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Emir meets Sudanese minister Plan to amend Key downtown laws to woo investment DOHA: A number of laws city areas to related to trade, commerce, industry and investment being overhauled with a view to improving business environ- ment in the country and attract- go commercial ing more foreign investment. The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has Clearance for multi-storey buildings instructed the government to sim- plify laws to make doing business DOHA: Urban Planning week from June 1 to 5, 2014. and making investments easier, authorities have given clearance Al Nijada area located behind Undersecretary at the Ministry for development of multi-storey the Bank Street where Souq of Economy and Commerce, H E buildings in some key down- Nijada once existed will be per- Sultan bin Rashid Al Khater said town areas of the city. mitted to have buildings with on the sidelines of a conference The Gold Souq area, located ground plus five floors. here. opposite Grand Hamad Avenue This will also be a mixed-use He said radical changes were popularly known as the Bank area with the usage of the build- being made to at least two dozen Street, has been declared a purely ings being residential, commer- laws with the above objective in commercial district in new urban cial and administrative, local The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with Sudanese Defence Minister Abdelrahim Mohammed mind. Three laws have already development plans. Arabic daily Al Raya reported Hussein at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. They discussed bilateral relations and the latest developments in the been amended and enforced, while The residential buildings yesterday. region. the others are under review, he located along the internal streets The daily said that huge devel- said. THE PENINSULA in this area will be changed into opment was waiting to take place commercial. And multi-storey between east of Al Sadd and structures will be permitted in Fereej Al Naser and the projects the entire area. include road, sewage and other Population surges to 2.21m Suicide blast at The nearby Old Al Ghanem infrastructure works. area, on the other hand, is to be Meanwhile, designs for the sec- DOHA: More than 170,000 of people in the country as on growth worked out to even Pakistan-India a mixed-use locality, with build- ond phase of commercial streets people, most of them freshly- October 31 at 2,216,500. more—191,793—as the population ings of ground plus six floors to be are ready and being reviewed for recruited workers, have entered As is the practice of calculating figure as on October 31, 2013 was allowed here. implementation at 40 sites in dif- the country this year, taking the population, the total excluded 2,024,707. border kills 55 The usage of the buildings in ferent parts of the country. the population to an all-time nationals and expatriates with In a month since last LAHORE: A suicide bomber this locality will be commercial, The areas include Raudat Al high of 2.21 million. valid residency permits (RPs) September more than 29,000 peo- killed at least 55 people yester- residential and administrative. Hamam, Doha Jadeed, Thumama, The population continues to who were out of the country at ple have entered the country as day at the main Pakistan-India This, in other words, means Sailiya and Bani Hajir, among swell apparently unplanned, the time, that is, as on October 31. the population by September 30 border crossing, the blast tear- that shops and showrooms as others, within Doha. Several sites putting pressure on public serv- The country’s population, was 2,187,326, or more than 2.18 ing through crowds of spectators well as houses and offices will be are located out of the city. ices, housing and resources such according to the Ministry of million. leaving after the colourful daily allowed in the area. Plots on these commercial as food. Some three-fourths of the Development Planning and Qatar’s population has nearly ceremony to close the frontier. No wonder, then, that early streets will be of areas ranging population comprised men, their Statistics, was much less, at trebled in the last 10 years. In The explosion, which wounded last June real estate in Old Al from 1,500 sq metres to 4,000 sq number being over 1.65 million. slightly more than two million 2004, it was merely 744,000. Of more than 120, came at Wagah Ghanem was sold at a record metres. A commercial street is a Women totaled 561,780. (2,045,239 to be exact) as on this, roughly 496,300 were men border gate near the eastern rate of QR207,000 ($57,000) per unique concept. Such streets will In a month on average, some December 31, 2013. This means and 247,600 were women. Pakistani city of Lahore after square metre. support shops, showrooms and 17,000 people, including tourists that the population grew exactly This means that the male- the “flag-lowering” ceremony, a A 2,167 sq metre plot in the offices on both sides and each and businessmen, arrived in the by 171,261, or eight percent, in the female ratio being 2:1 was not so display of military pageantry that locality was sold for an incred- street can be dedicated to a par- country, figures suggest. Official past 10 months. much lop-sided as it is today. attracts thousands of spectators ible QR453.6m ($124.56m) in the ticular trade. THE PENINSULA statistics put the exact number The year-on-year population THE PENINSULA every day and is popular with for- eign tourists. The attack is a rare strike in Punjab, Pakistan’s richest and most populous province and pow- erbase of Prime Minister Nawaz Traffic village Sharif, which has been spared QU to open medical college next year the worst of the bloody wave of violence that has assailed the to promote DOHA: Qatar University (QU) “The decision was based on strengthening clinical practice, Other members are Dr Khalid Al country in recent years. It is the will set up a College of Medicine the result of a thorough feasibil- medical education and research Ali, Associate Vice President for deadliest attack to hit Pakistan safe driving next year, in a major initiative ity study conducted by a team in Qatar overall,” it added. Academic Affairs; Dr Mohamed since a suicide bombing at a to address the increasing need of high-ranking members from The expert team was assisted Ahmedna, QU College of Arts & church in the northwestern city DOHA: The Traffic for Qatar-trained physicians. Qatar University (QU), Hamad by an international advisory board Sciences (CAS) Associate Dean for of Peshawar killed 80 people in Department is planning to The College is being established Medical Corporation (HMC) and including current and former Research and Graduate Studies; September last year. set up a “traffic village-cum under directives from the Emir Qatar Leadership Center (QLC),” Deans of medical colleges at Dr Asmaa Al Thani, CAS Head, Sharif expressed “grief and sor- institute” to raise public H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad said a QU statement yesterday. Stanford University, Johns Hopkins Health Sciences Department; Prof row” over the attack in a state- awareness about traffic rules Al Thani. It will receive the first “Establishment of the College University, Heidelberg University, Edward Hillhouse, HMC Chief of ment issued by his office. His and safe driving. batch of students in Fall 2015, QU addresses the increasing need American University of Beirut, and Scientific, Faculty and Academic Indian counterpart Narendra The facility will have exclu- President Prof Sheikha Abdulla for Qatar-trained physicians, and University of Sharjah. Affairs; Dr Abdullatif Al Khal, Modi condemned the “shocking” sive halls equipped with Al Misnad said yesterday. supports the country’s growing The Steering Committee for HMC Deputy Chief of Medical and “dastardly” attack. Huge audio-visual aid to show traf- QU Board of Regents in its first healthcare sector and national the College of Medicine is chaired Education; Dr Hassan Al Thani crowds gather on both sides at fic signs and signals and edu- meeting for the new academic strategies in healthcare and edu- by Dr Abdulla Ali Al Thani, chair- HMC Head, Trauma and Vascular Wagah each sunset to see the cate the public about seatbelts year approved an action plan to cation. Working collaboratively man, Executive Management Surgery; and Dr Christiane Mück, display of military pageantry that and other safety measures, establish the facility. The meeting with key healthcare providers Committee, QU Board of Regents; QLC Project Consultant. accompanies the formal closing of Al Sharq reported, quoting was chaired by Sheikh Abdulla and educators, the College will Prof Sheikha Abdulla Al Misnad, THE PENINSULA the border post. AFP Brig Mohammed Saad Al bin Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani. make invaluable contributions to QU President is the vice chair. Continued on page 6 See also page 13 Kharji, director of the Traffic Department. Land has already been allotted for the project and construction will begin soon, he said. The idea was inspired Arab League warns by the success of the Traffic Kindergarten set up by the Department at its headquar- ters in Madinat Khalifa, said of Jerusalem red line Al Kharji. The Traffic KG featuring CAIRO: The Arab League “Israel has reached a red line,” a mini traffic junction and warned yesterday that Israel Arab League deputy chief Ahmed entertainment events for has reached a “red line” after Ben Hilli said after an assembly families was intended to raise fresh clashes in Jerusalem, of the 22-member bloc’s del- traffic awareness among the urging international pressure egates. He called on Arabs and visitors. Al Kharji said the to stop what it branded “viola- the international community “to Department aims to promote tions” in the holy city. put a stop to these practices by a traffic culture through such Clashes around the flashpoint the Israeli occupation authorities activities. Al Aqsa mosque compound — the in Jerusalem”. “Complying traffic rules third holiest site in Islam and “Touching Jerusalem will lead should become part of peo- Judaism’s holiest — prompted to results with untold conse- ple’s behaviour. Fear about Israel on Thursday to close the quences,” he added. Yesterday, penalties or presence of sur- site for a day. Al Aqsa and adja- Israeli far-right lawmaker Moshe veillance cameras should not cent neighbourhoods have seen Feiglin visited the compound in be the only factors prompting months of violence, with the Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, them to obey the rules,” said mosque compound a rallying pressing for Jews to be allowed to the official. point for Palestinian resistance pray there despite the heightened THE PENINSULA An Israeli border policeman throws a grenade during clashes with Palestinian protesters at Qalandia checkpoint to perceived Jewish attempts to tensions over its status. AFP near the West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday. take control of it. See also page 7 MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Qatar, Sudan to boost military ties DOHA: The Minister of State for Defence Affairs H E Maj. Gen. Hamad bin Ali Al Attiyah yesterday met Sudanese Defence Minister Lieutenant-General Abdelrahim Mohammed Hussein. They also signed a memorandum of understanding on military cooperation. Hussein said relations are witnessing further development, thanks to directives of both leaderships and their keenness to elevate them for the benefit of the two brotherly peoples. In a statement to Qatar News Agency, he said the MoU represents a significant step towards strengthening relations, especially between the two armed forces. He also highlighted Qatar’s stances in support of Sudanese issues and its initiatives for peace in Darfur. QNA Katara’s gallery of used books gaining popularity DOHA: Visitors to Katara on Thursdays, Fridays and Cultural Village during the Saturdays. Readers can pick what Prof Ashfaq Shuaib, Director, Neurosciences Institute, addressing the event. weekend got a new experience they want to read on these days at the Corniche. from 4pm until midnight. For Vindya an Indian expatri- Those who wish to donate ate, it was a search for good fic- used books for the project can tion at Katara’s used book gallery. call 66644031 or deliver them at “I could find different types of Katara Building 22, first floor. Stroke patients’ average stay books here, it’s a good idea since The gallery has been launched it’s free and we can read and to promote reading, as data show return. Hope more people will that reading habit is less in Qatar. bring their unwanted books here,” According to a survey by she said. Childhood Cultural Centre, more at HGH declines to eight days Another visitor to the gallery than 30 percent of Qatari chil- said, “I have taken some books dren say they don’t have time to for my children, and looking for read, and 26 percent complain DOHA: The average length of (which must be administered patients. The opening of a Stroke inactivity, the incidence of stroke books on Islam. During the first about not having access to books stay (LOS) for stroke patients within 4.5 hours of the onset of Ward at HGH in March 2014 has is high in Qatar’s population. week of this gallery there were of their interest. at Hamad General Hospital symptoms) has doubled since played a key role in improvements. “Fast and specialised medical more books, now less, it shows Sixteen percent did not find any (HGH) has been declining this 2013. Thrombolysis can greatly A multi-disciplinary team of intervention is key to successful there are many takers.” compelling reason to read, and 15 year. In January, the average increase a stroke patient’s stroke neurologists, rehabilitation treatment for stroke patients,” The initiative, which involves percent faced problem selecting LOS was 12 days, that has fallen chances for a full recovery, but it physicians, stroke nurses, allied said Dr Naveed Akhtar, Director, collecting donated books and giv- the right books. A similar per- to eight. must be given within the 4.5 hour health professionals, stroke coor- Stroke Ward. “The sooner treat- ing them for free to those who love centage of children had problem The shorter LOS demonstrates timeframe. dinators and clinical nurse spe- ment is given, the better the to read, was launched by Katara with the language. They found the the effective care being given to HMC’s stroke team organised a cialists has also set up to provide chance that the patient’s brain last week. Hundreds of books, language tough for their level. patients who benefit greatly from symposium to mark World Stroke specialist care. cells can be protected. We have mainly in Arabic and English, on The survey found that out being discharged as early as pos- Day on October 29. More than 300 Speakers at the forum explained developed the Stroke Ward to various topics are available during of the small number who takes sible, when clinically appropri- delegates attended, including Dr that stroke is one of the leading ensure patients are treated as the weekend. interest in reading, about two- ate, to continue their recovery at Hanan Al Kuwari, Managing causes of mortality and the No. 1 quickly and effectively as pos- People can borrow or take max- thirds preferred fiction and books home with ongoing support from Director, HMC, and top leaders cause of chronic disability in the sible. The processes we have imum three books at a time. on adventure, and the remaining care teams, according to Hamad involved in the delivery of care for world. Due to the high prevalence implemented to date have led to Used books are kept in spe- liked reading books on religion Medical Corporation (HMC). stroke patients. of many risk factors for stroke, significant improvements in the cial booths near Katara beach and poetry. THE PENINSULA The percentage of patients HMC has been working to including diabetes, obesity, high care of stroke patients,” he added. receiving thrombolysis treatment improve the care for stroke cholesterol, hypertension and THE PENINSULA Sidra Medical and Research Centre to open soon: Official QA celebrates oneworld

DOHA: The much-waited Sidra enable expansion to 550 beds in Medical and Research Centre a subsequent phase. It was slated membership anniversary is at the completing stage and to open in 2011, and postponed DOHA: Qatar Airways (QA) participation in the first visit would open to visitors soon, said until 2012-end. Once fully opera- celebrated its first anniversary to Doha the alliance’s oneday, Saad Al Muhannadi, President, tional, it will be an ultramodern, of joining oneworld airline alli- oneteam, oneworld training and Qatar Foundation (QF), all-digital academic medical cen- ance network on October 30. awareness road show touring one- yesterday. tre which will set new standards QA offered a premium three- world hub airports worldwide. He said it was delayed mainly in patient care for women and day sale on destinations across its “Joining oneworld provided a due to the calibre of the project, children in Qatar, the Gulf and worldwide network, with a special new world of benefits for travel- which is very high in quality. internationally. offer for its Privilege Club mem- lers across the globe. It enables “There is delay in handing over Sidra will work with its aca- bers who can earn up to 5,000 QA to offer our passengers an due the design of the facility and demic partner Weill Cornell bonus Qmiles when they fly with unrivalled global network served electronic system which is to be Medical College in Qatar and any oneworld partner airlines by partners that include leading implemented,” Al Muhannadi Hamad Medical Corporation with until November 30. airlines from every region. The told a press conference ahead of regard to its missions to raise QA employees also marked same passengers have also ben- the World Innovation Summit the standard of healthcare in the the anniversary at Hamad efitted from the premium lounge for Health 2015. “The team is in country and provide opportunities International Airport where facilities across our alliance’s net- the final stage of completing the for research and learning. Sidra is the airport’s Chief Operating work and the opportunity of earn- premises.” provided with $7.9bn by QF, the Officer, Badr Al Meer, and QA ing Qmiles wherever they may First announced in June 2004, world’s largest endowment for a Chief Planning Officer, Richard travel in the world,” said Akbar Sidra will initially have around medical and research centre. QA officials cutting a cake at Hamad International Airport. Roberts, cut a cake. Al Baker, Group Chief Executive, 400 beds with infrastructure to THE PENINSULA This was followed by staff QA. THE PENINSULA Kulluna recognises media supporters

Officials with media supporters at the celebratory event.

DOHA: Kulluna, the national by ConocoPhillips in Qatar. health and wellness in Qatar. be healthy and safe. Our core health and safety aware- Dr Khalid Abdulnoor It makes me proud to see how values of health and safety are ness campaign, recognised its Saifeldeen, Chairman, Kulluna, Kulluna has grown, and it could aligned with those of HMC and media supporters for contrib- and ConocoPhillips representa- not have been possible without HITC, and we are committed to uting to success. tives attended the event, along the support of every member of supporting the initiative.” As a community partner, with journalists, ConocoPhillips the Kulluna family. Kulluna continues to launch ConocoPhillips became the staff, HMC officials, media and ConocoPhillips Qatar nationwide health and safety founding sponsor of the Kulluna corporate communication teams President, Gary Sykes, said, “As campaigns through commu- Health and Safety campaign. 60 degrees and Agency 222 founding sponsor, we are proud nity activities, including home In partnership with Hamad who help spread the Kulluna to celebrate the milestone with and water safety, school visits, Medical Corporation (HMC) message. the media. They are an invalu- healthy heart awareness, stay- and Hamad International Dr Saifeldeen opened the able part of the Kulluna family ing healthy in the summer heat Training Centre (HITC), event and said, “Two years ago and contribute to the campaign’s and during Ramadan fasting Kulluna has become one of the today, we launched Kulluna to success, helping equip the com- and sponsors safety events. largest community investments spread awareness and improve munity with the knowledge to THE PENINSULA MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Tourism statistics Two innovators make it workshop today DOHA: The Ministry of UN Statistical Commission. Development Planning and It was held in New York to Stars of Science finals Statistics, in cooperation with last March when the commis- Statistical, Economic and sion agreed on member states’ Social Research and Training approval of World Tourism Sixth season of QF’s edutainment TV reality show ends on November 15 Centre for Islamic Countries in Organization (WTO) statistical Ankara, is organising a tourism recommendations in 2008. DOHA: ‘The Intellectual’ statistics workshop today at The workshop also intends to Thieab Al Dossary of Bahrain InterContinental Hotel. identify data sources relevant to and ‘The Strategist’ Sultan Al The three-day workshop aims this aspect, and train participants Subhi of Oman have stamped to highlight the importance of to establish and publish tourism- their tickets to the November 15 statistics in measuring the con- related household and institu- final episode of Stars of Science tribution of the tourism sector to tional surveys. on MBC4. They will compete for the national economy via bring- The Turkish experience and the top spot and a share of the ing to light statistical concepts, expertise will benefit partici- $600,000 prize money. definitions, and methods used in pants who will also discover During an episode punctuated tourism sector assessment. international standards related by moments of tension and tri- The event is part of efforts to to the measurement and use of umph, the two fan favourites on build statistical capacity for gov- data to build the tourism sub- Qatar Foundation’s ‘edutainment ernment and semi-government account, formulate policies, moni- reality’ TV programme success- agencies, and in response to the tor progress, and make sound fully defended their projects in requirements of concerned min- decisions. the design stage. istries and bodies, the ministry Representatives from minis- Al Subhi and Al Dossary took said yesterday. tries and agencies will take part first and second place respectively The workshop also responds to in the workshop, and receive cop- to advance, while Walaa Aniba of international recommendations ies of WTO guidelines related to Tunisia, with her smart head- released in the 45th session of the tourism. THE PENINSULA phones project, fell just short and was eliminated. Stars of Science, in its sixth sea- son, pits innovators against each Universities to guide students other in a competition to turn Thieab Al Dossary, Walaa Aniba and Sultan Al Subhi taking part in the design stage of the programme. their ideas into reality. Twelve candidates between 18 on courses, admissions and 30 years come to Qatar, to with the goal of winning funding evaluated by VIP juror James Bou Jaoudeh of Lebanon face DOHA: Hamad Bin Khalifa Qatar, Georgetown University be mentored by world-class engi- for their projects. Law, founder of the award-win- the jury to secure their place in University (HBKU), a mem- School of Foreign Service in Qatar, neering and design experts at After proving themselves in ning architectural firm James the finals. Hosted by Khaled Al ber of Qatar Foundation for and Northwestern University in Qatar Science & Technology Park. the crucial engineering stage, Law Cybertecture International. Jumaily and Haneen Al Naqdi, the Education, along with part- Qatar to offer students a wide Innovators’ resilience, ingenu- candidates had very little time On the next episode on final will conclude the sixth sea- ners, will host students and range of perspectives. ity and teamwork are tested in to enhance the design of their November 8 at 8:00 KSA time, son. Ranking will be determined their parents at the second Representatives of Academic challenges throughout the show projects while improving func- viewers will see Mohammed Al through a joint jury and public Discover Education City event Bridge Programme, QatarDebate, as they develop inventions from tionality and marketability. Housani of Qatar, Khaled Al vote that can be seen in the final on November 5. Qatar Career Fair, Reach Out concept to commercialisation In the design stage, they were Sulaim of Saudi Arabia, Rania episode. THE PENINSULA The recruitment event for To Asia, Bedaya Centre, British higher education institutions Council and higher education provides participants with institute will also attend. insight into academic offerings Khalifa Al Salahi, Recruitment of HBKU’s partner universities and Outreach Coordinator, Ooredoo Passport double roaming data made permanent and information about admissions HBKU, said, ‘This event is an processes and standardised test- opportunity for high school stu- DOHA: Ooredoo has announced Passport works on all GCC net- week, and can be easily renewed allowances before their Ooredoo ing procedures. dents to meet all universities in that its double roaming data works – Saudi Arabia, the UAE, whether in Qatar or abroad. To Passport expires, they automati- Earlier this year, the event Education City in one setting. It is offer on Ooredoo Passport is now Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait – and activate it, Shahry customers can cally receive a discounted rate of attracted about 1,800 participants. a chance for them to start think- a permanent feature for travel- can be used on 4G networks in the SMS ‘OP’ to 114 and Hala custom- QR1 per minute and QR1 per MB Representatives from universi- ing about their futures, what they lers in the GCC. UAE, Saudi Arabia and Oman. ers can SMS ‘OP’ to 121. If custom- used on partner networks. ties in Education City will meet want to pursue at university and For QR100, Ooredoo Passport Ooredoo Passport is valid for one ers use all call minutes and data THE PENINSULA students and parents and respond what they need to do to get there.” customers get 100 roaming min- to questions or concerns. Representatives from HBKU utes for calls and 1GB of roam- The event will be attended by will also be at the event to provide ing mobile data when they use HBKU, Virginia Commonwealth visitors with information relating Passport Partners in more than University in Qatar, Weill Cornell to testing support, financial aid, 60 countries, including the GCC. Medical College in Qatar, Texas scholarship and extracurricular Ooredoo Passport will provide A&M University at Qatar, activities provided by HBKU. an extra 1GB of roaming mobile Carnegie Mellon University in THE PENINSULA data for use in the GCC. Ooredoo

Canada opens visa centre, annual visitor number likely to double

Anne-Marie Spain (centre), Counsellor (management) and Consul, Canadian embassy, Ewan Cameron (fourth left), Chief Finance Officer, Mannai Corporation, Ajit Alexander (second right), COO, Middle East and Africa, VFS Global, and Farukh Sardar (right), General Manager, Mannai Travel Division, with other officials after the opening of the Canadian Visa Centre at Jaidah Square in Doha yesterday. SALIM MATRAMKOT

BY SACHIN KUMAR because until now they had to go Alexander, Chief Operating to Abu Dhabi for visa services. We Officer, Middle East and Africa, DOHA: Visitors from Qatar expect the number of visitors to VFS GCC. to Canada are likely to double double in a year,” Farukh Sardar, VFS Global, as part of a con- in a year, with the opening of General Manager, Mannai Air tract awarded by Canada, will Canada Visa Application Centre Travel, told this daily. provide services to applicants in Doha. “Most visitors from Qatar go wishing to travel to the country. Until now people wishing to on tourist visa,” he added. It will establish a worldwide net- visit Canada were required to The centre will provide exclu- work of up to 125 such centres. go to Abu Dhabi for visa-related sive service for the government “Since 2006, VFS Global has services. About 3,000 people go to of Canada and is authorised to been associated with Mannai Canada in a year on visitor visa, accept applications in all tempo- Corporation and operating visa study and work permits. rary resident categories (visitor application services and centres VFS Global, the world largest visas, study and work permits) for Australia, Bulgaria and the outsourcing and technology serv- and travel document applications UK in Doha,” said Alexander. ices specialist for governments from Canadian permanent resi- Officials said the decision to and diplomatic missions, in part- dents in Qatar. issue or refuse a visa is made nership with Mannai Corporation “The centre is authorised to by immigration officers of yesterday announced the opening provide administrative support Citizenship and Immigration of the centre at Jaidah Square. services, such as the collection of Canada, in accordance with rules It was inaugurated by Anne- visa applications, and return of and guidelines. Marie Spain, Counsellor passports in sealed decision enve- The centre has no role or (Management) and Consul at lopes to applicants. influence over the outcome of the Canadian embassy. “It can also assist in schedul- an application and will not offer “The Opening of the centre is ing interviews on behalf of the evaluative advice. good news for people in Qatar Canadian visa office,” said Ajit THE PENINSULA MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Bloomsbury, Delfina to DFI begins first free outdoor promote Arab writers DOHA: Bloomsbury Qatar a young writer the chance to spend pop-up screenings for family Foundation Publishing (BQFP) and time in London researching, writing Delfina Foundation have partnered and engaging with creative thinkers.” to launch a search for emerging The residency will provide writers Three more films, Made in Qatar programme at MIA until November 14 Arab writers in the Middle East. with a platform to incubate ideas and BQFP is a member of Qatar showcase them to international peers DOHA: Doha Film Institute Foundation for Education, Science and the public. The selected resident (DFI) started its first family- and Community Development (QF). will live with cultural practitioners oriented free outdoor pop-up Supporting QF’s commitment to from the Middle East and Asia dur- cinema screenings on Friday education, innovation and commu- ing Summer 2015, QF said. at Museum of Islamic Art nity development, the eight-week BQFP English Publishing Head, (MIA) Park. residency will provide the winning Thalia Suzuma, said, “We are More than 400 people gath- applicant with the prospect of devel- delighted to be teaming up with ered at the screening of the oping a body of work in London, QF Delfina Foundation to help emerg- heart-warming Kurdish drama, said yesterday. ing writers have the time and space Bekas, directed by Karzan BQFP Arabic Publishing Head, to devote themselves to creative Kadar. Fakhri Saleh, said, “The Middle East writing.” Continuing until November is full of talented writers with unique The deadline for applications is 14, the screenings set the mood stories to tell. We are seeking to November 13. Eligible applicants for the second Ajyal Youth Film identify, support and promote them.” must be of Arab nationality and liv- Festival next month. Delfina Foundation Director, ing in the Middle East. Poetry, fic- Three family films will be Aaron Cezar, said, “Delfina tion, and non-fiction writings will shown at MIA Park: Rio, Rio Foundation creates career-defining be accepted in English or Arabic. 2 and Amazonia, followed by a opportunities for cultural practition- Shortlisted applicants will be noti- Made in Qatar programme fea- ers. We are excited by the new part- fied and interviewed in December, QF turing work by local filmmakers nership with BQFP, which will offer said. QNA at the Pearl-Qatar. Fans enjoying the Kurdish drama, Bekas, at Museum of Islamic Art Park. All films will have Arabic and English subtitles. Seating the Academy Award for Best Amazonia is a Brazilian-French movies directed by Qatar’s tal- for the screenings is on a first- Original Song. It will be shown documentary about a capuchin ent. The Made in Qatar show- Vodafone Qatar unveils Filipino family pack come, first-served basis. on November 6 at 7pm. monkey born and raised in case will feature captivating DOHA: Vodafone has introduced the Kapamilya Pack for the Filipino Rio, directed by Carlos The sequel Rio 2 features the captivity, finding himself alone short films by talented filmmak- community in Qatar. It offers value-added benefits to customers at QR9 Saldana, narrates the story of same lovable characters – Blu and lost in the wilderness of ers who call Qatar their home. per week. Blu, a flightless macaw who acts and Jewel, this time with their the Amazon rainforest after a The films were screened at the The pack until January 5 includes free access to news website, www.abs- more human than bird. three kids, living in Amazonian plane crash. It will be screened inaugural Ajyal Youth Film cbnnews.com, in addition to 100 SMS to Philippines/Qatar, 100 Vodafone min- It earned appreciation for wild. It will be shown on on November 8 at 7pm. Festival and other international utes, and the lowest rate to call or SMS Philippines at 10 dirhams per SMS or its visuals, voice acting and November 7 at 7pm. On November 14 at 8pm, film festivals. 45 dirhams per minute. It offers customers 250 MB for free on Anghami+, the music, and was nominated for Directed by Thierry Ragobert, lovers can watch a selection of THE PENINSULA region’s leading music app, to enjoy their favourite tunes anytime, anywhere. To activate the pack, customers need to opt in with the code *200*63#. THE PENINSULA Ministry holds workshop on financial crimes DOHA: Experiences of Dutch agencies prepare investigation reports, probe illegal Director-General, General Directorate of were shared at a workshop to develop exports of goods with dual use, collect secu- Criminal Investigations, inaugurated the skills of Qatari officers investigating rity information, prepare anti-money laun- programme. financial crimes. dering strategy, collect information relating The inaugural ceremony was attended The two-day regional workshop on to crime control and other important issues, by CID Director, Brig. Jamal Muhammad financial crime investigations, organ- including means of communication. Al Kaabi, Assistant Director, Muhammad ised by the Ministry of Interior, in asso- Delegates from the ministry’s depart- Ibrahim Al Jufairi, Senior Police Liaison ciation with Financial Information and ments, Qatar Central Bank, National Officer in the Netherlands, Honey De Falk, Investigative Services and National Police Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism the attorney-general of National Public of the Netherlands is being held at CID Financing Committee, Qatar Securities Prosecution Authority in the Netherlands headquarters. and Qatar Financial Information Unit are and the director of the Dutch Information It will focus on how to track financial taking part. and Investigations Project Management. assets and accounts of criminal activities, Brig. Khalifa Abdullah Al Noaimi, THE PENINSULA

Heart Hospital celebrates World Ether Day

Surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses and intensive care unit staff attending the symposium.

DOHA: Hamad Medical Corporation’s Ether Day to commemorate the 168th thesia for pain-free surgeries. (HMC) Heart Hospital observed World anniversary of the use of ether anaes- Dr Abdul Rasheed Pattath, Head, Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia at the hos- pital, said around 200 participants, including surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses and intensive care unit staff took part in a scientific symposium as part of activities to mark the day. He explained the rel- evance of anaesthesia and its positive impact on medicine in general, especially in performing more complex surgical operations such as open heart surgeries, brain and neuro-surgeries, which were not possible prior to the discovery of anaesthesia. Anaesthesia is being used before and after surgeries in intensive care units and its use has reduced mortality rate post-surgeries. Dr Pattath said the progress seen in ether anaesthesia has assisted in cardiology robotic sur- geries in Qatar and that some 29 operations had been performed at Heart Hospital using ether anaesthesia. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

Over 50 ExxonMobil Genetic code of Qataris to be mapped staff take part in ‘Empowerment of Work begins on initiative towards better diagnoses and treatment of diseases in the country Women’ programme DOHA: ExxonMobil BY FAZEENA SALEEM Professional Women’s Network (EMRA’A) hosted an event DOHA: Initial work has ‘Empowerment of Women’, started on an initiative to map attended by over 50 employees, the genetic code of citizens for said a statement yesterday. better diagnoses and treatment It featured a presentation and of diseases in Qatar, according lecture by guest speaker, Dr Amal to a senior health expert. Al Malki, Associate Teaching As a beginning, steps are Professor of English, Carnegie taken to build infrastructure Mellon University, and Executive for the ‘Qatar Genome Project,’ Director, Translation and announced by H H Sheikha Moza Interpreting Institute, Hamad bint Nasser at the first World bin Khalifa University, Qatar Innovation Summit for Health Foundation. (WISH) in 2013. She shared her personal Understanding of genetics and professional experiences allows safer drug prescription, and accomplishments and her and more effective treatment approach to achieving a healthy of diseases and conditions that work life balance. affect patients. She also encouraged the par- The project will be imple- ticipating women to assess their mented in three phases: approaches, share experiences Collecting samples, analysing and learn potential ways to bet- them, and then working on tai- FROM LEFT: Dr Hanan Al Kuwari, Managing Director, Hamad Medical Corporation, Saad Al Muhannadi, President, Qatar Foundation, Professor Lord Ara ter balance aspects of their lives lored medicine. It will aim to Darzi, Executive Chair, WISH, L Suzanne Suggs, Chair, Communicating Complex Health Messages Forum, and Javaid I Sheikh, Dean of Weill Cornell to increase personal and profes- understand the diseases that Medical College in Qatar, at the press conference at Grand Hyatt yesterday. sional productivity. affect Qataris. “Working women everywhere “It’s a very important and a press conference ahead of the for Islamic Legislation and universal healthcare coverage. the world. “We are looking for face their own set of challenges complex project. We are looking WISH 2015 summit. Ethics, a centre of Qatar Faculty It will be held on February the best innovations, which are on a daily basis, particularly with at the ethical dimension; there is A special panel on ‘Healthcare of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin 17- 18, bringing around 1,000 evidence- based,” said Professor striking a healthy work life bal- national steering committee that and Ethics’ during the 2015 Khalifa University. delegates from more than 60 Lord Ara Darzi, Executive Chair, ance, and it is wonderful to hear is overseeing the project,” said Summit will focus on the devel- WISH 2015 will also address countries. WISH. that Dr Al Malki was able to Dr Hanan Al Kuwari, Managing opment and implementation some of the world’s most pressing Through a global community of Following a competitive appli- overcome these challenges,” said Director, Hamad Medical of ‘Genomic Medicine’ and the healthcare challenges, including influential leaders and experts in cation process, 15 innovation Fatima Al Emadi, a participant. Corporation (HMC), yesterday. innovation and ethical challenges affordable cancer care, dementia, policy, research and business, evi- showcases will be held at the “She is the epitome of a pro- “Lot of work has been made in behind this revolutionary new patient safety, communicating dence-based research and recom- summit, along with findings of gressive Arab woman, and an building blocks, the finding and medicine. complex health messages, diabe- mendations produced by WISH the new generation in healthcare example for all Qatari and non- collaborating with partners to The panel will be in partner- tes, mental health and wellbeing are inspiring meaningful change at the ‘ WISH Young Innovators’ Qatari women,” she said. set up infrastructure,” she told ship with the Research Centre of children and young people and in healthcare practices across segment. THE PENINSULA “Today’s event, like all events we organise through the net- work, focus on supporting work- ing women in Qatar,” said Hend Darwish, Co-Chair, EMRA’A Networking Committee. “Our aim is to inspire women, Civil Defence holds advanced risk management workshop and celebrate their professional achievements. We can learn a lot DOHA: The workshop on Advanced said the committee is committed to organ- Qatar is also working to ensure safety of methodology of preparations for emergen- from one another, women can Risk Management organised by the ising such training workshops for all stake- all members of the community and spread- cies, preparation to face scenarios, emer- teach you about real strength in Permanent Emergency Committee holders to prepare them with high degree ing the culture of safety. gency supply chain, and general emergency the workplace, how to overcome in association with Arab Centre for of efficiency and readiness to deal with The workshop presented by Dr management plan for companies. challenges, and excel. “We look Information, Consulting and Training emergencies. Muhammad Ibrahim, international expert The workshop also discussed coordi- forward to organising such events, Services, has concluded at Civil Defence Training to cope with risks and emer- and CEO, Arab Centre for Information and nation between agencies in the field of which support the objectives of Officers’ Club. gencies is one of the most advanced pro- Training, and Maj. Alaeddin Abdul Razaq emergency management at regional and Qatar National Vision 2030 in Staff Maj. Gen. Saad bin Jassim Al grammes in Qatar which is exerting efforts from the centre, analysed types of risks, international levels. terms of women empowerment.” Khulaifi, Director-General, Public Security, in deal with risks, through the committee. risk management plans and control, the THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Bashir hails Qatar’s role Qatar Alliance distributes relief in Darfur peace process KHARTOUM: The Sudanese President, Omar Al Bashir, yester- day praised Qatar’s fulfilment of all its commitments related to to 1,548 families in Philippines the Darfur peace process. He also expressed Sudan’s appreciation for Qatar’s keenness to achieve stability all over Sudan. DOHA: The Qatar Alliance This came during a meeting Al Bashir held with the President of for the Relief of the Peoples of Darfur Regional Authority, Al Tijani Al Sisi. Somalia and the Philippines Al Bashir stressed the need to continue efforts towards achieving has distributed non-food items stability in Darfur through implementation of major development to 1,548 families affected by projects related to the peace process. Typhoon Haiyan in the towns Al Sisi briefed the president on the peace process and progress in of La Paz and Dagami in Leyte implementation of Doha peace agreement, especially with regard to Province in the Philippines. development projects. The alliance comprises Qatar He said Qatar has been providing substantial support for the devel- Red Crescent, Qatar Charity, opment of Darfur and promotion of peace in the region. QNA Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services (RAF), Sheikh Eid bin Mohammad Al Thani Charitable College of Medicine to receive first Association, and Al Asmakh Charity Foundation. batch of students in Fall 2015 The aid contained 3,150 blan- kets, 592 tarpaulins, 594 tents, Continued from page 1 train and develop healthcare pro- 3,390 water tanks and 4,488 Sheikha Al Misnad said, viders of the future as we strive to mattresses. “College of Medicine marks a new develop a skilled and sustainable These were distributed in phase of development for Qatar local workforce”. cooperation with Philippine Red University. The national initiative Primary Health Care Cross and in coordination with is an extension of QU’s organic Corporation Managing Director, local authorities. Leyte was the integration with society and its Dr Mariam Abdelmalik, said, worst-hit by Haiyan. La Paz and commitment to serve the growing “The college will contribute to Dagami are an hour drive from needs of Qatar. It will remain our developing medical professionals the city of Tacloban. Beneficiaries focus to offer high-quality educa- to deliver healthcare and treat- included destitute families, wid- tion employers and patients can ment to the Qatari community ows, the elderly, and people with trust, and underlines our commit- with an understanding of patients’ disabilities. The alliance was ment to provide first-class medi- environment and lifestyle which is formed as a result of Qatar Day cal education. We look forward to a critical component in appropri- of Solidarity with the Peoples of welcoming the first class of stu- ate disease diagnosis, prevention, Somalia and the Philippines, in dents to the college in Fall 2015.” and care. Such programmes will November 2013, in response to HMC Managing Director, Dr also attract, identify, and track a call by the Emir H H Sheikh Hanan Al Kuwari, said the college distinguished students to join Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. will facilitate continued collabora- national organisations following THE PENINSULA Part of the relief consignment for Haiyan-hit families in the Philippines. tion between HMC and QU “to graduation.” THE PENINSULA

Vodafone offers 10 times more data DOHA: Vodafone Prepaid customers can now Customers can now enjoy 2.5GB instead of 250MB enjoy 10 times more data with Vodafone Internet with the Internet Monthly Pack 20, 10GB instead Cards activated on October 31, said the company of 1GB with the Internet Monthly Pack 50, 60GB in a statement. instead of 6GB with the Internet Monthly Pack 100 Customers will be able to benefit from the deal and unlimited data with the Internet Monthly Pack by purchasing a data scratch card at any Vodafone 200. Data allowances on Internet Monthly Pack 20, outlet, or recharging online or recharging at one of 50 and 100 are valid for 30 days. For the Internet Vodafone’s self-service machines at Vodafone retail Monthly Pack 200, data allowances are valid for 60 stores. The offer is valid until December 31. days. THE PENINSULA

Officials and students at the launch of the programme. Hospitality lessons for children DOHA: Sharq Village and Spa, Community Footprints pro- created and hope that our con- in partnership with Al Awsaj gramme, which focuses on three tribution will showcase growth Academy, has launched Succeed key areas: Child well-being, envi- potential of the industry and the through Service, a special edu- ronmental responsibility, and Ritz-Carlton brand to talented cational programme to high- hunger and poverty relief. students, who will be pursuing light to youngsters aspects “We see corporate social career options in the not too dis- of working in the hospitality responsibility as a core part of our tant future.” industry. business,” says Kamal Chahine, Sharq Village and Spa recently It introduces children to the Director, Human Resources, hosted the first session in part- sector through classes throughout Sharq Village and Spa. nership with Al Awsaj School the year, providing them with life “By introducing our industry to which saw 16 Qatari students aged skills training. It also promotes the next generation, we carry on 14-16 gather for an orientation career exploration in the industry our company’s history and com- day on hotel industry services, and contributes to building their mitment to community involve- with an introduction to culinary character. ment. This is the first of a series skills and the food and beverage It is part of the Ritz-Carlton’s of hospitality sessions we have department. THE PENINSULA

BPS tops inter-school quiz contest

Participants at the award ceremony.

DOHA: The 18th annual edition of Indian (80 points) and MES Indian School was third (50). Women’s Association’s Centrepoint Inter-School Philippine School of Doha came fourth, followed by Quiz 2014 was held at the Basant Kumar Birla last year’s winners Doha Modern Indian School and Auditorium at Birla Public School with BPS Al Khor International School. emerging the winner. All 18 participants, who represented the six final- The BPS trio, SarthakBehl, Kevin Koshy and ists, received prizes, including two-way air tickets to Harikrishnan Kodamana took the first place with India, laptops, iPhones and iPads. Indian Ambassador 150 points. The victory was BPS’s third in four years Sanjiv Arora inaugurated the event. since 2011. DPS-Modern Indian School came second THE PENINSULA MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07

Bahrain activist Israeli MP visits Al Aqsa compound Rajab freed as Lawmaker defies Netanyahu’s plea trial adjourned DUBAI: A Bahraini court yes- JERUSALEM: An Israeli exclude Jews from going up to the terday freed prominent Shia far-right lawmaker visited the Temple Mount,” Netanyahu said. activist Nabeel Rajab but barred flashpoint Al Aqsa mosque com- “We will not allow this to happen; him from travel until his trial pound in east Jerusalem yester- neither will we alter the worship resumes over remarks on Twitter day, defying calls for restraint arrangements and the access to deemed insulting to public insti- from Prime Minister Benjamin the Temple Mount that has been tutions, a judicial source said. Netanyahu. customary for decades.” The criminal court in Manama MP Moshe Feiglin was met Netanyahu’s spokesman Mark ordered Rajab’s release from cus- with protests from Muslims Regev later told reporters: “If tody and adjourned the trial until crying “Allahu Akbar!” (God is there is a threat to the status January 20, the source said. A pic- greater) when he visited the Old quo it seems to be coming from ture on his Twitter account later City site, witnesses said. the Palestinians, who said that showed Rajab in a car, smiling and The hardline member of non-Muslims’ visits to the Temple flashing a “V” for victory sign, as Netanyahu’s rightwing Likud bloc Mount are suddenly unaccept- his family said he arrived home. is a leading advocate of the right of able,” while implicitly blaming Rajab was arrested on October 1 Jews to pray there. Long-standing Palestinian President Mahmoud after posting comments on Twitter practice at the compound, known Abbas for “incitement”. about the interior and defence min- to Jews as the Temple Mount, Last month, Abbas urged istries. In one of the tweets which allows visits by other faiths but Palestinians to prevent “settlers” were deemed offensive, Rajab limits prayer to Muslims. — a euphemism for nationalist charged that many of the Bahrainis Netanyahu, who has repeat- Israeli Jews — from visiting the fighting with jihadists in Syria were edly said he has no intention compound “by all means”, follow- former security forces personnel of changing the status quo, on ing clashes there. who had developed Sunni extrem- Saturday urged the far right to But yesterday, Abbas took a ist views while in service. act “responsibly” in the face of reconciliatory tone, and in a rare Rajab’s lawyer, Jalila Al Sayyed, mounting tensions and near daily move “hailed” Netanyahu’s call for Israeli parliament member from the Likud party Moshe Feiglin (right) walks near the Western Wall after visiting the used yesterday’s hearing to call clashes in Jerusalem. “At this time restraint as a “step in the right Al Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City yesterday. for her client to be freed, accord- we must show responsibility and direction”. ing to the judicial source. The trial restraint,” he said at the cabinet Abbas stressed the “necessity means, Israeli unilateral policies Palestinian youths clashed with a maximum 20-year jail term for has been condemned by advocacy meeting yesterday. to continue working to create a and measures in Jerusalem and police after officers shot dead a throwing stones at motorists or groups, including Human Rights But he also told ministers that calm atmosphere”, the official preserve its Muslim and Christian Palestinian suspected of trying to public transport. The amend- Watch, which also called for the Islamist groups were using claims Palestinian news agency WAFA holy sites, until peace is restored murder a hardline Israeli rabbi. ment still needs parliamentary charges against Rajab to be dropped. of plans to change the rules at the said. He also warned that provo- to the land of peace,” he said. It reopened the following day approval. Amnesty International said compound to foment anti-Israeli cations by Israeli “extremists” Jordan, which administered under heavy security and Friday In east Jerusalem clashes late that “while we welcome that sentiment. “They are dissemi- would lead to “dangerous conse- east Jerusalem and the West prayers passed without incident. on Saturday and early yesterday, Nabeel Rajab has been released nating lies to the effect that we quences” that would “reflect on Bank before Israel seized the Yesterday, only male wor- police arrested 17 Palestinian pro- on bail, he should never have been intend to destroy or harm the Al the whole region”. Palestinian territories in the 1967 shippers over 40 were admit- testers, police spokeswoman Luba detained in the first place.” “The Aqsa mosque and that we intend Jordan’s King Abdullah II Middle East war, has responsibil- ted. Women were not subject to Samri said. Another police source Bahraini authorities are merely to prevent Muslims from praying also warned against attempts to ity for holy sites in the Israeli- restrictions. The cabinet, mean- said that around 900 Palestinians obfuscating, meanwhile a man’s there,” he said. change the status of Jerusalem annexed eastern sector. while, approved harsh new meas- had been arrested in the city since future hangs in the balance,” said “They are using verbal and holy sites. “Jordan will continue Israel on Thursday ordered a ures aimed at curbing Palestinian July and nearly 300 charged. Amnesty’s MENA deputy direc- physical violence in an effort to to confront, through all available rare closure of the compound as protests in east Jerusalem, setting AFP tor, Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui. AFP

Iran jails UK woman for trying to attend match

TEHRAN: A Tehran court has and even women journalists were told was sentenced to one year in jail,” and Miss Ghavami’s treatment while jailed for one year a British-Iranian they would not be allowed to watch, her lawyer Alizadeh Tabatabaie was in custody”. Amnesty International woman who was arrested after leading to a brief demonstration. quoted in Iranian media as saying. dubbed the jail sentence “appalling”. trying to attend a volleyball match, Women are also banned from foot- No reason was given for the con- “It’s an outrage that a young in a decision condemned yesterday ball matches in Iran, with officials viction though Ghavami had been woman is being locked up simply for as an outrage. saying this is to protect them from accused of spreading propaganda peacefully having her say about how The case of Ghoncheh Ghavami, lewd behaviour among male fans. against the regime, a broad charge women are discriminated against a 25-year-old law graduate from Ghavami was originally released often used by Iran’s judiciary. in Iran,” said Kate Allen, the rights London, has drawn considerable after a few hours but was re-arrested Asked if the sentence could be group’s director for Britain. attention because of her dual nation- days later at a police station she had reduced, Tabatabaie, who has not So far, Ghavami has spent 126 days ality and lengthy time in prison visited to reclaim items confiscated been allowed to visit his client, in the capital’s notorious Evin prison. before trial. Britain said it was con- from her near the stadium. said: “Considering that Ghoncheh Last month she went on a hunger cerned after hearing reports of her Having been in custody since — at Ghavami has no criminal record, the strike for a fortnight in protest at the jail sentence. least 41 days of which was spent in court can alleviate the verdict.” conditions there. A Facebook page Ghavami was detained on June 20 solitary confinement, according to Britain’s Foreign Office said it was features photographs of her against at Azadi (Freedom in Farsi) Stadium her family — Ghavami went on trial concerned over the ruling and ques- the slogan: “Jailed for wanting to Unesco Director-General Irina Bokova (right) receiving a gift where Iran’s national volleyball team behind closed doors last month. tioned the “grounds for this pros- watch a volleyball match.” during a visit to the National Museum in Baghdad yesterday. was to play Italy, after female fans “According to the verdict she ecution, due process during the trial AFP Unesco chief slams ‘barbaric’ destruction of Iraq heritage

BAGHDAD: Unesco chief Irina Bokova yesterday slammed the “barbaric” destruction of Iraq’s cultural heritage, as jihadists from the Islamic State group destroy age-old sites in areas they control. Iraq has “thousands of temples, of buildings, of archaeo- logical sites, of objects, that represent a treasure for (all) humanity,” Bokova said during a visit to Baghdad. “We cannot agree that this treasure, that this legacy of human civilisation, is being destroyed in the most barbaric matter,” she said. “We have to act, we don’t have time to lose, because extremists are trying to erase the identity, because they know that if there is no identity, there is no memory, there is no history, and we think this is appalling and this is not acceptable.” The Islamic State jihadist group has destroyed shrines, churches and precious manuscripts in Mosul, Tikrit and other areas of Iraq it controls and excavated sites to sell objects abroad, in what Bokova has previously described as “cultural cleansing”. AFP

Yemen liberal party head killed SANA’A: A gunman shot dead the head of a Yemeni liberal political party here yesterday, his family said, as Al Qaeda suspects killed 18 troops and captured 15 others further west. Secretary General of the Union of Popular Forces party Mohammed Abdulmalik Al Mutawakil was shot dead by a gunman on a motorbike, his daughter Radhia said. Mutawakil was “fatally shot in the neck,” by his assailants who fled, she said. A medical source confirmed the death. It was not immediately clear why Mutawakil was targeted. Meanwhile, the United Nations envoy to Yemen urged political rivals there to form a new government within days to head off rising “sectarian tensions” in the vio- lence-hit country. Jamal Benomar called for a new lineup to be formed “within a few days”, after weeks of clashes pitting Sunni tribes and Al Qaeda against Shia rebels seeking to expand their territory. “Recent developments have brought on a new discourse that is xenophobic, sometimes sectarian, and this is a wor- rying trend,” Benomar said. “This didn’t happen in the past... The only way forward is for all sides to cooperate to establish a new government and to move forward the implementation of the peace partnership agreement” reached on September 21. “Failure to pursue this would mean an increase in sectarian tensions” between Sunnis and Shia, he warned. AFP MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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KEY climate report yesterday read the riot act to the world about the destructive effects of irresponsible development activities like the unbridled Aburning of fossil fuels and stubborn refusal to curb greenhouse emissions. Though this is not the first time that Time to call in the SWAT the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned against delaying action on the scourge that affects all but is not avowed by most, it is unlikely that most nations will sit up and take notice. team reform crew The climate change issue is the elephant in the room of the modern industrialised world in which nations are willing BY JOSHUA D FILLER underage drinking, illegal gambling, The number and location of SWAT to confabulate at the highest fora and fret over the carbon credit card fraud, cockfighting, loan teams should be roughly in line with the footprint, but are loathe to take a step in the right direction. n February 2013, an armoured vehi- fraud and a host of other nonviolent number and location of bomb squads, Statistics by the UN climate body have always documented cle and a special weapons and tactics offences. since the risks driving the need for the a frightening picture of what the future would be like if nations I(SWAT) team funded in part by a According to Peter Kraska of Eastern specialized teams are similar. In fact, didn’t crimp emissions and continue with their profligate Department of Homeland Security grant Kentucky University’s School of Justice the FBI has issued training guidance on were deployed by the San Bernardino Studies, the United States has gone bomb-squad and SWAT team integra- behaviour. But the latest document by the Nobel Prize winning County Sheriff’s Department during from about 3,000 SWAT raids a year in tion. If a place in small-town America panel shows an apocalyptic view of our planet. Consider this: the manhunt for domestic terrorist the early 1980s to roughly 50,000 today. needs a SWAT team, it should use Emissions of three greenhouse gases were at their highest since Christopher Dorner. Dorner had been In the past 30 years, according to a mutual aid or another agreement to call more than 800,000 years ago when the planet was inhabited on a rampage in Southern California, Cato Institute study, nearly 50 innocent on its state, neighboring jurisdictions or by mammoths. Another ghastly prediction in the report says assassinating members of law enforce- people have been killed in SWAT raids federal partners. that the impact of climate change will continue for centuries ment and their families. By providing gone wrong across the United States, For added accountability, state and cover, the armoured vehicle — along with teams raiding the wrong home local officials should require SWAT even if all emissions from fossil fuel burning were to stop. This with other grant-funded gear and the in well over 100 instances during the teams to use helmet or body cameras implies that if all economic activity were to come to a standstill specialised training they received — same period. It’s virtually impossible and issue an annual report detail- — vehicles taken off roads, factories closing operations, planes helped save the lives of the deputies who to know the precise numbers because ing their deployments, including the stopped from flying and stoves in ended up engaged in a fierce shootout tracking and reporting on SWAT teams number, type and results of raids con- kitchens switched off — the effect with Dorner. is so poor. The numbers for raiding the ducted, whether the correct address Even frightening of what humanity has wrought on The case was a wrong home are likely much higher. was raided and whether deadly force textbook example State and local SWAT teams’ weap- was used. These elements should also predictions nature will take hundreds of years of why Homeland ons and equipment come, in part, from be a part of the FBI’s accreditation to go away. Security grants the military’s equipment transfer process. For the very limited number about climate It is not that the political were estab- programme and Justice Department of federal agencies that need SWAT change are leaderships in countries have been The FBI should lished and when grants. While Homeland Security teams, Congress should impose similar oblivious of what they are doing to deploy a grants also fund some equipment, those requirements. certify all SWAT SWAT team. funds cannot be used to purchase guns, In reforming and improving SWAT unlikely to to the environment. Actually, the Unfortunately, ammunition, grenade launchers or any teams, it’s vital to remember that when make countries chasm between political correctness team members the extraordi- weapons or weapons accessories, con- used properly, they are a life-saving and action on the ground has been and accredit all nary capabilities trary to popular myth. Whatever the tool, as was demonstrated last year by reset their huge. What has caused major of SWAT teams federal source, however, a town of 25,000 the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team in a development rifts at global climate forums is SWAT teams in have now become people does not need to have a mine- small town in Alabama. There, the FBI the refusal to act locally so as to ordinary both in resistant ambush protected vehicle, or used drones to support its operation to goals. the United States terms of who pos- MRAP, designed for the battlefields of save a 5-year-old boy from an armed fight climate change at the cost sesses the capa- Iraq and Afghanistan. Any MRAP held abductor, killing the assailant in a raid of tamping economic activity. The in a manner bility and how for domestic use should reside with the that employed intelligence provided by administrations of various countries similar to how often it’s used. National Guard and be deployed to state the drone. have refused to compromise on developmental goals for fighting SWAT teams or local law enforcement only with the We need SWAT teams, but they rep- climate change, many a time dismissing global concerns about it oversees the were designed permission of the governor. resent the highest degree of enforce- the peril. This has led to irreversible damage to climate. in the 1960s in Reform and greater oversight are ment we allow in our society, and they nation’s roughly Los Angeles and needed. To that end, the FBI should must be used accordingly — and spar- The most visible effect of the climate peril has been on daily Philadelphia to certify all SWAT team members and ingly. SWAT team members are not temperatures. Countries, mainly in Asia (which has some 470 public safety address highly accredit all SWAT teams in the United warriors or soldiers; they are civilian of the worst polluters in China, India and Japan) have seen bomb squads. dangerous situa- States in a manner similar to how it law enforcement officers. The nation’s increasing lengths of summers,abnormal rainfall leading to tions that routine oversees the nation’s roughly 470 public goal should be a limited number of flooding and erosion and huge mudslides. The National Oceanic law enforcement safety bomb squads. No certification and highly trained, equipped, disciplined and could not handle, accreditation, no federal grant funds for accountable teams that can be called and Atmospheric Administration report says that monthly such as hostage rescues, barricaded and the state and local teams. Such a sys- upon during a true emergency. temperatures records were broken four times in 2014 — in May, armed suspects, counterterrorism oper- tem would serve to increase proficiency Filler was director of state and local gov- June, August and September. ations and the pursuit and apprehen- and accountability — and decrease the ernment coordination for the Department To address climate change, countries are required to rise sion of violent fugitives. Today, however, number of SWAT teams in the country, of Homeland Security from 2003 to 2005. He above local development concerns and balance their economic SWAT teams are too often employed to now estimated to be between 1,500 and is president of Filler Security Strategies, a goals with the larger global good. Unfortunately, this is unlikely enforce low-risk matters such as allega- 5,000. Again, no one knows the exact homeland security consulting firm. tions of hair-cutting without a licence, number because of poor tracking. WP-BLOOMBERG to happen in the near future. The other side Quote of Ebola concerns the day

HE HIGHLY contagious Ebola irrespective of the fact that they acted That is why US President Barack the world, and especially West Africa, virus seems to have several with extreme sense of professional Obama and UN Secretary-General Ban needs at least 5,000 dedicated health- dimensions as it impacts the commitment. Ki-moon have openly called to shun the care workers, and any attempt to quar- Tworld at large. Apart from its The procedure of holding them in prejudice. Obama rightly said that the antine people who come in contact with biological implications, after having rigid quarantine and exposing them element of fear should not overcome patients in any form of diagnosis activity I am delighted that claimed innumerable lives in West Africa to grilling sessions was unwarranted. the logic of humanity and the need of would be detrimental. What is needed and elsewhere, it is the administrative Apparently that is why an American the hour is to exterminate the disease is a consortium of opinion by experts so many Romanians and psychological side that is more nurse who defied quarantine regula- clinically and not by creating a group of who should formulate a strategy to root have voiced under debate. tions and sought an environment that social outcast. out the disease and also take along It is unfortunate that everything and is fair enough for all has now become Ban Ki-moon’s caution in this the people on board. This is a must as confidence in my everyone connected to the disease is a symbol of the healthcare community. regard is of utmost importance. He Ebola has the same credentials as that programme which becoming a social taboo. The level of Kaci Hickox even went to the extent has warned that discriminatory atti- of any other deadly epidemic. discrimination that the healthcare work- of saying that she and her like will not tude towards this pestering issue can The developed states have to fight aims at developing ers involved in Ebola care have faced let fundamental rights encroached, derail the spirit of fighting the disease. this on two fronts: first by persuading Romania and ending is despicable and it has — in one way unless the assumptions are backed His words have come close on the people not to panic, and second; by or the other — discouraged them by scientific logic. It is a milestone of heels of similar concerns expressed coming up with a vaccine as soon as discord. Victor Ponta from taking part in healing activities, social thought, indeed. by the World Bank chief who said that possible. Khaleej Times Romanian Prime Minister MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 A midterm win may not mean a mandate

produced the results he prom- Illinois race between Quinn and The Republicans ised. He has lost support among Republican business executive Republican moderates. If he loses, Bruce Rauner is one of the nas- have made the takeaway will be that he’s set tiest and most negative in the back the cause of supply-side country. Quinn began as the clear economics. underdog, but Rauner’s business dissatisfaction But if deep tax cuts have riled record has made him unpopular the electorate in Kansas, tax enough to give Quinn a chance with the increases have made voters in to pull off an improbable victory. some Democratic-leaning states Florida’s race between Republican similarly unhappy. Democratic Gov Rick Scott and Republican- president their governors Pat Quinn in Illinois, turned-Democrat Charlie Crist a blue state that has become has produced a similarly sour primary, and unhappy with Democratic rule response. in Springfield, and Dan Malloy A series of recent polls by NBC in Connecticut are in close races News and Marist asked voters in practically in part because they both raised six states with competitive Senate taxes to balance their budgets. races to name their most impor- only, campaign In Maryland, unhappiness over tant issues. “Breaking the grid- higher taxes during eight years lock in Washington” was at the message. under outgoing Democratic Gov top of the list in three of the six Martin O’Malley has made the and near the top in the others. In race to succeed him between interviews, voters along the cam- They have not Democrat Anthony Brown and paign trail punctuate this senti- Republican Larry Hogan closer ment with an exclamation point. put forward a than expected, especially in a The candidates know this. When state that has consistently sup- Senate Republican Leader Mitch ported Democratic presidential McConnell, who wants to become positive agenda. US Senator Kay Hagan (Democrat-North Carolina) waves along with former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton candidates. majority leader, was asked in a (right) before Clinton speaks during a campaign event in Charlotte, North Carolina. In Wisconsin, Republican Gov recent debate to name his accom- Scott Walker continues to pay the plishments, he listed examples in BY DAN BALZ price for what he did in the open- which he and Vice President Joe with President Barack Obama as inside the GOP will be fierce. of both colours. ing months of his administration. Biden had produced compromises n the Kansas City suburbs, a much as any other single factor. But who controls the Senate is Whatever the final outcome, it In early 2011, he badly miscalcu- on issues when their parties were man who won’t give his name But there is enough else bothering not the only or even the overrid- will be difficult for the winners to lated the impact of his decision to at loggerheads. This from the Isays he is paying no atten- people to have kept many Senate ing question on the minds of many claim that the voters gave them restrict collective bargaining rights same politician who once said the tion to this year’s election. Why? and gubernatorial races close to voters. For them, this campaign an affirmative endorsement or of public employee unions. Ever Republican Party’s top priority “Out of disgust,” he replies. In the the end. Republicans continue is as much about disgust with provided them with a clear man- since, Wisconsin has been polarised should be to defeat Obama in 2012. Denver suburbs, a woman finish- to be concerned with the party’s Washington generally — and date. Most Americans say they around its governor the way the If some modicum of biparti- ing her coffee sees an elected offi- poor image and by how many tight about trying to bend the political don’t think either the president nation has been polarised around sanship polls well with voters, cial at the adjoining table. “Are races remain in a year that should process toward competence and or congressional Republicans have Obama. As a result, he, too, is it’s not surprising that candi- you ready for the election to be have them in a stronger position results — as it is about reward- a coherent plan for governing. threatened with defeat tomorrow. dates are repeating the mes- over? I am!” she says with evident on election eve. Democrats worry ing or punishing a particular The Republicans have made The Senate race in North sage in debates and TV ads. In frustration. about possible slippage away from party. Though the overwhelming dissatisfaction with the president Carolina captures both moods, Georgia, Democratic Senate Crosscurrents of dissatisfac- them in the final hours. percentage of incumbents will be their primary, and practically an intersection of national and candidate Michelle Nunn has tion, from distrust of politicians Political scorekeepers are now reelected, politicians who have only, campaign message. They state-based dissatisfaction. stressed bipartisanship in her to worries about family finances focused on one big question: Will stretched ideological boundaries have not put forward a positive Democratic Sen Kay Hagan has race against businessman David to fears of foreign threats, can be Republicans take control of the or tried the public’s patience in agenda or offered voters a strong been fighting against unhappi- Perdue. In Arkansas, Republican found everywhere in the closing Senate? It is the grand prize in a other ways are at risk. sense of how they would try to ness with the president, trying Rep Tom Cotton says both parties days of Campaign 2014. Voters in busy year. The outcome will shape This campaign is taking place govern from Capitol Hill with with some difficulty to chart an have made a mess of Washington states with competitive elections Obama’s final years in office and at a time when state govern- Obama still in the White House. independent course. Her chal- and he’s ready to change it. also feel besieged by the ceaseless the opening (and perhaps closing) ments are more unified, red or In the states, there have lenger, Republican Thom Tillis, In Iowa, Democratic Rep Bruce negative ads on their televisions. of the 2016 presidential race. If blue, than they have been in the been reactions against incum- the state House speaker, has been Braley and Republican Joni Ernst Many are reluctant to answer Republicans succeed in winning past. Like Obama’s leadership and bent Republicans and incum- saddled with a backlash against have used the theme of work- a telephone call from a number the majority, the results will be the perceptions of congressional bent Democrats. In conservative the conservative agenda of the ing across the aisle — Braley to they don’t recognise, fearing more read, legitimately, as a reaction Republicans, state governance is Kansas, Republican Gov Sam Republican legislature and has try avoid being seen as in lock- political messaging. to Obama’s leadership. If they also on the ballot, and there are Brownback is in trouble because struggled to change the subject. step with Obama, Ernst to avoid The national environment has somehow fall short of an out- signs of unhappiness with the he instituted a conservative, tax- In some states, voters are hold- being tagged as a doctrinaire been shaped by dissatisfaction right majority, the recriminations agendas — and results — in states cutting programme that hasn’t ing their noses as they vote. The conservative. WP-BLOOMBERG Paving the way for democracy in Tunisia Before meet, China

BY DR MOHAMED KIRAT Nidaa Tounes, formed only two in response to political deadlock following the assassination of two in clean-air show ast Sunday’s parliamentary leftwing opposition figures. BY SIMON DENYER elections in Tunisia were years ago, quickly emerged as Many voted for Ennahda in proliferated on the Internet, and Lpraised and acclaimed by 2011 to “punish” and “go the many competitors simply with- many, including Western nations, the main opposition to Ennahda opposite direction to that of the hen President Obama drew from the race. for several reasons. A 62 percent old regime. They thought that arrives in Beijing The end of the month has, if voter participation, no incidents, because of their religious profile Win November for an anything, been worse, with air and nobody complained about after the revolution. The secular they’d be honest and non-corrupt. important Asia-Pacific summit, quality levels frequently “haz- fraud among losers and winners. In less than one month, Tunisians he shouldn’t be surprised if the ardous,” according to most inter- Ennahda Islamist party leader party is led by 87-year-old Beji will vote again to choose their skies are a brilliant blue. national measures, and visibility Rached Alghanouchi congratu- president. The stakes here are The Chinese government is dropping sharply. lated the winner, Beji Caid Essebsi, important. mounting a concerted campaign There are many reasons for even before the official results Caid Essebsi. Based on the results, Nidaa to make sure the capital’s infa- this. Experts blame the early were out. Anthony Dworkin of society, a politically active mid- the old regime, has all but ruled Tounes will choose his allies to mous smog is under control when October smog on the burning the European Council on Foreign dle class and a sense of tolerance out forming a coalition with reach 109 seats to have the major- Obama and regional heads of of agricultural waste after the Relations argues, “At a time when and cohabitation. the Islamists, describing it as ity in the parliament. state arrive for the Asia-Pacific autumn harvest, on unfavour- hopes of moving towards politi- Many political analysts “against their nature”, and will However, what’s next for Economic Cooperation summit. It able weather patterns, and on cal reform and accountable gov- described Sunday’s election as turn to a collection of smaller Tunisia is a score of important is an operation similar in scale to what Greenpeace calls the “post- ernments elsewhere in the Arab a referendum on the Islamist- parties to gather the necessary problems that have to be tackled that mounted for the 2008 Beijing holiday syndrome.” Factories world have been dashed, Tunisia led coalition’s stormy two years 109-seat majority. and resolved quickly. Youngsters Olympics. and power stations, forced to is the only country where the in office and punishment for a Political Islam suffered a who turned their back to last Hundreds of factories in Beijing shut down for the Golden Week aspirations of the Arab uprisings poor economic performance and blow in Tunisia this week, with week’s election want a job, a and surrounding provinces are national holiday at the start of may yet be fulfilled in the near unfulfilled expectations of the Ennahda party coming second to decent life and stability, social being told to close down for 12 October, ramped up production in future”. revolution. the secular Nidaa Tounes in par- justice and democracy. days from November 1. Steel the following week, sending unu- Tunisia is the only country Nidaa Tounes is led by Beji Caid liamentary elections. Tunisians want to see their production in the neighbouring sually heavy doses of carcinogenic where the aspirations of the Arab Essebsi, an 87-year-old veteran According to official results demands and aspirations come province of Hebei is expected to chemicals into the air. uprisings may be met, and the politician who served as foreign released by the country’s elec- true through good governance fall by 10 percent in November, Many residents of Beijing sus- objectives of those who marched minister in the 1980s and parlia- toral committee early Thursday, and good economic performance. Bloomberg reported, while the pect that those same factories and and toppled president Ben Ali ment speaker in the early 1990s Nidaa Tounes won 85 seats in the Nidaa Tounes will face a score of province has helpfully vowed to power stations are still in overdrive, may reach the ground. under later deposed President 217-seat parliament, followed by challenges where the Tunisian keep household heating at “the making up for losses they might Tunisia’s transition to democ- Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Nidaa Ennahda with 69. youth and Tunisians in general lowest acceptable level” during incur during the APEC summit. racy has remained broadly on Tounes, a liberal party with ties Nidaa Tounes, formed only two want to see results and not slo- the summit. Beijing’s govern- Beijing’s residents, many people track while Libya and Syria to the deposed regime has taken years ago, quickly emerged as gans and promises. ment, meanwhile, has ordered a speculate, are paying the price now have plunged into civil war and the most seats in Tunisia’s par- the main opposition to Ennahda Compared to Ben Ali’s era, week-long break November 7 to for next month’s cleaner air. Egypt’s military overthrew the liamentary elections, leaving the after the revolution. The secu- things are getting worse, accord- 12, with schools told to close and Last year, the Chinese govern- elected post-revolution president. once-dominant Islamists running lar party, led by 87-year-old Beji ing to the majority of Tunisians. cars ordered off the roads. ment unveiled a $280bn plan to Despite three years of politi- a close second, the country’s elec- Caid Essebsi — a veteran of the Food and meat prices are dou- But no one should be fooled. improve air quality, including cal wrangling, economic turmoil tion commission has announced regimes of Habib Bourguiba and bling, unemployment rate is 40pc Despite the government’s 2013 plans to curb coal use and vehi- and a rising number of terrorist after the completion of final Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali — is an and the economy in general is suf- declaration of a “war on pollu- cle emissions. But the challenge attacks, Tunisian politicians from counting. alliance of former government fering a low performance in terms tion,” there is no sign yet of an is immense and solutions far from different parties managed to work The Nidaa Tounes (Call of officials, leftwing trade union- of investment and foreign tourist improvement in air quality in immediate; so far, there has been together to pass a new constitu- Tounes) party, running on an ists and businessmen. Political influx. Beijing, environmentalists say. little noticeable effect in the capi- tion and hold elections for a per- explicitly anti-Islamist platform, analysts argue that there was a Democracy is more than poli- Indeed, October has been a tal. Indeed, heavy polluters around manent government. won 85 of the 217 seats in parlia- misunderstanding between the tics and coalitions; it’s mainly the particularly ugly month. It began Beijing continue to violate legal The difference between Tunisia ment, giving it the right to name voter and the candidate in the daily life of the citizen where s/he with what was dubbed Beijing’s pollution standards with impunity, and other Arab Spring countries a prime minister and lead a coa- 2011 elections. can enjoy a decent and a respect- second “airpocalypse” of the year, said Ma Jun of Beijing’s Institute (Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria) lition government. The Ennahda As things didn’t get any bet- ful living, a good governance, good with air quality frequently reach- of Public and Environmental lies in the fact that the military party, which had previously domi- ter during the reign of Ennahda economic performance and social ing “hazardous” levels for three Affairs, citing real-time data col- in Tunisia doesn’t get involved nated the parliament on a plat- where things worsened — unem- justice. days. The Brazilian soccer team, lated by his organisation. in politics and remains con- form of moderate Islamism, won ployment, bad economic perform- The big question is: to what here to play a friendly match There is no evidence to directly cerned by assuring the defence 69 seats. ance, price hike, assassinations extent can Nidaa Tounes, against Argentina at the iconic link this month’s poisonous of the territory, the people and Since overthrowing its dicta- and terrorist acts…etc, voters Ennahda and other political Bird’s Nest stadium, were report- skies with the blue skies that the sovereignty of the country. tor in 2011 and kicking off the turned their back to the Islamist forces in the country work in edly confined to their hotel rooms are expected for the first half of This is not the case in Egypt or Arab Spring pro-democracy party. harmony for the wellbeing of for most of their time there, November. But there is every rea- Algeria, for instance, where the wave Tunisia has been buffeted In the 2011 elections, Ennahda Tunisians? advised not to venture out apart son to suppose that the air quality army runs the show and decides by economic turmoil and ter- won 89 seats. In January 2014, it The writer is a Professor of Public from brief training sessions. will start to deteriorate again as on any issue that concerns poli- rorist attacks. The party, which stepped down to make way for Relations and Mass Communication Ten days later, smog enveloped soon as Air Force One takes off, at tics. On the other hand, Tunisia includes businessmen, trade an independent government to at the College of Arts and Sciences, the Beijing Marathon. Images the end of the Obama’s visit here. enjoys a strong and active civil unionists and politicians from draft the country’s constitution Qatar University. of runners wearing face masks WP-BLOOMBERG MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 MIDDLE EAST 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 1,917 dead in Syria ups barrel bomb attacks Syria jails this year: Monitor 401 barrel bombs dropped on rebel areas in eight provinces; 232 civilians killed since Oct 20 BEIRUT: Nearly 2,000 people BEIRUT: With global atten- with high explosives and scrap have died in Syrian prisons of tion focused on the fight against metal. torture, starvation and lack of jihadists, Syria’s regime has in On Wednesday, helicopters medical treatment so far this recent weeks stepped up its use dropped four barrel bombs on a year, the Syrian Observatory for of deadly barrel bomb strikes, camp for displaced people in the Human Rights said yesterday. killing civilians and wreaking northwestern province of Idlib, The Britain-based monitor said devastation. killing at least 10 people and it had documented 1,917 deaths In less than a fortnight, war- wounding dozens, according to in Syrian prisons since the start planes have dropped at least 401 the Observatory. Activists posted of 2014, among them 27 children barrel bombs on rebel areas in horrific video footage on YouTube, under the age of 18 and 11 women. eight provinces, according to the showing bodies torn apart and Rights groups have regularly crit- Syrian Observatory for Human people wailing as they tried to res- icised conditions in Syrian deten- Rights, a monitoring group. cue survivors. The United States tion facilities, accusing the regime Activist Yassin Abu Raed, from denounced the attack as “barbaric”. of widespread torture and abuse. the town of Anadan in northern Ismail Al Hassan, a volunteer Earlier this year, 55,000 photos Aleppo province, has seen his nurse at a field hospital in Idlib smuggled out of Syria by a former house hit three times in barrel province, said that health workers Syrian military police photogra- bomb attacks. The latest strike face immense difficulties treating pher gave a glimpse of some of the destroyed it completely. “Death is the wounded after a barrel bomb abuses being committed in Syrian all around us, and nobody cares,” blast. “Most of the casualties from jails. The digital images of 11,000 he said via the Internet. barrel bomb strikes are women dead detainees showed emaciated “Barrel bombs kill those we and children,” said Hassan, add- bodies and the defector, identified love most, they destroy houses, ing that medical staff suffer from only as Ceasar, described seeing dreams and memories, and leave severe equipment shortages, mak- corpses with “deep wounds and us without any hope that the kill- ing it hard to treat casualties burns and strangulations”. ing will ever stop. All this, and no properly. The Observatory said the bod- one has even heard of us, no one Hassan also said he and his ies of some of those killed in jail feels for us.” colleagues suffer deep psychologi- were turned over to their relatives, The Observatory, which docu- cal scars from treating victims. while other families were simply ments casualties and strikes, rely- “Once we had to decide to leave told their loved ones had died and ing on a broad network of activists a child to die. He simply had too instructed to collect a death certifi- and doctors across the war-torn many wounds on his body — we Syrians stand in a street filled with debris following a reported barrel bomb attack by government forces in Aleppo. cate. In some cases families were country, said at least 232 civil- couldn’t save him,” he said. forced to sign documents saying ians have been killed in regime Like many Syrians in rebel- New York-based Human Rights against the civilian population,” bomb attacks is just crazy, and their relatives had been killed by air strikes, including barrel bomb held areas, Hassan resents the Watch has repeatedly blasted she said. there has been an escalation in opposition forces, according to the attacks, since October 20. West’s failure to help topple Damascus over its “unlawful” The US and its mainly Gulf recent days,” he said. He accused Observatory which relies on a wide Observatory director Rami President Bashar Al Assad’s use of barrel bombs, saying the allies began air strikes against Damascus of “taking advantage” network of sources inside Syria. Abdel Rahman said the number of regime. “Everyone in Syria has weapon is particularly indiscrimi- jihadist positions in Syria last of the world’s focus on IS to step The monitor said some 200,000 barrel bomb attacks is now “much realised that we only have God by nate. HRW researcher Lama month, but there has been up its attacks on rebel areas. people are being detained by the higher” than a fortnight ago. The our side,” he said. Fakih said there had been no glo- no question of extending the Syria’s opposition says interna- regime in jails and other gov- regime began using barrel bombs In February, the UN Security bal effort to hold Assad’s govern- strikes against Assad’s regime. tional criticism of the regime is ernment facilities. Observatory in late 2012, but stepped up its Council passed a resolution ment to account. “Unfortunately international simply not enough. “The United Director Rami Abdel Rahman attacks this year, with a wave of demanding that all sides in Syria’s “While there is international attention has been diverted by the States criticises the regime, but said a lack of accountability had raids in February alone killing war end attacks against civilians, effort to stop abuses by (the jihad- Islamic State’s advances in Iraq it still does nothing” said Samir led to widespread deaths in prison. hundreds of people. with a specific mention of the use ist group) Islamic State, there is and Syria,” Fakih said. Nashar, a member of the key “When the killer knows that there Barrel bombs are typically con- of barrel bombs. The government no concerted international effort Observatory director Abdel opposition National Coalition. is no punishment, he keeps on com- structed from large oil drums, gas denies using barrel bombs, and to stop abuses by the Syrian Rahman agreed. “The number of “Meanwhile, the regime is mak- mitting his crimes and commits cylinders or water tanks filled says it only targets “terrorists”. government, including attacks regime air strikes including barrel ing military advances.” AFP even more,” he said. AFP

Bomb attacks kill 32 in Iraq Sudan’s oppn IS kills 322 members of Iraq tribe Congress Party BAGHDAD: Islamic State Sheikh Naeem Al Ga’oud, said desert province which includes to boycott next militants have killed 322 mem- that he had repeatedly asked the towns in the Euphrates River bers of an Iraqi tribe in west- central government and army to valley dominated by Sunni tribes, year’s elections ern Anbar province, including provide his men with arms but no running from the Syrian bor- dozens of women and children action was taken. der to the western outskirts of whose bodies were dumped in a State television said that Prime Baghdad. If the province falls, it KHARTOUM: Sudan’s opposi- well, the government said in the Minister Haider Al Abadi had could give Islamic State a better tion Congress Party will boycott first official confirmation of the ordered air strikes on Islamic chance to make good on its threat next year’s elections because scale of the massacre. State targets around the town of to march on the capital. the restrictive political climate The systematic killings, which Hit in response to the killings. Ga’aud said 75 more members does not allow for fair polls, its one tribal leader said were con- Officials at a government secu- of his tribe were killed yesterday leader Ibrahim Al Sheikh said tinuing yesterday, marked some rity operations command centre under the same scenario — they yesterday, further undermining of the worst bloodshed in Iraq in Anbar and civilians reached by were hunted down while trying to the credibility of the vote. since the Sunni militants swept Reuters said they had not heard escape from Islamic State, shot The Congress Party is the lat- through the north in June with of or witnessed airstrikes. dead execution-style and dumped est in a series of groups to declare the aim of establishing medieval The fall of the village dampened near the town of Haditha. that they would not take part in caliphate there and in Syria. the Shia-led national govern- The Albu Nimr leader also the April elections. Its decision The Albu Nimr, also Sunni, had ment’s hopes the Sunni tribesmen said Islamic State killed 15 high comes after Sudan’s ruling party put up fierce resistance against of Anbar — who once helped US school and college students in chose Bashir, who is wanted by Islamic State for weeks but finally Marines defeat Al Qaeda — would Zauiyat Albu Nimr and that, the International Criminal Court ran low on ammunition, food and become a formidable force again apart from an air drop, there on charges of war crimes and fuel last week as Islamic State and help the army take on Iraq’s had been no help from the genocide, as its candidate for the fighters closed in on their village new, far more effective enemy. US-led air campaign. presidential vote, sealing his bid Zauiyat Albu Nimr. US air strikes have helped In Anbar, the militants are to extend his 25-year rule. “The number of people killed Kurdish peshmerga fighters retake now encircling a large air base Speaking at a news conference by Islamic State from Albu Nimr territory in the north that Islamic and the vital Haditha dam on after he was barred by airport Locals inspect the site of a car bomb attack at Palestine Street in tribe is 322. The bodies of 50 State had captured in its drive for the Euphrates. Fighters control authorities from leaving Khartoum Baghdad yesterday. At least five Shia worshipers were killed and 19 women and children have also an Islamic empire that redraws the towns from the Syrian border to earlier yesterday, Sheikh said his wounded in a car bomb attack that targeted a tent built to celebrate been discovered dumped in a map of the Middle East. parts of provincial capital Ramadi party would also boycott a national well,” the country’s Human Rights But the picture in Anbar is and into the lush irrigated areas the annual Ashura festival. Bombs targeting pilgrims also killed 27 in dialogue called by Bashir in Ministry said. more precarious. Islamic State near Baghdad. the Al-Ilam area in southwest Baghdad and Sadr City. Iraqi authorities January. A meeting to prepare the One of the leaders of the tribe, already controls most of the vast REUTERS ground for that dialogue is set to in Karbala have deployed 30,000 troops in the run-up to the festival. begin on Sunday with heavyweight opposition groups largely absent. “The political climate in the country is not suitable for (elec- tions and the national dialogue) given the full control of the secu- No Lebanon presidential polls in near future: Geagea rity apparatus and intelligence over all aspects of the state and in MAARAB: Samir Geagea (pic- the foreseeable future,” he said. Islamist militants in the north. Christian bloc in parliament and the light of the continued restric- tured) is a leading candidate for “We are waiting.” But Geagea, a top Christian also wants to be president. tive laws,” he said. the vacant Lebanese presidency The presidency has fallen vic- politician who led a powerful The Geagea-Aoun rivalry Sheikh was freed from jail in but won’t even hazard a guess tim to political deadlock rooted militia in Lebanon’s civil war, has been a recurrent theme in September after spending three when there might be an election in Lebanese rivalries that have sees a limit to how much deeper Lebanese Christian politics since months in custody for criticizing to fill the post, such is the politi- been complicated by competi- his country will slide into cri- the final years of the civil war. the security and intelligence serv- cal uncertainty overshadowing tion between regional states, sis. “With everything that is They fought a war in 1990. Both ices and accusing them of involve- his divided nation. notably Iran and Saudi Arabia, going on in the region, look at were forced out of public life in ment in abuses against civilians in It has been over five months which wield decisive influence Lebanon, it is holding together,” the period of Syrian dominance the western Darfur region. since the Middle East’s only over Lebanese politics. A gov- Geagea, 62, said. that followed the civil war. Aoun Authorities barred him from Christian presidency fell vacant, ernment formed in February “There is a political deci- lived in exile in France, and travelling to the UAE from part of a wider crisis fuelled by with Saudi-Iranian blessing has sion by all the factions not to Geagea was imprisoned. Khartoum, saying he was on a the war in neighbouring Syria spared Lebanon from a complete play with Lebanon’s civil peace, Geagea was released and Aoun blacklist, Sheikh said. He called that has paralysed much of the vacuum in the executive arm. But and not to play with Lebanon’s resulted in parliament electing returned in 2005. Geagea, whose the ban a violation of his consti- Lebanese state and triggered that government has struggled to existence as a nation,” he said. former army commander Michel 11 years in jail included eight tutional right to travel. Bashir spasms of deadly violence. take even basic decisions. “But unfortunately they don’t Suleiman as head of state. Fifteen in solitary confinement, blames pledged in January to redraw the “This goes beyond Lebanon. Meanwhile, parliament is believe in this decision to the parliamentary sessions called since Hezbollah and Aoun, 81, for the constitution, bring opposition The issue of the Lebanese presi- barely functioning. With no pros- degree necessary to establish May with the stated aim of electing presidential vacuum. Geagea said parties into government, and dency is on the table for discus- pect of legislative elections, MPs an effective state in Lebanon,” his successor have failed to do so. he is ready for talks to agree on a launch a national dialogue, but sion in the bargaining over the elected more than five years ago he said. “So Lebanon as a nation In the absence of a deal, there has candidate acceptable to both sides. no visible progress has been made. entire Middle East,” Geagea said are expected this week to extend will remain, and civil peace will been no quorum for a vote. “I call on General Aoun to The few active opposition in an interview with Reuters at their term until 2017. remain, albeit with the current Geagea is the candidate of the reach an agreement with us on a movements in Sudan are already his home in the Christian vil- Periodic bouts of political vio- disturbances that you see. I am “March 14” alliance led by Sunni third candidate,” said Geagea. But losing hope of any change while an lage of Maarab in the mountains lence linked to the Syrian con- not more worried than that.” Muslim, Saudi-backed politician he added: “I do not see General economic crisis that has worsened overlooking the seaside town of flict continue to jolt the country’s Breaking the political deadlock Saad Al Hariri. His main Christian Aoun changing his political deci- since the secession of the oil-rich Jounieh. stability. Eleven Lebanese soldiers will likely require regional states rival is Michel Aoun, part of the sion to obstruct the presidential south in 2011 has angered strug- “Therefore, unfortunately, I died in the most recent spillo- to broker a deal similar to one “March 8” alliance including elections. He will not retreat.” gling citizens. REUTERS don’t see presidential elections in ver, killed in battles with Sunni concluded in Doha in 2008 that Hezbollah. Aoun heads the largest REUTERS MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

Tropical storm Burkina army seizes TV station could threaten Thousands protest army’s power grab; interim leader Isaac Zida meets opposition leaders Mexico’s coast MEXICO CITY: Tropical OUAGADOUGOU: The brandished the threat of sanc- storm Vance in the Pacific Burkina Faso army seized con- tions if the army refused to back became a category 1 hurricane trol of the national television down and allow a civilian transfer yesterday, the US National headquarters and the capi- of power. Hurricane Center (NHC) said, tal’s main square yesterday in The UN envoy for west Africa, adding that although it was not defiance of calls by the inter- Mohamed Ibn Chambas, told a currently headed for Mexico’s national community and thou- news conference in the Burkinabe southwest coast, it was forecast sands of demonstrators to hand capital that he and African lead- to change course. over power to civilian rule. ers had pressed the demand in Yesterday morning, Vance was Several thousand people gath- a meeting with the country’s about 861km south-southwest of ered in the capital to protest at top military brass. If the army the port of Manzanillo, blowing the army’s power grab after the refuses, “the consequences are maximum sustained winds of 130 turbulent ouster of president pretty clear,” he said. “We want kmh and heading northwest at Blaise Compaore, as the interna- to avoid having to impose sanc- 24 kmh. tional community demanded the tions on Burkina Faso.” “A turn toward the north with military had over to civilian rule. The US State Department some decrease in forward speed is Isaac Zida, named as Burkina also called on the military to forecast over the next 48 hours,” Faso’s interim leader by the army immediately transfer power to the NHC said. It also said Vance after the ousting of the president civilian authorities. Hundreds of should strengthen over the next last week, was holding talks with thousands of protesters, furious day before weakening by today. opposition leaders, a reporter at plans to extend Compaore’s The NHC said Vance was not said. Those attending included rule in the impoverished land- yet threatening Mexico’s coastal the leader of the main opposition locked country, had massed on areas. Mexico’s Baja California group in parliament Zephirin the streets of Ouagadougou on suffered its worst storm damage Diabre, former foreign minister Thursday, some going on a ram- on record when Hurricane Odile Ablasse Ouedraogo, former prime page and setting the parliament descended on the peninsula in minister Roch Marc Christian and other public buildings ablaze. September, stranding thousands Kabore and Benewende Sankara, Under Burkina Faso’s constitu- of tourists, battering hotels and a key spokesman during opposi- tion, the speaker of parliament sparking power cuts and wide- tion protests last week. was supposed to step in as interim spread looting. Troops moved in to Place de la head of state following the presi- Nation in Ouagadougou, setting dent’s resignation. up barricades and removing thou- But the army instead named Virgin ignored sands of people who had gathered the second-in-command of the A man holds up a placard slamming Isaac Zida, a high-ranking officer named by the military to lead the country’s to denounce the army’s power presidential guard, Lieutenant transition, during a protest calling for the departure of the military in the capital Ouagadougou yesterday. space safety grab after the turbulent ouster Colonel Isaac Zida, as head of the of president Blaise Compaore on transitional authority. African States told Zida and other of Burkina Faso and to move the people. In no case can it be warnings: Expert Friday. Zida said he was appointed military leaders that civilian rule immediately towards free and fair confiscated by the army,” it said. Soldiers from the presidential to ensure a “smooth democratic needed to be restored. presidential elections,” she said in Compaore and his wife have LOS ANGELES: A rocket sci- guard also fired into the air to dis- transition” and promised to con- They “assured us that they had a statement. taken refuge in neighbour- ence safety expert yesterday perse protesters as they took con- sult with the political opposition well understood the message,” Opposition figures have said ing Ivory Coast where they are said Virgin Galactic “ignored” trol of national broadaster RTB and civil leaders. But several Chambas said. around 30 people were killed in being put up in a luxury gov- safety warnings in the years and cleared out all staff. thousand people joined a march But US State Department Thursday’s violence that hit the ernment mansion in the capital leading up to the deadly crash The military stepped into against the military yesterday. spokeswoman Jan Psaki voiced capital and at least one other city. Yamoussoukro. of its spacecraft in California, the power vacuum left after “No to the theft of our victory, international mistrust at the Opposition and activist leaders The crisis in Burkina Faso — as investigators hunted for clues Compaore stepped down in the long live the people!” said one army’s move, saying the United had issued a statement after the known as Upper Volta in its era as to accident’s cause. wake of violent street demonstra- banner, while others read: “Zida States condemned its attempt takeover demanding a “demo- a French colony before becoming Carolynne Campbell, a rocket tions over his 27-year-rule of the go!”, “Zida is Judas.” to “impose its will” on the peo- cratic and civilian transition” in independent in 1960 and changing propulsion expert with the west African state that some have The mediators from the United ple of Burkina Faso. “We urge the country of nearly 17 million its name in 1984 — is the worst Netherlands-based International likened to the Arab Spring. Nations, the African Union and civilian leadership to be guided people. “The task of managing since a wave of unrest three years Association for the Advancement But international mediators the Economic Community of West by the spirit of the constitution the transition falls by right to ago. AFP of Space Safety, said she could not speculate on the cause of Friday’s crash without “all the data.” However, she said multiple warnings had been issued to West mistreating Ebola Virgin since 2007, when three engineers died testing a rocket Aid pledge for returning British on the ground. “Based on the work we’ve done, ‘heroes’: UK charity including me writing a paper on the handling of nitrous oxide, we FREETOWN: militants ‘with good intentions’ The head of a international criticism, New were concerned about what was leading British charity hit out Jersey Governor Chris Christie going on at Virgin Galactic,” she yesterday at western nations kept a nurse in an isolation tent LONDON: The UK will help coming back yet and saying they two of whom have been killed, said. “I sent copies of the paper to for quarantining health for three days after she flew militants returning from Iraq want to be of assistance, but if told the same programme that his various people at Virgin Galactic worker “heroes” returning back from Sierra Leone. and Syria to recover if they they do of course the government, sons had been “naive” and acted in 2009, and they were ignored,” from Ebola-hit west Africa Meanwhile, Canada and have “good intentions” about the police, the National Health out of kindness. she said. Campbell said she out- and refusing visas to people Australia controversially stopping others joining the con- Service will work with those peo- “I do not agree with the word lined concerns to Virgin Galactic from the worst-hit countries. announced last week that they flict, the Conservative leader of ple and help them to recover and radicalised. My sons went, they in a subsequent telephone con- Save the Children chief exec- were suspending visa appli- the Commons, has said. to assist others,” he said. did a mistake, they were naive versation, but her warning again utive Justin Forsyth, on a trip cations from Ebola-hit west In a change of tone, William “Our top priority has to be to think that going to Syria and went unheeded. to Sierra Leone, singled out African nations to prevent Hague said that some will “just the security of the people of this fighting will make a change,” immigration rules imposed the virus from crossing their need help because they will have country and that is why we will Abubaker Deghayes said. Ukraine president by Canada and Australia and borders. been through an extremely trau- take action. Where we think peo- “I consider it out of their kind- measures by some US states “I think it’s completely matic period” while fighting ple could be dangerous, we con- ness, out of their humanity and blasts rebel vote that quarantine medics who wrong what some governors overseas. fiscate passports. We’re working conscience, that’s why they took have treated infected patients. in the United States have done Downing Street initially on additional powers to be intro- this step, but at the same time, KIEV: Ukraine’s President “It is very important that and what the governments of floated the idea of banning radi- duced in parliament. There have what they did is not right. Petro Poroshenko yesterday nurses and doctors from abroad Canada and Australia have cal Islamist fighters from coming been over 200 arrests this year “They miscalculated it, because dismissed a leadership vote come to Sierra Leone, Liberia done too,” he said in the capital back to Britain, but the proposal related to people going to Iraq and the Syrians do not need foot fight- being held by rebels in the war- and Guinea easily and also leave Freetown. was dropped when it emerged Syria. ers, they need much more compli- torn east as a sham and called and return to their home coun- “We should make it easy for that it would be illegal to make “But the Home Office and cated things than that in the war on Moscow not to recognise the try for rest without the threat health workers to come and go people stateless. the police and the NHS are also against President Assad to stop outcome. of being quarantined,” he said. without hindrance (because) Despite a call from Ukip for working together on what we these atrocities.” “The farce that is being con- Experts say quarantining they are heroes.” returning fighters to be stripped can do to assist those people who In September, Downing Street ducted under the threat of tanks medical professionals who have Forsyth spoke out at the end of their citizenship, Hague do come back with good inten- widely trailed proposals to pre- and guns by the two terrorist shown no symptoms of the virus of a four-day visit to assess the appeared to soften the govern- tions. Of course, we will have to vent British-born citizens return- organisations in parts of Donbass is counter-productive and could extent of the epidemic in Sierra ment’s rhetoric on the subject as be sure that they do have good ing to the country from Syria or is a terrible event that has noth- deter other workers from help- Leone, one of the hardest-hit he spoke on the BBC1’s Andrew intentions.” Iraq if they were suspected of ing to do with the real will,” ing contain west Africa’s Ebola countries with around 1,500 Marr Show yesterday. A father of three young men being involved in acts of terror. Poroshenko said in a statement. crisis. deaths. “We haven’t had a lot of people who have gone to fight in Syria, GUARDIAN NEWS AGENCIES In a case which attracted AFP

Republicans promise less gridlock if they Ponta leads first round of win Senate Romania’s presidency vote WASHINGTON: Republicans said they will break the legisla- BUCHAREST: Romania’s Prime who has accused Ponta of being a tive stalemate that has paralysed Minister Victor Ponta looked set to former spy, is ineligible to run for a Washington for the past several win the first round of a presiden- third term. years if they win control of the tial election yesterday, despite fears Ponta, a social democrat, has been Senate in the upcoming congres- he could reverse reforms aimed at premier for two stormy years of cohab- sional elections. tackling the rampant corruption itation with Basescu, and is likely to Party figures said they could that blights one of Europe’s poorest face 55-year-old liberal Klaus Iohannis, pass trade, tax and immigration countries. from the German-speaking minority, bills that might win the approval of The vote is seen as a crucial test in a November 16 runoff. President Barack Obama if they con- for the former communist country at “I am confident that 25 years after trol both the Senate and the House a time when democracy has suffered (the fall of the communist regime) we of Representatives after tomorrow’s setbacks in some neighbouring states can complete Romania’s transition so midterm elections. such as Hungary, and as the Ukraine that it becomes a truly democratic and “It’s time for us to break that crisis has shaken relations between the European country,” Ponta said after blockade, pass some legislation,” Mitt European Union and Russia. casting his ballot in Bucharest. Romney, the Republicans’ 2012 presi- Romania’s election campaign has He leads the latest exit polls with dential nominee, said on Fox News been marred by scandal, with numer- around 40 percent, ahead of Iohannis Sunday. ous corruption probes including some on 30 percent and another 12 candi- Although Obama’s name is not on aimed at allies of the prime minister, dates. Polling ended at 1900 GMT. the ballot, voters are losing confi- and a settling of scores between Ponta “I voted for a Romania of good dence in his leadership after six years Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta, also the leader of the ruling Social Democrat Party (PSD), and his long-standing rival President work,” said Iohannis, echoing his cam- in the White House. makes a statement after voting at a polling station in Bucharest yesterday. Ponta is running for Traian Basescu. paign slogan. REUTERS president on behalf of PSD. The popular centre-right Basescu, AFP MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES Bangla tycoon given death for war crimes Court finds Jamaat-e-Islami leader guilty of 10 charges

DHAKA: A media tycoon who Quasem Ali has been sentenced to controversial war crimes court, is a key figure in Bangladesh’s death for the murder of a teenage set up by Prime Minister Sheikh largest Islamist party was sen- freedom fighter, Jashim,” prosecu- Hasina’s government in 2010. tenced to death yesterday for tor Ziad Al Malum told reporters. Fresh protests are expected war crimes, just days after its “The young boy was abducted after the Supreme Court leader was ordered to hang for and his body was thrown in the announced yesterday it would similar offences. Karnaphuli river,” he said. deliver judgement on Monday on A war crimes court found Jamaat’s top leader Motiur an appeal by Jamaat’s assistant wealthy businessman Mir Quasem Rahman Nizami was on secretary general, Mohammad Ali, an official of the Jamaat-e- Wednesday sentenced to death Kamaruzzaman, against his death Islami party, guilty of 10 charges for heading a militia in 1971, a sentence. including murder and abduction decision that sparked protests by Ali, a former leader of Jamaat’s during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of supporters. powerful student wing, helped independence against Pakistan. Jamaat called a nationwide revive the party by setting up Ali, 63, stood up and loudly strike following Nizami’s verdict. charities, businesses and trusts protested the verdict as the head The stoppage was still in effect linked to it after it was allowed to judge announced the sentence in yesterday, with many schools and operate in the late 1970s. a packed courtroom. businesses closed and traffic thin. Ali, who was arrested in 2012 “It’s a motivated judgement,” he The party announced another on 14 war crimes charges, heads said, accusing the court of acting strike for Thursday in protest at the Diganta Media Corporation on instructions from the secular Ali’s death sentence. which owns a pro-Jamaat daily government. Similar judgements against and a television station. Jamaat-e-Islami party leader Mir Quasem Ali waves as he enters a van at the International Crimes Tribunal court Ali, who owns a television sta- other Jamaat officials last year The government shut down in Dhaka yesterday. tion and newspaper aligned with plunged the country into one of the television station last year for Jamaat, was convicted of running its worst crises. Tens of thousands inciting religious tension. proving that he was not at the leaders through phoney charges. the wounds of the conflict, which a torture cell of a pro-Pakistani of Jaamat activists clashed with Defence lawyer Tanvir Ahmed crime scenes during the war,” the Rights groups have said the it says left three million people militia that carried out killings— police in various protests that left Al Amin described the charges lawyer said. trials fall short of international dead. Independent researchers including that of a young inde- some 500 people dead. against Ali as “baseless and false” Jamaat and the main opposi- standards and lack any foreign estimate that between 300,000 pendence fighter. Ali, also a shipping and real and said they would appeal the tion Bangladesh Nationalist Party oversight. and 500,000 people died in the “The country and the affected estate tycoon, became the eight verdict in the Supreme Court. have accused the government of Hasina’s government maintains 1971 war. people have finally got justice. Mir Islamist sentenced to death by the “We’ve not got justice, despite using the court to target their the hearings are needed to heal AFP

Abu Sayyaf British banker arrested in Hong Kong double murder case insurgents kill HONG KONG: A 29-year- whom local media and a source national had been arrested in some video footage of the vic- the corridor from the flat where old British banker has been with knowledge of the situation Hong Kong, without specifying tims after the killings including the bodies were found said she six Philippine arrested in Hong Kong in con- have identified as being a Bank the nature of any suspected crime. close-ups of their wounds. Local had seldom seen anyone come and nection with the grisly murder of America Merrill Lynch banker. The body of one of the two vic- media said the two women were go from the apartment. of two women, a rare occur- A spokesman for Bank of tims had been hidden in a suit- prostitutes. There were 14 homicides in soldiers rence in a city known for its low America Merrill Lynch said yes- case on a balcony, while the other, The apartment where the bod- Hong Kong, a city of seven mil- homicide rate. terday that the US bank had, a foreign woman of between 25 ies were found is on the 31st floor lion, between January and June, ZAMBOANGA: Abu Sayyaf Hong Kong police said in a until recently, an employee bear- and 30, was found lying inside the in a building popular with finan- down from 56 in the same period insurgents killed six soldiers statement on Saturday that a ing the same name as a man Hong apartment with wounds to her cial professionals, where aver- last year, according to govern- in the southern Philippines 29-year-old foreign man had been Kong media have described as the neck and buttocks, police said in age rents are about HK$30,000 ment crime statistics. yesterday despite a new army detained earlier that day after chief suspect in the double mur- a statement. (nearly $4,000) a month. In one of Hong Kong’s most offensive against the Al Qaeda- two women were found dead in der case. The man had called police in “It’s very shocking because we talked-about killings, the so-called linked group, a military spokes- an expensive apartment in Wan Bank of America Merrill Lynch the early hours of Saturday and never expected something like “milkshake murder”, a Merrill woman said. Chai, a central city district known would not give more details nor asked them to investigate the this to happen in Hong Kong, Lynch banker was clubbed to death The soldiers were patrolling in for its night life. clarify when the person had left case, police said. especially in the same building in 2003 by his wife, who drugged the strife-torn island of Basilan The man has not been charged. the bank. Hong Kong’s Apple Daily news- that I’m living in,” said banker him beforehand by serving him a when they were attacked by about Police declined to give the name Britain’s Foreign Office in paper said the suspect had taken Mina Liu. milkshake full of sleeping pills. 20 heavily-armed fighters. or the nationality of the man, London said on Saturday a British about 2,000 photographs and Another woman who lives down REUTERS Regional military spokes- woman Captain Rowena Muyuela said there were also “most likely... undetermined casualties on the Relentless protest Abu Sayyaf side”. The incident came despite Rains slow search for a military offensive that was launched over the weekend against the Abu Sayyaf in the island of Jolo, 129km from Basilan. victims of mudslide On Saturday, troops battled about 60 Abu Sayyaf fighters in COLOMBO: Heavy rains difficult for us... some vehicles are Jolo and used helicopter gunships slowed the search yesterday for getting bogged down,” said Perera, to blast their positions, the mili- victims of a major mudslide on who is leading the search. tary said. a tea plantation in central Sri “But we have deployed more Troops were still pursuing Lanka that police say left 38 men and we will keep up the the extremists in Jolo, Muyuela people missing and presumed operation till we recover all the said. dead, officials said. bodies.” She said soldiers on the ground A military official said rains Sri Lanka on Saturday reduced in both Basilan and Jolo had were creating problems for res- to 38 the number of dead and reported casualties among the cuers using heavy equipment to missing from Wednesday’s mud- Abu Sayyaf but could give no dig through tonnes of mud at the slide at Meeriyabedda tea estate, exact figures. site in the picturesque Koslanda from about 100. President Benigno Aquino’s region, around 200km east of Police said interviews with sur- spokesman Herminio Coloma Colombo. vivors and officials found that the said in Manila that the military Additional soldiers were being number of victims was far below had launched their offensive on sent to the site, taking the number earlier estimates by disaster man- Aquino’s orders. of searchers to more than 800, as agement authorities. “We launched this operation so they discovered on Sunday debris The authorities have recovered we can put a halt to the actions from homes and a vehicle but six bodies and the search is on for of this bandit group that has been no bodies, Major General Mano 32 others missing and presumed sowing fear and bloodshed among People walk in the pro-democracy protesters’ camp site in the Admiralty district of Hong Kong yesterday. A Perera said. buried, police said. our people,” he said. senior Hong Kong lawmaker was expelled from a prestigious Chinese government body in a sign that Beijing “Heavy rains have made it AFP AFP will not tolerate dissent from loyalists over pro-democracy protests in the semi-autonomous city. Papal visit on despite Bangladesh inquiry under way into blackout

DHAKA: An inquiry was under after residents spent hours out- Alberuni said the grid “tripped” is imposing heavier loads on lim- snap polls: Sri Lanka way yesterday into Bangladesh’s doors or on their roofs. and “all the power-generating sta- ited generating capacity. nationwide blackout, which Dhaka, with a population of 15 tions in the country automatically To boost supply, Dhaka began COLOMBO: Pope Francis will The official Vatican Network plunged homes, businesses and million, had resembled a ghost shut down in a cascading effect”. importing power from India late visit Sri Lanka as planned in said last week there were con- even the prime minister’s office town as dusk descended, with The outage marked the first last year through a line stretch- January, officials said yesterday cerns about the papal visit going into darkness. homes, businesses and govern- time the entire country has been ing from India’s eastern state despite signs of concern from ahead given the proximity of the Power was restored across the ment offices plunged into dark- without power since November of West Bengal to southwestern the Vatican that the govern- elections. “The Church asks the country by yesterday morning, a ness, and hospitals and the 2007 when Bangladesh was hit Bangladesh. ment intends to exploit the trip vote to be postponed at least to government minister said. international airport forced to by a devastating cyclone. But India itself struggles to for political gain as it readies for the end of January 2015, to avoid “There is no power shortfall use backup generators. The country’s garment and produce enough power, with a snap elections. any kind of (political) exploita- anywhere in the country. The Water supplies were hit as other industries were largely major blackout in 2012 hitting “Pope Francis has graciously tion,” the news outlet reported. supply is now fully normal across most of the pumps which supply unaffected because many of the two-thirds of its states. accepted the president’s invitation, But the statement from the country,” junior power minis- groundwater could not function. thousands of factories were closed In Bangladesh, the presidential and the Vatican has confirmed Rajapakss’s office said that ter Nasrul Hamid told reporters Speaking to the Dhaka Tribune, on Saturday. palace, the prime minister’s office, that His Holiness will be visit- authorities were going ahead with after the outage which hit just Chowdhury Alamgir Hossain, a Electricity supplies in government offices and television ing Sri Lanka in January 2015,” arrangements for the papal visit. before midday on Saturday. director of state-run Power Grid Bangladesh, one of the world’s stations were among premises hit the office of President Mahinda Roman Catholics account for “We’ve set up a probe commit- Company of Bangladesh, blamed poorest countries with a popu- by the outage. Rajapaksa said in a statement. around six percent of the popu- tee to investigate. The committee the failure of a transmission line lation of 155 million, are vastly But many people in poor rural It did not mention the snap pres- lation in Buddhist-majority Sri has already started work and will from India for the blackout. overstretched at the best of times. parts of the country, accustomed idential elections, which a govern- Lanka, an the Christian minor- submit its findings in three days.” All cities and towns linked to Bangladesh, like many to regular power cuts lasting ment minister last month said will be ity’s block vote could be decisive Loud cheers could be heard in the national grid had been hit, developing countries, has an many hours, did not even know held in early January, just before the in the event of a close election. Dhaka late on Saturday as the Masud Alberuni, a senior power expanding middle-class and that the blackout was nationwide. pontiff’s visit during January 13-15. AFP lights came back on in phases, ministry official, said. increasing industrialisation which AFP MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

Suicide blast near Wagah 360 Pakistanis Violence drops stranded in Libya reach by 50 percent back home

KARACHI: Anjum Rehman, 25, is constantly in touch with his brother-in-law, Mohammad in Balochistan Ashfaque, in Benghazi where violence involving armed mili- tants has once again paralysed Insurgents still prime concern: Official the city. Ashfaque is among the hun- ISLAMABAD: Despite the lat- Sui Gas and Quetta Electric dreds of Pakistani nationals who est upsurge in militant attacks Supply Company 143 times while have their businesses in Tripoli in Balochistan, official statistics there were 368 such attacks last and Benghazi or work as labour- of the law enforcement agencies year. ers at garment factories. (LEAs) reveal that violence in However, apparently there has He is seeking help from philan- the insurgency-hit province has been no let-up in the incidents thropists and officials back home dramatically fallen by nearly 50 of dumping mutilated bodies as due to an armed conflict between percent this year. 124 bodies were recovered in nine two cities, Zintan and Misrata. In a report which the pro- months of this year as compared So far, two flights carrying 360 vincial home department and to 168 of last year. Pakistanis have arrived in Lahore paramilitary forces submitted to Balochistan’s Additional Home and another one is expected to Chief Minister Dr Malik Baloch Secretary Tariq Zehri said good land in the city on Tuesday. last week, the LEAs claimed that coordination among all paramili- The last flight on Friday car- they have dismantled more than tary forces led the government A Pakistani man comforted by others while mourning the death of a relative who was killed in suicide bomb ried two bodies of Pakistani 50 camps of Baloch insurgents, to perform better as compared attack in Wagah border near Lahore yesterday. nationals who died in Libya from forcing some of them to hide in to last year. natural causes. One of them has caves in the mountainous regions “We rightly targeted insur- been identified as Parvez Masih of the province. gents. It remains the prime cause and the other as Mohammad Around 213 civilians were killed of our success,” he said. Jahangir, an embroidery and 522 injured in terror incidents “The Pakistan Protection Act Call to end corruption in police designer. in Balochistan by September this has given more powers to the They had moved to Libya from year, while 530 people were killed LEAs to take action against mili- Sialkot and Gujranwala, respec- and 1,162 injured last year, accord- tants,” he said, adding that the ISLAMABAD: even ignore the basic principles of to 70 to 80 percent people misre- tively. Most of those returning ing to a 50-page report. government has also worked on Parliamentarians blame the investigation while working on a port in their FIRs, but it is the home hail from Punjab whereas It revealed that 73 people were capacity building of the police, police for the flawed system of case, and they do it deliberately responsibility of the police to reg- some others from Sindh. killed and 74 injured in attacks levies and prison officials through registration of FIRs and claim to mint money from both parties ister the FIR. According to a source at the motivated by sectarian hatred Pakistan Army. The United States no legislation can counter the - the complainant and accused. However, during the investiga- Federal Investigation Agency this year while 258 people were also has trained prison officials of misreporting and misuse of A majority of the parliamentar- tion process, the police can drop (FIA), a sizeable bulk of people killed and 478 injured in 2013. Balochistan, he added. the existing system until the ians believe that the existing law the names of innocent people, but among them also includes peo- In 2014, 11 settlers (people from “Normalcy has returned to corrupt practices in the police is the best to counter and reduce it does not drop them just to keep ple who had illegally migrated to other parts of Pakistan) were major urban centres of the department are stopped. crime as well as providing justice minting money from them. No Libya. killed and 23 injured while 42 set- province as the new political Besides police officials, Supreme to those who are seeking justice. reforms would be effective in this As a result of that, the first tlers were killed and 26 injured government has equipped the Court judges, prominent lawyers They believe that until seri- society until the overall attitude scheduled flight from Tripoli had last year. paramilitary forces with latest and legal experts, parliamentar- ous reforms are not introduced of our society is not changed,” to be postponed to Friday after Fifty-two police/Levies person- weapons and training,” he said, ians also believe that the FIR in the police, no other institution Virk believes. most of them were stopped at the nel were killed and 59 injured this adding that Rs1bn has been allo- registration system needs to be could help to improve this sys- He said the law itself is perfect immigration and asked to pay the year while 93 were killed and 220 cated for the forces. reformed, but it is possible only tem. Hence it should be started and if it is implemented in letter fine. injured in 2013. The provincial government is by enforcing a vigorous system from the police department and if and spirit and without taking the According to Shagufta Burney, This year, 30 paramilitary also spending Rs27.1m monthly of accountability in the police needed parliament could legislate side of any party, then the whole a member of the Ansar Burney Frontier Corps (FC) troops were on 32 platoons deployed in department. in this regard. society would feel the change. Trust who is helping Pakistanis killed and 123 injured while 52 Quetta, Mastung, Kachhi, Sibi, The panel of parliamentarians Chairman of the National He said there is also a need to return home, those seeking to were killed and 156 injured last Kalat, Awaran, Killa Abdullah believes that there is the need for Assembly Standing Committee improve the level of competence come back first got in touch with year. The statistics revealed and Pir Ismail Ziarat for main- legislation for a vigorous over- on Law and Justice, Chaudhry in the lower judiciary. the Pakistan embassy, which then that more than 2,118 people taining peace, the report further hauling of the system. Mehmood Bashir Virk, claims “I believe if the police are contacted the organisation for were killed and 3, 871 injured revealed. However, until the corrupt that in Pakistan almost 70 to involved in corruption, then the assistance. in 1,836 incidents from 2009 to “The Internal Security Policy is police officials are not held 80 percent of people misreport judiciary could undo this injustice Among those who gauged the 2014. Some 715, or one-third of under review at the moment and accountable for their corrupt in murder cases, and the police with the person who is innocent. worsening situation and came the total victims, died in sectar- the premier counterterrorism practices, neither will work any know this fact but even then But it is only possible when the home around Eidul Azha is Raja ian killings. body, Nacta, is assisting the prov- fresh law nor the existing law will register FIRs just to grab money judges at the district level are com- Hussain, 32, a resident of Orangi This year, insurgents targeted ince to curb violence,” it added. be effected. from both the complainant and petent enough,” commented Virk. Town. installations of Pakistan Railways, INTERNEWS They believe the police officials accused.“The police know that up IANS IANS

Ashura procession Drug shortage shoots up prices Fears of IS grow in KARACHI: With an acute shortage of important medi- Pakistan, Afghanistan cines in the market, pharmacies are charging double the price ISLAMABAD: The Islamic The letter came as the for the drugs that are said to be State organisation is starting to Pakistani army fights a major in short supply. Retailers said attract the attention of radicals offensive in insurgent bastions that consumers only faced prob- in Pakistan and Afghanistan, of the tribal northwest, which lems when there is sudden spike long a cradle for Islamist mili- appears to be weakening its major in demand. However, retail- tancy, unnerving authorities enemies, the Tehreek-e-Taliban ers do not face a problem when who fear a potential violent Pakistan (TTP) and allied Al they place orders for medicines contagion. Qaeda fighters. directly from the distributors, Far from the militants’ self- Following the army offensive, they added. proclaimed “caliphate” in Iraq and the TTP, a coalition of disparate If a retailer wants to buy drugs Syria, the name of IS has cropped militant groups, has fragmented from the wholesale market then up several times in jihadi circles into rival factions over recent sometimes they get less than the in recent weeks in Pakistan and weeks, fuelling rumours the required quantity. Afghanistan, the historic home- movement could be overtaken by Many distributors give lim- land of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. IS. ited quantity of medicines to the Leaflets calling for support for The TTP say they broadly sup- wholesalers which sometimes IS were seen in parts of north- port both the IS jihadists and Al become one of the main reasons west Pakistan, and at least five Qaeda. of shortage. Pakistani Taliban commanders They also say say they have For example, Xanax is not and three lesser cadres from the sent 1,000 fighters in recent years available in most of the stores and Afghan Taliban have pledged their to help the jihadi struggle in Syria some stores are charging more support. — an estimate confirmed by a than double its actual price. Pro-IS slogans have appeared Pakistani government source — IANS Pakistani Shia devotees take part in a procession to mark Ashura in Lahore yesterday. Ashura mourns the on walls in several cities in both and plan to send 700 more. death of Imam Hussein. countries and in Kabul University, But if IS militants one day where a number of students were envisage extending their influence arrested. in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Militant, security and official world’s only Islamic state with sources questioned in recent nuclear weapons, they will have Riches of the Silk Route on sale in Islamabad weeks say these are local, indi- to either defy or find an accom- vidual initiatives, and at this stage modation with the two countries’ IS has not established a presence Taliban movements. ISLAMABAD: Right next are now Pakistan, through cuffs embellished with rough cut were Turkmen and lived on the in the region. Currently both the TTP and to the Pan Corner in Jinnah Afghanistan and from there, semiprecious stones. Some ever banks of the Amu Darya, a river But the success of IS in the the Afghan Taliban officially rec- Super market of Islamabad, Persia. Most things at this stall have images of animals carved in Turkmenistan. It was there Middle East is unsettling many ognise only one leader, Mullah there stands an old man who is have travelled along this same into them. that his father and grandfather of those charged with keeping a Omar, and a senior Afghan cadre definitely not from around these route. There are also dramatically were born. lid on Afghanistan and Pakistan’s told AFP that IS was wrong to parts. Abdul Ghaffar proudly In the middle of the table, a large rings with stones and Economic hardship forced his myriad extremist groups. declare a caliphate. displays his table full of treas- large raw amethyst sits in all its intricate inscriptions and carv- family out of their native land “ISIS is becoming the major “The Taliban and their sup- ures new and old. Ghaffar has regal glory, the edges of the purple ings made by the Kochi people of and they eventually settled near inspiration force for both violent porters say that ‘amir-ul-mom- sold traditional jewellery from gemstone glinting in the sun. Balochistan, charming golden and Kandahar in Afghanistan, where and non-violent religious groups ineen’ (the commander of the this corner stall for nearly 26 According to the compelling copper oil lamps and blue crystal Ghaffar grew up. in the region,” Pakistani security faithful) has already been chosen,” years. storytelling of Ghaffar, this piece ‘evil eyes’ from Turkey. “Life was good. There was analyst Amir Rana said. the commander said, rejecting IS His face is familiar to market has been imported from Brazil Along one side of the table is a plenty for us to eat, and our ani- Earlier this month Pakistan’s leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi. regulars; the wrinkles of age on and at Rs15,000, is the most large variety of beads from Iran. mals were well-fed. But that was National Counter Terrorism So far the Taliban and Al his wizened face read like a map. expensive item at the stall. The hues range from the pale before the Russians came,” he Agency wrote to a dozen govern- Qaeda’s new South Asia wing Another map, one that tells the On the table, this artefact is whites of bone and pearl to the said. ment agencies warning them to have steered clear of criticising story of his wares, spreads out on surrounded by dozens of silver more vibrant turquoise, amber The invading Soviet soldiers be on their guard against the IS IS, maintaining a united front the stall next to him. Its story fol- anklets with tiny bells and antique and carnelian. There is even a were “like savages”, destroying group. against “Western aggression”. lows one of the oldest and famous torque necklaces of mixed metal, traditional domed cap worn by everything in sight. “They burnt “The successes of ISIS play a US officials say the group is trade routes of all the ancient Silk such as the ones worn by people Turkmen brides with colourful our house and even killed our ani- very dangerous, inspirational role generating tens of millions of dol- Road. from the tribal areas of Pakistan. embroidery and shells sewn into it. mals. What kind of a man kills in Pakistan, where more than 200 lars a month from black market The Silk Road connected Along with them are tradi- Ghaffar’s own story also begins innocent creatures,” he said. organisations are operational,” oil sales, ransoms and extortion. Turkmenistan to areas that tional Turkmen bracelets and in Central Asia. His ancestors INTERNEWS the agency said. AFP MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Madhya Pradesh foundation day Mufti seeks Modi vows to decisive mandate for bring back PDP in Kashmir JAMMU: Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) patron Mufti Muhammad Sayeed yesterday black money asked voters to give a decisive mandate to his party to com- plete the unfinished agenda of sustainable peace and inclu- Khadi sales up by 125pc, claims PM sive growth for Jammu and Kashmir. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister on October 3. Modi said he would Launching his party’s poll Narendra Modi pledged in his discuss the effects of drugs in his campaign from Nagrota assem- radio address yesterday to next radio address. He asked peo- bly constituency of Jammu dis- bring back “every bit” of unac- ple to share information with him trict, the former chief minister counted wealth stashed abroad on the subject. said these elections would mark and said his Clean India drive He also said that citizens a new beginning in Jammu and had become a mass movement. who do not have access to social Kashmir as people have made up Speaking on a variety of sub- media and the Internet can write their mind to establish a new sys- jects in the 20-minute pro- to him at Akashwani and he tem in the state. gramme, the prime minister said would seriously consider various “It is the writing on the wall that Khadi Gram Udyog Bhavan suggestions. Artists perform in a cultural programme to mark the 59th foundation day ceremony of Madhya Pradesh, in that change is imminent in Jammu authorities had reported a hike of The prime minister said his Bhopal, yesterday. More than 350 artists showcased their skills during the event. and Kashmir and people of Jammu 125 percent in sales since he urged reference to the needs of the and Kashmir are looking towards people earlier to go for khadi. specially-abled children during PDP as only alternative to get rid Addressing the nation for the his last radio address had inspired of present corrupt, inept system,” second time in a month on All the human resource development he said, claiming the people “are India Radio — the address was ministry to think of schemes to BJP, AAP hit out at Robert Vadra eagerly waiting for the opportunity heard on Doordarshan too, Modi help such children. to teach a lesson to those who are said his government was on the One scheme was to provide responsible for compounding their right track to bring back black 1,000 such meritorious children NEW DELHI: The BJP and the journalist’s microphone and asking questions at private func- woes during the last six years”. money and there would be no bias. with scholarships to study in the AAP yesterday lashed out calling him an “idiot”. He then tions, like what happened with Sayeed said that the PDP has “I reiterate that, as far as black technical institutes. The other at Congress President Sonia walked away, followed by his Robert Vadra, must be avoided emerged as “strong and viable money is concerned, please have was to provide Rs1 lakh to each Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert guards. at all times,” he said. alternative” because there is a faith on this ‘pradhan sevak’ Kendriya Vidyalaya and central Vadra, a day after Vadra Information and Broadcasting Surjewala said that on numer- “feeling among people that only (prime servant) of yours, and it university to create infrastruc- snapped at a TV crew on being Minister Prakash Javadekar said ous occasions, “fringe elements PDP has moral authority to gov- is an article of faith for me. ture for the disabled such as questioned over his controver- action will be taken if a complaint affiliated to the BJP-RSS-Shiv ern the state because during its “Every bit of the money of the ramps and special toilets. sial land deals in Haryana. is registered with the ministry. Sena have attacked news media earlier tenure PDP had proved poor that has been stashed abroad The prime minister expressed The Bharatiya Janata Party “We will take action if a com- offices in Delhi and Mumbai with- how to deliver good governance”. has to be brought back. This is my happiness at the results of the (BJP) denounced Vadra and the plaint is filed. The media should be out any reason or provocation”. “Despite getting a very short commitment,” he said. Swachh Bharat campaign, which Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) accused allowed to do its work,” Javadekar Another BJP leader, Shahnawaz span of just three years in power Modi said there could be dif- he said had taken the form of a the Gandhi family of “arrogance”. said. BJP spokesman Sambit Patra Hussain, said Vadra was not a pri- between 2002 and 2005, PDP had ferent opinions on the process “jan andolan” or mass movement. Sonia Gandhi yesterday vis- said: “It was the sheer frustration vate person. set into motion a comprehensive to bring back the unaccounted He said people, even children, ited her daughter Priyanka and of Robert Vadra that became man- “He considers himself to be a process of economic empowerment wealth. But “based on my knowl- were now taking care to throw son-in-law’s residence, as the ifested as inappropriate behaviour very special person. According and infrastructural development edge and understanding of the chocolate wrappers in dustbins. Congress came to the defence of against a journalist. to (Congress leader) Digvijaya in the state which is to be taken subject, I can assure you that we Referring to his last radio talk Vadra, who the party otherwise “Vadra was the one who had Singh, he is a private person. But to the logical conclusion,” he said. are on the right path”. when he urged people to pur- said was a private citizen. called India a ‘Banana Republic’ his behaviour does not show that Sayeed also said his party’s The Modi government has chase at least one item of khadi, Congress sources said Gandhi and we Indians as ‘mango people’. he is a private person,” Hussain visionary political and economic submitted to the Supreme Court the prime minister said the Khadi spent nearly half an hour at the It is time we make him realise said. agenda has made it to emerge as a a list of 627 Indians holding Gram Udyog Bhavan had reported Lodhi Estate residence, but what that India is no more a Banana AAP leader Yogendra Yadav genuine, strong and credible voice accounts in foreign banks. that their sales had gone up by 125 they may have discussed was not Republic which was ruled by the said Vadra’s snapping at the jour- of the people of the state. Modi touched upon a range percent. He referred to his visit known. first family of the Congress.” nalist showed the Gandhi fam- “PDP has already laid an imple- of subjects including on people’s to Siachen on Diwali Oct 23 and On Saturday, a visibly angry Congress spokesman Randeep ily’s “arrogance was intact” and mentable roadmap for addressing feedback on the Swachh Bharat congratulated an Indian Army Vadra snapped at a TV crew when Surjewala chided the journalist “they needed to be taught more the political and economic issues or Clean India campaign and on team for winning the gold medal asked about his controversial land for not giving “personal space lessons”. confronting Jammu and Kashmir the human resource development at the Cambrian Patrol event in deals in Haryana. and liberty” to a person “neither The new BJP government in and the party would translate the ministry’s effort to help disabled Britain while competing against Vadra thrice asked the reporter in public nor (holding) any public Haryana has announced that same into reality with the support children in the wake of his refer- more than 140 teams. “Are you serious?” and once “Are office”. Vadra’s land deals will be probed. of the people,” he said. ence to them in his last radio talk IANS you nuts?” before pushing away “Unpleasantness of repeatedly IANS IANS Maharashtra BJP eyeing fresh Delhi elections in February CM allocates NEW DELHI: As confusion stellar performance in the Lok a party leader privy to informa- The Delhi assembly has been that might hurt our image espe- prevails over government for- Sabha and state elections, coupled tion said, speaking on condition in suspended animation and the cially when we know that polls are portfolios, mation in the national capital, with the image of Prime Minister of anonymity. single largest party, the BJP, has round the corner,” he asked. the Delhi unit of the BJP is Narendra Modi. “We are in the centre and have often been accused, especially by “Moreover, things have changed gearing up for fresh polls — pos- The state leaders have, there- done well in the state elections. It the Aam Aadmi Party chief, of drastically in the last 10 months retains home sibly in February — buoyed by fore, been directed to start pre- shows the mood of the nation and the horse-trading to form a govern- and AAP’s popularity has been the party’s impressive showing paring for fresh polls. party is positive that this will have ment. The BJP leader dismissed on a steady decline. If we man- MUMBAI: Maharashtra Chief in Haryana and Maharashtra “The recent cuts in fuel prices, an effect in Delhi too. Hence, we are the allegation and instead mocked aged to get 32 seats last time Minister Devendra Fadnavis after the resounding Lok Sabha campaigns launched by the PM bracing ourselves for a re-election, at the AAP for its decline in popu- despite the so called AAP wave, we yesterday allocated portfolios verdict, sources say. and even the treatment meted possibly in February,” he added. larity over time. will easily get a clear majority this of his new cabinet colleague, an According to a senior party out to Pakistan when it violated The national capital has been “We know we don’t have the time,” he added. The BJP had won 31 official statement said here. leader, the central leadership of the ceasefire (in Jammu and without an elected government required numbers to form the of the 70 seats in the assembly elec- Fadnavis retained the crucial the Bharatiya Janata Party is Kashmir) have had an effect on since February, when the Arvind government but we are not talk- tions held in December, 2013, which portfolios of home and urban positive of winning a comfortable the people. All this will help us Kejriwal-led AAP government ing to other MLAs. Why would threw up a fractured mandate. development as well as depart- majority in Delhi, courtesy the when we go out asking for votes,” quit. we take any step (horse-trading) IANS ments not allocated to any other minister. Eknath Khadse, the former Bachchan’s day out leader of opposition in the assem- bly, will handle revenue, minori- BSF recovers ties development and Wakf, Hindus to lead Muharram agriculture, animal husbandry, dairy development and fisheries, 22kg heroin in and excise, while former state BJP president Sudhir Mungantiwar procession in Trilokpuri Punjab, shoots will be the new finance minister as well as holding charge of plan- NEW DELHI: Days after being a tab on any suspicious activity ning and forests. hit by communal riots, Delhi’s and immediately inform police,” smuggler dead Vinod Tawde, currently leader Trilokpuri is preparing to set he said. of opposition on the council, will an example in communal amity Delhi Police have made prep- AMRITSAR: Border Security look after school education and as 30 Hindu volunteers will lead arations to ensure a peaceful Force (BSF) troopers yes- sports, higher and technical the colony’s Muharram proces- Muharram. terday shot dead one smug- education, medical education, sion on November 4. “We have got a list of the Hindu gler, arrested three more and Marathi Bhasha, and culture, The Hindu volunteers will volunteers who will ensure that recovered 22kg of heroin along while Prakash Mehta has been be divided among the four the processions are held peace- the India-Pakistan border in assigned the crucial portfolios of Muharram processions that will fully,” Joint Commissioner of Punjab’s Gurdaspur district, industries and mining, and par- set out from the riot-hit blocks Police Sanjay Beniwal said. officials said. liamentary affairs. of the east Delhi area that saw “Precautionary measures have BSF officials said that the Chandrakant Patil will handle 60 people, including policemen, been taken to maintain harmony seizure was made in the border co-operation, marketing and tex- getting injured over three days in the area,” he said. out-post of Boharwadala area of tiles, and public works (including of violence from October 23. The measures include restric- Gurdaspur sector. public undertakings. Muharram is observed by tion on carrying sharp-edged arti- A BSF spokesman said all The only woman cabinet min- Muslims to mourn the death of cles like blades, chains and whips, the three arrested smugglers ister Pankaja Munde has been Imam Hussein ibn Ali, the grand- which are traditionally used by are Indian nationals. One pis- allotted rural development and son of Prophet Mohammad in the the devout to inflict physical tol, ammunition, and Pakistani water Conservation, and women battle of Karbala. pain on themselves as part of SIM cards were recovered from and child development. “Over 30 Hindu volunteers will mourning. them. Vishnu Savara will look after be part of all four Muharram “The participants have agreed The heroin seized is valued at tribal development, and social processions. It will start from not to scourge themselves during Rs11m in the international mar- justice. Block 27 and end at the symbolic the march,” a police officer said. kets, the official said. Of the two ministers of state, Karbala in Trilokpuri’s Kotla,” Around 200 additional police- “On intervening night of Dilip Kamble will look after tribal Riyazuddin Saifi, a resident and men will be deployed during the 01/02 November, BSF troopers development and social justice member of the aman committee one-km Muharram march. Each deployed near Border Out Post and Vidya Thakur handle rural (peace committee), said. procession will be escorted by Boharwadala spotted suspicious development and water con- “Around 400 people are likely police teams. “This time we have movement of smugglers on own servation and women and child Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan rides a bicycle along a road during to take part in each procession. altered the route to reduce the (Indian) side of border security development filming for a movie in Kolkata yesterday. The volunteers from Hindu and distance,” the officer added. fence. IANS Muslim committees will also keep IANS IANS

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MUSCAT 36/25 Clear 38/26 Clear MAKKAH 38/24 Clear 38/24 Clear KUWAIT 32/19 Clear 29/14 Clear BAHRAIN 31/23 Clear 36/24 Clear SANAA 23/09 Clear 25/09 Partly cloudy Dylan releases The Basement Tapes RIYADH 33/21 Clear 35/18 Partly cloudy DUBAI 33/23 Clear 34/26 Clear NEW YORK: Two years after what is considered rock histo- Dylanologists.” The boxed-set by The Band without Dylan. BAGHDAD 26/14 Partly cloudy 21/09 Clear his history-making 1965 elec- ry’s first bootleg record: “Great comprises all known recordings, In a sign of how far the music tric performance, Bob Dylan White Wonder,” a title that was including several recent discov- market has changed, Columbia is THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW holed himself up in a base- simply a name for the vinyl’s plain eries that have eluded Dylan’s taking the opposite approach with ment in upstate New York and white packaging but occasion- devoted fan base, from the sum- the boxed-set. HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER played what became some of the ally became a moniker for Dylan mer sessions at the house dubbed The 138 tracks, presented in most famous recordings never himself. Big Pink in West Saugerties, chronological order, keep imper- ATHENS 17/11 Clear 18/12 Clear released. Nearly a half-century later, New York. fections and the do-it-yourself WASHINGTON 17/10 Clear 20/12 Partly cloudy The prolific singer and song- Dylan is releasing the entirety The collection includes multiple feel, with the label billing the SYDNEY 24/16 Partly cloudy 28/16 Chance of storm writer, who had emerged as a of the collection. The six-CD versions of numerous songs per- CDs as sounding just like the 1967 LONDON 12/07 Chance of rain 13/06 Partly cloudy defining voice of the 1960s, suf- boxed-set, “The Basement Tapes formed in the basement by Dylan recordings. PARIS 14/10 Rain 12/07 Cloudy fered a motorcycle accident that Complete: The Bootleg Series, with his touring ensemble, The “Great White Wonder” set off ISTANBUL 12/07 Partly cloudy 15/08 Clear forced him to take a break from Volume 11,” goes on sale today in Band, with some equipment bor- a bootlegging industry as fans MANILA 30/24 Chance of storm 30/24 Mostly cloudy the road. The involuntary conva- Europe and tomorrow in North rowed from Peter, Paul and Mary. swapped live recordings and stu- DHAKA 32/23 Clear 32/21 Clear lescence ended up producing some America. Columbia Records released a dio outtakes, which carried an DELHI 30/19 Clear 30/18 Clear of the most critically acclaimed An official release announc- more concise and polished official aura of authenticity untouched ISLAMABAD 22/13 Clear 24/13 Clear work of his career. ing the exhaustive boxed-set version in 1975 as “The Basement by record labels. The 1967 recordings became described it as “a Holy Grail for Tapes,” that also included tracks AFP ‘Call of Duty’ soldiers battle villain Kevin Spacey

SAN FRANCISCO: The new- est instalment to blockbuster video game “Call of Duty” hits the streets tomorrow, pitting soldiers of the future against a Machiavellian villain played by actor Kevin Spacey. Activision Publishing set out to reload the multi-billion-dol- lar franchise, bringing in studio Sledgehammer Games to put its spin on the title and taking advan- tage of advanced capabilities in new-generation PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles. “We’ve really approached this game differently,” said Activision chief executive Eric Hirshberg. “We’re shaking up the formula in several ways.” Sledgehammer modified mechanics of playing the military A shopper poses with the newest instalment of the “Call of Duty” videogame shooter game by adding “exoskel- at a midnight launch of pre-ordered copies of the game in western Sydney eton suits” that give characters yesterday. super-soldier abilities. A “riveting new story” was The game is set in the year ripped-from-the-headlines-of- woven into the game, along with 2054, when a private military cor- tomorrow.” “an iconic new character” played poration run by Spacey’s charac- Stories in the blockbuster “Call by Academy Award-winning actor ter is the dominant power. of Duty” military shooter fran- Kevin Spacey. Players take on the roles of sol- chise are inspired by historical Special gear was used to diers with advance combat abili- events, according to Activision. capture Spacey’s movements, ties due to exoskeleton suits and A California judge recently shot expressions and more to cre- other equipment. down a lawsuit filed by former ate a realistic virtual version of “From the endless research and Panama dictator Manuel Noriega him playing the part of Jonathan thousands of production designs, after his likeness appeared in a Irons, a private military contrac- to our incredible focus on the nar- “Call of Duty” video game. tor intent on ruling the world. rative and amazing attention to State Judge William Fahey “It’s been a lot of fun working detail — we’re taking nothing for sided with video game publisher with the team to bring Jonathan granted,” said Sledgehammer co- Activision Blizzard, dismissing a Irons to life,” the Academy founder and game director Glen lawsuit that creators of the game Award-winning actor said in a Schofield. had decried as “frivolous.” release. “The technology is truly “Call of Duty connects with Activision had asked the judge remarkable and unlike anything the fans on such a deep level, and in September to toss out the law- I’ve done before. I’m excited to see crafting a new vision for the next suit on the grounds that giving a where this goes.” generation has been so inspiring small part to a Noriega character Spacey has been quoted saying for us.” Versions of “Call of Duty: in “Call of Duty: Black Ops II” was “Call of Duty: Advance Warfare” Advanced Warfare” will be avail- protected under the law as free is likely to become the first video able at stores starting tomor- speech. The suit filed by Noriega game he ever plays. row priced at $60 each. Copies of two months earlier accused those the game have been tailored for behind the video game of exploit- the latest Sony and Microsoft ing his likeness without permis- consoles as well as for personal sion by making him a traitorous computers powered by Windows on-screen villain. software. “This was an absurd lawsuit Those who pre-ordered “Day from the very beginning and Zero” editions get to start playing we’re gratified that in the end, the game a day early, and enjoy a notorious criminal didn’t win,” some digital perks. said former New York City mayor Activision promised players “a Rudy Giuliani, who was part of groundbreaking experience that’s the legal defence team. AFP Monday 3 November 2014 10 Muharram 1436 Volume 19 Number 6238 Price: QR2

www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Demand for building materials zooms Kuwait and QPMC gears up to meet growing demand, delivery capacity to hit 32m tonnes by 2016 Saudi in DOHA: The Qatar Primary company is receiving imported Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE and distribution in Mesaieed. Woqod few years. In the run up to the new row Materials Company (QPMC) primary construction materi- the ports in Oman. QPMC is said the plan is to upgrade its 2022 World Cup event, the high- is set to enhance its deliv- als in Mesaied, Lusail and Ras working on to add more countries bitumen storage, manufacturing est projected demand would be ery capacity in line with the Laffan. Ras Laffan’s receiving to its ‘supplier list’. To further and distribution facility located limestone, gabbro and spoil over energy country’s growing demand for capacity is expected to increase expand QPMC’s receiving capac- at Mesaieed Industrial City. removal and disposal (SR&D). primary construction materi- to 7.5 million tonnes per annum ity, Nakilat-Keppel Offshore & Al Ijara Equipment, a subsidi- The demand for these materials als. Eisa Al Hammadi, CEO by March 2015. Marine (N-KOM) is involved ary of Al Ijara Holding announced would reach a record peak during KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait of QPMC, said the company’s Hammadi stressed that the in the construction of a floating it signed a contract with Qatar 2015-2016. and Saudi Arabia are locked capacity would be increased efforts are focused on sourcing jetty. The work is scheduled for Quarries and Building Material The MDPS survey shows lime- in a new energy row, this to 32 million tonnes per year huge amount of construction completion early next year. Company (QQBMCO) to trans- stone as the category of material time over a jointly operated from 2016. materials the country needed With Qatar entering into the fer 2 million tonnes of gabbro with the highest demand followed offshore natural gas field also QPMC is currently working on to meet its huge infrastructure execution phase of major Fifa- from the Mesaieed port to the by gabbro. The demand for lime- shared with Iran, a newspa- its conveyor belt project. Once development, in the run up to the related projects, key stakehold- site of the Ijara. stone is projected to go up by 127 per reported yesterday. this work is over, the company’s World Cup in 2022. The Public ers are gearing up themselves According to the Ministry percent in 2015. Citing Kuwaiti sources, total capacity will go up to 32 Works Authority (Ashghal) and to ensure the smooth supply of of Development Planning and The demand for cement is Al-Rai newspaper said work at million tonnes per annum from Qatar Rail are involved in a primary construction materials. Statistics (MDPS), Qatar’s expected to increase 108 per- the Dorra field had been halted the existing 22 million tonnes, Al series of mega projects. Qatar Fuel (Woqod) recently construction sector will see cent next year and washed sand’s due to differences between the Sharq reported. Currently, the company’s major announced a QR65m invest- a record demand of primary demand will increase by106 per- two countries over the routing Al Hammadi said the sourcing ports are Fujairah and ment in its bitumen storage and building materials in the coming cent in 2015. THE PENINSULA of the gas they extract. The report said Saudi Arabia wants any Dorra gas Pilatus airplane factory to be pumped through Khafji and then divided between the two countries, and that Kuwait QE index rises 0.92pc insists it should take its share directly from the field. Kuwait shares separately with Iran and Saudi Arabia the on global cues, results Dorra gas field, whose recover- able reserves are estimated at DOHA: Most Middle Eastern after it announced a QR500m some 220 billion cubic metres stock markets rose yesterday commercial development near (seven trillion cubic feet). as an improved global environ- downtown Doha, with construc- Development of the part ment encouraged local retail tion expected to start in the jointly owned with the Saudis investors to buy and positive second quarter of 2015 and com- has been frozen for a year, corporate news in Qatar, Saudi pletion slated for the beginning according to Al-Rai. Arabia and Egypt buoyed shares of 2017. The row comes a month in those countries. Qatar National Bank share after production at the off- Qatar Exchange (QE) index gained 1.49 percent when it shore Khafji oilfield in a neu- gained 124.47 points, or 0.92 per- closed the day at QR217.50. tral zone between the two Arab cent, with indices of all sectors Islamic Holding share continued states was halted last month, ending in the green zone when the its upward trend from last week, with Kuwaiti officials saying it bourse closed at 13,623.33 points jumping 3.04 percent. It closed at was due to technical issues. yesterday. QR156. However, trade unions and The traded value dropped to Positive gains by four out of media outlets in Kuwait said QR688m from QR1.1bn regis- the five listed insurance compa- that Saudi Arabia stopped pro- tered last Thursday. The traded nies propelled the sector’s index duction unilaterally because of volume today dropped to 14.6 to 4,089.76 points at close. differences between the two million shares from 6,183 trans- Al Khaleej Takaful share gained countries. Khafji is capable of actions compared to 18.8 million the most, jumping 5.98 percent producing 311,000 barrels of oil shares from 9,699 transactions when it closed at QR48.75. Doha per day. Kuwait and Iran have on Thursday. The market capi- Insurance followed next with a Employees work on Pilatus PC-12 NG airplanes at the plant of Swiss Pilatus Aircraft Ltd in the central Swiss been involved in unsuccessful talisation jumped to QR734.6bn gain of 5.07 percent to QR33.20. town of Stans. talks for more than 10 years from QR728.3bn registered on Qatar General Insurance share to demarcate their maritime Thursday. was not traded yesterday. border in the area. Insurance index gained the Elsewhere in the region, Dorra has long been a bone most today, up 1.45 percent to Dubai’s index rose 1.6 percent to of contention between Kuwait 4,089.76 points. Real estate gained end at 4,616 points, off the day’s Sheikh Faisal to represent Diar in Masraf board and Iran, which also lays claim 1.36 percent (2,765.41 points) and peak of 4,671. to part of the field. consumer goods and services was Abu Dhabi’s index rose 1.4 per- DOHA: Masraf Al Rayan predecessor Faisal Abdulwahid Sheikh Faisal. Sheikh Faisal holds Kuwait agreed with Riyadh up 0.9 percent (7,277.02 points). cent with First Gulf Bank up 3.6 announced that on the request Ali Al Hamadi. a Bachelor’s degree in finance in 2000 to jointly develop the From the 43 listed compa- percent and Aldar Properties up of Qatari Diar Real Estate Both the Ministry of Economy from California State University. field they desperately need to nies, shares of 41 exchanged 2.8 percent. Investment Company, Qatar and Commerce; and Qatar Currently, he serves as a director satisfy their growing gas need. hands yesterday. From these 28 In Saudi Arabia, the main stock Central Bank has approved the Financial Markets Authority were of business development at Qatar The Gulf emirate is rich in gained, nine went down and four index climbed 0.6 percent. appointment of Sheikh Faisal informed of the decision made by Holding. He is also a board mem- oil but needs the Dorra field remained unchanged. Egypt’s market surged 2.1 bin Saud Al Thani to represent Qatari Diar. ber at Qatar Electricity and Water because it lacks sufficient sup- Barwa Real Estate was the percent with property and con- Q at a r i D i a r i n Ma sra f A l R ay a n’s Masraf Al Rayan’s board Company QSC, and a board mem- plies of natural gas. most heavily traded stock and struction-related shares perform- board of directors, replacing and of directors said the board is ber at Mowasalat. AGENCIES surged 3.4 percent to QR44.40 ing well. QNA/REUTERS complementing the term of his delighted to welcome on-board THE PENINSULA Some Gulf economies edge towards reform as oil price slides

KUWAIT: After pampering their In Kuwait, the cabinet approved a roughly a quarter of the Kuwaiti govern- Mohammed Al Sakka, economics pro- Mohammed Al Jasser told a Riyadh con- citizens for decades with lavish cradle- report by a committee at the Ministry of ment’s projected spending this fiscal year. fessor at Kuwait University, said: “Of ference that subsidies needed to be cut, to-grave welfare systems, some Gulf Electricity and Water on cutting subsidies The country’s ruler, Emir H H Sheikh course the public will resist any attempt but there is still no indication of a serious countries are edging towards cutting the for diesel and kerosene, which could hike Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah, cited cheaper to increase prices, remove subsidies. “But plans in the works. benefits as the slide in global oil prices the prices that consumers pay for them oil last week when he told parliament the government will have to take it on.” Saudi Arabia is in the midst of pushing pressures state finances. more than threefold. that it should cooperate with the cabinet Oman’s oil reserves are small com- through big changes to its labour market In some cases, officials do not appear Ananthakrishnan Prasad, the to “protect our oil and financial wealth, pared to those of its neighbours and if the in order to move more local citizens into to be economising because they are run- International Monetary Fund’s mission which is not only ours, but is also the right price of oil stays around $85 a barrel, the the private sector, so it may prefer to com- ning out of money — they are simply using chief for Kuwait, said last month after of future generations”. government looks likely to run a budget plete those reforms before raising energy the oil price slide as a political argument talks with the country’s authorities that The cabinet has not yet announced deficit next year. So it faces more imme- prices for businesses and households. to persuade their citizens of the need for he detected new momentum for reform. any date for a hike in diesel and kerosene diate financial pressure to cut subsidies. Its neighbour the United Arab Emirates reforms. But taken together, the auster- “After a long time, I am really seeing prices, but in a report earlier this year, Balushi declined to give details of which increased fuel prices by 26 percent in 2010, ity plans may be the first serious effort by some reforms on the fiscal and structural state news agency KUNA estimated diesel subsidies might be reduced, but in the past but prices are still very low by interna- the wealthy Gulf Arab states to economise sides, and things are moving,” he said. price reform would save the government has described petrol as an obvious target. tional standards and no fresh plans have since the oil price slump of the 1990s — and “Between the government and parlia- around $1bn a year. Few households actu- Another country that has been grap- been announced. they could lead to more sweeping reforms ment I think there is a realisation that ally use large quantities of diesel or kero- pling with reforms is Bahrain. Its oil and In the long term, however, progress in down the road. although the current development model sene in Kuwait; businesses are the main gas authority announced last December Kuwait and Oman could encourage poli- Last month, Oman’s financial affairs of using oil revenues...has worked so far in consumers. With a per capita income that it would gradually raise the domestic cymakers in the rest of the Gulf to follow minister Darwish Al Balushi said that his realising growth, it is not sustainable in of about $48,000, among the highest in selling price for diesel, almost doubling it suit. “Reducing energy subsidies is always government was likely to start cutting the future as global risks are increasing.” the world, Kuwaitis can easily afford by 2017, but the hike has not gone ahead a difficult subject for all Gulf economies,” some state subsidies next year, and that The oil price slide has not left Kuwait higher prices. But other reforms are in after some members of parliament pro- said John Sfakianakis, director for the the oil price slide had made public opinion close to running out of money; the IMF the pipeline. The government decided in tested. The price slide may now pressure region at investment manager Ashmore more supportive of this. has estimated it needs an oil price of only September to slash the state allowance the government into reviving the plan. in Riyadh. “But over the long run it will “I think the people would be more $54 to balance the state budget, far below paid to Kuwaitis travelling to seek health- So far there is no clear sign that the benefit the wider economy, as subsidies understanding now, more accepting. They Brent crude oil’s current price of around care abroad, originally KD300 a day for a region’s biggest economy, Saudi Arabia, is are a structural price distortion and an realise that this was natural wealth that $85. But subsidies, mostly for energy, gob- patient and his two travel companions, by moving towards subsidy reform. In May opportunity cost on state budgets.” is being overused, wasted...” Balushi said. ble up about KD5.1bn ($17.7bn) annually, or 58 percent. last year, Economy and Planning Minister REUTERS MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Aamal’s third Islamic finance quarter profit market in jumps 18.2pc DOHA: Aamal Company (Aamal), one of the fastest grow- ing diversified companies in the Britain widens region, reported a net profit of QR126.7m for the third quarter of 2014, up 18.2 percent com- pared to QR107.1m in Q3, 2013, New push from govt, private sector while the net profit for the first nine months of 2014 reached LONDON: The scope of official initiatives seem likely to QR296.6m, up 25 percent com- Britain’s Islamic finance mar- create a more benign environ- pared to QR237.2m earned dur- ket is widening with several ment for Islamic finance, allow- ing the same period last year, initiatives from the government ing banks to operate more flexibly according to a press statement. and private sector, although the and efficiently, and therefore Aamal’s revenue for the third country is about to lose one of its more cheaply. Depending on how quarter of 2014 stood at QR505.1m, six full-fledged Islamic banks. quickly it moves ahead, the plan down by 10.8 percent compared In June, Britain became the for the liquidity management tool to QR566.1m in the same quarter first Western country to sell could conceivably put Britain last year, while revenues for the sovereign sukuk, helping boost ahead of some Gulf countries in first nine months of 2014 reached its industry credentials as com- providing options in this area. QR1.60bn, up 4.9 percent against petition intensifies among global “PS4/14 is a strong enabler... QR1.52bn witnessed during the Commercial Bank officials pose for a photograph at the recently-concluded annual IMF and World Bank meetings financial centres for a slice of this is very powerful for us,” same period last year. in Washington. Islamic business. Sultan Choudhury, chief executive Earning per share (EPS) of the Britain has 22 firms that offer of Birmingham-based IBB, said on company amounted to QR0.21 in Shariah-compliant financial the sidelines of an industry con- Q3, 2014, up 18.2 percent com- products and they held an esti- ference in Dubai. The new rules pared to QR0.18 in Q3, 2013. mated $19bn in assets last year, allow Islamic banks to hold a vari- Commercial Bank adopts Aamal Chairman Sheikh Faisal according to a report by lobby ety of instruments, ranging from bin Qassim Al Thani said: “For the group TheCityUK. These include sukuk issued by the Qatari gov- first nine months of 2014, Aamal six full-fledged Islamic banks ernment to those issued by Saudi has achieved high growth in its net such as Bank of London and the Arabian firms, Choudhury said. innovative risk modelling profit by 25 percent and adjusted Middle East, European Islamic The IBB, a unit of Qatar’s earnings per share excluding fair Investment Bank, Gatehouse Masraf Al Rayan, is now moving DOHA: The Commercial Bank environment. Benefits include organic and acquisition growth. value gains on investment proper- Bank and the Islamic Bank of into the wholesale business and of Qatar is now using Experian’s operational efficiency and cost PowerCurve Strategy Manager ties rose by more than 39 percent, Britain (IBB). plans to change its name to Al PowerCurve Strategy Manager saving through efficient decision has been developed in response an impressive performance. This is Last week a government official Rayan Bank in December, sub- with advanced analytics to help automation plus portfolio revenue to increasingly complex market the result of our success over many said the central bank would look ject to regulatory approval, as it deliver large scale portfolio through increased activation and demands for a truly agile and con- years in managing and diversifying into developing a liquidity man- looks to appeal to a wider cus- growth for its retail consumer reduced delinquency. solidated risk decisioning system the Company to support and take agement tool for use by Islamic tomer base. business. Abdulla Saleh Al Raisi, CEO of which will enable lenders to adapt full advantage of Qatar’s rapid eco- banks, while Britain’s export Despite this, London-based The investment in PowerCurve the Commercial Bank of Qatar, quickly to dynamic business situa- nomic growth and diversification.” credit agency expects to guaran- European Islamic Investment Strategy Manager is the first commented: “We chose Experian tions, adjust to different regulatory Underlying net profit mar- tee sukuk for the first time next Bank is now in discussions with automated decision and analytics as our partner because it has both environments and grow their busi- gin (excluding fair value gains year, an issue by a customer of regulators to relinquish its bank- deployment by the Commercial local knowledge and global experi- ness quickly and profitably. on investment properties and European plane maker Airbus. ing licence, the lender said in a Bank of Qatar and is set to support ence in helping clients implement Clients can choose to install excluding share of profit of equity In May, the Bank of England regulatory filing. Under a 2012- extensive portfolio growth with advanced automated decisioning PowerCurve within their own IT accounted for investments) for the widened the types of Shariah- 2016 strategy, EIIB is exiting leg- the acquisition of new profitable and analytics. Experian understood environment, integrating just the nine-month period strengthened compliant debt instruments that acy private equity investments, customers for its credit cards, per- our long term customer acquisi- capabilities they need in order to to 15.3 percent over 11.5 percent Islamic banks can use in their seeking more stable income sonal loans and automotive finance tion growth plans which ensured effectively manage costs and lever- in the same period last year. liquidity buffers, under a policy from its asset management and products. we were able to deploy a tailored age their existing software invest- Sheikh Mohamed bin Faisal statement known as PS4/14. advisory services. Dropping its PowerCurve Strategy Manager credit risk platform that auto- ments. Alternatively, PowerCurve Al Thani, Vice-Chairman, said: Islamic banking accounts for deposit-taking licence would is providing the Commercial mates our decisions across credit can support delivery of Experian’s “In 2014, Aamal has continued to only a tiny fraction — less than remove cumbersome capital and Bank with a range of credit risk cards, unsecured personal loans analytics and decisions in a secure achieve organic growth and develop 1 percent — of the British bank- reporting requirements. In July, and operational benefits, notably and vehicle loans. This moves us environment as a hosted soft- new business, a good example being ing sector, far below the share EIIB failed to secure regulatory a world class single risk decision- towards a generic risk product ware service provided by one of the recent announcement about of roughly a quarter seen in the approval to appoint a chief finan- ing platform, integrated analyt- decisioning and analytical infra- Experian’s state-of-the-art data the formation of Aamal Optical Gulf. But taken together, the new cial officer. REUTERS ics modelling and a reporting structure, capable of managing centres. THE PENINSULA Supplies.” THE PENINSULA MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Squire Patton US probing StanChart over Dubai banking Boggs appoints Investigation on potential US sanctions violations connected to Iranian-controlled entities new French

NEW YORK: US authorities according to the source. Such an on top of the bank’s major settle- stripping information on wire criminal guilty plea from the bank. are investigating London-based account would have been covered ments with authorities over US transfers to the US so they The latest investigation is law specialist Standard Chartered Plc for by US sanctions laws that ban sanctions-related violations in wouldn’t be detectable as pay- another headache for Standard potential US sanctions viola- dealings with Iran because activity 2012, and again this year. ments connected to Iran or other Chartered Chief Executive Peter DOHA: Squire Patton Boggs tions connected to its banking in the account involved US dollar Standard Chartered in 2012 sanctioned entities. Sands. Standard Chartered has hired corporate law special- for Iranian-controlled entities transactions. paid $667m to US authorities and The sources said the account at remains profitable, but Sands is ist Arnaud Montouché as an in Dubai, according to people The sources did not want to entered into deferred prosecution Standard Chartered discovered under pressure from investors to associate in its Doha office. M familiar with the probe. be identified because the probe agreements with the Manhattan through the BNP probe was one revive the bank and cut costs after Montouché, who is licensed in The latest investigation involv- is ongoing and its ultimate out- District Attorney and US example of potential additional a 31 percent slump in its share Paris, California and New York, ing the bank is based, in part, from come unknown. Spokesmen for Department of Justice over vio- violations, and that authorities price this year. was previously the managing evidence that emerged during a the Manhattan District Attorney lations stemming from Iran and are looking at other problematic US authorities believe Standard attorney for UGGC Avocats in separate probe of BNP Paribas, the and US Department of Justice, other sanctioned countries. small and medium-sized business Chartered should have disclosed Doha. French bank that pleaded guilty which are among the authorities In August of this year, New accounts in Dubai that may have their Dubai accounts linked to M Montouché, who has worked this summer to charges related to investigating, declined comment, York’s banking regulator fined been controlled by Iran. Iran during the course of the prior in the Middle East since 2011, acts sanctions-busting and agreed to as did the New York Department Standard Chartered another The investigation is “very active” years-long investigation, although for a wide range of international pay $8.9bn in penalties, the peo- of Financial Services, which over- $300m after a monitor appointed but not at the point of discussing a the British bank had closed the companies on corporate set up ple said. sees the bank’s branch in the in 2012 uncovered shortcomings resolution, one of the sources said. account in question before author- and restructuring in Qatar and During the course of the BNP state. A spokesman for Standard in the bank’s surveillance systems It is unclear what action authori- ities confronted it about a year across the GCC states, advising case, US federal and state inves- Chartered also declined comment that caused a “significant number ties may take, although sources ago, the sources said. on commercial contracts, envi- tigators received evidence the on the probe. of potentially high-risk transac- said the deferred prosecution According to documents in the ronmental compliance, real estate French bank had done business The New York Times reported on tions” to go undetected, according agreements, which were set to BNP case, from 2006 through investment, construction, tax with a Dubai-registered corpo- Wednesday that prosecutors were to a consent order. expire in December, are expected 2012, the French bank processed and IP issues, employment dis- ration that was a front for an taking a new look at Standard The new investigation, sources to be extended, and Standard payments on behalf of an Iranian- putes, and pre-litigation strate- Iranian entity, one source said. Chartered over possible sanctions said, goes beyond the major find- Chartered could face another fine. controlled company that helped gies. He has worked with global Investigators also learned that violations, but the focus of the ings in the 2012 agreements, Prosecutors also have the option of facilitate providing liquid petro- companies in the utilities, oil and the company used to have an investigation was not revealed. in which Standard Chartered pulling back the deferred prosecu- leum gas to an entity in Iraq. gas, engineering, manufactur- account with Standard Chartered, News of the investigation comes accepted responsibility for tion agreements and negotiating a REUTERS ing, defence and sport sectors. Prior to his move to the Gulf, Montouché worked in Paris where he advised French, European and international businesses on cross- border M&A, joint ventures, and disputes. Muntajat to sponsor Susan Bastress, office manag- ing partner in Doha, said: “His knowledge of the Qatari market Qafac’s methanol meet and his experience of advising a broad range of global businesses DOHA: Qatar Chemical and produces within its mandate to further expands our capabilities Petrochemical Marketing the market. here. In particular Squire Patton and Distribution Company In addition, Muntajat also sells Boggs now has a unique French (Muntajat) will be the main and distributes other chemicals, law capability on the ground in sponsor of the upcoming first- polymers and fertilisers produced Qatar, and Arnaud will also be ever Middle East Methanol in the country. working closely with our Paris Forum (MEMF) being organ- “To have Muntajat on board as office. Altogether we have signif- ised by Qatar Fuel Additives the main sponsor of this initiative icantly strengthened our Mena Company (Qafac). is indeed an important addition to platform in servicing the needs The event will be held here on the Forum,” said Nasser Jeham of French companies operating in November 26 at the Sharq Village Al Kuwari, CEO of Qafac. “With Qatar and throughout the Gulf, & Spa, according to a press state- Muntajat’s key role in the mar- and in assisting Gulf clients with ment issued by Qafac. keting, sales and distribution of their legal needs in France.” With Qafac optimising the Qatar’s chemical and petrochemi- Arnaud Montouché com- use of Qatar’s vast hydrocarbon cal products, including methanol, mented: “I look forward to work- resources by producing methanol its pro-active participation in the ing with colleagues in Doha and and MTBE, Muntajat exclusively Forum will surely prove benefi- around the firm to enhance our handles the marketing, sales cial to the desired results of the client service in this important and distribution of what Qafac event.” THE PENINSULA market.” THE PENINSULA

GML Chief Executive Arnaud Lagesse and Chedid Capital Founder and CEO Farid Chedid after the agreement. GML, Chedid Capital join hands

DOHA: GML, the Mauritian conglomerate with company. Everyone is talking about Africa and we an international footprint, and Chedid Capital, happen to have a sound experience of doing business the multi-awarded insurance and reinsur- on the continent. This new venture will allow us to ance regional broker have recently entered into tap into the lucrative markets in East Africa whilst a strategic partnership agreement, signed in relying on Chedid’s expertise and GML’s proximity Dubai, to form a 50-50 joint venture that aims and knowledge of the earmarked regions. Added to to play a major role in the insurance brokerage this is the availability of talent in Mauritius as well sector across East Africa and the Indian Ocean as the fantastic resources and current infrastruc- region. The new company called GML-Chedid ture, which cannot be overlooked”. & Associates East Africa Ltd combines GML’s Farid Chedid, the Founder and CEO of Chedid strong regional presence with Chedid Capital’s Capital is equally delighted about the prospect of this established insurance and reinsurance industry long term partnership with GML and said: “We are expertise. overjoyed to join forces with a prominent group such The strategic and financial advisory firm Creed as GML for entering the East African market. We Capital was working on structuring the strategic are confident that by coupling our established exper- partnership agreement and the subsequent joint tise with GML’s regional presence, we would succeed venture. GML and Chedid Capital have acknowl- in delivering highly innovative insurance solutions to edged the major synergies that they would offer in an expanding number of corporations and SMEs in delivering together highly performing insurance the region, across an increasing number of insurance brokerage services. lines that would be covering major rising economic Arnaud Lagesse, the CEO of GML, said. “We are sectors in East Africa such as energy, construction, indeed proud to join forces with Chedid, a renowned marine and others.” THE PENINSULA MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Pressure on US oil firms to cut spending Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron tighten budgets

HOUSTON: Top US oil produc- than $37bn a year from 2015 to independent oil and gas company, ers, which already were reining 2017, an executive told investors said on Thursday it plans to spend in spending before crude prices on Friday on a conference call. less than $16bn next year, below started to slip in June, are now “We always are mindful of the $16.7bn it expects to spend looking to trim more fat from what’s happening in the near in 2014. “(Capital spending) is their budgets while remind- future but I keep on pulling back going to be lower because of the ing investors they must spend that we are a long-term investor,” commodity price environment,” to grow. Exxon Mobil Corp on said Jeff Woodbury, Exxon’s head Jeff Sheets, ConocoPhillip’s chief Friday it would keep its current of investor relations. financial officer said. “We have spending plan intact, though Exxon tests projects “across the the flexibility in our capital pro- it is about 15 percent less than full range of economic parameters gram to reduce it without giving 2013. ConocoPhillips said it will including price” to ensure favora- up any opportunities.” An Exxon sign is seen at a station in Manassas, Virginia. spend less money next year, and ble returns, he said. ConocoPhillips has room to Chevron Corp said it is looking The Irving, Texas company saw slow spending on some explora- output 3 percent to 5 percent. have some top discussions around So far this year, Chevron has for budget “flexibility.” capital spending peak at $42.5bn tion projects as well on some of The company’s capital spending what do we think the price out- spent $25.7bn. Last fall it forecast Crude oil prices have slumped last year when it was advancing its less developed projects in the plan is due in December. look is going to be, what do we capital expenditures of $39.8bn 25 percent since June as glo- projects to deliver future pro- Permian Basin, Western Canada Chevron Corp, the second- think the cost structure is going for this year. Exxon and Chevron bal supplies grow and demand duction growth. Exxon has spent and the Niobrara in Colorado, largest oil producer behind Exxon, to be,” said Pat Yarrington, shares rose more than 1 percent weakens. $28bn so far this year, down 14 said Sheets. said it was looking closely at dis- Chevron’s CFO. But she reminded on Friday after they reported Exxon, which sets budgets percent versus the first nine Even with a 2015 smaller cretionary versus nondiscretion- investors that “we take a long- third-quarter earnings that using a long-term horizon, still months of 2013. budget, ConocoPhillips still ary spending. term view of prices because our topped expectations thanks to expects to spend a little bit less ConocoPhillips, the largest expects to grow its oil and gas “Obviously we are having to investments last for decades.” higher refining profits. REUTERS ECB set to sit tight on interest rates South Korea exports FRANKFURT: The European Insight, said no new ECB decisions the pressure for additional ECB deflationary fears have prompted Central Bank is likely to hold fire were likely for the time being, add- monetary easing will increase,” the ECB to pull out other tools, on new policy moves on Thursday ing that “the bank will very prob- Commerzbank’s Chief Economist such as a series of liquidity pro- hit on weak yen, but and leave a series of radical recent ably remain in ‘wait and see’ mode Joerg Kraemer said, however. grammes to inject cash into the measures to take their course, into the New Year”. Current low inflation levels have economy. After its TLTRO, or despite pressure over a weak Interest rates are currently at stoked fears of deflation —when targeted long-term refinancing economic recovery, analysts say. their all-time lows anyway — 0.05 prices actually fall — which, if it operations scheme, to make cheap no remedy planned Unlike moves by the US Federal percent for its main “refinanc- takes hold, can trigger a vicious liquidity available to banks on con- Reserve to end its stimulus spree ing” rate — and a rate hike seems spiral where businesses and house- dition they lend it on to companies, SEOUL: South Korea expressed and a surprise monetary easing unlikely at a time when the ECB holds delay purchases, throttling and a programme to buy covered its concern yesterday about the Cash reserves of plan by the Bank of Japan, ECB is seeking to boost inflation from demand and causing companies bonds, its latest move to kickstart possible impact on its export policymakers are expected to sit its stubborn lows. Inflation in to lay off workers. Nevertheless, credit in the euro area begins this industries from the yen’s big Korean firms tight at their monthly meeting. the 18-nation eurozone edged up Carsten Brzeski, of ING-DiBa, month. The ECB is launching pur- renewed weakness but stopped The week looks set to be par- to 0.4 percent in October, official said the latest “better-than-feared” chases of asset-backed securities, short of promising any action top 125 trn won ticularly busy for the ECB, which data showed on Friday, far below economic eurozone data was one or bundles of individual loans such aimed at pulling the won’s value tomorrow takes on its role as the 2.0 percent target set by the of several factors likely to allow as mortgages, car loans and credit- down. SEOUL: The combined cash Europe’s banking watchdog in a Frankfurt-based ECB, which has the ECB to “to wait, at least until card debt sold on to investors, to Ahn Chong-bum, a top presi- reserves of South Korea’s historic shake-up to help ward off a core mission of ensuring price the December meeting before pos- allow banks to share the risk of dential economic policy aide, said top 10 conglomerates has another financial crisis. stability. “If survey-based infla- sibly deciding on new action”. In default and free up funds to offer in his monthly briefing that South reached over 125 trillion won Howard Archer, of IHS Global tion expectations fall further, addition to cutting interest rates, more lending. AFP Korean companies should turn the about ($117bn), a market yen’s weakening into an opportu- observer reported yesterday, nity to boost capital investment representing an apparent at home and strengthen their improvement in companies’ Jordan’s Q3 competitiveness. finances. According to the “Companies need to actively report from local market unemployment utilise the ‘low-yen situation’ as researcher Chaebol.com, the an opportunity to increase invest- combined cash reserves of ment, banking on the falling prices the 10 largest businesses here rate at 11.4pc of Japanese-made capital goods came to 125.41 trillion won as and to strengthen competitiveness of the end of September, up AMMAN: The unemploy- through structural improvement,” 15.1 percent from 108.99 tril- ment rate in Jordan for the a presidential office statement lion won at end-2013. Cash third quarter of 2014 stood at quoted Ahn as saying. reserves include cashable 11.4 percent, according to the South Korea relies heavily on assets and money invested Department of Statistics. Japan for imports of machinery in short-term market funds, It said that unemployment and other production equipment according to Yonhap. QNA among men was 9.2 percent while for use at its domestic plants and it soared to the high of 22 per- Ahn was referring to the falling cent among women, according to cost of Japanese products when made no specific comment on (Petra) news agency. converted into the dollar or won. whether the government will take According to a statement The yen tumbled globally on action toward that effect, saying issued by the department, the Friday after the Bank of Japan instead that it was no longer an third quarter unemployment shocked financial markets by era of price competition. rate was down by 0.6 percent expanding its massive stimulus South Korea’s exporters and from the second quarter, due to spending in a stark admission some media have warned that employment policies adopted by that economic growth and infla- the weaker yen would seriously the public and private sectors that tion have not picked up as much hurt the country’s economy, but offered more jobs to Jordanians as expected. policymakers have showed a rela- in the labour market. The statis- South Korean companies and tively cautious response to such tics showed that joblessness was currency traders pay especially arguments. The won has risen 4 especially higher among bachelor close attention to the yen’s move- percent in value against the yen degree holders, standing at 17.9 ments as policymakers used to — set by each currency’s change percent, compared with others intervene and sell the won to keep against the dollar — on top of a possessing different educational the local currency from strength- whopping 24 percent gain in 2013. qualifications. QNA ening against the yen. But Ahn REUTERS

Setback for Apple Pay

The Apple Pay logo displayed in a mobile kiosk sponsored by Visa and Wells Fargo to demonstrate the new Apple Pay mobile payment system in San Francisco on the launch of its new system at select banks and retail outlets. But several major US retailers prefer to bet on another system they hope to better suit their needs. MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Hours-long blackouts hit European growth is as Ghana’s economic growth BY EKOW DONTOH

RACE Amey-Obeng just may give up on her cosmetics elusive as quicksilver company. She has turned down a deal to ship her products to the US — because Ghana’s power supply is too erratic. BY JEREMY GAUNT G“I had to let them go,” Amey-Obeng, 57, said at her office have not yet seen how their targeted loans “October’s ... business and consumer sur- Ghana’s capital Accra, as she used a hand towel to wipe beads of and purchases of asset-backed securities vey suggests that the euro-zone economy sweat from her face. ATA from both sides of the are doing. Many in financial markets would got off to a weak start in Q4, after broadly The electricity’s off, so there’s no fan to ease the 33-degree Celsius Atlantic will give clues in the like to see the ECB move to a full quantita- stagnating in Q3,” Capital Economics said. (91-degree Fahrenheit) heat or machinery to make her goods. “I don’t coming week on just how bad tive easing (QE) asset-buying programme Mid-week, the European Commission will have regular power to produce and supply the creams and soaps to the euro zone economy is and like the one the US Federal Reserve has give its latest economic forecasts and the the market.” just how sustainable is its US just closed. But as these words from ECB Organisation for Economic Co-operation Ghana is the world’s second-biggest cocoa grower and the largest counterpart. Europe offers a Governing Council member Ewald Nowotny and Development will issue its on the G20 gold producer on the continent, after South Africa; it also exports oil. Drate meeting from the European Central suggest, it is not likely. economies ahead of a meeting of the group. That’s still not enough to keep the lights on, with officially scheduled Bank and a new slate of economic forecasts; “I don’t think we should be pushed by the Outside the eurozone, the Bank of England blackouts lasting as long as 14 hours, slowing growth and forcing the United States will release its influential markets to produce a new programme at also looks to keep interest rates on hold at businesses like Amey-Obeng’s Forever Clair Group to say no to monthly jobs data. every meeting we have.” The bank will also record low levels on Thursday. Three of its potential contracts. Purchasing manager indexes for the past be looking at the US Federal Reserve’s end- most senior officials have expressed staunch The West African nation’s economy is set to expand 4.5 percent month will also show how businesses see ing of QE and relatively hawkish tone for opposition to hiking rates over the last two in 2014, compared with 7.1 percent a year earlier, according to the things shaping up in the United States and some spillover succour. The euro is down weeks. Until a few weeks ago, a small but International Monetary Fund. That would be the slowest pace in Europe. One for China’s has already come more than 1.5 percent against the dollar significant minority of economists expected five years and below the sub-Saharan African average of 5.1 percent. in lower than expected. since the Fed meeting on Wednesday, and the BoE would raise interest rates from 0.5 Ghana is in talks with the IMF for an agreement that could lead to For many, the ECB meeting on Thursday down more than 10 percent since May. percent in November. Now they are unani- $800m of aid as soon as January, Finance Minister Seth Terkper said will be the main money event — despite the A weaker euro not only boosts euro- mous in expecting no change this month, on October 20. That helped halt a slide in the cedi, Africa’s worst fact that it is not likely to be one of action or zone exports, it imports inflation, both of according to a Reuters poll. performer against the dollar this year. suspense. As usual, the attention will be on which the ECB wants to see. The nuance This is partly because the British recovery, Companies are battling producer prices that soared an annual ECB President Mario Draghi’s nuances at the being sought on Thursday, however, will be while strong compared with elsewhere, is 48 percent in August, the most since at least 2007 when Bloomberg news conference that follows the likely non- whether there is any momentum towards still tentative and is unlikely to be sustaina- began compiling the data. The cost of services from utilities rose move on rates. When it comes to the ECB, the full QE and how German opposition could ble if Britain’s main trading partners decline. 76 percent, according to the Ghana Statistical Service. Consumer news is often all about the journey rather than be overcome. The United States is one of those partners, inflation advanced at an annual rate of 16.5 percent in September. the destination. This week’s inflation data let The ECB has been throwing money in but it seems to be relatively robust. US employ- Power and water shortages, the effect of inflation on consumer and the ECB off the hook on taking any immedi- various ways at the euro zone economy for ers are expected to have expanded their pay- business confidence and production problems at the Jubilee oil field, ate additional action to combat the threat of a long time but dynamic growth has proved rolls by a healthy 233,000 in October, according Ghana’s lone crude-exporting site, “will likely continue to depress deflation. At 0.4 percent in October, inflation as elusive as quicksilver. to a Reuters poll. That figure, if confirmed on growth prospects”, Standard & Poor’s said on October 24 as it cut is worryingly slight, but it is higher than it This is expected to be underlined by the Friday, would validate the Federal Reserve’s the nation’s creditworthiness. The rating of B- is six steps below was a month earlier. purchasing manager indexes. The euro zone’s conclusion that the job market continues to investment grade and on par with Democratic Republic of Congo ECB policymakers are also in no rush manufacturing is sitting just a tad above make strides toward full health. and Egypt, the agency’s lowest- rated African nations. to move on to something new when they stagnation. Data has been very lacklustre. REUTERS Even as Amey-Obeng struggles to keep her cosmetics company afloat, the blackouts haven’t benefited companies that import genera- tors, such as Anointed Electrical Engineering Services, based in Accra. “We all expected that with the power cuts the generator business will experience a boom, but it wasn’t to be,” General Manager Albert Arthur said in an interview this month. The depreciating currency has made products, which he ships from Britain, too expensive. “The sale of new gen sets are at an all- time low.” Ghana plans to add 770 megawatts of electricity to the national grid by the end of 2015, Energy Minister Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah said in an interview on October 27. “We are attacking the situation head on and pursuing our target of 5,000 megawatts of installed capacity by 2016,” he said. “A lot of investments have been made,” Buah said. “Our current power crisis is temporary.” On August 5, the US government’s Millennium Challenge Corp announced a $498m, five-year program to support the transforma- tion of Ghana’s power industry “and stimulate private investment,” according to a statement on its website. “That investment, together with other donor and private- sector participation, should provide a structural overhaul for the sector over the medium term,” Philippe de Pontet, Africa director with New York-based Eurasia Group, said in an e-mailed response to questions on October 27. “But the road to get there will be bumpy.” References to load shedding, as Ghana’s utilities call rotating black- outs, have appeared in local media since at least 1997. According to the state-owned Volta River Authority, 36 percent of the nation’s capacity of 2,847 megawatts comes from the Akosombo hydro dam, which was inaugurated in January 1966 by then-President Kwame Nkrumah. Drought has forced Akosombo to shut turbines in recent years and has affected output at the $790m hydropower plant at Bui in the northwest Brong Ahafo region, which began production in 2013. The West Africa Gas Pipeline Co, which started sending natural gas from Nigeria to Ghana in 2008, has faced supply shortages and line damage. Repairs to thermal plants boosted generation and Akosombo is producing more, though it’s not yet enough to end the blackouts. Electricity Co of Ghana Ltd, which distributes power in six of the country’s 10 regions including the cities of Accra, Kumasi and Takoradi, schedules the outages. A neighbourhood that loses power on a Tuesday during the day will get another blackout from Wednesday at 6pm and then 6am on Friday. For Amey-Obeng, the cuts at work and at home are making for sleepless nights. “I am really tired now,” she said. “I always hoped that things will get better ,but the situation is getting worse by the day. I really am contemplating giving up.” WP-BLOOMBERG Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Why so few women on the business side of tech firms? BY BRIGID SCHULTE and also are significantly more likely to Or, put more bluntly, female was a significant barrier to their put them in,” says Laura Sherbin, Whitman, Carly Fiorina, Anne JENA MCGREGOR leave — not the workforce, as many MBA graduates see these testoster- advancement (18 percent to men’s director of research for CTI. “This Mulcahy, Marillyn Hewson — all assume, but the tech industry itself. one-fuelled tech cultures, Beninger 7 percent). Fewer aspired to the is not about shying away from who have served as CEOs of high- HE conventional expla- Catalyst analysed the career says, and “they run screaming.” One C-suite (84 percent to men’s 97 hard work. This is more about power tech companies? nation for why there paths of nearly 10,000 MBA grad- female technology executive, who percent). And they were more bias, whether you see it to be “They are definitely a great are so few women in uates from 2007 to 2014 in the has worked for several major tech likely to downsize their aspirations conscious or unconscious, that we face, and it’s very encouraging to high tech has hinged on United States, Canada, Europe firms but requested anonymity to (37 percent to men’s 25 percent). don’t see women in this industry see them there,” Beninger says. a simple statistic: Only and Asia. It found that 53 percent speak freely, recalled that in the to be intrinsically as capable.” In the course of her research, Tabout 18 percent of computer sci- of the women left tech-intensive late 1990s she would see lines in the CORPORATE CULTURES More recently, Kieran Snyder, Beninger asked for advice from ence and engineering degrees go professions for other work, com- ladies room at the companies where This expands on what other the CEO of analytics startup some successful women in the field. to women every year. pared to 31 percent of the men. she worked. “Now they’re empty. recent surveys and studies have Textio, published the results of a “One highly-placed chief technol- Yet tech companies have experts “These industries have reputa- The women have gone somewhere.” shown: Corporate cultures, not survey of women who had left the ogy officer said she tells young in finance, marketing, sales — not tions for being exclusive — the ‘bro- In the report, “High Potentials just education, are a big reason tech industry. Of the 716 women women not to bring notebooks to just programming. And women grammer’ culture in high tech, the in Tech-Intensive Industries: The behind the low number of women she queried, 625 said they had no meetings, because everyone will account for nearly 40 percent of all Old Boys’ Club is really typical in oil Gender Divide in Business Roles,” in high tech. The Centre for Talent plans to return to the field. Women assume they’re secretaries. That MBA graduates. Moreover, many and gas, automotive and manufac- Beninger found that women with Innovation, a research think tank, told her about the discrimination kept happening to her, even as she financial services companies hire turing. And it turns out, these rep- MBAs felt like outsiders even on published a report in February they faced, about being the first got more senior.” equal numbers of men and women utations are really well deserved,” the business side of technology which found that US women are 45 person to ever use their company’s In the Catalyst report, Beninger at the entry level. So Catalyst, a says Anna Beninger, the report’s companies. In tech, compared with percent more likely than their male maternity leave policy, and about noted that male-dominated tech nonprofit research organisation author and Catalyst’s research other industries, they were more peers to plan to leave such “lab- how tired they were of being asked companies can change the dismal focused on the advancement of director. “The tech industry has likely to work on a team with 10 coat, hard-hat and geek workplace to represent the female perspec- gender equation by having top lead- women, wanted to figure out if some significant culture issues, and percent or fewer women. They had cultures” within one year. tive just because they were the ers sponsor promising women, by women are faring better on the it’s really damaging their ability to fewer female supervisors and role It doesn’t help that some peo- only women around. making performance criteria trans- business side of the fast-growing attract the best talent.” models. And they were less likely ple running tech firms don’t think Those stories, Snyder says, parent, and by promoting flexible tech world. Companies like Google, Facebook to say they had a clear sense of these female MBA graduates could didn’t just come from program- work environments for both men They aren’t. and Twitter are not only male how they were being evaluated. ultimately lead them. CTI’s study mers or industrial engineers, but and women. The report found that Among MBA graduates, fewer heavy on the tech side, but they The research not only com- found that nearly a third of senior from women in business jobs at although 75 percent of the male and women than men choose to go into have few women in business or in pared women’s experiences across leaders — both men and women tech companies who had few role female MBA grads they studied had tech-intensive fields, Catalyst found leadership. “Women coming out of fields, it looked at the difference — in science, technology and models to emulate. “There’s this technical backgrounds, only 36 per- in a report released this week. And business schools, looking to advance in outlooks between female and engineering fields don’t believe a sense of alienation from being the cent chose to return to tech-inten- when women with MBAs do opt their careers, look at these indus- male MBA grads within the same woman would ever reach the top only woman in the room,” she says. sive fields. “The pipeline is leaking in, they tend to start out in lower- tries and realise they’ll be the only technology sector. The women position in their companies. But what of Facebook Chief both men and women,” Benninger paying, lower-level positions than woman in the room,” Beninger says. were more than twice as likely “Women MBAs work incred- Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg? says. “Men want flexibility, too.” their male counterparts do. They “So they’re looking elsewhere.” to say that having no role models ibly hard in whatever industry you Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer? Meg WP-BLOOMBERG MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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Bigger risk appetite rubs shine off precious metals

LOBAL stocks con- confirm a wider support for the oil in the longer term. appetite following the surprise tinue to recover from Greenback. Stock markets also Weekly Commodity Update However, the fact that he also announcement from the Bank their early October received a strong boost with the indicated that no major reduction of Japan. That change also high-

Gsell-off while the dollar S&P 500 trading back to record from Opec can be expected in the lighted the continued reduction has begun to show signs that it is territory just a couple of weeks BY OLE S. HANSEN near term returned the focus to in inflationary pressures which preparing to resume its month- after it was staring into the abyss. the current supply surplus. Not is now being lowered by the dra- (Head of Commodity long rally that has been on pause Against this backdrop we saw a Strategy, Saxo Bank) helping the negative outlook matic weakness in energy prices since early October. The major relatively strong month-end finish was data from the US Energy in recent months. surprise of the week, however, for the commodity sector despite Information Administration that Last year the dramatic sell-off was left to the Bank of Japan the headwind being created by therm seems limited at this stage. nickel and aluminium received a showed domestic crude oil produc- during the second quarter was which confounded expectations the stronger dollar. Heavy losses The grain sector comprising the filip from the unexpected mon- tion had risen to its highest level only halted when support was on Friday by announcing another earlier in the month, particularly soybean complex, corn and wheat etary stimulus boost from Japan since at least 1983. The increase found at $1180/oz. Two subsequent expansion of its quantitative eas- in crude oil, did however result had another phenomenal week, and adding to this a small rise in in US inventories is currently also attempts, one last December and ing programme. in a fourth consecutive month of the fifth in a row. This is espe- Chinese manufacturing PMI, the reducing the tightness in the spot the latest less than a month With this increase in money losses, the longest losing streak cially due to a very strong rally near-term outlook for the sector market and that reduces another ago also failed. But the surprise printing coming just days after since the price collapse back in in soymeal that pulled the whole improved. This despite the obvi- incentive to stay long at this stage. announcement from the Bank of the US Federal Open Market 2008. Most sectors finished in the sector higher on concerns about ous headwind being created by a Crude oil has stabilised but Japan and the subsequent sharp Committee pulled the plug on its black on the week with precious delayed arrivals of new supply to potential resumption of the dol- until we see the seasonal pickup in risk on move in the yen and glo- QE3 programme (as expected) metals being the most notice- crushers because of rail conges- lar rally. Copper also found sup- demand (which is still some weeks bal stocks tipped the price over a major move in USDJPY was able exception as the near-term tion together with strong export port from a planned strike at the away), or a reduction in supply, the edge and many sell stops were ensured. The move from the Bank outlook deteriorated after some demand. world’s third largest mining com- the risk remains that the current triggered. of Japan was triggered by the cen- significant technical levels were After the market close on plex at Grasberg in Indonesia. If no downtrend will continue. The next What was not helping gold was tral bank’s unease over the recent broken. Wednesday the Chicago Board of agreement on safety issues is found area of support for WTI crude can the fact that during a two week undershooting of inflation, largely Natural gas rose strongly as Trade raised the margins, thereby a strike involving 11,000 workers be found between 75 and $77/bbl. period up until October 21, hedge due to falling energy prices. forecasts for below-normal tem- making it more expensive to hold may begin on November 6. Precious metals were hurt badly funds and money managers cut As a result, global financial peratures in the eastern half of open positions in soymeal futures, Both WTI and Brent crude oil this week after the US FOMC their short positions in the shiny markets enter November sup- the US next week could increase and this helped trigger a reversal. were boosted by the verbal inter- ceased its asset purchase pro- metal by 1.4 million ounces while ported by an elevated level of demand for heating. Weekly A record crop of corn and soy- vention by the secretary general gramme and attention turned to increasing longs by 2.4 million. risk appetite. Traders are getting inventories, however, continue beans is about to hit the market of OPEC. He said he expected when interest rates will rise. The The adjustment of positions back back into the dollar, particularly to rise at a healthy pace leaving so further upside potentials from that shale oil production would be dollar rallied and the S&P 500 hit towards a more bearish stance against the Japanese yen which ample storage levels ahead of the here look increasingly difficult to reduced if oil remained around 85 record territory once again. Gold’s by these investors have now been fell to a six-year low while a break peak consumption season. On that achieve. USD/bbl and that should lead to a weakness was exacerbated by the adding to the selling pressure. below 1.25 against the euro would basis further upside beyond $4.10/ Industrial metals, not least pickup in demand for the cartel’s negative impact of rising risk THE PENINSULA MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 New Zealand run amok against USA All Blacks outclass Eagles 74-6 in Chicago to launch their northern hemisphere tour

CHICAGO: Dan Carter and dropped balls. It was an outstand- Sonny Bill Williams returned ing atmosphere. to the All Blacks with impres- “We have the Northern sive showings on Saturday in a Hemisphere tour and for us this 74-6 rout of the United States game kicks it off really well. It has to launch their northern hemi- been great for us.” sphere tour. But Williams said the romp Code-hopping star Williams, was far from a statement game at centre after two years in ahead of the European Tests. Australia’s Rugby League, joined “We got a bit loose,” he said. Julian Savea in scoring two tries “We still have some things to in the romp ahead of Tests the work on.” next three weeks in England, Harris opened the scoring and Scotland and Wales. Dagg split two defenders and “It’s just awesome to be back in offered a backhand offload to such a professional environment,” Jane, who raced down the right Williams said. “I wasn’t that good. sideline for a 12-3 lead. Our forwards led the platform. we The Americans, who managed just took advantage of it.” only five training sessions since Fly-half Dan Carter, the world June, still seek their first try record points scorer who has been in four matches against the All out with a broken leg since the Blacks, denied from five meters Super 15 final, played the final 30 early and settling for two Adam minutes in his 101st All Blacks Siddall penalties to pull within appearance, this one with prima- 12-6. rily a second-level squad. “It was a tough day at the “Absolutely stoked to get back office,” US captain Todd Clever on the field,” Carter said. “I had a said. “The guys learned a lot and few butterflies before the match. we played the whole 80 minutes “It was important for us. We so I’m proud of our boys.” have an important game against Tuipulotu and Williams raced England next week. We worked on up the middle for tries 90 seconds a couple things for that match.” apart, both off feeds from Ryan The All Blacks humbled the Crotty, and Williams flipped to 18th-ranked Eagles in their first Piutau for a run down the left to US appearance in 34 years came make it 31-6. before a record US rugby crowd Williams faked a defender off of more than 61,000 spectators at his feet for asnother try and Read Soldier Field, home of the NFL’s Members of New Zealand’s All Blacks perform a traditional haka before taking on the United States of America’s Eagles during an international Test set up Savea’s left wing run for a Chicago Bears. match at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois, on Saturday night. 43-6 half-time edge. “To play in front of a crowd like Massive prop Moody crashed in this was lovely. This was some- champions while Joe Moody, the work of younger players try- world championships and keep month, was pleased with the All for a try over two US defenders, thing special,” Carter said. Aaron Cruden, Israel Dagg and ing to work their way into the building as a team.” Blacks effort a week before they Cruden finished off a wide attack Nathan Harris, Cory Jane, Sam Cane struck in the second lineup ahead of the 2015 Rugby Fill-in captain Kieran Read, visit Twickenham. and Carter entered with 30 min- Patrick Tuipulotu, and Charles half. World Cup. who along with Dagg and Jane “It was a pretty high quality utes remaining, promptly evaded Piutau added first-half tries “Some of the tries were unreal,” “We’re looking forward to next were the only starters back from game,” he said. “There weren’t too two defenders and offloaded to for the reigning World Cup said Carter, who especially praised year. We want to win back-to-back the 15 who beat Australia last many stoppages and not too many Dagg for another try. AFP Australia edge out England to stay alive in Four Nations

MELBOURNE: Australia After several replays the video against Samoa in Wollongong the beat three tackles to score the stayed alive in the Four Nations referee ruled that Hall had not following day. game’s opening try. rugby league tournament with applied downward pressure on the “I thought we played well,” But England responded mag- a thrilling 16-12 comeback win ball and got the last touch — a McNamara said. “We really nificently with two tries in the over England in Melbourne ruling which gave Australia the wanted to throw something at space of five minutes. yesterday. ball to close out the match. Australia and we did that in the Centre Kallum Watkins scored Facing the threat of missing “His finger certainly looked first half. off a Sam Tomkins pass following their first major final in 60 years, like it was applying some pres- “We were resilient and dug deep a long break by winger Hall. the Kangaroos clawed back after sure on the ball when it was on but unfortunately we couldn’t get Hall was over minutes later trailing 12-4 at half-time and the ground,” said England coach any good ball sets in the second for his 22nd Test try after a deft scored two converted tries in the Steve McNamara. half, which pre- pass from centre Dan Sarginson. second half. Australia coach Four Nations Results vented us from Gareth Widdop converted both England, who would have joined Tim Sheens At Melbourne scoring any more tries for a 12-4 lead at half-time. New Zealand in the final had they believed the points.” England could have scored Australia 16 England 12 won, led until 17 minutes from match officials The Kangaroos, just before the interval but the full-time but the Kangaroos came got the decision Saturday’s Results rugby league’s ball went to ground off a Tomkins home strongly. right. At Whangarei dominant nation break. “That was a real Test match,” “I wasn’t sure New Zealand 14 Samoa 12 and long unchal- Inglis had a try disallowed early said Kangaroos skipper Cameron (about it) but the P W L P/F P/A Pts lenged at the top in the second half when the video Smith. “That was what interna- referee called no New Zealand 2 2 0 44 24 4 of the rankings, referee spotted an illegal block by tional football is all about.” try and had it have not missed a Boyd Cordner on England scrum- England 2 1 1 44 42 2 The match finished controver- been a try, Hall major final since half Matt Smith in the defensive sially when the video referee dis- would have been Australia 2 1 1 28 42 2 the 1954 World line. allowed a fingertip try to winger celebrating,” Samoa 2 0 2 38 46 0 Cup. But the Kangaroos closed the Ryan Hall in the final minute, Sheens said. England for- gap to two points in the 57th which would have given England “But he wasn’t. They were wards Liam Farrell (arm wres- minute when replacement Ben a winning chance with a sideline ready for the line dropout, the tling tackle) and Sean O’Loughlin Hunt dived on Cameron Smith’s conversion. player told you really. I think we (tripping) both went on the ref- grubber kick to score a converted The ball was loose over the got the right decision.” eree’s report in a rugged opening try. The Kangaroos went ahead Australian try-line and Greg England must now beat before the Kangaroos scored first 16-12 six minutes later when Inglis desperately tried to New Zealand in Dunedin next in the 17th minute. Cherry-Evans sliced through in Ryan Hall of England (centre) in action against Australia in Melbourne knock it dead in goal, with Hall Saturday if they are to reach the Daly Cherry-Evans put Greg between tackles and sent Inglis yesterday. scrambling to get his hand on the final while Australia get their Bird into the clear and he passed racing over for the decisive con- ball. chance to make the decider to centre Michael Jennings, who verted try. AFP Fleury leads Penguins to 5-0 rout of Sabres 76ers fall to Heat

PITTSBURGH: Marc-Andre was good in Pittsburgh is Buffalo entered with 12 non- PHILADELPHIA: Without But the Heat had too much Fleury capped a career week Nashville and NHL Results 10 for 21 on the shootout goals in 11 games. The LeBron James, their former offensive power inside and out with another shutout for the continued right Boston 4 Ottawa 2 power play dur- Sabres, who lost for the seventh MVP, leading a championship (12 of 24 3s), overwhelming the Pittsburgh Penguins. through this Toronto 3 Chicago 2 ing its four-game time in eight games, are 2-9-1 and charge, Chris Bosh and the Heat Sixers. Fleury made 18 saves for his week. Tampa Bay 4 Washington 3 winning streak. have the second-fewest points in are cruising. “Forty-eight minutes is a second consecutive shutout, Chris “You can’t say “We’ve done the Eastern Conference. Bosh had 30 points and eight very long game for the group we Florida 2 Philadelphia 1 Kunitz scored twice, and the enough about some good things, “With our confidence right rebounds and Mario Chalmers have,” Sixers coach Brett Brown Penguins earned their fourth win having a goal- New Jersey 3 Columbus 2 guys have capi- now, if we get down two goals, scored 20 off the bench to lead said before the game. “From an in a row with a 5-0 victory over tender that will Winnipeg 1 NY Rangers 0 talized, but you it doesn’t seem like we have the the Miami Heat past the experience and resume perspec- the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday play like that.” Pittsburgh 5 Buffalo 0 need some luck, will to battle back,” Sabres coach Philadelphia 76ers 114-96 on tive, navigating through 48 min- night. Evgeni Carolina 3 Arizona 0 too,” Crosby said. Ted Nolan said. “When you don’t Saturday night. utes of an NBA game is really “I don’t think I’ve had two Malkin, Patric St Louis 3 Colorado 2 “We’ll try to keep work and you don’t fight and you Dwyane Wade had nine points difficult.” straight shutouts in the NHL,” Hornqvist and Minnesota 4 Dallas 1 riding that. It’s don’t compete and you don’t bat- and 10 assists to help the Heat to The Heat were happy to make Fleury said. “It feels good though.” Blake Comeau tough to do, but tle, that’s what’s going to happen.” their second win in two games. it that much harder. AGENCIES Vancouver 3 Edmonton 2 Fleury was right. He recorded also scored for hopefully we’ll Kunitz opened the scoring at “Everyone is getting opportu- back-to-back regular-season Pittsburgh, and San Jose 3 NY Islanders 1 continue to carry 4:26 of the first, crashing the net nities, which is a little different shutouts for the first time in his captain Sidney that momentum to backhand a rebound from the than we’ve had,” Wade said. NBA Results career. Crosby had three assists. Kunitz, and build confidence.” slot past a sprawled Enroth. Tony Wroten had 21 points Dallas 109 New Orleans 104 Coming off a 3-0 win over the with four goals in his last two The Penguins have outscored The Penguins controlled long and 10 assists for the Sixers and Memphis 71 Charlotte 69 defending Stanley Cup champion games, has seven this season. opponents 19-3 during the last stretches of the first period, own- Brandon Davies scored 18 points Toronto 108 Orlando 95 Los Angeles Kings, Fleury posted Malkin also had two assists, four games. They defeated the ing a 12-3 shots advantage. The for the winless Sixers. Miami 114 Philadelphia 96 his third shutout in four games extending his point streak to 10 Sabres for the 13th time in 17 Sabres went more than 13 min- Expected to challenge the Washington 108 Milwaukee 97 and the 31st of his NHL career. games. Crosby has a point in 18 games, earning their eighth win in utes without a shot. 82-game mark for worst record He has stopped 98 of the last straight games against Buffalo, the past 11 played in Pittsburgh. Buffalo had the better of the in NBA history, the Sixers are Atlanta 102 Indiana 92 101 shots he faced and has held his longest active run against any Jhonas Enroth made 29 saves play through early parts of the already 0-3 and could add to that Brooklyn 102 Detroit 90 opponents without a goal in 10 of team. for the Sabres, who were shut out second period as the Penguins winless streak with three more Houston 104 Boston 90 his past 12 periods. The Penguins finished 3 for for the fifth time in 12 games this appeared listless at times. home games this week. Chicago 106 Minnesota 105 “You have a feeling your goal- 5 on the power play. It was the season. “It’s very tough, especially “I didn’t think we carried our The Sixers gamely tried to keep Oklahoma City 102 Denver 91 tender is in a zone, so we went fourth straight game and seventh today,” Enroth said. “I didn’t play speed very well,” Johnston said. up with the Eastern Conference Utah 118 Phoenix 91 back to him tonight,” Penguins’ time in 10 games that Pittsburgh’s my best game and just felt that we “There were a lot of lulls in the champions and only trailed 87-83 Golden State 127 LA Lakers 104 coach Mike Johnston said. “He power play scored multiple goals. weren’t really close in this one.” game.” AGENCIES at the end of the third quarter. MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Djokovic wins Paris Masters World number one from Serbia celebrates fatherhood with second straight Paris win

PARIS: World number one when 3-1 down and again at 4-2 Novak Djokovic won his 600th down when he squandered three ATP match on Sunday as he break points. defeated Canadian seventh seed An injury time-out taken by London calling Milos Raonic 6-2, 6-3 to win the the seven-time Grand Slam win- Paris Masters for the second ner showed no signs of slowing straight year. down the champion and he again The 27-year-old Serb also broke early in the second set to for tired Nishikori extended his advantage over put a stranglehold on the match Roger Federer in the race for at 3-0 up in the second set. the year-ending number one spot The Montenegro-born Raonic, PARIS: Kei Nishikori admits weapon -- his speed about the while Raonic could take conso- who was in his second Masters final his body is hurting after a court. Nishikori knew he was in lation that his run to the final after losing in 2013 against Rafael tumultuous season that has trouble from the first exchanges. booked his place at the World Nadal in Montreal, saw his big serve seen him establish himself as a “Yeah, maybe I was a little bit Tour Finals in London. tamed by Djokovic and he was never potential Grand Slam winner, tired. You know, my body wasn’t Djokovic comfortably defended able to tighten up the contest. but he has one last mountain to 100% ready for today’s match. I the crown he won last year, when “It’s been an incred- climb. had three tough matches before he defeated David Ferrer, and ible week for me,” said Raonic. That will come in London in here, and my serve wasn’t 100%,” where he recorded his maiden “Congratulations to Novak for eight days’ time when the speedy he said. title in the French capital in 2009. his win and also the new addi- Japanese star becomes the first “I think I got home like 2:30 The Belgrade native also tion to his family, now I’m going Asian-born player to contest and had a massage. It’s not easy extends his indoor winning streak to focus on London and I’m going the prestigious ATP World Tour after finishing like at 2:00 here to 27 matches with his last defeat to fight hard over there,” added Finals, better-known as the and having to play today.” back in Paris two years ago. the Canadian. Masters of men’s tennis. Still, Nishikori said he was “This week has been incred- Djokovic’s 600th win puts him Nishikori, who reached the happy with his week’s work, hav- ible and my first tournament fifth on the all-time list of active final of the US Open in September ing never got past the third round since becoming a father 10 days players behind leader Federer on where he lost to Marin Cilic, in Paris in three previous appear- ago so I dedicate this victory to 991, Nadal on 706, Leyton Hewitt made sure of his ticket to London ances in the French capital. my wife and son,” said Djokovic, who rests on 611 and David Ferrer on Friday when he defeated David And he had no doubt that with whose wife Jelena gave birth to who has 602 ATP victories. Ferrer in the Paris Masters a few days of rest he would be baby boy Stefan on the eve of the The Wimbledon champion quarter-finals. ready to take on the challenge of Paris tournament. also extended his points advan- That match lasted two hours playing in an elite eight-man field. “Congratulations to Milos, tage over Federer in the battle for and 43 minutes and ended half an “I’m really excited to go to I’m very happy for him that he number one to 1,310 points with hour after midnight, less than 17 London next week. First time to qualified for London but today I 1,500 on offer for an unbeaten run hours before the 24-year-old took reach the finals,” he said. played the best tennis I’ve played to the World Tour Finals title. to the Bercy Indoor Arena court “It’s going to be a lot of tension all week. “It’s not easy against a However, 17-time Grand Slam once again to take on the world’s and I might get nervous first match, player with such a big serve but I champion Federer can also pick best player, Novak Djokovic, in but I will try to enjoy the moment. played an exceptional match and up points when he plays the Davis the semi-finals. “I have been playing really I’m very happy to win this trophy. Cup final for Switzerland against His exhausting win over Ferrer well this year, so I think I have a Like I said, it’s my first tourna- France in Lille beginning on came after successive three-set chance to do well. Hopefully I can ment since becoming a dad and November 21. Raonic settles for battles against Tommy Robredo recover well next week and try to it’s been a great pleasure to play a place in London, his first quali- and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and pre- be ready for London.” here.” added Djokovic. fication for the season-ending dictably Nishikori was spent. There were words of encour- Djokovic paved the way to win finale. The other seven qualifi- Djokovic, coming off a couple of agement too from Djokovic, who the first set early on as he raced ers are Djokovic, Federer, Stan Serbia’s Novak Djokovic celebrates after his victory against Canada’s weeks off to mark the birth of his lost in four sets to Nishikori in a into a 3-0 lead and never looked Wawrinka, Andy Murray, Kei Milos Raonic during their final match at the ATP World Tour Masters son Stefan, dominated from the US Open semi-finals stunner and back. Raonic appeared nerv- Nishikori, Tomas Berdych and 1000 indoor tennis tournament at the Bercy Palais-Omnisport (POPB) start winning 6-2, 6-3 in just 62 who entered Saturday’s match ous and edgy but had chances to US Open champion Marin Cilic. in Paris yesterday. minutes against a leaden-footed with a losing 1-2 record against break the Djokovic serve at 0-30 AFP opponent, shorn of his biggest the Japanese player. AFP Cudlin bounces back to FIVB Qatar Beach Volleyball Open win second race of QSBK

DOHA: Qatar SuperBike time this season. Cudlin was round with the World Superbike Championship (QBSK) defend- delighted with the win. Championship.” ing champion Alex Cudlin “It was a really difficult race, Prinz said she needs to do a won the second race of the I am happy to win. I got into the lot of work. “I had a good start, I second round of the QSBK at lead in the first lap and I wanted was behind Saeed and I was push- Losail International Circuit on to be aggressive at the beginning, ing really hard and try to follow Saturday night. go really hard and try to create a the first four riders, and after 4 In the first race on Saturday, e gap. I had to ride really hard as laps I managed to overtake Saeed Qatari rider Mishal Al Naimi had I had a long two days and today and I came closer to Nasser and won the race with a gap of 0.766 I am sick, but happy with this Mishal. I change a bit my riding ahead of Nasser Al Malki, who result.” style because the Kawasaki is dif- came in second place. Mishal Al Naimi said: “I am ferent than the Suzuki, but now Cudlin had finished in third happy with the result as it is very we are in the right way but I have place. good for the championship. Even to work more on myself, but really In the second race Cudlin in the race I started in the pole happy with the race and be back pushed very hard from the first position, I lost it in the first lap into the podium’. lap and took the lead until the and later when I tried to catch In the Supersport category, the end, winning the second race. up with Alex (Cudlin) and close winner was again the Lebanese Cudlin crossed the line with a the gap it was not possible as I rider Mahmoud Tannir and in the gap of 6.061 ahead of Mishal Al found a lot of traffic in the track. Losail Asian Road Racing Series Naimi who came second. Thanks to all my mechanics, (LARRS) category the Serbian The third step in the podium special thanks to Ten Kate for rider Manca Katrasnik was also went to German rider Nina Prinz helping me this round and also again the best in her category. Qatar team players taking part in a training session ahead of the FIVB Qatar Beach Volleyball Open at Al Gharafa who was in the podium for first for QMMF for organizing this THE PENINSULA Stadium yesterday. The championship will take place from November 4 to 8. Preparations for hosting the FIVB Qatar Beach Volleyball Open, a FIVB World Tour event is going on full swing at Al Gharafa Stadium. It will be the first time that Doha will host a FIVB World Tour event. Action will take place on four courts and 56 teams from all over the world will be seen in action. Four teams will represent Qatar at the five-day championship. The Qatari teams comprise of Jefferson and Thiago, Mahmoud Essam and Asef Sultan, Tamer Abderasool and Abdulaziz Khalouf, besides Ahmed Tijan and Sherif Younis.

Qatar SuperBike Championship (QBSK) defending champion Alex Cudlin (centre), celebrates on the podium with Mishal Al Naimi (left) and Nina Prinz at Losail International Circuit on Saturday night. Cudlin won the second race of the second round of the QSBK. PICTURE BY: SALIM MATRAMKOT MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

Moore retains CIMB Classic Pakistan close on series title in Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR: American Ryan Moore won the CIMB win after Misbah’s blitz Classic at the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club yester- day, successfully defending the Pakistan captain scores 56-ball hundred to equal Richards’ record title he won last year. Moore started the final day tied for the lead with countryman ABU DHABI: Pakistan were their first series defeat against Kevin Na but finished three shots on the verge of their first series the Pakistanis since a 1-0 loss in Scoreboard clear of the field at 17-under-par win over Australia in 20 years Pakistan in 1994. Pakistan (I innings): ...... 570-6 decl after closing with a 67. and victory in the second Test Australia’s woes with the bat Australia (I innings): ...... 261 His final round featured eight after skipper Misbah-ul Haq continued as left-arm spinner Pakistan (II innings): birdies and although he also made rewrote the record books with Zulfiqar Babar (3-65) struck Ahmed Shehzad b Johnson ...... 14 three bogeys, the 31-year-old held his belligerent batting in Abu regular blows by dismissing Chris Mohd Hafeez c Starc b Johnson ...... 3 his composure to claim his fourth Dhabi on Sunday. Rogers (two), Glenn Maxwell Azhar Ali (not out) ...... 100 career PGA Tour and second Misbah smashed a 56-ball hun- (four) and Michael Clarke (five) Younis Khan lbw Smith ...... 46 Asian Tour title. dred, equalling West Indian leg- in 19 balls to leave Australia tot- Misbah-ul Haq (not out) ...... 101 “It was incredible to finish end Viv Richards’ record made tering at 43-3. Extras (B-23, LB-4, NB-1, W-1) ...... 29 the way I did,” he told a news against England at Antigua in Clarke was beaten by a beauti- Total (for 3 wkts decl) ...... 293 conference. 1986, minutes after breaking the ful turner as the Australian cap- Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-21, 3-152. “Coming down to the last few mark for the fastest fifty which tain pushed on the backfoot only Bowling: Johnson 7-1-45-2; Lyon 18-3-48- holes, I like to tell myself all the he made off just 21 balls at Sheikh to see his stumps disturbed. 0; Starc 11.4-2-56-0 (1w); Siddle 14-4-48- time that I’m a closer. That’s what Zayed Stadium. That summed up Clarke’s mis- 0; Smith 6-0-54-1; Marsh 4-1-15-0. I play golf for.” Misbah’s stunning blitz set up erable series with only 57 runs. “It’s been a great week, I’m a Australia (II innings): Misbah ul Pakistan to declare their second David Warner had held on end C Rogers c Shafiq b Babar ...... 2 little bit lost for words,” Moore innings at 293-3, setting a daunt- intact, reaching his 13th half- Haq raises said in a televised interview. “To D Warner c Shah b Hafeez ...... 58 his bat after ing 603-run target for Australia century before miscuing a drive G Maxwell lbw Babar...... 4 come back and defend a title, it’s who suffered another batting off Mohammad Hafeez and was a record Test something I’ve never before.” M Clarke b Babar ...... 5 century against collapse before reaching 143-4 at caught for 58. Earlier Misbah, S Smith (batting) ...... 38 Spain’s Sergio Garcia, the high- Australia in the stumps on the fourth day. notorious for his slow batting in M Marsh (batting) ...... 26 est-ranked player in the field at second Test Steven Smith (38) and Mitchell one-day internationals, removed Extras (B-4, NB-1, PEN-5) ...... 10 fourth in the world, drained a long Marsh (26) were at the crease as all doubts about his credentials. Total (for 4 wkts) ...... 143 in Abu Dhabi par putt on the final hole to fin- Australia still need another 460 In all he hit 11 boundaries and Fall of wickets: 1-19, 2-31, 3-43, 4-101. yesterday. ish with a 69 in a three-way tie runs for an unlikely win or bat five sixes off 57 balls during his Bowling: Rahat 5-4-1-0; Khan 5-1-13-0; for second. out three sessions on the final two centuries in the match, a Hafeez 12-1-33-1; Babar 17-1-65-3; Shah He made three birdies on the day to avoid a 2-0 whitewash, blitz which overshadowed Azhar 8-0-21-0 (1nb); Ali 1-0-1-0. front nine but lost his chance Ali’s feat of 100 not out, making with a double bogey on the par- Fastest centuries this only the second occasion in minutes against South Africa at five 10th. Test cricket’s history when two Johannesburg in 1921. “I just had a really bad break in Test cricket batsmen scored a century in each Misbah took 74 minutes to on 10, hit my tee shot a little Following is a list of the fastest centuries in innings in the same match. reach the mark. left and hit the cart path, and Australian brothers Ian and Misbah cut loose after Younis the ball kind of disappeared,” Test cricket after Pakistan captain Misbah- Greg Chappell scored centuries in Khan fell for 46, hitting three Garcia said. ul-Haq reached the mark in 56 balls against each innings against New Zealand sixes and a four off one Steven “That one kind of put me off a Australia in Abu Dhabi yesterday: at Wellington in 1973. Smith over and then hit the spin- little bit. I had to do something Batsman Balls Country Opposition Year Misbah beat the previous ner for his fourth six an over really, really extremely good com- Viv Richards 56 West Indies England 1986 record of the fastest half-century later. In all he hit four bounda- ing in, and there were some tough Misbah-ul-Haq 56 Pakistan Australia 2014 held by South Africa’s Jacques ries and as many sixes in his fifty. holes.” Adam Gilchrist 57 Australia England 2006 Kallis scored against Zimbabwe Misbah pushed Starc for three Na birdied three of his first Jack Gregory 67 Australia S Africa 1921 at Cape Town in 2004. to complete the fastest Test fifty four holes to lead by two strokes Misbah hit two boundaries off ever which took only 24 minutes. and was still one shot ahead after S Chanderpaul 69 West Indies Australia 2003 paceman Mitchell Starc to reach The previous fastest fifty was by Shahid Afridi who took 26 Pakistan had resumed at 61-2 when things fell apart. David Warner 69 Australia India 2012 his hundred, punched the air in terms of time was held balls to reach the mark, against on the fourth morning, losing He dropped a shot at the 13th Chris Gayle 70 West Indies Australia 2009 in delight and waved his bat to by Bangladesh’s Mohammad India at Bangalore in 2005. only Younis Khan to Smith before then double-bogeyed the 17th Roy Fredericks 71 West Indies Australia 1975 team-mates. Ashraful who took 27 minutes for Majid Khan previously held the lunch. Younis, who scored century when his ball lodged into the top Majid Khan 74 Pakistan N Zealand 1976 This is also the second fast- his fifty against India at Dhaka record for the fastest hundred by in each innings of Pakistan’s 221- of a palm tree before rebounding Kapil Dev 74 India Sri Lanka 1986 est hundred in terms of time, in 2007. a Pakistani, scored off 74 balls run win in the first Test in Dubai, with a birdie at the last and sign behind Australia’s Jack Gregory The previous fastest Test half- against New Zealand in Karachi finished with a Pakistani record of for a 70, joining Garcia and Gary M Azharuddin 74 India S Africa 1996 who reached a hundred in 70 century by a Pakistani batsman in 1976. 468 runs in two matches. AFP Woodland at 14-under. AFP Chess: Kramnik sets date with Qatar Masters Open DOHA: Russian Grandmaster women players and best Arab Qatar Masters Open 2014 Vladimir Kramnik will be one players,” said Al Modiahki while Qatar Masters Open 2014 of the several top ranked players talking to The Peninsula. Players who will take part in the Qatar Masters Open 2014 which will take place from November Prize money who will be taking part in the “Among the top players, one 25 to December 5. Winner $25,000 Qatar Masters Open, informed of them is Vladimir Kramnik Runner-up $15,000 Qatar Chess Association (QCA) of Russia. Other plaeyrs include Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, GM (FRA); Vladimir Kramnik,GM (RUS); Anish Giri, GM (NED); Shakhriyar officials here yesterday. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Mamedyarov, GM (AZE); Liren Ding, GM (CHN); Pentala Harikrishna, GM,(IND); Pavel Eljanov,GM Third place $10,000 Mohammed Ahmed Al Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Anish (UKR); Baadur Jobava, GM (GEO); Alexander Moiseenko, GM (UKR); Yuriy Kryvoruchko, GM (UKR); 4 $7,000 Modiahki, Grandmaster and Giri, Alexei Shirov, Gata Kamsky, Xiangzhi Bu,GM (CHN); Arkadij Naiditsch,GM (GER); Romain Edouard,GM (FRA); Richard Rapport, 5 $6,000 General Secretary of QCA said Pentala Harikrishna, Pavel GM (HUN); Evgeny Tomashevsky,GM (RUS); Gabriel Sargissian, GM (ARM); Ivan Cheparinov, 6 $5,000 some of the top players of the Eljanov have already confirmed GM (BUL); Inarkiev, Ernesto, GM (RUS); Yangyi Yu,GM (CHN); Sergei Movsesian,GM (ARM); Ivan 7 $4,000 world will be in Qatar for the their participation.” Saric,GM (CRO); Julio E Granda Zuniga, GM (PER); Rauf Mamedov,GM (AZE); Sanan Sjugirov,GM November 25 to December 5 Qatar challenge at the chal- (RUS); Viktor Bologan, GM (MDA); Ferenc Berkes, GM (HUN); Vladimir Akopian, GM (ARM); Yuriy 8 $3,000 championship. lenge at the championship will Kuzubov, GM (UKR); Sergey A Fedorchuk,GM (UKR); Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli,GM (VEN); Eltaj 9 $2,000 “The Prize money on offer at be lead by Gradmaster Chen Zhu. Safarli, GM (AZE); Zahar Efimenko, GM (UKR); Erwin L’Ami,GM (NED); Mateusz Bartel,GM (POL); 10 $1,500 the championship is one of the The other Qatari competitors Evgeny Romanov, GM (RUS); Andrei Volokitin,GM (UKR); Abhijeet Gupta, GM (IND); Andrey Vovk, highest in the Middle East. The will be Mohammed Al Sayed and 11 $1,300 winner will get $25,000. Besides Husein Aziz Nezad. GM (UKR); Mikheil Mchedlishvili, GM (GEO); Robin Van Kampen, GM (NED); David Anton Guijarro, 12 $1,200 GM (ESP); Hrant Melkumyan, GM (ARM); Milos Perunovic, GM (SRB); Hicham Hamdouchi, GM we have prize money for best THE PENINSULA 13 $1,100 (FRA); Samuel L Shankland,GM (USA); Bartosz Socko, GM (POL); Ivan Salgado Lopez,GM (ESP); Surya Shekhar Ganguly, GM (IND); B Adhiban, GM (IND); Mikhailo Oleksienko, GM (UKR); Dariusz 14 $1,100 Qatar’s Grandmaster Zhu Chen (left) and Vladimir Kramnik of Russia will be one of the many players who will Swiercz,GM (POL); Aleksandr Rakhmanov,GM (RUS); Vasif Durarbayli, GM (AZE); Daniil Dubov,GM 15 $1,100 be seen in action in the Qatar Masters Open, which will take place in Doha from November 25 to December (RUS); Alexander Ipatov, GM (TUR); Guseinov, Gadir, GM (AZE); Aleksander Mista,GM (POL); Ivan 16 $1,100 5. TOP: Mohammed Ahmed Al Modiahki, Grandmaster and General Secretary of Qatar Chess Federation. Ivanisevic,GM (SRB); Sebastian Bogner,GM (SUI); Kamil Miton,GM (POL); Jun Zhao, GM (CHN); 17 $1,000 Robert Hovhannisyan, GM (ARM); Falko Bindrich, GM (GER); Chanda Sandipan,GM (IND); Aleksandr 18 $1,000 Lenderman, GM (USA); Yang Wen,GM (CHN); Nils Grandelius, GM (SWE); Daniel Naroditsky,GM (USA); Eric Hansen,GM (CAN); Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, GM (IRI); Artur Jussupow,GM (GER); 19 $1,000 Jan-Krzysztof Duda,GM (POL); Hovhannes Gabuzyan, GM (ARM); Aleksandar Indjic,GM (SRB); 20 $1,000 Matthieu Cornette,GM (FRA); G. Narayanan Gopal,GM (IND); Fabien Libiszewski, GM (FRA); Total $89,300 Stelios Halkias,GM (GRE); Wenjun Ju,WGM (CHN); Rasul Ibrahimov, GM (AZE); Jun Xu,GM (CHN); Best women Best Arab John Paul Gomez, GM (PHI); Bela Khotenashvili,GM (GEO); R. Rajpara Ankit, GM (IND); Alexander Donchenko,IM (GER); Mohammed Al Sayed, GM (QAT); Antoaneta Stefanova,GM (BUL); Dronavalli players players Harika, GM (IND); Mikhail Al.Antipov,GM (RUS); Rui Gao, GM (CHN); Pontus Carlsson, GM (SWE); 1 $5,000 $3,500 Chithambaram VR Aravindh, IM (IND); Irina Krush,GM (USA); Das Debashis,GM (IND); Qian Huang, 2 $3,000 $2,500 WGM (CHN); Pavel Potapov, IM (RUS); Lela Javakhishvili,IM (GEO); Diptayan Ghosh,IM (IND); 3 $2,000 $1,500 Sundar M Shyam, GM (IND); Chen Zhu, GM (QAT); Elina Danielian,GM (ARM); Aryan Tari,IM (NOR); 4 $1,000 $1,000 Bogdan Belyakov, IM (RUS); Natalia Zhukova,GM (UKR); Amirreza Pourramezanali, FM (IRI); Alina 5 $500 $500 L’Ami, WGM (ROU); Nico Georgiadis,IM (SUI); Wei Ming Kevin Goh,IM (SIN); M. S.Thejkumar, IM Total $11,500 $9,000 (IND); Das Neelotpal,GM (IND); Nino Batsiashvili, WGM (GEO); Sayantan Das,IM (IND); Shardul Gagare,IM,(IND); Rishi Sardana,(AUS); Kidambi Sundararajan, GM (IND); Mohsen Sharbaf, IM (IRI); Qatar Masters Open Guido Caprio,IM (ITA); Noel Studer, FM (SUI); Deimante Daulyte,WGM,(LTU); Eduard Kanter,IM 2014 Schedule (RUS); Yinglun Xu,(CHN); Sopiko Guramishvili, IM (GEO); Bogdan-Daniel Deac,FM (ROU); Inna Opening Ceremony Nov 25 7:00 PM Gaponenko,IM (UKR); Jue Wang, WGM (CHN); Alexander Seyb,FM (GER); Erik Hedman,FM (SWE); Round 1 Nov 26 3:00 PM Husein Aziz Nezad,IM (QAT); Ponnuswamy Konguvel, IM (IND); Ernest Kharous,IM (RUS); Irine Kharisma Sukandar,WGM (INA); Mary Ann Gomes,WGM (IND); Atousa Pourkashiyan,WGM (IRI); Round 2 Nov 27 3:00 PM Ahmad Asgarizadeh, (IRI); M. Amin Tabatabaei,FM (IRI); Gabriel Gaehwiler,FM (SUI); Markus Round 3 Nov 28 3:00 PM Lammers,IM (GER); Dinara Saduakassova, WGM (KAZ); Zhansaya Abdumalik,WGM (KAZ); Ticia Round 4 Nov 29 3:00 PM Gara,WGM (HUN); Awonder Liang, FM (USA); Shiqun Ni,WIM (CHN); Guillermo Vazquez,FM Round 5 Nov 30 3:00 PM (PAR); Julia Kochetkova,WGM (SVK); Kambez Nuri, FM (SUI); Pier Luigi Basso,FM (ITA); Gunay Round 6 Dec 01 3:00 PM Mammadzada,WFM (AZE); Elijah Emojong, IM (UGA); Katerina Nemcova, WGM (USA); Sameer Round 7 Dec 02 3:00 PM Kathmale, IM (IND); Johan-Sebastian Christiansen, FM (NOR); Sarasadat Khademalsharieh, WGM (IRI); Saad Belouadah, IM (ALG); Jovana Vojinovic, WGM (SRB); Aryan Gholami, FM (IRI); Round 8 Dec 03 3:00 PM Mo Zhai,WIM (CHN); Valentina Golubenko,WGM (CRO); Sabina-Francesca Foisor, WGM (USA); Round 9 Dec 04 12:00PM Xiaobing Gu, WGM (CHN); Zeynab Mamedyarova, WGM (AZE); Turkan Mamedyarova, WGM (AZE). Closing Ceremony Dec 04 7:00 PM MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Doha GOALS Forum kicks off today Sporting greats, world leaders arrive in Qatari capital for third edition of global meet

DOHA: Under the patron- Executive producer Richard age of the Emir of Qatar, H H Attias said: “Our aim is to Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al make a difference in the Thani, the third edition of the world, using sport. We’ve been Doha GOALS Forum will open thrilled to see our Student at Aspire Academy here today. Ambassadors take their learning Doha GOALS is the premier and contacts from Doha GOALS platform for world leaders to and create some incredible ini- advance social and economic tiatives to help improve people’s change through sport. lives — they are the leaders of The event will welcome leaders tomorrow. from around the globe who will “By bringing together a wide come together to discuss the four variety of speakers and delegates main topics for this year’s forum from both the private and public — engaging youth, innovation and sector, a wide variety of sporting creativity, empowering people and legends, policy makers and the the role of sport in the Middle fantastic Student Ambassadors, East and North Africa. we can continue to use sport Speakers at this year’s Doha to inspire social and economic GOALS Forum began arriv- improvement.” ing yesterday and include leg- Doha GOALS Foundation, in ends of sport such as George partnership with Connor Sports Foreman, Lord Sebastian Coe, and local authorities, built two Boris Becker and Oliver Kahn. Sport Court Power Game multi- Also scheduled to speak at the purpose courts; one in Port Gentil, opening of the Forum are H E Ali Gabon, and another in Nablus, Bongo Ondimba, President of the West Bank, Palestine. This new Gabonese Republic, and French initiative came following last Minister of Youth Affairs and year’s Forum which highlighted Sport Valerie Fourneyron. key areas across the globe as hav- The Doha GOALS Forum also The Executive Producer of Doha GOALS Forum, Richard Attias, speaking at the event last year. ing an issue with access to recrea- includes a student ambassador tional grounds. programme, which brings more their own initiatives using the Olympic Committee, the local brought together more than 600 from Oprah Winfrey and Al Gore, This year, the Forum endeav- than 350 students to the event to knowledge and contacts gained track and field association and participants. now focuses on looking at how ours to take stock of on-going engage with industry leaders to from attending Doha GOALS as the Countrywide Department for Also, the forum introduced sport can play a critical role in initiatives and determine how provide inputs for initiatives. well as their own creativity. Sport and Youth in Constanta, to a new initiative aimed at chal- contributing to the building of a best to implement them at the The programme, launched at Earlier this year, inspired by bridge the social gap between the lenging the practice of racism better world and is working with national and community level as the first Doha GOALS in 2012, Doha GOALS, student ambas- residents of Constanta and tour- and discrimination in sport. The the Nelson Mandela Foundation well as launch new innovative ini- has been incredibly successful and sador Elif Mehmet united stake- ists. Elift founded the Olympic foundation’s programme, Global and the Sexwale Foundation on tiatives and programs. has inspired students to create holders, including the Romanian Day Running Race which Watch, which has received praise advancing this mission. THE PENINSULA Enrique in firing line after Barca loss Australia toasts Asian

BARCELONA: Barcelona to keep believing in ourselves. started afresh this season under We want to turn this around and champs Wanderers new coach Luis Enrique but his win titles because we are the best position is already being ques- team in the world,” Suarez told tioned with the team suffering reporters SYDNEY: Australia hailed their hosts who looked destined back-to-back La Liga defeats Defensively, they are also lack- Western Sydney Wanderers’ to win a third ACL title.” and failing to play the dashing ing a regular centre-half pairing remarkable rise from new club The Daily Telegraph said: “From football expected of them. and against Celta, Gerard Pique to AFC Champions League win- a twinkle in Australian football’s Luis Enrique arrived at Barca was watching from the stands ners in only two years after they eye to champions of Asia in less having impressed with the quick- having been left out of the squad. became the first side from the than three years. The incred- passing philosophy he instilled at The Spain international’s form country to win the Asian title on ible story of the Western Sydney Celta Vigo and on Saturday he has been poor and he continues to Saturday night. Wanderers has its finest chapter was outdone by his former play- hit the headlines for disciplinary Some 5,000 joyous Wanderers to date. ers as the stuttering Catalan side reasons. fans watched the game on a “The Wanderers somehow lost 1-0 and relinquished top spot Javier Mascherano remains a giant screen in their heartland held out against the relentless in La Liga. fundamental player at the back of Parramatta and celebrated onslaught of Saudi giant Al Hilal The surprise beating comes on despite being a converted central the club’s 1-0 aggregate win over before a frenzied home crowd to the back of their El Clasico defeat midfielder. Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal in Riyadh become the first Australian team last weekend, when they were “We had a poor game and we in style. Fans hugged each other to win the Asian Champions comprehensively outplayed by an were not sharp. Along with the and set off red flares as the League.” in-form Real Madrid. fact we were unable to create Wanderers held on for a 0-0 draw The Guardian Australia Against Celta, their disjointed chances we were not able to show after winning the home leg 1-0 to described it as “surely the football performance led to whistles from Barcelona’s Lionel Messi reacts during a La Liga match against RC Celta our football and that is worrying,” clinch the Asian club title in only story of the year”. the Camp Nou crowd and sports de Vigo at the Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona on Saturday. Mascherano said. “Still the season their third season. “The Wanderers are champions director Andoni Zubizarreta was is long and you can’t be at your The triumph was hailed as “the of Asia. Three years ago, people forced into backing the coach triggered the end for Gerardo to make an impact against Celta. best all the time. We know that greatest result in Australian club would have claimed you were after being asked about his future Martino but there has been lit- Alongside him, Sergio Busquets there are people as well who want football history”. “They’ve done it. crazy to say such a thing -- and on Spanish television. tle sign of improvement so far in does not appear as sharp as he to make out the team is worse Western Sydney Wanderers have they would have been right,” it “There are no doubts about terms of the style of play. was a few seasons ago even though than it actually is.” REUTERS achieved the seemingly impossi- said. Luis Enrique,” Zubizarreta told They are lacking the pressur- he is only 26. ble to become the first Australian “Three years ago, there was no Canal Plus. ing from the attack backwards The team has been reliant on champions of Asia,” The Sydney such thing as Western Sydney “Football is like this, you hit which was one of the hallmarks the individual skills of their for- La Liga Results Morning Herald trumpeted. Wanderers yet here they were on four posts and their keeper plays of the Pep Guardiola era and in wards but against Celta they sur- Athletic Club 1 Sevilla 0 “A club that didn’t exist three Saturday evening, driving millions very well. Our football was lacking possession the link up play is less prisingly were unable to deliver. Saturday’s Matches years ago has now clinched the of Saudi Arabian fans mad with a bit at 1-0 but still we had clear incisive. Luis Suarez made his home Atletico Madrid 4 Cordoba 2 greatest result in Australian club frustration before lifting the big- chances that we didn’t take. In Ivan Rakitic was supposed to league debut and did well in Barcelona 0 Celta Vigo 1 football history by toppling Asia’s gest prize in the world’s biggest the first half, we controlled the take over from Xavi as the heart- patches but understandably lacks Granada CF 0 Real Madrid 4 club of the century to win a his- continent.” game despite Celta pressing high beat of the side in midfield but match fitness following his four- toric champions league title. Twitter went into meltdown Real Sociedad 0 Malaga 1 up the pitch.” after some strong displays in his month biting ban. “The Wanderers hung on by the with users clamouring to express Barca missed out on all the opening games, the Croat has “We didn’t have the necessary Friday’s Match skin of their teeth, with a mixture their praise for Western Sydney. major trophies last season which now lost his way and was unable luck against Celta but we need Deportivo Coruna 1 Getafe 2 of desperation and luck denying AFP PSG gear change cranks up pressure on Marseille

PARIS: Unbeaten Paris Saint launch a blistering break in their the misfiring Yohan Cabaye Later Saturday, Lille host St Germain drew to within a sin- orange strip and yellow boots. and Jean-Christophe Bahebeck Etienne, Nantes welcome Rennes gle point of Ligue 1 leaders Andre Ayew took the ball for a tired looking Ezequiel in the Brittany derby Sunday and Marseille on Saturday with a into the box and fed midfielder Lavezzi and it paid immediate Marseille will be keen to reopen a come-from-behind 2-1 away win Guerreiro, who stunned PSG dividends. four-point gap on Paris when they over Lorient. goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu with Veratti fed Bahebeck as he host Lens in Sunday’s late game. Lorient stunned the champions his sudden tight-angled shot to ran into space and his shot flew AFP with Raphael Guerreiro’s tight make it 1-0. home from a tight angle to send shot opening the scoring on 42 “We played badly all over the a wave of joy through a relieved minutes. pitch in the first half. But you Paris side. Ligue 1 Results But Paris came back early in saw straight away the difference In his post-match interview Nantes 1 (Armand 21-og) Rennes 1 (Pedro the second-half with goals from in the second half, and we got a Blanc was taking no credit, and Henrique 4) Edinson Cavani and substitute goal straight away and went in for instead blasted the sloppy atti- Playing later Jean-Christophe Bahebeck. the win,” the PSG ‘keeper said. tude of his players. Bordeaux vs Toulouse, Marseille vs Lens Marseille, who lost at Lyon last And the difference was indeed “That was the worst first-half weekend, have 25 points ahead of eye-catching as Paris moved up I’ve seen since becoming a coach. Saturday’s Matches their home game with Lens on a gear. We we’re astonishingly poor,” said Lorient 1 (Guerreiro 42) Paris Saint-Germain Sunday and PSG have 24, as these A defence splitting pass from Blanc. 2 (Cavani 60, Bahebeck 68) two giants of French football get Argentine playmaker Javier “The players have to under- Metz 3 (M. Maiga 10, 50, Malouda 90-pen) ready to go head-to-head in Paris Pastore set up Cavani’s equal- stand that games are won over Caen 2 (Calve 65, Koita 83) next weekend. iser just after the break, the 90 minutes, and we can’t allow Montpellier 2 (Berigaud 32, Mounier 90) Paris also maybe had one eye Uruguayan nimbly hoisting the this to happen again.” Evian 0 on their Champions League ball over the onrushing ‘keeper But PSG can now look ahead Nice 1 (Puel 51) Lyon 3 (Malbranque 64, clash with APOEL of Cyprus in before executing his traditional to next Sunday with confidence. Lacazette 80, 90+4) midweek, given the pedestrian rifle-shot goal celebration. “We are hoping for a great show Lille 1 (Frey 16) Saint-Etienne 1 (Gradel 60) nature of a sluggish first-half It was his third goal in three next week and a great perform- Guingamp 1 (Yatabaré 32) Bastia 0 performance. starts. ance from both teams, we’re all Friday’s Match Paris St Germain’s Edinson Cavani reacts during a Ligue 1 match against But they were given a rude Coach Laurent Blanc then looking forward to it,” said Sirigu. Lorient at the Moustoir Stadium in Lorient on Saturday. awakening just before half-time. made a double substitution In Friday’s game Monaco drew Monaco 1 (Echiejile 20) Reims 1 (Moukandjo Lorient came out of defence to bringing on Marco Veratti for 1-1 at home to Reims. 80) MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27

QSL’s honourees of the month

Al Sadd head coach Hussein Amute poses with the coach of the month trophy. Amute was presented with the QSL’s October coach of the month award at Al Sadd Stadium yesterday. In the month of October the Moroccan tactician oversaw an incredible run of games that put them top of the QSL table. RIGHT: Al Sadd player Rodrigo Tabata poses with his trophy. He was presented with the QSL’s October player of the month award. In the month of October Rodrigo Tabata was able to score three goals and had five assists (during rounds 6 to 10).

City rivals Aguero condemns Van Gaal Samp, Genoa hit Serie A heights to Manchester derby defeat MILAN: Serie A high-flyers Sampdoria reclaimed third spot yesterday thanks to a 3-1 home win over Fiorentina, while city Tottenham come from behind to overcome 10-man Aston Villa 2-1 rivals Genoa fought back to claim a precious 4-2 away win at Udinese. LONDON: Sergio Aguero’s table, two points adrift of second- Sampdoria went in for the half- goal ensured Louis van Gaal’s placed Southampton. time break 2-1 up after Angelo first Manchester derby ended in Recently City have been held to Palomba, from the penalty spot, defeat as Manchester City beat a disappointing 2-2 draw away to and Luca Rizzo both opened their 10-man Manchester United 1-0 CSKA Moscow in the Champions account for Sinisa Mihajlovic’s at Eastlands yesterday. League and been beaten beaten in side with Stefan Savic reducing United manager Van Gaal’s side the league by West Ham. the arrears for La Viola on the had to play more than half the They also saw their defence of Manchester stroke of half-time. match a man down as defender the English League Cup end with Samp made sure of all three City’s Sergio Chris Smalling was sent off in a 2-0 loss at home to Newcastle in points in the 77th minute when Aguero the 39th minute after collecting midweek but Sunday’s result was Fiorentina forward David Pizarro two needless yellow cards, hav- just the boost Manuel Pellegrini’s celebrates lost possession in midfield and ing charged down goalkeeper Joe men needed ahead of Wednesday’s after scoring Eder pounced to beat fellow Hart’s clearance kick before a return Champions League group a goal during Brazilian Neto in the Fiorentina reckless foul on James Milner. clash with CSKA. the English net. City had several penalty appeals “It is a boost for us and we will Premier League Sampdoria’s fifth win means rejected by referee Michael Oliver do our job again in the Champions match against they replaced Napoli in third place before Aguero fired City into a League on Wednesday,” said City Manchester and now trail leaders Juventus by 63rd-minute lead after finish- captain Vincent Kompany. United at the six points, with Roma in second ing from close range to crown a United’s defeat, and Tottenham Etihad Stadium three points off the pace. superb one-touch move involving Hotspur’s win over Aston Villa in Manchester, Mihajlovic told Sky Sport: “Very Yaya Toure and Gael Clichy. later Sunday, meant they dropped yesterday. few people would have put us in The Argentinian striker’s 10th to 10th place and remained 13 third place after 10 games. The league goal of the season left him points off the summit, with Dutch lads were great. From start to fin- top of the Premier League scoring boss Van Gaal still to record his ish they played to win.” charts after he had been tied on first away league win as manager Napoli, 2-0 winners over Roma nine goals with Chelsea’s Diego of the Red Devils. on Saturday, sit in fourth place Costa heading into this week- “I said to the boys that the will- a point behind Sampdoria with end’s round of matches. Hart then power, the labour was unbelieva- Genoa moving up to a surprise saved well from Angel di Maria to ble,” said Van Gaal, who explained fifth thanks to an entertain- deny United an equaliser 14 min- he had no complaints regarding ing comeback win at the Friuli utes from time before Marouane Smalling’s “logical” dismissal. as manager and replaced by leg- the hosts had to play the final 25 corner before rising star Kane, Stadium. Fellaini wastefully headed wide “When you can give that, you endary boss Alex Ferguson. minutes a man down after striker a life-long fan of north London Hosts Udinese got off the mark when well-placed to make it 1-1. can be very proud but we have In Birmingham, Tottenham Christian Benteke was shown a club Spurs and a product of their inside the opening minute when Victory in front of their own zero points and in sport it is came from behind to beat 10-man red card for a slap on the face of youth system, grabbed the winner. veteran striker Antonio Di Natale fans saw Premier League champi- always the goals that count,” he Villa 2-1, with 21-year-old substi- Spurs’ Ryan Mason. Victory saw Spurs climb to was sent through on goal to beat ons City move to within six points added, with United’s haul of 13 tute Harry Kane’s deflected free- Spurs eventually made their eighth place, six points above the Mattia Perin in the Genoa net. of leaders Chelsea as they ended a points from 10 games represent- kick in the 90th minute sealing advantage pay by scoring two relegation zone. But Villa’s sixth Genoa coach Gian Piero run of three games without a win ing their worst start to an English victory for the visitors. goals inside the final six minutes loss in a row meant they remained Gasperini admitted he feared in all competitions. top-flight season since 1986/87, Andreas Weimann’s 16th- at Villa Park. just two points above the bottom their midweek win over Juventus, But they remained third in the when Ron Atkinson was sacked minute goal gave Villa the lead but Nacer Chadli struck from a three. AFP which came days after a precious 2-1 win away to Chievo, had gone to his players’ heads. “We didn’t start well at all. I thought perhaps the players’ Moenchengladbach equal club record minds were still on the win over Juve. Instead, we went on to BERLIN: Borussia of VfB Stuttgart on Saturday as produce a solid performance,” Moenchengladbach stayed ex-Chelsea midfielder Kevin de Gasperini told Sky. “Nine points within four points of Bundesliga Bruyne netted his first goal of the in a week isn’t a bad return.” leaders Bayern Munich as yes- season and created another two. Even Di Natale seemed sur- terday’s 3-1 home win over Wolves picked up their sixth prised at how easy the hosts’ Hoffenheim equalled a club Moenchengladbach’s straight win in all competitions. opener had come, but Genoa record of 17 games unbeaten midfielder Patrick At the foot of the table, both bounced back in impressive this season. Herrmann (right) north German neighbours Werder fashion. Left winger Patrick Hermann celebrates after Bremen and Hamburg picked up Giovanni Marchese levelled was Gladbach’s star at Borussia scoring a goal wins which saw Dortmund drop with a great half-volley on 21 Park as he set up the first goal with midfielder into the bottom three. A Rafael minutes and three minutes later for right winger Andre Hahn, Andre Hahn during van der Vaart penalty sealed Falque Iago restored the visitors’ then netted twice either side of their German first Hamburg’s 1-0 win at home to lead. half-time. division Bundesliga Bayer Leverkusen in a bad-tem- Silvan Widmer pulled Udinese After Hahn had put the hosts pered affair which saw nine yel- level four minutes before the match against ahead, Hoffenheim’s French low cards – six were handed out break but Genoa were back in 1899 Hoffenheim in striker Anthony Modeste equal- in the first half alone – after two front when former Juventus and ised with 30 minutes gone when he Moenchengladbach, separate scuffles broke out. Milan reject Alessandro Matri powered past Gladbach defender Germany yesterday. Freiburg, who are at Cologne struck 10 minutes after the Martin Stranzl to fire home. later on Sunday, went bottom of restart. Juraj Kucka made sure But Herrmann converted a the table after Werder Bremen of the points for Gasperini’s side Hahn cross just two minutes later, moved up to 17th with caretaker three minutes from full-time then tapped in the rebound after coach Viktor Skripnikas getting when he beat Orestis Karnezis Havard Nordtveit’s free-kick was them their first win of the season. with a drive from outside the parried with 52 minutes gone. Ex-Chelsea and Wigan striker area. Gladbach coach Lucien Favre with Hoffenheim fourth after games, it is the worst start to a converted an 85th-minute penalty Franco di Santo netted both goals Elsewhere, hosts Torino were celebrated his 57th birthday with their first defeat of the season. league season in Dortmund’s his- to seal win. in a 2-1 victory over Mainz. held to a scoreless draw by the win which equalled the club’s On Saturday, Bayern com- tory and they are the only team in Robben returned to haunt Hanover 96 went sixth with Atalanta while Sassuolo’s recent record from the 1970/71 sea- pounded Borussia Dortmund’s Germany’s top flight to have lost Dortmund having scored the a 1-0 victory over Eintracht resurgence was halted by the son of 17 games unbeaten in all misery with a 2-1 victory over last seven games this season. winner in the 2013 Champions Frankfurt. same scoreline away to basement competitions. season’s Bundesliga runners-up, Marco Reus, who is reported League final and he also netted in On Friday, Roberto di Matteo side Chievo. Borussia finish the weekend who now find themselves 16th in to be a Bayern target, gave Bayern’s 2-0 extra-time win over picked up his third win in four Today Verona are away to third in the table on goal differ- the table and amongst the relega- Dortmund a first-half lead Dortmund in May’s German Cup matches as Schalke 04 coach struggling Cesena while Lazio, ence, but level on 20 points with tion places after their fifth con- only for Bayern striker Robert final in Berlin. when Klaas-Jan Huntelaar unbeaten in their last five outings, VfL Wolfsburg. The pair are just secutive defeat. With seven points Lewandowski to score against Wolfsburg finish the weekend scored in a 1-0 victory at home could also clinch third spot with four points behind leaders Bayern from their first ten Bundesliga his old club before Arjen Robben second with a 4-0 hammering to Augsburg to go seventh. AFP a win at home to Cagliari. 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Aprilia Racing Team rider Sylvain Guintoli leads the Superbike race in Losail yesterday. RIGHT: Guintoli celebrates his victory with his team-mates.

Guintoli reigns supreme at Losail Aprilia Racing Team’s rider emerges Superbike champion after winning both final races

D CHAKRABORTY SBK Superbike DOHA: Aprilia Racing Team rider Sylvain Guintoli pulled Standings off an incredible feat under the lights of Losail International 1. S. Guintoli Aprilia ...... 416 Circuit here yesterday by win- 2. T. Sykes Kawasaki ...... 410 ning both the final races of 3. J. Rea Honda ...... 334 the weekend to emerge as the 4. M. Melandri Aprilia ...... 333 2014 eni FIM Superbike World 5. L. Baz Kawasaki ...... 311 (WSBK) champion. 6. C. Davies Ducati ...... 215 In the penultimate race, Guintoli pulled away in the final Aprilia Racing Team 7. L. Haslam Honda ...... 187 four laps to cross the line ahead rider Sylvain Guintoli 8. D. Giugliano Ducati ...... 181 of Loris Baz (Kawasaki Racing lifts the trophy after 9. T. Elias Aprilia ...... 171 Team) and Tom Sykes (Kawasaki winning the FIM 10. E. Laverty Suzuki ...... 161 Racing Team) in what was one Superbike World of the most enthralling races of race at the Losail Supersport the season. International Circuit in Thanks to his fourth win of the Doha yesterday. year, Guintoli started the final Championship race of the evening just three 1 M. Vd Mark Honda ...... 230 points adrift of series leader and 2 J. Cluzelmv Agusta ...... 148 reigning champion Sykes. 3 F. Marino Kawasaki...... 125 This meant that both rid- 4 L. Zanetti Honda ...... 112 ers had everything to rider for 5 K. Coghlan Yamaha ...... 109 going into the final 17 laps of the evening. 6 P. Jacobsen Kawasaki ...... 99 “It feels good, an overwhelming 7 R. Rolfo Kawasaki ...... 97 feeling. I had a good season,” said 8 K. Sofuoglu Kawasaki ...... 94 Guintoli after winning the race. 9 R. Wilairot Honda ...... 70 “Last season I had an injury, it 10 R. De Rosa Honda ...... 70 was very painful and it was just a very hard and long season,” he in the second race and the end and worked harder from the start World Superbike Team) took over on the podium with the Honda involved in a titanic fight for the said while commenting on his win. result was there for everyone to and in the middle i just could not the reigns as race leader early in rider just edging the outgoing best classified EVO rider coming He praised his family for the see. “I was relaxed during the check myself,” he added during the second lap. Guintoli made champion for second in final three home ahead of Niccolo Canepa support which made a world of races, felt so good. I did not feel the post race press conference. his move, passing Sykes in the laps. (Althea Racing Ducati) in 11th, difference this season. so good riding, so it was a great Guintoli started from fifth on fourth lap and overtaking Rea in Five riders fought hard for Canepa was 12th. Bryan Staring “This year i could not wait for day, (correction) great night. the grid while Sykes began from the fifth. fourth with Marco Melandri (Iron Brain Grillini Kawasaki) racing and lucky to have a fantas- He said the first race was third and the final race started The Frenchman would hold on (Aprilia Racing Team) com- rode well to claim the 3rd EVO tic family. I spoke about stability, tougher than the second one. in nail-biting fashion with Leon to his lead for the rest of the race, ing home ahead of Chaz Davies placing in a credible 13th overall. I just had to try and do something “Mentally I was more relaxed Haslam (Pata Honda World as he took the first double victory (Ducati Superbike Team) and In the final standings Rea fin- special, I took some risks. I did ahead of the second race. In the Superbike Team) and Loris Baz of his career to seal the world title Toni Elias (Red Devils Roma ished third, one point ahead of not think I would be so fast, but first race I made sure I made no (Kawasaki Racing Team) collid- by six points. Aprilia). Baz. Four-time and defending it came.” mistakes, claw back and stay in it ing at turn one. Meanwhile, Sykes and Rea con- Newly-crowned Superbike EVO Qatari Superbike Champion, Alex Elaborating further he added for the second race, to take it on Sykes was heading the pack tinued to battle throughout the winner David Salom (Kawasaki Cudlin finished on 18th spot. that he maintained his composure and take the title. I felt confident but Jonathan Rea (Pata Honda race to determine the final spots Racing Team) was once again THE PENINSULA

British Formula Hamilton wins US Grand Prix One driver Lewis Hamilton of AUSTIN: Formula One cham- Mercedes AMG pionship leader Lewis Hamilton United States Grand Prix Results AUSTIN, United States: GP in action chalked up his 10th victory Results from United States Formula during the United of the season yesterday in a One Grand Prix yesterday: States Formula US Grand Prix that saw his 1. Lewis Hamilton (GBR/Mercedes) 1h40:04.785, 2. Nico Rosberg (GER/Mercedes) at 4.314, 1 Grand Prix at Mercedes team equal the record 3. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS/Red Bull Racing) 25.560, 4. Felipe Massa (BRA/Williams) 26.924, the Circuit of for one-two finishes. The Briton 5. Valtteri Bottas (FIN/Williams) 30.992, 6. Fernando Alonso (ESP/Scuderia Ferrari) 1:35.231, the Americas, in stretched his lead over team 7. Sebastian Vettel (GER/Red Bull Racing) 1:35.734, 8. Kevin Magnussen (DEN/McLaren Austin, Texas, mate Nico Rosberg to 24 points Mercedes) 1:40.682, 9. Jean-Eric Vergne (FRA/Toro Rosso) 1:43.863, 10. Pastor Maldonado USA, yesterday. with two races and 75 points (VEN/Lotus) 1:47.870. remaining. Overall Standings for Drivers Australian Daniel Riccardo 1. Lewis Hamilton (GBR) 316pts, 2. Nico Rosberg (GER) 292, 3. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) 214, 4. finished third for Red Bull. AFP Valtteri Bottas (FIN) 155, 5. Sebastian Vettel (GER) 149.