- soldiers including its special attempted to enter the park- No group had yet claimed was built on the ruins of Thebes, foreign currency reserves plung- ment, adding that “we must con- forces. It sold six EC725 Caracal ing lot and was stopped by a responsibility for the attack. the capital of ancient Egypt. ing. Last year, 10 million tourists front extremism by relentlessly to Tunisia at the end of 2014 for suspicious policeman, Tourism But Mathieu Guidere, profes- The huge temple dedicated to visited Egypt, bringing with them creating hope.” ¤300m as the North African state Minister Khaled Ramy said in a sor of Arab geopolitics at France’s the god Amon lies in the heart of $7.5bn in revenues. That gener- Militants have carried out seeks to tackle Islamist militants statement. University of Toulouse, said the a vast complex of religious build- ated 19.3 percent of currency bombings regularly since the on its borders. Police asked to search the incident indicated a change in ings in the city, 700km south reserves. army ousted Islamist president A French Defence Ministry trunk, where they found two large strategy in jihadists choosing tar- of Cairo. Tourism in Egypt has World Bank President Jim Mohamed Mursi, mainly in the official said the Kuwait contract bags that made them suspicious, gets. The aim is “to weaken the faltered since early 2011, when a Yong Kim, who happened to be Sinai peninsula, where a local was worth about 1 billion euros a general from Luxor police said. Egyptian economy by destroying popular uprising toppled longtime in Luxor on business yesterday, affiliate of the Islamic State group and was agreed during a visit by When they asked to open the the tourism industry” and to have strongman Hosni Mubarak after strongly criticised the attack. has claimed a spate of attacks on Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le bags, one of the men jumped out “the maximum media impact” as three decades in power. “We abhor violence of all types, security forces. AFP Drian to Kuwait on June 6. Over the past year, Paris has sealed more than $15 billion dol- lars of military contracts in the region, including with Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Palestinian killed The Riyadh summit, where Early polls is last option: Turkish PM Hollande first discussed the heli- in clashes with copter sale with Kuwait’s emir, also saw Riyadh and Paris confirm Israel forces ANKARA: Turkey’s ruling AK Party will Turkey results 276 seats they were in talks over a major exhaust all options in trying to form a new POSSIBLE SCENARIOS Simple majority naval military contract. NABLUS: A Palestinian man government before an early election is con- Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s hopes of assuming greater powers suffered a serious blow on Sunday when 340 was killed in clashes with Israeli sidered, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu AKP+HDP= the ruling AK Party failed to win an outright majority in a forces yesterday in a northern said yesterday, and he appeared to warn parliamentary election, partial results showed. AKP+MHP= 338 Next round of Iran West Bank refugee camp, medi- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan against cal and security sources said. meddling. Justice and Development Republican People's AKP+CHP= 390 talks pretty tough, The sources said Ezzedine In an interview with state broadcaster TRT, Party (AKP) Party (CHP) 259 131 Ghora, 23, was hit by two bullets Davutoglu said Erdogan would not be involved 50% Pro-Kurdish CHP+MHP+HDP= 291 US official says in his arm and chest, and died in coalition negotiations after the AKP lost its People’s Democratic before reaching hospital. parliamentary majority in a weekend election, Party (HDP) 330 seats 367 seats WASHINGTON: The next Israeli police, in a statement on and that he would only intervene in the event 81 Majority Majority round of Iran nuclear negotia- required for a required to the incident, said a border police of a crisis. referendum change the tions will be “pretty tough,” a force was in the refugee camp Sunday’s election ended more than a dec- Nationalist to change the constitution senior US official said yester- Movement constitution without a of the city of Jenin to carry out ade of single-party rule in the Nato member Party (MHP) referendum day ahead of new talks includ- arrests. “Upon leaving the camp, and EU candidate nation, dealing a blow to TOTAL 79 Sources: Reuters; local media. ing top diplomats from the 550 seats the force identified a suspect try- Erdogan’s ambitions for a powerful US-style G. Cabrera, 10/05/2015 seven countries involved. ing to throw an explosive device presidency and plunging it into political Iran and six major powers Sources: Reuters; local media. Data as of June 10, 1400 GMT at them,” it said. uncertainty not seen since the 1990s. first time in its history or risk an unsta- reached a framework nuclear G. Cabrera, 10/06/2015 One of the border police shot him “President Erdogan is not part of coalition ble minority government, the conservative, deal on April 2 in Lausanne, and wounded him, the statement negotiations but will step in to help overcome Islamist-rooted AKP’s top brass held a third Switzerland, and are seeking said, adding that the device probably deadlocks,” Davutoglu said in the hour-long public comments since the election, apart day of meetings yesterday to consider their to strike a final agreement by exploded near the suspect. In an online interview. “If everybody carries out their from a brief statement from his office urging options. Should the political parties be unable June 30 under which Iran would statement attributed to the Jenin duties and responsibilities within the consti- a period of reflection by all political parties. to agree a working coalition within 45 days, restrain its nuclear program in branch of Gaza-based Hamas, the tutional limits, a culture of reconciliation will Daily Sabah, a newspaper close to Erdogan, Erdogan has the right to call a snap election, exchange for relief from economic Palestinian Islamist group appeared emerge,” he said, in an apparent warning to has said he has three red lines for any coali- but AKP officials say that is not their pre- sanctions. to claim Ghora as a member. Erdogan. tion: the continuation of a peace process with ferred route. “As we expected after “Hamas bids farewell to its Opposition parties have accused Erdogan, Kurdish militants, respect for his role as presi- Davutoglu also said the AKP would pur- Lausanne, the next portion of heroic martyr... and urges the who founded the AKP more than a decade ago dent, and the continuation of the fight against sue a peace process with Kurdish militants this process will be pretty tough Palestinian Authority and its and remains its dominant figure, of continuing the “parallel state” — the network of US-based for as long as possible, whatever the outcome because we will be getting down security forces to stop their secu- to meddle in its affairs despite a constitutional cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom he accuses of of coalition negotiations. One of its possible to the details,” the official told rity coordination” with Israel, it ban on him engaging in party politics as head plotting against him. “Nobody can declare red junior partners, the right-wing Nationalist reporters as negotiators from said, referring to an unpopular of state. lines in the name of the AK Party,” Davutoglu Movement Party (MHP), has long been the seven prepared to converge agreement under the 1993 Oslo In contrast to his usual dominance of the said in the interview with TRT. opposed to the Kurdish peace process. on Vienna for a new round. autonomy accords. AFP air waves, Erdogan has yet to make any Forced to find a coalition partner for the REUTERS REUTERS/AFP Israeli-linked computer worm targeted Iran N-talks venues

GENEVA/BERLIN: A computer virus was used Iran says it wants nuclear energy only for electricity to hack into venues linked to international talks and medical isotopes. During various rounds of the on Iran’s nuclear programme, Russian computer talks, Israeli officials said they knew what was being security company Kaspersky Lab said yesterday. discussed from various sources including intelligence The Wall Street Journal said the virus was widely gathering and information relayed by allies. believed to be used by Israeli spies and Kaspersky The officials did not elaborate on the latter, but had linked it to “three luxury European hotels” used asserted that Israel never spied on the United States, in the negotiations involving Iran and six world its closest ally. powers. Other victims of Duqu had been found in Another Duqu 2.0 attack, Kaspersky said, was Western countries, the Middle East and Asia, it said carried out “in relation to” the commemoration of in an emailed statement. the 70th anniversary in January this year of the “Most notably, some of the new 2014-2015 infec- liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concen- tions are linked to the P5+1 events and venues tration camp in Poland. related to the negotiations with Iran about a nuclear That ceremony was attended by the heads of state deal,” the statement said. of Germany, France, Britain and other nations. “P5+1” refers to the six world powers negotiat- Kaspersky said Duqu 2.0 had evolved from an ing with Iran on curbs to its disputed nuclear pro- earlier family of malware called Duqu uncovered gramme—the United States, Russia, China, Britain, in 2011 that had been deployed against unidentified France and Germany. The talks have been held in targets for years before it was discovered. Geneva, Lausanne, Montreux, Munich and Vienna. Symantec, a U.S. software and cybercurity firm, In February, the United States accused Israel of has said that earlier versions of Duqu bore similari- using selective leaks from the talks to distort the US ties to Stuxnet, a computer “worm” that partially position. Israel has denounced the diplomatic open- sabotaged Iran’s nuclear programme in 2009-2010 ing to Iran, saying it doubts any agreement arising by destroying a thousand or more centrifuges that from the talks will sufficiently restrain the nuclear were enriching uranium. Kaspersky said it does not programme of its arch-enemy. have enough data to draw a link between Stuxnet The West suspects Iran wants to develop a nuclear and Duqu. weapons capability from its enrichment of uranium. REUTERS THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 EUROPE / AMERICAS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Cop who pulled gun at Texas pool party quits Racism played role, says teen who filmed fracas

CHICAGO: A Texas police bystanders who were placed on in a number of the recent cases. officer videotaped pulling a gun the ground for no reason. The cop Long-simmering tensions out at a teen pool party has kind of skipped over me for stand- erupted into weeks of sometimes resigned in the latest racially- ing there. I was doing the same violent protests after the fatal charged incident involving thing as them,” he said. shooting of unarmed black teen- alleged excessive force by US News reports said the video ager Michael Brown in Ferguson, law enforcement. Brooks shot of the chaos after Missouri in August. A grand jury McKinney Police Chief Greg fighting broke out Friday at declined to indict the officer who Conley denounced Eric Casebolt’s a private community pool in shot Brown and investigators “indefensible” actions late McKinney, Texas has been seen with the US Justice Department Tuesday as he announced the nearly 11 million times. later concurred that he acted in resignation, insisting they did It showed a Texas police officer self-defence. not reflect the department’s “high pulling a gun out at a teen pool The family of 12-year-old standard of action”. party, and appearing to manhan- Tamir Rice, who was shot dead “Our policies, our training, dle a bikini-clad African American by police while holding a toy gun our practice do not support his girl as she screams for her com- in Cleveland in November, is still actions,” the police chief said at a panions to call her mother. He is waiting to hear if prosecutors will press conference. “He came into seen throwing her to the ground charge the officers involved. the call out of control and as the and pinning her down by placing A number of other incidents video shows, was out of control his knees on her back. that gained national attention in Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) listens to Pope Francis during a private audience at the Vatican, yesterday. during the incident.” The footage, which has been recent months have led to crimi- Conley said a dozen officers posted on YouTube, also showed nal charges against the officers were sent to the community cen- the officer, Casebolt — who is involved. A white police officer tre amid reports of a “distur- white — shouting obscenities at who was videotaped shooting an Putin a bully, says Jeb Bush bance” at the pool. A group of the black teenagers as he orders unarmed, fleeing black motorist uninvited youngsters had shown them to lie on the ground. He in South Carolina was indicted on BERLIN: Likely Republican the kind of bad outcome we don’t who presented him an “Angel of up at the pool party and then pulls out his gun when two young murder charges on Monday. presidential candidate Jeb Bush want to see.” peace” medallion. “It is the angel refused to leave, police said. black men approached the dis- Michael Slager, who served with said yesterday that Russian Bush said signalling what fur- who wins all wars and speaks of Video footage filmed by one of traught girl, apparently trying the North Charleston police force, President Vladimir Putin was ther sanctions Russia could face, solidarity between all peoples,” the the teens Brandon Brooks, 15, to help her. Brooks said he kept was indicted over the April 4 kill- a “bully” and the United States and reassuring Poland and the pontiff told the Russian leader. who is white, and later posted on recording the fracas even after ing of 50-year-old Walter Scott. and its allies in Europe should Baltic states that the United A Vatican statement said the YouTube showed Casebolt — who the officer removed his service Slager was dismissed from the be resolute in responding to States would meet its Nato obli- Pope had urged the Russian is white—shouting obscenities at revolver from his holster. force and arrested a short time Russian aggression. gations to view an attack on president, and other parties to the black teenagers as he orders “I continued filming after he after the release of a bystander’s Bush, the brother of former one member state as an attack the Ukraine conflict, to make a them to lie on the ground. pulled his gun out because the cellphone video that shows Scott US President George W Bush, is against the whole alliance could “sincere effort” for peace. Brooks told US media he gun wasn’t in my direction,” he running away as the officer pulls on a five-day tour of Europe in help halt Putin’s aggression. “If Speaking two days after the believes racism was a factor in told CNN. “I, personally, think he his gun and fires eight shots, five of a bid to prove his foreign policy he thinks we’re resolute I think G7 threatened tougher measures the heavyhanded police response. was going to shoot one of those which hit Scott in the back. credentials before he is expected that that’s the greatest possibility against Moscow, the Russian Brookswas at the party with kids,” the 15-year old continued. Six officers also face criminal to launch his candidacy for the of restricting any kind of further President told a press conference several black friends who he “You could see in the video, two charges in the death of Freddie Republican presidential nomina- aggressions,” he said. in Milan that many contracts said were treated more harshly cops pulled him back and checked Gray, 25, who died due to a serious tion next week. Meanwhile, Putin used a trip to signed by Italian firms had been by police trying to restore order. him to give him a heads up like, spinal injury suffered while in the “Ultimately I think to deal Italy yesterday to press his case stalled by the sanctions and may “When I was standing there ‘hey, calm down’.” back of a police van in Baltimore, with Putin you need to deal from against international sanctions on have to be torn up. filming, all my friends around The incident comes at a time Maryland. Gray’s April death strength - he’s a bully and ... you Russia and insist he was commit- Putin also said he was con- me — my black friends, African- of heightened racial tensions fol- sparked days of sometimes violent enable bad behaviour when you’re ted to a peaceful resolution of the vinced sanctions would not be American friends — they were lowing a series of incidents involv- protests in Baltimore — just an nuanced with a guy like that,” crisis in Ukraine. sustained indefinitely. “I count on all getting put on the ground and ing questionable use of sometimes hour’s drive north of the US capi- Bush, the former governor of After telling Italian premier the fact that... sooner or later, we having to stay there and they lethal police force in black com- tal — and in other major US cit- Florida, told reporters in Berlin. Matteo Renzi that sanctions will get away from the restrictions hadn’t done anything at all but munities across the United States. ies. Also, an oversight panel found “Just being clear - I’m not talk- imposed over Russia’s actions in that we are encountering today.” just stand there,” the boy told The US Justice Department has irregularities in the shooting ing about being bellicose - but Ukraine would cost Italian com- He took a swipe at the G7 CNN yesterday. launched investigations into possi- death of a 25-year-old unarmed saying ‘here are the consequences panies a billion euros, Putin spent group describing it as “not an “They were innocent ble civil rights violations by police man by Los Angeles police. AFP of your actions’, that would deter 50 minutes chatting to the Pope, organisation, just a club”. AFP

Royal birthday celebrations Cameron plans Dozens of airport workers clampdown in US linked to terrorism on non-EU WASHINGTON: The agency it properly vetted all credential in charge of US transportation applicants,” the report said. immigration security came under renewed Roth said the law needed to be fire on Tuesday as a report changed to give the agency access LONDON: The British gov- revealed that American air- to all relevant information, includ- ernment plans to significantly ports had hired dozens of people ing FBI terrorist watchlists. Becky reduce immigration from out- with terror links. Roering, an assistant security side the European Union, Prime The Transportation Security director at the Minneapolis-St Minister David Cameron said Agency is already reeling after a Paul International Airport, told yesterday, teeing up a confron- recent Department of Homeland the hearing that former “badged” tation with business groups Security report found that inves- employees had even gone to Syria who fret their supply of skilled tigators could sneak fake bombs to join the Islamic State group. workers will be cut. and weaponry through security During the same hearing, a Cameron is under pressure on with a 95 percent success rate. TSA official criticised a pro- the issue after promising but failing Homeland Security Inspector gramme to pre-check passen- to cut net migration to the “tens of General John Roth discussed gers either randomly or because thousands” and immigration was before lawmakers his new report they have been given “known” or one of voters’ top concerns ahead that found the TSA failed to “trusted traveler” status and are of last month’s national election, detect at least 73 people with deemed to pose a low risk. which saw him re-elected. links to terrorism who were hired “TSA is handing out ‘PreCheck’ Net migration to Britain was by US airports. status like Halloween candy in an 318,000 in 2014, the highest since By law, the TSA had “limited effort to expedite passengers as 2005, official figures showed last Soldiers from the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery mark the 94th birthday of Britain’s Prince Philip with a 41 oversight” over the hiring process quickly as possible,” Roering said. month. Cameron has already gun Royal Salute in Green Park, in London yesterday. and thus “lacked assurance that AFP set out plans to discourage EU migration as part of his efforts to renegotiate Britain’s ties with Brussels ahead of a membership referendum. But the EU’s free- dom of movement rules mean he Forced marriage: Man gets 16 years has limited room for manoeuvre, Manhunt for escaped while he has a free hand when it comes to non-EU migration. LONDON: A 34-year-old man Marriages without consent, or Iwan Jenkins of the Crown “In the past it has been frankly killers intensifies was jailed for 16 years yesterday their refusal, have led to suicides Prosecution Service, said: “Forced too easy for some businesses to following Britain’s first convic- and so-called honour killings in marriage wrecks lives and destroys bring in workers from overseas NEW YORK: The manhunt for and called on the public to remain tion for the largely hidden prac- Britain, with several cases coming families. We hope that today’s sen- ... We need to do more to change two convicted killers entered a vigilant. tice of forced marriage. to national prominence. tence sends a strong message that that,” Cameron told parliament. fifth day yesterday, as police On Tuesday, the search focused The man, who cannot be named The legislation also makes forced marriage will not be toler- “The home secretary (inte- retraced their steps to homes on the border between Clinton for legal reasons, admitted mak- it a criminal offence to force a ated in today’s Britain.” rior minister) has written to the near the maximum-security and Essex counties after US ing a 25-year-old devout Muslim British national into a marriage A forced marriage is defined as Migration Advisory Committee prison they escaped from in media reported a possible sight- woman marry him against her abroad, as many youngsters are one in which one or both spouses asking them to report back on how northern New York state. ing of the two men on foot around will. The already-married Welsh flown out to weddings in countries do not consent to the marriage to significantly reduce work-related Richard Matt, 49, and David 60km from Dannemora. businessman, who claimed to fol- where they have roots — namely but are coerced into it by physical, migration from outside Europe.” Sweat, 35, whom officials have The pair, who were reported low Islam, systematically raped Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. psychological, financial, sexual or Cameron said proposals included described as dangerous, used to enjoy special privileges in jail, his victim between March and In court, judge Daniel Williams emotional pressure. restricting work visas to only power tools to cut through walls escaped before dawn Saturday in September last year. said the defendant used “constant Forcing someone to marry can highly specialist workers and areas at the Clinton Correctional a conspiracy likened to Hollywood He threatened to go public threats” to try to keep his victim result in a prison sentence of up with a “genuine” skill shortage and Facility in Dannemora in New movies such as The Shawshank with hidden camera footage of quiet. “When you first raped her, to seven years. The man in this limiting the length of time a sector York state on Saturday. Redemption or Escape from Alcatraz. her in the shower moments after she was still a virgin — something case has a longer sentence due to can claim to have a skills shortage. Law enforcement alerted New York Governor Andrew he took her virginity unless she which you would use to ensure other additional crimes. The government is also looking authorities in Canada and Mexico Cuomo has called the pair “truly became his wife. her silence,” he said. The British government’s Forced at introducing a levy on businesses to be on watch in case the pair dangerous” and said he believed Just as his victim was about to “It was your intention to cause Marriage Unit dealt with 1,267 who recruit foreign workers, which fled the country, but US authori- that they probably had inside give evidence in his trial in Wales, her irreparable harm so that no-one cases last year, with 11 percent would be used to boost training of ties have focused their search on help. Police confirm that “several” he pleaded guilty to forced mar- would want her. “She was told that if relating to people aged under 16. British workers, as well as raising wooded terrain closer to the jail. uniformed and civilian employ- riage, four counts of rape, one of she did not submit to your demands The cases related to more than 80 the salary thresholds for skilled State police said officers were ees at the prison had been inter- bigamy and one of voyeurism. her parents would be killed.” different countries, although 38 worker visas to prevent businesses searching homes in Dannemora viewed but that no arrests had Laws banning forced marriage The judge added: “While you percent were linked to Pakistan, using foreign workers to undercut yesterday in order to retrace steps been made. in England and Wales came into have pleaded guilty... there has eight percent to India and seven wages. REUTERS made early in the investigation, AFP effect in June last year. been no genuine show of remorse.” percent to Bangladesh. AFP THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 10 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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EPAL has been in the news for the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that killed thousands of people in April. But the country was battling Nanother crisis before the quake struck – a years-long political crisis arising from a deadlock over the Why it might not matter if preparation of a new constitution, which threatened to hinder the reconstruction after the earthquake. But this crisis is now being resolved with major political parties reaching a consensus on Monday on key issues related to the Iran cheats on N-capability new constitution. The leaders of the ruling Nepali Congress, the main opposition Unified Communist Party of Nepal BY STEPHEN CARTER Proposition 1: Countries will cheat if evaluator to be overly suspicious, (Maoist) and two other major parties in the Constituent they can. Let’s see why. When Country and a relatively strong verification Assembly finally signed an agreement on the number of PPONENTS of the Barack A enters into an arms-control agree- technology may make the evaluator federal states, form of governance and electoral and judicial Obama administration’s ment to ban behavior P, it is promising complacent. systems to be set out in the constitution. It’s a historical deal, Iran negotiations have long not to do what it otherwise would do. When the technology is weak, the which can change the future of Nepal. Oinsisted that the Tehran Put otherwise, in the absence of any evaluator may think, “I don’t like the regime has cheated, is cheating and agreement, A would still be doing what look of all these little clues. Country Nepal parties were locked in an intense dispute over the will cheat. After recent reports that the treaty bans. This in turn suggests A must be cheating.” And so you get clauses of the constitution. Several series of discussions to Iran has been increasing rather than that A has calculated that doing P is intelligence analysts insisting on thin reach a consensus failed in the past, causing a paralysis in reducing its stockpile of enriched ura- in its best interest. evidence that the presence of weap- governance. The agreement on the constitution was due to nium, even supporters of the negotia- The only effect of the treaty, then, is ons of mass destruction in Iraq is a be drafted in 2010, but was repeatedly postponed because of tions now concede that Iran will cheat to make doing P harder (that is, more slam-dunk. political fighting. An estimated 16,000 people were killed in if it can. costly) than before. It is still in A’s When the technology is strong, the I am no fan of the administration’s interest to do P, as long as the chances evaluator may think, “They can’t pos- the decade-long Maoist insurgency, which also brought down announced framework, but I do think of getting caught are low. More pre- sibly be stupid enough to cheat. They the monarchy. What prompted the parties to come together some clarification is in order. In partic- cisely, Country A will cheat as long as know we can see what they’re doing. was the earthquake in April. After the first quake, things ular, as I often point out to my students the perceived gain from doing P out- We must be looking at something else.” changed. Parties seem to have in courses on both contracts and the weighs the discounted cost of being And so you get intelligence analysts realized that they need to work ethics of war, the well-founded belief caught. assuring the White House that clear together to rebuild the country,” that your adver- What does this mean in practice? evidence of the construction of inter- After years sary is likely to Iran perceives the value of doing mediate-range ballistic missile sites in newspaper editor Guna Raj Luitel cheat does not by nuclear weapons research as very Cuba in 1962 isn’t what it appears to of deadlock, said on Tuesday. itself mean you high. The critics of the framework be. According to the agreement, shouldn’t make a think that the discounted cost of being The administration’s position is that Nepal’s rival Nepal will be divided into eight deal. As Thomas caught is low. The discounted cost is a the West will know if Iran cheats. This federal states whose names and Schelling and function of two variables: the likelihood assumes both a strong verification Morton Halperin of being caught multiplied by the cost technology and correct interpreta- parties have boundaries will be decided by The well- put the point in of the penalty that would be imposed. tion of the evidence. But if evidence of reached a deal separate bodies. It isn’t clear founded belief their classic work A high penalty makes little difference cheating is likely to be open to question when the deciding bodies will be “Strategy and if the likelihood of being caught is low, -- or if the process for determining on constitution. formed. The country will become that your Arms Control,” and a high likelihood of being caught compliance is likely to be lengthy and a multiparty democracy with a “It cannot be makes little difference if the size of the involved -- then the cost of cheating prime minister as executive head adversary is assumed that an penalty is small. decreases, and the incentive to cheat agreement that Critics think that the framework increases. of the government and a president likely to cheat leaves some pos- offers the worst of all possible worlds: That’s why the administration as ceremonial head of state. Once the constitution is signed sibility of cheat- The likelihood of being caught is low, continues to insist that sanctions the present Constituent Assembly will be transformed into does not by ing is necessarily and the size of the penalty is small. If will “snap back” should Iran cheat. a full-fledged parliament and a government will be formed. unacceptable or they are right, it is easy to predict that Unfortunately, in the real world, there It is unclear whether it will continue as a coalition or if a itself mean that cheating Iran will cheat. is no way to craft or enforce such a national-unity government will be formed, as the parties have would necessarily Whether the critics are right sanctions regime. you shouldn’t result in strategi- depends in part on Proposition 2: But that hard truth doesn’t mean recently discussed. cally important Sometimes, a stronger verification that it would be wrong to reach an By agreeing to end the stalemate, the leading parties have make a deal. gains.” technology actually decreases the like- agreement. Again, one would have to put the interest of the country above other considerations. Put otherwise, lihood that cheater will be caught. calculate the West’s gains from Iran’s The country needs a strong government in Kathmandu to the question isn’t This controversial hypothesis, sup- compliance and subtract the costs of carry out the reconstruction work after the earthquake. At whether your ported by some but not all of the lit- the likely cheating. That’s the real bat- adversary will erature, proceeds from an estimate of tle between the administration and the same time, it is not a hundred percent consensus deal. cheat. The question is whether the cost human behavior. Evidence of cheat- its critics. They’re not fighting over Not all political parties are on board. Twenty-eight smaller of your opponent’s cheating will out- ing is not an absolute. Rarely will negotiation versus war. They’re fight- political parties, with their bases mainly in the southern weigh your gains from the treaty. To one discover a decrypted transmis- ing over the arithmetic. plains, met in Kathmandu, on Tuesday to protest the understand the point, let’s examine two sion that reads, “OK, time to start — Stephen Carter is a Bloomberg agreement. The leading parties have a duty to bring these propositions from the literature -- one cheating.” Fragmentary evidence View columnist and a law professor small parties on board through talks and concessions• that accords with common sense, and must be evaluated. A relatively weak at Yale. one that does not but is probably true. verification technology may cause the BLOOMBERG The other side Quote of Water stress the day OR a society whose livelihood world community that we are moving For too long now, our approach to efficient utilisation of farm water. The structure is largely built towards a serious crisis brought on water issues has been dominated by policy software that governs utilisation on massive endowments by growing water scarcities primarily brick-and-mortar ideas of infrastruc- and allocation of water needs to be Fof water, it is strange that because of the way we manage our ture. We have one of the world’s larg- reformed, public utilities need to be Pakistan would be considered one of water resources. Almost 95pc of our est water bureaucracies, and the only made more autonomous and passed The goal is to keep the most water-stressed countries in annual supply of surface water is used ideas that ever emanate from it relate into the hands of professional manage- the world. Yet that is a sad reality, and in agriculture, where underpriced canal to more dams and more hydropower ment, and pricing reforms are essen- Greece in the the problem is growing with alarming water and an untaxed agriculture systems. Nobody denies that Pakistan tial. The study gives the example of speed. A new study released by sector lead to gross overuse of water. needs more water storage capacity, Burkina Faso, where pricing reforms eurozone. I always the IMF on challenges in managing Even though Pakistan is fourth in the but this alone will not help avert the ensured that “high-volume users sub- access uses Pakistan as a case list of the top 10 countries in terms crisis situation we are descending sidised low-volume users”. There is approach these study “where, despite an abundance of total water withdrawals per year, into. What is also needed urgently are no shortage of examples from around things with the of water a few decades ago, lagging it ranks very high in terms of water reforms that encourage the judicious the world of successful water-sector policies have raised the prospect of withdrawals per capita, or per unit use of water through raising efficien- reforms that didn’t necessarily involve attitude, if there is a water scarcity that could threaten all of GDP. This shows the enormous cies in the canal system, reforming the large infrastructure. Time is running out will there is a way. aspects of the economy”. This is not inefficiencies that our water sector is rules that govern allocations and price for us to start learning from them. Angela Merkel the first, nor the last, warning from the riddled with. reforms that encourage investment in DAWN German Chancellor THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 ARAB VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Our defensive wars and offensives

their Fifth Columns, some of which oper- ated openly while others worked secretly. Throughout the decades, our nations have been dormant about a project designed to threaten our survival. Because Iran was conducting a clearly defined project, we were surprised that it handed Afghanistan over to America, and even more surprised when it deliv- ered Iraq to America and taking it back! We blame ourselves for the abandon- ment of Iraq while looking towards Beirut whose Arab identity has been taken away. Our countries continued to play “the silence of the graves” game, so Iran, throughout the years after the American occupier was out, was messing around in Iraq by occupying the land, humiliating its people, stealing their identity and con- ducting its criminal sectarian cleansing. We barely woke up from the shock of BY DR IBRAHIM AL SHEIKH the Iranian occupation of Iraq, to be sur- prised by the Syrian disaster that stopped ho likes wars? Who among our breath. us is attracted to scenes Iran had openly established its strong of death and destruction? presence in the Syrian scene with soldiers WWho enjoys the smell of and weapons, while our countries have blood? And who is delighted with scenes been largely absent from the scene, suf- of people being displaced? ficing themselves to observe and provide The Gulf Arab States were never humanitarian aid! aggressors in any war in spite of the huge Also in that period, Iran thought that amounts spent on acquiring arms! the time for the fall of Bahrain has come! Our combined arsenal of weapons, They believed in themselves and plot- aircrafts and advanced missiles that ted day and night to achieve that goal, but militarily surpass many countries, were they forget that God’s power is stronger. never employed to destroy or kill, or not Back to negligence, our countries even used in any offensive war to this finally woke up after the collapse of Yemeni fighters of the southern separatist movement, loyal to exiled President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, keep watch during their battle day. When I say aggressive, I mean that our fourth capital Sana’a, where people against Shia Houthi rebels, in the port city of Aden. they never transgressed against anyone. became fed up. The Decisive Storm operation is not The uprising of the Gulf, Arab and an offensive war against the Houthis in Muslim alliance came lately to stop a reaction to our defeats here or there. A project that reconciles with the only receive from him the Houthis’ dag- Yemen. It is against those who are trying an invasion that targeted not only its Wars are not for killing and destruc- faithful ones at home, who are ready to ger stab. It is enough for us from one Ali to destabilise Yemen. capitals, but also its Omar and Aisha, tion, but to restore the borders and our be in the forefront of the battle, not in Abdullah Saleh, as there are many like The Iranian Revolution of 1979, since and even Shia Arabs, either directly or identity. Silence over clandestine activi- the back rows! him who wish to stab us from the back. it started, touts exporting violence, mur- through involving them in wars of hatred ties is no longer acceptable. That vision and goal will not reap the It is time for us to move forward with der and terrorism in order to achieve the and violence, in countries where all sects The sword reached our neck, making it fruits unless our countries remove the power and strategic foresight, not with Persian expansion in our region. coexisted for hundreds of years. incumbent to revive a real political, eco- haze from their eyes to know who is a the protection and assurance of the US Iran conducted offensive wars mili- Today, we say to the alliance, it is time nomic military and media project that is friend and who is an enemy. as our capitals are fallen because of its tarily, politically and media wise, down to start the offensive wars, we have had linked to a major Islamic system in order We have supported and stood by the negligence and conspiracy. to targeting the region’s identity, through enough defensive ones that only come as to protect it and preserve its borders. ousted Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen to (The writer is columnist and researcher) Arab martyrs of Islamic State Iran’s participation in

for death, as they call it “martyrdom. Mounira Al Hudab reported for Al Hayat They hoped to die by entering into direct on February 16: new Sykes-Picot project clashes with Kurdish security forces. The two young men participated in two After increasing the frequency of separate suicide missions in succession, f we agree that Iran has the right to international coalition strikes on Ayn targeting military bases in Iraq for IS. implement its scheme in the Arab world Al Arab, the number of Saudis joining The two friends deceived their parents via its internal Shia arms that are scat- the organisation increased in the region, by telling them that they were going on Itered here and there in our countries, in turn IS called this city “Paradise a Da’wa trip. One of them sold his own would the majority accept this idea? Marketplace.” car to cover his and his friend’s travel Of course no. It will be rejected categorically The same sources added that Arabs expenses to join IS. and every sensible person will be ready to con- flock to sites that are exposed to intense They moved between Syria and Iraq, front it by all means as we see in Yemen now. bombing, to fulfil their wish for death! refusing to be separate from each other This is obvious that this process does not Al Hayat in another report published even in the battlefield. Faisal, one of the become a recipe for sectarian wars raging few months ago said that the Gulf friends, was known for being skilled in within the Arab countries that have been Arabs are in charge of leadership and using anti-aircraft missiles, so he was infiltrated by Iran and its Shia arms within Jurisprudence matters, while Iraqis take entrusted with this mission. the Arab world that have become just like a care of security issues. Thus, Faisal took part in a “spree Trojan horse or fuel the destructive Iranian Mohammed Saud told Al Hayat that operation,” followed by a suicide bomb- project in the region. “the stories of young Arabs allied with ing mission near the city of Baiji in the Don’t we understand that Iran uses its sec- BY KHALIL ALI HAYDAR terrorist organisations in Iraq and Syria Salahuddin province of Iraq. Days after tarian arms in our countries in order to desta- start with temptations, but they usu- his death, his friend Suleiman blew bilise them and break them apart through its ally end up with either being arrested or himself up inside a booby-trapped vehi- BY DR FAISAL AL QASSEM internal agents? he setback for the Islamic State killed, and sometimes they return to their cle, which was one of two consecutive What else does Iran want from its internal (IS) was revealed after their homelands with lots of regret. Many of operations. arms in our countries except division, disman- failure to control the city of those who went to IS did not ask for their Another terrorist named Abu Omar tling and depletion? Doesn’t the Iranian scheme connect well in this case with the TAyn Al Arab or Kobane near the parents’ permission before travelling.” blew himself up inside a truck that carried Western and Israeli projects that are based on more division and fragmentation, Turkish-Syrian border recently. A few weeks ago, a Saudi court sen- more than seven tonnes of high explosives turning our countries into scenes of sectarian civil wars for many decades to come? Al Hayat newspaper reported on tenced a person to six years in jail. He against a military base in north Tikrit. The Western and Israeli evil plans to dismantle the Arab region by engaging its February 12, 2015: “There is a huge loss of was convicted for joining Al Nusra front Mohammed Al Marri, a military leader people in ethnic, ideological and sectarian conflicts should not blind us from what Arab fighters, who formed a strange phe- in Syria, then he pledged allegiance to IS of IS was killed in an air strike by the Iran is doing in the region for years. nomenon for IS in its attempt to control after leaving Al Nusra. He moved from international coalition in Ayn Al Arab, as This is not less dangerous than the Western and Zionist projects. No wonder the Kurdish city, as they heavily flocked one terrorist organisation to another he fought against “Assahawat” forces that that some well-informed sources say about Iran’s two projects in the region, namely in search of death.” upon his arrival until he finally settled were organised by tribal leaders in west- the “Zionist project,” and the “Safavid project”. These projects are in relation to Syrian sources confirmed that Arab with IS. ern Iraq. Recently, newspapers reported the Safavids Iranian Empire of the sixteenth century that threatened both the fighters of the terrorist organisation took The stories of terrorists are not only that Arab fighters in IS are taking their Ottomans and the Mughals at the time. hold of the most dangerous sites in Ayn Al sad but scary at the same time. There was way to Libya, in particular to Darnah and We know the Franco-British agreement “Sykes-Picot” which divided the Arabs Arab district where strikes are frequently a report about two young men who died Sirte, after the decline of its influence in into twenty-two entities in the second decade of the last century. However, what intensifying. after being close friends since childhood. Iraq and Syria. is more serious now, as evident from the Iranian strategy, that Iran is working Terrorists in Iraq and Syria are looking The story has a very sad ending as (The writer is columnist and researcher) on dividing the divided and fragmenting the fragmented, just as the West and the Zionists are still doing. What do we call the Iranian interference in Yemen by supporting a group against another calling for separation from the home country under the pretext that those belonging to that sect or group are persecuted and should get their rights? Doesn’t everyone know the extent of the Iranian intervention in favour of the Houthi rebels in Yemen and trying to convert others to their sect by uprooting them from their countries and manipulating them to serve the Iranian cross- regional interests? Doesn’t Iran encourage various separatists in Yemen depending on the orienta- tion of the Yemeni leadership? We have to talk about Bahrain where Iran has encouraged its sectarian followers to revolt under the pretext that the kingdom was historically part of Iran. There is no need to talk about Iran’s provocative policies in the rest of the Gulf States on the basis of clear motives, to create divisions. In Syria, the picture has become even clearer and gloomier in terms of the extent of Iranian meddling by involving different Syrian factions in sectarian wars and threatening the unity of the country. Everybody is well aware that Iran’s support to the ruling regime in Syria has ideological and sectarian backgrounds, even if it led to the marginalisation of the vast majority of Syrians. Some believe that Iran does not mind in dividing Syria and politically and ideo- logically support its allies to establish a mini-state guaranteeing it a pathway to Lebanon, where it backs another mini-state within a state, the Hezbollah. There is no need to mention that even remote countries of northern Africa have not been safe from Iranian interference, trying to convert their people to the Shia sect as a way to break up the Arab countries. Let us remember here how Morocco has expelled the Iranian ambassador for this reason. Is Iran less dangerous than the West and Israel in breaking up the Arab region into mini-states? Smoke rises from a bomb clearing conducted by fighters at Lake Tharthar, west of Samarra in Iraq. (Dr Faisal Al Qassem is columnist and presenter at Al Jazeera TV channel) THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA WHO team tells Philippine Independence Day celebrations South Korea to reopen schools MERS: Over 2,400 schools shut

SEOUL: A joint South Korean- Some countries around the World Health Organisation region have issued advisories mission studying an outbreak against travel to South Korea or of Middle East Respiratory stepped up screening of inbound Syndrome (MERS) recom- passengers, dealing a setback to mended yesterday that schools a tourism sector that had been a be reopened, as they were bright spot for the flagging South unlikely to spread the disease, Korean economy. just as school boards recom- The main Incheon airport said mended more be shut. the number of passenger arriv- South Korea’s Health Ministry als was down sharply on Monday said two more people had died and Tuesday. Taiwan’s two biggest from MERS and announced 13 airlines are temporarily cutting new cases, lifting the total number flights to South Korea by nearly of patients to 108 and prompting half. Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific President Park Geun-hye to post- Airways Ltd said it had seen a pone a visit to the United States. drop in bookings to South Korea. Park had been due to leave for WHO has not recommended the United States, her country’s any curbs on travel or trade. closest ally, on Sunday. Her office MERS has also taken its toll Filipino tailors sew and assemble parts of the Philippine flag in preparation for the Philippine 117th Independence Day, inside a flag making store in said the coming week would be on high street shopping, with Manila yesterday. Filipinos will celebrate Independence Day tomorrow in remembrance of the country’s declaration of freedom from Spanish rule in 1898. a “watershed” for the country’s department store sales falling 25 response to the disease. percent in the first week of June The outbreak, the largest out- compared with an average of the side Saudi Arabia, has fuelled first two weeks of May, govern- public anxiety and hit spending, ment data showed. Cinema ticket with thousands in quarantine and sales and amusement park entries the number of schools closing ris- were down by more than half. Suu Kyi arrives in China for first visit ing to 2,474, including 22 universi- Deputy Prime Minister Choi ties. Many people on the streets Kyung-hwan advised against BEIJING: Myanmar opposi- elections slated for November expected to meet President Xi because of her outspoken oppo- are wearing face masks, public unnecessary fear and urged the tion leader Aung San Suu Kyi at which her National League Jinping and premier Li Keqiang, sition to military rule. She was transport is being disinfected and public to get on with their daily arrived in China yesterday for Democracy party (NLD) are but no detailed itinerary has yet awarded the Nobel Peace Prize attendance at movie theatres and lives and continue to spend. for a debut visit that will cast expected to make significant been released by the Chinese in 1991. baseball games has tumbled. The latest two deaths, both can- an intriguing light on Beijing’s gains, if the vote is free and fair. authorities. But her global image as an But the joint mission, which cer patients, bring the number of attitude towards the democracy Nicholas Farrelly, a Myanmar An official at the airport from upholder of human rights has began its work on Tuesday, urged fatalities to nine. All of those who champion and Nobel laureate as specialist at the Australian Myanmar’s embassy in China, lost some of its lustre as she has the government to consider reo- died had been suffering serious ail- she bids to take power. National University, said the however, said she would meet Xi come under criticism for her pening schools. “Schools have not ments before testing positive for Suu Kyi emerged from Beijing’s former political prisoner will not today and would be staying at the reluctance to speak out on the been linked to transmission of (the MERS, the Health Ministry said. main international airport exit allow China’s historical support Diaoyutai State Guest House. plight of Myanmar’s unwanted virus) in the Republic of Korea or South Korea’s infections have all wearing a white top and pink for a junta that imprisoned her The delegation’s arrival comes Rohingya Muslims, who are at elsewhere,” the mission said. been traced to a man who devel- sash and surrounded by police to cloud her judgement. as China’s once near monopolis- the centre of a migrant crisis The recommendation came oped MERS after returning from and security, before getting into “Aung San Suu Kyi is getting tic relationship with Myanmar engulfing the region. as the school boards of Seoul a trip to the Middle East in early a black sedan, witnesses said. on with the business of trying faces competition from a raft of While in Beijing, she will likely and surrounding Gyeonggi prov- May and who came into contact Beijing was a key backer of to win an election. She will be new suitors. Myanmar President face calls to raise the case of jailed ince announced the extension of with others before being diagnosed. Myanmar’s military junta while utterly pragmatic about what Thein Sein has embraced the fellow Nobel laureate Chinese existing school closures through All subsequent infections, it was under Western sanctions is at stake and cannot afford to international community follow- writer Liu Xiaobo, sentenced Friday and recommended more including the 13 announced yes- — most of which have been lifted indulge undue sentiment,” he said. ing the lifting of most sanctions to 11 years in prison in 2009 for to shut. terday, have been linked to health since 2011 — a much needed inter- “She knows that China will play a and reached out to the United circulating a petition calling for First identified in humans in facilities, the ministry said. national ally for a brutal regime mighty role in Myanmar’s future.” States, which is hankering after democratic reforms. 2012, MERS is caused by a coro- The number of people who may that crushed dissent and kept Suu Suu Kyi is visiting Myanmar’s friends in Southeast Asia as part Relations between Beijing and navirus from the same family as have been in contact with MERS Kyi under house arrest for more giant northern neighbour along- of its Asia “pivot”. Myanmar have cooled in recent the one that triggered China’s patients and were now in quaran- than 15 years. side a delegation of NLD mem- Suu Kyi became one of the months as an ethnic insurgency in deadly 2003 outbreak of Severe tine rose to 3,439, while quaran- Now the 69-year-old is visit- bers following an invitation from world’s most famous political the Kokang region of Myanmar has Acute Respiratory Syndrome. tine has been lifted for 641 people, ing China both as a free woman China’s Communist Party. prisoners during her house arrest spilled over its border with China. There is no cure or vaccine. the ministry said. REUTERS and a politician ahead of crunch The NLD has said she is for much of the 1990s and 2000s AFP

Heavy rainfall kills 10 in China province Woman gets 12 China military conducts years for killing British husband drills near Taiwan

DENPASAR: An Indonesian BEIJING: Chinese war- of all the claimants. The joint woman who ordered the con- ships and aircraft yester- drills tested and perfected bat- tract killing of her British hus- day passed through the Bashi tle strategies and “achieved their band was sentenced yesterday Channel between Taiwan and expected aims”, navy spokesman to 12 years in prison. the Philippines to hold rou- Liang Yang said in a ministry Sixty-year-old Robert Ellis tine planned exercises in statement. was found in a ditch with his the Western Pacific, China’s The exercises, in the waters throat slashed in late October Defence Ministry said. east of the Bashi Channel, were on the Indonesian resort island China’s increasingly assertive routine annual drills, not aimed of Bali. Julaikah Noor Ellis, 45, moves to press sovereignty claims at any specific country or region had admitted paying three men to in the East and South China and accorded with international murder her husband, who was also Sea have rattled the region and law and practices, Liang said. an Australian passport-holder. aroused concern in Washington, “During the drills there was no “The defendant has been although the country says it has impact upon freedom of naviga- proven legally and convincingly no hostile intent. tion or fly-through in the relevant guilty of deliberately commit- China has overlapping claims seas or air,” he added. Such drills ting ... premeditated murder,” with the Philippines, Vietnam, involving ships and aircraft far Rescuers push a raft carrying residents as they are evacuated from a flooded building amid heavy rainfall in Judge Anak Agung Ketut Anom Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei in out at sea are common practice Yuqing county, Guizhou province in China, yesterday. Severe downpour has plagued eight provinces and one Wirakanta said at Denpasar dis- the South China Sea. Yesterday’s in other countries and normal for municipality in south China since Sunday, leaving 10 deaths and four others missing. trict court in the island’s capital. drills could cause alarm because China’s military. “Going forward, He said he took Noor’s previously of their location. similar drills and exercises will clean record and her remorse China claims self-ruled and keep taking place,” Liang said. into account when determining democratic Taiwan as its own An official of the Philippine the sentence. and has never renounced the coast guard said it had noticed Relations between the two use of force to gain control, nothing unusual in the waters to Burundi confirms new dates for polls soured over their years of mar- while China and the Philippines the north of the country, where riage, with Noor angry that her have one of the most bitter dis- the Bashi Channel is located. BUJUMBURA: Burundi will the government can take place, president of organising the elec- husband had failed to provide for putes over the South China Sea AFP go ahead with parliamentary Nkurunziza’s spokesman repeated tions without first having nego- her financially, the court heard. elections on June 29 and a presi- Tuesday that his divisive candi- tiated with his opponents — as She decided to have her hus- dential poll on July 15, the pres- dacy was “non-negotiable”. called for by regional powers after band murdered, offering three idency announced yesterday, He also said there will be no a summit on the crisis last month men the equivalent of $11,300 to confirming a delay in the votes further delays to the election cal- in Tanzania. carry out the crime. caused by weeks of civil unrest. endar. Burundi’s opposition, which “Not only do we reject this time- Noor invited the men to watch Manila frees 9 Chinese fishermen Opposition leaders, however, has said that fair polls are not pos- table but we will also reject the her villa and prepare for the mur- said it was impossible to hold fair sible because independent media result. I can only hope the interna- der and gave them details of her MANILA: The Philippines has freed nine Chinese fishermen con- polls while “people are murdered”. has been shut down and many tional community will not endorse husband’s movements. The three victed of poaching endangered sea turtles after they completed The troubled central African opponents have fled the country, the outcome,” he said. men, two of whom were also sen- one-year jail terms, officials said yesterday. The nine, arrested in nation has been in crisis over accused the president of trying to Opposition leader and ex-rebel tenced to 12 years in jail yesterday, disputed waters in May last year, were jailed after they failed to pay President Pierre Nkurunziza’s force a vote regardless of the crisis. Agathon Rwasa questioned how murdered Ellis at his home and fines of $100,000 each for poaching and an additional $2,662 each controversial bid to stand for a “President Nkurunziza is the country could hold “elections dumped the body next to a paddy for catching an endangered species. third consecutive five-year term, mocking the Burundian people. when people are murdered”, when field. The third killer will be sen- “They were treated well. They had what other prisoners were eating. a move branded by opponents as It’s a unilateral move,” said Vital a pro-government militia “are tenced today. Noor is still consider- Chinese businessmen were also allowed to bring them food like noodles,” unconstitutional and a violation Nshimirimana, who leads a coa- still armed” and with the inde- ing whether to appeal aginst the Raul Mapa, a jail officer in Puerto Princesa where the prisoners had of a 2006 peace deal that ended lition of activist groups that are pendent media shut down. “It’s sentence, her lawyer said. been jailed, said. A local court issued a release order late on Monday 13 years of civil war. campaigning against the third clear the government is defying While foreigners often fall foul on the request of the fishermen’s lawyer. While the elections have been mandate. the world, defying the heads of of Indonesia’s tough anti-drugs Police said they found hundreds of sea turtles, protected under delayed in line with calls from Opposition leader Charles state of the region,” said Rwasa, laws, which include the death Philippine law, on the group’s 15-tonne boat at Half Moon shoal, located regional powers so that talks Nditije said the elections would who also stopped short of calling penalty, grisly murders are rare. on the eastern edge of the Spratly island chain claimed by both the between the opposition and be a “masquerade”, accusing the for a boycott. AFP AFP Philippines and China. AFP THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Second ‘teen convict’ Protest against intelligence accord executed in Pakistan UN, rights groups dismayed as Aftab is hanged

LAHORE: Pakistan yester- named as he was not authorised whether that will make any dif- day executed a man who was 15 to speak to the media on the issue. ference,” he wrote. “I have not when he was sentenced to death “Before the hanging, he was cry- given up hope, though the night for murder and whose lawyers ing and saying he was innocent.” is very dark ... It would perhaps say was tortured into confess- The date of birth on Bahadur’s have been better not to have to ing, in a case that has prompted birth certificate and national think of what the police did to try concern among rights groups identity card, June 30, 1977, is not to get me to confess falsely to and the United Nations. disputed by Pakistani police or the this crime. Aftab Bahadur was sentenced courts. “Pakistan proceeded with Last Tuesday, another man to death for killing three people Bahadur’s execution despite his whose lawyers say was a child in 1992 and human rights group having been sentenced to death when charged with murder and Reprieve said two witnesses when he was a child - in viola- only confessed after being tor- who implicated Bahadur had tion of both international and tured was handed a reprieve just since recanted, saying they were Pakistani law,” Reprieve said. hours before he was due to be exe- tortured. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif cuted, the fourth time his death At the time, the death penalty lifted the moratorium on the penalty has been stayed. could be passed on a 15 year old, death penalty last year, a day Shafqat Hussain’s lawyers but the minimum age was raised after Pakistani Taliban gunmen say he was 14 in 2002 when he to 18 in 2000. attacked a school and killed 134 was burnt with cigarettes and Testimony obtained by tor- pupils and 19 adults. had his fingernails removed until ture is also inadmissible. “Aftab In an essay written from jail he confessed to killing a child. Bahadur was hanged at District and published a day before his Authorities say he was 23 when Jail Lahore yesterday at 4.30 am,” hanging, Bahadur, a Christian, he was sentenced. The Supreme a jail official in Pakistan’s eastern repeated his assertion that he Court is due to hear Hussain’s city of Lahore said, declining to be was innocent. “But I do not know appeal yesterday. REUTERS

Afghans shout slogans during a protest against Pakistan-Afghanistan intelligence agencies agreement, in Herat, Afghanistan, yesterday. The intelligence agencies of Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to cooperate in US Defence their fight against Islamist militants, apparently ending years of hostile relations between the two organisations. employee Five aviation officials killed in Kabul on protocol duty Groundwater depletion a threat KABUL: A US Department of ISLAMABAD: Despite zone; Abdul Khalid in Quetta for Defense civilian employee has Pakistani government’s the Balochistan zone; Kamran been killed in Afghanistan in a repeated claim to end the VIP Malik in Lahore for the north- to Pakistan’s food security rocket attack on the sprawling culture, the Civil Aviation ern region; Naeem Ahmed in Bagram military base, a spokes- Authority (CAA) has detailed Islamabad for the Islamabad and PAKPATTAN : Until recently, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa prov- district almost every year to get man for the US military said five of its officials on the exclu- northern zone, and Mohammad Ghulam Mustafa made a living ince, groundwater supplies enough water for irrigation. The yesterday. sive protocol duty of Defence Jehangir Khan in Peshawar for growing sugarcane, rice, barley are depleting at 16 to 55 cen- deeper his well gets, the harder The US air base, north of the Minister Khawaja Asif. the KP zone. and wheat on his 10-acre farm timetres (6 to 21 inches) a his generator has to work to capital, Kabul, is often targeted “A year ago, the CAA came The official said the special pro- in Punjab province. year, according to a study car- pump out the water - and that by insurgents firing rockets from under the direct control of the tocol facility was provided to the But these days he is struggling. ried out by the International uses more diesel fuel. outside its perimeter but casual- Cabinet Division after being sepa- defence minister despite the fact The water available in wells in Waterlogging and Salinity The farmer’s monthly fuel bill ties are rare. rated from the defence ministry. he already had protocol officers the area is dwindling, and the Research Institute (IWASRI), for his pump has increased from The civilian, Krissie K Davis, The posting of the five officials on from his own ministry. cost of pumping it to his crops part of the Pakistani government’s 5,000 rupees ($49) to 7,000 rupees 54, from Alabama, was killed on the protocol duty with the defence He said the detailing of senior is rising. Like many other farm- Water and Power Development ($68) in just the last year. last Monday. minister is against the law as no officials on the exclusive protocol ers in the area, Mustafa, 51, Authority. “Pakistan lacks a water “The injuries were sustained other minister even the minister duty with the minister had raised now plans to cultivate only half Efforts by farmers to find more recharge system in the area, as we when a rocket hit her vehicle,” for the cabinet division, Sheikh eyebrows. The basic work of the his land and leave the rest for water are only exacerbating the cannot get water from the Sutlej the spokesman said. Aftab, has this facility,” a senior CAA is to regulate airlines and his livestock. problem. Muhammad Saeed, and Beas rivers under the Indus Davis worked for the Defense official of the CAA said on the protect the rights of the passen- “The groundwater level in director at IWASRI, said that Water Treaty with India,” Saeed Logistics Agency which pro- condition of anonymity. gers, he added. our area has gone down around 42 percent of the land in Punjab said. That water-sharing treaty, vides supplies and services to the According to a notification “The protocol officers receive 15 to 20 feet in the last five to is irrigated using wells and the signed in 1960, divides the Indus military. issued on June 5, 2015, Pervaiz and see off the minister at air- six years,” he said. “And unfor- excessive pumping of groundwa- River system equally between Another rocket struck the base George, senior joint director pub- ports besides handling his luggage tunately it continues to decline ter is quickly lowering the water India and Pakistan, giving each in an attack early yesterday, the lic relations, was appointed as the in coordination with the airport each year.” table. country exclusive use of three of spokesman added. protocol officer for the defence staff and airline officials,” he said. Across Punjab province and Mustafa, for instance, said he the river’s tributaries. Most are involved in training minister in Karachi for the Sindh INTERNEWS two districts of neighboring must deepen his well in Pakpattan REUTERS Afghan troops, but a small force remains engaged in combat oper- ations against the Taliban and other militants. Meanwhile, eight soldiers and 46 militants have been killed in separate military operations Several voters miss polling in Gilgit-Baltistan across the country, the Afghan Ministry of Defense announced ISLAMABAD: The process For these people, going back Karachi to seek higher education. The government should give Azad Jammu and Kashmir, yesterday. to elect members of the Gilgit- to their native towns to vote Going back to vote means spend- us the right of postal ballot, set which has had its own legisla- A statement issued by the Baltistan (GB) Legislative means staying away from work ing at least Rs30, 000 per person up polling stations in the cities in tive assembly since 1970, on the Ministry of Defense states that Assembly has been completed. and education at least for a week and being absent from work for at which we are based, or it should other hand, has several electoral the eight soldiers have been A total number of 6, 18,364 vot- and spending thousands of rupees least a week,” he added, pointing create three separate constitu- seats in Pakistani cities such as killed in rebel fire and landmine ers (3, 29,475 male and 2, 88,879 besides a hectic journey - the out that the difficult journey to encies in Karachi, Lahore and Karachi, Rawalpindi and Lahore, explosions in past 24 hours. The female) were to elect their rep- journey to GB, known as ‘the roof the area has made a trip to his Islamabad/Rawalpindi,” he said. where Kashmiri refugees from statement adds that 46 militants resentatives in 24 constituen- of the world’, is no easy task. hometown tough - and just to cast A region historically attached the India-held part cast their were killed and 36 wounded dur- cies, with 272 candidates in the “I am one of those almost a vote, almost impossible. to Kashmir, GB gained limited votes. ing separate military operations contest. 200,000 people who could not vote “Logistical issues always autonomy to legislate in 2009. But no such facility has been in 15 provinces in past 24 hours, But thousands of people missed because we are settled elsewhere,” deprive us from voting. The But representation of the area provided to the people of GB. according to the Afghan. this opportunity because they said Azam Baig, a development authorities have not provided the remains undermined given that “This is a real issue in the Landmines were also defused were unable to reach their far- activist from Hunza who is based facility for postal ballots, which many of the locals are unable to election process of GB,” says and weapons and ammunition flung constituencies from the in Islamabad. “This was the sixth makes elections in GB useless for vote and have no representatives Mudassar Rizvi of the Free and seized by the security forces main cities in Pakistan where election that I have missed since us and we are unable to play a role in the National Assembly and Fair Election Network (Fafen). REUTERS they are based. 1990 when I left my village for in the development of our area. Senate. INTERNEWS

Insecure Afghan workers Pakistani tax officials may get powers to search premises

ISLAMABAD: In the Finance specifically delegated by the com- Accountants Act, 1966 (XIV of Bill 2015-16, the government missioner, also exercise the pow- 1966); or any other person as of Pakistan has proposed to ers vested in a Court under the directed by the FBR. extend powers of tax officials Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Act The panel will conduct an audit, for searching business premises V of 1908) in respect of certain including forensic of the income of a taxpayer selected for audit. specified matters. tax affairs of any person or classes A new clause (1A) is proposed Through the same bill, the gov- of persons and the scope of such to be included in the Income ernment has proposed the con- audit shall be as determined by Tax Ordinance 2001 which stitution of a special audit panel. the FBR or the Commissioner on seeks to empower a special audit There will be two or more mem- case-to-case basis. panel appointed under sub- bers of the audit panel which will The special audit panel will be section (11) of Section 177, for be across all federal taxes income headed by a chairman who shall any tax year. tax, sales tax, customs and federal be an officer of Inland Revenue. However, the audit panel will excise duty. If any member of the panel, have to take prior approval of The proposed audit panel other than the chairman, is the commissioner of income tax will comprise an officer or offic- absent from conducting an audit, concerned to enter the business ers of Inland Revenue; a firm of the proceedings may continue, premises of a taxpayer, to obtain Chartered Accountants as defined and the audit conducted by the Men work at a vegetable oil factory in Sarhrood district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. Insecurity in the any information, production of under the Chartered Accountants special audit panel shall not be war-torn country has increased as foreign troops handed over responsibility for security to the local forces. any record, on which the required Ordinance, 1961 (X of 1961); a invalid or be called in question This has led to an increase in civilian casualties and many are concerned that spring will bring a new military information is stored and examine firm of Cost and Management merely on the ground of such an it within such premises. Accountants as defined under absence. campaign against the government. The audit panel may, if the Cost and Management INTERNEWS THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Naidu meets Modi in Delhi No trace of missing Andhra CM seeks probe into phone tapping case; more powers for governor Coast Guard plane

NEW DELHI: Andhra and the director general of the Telangana legislative council for a probe into the phone-tap- CHENNAI: With no signs of went missing near Karaikal in Pradesh Chief Minister N. police of Andhra Pradesh also elections. ping and steps for implementa- wreckage of the Indian Coast Puducherry on Monday night. Chandrababu Naidu yesterday met union home secretary and Meanwhile, governor of the tion of the Reorganisation Act. Guard’s aircraft that went The crew comprised Deputy met Prime Minister Narendra submitted to0 him reports over two states ESL Narasimhan The TDP has accused the missing on Monday night and Commandant Vidyasagar, pilot- Modi to demand a probe into phone-tapping and the reorgani- yesterday met President Pranab Telangana Rashtra Samithi no signals from the plane or ing the aircraft, his co-pilot and alleged tapping of his phone by sation act. Mukherjee and Home Minister (TRS) government of violat- from the crew’s cellphones, the deputy commandant MK Soni, the Telangana government. An audio tape of Naidu’s Rajnath Singh. ing the Constitution by tapping search for the aircraft has been and navigator/observer Subash During an hour-long meeting, alleged telephonic conversa- Narasimhan is understood phones of Naidu, ministers and intensified, the Coast Guard Suresh. The missing aircraft was Naidu also demanded law and tion with Telangana’s nomi- to have a given a report to the officials. said. deployed for surveillance along order powers for the governor nated MLA Elvis Stephenson in Centre on the latest situation in An audio tape of Naidu’s In a statement issued here yes- the Tamil Nadu coast and Palk in common capital Hyderabad cash-for-vote scam was aired the two states in the wake of the alleged telephonic conversation terday, the Coast Guard said the Bay. It took off from Chennai air- to ensure effective implemen- on some television channels on recent developments. with Telangana’s nominated search operation for the Dornier port on Monday at around 6.00 tation of thed Andhra Pradesh Sunday. The governor, who rushed to MLA Elvis Stephenson was aired aircraft is being augmented with p.m. for a surveillance sortie. But Reorganisation Act. This triggered speculations the national capital on Tuesday, on some television channels on two more naval ships with sonar it did not return. Naidu, whose Telugu Desam that Anti-Corruption Bureau declined to comment on the Sunday. to facilitate sub-surface search An official statement issued Party (TDP) is a partner in (ACB) may include Naidu as an cash-for-vote scam or the alleged TDP’s deputy leader in the deployed in the area. on tuesday said the last contact BJP-led NDA government at the accused in the case, in which phone-tapping. Telangana assembly A Revanth The coastal security agency with the aircraft was made at 9.00 Centre, sought a thorough probe, his party’s deputy leader in the His visit assumes signifi- Reddy was arrested on May said 15 highly-specialised Coast p.m. on Monday. The last known party sources said. Telangana assembly A. Revanth cance in view of the demand by 31 while offering Rs.50 lakh to Guard/Naval ships and several location of the aircraft, as per Naidu, the TDP chief, also met Reddy has already been caught the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Stephenson to lure him to vote other patrol boats of coastal secu- Trichy radar, was off Karaikal Home Minister Rajnath Singh, red-handed. government of Andhra Pradesh for the TDP-BJP candidate in rity group were involved in the in Puducherry, where it was Urban Development Minister The TDP government has that the governor be given pow- the legislative council elections. search operation. tracked till 9.23 p.m., 95 nautical M. Venkaiah Naidu, Finance alleged that the Telangana ers to maintain law and order in TRS leaders alleged that Naidu Air sorties have been carried miles south of Chennai. A Coast Minister Arun Jaitely and BJP government tapped phones common capital Hyderabad as is the mastermind of the scam out for 40 hours to locate the Guard official told IANS on tues- president Amit Shah. of Naidu, his cabinet envisaged in the Andhra Pradesh and demanded his arrest. missing aircraft. day night that no signal including The meetings came a day colleagues, senior officials and Reorganisation Act. The TDP government denied Asked about the mobile phone sonar has been obtained. after Andhra Pradesh cabinet party leaders. Andhra Pradesh Chief that the voice on the audio tape tower signals from the cellphones “The aircraft was the latest passed resolutions on phone-tap- Revanth Reddy and two oth- Minister and TDP president was that of Naidu and accused of the three-member crew, a Coast induction in the Coast Guard ping and on implementation of ers were arrested by the ACB on N Chandrababu Naidu, who the Telangana government of Guard official told IANS that no inventory in 2014 and was being Section 8 of the Andhra Pradesh May 31 while offering Rs.50 lakh is also in the national capital, fabricating voice records to such signals were received. flown by highly experienced crew,” Reorganisation Act. to Stephenson to make him vote met Prime Minister Narendra implicate him. The aircraft with three crew an official statement said. Meanwhile, the chief secretary for the TDP-BJP candidate in Modi yesterday with a demand IANS members aboard, all in their 30s, IANS ‘BJD-BJP slowing Assam floods hit 13 districts down chit fund probe’ GUWAHATI: Close to two lakh people have been affected BHUBANESWAR: CPI leader Alleging that some ruling BJD by floods in 13 districts of D Raja yesterday took a dig at leaders were involved in the chit Assam, officials said yesterday, the BJP-led central government fund scam, Raja said the CBI as over 200 people took shelter and BJD-led Odisha govern- must go through the details and in relief camps in Tinsukia and ment, alleging they had a tacit investigate the scam in an expedi- Sonitpur districts. understanding to slow down the tious and fair manner. Heavy rains have also lashed CBI probe into chit fund scam He also demanded immedi- most parts of the state since in the state. ate withdrawal of criminal cases tuesday. He said Odisha Chief Minister slapped against the CPI activ- Floods hit many parts of Baksa, Naveen Patnaik should clarify ists who opposed the Posco steel Dibrugarh and Kamrup districts if there was any secret under- project in Jagatsinghpur district yesterday, even as many villages standing between the Biju Janata of Odisha. in Barpeta, Sonitpur, Dhemaji, Dal (BJD) and the Bharatiya Stating that the party leaders Lakhimpur Tinsukia, Darrang, Janata Party (BJP) to slow hold the right to express views Nalbari, Golapara, Jorhat and down the Central Bureau of against any project and issues, Kamrup (Metro) districts con- Investigation (CBI) investigation Raja said the chief minister tinue to remain under water. into the scam. should show political maturity A flood bulletin issued by “The CBI probe into the chit and withdraw cases against the the Assam State Disaster fund scam in Odisha is unsat- CPI people. Management Authority isfactory. The CBI must play a Raja also attacked the (ASDMA) said 1,95,243 people proactive role in investigating Narendra Modi government, stat- have been affected as flood waters the matter. At the same time, the ing it has achieved nothing except submerged 533 villages. chief minister should explain his ensuring amicable atmosphere to The state government has stand on the allegations,” the CPI corporate houses and multina- opened toll free phone numbers national secretary told reporters tional companies. -- 1070 for the State Emergency Villagers use a country boat to cross flood waters in the outskirts of Guwahati city yesterday. here. Alleging that farmers and Operation Centre, and 1077 for The Communist Party of poor people were the worst the District Emergency Operation India (CPI) leader said due to an sufferers under the Modi govern- Centre. Bhumidhar Barman, and Water measures immediately. According to the water understanding between the BJP ment, the CPI leader said: “It is a Flood waters have also affected Resource Minister Basanta Das The ministers asked the dis- resources department, embank- and the regional party, thousands government dictated by RSS and over 8,245 hectares of crop land, yesterday reviewed the flood trict administrations to arrange ments have been breached of poor duped investors lost their Sangha Parivar, working for the officials said. situation, and asked the district relief and rescue material, and in Sonitpur, Nalbari, Dhubri, hope of getting their invested interest of corporate houses.” Revenue and Disaster administrations to take take stock of the infrastructural Darrang and Goalpara districts. funds back. IANS Management Minister up flood mitigation damage. IANS

Railway official arrested in bribery case HC rejects Sun TV’s plea Communal KOLKATA: A railway official senior mechanical engineer in Investigation (CBI) official. amity award in West Bengal was arrested for Asansol railway division, was “Sharma had asked for the taking bribe from a subordinate arrested on tuesday night after bribe for relieving Kumar in pur- against asset attachment for Punjab CM promising a favourable transfer, being caught red handed taking suant to his transfer orders for a CBI official said yesterday. a bribe of Rs.5,000 from Sanjay Bokaro (in Jharkhand),” said the CHENNAI: The Madras High his stake. Sivasankaran alleged PUNE: Punjab Chief Minister “Prem Prakash Sharma, a Kumar,” said a Central Bureau of official. IANS Court yesterday dismissed that Dayanidhi Maran favoured Parkash Singh Badal was con- the petitions filed by Sun TV the Maxis Group in the takeo- ferred the 14th Sant Namdev and Kal Cables for quashing ver of his firm. He also alleged National Award - 2015 for the asset attachment order that the company made invest- promoting peace, communal Pigeons on a tight rope issued by the Directorate of ments through Astro Network in harmony and universal broth- Enforcement (ED) in connec- a firm purportedly owned by the erhood at a function here. tion with the Aircel-Maxis case. Marans. The award was given by Dismissing the petition, the Four companies -- the Chennai- Maharashtra Chief Minister court held that the company can based Sun Direct TV, Britain- Devendra Fadnavis on behalf of approach the Supreme Court. based Astro All Asia Networks, the Sarhad Foundation. Counsel for ED argued that the Maxis Communications Berhad Thanking the foundation for matter is being monitored by the of Malaysia, and the South the award, Badal said though he Supreme Court and hearing of the Asia Entertainment Holdings had received several awards in matter by any other court would of Mauritius -- have also been different fields in the past but this impede the investigation by the named in charge sheet filed on award has a unique significance Central Bureau of Investigation August 29, 2014, by the CBI. for him because it was being given (CBI). The CBI said there was suffi- for work in a field which was The petitioners contended that cient evidence to prosecute the ‘dearest’ in his life. the properties attached were accused, and booked all of them on Badal also added that he has acquired much before the alleged the charges of criminal conspir- always rated peace and commu- crime and were not in any way acy under the Indian Penal Code nal harmony as sacred goals and connected with the alleged crime. (IPC) as well as the provisions of tasks of his life. He had sought On April 1, the ED said in the the Prevention of Corruption Act. inspiration from the life and phi- Aircel-Maxis case it has attached On April 1, the ED said its losophy of our great ‘gurus’, saints properties worth Rs.742.58 crore probe revealed that illegal grati- and seers for the accomplishment belonging to Sun TV’s principal fication of Rs.742.58 crore was of these cherished tasks. promoter Kalanithi Maran, his paid by the companies based in Badal said it was a matter of wife Kaveri Kalanithi and his Mauritius, meant for Dayanidhi great pride and satisfaction for brother Dayanidhi Maran, who Maran, in two companies -- Sun him that the people of Punjab was a minister in the previous Direct TV Pvt. Ltd. (SDTPL) and have always endorsed his firm United Progress Alliance (UPA) South Asia FM Ltd. (SAFL). commitment and concerted government. The main shareholder of the efforts to foster mutual goodwill. The CBI has argued in the SAFL is Sun TV Network with “I am sure this award will go a courts that Dayanidhi Maran used 60 percent, while 20 percent long way in further strengthening his influence to help Malaysian each is with A.H. Multisoft Pvt. the bonds of love, friendship and businessmen T. Ananda Krishnan Ltd. and South Asia Multimedia bonhomie amongst the people of to buy Aircel by coercing its owner Technologies Ltd., Mauritius. Punjab and Maharashtra. Pigeons drink water as they sit on a rope at Ana Sagar lake in Ajmer, Rajasathan, yesterday. C. Sivasankaran to part with IANS IANS THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

DCW summons Army attacks rebels in Myanmar Bharti after wife’s complaint Rare cross-border strike reveals India’s intention to fight terrorism beyond borders NEW DELHI: The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) NEW DELHI: India’s army guerrillas were plotting more blamed for stoking a revolt in against militants along the India- information about the action that yesterday issued summons to attacked separatist rebels just ambushes after last week’s attack Muslim-majority Kashmir as Myanmar border and it was done our military has done,” Gadkari AAP leader Somnath Bharti over the border with Myanmar on a convoy. It said soldiers well as giving material support with the consent of Myanmar said. “I do not have anything to after his wife complained that on tuesday, a rare cross-border inflicted “significant casualties” to Pakistan-based militants for authorities, Minister of State for say beyond it.” he had unleashed domestic strike that the government said but gave not details. attacks in other parts of India, Defence Rao Inderjit Singh said The army launched two attacks violence. showed its resolve to fight ter- The army did not say soldiers including a bloody 2008 assault yesterday. at different points along the “I cannot explain my trouble rorism beyond the country’s had crossed the border but the in the city of Mumbai. “We did not use hot pursuit. Myanmar border and killed sev- in a couple of words. It has been borders. government did. Junior minister Pakistan denies the accusation We contacted Burma (Myanmar) eral militants. The exact number going on since 2010. I want to be The raid on two groups of mili- for information and broadcast- and says it is fighting militants. authorities before the attack,” has not been revealed. out of this marriage,” Bharti’s wife tants was carried out in retalia- ing Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party Rao Inderjit said here. The attack launched on tues- Lipika Mitra said. tion for the killing of 20 soldiers said the government had taken has long advocated a tough stance The comment comes a day after day was a response to the June “I want separation and to live in an ambush in the northeastern the bold step to strike at mili- towards Pakistan including the his colleague Rajyavardhan Singh 4 militant ambush that killed 18 with my children with dignity,” state of Manipur last week, the tant camps and he congratulated option of hot pursuit of militants. Rathore said Prime Minister soldiers of 6 Dogra regiment. she added. heaviest losses for security forces Prime Minister Narendra Modi Since coming to power Modi has Narendra Modi ordered the “hot According to informed sources, Taking cognizance of the mat- in Manipur in two decades. for doing so. He also told NDTV sought to ease tension but ties pursuit”. Rathore on tuesday said: the militant camps were situated ter, the DCW issued summons The mountainous northeast it was a signal to neighbours that remain fragile. “Our prime minister ordered hot a few kilometres inside Myanmar, to Bharti, the former Delhi law which borders China, Bhutan, India will not tolerate militant The Indian army said it was in pursuit in which two camps were something which the Indian Army minister in the 2013 Aam Aadmi Bangladesh and Myanmar, is attacks from across its borders. communication with Myanmar completely annihilated. While the or the defence ministry has not Party government. home to dozens of insurgent “It is undoubtedly a message to all regarding its operations against army carried out the strike, heli- officially confirmed. DCW chief Barkha Singh said: groups fighting for autonomy or nations that harbour any inten- guerrillas, adding there was a copters were on stand by.” Minister of State for Home “His (Bharti’s) wife is distressed secession from India. For decades, tions - be it the west or the spe- history of cooperation. Former Nitin Gadkari, a key minister Affairs Kiren Rijiju, meanwhile, and said she was beaten, verbally soldiers have been deployed in the cific country we went into right army chief General V P Malik in the Modi cabinet, refused to said the issue should not be dis- abused and given death threats. region but they are not known to now. Even if there are groups said the Myanmar army was comment on the matter at a press cussed in detail. Her children were also harassed. have crossed borders even though within countries that harbour thinly deployed where the latest conference following a meeting of “We must salute the work the “We have summoned Bharti to the military says rebels have sanc- terror intentions, we will choose operations took place. “I think the union cabinet. army did... When something is appear before the DCW on June tuaries in Myanmar, Bangladesh the time and the place of hitting they would have sounded out the “It is clear we have zero toler- done in national interest, we must 26.” and Bhutan. them.” Myanmar authorities before going ance towards terror and terror support it and not discuss it in Responding to the allegations The army said in a statement India’s top security concern in,” he said. There was no “hot groups. The official spokesperson detail,” he said. made by his wife, Bharti called all it had received intelligence that is Pakistan which it has long pursuit” in the military operation of the military has given detailed REUTERS the charges baseless. IANS

Mystery man Tomar seeks for bail, Reception for Swedish Minister seeks details of Thackeray says arrest illegal will from HC NEW DELHI: Former Delhi “The college has already filed MUMBAI: Justice Gautam law minister Jitender Singh an affidavit before the Delhi High Patel of the Bombay High Court Tomar yesterday moved his bail Court, where the High Court is has expressed shock and dis- application in a sessions court also seized of the matter, to the pleasure after an unidentified here, alleging that Delhi Police effect that the degree of the appli- person visited his chamber did not comply with the req- cant (Tomar) is genuine,” the seeking copies of the evidence uisite legal formalities before application added. recorded in the ongoing dispute arresting him. Tomar moved another applica- over the will of late Shiv Sena Seeking bail, Tomar told the tion to challenge his arrest in the chief Bal Thackeray. court that he has been falsely alleged fake degree case. Justice Patel is hearing a suit implicated in the case. The applications were men- filed by Jaidev Thackeray chal- “The question of absconding of tioned before Additional Sessions lenging the will of his father on the the applicant/accused (Tomar) Judge Sanjeev Jain, who refused grounds that Bal Thackeray was does not arise as he is sitting an early hearing on Tomar’s plea of unsound mind and that Jaidev’s MLA and has deep roots in soci- and posted the matter for today. brother Uddhav Thackeray had ety, has a family and is perma- In his application, Tomar called influenced him. nent resident of Delhi,” said the his arrest illegal, saying police did “Four times this person has bail application moved by Tomar’s not follow proper procedure while come to my chamber. He comes advocate CL Gupta and Neha apprehending him. asking for the notes of evidence Rastogi. A magistrate court late tues- recorded, saying he is from It added that Tomar was law day sent Tomar to four-day police Sarnaik’s office. My staff is also minister of the Delhi government custody following his arrest in rattled. I don’t know who he is and police did not comply with the the alleged fake law degree case. collecting it for and for what requisite legal formalities before The court also rejected his bail Swedish Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist (C) inspects an honour guard during his ceremonial reception in purpose,” Justice Patel told the his arrest. application. New Delhi yesterday. Hultqvist is on a four-day visit to India. Thackeray brothers’ lawyers “The applicant (Tomar) was Delhi Police arrested Tomar Seema Sarnaik and Rajesh Shah. never served with any prior sum- and slapped a case of cheating, The judge wondered whether mons or notice before his arrest forgery and conspiracy against it was to gain political mileage and police obtained his signature him. or something else and wanted an yesterday on some documents and Police also told the court that 10 arrested for planning forcible end to it. have created documents to show the investigation in the case Jaidev’s lawyer Sarnaik and that he was served with the said was at its initial stages and the Uddhav’s counsel Shah assured documents,” the bail application documents pertaining to the law the court that henceforth, they said. degree obtained by Tomar were takeover of Barsana temple would issue a letter with the The advocates said the entire “fake”. names of their junior lawyers case was based on documentary Meanwhile, Delhi Police chief BARSANA (UP): Ten mem- been sent to jail,” Mathura Senior with the case. who would come to collect the evidence and Tomar had also BS Bassi yesterday said that the bers of a gang planning the Superintendent of Police (SSP) Vijendra and Itwari of Kama evidence, which should be handed handed over all documents what- police would probe if it was a forcible takeover of the famous Rakesh Prasad Singh told IANS. tehsil in Bharatpur district of over only after verifying their soever were available. racket. Radha Rani temple in Barsana The SSP said that a team Rajasthan were also arrested. identity cards. He fully cooperated with the Finding out those behind the town in Mathura district of comprising Superintendent of Following their interrogation, Meanwhile, in the ongoing will investigating agency and would forgery of documents was the Uttar Pradesh were arrested Police (rural) Ajay Kumar, Chata police arrested six others from dispute, the court will record the continue to cooperate, they added. “most important” aspect of the and firearms, bombs and live CO Atul Kumar Srivastav and Vijendra’s house and seized sev- evidence of senior party leader Tomar’s advocates told the case involving Tomar, Bassi told cartridges seized from them, Barsana SO Rajendra Nagar eral bombs, .315 bore rifles and Anil Parab on June 30. court he would not try to tamper media persons here. police said yesterday. detained one person, Dinesh Das, live cartridges. IANS with evidence. IANS “The arrested persons have on Monday night in connection IANS

New Metro section starts Delhi High Court refuses Greenpeace calls for solar to suspend notifications street lighting NEW DELHI: The Delhi High key bureaucratic posts in the NEW DELHI: Greenpeace Court yesterday declined to put capital. India launched its campaign to on hold the two notifications of It also challenged the July 23, make streets of Delhi safe for the union home ministry that 2014, notification which lim- women and children by lighting barred the Delhi government’s ited the Delhi Anti-Corruption up dark spots using solar street Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) Branch’s jurisdiction to Delhi light systems. from acting against the central government officials only. Environmental group government officers for crimi- The plea challenged the “con- Greenpeace launched its report on nal offences. stitutional validity” of the May clean electricity prepared in part- A division bench of Justice S 21 notification, saying that the nership with National Institute of Murlidhar and Justice IS Mehta notification issued by the central Urban Affairs yesterday. refused to suspend the notifica- government was ultra vires of The climate and energy cam- tion, saying a similar matter is constitutional provisions, that is paigner for Greenpeace India, pending before another bench and Article 239 AA (4), and that it Pujarini Sen said that India’s tagged it with that public interest does not have the jurisdiction over developmental challenges do not litigation (PIL). matters connected with services need repetitive rhetoric, it needs “Vacation bench cannot stay of bureaucrats in the national creative solutions. the notification, same PIL has capital. “Greenpeace’s sustainable already been pending before The plea said: “The power of street lighting proposal is a another bench. Let that bench the Anti-Corruption Bureaus creative solution that not only hear it,” the court said posting where it exists in other states addresses the issue of women’s the matter for August 5. and union territories to take safety, but also helps Delhi save The PIL filed by advocates RS cognizance of cases of corruption taxpayer money in the long run, . Raju and V Sudheer challenged against the police and central “implementing solar street Commuters travel in the compartment reserved for women on the metro in New Delhi yesterday. With the first the May 21 notification according government employees in their light systems in all of the 700 to which the Delhi Lt Governor respective states and union ter- dark spots will cost the govern- stretch of the Delhi Metro inaugurated in 2002, as of June 2015, the network consists of five colour-coded regular holds discretionary powers for ritories is not taken away.” ment less than Rs.10 crore.” lines and a sixth express line - the Airport Express - with a total length of 193 kilometres, serving 140 stations. appointments and transfers to IANS IANS THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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One billion users download Facebook Messenger Move to revitalise public baths in Japan NEW YORK: Facebook TOKYO: Moves to revitalise or more than 30 percent of the Messenger has been down- sento public baths are on the association’s member facilities. loaded over a whopping one rise — with special services “Sento used to be thought as a billion times on Android, being offered for runners and place for the elderly to gather, David Marcus, vice presi- facilities being upgraded to but this has become a new way to dent of Messaging products at draw a younger crowd. use them,” said association head Facebook, announced. Local governments and sento Susumu Terasaki. Thus, Messenger has joined enthusiasts are also organising In Tokyo, one sento in the city the elite club of Facebook and events such as bathing tours. center has long functioned as a WhatsApp and Google’s Gmail, Bathhouse operators and regu- place where joggers change after YouTube, Search and Maps, lars alike are trying to create the work and take a bath after a run which all have breached the bil- perfect atmosphere for a sento around the Imperial Palace. lion downloads mark, TechCrunch revival. Kazuko Hashitomi, 80, is the reported. Most of the sento around owner of Bain Douche in Chiyoda Messenger’s strategy of layer- town are defined as general Ward, Tokyo, located near the ing modern mobile sharing fea- public bathing facilities under Imperial Palace. She said 70 to tures over a speedy texting app the Public Bathhouses Law. As 80 percent of the bathers are has paid off. With VOIP, video such, they are still subject to a runners. calling, stickers, voice clips, price control ordinance that took “We have customers who’ve peer-to-peer payments, loca- effect in 1946, which stipulates used our bathhouse as a base for tion, and a platform of third- that their fees are decided by the running ever since we opened party content creation apps, relevant prefectural government. more than three decades ago,” Messenger wants to own every In Tokyo, the cost is set at 460 she said. “After the first Tokyo way you communicate. yen (about $3.75) for people 12 Marathon was held in 2007, or older. there’ve been even more.” Ed Sheeran for Meanwhile, a majority of super Some specialty sento have sento — large-scale bathhouses facilities that surpass even those anti-poverty concert with deluxe facilities — are clas- of super sento. Founded in 1947, A mural illustrating the Hokuriku Shinkansen train running past the Tateyama mountain range is seen on the sified as “other public bathing Mikoku-yu in Sumida Ward, wall of Nikoniko-yu in Tokyo. in New York facilities,” allowing them to freely Tokyo, reopened in May after it set their own entrance fees. was renovated into a five-story a rise in inquiries from sento tour package, a special sightsee- club in Nagoya, was formed in NEW YORK: The English The number of general public building. On its fourth and fifth operators wanting to attract a ing trip via shared taxi to visit 2011 in Aichi Prefecture. The singer-songwriter Ed bathing facilities was 16,866 in floors are open-air baths with younger clientele. the city’s famous morning mar- group meets about once a month Sheeran will headline the 1977 but had decreased to just views of Tokyo Skytree. One “To get people who have baths ket and a sento. The association to enjoy a soak at a sento some- Global Citizen Festival, a free 4,542 in fiscal 2013, according to floor features a special bath for at home to visit, a sento must said the combo tour, which was where in the prefecture. concert in New York aimed at the Health, Labour and Welfare wheelchair users and their fami- offer a total experience that goes launched in 2009, is popular not “There’s a personal charm rallying support to fight glo- Ministry. This has been mainly lies that is available for an addi- beyond hygiene and spaciousness only with tourists, but also those to places where local residents bal poverty. Sheeran said in a attributed to more people having tional fee and by reservation. To to include designs and features on business trips who want to interact, and old-time buildings short video yesterday that he bathtubs at home. Thus services accommodate those who work that achieve a higher level of make good use of their mornings. are quaint, too,” said Hitomi would perform at the concert on that encourage joggers to use late, Mikoku-yu is open until customer satisfaction,” Imai said. Kyoto has been calling for Yoshioka, a company employee September 26 in Central Park. sento, for example, are becoming 2am. The Hachinohe municipal gov- sento revitalization propos- who came up with the idea to The festival is free, with fans more widespread - runners leave “My goal was to create a sento ernment in Aomori Prefecture als from volunteers since 2012. found the group. The club was earning tickets not through their belongings in lockers and that would make nearby resi- was the first to realize the Many ideas have been tested, initially for women only, but men money but through activities then return to soak away their dents glad they chose to live in potential of sento as a tourism including an event where bath- and children have been allowed to aimed at eradicating extreme post-workout aches and pains. the area 20 years later,” explained resource. ers walk along the annual Kyoto join as its popularity has grown. poverty in the world. The Aichi prefectural pub- 68-year-old owner Shigeru Ito. Half of the about 40 sento in Marathon course before relaxing When it comes to sento walls The youth-oriented event lic bath operators’ association Architect Kentaro Imai, 47, the city open early in the morn- at a sento. around Tokyo, most people prob- has been held annually since launched a service for joggers has designed approximately 10 ing. The Hachinohe Tourist Sento enthusiasts are also get- ably think of murals depicting 2012 when world leaders are in and runners in 2012, and it is sento, including Mikoku-yu. He Convention Association offers ting in on the act. The Nagoya Mount Fuji. New York for the UN General now offered by about 40 sento, said a few years ago he noticed guests at local hotels the Asaguru Sento Joshi-bu, a women’s sento WP-BLOOMBERG Assembly. AGENCIES Thursday 11 June 2015 24 Shaaban 1436 Volume 20 Number 6458 Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Shell to be Qatar crude production to rebound BMW Groups 709,000 barrels per day average production expected this year, says QNB report recommended

DOHA: Qatar’s crude oil pro- also noted that Barzan gas project 2015 to reach 2.37m, driven by from the second successive month. and foreign credit. Public sector duction is expected to rebound, will boost the country’s upstream the large ramp up in infrastruc- QNB expects real estate prices lending contracted by 9.6 percent oil supplier averaging 709,000 barrels per hydrocarbon production. ture spending. “We expect Qatar’s to continue their strong growth year-on-year while lending to the day in 2015. The country’s crude According to the QNB research ongoing investment programme although at a more moderate pace. private and foreign sectors grew DOHA: Shell yesterday production fell to 635,000 bar- note, the share of investment in to continue to attract expatriates, Qatar’s international reserves by 10.6 percent and 58.6 percent, announced that it has been cho- rels per day in April 2015 from GDP rose to 33.4 percent in 2014 resulting in an overall population rose to $41.0bn in April 2015 from respectively. sen by BMW AG as its only rec- 708,000 barrels per day in March. from 29.6 percent in 2013 on ris- growth of 7.0 percent in 2015”. $39.5bn in March. The accumula- QNB forecast bank lending ommended global supplier for The country’s hydrocarbon sec- ing capital spending from the On Qatar’s broad money (M2) tion of international reserves is to grow by 9.0 percent in 2015, aftermarket engine oils for the tor expanded by 1.3 percent in government; the share of exports growth, QNB analysts noted that expected to continue, reaching increasingly driven by project following BMW brands: BMW, the fourth quarter of 2014, after declined with lower oil prices. the M2 growth was stable in April $46.0bn, or 8 months of import lending and expanding population. BMWi, BMW M, Mini and shrinking 2.8 percent in the sec- “We expect the shares of private (5.4 percent) compared to March cover in 2015. Banking sector assets grew in BMW Motorrad. ond quarter. Barzan gas project consumption and investment (5.2 percent) on steady deposit Bank deposits grew by 6.1 per- April on the expansion of domes- From the start of 2015, pre- is forecast to generate modest to increase on high population growth. QNB expects M2 growth cent year-on-year in April 2015. tic and foreign credit. Banks’ mium engine oils manufactured by growth in the hydrocarbon sec- growth and strong government to pick up, reaching 10.8 percent in Public sector deposits contracted assets grew by 6.9 percent year- Shell will be available to customers tor, QNB’s monthly monitor on investments; lower expected oil 2015 as strong population growth is by 8.4 percent; but the private on-year in April 2015 driven by at BMW Group’s network of more Qatari economy noted. prices in 2015 should reduce the projected to drive deposit growth. sector deposits grew by 5.5 per- strong lending growth. Banking than 3,500 dealers, in more than On Tuesday, in its “Qatar share of exports, before bouncing The Qatar Central Bank (QCB) cent and non-resident deposits assets are expected to rise by 140 countries, including China, Economic Outlook 2015-17’, back in 2016”, the analysts said. real estate index rose 29.6 percent grew by a whopping 119.5 percent. 10.0 percent in 2015, increasingly Germany, Russia, South Africa, The Ministry of Development Qatar population grew by 9.2 year-on-year in March 2015. Real Banking credit grew strongly driven by project lending. South Korea, the UK and the US. Planning and Statistics (MDPS) percent year-on-year in May estate price inflation moderated in April, driven by private sector THE PENINSULA The collaboration means that Shell will produce and sup- ply BMW’s branded engine oils. These products will meet the American Airlines, Qantas tie up latest BMW engine specifica- tions and are underpinned by Finance Minister urges Shell’s PurePlus Technology. Shell PurePlus Technology is a break- through in how engine oils are formulated. It is a patented gas- support for IDB projects to-liquid (GTL) process, devel- oped over 40 years of research, MAPUTO: The Minister of vision for the year 2020 is an which converts natural gas into Finance H E Ali Shareef Al important step in the transfor- a crystal-clear base oil. Emadi yesterday urged mem- mation of the bank into a global Base oil, usually made from ber states to support Islamic development institution serving crude oil, is the main component Development Bank’s (IDB) more than 3.1 billion Muslims in of finished oils and plays a vital projects in agriculture, infra- 56 member countries. role in the quality of the finished structure, education and health Delegates discussed a number engine oil. The base oil is pro- for sustainable development at a of topics concerning IDB’s objec- duced at the Pearl GTL plant conference here. tives such as spurring economic in Qatar, a partnership between He made the call at the 40th and social development in Islamic Shell and Qatar Petroleum. From annual meeting of IDB’s Board member states. They also dis- 2015, BMW service customers of Governors’ here in the capi- cussed IDB’s strategy for the next benefit from the integration of tal of Mozambique. The Finance ten years, a number of adminis- Shell’s global lubricants supply Minister is leading a delegation trative and technical reports. chain with its gas value chain in comprising officials from Qatar’s The meeting mulled over the Qatar. Ministry of Finance. allocation for developing Islamic Mark Gainsborough, Delegates are mulling role of financial services sector and fund- Executive Vice President for private sector in the development ing new development projects. Shell Lubricants, said: “We are and growth of IDB member coun- Finance ministers of member W Douglas Parker (left), Chairman and CEO of American Airlines, with Qantas Managing Director and Group honoured to become the BMW tries, mainly in Africa at this con- states held a series of meetings on CEO Alan Joyce after announcing a partnership following the 2015 International Air Transport Association Group’s recommended supplier ference which concludes June 11. the side-lines of this conference to annual general meeting in Miami Beach, Florida. of aftermarket engine oil. We The Minister called for sup- take forward joint projects to boost look forward to jointly supplying, porting IDB’s pilot projects and economic development in the region. distributing and marketing these increasing bilateral trade between IDB was set up December oils, as of start 2015.” member states through Islamic 7, 1973 by members of Islamic “This is recognition of the ben- Corporation for the Insurance Conference Organization and Oil rises after US stockpile draw efits of Shell’s engine oil exper- of Investment and Export Credit officially started operating in tise and cutting-edge technology (ICIEC), a member of the IDB October 20, 1975. The first meet- by one of the world’s leading Group, and the International ing of its Board of Governors was NEW YORK: Oil rallied for a oil inventories fell by 6.8 mil- the draws, extended their run by premium manufacturer of auto- Islamic Trade Finance Corporation held in July 1975. It currently has second straight day yesterday lion barrels last week, four times another two percent or more on mobiles and motorcycles. This that spurs trade to improve the 56 Member States. as US government data con- more than the 1.7 million barrels Wednesday before paring gains. By includes an acknowledgment of economic condition and livelihood The bank participates in equity firmed a big weekly drawdown forecast by analysts in a Reuters 11.50am EST (1550 GMT), global the value of our most recent inno- of people across the Islamic world. capital and grant loans for pro- in domestic crude stockpiles, poll. Industry group American crude benchmark Brent was up vation: Shell PurePlus Technology He lauded IDB’s work over the ductive projects and enterprises although profit-taking by play- Petroleum Institute had raised 20 cents, or 0.3 percent, at $65.08 for premium engine oils. last four decades, particularly besides providing financial assist- ers who had bet on the draw market expectations late on a barrel, from the session high of “This deal brings two leading providing over $100bn funding ance to member countries in pulled the market back from its Tuesday when it estimated a draw $66.36 after the EIA data. US crude brands together to offer the best for projects in agriculture, food other forms for economic and highs. of 6.7 million barrels. was 40 cents higher at $60.55, ver- of performance and technology to security, health and education. social development. The US Energy Information Oil futures, which rose three per- sus the intraday peak of $61.82. BMW service customers.” He stressed that the Bank’s QNA Administration (EIA) said crude cent on Tuesday in anticipation of REUTERS THE PENINSULA

SNCM in legal wrangle Qatar-supported Jordan solar power plant to be operational in 2016

DOHA: Qatar’s Nebras- Nebras Power was represented and operation & maintenance supported solar power plant by its Chairman Fahad Al contract with First Solar of USA. project in Jordan will be fully Mohannadi and Chief Executive Nebras Power QSC was founded operational in 2016. Nebras Officer Khaldi Jolo. in 2014 as a Qatari shareholding Power with its partners Nebras Power along with company in accordance with the Diamond Generating Europe its partners will construct the State of Qatar laws, as partnership and Kawar Group held a ground project in 16 months as the project between the Qatar Electricity and breaking ceremony in Amman is planned to complete construc- Water Company QSC 60 percent, Jordan on Monday 8 June for its tion activities and start com- and Qatar Petroleum International Shams Ma’an Solar power plant mercial operation in September Limited 20 percent, and Qatar project with capacity of 52.5MW. 2016, a regulatory filing to Qatar Holding 20 percent. Nebras Power, the Qatari Exchange (QE) noted yesterday. The authorised paid capital of shareholding company, owns The project’s importance Nebras Power is QR3.6bn, and 35 percent of the project, while comes from being one of the first the company is investing globally DGE owns 35 percent and Kawar renewable energy projects and in new and existing projects, or Group owns 30 percent. the largest of its kind in Jordan. through the acquisition of power The ceremony was held in Shams Ma’an Power Generation generation and water desalination the presence of Prime Minister company has already signed a 20 and processing projects, as well as The car ferry, “Monte d’Oro”, operated by the SNCM in the port of Marseille, France, yesterday. A commercial of Jordan Dr Abdullah Ensour years power purchase agreement cooling and heating projects. Nebras court in Marseille ordered that the bidding process for troubled French ferry operator SNCM be re-launched, and the attendance of Princess with National Electric & Power will also invest in the LNG termi- rejecting the three firm offers made for the loss-making company after it filed for court protection in late Sumiah Alhassan and a number Company of Jordan and also nal and fuel loading and unloading November 2014. of ministers and high ranking signed an engineering, procure- facilities connected to the projects. official and distinguished guests. ment and construction contract THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Masdar, RWE in Qatari bourse talks on green energy projects index drops ABU DHABI: United Arab Emirates green energy firm Masdar may invest in renew- able energy projects jointly with 106.55 points RWE, Germany’s second-big- gest utility, a source familiar with the matter said yesterday. RWE Chief Executive Peter MSCI acknowledges Saudi opening Terium said on Tuesday the com- pany was in talks with an Abu DOHA: Qatar Exchange index sensitive to oil prices. Dhabi investor but declined to dropped 106.55 points, or 0.89 Index compiler MSCI said late reveal its identity. percent, when the bourse closed on Tuesday it would seek feed- “Masdar is in discussions about yesterday at 11,836.95 points back from investors on the acces- potential investments in renew- compared to 11,943.50 points on sibility of Saudi Arabia’s market able energy projects with RWE,” Tuesday. following its opening on June 1, the Abu Dhabi source said, declin- The market capitalisation and gather information before ing to be named as the matter is decreased to QR630.286bn com- considering whether to add the not yet public. The source did not pared with QR636.80bn regis- Saudi index to the review list for elaborate. tered on Tuesday. potential inclusion in its emerging A spokeswoman for RWE The trading value yesterday markets index. declined to comment. increased to QR336.528m with Some analysts saw this mes- Facing ¤27.7bn ($31.36bn) of a volume of 6,384,795 from 4,130 sage as positive, while others debt and a sharp drop in earn- transactions compared with said it was likely to delay Saudi ings at home, RWE is looking to QR203.27m with a volume of Arabia’s inclusion from the ini- reduce its exposure to conven- 4,151,038 shares from 3,201 trans- tially expected mid-2017. tional energy sources and expand actions on Tuesday. “This means that the 2017 its foothold in renewables. Indices of six sectors ended accession date for Saudi Arabia Last year, coal accounted for in the red yesterday and one in to join the MSCI EM index is 60 percent of RWE’s electricity green zone. less likely now, since the process FROM LEFT: Chris Wright, Euromoney’s Middle East Editor; Nasser Al Mahmoud, QInvest’s Managing Director of production, while renewables Consumer goods and services of joining the MSCI EM index Strategic Relations; Clive Horwood, Euromoney’s Editor, during the award ceremony. accounted for just three percent. index gained the most, up 063 takes a minimum of two years Analysts have noted that team- percent (7,421.00 points). Banking from the point at which consulta- ing up with a Gulf-based investor and financial services sector tion begins,” said Simon Kitchen, would be a good move for the 117- dropped 1.47 percent (3,111.57 head of strategy at EFG Hermes. QInvest wins Best Investment year old utility as it would give points) and Insurance sector But some said the kingdom it access to a growing energy declined 1.01 percent (4,688.57 could still be fact-tracked, espe- market, offsetting its stagnant points) cially after MSCI said it could Bank award from Euromoney European core market. Total Return Index dropped change the status of Chinese Terium did not rule out that 0.89 percent (18,395.24 points). domestic shares before the next talks could result in the investor Al Rayan Islamic Index gained annual review. DOHA: QInvest, Qatar’s lead- successfully deliver on our strat- banking element that is still driv- taking a stake in the utility, but 0.10 percent (4,607.99 points) and “MSCI can always choose to ing investment bank, has been egy to support the international ing revenues. The bank’s manage- added this was currently not part QSE All Share Index dropped 0.85 make changes outside the regular named Best Investment Bank development of Qatar and the ment decided early on to focus on of discussions. percent (3,169.41 points). review schedule, as, for example, in Qatar at the Euromoney wider region, acting as a gateway sukuk, and it completed transac- Meanwhile, most other regional in the case of China A-shares,” Awards for Excellence 2015. for investors looking to access tions in 2014 worth $3.5 billion, Adnoc finalises stock markets rose yesterday VTB Capital said in a note. This marks the fourth year in the country’s fast growing and or 20 percent of the international after oil prices jumped for a sec- The index compiler also did a row that QInvest has received dynamic market while also nur- sukuk market. The client base jet fuel term ond day in a row and Dubai led not mention Egypt in its state- the award, underscoring its turing the growth of the global was far broader than one might gains, lifted by speculative buying. ment. That was a relief to inves- leading position in the region. finance industry.” expect of a partly state-backed export contract Brent crude rose above $66 per tors who had feared it might Nasser Al Mahmoud, QInvest’s Clive Horwood, Editor of Qatari institution.” barrel after a report of falling US be downgraded from emerging Managing Director of Strategic Euromoney, added: “When rev- The Euromoney Awards for SINGAPORE: Abu Dhabi inventories and signs that US oil market status, being represented Relations and CEO of QInvest enues are up 134 percent in the Excellence recognise financial National Oil Company has final- production growth was levelling by just three stocks since the Saudi Arabia, collected the course of the year and net profit institutions based on judgments ised its July 2015 to June 2016 off after several years of very exclusion of Telecom Egypt last award on behalf of the Bank is up eightfold, means things by its team of editors, journal- jet fuel term export contracts sharp increases. month. at the Euromoney Middle East are moving in the right direc- ists and researchers, which are at slightly lower levels than the The main Saudi index climbed The Cairo index rose as much Awards for Excellence, held at the tion. QInvest’s three-pronged analysed in conjunction with current year, industry sources 0.5 percent as most stocks rose. as 1.1 percent during the day but Shangri-La Hotel in Dubai, UAE. approach envisages roughly equal their own market knowledge said yesterday. Saudi Basic Industries (Sabic), gave up all gains and closed 0.3 Commenting on the award, contributions from investment and research before the final The refiner finalised the con- the largest petrochemicals com- percent lower after reports show- Nasser Al Mahmoud said: banking, principal investments decision is made by the editorial tract with at least one buyer pany in the kingdom, gained 1.0 ing inflation sped up in May. “2014 was an important year and asset management, but for committee. at a premium of $1.75 a barrel percent. Sabic’s earnings are AGENCIES for QInvest. We continued to the moment it’s the investment THE PENINSULA above Middle East quotes, about 8 percent lower than the $1.90 premium it set for its January to December 2015 term cargoes, they said. Adnoc skipped term exports of A400M probe focuses on impact of accident data wipe jet fuel for its July 2014 to June 2015 contract due to an increase in domestic demand, but it has PARIS: A tiny piece of data that tell Europe’s new military the investigation was continu- safety procedures failed to notice It was reviewed last year as the revived the contract probably needed to run the West’s larg- carrier, developed at a cost of ing and it was too early draw the erased parameters. latest engine software was being because supplies have increased est turboprop engines is at the ¤20bn ($22.50bn), how to control conclusions. But the combination of lost data released, but regulators approved it from its newly expanded Ruwais centre of a complex chain of its four engines, people familiar “Safety is our first priority and and incomplete checks may also on the basis that the chances of fail- refinery, traders said. events under scrutiny follow- with the matter said. we will do all that is necessary to have exposed a vulnerability in the ure were small and the installation Adnoc finalised its latest ing an Airbus A400M military Computers operating each get the full picture of what could amount of information provided to procedure included extra checks, jet fuel term export contract plane crash last month, several engine cannot work if this data, have led to this tragic accident the pilots as they prepared for the people familiar with the matter said. with its usual buyers, including people familiar with the matter which is unique to each of the tur- and take the necessary action,” maiden flight of the plane, which The European Aviation Safety Royal Dutch Shell, Vitol, PTT said. boprops, is missing. she said, declining comment on had been sold to Turkey. Agency, which is responsible for and Morgan Stanley, traders The troop and cargo carrier Investigations are at an early any of the points in this article. Under the A400M’s design, the A400M certification, declined said, though this could not be crashed outside Seville, Spain, on stage but the key scenario being European Nato buyers have first warning pilots would receive to comment. A spokesman for confirmed. May 9 after three of its huge tur- examined is that the data — now been instructed not to use of the engine data problem would Europrop International, a con- Adnoc officials could not be boprop engines froze just minutes known as “torque calibration the Airbus computer system that be when the plane was 400 feet sortium of Rolls-Royce, Safran, reached for comment. into a routine, pre-delivery test parameters” — was acciden- was used to conduct the software in the air, according to a safety MTU Aero Engines and ITP, The refiner has given the option flight, killing four of its six crew tally wiped on three engines as installation on the A400M, people document. On the ground, there which makes the engine and its of offering more jet fuel volumes members. the engine software was being familiar with the order said. is no cockpit alert. control software, referred all once production from Ruwais is At the heart of the investiga- installed at Airbus facilities. Investigators are poring over That system has been in place questions to Airbus. stabilised, one of the sources said. tion are crucial computer files An Airbus spokeswoman said maintenance records to see how since the A400M first flew in 2009. REUTERS AGENCIES

Japan machinery orders rise Further yen weakness unlikely: BoJ

TOKYO: The yen is unlikely exchange rate, it shows that the because the Fed has done taper- to fall further on a real effec- yen is already very weak,” Kuroda ing and eyeing raising interest tive exchange rate basis because said. rates,” Kuroda told lawmakers in it is already “very weak”, Bank “Even further declines on a real parliament. of Japan Governor Haruhiko effective exchange rate basis are Kuroda said it is desirable for Kuroda said yesterday in not likely to happen.” the yen to trade in a range that remarks that rescued the cur- The real effective exchange broadly reflects economic fun- rency from a near 13-year low rate, which is the trade-weighted damentals, but declined to say against the dollar. value of the yen versus other whether or not the yen is cur- The yen jumped to 122.98 per countries after adjustments for rently in line with fundamentals. dollar after Kuroda’s comments, prices, shows that the yen is near The BOJ chief said he still having struck 125.86 on Friday its weakest level since the early expected inflation to rise to the — its weakest since June 2002 — 1973, according to BOJ data. central bank’s 2 percent target after strong US jobs data raised Since 2013, the yen has fallen around the first half of fiscal 2016, prospects for an increase in US largely as a result of the BOJ’s adding that quantitative easing interest rates. money printing strategy aimed would continue until inflation sta- Speaking to Japanese lawmak- at breaking the economy free bilized around that level. ers, Kuroda also said the dollar from a long phase of debilitating Two lawmakers in parliament, was not bound to rise against the deflation. one from the ruling Liberal yen if the Federal Reserve raises The BOJ is still in the middle Democratic Party’s coalition interest rates as traders may have of its massive quantitative easing partner and one from the oppo- already priced into the market program. sition, said the BOJ did not need the possibility of a rate hike. Some economists have said the to maintain its ultra-easy policy The BOJ governor’s comments divergence in monetary policy because Japan’s economy has playing down the possibility of between Japan and the United improved a lot. further yen declines reflect some States will push the dollar higher If this view spreads among policymakers’ concerns that an versus the yen, but Kuroda said politicians, it could take some of excessively weak yen could raise there was no certainty. the pressure off the BOJ to ease Workers walk on a scaffolding at a construction site in Tokyo yesterday. Japan’s core machinery orders import prices too quickly or “It’s hard to conclude deci- policy again if inflation is slow to unexpectedly rose in April at the fastest pace in four months, in a sign companies are turning more optimistic become a source of trade friction. sively that the dollar will con- accelerate later this year. about business investment as domestic demand strengthens. “If you look at the real effective tinue to strengthen further just REUTERS THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Africa leaders sign 26-nation free trade pact Deal to have enormous impact on African economy

SHARM EL SHEIKH, adopt practices that are neces- “The establishment of TFTA Egypt: African leaders signed sary to increase trade among will bolster intra-regional trade yesterday a 26-nation free ourselves... We will do what- by creating a wider market” that trade pact to create a common ever is possible to activate this will “increase investment flow... market that would span half agreement.” and enhance regional infrastruc- the continent from Cairo to World Bank President Jim ture development,” a final state- Cape Town. Yong Kim said the TFTA would ment said. The Tripartite Free Trade allow Africa “to make tremendous Negotiators drafted the deal Area (TFTA) deal, which must progress and move the entire con- this week in Sharm El Sheikh, still be fine-tuned and ratified, tinent forward.” and said it addresses such con- caps five years of talks to set up “Africa has made it clear that cerns as management of trade a framework for preferential tar- it is open for business.” disputes and protection for small iffs to ease the movement of goods The deal will integrate three manufacturers once the TFTA in an area home to 625 million existing trade blocs — the East comes into force. people. African Community, the Southern “The ultimate goal is to ensure Analysts it could have an enor- African Development Community easy movement of goods in these mous impact on African econo- and the Common Market for countries without duties,” Peter mies account for only about two Eastern and Southern Africa Kiguta, director general of the percent of global trade despite (COMESA) — whose countries East African Community said. strong growth. have a combined Gross Domestic The TFTA has been widely Egyptian President Abdel Product of more than $1 trillion welcomed by world business lead- Fattah Al Sisi, President Robert (¤885bn). ers, with experts pointing out Mugabe of Zimbabwe and “The geographical area cov- that only 12 percent of Africa’s President Omar al-Bashir of ers the Cape (of Good Hope) to trade is between countries on the Sudan were among those who Cairo... The agreement paves continent. signed the pact at a summit in the way for a continental free The United Nations Conference the Red Sea resort of Sharm El trade area that will combine the on Trade and Development said in Sheikh. three biggest regional communi- 2013 that if Africa is to boost its But hurdles remain, with the ties,” Ethiopian Prime Minister intra-continental trade, it must timeline for bringing down trade Hailemariam Desalegn told the focus on creating “more space Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi (left) greets President of Sudan Omar Al Bashir ahead of the Tripartite barriers yet to be worked out and summit. for the private sector to play an summit of Africa’s three major regional economic committees; the Common Market for Eastern and Southern the deal needing ratification in And Mugabe said the deal will active role”. Africa (COMESA), the South African Development Community (SADC), and the East African Community (EAC), national parliaments within two create a “borderless economy” Analysts say that although aimed at unifying them into one trade bloc, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, yesterday. years. that would rank 13th in the world the continent’s growth over the “What we are doing today rep- in terms of GDP. past 15 years outstripped global and Trade Mounir Fakhri Abdel the next five years” to TFTA “What we have realised is resents a very important step in Members of the three blocs GDP expansion by nearly three Nour said the TFTA will help countries, he said. that having one trade regime is the history of the regional inte- range from relatively devel- percentage points, falling com- Africa boost trade and attract Officials said companies would better than the costly multiple gration of Africa,” Sisi said as he oped economies such as South modity prices, power shortages, investment, while also building benefit from an improved and trade regimes,” said COMESA opened the summit. Africa and Egypt to coun- political instability and corrup- infrastructure and production harmonised trade regime, which Secretary General Sindiso He wrapped up the meet- tries like Angola, Ethiopia and tion are still holding back its capacities. would reduce the cost of doing Ngwenya, who led the negotia- ing saying: “We have told the Mozambique, which are seen as economies. “Egypt itself expects to export business by eliminating overlap- tions among the three blocs. word today... of our desire to having huge growth potential. Egypt’s Minister of Industry about $5bn worth of goods over ping trade rules. AFP UK clamps down on markets after scandals MSCI defers including

LONDON: Britain announced to the rules although unlike bank- was due to give later yesterday to they will be,” Osborne said. plans to clamp down on abuse ers they will not automatically be London’s finance industry chiefs. The review was carried out China in global index in financial markets yesterday presumed to be responsible for The Fair and Effective Markets jointly by the Bank of England, after a string of scandals that misconduct on their watch, poten- Review — which aims to plug gaps the Financial Conduct Authority SHANGHAI: Global index Director and Global Head of sullied the reputation of the tially weakening its impact. in the largely unregulated foreign (FCA), Britain’s top markets reg- compiler MSCI said it had Research Remy Briand said in a financial system and have so far Bank of England Governor exchange market in particular ulator, and the finance ministry. delayed including Chinese statement issued Tuesday. cost banks $19bn in fines. Mark Carney said central banks —was ordered by British finance Britain has already introduced shares in its benchmark “We look forward to a fruit- Under the proposals, criminal had shared in the failings of the minister George Osborne a year ago a law to prevent manipulation of index because there were still ful collaboration that will con- penalties currently in place for system in the past. The new after several British banks were eight major market benchmark “remaining issues” over mar- tribute to the further opening of insider trading in shares would be accountability rules would extend fined billions of pounds in 2013 for rates, including those at the ket access, but pledged to work the China A-shares markets to extended to fixed-income, currency to him and his deputies at the BoE trying to rig a widely used inter- centre of the Libor and foreign with China’s securities watch- international investors and the and commodity (FICC) markets which was caught up in a foreign est rate benchmark, the London exchange scandals. Those rules dog towards inclusion. inclusion in the MSCI Emerging with jail sentences for offenders exchange scandal last year. Interbank Offered Rate or Libor. feature the threat of prison sen- Speculation that China’s yuan- Markets Index,” Briand said. lengthened to up to 10 years. Carney said real markets were Some of the same banks were tences which will be increased denominated “A shares” would China’s Communist Party So-called “rolling bad apples” essential to guarantee prosperity. hit later by more fines for trying under the new proposals. be included in MSCI’s emerging closely monitors inflows and out- or individuals who are fired from “Not markets that collapse to manipulate the $5 trillion-a- The European Union is also markets index following its annual flows of capital owing to fears financial firms would no longer be when there is a shock from day foreign exchange market at a close to approving a law to tighten classification review helped push they could harm the economy and able to move to another job with- abroad. Not markets where trans- time when the Libor rigging was supervision of market bench- the Shanghai market up this week weaken its financial control. out their new employer knowing actions occur in chat rooms. Not being uncovered. marks after agreeing tougher on hopes it could bring in billions However, it has started to about their history. markets where no one appears “Individuals who fraudulently rules to penalise abusive trad- of dollars in extra funds. steadily open its capital markets, And far more managers in FICC accountable for anything,” he said. manipulate markets and commit ing practices and to inject more But New York-listed MSCI launching a scheme in November markets would be on the hook for His comments were made in financial crime should be treated transparency into trading. said on Tuesday there were still that connects the Shanghai and making sure that their staff stick excerpts of an annual speech he like the criminals they are — and REUTERS some matters that needed to be Hong Kong stock exchanges and addressed and it would work with allows investors from both sides the China Securities Regulatory of the border to trade selected Commission to resolve them, add- stocks in each. ing the stocks would be added as A similar scheme is planned to Aluminium Bahrain soon as this is resolved. link Hong Kong with the coun- The news sent the benchmark try’s second stock exchange in gets approval for Shanghai Composite Index tum- Shenzhen later in the year. bling more than two percent in Hand-picked foreign institu- opening trade Wednesday, but it tions can also access China’s capi- $3.5bn expansion later erased most of the losses to tal markets, but through a strict end down 0.15 percent. quota system. DUBAI: Aluminium Bahrain “Major investors around the The official Xinhua news agency (Alba), owner of one of the world are eager for further liber- said joining the global index club world’s largest smelters of the alisation of the China A-shares is only a matter of time. lightweight metal, has won gov- market,” MSCI Managing AFP ernment approval for a larger than originally planned $3.5bn expansion that will boost its output by more than 50 percent. The Line 6 expansion project is expected to boost Alba’s annual Elan Events achieves output by 514,000 tonnes to 1.45 million tonnes a year, the com- pany said on Wednesday, with around half of the extra produc- UFI certification tion to be sold to existing and new Bahraini customers. DOHA: Elan Events, a subsidi- direct foreign exhibitors and the Construction is expected to ary of Elan group, is now a cer- total number of visits or visitors. start in 2016 and production to tified member of the UFI (Union Elan Events managed to confirm begin in 2019, it said. The pro- des Foires Internationales/ global participants, and number duction capacity approved by The Global Association of the of foreign visits or visitors, and Alba’s board of directors is larger Officials and guests during the award ceremony. Exhibition Industry). here again Elan Events achieved than originally proposed and will Elan Events has received the attendance figures increase planned capital expendi- certification in the ‘Exhibition Jaber Al Ansari, Group CEO for ture to $3.5bn from $2.5bn. Etisalat named top telecom firm Organisers’ category and is now Elan, said: “We are very pleased Alba appointed JP Morgan, part of an esteemed global net- to receive this certification from Gulf International Bank and work of event organisers that global industry experts, who rec- National Bank of Bahrain as DOHA: Etisalat, the leading rankings of the Top Companies across the region and beyond. includes 659 members from 83 ognize the efforts of our teams in financial advisors for the project, telecommunications operator in in the Arab World 2015. Forbes Etisalat has maintained outstand- countries. The certification rein- producing outstanding products the statement said. Middle East, Africa and Asia, Middle East ranks Etisalat as the ing performance, with a market forces ELAN Events market that address market needs and The proposed opening date for has been recognised by Forbes number one telecommunications capitalization of more than USD leadership as an organization highlights our expertise and capa- Line 6 was dependent on final Middle East as the number one company and number three over- $26 billion and latest annual con- committed to hosting events that bilities. This is also a testament to approval for a gas pricing struc- telecommunication company in all in its business rankings of the solidated revenue of USD $13.3 fully comply with international our commitment to excellence in ture being received from the the Arab World. top 200 companies in the Arab billion. It has developed a strong standards and those required by providing our customers, partners Bahraini government, though The award was presented at World. business portfolio in 19 markets the UFI. and the community with inno- the statement did not say if a gas an event attended by VIP guests, Commenting on Etisalat’s across the Middle East, Africa The annual Qatar Motor Show vative concepts and unmatched price agreement has been reached including management business achievement, Khuloud Al Omian, and Asia. Throughout its long has been awarded with a ‘UFI levels of service. The UFI certi- with the government. The gas leaders and corporate decision Editor in Chief of Forbes Middle history Etisalat has consistently Approved Event’ status, further fication will benefit Qatar’s evolv- price Alba currently pays rose to makers. It was the third edition East said: “It is a well-deserved added to long list of achievements strengthening the shows’ global ing exhibitions industry and will $2.50 per million British thermal of the awards, and Etisalat’s win win for Etisalat, a company that in enabling the communities it popularity and its increasing further strengthen Qatar’s global units on April 1 and increases 25 carries on its previous success. has made significant contribu- serves and pioneering technology prominence on the world stage. positioning as a leading destina- cents every year to 2021. At the same time Forbes Middle tions to the development of tel- innovations in the region.” The certification is based on tion for exhibitions and events.” REUTERS East also unveiled its latest ecommunications infrastructure THE PENINSULA two key criteria; the number of THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

HCSF meeting Dubai’s free Turkish growth zone aims to triple number beats forecast, of firms

DUBAI: Dubai International rises to 2.3pc Financial Centre (DIFC) said yesterday it would triple the number of finance firms in the free zone by 2024, aiming Post-poll uncertainty clouds outlook to entrench its position as the Middle East’s most prominent ISTANBUL: Turkey’s econ- geopolitical tensions, financial vol- banking hub, despite growing omy grew a greater-than- atility and political uncertainty. competition. expected 2.3 percent in the first “Leading indicators show DIFC’s growth, particularly in quarter, data showed yesterday, growth has accelerated in the sec- the years after it was created in in a speck of good news for the ond quarter. The Turkish econ- 2004, initially came mainly from country as it faces the possibil- omy’s fundamentals are sound. European and US companies, but ity of weeks of fractious talks on Political uncertainty should not half of the expansion targeted for forming a coalition government. last long,” he wrote on Twitter. the next decade will come from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Investors have taken a less san- other emerging markets, the and members of the ruling AK guine view, however. ‘south-south trade corridor’ from Party had predicted for months the Ratings agency Moody’s said Latin America to South Asia, economy would get a boost after yesterday the election result especially India and China, DIFC Sunday’s parliamentary elections, is likely to give rise to political governor Essa Kazim said. arguing that political certainty uncertainty and delay the imple- French Finance Minister MicheL Sapin (left) greets Governor of the Banque de France (French central bank) The other half of the growth would help spur investment. mentation of economic reform. Christian Noyer, prior to a meeting of the High Council of Financial Stability (HCSF) at the Economy Ministry will come from expanding exist- But the AKP failed to secure a Turkey needs to increase in Paris yesterday. ing activities such as investment majority in the election, putting domestic savings, liberalise its banking and reinsurance, as well an end to its more than a decade labour market and reduce energy as pulling in more family-owned of single-party rule and plunging dependency, Moody’s said, all of investment offices and asset man- Turkey into political uncertainty which could be delayed by political agement businesses, Kazim said not seen since the 1990s. instability. Japanese insurer Tokio Marine at a news conference to announce That is hardly good news for The AKP now likely faces DIFC’s strategy for the next 10 investors, who are already worried weeks of difficult coalition nego- years. about stalling economic growth, tiations with reluctant opposition “Between high net worth indi- high debt levels and a cratering parties as it tries to form a stable to buy US-based HCC for $7.5bn vidual assets, sovereign wealth lira currency. While better than government, or could seek to go assets and the pension funds, expected, Wednesday’s GDP data it alone as a minority government TOKYO: Insurer Tokio Marine announced nearly $28bn worth of companies as they see their home assets of the region stand at $7 would do little to improve the ahead of an early election. Holdings has agreed to buy acquisitions in the past five years market decline. to $8 trillion but less then $1 tril- gloomy outlook, analysts said. Its most likely junior part- US-based HCC Insurance as they pursue business outside A strong yen in recent years lion is being managed from the “This stronger outturn was ner is the right-wing Nationalist Holdings for $7.5bn, the firms their home market, where a also encouraged the shopping region. We want to change that,” caused by a sharp pick-up in Movement Party (MHP), with which said yesterday, the latest over- shrinking population has weighed spree as overseas deals were he said. consumer spending, which came it shares a certain degree of con- seas acquisition by a Japanese on growth. relatively cheaper for Japanese In November, Kazim said the at the cost of a lower domestic servative and nationalist ideology. firm to counter a shrinking Tokio Marine’s latest deal beats companies, although the pace free zone would double over the savings rate and a wider current In one sign that a coalition may market at home. a $5.7bn bid by Dai-Ichi Life has slowed as the currency has next decade but the 10-year strat- account deficit,” said William be a possibility, a leading opposi- The cash deal will see Tokio Insurance for Protective Life last sharply weakened. egy envisions even faster growth: Jackson, an emerging markets tion politician said on Wednesday Marine pay $78 per share for year. In May Australia’s Toll increasing the number of financial economist at Capital Economics. that Erdogan appeared open to all HCC, a 35.8 percent premium on Since 2008 Tokio Marine has Holdings said its shareholders firms there to 1,000 by 2024, from “None of this looks sustainable coalition possibilities. the US firm’s average share price purchased Delphi Financial voted in favour of a $5.18bn takeo- 362 last year. and we think growth will be weak While Erdogan is supposed to over the past month, a joint state- Group for $2.7bn and Philadelphia ver bid by Japan Post, before the The workforce is targeted to over the coming quarters,” he said. be above party politics as presi- ment said. Consolidated for $4.7bn. global postal and logistics giant’s reach 50,000, compared with The 2.3 percent year-on-year dent, he still holds enormous sway “The acquisition of HCC signifi- The deal will diversify Tokio expected IPO later this year. 17,860 last year, and the DIFC growth outstripped the 1.6 per- over the AKP, which he founded. cantly enhances Tokio Marine’s Marine’s products and mar- Other major deals in recent will occupy 5.5 million sqft (510 cent forecast in a Reuters poll, Output grew 1.3 percent from operations in the United States, ket portfolio, said its president years include beverage giant sq metres), compared to 2.5 mil- triggering moderate gains in the previous quarter on a seasonal the largest insurance market in Tsuyoshi Nagano. Suntory’s nearly $16bn purchase lion sqft, Kazim said, denying both stocks and the lira, which and calendar-adjusted basis, the the world, and internationally,” “HCC is a top-tier special- of the Beam family business. that a rival financial free zone has fallen more than 15 percent Turkish Statistics Institute said. it said. ity insurer with market-lead- That deal — which dwarfed recently opened in neighbouring against the dollar this year. Gross domestic product (GDP) The companies said the deal ing underwriting capabilities. previous Suntory acquisitions — Abu Dhabi would stifle expansion Growth also slowed from the expanded 2.9 percent last year. was friendly and has the backing Leveraging Tokio Marine’s finan- was the third-biggest overseas in Dubai. fourth quarter, when it was at According to the Reuters poll, of HCC’s board. cial strength and global footprint, takeover by a Japanese firm, after “I think it’s good to build a clus- 2.6 percent year-on-year, and the economy is forecast to grow Houston-based HCC has assets HCC will further expand the mobile carrier SoftBank’s $21.6bn ter within the UAE as we have remains well below the govern- 3.05 percent this year as a whole, of about $11bn and 2,500 employ- revenues, profits and capabili- buyout of US-based Sprint Nextel done in other areas,” he said. “We ment’s 4 percent target. below a target of 4 percent in ees, while its Japanese purchaser ties of Tokio Marine,” he said in and Japan Tobacco’s 2007 pur- have more than one successful But Finance Minister Mehmet the government’s medium-term has about $173bn in assets and a statement. chase of Britain’s Gallaher for airline in the UAE and both are Simsek said the result was posi- programme. 40,000 workers. The HCC acquisition is the almost $19bn. expanding.” tive given stagnation in Europe, REUTERS Japanese insurance firms have latest in a series for Japanese REUTERS REUTERS Cairn India seeks to export oil despite ban China economy to pick

NEW DELHI: Cairn India billionaire Anil Agarwal, did not the copy of the notice. “They may Mangalore Refinery and Ltd has invited initial bids for respond to telephone calls and an be looking at discovering price for Petrochemicals Ltd’s managing up in second half exports of its oil from the desert email seeking comment about the their oil because the previous pric- director H Kumar said recently state of Rajasthan, according export notice. ing formula was valid till March his firm could buy 8,000 barrels BEIJING: Economists at market, anaemic domestic and to a copy of the tender notice, India is the world’s fourth- 31 and also now oil prices have per day (bpd) of Rajasthan crude China’s central bank have foreign demand and stuttering despite a government ban on biggest oil consumer and imports declined,” said the government this fiscal year, while Indian Oil sharply lowered their inflation local investment, China’s economy overseas sales of locally-pro- about 80 percent of its oil needs, official, who declined to be named. Corp plans to raise purchases buy forecast for 2015, while predict- grew at its weakest pace in six duced crude. leading it to place restrictions on Cairn India has been selling oil to a third to 40,000bpd. ing a pick up the world’s sec- years in the first quarter, expand- A government official said the export of locally-produced oil. Reliance Industries, Essar Oil and HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd, ond-biggest economy during the ing seven percent. there had been no change in the Despite this, Cairn India has Indian Oil Corp for the past five a joint venture of state-run next six months thanks to more There are few signs that the ban and that Cairn India might sought expressions of interest years on the basis of a negotiated Hindustan Petroleum Corp and stable home prices and firmer downturn is abating. China’s simply be trying to establish a from “reputed prospective inter- formula that allows a discount of steel tycoon Lakshmi N Mittal, foreign demand. imports shrank more sharply than price for its oil via the tender national buyers” for the export about 10-15 percent to Brent rates. has told the government it could In a report posted on website expected in May, data showed process ahead of negotiations to of about three to five cargoes of Demand for Cairn India’s oil in also process some Rajasthan of the People’s Bank of China earlier this week, strengthening sell it to local buyers. 600,000 barrels each in the quar- the current fiscal year is likely to crude, the government source said. (PBOC), the economists forecast investor bets that Beijing must Cairn India, backed by ter starting October, according to be higher than a year ago. REUTERS annual inflation of just 1.4 percent further relax policy. this year, lowering their estimate Worries over deflationary from 2.2 percent earlier. pressures were reflected in a The report specified that the sharp downward revision to the Intersolar expo estimates represented the view economists’ forecasts for pro- of the economists and not that of ducer prices, with the index Egypt’s annual the PBOC. The economists were now expected to fall 4.2 percent, cautiously optimistic, despite marking a far sharper drop than core inflation downward revisions to other fore- the 0.4 percent decline foreseen casts that reflected the headwinds earlier. rises in May faced by the stuttering economy. Kevin Lai, an economist at China’s sagging property mar- Daiwa in Hong Kong, reckoned CAIRO: Egypt’s annual urban ket is “starting to stabilise” and the central bank econmists were consumer inflation and core the world economy should show being too optimistic with their inflation both rose, driven in further signs of recovery in com- forecast for a recovery in growth large part by rising food prices. ing months, said the economists during the next six months. Urban consumer inflation rose who were led by Ma Jun, the cen- “We are not sure why the to 13.1 percent in May from 11 tal bank’s chief economist. PBOC economists think it will get percent in April, the official sta- Looser monetary policy condi- better,” Lai said. “We think the tistics agency CAPMAS said. tions as a result of China cutting second-half (of the year) will be Core annual inflation, which interest rates three times since more difficult. Deflationary pres- excludes volatile items like fruit November were also expected to sure will be stronger.” and vegetables, rose to 8.14 percent help shore up growth in coming Falling producer prices and in May from 7.19 percent the previ- months, the economists said. slowing consumer inflation will ous month, the central bank said. “We have reasons to expect lift borrowing costs in real terms, Inflation accelerated in Egypt some modest recovery in sequen- further squeezing companies after the government slashed sub- tial growth in the second-half of already buffeted by weak orders, sidies in July last year, pushing up this year,” they said. Lai said. He also doubted whether fuel prices as much as 78 percent. The economists noted that any turnaround in the housing “The jump in Egyptian infla- it takes six to nine months for market would be strong enough tion to 13.1 percent year on year China’s economy to feel the ben- to offset weakness elsewhere. in May was almost entirely driven efits of monetary policy easing. The PBOC economists a sharp rise in food inflation and, The report showed the econo- acknowledged China’s sluggish as a result, we don’t expect it to mists had shaved their forecast domestic demand, saying the have an impact on the MPC’s Visitors look at a floating photovoltaic ‘REC Peak Energy solar’ panel of the Norwegian REC Solar ASA com- for China’s economic growth to 7.0 housing slump and falling global rate decision tomorrow,” Capital pany at the Intersolar exhibition in Munich, Germany, yesterday. The trade fair for solar technology takes place percent for 2015, from 7.1 percent commodity prices had limited Economics said in a research note. till June 12. previously. spending. REUTERS Dragged by a cooling housing REUTERS THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Wealth created by internet Puerto Rico path to ease may not appear in GDP BY NOAH SMITH crunch hinges on insurers he question of whether economic growth is stagnat- ing probably hinges on the answer to another question: BY MICHELLE KASKE at finding liquidity,” said Daniel covering about $600m of the for the issuer. How much hidden value is being created by the and LAURA J KELLER Hanson, an analyst at Height transaction “in return for being Russ Grote, a Washington- TInternet. Securities LLC, a Washington- guaranteed that their principal based spokesman for the The stagnationists, most prominently Robert Gordon of he key to whether based broker dealer. If Puerto debt will not be reduced as part hedge-fund group, declined Northwestern University, claim to have the numbers on their Puerto Rico can Rico is able to sell the new of the restructuring of Prepa,” to comment, as did Ashweeta side. People spend a relatively small fraction of their income on ease its cash crunch bonds “they need to get it done Acosta said in Spanish to the Durani at Hamilton, Bermuda- online services. Most of what we consume online is free. Facebook may depend on bond at enough size to avoid coming House Treasury Committee on based Assured, Kevin Brown is free. Bloomberg View is free. If these goods are so valuable, insurers that protect back to market again.” May 30. Without insurance, the at Armonk, New York-based why aren’t people being charged for them (or for the Internet Tinvestors against losses. interest rate on the bonds “could MBIA, and David Millar, a access that lets you use them, which is typically a tiny share of The junk-rated US territory RESTRUCTURING PLAN be extremely high,” she said. spokesman for the GDB in New one’s income)? wants insurers such as Assured Prepa, as the electric utility is Yo rk . One possible answer is that Internet services generate a large Guaranty Ltd. and MBIA Inc. known, submitted a restructur- FUNDS’ DEMANDS Using bond insurance, “is amount of consumer surplus. Consumer surplus is where consum- to guarantee some of the $2.9bn ing plan to creditors last week Hedge funds also have going to lower the coupon pay- ers get a lot more value than what they pay for. If you would be of bonds that it plans to sell to that asks ratepayers, employees, demands. They want a portion ments that Puerto Rico has to willing to pay $1,000 for the new iPhone, but it only costs $600, stave off insolvency. Insuring bondholders and management to of the oil-tax bonds to be sub- make,” said Hanson at Height you effectively get a $400 bonus. An extreme example is the air some of the securities would share the burden of the agen- ordinate in payment and for Securities. “It’s going to reduce you breathe. You pay nothing for air, but you’d be willing to pay lure investors other than hedge cy’s recovery. It didn’t disclose the GDB to hold about $800m the amount of money that’s almost anything if you had to. The total value of the air is huge, funds, lower borrowing costs, potential investor losses. Also of those securities, Acosta said. going to debt service and that’s even though the amount we pay is essentially zero. and generate more proceeds that last week, the insurers consid- That would mean less proceeds ultimately what people care So the creation of the Internet, and all of the related services, Puerto Rico can use to replenish ered blocking an extension of to help relieve the island’s cash about.” might be generating a huge consumer surplus. Tyler Cowen, author its coffers. an agreement that kept talks crunch, she said. The funds are Units of Assured and MBIA of the book “The Great Stagnation,” is skeptical of this story. He The problem is that the insur- between creditors and the utility also asking for the debt to be have been in talks with the com- writes: ers’ willingness to participate out of court, people with knowl- immediately paid in full with monwealth about insuring some Might the consumer surplus [from the internet] be especially in the new deal depends on the edge of the talks said at the time. future interest in the event of a of the new debt, according to high?...I did some casual googling, and found a number of estimates amount of losses they’re forced The planned bond sale, to be default, Acosta said. three people familiar with the suggesting that smart phone demand is relatively price elastic... to take on $2.6bn of debt issued backed by oil taxes, may be a A group of hedge funds is discussions. That implies consumer surplus isn’t especially high, because many by the island’s power authority more difficult sell without the negotiating to buy the majority people aren’t willing to buy at the higher price...You also could that they already back, accord- insurers. Proceeds would repay of the planned bonds at a dis- DISCOUNT SIGNAL look at the literature on the demand for cable internet services. ing to Melba Acosta, president money the highway author- count, according to two people Insurers cover about $14bn of The results are mixed, but again I don’t see a strong case for a of Puerto Rico’s Government ity owes the GDB, which lends with direct knowledge of the the $72bn of debt that Puerto disproportionately high consumer surplus from these services, if Development Bank. Bond insur- to the commonwealth and its discussions. The group wants Rico and its agencies owe, anything the contrary. ers pledge to pay investors if a localities. The bank will run out insurers to back part of the according to the companies’ In other words, for products such as cable Internet and Samsung borrower defaults on guaranteed of cash by Sept. 30 without the deal at par, said the people, who websites. The island’s securities Galaxy smartphones, a small rise in price results in a big drop in debt or reduces insured obliga- deal, according to Puerto Rico requested anonymity because have traded at distressed levels demand. That’s very different from, say, the air, which you would tions through negotiations. financial documents. the talks are private. Debt sold for about two years. keep breathing in just about the same amount no matter how “This is sort of their last shot Insurers have proposed at a discount produces less cash BLOOMBERG expensive it got. If people are willing to abandon products just to save a few bucks, the hidden benefit of those products just can’t be that high. But there’s a problem with studies like these. There might be a lot of close substitutes for the goods considered in the studies. If I don’t get cable Internet, I can get DSL, or a fiber-optic Internet connection. If I don’t get a Samsung Galaxy I can get an iPhone. If my home Internet connection gets cut off, I can use my phone for a lot of things. When we’re asking about the consumer surplus created by the Internet, we should look at the price elasticity of the entire Internet. How much would people collectively pay to avoid being utterly, totally cut off from the entire Internet -- mobile phones, browsers, e-mail, the works -- for all leisure purposes? That answer is very hard to know, because we can’t actually observe that situation. One other wrinkle in the story is that there is one huge important thing that gross domestic product fails to account for: time. It’s obvious that we spend a lot of time online. Think of how much of your day you spend checking your phone, read- ing e-mail, scanning Facebook or watching streaming videos. It’s a little hard to believe that we would spend an enormous percentage of our lives using something that creates very little value for us. Two well-known economists, Austan Goolsbee and Peter Klenow, decided to look at this issue back in 2006. Making some assump- tions about how much people value leisure time, they estimated the consumer surplus from Internet services in terms of both time and money. They found that the surplus from the Internet was 10 times higher than previous estimates. The number they found was still fairly small -- only 2 per- cent of people’s annual income. But this was back in 2006, when fewer people were online, and people spent less time online. It was before the explosive growth of social media. It was before the wide- spread adoption of smartphones. It was also before streaming became big. So there are at least two reasons to think that the value of the Internet is higher than the numbers would seem to indicate based on consumer spending. That could be very important, because if it’s true, it means our economy hasn’t stagnated nearly as much in the past decade as the headline numbers seem to suggest. BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Operational excellence becomes oil industry watchword BY JOHN KEMP But the current round of cost busts before in the 1960s and But it is consistent with other OPERATIONAL to develop and produce than the cuts and efficiency measures 1980s when the number of rigs reports that show developers and EXCELLENCE low-cost giant reservoirs of the ost-cutting is set to seems set to go deeper and last drilling for oil and gas in the contractors cutting wages and “The recent collapse of oil Middle East. remain the main focus longer than in 2008/09. United States fell by more than prices to improve returns. prices from a peak of $147 has But they compare favourably for the oil industry for at Unlike the previous downturn, 50 percent. The industry is pursuing four once again made operational with higher cost resources such Cleast the next two years which was associated with a drop The current downturn is no major strategies for cutting costs. excellence a central imperative as Canada’s oil sands and Britain’s as petroleum producers adjust to in demand many considered tem- different with developers and First, reducing wage rates and for upstream oil and gas compa- North Sea fields. an environment of much lower porary, the current drop in prices operators looking to cut costs contractor fees. Britain’s North nies” management consultants for And they are certainly cheaper prices. is the result of the supply side which had become inflated dur- Sea operators have imposed a 10 McKinsey wrote in 2010. and less risky than some of the If the boom was characterised shale revolution that most expect ing the 2004-2014 boom. percent reduction in contractor “The fall of oil prices has mega-projects that have been pro- by an emphasis on ambitious and to lower prices for at least several “We all get a little lazy, a little rates across the board and are exposed an inflated cost base posed for areas like the Arctic and complex engineering and tech- years. flabby,” the chief financial officer pressing offshore workers to move in many oil and gas companies, ultra deepwater. nology projects, the downturn of drilling contractor Transocean from a shift pattern of two weeks forcing them to reduce operat- Compared with ultra deepwater has brought a renewed focus on CYCLE OF COST CONTROL admitted at a conference recently on/three weeks off to three weeks ing costs, rationalize investment projects and high pressure high simplification and efficiency. The cost of finding and develop- about the impact of years when oil on/three weeks off. budgets, and boost operational temperature wells, the technol- It marks a return to what was ing new oil fields (covering eve- prices were above $110 per barrel. Second, cutting fees and hire efficiency.” ogy employed in the shale fields is called “operational excellence” rything from leases and seismic “It’s been painful, but (the rates to service companies. The lesson is even more impor- relatively straightforward. during the long years of low oil surveys to hire rates for rigs and downturn) allowed a lot of folks Saudi Aramco has demanded tant now that prices are expected Shale is more like a mining prices in the 1990s. pressure pumping equipment) has to extract efficiencies” said an steep reductions of as much as 30 to remain lower for some years. or manufacturing process than Operational excellence is always been strongly correlated executive from another service percent in hire rates for drilling “Previous industry cycles have a traditional oil exploration about more than just short-term with oil prices. company (“Energy companies rigs and other oilfield equipment. shown that companies should use and development one and it expenditure reduction. In boom years, the race to grew lazy and flabby while oil Third, standardising opera- a price drop as an opportunity rewards the same mindset and But not even the free fruit for develop new resources causes the prices were high” June 4). tions as much as possible. Shell is to drive through fundamental approach. employees at BP’s giant campus industry to lose control over the Drilling and completion costs centralising its procurement and improvements in the way their The focus is on process effi- at Sunbury near London has cost of everything from rousta- have fallen by as much as 20-30 logistics operations in Canada’s operations function,” McKinsey ciency, standardisation and cost been spared from the search for bout wages and drill pipe to con- percent since the start of 2015, the oil sands region to boost efficiency concluded (“This is the time to minimisation, rather than compli- economies. sumables like fracking sand and Dallas district wrote in its contri- and squeeze economies of scale. deliver on upstream operational cated, bespoke, cutting edge and The fruit is a good symbol of drilling mud. bution to the Federal Reserve’s Finally, cancelling or postpon- excellence” Feb 2010). expensive engineering. the industry’s approach to cost When the bust arrives, surplus Beige Book for June. ing capital projects which are The shale revolution is trans- As shale output has effectively control: it was also axed during rigs are idled, field workers dis- The Fed’s survey of regional irreducibly complex, speculative forming the entire industry become the marginal barrel in a previous cost-cutting drive in missed and field developers rene- economic conditions is mostly and offer the highest risks and because of where it sits on the the oil market it is forcing other 2008 only to be restored when gotiate the costs of everything based on anecdotal contacts so most marginal returns to improve cost curve. oil producers to rethink their prices and revenues boomed with their contractors. caution is advised before placing performance for the portfolio as The mature shale plays of the approach. again. The industry has experienced too much emphasis upon it. a whole. United States are more expensive REUTERS THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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LeBron James (left) for LPGA of the Cleveland Cavaliers drives against Andre triple and Lguodala of the Golden State World No. 1 Warriors in the first quarter during Game Three of the RYE, New York: Park In-bee 2015 NBA Finals of South Korea has won the at Quicken Loans last two LPGA Championship Arena on Tuesday titles and is gunning for a rare in Cleveland, Ohio. triple in the new incarnation of the women’s major, the KPMG RIGHT: Matthew Women’s PGA Championship at Dellavedova (right) Westchester Country Club. of the Cleveland “The PGA of America and the Cavaliers shoots LPGA collaborating on this tour- against Stephen nament together and making a Curry of the Golden great tournament is something State Warriors in the different and something unique,” first quarter of the Park told reporters on Tuesday. game. “Everything is really new and everything is very fresh and very exciting. So I’m really excited to see what this tournament is going to end up being. I’m sure it’s going to be a great one, and hopefully I’ll be the one holding the trophy.” Only Sweden’s Annika Sorenstam has registered three wins in a row in the 60-year his- Stellar James, gritty Aussie tory of the event, achieving the feat with her victory in 2005. It is the first women’s cham- pionship staged by the PGA of America, which organises the PGA Championship men’s major, the Senior PGA and the Ryder guide Cavaliers to victory Cup among its competitions. For the LPGA, the partner- ship increased the prize money to $3.5m at a high-profile venue in the New York metropolitan NBA Finals: All-round James fires 40 points as Cleveland take 2-1 lead area, and has infused excitement among the 156 players contesting the second major of the season. CLEVELAND: Another spec- 20 points down to 81-80.“He’s in the fourth quarter but hit only The hilly Westchester layout tacular all-around performance made of steel,” James said of 36 of 90 shots on the night. with its sloping greens was a fix- by LeBron James and Matthew Dellavedova. “We were trying to make it ture on the PGA Tour for some Dellavedova’s gritty effort “He was huge for us. He gives us tough on them,” James said. 40 years. sparked the Cleveland Cavaliers that grit we need until the tank is “(Curry) is a great shooter and “You can’t hope to be on a bet- over Golden State 96-91 on empty. It’s great to have someone we’ve got to contain him. But ter golf course than this,” said Tuesday in game three of the like that sacrificing everything.” we made a lot of mistakes in the two-times major winner Cristie NBA Finals. Dellavedova experienced severe fourth quarter and we’ve got to Kerr. The Cavaliers seized a 2-1 lead cramping after the game and learn from that.” “It is such a scenic, beautiful, in the best-of-seven series with received an IV treatment. He did Curry praised James and the tough-as-nails golf course.” game four today in Cleveland. not speak with reporters and was Cavaliers for defensive work that Kerr said players were excited Teams winning game three after kept overnight at the Cleveland shut down the NBA”s most pro- to be playing the classic, tree- a split have taken the final 84 per- Clinic. lific scoring club. lined, 6,670-yard course playing cent of the time. The Cavaliers, who have won “LeBron is making some crazy at a par of 73. Four-time NBA Most Valuable 27 of their past 29 home games, plays,” Curry said. “Even being in the players Player James, playing in his seek Cleveland’s first crown in “They are all just fighting hard dining, you look up and Seve’s fifth consecutive finals, scored any sport since the 1964 NFL and we have to match their inten- (Ballesteros) picture is on the 40 points on 14-of-34 shooting Browns, the longest such US title sity, especially to start games. You wall, Hale Irwin, all the greats, while contributing 12 rebounds drought, while the Warriors seek can’t rely on your comeback abili- and then at the end there will be and eight assists. His 123 points their first title since 1975. ties every game to win a series one female with the trophy up through three games is an NBA The Warriors, who never led, like this.” there, so that’s really cool,” Kerr Finals record. had an NBA-best seven wins this Golden State Warriors’ forward David Lee (second left) reacts after being The Cavaliers, who lost star for- said. “I don’t know if I can continue season after trailing by 15 or more called for a foul on Cleveland Cavaliers’ guard Matthew Dellavedova of ward Kevin Love to a separated “That’s ground-breaking. It’s to produce these kind of numbers, points. Australia (second left, partially obscured) in the second half of Game left shoulder in the opening round just a cool week like that.” but I’ll keep doing whatever this Golden State’s Steph Curry, Three of the NBA Finals in Cleveland, Ohio, USA on Tuesday. of the play-offs and star guard Starting today, it also figures to team needs,” James said. who scored 27 points on 10-of-20 Kyrie Irving in the Finals opener be a stern test. “I’m so outside the box right shooting with 7-of-13 from 3-point to a fractured left kneecap, had “This golf course is probably a now. This is a totally different range, hit 17 in the fourth quar- within 94-91 but James hit two out there because the team defi- another injury scare when guard bit of everything,” said Park, who challenge.” ter. He pulled the Warriors within last free throws to seal the nitely feeds off my energy and Iman Shumpert suffered an early has two wins and seven top-10s in Australian guard Dellavedova 81-80 only to have Dellavedova Warriors’ fate. joy for the game. If it’s not going left shoulder injury when hit by a 2015. “You have to be accurate off added 20 points, 10 of them in the bank in a stumbling shot while “I didn’t make any shots in my way I have to find other ways screening Draymond Green. But the tee. You have to be accurate third quarter, and made a cru- being fouled for a 3-point play the first half,” Curry said. “But to get us going. It’s going to be a he returned and played 32 min- with the irons, and you have to cial 3-point play late in the game that sparked an 8-0 Cavs run. whether I’m making shots or not, hard-fought series and I’ve got to utes in all. putt really well. It has very slopey to foil Golden State’s comeback The last of three more Curry I’ve got to stay – I’ll use the word have a huge part in it.” “We just can’t afford any more greens.” after the Warriors rallied from 3-pointers put Golden State vibrant – just kind of having fun Golden State scored 36 points injuries,” James said. AFP Long-hitting American Lexi Thompson was eager to break out her driver on a layout set up with five par-five holes. “It’s a great golf course and is in amazing shape. Rough is deep Heston pitches no-hitter Ben Bishop (30) and it is a difficult track,” said of the Tampa 20-year-old Thompson, who won Bay Lightning the Ana Inspiration last year for celebrates with her first major. as Giants outclass Mets his team-mates “I’m definitely going to be after defeating bombing driver out there.” NEW YORK: Rookie right- seven straight games by tossing the Chicago Added Kerr: “You just can’t fall hander Chris Heston, mak- seven innings. Blackhawks 3-2 in asleep on any shot out there. ing just his 13th career start, Scherzer (6-5) lasted 6 2/3 Game Three of the “You have to be in control of became the latest Giants innings in his loss for Washington 2015 NHL Stanley how you’re hitting it, where you’re pitcher to join the no-hitter club (30-28). hitting it, how you position it into Cup final at the when he struck out 11 New York Angels 8, Rays 2 the greens. You have to use every United Center in Mets en route to a dominating Albert Pujols hit his 536th shot in the bag.” victory. career home run, matching Chicago, in this Park can recapture her number The no-hitter is the fourth by Mickey Mantle on baseball’s June 8, 2015 file one ranking from 18-year-old the Giants in the past four sea- career list and leading the Los photo. Lydia Ko of New Zealand with a sons and their fifth since 2009. Angeles Angels to a win over the victory this week. Heston added two RBIs for San Tampa Bay Rays, snapping a five- “That would be a nice gift,” said Francisco (33-26), the first of his game losing streak. Park. REUTERS career. The Angels (29-29) also got a Royals 2, Twins 0 double from Pujols and six-plus Lightning wary of Game 4 threat The Kansas City Royals solid innings from starter Matt scored once early and starter Shoemaker. AGENCIES NEW YORK: After pull- that. “Good teams – we’re cer- can dig deep and find a way to Chris Young combined with four ing off successive come-from- tainly there – find ways to win bounce back after tough games relievers to one-hit the Minnesota Baseball Results behind victories to snatch the games.” when the feeling isn’t so good. Twins in a victory. lead in the Stanley Cup Final, This is the Blackhawks’ third “You realize you don’t have Baltimore 1 Boston 0 Young held the Twins without a the Tampa Bay Lightning trip to the Stanley Cup Final in to waste any of that emotional hit until there was one out in the NY Yankees 6 Washington 1 are well aware of the Chicago six years, and they won on their or mental energy off the ice in bottom of the seventh. Milwaukee 4 Pittsburgh 1 Blackhawks’ knack for being at previous two visits. In 2013, they between games. You shut it off The win moved Kansas City Toronto 4 Miami 3 their best in Game Fours. battled back to beat the Boston and make sure you’re ready for (33-23) one game ahead of the Detroit 6 Chicago Cubs 0 The Blackhawks, who trail 2-1 Bruins after falling behind 2-1 in the next one.” Twins (33-25) for first place in Atlanta 6 San Diego 5 in the best-of-seven series after the championship series. The Blackhawks have gone the American League Central. Cincinnati 11 Philadelphia 2 a 3-2 loss at home to Tampa Bay, “Whether you win a game or a clutch 40-14 in Games Four Yankees 6, Nationals 1 have won Game Four in each lose a game ... the emotions are so through Seven under head coach San Francisco 5 NY Mets 0 Masahiro Tanaka outdueled of the three previous rounds – high, so low,” Blackhawks captain Joel Quenneville in the past seven Max Scherzer and the New York LA Angels 8 Tampa Bay 2 against the Nashville Predators, Jonathan Toews said. “You win a play-offs, compared to a 30-30 Yankees scored four runs in the Seattle 3 Cleveland 2 Minnesota Wild and Anaheim game in the first round, you get record in Games One through Park In-bee of South Korea poses bottom of the seventh inning for Chicago White Sox 4 Houston 2 Ducks. Game Four in the Stanley that feeling you’re going all the Three. with her trophy after winning the a victory over the Washington Kansas City 2 Minnesota 0 Cup Final is set for Chicago today. way to the Cup, nothing can stop Lightning, have an outstanding Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia 2012 Nationals. Colorado 4 St Louis 3 “We’re going to get their you. 8-3 road record in this play-off at the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Tanaka (4-1) helped the best,” Lightning captain Steven “The next day you lose, all of a run, which is just two wins shy of Texas 2 Oakland 1 Country Club in Kuala Lumpur, in Yankees (33-25) extend their Stamkos told reporters. sudden the thought crosses your the league record set by the LA LA Dodgers 3 Arizona 1 this October 2012 file photo. winning streak to a season-high “We have to be prepared for mind, ‘Better luck next year.’ You Kings in 2012. AGENCIES THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Hockey: Arab Nations Cup at Aspire Academy

Action from the Arab Nations Cup match between Qatar and Sudan at Aspire Academy in Doha yesterday. UAE and Oman are the other two teams taking part in a round-robin tournament which will end on Saturday. RIGHT: An Air India player is poised to score a field goal against Arabian Knights during their match at Aspire Academy in Doha yesterday. PICTURES BY ABDUL BASIT

Bouhanni wins Groth stuns Lopez fourth stage of Dauphine

SISTERON, France: French rider Nacer Bouhanni of the to reach last eight Cofidis team won the fourth stage of the Criterium du Dauphine in Sisteron yesterday, Haas proves you can’t keep a good man down his second stage victory in the race. Australia’s Rohan Dennis BERLIN: Australia’s Sam week after a year out following of BMC retained the over- Groth pulled off a second- ATP Stuttgart Open shoulder surgery. all race leader’s yellow jersey round shock at the Stuttgart When the patched-up German after the longest stage of the grasscourt tournament yester- Results had his latest brush with the sur- race, a 228-kilometre ride from day by recovering from losing STUTTGART, Germany: geon’s scalpel in June last year, Anneyron, although his team- the first set to beat third-seed Results from the third day of it looked as though the former mate Tejay van Garderen has the Feliciano Lopez in reaching the the ATP Stuttgart Open yes- world number two would be hang- same time. quarter-finals. terday (x denotes seeding): ing up his racket. Sprinter Bouhanni, 24, edged The 27-year-old from Second Round: Gael Monfils (FRA x4) bt But, at the age of 37, Haas is out Belgian rider Jonas Van Melbourne, who is ranked 66 in Andreas Haider-Maurer (AUT) 7-6 (8/6), 7-6 back in action on the grasscourts Genechten and Slovenia’s Luka the world, dug deep to claim a 3-6, (7/5); Viktor Troicki (SRB x8) bt Alexander at the Mercedes Cup in Stuttgart Mezgec by just over half a bike’s 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (8/6) win over the Zverev (GER) 6-3, 6-7 (6/8), 6-3; Sam Groth -- 12 months after his right shoul- length to follow up his win in Spaniard, who is 14th in the ATP (AUS) bt Feliciano Lopez (ESP x3) 3-6, 7-6(7/5), der broke down. Monday’s second stage and claim rankings, having held his nerve 7-6(8/6). He showed that his game is still a fifth win of the season. in a desperately tight third-set. intact too, beating Kazakhstan’s “I am very happy with my con- Groth has the chance to claim WTA Nottingham Results Mikhail Kukushkin 6-4 7-5 to set dition. I must have five or six sec- another scalp when he faces NOTTINGHAM, United up a second-round meeting with ond places since the start of the Serbia’s Viktor Troicki in the Kingdom: Results from Australian Bernard Tomic. season but this was also my fifth quarter-finals. the third day of the WTA “It was a very special feeling, victory,” said Bouhanni, who won Eighth seed Troicki needed Nottingham tournament yes- especially when I didn’t know the points classification at last three sets and exactly two hours terday (x denotes seeding): what it would feel like or how year’s Giro d’Italia. to also reach the last eight as Women Second Round: Lauren Davis (USA) you might perform walking out “I am gradually getting bet- he saw off 18-year-old German bt Magda Linette (POL) 5-7, 7-6 (15/13), 6-2 onto court,” wildcard Haas, who ter ahead of the Tour. Now I am Alexander Zverev, the young- Alison Riske (USA x5) bt Mirjana Lucic-Baroni received a rapturous ovation, told going to work on improving in est player in the top 100, 6-3, 6-7 (CRO) 6-3, 6-4. the ATP’s website. the mountains with an eye on the (6/8), 6-3. “There were emotions before Tour de France.” Fourth seed Gael Monfils ATP/WTA ‘s-Hertogen- and after the match, but it was a Today’s fifth stage will follow needed two tie-breakers to force bosch Results great start to get a win.” the 161-kilometre route from his way into the quarter-finals ROSMALEN, Netherlands: Haas, who broke both his Digne-les-Bains to Pra-Loup that with a win over Austria’s Andreas Results from the third day of ankles during the early days of will also make up the 17th stage of Haider-Maurer. the ATP/WTA ‘s-Hertogen- his career and missed most of the the Tour de France in July. France’s Monfils took nearly bosch tournament yesterday 2010 season after hip surgery and AFP an hour and a half to seal his (x denotes seeding): all of 2003 following right shoul- 7-6 (8/6), 7-6 (7/5) win and will der surgery, is yet to decide how Men’s Second Round: Ivo Karlovic (CRO x5) now face either Poland’s Jerzy many tournaments he will enter Criterium du bt Tatsuma Ito (JPN) 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (7/3); Robin Janowicz or home favourite this year. Haase (NED) bt Fernando Verdasco (ESP x7) Philipp Kohlschreiber for a semi- “The goal is to stay healthy, to 7-6 (7/4), 6-3. Dauphine Results final place. get the shoulder better and better Women’s Second Round: Yaroslava Shvedova SISTERON, France: Results Top seed Rafael Nadal starts to a point where I feel like I am from the fourth stage of the his campaign today with a sec- (KAZ) bt Marina Erakovic (NZL) 6-4, 6-4; Camila comfortable to play and can focus Giorgi (ITA x5) bt Michaella Krajicek (NED) 6-7 Criterium du Dauphine yes- ond-round match against Marcos on trying to win matches, instead Gael Monfils of France celebrates after defeating Austria’s Andreas terday, a 228km ride from Baghdatis. (2/7), 6-2, 6-4; Coco Vandeweghe (USA x3) of worrying about getting enough bt Tatjana Malek (GER) 7-5, 6-4; Kristina Haider-Maurer in their round of sixteen tennis match of the Mercedes Anneyron to Sisteron: Meanwhile, tennis’ great sur- speed on my first serve, or how it Mladenovic (FRA x7) bt Kurumi Nara (JPN) 6-7 Cup ATP tennis tournament in Stuttgart, southern Germany, yesterday. Stage vivor Tommy Haas begun yet feels after a set or two,” he said. (4/7), 6-3, 6-3. Monfils won the match 7-6 (8/6), 7-6 (7/5). another injury comeback this AGENCIES 1. Nacer Bouhanni (FRA/COF) 5h 30 min 53sec, 2. Jonas Van Genechten (BEL/IAM) same time, 3. Luka Mezgec (SLO/GIA) s.t., 4. Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR/MTN) s.t., 5. Alexei Tsatevich (RUS/KAT) s.t., 6. Julian Alaphilippe (FRA/ETI) s.t., 7. Samuel Dumoulin (FRA/ALM) Qatar Open Kiteboarding Championship begins today s.t., 8. Tiesj Benoot (BEL/LOT) s.t., 9. Kévin Reza (FRA/FDJ) s.t., 10. Nathan Haas (AUS/ CAN) s.t., 11. Björn Thurau (GER/BOA) s.t., 12. DOHA: The first edition of is established to encourage grass Bram Tankink (NED/LNL) s.t., 13. Maxime Bouet the Qatar Open Kiteboarding root development of the sport. (FRA/ETI) s.t., 14. Paul Voss (GER/BOA) s.t., 15. Championship will kick off As kitesurfing has just been con- Wout Poels (NED/SKY) s.t., 16. José Mendes today at the Qatar National firmed in the Youth Olympics (POR/BOA) s.t., 17. Dennis van Winden (NED/ Kiteboarding Centre, Fuwairit 2018, we are using such events to LNL) s.t., 18. Cyril Gautier (FRA/EUC) s.t., 19. Beach, organisers of the event expose the sport to the youth of Jay McCarthy (AUS/TIN) s.t., 20. Pim Ligthart said here yesterday. the nation and to encourage par- (NED/LOT) s.t. Sarah Lord, Technical Advisor ticipation. It is also the perfect Overall at the Qatar Sailing & Water- practice ground for amateur level Sports Federation said: “So far 24 competitors hoping to progress in 1. Rohan Dennis (AUS/BMC) 13h 31 min 30sec, 2. Tejay Van Garderen (USA/BMC) same time, A file pic- competitors have confirmed their the sport,” added Lord. 3. Andriy Grivko (UKR/AST) at 4sec, 4. Vincenzo ture of the entries and there is every likely The local challenge at the hood that more entries will be championship will be led by five Nibali (ITA/AST) 04, 5. Lieuwe Westra (NED/ Kiteboarding AST) 04, 6. Michele Scarponi (ITA/AST) 04, 7. competition. added to the list on Wednesday.” Qatari sailors and ten kiteboard- Of the 24 registered sailors ers based in Qatar, while seven Rein Taaramae (EST/AST) 04, 8. Gorka Izagirre three will be female competitors competitors from UAE, and (ESP/MOV) 05, 9. Alejandro Valverde (ESP/MOV) 05, 10. John Gadret (FRA/MOV) 05, 11. Benat and will be taking part in the one each from Saud Arabia and Intxausti (ESP/MOV) 05, 12. Julian Alaphilippe Freestyle, TT Race and Formula Bahrain will complete the list. (FRA/ETI) 18, 13. Maxime Bouet (FRA/ETI) 18, Race. The three-day championship 14. David De la Cruz (ESP/ETI) 18, 15. Pieter “This the first time Qatar will end on June 13. The daily Serry (BEL/ETI) 18, 16. Peter Kennaugh (GBR/ Sailing & Water-Sports schedule of the championship will SKY) 23, 17. Simon Gerrans (AUS/ORI) 23, 18. Federation will host this event, depend on the wind, the organiz- Simon Yates (GBR/ORI) 23, 19. Adam Yates and it is planned to continue as ers said. Races will start at 10am, (GBR/ORI) 23, 20. Ivan Santaromita (ITA/ORI) an annual event in our calendar. with races and freestyle continu- 23. The event is open to all levels and ing till 6pm. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

Gayle backs Pietersen to play India’s Dhawan, Vijay for England LONDON: West Indies star cricketer Chris Gayle has added his voice to the debate on controversial English bats- man Kevin Pietersen, saying he pummel toothless Tigers should be representing England across all formats of the game. Pietersen was sacked by the England and Wales Cricket Board Rain allows only 56 overs of play as Bangladeshi bowlers struggle (ECB) after last year’s Ashes whitewash defeat in Australia. FATULLAH, Bangladesh: his third Test century. The record-breaking batsman Indian openers Shikhar The hosts’ gameplan to play was hoping for a recall to the Dhawan and Murali Vijay flayed four spinners meant Mohammad England side after apparent pre- Bangladesh’s bowlers with an Shahid was the lone seamer in season encouragement from new unbeaten 239-run partnership the side, with part-timer Soumya ECB chairman Colin Graves, on the rain-curtailed opening Sarkar sharing the new ball. reports CMC. day of the one-off Test match in Taijul was the most expensive But even after his maiden Fatullah yesterday. bowler, conceding 55 runs in his triple-century for Surrey, he Dhawan was unbeaten on a 12 overs, while Jubair went for 41 was informed within hours by stroke-filled 150 off 158 balls and runs in his seven. ECB director of cricket Andrew Vijay was on a more sedate 89 Bangladesh coach Chandika Strauss that there is no immi- after their captain Virat Kohli Hathurusinghe insisted his team nent prospect of him playing for won the toss on the easy-paced should not be written off after England this season. wicket at the Khan Shaheb just one day’s play. “He should be playing for Osman Ali Stadium. “We still want to win, we are England, there are no two ways Left-hander Dhawan, who had still playing to win,” the former about it. They (ECB) must have been dropped for India’s previous Sri Lankan batsman said. “In their reasons but we would love Test against Australia in Sydney cricket anything can happen. to see your best player in action, in January, marked his comeback Until both sides have batted once, out in the middle, entertaining. with 21 boundaries in his third it is not right to judge a game. It doesn’t matter what format - century. “On a wicket like this, it is Test, 50-over, Twenty20 - he’s a Vijay, lucky to survive a leg- always a big advantage to win class player,” said Gayle. before appeal before he had the toss, bat and put up a big Strauss has confirmed that scored, proved the perfect foil total. They may have got off to Pietersen is “not part of our at the other end as Bangladesh a good start but we can still win plans” for the Ashes summer employed seven bowlers to try to the game provided we bowl well citing a “massive trust issue” break the partnership. tomorrow.” between himself and the 34-year- Just 56 of the stipulated 90 India brought back Harbhajan old cricketer. Pietersen will overs were bowled during the Singh after two years to partner play for St. Lucia Zouks in the day as rain, which arrived 25 min- fellow off-spinner Ashwin in a Caribbean Premier League (CPL) utes before lunch, washed out the two-man spin attack. due to start later this month. entire post-lunch session. Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur “One of the best players Floodlights had to be switched Rahim, who is recovering from a England has ever produced. But on in the morning session to allow finger injury, took the field as a it’s your loss. KP is looking for- play to take place as threatening specialist batsman, with debutant ward to CPL. England don’t want dark clouds loomed overhead. Litton Das taking over wicket- him? We will take him. He will Indian spinner Ravichandran keeping duties. AFP entertain the fans. We will make Ashwin said the tourists were some sales off him, sell some tick- not fretting about the forecast Scoreboard ets. It should be fantastic. The of uncertain weather for all five CPL is going to be one big party,” days. India (I innings): said Gayle. IANS “Cricket is a game where even M Vijay (batting) ...... 89 if you look to control the control- S Dhawan (batting) ...... 150 Zimbabwe lables, it is sometimes hard,” said Total (for no loss) ...... 239 Ashwin. “We can’t really control To bat: R Sharma, V Kohli, A Rahane, W Saha, the weather because that is out R Ashwin, H Singh, U Yadav, I Sharma, V Aar- confirm India of our reach. But if we put our on. best foot forward and the time is Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan (right) high-fives team-mate Murali Vijay as they walk off the field at the end of Bowling: Shahid 12-2-52-0, Sarkar 2-0-7- tour in July there, and if we bowl really well, the first day’s play at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium in Narayanganj yesterday. 0, Shuvagata 13-0-47-0, Shakib 9-1-34-0, we can enforce a result. We’d just Taijul 12-0-55-0, Jubair 7-0-41-0, Imrul 1-0- HARARE: Zimbabwe Cricket like to control the controllables.” Vijay brought up the double- but the untimely rain interrup- a difficult chance at short mid- 3-0. yesterday said India have agreed Dhawan and Vijay attacked century partnership with a six off tion denied him a chance to wicket after getting his hands on Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes, Mo- to tour Zimbabwe for a limited the four-pronged spin attack on leg-spinner Jubair Hossain, but it attempt a century before lunch. the ball. minul Haque, Mushfiqur Rahim (C), Shakib Al overs series featuring three One- either side of the interruption was Dhawan who dominated the The left-hander was on 73 When play resumed after tea, Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Litton Das, Shuvagata Day Internationals (ODIs) and to compile their second 200-plus stand with attractive strokes all when he mistimed a shot off left- Dhawan was stranded on 98 for Hom, Jubair Hossain, Taijul Islam, Moham- two Twenty20 Internationals. stand after their 289-run effort round the wicket. arm spinner Taijul Islam, but seven deliveries before pulling mad Shahid. “I can confirm that it’s now a against Australia in 2013. Dhawan raced to 74 off 71 balls, Shuvagata Hom failed to grasp Jubair for a boundary to bring up done deal. India are arriving on July 7 and will leave on the 20th, 3 ODIs and 2 T20s,” the chair- man of the Zimbabwe Cricket From startled rabbits, England roar like lions Committee, Alistair Campbell, said on Twitter. The BCCI is yet LONDON: England’s trans- “Still can’t believe what we included 14 sixes, two more than to issue a statement regarding formation from “startled rab- saw in Birmingham yesterday... their ODI record set against the tour. bits” at this year’s World Cup Remarkable mindset turnaround South Africa in 2009. “The schedule for the matches to record-breakers against New from what we saw at the World “We have had an attacking is almost done and should be Zealand on Tuesday has left Cup.” mindset, but the execution hasn’t released later this week. However, fans and pundits shaking their Joe Root and Jos Buttler hit always been there,” said 28-year- all the matches will be played in heads in disbelief. centuries, in 71 and 66 balls old Morgan, who also managed a Harare,” he added. The 408 for nine a rampant respectively, while Buttler and half century. “Attacking cricket India are currently touring England amassed in 50 overs at Adil Rashid put on 177 for the comes naturally to the guys we Bangaldesh for a series compris- Birmingham was their highest seventh wicket as England’s deci- have selected. ing one Test and three ODIs. ODI total and set up their big- sion to release the shackles on “We normally go into our shells, They also have a series against gest ever margin of victory in the their young guns paid handsome that’s just how we play cricket in Sri Lanka and South Africa later 50-over format, a 210-run rout. dividends. England because the ball moves this year. Captain Eoin Morgan, who Thrashed by New Zealand around. India last toured Zimbabwe suffered a miserable time at the in February as the World Cup “Slowly but surely we have in 2013 under Virat Kohli’s cap- World Cup where England were campaign petered out, England to move to the other end of the taincy when they swept the five- eliminated in the group phase promised a change of approach spectrum and stop playing safe match ODI series 5-0. having played passive, old school and were as good as their word, cricket. Today is a big step Zimbabwe recently toured cricket, described the display at blazing away with almost reck- towards that.” Pakistan, playing three ODIS Edgbaston as “close to perfect”. less abandon despite losing opener England’s next opportunity to and two T20s and becoming the Former skipper Michael Jason Roy from the first ball of display their new-found verve will first Test side to visit Pakistan Chris Jordan celebrates with his team-mates after England beat New Vaughan, who labelled England the match. be in the second match against since terrorists attacked the Sri Zealand in the first ODI, at Edgbaston in Birmingham on Tuesday. startled rabbits after the They responded with a blaze New Zealand at the Oval tomor- Lankan team in Lahore in March World Cup, said on Twitter: of aggressive strokeplay which row. REUTERS 2009. IANS De Villiers ‘role model’ for England’s Buttler

BIRMINGHAM: Jos Buttler Rashid (69) belied the team’s rep- the vice-captain of England’s one- England back at the World Cup, The next World Cup will be (pictured) said AB de Villiers utation for conservative one-day day side. but rather they had suffered a loss staged in England in 2019 and was his “role model” but insisted cricket during a stunning part- What made England’s dis- of confidence allied to question- Buttler warned against placing he’d a long way to go to match nership of 177 — a seventh-wicket play at Edgbaston all the more able tactics. too much emphasis on one result, the standards of the South record in all ODIs. extraordinary was that it was “It wasn’t through lack of however impressive. African star despite a dazzling Buttler’s ‘360 degree’ approach in complete contrast to their trying before — it’s not as if we “We don’t want to get carried hundred against New Zealand to batting has invited comparisons eight-wicket defeat by the even- wanted to play (like) that,” said away at one performance and at Edgbaston on Tuesday. with Proteas maestro de Villiers, tual World Cup finalists when Lancashire gloveman Buttler. think English ODI cricket is fixed Buttler’s thrilling century but the 24-year-old wicket- they last played New Zealand in “We weren’t playing well and we’re going to win the World off just 66 balls, which followed keeper/batsman told reporters: white-ball cricket at Wellington enough.” Cup,” he said. an almost as quick 71-ball ton “I’m not sure I’m quite at those in February. But Buttler said England’s fans Buttler now holds the record from Joe Root, allowed England to guys’ level yet. England suffered a humiliat- had to accept there would be days for England’s two fastest one- post a mammoth score of 408 for “AB de Villiers is someone who ing first-round exit at the global when the kind of bold approach day hundreds, with Tuesday’s ton nine in the first of a five-match has been a role model for me for showpiece tournament and one- on display at Edgbaston might not second only to his 61-ball century one-day series with the Black a long period of time — someone day skipper Eoin Morgan vowed pay off. against Sri Lanka at Lord’s last Caps. who has changed batting, I think, afterwards they would opt for a “I hit a couple through the slips year. It was the first time England over the past few years — and more dynamic approach to the — and if those chances are taken, “Throughout my career, that is had passed 400 in ODI cricket, everyone is trying to emulate him. 50-over game. we could potentially have been all the way I enjoy playing cricket,” while their eventual 210-run win- “That’s the role I want to play But few expected England to out for 250,” he explained. he said. “My method is to score as ning margin was another national in English cricket. make good on his words as soon “But if you scrape up to 250 in many as I can as quick as I can,” record. “I want to be that guy who can as the opening match of the New 50 overs, that’s not going to win Buttler added. England were in danger of go out like I did and play those Zealand one-day series. you too many games any more. The England-New Zealand undoing all their good early work kind of innings and try to do that However, Buttler insisted “You have to be looking at 300- series continues at The Oval at 202 for six but Buttler and Adil consistently,” added Buttler, now no absence of effort had held plus at least.” tomorrow. AFP THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT USA, Senegal advance into U-20 World Cup quarters Serbia make dramatic entry in last 16, Mali coast to easy victory

WELLINGTON: The United fell kindly for Rubio Rubin, who States and Senegal battled into calmly fired his shot home. the quarter-finals of the FIFA Colombia squandered a lifeline U-20 World Cup in New Zealand with 10 minutes to go when Jarlan yesterday, as Mali romped Barrera failed to convert a pen- through and Serbia dramati- alty awarded after Kellyn Perry- Steve McClaren cally gate-crashed the last eight. Acosta was sent off for wrestling The US beat Colombia 2-1, Rodin Quinones to the ground in despite finishing with 10 men, the box. and Senegal needed penalties The victory means the North McClaren after grinding out a 1-1 deadlock Americans will meet Serbia in the with Ukraine as the tournament’s quarter-finals. knockout phase began. The Serbs were red-hot favour- named as In another Round of 16 ites against Hungary, who scraped matches, Mali won their all- into the knockout phase after two African clash with Ghana 3-0 and defeats in their pool matches. Newcastle 10-man Serbia snatched a last- But the Maygars looked to have gasp 2-1 victory over Hungary, done enough with Bence Mervo’s head coach thanks to a desperately unlucky 57th-minute strike, only for Ivan own goal. Saponjic to head a dramatic stop- LONDON: Former England The US and Colombia set a page-time equaliser for Serbia. manager Steve McClaren has furious pace in a open first half, In another twist, Serbia’s Milan been appointed as the new head with both sides pressing during Gajic was then red-carded before coach of Newcastle United on an end-to-end exchanges but unable the match went into extra time. initial three-year contract, the to take their chances. The Serbs continued to attack, Premier League club announced Just as Colombia were begin- despite the disadvantage, and yesterday. ning to dominate, the US scored were rewarded with a winner just McClaren, 54, succeeds John against the run of play when seconds before the fixture would Carver, whose departure was con- Paul Arriola’s 58th-minute shot have gone to penalties. firmed earlier yesterday, and has was blocked by a defender but Hungarian defender Attila a clause in his contract that could Talaber tried to clear Saponjic’s see it extended to eight years, the FIFA U-20 World cross for a penalty but instead club said. sent the ball ballooning into his US players celebrate a goal against Colombia during their FIFA U-20 World Cup round of 16 football match at “I am privileged to be appointed Cup Results own net to put Serbia into the Wellington Regional Stadium in Wellington, yesterday. head coach of Newcastle United. last eight. This is a big club with a wonder- Round of 16 Tournament debutants Senegal ful heritage,” McClaren said in Mali 3 Ghana 0 were trailing until the 82nd or Uzbekistan. Ghana, the 2009 one-two that split the defence, from time with a cheeky chip a statement on the Newcastle Serbia 2 Hungary 1 minute, when Sidy Sarr scored the champions, qualified top of Group then sent his a shot past over the keeper to make it 3-0. website. USA 1 Colombia 0 first goal that the Ukrainians had B but looked a shadow of the side Ghanaian goalkeeper Lawrence It was Ghana’s earliest exit in “St James’ Park is like a Senegal 1 Ukraine 1 conceded during the tournament. that defeated pool rival Argentina Ati. Dieudonne Gbakle increased seven campaigns, while Mali keep cathedral on a Saturday after- (Senegal win 3-1 on penalties) It was enough to force the in one of the matches of the tour- the advantage in the 52nd minute, alive their dream of bettering the noon, a symbol for the city, and Today’s matches match to extra time and eventu- nament so far. Mali showed the outjumping a defender to inter- third-place finish they achieved I am excited to be given this Austria vs Uzbekistan ally penalties, when Ibrahima Sy greater attacking intent and cept the ball on the right wing, in 1999. opportunity.” emerged as the hero. Diadie Samassekou put them before cutting in and netting from Mali will face the winner McClaren reportedly turned Germany vs Nigeria Sy saved three of his four pen- ahead in the 20th minute. the edge of the box. of today’s encounter between down an approach from Newcastle Portugal vs New Zealand alties to book Senegal a quar- Samassekou combined with Aboubacar Doumbia put it Germany and Nigeria in the when the club’s former manager Brazil vs Uruguay ter-final against either Austria Lille’s Adama Traore in a quick beyond doubt seven minutes quarter-finals. AFP Alan Pardew left for Crystal Palace in January, which saw Carver promoted from his role Japan striker as assistant. But a return of three wins from Record for Marta as Brazil, 19 Premier League games nixed Ando ruled out Carver’s hopes of securing the job on a permanent basis and with of World Cup McClaren out of work following his sacking by Derby County in France get World Cup wins MONTREAL: Japan striker May, Newcastle went back to him. Kozue Ando has been ruled Managing director Lee MONTREAL: Brazil star out of the women’s World Cup Charnley revealed that McClaren Marta claimed a record 15th in Canada after fracturing her has been tasked to achieve a top- Women’s World Cup goal on ankle in the holders’ opening eight league finish and said that Tuesday in a 2-0 win over South 1-0 win over Switzerland, the he is “heavily incentivised” to win Korea, as France beat old rivals country’s football association the club’s first trophy since 1969. England 1-0 in their opener. said yesterday. “We recognise supporters’ Marta’s second-half penalty in Ando, 32, who has played over strong desire to win a trophy, the Group E clash in Montreal 100 times for the Nadeshiko, suf- an ambition which the club now saw the 29-year-old overtake fered the injury in the first half of shares as (owner) Mike Ashley Germany’s Birgit Prinz as the top Tuesday’s win when she was clat- made clear in his comments goalscorer in the history of the Brazil’s tered into by the Swiss goalkeeper on the final day of the season,” tournament. midfielder and was forced off the field after Charnley said. Veteran team-mate Formiga, Marta (front) the incident. “Steve is excited by this and he 37, had grabbed Brazil’s first-half controls the Japan’s Aya Miyama converted has our full support in trying to opener to become the oldest ever ball against the resulting 29th minute penalty achieve this goal.” Women’s World Cup goalscorer. South Korea’s to claim a 1-0 win in the Group Newcastle, who only avoided Brazil now lead Group E after defender Lee C opener. relegation from the Premier rivals Spain and Costa Rica Eunmi in the “Her characteristic aggressive League on the season’s final day, played out a 1-1 draw in Montreal. first half of play was the driving force behind had earlier announced the exits Earlier in Moncton, Eugenie Le their FIFA our victory,” Japan coach Norio of Carver and coach Steve Stone, Sommer’s spectacular first-half Women’s Sasaki was quoted as saying of freeing McClaren to bring in his goal got France off to a winning World Cup Ando by Kyodo. own back-room staff. start over England in Group F. “It’s a more serious injury than A former assistant to Alex 2015 Group The French, among the favour- I thought,” Sasaki said. Ferguson at Manchester United, E match at ites, dominated in rain and windy “She was the driving force McClaren made his name as a conditions in New Brunswick, the Olympic behind us getting three points manager at Middlesbrough, guid- condemning England to remain Stadium in in our first match, so this is a ing them to League Cup glory in winless against their old rivals Montreal, shame,” added the coach. 2004 and to the final of the 2006 since 1974. Canada, on “The players will need to fight UEFA Cup. “We’re relieved,” admitted Tuesday. hard in each match while keeping It earned him the chance France defender Laure Boulleau. Ando in their thoughts. to manage his country, but his “It was an extremely important Japan face Cameroon tomorrow 16-month tenure ended in dis- match to get into the competi- and then Ecuador on Tuesday in appointment as England failed tion. England were supposed to their next match of the tourna- to qualify for the 2008 European be more dangerous.” ment. REUTERS Championship. But England coach Mark He bounced back spectacularly Sampson warned: “Watch the at FC Twente, leading the club next game and see what comes to a first ever Dutch league title on then. in 2010, but subsequent stints at “I have some hungry players Wolfsburg, Nottingham Forest and a return to Twente proved on the bench who are keen to But it was an error from the the second half to witness the goal underwhelming. Women’s World get involved.” The sixth-ranked Korean defence that allowed they had all come to see. He was dismissed by Derby English, looking to push beyond Formiga through. Once again Formiga was the after the club missed out on Cup Results the quarter-finals for the first A solo break by Cristiane instigator, rushing into the a place in the Championship VA NCOU V ER: Results from time, chase their first points through midfield saw her lose Korean penalty area before being play-offs. the Women’s World Cup in against Mexico on Saturday when control of the ball and with Kim cut down by Cho Soh-yun. “I know how important Canada on Tuesday: France play Colombia. Doyeon too slow clearing, the Marta coolly slotted home Newcastle United is to the city At Moncton France are top of Group F pacy Formiga raced forward to almost 12 years after her first and the region,” said McClaren, Group F ahead of Colombia and Mexico sent the ball into the net. goal, also from the penalty spot who has also been appointed to who drew 1-1 in a game where Formiga also made history with against South Korea. the club’s board of directors. France 1 (Le Sommer 29) England 0; goalline technology was used for a record sixth World Cup appear- It was a 92nd goal in 93 inter- “The supporters are some of Colombia 1 (Montoya 82) Mexico 1 (Perez 36) the first time at the women’s ance, a mark she shares with nationals spanning 13 years for the most loyal, passionate and At Montreal tournament. Japan’s Homare Sawa. Her goal the Sweden-based player. devoted in the world. Despite Group E For Brazil it was a convinc- was her 20th in 137 international The reigning six-time Copa everything, they maintain their Spain 1 (V. Losada 13) Costa Rica 1 ing win by the 2007 runners-up appearances. America champions next play faith. We owe it to them to do eve- (Rodriguez R. 14); Brazil 2 (Formiga 33, Marta against a Korean side who had But the sea of yellow and green Spain with South Korea looking Kozue Ando rything we can to reward them 53-pen) South Korea 0 few real scoring opportunities. Brazilian fans had to wait until to beat Costa Rica. AFP with success.” AFP THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27

Messi targets title jinx as Chile aim to end century Copa kicks off

SANTIAGO: Argentina are favourites to end a 22-year tro- phy drought when the Copa America kicks off here yester- of Copa America pain day as a resurgent Brazil chase redemption following their ill- fated campaign at last year’s Hosts take on Ecuador, Uruguay confident despite Suarez absence World Cup. One of the most eagerly antici- pated Copas in years gets under SANTIAGO: Hosts Chile will way in Santiago, with hosts Chile kick off the 44th edition of the launching the three-week extrav- Copa America today aiming to aganza of South American foot- end one of the longest-running ball against Ecuador in Group A and most embarrassing records at 8.30pm (2330 GMT). in South American football. The 12-team tournament is a In 36 attempts spanning 99 convention of football’s deadliest years, Chile have never won the attacking talents, with a galaxy continent’s top competition. They of Europe-based stars including have finished runners-up four The players pose dur- Lionel Messi, Neymar, James times and in third place on a fur- ing a training session Rodriguez, Alexis Sanchez and ther five occasions. of Brazil’s football Edinson Cavani set to shine. It is a statistic that rankles team at Beira-Rio The competition also comes as a with Chileans. Even Bolivia, Stadium, in Porto welcome relief to South America’s Colombia, Paraguay and Peru -- Alegre, Brazil yester- governing body CONMEBOL, hardly footballing powerhouses day on the eve of a which has been battered by cor- -- have at least one Copa trophy friendly football match ruption allegations in the ongoing to their name. against Honduras scandal which has rocked world “It’s a big challenge for us all,” football. in preparation for captain and goalkeeper Claudio Argentina captain Messi and the upcoming Copa Bravo said on Tuesday ahead of Brazilian counterpart Neymar their opener against Ecuador in America 2015 to be head to Chile less than a week Santiago’s national stadium. held in Chile from after inspiring Barcelona to their “But in the Copa America, the today to July 4. Champions League triumph in real pressure is on the teams that Berlin on Saturday, the final act have lifted the trophy most often.” of a glittering treble-winning Those teams include Brazil season. and Argentina, who will start Both No.10s are carrying the the three-week tournament as weight of expectation on their favourites. shoulders, with Messi determined Dunga’s Brazil have won their to finally taste glory at a major last nine matches and will make it international tournament with 10 if they beat Honduras in Porto Argentina and Neymar aiming to Alegre on Wednesday in their erase the memory of last year’s final warm-up game before they campaign against Peru in the football, a talismanic presence to the semi-finals of the 2010 tournament. With Suarez banned World Cup. head to Chile. southern city of Temuco on who has repeatedly ridden to the World Cup was no fluke by going and Forlan retired, Uruguay will While Messi has been the key They have conceded just two Sunday before moving north to rescue of La Celeste, whether it on to win the 2011 Copa America look to Paris Saint-Germain star figure in Barcelona’s emergence goals in those games and beaten Santiago for a mouth-watering be by fair means or foul. in Argentina. Edinson Cavani to provide the as the dominant force in club Argentina, Chile, Colombia and clash with Colombia -- a repeat Uruguay captain Diego Godin One of the heroes of 2011, vet- goalscoring threat in attack. football over the past decade, France. Although all friendlies, of last year’s stormy World Cup acknowledged that Suarez was eran striker Diego Forlan, retired Cavani heads to Chile after a he has yet to taste victory in an the results have gone some way to quarter-final. a “fundamental” part of the in March. Former captain Diego treble-winning season in France, Argentina shirt, a gold medal in erasing the traumatic memory of If the groups turn out as national team, but has urged the Lugano is also gone, having not relaxed about the prospect of the 2008 Olympics aside. their 7-1 humiliation by Germany expected, Brazil will face squad to “forget” the striker as been selected since the World Cup shouldering the attacking burden “Our aim is to win this year,” at last year’s World Cup. Lionel Messi’s Argentina in the they prepare to face Group B last year. of his team. said Messi, who fell agonizingly They have conceded just two semi-finals. rivals Argentina, Paraguay and Coach Oscar Tabarez has also The wiry 28-year-old striker short of ending Argentina’s jinx in goals in those games and beaten Meanwhile, the absence of Luis Jamaica. been given another headache with said he had discussed the Copa an extra-time defeat to Germany Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Suarez is casting a shadow over “I’m not going to lie, the absence the injury to Juventus defender America with Suarez when the in last year’s World Cup final. “It’s France. Although all friendlies, Uruguay’s Copa America prepa- of Luis is important,” Godin said. Martin Caceres. two teammates’ paths crossed in great to play with the national the results have gone some way to rations but the reigning champi- “He’s a leader both on and off the Tabarez believes that Group B the Champions League earlier team, to wear the shirt and to be erasing the traumatic memory of ons are in defiant mood as they field and he has been in spectacu- rivals Argentina will represent this year. captain,” Messi added. “But get- their 7-1 humiliation by Germany attempt to defend their crown lar form.” the strongest opposition in Chile. “We talked about it after the ting a title would be the ultimate at last year’s World Cup. without the suspended Barcelona Nevertheless Godin believes “Argentina are potentially in match,” Cavani said. for me.” Neymar will spearhead Brazil’s star. Uruguay’s habit of punching the best shape,” said Tabarez, “I told him - ‘Great, now Edi Messi may feel he has a point attack after helping Barcelona Suarez remains sidelined from above their weight -- they have who masterminded Uruguay’s will have to do it all’. And we to prove, four years after being win the treble and, although left international football as he serves won more Copa America titles quarter-final upset of their neigh- laughed -- that’s the only thing jeered by his home fans during back Marcelo and midfielder Luiz the final few games of his ban than any other side -- gives them bours four years ago. you can do. Argentina’s quarter-final exit to Gustavo have withdrawn through for biting Italy defender Giorgio grounds for confidence in Chile. Uruguay’s other first round “These things happen in foot- eventual winners Uruguay. injury, they boast a formidable Chiellini on the shoulder at the “We’re in good form, we’ve got opponents are Paraguay and ball and it’s just turned out Argentina open their cam- squad anchored by Paris Saint World Cup last year. a great team and a great squad. Jamaica, who along with Mexico that I’m going to have to take paign against Paraguay on Germain team mates David Luiz The 28-year-old’s suspension We’re confident,” Godin said. are one of two teams from the responsibility.” Saturday, and should comfort- and Thiago Silva. deprives Uruguay of one of the Much has changed since CONCACAF region invited AFP ably progress from a Group B The Brazilians open their most potent attackers in world Uruguay showed that their run to participate in this year’s which also includes Uruguay and Jamaica, one of two teams from the CONCACAF region invited Mexico coach, to bolster the tournament. Chile’s National Croatia and Italy clash The biggest threat to players risk fine team player Arturo Argentina’s hopes of topping Vidal during a train- the group is likely to come from over tweets ing session at Juan in empty stadium defending champions Uruguay, Pinto Duran Sport who are bullish about their Complex in Santiago, ZAGREB: Croatia and field an adventurous 4-4-2 for- chances despite the absence of MEXICO CITY: Mexico man- Chile, yesterday. Italy will lock horns behind mation by partnering Leicester suspended talisman Luis Suarez. ager Miguel Herrera and two of Chile is hosting the closed doors in a Euro 2016 City striker Andrej Kramaric The holders will instead look his star players could face fines Copa America 2015. qualifier on Friday after the to Mario Mandzukic up front, to Paris Saint-Germain striker of $9,000 each for tweeting their BOTTOM: Mexico’s Balkan nation were given a while Modric’s absence could Cavani to provide the cutting edge support for a political party goalkeeper Jesus crowd ban following repeated unleash Barcelona’s Ivan in attack. during elections, their football Corona saves a ball offences by their fans. Rakitic into a free role in Cavani heads into the tourna- federation said Tuesday. during a training ses- In what would have attracted midfield. ment after notching 31 goals in Hector Gonzalez Inarritu, sion at La Pintana a full house in Croatia’s Italy coach Antonio Conte all competitions for the French director of the federation’s Stadium, ahead of Adriatic resort of Split, the faces a selection headache as giants this season, a haul which national teams, said Herrera top-of-the-table Group H fix- goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon has reportedly made him a trans- the Copa America admitted that he “was completely ture comes as an anti-climax and midfielder Marco Verratti fer target for Manchester United tournament, on the wrong” in writing his support for much to the dismay of the are doubtful. this summer. the Green Party on Twitter as outskirts of Santiago home team’s coach Niko Kovac. Buffon is struggling with a Brazil and Neymar meanwhile Mexicans voted in midterm elec- yesterday. Mexico “It is tragic for our soccer left elbow injury he sustained begin their campaign against Peru tions last Sunday. will play the group A and the people that no fans will against Barcelona in the in Group C on Sunday. Herrera and his players Oribe matches along with be allowed into the ground,” Champions League final while Brazil’s biggest challenge of the Peralta and Marco Fabian Chile, Ecuador and Kovac told the Croatian Verratti picked up a knock on first round comes three days later tweeted in favor the Greens hours Bolivia in the upcom- Football Association website his left calf in training. when they face Colombia on June before Mexico lost 2-0 to Brazil in ing Copa America (www.hns-cff.hr). “Croatia are a very good 17, a rematch of the two sides’ a friendly. 2015 in Chile. “Hence it won’t be an enjoy- team and they proved it at the bruising World Cup quarter-final “Let’s support the team. Don’t able event but there will be no San Siro but we have to qual- last year. forget to vote, let’s go with the excuses if we don’t get a result. ify,” Conte told the Italian foot- That stormy encounter was greens,” wrote Herrera, whose “Under the circumstances, ball federation (www.figc.it). notable for a series of rugged team will play in the Copa I’d be happy with a draw, espe- “We’re working on a dif- Brazilian challenges on Colombia America tournament in Chile, cially in view of the fact that ferent formation (to our pre- star James, although Brazil’s 2-1 which starts today. we will miss injured (mid- ferred 3-5-2), we need to play a win came at a price, with Neymar The federation’s disciplinary fielder) Luka Modric and system that fits the personnel.” suffering a broken vertebra that commission will decide whether (defender) Vedran Corluka Fatigue after a long club ended his World Cup. the trio will be fined following an through suspension.” season could also be a fac- Brazil’s World Cup dream investigation, Gonzalez Inarritu The Croatians were handed tor at both ends but Croatia’s was ultimately demolished by told Radio Formula. a one-match crowd ban after Dynamo Kiev defender Germany in the next round, when He said the Mexican Football racist chants by their fans Domagoj Vida is confident the the hosts were humiliated 7-1 in Ethics Code states that teams during a 5-1 home win over home side can take a big step the semi-finals, before losing 3-0 must maintain a “neutral posi- Norway in March, which towards next year’s finals in to the Netherlands in an abject tion in religious and political came on the back of incidents France. “Exhaustion goes out third place play-off display. issues” and urges them to prevent they caused during a 1-1 draw the window for a big game like Fast forward a year however personal interests from causing against Italy in Milan last this, it’s the group’s derby and and Brazil, under the guidance “conflicts of interest” between the November. we are confident as we’ve had of former coach and 1994 World federation, its members and third The match in the San Siro a very good campaign so far,” Cup-winning captain Dunga, are parties. stadium was twice halted after said Vida. back on track. The Green Party drew contro- visiting Croatia fans hurled Croatia top the group with Dunga’s men have reeled off versy in the runup to the elec- flares on to the pitch. 13 points from five games, fol- nine straight victories since the tions for violating campaign rules, Kovac could be tempted to lowed by Italy on 11. AFP World Cup and will feel confi- resulting in more than $30m in dent of reaching the Copa final fines. AFP in Santiago on July 4. AFP Thursday 11 June 2015 24 Shaaban 1436 Volume 20 Number 6458 Sport Price: QR2 Stellar James Dhawan, takes Cavaliers Vijay pummel

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World Cup Asian Qualifiers Asian nations hoping to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup and 2019 AFC Asian Cup will begin their preliminary joint qualification round two today. The Teams Some 39 sides are divided into eight groups. Group A: UAE, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Timor- Leste, Malaysia Group B: Australia, Jordan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Bangladesh Group C: China, Qatar, Maldives, Bhutan, Hong Kong Group D: Iran, Oman, India, Turkmenistan, Guam Group E: Japan, Syria, Afghanistan, Singapore, Cambodia Group F: Iraq, Vietnam, Thailand, Chinese Taipei Group G: Korea Republic, Kuwait, Lebanon, Myanmar, Laos Group H: Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Philippines, DPR Qatar’s coach Jose Daniel Korea, Yemen Carreno (second from right) What Next gives instructions to his players % during a training session in The teams will compete according to a Male yesterday, on the eve double round robin format, and the second round qualification matches will be held from of the Gulf nation’s World June 11, 2015 to March 29, 2016. Cup qualifier against the % Maldives. RIGHT: Jose Daniel The group winners and four best runners- up (total 12 teams) will advance to the 2019 Carreno speaks during a news Asian Cup finals and the final round of qualifying conference in Male yesterday. for the 2018 World Cup. %The next best 24 teams from the prelimi- nary stage of the joint qualifiers will compete in a separate competition for the remaining slots (12 slots or 11 slots and one slot for the host) in the 24-team 2019 Asian Cup finals. Qatar ready for fresh start Match Day 1 and Match Day 2 Fixtures June 11, 2015 Group A: Malaysia vs Timor-Leste, Palestine as road to Russia begins vs Saudi Arabia Group B: Bangladesh vs Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan vs Jordan Group C: Hong Kong vs Bhutan, Maldives vs The Maroons take on the Maldives in round two of the Asian qualifiers Qatar Group D: Guam vs Turkmenistan, India vs Oman DOHA: Qatar will restart their inside knowledge about Qatari 24 at the Abdullah Bin Khalifa aiming to reach the 2019 Asian on as head coach. Group E: Cambodia vs Singapore, Afghanistan campaign to reach the finals of football having coached Qatar Stadium. Cup to be held in the United Arab Australia will begin their vs Syria the 2018 FIFA World Cup today Stars League (QSL) side Al Arabi. Five days later, Qatar will visit Emirates. campaign next Tuesday in the Group G: Laos vs Myanmar, Lebanon vs Kuwait as they take on the Maldives in A month later, on October 8, China for their return game on With striker Khalfan Ibrahim, Kyrgyzstan capital of Bishkek, Group H: Philippines vs Bahrain, Yemen vs the tropical nation’s capital city Qatar will host China for their March 29 at the Shanxi Stadium, forward Hassan Al Haydos and with Group B also offering trips DPR Korea of Male. third 2018 World Cup qualifier at Xi’an. midfielder Ibrahim Magid hitting to Tajikistan, Bangladesh and June 16, 2015 For Qatar, who have never the Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium After missing the bus to Brazil peak form in their young careers, Jordan before concluding in reached the World Cup finals, the in Doha. last year, Carreno’s boys have Qatar can hope for a better show March. Group A: Timor-Leste vs UAE, Malaysia vs road to Russia begins with a new Maldives will also visit Doha in a task at hand — to help Qatar in the preliminary phase. “Some people got some geog- Palestine coach — Jose Daniel Carreno. the same week for their return reach their first ever World Cup Meanwhile, Asian champions raphy lessons last night, found Group B: Bangladesh vs Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan Carreno, who came in as clash on October 13. finals since they started featuring Australia and perennial World out some countries they probably vs Australia the replacement for Djamel On November 17, Bhutan will in qualifying matches for the 1978 Cup qualifiers Japan and South didn’t think existed,” Australia Group C: Bhutan vs China, Hong Kong vs Belmadi in May, had taken his welcome Qatar for their home FIFA World Cup. Korea will be heavily expected to coach Ange Postecoglou joked Maldives squad to England for warm-up game at the Changlimithang Hosts of the 2022 FIFA World take three of the continent’s four after the draw was made in April. Group D: Guam vs India, Turkmenistan vs Iran games ahead of today’s Group C Stadium in Thimphu. Cup, Qatar will be hoping to excel guaranteed places for Russia 2018, Japan also begin next Tuesday Group E: Japan vs Singapore, Cambodia vs clash. The game against Bhutan in in the next eight qualifying games with a fifth also possible through with a soft start at home to Afghanistan Friendlies against Ireland and November this year will be fol- over the course of nine months an intercontinental play-off. Singapore with further Group Group F: Chinese Taipei vs Thailand Scotland at the end of May and in lowed by a gap of four months. to reach the next phase in their Iran joined the trio in making E matches against Cambodia, Group G: Myanmar vs Korea Republic, Laos the first week of June respectively In March 2016, Qatar will wel- Russia campaign. it to Brazil last year and will be Syria and Afghanistan unlikely to vs Lebanon set things in motion for Carreno’s come Hong Kong for the return The 2018 qualifying games confident of back-to-back World trouble them. Group H: boys. game between the two sides. The have added importance as results Cups for the first time having THE PENINSULA/ DPR Korea vs Uzbekistan, Yemen vs Philippines The 52-year-old Uruguayan has game will be played on March will be deemed official for teams convinced Carlos Queiroz to stay AGENCIES FIFA suspends bidding for 2026 World Cup

LAUSANNE: FIFA yesterday officials and sports market- “There was due to be a vote in be chosen quickly at an announced it had suspended the ing executives were arrested in 2017 but there is no leadership at Extraordinary Congress to repre- bidding process to host the 2026 Zurich, Switzerland as part of an FIFA so it’s a good thing,” said sent a compelling new beginning.” World Cup amid the furore sur- investigation into alleged corrup- Platini. Niersbach, who insisted “every- rounding corruption probes at tion by US authorities. The United States, Canada, thing was correct” when Germany the organisation. The fallout led to the resigna- Mexico and Morocco are among was awarded the 2006 World Cup, “It was decided to place the tion last week of FIFA President the countries to have expressed also used his letter to call for “a administrative process on hold for Sepp Blatter, but his replacement some interest in hosting the 2026 comprehensive reform” of FIFA. the 2026 FIFA World Cup bidding will not be known until December tournament, while Kazakhstan “It must be our common goal due to the current situation,” a at the earliest, leaving the organi- said in March that they were to prevent unscrupulous people FIFA statement said. sation in limbo in the meantime. examining the possibility of being enriched at the expense of “Further decisions regarding “Due to the situation, I think bidding. football and tighter cash flows are the 2026 FIFA World Cup bidding it’s nonsense to start any bid- Meanwhile, Wolfgang needed,” he added. process will be discussed by the ding process for the time being. Niersbach, the President of the The decision to award the 2018 FIFA Executive Committee at a It will be postponed,” Valcke German Football Association World Cup to Russia is currently later date.” said at a news conference in the (DFB) who has been a long-time the subject of a probe by Swiss FIFA secretary general Jerome Russian 2018 World Cup host city critic of Blatter, used an open authorities as part of a far-reach- Valcke had announced in March of Samara yesterday after meet- letter to German clubs and asso- ing corruption scandal that has that the host country for the 2026 ing local officials for a scheduled ciation members to call for a suc- also raised questions about the tournament would be decided at a check on preparations there. cessor to be elected quickly. 2010 tournament in South Africa. FIFA Congress in the Malaysian Speaking at a press confer- “With all due respect for his But Valcke backed Russia’s capital Kuala Lumpur in 2017. ence in Paris exactly a year before life’s work, Sepp Blatter does right to host the 2018 finals, say- But football’s world govern- the start of Euro 2016, UEFA himself, and football as a whole, ing the country “has won the FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke attends a news conference during ing body was then plunged into President Michel Platini admit- no favours by drawing out his res- right...honestly and one must be his visit to Samara, one of the 2018 World Cup host cities, yesterday. a crisis at the end of last month ted the news did not come as a ignation,” Niersbach wrote. crazy to say that all hosting rights when 14 current or former FIFA surprise. “A new President must were bought.” AFP