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Deputy Emir attends QU graduation QR2.36m Arabic Ashghal trains novel prize winners named officials to DOHA: Katara yesterday announced winners of the first edition of its Arabic novel prize worth a total of $650,000 (about QR2.36m). prevent graft The five winners in the cat- egory of published novels are: Ameer Tajassir from Sudan, Muneera Sawar from Bahrain, Special centre designing courses Nasira Al Sadoun from Iraq, Ibrahim Abdul Majeed from DOHA: With billions of dollars development and said they were Egypt and Wasinee Al Araj at stake in infrastructure devel- contributing greatly to helping from Algeria. Each one gets opment projects many of which achieve the Qatar National Vision $60,000 (about QR218,490). are being handled by the Public 2030. The five winners for unpub- Works Authority (Ashghal), its “Our Centre is keen to develop lished novels are: Jalal Barjis from senior officials have recently anti-corruption training pro- Jordan, Abdul Jaleel Al Tuhami attended a training programme grammes for targeted segments, from Morocco, Maisaloon Hadi to identify corruption and pre- whose focus will be on providing from Iraq, Zakaria Abu Maria vent and fight the menace. practical training and not just from Morocco and Samih Al The training course was theoretical lessons,” he said. Jabbas from Egypt. Each one designed and provided by an anti- “Our job is to identify interna- gets $30,000 (about QR109,200). corruption centre that has been tional specialists who have proven Katara will make a film or set up here recently and which expertise in identifying and fight- Deputy Emir and Chairman of Board of Regents at Qatar University H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani drama from the best novel sle- aims at identifying target groups ing corruption and they will be attended the graduation ceremony of the batch of 2015 of Qatar University’s male students at Qatar National lected from the list. in the government to provide invited here to manage the train- Conventions Centre yesterday. See also page 3 THE PENINSULA training to prevent corruption. ing courses.” The Rule of Law and Anti- One of the main focuses of the Corruption Centre is designing a above programmes will be to tell number of anti-corruption train- the trainees about the different ing courses for target groups and forms of corruption and only then has plans to invite international can it be fought, the CEO said. Four killed in road crash near Mesaieed experts with proven track record The target segments that are to of fighting corruption in public be trained to prevent and combat DOHA: Four expatriates — also seen near the accident site. places to conduct the training pro- corruption will consist of senior two Filipinos and two Nepalese The cause of the accident is not grammes. The focus of the training government officials who also — died and four others were known. course for senior Ashghal officials need to be identified. injured, two of them critically, in Emergency services includ- was on preventing all forms of pos- The Centre will be closely coor- a road accident near Mesaieed ing an air ambulance of Hamad sible corruption in infrastructure dinating with the government in yesterday morning. Medical Corporation (HMC) was development projects. its efforts to spread awareness The dead and injured have been flown to the scene to apparently The Centre’s future training about the importance of the rule identified as employees of a con- transport the critically injured to programmes will focus on tack- of law and educate the right peo- struction company. Hamad General Hospital (HGH). ling corruption and particularly ple about it, said Al Athba. According to the embassies of Two Nepalese in critical con- identifying and fighting irregu- The aim of the Centre is to the Philippines and Nepal, the dition and are being treated at larities in handling public money make sure that Qatar has a cor- deceased were Ysrael Villamarin the Trauma Intensive Care Unit and detecting possible irregu- ruption-free environment. Cenina (37), Reymel Anonuevo (TICU) of HGH, a community larities in supply contracts and The training programmes Manalo (22), both Filipinos; and The badly-damaged vehicle involved in the accident near Mesaieed. source said. Two Filipinos — main contracts of development assume significance as a number Ram Prasad Rajbamssi and Girija Bernard Macasukit Teves and projects, and the process of tak- of cases of alleged corruption have Khanal, who were Nepalese. Their the highway between Salwa Road flipped over in the middle of the Christopher Colitano Cleofe — ing legal steps. The CEO of the been coming to light in the coun- bodies were kept at Al Wakrah and Mesaieed. Several photos of road, while hard hats of construc- were treated for minor injuries Centre, Fahad bin Sadoon Al try as tens of billions of dollars Hospital morgue. the accident site being circu- tion workers, mobile phones and and discharged from the hospital. Athba, lauded the role of Ashghal have been spent on infrastructure The accident occurred in Al lated on social media show bod- other belongings lie scattered. THE PENINSULA and its employees in national projects. THE PENINSULA Kharrara, a place which connects ies thrown out of a white vehicle Several trucks and SUVs are Continued on page 6

Global meet on UN announces Yemen talks; RP cancellation fee waived IS threat in DOHA: The Ministry of Interior has decided to not charge a fee for the cancellation of residency permits (RPs) of expatriates. The ministry levied QR60 as RP cancellation charges. Naturally, Paris on June 2 govt demands rebel pullout no fee will be charged for cancelling the RP of deceased expatriates as well. PARIS: France will host a high- SANA’A: The United Nations The State Cabinet yesterday approved a draft decision of the level meeting of the interna- announced yesterday a date for Ministry of Interior to amend certain provisions of its Decision tional community on combating its conference on Yemen, where (No. 19 of 2007) organising the fees for the services provided by the the threat posed by the Islamic Saudi-led warplanes have inten- Ministry, including some certificates it issues, reports Qatar News State group next month in Paris, sified raids against rebels in a Agency (QNA). authorities said yesterday. conflict that has displaced half THE PENINSULA “Along with (US Secretary a million people. of State) John Kerry and (Iraqi But Yemen’s government-in- Prime Minister Haider) Al Abadi, exile swiftly demanded a pullback Cabinet nod to Ramadan prices I will be welcoming in Paris on of the Iran-backed Shia rebels June 2 the members of the inter- from seized territory as a pre- DOHA: The State Cabinet yesterday endorsed a decision of the national coalition to talk about condition to joining the talks set Minister of Economy and Commerce to introduce price controls Iraq,” Fabius said in a speech in for May 28 in Geneva. for a number of food and non-food items during the fasting month the French capital. The developments came as of Ramadan, which will begin by the middle of next month, reports The “central” theme of the Tehran headed off a potential Qatar News Agency (QNA). meeting will be the crisis in Iraq confrontation with arch-foe The list of items is expected to be issued by the Economy Ministry although it was “not impossible” Washington by saying an Iranian 10 to 15 days before the holy month begins. that Syria would also be dis- ship bound for Yemen in defiance Last year, 400 items were on the list of controlled prices for the cussed, the minister added. “We of a blockade would now dock in fasting month. Some of a group of 200 Yemenis stranded in Egypt pray after arriving at have to take stock of how the Djibouti for UN inspection. THE PENINSULA Sana’a International Airport yesterday. coalition wants to proceed. And The Saudi-led coalition has the Iraqi prime minister will tell waged an air campaign against us what the situation is” on the the Houthi rebels since March 26 official invitation. But even if it Yassin told AFP. ground, added Fabius. Some 24 in an effort to restore the author- was invited, Yassin said the gov- After a five-day humanitarian ministers — including German ity of exiled President Abdrabuh ernment would not attend with- ceasefire expired at the weekend, Qatar to make vehicles in 2016 Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Mansur Hadi, who fled to Riyadh. out some implementation of UN the Arab coalition resumed bomb- DOHA: Qatar currently has has given assurances that by Steinmeier — will also travel to UN Secretary-General Ban Security Council Resolution 2216 ing several cities including Sana’a, an automobile assembly plant 2016 they will start manufactur- Paris, as well as representatives Ki-moon said next week’s con- as a sign of “goodwill”. accusing the rebels of having vio- and hopes to begin manufac- ing the same automobiles that from top international organi- ference was aimed at restoring The April resolution imposed lated the truce. turing vehicles by next year, are being now assembled here, sations, diplomatic sources said. “momentum towards a Yemeni- an arms embargo on the rebels The latest strikes on the capital according to a senior official. said Sheikh Thani. The announcement of the meet- led political transition process”. and demanded they relinquish overnight were “the most violent Speaking at ‘Made in Qatar A member of the board of ing came as Islamic State fight- Ban hoped the Geneva talks territory they seized since since the start of the bombing” Exhibition’, Sheikh Thani bin Ali Qatar International Conciliation ers overran part of the historic would “reduce the levels of vio- descending from their strong- campaign, said Old City resident bin Saud Al Thani told report- and Arbitration Centre, Sheikh Syrian city of Palmyra. lence and alleviate the intolerable hold in the mountains of northern Saleh Moqbel. ers yesterday that an automobile Thani said, it is known Qatar And in Iraq, the country’s army humanitarian situation”. Yemen last year. Civilians fled when powerful assembly plant here is churning has an advanced hydrocarbon and paramilitary forces have Following the announce- “We will not attend if there is blasts went off as warplanes tar- out vehicles but they are assem- industry and is new to other massed around Ramadi, aiming to ment, however, Foreign Minister no implementation, at least part geted for a second straight night bled ones. industrial sectors. recapture the strategic city from Riyadh Yassin said the Hadi gov- of it. If there is no withdrawal arms depots on hills overlooking The management of the plant THE PENINSULA IS. AFP ernment had yet to receive an from Aden at least, or Taez,” the city. AFP Promotion validonly21.05.2015,Purchaselimitmayapply.Offertillstockslast. 438,439,440,441/2015

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Deputy Emir and Chairman of QU Board of Regents H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani with other officials and graduates at the ceremony. 381 graduate from six QU colleges

DOHA: Qatar University’s Interior Minister H E Sheikh and one PharmD. Undergraduate “You will embark on a new and contribute to Qatar’s progress congratulated his counterparts Class of 2015 celebrated the Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa degrees by college were: 46 exciting phase of your life as you and development.” and said: “We’ve waited for this graduation of 381 male stu- Al Thani, Minister of Information Arts and Sciences (CAS), 84 prepare to join the labour market She praised the Emir’s vision- moment since we were school stu- dents from six colleges at a cer- and Communications Technology Business & Economics (CBE), and pursue other endeavours. ary leadership and support and dents, and today we are starting a emony graced by Deputy Emir H E Dr Hessa Sultan Al Jaber, 124 Engineering (CENG), 22 “We have no doubt that you said: “QU has accomplished suc- new phase in our lives. We over- and Chairman of QU Board of Minister of Labour and Social Law (LAWC), and 24 Shariah & will continue to serve as loyal cesses such as achieving accredi- came challenges to realise this Regents H H Sheikh Abdullah Affairs H E Dr Abdullah Saleh Islamic Studies (CSIS). ambassadors of the university tation, increasing the number successful chapter and we thank bin Hamad Al Thani. Mubarak Al Khulaifi, high-level Graduate degrees by college by utilising knowledge, skills and of graduate programmes and QU which gave us high-quality He also honoured 33 outstand- leaders of top organisations in were 10 CAS, 17 CBE, five CED, experiences you have acquired research projects based on com- education and opportunities to ing students who achieved GPA Qatar, QU vice-presidents and 32 CENG, one CPH and 16 CSIS. during your academic journey. munity needs, which support excel and unlock our potential, of 3.50 and above. associate VPs, deans, heads Congratulating the students, “As you start your career, my national priorities and develop- our parents for continuous sup- Students received their cer- of departments, faculty, staff, Prof Al Misnad said, “We are advice is that you stay com- ment strategies for sustainability, port and sacrifice, and our profes- tificates from QU President Prof alumni, students’ relatives and proud of you for achieving this mitted to lifelong learning. We health, information technology, sors for guidance and contribution Sheikha Abdulla Al Misnad and guests. milestone of a lifetime which believe in your capacities and social sciences and identity.” to developing our academic and the deans of the colleges, in the The graduates comprised 300 highlights your hard work, com- strength to overcome work- Valedictorian Ahmed Al professional abilities and capaci- presence of Prime Minister and bachelors, 79 masters, one PhD mitment and dedication. place and other challenges and Faridooni from College of Law ties.” THE PENINSULA

Qatar welcomes Cabinet approves draft consensus in law on real estate Yemen forum DOHA: Qatar welcomed par- ticipants’ consensus in the Yemeni national dialogue con- brokerage business ference in Riyadh and the adop- tion of the ‘Riyadh Declaration’. DOHA: The Cabinet yes- has the right to fix the road and In a statement yesterday, the terday approved a draft law return it to its original condi- Foreign Ministry called on all that seeks to regulate the tion with the licensee paying the Yemeni parties to work on imple- real estate brokerage business costs. menting the declaration, start and specify rights and duties The Cabinet approved a draft rebuilding Yemen’s state institu- of a real estate brokerage Emiri Decision amending some tions and launch a comprehensive company. provisions of the Decision No. national reconciliation to preserve Two other draft laws were 91 of 2011 on the establish- Yemen’s unity, stability and pros- approved by the Cabinet. One ment of the Committee for the perity. It also called on the inter- aims to regulate real estate reg- Protection of State Property. national community to participate istry and the other about docu- The amendment stipulates in rebuilding Yemen. mentation and notaries. that the committee shall have a A computer-generated image of Al Iman Village. The new legislations aim to secretariat, chaired by the sec- Ford Mustang GT protect real estate wealth of the retary and assisted by employ- state and individuals and keep ees of the represented bodies in models recalled pace with developments in the the panel. RAF to build villages for Syrians country. The decision designating DOHA: The Ministry of One of the draft laws includes them and defining their remu- DOHA: Sheikh Thani Bin campaign launched by RAF this among, other facilities. Economy and Commerce has provisions for the management neration shall be issued by the Abdullah Foundation for January. About 11,000 displaced Meanwhile, Qatar-based recalled Ford Mustang GT mod- of real estate registry, records chairman of the chairman. Humanitarian Services (RAF) Syrians will be sheltered in the Association of Friends of Mental els 2005-2008 due to the ineffec- of registration and ratification The Cabinet also approved a yesterday announced a $11m villages, including 450 families Health (Wayyak) will send a dele- tiveness of driver airbags. of signatures, procedures and draft decision of the Minister (about QR40m) project to set who have lost their breadwinners gation of mental health specialists It said the decision was part registration fees, documents to of Economy and Trade to issue up two villages in northern in the conflict. to the Rayahana refugee camp in of its coordination and follow- be registered and unification of executive regulations of the law Syria to rehabilitate displaced The villages are in Shammarin Syria near the Turkish border, up to ascertain car dealerships’ real estate and land registry and of patents. Syrians. area in Aleppo province north of Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Al commitment to follow up defects the committee on land registry. Under the law, an invention This is considered the big- Syria. Thani has said. and repair them and protect con- Prime Minister and Interior shall get a patent if it is new, gest-project to shelter displaced Al Noor village will have 800 The team will train medical sumer rights. Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah involving an innovative idea, can Syrians, a RAF official said temporary shelters — caravans — professionals to deal with mental The ministry said it will coordi- bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani be subject to industrial applica- yesterday. and Al Iman will consist of 700 and psychological problems aris- nate with the company’s agent to chaired the Cabinet’s regular tion, not inconsistent with the Al Noor and Al Iman villages shelters. ing from the ongoing war. follow up on maintenance, repairs meeting, QNA reports. provisions of Islamic Law or are built with make-shift shelters Both will be equipped with This is the first mission of and communication with custom- The Cabinet welcomed the contrary to the public order and will be ready by Ramadan, mosques, schools, shops, children’s Wayyak outside Qatar since it ers to ensure implementation of positive outcomes of the recent or public morals, and does not Aid Al Qahtani, Director-General, stadiums and health and educa- was launched last December, said procedures and reparation of the summit meeting between the affect national security. RAF, told a press conference tion facilities. Al Thani. The team will work in defective cars. GCC leaders and US President The patent is the certificate yesterday. The caravans will be operated coordination with the RAF relief It urged consumers to report Barack Obama at Camp David. granted by the Patent Office at The project is funded by with solar energy and will have mission in Syria. any irregularities to the Consumer The Cabinet said the joint the ministry to the invention’s donations collected through a refrigerator, kitchen, ventilator, THE PENINSULA Protection Department. QNA statement issued at the sum- owner to obtain the established mit in relation to strengthening legal protection in accordance Gulf-US relations and stances with the provisions of the law. on regional and international The draft executive regula- issues is a significant push tion includes provisions relat- towards enhancing the strate- ing to procedures to apply for gic partnership between GCC patent registration, the estab- Govt clarifies on BBC crew’s detention states and the US and taking lishment of a register of patents, relations to wider horizons to documents for the registration DOHA: Qatar’s Government interviews with the Minister were given an opportunity for a other journalists on the tour. They protect mutual interests and request and fees along with the Communications Office has of Labour and Social Welfare, comprehensive look at problems would have been able to visit – in boost security and stability in announcement of the patent issued a statement regarding the Secretary- General of the Qatar is facing and progress the broad daylight – the camps they the region. and its publication in the Patent the detention of the BBC televi- Supreme Committee for Legacy government and the private sec- tried to break into at night. It decided to take measures Gazette, which shall be delivered sion crew. and Delivery and the Director tor are making to address them. “Reporters from the Associated to issue a draft law regulat- to the right holder or his agent. It says the government organ- of Workers Welfare at Qatar They saw some labour villages. Press, AFP, the Guardian and Le ing works within the scope of The Cabinet also rati- ised earlier this month a press Foundation. The BBC was meant to be part Monde have filed stories on what streets after examining the rec- fied a draft agreement on the tour for reporters from the UK, “Perhaps anticipating that the of that tour, and would have been they saw and heard in Qatar, and ommendation of the Advisory encouragement and protection Europe and the region to pro- government would not provide if they had not chosen to break we invite interested readers to Council about the draft law. of mutual investments between vide a better understanding of this sort of access, the BBC crew Qatari laws. review their reports, which are The bill has provisions Qatar and Serbia and another challenges Qatar is facing and decided to do their own site visits “Once the BBC reporter and his available online. related to prohibition of exca- draft agreement on air services progress it is making on the issue and interviews in the days leading crew were released from deten- “By trespassing on private vation work and extending and between Qatar and Thailand. of migrant labour. up to the tour. tion, we tried to help them get the property and running afoul of maintaining service lines until The meeting also took meas- The office invited a dozen “In doing so, they trespassed on basic elements for the story they Qatari laws, the BBC reporter a licence is granted from the ures to endorse an agreement reporters to see first-hand some private property, which is against had missed. While the full pro- made himself the story. We hope relevant department except in between Qatar and South Korea sub-standard labour accommo- the law in Qatar as it is in most gramme could not be duplicated, that this was not his intention. urgent cases. on military cooperation and a dations and some new labour countries. After an official com- a separate one-on-one interview “We deeply regret that he was The concerned department memorandum of understand- villages. plaint from the owner, security with the Minister was arranged unable to report the real story, at Public Works Authority ing on cooperation in the field “We gave the reporters free forces were called and the BBC and they were able to tour a mod- which is that the government and (Ashghal) can withhold or can- of technology and innovation rein to interview whomsoever crew was detained. The crew was ern labour village. the private sector are making cel the licence according to pub- between the Ministry of Energy they chose and roam unaccom- brought before a public prosecu- “We hope it is clear from this significant progress in efforts to lic interests while providing a and Industry and South Korea’s panied in the labour villages,” the tor who released them after the detailed account that the prob- improve the lives and the labour rationale for the decision. Ministry of Trade, Industry and statement says. completion of legal procedures.” lems the BBC reporter and his conditions of guest workers in In case of breaches of obliga- Energy. “We arranged a roundta- The statement said the jour- crew experienced could have been Qatar,” the statement adds. tions by the licensee, Ashghal THE PENINSULA ble discussion and one-on-one nalists who took part in the tour avoided if they had chosen to join QNA THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Deputy Emir meets GCC judicial officials Sheikha Moza meets Park, leaves Seoul

South Korean President Park Geun-hye yesterday met H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson, Qatar Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani met GCC heads of Supreme and Cassation Courts at the Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development (QF), at Blue House in Seoul. They reviewed Emiri Diwan yesterday. He wished the officials, who were in Qatar for a second meeting, success for the good the deal signed between Education Above All Foundation and Korean International Cooperation Agency to of Gulf joint action on judicial cooperation. support the enrolment of thousands of children into quality primary education. 19,000 apply for 1,200 Qatari collectors keen to build seats allotted for Haj

DOHA: A total of 19,000 peo- Islamic Affairs has introduced ple — citizens and expatriates — online registration for aspiring specialised house museums from Qatar have applied for the pilgrims. limited 1,200 seats allotted for Eligible candidates will be cho- Haj this year. sen through an electronic draw BY RAYNALD C RIVERA The number of applicants is and informed through text mes- higher compared to last year sages, the daily said. DOHA: Interest in establish- by 4,000, a local Arabic daily Of the 1,200 seats, 900 are for ing specialised house museums reported yesterday. citizens, the daily said. is growing among Qatari collec- The Ministry of Awqaf and THE PENINSULA tors who appreciate the value of preserving historical items. “Many people are interested in establishing house museums which are very attractive as they specialise in certain domains,” QTA leading 14-member said Abdel Aziz Al Sayed, a Qatari collector who plans to set up a specialised museum. team to IMEX Frankfurt Al Sayed was speaking at a panel discussion organised by DOHA: Qatar Tourism held in Doha to earn accredita- Qatar Museums as part of a con- Authority (QTA) is leading tion from ICCA (International ference to observe International a delegation of 14 destination Congress and Convention Museum Day on Monday at management companies, pro- Association). Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) fessional conference organis- “Our strategy to increase the Auditorium. ers, hotels and other venues to number of tourists flocking to “Since I love desert and hunt- IMEX Frankfurt this week. Qatar by 20 percent places a great ing, I have collected a lot of desert Considered one of the largest emphasis on MICE, and with our hunting tools and was thinking of gatherings of professionals in the partners in the private sector we establishing a museum that cov- Meetings, Incentives, Conferences have worked to ensure we have ers more than 20 aspects of desert and Exhibitions (MICE) world, infrastructure to make this plan life,” he said. the event attracts nearly 15,000 a reality,” said Al Abdan. In its 38th year, International event agencies, corporate meet- “It’s an exciting period of Museum Day’s theme this year FROM LEFT: Abdel Aziz Al Sayed, Dr Rabee Al Kuwari and Saeed Ibrahim Al Mohannadi take part in the panel ing planners and other key growth for Qatar, and we are more was ‘Museums for a Sustainable discussion. stakeholders. than ready to welcome business Society’ and observed in more With an online platform that events, meetings and large con- than 35,000 museums in over 140 makes me happy and enjoy life. I Al Sayed. He is in the process of with my interest in exploring the allows attendees to schedule ventions.” The delegation includes countries around the world. remember the past and old people looking for objects used in falcon- desert. appointments with each other in Qatar Airways, Qatar National House museums are seen as an gone through the objects I pre- hunting and those on desert his- “I would go to the desert and advance, over 65,000 B2B meet- Convention Centre, Qatar added value to sparking and sus- serve,” he said. tory to put up his museum. find things worth exploiting and ings are expected to take place. MICE Development Institute, taining interest in the apprecia- “Purchasing rare objects you He has a wide collection of old discovering. According to Hamad Al Abdan, Marriot Marquis, Sheraton tion of museums among people. have been waiting for is some- and rare issues of newspapers, “Fossils were the first things I Director of Exhibitions, QTA, Doha, Kempinski Marsa Malaz – “Specialised museums attract times dearer to your heart than magazines and journals from collected. Then I started collect- Qatar has invested heavily in the Pearl, Intercontinental The people because they can relate to your daily needs. Qatar and all over the region. ing artefacts from the First and empowering the private sector to City, The St. Regis Doha, Doha them if they like the domain the “This is a feeling only people Qatari collector Saeed Ibrahim Second World War. create and attract innovative and Marriot Hotel, La Cigale Doha, museum deals with,” explained Al who love to collect know deeply. Al Mohannadi collects archaeo- “Whenever I travel, I go for a attractive events, congresses, con- Arabian Adventures Qatar, Gulf Sayed, whose interest in collection The challenge of looking for what logical artefacts and World War quest for these objects,” said Al ferences and exhibitions, allow- Adventures, Travel Designer and of artefacts started as a hobby. is rare and unique is a continu- I and II objects. My penchant in Mohannadi. ing dozens of large-scale events UTA Engage. THE PENINSULA “It is an expensive hobby but ous and endless journey,” said the field of archaeology started THE PENINSULA Qatar ‘experts more aware of cyber laws’

DOHA: IT (Information the rise, with one in five participants large portfolio of e-Serv- participants are concerned Technology) professionals in Qatar being aware of a privacy violation in ices available for constitu- with data and identity are more aware of local cyber laws the past 12 months. ents and businesses,” said theft that could result from than their peers in the GCC. Increasing threats of cyber-attacks, Soubhi Chebib, Country having to provide personal According to a Gulf Business coupled with the rise of cloud adop- General Manager, GBM data while making online Machines’ (GBM) survey released tion, mobility and social media, led Qatar. “Security has always transactions. Yet, three yesterday, 38 percent of Qatar companies to implement more flexible been of prime concern and out of five participants respondents were aware of local cyber technologies in the workplace, while the survey has shown that blindly accept online terms, laws compared to a regional average not necessarily investing enough to there is an impressive level which may lead to privacy of 21 percent. mitigate potential associated risks. of awareness in Qatar breaches. The annual GBM Security Study, “We do significant business with about the need for appro- “The future is digital,” now in fourth year, has shown that public and private organisations. priate systems to keep data said Hani Nofal, Vice- security breaches in the GCC are on Qatar is continuing to enrich its and information safe and President, Intelligent minimise the impact of Network Solutions, GBM. threats. This is good news “And we must ensure for Qatar’s future develop- that the correct security ment,” said Chebib. measures are in place for About 80 percent of organisations and the gen- respondents in Qatar are eral public to feel safe in not aware of any cyber the technologies that can threatening incident in provide added value to their company in the past their working and personal 12 months and 75 percent lives.” use same mobile for work Engineer Khalid N Sadiq and personal use. Around Al Hashmi, Assistant 30 percent accept terms Under Secretory, Cyber and conditions without Security Sector, said: reading them before down- “Public and private actors loading and installing apps encounter unprecedented on their mobile devices, said and unacceptable risks on the survey. The online sur- the Internet. As a result, vey polled 500 professionals public-private-partner- in the UAE, Qatar, Oman, ships (P3s) approaches Bahrain and Kuwait. were able to address With services are being complex national chal- brought online and the lenges through combined region’s growing focus on training and awareness smart services, the sur- programmes. vey has shown that cyber “We acknowledge GBM’s security continues to cause efforts in pioneering local concern for organisations P3s models in the region,” and individuals. It also he added. showed that 86 percent of THE PENINSULA

THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME QA to fly A350 XWB QRC to support Palestinian on double-daily service to Munich women in Lebanon hospitals DOHA: Qatar Airways (QA), key cities, reiterating the airline’s Child birth project to be implemented at Palestine Red Crescent facilities the global launch customer of commitment to the market.” A350 XWB, has announced QA’s A350 XWB boasts out- DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent the expansion of its A350 serv- standing levels of comfort with (QRC) has signed an MoU with ices to Germany, with the new a spacious seating configura- Lebanon’s Irshad and Islah aircraft being deployed on the tion. Wider seats in Business Islamic Beneficent Association Doha-Munich route. and Economy classes, the lowest to support Palestinian women Commencing on October 1, the twin engine noise level of any air- in the hospitals of Palestine Red airline will launch A350 XWB to craft, advanced air-conditioning Crescent (PRC) in Lebanon. Munich alongside its existing technology and full LED mood The project will be imple- Boeing 787 Dreamliner service lighting enhance the comfort mented in cooperation with on one of the two double-daily of passengers, while reducing United Nations Relief and Works flights. fatigue after a long flight. Agency for Palestine Refugees in Beginning on November 1, the QA’s A350s feature 283 seats the Near East. second daily flight to Munich — 36 in Business Class in a 1-2-1 The six-month deal was signed will also be operated with A350 configuration, featuring 80-inch by Saleh bin Ali Al Mohannadi, XWB, further strengthening the fully flat horizontal beds – and a Secretary-General, QRC, and airline’s position in Germany as 247 seating capacity in Economy Wassim Mohamed Al Mogharbel, a world-class carrier providing Class in a 3-3-3 layout. All seats Chairman, Irshad and Islah, dur- passengers with an exclusive pre- in Business Class have a direct ing a Lebanese delegation’s visit mium travel experience. aisle access with 17-inch HD in- to QRC. QA introduced its first and flight entertainment screens. QRC will provide $155,000 second commercial A350 XWB Economy Class features 10.6- (QR563,906) for the natural child- flights to the German market inch in-flight entertainment birth project and Irshad & Islah with flights to Frankfurt in screens and more space for pas- will manage it with the highest January and March this year. sengers in window seats, thanks proficiency in line with interna- It has also recently launched its to a vertical side wall panel tional medical care standards. Officials at the agreement signing ceremony. third A350 aircraft to Singapore design. Al Mohannadi stressed the and will add its fourth and fifth Passengers can also enjoy necessity of reprioritising the Al Mogharbel praised the long- refugees in Lebanon and the old endeavour launched by QRC aircraft with all three daily more than 2,000 movies, games needs of Palestinian and Syrian standing relationship between needy Palestinian and Lebanese as part of its humanitarian initia- flights to Singapore scheduled to and audio options on QA’s newly brothers, which was agreed upon Irshad & Islah and QRC, which communities. “We have signed the tives in solidarity with the vul- be operated with A350 XWB by revealed inflight entertainment with Al Mogharbel, to announce is now almost 10 years that wit- agreement on natural childbirth nerable in Lebanon, together with mid-August. system, ‘Oryx One – Explore. an up-to-date approach towards nessed dozens of joint health project in Palestinian refugee us and other charitable organisa- “The introduction of A350 Play. Share’ – available in the situation in Lebanon. and relief projects for Syrian camps and PRC hospitals. It is an tions.” THE PENINSULA XWB aircraft to the Doha- Business and Economy classes. Munich sector, which is an Doha-Munich A350 XWB important and strategic route schedules from October 1: for QA, will redefine the in-flight Departure from Doha QR 057 at experience for our Munich-based 08:20, arriving in Munich at 13:25 Ashghal opens integrated call centre for staff passengers who travel to Doha and departure from Munich QR and onwards to key destinations 058 at 16:35, arriving in Doha at DOHA: The Public Works up with them. hardware requests, requests to vehicles parking, guests housing, in the Middle East, Indian sub- 23:05 Authority (Ashghal) has Services include receiving extend and repair networks, as and all services provided by the continent, Africa, Asia Pacific Second daily Doha-Munich launched an integrated internal requests and inquiries related well as requests to activate appli- General Services Department. and the Americas,” said Akbar A350 XWB schedules from call centre for its employees. to the Human Resources cations adopted in Ashghal and The centre aims to save Al Baker, Qatar Airways Group November 1: Departure from The shared services contact Department — salaries, leave, other services. employees’ time and effort, pro- Chief Executive. Doha QR 059 at 02:15, arriving centre enables employees to allowances, exit procedures, It receives calls regarding gov- vide immediate response to their “QA is delighted to be the first in Munich at 06:30 and departure access its all services by contact- training courses, official duties, ernment housing, furniture allow- inquiries and follow up on request airline in Germany to provide from Munich QR 060 at 10:25, ing a sole entity. It receives staff and others. ance expense, financial approvals, to ensure it is managed as swiftly this unique offering of flying arriving in Doha at 18:00. calls, responds to their inquiries, The centre handles all IT payment requests, office furniture as possible, Ashghal said yester- exclusively A350 XWB to two THE PENINSULA meets their requests and follows requests and inquiries such as orders, access and exit cards, day. THE PENINSULA

Lexus Exclusive Service Reception opens Victims were on QA wins smart tourism way to work excellence award Continued from page 1 The victims were on their way DOHA: Qatar Airways (QA) region. to work in Mesaieed in a van has won the Middle East Experts, specialists and the rented by their employer IMCO Smart Government & Smart jury nominated QA for the Engineering and Construction Services Excellence Award for award in acknowledgement of Company, a Philippine embassy its ‘Smart Tourism e-Serv- the airline’s efforts to develop statement said. ices, at a ceremony held by e-Services, including its organi- “A vehicle accident occurred the Middle East Excellence sational shift to smart govern- around 7.30am today (yesterday) Awards Institute on May ment and implementation of in Mesaieed. Two Filipino nation- 20 at Ritz-Carlton, Dubai best practices in modern admin- als were declared dead while two International Financial istration and international others were hospitalised with Centre. The institute recog- competitiveness. minor wounds and were eventu- nises the significance of hon- “We are proud of this win ally discharged from the hospital ouring excellent organisations — such awards give us motiva- after undergoing treatment,” it and companies for achieve- tion to continue developing our added. ments in streamlining online systems and providing cutting- Arrangements are being made services that contribute to the edge services to our customers,” by the employer to send the bod- competitiveness of e-Services said Fathi Al Shehab, QA Senior ies to the Philippines. Abdullah Abdulghani & Bros Co. has inaugurated Lexus Exclusive Service Reception on Street No. 6 in the in the Middle East. Vice- President, GCC, Levant, “The employer has informed Industrial Area. It was opened by Abdulrahman Abduljaleel Al Abdulghani, Vice-Chairman of the company, and Rohan Seneviratne, QA Iran, Iraq and Yemen. the next of kin of the victims Motoyuki Yanai, General Manager, Toyota Motor Corporation, Bahrain Representative Office, in the presence Country Manager, UAE, “We are constantly working about the incident. We have also of others officials. The reception is open from Saturday to Wednesday from 6am to midnight and on Thursday received the award on behalf on developing and introducing informed the Ministry of Foreign from 6am to 11pm. of the airline at the ceremony the best smart strategies and Affairs in Manila and would assist which attracted more than 500 improving access to services in all consular assistance required dignitaries and participants for our customers in accordance to send the bodies back home,” a from the 21st GCC e-Govern- with the highest standards of senior official at the embassy told ment and e-Services Conference efficiency and quality,” he added. this newspaper. and media from across the THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA Lulu begins ‘Sale up to 50%’ DOHA: Lulu outlets have local community and the Middle disposable razors effective from again launched ‘Sale up to 50%’ East. May 5 to June 4. Customers who Promotion from yesterday until This year the festival features buy batteries will be entitled for June 10. more than 120 varieties from 10 iPhones 6, 16GB in a raffle draw It encompass almost all inter- India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, on June 8 and those who buy the national brands of menswear, Vietnam, Kenya, Brazil, Ivory razors for QR10 will be entitled ladies-wear, churidhars, saris, Coast, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, to get 11 Lulu Gift vouchers for a children-wear, footwear and Thailand, Malaysia, Uganda, total of QR20,000. ladies bags to suit all age groups. Ghana, the Philippines, Yemen, Abu Issa Marketing is conduct- According to Lulu manage- Ecuador and Africa. ing a promotion on Sapil Perfumes ment, it is one of the mega pro- Many vendor promotions also under the theme ‘SAPIL Drive motions every year and has gained have been launched. in Style’ effective from April 26 popularity as it adds more value Ali Bin Ali Master Food, in asso- until June 2. Customers who buy to customers’ money. ciation with Lulu Hypermarket the perfumes worth QR20 will be It is repeated after six months, Group, is organising a ‘Buy & entitled to get a raffle coupon to taking following requests from Win’ Promotion on Mars choco- win a Mitsubishi Pajero and 10 customers. lates from May 20 until May 31, Lulu Gift vouchers for a total of Meanwhile, the Mango Festival offering 53 prizes in a raffle draw QR5,000. was launched at all Lulu outlets on on June 6. Attractive promotions on Sunday and continues until May Customers who buy choco- supermarket and other depart- 23. It was inaugurated by Indian lates for QR30 are entitled to get ment store merchandise, espe- Ambassador Sanjiv Arora at Lulu Lulu Gift vouchers for a total of cially electronics and IT products, Hypermarket in Al Gharrafa, in QR50,000. have also been organised to ensure the presence of dignitaries. Salam Trading has launched customers are satisfied with a The festival aims to promote a ‘Buy & Win’ Promotion on better shopping experience. India’s agricultural produce in the Energizer Batteries and Schick THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Primary school students receive greenhouse trophy Somaiya Primary Independent School team grows fruits and vegetables

DOHA: Primary school stu- dents have been presented with a trophy after growing a bumper crop of fruits and vegetables and learning about healthy lifestyles as part of Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar’s (WCMC-Q) greenhouse initiative. The students of Somaiya Primary Independent School were awarded the trophy for The cafe in Building No. 4 on Shakespeare Street gives an exclusive look growing the best fruits and veg- into broadcast media and offers a selection of fresh organic dishes. etables and for the creativity they showed in decorating their greenhouse, which was given to the school as part of WCMC-Q’s Al Jazeera opens Sahtak Awalan — Your Health First campaign. The initiative, delivered in part- nership with Supreme Education cafe at Katara Council (SEC), has so far seen 40 elementary schools receive free DOHA: Al Jazeera opened its network’s TV channels and digital greenhouses, gardening tools, first cafe at Katara yesterday, properties keeping patrons capti- seeds, plant pots, compost and where visitors can explore the vated and informed. growing instructions. worlds of journalism, news, cur- Abdulla Alnajjar, Executive But it is constantly expanding rent affairs and documentaries. Director, Global Brand and and by the year-end, it is expected The cafe in Building No. 4 Communications, said: “What that about 70 schools will have Ahmed Salman Al Sheeb, Adviser, Education Institute, SEC; Hassan Al Mohamedi, Manager, SEC Communication on Shakespeare Street gives an we’re offering here is an experi- greenhouses. It is hoped that and Information Office; and Shikha Nasser Alsahl, Director, Somaiya Primary Independent School, with Grade 6 exclusive look into broadcast ence that makes people feel part every independent school will be students Mayar Emad Nusair (left) and Hafsa Mohammed Tahir. media and offers a selection of of Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera team and included in the initiative. fresh organic dishes. Al Jazeera environment. The Your Health First team provides healthy food for them. Fellow grade 6 student Hafsa harvesting them in February and It features an interactive studio “The cafe is a hub for conversa- visited the school to present the “They loved seeing the food Mohammed Tahir, 12, said, taking them home to eat with where visitors can take away vid- tion, debate and sharing of ideas students with the trophy after grow and went out every day to “Everyone knows that children their families. eos of themselves reading from a and opinions. their greenhouse was judged to look after their plants. They did like to eat fast food but we learned They have grown a wide variety teleprompter on an Al Jazeera set. “It fuses together our modern have produced the best crop of very well.” that fresh vegetables are nice and of produce, including tomatoes, Pieces of Al Jazeera’s history connections with the traditional all schools in the scheme and the Grade 6 student Mayar Emad we need to eat them when we are onions, cucumbers, eggplants, are on display, including its first idea of the coffee house as a cen- best decorated and maintained. Nusair, 11, said,“We enjoyed learn- young because we need nutritions peppers, radishes, arugula, pars- broadcasting equipment from tre of community.” Shikha Nasser Alsahl, Director ing about plants and how they to grow. My family is happy that I ley, cilantro and mint. 1996. The cafe is open to the public of the school, said, “The project can keep us healthy if we eat the want to eat healthy food and they Second place winners was The cafe boasts a smart con- and can be followed on Twitter, complemented what they have right things. We also learned that are helping me do it.” Jawaan bin Jassim School and temporary design for its zones, Facebook and Instagram at/ been learning in science classes plants give us life and if we look The students planted the Dukhan Independent School for with menus loaded on tablets, aljazeeracafe about healthy eating because they after plants then we are helping seeds in September and tended Boys was placed third. and many flat screens with the THE PENINSULA have seen in real life how nature to look after our planet.” them through the winter before THE PENINSULA

Safari Mall begins Mango Festival Mozaic TV’s Video on Demand popularity on the rise: Ooredoo DOHA: Ooredoo yes- Ooredoo has ensured the box- movies list every week to include a terday said its Mozaic office smash The SpongeBob Movie; mix of latest releases, classics and a TV’s Video On Demand Sponge Out Of Water starring Antonio range of titles in HD. (VOD) entertainment Banderas and Tom Kerry available With demand for entertainment service, which allows 24/7 on the service. services rising in Qatar, Ooredoo aims customers to rent mov- Once rented, movies are available to develop VOD service to allow users ies from the comfort of for 48 hours and customers can rent to purchase content to view on any their homes, has seen a more than one at a time. of their devices using Mozaic TV’s sharp rise in usage this Additional benefits of renting via catch-up application Mozaic GO. year, as more customers Mozaic TV include the freedom to All VOD content is charged look for a smart viewing play, pause, fast forward and rewind. directly to the customer’s monthly experience. Mozaic TV is committed to provid- Ooredoo bill. The service fast becom- ing unlimited, all-you-can-watch on Mozaic TV users can access the ing Qatar’s most popular demand access to movie fans for all service by clicking the “VOD” button VOD facility, experiences genres and languages. on their remote handsets. close to 50, 000 views every The VOD service refreshes its THE PENINSULA month, with customers able to choose from a large Hamad Dafar Al Ahababi, Chairman, Safari Group of Companies, Aboobakar Madapat, Managing Director, and library of thousand of titles P C Mathen, Manager and Business Development Manager, Almana & Partners, inaugurate the Mango Festival from Hollywood, Bollywood at Safari Mall, in the presence of others officials yesterday. and Arabic cinema with just the touch of a button. VOD also offers the freshest content for the whole family, with many Man jailed for supermarket theft titles available just after the cinematic release.

DOHA: A criminal court has sentenced a Sudanese to six months in jail for stealing QR10,000 from a supermarket in Al Shahaniya and ordered his deportation after he has served the term. Police caught him after seeing CCTV camera the footage in the outlet. The shopkeeper told police he had left without locking the door properly for Friday prayer. When he returned, he did not realise that his shop had been burgled. But after a few hours he came to know that QR10,000, currency notes of some other GCC countries and mobile recharge cards were missing. The footage showed the convict in a department on the first floor, but he disap- peared as the outlet closed. He got down with the crowd and paid at a cash counter for the commodities he bought. He broke into tears and said he had commit- ted the crime to cope with financial crises. He also guided police to the booty. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE capture of the historic city of Palmyra by the Islamic State militants yesterday further complicates the Syrian civil war. Not that TSyrian crisis lacked complications, but the Iraq’s strategy shows latest IS success is an ominous development riddled with consequences. This is the first time the Al Qaeda offshoot has taken control of a city directly from the Syrian army and allied forces, which have already lost ground in the signs of unravelling northwest and south to other insurgent groups in recent weeks. BY HUGH NAYLOR The fall of Palmyra should also send warning signals “The plan is looking like a failure,” Alwani said by telephone Saturday said Ihsan al-Shamari, a political ana- that the national government failed to across the world – this central city, also known as S ISLAMIC State militants lyst who lives in Baghdad. “Now the deliver weapons and military reinforce- Tadmur, is built alongside the remains of an oasis repeatedly attacked Ramadi Sunnis are even more suspicious of the ments despite the local forces’ repeated civilisation whose streets, temple and theatre have stood this year, police solicited cash government, and now it will be even requests for support. Police and local for 2,000 years. The IS can destroy the city’s heritage and Afrom local families and busi- harder to get them to cooperate with tribesmen pooled resources to purchase historical sites in the same way as it destroyed antiquities nessmen to buy weapons, one officer a political system that they already weapons such as Kalashnikov rifles and recalled. The Iraqi government didn’t deeply distrusted.” rounds on the black market, the police and ancient monuments in neighbouring Iraq. UNESCO pay the police for months, he said. A bloc of Sunni parties in the Iraqi official said, adding that wealthy fami- called for called for international efforts to protect “We begged and begged for more sup- parliament issued a statement Tuesday lies and business owners also donated Palmyra’s population “and safeguard the unique cultural port from the government, but noth- saying they “blame the government” for cash. heritage”. ing,” said Col. Eissa al-Alwani, a senior Ramadi’s capture by the Islamic State. He spoke by telephone a day before President Bashar Al Assad’s fortunes have been police officer in the city. The fall of The bloc, called the National Forces the city fell in intense battles that left dwindling of late after resisting advances of both the Ramadi amounts to more than the loss Union, demanded an investigation and over 500 dead and thousands displaced. of a major city in Iraq’s largest prov- called on the government to send arms Subsequent attempts to reach Alwani opposition rebels and Islamists for some time. The ince, analysts say. It could undermine to Anbar and pay salaries to pro-gov- by telephone were unsuccessful, and his opposition too has been consolidating its gains and as a Sunni support for Iraq’s broader effort ernment fighters in the province. fate is unclear. result, the Syrian army is stretched and exhausted and to drive back the Islamic State, vastly Islamic State militants had swept into Renad Mansour, an Iraq analyst at the latest failure is expected to complicating the war effort. Anbar last year, welcomed by some local the Carnegie Middle East Center, said sap their morale further. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on residents who were angered by discrimi- tribes in Anbar may have borne some The attack on Palmyra is Tuesday reiter- nation by the country’s Shiite-dominated of the responsibility for the military ated a govern- government and security forces. Nearly defeat. He noted that some of them had The IS part of a westward advance by ment pledge to a decade ago, with an insurgency raging been reluctant to allow Iraqi forces to Islamic State that is adding to train and arm in Anbar, Sunni tribes there switched fight in their territory. advance pressures on the overstretched Sunni fighters to sides and joined the American-led effort “There were points when they wanted military and allied militia. A bloc of Sunni rout the extrem- to defeat al-Qaida in Iraq, the precur- to get weapons but not allow soldiers to in Syria is The group holds tracts of land ists from the sor of the Islamic State. But the Sunni come in,” he said. Tribal leaders have parties in the Iraqi predominantly “Awakening” forces lost government at times been reluctant to coordinate in the north and east and is riddled with parliament issued Sunni province. support after the U.S. withdrawal in with the government, because of years now edging towards the more The government 2011. of discrimination and abuse by authori- consequences. heavily populated areas along its a statement on had announced This time, a number of tribes in ties in Baghdad. western flank. a military cam- Anbar held out for months against the For its part, the government was The IS advance is no good Tuesday saying paign that envi- Islamic State. But they complained that wary of sending arms to Anbar, in part news for the opposition and the sioned taking neither they nor the security forces got because shipments two years ago found they “blame the back Anbar support from the central government. their way to insurgents, analysts say. international community because government” for province in the Omar al-Alwani, a tribal leader Abadi on Sunday ordered Shiite mili- it will weaken the opposition and complicate the efforts coming months from Ramadi, said in a phone inter- tias who have supported the Iraqi army of US and its allies to root out this terrorist group. What Ramadi’s capture and then moving view that about 3,000 tribesmen had in other areas to deploy to Anbar. The Syria needs is a strengthening of its genuine opposition. on for a climac- fought alongside police in the city dur- Shiite fighters have proved crucial in The IS is worse than Assad; their victory will push the by the Islamic tic battle with ing months of battles with the Islamic driving Islamic State militants out of country into chaos and sectarian war. the extremists in State. But police forces did not receive several cities in recent months, but State. Mosul, Iraq’s sec- their salaries for six months, he said. human rights groups accuse the mili- It’s time for Washington and Arabs to wake up from ond-largest city. “The fight escalated and we had all tiamen of subsequently carrying out their slumber on Syria. Especially for the Gulf states, But the plan to these police without money, and the revenge attacks against Sunni resi- Syria is not a priority as Yemen is taking all their time. form an effective Sunni fighting force Islamic State started targeting them dents, intensifying sectarian tensions. And US President Obama has reneged on his promises was slow to take shape, hobbled by and their families,” he said. “So some Ahmed al-Sharifi, an Iraqi political on Syria. The international media too has lost interest government concerns that some of the of them eventually fled. But what else analyst, cited corruption as a major Sunnis might be close to the Islamic would you expect them to do in these reason why the Iraqi army performed in this crisis. Millions of Syrians have been displaced, State, analysts say. circumstance?” poorly in Ramadi. He estimated that tens of thousands have died and the whole country is a Now, with Ramadi being overrun, Col. Alwani, who is from the same there were as many as 23,000 “ghost wasteland. Peace and reconciliation efforts have failed many of the Sunni tribal leaders and extended family as the tribal leader, soldiers” on the government payroll in miserably and UN peace envoys have lost interest. fighters who might have helped the gov- also said police had not been paid in the province — people listed as draw- In this age of conflicts and chaos, lives are losing their ernment in Anbar have been killed or months. A call Tuesday seeking com- ing salaries but who were not actually value have fled to other parts of the country, ment from the Interior Ministry, which performing military service. . analysts say. oversees the police, was not returned. THE WASHINGTON POST The other side Quote of Go forward on India-EU talks the day HE European Union’s sides to draw up a road map. The EU strained. cuts in the agricultural sector would Ambassador to New Delhi, Joao identified India as a ‘strategic partner’ in The EU is one of India’s largest trad- mean Europe’s heavily subsidised agro Cravinho, last week expressed 2004. A Joint Action Plan was signed in ing partners and a major source of FDI. industry will dump its surplus here, hit- Tkeenness to pursue the India-EU 2005 and negotiations on the proposed The value of EU-India trade grew from ting Indian farmers. India’s generic drug Free Trade Agreement talks. The desire Broad-based Trade and Investment €28.6 billion in 2003 to €72.5 billion in market also raises intellectual property is mutual. Despite the vigorous pace Agreement (BTIA) were launched in June 2014, while trade in commercial serv- concerns for European pharmaceutical that the Narendra Modi government 2007. Eight years down the line, some ices rose from €5.2 billion in 2002 to corporations. India, on the other hand, This is not a fight has marked in the matter of foreign contentious issues still remain. In the €23.7 billion in 2013. India has con- is unhappy with the EU not recognising relations in general, this process has backdrop of Prime Minister Modi’s visit cluded agreements with ASEAN, Japan, it as a “data secure nation”, and with with Russian- remained in suspended animation for to France and Germany in April came Singapore and Korea. With the EU the what the EU has to offer in the area of two years now. Minister for Commerce the cancellation of the India-EU summit, scale of the deal is more ambitious, IT/BPO/KPO services (Mode 1) and backed separatists, and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman had apparently for “logistical” reasons. and consequently the disagreements. the movement of skilled professionals this is a real war assured the Ambassador in March of Issues such as the EU ban on import For instance, the EU is unhappy with (Mode 4). But the EU is no doubt keen India’s willingness to resume talks. As of mangoes from India announced in India’s protectionism in the automobile on partnering with India in programmes with Russia. Mr. Cravinho mentioned, the meeting May 2014, and the legal proceedings sector, and wants steep cuts in duties, such as Make in India, Swachh Bharat of the OECD countries scheduled for in India involving the Italian Marines, are and tariff cuts in things such as wine, and Smart City projects. Petro Poroshenko June offers an opportunity for both also factors that have left the relationship spirits and dairy products. But tariff THE HINDU Ukrainian President THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 ARAB VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 It is not allowed to be an Arab in Iran

after the game, leading to clashes Arabs in Iran continue to struggle for between the two sides and result- ing, according to some reports, in their rights and to overcome ethnic and the arrest of more than a thou- sand people. political persecution and get a fair share Reports said that the arrests mostly targeted people wearing Arab dress. of development projects in the country. Iranian security services’ cars were set on fire and some police streets and Arab neighbourhoods officers were injured. were given Persian names and historic sites that testified to A few questions the Arab identity of Ahwaz were The tragedies suffered by destroyed. Sheikh Khazal’s palace the people of Ahwaz have not was also destroyed in an attempt stopped Tehran from plunder- to obliterate any sign of the Arab ing the wealth of that land, which identity of the region. contains 90 percent of Iran’s oil Moreover, Iran systematically and gas resources, turning the worked to change the demographic province’s cities into the world’s composition of areas inhabited most polluted, depleting its water by ethnic minorities, especially resources by diverting the water Arabistan /Ahwaz, by either for- of Karun river to Persian cities cibly displacing people to rural such as Isfahan, and converting BY DR MOHAMMED AL Persian provinces or relocating agricultural land to factories SULAMI Persian families to minority areas and residential areas for fami- and offering them financial incen- lies moved from various Iranian ran occupied the Arab emir- tives and work opportunities to cities. ate of Arabistan and its encourage them to live in a “new Is it not enough that the people capital in 1925 through an homeland.” of Ahwaz are arrested and abused Iranian-British plot, in which because they express their Arab I Children in traditional Arab dress during a celebration in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Ahwaz, Iran. the emirate’s ruler, Sheikh Khazal The revolution identity or welcome Arab guests bin Jaber Al Kaabi, was invited The 1979 revolution, which to their city? to a meeting on board a British brought the clergy to power, gave People’s uprisings fact that the band members wore demonstrations and rallies were Is Iran so fragile that the dish- yacht, where he was arrested and hope to ethnic minorities in Iran, The emirate of Ahwaz has been Arab dress was the reason for this. organised to condemn the way the dasha poses a threat to the secu- later transferred to a prison in as they believed that whoever witnessing uprisings since 2005 municipality had dealt with the rity of the province and anyone Tehran, where he remained until raised Islamic slogans calling after a document sent by former Ahwaz Bouazizi young man. wearing it must be confronted his death in 1936. for the rights of ethnic, religious Iranian vice president Mohammad Recently, the Arab city of with force and arrested for and sectarian minorities will end Ali Abtahi to the military ruler Ahwaz witnessed something simi- Al Hilal match expressing his identity and the Systematic displacement oppression and injustice. But the in Ahwaz came to light. In the lar to the incident in Bouazizi in Just two days later, on March identity of the land? During the Pahlavi era, the opposite happened. document, the military official was Tunisia that lit the spark for the 16, 2015, the city of Ahwaz hosted Here we remind the Iranian government approved a project, The new system was harsh, invited to start the displacement Tunisian revolution at the end of an AFC Champions League foot- regime that history and reality which was promoted after the end unjust and oppressive to them of two-thirds of the indigenous 2010. ball match between Ahwaz Foulaz prove the Arab identity of this of World War I, targeting ethnic and the leaders of this system Ahwaz Arabs, with Persians to be Municipal authorities in Al and the Saudi Al Hilal team. province, and whenever restric- minorities in Iran so that they inherited from their predecessors brought to replace them. Muhammara (Khorramshahr Hundreds of young people in tions were imposed on its people would be stripped of their ethnic negative attitudes toward non- Ahwaz Arabs, like the other after Persianisation) destroyed the traditional Arab dress, known they became more committed identity, culture, heritage and lan- Persians, especially Arabs. non-Persians in Iran, are pre- pushcart of a 34-year-old Ahwaz as dishdasha, turned out to wel- to their identity and expressed guage. The Persian language was Arabs in Iran continue to vented from learning the Arabic vendor named Younis Asakereh. come the Saudi team at Ahwaz themselves more openly. imposed on them as the official struggle for their rights and to language and there are significant The cart was the only source of Airport. The people’s anger is recipro- language of Iran. overcome ethnic and political restrictions on their cultural and income for him and his family, and During the game, on March 17, cating the regime’s oppression The torment and suffering of persecution and get a fair share of literary activities. In the latest in protest he set himself on fire in 2015, the people of Ahwaz cheered and torture; for every action Ahwaz people began when the development projects in the coun- example of this policy, an Ahwaz front of the municipal building. He the visitors by raising banners there is an equal and opposite Iranian government tried hard to try. But the Iranian regime has folklore band was prevented from was taken to a hospital, where he referring to their common Arab reaction! change their Arab identity in the ignored these demands. Instead, presenting its traditional show died a few days later. background and singing songs. The author is a columnist and crucible of Persian nationalism. the injustice and oppression of the during the Heritage Festival in The incident caused a great This angered the Iranian author- political analyst specialising in Towns, villages, mountains, rivers, people of Ahwaz has increased. the Iranian capital. Perhaps the deal of anger in Ahwaz, where ities, who provoked the crowd Iranian affairs

Are we seeing a major shift in Syria? Our soldiers need popular support week after my arrival in the Saudi area of which it said that Iran and Hezbollah several reports about this, hinting at Abraq Al Kibrit near the border with Kuwait, had failed to protect the Syrian another Decisive Storm, this time in Ain November 1991, the US Marines I joined began regime, Assad was unable to sleep and Syria. to get used to my presence, but it was not acceptable his troops were suffering fatigue. We have seen the Iranian madness to them that they received messages and mail while I Perhaps that explains why the in Iraq, including the displacement got none. Assad regime has stepped up its and killing of Sunnis in Tikrit and the Then, packages similar to what they received started criminal activities and is using more settlement of Iranians in Iraqi cities. pouring on me from men, women, students and children explosive barrels against civilians, as This confirms that the Iranian I did not know; packages containing morale-boosting Hezbollah did in Lebanon. project is suffering not only in Iraq postcards. Feeling sorry at my loneliness, one of the sol- This powerful group, which now but also in Yemen, Syria and the Gulf. diers wrote to the United Service Organisation (USO), occupies large areas in the absence of America initially supported, stood an American non-profit organisation that provides the Lebanese state, uses the country’s by and enabled the Iranians to move BY DR ZAFER services to American soldiers wherever they are. territory to bomb Syrian cities. forward with their project, but events MOHAMMED AL AJMI I doubt that our men in Operation Decisive Storm and There are other indicators as well, in Yemen proved for the umpteenth Restoring Hope receive cards and messages from the including what Ahmed Ramadan, time that America is only driven by Gulf people to raise their morale. I haven’t seen any such the chairman of the National Action self-interest, so it abandoned them gesture, except by members of the Yam tribe in Najran, who slaughtered camels and sheep BY DR IBRAHIM AL SHEIKH Movement for Syria, has said about within hours. while singing patriotic songs to cheer up soldiers on their way to the border with Yemen. Alawite leaders and officers contacting Even Russia, which has abandoned There is no doubt that our people love and support one another, but I also know that in the CIA and expressing a willingness Iran in Yemen, seems to have jumped the Arab world there is hardly any culture of giving moral support to soldiers, although the ebel seizure of the heart of to abandon Assad if they are given the Iranian ship before it sinks in Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said: “He has fought, who equipped a fighter for Idlib city, then the city of Jisr guarantees of protection and immu- Syria. the sake of Allah , and he has fought, who looked after RAl Shughour, followed by Al nity from prosecution. Events in the region have changed the family of a fighter for the sake of Allah”. Qirmeed, the Syrian regime’s largest In addition, after gaining control dramatically and quickly, and inter- Excluding the directorates of moral guidance and Since the war military base in Idlib city, carry mes- of Idlib and Hama, rebel leaders have ests and alliances are no longer what public relations in our armies, we do not see even one sages we cannot ignore. reported that Iran and Assad’s forces they were. Gulf civil society organisation supporting men on the to restore the Over the past few weeks it has are losing ground in Syrian cities, and I have said previously that our front lines. The Gulf women’s associations are aristo- become clear that whoever was pro- they are now talking of a decisive bat- nations can change a lot if they stand cratic, even in the issues they take up; and voluntary legitimate tecting Bashar Al Assad is no longer tle for Damascus. united and know their real enemies at associations witness daily quarrels over positions, so able to do so. This explains the Qatari, Saudi home and abroad. who will raise the morale of our men on the front, or government in About a week ago, the Zionist intel- and Turkish political moves during The author is a columnist and praise their struggle in writing or through the media? ligence agency published a report in the past few weeks. There have been researcher Since the war to restore the legitimate government Yemen began, in Yemen began, there has been no media campaign to mobilise public opinion in support of the cause and to raise the morale of the troops. Instead, the Gulf media there has been no has highlighted the roles of Pakistan and Malaysia. What can we expect from official channels that start media campaign their news bulletins with news of receptions and con- gratulatory cables? What should one expect from to mobilise public private channels that contact a political or military analyst for comment, and the latter apologises for his opinion in support incompetence, at which a stupid anchor says to him: “You have two hours to educate yourself on the issue of the cause and to from the Internet.” There are no two opinions about the Yemen war, as it raise the morale of is the key to our fate. It is the subject of talk in offices and is the biggest concern of mothers and fathers wor- the troops. ried about their children’s future, but the support for the war does not extend outside the doorway. I am shocked to hear some people say that the war is unpopular because our press and TV channels do not have daily communication with the troops on the front, with only Saudi Brigadier Ahmed Al Asiri providing a daily briefing. The human and material costs make wars popular or unpopular; we have not suffered serious human casualties and there are no fears of passing on the costs of the war to future generations, and it also derives legitimacy from its goal of restoring the government in Yemen. So how have all these factors that support the war been substituted by the stance of a parliament member who submitted a question on the unconstitutionality of participating in it? In the absence of any public campaign in support of the war, we can take consolation from the fact that popular support may or may not affect the course of a war. The US won the Iraq war, which was unpopular and had little support in the US and elsewhere, and A mobile radar unit that belonged to forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad is seen in the Mastouma military base in at the same time Washington lost a war in Afghanistan that had received overwhelming Idlib after rebel fighters seized it. support in the US and the rest of the world as a war against terrorism. The author is executive director of Gulf Monitoring Group THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST IS seizes ancient Syrian city of Palmyra Syrian antiquities chief says world must save city’s 2,000-year-old monuments

BEIRUT: Islamic State (IS) said Islamic State had seized UNESCO called for an immedi- militants stormed the Syrian almost all of the city. It said it ate halt to the fighting and called city of Palmyra yesterday, seiz- was unclear what had happened for international efforts to protect ing it from government forces in to forces stationed at an army the population “and safeguard the fierce fighting as civilians were outpost on its outskirts or the fate unique cultural heritage”. evacuated and Syria’s antiqui- of a major military prison. The Syrian military said in ties chief called on the world to Syrian state television said pro- a statement Islamic State had save its ancient monuments. government National Defence entered a northern district of The capture of Palmyra is the Forces (NDF) had evacuated Palmyra and NDF fighters were first time the Al Qaeda offshoot civilians after large groups of trying to stop them “infiltrating” has taken control of a city directly Islamic State fighters entered the other areas. It said a Syrian air from the Syrian army and allied city from the north. force strike in the area had killed forces, which have already lost “The news at the moment is and wounded “dozens of terror- ground in the northwest and very bad. There are small groups ists” and destroyed five vehicles. south to other insurgent groups that managed to enter the city Islamic State has destroyed in recent weeks. from certain points,” Syria’s antiquities and ancient monu- The central city, also known antiquities chief Maamoun ments in neighbouring Iraq and as Tadmur, is built alongside the Abdulkarim told Reuters earlier is being targeted by U.S.-led air remains of a oasis civilisation on Wednesday. strikes in both countries. whose colonnaded streets, temple Abdulkarim said hundreds of Palmyra’s ancient monuments, and theatre have stood for 2,000 statues had been moved to safe which lie on the south-western years. locations but called on the Syrian fringe of the modern city, were It is home to modern mili- army, opposition and interna- put on UNESCO’s World Heritage tary installations, and sits on a tional community to save the site. in danger list in 2013. The ruins A Syrian armoured tank take up position during fightings against Islamic State (IS) militants in desert highway linking the capi- “The fear is for the museum were part of a desert oasis that the ancient oasis city of Palmyra, about 215 kilometers northeast of Damascus, Syria, 19 May 2015. tal Damascus with Syria’s east- and the large monuments that was one of the most significant According to media report, Syrian troops pushed the terrorist group of Islamic State (IS) back ern provinces, mostly under rebel cannot be moved,” he said. “This cultural centres of the ancient control. is the entire world’s battle.” world. “Praise God, (Palmyra) has The attack is part of a west- Islamic State supporters posted been liberated,” said an Islamic ward advance by Islamic State pictures on social media showing State fighter speaking by Internet that is adding to the pressures what they said were gunmen in from the area. He said Islamic on the overstretched military the streets of Palmyra, which State was in control of a hos- and allied militia. The group holds is the location of one of Syria’s A Syrian armoured tank takes up position against Islamic State (IS) militants in the ancient oasis city of Palmyra, pital in the city which Syrian tracts of land in the north and biggest weapons depots as well about 215km northeast of Damascus, yesterday. forces had used as a base before east of Syria and is now edging as army bases, an airport and a withdrawing. towards the more heavily popu- major prison. strikes pressed an attack on this week, a Kurdish official and strikes on Syria’s north and east, The Syrian Observatory for lated areas along the western In Syria’s northeast, Kurdish Islamic State that has killed at the Observatory said. US-led areas out of government control. Human Rights monitoring group flank of the country. forces backed by US-led air least 170 members of the group forces have concentrated their air REUTERS

Turkish mayor Iran rules out nuclear inspections of military sites critically injured TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme Speaking at a graduation cer- negotiations with Tehran to final- regime ever negotiated”. The additional protocol pro- leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei emony for military cadets, he ise a deal by June 30 that would The issue of inspections vides for snap inspections in gun attack yesterday ruled out allow- said that no “intelligent govern- prevent Iran from developing is a sticking point in the of nuclear facilities by the ing nuclear inspectors to visit ment” would allow such a thing nuclear weapons, in exchange for negotiations. International Atomic Energy ISTANBUL: A mayor belong- military sites or to question and “excessive demands” must be an easing of crippling economic In late April, Iran’s Foreign Agency (IAEA) and requires that ing to Turkey’s ruling AK Party scientists if Tehran strikes a resisted. sanctions. Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif information be provided on all was seriously wounded in a gun long-sought deal with world Khamenei, who has the final For several weeks, political said Tehran was ready to accept activities regarding the nuclear attack in northwest Turkey powers. word on all policy matters in Iran, and technical experts have been the “highest level of interna- fuel cycle. yesterday, a hospital official and “We have already said that we said Tehran would refuse to allow trying to finalise the terms of a tional transparency” available to Iran is a signatory of the NPT local media said, less than three will not allow any inspections of “the insolent enemy” to talk to final agreement. They were due members of the Nuclear Non- and voluntarily implemented the weeks ahead of a parliamentary military sites by foreigners,” the its scientists, adding that other to gather again on Wednesday in Proliferation Treaty (NPT). additional protocol between 2003 election. official Irna news agency quoted countries hide the identities of Vienna for talks. But Zarif said this week that and 2006, but ceased applying The private Dogan news agency him as saying. their nuclear experts. If fully implemented, a deal the NPT additional protocol did it after its nuclear programme said Cuneyt Yildiz, mayor of the “They also say that we must Several Iranian atomic scien- would see Iran dramatically not grant inspectors access with- was referred to the UN Security Gursu district of Bursa province, allow interviews with nuclear tists were assassinated between scale back its nuclear activities out limits or reason. Council. Iran has long asserted its was shot in his office and that a scientists. This is interrogation. 2010 and 2012 in attacks Tehran and submit those that remain He said that the rules allowed nuclear programme is for peaceful member of the municipality staff I will not allow foreigners to blamed on Israel and the US. to what US President Barack “some access” but not inspec- energy purposes, and that inter- suspected in the shooting had come and talk to scientists who The United States as well as Obama has described as the tions of military sites, in order national concern about it seeking fled the scene. Yildiz’s bodyguard have advanced the science to this Britain, China, France, Russia “most robust and intrusive to protect national “military or a nuclear bomb is misplaced. was also wounded in the attack level,” Khamenei said. and Germany are in the midst of inspections and transparency economic secrets”. AFP and the two were being treated in a nearby hospital, according to broadcaster CNN Turk. The motive for the attack was not immediately clear. Tensions have risen in Turkey ahead of Heavy fighting in the June 7 election, which the AK Party founded by President Tayyip Erdogan is on course to win comfortably. South Sudan oil state Meanwhile, a Turkish court yesterday charged with attempted JUBA: South Sudan troops oil revenues. But oil production murder the ex-boyfriend of a and rebels are fighting heavy has slumped since war broke out, teenage talent show hopeful who battles close to vital oil produc- with many oil fields damaged in was shot in the head in an attack tion zones in the northeastern the fighting, badly denting the that has highlighted concerns battleground state of Upper country’s economy. Oil companies over violence against women. Nile, the United Nations said include China National Petroleum Police on Tuesday arrested yesterday. Corp, India’s Oil & Natural Gas three men over the assault in the Two mortar bombs hit the UN Corp and Malaysia’s Petronas. Kurdish-majority southeastern base in Melut, killing four civil- Oil fields in neighbouring Unity Diyarbakir region on 19-year- ians including a child, who were state, where the government is old Mutlu Kaya, who had been among more than 1,500 people advancing on a rebel enclave, have competing in a national televised sheltering there, the UN said. almost all stopped pumping due song contest. Two were released Eight others were wounded. to fighting. under judicial supervision but her Melut lies some 35km west of Information Minister Michael former boyfriend, named as Veysel the main oil production base at Makuei late on Tuesday dismissed Ercan, 26, was remanded in cus- Palouch, which rebels are trying rebel claims of capturing key oil tody and charged with attempted to capture. areas and said the production had murder, Turkish media reported. The United Nations peace- not been affected. keeping mission in South Sudan Government troops launched (UNMISS) said it “strongly con- an assault in late April, one of demns the recent upsurge in the heaviest offensives yet in Israel oil firm A group of 200 Yemenis stranded in Egypt by fighting in Yemen, arrive at Sana’a International Airport, Sana’a, fighting”. the civil war, which has cut Yemen, yesterday. Almost 10,000 Yemenis have been stranded in Egypt for the past two months as a Saudi led It was not possible to confirm off over 650,000 from aid and ordered to pay coalition continued to carry out air strikes. rebel claims of fighting inside oil seen gunmen raping, torching fields nor their reports of having towns and looting relief sup- Iran $1.1bn killed scores of soldiers, which plies, according to the UN and the government has dismissed as aid agencies. TEHRAN: A Swiss court has Aid ship to be inspected in Djibouti: Iran “lies”. The UN children’s agency this ordered an Israeli oil firm to The country’s 17-month-long week said girls as young as seven pay Iran $1.1bn in compensation TEHRAN: Iran said yesterday Saudi-led coalition conducting air directly in Hodeida. war broke out in December had been raped or killed, boys over a joint venture before the its aid ship bound for war-torn strikes on Shia Houthi rebels in The Pentagon said the US Navy 2013 when President Salva Kiir as young as 10 had been killed 1979 Islamic revolution, state Yemen is to dock in Djibouti for Yemen. The vessel, renamed Nejat was tracking the ship, angering accused his former deputy Riek and others had been mutilated news agency Irna said yesterday. inspection, heading off a poten- (Rescue), is carrying 2,500 tonnes Tehran which insisted it had UN Machar of attempting a coup, or abducted by “armed groups A judicial official quoted by Irna tial confrontation with the of aid including flour, rice, canned approval for the humanitarian setting off a cycle of retaliatory aligned with” the army. said Tao, an Israeli firm regis- United States. food, medical supplies and bottled mission and warned against any killings across the country. But rebels launched a major tered in Panama, was ordered this The aid “will be inspected in water, all urgently needed in the attempt to inspect its cargo. Rebel spokesman James Gadet counter-attack, including an month to pay the compensation to Djibouti. The ship will dock in conflict-wracked and impover- Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, Dak on Tuesday ordered oil assault last week on Malakal, the the National Iranian Oil Company Djibouti and the protocol laid ished state. accuses Tehran of arming the companies to evacuate staff and state capital of Upper Nile and (NIOC), in a legal tussle dating down by the United Nations Its passengers include doctors, Huthis, a charge repeatedly said they were fighting to take the gateway to the country’s last back to 1989. will be implemented,” Deputy anti-war activists from the United denied by Iran which supports the oil zones in Upper Nile to remaining major oil fields. NIOC and an Israeli company Foreign Minister Hossein Amir- States, France and Germany, and the rebels. “deny Salva Kiir from using the “UNMISS is deeply concerned had signed an agreement in 1968 Abdollahian said, quoted by the journalists, according to Tasnim, In another sign of easing ten- oil revenues to perpetuate the by the overall escalation of the to transport Iranian oil to the Isna news agency. a news agency associated with sions over the humanitarian war”. conflict, and once again calls on Jewish state across the Red Sea. Iran had said the ship was Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards. efforts, UN aid chief Valerie Amos South Sudan, which won inde- the government and opposition But Tehran says it was owed expected to reach the Yemeni port But the ship’s mission had been met Iranian Foreign Minister pendence from Sudan in 2011 leadership to immediately cease $450m after the revolution when of Hodeida on Thursday without overshadowed by US calls for it to Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran to become the world’s youngest all hostilities and resume negotia- Iran cancelled the contract stopping in Djibouti, in defiance of head to the UN emergency relief on Wednesday to discuss speeding nation, once saw 95 percent of the tions,” the UN said. because it does not recognise the warnings from Washington and a hub in Djibouti instead of docking up relief to Yemen. AFP government’s budget come from AFP Jewish state. AGENCIES THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Iraq PM to meet Putin seeking more arms US sending 1,000 anti-tank missile systems

BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON: a top US official said yesterday. the authorities opened a bridge Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Haider Al Abadi asked the US that had been closed for three Abadi flew to Russia yesterday administration for weapons sys- days. Fighting that led to the seeking closer military coopera- tems to help counter car bomb- Islamic State’s (IS) capture of tion as he faces tough challenges ings during a recent visit. “We the provincial capital of Anbar in the fight against the Islamic made the decision immediately on Sunday forced around 40,000 State (IS) group. while he was here to get 1,000 people to flee their homes. Abadi, who is due to meet AT4 anti-tank systems to Iraqi Many had massed at the President Vladimir Putin today, security forces and those are Bzeibez floating bridge to cross heads a large delegation that going to be arriving fairly soon,” into Baghdad but were prevented includes several ministers and a senior State Department offi- from going any further by secu- a number of civil and military cial told reporters. Abadi is tak- rity forces demanding every fam- advisers. ing all the military help he can ily have a sponsor. The focus will be “the develop- get, with Washington leading an “More than 2,000 people... ment of relations between the two air campaign and supporting the crossed Bzeibez between last countries, mainly expanding the reform of the army while Iran night and noon today. They are military and security cooperation, backs Shiite paramilitary groups. from Ramadi and other areas and support for Iraqi forces in the Russia delivered Sukhoi fighter such as Khaldiya,” a police colo- face of terrorism,” Abadi’s office jets to Iraq last year, shortly nel said. said. after IS seized entire swathes of According to the International His one-day official visit comes the country. Baghdad has also Office for Migration, 40,000 peo- after IS seized Ramadi, the pro- received attack helicopters from ple have been forced to leave their vincial capital of Anbar, in the Moscow. homes in Ramadi since May 15. worst setback for the Iraqi gov- Amid delays in the delivery of Tens of thousands were also ernment since the jihadists first some US weaponry that Iraq has displaced last month in an earlier swept across Sunni regions in been expecting under an agree- wave of violence in and around June last year. Iraqi government ment with Washington, Baghdad Ramadi. Residents of the city of Ramadi, who fled their homes as Islamic State (IS) militants tightened their siege on the and allied forces have since been is said to be increasingly look- The city is now under full IS last government positions in the capital of Anbar province, wait to cross Bzeibez bridge, on the southwestern battling IS fighters on several ing to Russia, China and Iran for control but a big battle is shaping frontier of Baghdad, yesterday. fronts. military purchases. up as government and allied forces Meanwhile, the United States prepare for a counter-attack. have relatives there,” said Umma said, tears welling up in her eyes. New dangers face the Sunni is sending Iraq 1,000 anti-tank BRIDGE OPENS TO LET Some of the families that Nasr, a 65-year-old woman from According to a medical source displaced when they reach missile systems to help fight sui- IRAQIS FLEE ANBAR crossed still had no clear idea of Ramadi crossing Bzeibez with 16 and local officials, at least six dis- Baghdad, where some members cide car bombings, which played a More than 2,000 displaced were where they were going to spend other members of her family. placed people have died from lack of the Shiite majority see them as “devastating” role in the capture able yesterday to flee the conflict- the night. “I don’t know where “I want nothing from God but of care as they waited for Bzeibez a security risk and suspect them of Ramadi by Islamic militants, torn Iraqi province of Anbar after to go. Maybe we’ll try Taji, we the safety of my children,” she bridge to open. of being infiltrated by IS. AFP

Israel calls off Al Sisi appoints plan for bus Brotherhood critic segregation TEL AVIV/RAMALLAH: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin as justice minister Netanyahu yesterday over- turned a ban on Palestinians CAIRO: Egypt appointed setback, and Zend belongs to this riding the same buses as Jewish a hardline judge and out- camp,” he said by telephone. settlers, a measure condemned spoken critic of the Muslim While the courts have been by rights campaigners as “eth- Brotherhood as justice minister gradually absolving Mubarak-era nic separation”. in a move decried by a leading officials, they have been handing The about-face came as EU opposition figure as a disaster down lengthy sentences to liberal foreign policy chief Federica for justice in the world’s most and Islamist activists on charges Mogherini began her first visit to populous Arab country. ranging from protesting to com- the region since a new rightwing Ahmed Al Zend, a former mitting acts of violence. Israeli government was sworn in appeals court judge, has in con- Khaled Dawoud, spokesman last week. trast to his predecessor been pub- for the opposition Dostour Party, The three-month pilot project licly outspoken in his criticism of called Zend’s appointment “a barring Palestinian workers from the Islamist movement removed disaster” that would raise doubts returning home from Israel to the from power in mid-2013 by the about the application of justice in West Bank on Israeli buses began army and banned as a terrorist Egypt, a strategic ally of Western Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi (right) shaking hands with new Justice Minister Ahmed Al Zend during yesterday morning after approval organisation. powers. his swearing in ceremony in Cairo yesterday. from hardline Defence Minister Some Egyptian judges are seen In a speech from last year Moshe Yaalon. by critics as hardliners whose rul- posted on YouTube, Zend statements. Egypt’s judiciary of a garbage collector would be Brotherhood member in a raid on It was immediately attacked by ings are in line with the toughest denounced the 2011 uprising, say- has come under fire in the past unworthy to serve as a judge. the outskirts of Cairo, state media rights groups and the opposition, crackdown on Islamists in the ing it allowed the Brotherhood to year from rights groups and for- In the absence of parliament, reported. The man was accused of who denounced it as an “unprec- country’s history. The judiciary seize power. eign governments after handing Sisi has wielded sole legislative killing two policemen last month edented” move that heaped says it is independent. He defended judges from criti- down lengthy jail terms and mass authority since taking office last in the capital. Hundreds of sol- unnecessary humiliation on the Liberal activist Shady Al cism in separate comments to death sentences against Islamists, summer. The elected president diers and policemen have been Palestinians and would ultimately Ghazaly Harb said the appoint- a television show, saying: “We including former Islamist presi- has promised long-delayed elec- killed since mid-2013 by an damage Israel. ment was part of a trend towards are masters in our homeland. dent Mohamed Mursi. tions would be held before the end Islamist insurgency based in US State Department deputy empowering opponents of the Everyone else are slaves.” Cairo has condemned the out- of the year. the North Sinai. spokeswoman Marie Harf wel- 2011 uprising that ousted veteran Some Egyptians expressed cry as infringement on its sover- Sisi has also launched a crack- Egypt’s government does not comed the withdrawal of the autocrat Hosni Mubarak. their displeasure with Zend’s eignty. Zend replaces Mahfouz down on Mursi’s Islamist sup- distinguish between more radi- plans. “There is a particular approach appointment online, tweeting Saber, who resigned last week porters, with hundreds killed and cal groups and the Brotherhood, “We believe that was a positive which describes the January 25 “No to Zend as justice minister” after he was accused of being thousands more imprisoned. which denies any link to violence. decision to suspend them. We also revolution as a conspiracy and a and sharing videos of his past snobbish for saying that the son The police killed an alleged REUTERS know that this proposal raised considerable controversy, and I think with good reason,” she said. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said he regretted that the project “could have led to an unthinkable separation between bus lines for Libyan Islamist leader proposes polls to end conflict Jews and Arabs”. “I have nothing but regret for TRIPOLI: Fresh elections are “The Libyan people should solution,” he said in an interview. the Islamist camp backing the Both sides would have to agree on the discordant voices that we the only way to end conflict in elect new personalities to repre- Sherif fought Soviet troops in Tripoli government. a ceasefire until a vote could take heard this morning, supporting Libya where two governments sent them. I think this is a very Afghanistan and sought to over- He said the mandate of the place in October. the separation between Jews and and parliaments are competing appropriate solution,” said Khalid throw Gaddafi in 1990s before Tobruk-based assembly would “We ask the international com- Arabs on the basis of ideas that for power and the country’s oil Sherif, a former deputy defence joining Libya’s 2011 uprising. He end by law in October, opening the munity to oversee the elections so have no place being heard or said,” wealth, an influential Islamist minister. “This is a national remains an influential figure in way to a new vote as compromise. there is no forgery,” Sherif said. he said. supporter of Tripoli-based gov- “All sides should oversee the elec- Palestinian President ernment said. tions in all areas of Libya.” Mahmoud Abbas told Mogherini Prime Minister Abdullah Al The House of Representatives when they met in the West Thinni’s government and elected Islamist govt-IS clash leaves one dead was elected in June 2014, in a vote Bank town of Ramallah that parliament have operated out of marred by a low turnout, for 18 the new Netanyahu government eastern Libya since a rival armed TRIPOLI: Forces loyal to a militants have seized parts of the recent months claimed several months during which a proposal posed a threat to resolving the faction called Libya Dawn took Libyan government control- coastal city of Sirte, Gaddafi’s attacks including the storming for a constitution was meant to Palestinian-Israeli conflict. over Tripoli in August and set up ling the capital Tripoli fought home town east of Tripoli. of a Tripoli hotel and the mur- be put up for vote. “All of our efforts now are to its own government. Islamic State fighters near the Fighting broke out on der of dozens of Egyptian and That plan was derailed by the save the two-state solution from The United Nations has been town of Sirte yesterday, killing Wednesday near the town Ethiopian Christians. fighting, and a committee is still an Israeli government that chose hosting talks to persuade the one person and wounding seven, between Islamic State fighters Libya’s internationally recog- working on a constitutional pro- settlements,” Palestinian negotia- rival factions to form a national a government official said. and forces sent from the west- nised government has been based posal. “There is a wish from all tor Saeb Erakat quoted him as government, four years after the Militants loyal to Islamic State ern city of Misrata, officials and in the east along with the elected sides for dialogue,” said Sherif. saying. civil war that ousted Muammar have exploited the turmoil in Misrata residents said. parliament since a rival faction Both side blame each other for In remarks just ahead of talks Gaddafi. Libya, where two governments One member of the Misrata- seized the capital in August and the conflict. Thinni says Libya and dinner with Mogherini in But progress has been slow and parliaments are fighting for based Brigade 166 was killed reinstated a previous assembly. Dawn’s attack on Tripoli in July Jerusalem, Netanyahu restated as both sides want their own control four years after the oust- and seven were wounded, Jamal Islamic State for its part has sent Libya into turmoil. his view of a viable peace deal. parliament — the House of ing of Muammar Gaddafi. Zubia, a spokesman for the also built up a presence in Derna, Libya Dawn say it was army “I support the vision of two Representatives in Tobruk or its Taking advantage of the Tripoli-based government, said an eastern city known as jihadi general Khalifa Haftar who had states for two peoples; a demili- predecessor, the General National security vacuum, just as Islamic in a message on social media. hotspot, and the main eastern started the violence in May 2014 tarised Palestinian state that rec- Congress in the capital, Tripoli — State did in Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State militants have in city of Benghazi. REUTERS by launching his own war on ognises the Jewish state,” he said. to form any such unity cabinet. Islamists in Benghazi. AFP AFP THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE / AMERICAS Poroshenko: Ukraine in German strike real war with Russia Kiev, rebels to hold new round of talks tomorrow

KIEV: Ukrainian President Intelligence Directorate (GRU). sales of military and advanced aer- Petro Poroshenko sparked fresh A Ukrainian Security Service ospace equipment to Russia that Kremlin fury yesterday by spokesman said the suspects have began under the terms of a land- warning that his country was been charged with involvement mark agreement signed in 1993. fighting a “real war” against in “terrorist activity” and given Ukraine supplied Zenit rockets Russian aggressors that could a chance to phone their relatives for Russia’s lucrative commercial escalate at any time. back home. and strategic military satellite The pro-Western leader said the Moscow acknowledges the pres- launches. weekend capture of two purported ence of Russian “volunteers” and It also built boosters that pro- Russian special forces mem- off-duty servicemen in Ukraine pelled Russian Proton cargo-haul- bers proved that the separatist but rejects charges that they are ing rockets to the International uprising in the industrial east of there under orders from President Space Station. Ukraine was a guise for a Moscow- Vladimir Putin’s generals. A second truce agreement orchestrated campaign aimed at But two Russian opposition Poroshenko struck with Putin breaking up his ex-Soviet state. activists investigating the deaths with the help of the leaders of “This is not a fight with of three other GRU members said Germany and France in February Russian-backed separatists, this they had found fresh graves that has thus far failed to take com- is a real war with Russia,” the showed they died on active duty plete hold. 49-year-old Ukrainian leader told in Ukraine. Ukraine has lost at least eight the BBC. Putin’s spokesman Dmitry servicemen since Monday in Local trains of German railway operator Deutsche Bahn parked at Lichtenberg railway station in Dortmund. “The fact that we captured... Peskov said flatly that the clashes across both of its renegade Train drivers for Deutsche Bahn added passenger trains to their strike yesterday, in what a union said could Russian regular special forces sol- “Kremlin does not agree” with provinces. become its longest-lasting industrial action. diers (is) strong evidence of that.” what the Ukrainian leader told Kiev blamed the violence on a Ukraine’s military on Tuesday the BBC. new infusion of Russian troops, showed off two wounded Russians “First of all, one has to under- but agreed to hold a new round of who had been taken prisoner dur- stand that unfortunately, Kiev ceasefire and political settlement ing a firefight in Lugansk — a blue- is waging war against its own talks with rebel representatives 76 politicians caught Canada arrests collar region that together with citizens,” Russian news agencies in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, neighbouring Donetsk revolted quoted Peskov as saying. tomorrow. 10 would-be against Kiev’s shift toward the “They are the ones coming Poroshenko said he lacked West 13 months ago. under fire and they are the ones “trust” in Putin but had no choice up in UK abuse probe The men testified during a dying,” said Peskov. “We should but to seek an understanding with jihadists taped interrogation that they probably be talking about that the Kremlin strongman. LONDON: British police said Savile, who died in 2011 aged 84, entered the war zone nearly first.” “I doubt the release of my ter- yesterday they had received his- is thought to have abused children MONTREAL: Ten would-be two months ago as part of a The comments were followed ritory (from Russian forces) torical child sex abuse claims as young as eight over five dec- jihadists were arrested at a 200-strong reconnaissance unit a few hours later by a Ukrainian could happen by military means,” against 261 public figures, ades, often in institutions such as Montreal airport as they waited from the Russian army’s Main cabinet decision to suspend all Poroshenko said. AFP including 76 politicians, as they schools and hospitals where he to board a flight to Turkey, respond to a surge in complaints worked as a celebrity volunteer a popular crossing point into sparked by the Jimmy Savile and fundraiser. Syria. There, the young men had scandal. “These figures are stark. They hoped to join the Islamic State A review of investigations by indicate the scale of child abuse group, according to an anti-ter- regional police forces has identi- police are dealing with,” said police rorism task force. fied 1,433 suspects — all men — in chief constable Simon Bailey, who The youngest were 15 years old, ‘Climate change a security issue’ cases of alleged abuse by promi- is leading the NPCC review. and their friends were no older nent public figures or people in “Many victims have now found than 18. WASHINGTON: US President know that climate change is hap- on record have been in the past 15 institutions such as schools and confidence to report abuse, know- Their passports were seized Barack Obama warned in a pening. Our analysts in the intel- years. Last year was the planet’s hospitals. ing we will treat them sensi- but the youths were released speech on Wednesday that the ligence community know climate warmest year ever recorded,” he They include 261 prominent fig- tively, respectfully, listen to them after being questioned, said the threat from global warming change is happening,” said Obama. said. ures, including 135 from the world and take reports of their abuse Royal Canadian Mounted Police- poses a national risk rivaling “Our military leaders, gener- “The world’s glaciers are melt- of television, film or radio, 76 local seriously.” led Integrated National Security that of terrorism, and should be als and admirals, active duty and ing, pouring new water into the to national-level politicians, 43 The government announced Enforcement Team. seen as a top security priority. retired know it’s happening. Our ocean. Over the past century, the from the music industry and seven last year that it was setting up an Investigators said that a tip In a commencement address homeland security professionals world sea level rose by about eight from the world of sport. independent inquiry to look into from a concerned parent helped for new graduates of the US Coast know it is happening, and our inches,” he said. The investigations relate to 357 how public institutions and bodies authorities prevent the youths Guard Academy, Obama declared Coast Guard knows it’s happen- “That was in the last century. different institutions, including failed children going back decades. from leaving Canada. that “confronting climate change ing,” he said. By the end of this century, it’s pre- 154 schools, 75 children’s homes, But the inquiry has struggled The police probe is continuing is now a key pillar of American Obama took aim at politi- dicted to rise another one to four 40 religious institutions and 14 to get going after the first two and “the families and friends of global leadership” which should cal opponents in Washington feet,” he said, adding that this new- medical establishments, accord- chairwomen stepped down over the young persons have been met top the national agenda beyond “who refuse to admit that cli- est corps of Coast Guard cadets is ing to the National Police Chiefs’ accusations they were too close to by investigators,” the RCMP said his administration. mate change is real,” saying likely to be directly affected—in Council (NPCC). establishment figures. in a statement, urging all parents “Even as we meet threats like that the science against them is terms of how they train and the Overall, there has been a 71 per- A judge from New Zealand, to monitor their children’s online terrorism, we cannot, and we must “indisputable.” tasks they are asked to carry out— cent increase in complaints about Lowell Goddard, has now taken activities. not, ignore a peril that can affect “The levels of carbon dioxide in by the rise in ocean levels. long-hidden incidents of sexual on the job but victims have report- According to the RCMP, more generations,” the president said the atmosphere are now higher Obama warned that a one-foot abuse of children since 2012, when edly been warned that she may not than 100 Canadians have joined in the address in New London, than they have been in 800,000 rise in sea levels could cost the the late BBC presenter Jimmy publish her final conclusions until the ranks of the Islamic State Connecticut. years,” the president said. United States as much as $200bn. Savile was exposed as a prolific 2023. group in Syria and Iraq. “The best scientists in the world “Fourteen of the 15 hottest years AFP and predatory paedophile. AFP AFP

Colombia aid Albania in threat EU states passing buck to veto Nato bid by Macedonia on migrants: Lawmakers TIRANA: Albanian Prime STRASBOURG: EU lawmak- going along with European ini- Minister Edi Rama threatened ers yesterday accused some tiatives” to tackle the migrant yesterday that his country would member states of passing the problem. veto Macedonia’s Nato candi- buck by rejecting a Brussels “The commission can count dacy, arguing it did not respect plan for binding quotas for ref- on us to support the good initia- the rights of its ethnic Albanian ugees making the dangerous tive they have adopted,” he added. minority. Mediterranean crossing. “We need to shoulder the task “Macedonia could not be a Members of the main groups together.” Nato member without respecting in the European Parliament His socialist counterpart Gianni the Ohrid agreement and human voiced support for the plan that Pittella of Italy, who represents rights,” Rama told a regional European Commission chief Jean- the second biggest bloc in par- ministerial meeting on the fight Claude Juncker unveiled last week liament, generally supported the against terrorism. to make the rest of the 28-nation commission plan but not the part He was referring to the peace EU share the burden of frontline that sought European naval inter- deal that ended the 2001 conflict states such as Italy, Greece and vention to destroy smuggler boats between the Macedonian govern- Malta. on the Libyan shore. ment forces and ethnic Albanian Big countries France and Spain “Europe is ready to take up the rebels seeking more rights. came under particular fire for challenge of a common migra- Ethnic Albanians make up jumping ship in the last few days tion policy based on solidarity. around one quarter of Macedonia’s and joining eight other EU nations European citizens are ready,” 2.1 million population. which have expressed opposition to Pittella told the parliament. Rama spoke as Macedonia was migrant quotas, including Britain. “Now it is up to the European shaken by a deadly shooting ear- Another 900 migrants were national governments to demon- lier this month between police rescued from the Mediterranean strate that they can be forward- and ethnic Albanian rebels in the yesterday, including around 300 looking. We cannot tolerate northern town of Kumanovo left picked up by a French navy boat tackling this humanitarian crisis 18 people dead. AFP Colombian First Lady Maria Clemencia de Santos delivers humanitarian aid to children affected by a landslide operating under the European with the vile approach of daily in Salgar yesterday. The death toll from the tragedy that struck on May 18 has climbed to 78. ‘Triton’ programme. routine, with petty political self- The Italian coastguard, which interest,” he added. is coordinating the rescue efforts, Governments across Europe said that one body was discovered are looking over their shoulders when Italian rescuers boarded as populist parties try to tap into Prince Charles visits great-uncle’s IRA murder site another unseaworthy craft car- growing opposition to migrants rying 286 people. during tough economic times. MULLAGHMORE: Britain’s to the rugged coastline, saying he Republican Army (IRA) bomb. the nearby town of Sligo before It was unclear what caused the Guy Verhofstadt, the former Prince Charles yesterday spoke understood the suffering of the Under an overcast sky, Charles the visit. fatality. Three of those rescued Belgian prime minister who leads of his “anguish” at the murder of Irish people in “a profound way”. and his wife Camilla toured the “Through this dreadful experi- were rushed to hospital by heli- the Liberal Democrat alliance in his godfather by IRA paramili- The British Union Jack flag site under heavy security as boats ence I now understand in a pro- copter for treatment. Europe, also called to task the taries in 1979 as he became the and the Irish tricolour flew side patrolled the bay and a helicopter found way the agonies borne by Germany’s Manfred Weber, member states. first royal to visit the assassina- by side on the main street in hovered overhead. others on these islands of what- leader of the conservative “The outright refusal of tion site in Ireland. Mullaghmore, the seaside village “At the time I could not imag- ever faith or political persuasion.” European People’s Party, the larg- France and Spain to consider the Charles remembered Lord Louis from where Mountbatten and ine how we would come to terms Mountbatten, the last viceroy of est group in the EU parliament Commission’s proposal for refugee Mountbatten as “the grandfather his family set off on a boat which with the anguish of such a deep British-ruled India, was 79 when and the one that Juncker belongs quotas is very disappointing,” he I never had” on an emotional trip was later blown up by an Irish loss,” Charles told an audience in he was killed. AFP to, accused member states of “not said. AFP THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 ASIA / AFRICA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Malaysia, Indonesia agree to accept stranded migrants Rohingya people will be given temporary shelter until resettlement

PUTRAJAYA, MALAYSIA: the move “brave and timely”. Malaysia and Indonesia said In the latest drama involving yesterday they would no longer incoming migrants, 433 starving turn away boatpeople, a break- people were rescued from their through in the region’s migrant rickety boat off Indonesia by local crisis that came just hours after fishing vessels earlier Wednesday, hundreds more starving people officials and fisherman said. were rescued at sea. Journalists confirmed it was Earlier, Myanmar, whose poli- the same boat that had earlier cies toward its ethnic Rohingya bounced between Thailand and minority are widely blamed for Malaysia in recent days as images fuelling the human flow, also sof- of its emaciated Rohingya passen- tened its line by offering to pro- gers shocked observers worldwide. vide humanitarian aid to stricken Indonesian fishermen Muchtar migrants. Ali said he broke down in tears Malaysia, Indonesia and when he saw the passengers. Thailand had sparked growing “I was speechless. Looking at international outrage by driv- these people, me and my friends ing off boats overloaded with cried because they looked so hun- exhausted and dying Rohingya gry, so skinny,” he said. as well as Bangladeshis. A local official said 70 children But Malaysian Foreign were among those saved — includ- Minister Anifah Aman, in a ing some babies — and 70 women. joint press appearance with his Myanmar state media yester- Indonesian counterpart Retno day quoted a foreign ministry Marsudi, announced that “the statement as saying the govern- towing and the shooing (away of ment “shares concerns” expressed Rescuers look for survivors in the ruins of a collapsed nine-storey residential boats) is not going to happen” any Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia, Retno Marsudi (right), Malaysia, by the international community apartment in Guiyang, southwest China’s Guizhou province, yesterday. more. “We also agreed to offer Anifah Aman (centre) and Thailand, Tanasak Patimapragorn during a and is “ready to provide humani- them temporary shelter pro- meeting in Putrajaya, Malaysia, yesterday. tarian assistance to anyone who vided that the resettlement and suffered in the sea”. 15 missing in building collapse repatriation process will be done to any country alone”. (UNCHR) said yesterday’s That marked the most con- in one year by the international Nearly 3,000 boatpeople have announcement was “an impor- ciliatory statement yet from BEIJING: At least 15 people were believed to be missing yesterday community,” Anifah said. swum to shore or been rescued tant initial step in the search for Myanmar’s Buddhist-dominated after a residential building in China collapsed due to landslides, The pair spoke after talks with off the three countries over the solutions to this issue, and vital government, which considers the officials said as rescuers searched through the wreckage. Thai Foreign Minister Tanasak past 10 days after a Thai crack- for the purpose of saving lives”. Muslim Rohingya to be illegal An apartment block which housed 114 people in Guiyang, capital of Patimapragorn. Thailand did not down on human-trafficking threw In a statement it called for immigrants from neighbouring the southern province of Guizhou, collapsed after landslides caused by sign on to the offer, however. the illicit trade into chaos, with migrants to be brought ashore Bangladesh and had earlier hit heavy rains, the city’s government said on its website. A Thai foreign ministry state- some of the syndicates involved “without delay” and for coun- back at calls for it to help address It added that 98 residents had been confirmed safe but 16 could not ment later said officials would not abandoning their helpless tries in the region to address the situation. Rohingya flee west- be contacted — with 15 of their mobile phone signals coming from the “push back migrants stranded human cargo at sea. Anifah said the root causes of the large-scale ern Myanmar by the thousands site of the collapse. Pictures showed workers in orange suits comb- in Thai waters”. It called on Malaysian intelligence estimates migration. annually to escape years of vio- ing the mangled concrete wreckage of the building for survivors. The Southeast Asian nations and that about 7,000 people are still Joe Lowry, a Bangkok-based lence and discrimination at the government said sniffer dogs had been deployed. the international community to stranded at sea. spokesman for the International hands of the Buddhist majority. Landslides are common in southern China, often triggered by heavy “work collectively to solve this The office of the UN High Organization for Migration, an Most head for Muslim-majority rains or earthquakes. AFP problem, which should not be left Commissioner for Refugees intergovernmental body, called Malaysia. AFP

Search for 14 missing crew Central Nigeria communal violence toll reaches 27 JOS, NIGERIA: Gunmen Local government chairman six people were killed”. prolonged battle to gobble up land sentenced to death last year for members after killed at least six people in twin Emmanuel Loman in the Barkin Local government officials in from the areas of so-called indig- mutiny. Army spokesman Sani attacks in Nigeria’s restive cen- Ladi area of Plateau state said Plateau, who are predominately enous people. Usman did not specify the charges barge capsizes tral region, the latest blood- the Fulani herdsmen initially members of Christian ethnic Fulani leaders counter that against those currently facing shed in a long-running conflict shot dead seven people as part of groups, have in the past sought their people face discrimination court martial but Femi Falana, SINGAPORE: Fourteen peo- between nomadic herdsmen and a cattle raid in Ninji Village. to blame the Fulani for any blood- as “foreigners” in Plateau and are a human rights lawyer working ple — 13 Chinese nationals and farming communities, police They later stormed the nearby shed, amid long-running tensions deprived of basic rights, includ- on the case, said some had been a Malaysian — were missing said yesterday. village of Ropp, killing 20. in the state. Plateau falls on the ing access to land, education and accused of mutiny. yesterday after their sand-car- Officials blamed the violence on “As I speak to you now, I am at dividing line between Nigeria’s political office, despite having Many Nigerian troops based in rier barge capsized in Singapore the mainly Muslim Fulani ethnic the mass burial of our 27 people mainly Christian south and lived in the area for decades. the northeast have defied orders waters, officials said, as authori- group and said the death toll from massacred by the Fulani and their mostly Muslim north. Meanwhile, Nigeria’s military to battle Boko Haram Islamists, ties despatched naval and coast Tuesday’s attacks had reached 27 mercenaries,” Loman said. The largely agrarian, Christian said yesterday that 473 officers citing a lack of adequate weapons guard vessels to search for them. but there was no immediate con- Plateau state police spokes- communities in the state main- and soldiers were facing trial over and other essential equipment. Singapore’s Maritime and Port firmation of the higher figure. man Abuh Emmanuel said “only tain the Fulani are engaged in a indiscipline, after 66 troops were AFP Authority (MPA) said it had received reports that one Chinese crew member was rescued by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Boats destroyed Agency. The MPA said it received a Sri Lanka war crimes report Wednesday morning that a Bolivian registered sand-carrier, Oceanline SC208, had capsized off Pedra Branca, a Singaporean- probe to start in June owned islet near the maritime border with Malaysia. COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said yes- “According to the vessel’s agent, terday a local investigation into allegations of war crimes com- there were 15 crew members mitted during the island’s separatist conflict would begin by June, onboard at the time of the inci- vowing to prosecute anyone found guilty. dent,” the MPA said in a state- Sirisena said he welcomed any guidance from the UN Human Rights ment. It said one crew member Council on setting up the probe, amid international pressure for the had been “reportedly rescued” by island to account for alleged atrocities committed during the war the Malaysians. which ended in 2009. “Fourteen crew members “We will start the work of the local mechanism by next month. This are still unaccounted for: one will be in line with our own laws,” Sirisena told reporters. is a Malaysian and the rest are “If anyone is to be found guilty by the investigation we will take Chinese nationals,” the MPA said. action according to our own law,” he said. The authority said Singapore The government has brought forward the deadline for starting the is coordinating search and res- probe after saying earlier this month it would be up and running by cue operations, which cur- September when the UN rights council next meets in Geneva. rently involve two MPA vessels, During a visit to the island this month, US Secretary of State John two vessels from the Republic Kerry urged the government to ensure accountability for war-time of Singapore Navy as well as The Indonesian navy scuttles foreign fishing vessels caught fishing illegally in Indonesian waters near Bitung, atrocities and work towards ethnic reconciliation. Singapore Police Coast Guard and North Sulawesi, yesterday. A total of 19 foreign boats from Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines and one from China Malaysian vessels. were destroyed near Bitung as part of an ongoing crackdown by the Indonesian government on illegal fishing. Bangladesh court rejects rape Cholera kills 33 in Japan zoos vote to ditch dolphin hunt case against cricket hero Burundi refugee DHAKA: A Bangladesh court yesterday rejected a rape case TOKYO: Japan’s zoos and Taiji came to worldwide atten- the global body. JAZA does not against World Cup hero Rubel Hossain, after police said there was aquariums voted stop using tion after the 2009 Oscar-winning regard drive hunt as “cruel”, Arai no evidence against the star cricketer, lawyers said. camp in Tanzania dolphins caught by the contro- documentary “The Cove” showed told during a press briefing, add- Film actress Naznin Akter Happy made the rape allegation in DAR ES SALAAM: A cholera versial “drive hunt” method in pods of the animals forced into a ing that a dolphin from Taiji costs December last year, having also said the 25-year-old Rubel had reneged outbreak at a refugee camp shel- Taiji, allowing them to remain bay and butchered with knives, about a million yen ($8,300). on a promise of marriage that he made while they were having an tering thousands of Burundian part of a global body that had in a mass killing that turned the “Various facilities (zoos and “intimate affair”. refugees in northwest Tanzania suspended the country’s chap- water red with blood. aquariums) will have to cooperate Happy had told media in March that she was withdrawing the has killed at least 33 people, a ter over the issue. “(JAZA) will prohibit its mem- to promote breeding,” Arai said. claims, one day after Rubel starred in a dramatic victory over England Tanzanian regional health offi- The vote was prompted by the bers to acquire wild dolphins Earlier, JAZA executive direc- at the World Cup held in Australia and New Zealand. But she later cial said yesterday. World Association of Zoos and caught by drive fishing in Taiji tor Kensho Nagai said: “We annu- pursued the case. “The number of Burundi refu- Aquariums’ (WAZA) suspension and to take part in their export ally take about 20 dolphins from The 20-year-old filed a legal petition on Sunday against a police con- gees who have died from the chol- of the Japanese chapter (JAZA) and sale,” JAZA chair Kazutoshi Taiji, but we have improved how clusion of no evidence of rape, prompting the court’s ruling yesterday, era outbreak has now reached 33,” last month, saying it had refused Arai said in a letter to WAZA we hunt, separating our hunt the latest twist in a saga that has gripped the conservative country. Leonard Subi, a medical officer in to stop taking dolphins caught in following the vote, which saw an from everything else at Taiji that Rubel’s lawyer Moniruzzaman Bhuiyan said the court ruling was based the nearby town of Kigoma said. the southern Japanese whaling overwhelming majority of the 152 is for dolphin meat. on the fact police found no evidence on items in the cricketer’s apart- AFP town. members opt to remain part of AFP ment following the complaint. AFP THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Imam gets five-year jail Beating the heat term for hate speech Punjab imam called Shias infidels

LAHORE: A court in Pakistan inciting hatred against Shiite [peo- up roughly 20 percent of Pakistan’s has jailed an Imam or prayer ple] and raised slogans during his 200 million people -- has claimed leader for five years for inciting sermon that Shias were infidels,” thousands of lives in the country hate against a rival sect, officials he said. over the past decade. said yesterday. The official said that under In the latest bloodshed, 44 Shias Maulana Abubakar a prayer Pakistan’s National Action were massacred in the southern leader was arrested in February Plan against terrorism, authori- city Karachi last week, in the first in Kasur district, Punjab, ties have arrested many prayer attack claimed by the Islamic State some 50 kilometres (31 miles) leaders and courts have sent them jihadist group in the country. south of Lahore, for making to prison over hate speech charges. The National Action Plan a speech against the rival The official said he could not against terrorism, which involved minority Shia sect, a prosecutor give the number of convictions as the outlawing of militant groups, said. “The judge of an anti-terror- data was still being compiled about registration of seminaries and ism court on Tuesday sentenced the cases. Shaikh Saeed Ahmed, a crackdown on hate speech, was the Imam to serve five years in Lahore district prosecutor, con- announced in the wake of a prison for [giving a] hate speech,” firmed the conviction and sentence Taliban massacre that killed 154 the prosecutor said on condition of awarded to the Imam. Sectarian people, mostly schoolchildren, in An Afghan youth dives into a ditch of muddy water to beat the heat on the outskirts of Jalalabad in Nangarhar anonymity. violence -- in particular by Sunni December. province, yesterday. “The Imam was found guilty of hardliners against Shias, who make AFP

Load of fodder Meet to review fake degree scandal Four soldiers, ISLAMABAD: The Higher scenario, but in fact, we don’t have adding, that the HEC had to play 44 rebels killed Education Commission (HEC) direct dealings with the Axact whatever role it could in stemming called an internal meeting yes- Group and the international insti- this practice, which was bringing in Afghanistan terday to review the developing tutions allegedly involved in the the country into disrepute. Axact scandal over the sale of scam,” HEC Chairman Dr Mukhtar “In case of international univer- fake degrees and diplomas. Ahmed said yesterday. The HEC sities, we follow a strict standard KABUL: Four soldiers have The New York Times (NYT) can only verify degrees from rec- operating procedure. We recognize embraced martyrdom while had accused Axact of selling ognised national and international degrees of only those universities 44 militants were killed dur- fake degrees and diplomas online universities following a proper that are recognized by the con- ing separate military opera- through hundreds of fictitious whetting process, he said. “As per cerned departments of their home tions across the country in past schools purportedly located in the the [NYT] report, the fake degrees countries. We also take passport 24 hours, Ministry of Defence United States. “HEC has serious were allegedly issued by fictitious copies from degree holders to announced yesterday. concerns over these allegations as schools so I don’t think any such verify their claim of being abroad General Zahir Azimi, spokes- Pakistan’s name is being tarnished. degree holders tried to get his/her when they received degrees,” he man for the ministry tweeted this We are monitoring the developing degree verified from HEC,” he said, said. INTERNEWS morning about the martyrdom of four Afghan National Army sol- diers due to landmine explosion and insurgent fire in past 24 hours but he has not written the exact location of the incidents. He states in another tweet that Pakistan per capita income 44 militants were killed and 74 others wounded during military operations in the same period of time, according to the Afghan rises to impressive 9.4pc (Khaama Press). Azimi says 21 Improvised ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s per percent of GDP only. million people in a single year. Explosive Devices (IEDs) were capita income has gone up to After remaining unable to During the outgoing fiscal also discovered and defused by the $1,513 in current fiscal year achieve the desired GDP growth year, the government was unable military during these operations. 2014-15 against $1,384 last target that stood at 4.2 percent to meet on critical indicators of After taking full responsibility year, witnessing an impressive against the fixed target of 5.1 per- investment and savings in terms of the security from NATO forces growth by 9.4 percent. cent for outgoing fiscal year, the of GDP ratio. But this time the at the beginning of this year, “With appreciation of exchange government could not achieve its margin between the targets and Afghan forces began large-scale rate where Pak rupee strength- investment and saving targets as the estimated outcomes was not operations against insurgents. ened against US dollar, the per well in the ongoing financial year. as wide as in the previous fiscal Insurgents have suffered heavy capita income has witnessed an In dollar terms, the per capita year, suggesting some improve- casualties and some areas held by impressive growth of 9.4 percent income has grown by an impres- ments in investment and savings A woman carries a bundle of fodder on her head on the outskirts of them for years have been taken during the current fiscal year sive rate of 9.4 percent to $1,513 in terms of total national output. back by Army during these opera- Jalalabad in Nangarhar province. Afghanistan’s economy has improved which will be officially released -up by $129 per person in the fis- The investment to GDP ratio tions. QNA significantly since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 largely because by the government in upcoming cal year 2014-15. In rupee terms, remained at 15.1 percent against of the infusion of international assistance. Economic Survey 2014-15,” offi- there was 7.5 percent growth in a target of 15.7 percent. The cial sources in Finance Ministry’s per capita income that increased ratio was slightly up from the Economic Advisory Wing con- to Rs153,060 in the outgoing fis- last year’s revised rate of 15 per- firmed yesterday. cal year against Rs142,344 per cent. Savings improved to 14.5 But the worrisome develop- person in the last financial year. percent of the GDP, remain- Gunmen kill Pakistan officer ment shows that despite claims The Pakistan Bureau of ing shy of the target of 14.6 of the government on overcom- Statistics (PBS) has esti- percent. Last year, the revised PESHAWAR: Taliban insur- He said the officer was on his department against the Taliban. ing energy outages, the private mated 1.98 percent growth in ratio of savings-to-GDP was 13.7 gents yesterday gunned down way to drop his daughter off at Pakistan has been battling a sector investment on electricity the country’s population for percent. a senior counter-terrorism school when two attackers on a homegrown Islamist insurgency and gas distribution nose-dived calculating per capita income The fixed investment policeman as he was taking his motorbike opened fire. for over a decade following the to only 0.3 percent of GDP during that had reached 189 million remained at 13.5 percent of GDP daughter to school in Pakistan’s The Pakistani Taliban claimed late 2001 US-led invasion of the current fiscal year. this year. Then it was divided against the target of 14.1 per- northwe stern city of Peshawar, responsibility for the killing and Afghanistan. When the PPP-led government total national income with the cent. It was just 0.1 percent up police said. said the gunmen escaped unhurt. Its army has been waging a had assumed powers in 2007-08 number of people and reached from the last year’s level. The Bahadur Khan, a senior The officer’s funeral was major campaign against Taliban the investment on electricity and at estimated per capita income public investment stood at 3.9 official in the Department of attended by provincial gover- and other militants in the North gas stood at 0.7 percent of GDP which now stood at $1,513. percent of the GDP as against Counter Terrorism, was shot nor Mehtab Ahmed Khan and Waziristan tribal area since June and when they left the power The population growth rate the target of 3.8 percent. The yesterday morning and died of Durrani as well as other senior last year. corridors in 2011-12 this invest- has slowed down slightly, which target of private investment was his injuries in the afternoon, provincial police officials. Authorities have vowed to ment was standing at 3.1 percent had been estimated at 2.01 per- also missed, which stood at 9.7 said Nasir Durrani, police chief Durrani told mourners the intensify operations both in bor- of GDP Now during the PML-N cent in the last fiscal year 2013- percent of the GDP as against in the northwestern province of murder was a reprisal for opera- der regions and nationwide. led regime, this investment had 14. In absolute terms, the PBS the target of 10.3 percent. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. tions by the counter-terrorism AFP decreased to meager level of 0.3 has estimated addition of six INTERNEWS

13 militants Documents recovered in raid on Bin Laden’s archive die as planes WASHINGTON: US intel- organization responsible for the ligence officials yesterday Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the pound tribal released documents it said were United States in which about recovered during the 2011 raid 3,000 people died, in a raid on regions on the compound in Pakistan a compound in Abbottabad, a where US forces killed Al Qaeda Pakistani city that also was home leader Osama bin Laden. to a Pakistani military base. ISLAMABAD: At least 13 The Office of the Director of “It is in the interest of the militants were killed yester- National Intelligence said in a American public for citizens, day when Pakistani warplanes statement that the release of academics, journalists and his- targeted them in the country’s the documents followed a “rig- torians to have the opportu- northwestern tribal region, the orous” review by US govern- nity to read and understand bin military said. ment agencies and “aligns with Laden’s documents,” US House of The air strikes hit rebels in the president’s call for increased Representatives intelligence com- the Datta Khel area of North transparency consistent with mittee Chairman Devin Nunes Waziristan, one of seven tribal national security prerogatives.” said in a statement. Nunes said regions. It said the 2014 Intelligence Wednesday’s release of 86 new The military said in a Authorization Act required th reports, bringing the total number statement that five militant office to conduct a review of of declassified reports to 120, is “a hideouts were destroyed in the the documents for release. The step in the right direction.” attack. released material included a vari- He added: “I look forward to Pakistan launched a military ety of declassified documents, a the conclusion of the ongoing offensive in North Waziristan in list of English language books efforts to declassify the hun- The CIA declassified an Al-Qaeda recruitment form and around 100 other documents from Bin Laden’s archive June and claims to have cleared recovered from the compound dreds of remaining Abbottabad yesterday, allowing an insight into his thinking in his final years. The documents were among intelligence materials more than 90 per cent of the dis- and material published by other reports to meet congressional seized by US commandos in May 2011 after they stormed Bin Laden’s hideout in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad trict of the rebels who once con- militant groups.US forces killed requirements.” and shot him dead. trolled it. bin Laden, leader of the militant REUTERS QNA THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

PDP, BJP differ Jung, AAP stand-off escalates over passport Lt. Governor cancels all bureaucratic transfers and postings done over last five days to Geelani SRINAGAR: Jammu and NEW DELHI: The turf war today,” it said. Kashmir’s ruling Peoples between the AAP government Referring to Kejriwal’s order of Democratic Party (PDP) and and the Lt. Governor escalated May 17 in which senior officials the Bharatiya Janata Party yesterday as Najeeb Jung can- were asked “to put up all files, (BJP) are in conflict again -- celled all transfers and post- including those in which the Lt. now over a passport for separa- ings of bureaucrats done over Governor has exclusive jurisdic- tist leader Syed Ali Geelani. the past five days by the Delhi tion, through ministers”, the PDP president Mehbooba government, and Chief Minister release said the Lt. Governor was Mufti wants a passport issued to Arvind Kejriwal wrote to Prime required under the Constitution Geelani but the BJP is bitterly Minister Narendra Modi accus- to act, in his discretion, in con- opposed. ing the Centre of trying to run sultation with the chief minister Geelani has applied for a pass- his government by proxy. where deemed necessary. port along with his wife and son The central government, how- “The order of chief minister so that they can visit his ailing ever, distanced itself from the is in basic violation of this basic daughter in Saudi Arabia. controversy, saying Kejriwal and distinction.” Mehbooba Mufti told reporters Jung should meet to sort out It also referred to the contro- on Wednesday that she would see their differences. Home Minister versy surrounding the removal of to it that Geelani gets the pass- Rajnath Singh met President Anindo Majumdar as principal port as it was a humanitarian Pranab Mukherjee yesterday, but secretary (Services). issue. denied that the standoff came up “The Lt. Governor has reiter- But she added that the final in the meeting. ated the constitutional and rule call would be taken by the home “The LG and the chief minis- position to the chief minister and ministry. ter should sit together and find conveyed that the situation and Senior PDP leader and MP a solution,” Rajnath Singh told procedure prior to the issue of Tariq Hameed Karra has also reporters after his meeting with the letter dated 16.05.2015 shall come out in support of a passport the President. continue,” it said. to Geelani. In his letter to Modi, Kejriwal The AAP government on The BJP said a passport can asked the prime minister to let Tuesday named Arvind Ray, be given to Geelani only if he his democratically elected govern- an IAS officer removed by the accepts the accession of the state ment “function independently”. Lt. Governor from the post of to India and affirms that he owes Official sources said Kejriwal secretary (home), as the sec- allegiance to the constitution of accused the central government retary (general administrative the country. of trying to run the Aam Aadmi department). “How can you apply for an Party (AAP) government through The post of secretary (GAD) Indian passport unless you accept Jung. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday. was earlier held by Majumdar, that you are an Indian citizen and The letter came a day after who was on Monday locked out of owe allegiance to the constitution Kejriwal and Deputy Chief his office at the Delhi Secretariat of India?” BJP spokesman Khalid Minister Manish Sisodia com- official, who attended the meet- the Lt. Governor had received issued by Sisodia on May 15 about on Kejriwal’s orders for following Jehangir told the media. plained to the President that Jung ing, told IANS. copies of orders and communi- the Delhi government’s suprem- Jung’s fiat to appoint Shakuntala Geelani had been issued a was interfering in the working of Jung’s office issued a statement cation passed over the past few acy in transfers and postings was Gamlin as acting chief secretary restricted passport for a duration the AAP government. in the evening, making it clear days which had a bearing on the “fundamentally at variance with on May 15. of one year in 2007, 2008 and 2011 Earlier yesterday, Sisodia held that the Lt. Governor alone was transaction of business. the constitution since service It was Gamlin’s elevation which but he did not visit Saudi Arabia a meeting with bureaucrats and competent to approve transfers “These orders and communica- matters are assigned to the Lt. dramatically triggered the worst then. told them that orders of the Delhi and postings of principal secre- tions have obfuscated the special Governor under the powers del- confrontation between Jung and On Tuesday, Geelani’s wife and government should be followed. tary or secretary-level officers, position that Delhi has as the egated to him by the President”. the AAP government that had son visited the regional passport “Sisodia told us that there in consultation with the chief national capital, which is signifi- “The Lt. Governor alone is stormed to power in February. office here. Sources in Geelani’s was no trust deficit between the minister. cantly different from other states. competent to approve transfer Meanwhile, former solicitor separatist outfit said he could not bureaucracy and political execu- Sources said Sisodia responded Delhi is a union territory with a and posting of principal secre- general Gopal Subramanium on complete the formalities as he was tive. By citing several articles of by asking the Lt. Governor as to legislative assembly and not a tary/secretary level officers, in Wednesday said the Lt. Governor under house arrest. the Constitution, he tried to drive which clauses of the Constitution state, and therefore has impor- consultation with the chief min- cannot overrule the state gov- Director General of Police K. home the point that it were the give him the powers to give direc- tant points of distinction,” the ister. This is so prescribed under ernment’s decisions as this Rajendra Kumar has, however, orders of the Kejriwal govern- tives to the Delhi government. release said. order No. F. 57/3/94-S.I dated would “violate the constitutional denied that Geelani was under ment that should be followed,” an The Raj Nivas statement said The release said the order 09.04.1994, which holds even scheme”. IANS house arrest. IANS Horsing around in the heat Woman burns Man fires shot in bid to husband, six others to death rob techie in Hyderabad CHENNAI: In a gruesome inci- HYDERABAD: An unidenti- number. dent, a woman allegedly burnt fied man opened fire to threaten After the crime, the man fled her husband and six other fam- a young woman techie inside an the ATM, which had no security ily members to death yesterday ATM as he robbed her of money guard. in Tamil Nadu. and jewellery here yesterday, The woman techie, who hails The incident took place in police said. from Vijayanagaram district in Madurai district, around 470 km The incident occurred at the Andhra Pradesh and was liv- from here. State Bank of India ATM in ing in a working women’s hos- Police said Pandeeswari was Yousufguda area around 7.30 am tel, told police that the robber, married to Kannan three years when software engineer Sreelatha aged around 22-25 years, spoke back. However, owing to marital was withdrawing money. in Telugu. discard the couple lived separately The armed man, who was A police official said the with Kannan shifting to Chennai wearing a mask, entered the attacker fired a single round and after finding a job. ATM behind her and asked her the bullet pierced through the Kannan was at his native place to hand over the cash she had and wall of the ATM machine. when his wife asked him to live the ornaments she was wearing. Deputy Commissioner of with her, which he declined. He When she refused, he opened fire. Police K. Venkateswar Rao said was staying with his parents, sis- A terrified Sreelatha then sur- a locally-made weapon was used ter and her three children. rendered the money, gold chain, in the crime. Police said Pandeeswari in ear studs and rings to the rob- Police said they were scanning Horsemen and their mounts cool off in a canal on the outskirts of Jalandhar in Punjab yesterday. High tem- the early hours of Wednesday ber, who also snatched her mobile the footage from CCTV cameras peratures hovering around 40 degrees celsius are affecting much of central and northern India ahead of the poured kerosene inside her in- phone and ATM card. He also in and around the ATM. summer monsoon rains. laws’ house, locked the door from forced her to reveal the PIN IANS outside and set the house afire. As the door was locked from outside, six people died immediately. Kannan’s sister’s son Vineeth, Delhi High Court to hear petition Protesting home guards who was battling for life, died on the way to a hospital. Pandeeswari, later, surrendered on rising incidents of road rage halt trains, block roads to police. IANS NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court yesterday behaviour”. Choudhary said the registered cases of PATNA: Thousands of pro- The home guards are agreed to hear a plea against the rising number road rage were increasing every year and it was testing Home Guards in Bihar demanding increase in pay, of road rage incidents in the capital, and for imperative to mention that these figures were “very forcibly halted dozens of trains accidental coverage during direction to the government to amend the Motor alarming” and a “matter of grave concern”. and blocked major roads on duty and post-retirement HC seeks reply Vehicles Act and make “deterrent provisions” on Mentioning a report by IANS about the increasing Wednesday to protest the state benefits from the Bihar road rage. number of road rage cases registered in past years, government’s failure to fulfil government. from Pachauri in A division bench of Chief Justice G. Rohini and the plea said there were 36 cases in 2010, 34 in 2011, their demands. “Trains were halted at Patna, Justice R S Endlaw posted the matter for August 5 49 in 2012, 53 in 2013, which increased to 93 in 2014 A patient died in Hajipur, dis- Darbhanga, Buxar, Muzaffarpur, harassment case and clubbed it with the suo motu cognizance it took (till November). trict headquarters of Vaishali, Bhagalpur, Madhubani, last week of the road rage issue where a traffic police The plea sought direction to the Delhi government when his ambulance was stuck Jehanabad, Munger, Jamui, NEW DELHI: The Delhi High man hurled a brick at a woman scooterist. to have “prior temperamental/ behaviour analysis for hours on road blocked by Ara, Gaya, Supaul, Samastipur Court yesterday asked TERI The public interest litigation (PIL) filed by two test” of people before issuing driving licences. protestors. and other railway stations by director general R K Pachauri high court advocates -- Abhishek Choudhary and It also mentioned a few recent road rage incidents The patient was being taken to the protestors to enforce their to file his response on a plea Harsh Ahuja -- told the court there was “no aware- highlighted by the media. It said that in May 2012, a a hospital in Patna from Siwan ‘chakka jam’ today (May 20),” a by a woman research analyst ness programmes, workshop, campaign, advertise- metropolitan magistrate accompanied by two other district, police said. police official said. who has accused him of sexual ment, banners, hoardings, posters which would judges became the victim of road rage when their car Meanwhile, Lalu Prasad, chief In Patna, hundreds of home harassment to cancel the bail describe road rage as an offence and the conse- was attacked by four bikers near the court complex of the RJD which is an ally of the guard personnel blocked granted to him. quences of committing such offences”. in south Delhi. In September 2013, a 40-year-old ruling JD-U, sought intervention busy R-block crossing causing Justice S P Garg granted It sought direction to the governments to spread advocate was stabbed and injured by two college of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to massive traffic jam. National Pachauri four weeks time to awareness through advertisements, FM radio, social students when his car brushed their motorcycle. provide facilities to home guards Highways 83, 110 and 98, were respond and posted the matter media, print media etc. about the consequences or In June 2014, a chartered accounted and his wife as per direction of the Supreme also blocked. for July 16. effects of road rage. were beaten up by two men in Vasant Kunj when Court. Bihar Homeguards Volunteers During the hearing, senior “The people on the road of Delhi, including motor- their car bumped into a vehicle behind them while “The chief minister should Association leader Sidheshwar advocates Ramesh Gupta and ists, commuters and pedestrians, have become so reversing. immediately talk to home guard Prasad told media here that they Dayan Krishnan, appearing for violent and aggressive towards each other that in The plea added that earlier this month (May personnel for an immediate end would intensify their protest from Pachauri, sought more time to the past such encounters have turned brutal and 2015), a DTC driver was beaten to death by a biker, a to their strike,” he said. Thursday and launch “jail bharo file their response. fatal,” the two lawyers argued. traffic policeman hurled a brick at a woman scooter- Lalu said that mostly people andolan”. The court issued notice to “Such incidents are mostly called as road rage,” ist and a sub-inspector was slapped by a woman in from weaker and marginalised Over 70,000 home guards in Pachauri and sought his response they told court. They said road rage was uncon- public when he intervened in a quarrel to stop her sections join home guard. The Bihar began an indefinite strike on the plea yesterday while admit- trolled anger that results in violence or threatened from physically assaulting a taxi driver whose car state government should take last week. ting the woman’s plea IANS violence on the road, and, therefore, was a “criminal grazed her vehicle. IANS care of them. IANS THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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Fajr 03.21 am Zuhr 11.30 am Maghrib 06.15 pm Minimum: 30o C Maximum: 42o C Hot during the day Shorook 04.47 am Asr 02.56 pm Isha 07.45 pm with slight dust at HIGH TIDE 06:15 - 19:15LOW TIDE 02:00 - 12:00 places at times More talking animals on the way from Disney A scene from the notorious ‘Killing CANNES, FRANCE: A interact, dress, drive and talk just Fields’ is re-enacted message to parents suffer- like people do. They live in a spe- during a ceremony ing “Frozen” fatigue: Disney cies-diverse metropolis, Zootopia, at the Choeung Ek has more talking animals and where newsstands sell copies of Genocidal Center singing princesses on the way, the Wall Street Gerbil and Vanity in Phnom Penh, according to a sneak preview Fur. Cambodia, yesterday. of its animation slate given to Judy Hopps, a bunny police Cambodia marks the journalists in Cannes yesterday. officer, is forced to team up with a annual Anger Day on The pictures scheduled to come hustling fox, Nick Wilde, to track May 20 to commemo- out of Disney Animation Studios down a missing mammal within rate the victims who — which made the mega-hit 48 hours, but their investigation died during the cruel “Frozen”, the biggest-grossing uncovers a much bigger plot that rule of the Khmer cartoon feature of all time — and challenges prejudices. sister unit Pixar, include sequels The excerpt from this anima- Rouge regime from to “Finding Nemo” and “Toy tion, scheduled to start its rollout 1975-1979. Story” as well as a friendly dino- Frozen was the biggest-grossing in February next year, garnered saur odyssey and a tuneful South cartoon feature. the biggest laughs from the audi- Pacific adventure. ence when it showed a scene in a Here are the features unveiled Nemo and his father accom- vehicle registration office where by John Lasseter, chief creative pany Dory as she sets out to find long lines of animals had to deal officer for Walt Disney and Pixar her own family in a story set six with counters staffed by... sloths. Chelsea Clinton to publish first book Animation Studios, who was in months after the Pixar original. ‘Moana’ Cannes for the premiere of Pixar’s Along the way they encounter This picture is set in the South latest, “Inside Out”, which opens new seascapes and new creatures, Pacific and stars a young islander NEW YORK: In a unique posi- Going!” the book will address foreign language editions to follow. worldwide next month. including a giant squid, Hank the princess who belts out songs tion as the child of one, and issues such as poverty, homeless- Educated at the universities of ‘The Good Dinosaur’ octopus, Destiny the whale shark with tribal beats reminiscent of potentially two, US presidents ness, hunger, access to education, Stanford, Columbia and Oxford, Pixar imagines an Earth (confused about whether she’s a Disney’s 1994 “The Lion King”, Chelsea Clinton stepped up her gender equality, health, climate the 35-year-old mother of one has where an asteroid didn’t impact whale or a shark), and Bailey the while venturing across an ocean growing public profile yesterday change and endangered species, had a busy career. the surface 65 million years ago, beluga whale. in the company of a despond- by announcing publication of Clinton and Penguin announced. She worked for a management killing all the dinosaurs. Instead, ‘Toy Story 4’ ently defeated god, Maui. Lasseter her first book. It will explore solutions to these consultancy and a hedge fund, the story follows a young green “Toy Story” was the movie that insisted on Disney’s on-location Her foray into the world of non- challenges and share stories of reportedly earned $600,000 as talking dinosaur, Arlo, who sees shot Pixar to fame, and its sequels research for the movie, and the fiction will be “It’s Your World,” “inspiring kids and teenagers” a special TV correspondent on his father killed and gets swept have also been critical successes. respect it sought to attach to the a treatise for young readers on who are already working to help NBC, and is now vice chair of the away from the rest of his family. No surprise then that the fourth myths and culture of populations some of the world’s most press- improve their communities and Clinton Foundation. He ends up befriending a caveman in the series will be released in on Tahiti, Samoa, New Zealand, ing problems and what they can the planet, the press statement That global charity has come boy who acts more as a puppy dog 2017, directed by Lasseter himself. Fiji and Hawaii. AFP do to help. said. “My hope is that the book under recent controversy over than a sentient human. There were no snippets avail- It will be published by an will inspire readers to realise that whether any of its considerable “It’s a boy and a dog story — able on this one, with the Disney imprint of Penguin Young Readers they can start making a differ- donors create a conflict of inter- but the roles are reversed,” said animation creative officer saying on September 15, 2016 just weeks ence now, in their own way, for est for Hillary as she seeks the Lasseter. “The Good Dinosaur” it’s “in its early stages but it’s before the next US presidential their family, their community, and Democratic nomination for the will be rolled out worldwide from shaping up nicely”. election when mother Hillary our world,” Clinton said. presidency. November 25. ‘Zootopia’ will be hoping to follow Bill into The book will be released Chelsea, who shied away from Yep, Dory, the memory-defi- From the venerable Walt the White House and become the simultaneously in the United the media as a younger adult, has cient blue fish who helped find Disney Animation Studios which country’s first woman president. States, Britain, Ireland, Australia, fervently backed her mother’s young Nemo back in 2003 is the made “Frozen” is this smart- Under the sub-heading “Get New Zealand and Canada through second bid for the White House. star of the upcoming sequel to alecky original feature about a Informed, Get Inspired and Get Penguin Random House, with AFP “Finding Nemo” due out mid-2016. city populated by animals that Thursday 21 May 2015 3 Shaaban 1436 Volume 20 Number 6437 Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Major banks fined $6bn for forex rigging Citi, Barclays, JP Morgan and RBS plead guilty; Barclays fined $2.4bn, fires 8 employees; UBS gets lower fine

NEW YORK/LONDON/ interest rate benchmark, and “The penalty all these banks will Britain’s Barclays was fined a further four who had been sus- welcomed the removal of uncer- ZURICH: Four major banks banks had pledged to overhaul now pay is fitting considering record $2.4bn, underscoring how pended or placed on paid leave. tainty over the forex scandal. agreed to plead guilty yesterday their corporate culture and bol- the long-running and egregious widespread the misconduct was. Benjamin Lawsky also warned Swiss bank UBS, which avoided to trying to manipulate foreign ster compliance. nature of their anticompetitive Barclays staff continued to engage that he was still probing the a guilty plea over the forex deba- exchange rates and six were In total, authorities in the conduct,” said Attorney General in misleading sales practices bank’s use of electronic systems cle, pleaded guilty instead to one fined nearly $6bn in yet another United States and Europe have Loretta Lynch at a news confer- despite Chief Executive Antony for foreign exchange trading, count of wire fraud and will pay a settlement in a global probe into fined seven banks over $10bn for ence in Washington. Jenkins’ pledge to overhaul the which make up the vast major- $203m fine for its role in rigging the $5-trillion-a-day market. failing to stop their dealers from Lawyers said the guilty pleas bank’s high-risk, high-reward ity of transactions in the market. Libor after its involvement in the Authorities in the United trying to manipulate foreign would make it much easier for culture. “Put simply, Barclays employees forex scandal breached an earlier States and Britain accused trad- exchange rates — used every day pension funds and investment Barclays’ sales staff would offer helped rig the foreign exchange DOJ agreement. Switzerland’s ers at Citigroup, JP Morgan, by millions of people from trillion managers who have regular cur- clients a different price to the one market. They engaged in a bra- largest bank also had to pay Barclays, UBS and Royal Bank dollar investment houses to tour- rency dealings with banks to offered by the bank’s traders, zen ‘heads I win, tails you lose’ $342m to the Federal Reserve of Scotland of brazenly cheating ists buying foreign currencies for sue the banks for losses on those known as a “mark-up” to boost scheme to rip off their clients,” over attempted manipulation of their clients to boost their own their holidays. trades. “There is already a lot of profits. Generating mark-ups was Benjamin Lawsky said in a state- forex rates. profits using invitation-only cha- The new settlement stands out work going on behind the scenes a high priority for sales managers ment. “While today’s action con- The US central bank fined six trooms and coded language to because Citigroup, JP Morgan, assessing how claims could be with one employee noting, “If you cerns misconduct in spot trading, banks for unsafe and unsound coordinate their trades. Barclays and Royal Bank of brought forward and those poten- aint cheating, you aint trying.” there is additional work ahead.” practices in the foreign exchange The misconduct occurred Scotland pleaded guilty and for tial claimants will be looking to Barclays fired four traders in Barclays had set aside $3.2bn markets, including a $205m fine up until 2013, after regulators the size of the penalties, including today’s announcement for evidence the last month as a result of the to cover any forex-related set- for Bank of America, which, had started punishing banks a $2.5bn fine by the Department of to support their analysis,” said investigation and New York’s tlement and shares in the bank like UBS, avoided a guilty plea. for rigging the London inter- Justice, the largest set of antitrust Simon Hart, banking litigation Superintendent of Financial rose more than three percent to However, UBS’s penalty was lower bank offered rate (Libor), an fines ever obtained in its history. partner at London law firm RPC. Services ordered it to fire a an 18-month high as investors than expected. REUTERS

Banks’ foreign credit surges 60pc in Q1

BY SATISH KANADY the previous quarter. The coun- try’s banking system’s net foreign DOHA: Qatar banks’ foreign assets recorded QR102bn in March, credit surged to a huge 60 per- down from the previous quarter’s cent in the first quarter of 2015 QR124bn. Net domestic net assets compared to the same period in jumped to QR405bn from QR379bn 2014. The banks’ credit to outside in the previous quarter. Qatar’s Qatar jumped to QR72bn from total money supply (M1) rose to QR45bn a year ago. QR126bn in March, from QR124bn Domestic credit jumped nearly recorded in the previous year. The 10 percent to QR599bn in the first country’s average movement in quarter on year-on-year basis, money supply (M2) continued to according to Qatar Central Bank’s grow to hit QR508bn or 0.8 percent (QCB) preliminary estimates. up on quarter-on-quarter basis. QCB’s quarterly bulletin indi- M1 measures a country’s most SAK Holding Group Chairman Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Al Thani (fourth left) with Lamis Marqaha (fourth from right) and other officials at the event cated Qatar’s commercial banks’ liquid components of the money yesterday. ABDUL BASIT domestic investments rose by 5.53 supply, as it contains cash and percent to QR129.7bn during Q1 assets that can quickly be con- compared to the same period in verted to currency. M2 includes SAK Trading gets three quality certifications 2014. The banks’ domestic invest- savings deposits, money market ment in March 2014 stood at mutual funds and other time depos- QR122.9bn. The combined assets its, which are less liquid and but DOHA: SAK Trading & systems and mechanisms. The said: “We are proud to receive safety and health by applying the of commercial banks scaled up to can quickly converted into cash or Contracting Company — one of quality certification reflects the these international certifications requirements of the standard. QR1.01 trillion in the first quarter deposits. the subsidiaries and operational real estate major’s commitment to which put us in the ranks of the SAK Trading & Contracting from QR946bn recorded in March Meanwhile, industry sources dis- arm of SAK Holding Group — sustainable development agenda. very few companies in Qatar and Company General Manager, 2014. The total assets of banks had closed yesterday that private sector received three global certifica- Sheikh Thani described the the region.” Ahmed Al Sayed, said the glo- crossed the QR1 trillion mark for loans grew by 1.9 percent on month- tions in one go. The company achievement as a reassurance to Lamis Marqaha praised SAK bal recognition of the company’s the first time in December 2014, on-month basis in April 2015 bagged the coveted global qual- the commitment of SAK Holding for being one of the very first com- quality standards underscores the but slipped the threshold in both compared to 3.1 percent month- ity certifications (PAS 99), (ISO Group and its affiliates in main- panies in the region that won the importance of having a modern January and February 2015. The on-month growth in March 2015. 9001: 2008), and (OHSAS 18001: taining the quality standards the three globally recognised quality organisational structure. He said banks’ total assets in February Analysts at Global Investment 2007). real estate market as a leading standard certificates. the recognition will benefit the stood at QR991bn. House (GIH) noted: Total assets SAK Holding Group Chairman organisation. Lamis explained, “PAS99 is company greatly in its growth and Commercial banks’ foreign of GCC banks under our overage of the Board of Directors, Sheikh SAK Holding Group CEO a quality standard certification expansion. investment stood QR50bn in March expanded 10.4 percent YoY to $1.2 Thani bin Abdullah Al Thani, yes- Hesham Al Sahtari expressed his awarded to the institutions for Chairman of the Special 2015, down from QR51bn recorded a trillion in Q4, 14. Qatar-based banks terday received the quality cer- gratitude in the rare achievement their integrated management Committee, Muhannad Jassim, year ago. The banks’ credit outside witnessed the strongest growth in tificates from Lamis Marqaha, . The global certifications clearly system. ISO 9001 is awarded for said, “SAK Holding Group is Qatar, however, surged to QR72bn total assets (11.2 percent YoY), fol- Commissioner Regional Director show the extent of the group’s the company’s outstanding glo- devoted to employing the stand- in March from QR45bn in 2014. lowed by banks in Kuwait (10.6 per- of TUV Inter Cert SAAR in commitment to a balanced and bal Quality Management System. ards of ISO Certificates, the The QCB data said the estimated cent), GIH that covers five major the presence of specially invited sustained development in line with OHSAS 18001 is an internation- Quality Management Certificate total assets touched QR203bn in Q1, banks in Qatar, noted the expan- guests. the vision of the Group Chairman ally recognised standard for man- (ISO 9001), and the Health & up from QR200bn from the previ- sion in asset base of GCC banks, SAK Trading & Contracting Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Al aging Occupational Safety and Safety Certificate (OHSAS 18001), ous month. QCB’s net international including in Qatar, was supported Company gained these three Thani. Health. Organisations plan to as a part of its unwavering com- reserves slipped by to QR142bn by growth in loan book. international certificates by SAK Holding Group Deputy apply strict measures to reduce mitment to maintaining quality in Q1 from QR155bn recorded in THE PENINSULA developing its own management CEO, Abdul Rahman Al Najjar risks associated with occupational standards. THE PENINSULA

Symposium on industry development

DOHA: A symposium titled Thani, Chairman of the Qatar progress and prosperity. “Industry is locomotive of Chamber of Commerce and The “Made In Qatar 2015” development” was organised Industry (QCCI), said the and the Symposium are a step in yesterday during the “Made in fourth edition of the “Made the right direction said Sheikh Qatar 2015” Exhibition which In Qatar 2015” carries a lot of Khalifa bin Jassim Al Thani. began at Doha Exhibition challenges and excellences in He expressed thanks to the Center on Monday and runs regard to its organisers’ desire Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin until Friday. that the exhibition must be Hamad Al Thani for his con- Minister of Energy and a certificate of excellence for tinuous support for the Qatari Industry H E Dr Mohammed Qatari industry. industry, and to wise govern- bin Saleh Al Sada and Minister He explained that the sympo- ment for its fruitful coopera- of Culture, Arts and Heritage sium, having theme “Industry tion with Qatari private sector, H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz is Locomotive of Development”, a matter which led to the pros- Al Kuwari attended the is not just a slogan, but it is a perity of Qatar and its people symposium. conviction and a belief in the and its rank on the regional and Ahmed bin Ali Al Mohannadi (right) shakes hand with Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim Al Thani yesterday. KAMMUTTY VP Speaking at the event, importance of industry and international level. Sheikh Khalifa bin Jassim Al its role in achieving growth, THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS QIIB signs new Greece says it will default in June Al Dhameen Senior Syriza lawmaker says no money to pay IMF debt; Athens mulls bank transaction tax programme ATHENS: Greece will not be ruling Syriza party’s lawmakers, transactions to help raise revenue, such as ordering state entities to liquidity assistance that Greek with QDB able to make a payment to the told ANT1 television. “If there is though discussion of the levy is at hand over cash or, in the case of an banks can draw from the Greek International Monetary Fund due no deal by then that will address an early stage, two sources close to IMF payment last week, by emp- central bank by just 200 million DOHA: Abdulbasit Al Shaibei, on June 5 unless foreign lenders the current funding problem, they the talks said. Varoufakis confirmed tying out an IMF reserve account. euros, taking the ceiling to 80.2 bil- CEO of International Islamic provide more aid, a senior ruling won’t get any money,” he said. the levy was on the table and added Four days before the payment lion euros, a banking source said, (QIIB) and Abdul Aziz bin party lawmaker said yesterday, Finance Minister Yanis that Athens had alternative pro- was made, Prime Minister Alexis adding that the reason behind the Nasser Al Khalifa, CEO of the latest warning from Athens Varoufakis told Britain’s Channel posals to its own plans for a value- Tsipras wrote to EU and IMF small increase was that deposit the Qatar Development Bank that it is on the verge of default. 4 news: “If we can, on June 5, repay added tax hike, a key issue in the lenders warning that Athens could outflows had stabilised at very low (QDB) signed the Al Dhameen Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s the IMF and pay pensions and sala- talks. “Many people ask me: Why not make the €750m payment — levels. programme portfolio agree- leftist government says it hopes ries as well as the other obligations don’t you conclude the deal?” he prompting accusations of a bluff The source also said the ECB ment, sponsored by the QDB, to reach a cash-for-reforms deal we have to our internal creditors, said at an Athens business event. that has deepened mistrust. Still, had held a “long and exhaustive” enabling further expansion of in days, although European Union we shall. If not, we will have to pri- “There is nothing more that we, fresh aid will be needed sooner or discussion on the “haircut” or dis- SMEs financing. and IMF lenders are more pes- oritise pensioners and public sector who are taking part in this nego- later to avoid bankruptcy. Ratings count applied to collateral offered The signing was attended by simistic and say talks are moving workers.” tiation for four months now, night agency Moody’s said there was a by Greek banks, but that no deci- Jamal Al Jamal, Deputy CEO too slowly for that. Payments to the Talks between Greece and its and day, want more. To conclude high likelihood that capital con- sion had been made to increase it. of QIIB together with Masson IMF totalling about $1.7bn fall due lenders have foundered on Athens’ this deal and start operating like a trols and a deposit freeze could Despite the spectre of impending Al Asfar, head of Corporate next month, starting with a €300m demand to roll back labour and normal country.” be imposed as savers pull deposits bankruptcy, Tsipras has put on a Banking, and Mahmoud Abdullah, payment on June 5. pension reforms as well as the lower Greek officials have already from banks over fears of a national brave face in public and will lobby head of SMEs Banking services. “Now is the moment that nego- fiscal targets set under its bailout warned several times in recent bankruptcy and an exit from the European leaders at the EU sum- Attending from the QDB were tiations are coming to a head. Now programme. weeks that Athens could run out of eurozone. mit in Riga this week for a political Hamad Al Kubaisi, Executive is the moment of truth, on June Among concessions Athens cash, only to then meet their obliga- The European Central Bank agreement to break the impasse. Director for Strategy and 5,” Nikos Filis, spokesman for the is mulling is a tax on banking tions through draconian measures raised the cap on the emergency REUTERS Business Development, Jawaher Al Nuaimi, Director of the Al Dhameen programme, and Khaled Al Maneh Executive Director of Tokyo stock hit another 15-year high Business Finance, according to a Qatar Exchange (QE) filing. The new product “Al Dhameen Russia: Ukraine portfolio”, is a QR100m portfolio aimed at facilitating and speed- ing up approvals to guaranty the value of the funding provided by debt repayment law the partner bank to small and medium enterprises lacking suf- ficient guarantees. amounts to default QDB has prepared a special portfolio guide that describes the terms, conditions, eligibility cri- MOSCOW: Russia demanded Russian Finance Minister teria, due diligence, credit moni- the timely repayment of all Anton Siluanov said Moscow toring, applications and guidelines debts owed to it by Ukraine and would seek redress in interna- development, to help QIIB to take accused Kiev of effectively pre- tional courts if Ukraine did not the necessary decisions without paring the way for default with respect the terms of its foreign referring to the QDB. The draft- a new law. It threatened to take debt repayments. “For the time ing of the program content took the issue to international courts being we don’t have any grounds nearly two years of close coopera- if necessary. (to act). If a payment is missed, tion between QDB and partner The law, approved by Ukraine’s we will exercise our right to go to banks to cater to all needs and parliament on Tuesday, gives the court,” he said. Ukraine was due increase transparency. government the right to miss pay- to make its next Eurobond repay- Abdul Aziz bin Nasser Al Khalifa ments to its international credi- ment to Russia, worth $75m, on said: “The Al Dhameen program tors as it wrangles over the terms June 20, Siluanov added. has been very successful so far in for restructuring $23bn worth of Siluanov also said Russia would achieving the goal of its creation, foreign debt. hold consultations with the IMF overcoming the financial obstacles Russia holds a $3bn Ukrainian on the Ukrainian debt issue “to facing the SME sector, allowing Eurobond whose full repay- defend its interests during the SMEs to attain financial sustain- ment is due by the end of the provision of regular tranches of ability on a larger scale. And today year. Moscow, whose relations financial help to Ukraine”. the program comes out with a new with Kiev have been wrecked by Putin said the terms of the look along with the partner banks, a year-long conflict in eastern Eurobond had been particularly Pedestrians in front of a monitor displaying the closing information of the Nikkei Stock Average outside a helping to speed up bank financ- Ukraine, has declined to join the generous to Ukraine and that securities office branch in Tokyo yesterday. Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei Stock Average rose to another 15-year ing.” THE PENINSULA debt restructuring talks. Russia could have demanded an high to close up 170.18 points at 20,195.56, its highest close since April 2000. President Vladimir Putin, earlier redemption of the bond speaking at a meeting with gov- but had not done so at the request ernment ministers, said he found of the IMF. the new law “strange”. “To effec- In addition to the Eurobond, tively announce an impending Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev Nissan posts highest sales growth in region default shows a poor level of pro- said Russian banks were also fessional responsibility, all things heavily exposed to Ukraine considered,” said Putin, noting through loans worth around DOHA: Nissan maintained its units — up 10 percent versus 2013 Nissan’s strategy for success is with all touch points and at all that the International Monetary $25bn. In the event of a default status as the fastest-growing and achieving a 15.3 percent mar- based on the well-known Nissan levels,” says Nissan Middle East’s Fund does not lend to countries on either commercial or sovereign automotive brand in the GCC ket share. Nissan’s brand pur- global growth strategy ‘Power managing director Samir Cherfan. in default. debt held by Russia, Medvedev for the third consecutive year, chase consideration in the UAE 88’, which CEO Carlos Ghosn Unsurprisingly, the ever-popu- Ukraine, its economy battered added, “it will be essential to use selling a record breaking 219,129 has also increased by 46 percent announced Nissan would achieve lar Nissan Patrol notched record by recession and rampant graft as all possible means of defence, units in the 2014 financial year in the past two years, closing the by 2016. Under the Power 88 Mid numbers over the period with well as by the conflict in the east, including via the courts”. — up 3.3 percent in 2013. In gap with the market leader. Term plan, Nissan Middle East 34,015 units leaving the region’s hopes to secure the next tranche Relations between Kiev and addition, Nissan achieved the In Saudi Arabia, after the announced that it will be target- showroom floors, a 35 percent of a $17.5bn bailout programme Moscow soured badly after mass best ever customer satisfaction first full year of operation under ing to sell 240,000 units in the hike on financial year 2013. with the IMF this summer to street protests toppled Ukraine’s results through top-level qual- its revival plan, Nissan, with its GCC by fiscal year 2016 reaching The Nissan Sunny also attrib- shore up its foreign currency pro-Russian president Viktor ity customer service. dealer Alissa Auto, reached the 12.3 percent market share. uted to the record breaking reserves. Kiev is also holding Yanukovich in February 2014, in In the GCC, Nissan recorded third position in sales with 61,806 “This is our third successive results, by achieving 29,688 units talks to restructure sovereign and what Russia called a coup. an 18.1 percent sales increase with units, reaching 7.2 percent mar- year of record growth in the in 2014 with 30 percent sales state-guaranteed debt to plug a Moscow then seized Crimea 185,135 units sold in 2014 versus ket share and representing 141.7 Middle East and the momentum growth from last year. $15 billion funding gap, but the and has backed pro-Russian sep- 156,778 in 2013 — increasing its percent growth year-on-year will continue due to our broad Nissan Pathfinder recorded 15 negotiations have soured in the aratists battling Kiev’s forces in market share by 0.8 percentage compared to 2013. Furthermore, product line, top-quality customer percent growth with 6,800 units, past week. Bondholders object eastern Ukraine, though it denies points to reach 10.3 percent. Nissan’s brand purchase consid- service, outstanding dealership and the Nissan X-Trail recorded a to any writedown on the princi- Western accusations that it has In the UAE, Nissan maintained eration has strengthened by 27 network, and commitment to our significant growth increase of 300 pal owed. Kiev says their stance sent troops and military hardware its strong number two position percent reaching the second posi- brand’s message of ‘innovation percent versus 2013 with 4,400 shows a lack of good faith. across the border. REUTERS in the sales charts, selling 63,036 tion in the market. that excites’ that we live daily units. THE PENINSULA

Changing property landscape ECB under fire over market sensitive closed-door meet

LONDON/FRANKFURT: jumped. The ECB has blamed the market sensitive information,” The European Central Bank is delay between the speech’s deliv- said Sven Giegold, a member of under fire after one of its poli- ery and publication on an “inter- the European Parliament’s eco- cymakers gave market sensitive nal procedural error”. An official nomics committee. information to an invitation- said yesterday it had taken steps He questioned how ECB only conference attended by to ensure that there would be no President Mario Draghi attended hedge fund managers, a day repeat of the problem. forums such as of the Group of 30, before his speech was publicly While it is not clear at exactly an elite body of financiers, aca- released. what time Coeure revealed the demics and central bankers who Politicians and market partici- information on the bond buy- meet around the globe. pants criticised the ECB over the ing, charts show the euro fell “The informal meetings, brief- speech by board member Benoit sharply against the dollar also ings, dinner speeches and group Coeure, in which he said the cen- around the time he spoke. The memberships such as Draghi in tral bank would accelerate bond reason for this move is unclear, the Group of 30 give rise to seri- buying under a programme aimed as is whether anyone who heard ous questions,” said Giegold, a at averting deflation and helping the speech traded on it before the German Green. to revive the eurozone economy. public release. The euro fell over half a cent Coeure gave the speech to the But the ECB’s handling of against the dollar in Monday conference in London, which was such sensitive information came evening’s move. At the time, the also attended by bankers and under attack. “There should be San Francisco Federal Reserve Employees work at the MasterCard offices in the Manhattan South in New York. The ever-expanding Internet- academics, on Monday evening. clear and transparent policy of had just released a paper saying based economy is dramatically changing the New York property and employment landscape, spurring a When it was finally released on the ECB what to do and what the US economy was doing better rebirth of century-old landmark buildings for office space and the tightest US commercial real estate market the ECB’s website on Tuesday type of information to share in than estimates suggest and this since the financial downturn. morning, the euro fell sharply these informal settings in order boosted the dollar. while stock and bond prices to guarantee equal access to REUTERS THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19

Malabar Gold unveils casual range Boeing names Osborne to streamline Bernie Dunn as Middle East sale of banking assets President DOHA: Boeing yesterday named Govt to address low productivity; to set up new entity Bernie Dunn as President of Boeing Middle East. Dunn will LONDON: Chancellor George end of the 2015-16 financial year. The Bank of England cut its be based in Dubai and report to Osborne will set out plans to The sales are part of efforts growth forecasts last week, citing Marc Allen, president of Boeing streamline the sale of £23bn of to recover £66bn of taxpayers’ a weaker outlook for productivity International. bank shares and other publicly money spent bailing out banks in as a key factor. Dunn, who is fluent in Arabic, owned assets by creating a new the 2007-8 financial crisis. “Improving the productivity of has lived and worked in the government-run company. UK Financial Investments, our country is the route to rais- region for most of the last 30 In a speech to business lead- which manages the govern- ing standards of living for every- years. Before joining Boeing in ers in London, Osborne will high- ment’s stake in the Royal Bank one,” Osborne will say. The plan July 2012 as president of Boeing light the plan as part of a drive to of Scotland and Lloyds, along will look at areas such as trans- Turkey and North Africa, Dunn improve Britain’s low productivity with other financial assets, will port, skills and broadband access was vice-president, Middle East/ — which he refers to as the “long- be merged with the Shareholder to identify where structural Africa, Business Development, standing weakness in the British Executive, which controls 23 improvements can be made. ITT Defence International for 10 economy”. other stated-owned businesses, He will also urge government years. “If we want a more productive the finance ministry said. departments to come up with He succeeds Jeff Johnson, economy, let’s get the govern- The new entity, to be named ways to further reduce their who was named vice-presi- ment out of the business of own- UK Government Investments, spending, ahead of a department- dent, Business Development ing great chunks of our banking aims to ensure it gets the best by-department review due later and Strategy, Boeing Military system — and indeed other assets price for public assets by com- in the year that will seek to shave Aircraft, earlier this year. that should be in the private sec- bining expertise within the two 13 billion pounds from their over- Based in Ankara, Dunn has tor,” Osborne will say, according organisations, the Treasury said. all annual budget. led Boeing activities in Turkey, to advance extracts provided by Osborne will also promise to The spending cuts are one half Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and his office. publish a plan to improve over- of a major austerity drive planned Libya for the past three years. In March, the government said all productivity in the economy by Osborne as he seeks to finish Dunn’s successor will be named at it wanted to sell 9 billion pounds before a July 8 budget. off balancing the country’s books, a later date. “Bernie successfully of shares in Lloyds Banking Boosting Britain’s dismal pro- which will drastically reshape the led Boeing across all facets of our Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan with Malabar Gold & Diamonds Group and £13bn of home loans ductivity performance since the role of the British state. He also business interests in Turkey and held by bailed-out Northern Rock financial crisis is one of the coun- wants to cut welfare spending by officials at the launch of the latest jewellery collection – ‘Hi’ North Africa,” said Allen. and Bradford and Bingley by the try’s biggest economic challenges. £12bn. REUTERS Casual Jewelry — a light weight contemporary collection in gold, Dunn will be responsible for diamonds and precious gemstones. Boeing’s growth and productivity plans and government affairs and for implementing the company’s strategy across the region. He also will support Boeing business GE to lose Angola locomotive deal if Ex-Im Bank closes units and functions as they pursue their objectives and closely coor- dinate with Boeing Saudi Arabia WASHINGTON: General financing, Angola would buy exports of US goods and services, secure sales for GE.” for Angola, and those would go to President Ahmed Jazzar. Electric Co would lose a $350m Chinese-built locomotives, he said. which the bank says counters for- But in the fierce international other countries if the bank dies, Dunn entered the Army’s deal to build locomotives for GE, along with other major eign competition and protects jobs. competition for locomotives, GE’s Stokes added. Foreign Area Officer pro- Angola, and perhaps billions of US exporters including Boeing Ex-Im, funded from fees and inter- Stokes said private financing could GE Transportation’s gramme in 1982. After complet- dollars more in future export Co and business groups like est, generated a $675m surplus in never compare to the lower rates 4,500-strong workforce in Erie, ing Arabic language training and opportunities, if Congress closes the US Chamber of Commerce fiscal 2014 above its operating cost. offered by government-backed plus thousands more at 900 sup- a master’s degree in National the US Export-Import Bank, a and the National Association of The bank’s opponents argue that export credit agencies. In many pliers such as Westinghouse Air Security Affairs from the Naval senior GE executive said. Manufacturers, is fighting to save its loans put taxpayers at risk, dis- emerging markets, including the Brake Technologies Corp, have ben- Postgraduate School, Monterey, “It would be gone,” GE the Ex-Im Bank. The export credit tort free enterprise and amount to Angola tender, bidders are required efited from a boom in export orders California, Dunn served in a Transportation unit president agency’s critics, mostly conserva- “corporate welfare.” GE reported to offer export credit agency financ- financed in part by Ex-Im. variety of positions in the Middle Russell Stokes said of a not-yet- tive Republicans, want Congress to revenues of $149bn and profits of ing, he said. “We’d still go out and With Ex-Im support, GE last East. Key subsequent assignments finalised agreement announced by allow Ex-Im’s charter to expire on $15bn in 2014. “GE should seek pri- try to compete, but I’m telling you year split a 465-locomotive South included service as the US Army the global conglomerate in March June 30. vate financing if it wants the Angola it will be very difficult,” he said. “On African order evenly with China’s attaché in Jordan from 1992 to for 100 lightweight diesel-electric Stokes spoke on Capitol Hill deal to go through,” said David some of these big international ten- state-run train builders CSR Corp 1994, Defence and Army attaché locomotives to be built in Erie, between visits to lawmakers late McIntosh, president of the conserv- ders like this one, you’re going to and China CNR. Stokes said the in Syria from 1997 to 2000, and Pennsylvania. Up to 1,800 jobs at last week to persuade them to ative Club for Growth, an advocacy lose.” firms are GE’s toughest interna- Defense and Army attaché to GE, its suppliers and local busi- keep the bank open. The alternative group allied with Republican politi- Ex-Im has agreed to finance tional competitor, and their pending Saudi Arabia from June 2000 nesses in 12 states would be put would be the end of an institution cians attacking Ex-Im. “It’s not the another $650m in not-yet-awarded merger will make them stronger. until June 2002. at risk because, without Ex-Im formed 80 years ago to help finance role of the federal government to power and infrastructure projects REUTERS THE PENINSULA

German firm Pacific trade pact will protect Wintershall world’s workers, says Kerry ceases Qatar SEATTLE: US Secretary of standards are baked right into the of association and collective State John Kerry sought to four corners of the text.” bargaining.” operations fend off critics of a huge emerg- The ambitious, 12-nation TPP is A rally of workers outside the ing Pacific trade pact, saying it still under negotiation, but would Boeing factory disrupted Kerry’s DOHA: German energy com- would set the “highest stand- eventually encompass 40 percent visit, amid fears that the TPP will pany Wintershall said that it ards” to protect workers and the of the world’s global economy, largely benefit the world’s rich is ceasing its activities in Qatar environment. largely thanks to the inclusion of multinationals. But Kerry argued and is returning Block 4 North Addressing workers at a Boeing the United States and Japan. But that signatories to the TPP would near the North Field off the aerospace factory in Renton, near trade unions have voiced criticism have “to comply with core inter- Qatari coast on May 25. Seattle, Washington, Kerry vowed that the deal, being largely nego- national labor and environmental The office of Wintershall in that the Trans-Pacific Partnership tiated in secret, will fall short of standards,” and that it would be a Officials with the award. Doha will be closed, the company (TPP) would be a “historic trade international labour standards. deal in which “every participant said in a statement yesterday. agreement.” The American Federation of has to refrain from using underage In 2013, Wintershall made the “The TPP is not your grand- Labor and Congress of Industrial workers and unsafe workplaces.” Al Liwan at Sharq Village & “Al Radeef” gas discovery off parents’ trade agreement. It’s not Organizations (AFL-CIO) says it He paid tribute to the “hard- the coast of Qatar. “During the your mom and dad’s trade agree- is calling for the deal to include fought struggle” for workers’ development planning, it was ment,” Kerry said. “This is a new, a strong labor chapter “that rights in American workplaces Spa gets restaurant award always clear to us and our part- new entity, and ultimately, this is ensures workers in any TPP coun- to ensure “that economic growth ners that an economic develop- a 21st century agreement where try, including Vietnam, can exer- doesn’t come on the backs of ment of the discovery, including the key understandings and high cise basic rights such as freedom exploited people.” AFP DOHA: Al Liwan Restaurant which are wrapped in an authentic the processing of the gas, would at Sharq Village & Spa has Arabian atmosphere. only be possible if we have access named “Best Middle Eastern “Every meal at Sharq Village to local infrastructure. This Restaurant in Doha” during the and Spa becomes a celebration — access was not granted. That is recent 1st FACT Dining Awards. of food, friends and special occa- why we have decided to take this Al Liwan is a celebration of sions. Our restaurants and lounges step”, explains Wintershall Board Lebanon and of its reputation as continue to be the standard by Member Martin Bachmann, who one of the best destinations for which all others are measured, and is responsible for exploration and food in the world. Al Liwan offers our expertly trained chefs ensure production in Europe and the a daily buffet of freshly prepared that each meal provides a feast for Middle East. salads, grilled dishes, fresh seafood, the eyes as well as the palate.” Zee Further activities in the Middle scrumptious breads, live cooking Bassila, Cluster Director of Sales East region are not affected by stations and an assortment of & Marketing at Sharq Village & the withdrawal from Qatar. The tasty traditional desserts, all of Spa. THE PENINSULA current focus of Wintershall is on the United Arab Emirates. “We are also closely following the developments in other coun- tries in the region”, explains Gulf Air to increase Istanbul Bachmann. “The challenges in the region are increasing with local service frequency from July energy consumption growing rap- idly. In order to maintain produc- DOHA: As part of its new summer schedule Gulf Air, the tion in the long term, fields must national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, is launching addi- be exploited more efficiently and tional flights to and from Istanbul from July 11 with a choice of up technically more complex fields to seven flights a week, available for travel through to September need to be developed.” 12, 2015. The increased flights to Turkey’s largest city, are cater- Wintershall has considerable ing to growing passenger numbers in light of the upcoming holi- experience in deploying ‘Enhanced day season. Gulf Air’s Acting Chief Commercial Officer Ahmed Oil Recovery’ technology, which is Janahi said: “As the holidays approach, we are gearing up for a used to increase the yield from busy summer season and increasing the number of convenient complex reservoirs, especially in A Boeing 737 aircraft fuselage is seen at Boeing’s 737 factory in Renton, Washington, yesterday. Boeing expects options available for our passengers.” THE PENINSULA mature fields in Germany and to deliver 750-755 commercial aircraft this year, with that division producing revenue of $64.5-65.5bn. Europe. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Renault seeks Japan economy to conquer grows fastest India with new budget car CHENNAI: Renault launched in year at 2.4pc its first budget car developed specially for India, seeking to expand its foothold in the huge but highly competitive market. Inventory adds 0.5 points to GDP Renault chief executive Carlos Ghosn described the Kwid as “a TOKYO: Japan’s economy said Takeshi Minami, chief econ- car for conquest” designed to expanded at its fastest pace in a omist at Norinchukin Research deliver high-volume sales as the year in January-March as busi- Institute, cautioning against read- French auto giant tries to grow ness investment rose slightly, ing too much into the positive its share of the Indian market. but goods piling up in factory GDP figure. The Kwid, the first Renault car warehouses posed a poten- Indeed, Dai-Ichi Life’s Shinke to have its global launch in India, tial challenge to policy makers said there’s a risk inventory could will go on sale in the second half seeking to vanquish years of shave off growth in the second of the year priced at Rs300,000 Workers of the Renault factory are gathered next to the factory yesterday during a strike in Bursa, the centre of deflation. quarter and keep any economic ($4,700). “India is not an easy the Turkish car industry. Private consumption, hous- expansion modest. The data will market but we ... decided to play ing investment and exports all be closely scrutinised at the BOJ’s a role on this market,” he said at rose but at a feeble pace, leav- two-day rate review that ends on the launch in the southern city ing Tokyo with more work to do Friday. The central bank is widely of Chennai — India’s car-making two years after a radical mon- expected to maintain its massive Ford Otosan latest to be hit hub. “This vehicle is a global car, if etary stimulus programme has stimulus programme and rosy we make it in India, we will surely brought only scant success. “The assessment of the economy. make it in all the world,” he con- growth number may look good on “The economy isn’t falling off in Turkey’s labour dispute tinued, adding the country could surface but there’s not much to a cliff. It’s recovering, so I don’t be the world’s fourth-biggest car cheer about,” said Yoshiki Shinke, see this data as piling pressure on market within five years. chief economist at Dai-ichi Life the Bank of Japan to ease soon. ANKARA: One of the biggest slogans against management be needed. The strike wave began Renault cars currently account Research Institute. It’s just that the recovery isn’t strikes in the Turkish auto- and watched by a heavy police last Thursday in Turkey’s big- for around 1.5 percent of sales in The world’s third-largest econ- gathering pace,” said Shinke of mobile sector in recent times presence. However, Ford Otosan gest car plant, the Oyak Renault India but the company aims to omy expanded at an annualised Dai-Ichi Life. showed no sign of letting up, denied that was the case, saying factory, a joint venture between swiftly increase that to five per- rate of 2.4 percent in the first Private consumption, which with Ford the latest producer to the temporary stoppage was due Renault and the Oyak army pen- cent with the Kwid and a new three months of this year, beating accounts for roughly 60 percent be hit. The factories of Renault to a lack of parts caused by the sion fund located in Bursa. family car called the Lodgy. a median market forecast for a of GDP, rose 0.4 percent. Capital and Fiat in Turkey have been strikes at suppliers. Hundreds of employees of Tofas However, it faces strong com- 1.5 percent increase and a revised spending also grew 0.4 percent, ground to a halt in the past few With the strikes now entering — a joint venture between Fiat petition in the small car sector 1.1 percent expansion in October- below an expected 0.8 percent days by a strike for higher pay a seventh day, concerns are grow- and Koc Holding — followed suit, from the Indian-Japanese manu- December, data from the Cabinet gain but marking the first rise in and have also been joined by sev- ing over the threat to the Turkish as did hundreds of workers from facturer Suzuki-Maruti which Office showed yesterday. four quarters. eral auto parts manufacturers. economy from the labour dis- local parts manufacturers. holds 45 percent of the market The second straight quarter The pick-up in business invest- Two factories in the western putes in a sector that has been an The strikers have been asking and from Korea’s Hyundai. of expansion in gross domes- ment is seen as crucial to spark- Kocaeli region operated by Ford engine of growth in recent years. for wage increases in line with Renault went to great lengths tic product (GDP) exceeded an ing sustained economic growth Otosan — a long-standing joint The strikes come just three those seen at other industrial to develop the Kwid in India to annualised 0.2 percent gain in and inflation, so the latest num- venture between the US car giant weeks ahead of legislative elec- firms in Bursa, where one factory keep costs down. It will go on sale the United States and 1.6 percent bers should come as some relief and Turkish industrial conglom- tions on June 7 and as the economy is said to have offered workers a in India first before being rolled growth in the euro zone, a sign to policy-makers. But the mixed erate Koc Holding — were the lat- starts to show signs of weakness rise of as much as 60 percent. out across South Asia. If it is a Japan is steadily emerging from signs from the data underscore est to halt production. after years of impressive growth Car production in Turkey has success it could be launched in last year’s recession. But inven- a long-time dilemma for policy- The Dogan news agency said under premier-turned-President grown multifold since Erdogan’s other emerging markets. tory was the biggest contributor makers struggling to reflate the that workers had downed tools Recep Tayyip Erdogan. ruling Justice and Development Foreign automakers have made to growth, adding 0.5 percentage economy out of nearly two dec- in solidarity with their counter- Deputy Prime Minister Ali Party (AKP) came to power in a beeline for India in the last two point versus only 0.4 point gained ades of deflation. parts at Fiat and Renault, who Babacan, who oversees the econ- 2002, helping fuel a decade-long decades, seeking to tap a vast by increases in domestic demand A deflationary mindset from are based in the nearby city of omy, said the timing of the strikes economic boom. According to market in the country of 1.25 bil- components like capital expendi- years of falling prices has meant Bursa, the hub of Turkey’s flour- was significant but expressed hope the Paris-based International lion people and leverage its low ture, consumption and housing that companies and households ishing car industry. the situation would be resolved. Organisation of Motor Vehicle workforce costs. investment. “When excluding remain reluctant to boost spend- Reports said that 300 employ- “I think that the problem will Manufacturers (OICA), Turkey India’s car market grew by the contribution from inventory, ing, even as the weak yen bolstered ees of Ford protested at the be solved in the next days,” he produced 1.170 million cars and almost five percent in the last the economy grew a meagre 0.7 revenues and led to increase in job operation’s base in Golcuk in told the Haberturk channel, say- commercial vehicles in 2014, up financial year with 2.6 million percent on an annualised basis,” and wages. REUTERS the Kocaeli region, chanting ing “reforms” in the sector could from 346,565 in 2002. AFP cars sold. AFP

French Ministers meet Marks and Spencer posts first annual profit rise in four years

LONDON: Britain’s Marks —putting the right infrastructure, and booming German discount- and Spencer revealed the first capabilities and talent in place to ers Aldi and Lidl. “We expect the increase in annual profits in four drive our strategic priorities,” said UK food market to remain chal- years in a turnaround under Bolland, who was previously boss lenging but we are well positioned chief executive Marc Bolland, of supermarket Morrison. with a differentiated product offer partly thanks to “outstanding” Since Bolland’s arrival in 2010, and a store format that caters for food sales. M&S has invested billions of the changes in customer shopping Underlying pre-tax profits pounds into the business in a con- habits,” M&S said. “Delivery of our climbed 6.1 percent to £661.2m certed attempt to turn around its new stores will help drive sales ($1.03bn) in the group’s financial fortunes. “We have chosen to do growth over the coming year.” year to March 28, M&S said in this the hard way. We have chosen However, the group added a results statement. That was to do the right investments.” that annual sales in its general the first annual rise since 2010 He added: “This is a tough merchandise division -- which — when Bolland took the reins market, and I expect it to remain includes clothing — fell 3.1 per- — and compared with £622.9m tough for the next year.” M&S cent as unusually warm autumn in 2013-2014. Net profits or earn- food meanwhile enjoyed “an out- weather hit demand for coats and ings after taxation slid seven per- standing year in a difficult mar- knitwear. But the division experi- cent to £486.5m, while revenues ket”, he noted. enced an upturn in the final quar- increased 0.4 percent to £10.3bn. Sales of food grew 0.6 percent ter and was now set for a period French Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy Ségolène Royal (right) reads through docu- “We are transforming M&S into despite fierce competition from of “modest sales growth”, it added. ments as of the Economy, Industry and the Digital Sector Emmanuel Macron (centre) and Minister of Finance a stronger, more agile business traditional supermarket rivals AFP and Public Accounts Michel Sapin look on during a session at the Assemblee Nationale in Paris yesterday. Samsung prepping for change of style, rather than strategy

SEOUL/SINGAPORE: pragmatism in contrast to his that might undermine his father’s leader credited with forging the second individual. Samsung’s heir-apparent Jay Y father’s more charismatic leader- achievements or may be seen as Samsung Electronics into a world The younger Lee has rejected Lee (pictured) faces a delicate ship. “He doesn’t want to be in the disrespectful. He’s weighing a right smartphone, TV and chip leader, Korean media’s portrayal of him as balancing act: carefully pac- limelight just yet, with the chair- moment,” said the executive. but Lee has not shied from lay- a man of detail, in contrast to his ing preparations for change - of man still alive. But he’s been very As some investors question ing down the law. “There’s now a father’s more visionary style. “He style more than strategy — at clear that he wants to be evaluated Samsung’s long-term growth pros- group-wide instruction for employ- hates such comparisons. Chairman South Korea’s biggest conglom- through performance and ensure pects, with smartphone profits and ees to never answer their phones, Lee also paid close attention to erate, while preserving his ailing Samsung keeps growing,” said a margins tumbling from 2013 highs and to not even look at them, dur- detail when he first took charge, father’s legacy from more than a senior Samsung executive, who and new businesses not yet proving ing client meetings,” said a second and his focus later switched to quarter of a century in charge. didn’t want to be named as he’s to be future growth drivers, Lee is Samsung individual familiar with long-term strategy after he made Samsung Group, a sprawling not authorised to talk to the media. taking a multi-pronged approach the issue. “The person behind the changes he wanted to intro- corporation of dozens of affiliates “That’s why he’s been focusing on to keeping the smartphone busi- that is vice chairman (Lee) ... he duce,” said the Samsung executive. including Samsung Electronics, businesses he thinks Samsung can ness growing. is emphasizing that the client is “The vice chairman thinks this is has not announced any formal suc- run successfully, and selling assets “With the high-end smartphone more important. That’s the kind disrespectful. He just wants to be cession planning, but last week said such as defence and chemicals. It market near saturation, the vice of thought process he has.” a successful businessman like his Lee, 46, will take over as chairman was quite a decisive move.” chairman’s focus is on how to Lee is likely to be a more down- father and is trying hard to learn of two Samsung foundations from While the timing of a leader- keep making healthy profits and to-earth version of his father, from him.” patriarch Lee Kun-hee, 73, who ship transfer is not yet set, and extend its life cycle. He’s think- insiders say, and won’t demand One departure from previous remains hospitalized after a heart will effectively be Lee’s decision to ing synergies with the component the kind of attention Lee senior practice has seen Lee put more attack a year ago. make, few expect any major shift in business and also convergence with did — such as having a handful of Samsung companies under greater A flurry of non-core asset sales, strategy, though his management wearables, the ‘Internet of things’ senior executives come to meet public scrutiny through stock mar- company listings and organisa- style may change the way things and virtual reality,” the Samsung him at the airport on his return ket listings — partly to make the tional moves suggests the younger are done at the group. executive said. from overseas trips. “Vice chair- group nimbler, and partly to build Lee, vice-chairman of Samsung “I think vice chairman Lee He may be portrayed as less man Lee specifically said such up cash for a likely $6bn inherit- Electronics, is quietly readying has it in his mind, but he doesn’t authoritative than his father, practices should end. He seems to ance tax bill on Lee senior’s assets. Samsung for his brand of steely want to rush and do something Samsung’s second-generation believe they are unnecessary,” said REUTERS THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 American Airlines vows to Automakers risk losing the public trust forever compete with low-fare rivals

MARY CHLANGENSTEIN aggressively.” would get profitable and every- the pressure on airlines’ unit EDWARD NIEDERMEYER and MATTHEW INKLER Having more tickets on sale one would start trying to take revenue “is not an economic crimps airlines’ pricing power, share from each other,” said problem.” merican Airlines and pressure on fares is showing Parker, 53. “I do believe if fuel ‘Supply Problem’ VER since the US began seriously regulating auto- Group Inc. will up in gauges such as passenger prices increased, you’d quickly “This is a supply problem,” motive safety in the 1970s, deaths on the nation’s “compete aggres- revenue from each seat flown a see a decline in everyone’s capac- Parker said. “It feels like a short- roadways have been in steady decline. Though the sively” against dis- mile. That measure has fallen for ity forecast.” term issue that will work itself last 40 years have been punctuated by a few notable count carriers that three consecutive quarters for Merger Integration out.” auto-safety scandals, these have been relatively rare, Aare piling on added seats and the North American industry, Parker is close to completing Some competitors are charg- andE two of the biggest (Audi in the 1980s and Toyota in 2009-2011) then cutting fares to keep planes according to data compiled by the integration of Fort Worth, ing ahead with seating-capacity hinged on the dubious phenomenon of “sudden intended accelera- full, Chief Executive Officer Bloomberg. Texas-based American and US increases outpacing the eco- tion.” As recently as 18 months ago, the casual observer might well Doug Parker said. Stocks Tumble Airways Group Inc., the carrier nomic expansion. Southwest have concluded that automotive safety was a problem that was fixing “We’re not going to lose cus- Investors are concerned that he led before orchestrating the Airlines Co. said Tuesday that itself and thus unlikely to yield much further public scrutiny. Today, tomers on price,” Parker said the drop in so-called unit rev- 2013 merger creating the world’s it may increase capacity as much such optimism seems unwarranted. Tuesday in an interview at enue will weigh on margins, largest airline. The last major as 8 percent this year, up from 7 This week, the auto industry broke the record for the largest Bloomberg’s New York head- and airline stocks tumbled for step: shifting to a single reser- percent previously, while JetBlue consumer product recall in US history when Takata doubled its quarters. “We’re not going to a second day Wednesday. The vation system later this year. Airways Corp.’s projected range already-massive recall to nearly 34 million vehicles, admitting that give anyone else an advantage Bloomberg U.S. Airlines Index He confronts an industry is 7 percent to 9 percent and its air bags -- which can explode when they deploy -- were defec- and allow them to expand at fell 6.3 percent at 12:20 p.m. in buoyed by robust domestic Spirit Airlines Inc. anticipates tive. The previous record was held by the 1982 recall of 31 million a rate that takes away cus- New York after a 7.3 percent demand and buffeted by a strong a 31 percent jump. bottles of Tylenol, when a man allegedly laced the painkillers with tomers and is not good for our slide that was the most in intra- U.S. dollar and economic weak- Parker said smaller cities potassium cyanide. But for all the comic-book villainy of that ter- shareholders.” day trading since June 2012. ness in parts of Europe, Asia in the eastern U.S. risk losing rifying incident, it seems almost random when compared to Takata’s His comments signaled American plunged 6.8 percent and Latin America. Oil’s plunge service to and from New York’s death-by-bean- counting spree. One can accept that a small number American’s determination to to $44.62, echoing declines of 6.4 helps American’s profitability -- LaGuardia airport if the Port of psychopaths will always lurk in society’s shadows, but when the fend off rivals emboldened percent for United Airlines par- analysts surveyed by Bloomberg Authority of New York & New giant companies responsible for your day-to-day safety can’t find by the rout in global oil mar- ent United Continental Holdings estimate 2015 earnings exclud- Jersey lifts a 1984 rule capping the root cause of a lethal defect after years of warnings from its kets. Jet fuel is airlines’ largest Inc. and 5.2 percent for Delta ing some costs at a record $6.88 flights at 1,500 miles (2,400 clients and engineers, the terror becomes truly systemic. expense, and crude’s 46 percent Air Lines Inc. billion -- while also spurring kilometers). The cost savings Takata apparently enjoyed by using ammonium drop since June 2014 opens the Parker has spoken frequently smaller carriers to add seats. Airlines can’t add depar- nitrate as an air-bag inflator made it a leading supplier, and now door to expansion that might about the industry’s new-found Like its largest peers, tures at LaGuardia because 11 automakers find themselves exposed to the potentially lethal be unprofitable if kerosene cost discipline in keeping capacity in American hasn’t disclosed its the number of trips is capped defect. But Takata’s exploding air bags are just one of three major more. While American will avoid check to restore profits after $58 plan for seating capacity in to reduce congestion. Under a auto-safety scandals that continue to grow more troubling with that kind of growth, it won’t billion in losses in the nine years 2016, and Parker declined to do repeal of the so-called perim- each passing day. cede fliers to low-fare carriers, ended in 2009. While the col- so Tuesday. The airline projects eter rule, American would join General Motors now acknowledges that its ignition switch defect Parker said. lapse in the cost of jet kerosene a 2 percent increase in 2015. competitors in bringing in larger was responsible for 104 deaths, 12 maimings and 179 serious injuries “To the extent capacity comes may be testing that resolve, he American is happy with cur- jets to fly across the U.S. and cut -- numbers that quietly continue to grow (for comparison, six deaths in and results in lower prices, suggested Tuesday that a crude- rent U.S. economic growth of 2 shorter routes, he said. and more than 100 injuries have been tied to the Takata defect). we’ll match those prices because market rally would choke off the percent to 3 percent a year, a “We would cancel the least- Meanwhile, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has been called to appear we have to,” he said. “All we can expansion in seating. recovery that feels “less fragile” profitable flying,” said Parker, at a rare public National Highway Traffic Safety Administration do is run our own airline and “It doesn’t feel anything like than in the past, Parker said. who declined to identify any hearing to determine whether the automaker adequately addressed compete against those that chose what used to happen in the ’80s The economy is fueling “strong” potential targets. and fixed defects in 20 separate recalls. to grow and we will compete and ’90s, when the industry travel demand, he said, and BLOOMBERG All three cases involve defects with air bags, which have been mandatory equipment since 1989 and have saved thousands of lives, according to the NHTSA. In the GM and Takata cases, the defects have been directly tied to cost-cutting measures, and the NHTSA’s hearing is likely to delve into similar motivations behind cash- strapped Fiat’s alleged pattern of inadequate recall performance. And in all three cases, the companies have deepened their breaches of public trust by handling public and regulatory con- cerns with breathtaking hostility. GM fervently denied analyses that showed 74 deaths were tied to its switch defect, insisting that its initial 13-death finding would hold up. The NHTSA was so frustrated with Takata’s non-cooperation that it said the supplier “is neither being forthcoming with the information that it is legally obligated to supply, nor is it being cooperative in aiding NHTSA’s ongoing investigation.” And after the NHTSA told Fiat to “get their act in gear” last November, the automaker’s chief executive officer,Sergio Marchionne, responded scornfully, saying, “I think NHTSA is experimenting with both the exercise of their authority and the scope of their authority and how to use that authority, and the industry is getting used to responding to that usage of authority.” Having taken its share of the blame for not catching the recent crop of defects sooner, the NHTSA is clearly in no mood to let Marchionne’s dismissive attitude slide. After all, the industry has collectively brought back the image of the Ralph Nader-era car-company villain -- one who weighs “acceptable” human losses against profits, conceals defects from the public, and struggles to project any sense of corporate conscience. Though none of the modern automakers come as close to embodying this stereotype as many did in the 1970s, the reminders of that period now hang over the entire industry. The car business has good reasons for nursing a reflexive dislike of regulation, but right now it needs a regulator to save it from itself. Though driving continues to get safer, it’s still the most dangerous thing most Americans do every day, even when the industry isn’t concealing and denying defects as long as it can get away with it. If individual automakers and suppliers lose credibility on safety, they risk losing sales to competitors, but if the whole industry loses the public’s trust, it widens the opportunity for Silicon Valley companies to foment disruptions of the entire business. After all, Google is threatening to eliminate the single greatest source of road danger -- the human driver -- while automakers still struggle to live up to the regulations and consumer expectations that were supposed to end the bad old days of auto safety.” WP-BLOOMBERG

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Australia’s banks have 10pc loans in risky fossil fuels BY OLIVER MILMAN Fossil fuel assets can become Coal have been the major targets further bank, Standard Chartered, Charlie Wood, campaigns director highest quality in the world, and “stranded” if investments are for protest action. has said it will review its involve- at 350.org. “Banks overseas have extracted under some of the tight- ustralia’s largest banks superseded by technological Emily Chew, senior analyst ment with Adani’s Carmichael already taken this step so it’s time est environmental regulation. have committed about change or if governments inter- at MSCI, said some companies project. The $16.5bn development for Australian banks to take some “If coal-importing nations like 10% of their known vene to ensure the Earth doesn’t were undertaking “fire sales” of is due to begin in 2017 and will, at leadership on climate change and India had to seek alternative sup- Aloan arrangements warm beyond 2C – a guardrail assets deemed at risk of becoming capacity, dig up and export 60m fossil fuels.” pliers such as Indonesia or South to the financing of risky fossil that 193 of the world’s nations stranded. tonnes of coal a year. Climate The global divestment move- Africa the outcome will only result fuel projects that may become have signed up to. “Australian banks do have group 350.org has been staging ment notched up another minor in higher emissions.” “stranded” if the world is to avoid The research emerged as cli- strong environmental and risk protests at more than 50 branches victory this week when the Steven Munchenberg, chief disastrous climate change, new mate activists launched a fresh management policies, the ques- of Commonwealth Bank this week, University of Oxford ruled out executive of the Australian research has estimated. wave of protests aimed at the tions is are these being imple- in Australia and also overseas out- future investment in coal and tar Bankers Association, defended the The study by investment Commonwealth Bank, Australia’s mented given this trend in posts of the bank in New York, sands, although it will not divest banks, saying that they “invest a research firm MSCI found that the largest bank, both domestically syndicated lending?” she said. London, Paris and Tokyo. from all fossil fuels. lot in reducing their carbon foot- “big four” banks – Commonwealth and abroad. The activists want the “Their exposure to these poten- Yesterday morning, about 50 However, the mining industry print and when making invest- Bank, Westpac, ANZ and NAB Commonwealth Bank to distance tially stranded assets has gone activists occupied the first floor of in Australia is critical of the push ment decisions they consider a – have about 10% of their total itself from huge mining projects in up while other banks have wound the Commonwealth Bank branch to halt the Galilee Basin mines. range of environmental, social syndicated loan books allocated to Queensland’s Galilee Basin, which back their exposure. on Bourke Street in Melbourne, Greg Lane, acting chief execu- and political risks. “While fossil borrowers involved in coal, oil and would ship large volumes of coal “Globally, the sentiment around where they unfurled banners criti- tive of the Queensland Resources fuels are a major source of jobs gas projects. for export via the Great Barrier climate for investors and regula- cising the potential financing of Council, said the anti-fossil fuels and income for Australia and a This exposure to fossil fuel lend- Reef. tors is switching to lower carbon, the Galilee Basin mines and the campaign was “simplistic.” big part of our energy mix, banks ing has increased by 64% since MSCI’s report states that the greener, cleaner economy. The associated Abbot Point port, which “As well as potentially damaging are aware of evolving community 2012 and suggests that Australia’s number of environmental “contro- writing is on the wall for fossil fuel lies adjacent to the Great Barrier Queensland’s economy, this anti- attitudes and would be carefully major banks are increasing their versies” – which it classes as pro- companies from the investment Reef. fossil fuel push would ironically monitoring Australian govern- involvement in emissions-inten- test action or investigations into community.” “We know Commonwealth have no effect on global carbon ment discussions with interna- sive industries at a time when pollution – has leapt by 40% since At least 11 international Bank are advising Adani so the emissions, and might even make tional counterparts on climate banks around the world are pull- 2011. Coal and gas firms such as banks have ruled out financing ultimate objective is for the bank things worse,” he said. change issues.” ing away, MSCI said. Santos, Rio Tinto and Whitehaven the Galilee Basin mines, while a to rule this project out,” said “Australia’s coal is amongst the THE GUARDIAN THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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Howard hurts knee NBA draft for the first time. The Timberwolves had a 25 per cent chance — the best odds OAKLAND, USA: Stephen among the 14 non-play-off teams Curry won his personal duel with in the draw — at winning the James Harden as the Golden weighted lottery after finishing State Warriors overcame an with the worst record in the early deficit and survived a 2014-15 regular season. late scare to edge the Houston For the first time since 2004, Rockets 110-106 in Game One of the team in best position actu- Angeles,” said Lakers coach the Western Conference Finals ally claimed the top pick, giv- Byron Scott. on Tuesday night. ing Minnesota reason to rejoice “This is a big step for us in the Curry poured in 34 points, six after their lowly 16-66 mark in process of rebuilding our team rebounds and five assists and the regular season. and getting back to ... playoff added key buckets in the clos- “We just want a young man championship basketball.” ing stages to give the top-seeded with a great heart and a great The Philadelphia 76ers will Warriors a 1-0 lead in the best-of- mind,” said Timberwolves owner select third and the Orlando seven series in front of a raucous Glen Taylor (pictured), who Magic fifth. home crowd. attended the lottery at a mid- The Timberwolves’ draft “It’s entertaining basketball. town Manhattan hotel ballroom. choice will join last year’s We’re both supposed to help our Centers Karl-Anthony Towns top pick Andrew Wiggins on team win and impact the game,” from the University of Kentucky Minnesota’s roster as he was Curry told reporters. “There’s and Jahlil Okafor from Duke are obtained from the Cavaliers going to be stretches where (we widely considered the prizes of before the 2014-15 season as part both play well). He made some the draft to be held on June 25 of a deal that sent Kevin Love crazy plays.” at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. to Cleveland. The Golden State fans were Other highly touted can- Wolves President Flip nervous early, however, when didates include point guards Saunders was thrilled. their team fell 16 points behind D’Angelo Russell (Ohio State) “This is a great day for our in the second quarter but the and Emmanuel Mudiay, who franchise and our fans,” said Warriors responded with a 16-2 played professionally this year Saunders in a statement. “The run to seize control by halftime. in China, and Latvian power No. 1 pick is a fantastic asset Harden, who finished runner- Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) shoots a layup against Houston Rockets forward Josh Smith forward Kristaps Porzingis, who to have as we look to add more up to Curry for the regular sea- (5) during the fourth quarter of game one of the Western Conference finals of the NBA play-offs at the Oracle played in Spain’s professional talent to our team.” son MVP award, nearly delivered Arena in Oakland on Tuesday night. league. A loud groan resounded in the a triple-double with 28 points 11 One surprise shook up the ballroom when the Knicks were rebounds and nine assists, and remaining. Josh Smith added 17 and seven quarter, returned for a while but selection order as the Los announced in the fourth slot. caught fire in the second half to Curry, however, settled the rebounds for the Rockets. left for good in the fourth and Angeles Lakers leapfrogged “There’s a little disappoint- rally the Rockets. nerves by making two free throws “We had several opportunities they will need his inside presence from the presumed fourth ment. We would have liked to get Houston have already proven to seal things for Golden State, to win the game. as the series progresses. pick to the second spot, chang- a higher pick,” Knicks General capable of comebacks in overcom- who got 18 points off the bench “We have to look at the film “He’s our top rebounder and ing places with the New York Manager Steve Mills said. “But ing a 3-1 deficit to oust the Los from Shaun Livingston. and correct things and be better protects the paint,” Houston coach Knicks. we know that any one of the top Angeles Clippers in the last round “Game One slipped away from in Game Two.” Kevin McHale said of Howard. “I just know right now there’s five picks will give us a very good and used a late 7-0 run to pull us,” Harden said after Trevor Houston center Dwight Howard “Hopefully he’ll be better.” a lot of happy people in Los player.” AFP within 108-106 with 14 seconds Ariza scored 20 points and suffered a knee injury in the first REUTERS

Extra point Ventura and two relievers blank Reds 3-0 kicks become KANSAS CITY: It has been Baseball Results the sixth inning and Ned (Yost, 23 years since the Kansas City manager) just told him let’s get Baltimore 9 Seattle 4 more difficult Royals logged consecutive your ready for the next start, let’s shutouts. Washington 8 NY Yankees 6 take you out of this one,” Ventura SAN FRANCISCO: The NFL Yordano Ventura, Kelvin Minnesota 8 Pittsburgh 5 said. has voted to make extra point Herrera and Wade Davis com- La Angels 3 Toronto 2 Ventura retired 14 on ground attempts more difficult by mov- bined on a four-hitter and the Milwaukee 8 Detroit 1 balls. ing them back to the 15-yard Royals beat the Cincinnati Reds Boston 4 Texas 3 “He went seven innings and got line, while also allowing defenses 3-0 on Tuesday night. a lot of ground balls,” Reds man- the opportunity to score, the The Royals, who beat the New Tampa Bay 5 Atlanta 3 ager Bryan Price said. “It shows league announced on Tuesday. York Yankees 6-0 on Sunday, had St. Louis 10 NY Mets 2 what a plus fastball, plus changeup Extra points were previously back-to-back shutouts for the Arizona 4 Miami 2 can do. When he changes speeds snapped at the two-yard line, but first time since September 29 and Cleveland 3 Chicago White Sox 1 like that you have to gear up for the NFL’s owners approved rule 30, 1992, when Dennis Rasmussen Kansas City 3 Cincinnati 0 the velocity and then adjust when changes by a vote of 30-2. and Rick Reed blanked the he changes speeds. He did a good The changes now also allow Houston 6 Oakland 4 California Angels. job.” defenses an opportunity to The Reds have lost four Colorado 6 Philadelphia 5 Herrera gave up a walk in the score two points if they return a straight, matching their longest San Diego 4 Chicago Cubs 3 eighth, but nothing else. Davis blocked extra point attempt, or a streak of the season. San Francisco 2 LA Dodgers 0 worked a spotless ninth, claim- failed two-point conversion, to the Ventura (3-3), who was 0-3 ing his seventh save in as many opposite end zone. in his five previous starts since teammate Christian Colon acting opportunities. Yost said Davis fin- Extra points had become some- a victory on April 12, allowed as his interpreter. “All my pitches ished because closer Greg Holland thing of a routine exercise follow- four singles, struck out six and were sharp. I was just focused on woke up with a stiff neck. ing touchdowns and were rarely walked none. He reached a three- having my pitches down in the Mike Moustakas went 3 for 4 missed. However the changes will ball count on only four hitters and zone and having quality pitches.” with two doubles and drove in leave coaches with the decision of New York Yankees batter Alex Rodriguez reacts after striking out with the retired all of them, lowering his Ventura left his previous start two runs. His double in the fifth trying for the longer kick for one bases loaded against the Kansas City Royals during the eighth inning ERA to 4.56. with an index fingernail tear and drove in one run and his seventh- point, or attempting a two-point at the Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City on Tuesday. “This is the best I’ve felt that flared up again. inning double made it 3-0. conversion from the two-yard this season,” Ventura said with “I started to feel something in AGENCIES line. REUTERS Kruger lifts Blackhawks in marathon OT play-off game

ANAHEIM, USA: Marcus experience.” If the first two games considerable size advantage over Kruger scored with 3:48s left are an indication, then the first the Blackhawks, and for the sec- in the third overtime to lift the ever postseason battle between ond game in a row they outhit Chicago Blackhawks to a 3-2 win these two clubs is shaping up to Chicago, but it also made them over Anaheim on Tuesday night be a good one. more fatigued as the game neared in game two of their Western On the winning goal Chicago five hours in length. Conference final series. defenseman Brent Seabrook took “I know when I make a few hits Swedish forward Kruger a shot from the point and it went and it can slow you down if you knocked the puck down with his through a maze of players before do it too much,” said Blackhawks left glove then tapped it in midair reaching Kruger who was left forward Bryan Bickell. past Ducks goaltender Frederik alone at the side of the Anaheim The Blackhawks boast a very Andersen to end the marathon net. He outduelled Andersen for similar lineup to the teams which contest and even the best-of- the loose puck and swatted it into won the Stanley Cup titles in seven NHL play-off series at 1-1. the open cage. 2010 and 2013. But coach Joel “It hit my glove and then I got “I saw the puck being passed Quenneville said they have never my stick on it,” said the 24-year- D to D and I was happy to find it experienced a game quite like this old Stockholm native. “It is a and put it in,” said Kruger. one. “It was as intense a game great feeling. We played almost Chicago appeared to have the that I have ever been part of,” two games and we leave California game won in the second overtime, Quenneville said. “Unbelievable 1-1. We are excited.” but the goal was waived off by the pace. Everybody was focused on The game, in front of a crowd officials after a review because playing the right way.” of 17,200 at Honda Center arena, Andrew Shaw head-butted the That wasn’t the case in a lasted four hours and 52 min- puck into the net. 4-1 game one loss where the utes, breaking the Blackhawks’ “I tried to sell it,” Shaw said. Blackhawks’ shorthanded defense 84-year-old record for the longest Shaw and Marian Hossa had didn’t get the support they needed game in franchise history. first period power-play goals Marcus Kruger (#16) of the Chicago Blackhawks is congratulated by his team-mates after they beat the Anaheim from the forwards. It was also the longest home for the Blackhawks, who got 60 Ducks 3-2 in triple overtime at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, on Tuesday night. Bickell said the forwards did a game in Ducks’ history. In 2003 saves from Corey Crawford in much better job of helping to pro- they played into the fifth overtime the marathon contest. The Ducks Andrew Cogliano and Corey opportunities to win it in the the game,” said Cogliano. “We tect their own zone in game two. period on the road in Dallas. Andersen made a remarkable 53 Perry scored for the Ducks, who extra sessions as Perry missed hit some crossbars. Perry had a “This game we had a third guy “I never played one that long saves. had won all six home games in the two chances close in the second good chance. It is a bounce and high. We tightened it up and kept before,” said Ducks defenseman “It was just a great hockey playoffs before this loss. overtime. we didn’t get it.” the puck in front of us,” he said. Sami Vatanen. “It is a one-time game to watch,” said Crawford. The Ducks also had “I thought we should have won The Ducks boast a AFP THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

World Challenge Meeting Results from the World Challenge Meeting Oliver sets alight Bird’s Nest Beijing Men/Women yesterday Men’s 100m 1. Marvin Bracy (US) 9.95 Beijing officials ‘perplexed’ at Gatlin claim he was expelled from meet 2. Mike Rodgers (US) 9.99 3. Su Bingtian (China) 10.06 Men’s 800m BEIJING: Justin Gatlin may 1. Alfred Kipketer (Kenya) 1:45.45 have flown home but at least the 2. Abraham Rotich (Bahrain) 1:45.81 Bird’s Nest Stadium could thrill 3. Erik Sowinski (US) 1:45.82 instead to another 33-year- Men’s 3000m Steeplechase old American speedster, David 1. Jonathan Muia Ndiku (Kenya) 8:11.64 Oliver, running the fastest 110 2. Clement Kemboi Kimutai (Kenya) 8:12.98 3. John Kibet Koech (Bahrain) 8:14.75 metres hurdles this year at David Oliver of the Beijing’s World Challenge meet- Men’s 110m Hurdles USA competes on the ing yesterday. 1. David Oliver (US) 13.15 way to winning the Gatlin’s fall-out with the organ- 2. Orlando Ortega (Cuba) 13.37 isers had led to him departing on men’s 110 meters hur- 3. Ronnie Ash (US) 13.43 the eve of the meeting in a huff dles final at the IAAF Men’s High Jump but the smiling world champion World Challenge at 1. Zhang Guowei (China) 2.31 Oliver proved a popular top of the the National Olympic 2. Wang Yu (China) 2.31 bill with his second win in China Stadium, known as the 3. Jaroslav Baba (Czech Republic) 2.24 in four days. Bird’s Nest, in Beijing, Men’s Pole Vault Oliver clocked a world-lead- yesterday. BOTTOM: 1. Xue Changrui (China) 5.40 ing 13.15sec to record a much Marvin Bracy of the US 2. Nikita Filippov (Kazakhstan) 5.40 more clear-cut victory than in competes to win the 3. Karsten Dilla (Germany) 5.40 Sunday’s Diamond League meet- Men’s 100m at the IAAF Men’s Long Jump ing in Shanghai, when he pipped World Challenge IN 1. Mike Hartfield (US) 8.27 2. Jeff Henderson (US) 8.23 Orlando Ortega by just 0.02sec. Beijing. This time, the margin over the 3. Aleksandr Menkov (Russia) 8.20 Cuban runner-up was 0.22sec. Men’s Triple Jump “That’s cool man, I’m very 1. Alexis Copello (Cuba) 16.70 happy to be a star here. Everybody 2. Godfrey Khotso Mokoena (South Africa) 16.67 loves me here and it feels good to 3. Dong Bin (China) 16.67 give a performance to the crowd,” Men’s Javelin Throw Oliver told reporters after being 1. Petr Frydrych (Czech Republic) 83.10 feted by 35,000 fans. 2. Dmitri Tarabin (Russia) 80.53 Oliver reckoned he had run 22.68sec. There was an encourag- the world’s fastest 100m sprinter 3. Lars Hamann (Germany) 80.28 poorly but was adamant the only ing comeback from Olympic high this year. Women’s 100m thing that mattered was getting jump champion Anna Chicherova, “(Gatlin’s manager Renaldo) 1. Michelle-Lee Ahye (Trinidad and Tobago) 11.05 it right 98 days from now in the who missed the end of last season Nehemiah did not communicate 2. Charonda Williams (US) 11.28 heats of the world champion- with an injury to her right ankle. with us before he announced 3. Schillonie Calvert (Jamaica) 11.42 ships in the same stadium when The Russian, deprived of Gatlin’s withdrawal at yesterday’s Women’s 200m he starts the defence of his title. the chance of competing in the news conference,” said organis- 1. Veronica Campbell-Brown (Jamaica) Ironically, it could have been European Championships, won ing committee deputy director 22.68 Oliver’s own experience last year with a final attempt clearance at Liu Jie, according to Xinhua news 2. Kaylin Whitney (US) 23.06 at this same Beijing meeting that 1.94 metres, before failing in her agency. 3. Schillonie Calvert (Jamaica) 23.12 may have caused the problem this bid to top two metres. He added: “And we never got Women’s 1500m year with Gatlin. Meanwhile, Beijing World to speak with Gatlin in person.” 1. Anna Mishchenko (Ukraine) 4:02.89 In 2014, Oliver had pulled out Challenge organisers said they Gatlin earlier said he was 2. Rababe Arafi (Morocco) 4:04.12 on the day of his race with injury were “perplexed” by comments upset by his treatment by Beijing 3. Luiza Gega (Albania) 4:04.20 and the speculation was that from Gatlin yesterday after the organisers, claiming they had not Women’s 100m Hurdles organisers had asked Gatlin to controversial American sprinter allowed him to run and showed a 1. Wu Shujiao (China) 12.85 leave because they feared a similar claimed he was expelled from the lack of respect. 2. Tenaya Jones (US) 12.89 late withdrawal because he had meeting. Gatlin told reporters he was 3. Jacqueline Coward (US) 12.98 his own minor injury concerns. Gatlin attempted to play down suffering cramps after arriving Women’s 400m Hurdles Jamaican Veronica Campbell- the incident, blaming high emo- from Doha, where on Friday he 1. Wenda Theron Nel (South Africa) 54.37 Brown celebrated a return to the tions a day after he accused ran a world-leading 9.74sec -- a 2. Tiffany Williams (US) 55.22 scene of her second Olympic 200 Beijing officials of not letting him personal best, at the advanced 3. Lashinda Demus (US) 55.86 metres triumph by dominating run because they feared he was age of 33. Women’s High Jump the half-lap event. carrying an injury. The time threw down the 1. Anna Chicherova (Russia) 1.94 The seven-time Olympic “Emotional day. All is fine with gauntlet to Jamaican star Usain 2. Ana Simic (Croatia) 1.91 medalist turned 33 last week but Beijing org & me,” he tweeted. Bolt before both men are expected 3. Levern Spencer (St Lucia) 1.91 still believes she can run faster “We have a great relationship and to face each other in Beijing at the Women’s Shot Put than ever after being cleared of I look forward to being there in world championships in August. 1. Christina Schwanitz (Germany) 20.77 a doping offence last year by the Aug for worlds & next year for But drug-tainted Gatlin’s per- 2. Gong Lijiao (China) 19.50 Court of Arbitration for Sport. the meet.” formances are deeply contentious, 3. Felisha Johnson (US) 18.73 She was in a different league to But Beijing organisers were especially after research last year Women’s Hammer Throw modest opposition, enjoying three not impressed by the behaviour found steroids benefit users years 1. Anita Wlodarczyk (Poland) 77.73 metres to spare over American of Gatlin, who has recovered from after they are declared clean. 2. Wang Zheng (China) 73.99 Kaylin Whitney when winning in a four-year doping ban to become AGENCIES 3. Martina Hrasnova (Slovakia) 73.80

Ashraf shines in win for Al Feroz Cascais, Portugal to host Annual Youngsters ICSS Sports Policy Summit

DOHA: Imran Ashraf (pic- CASCAIS, Portugal: The tured) engineered a huge vic- International Centre for Sport tory for Al Feroz Youngsters Security (ICSS) has announced against Bangladesh Club during a high-level collaboration with the QCA Twenty20 Division A the Municipality of Cascais, Tournament with his stellar all- which will see the Portuguese round performance. coastal town host the ICSS’s Ashraf first smashed 36 in his annual Sports Policy Summit team’s 189 for seven in 20 overs from 2016. and then he grabbed four wickets, The agreement will boost the including a hat-trick, to send the ICSS’s efforts to safeguard the rivals crashing to a 75-run defeat. Tinkoff-Saxo rider Alberto Contador of Spain celebrates as he wears integrity of sport and allow it to Ashraf’s knock topped the bat- the leader’s pink jersey on the podium after the 153 km (95 miles) 11th work closely with Cascais to pro- ting for Al Feroz Youngsters. But stage of the 98th Giro d’Italia (Tour of Italy) cycling race from Forli to mote the highest ethical stand- there were a few other useful Imola, Italy, yesterday. ards in sport and enhance sport’s knocks from his team-mates as role as an instrument of human, well. Mujeeb social and economic development. struck 33, The signing followed an Inam also Contador retains lead as Ambassadors’ briefing at which hit 33, Faisal the ICSS presented its goals and Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros (left), CEO of ICSS EUROPE and Carlos got 30, while strategic plan to an audience of Carreiras, Mayor of Cascais. Zahid Khan high-level dignitaries includ- and Zahid Zakarin claims 11th stage ing the Mayor of Cascais, Carlos Mehmood Carreiras and the Minister of deeply committed to securing a reputation for having sport at made 20 IMOLA, Italy: Spain’s Alberto you feel good or not,” Contador Foreign Affairs, Rui Chancerelle sport for the next generation its heart and I am confident our and 19, Contador retained the lead said. de Machete. and we have chosen to recog- new collaboration will help show- respectively. of the Giro d’Italia after yes- “Today was very hard, much It took place as part of the nise its dedication by returning case the town’s passion and sport- Inamul terday’s 11th stage won by the harder than yesterday, with 50km Estoril Conferences, a bi-annual the Sports Policy Summit to its ing heritage to an international picked three Katusha team’s Russian rider less. international event in Portugal shores on an annual basis. audience while also ensuring the wickets and Sagar bagged two. Ilnur Zakarin. “I’m feeling better each day, that confronts the challenges of “The Municipality of Cascais pressing issues of integrity, sport Still Al Ferez Youngsters man- Zakarin biked in to victory and the bruising on my legs (after globalisation. has been an example of upholding development and good governance aged to put up a formidable total. alone after a long, solo breaka- last week’s fall) is getting better.” The aim of the Sports Policy the values of sport and its role in are given a sound platform from Bangladesh failed to get going way on the 153km ride from Forli The experienced rider added: Summit is to bring together the the social inclusion and economic which we can engage the world’s and collapsed after Ashraf dis- to Imola. “A thousand things can still hap- leaders of Governments, influen- development of its community leaders in this field. missed four players and Haris Tinkoff’s Contador, whose goal pen. It may look easy, but there is tial sporting organisations and and we are therefore proud to be “It is envisioned the Summit collected a brace. Muhahid is to become the first rider since still a very long way to go.” major linguistic communities here. will act as policy driver with was the highest scorer with 28. Marco Pantani in 1998 to win the Stage winner Zakarin, the along with international experts “Through this shared commit- global dimension and impact. rashed followed him with 19, while Giro and the Tour de France in shock Tour de Romandie win- in sport governance and other ment we hope that the Summit A high-level think tank that Sagar contributed 14 and Inamul the same season, held on to the ner last month, broke away key figures from sport and the will become established as a focal is designed to build a common chipped in 13. leader’s pink jersey, with a slen- from an escape group 23km Olympic Movement to collaborate point on the international sports agenda and global leadership Brief scores der three seconds advantage over from home. and seek solutions to the pressing policy calendar.” through enhanced collaboration Al Feroz Youngsters beat chief rival Astana’s Fabio Aru. With three laps of the Imola issues facing sport public policy Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros, and concerted action.” Bangladesh CC by 75 runs Contador, who launched an motor track to finish off the stage, makers such as match-fixing, CEO of ICSS Europe, said: “As In order to further support Al Feroz: 189 for 7 in 20 overs unsuccessful attack, admitted the 25-year-old Zakarin held off financial integrity, good govern- an organisation that works at preparation for the annual sum- Bangladesh Club: 114 for 8 in it had been a tough day in the the advances of the chasing pack ance and the protection of youth. the forefront of international mit and maximise its impact the 20 overs saddle. led by Australian Simon Gerrans, Mohammed Hanzab, President efforts to safeguard sport, we are ICSS will set up a base in the town Man-of-the-Match: Imran “The terrain wasn’t ideal for an eventually finishing 53sec clear of of the ICSS, said: “Portugal has thrilled that the Sports Policy with a view to establishing a per- Ashraf of Al Feroz Club attack, but sometimes you just go a sextet led by Colombian Carlos shown through its ongoing fight Summit will be held in Cascais. manent office in the municipality THE PENINSULA on instinct: it depends on whether Betancur. AFP for integrity in sport that it is The municipality of Cascais has in the future. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Hamilton signs new Mercedes deal World champion agrees to new three-year contract that could be worth $40m a year

MONACO: Double Formula with the services of a manager One world champion Lewis and has been conducting much Hamilton has agreed a new of the negotiations, and reading F1 drivers to launch three-year contract that will through contracts, himself. keep him at Mercedes until the The Briton, who won his first end of 2018, the team announced title with McLaren in 2008, has global fan survey yesterday. been backed by Mercedes since Although no financial details his teenage years and all of his were given, media reports have 36 grand prix wins have been MONACO: Formula One driv- championship and is a two-times suggested the Briton is in line for with the German manufacturer’s ers are to ask fans worldwide Le Mans winner. a bumper pay packet amounting engines. for their opinions in what they “I hope it’s cool. The fans will to more than $40m a year. Fifteen of those victories, are billing as the most thorough tell us if they like it or not and “Mercedes is my home and I including 11 last year, have been survey ever carried out by any that’s what we want...we want to couldn’t be happier to be staying for the Mercedes works team. sport. give a little bit back and commu- here for another three years,” “Mercedes-Benz began sup- A statement by the Grand Prix nicate with the people who love the 30-year-old Briton said in a porting me in 1998 so I am very Drivers Association (GPDA) said the sport equally to us,” he added. statement that ended any talk proud that this contract means I the initiative will be formally pre- Formula One has a reputation of a move to rivals Ferrari in the will mark 20 years with Mercedes sented today in the Monaco pad- for being exclusive and inacces- near future. in 2018,” he said. dock by directors Jenson Button, sible compared to series like the Hamilton, who has a 20-point Mercedes motorsport head Sebastian Vettel and Alex Wurz. world endurance championship, lead over team mate Nico Rosberg Toto Wolff said continuity was a “With the GPDA Global Fan where fans have much more in the current championship after key factor in delivering success. Survey, the Grand Prix drivers access to the paddock and driv- five races, is already one of the “Lewis enjoyed an historic aim to create the most extensive, ers during race weekends. highest earners in the sport along World Championship season with in-depth survey of fan opinion The sport has also been through with Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel Mercedes-Benz last year and it ever undertaken by any sport in major change, with the introduc- and McLaren’s Fernando Alonso. was a priority for this season to the world,” it added. tion of V6 turbo hybrid engines German driver Rosberg, who is renew his contract for the next Earlier this month, GPDA last season, and more upheaval chasing a third successive Monaco term,” said the Austrian. chairman Wurz said that the to come. The sport’s key Strategy Grand Prix win this weekend, “We have taken the right drivers wanted to give more back Group announced after a meet- agreed his own multi-year con- amount of time with the process to their fans, at a time of change ing last week that a proposal to tract extension last July. and not rushed ourselves. when unfavourable comparisons reintroduce refuelling during Hamilton’s new deal ends “The result is a strong agree- are being made with other series. races had been put forward for months of uncertainty about ment that will enhance Lewis’ “To make sure this sport 2017, as well as moves to make the driver’s future, with specula- association with the Mercedes- remains at the pinnacle and gets cars quicker, louder and more tion swirling since the middle of Benz brand, and that recognises ever more popular, we would like aggressive looking. The changes last year and increasing despite and respects the market value Mercedes Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain attends a press to engage more with the fans,” have yet to be approved by the repeated assurances that all was of Lewis and of Mercedes in conference on the eve of the practice sessions for the Monaco Grand said the Austrian, a former governing body’s Formula One on track. Formula One.” Prix, in Monaco yesterday. Formula One driver who now commission and World Motor The champion has dispensed competes in the world endurance Sport Council. REUTERS Rosberg seeking rare F1 Monaco hat-trick

MONACO: Lewis Hamilton While the German will want Last year’s drama saw Rosberg take three successive victories in hopes to be third time lucky to continue the momentum, take pole after he set the fast- the showcase race and the irony in Monaco this weekend and Hamilton is just as hungry to est lap and then made a mistake will not be lost on Hamilton. take revenge on Nico Rosberg reassert himself and add to his on the entry to Mirabeau, going Senna, who won five times in a by denying his Mercedes team 20 point lead in the standings down the escape road and bring- row, was the Briton’s boyhood idol mate a hat-trick of wins in with a long-overdue triumph in ing out yellow warning flags just whose three championship titles Formula One’s most glamorous a favourite race. as Hamilton was about to go Hamilton can equal this year. race. “The last two years I have had faster. Ferrari, who have not won Last year, the pair were barely the car to win,” said the Briton, in “I should have known that in Monaco since Michael on speaking terms after a qualify- his third year with Mercedes and was going to happen,” an angry Schumacher in 2001, should ing controversy threw their rela- with a lucrative contract exten- Hamilton said afterwards, sug- be Mercedes’s closest rivals tionship into the deep freeze. sion imminent. gesting deliberate intent. with Sebastian Vettel a winner The frostiness between the title “The first year I struggled with This year, he will simply make with Red Bull in 2011 and Kimi rivals has since thawed but nei- it. Last year, I had the pace but sure he gets his fastest lap in first. Raikkonen with McLaren in 2005. ther will be giving an inch in what other things were up against me “I will have the choice to go At the back, Manor Marussia constitutes a home race for both and this year, hopefully will be dif- ahead of him so I will make sure return with sadness to the scene and looks set to give Mercedes a ferent... third time lucky.” I do that,” said Hamilton, whose of their greatest success. third win in a row regardless. Pole position will be as crucial only Monaco win to date was with French driver Jules Bianchi, Rosberg is back on form, set- as ever on a tight and twisty cir- McLaren in 2008 on the way to who finished ninth in the princi- Mercedes F1 Team’s mechanics work on German driver Nico Rosberg’s ting up his triple bid by winning in cuit where overtaking is almost his first title. If Rosberg were to pality last year, remains in a coma Formula One car in the pits on the eve of the first practice session of the Spain two weeks ago and checking impossible and Hamilton, second win again, he will become only the in hospital in nearby Nice follow- Monaco Formula One Grand Prix in Monte Carlo yesterday. world champion Hamilton’s domi- a year ago, will be warier this fourth driver after Graham Hill, ing his horrific accident in Japan nant start to the season. time. Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost to last October. REUTERS Blatter sketches compromise in Israeli-Palestinian dispute

RAMALLAH, West Bank: Jibril Rajoub, who has mounted special sports liaison officials at Blatter said the settlement The head of world soccer’s gov- a determined campaign to have crossings between Palestinian clubs issue was of particular con- erning body yesterday said Israel sanctioned, a move that areas and those under Israeli cern and needed to be resolved. Israel had proposed easing travel could have profound ramifications control to ease movement. FIFA rules clearly state that restrictions for Palestinian play- beyond the world of sport. A special escort service between teams must be based in a coun- ers but the head of the Palestine “We want to bring a solution for Gaza and the West Bank would try’s territory. FA insisted he would pursue a now and a solution for the future allow players to cross between the “It could be a problem in move to have Israel suspended in order that we don’t need to go two territories that are separated FIFA statutes if a national asso- from FIFA. to” a vote in the congress, Blatter by Israeli territory. ciation plays matches on the After meeting Palestinian said. “I am on a peace mission.” He added that a monitor- territory of another national President Mahmoud Abbas and The PFA has long accused ing committee comprising an association without permission,” soccer officials in the West Bank, Israel of hampering its activities Israeli, Palestinian and FIFA he said. FIFA President Sepp Blatter and restricting the movement of official would meet monthly to The five teams concerned play said Israel had set out a series players between the Gaza Strip address issues and that Israel in lower divisions of Israeli soc- of measures to ease travel curbs and the Israeli-occupied West had agreed to exempt taxation cer. Rajoub said their inclusion for players, sports visitors and Bank. Israel cites security con- on soccer equipment donated to by Israel constituted a war crime officials. cerns for the restrictions, an issue the Palestinians. and violated FIFA rules. Similar commitments have that Israel’s FA says is out of its But two critical issues were “The Palestinian federation is been made in the past, but Blatter hands. not directly addressed. One is acting in the interests of football, said this time Israeli officials had Blatter met Israeli Prime the charge of racism in Israeli in the interests of FIFA statues “said they will do it”, a commit- Minister Benjamin Netanyahu football, with one team, Beitar and above all in the interests of ment he hopes will stave off the on Tuesday in an effort to secure Jerusalem, refusing to employ the footballers of Palestine,” he threat of a suspension vote at a concessions that would persuade Arab players. Another is the fact said. FIFA congress in Zurich on May the PFA to drop its proposal. that five Israeli clubs are based “(The teams’ inclusion by FIFA President Sepp Blatter (left) shakes hands with Palestinian President 29. He said Israel had proposed in settlements in the West Bank, Israel) is not just a war crime but Mahmoud Abbas in ‘Muqata’, the Palestinian Authority headquarters in “I am an optimist,” Blatter said giving Palestinian soccer players which are considered illegal under a crystal clear violation of FIFA the West Bank town of Ramallah, yesterday. as he sat alongside PFA chairman special identity cards and placing international law. statutes.” REUTERS McIlroy not satisfied without more major success

WENTWORTH, UK: World Wozniacki but still won the title season but the season would be majors that after playing at “I’ll probably go and take a look number one Rory McIlroy has over a course he had previously a failure if he does land a fifth Wentworth and at the Irish Open at Chambers Bay a little bit ahead warned his rivals winning the failed to come to terms with. major. next week he will try and forget of time. But I am focussed on this European Tour’s flagship event That set him off on the course “I’ve got off to a good start,” about the game until preparing two weeks and then I’ll put the at Wentworth this week would to his third and fourth major McIlroy told reporters. “Three for the US Open at Chambers Bay clubs away for a few days, and still leave him hungry for titles. titles — in the British Open and wins already this season. I would in Washington which starts on 18 then I’ll turn my attention to the McIlroy starts the defence of the US PGA Championship and be disappointed if I wasn’t to win June. US Open.” this European PGA Championship he has started this season with one of the next three majors. I He added: “My mind is focused World number six Justin title but admits major titles a bang landing wins at the WGC think that’s really what deter- on the next two weeks here and Rose, the 2013 US Open cham- are the currency he wants to deal Match Play in San Francisco, the mines a good or a great season at The Irish Open. I just want to pion, is hoping to lift the trophy in. Dubai Desert Classic and at Quail for me these days. try and finish off this stretch of here for the first time having This time last year, the Hollow last week. “So there’s three majors left golf as well as I can, and I get a attended the event as a youngster Rory McIlroy speaks during a press Northern Irishman had just But McIlroy admits he could this season, and I’d love to add couple weeks off after that. Then watching the likes of Jose Maria conference in Surrey yesterday. undergone a high-profile split win every regular tournament to my tally.” I’ll start to think about the US Olazabal and Nick Faldo playing. with tennis star Caroline from now until the end of the McIlroy is so focussed on the Open and get ready for that. AFP THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Qatar’s Tunde Aderooba (in red) takes a swing against Afghanistan’s Waisuddin Ghawsi during their light welter class bout on day one of the 2015 Doha International Boxing Championship at the Ali Bin Hamad Multipurpose Sports Hall in Doha yesterday. RIGHT: Qatar’s Nabah Huzam (left) lands a left on Tunisia’s Meskini Mohamed Amine during their welter (69kgs) class bout. PICTURES: SALIM MATRAMKOT

WHO SAID WHAT

“This is a good result. I am happy with my form. I did well. I am India’s Singh and Nepal’s very happy. I have been in training for a long time. We have had spe- cial training camps. I do feel the pressure but I think I can manage.” Qatar’s Yahea Al Rafeek

“I have been in training for two Shrestha beat the odds weeks in Kathmandu. It hasn’t been easy for us. Life is tough. I wasn’t sure I was going to make it. Qatar’s Al Rafeek also advances with impressive win at home event Nepal’s Dinesh Shrestha

BY RIZWAN REHMAT

DOHA: India’s Laishram Devendro Singh ignored a sev- enth-month lay-off to pound Australia’s Joshua English on day one of the Doha International Boxing Championships where Nepal’s Dinesh Shrestha liter- ally defied the odds to make it to the event. In another result yesterday, Yahea Al Rafeek of Qatar made it to the next round in the light fly class (66-49kg) with a slugfest against Sri Lanka’s number one light-flyweight boxer Malith Prabhashwara. However, the story of the day belonged to Shrestha who sur- vived last month’s devastating earthquake in Nepal before reach- ing Doha without much training. Shrestha beat Chinthana Udaya Kumara of Sri Lanka in a points decision to reach round two in the Light class (60kg). The 31-year-old managed a Qatar’s Yahea Al Rafeek walks off after beating Sri Lanka’s number one light-flyweight boxer Malith Prabhashwara at Ali Bin Hamad Multipurpose Sports Hall in Doha yesterday. CENTRE: card of 29-28, 29-28, 28-29 on day Nepal’s Dinesh Shrestha is seen after his bout. RIGHT: India’s Laishram Devendro Singh who won his bout yesterday. Today’s action commences at 3:00pm with a series of bouts scheduled one of the championship. for the day. More than 70 boxers representing 12 countries are listed to fight for honours at the four-day event. PICTURES: RIZWAN REHMAT “It is a tough time. I can’t say much what’s happening back in Kathmandu. Life is tough,” this event. My assistant was sup- today, I can’t say how I did since how to cope with this bout,” the long time. We have had special In other bouts held after the Shrestha said. “I wasn’t sure I was posed to be here.” Maskey added: when we are fighting in the ring, young Indian said. training camps. I do feel the pres- event opening ceremony, Egypt’s going to make it,” the diminutive “But my assistant could not come we don’t look at these things. “I have been preparing well. sure but I think I can manage,” Al Mohamed Eslam Ahmed beat boxer added. here and I had to be here since he Maybe my coach could give a bet- We all knew that this event was Rafeek said. Charaka Asanka Ayagama of “It was a difficult bout. I am has problems back home because ter opinion on that,” Singh said on the calendar,” Singh said after “There’s always psychologi- Sri Lanka in their light welter still feeling how tough it was,” of the earthquake.” after his win. his win. cal pressure but after this win, I (64ks) class, Afghanistan’s Shrestha said. India’s Singh got off to an “But I feel I did well in what Earlier, Qatar’s Al Rafeek feel confident. I feel my morale is Waisuddin Ghawsi edged past “All opponents are tough and impressive start despite missing was my first bout,” he added. “My launched a series of punches high,” the 21-year-old said. Qatar’s Aderooba Tunde (64kg), he was tough too. I thought I will top flight action since the 2014 body also responded well and under pressure, winning a points In other results, Tunisia’s Bilal and Tunisia’s Mohamed Meskini try to beat the odds and win my Asian Games last October. overall I got the feeling it was a decision over Sri Lanka’s number Mhamdi beat Jonas Bacho of the downed Qatar’s top boxer Huzam bout,” he said. Singh yesterday out-punched good bout for me,” Singh said. one Prabhashwara. Philippines in the bantam class Nabah in their Welter class bout “I have been in training for two Australia’s English for a unani- “My confidence is up after this “This is a good result. I am (56kg) while in the same cate- (69kg). weeks in Kathmandu. It hasn’t mous points decision, 30-27, 30-27, (one-sided) bout. This was my happy with my form. I did well. gory, Morocco’s Said Malek edged More than 70 boxers represent- been easy for us,” he added. 30-27. first major bout after the Asian I am very happy,” Al Rafeek said Iraq’s Jaafar Abdulridha. ing 12 countries are listed to fight Nepal coach Om Maskey said: The young Indian will now take Games,” Singh pointed out. yesterday. In the light fly class (46-49kg), for honours at the four-day event. “We were not confirmed of mak- on Qatar’s Al Rafeeq in round two “This is my first tournament The three judges gave Al Aldren Moreno of the Philippines Today, eight bouts have been listed ing this event. Qatar helped us to tomorrow. in 2015. You know the rules have Rafeek a 30-27, 30-27, 30-27 card. beat Iraq’s Hassan Ali Nasser on what will be the second day of be here. I was not confirmed for “If you ask me how I performed changed in boxing but we knew “I have been in training for a with ease. the event. THE PENINSULA India keen on training in Doha ahead of worlds

DOHA: Indian boxers are likely said. “We are hopeful (of reaching tell who is winning and who is “So that we can build and to hold a training camp in Doha a decision) after my discussions losing,” Sandhu said. prepare well for the worlds,” he ahead of this year’s AIBA World with QBF. After taking them into The Indian boxing official said said. “If we win, that builds our Boxing Championships, chief confidence I have to go back and youngsters had been urged to morale,” he said. national coach G S Sandhu inform people India,” Sandhu said. work on their punching speed. “I know that to compete after hinted yesterday. “To be here and get a feel of the “We have to work more on such a long gap is not easy and yet India, represented by eight box- venue is important for the box- speed. We have to give more focus he did well. You can see how he India’s chief ers, are currently in the Qatari ers,” Sandhu said. “Our target on this aspect of boxing,” he said. got a unanimous decision. It was a boxing coach capital for the Doha International is to make better relations with “But these kids are taking one-side bout,” Sandhu said. G S Sandhu Boxing Championship, a four-day QBF,” the Indian official said. part in their first major competi- “As I told you it (the result) talks to the test event for the October 8-18 “We have been briefing our tion after the 2014 Asian Games doesn’t give much value but I media at Ali world championships at Ali Bin boxers about the rule changes,” in Incheon last October. The would rather he plays three bouts Bin Hamad Hamad Multipurpose Sports Hall. Sandhu said. “We have been pre- problems are always there for and the more he fights, the better Multipurpose “Yes, we have come here and paring accordingly. For exam- any boxer though he (Laishram he gets is good,” he said. got a feel of the venue which is ple changes have taken place on Devendro Singh) is a good boy. “We haven’t decided on our Sports Hall important,” Sandhu said. headgear and we have it manda- “This was his first bout after final squad for the worlds. But in Doha “We have touched base with tory for boxers to train with that so many months and yet he per- the present lot is good. We will yesterday. officials in Qatar. We would like to piece of equipment. former well. come back with the best. The boys have exchange programmes with “We have also looked at other “For us losing or winning is here are the best we have at the QBF. We will be working on this. rule changes incorporated by immaterial for us. What we want moment,” he said. We may want to come here for AIBA. We now see more combat- is experience from such events. “We haven’t had much match training here ahead of the World iveness during fights. The speed of We seek a good partner ahead of practice,” he said. Championships. punches has increased. Previously the World Championships. What “We have to find events so that “Currently we are talking (to it was somewhat slower in single- is important for us what we learn we can get better,” he added. QBF) on this matter,” Sandhu scoring patterns. Now you can’t from such an event,” Sandhu said. THE PENINSULA THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 De Villiers, Mandeep Cook denies issuing Pietersen ‘ultimatum’ LONDON: England cap- on another fantastic occasion at tain Alastair Cook yester- a great ground,” Cook explained. lead RCB to easy victory day insisted he had issued no “We’ve got to focus on that ultimatum that led to Kevin and all the external stuff is Pietersen’s ongoing exile from now focused on other people,” Bangalore will now take on CSK in Qualifier 2 on Friday the national side. added Cook, one of several sen- After Andrew Strauss, the ior England figures criticised in England and Wales Cricket Pietersen’s controversial autobi- PUNE: An all-round per- Board’s new director of cricket, ography published last year. formance propelled Royal confirmed Pietersen would “I’ll let them do their job and Challengers Bangalore (RCB) remain in the international hopefully they’ll let me do mine.” to an emphatic 71-run victory wilderness — where the star As for working with Farbrace, over Rajasthan Royals (RR) batsman has been for some 15 while England continue to look in the Indian Premier League months since the team’s 5-0 for a permanent successor to (IPL) eliminator as the latter Ashes thrashing in Australia Moores — with former Australia crashed out of the tournament — reports emerged that Cook fast bowler turned Yorkshire here yesterday. had issued a ‘him or me’ ulti- coach Jason Gillespie a lead- In reply to RCB’s formidable matum to his new players and ing candidate — Cook said: “It’s 180/4, the Royals were bundled had threatened to resign if the another challenge, to have an out for a paltry 109 in 19 overs. South Africa-born Pietersen was interim coach. RCB now play Chennai Super recalled to the side. “I think it’s my fourth (coach) Kings in the Qualifier 2, with the However, Cook, speaking to as a captain over the last two winner facing Mumbai Indians at reporters at Lord’s yesterday, years. the Eden Gardens in the May 24 said the decision over Pietersen “There are always challenges final. had been taken by Strauss and to deal with, and it’s great to Ajinkya Rahane ploughed a new ECB chief executive Tom have Farby here.” lonely furrow for the Royals Harrison alone. Strauss told Pietersen, his with a 39-ball 42, as none of the “There was no ultimatum. predecessor as England cap- other batsmen came up with any I can deny that,” said Cook. “I tain, that a “massive trust issue” notable contribution, as Sreenath don’t know quite where that prevented him being recalled for Aravind, Harshal Patel, David came from. this season’s home internationals Wiese and Yuzvendra Chahal “There is nothing we can do with New Zealand and Australia. picked up two wickets each for about it as players. The deci- That appeared to contradict RCB. sion has been made, by Andrew earlier comments from new ECB Rajasthan were jolted early in Strauss and Tom Harrison,” the chairman Colin Graves that a their innings as inform batting opening batsman added ahead return was possible if Pietersen allrounder Shane Watson (10) of Thursday’s first Test against scored enough runs in county got out cheaply followed by the New Zealand at Lord’s. cricket. talented youngster Sanju Samson Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli (centre) celebrates with his team-mates after the dismissal of But although he wasn’t a Unfortunately for Pietersen, (5) who edged it to the keeper off Rajasthan Royals batsman Steve Smith during the IPL Eliminator in Pune yesterday. party to the decision, Cook said and indeed the image of the a Harshal Patel delivery. he supported Pietersen’s contin- ECB, Strauss told him he would They could only manage to however, tried to anchor the At the end of 10 overs, hurling at an impeccable line and uing absence from the England remain frozen out of England reach 40/2 in the powerplay as innings but just as the Australian Rajasthan were reeling at 68/3. length. team. contention shortly after the the willowers found it quite dif- was getting into the groove, The wickets kept on tumbling But both Gayle and Kohli fell “I do agree with the decision, 34-year-old had scored his ficult playing the shots on the two he lofted one straight down as the Royals felt the scoreboard in quick succession and thereaf- yes,” he said. “But the decision maiden first-class triple cen- paced strip. the throat of AB de Villiers at pressure with the asking rate ter youngster Mandeep helped was made by those two (Strauss tury, during Surrey’s County Skipper Steve Smith (12), sweeper cover. going up after every dot ball. RCB reach 60/2 at the halfway and Harrison). That’s what their Championship match against Rahane perished in the deep stage after runs were down to a new roles are, and they made Leicestershire at The Oval. Scoreboard while Australian allrounder James trickle. that very clear when they were Pietersen, currently sidelined Faulkner (4) was out caught and However, De Villiers who had talking to the team. with a calf injury, reacted angrily ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE Steve Smith c de Villiers b Wiese ...... 12 bowled by Sreenath Aravind after been quietly picking up the ones “This thing has gone on for and he suggested yesterday that Chris Gayle b Kulkarni ...... 27 Karun Nair c Karthik b Patel ...... 12 he managed to squeeze one up in and twos, finally broke the shack- 15 months now, and we’ve got to his ongoing omission from the V. Kohli c & b Kulkarni ...... 12 Deepak Hood c Starc b Wiese ...... 11 the air off his boots. les as he clobbered left arm spin- start looking forward as a side.” side might hamper England’s AB de Villiers run out (Binny/Faulkner) ...... 66 James Faulkner c & b Aravind ...... 4 From 55/3 in 8.1 overs, the ner Ankit Sharma for 19 runs in Since England’s recent 1-1 search for a new coach, with Mandeep Singh not out ...... 54 Stuart Binny run out (Chahal/Karthik) ...... 0 Royals collpased to 95/8 in the the 15th over, in turn bringing up series draw in the West Indies, Farbrace the only candidate Dinesh Karthik c Rahane b Morris ...... 8 Chris Morris c Chahal b Starc ...... 0 16th over, as the innings never the 100 for his side. Strauss has also presided over willing to take the job while he Sarfarz Khan (not out) ...... 1 Ankit Sharma (not out) ...... 7 got going. Mandeep joined in the act as the sacking of England coach was still barred from the inter- Extras (B 4, LB 3, W 5) ...... 12 Dhawal Kulkarni b Chahal ...... 3 Earlier in the day, De Villiers the duo cruised along on high Peter Moores, with assistant national set-up. Total (4 wickets; 20 overs) ...... 180 Extras (W 3) ...... 3 top scored for RCB with a 38-ball gears notching 37 from the next coach Paul Farbrace now in “He might be the only one who Fall of wickets: 1-41, 2-46, 3-159, 4-177 Total (all out; 19 overs) ...... 109 66, while Mandeep with his 18 balls, which included two huge caretaker charge. wants to use a team that’s not Bowling: Chris Morris 4-0-42-1; James Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-33, 3-55, 4-79, 5-87, unbeaten knock of 54 from 34 sixes from de Villiers off Chris “It’s been an interesting two allowed to be at full strength,” Faulkner 4-0-42-0; Dhawal Kulkarni 4-0-28-2; 6-92, 7-92, 8-95, 9-99, 10-109. balls was the other major con- Morris in the 18th over. weeks,” added Cook. Pietersen, the only qualified Shane Watson 4-0-32-0; Ankit Sharma 3-0- Bowling: Mitchell Starc 4-0-22-1; S. Aravind tributor as the duo put together Though the South African got “I’m responsible for the team England player the selectors 28-0; Stuart Binny 1-0-1-0 4-0-20-2; Harshal Patel 3-0-15-2; David Wiese a 113-run partnership. run out, Mandeep ensured they out on the field and the 10 other cannot pick currently, told RAJASTHAN ROYALS 4-0-32-2; Yuzvendra Chahal 4-0-20-2 Choosing to bat on a two paced had a formidable total on the guys who are going to be with me breathesport.com. Ajinkya Rahane c de Villiers b Chahal ...... 42 Result: Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Ra- wicket, RCB were off to a steady scoreboard. Shane Watson c Karthik b Aravind ...... 10 jasthan Royals by 71 runs start as both openers Chris Gayle For the Royals, Dhawal Sanju Samson c Karthik b Patel ...... 5 Player-of-the-match: AB de Villiers (27) and Virat Kohli cautiously Kulkarni (2/28) was the pick of negotiated the bowlers who kept the bowlers. IANS Harbhajan earns recall to Test team

MUMBAI: Harbhajan Singh to settle down.” has been recalled to the India A day before the selection squad for the first time in two meeting, Mumbai Indians had years for next month’s one-off beaten Chennai Super Kings Test in Bangladesh, the BCCI to qualify for the IPL final, and announced yesterday. Harbhajan had spoken of a “burn- He replaces left-arm spin- ing desire” to make an interna- ner Ravindra Jadeja, who was tional comeback. dropped from the squad that lost He last played Test cricket in in Australia in 2014-15, in a full- 2013, when he was picked for the strength Indian team for the June final two matches of the home 10-14 Test at Fatullah. series against Australia that The Indian selectors also India won 4-0. Harbhajan took England’s Test skipper Alastair Cook smiles during a net session at named a powerful lineup for the only five wickets in those games three one-day internationals to at an average of 40.80, compared Lord’s Cricket Ground in London yesterday. be played in Mirpur, although fast to R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja bowler Mohammad Shami was whose 29 and 24 wickets in four left out because of an injury he Tests came at 20.10 and 17.45 sustained at the World Cup and apiece. Subsequently the selectors replaced by Dhawal Kulkarni. and team management under the Gaddafi Stadium Harbhajan, who has played Harbhajan Singh captain MS Dhoni and Duncan 101 Tests for India since making Fletcher retained Ashwin and his debut in 1998, was picked as Jadeja, and dropped Harbhajan, Indian selectors felt it necessary this was the right choice for this five years. I am confident that I who had played 101 Tests. turned into fortress to have two off spinners in the particular tour.” can represent India in all formats Harbhajan’s decline had begun side to deal with the six left hand- Patil said Harbhajan had not to the best of my abilities.” on the 2011 tour of England, LAHORE: Bemused play- at three security checkpoints, ers in Bangladesh’s batting order. been picked in the ODI squad Addressing his first press where an injury forced him to ers said they hoped to take the raising the prospect of hours of Sandeep Patil, India’s Chairman because the selection panel felt conference after becoming the return home after the first two focus off security and put it queuing. of selectors, said consideration “chopping and changing or dis- head of India’s selection panel in Tests. He had taken just two back on cricket after authori- Zimbabwe have been under had been given to the number of turbing the combination” of the October 2012, Patil did not say wickets in the 70 overs he bowled ties mounted an unprecedented tight wraps since their arrival left-handers in the Bangladesh team that had reached the World which players had been discussed at an average of 143. operation to guard insurgency- early on Tuesday, when they were Test squad before the decision Cup semi-finals was unnecessary. at the selection meeting. “It will AGENCIES hit Pakistan’s first home inter- whisked from the airport. to pick a second off-spinner was In an interview with PTI, be difficult for me to say who all national in six years. They are far from the usual made. However, Harbhajan played Harbhajan described his recall would be discussed. Those who Test Squad Thousands of police and para- arrangements for a cricket match, only three first-class matches in as “a fresh beginning”, and said we felt — the selection commit- militaries have been deployed and and Zimbabwe captain Elton last season’s Ranji Trophy — six he was ready to play for another tee and captain felt — were dis- Virat Kohli (capt), M Vijay, Shikhar helicopters will be buzzing over Chigumbura said it was a new wickets with a best of 3 for 51 — four-five years. cussed. There was no discussion Dhawan, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium, which experience for him and his team. but has been in impressive form “It feels like a fresh beginning about Yuvraj Singh.” Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, has been turned into a fortress for “Yes, it’s obviously something for Mumbai Indians this IPL sea- for me,” the offspinner said. “It’s a Patil said there had been “no Wriddhiman Saha, R Ashwin, Harbhajan Friday’s Twenty20 game against new for us,” said Chigumbura. son, picking up 16 wickets in 14 new innings which I want to start emotional angles, emotional Singh, Karn Sharma, Bhuvneshwar lowly Zimbabwe. “But we know why it is like this matches. on a confident note and make the attachments” while picking the Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron, Ishant The fixture is Pakistan’s first and players are not worried “The Bangladesh batting order best possible use of the chance squads. “We look for the per- Sharma on home soil since 2009. because Pakistan have done this has six left-handers, keeping that I have got. formances, the fitness and the Roads around the stadium will for us, to be secure and safe. that in mind, we discussed with “For me, there is nothing more combination - whether a bowler ODI Squad be closed and shops and restau- “For us the main thing is to the captain and we felt it was precious than the India jersey. For or batsman fits in that combina- rants have been shuttered for the play good cricket and I don’t think necessary to have a second off- the past two years, I have been tion. Last two years we have been MS Dhoni (capt), Rohit Sharma, Ajinkya duration of the series, consisting it will affect us.” spinner,” Patil said. “I also want working hard for this day. Not trying … we have made some mis- Rahane, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli, of two Twenty20s and three ODIs, Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi to point out we not only discussed for a single day, nor for a single takes, and may be, we will make Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, R Ashwin, all in Lahore. hoped the first ball on Friday will Harbhajan. We also discussed moment, did I have a feeling that some more mistakes but we have Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Jammers are in use to cut out refocus attention on cricket as he other youngsters and considered I won’t play for India again. to learn from the mistakes. Indian Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Mohit Sharma, radio signals, hampering Wi-Fi attempts to lift his team after a them. Ultimately the selection “At this point of time, I am cricket has gone through transi- Stuart Binny, Dhawal Kulkarnia at the stadium, and fans will have poor World Cup and series in committee and the captain felt ready to play for another four to tion period and we are just trying to go through metal detectors Bangladesh. AFP Thursday 21 May 2015 3 Shaaban 1436 Volume 20 Number 6437 Sport Price: QR2

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MADRID: Barcelona mid- fielder Xavi will announce today that he is leaving the club he joined as an 11-year-old to sign a lucrative three-year deal with Qatari side Al Sadd, his agent said yesterday. Now 35 and Barca’s appearance record holder and club captain, Xavi is set to follow in the foot- steps of former Spain team mate Barcelona’s Raul, who played for Al Sadd midfielder Xavi between 2012-14. Hernandez (left) Xavi would also work with and team-mate Qatar’s Aspire Academy, become Andres Iniesta an ambassador for the 2022 World celebrate win- Cup to be held in the Gulf state, ning the La Liga Yusuf Ali Al Kazim, President of the Qatar Boxing Federation, speaking during the opening ceremony of the one of Barca’s main sponsors, and championship Doha International Boxing Championships at Ali Bin Hamad Multipurpose Hall in Doha yesterday. RIGHT: aim to start his coaching qualifi- at the Vicente Boxers taking part in the championship during the opening ceremony. See also page 26. cations, his agent, Ivan Corretja, Calderon PICTURES BY: SALIM MATRAMKOT said. Stadium in Corretja declined to comment on media reports Xavi will earn Madrid on May 10m euros a season. 17. Barca said yesterday Xavi would hold a news conference Hamdi, Hassan and Nam at about 1030 GMT after today’s training session. After joining the Catalan giants in 1991, Xavi graduated from the club’s academy to the first team vie for Best Player award in 1998. One of the most decorated DOHA: Three Qatar Stars trophies this season and who footballers of all time, he defined Qatar Stars League (QSL) players have along with Al Sadd have quali- Barca and Spain’s spectacularly been nominated for this season fied for the quarter-final of the successful possession-based play- He is set to receive a rousing Netherlands in November 2000. League Awards QSL’s Best Player Award, it was AFC Champions League, are also ing style. send-off at the Nou Camp when He played in four World announced here yesterday. in the running for the Best Team He represented La Roja 133 Barca, who wrapped up their Cups and three European Best U-21 Player The trio of Hamdi Al Harboui Management award. times, a record for an outfield latest La Liga title last weekend, Championships and won 100 of The nominees: Qatar Sports Club, Hassan Al The award is dedicated to the player, and was a key figure in host Deportivo La Coruna for his 133 matches for the Iberian Haydous of Al Sadd SC and Nam best management of a team in the Spain’s glittering run when they their final match of the campaign nation, controlling play from a Abdurrahman Fayez Alrashidi of Tae-Hee of Lekhwiya SC have QSL. This award is shortlisted won the 2010 World Cup and on Saturday. central position, regularly provid- Al Gharafa SC been shortlisted for the award by the Qatar Football Awards the 2008 and 2012 European He could still win another two ing assists and also scoring the from among the 14 QSL clubs Committee and the nominees Championships. trophies, with Barca through to occasional goal. Abdurrahman Mohammed Ahmed Al Harazi playing in the top tier football are: Al Ahli SC, Lekhwiya SC and With Barca, Xavi has won three the Champions League final to His last appearance for Spain of Al Sailiya SC league of the country. Qatar SC. Champions League crowns, eight play Juventus on June 6, a week was a bitter 5-1 reverse to the Ali Awad HA Bujaloof of Qatar Sports Club The 2015 QFA Awards cer- In the Best U-21 Player La Liga titles and a host of other after they play Athletic Bilbao in Netherlands in their opening emony will take place on May threre players are in the race, trophies but has had limited play- the King’s Cup final. Group B match at the World Cup Best Team Management 24 at Qatar National Convention Abdurrahman Fayez Alrashidi ing time this season under coach Xavi made his debut for finals in Brazil in June. The nominees: Al Ahli SC, Lekhwiya SC, Centre. of Al Gharafa SC, Abdurrahman Luis Enrique. Spain in a friendly against the REUTERS The three players earned the Mohammed Ahmed Al Harazi of Qatar SC maximum number of votes from Al Sailiya SC and Ali Awad HA Mansour Muftah Award (Top Goal Scorer) journalists, technical experts, Bujaloof of Qatar Sports Club. This award recognises the top scorer in club administrations and national The three were shortlisted for Qatar’s highest football division- the Qatar team staff, representatives from the award on the basis of partici- Stars League. the QSL and representatives from pation, attendance, physical fit- the Qatar Football Association all ness and technical abilities. Top karatekas head to Best Coach who were part of t he collective The QFA will also honour the which voted for the season’s Best top scorer of this year’s league. The nominees are: Player nomination. Mansour Muftah Award (Top Hussein Ammota of Al Sadd SC In the Best Coach category, Goal Scorer) –This award rec- Lekhwiya coach Michael Laudrup, ognises the top scorer in Qatar’s Doha for two-day meet Michael Laudrup of Lekhwiya SC who guided his club to the QSL highest football division- the Radhi Shenaishil of Qatar SC title and the Qatar Cup is in Qatar Stars League. The QFA DOHA: Around 200 karete- the running for the award along Awards also includes the Football kas from 22 countries will Best Player with Al Sadd’s Hussein and Radhi For All, Best Amateur League be taking part in the 4th The nominees : Shenaishil of Qatar SC. Team Management and Best Fan Qatar International Karate Lekhwiya, who won two Base. THE PENINSULA Championship which begins Hamdi al Harboui of Qatar Sports Club from tomorrow at Al Rayyan Club, officials of Qatar Karate Hassan Al Haydous of Al Sadd SC Federation (QKF) informed Nam Tae-Hee of Lekhwiya SC here yesterday. Addressing a press confer- Football For All ence, Rashid Al Hajiri, Assistant The decision is made by the Qatar Football Secretary of QKF revealed that Awards Committee who recognises a the number of players and the single candidate in support of the growth of countries taking part in this football in Qatar (at any level). year’s championship is more com- pared to the last edition. Best Amateur League Team “We started this tournament in Management The award is specifically for the newly 2012 to promote the sport in the Adel Ghanim Al Marzooqi (left), Executive Manager at Qatar Karate formed Qatar Amateur League, the country and we hope to see top Federation (QKF) and Rashid Al Hajiri, Assistant Secretary of QKF during QAL. This award is given to the team karatekas from around the world a press conference in Doha yesterday. PICTURE BY: ABDUL BASIT this year as well,” said Al Hajiri, who have demonstrated the best team about the two-day event. management implementation according to “The international event will of $25,000. The event will fea- - three gold, two silver and nine the regulations. help them prepare for the GCC ture the participation of play- bronze - to finish runners-up and Arab Championships,” he ers from; Qatar, Saudi Arabia, behind Tunisia. Best Fan Base added. United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Besides the national team This award is given to the club who Competitions will be held in Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, competitors, local clubs Barzan has demonstrated multiple levels of fan kumite and kata categories for Palestine, France, Turkey, Youth Centre, Ahmed bin Hanbal engagement. The award is about far more cadet and junior males, senior Ukraine, Latvia, Austria, Croatia, Centre, Karate Academy and than just match attendance. The award men and women and which prom- Spain, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Sheikh Faisal bin Qasim Sports also recognises the entire fan experience Hassan Al Kuwari (right), the Head of General Events at the Qatar Stars ises to be a fantastic contest. Uzbekistan, Oman, Greece and Academy will also take part in the and the work done by clubs off the pitch to League speaking during a press conference ahead of the QFA Awards The competition is expected Azerbaijan. In the last edition, competition. attract fans. ceremony which will be held on May 24. to be intense with a prize pool the hosts had bagged 14 medals THE PENINSULA