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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Partitioned Obama thanks for mediation house raided US soldier in released under swap deal after Qatar’s mediation in South

DOHA/WASHINGTON: they can expect his safe return, November when the sig- the deputy defence minister, while Madinat Khalifa US Army Sergeant Bowe mindful of their courage and sac- naled it wanted to resume talks Noori was the governor of Balkh Bergdahl (pictured), the only rifice throughout this ordeal…For on prisoners, reported province. A senior White House : In a major crackdown, American soldier held pris- his assistance in helping to secure yesterday. No direct US-Taliban official told that the US the authorities recently zeroed oner in Afghanistan, has been our soldier’s return, I extend my talks were involved, officials said, administration would not transfer in on a partitioned house in released following a swap deal deepest appreciation to the Emir and messages were past via Qatari any prisoners from Guantanamo South Madinat Khalifa that with Taliban brokered by Qatar. of Qatar. The Emir’s personal officials. The final stage of nego- “unless the threat they may pose was used for accommodating As part of Bergdahl’s release, commitment to this effort is a tiations, which took place in the to the US can be mitigated”. large number of labourers and the US is turning over five Taliban testament to the partnership Qatari capital of Doha, began one He added that the Taliban single workers. detainees at the US prison in between our two countries. The week ago, the US officials said. prisoners would be “subject The house was originally hired Guantanamo Bay, , to the is also grateful for Obama and Qatar’s Emir spoke to restrictions on their move- by a restaurant owner for accom- custody of Qatar, US officials said. the support of the Government on Tuesday and reaffirmed the ment and activities”. The deal modating his employees but it Bergdahl’s freedom followed of Afghanistan throughout security conditions under which was agreed through indirect turned out that the facility was a renewed round of indirect our efforts to secure Sergeant the Taliban members would be talks with the Taliban’s politi- being rented out to workers from US-Taliban talks in recent Bergdahl’s release,” said Obama. placed while in Qatari custody, cal commission and was part of other companies as well. months, with Qatar acting as Earlier in March, Qatar Taliban from power. He was cap- they said. a broader reconciliation frame- Representatives from the intermediary, the officials said. had mediated the release of 13 tured under unknown circum- The Taliban prisoners were to work, the official said. Ministry of Municipality and US President Orthodox nuns abducted in Syria. stances in eastern Afghanistan by be handed over to authorities in Obama announced this week Urban Planning, Ministry of announced the release of Bergdahl In June last year, Taliban had militants on June 30, 2009, about Qatar. They were named yester- that he would keep 9,800 US troops Interior and the Ministry of after being held prisoner in opened its political office in Doha two months after arriving in the day as , Mullah in Afghanistan, mostly to train Labour and Social Affairs took Afghanistan for nearly five years, which was later closed down fol- country. , Mohammed Nabi, Afghan forces, after Nato combat part in the raid that came in and thanked Qatar for its media- lowing a dispute over a flag. Bergdahl’s release yesterday and Abdul operations cease at the end of 2014. response to repeated complaints tory role. Bergdahl was the only known was the result of years of on and Haq Wasiq, Al Jazeera reported. The last soldiers, aside from a small from the residents of the area, Al “On behalf of the American missing US soldier in the Afghan off negotiations that a senior US All were high-ranking members presence at US diplomatic posts, Sharq reported. people, I was honoured to call his war that was launched soon after official, speaking on condition of the Taliban government top- will leave at the end of 2016. Mohammed Shaheen Al parents to express our joy that the 9/11 attacks to dislodge the of anonymity, said revived last pled by the US in 2001. Fazl was THE PENINSULA/AGENCIES Ateeq, a member of the Central Municipal Council (CMC) repre- senting the area, also accompa- nied the team. PM visits Al Khor Workers Sports Complex The raid was part of an ongoing campaign to implement the law Bahrain oppn banning labour accommodations in residential areas. to boycott The house, which has the capacity of a maximum nine peo- ple was being used to accommo- election unless date about 45 workers, the daily said quoting Al Ateeq. Six types deal reached of violations were detected at the facility, he added. MANAMA: Bahrain’s opposi- The house which originally had tion parties will boycott parlia- three or four small rooms were mentary elections due to take divided into more rooms having place this year unless the gov- wooden walls which also involves ernment guarantees the vote a clear violation of the law that will reflect the will of the peo- bans partitioning houses illegally. ple, a statement from the oppo- The inspection team also sition said yesterday. checked two other houses in the “The National Democratic area that were being used as Opposition Parties in Bahrain labour accommodations to make announced they are to boycott sure whether they had complied the coming Parliamentary elec- with warnings issued by the tions unless a clear political The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani recently visited Barwa Real Estate Company’s ‘Al Khor authorities earlier. agreement is reached,” said the Workers Sports Complex’. Prior to the tour, a presentation on the project was given by Ahmad Abdulla Al Abdulla, Acting Group CEO of Barwa Real THE PENINSULA statement issued after a meeting Estate. The Prime Minister praised the facilities and progress achieved under the ambitious project. Report on page 5 at the headquarters of Al Wefaq, the main opposition movement. “These elections must produce an elected government reflecting the will of the people, an inde- Erdogan to seek Turkish presidency Unity govt likely on pendent judiciary and a security services that reflect Bahrain’s diversity.” SISTANBUL: Prime Minister The three-time prime minis- a 2015 general election, enough to The groups urged the interna- Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be ter is widely expected to become change the constitution and allow Monday, says Abbas tional community to help them Turkey’s next president until Turkey’s first directly elected Erdogan to remain the head of his pursue a peaceful democratic tran- 2023 and parliament will change president after constitutional party, rather than being a suppos- RAMALLAH: Palestinian did elaborate on which measures sition. “The opposition will work the constitution to bestow more changes made in 2007. So far he edly neutral head of state, as is cur- President Mahmoud Abbas Israel has threatened to take. on developing the peaceful popular powers on the office, a senior has no rival for the race. rently required. said yesterday that he expects A Palestinian official said Israel struggle for democracy,” the state- party official said yesterday. “Erdogan will continue to serve “That way Erdogan will be a joint government of his Fatah had denied requests by three Gaza ment said. “We will stick to politi- Turkey’s most dominant politi- the people. In fact he will continue president as a member of a polit- party and Hamas Islamists will Palestinians expected to be named cal activism that is based only on cian in generations, Erdogan has as president,” said Mehmet Ali ical party, and he will continue be announced on June 2, com- as ministers to attend the new gov- peaceful principles and continue to said he will run for office if his Sahin, deputy chairman of the rul- to serve our people until 2023,” pleting a unity deal the sides enrment’s swearing-in ceremony in reject all and any violence.” party asks him to, but has yet to ing AK Party and a former cabinet Sahin said in comments broadcast agreed last month. the West Bank. Israel withheld tax Bahrain has been in turmoil announce his candidacy for an minister. Sahin said he expected by NTV news channel. Meeting with French peace revenues from Abbas last month, since protests erupted in 2011. August election. the AK Party to take more seats in Erdogan remains Turkey’s activists here, where his limited in retaliation for Abbas signing Talks between the government most popular politician despite a self-rule government is based, accords with international organi- and opposition have failed to end corruption scandal and last year’s Abbas said: “We will announce the sations, a step Israel said under- the political standoff. REUTERS anti-government protests, the government the day after tomor- mined peace talks. biggest Turkey has since in more row, it will be formed of techno- Abbas said a joint government than 30 years. crats and independents.” with Hamas would continue to Sudanese death Under current rules, the presi- None of the unity government’s abide by his policy of recognising dent must cut ties with political members would belong to either Israel, though the Islamist group sentence woman parties and has powers that are the Fatah or Islamist Hamas, insists it would not change its own largely ceremonial. The office is Abbas said. Hamas spokesman policy of rejecting Israel’s existence. to be freed soon now held by Erdogan’s political Sami Abu Zuhri said he could not Abbas has been keen to assure KHARTOUM: A Sudanese ally Abdullah Gul. confirm that all the details would Western donor countries he will woman sentenced to death for The party failed to gather be completed by Monday. remain the key Palestinian deci- converting to Christianity is enough support from rival parties Both parties see benefits to a sion-maker and security coor- expected to be released soon, in parliament to change the con- unity pact. The deal would heal dination between his forces and a government official said yes- stitution in a push in 2011. Even a rift that opened between Fatah Israel will continue. Abbas asked terday, after Khartoum came without a change in the charter, and Hamas in 2007 when Hamas Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah under diplomatic pressure to Erdogan is expected to stamp his seized control of Gaza. on Thursday to head the new halt her execution. “The related strong personality on the office Under a strict blockade imposed unity government, though Fatah authorities in the country are and give it more authority, exer- by Israel and Egypt, Hamas strug- and Hamas still disagreed about working to release Mariam cising its full powers if elected. gles to prop up Gaza’s economy and other cabinet appointments. (Yahya Ibrahim), who was Opposition parties have not yet pay its 40,000 employees. Abbas, In a move seen as boosting sentenced to death for apos- come up with their own candidates for his part, wants to shore up his control over his party ahead of tasy, through legal measures,” but warn that a President Erdogan domestic support since the collapse forming a unity government, Foreign Ministry Under- with greater powers, a strong grip of US-brokered peace talks with Abbas ousted five senior party Secretary Abdelah Al-Azrak Anti-government protesters, who sought to mark the one-year anniversary on most state institutions and few Israel last month. members yesterday seen as allied told Reuters. “I expect her to be of the country’s biggest anti-government demonstrations in decades, try to challengers, would make Turkey a Abbas said Israel “informed us with a leading rival, Mohammed released soon,” he added. protect themselves from water cannons in Ankara yesterday. more autocratic place. REUTERS today they would boycott us if we Dahlan, the Palestinian news See also page 6 See also page 7 announced the government”. He agency WAFA, said. REUTERS SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

GU-Qatar students Minister opens launch journal on QScience.com

DOHA: Bloomsbury Qatar Qatar pavilion Foundation Journals (BQFJ) has announced the launch on QScience.com of the Georgetown University School at US book fair of Foreign Service in Qatar: Middle Eastern Studies Student Association’s academic journal (MESSA). Publications of ministries on display MESSA is a new, peer-reviewed journal for undergraduate work NEW YORK: The Minister of Qatari cultural landscape and fea- of the highest calibre. All con- Culture, Arts and Heritage H E tures developments taking place tent in the journal will be ‘open Dr Hamad Abdulaziz Al Kuwari in the country. access’, meaning they are free- opened Qatar’s Pavilion at the During the opening ceremony, to-read on the web, and authors Book Expo America Book Fair Dr Al Kuwari briefed the guests retain copyright for their works. in New York in the presence on the role played by Qatar to The development is the latest of the Fair’s Director Steve encourage publication of works of enhancement on QScience.com, Rizzato, Fair Coordinator Qatari and Arab writers and the Senior HMC officials with representatives of sponsors. the digital publishing portal for Ritz Kerr, major publishers, a translation of their work into all research journals. number of global writers and world languages, pointing to the The refreshing new MESSA novelists, members of diplo- role of the Doha International HMC to observe blood donors day journal serves to give a voice to matic missions of various coun- Book Fair in embracing Arab and undergraduate research focus- tries to the and Qatari books. The Fair, held every ing on issues that are pivotal to a large number of visitors. year, enjoys direct care and support DOHA: Hamad Medical gold sponsors offering QR100,000. year in a row by maintaining the Middle Eastern affairs. Striving to The Minister has received from the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim Corporation (HMC) will com- The platinum sponsors for highest rate (100 percent) in volun- foster and enhance undergraduate an official invitation from the bin Hamad Al Thani, Dr Al Kuwari memorate the World Blood Donors 2014 are: Qatar Petrochemical tary blood donation throughout the research, the journal enables stu- Director of Book Expo America said noting that the Fair has won Day (WBDD) 2014 with several (Qapco), Qatar Petroleum (QP), region. dents to present their work, and to attend the opening ceremony. a regional and international repu- activities and a gala dinner at St Qatar Steel, Qatar Electricity and THE PENINSULA facilitates a breadth and depth of Book Expo America, the largest tation as well as participation by Regis Doha Hotel on June 11. Water Company, and Qatargas discussion about respective eco- book fair at the level of the United major Arab and international pub- More than 380 voluntary Operating Company. nomic, political and social affairs in States in which about 2,000 pub- lishing houses and is accompanied blood donors including individu- Gold sponsors are: Ministry Oxy Qatar blood this dynamic region of the world. lishing house are taking part, is a by important seminars and work- als, national institutions, cultural of Economy and Commerce, Dr Khawla Al Derbasti, Editor- major global cultural event. shops every year. and youth organizations that have Qatar Chemical Company Ltd. donation drive in-Chief of the MESSA jour- Qatar’s pavilion at the fair The Minister also gave a brief- positively contributed to enrich- (Q-Chem) and Al Darwish DOHA: Occidental nal and student at Georgetown exhibits publications of the vari- ing on the Ministry’s prepara- ing of Blood Donor Unit stock of United Group. Sidiqa Ismail Al Petroleum of Qatar Ltd (Oxy University School of Foreign ous departments of the Ministry tions for celebrations silver jubilee blood and blood components will Mahmoudi, coordinator of blood Qatar) will host the Hamad Service in Qatar, said: “I am proud of Culture, Arts and Heritage, of the Doha International Book be recognized at the event. donors’ affairs at HMC, empha- Medical Corporation’s that for the first time, we have especially the departments of Fair, its associate cultural events Local and regional guests as sized the importance of the (HMC) blood donation an academic journal that solidi- Research and Cultural Studies, and coverage of the Fair in the well as many senior officials and annual event and expressed grati- bus this tomorrow, a press fies the MESSA ethos in terms Heritage, Press and Publications, international media, saying that notable guests are expected to tude and appreciation on behalf of release issued by Oxy Qatar of promoting undergraduate Public Libraries and Periodicals Qatar gives culture considerable attend the event. WBDD, which HMC to all sponsors of WBDD said yesterday. Stephen research and the work of our gen- such as Doha Magazine and Folk attention and has established falls on June 14, is being marked 2014 celebration. Kelly, President and General eration of scholars. In truth, this Heritage Magazine as well as pub- important cultural facilities such this year under the theme: ‘Safe “The HMC Blood Donor Unit, Manager of Oxy Qatar, said: is just the beginning for the jour- lications of other ministries and as museums and Katara Cultural Blood for Saving Mothers.” with the support of national “We would like to invite the nal, and I look forward to future corporations such as the Ministry Village to include all aspects of HMC has thanked sponsors institutions and companies, are public to stop by and donate annual issues that will no doubt of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, culture and art. The state also and supporters of its upcoming working to create a pioneering blood. Oxy Qatar encourages be publishing with Bloomsbury.” Qatar Foundation for Education, has embraced many cultural WBDD 2014 activities. community partnership in Qatar. its staff to participate and we The launch of the MESSA jour- Science and Community activities of various countries, Mohamed Al Noimi, Chief of We will organize a gala event to will be pleased if other people nal is a major milestone for Qatar Development’s (QF) Bloomsbury Dr Al Kuwari said, pointing out Communications and Chief of honor voluntary blood donors and join this important civic col- Foundation for Education, Science Qatar Foundation Publishing that the cultural and publishing Staff for the Managing Director’s create new cultural and educa- laboration.” The HMC blood and Community Development and and Qatar Museums and others. sector enjoys a prestigious status Office at HMC, received checks tional programs and activities donation bus will be outside BQFJ, as it reflects the burgeoning Issued in Arabic, English and in the Qatar National Vision 2030 from representatives of all the among various community sec- Navigation Plaza on C-ring research environment of Qatar to French languages or otherwise and Qatar Development Strategy official sponsors including five tors,” Al Mahmoudi said. road from 8am to 2pm. the wider world through a state- translated from other languages, 2011- 2016. platinum sponsors with each HMC Blood Donor Unit has THE PENINSULA of-the-art publishing enterprise. these publications cover the QNA offering QR150,000; and three achieved excellence for the fourth QNA QRC Ladies Forum, Design Creationz sign pact; Ramadan activities planned

DOHA: The Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) Ladies Forum was inaugurated with a slew of extraordinary social and chari- table events, and a partnership agreement with the leading event organiser and marketing firm Design Creationz. The MoU was signed by Saleh bin Ali Al Mohannadi, QRC Secretary-General, and Cricely Demenjon, the founder and co- owner of Design Creationz. Under the agreement, Design Creationz will provide marketing, promotion, and support mobili- sation services for the forum’s message and activities among the company’s VIP clients; through its events and, particularly, fashion shows, in different media outlets such as TV, radio, and maga- zines and via social media such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and online blogs. Al Mohannadi expressed his thanks to Design Creationz for the partnership, which is a substantial step towards more engagement of women in chari- table efforts and better dem- onstration of their significant role in disseminating the ideals of benevolence and compassion, a press release issued by QRC Ladies Forum said yesterday. Demenjon, now member of the Forum, said: “We are honoured to partner with QRC Ladies Forum. We share the same goals and the same target audience. We will Enlighten Me campaign organisers with former Minister of Labour Dr Sultan work hard to give the Forum more Al Dossari. visibility through our glamorous women-only events, marketing created for the Forum on Twitter for its humanitarian work. platforms, and media connections.” and Instagram (@QRCLADIES), to The ceremony will display a The first achievement of the communicate its message to as many film or presentation about QRC, partnership was the annual ‘Laha women as possible, and to find more followed by a distribution of sym- Trunk Show’, which was organ- supporters and active members. bolic gifts to the attendance, who ised by Design Creationz at the In Ramadan, the Forum’s will not be limited to upper-class Torch Hotel and featured design- Chairwoman Noura Al Dossari ladies, but will generally include ers from top fashion brands in the said, there will be a Charity female officials and professionals Gulf region. Ghabga, in cooperation with from different major Qatari insti- The organiser of the show allo- Design Creationz and St Regis tutions and corporations. cated a special section for QRC, Hotel. It will involve an Iftar/ Lately, the Forum sponsored enabling it to recruit female vol- Sohour dinner, during which an the ‘Enlighten Me’ campaign, a unteers. After each part of the innovative fashion showcase will volunteering fundraising initiative show, the designer would raise a take place. After that, there will undertaken by a group of Qatari plank showing her brand name be a silent ‘texting’ auction, where female university students to help together with the name of the the classy apparel modelled, deco- Syrian children at the Jordan- Forum, which gained considerable ration of the ballroom, and a luxu- based Zaatari Refugee Camp con- publicity among the participants. rious Bentley will be sold, with the tinue their education. A social media account was revenue going to QRC as donations THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Ministry plans digitisation Foreign Minister meets Malta FM of heritage materials ICT, Culture ministries and QNL join hands for project

DOHA: A pilot project for digi- pictures related to the culture Throughout the project, the tisation heritage material at the and heritage of Qatar that could ICT Ministry will be overseeing Ministry of Culture, Arts and otherwise be lost due to natural the digitization process to observe Heritage will start soon. deterioration or technological compliance with the policies and The Ministry of Communication obsolescence. standards of digitization of Qatar’s and Information Technology The MoU was signed by Reem culture, heritage and media. (ICT) in collaboration with the Al Mansoori, Executive Director “The Ministry of Information Ministry of Culture, Arts and of Internet and Society at the and Communications Technology Heritage (MoCAH) and Qatar Ministry of Information and realizes the importance of preserv- National Library (QNL) have Communications Technology, ing Qatar’s heritage. Together with initiated the project. Hamad Al Muhanadi, Head of partner organizations in the media, The ICT Ministry has taken the Heritage Department at the culture and heritage sectors, the lead to facilitate and launch that Ministry of Culture, Arts and Ministry can develop new ways of pilot project, which came in the Heritage, and Dr Claudia Lux, using technology to preserve and form of a tripartite memo of under- QNL Project Director. disseminate Qatar’s national herit- standing signed today by the two Qatar National Library was age, “ said Al Mansoori comment- ministries and QNL, on the side- selected to play the role of a ing on the MoU. lines of the third edition of Qatar national digital conversion “The pilot project is an impor- ICT Conference and Exhibition center. The library is already a tant first step in the Ministry’s (QITCOM 2014) that took place centre of excellence having used national plan to digitize, preserve at the Qatar National Convention its experience to digitize historic and share Qatar’s rich Arab and Centre on May 26 to 28. items from its extensive Heritage Islamic heritage online. By mak- The project comes as part of Collection for publication on web- ing Qatar’s heritage accessible on ICT Ministry’s efforts to digitise sites including the World Digital the Internet, we not only connect the Qatari heritage and culture Library. our youth with their heritage and The Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohammed Al Attiyah met yesterday the Minister of Foreign Affairs and make them available in a dig- Following the MoU, QNL will traditions, but also enable them of the Republic of Malta Dr George W Vella. They reviewed bilateral relations. ital format to display it for local use its state-of-the-art resources to express their identity in new and international audience and and expert technical staff to imple- and innovative ways. In the new make Qatar’s rich heritage more ment the pilot project which will digital age, technology provides accessible to the nation’s increas- see a selection of the digitized new opportunities for preserving ingly digital savvy youth. audiovisual and picture content our shared national memory,” she Qatar National Library wins The project involves the digiti- published online through a public added. sation of audiovisual material and portal to be managed by the library. THE PENINSULA best booth award at QITCOM

DOHA: Qatar National Library resources ranging from the lat- and Technology Dr Hessa Al (QNL) won the award for best est bestsellers, classical works and Jaber, and the Deputy Prime booth below 90 metres with concerts to leading academic jour- Minister of Turkey Babakan the prize awarded at recently nals and documentaries. Yardmclar. concluded QITCOM 2014 gala The unique design, in addition They visited QNL’s stand and dinner. to these features, helped win the heard from the library’s experts The award-winning stand wel- award, said organisers. about the process involved in pre- comed hundreds of visitors to the QNL’s exhibition stand design serving books and manuscripts QITCOM 2014 Conference and was inspired by the architecture into online records. Exhibition which brings together of its new building which symbol- Commenting about the exposure leading innovators and suppliers ises knowledge and offers a win- gained by QNL at the conference, of information and communica- dow to the world that can inspire Project Director Dr Claudia Lux, tions technology from around the the community’s imagination. said: “We are absolutely thrilled region and the world. Visitors The spacious, open and modern that QNL won this award, and with enjoyed a demonstration of the design also featured the library’s the exposure the library gained state-of-the-art technology QNL new logo that reflects QNL’s work from partnering with QITCOM has adopted to preserve and to change current perceptions this year that has led to increased transform its treasured Qatari, about libraries worldwide by pre- uptake of its unique resources. Arab and Islamic heritage materi- senting QNL as a hub of informa- During the conference, QNL als for future generations. tion for the young and old alike. also signed an agreement with As a result of the live demon- Distinguished guests of the the Ministry of Information and stration of the library’s highly ictQatar-backed QITCOM con- Communications Technology advanced and technical digitisa- ference included Prime Minister (MICT) and the Ministry of tion process, QNL also welcomed and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Culture, Arts and Heritage hundreds of new registered mem- Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa (MoCAH) regarding the digiti- bers, who will now gain access Al Thani, as well as Minister for sation pilot project launch. Officials during the announcement of the digitisation project. to its growing array of online Information, Communications THE PENINSULA

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TOKYO: Qatar’s Ambassador regions of northeastern Japan in The ambassador appreciated prefectures of Fukushima, Miyagi educational programme, in part- reinvigorate the city and wellbe- to Japan and Chairman of Qatar March 2011, and the announce- the strong and friendly relations and Iwate, he said. nership with Junior Achievement, ing of the surrounding communi- Friendship Fund (QFF), Yousef ment of an Emiri donation of between Qatar and Japan since QFF implements a total of in which visiting groups of school ties, he said. Mohammed Bilal, stressed that $100m to support the victims of their establishment in 1972, not- 10 projects, most of which have students undertake life lessons The Intilaq: Tohoku Innovators the wise decision of the Qatari the disaster. ing that they are characterised been completed, while work in and gain skills on designing their Hub is one of the projects which leadership to establish a fund “QFF, which I have the honour by a fruitful cooperation in the the remaining projects is under- future in simulated real city envi- will help in the establishment of to support those affected in the to chair, is a symbol of our strong economic field, especially in the way and are expected to be com- ronments. Two new facilities will small businesses said the ambas- earthquake disaster and floods relations with our Japanese energy sector, as Japan is a major pleted by the end of this year, he help foster work-readiness and sador adding that it is a project that hit northern Japan in 2011, friends and our firm commitment importer of Qatari liquefied natu- said, expressing pride over the financial literacy. that forms part of a globally has received a wide acclaim at to provide emergency relief and ral gas (LNG). achievements and vital projects He said that the project connected ecosystem of start- all official, popular and media other forms of aid to the victims In this context, Bilal said the that brought smiles and hope to (Qatar Science Campus), which up communities that foster levels in Japan, contributing to at the affected areas, through the strong political will and interest the hearts of the victims. is expected to be open in July, is a entrepreneurship. The new hub further enhancing the bonds implementation of rehabilitation by both sides have contributed to These projects have already project to renovate a section of the in Sendai will provide multiple of friendship and cooperation and reconstruction projects,” he the strengthening and expanding contributed to alleviating the suf- Graduate School of Engineering programmes for entrepreneurs between the two countries. said. bilateral relations to become a fering of many of the victims and at Tohoku University and create to help them succeed and create Speaking to Qatar News The $100m fund was launched multi-faceted and comprehensive improving the lives of the local an interactive learning-centre for local businesses. Intilaq will offer Agency (QNA), Bilal said: “Qatar at the initiative of H H Sheikh partnership covering all areas. population, through the creation visiting schoolchildren as well as guidance, instruction and hope, has proved that it is one of the Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the The Fund supports projects of jobs and provision of a favour- to educate children and nurture and share insights and skills that closest friends of Japan, through Father Emir, and sponsored at that meet the urgent and criti- able environment, he said. much needed, next-generation will lead to sustainable economic its human stances adopted by present by the Emir H H Sheikh cal needs of the largest number He pointed to the projects which engineers and researchers in the growth in the region and con- our wise leadership’s decision , of beneficiaries, focusing on the are expected to be completed by Tohoku region. nect Tohoku with like-minded to respond to the needs of our and directly supervised by the three key priority areas, namely: the end of 2014 saying “The Elem Qatar Sports Park in thinkers in Japan and around Japanese friends in the wake of Foreign Minister, H E Dr Khalid children’s education, fisheries and Project in the cities of Iwaki and Shirakawa city will provide the world. the earthquake disaster that hit bin Mohamed Al Attiyah. health care in the three affected Sendai is an experience-based new sporting facilities to help QNA

Ooredoo launches campaign with Messi

DOHA: Ooredoo yesterday launched from Algeria through to Indonesia and the FIFA World Cup, one of the most its first global communication cam- throughout the GCC, football unites peo- viewed events in the world. paign with brand ambassador Leonal ple and speaks to their dreams. We’re Another campaign vision is for Ooredoo Messi, as the company reaches out to proud that our first global campaign stars to challenge itself to enrich customers football fans and social media enthu- our brand ambassador Leo Messi, and and their communities, by uniting people siasts across its footprint in Asia, the seeks to showcase the skills and aspira- through their love of football and to help Middle East and North Africa. tions of young people around the world.” support the next generation of sporting The campaign includes an international Leo Messi said, “I’m very pleased to be stars. commercial featuring the football skills working with Ooredoo on this campaign, The theme of the advert is Ooredoo’s of Leo Messi and a host of young local which taps into the wealth of young sport- role in helping the young footballers take talents from across its footprint. ing talent around the world and encour- on Messi, the best footballer in the world. It is supported by a major social media ages them to ‘Do Wonders’. Together with The advert aims to inspire children to campaign, ‘Simply Do Wonders’, which Ooredoo, I hope we can challenge the con- realise their dreams and overcome the encourages young people to upload vid- testants to work hard, follow their hearts challenges ahead of them with Ooredoo’s eos of their football ‘street skills’ to an and become the new generation of global support. Instagram account with the hashtag football stars.” The advert airs across a range of pan- #MeetMessi. The Ooredoo commercial sees the Arab, local, Asian and international The best local entries will be shared on football superstar pit his skills against a channels from today. It will be screened a dedicated Facebook page and featured team of young players in the heart of a during some of the major matches of the on the website, www.simplydowonderscom major city — but with an interesting twist FIFA World Cup 2014, hosted across a and the winning entry will receive an all- fuelled by Ooredoo technology. range of social media sites, and Ooredoo expenses-paid trip to Barcelona to meet One of the aims of the campaign is companies across its footprint will run Leo Messi and see a major football match. to demonstrate the links between the major football promotions during the Dr Nasser Marafih, Group CEO, Ooredoo brand and Messi’s inspirational campaign. Ooredoo, said: “Across our footprint, role at international sports contests like THE PENINSULA A freeze from an Ooredoo TV commercial shows Messi with children. SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Premier visits Al Khor Second aid consignment to the Balkans Workers Sports Complex Prime Minister appreciates Barwa for developing project

DOHA: The Prime Minister and in record time and by an actual with the Supreme Committee of Interior Minister, H E Sheikh budget that is less than the ini- Delivery and Legacy and Qatar Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa tially planned budget, an achieve- Foundation. Al Thani, recently visited Barwa ment requiring resources as Al Khor Workers Sports Real Estate Company’s ‘Al significant as Barwa’s. Complex provides an integrated Khor Workers Sports Complex’, Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Al leisure-based community for rec- and praised the facilities and Thani stressed that the govern- reation and sports activities. The progresses achieved under the ment will continue its support project consists of four ambitious project. to the developmental plans of fields, four Football fields, four The Prime Minister was accom- Barwa which have a great input Volleyball fields, four basketball panied by the Minister of Youth on the economic growth and the fields, four Kabaddi fields and suf- and Sports and Barwa Chairman, social balance in Qatar. Barwa’s ficient amenities such as mosques, H E Salah bin Ghanim bin Nasser projects and plans always had supermarket, Souk retail street, Al Ali, along with some senior offi- deeper objectives of accomplish- car parking, bus stops, tax- cials of Barwa and its subsidiaries. ing social merge and raising living ies areas, cinema and govern- They toured the facilities of the standards of low income catego- ment offices. The project will be project to get familiar with the lat- ries, among other aspects which operated by professional facility Following the directives of the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Qatar has sent a second con- est progresses achieved. Prior to the directly affect the Qatari commu- management company, provid- signment of aid for Balkan flood victims. A cargo plane for Serbia carried 32 tonnes of foodstuff, medical tour, a presentation on the project nity. In addition to the economic ing admin, security, cleaning and supplies, tents and blankets, sent by the search and rescue team of Internal Security Force (Lekhwiya), was delivered by Ahmad Abdulla significance those projects hold. regular maintenance. bringing Qatar’s aid to 121 tonnes. Al Abdulla, Acting Group CEO of Barwa Real Estate Group Al Khor Workers Sports Barwa Real Estate, before joining had designed and developed Al Complex is a continuation of ministers’ delegation into the tour. Khor Workers Sports Complex Barwa’s aspirations to achieve The PM appreciated the Board to serve existing workers based sustainable growth through an of Directors of Barwa and the in Al Khor and Al Shamal cities. investment beyond real estate; QA shifts to new airport successfully senior management for their The group announced the official it’s the investment in building a distinctive efforts developing Al opening of the project earlier in strong community. Khor Workers Sports Complex February this year, in partnership THE PENINSULA DOHA: Qatar Airways suc- “It is an amazing achievement shopping and eating options. cessfully commenced full oper- to move the entire Qatar Airways With more than 70 retail outlets ations at its new world-class operations from one airport to offering an unprecedented selec- Qatar, Vietnam sign deal gateway Hamad International another in less than eight hours. tion of designer labels, high street Airport (HIA) last week after a A special airside corridor had to fashion, electronics, gourmet foods seamless transition from Doha be created, to allow for a swift and much more, Qatar Duty Free International Airport. transition between the two air- at HIA also has more than 30 cafes Hundreds of hours of care- ports and to ensure security com- and restaurants with a sumptuous ful preparation meant that the pliance. And thousands of pieces selection of global and local cuisine. thousands of pieces of equipment of heavy equipment needed to be All passengers travelling via HIA were all successfully transferred moved, some of them as heavy as are advised to arrive three hours to HIA allowing Qatar Airways’ 70 tonnes each. All of this could before their flight, with check-in first commercial aircraft, QR1113 not have succeeded without an closing one hour before departure from Bahrain, to land. exceptional level of cooperation for Economy Class, and 45 min- “The successful start of Qatar between Qatar Airways, DIA and utes before departure for First and Airways operations at HIA last HIA airport operations, Customs Business Class. e-Gates are already week was the result of years of and the Ministry of Interior.” operational in both the departures planning and meticulous prepara- Passengers now travelling via and arrivals areas, offering holders tion,” said Qatar Airways Chief Qatar Airways at HIA are able to of an e-Gate Card a swift journey Executive Officer, Akbar Al take advantage of the many new through the new airport. Baker. “This is a proud moment in services available at the airport, Helpful HIA staff will also be the rich history of Qatar Airways, from the free Wi-Fi to the play readily available to assist at infor- The Director General of Public Security Staff Major General Saad bin Jassim Al Khulaifi received the Permanent as we will now be able to exceed areas for children, the multiple mation desks and throughout the Deputy Minister of Vietnam Dang Van Hieu and his delegation on Thursday. They signed a security agreement. our passengers’ expectations, both quiet areas in which they can airport. in the air and on the ground. relax, and the amazing array of THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Sudan likely West Bank clashes to free mother on death row World leaders stand behind woman

KHARTOUM/LONDON: A could have a significant impact Sudanese woman sentenced on the Sudanese authorities, and to death for converting to he felt overwhelmed by “the way Christianity is expected to be people have come together around released soon, a government the world” to protest against his official said yesterday, after wife’s sentence. “I want to thank Khartoum came under dip- everyone for this stand. It’s look- lomatic pressure to halt her ing like it had an effect. Perhaps it execution. will result in the judgement being “The related authorities in the overturned,” he told CNN. country are working to release Ibrahim was sentenced to 100 Meriam Ibrahim, who was sen- lashes for adultery and to death tenced to death for apostasy, for apostasy this month. through legal measures,” Foreign She told a court in Khartoum Ministry Under-Secretary that she had been brought up Abdelah Al Azrak told Reuters. as a Christian, and refused to “I expect her to be released renounce her faith. She and Wani soon,” he added. married in 2011, but the court World leaders have added their ruled that the union was invalid voices to the campaign to lift the and that Ibrahim was guilty of death sentence given to Meriam adultery. Ibrahim, a Sudanese woman sen- Ibrahim, a graduate of Sudan tenced to hang for apostasy. They University’s school of medicine, join her husband, Daniel Wani, has been told that her death Israeli soldiers fire tear gas shells at Palestinian protesters responding with stones during clashes near the West Bank city of Tulkarem yesterday. in calling for the sentence to sentence will be deferred for be dropped. two years to allow her to nurse The British prime minister, her baby. David Cameron, and the US civil Condemnation of her sen- rights activist Reverend Jesse tence has gathered momen- Jackson were among those to tum. Hundreds of thousands of Egypt makes insult to national flag a crime speak out after Wani appealed people have signed an Amnesty for international support to free International petition in support CAIRO: Egypt’s outgoing him. The decree increased pre- ultraconservative interpretation, At some point, Islamists his wife from death row, where of her release, including more interim president issued a viously suggested penalties from such show of respect is reserved appeared in protests with Islamic she is being held with her two than 150,000 in the UK. More decree making dishonouring late last year, which were set at only for God. Others refused to insignia on the flag instead of the young children after giving birth than 600,000 people have added the Egyptian flag or not stand- a maximum six months in prison stand up to the anthem, because, eagle. Interim President Adly in shackles this week. their name to a separate petition ing for the national anthem a and over $700 in fines. The decree they said, the hundreds of people Mansour is spending his last days Cameron said he was “abso- on change.org. criminal offence, punishable by also bans raising the flag if it was killed at the hands of the police. in office. After a recent three- lutely appalled” when he heard Justine Greening, the inter- sentences of up to one year in torn, its colour faded, or with dis- The flag, prominent during day presidential election, reports of the decision. national development minister, prison and a fine of more than torted design. most of Egypt’s recent protests, show retired Field Marshal Abdel “The way she is being treated tweeted: “Sudan must not allow $4,000, his spokesman said Criminalising disrespect of the saw protesters tear it while some Fattah Al Sissi, who removed is barbaric and has no place in the execution of Meriam Ibrahim yesterday. national emblems appears rooted raised factional flags instead. Mursi, winning by a landslide. today’s world. Religious free- to go ahead. #SaveMeriam.” Mia Presidential spokesman Ihab in recent controversies around After Mubarak’s fall, some also Official results are expected in dom is an absolute, fundamental Farrow urged her Twitter fol- Badawi told reporters the decree the national flag and anthem discussed changing the flag. the coming days. human right.” lowers to bombard the Sudanese states that the national anthem during Egypt’s last three years After a 1952 military coup In another decree, Mansour His words were echoed by the embassies in London and and flag are “symbols of the of turmoil. toppled Egypt’s king, authorities also scrapped a decision by Mursi Labour and Lib Dem leaders, Ed Washington with calls demand- state that must be respected and The national anthem was a replaced Egypt’s then-green flag to pardon 52 prisoners, many of Miliband and Nick Clegg, and the ing Ibrahim’s release. treated with veneration.” subject of debate when Islamist with a crescent to three horizon- them Islamists sentenced to death former prime minister Tony Blair Miliband said the situation was Egypt is witnessing a rising lawmakers in the first elected tal lines of red, white and black. or serving life sentences. A secu- described the sentence as a “brutal “utterly appalling” and an abhor- wave of nationalist fervour follow- parliament after the ouster An eagle was at the centre most rity official said yesterday that 10 and sickening distortion of faith”. rent abuse of Ibrahim’s human ing the July military overthrow of longtime autocrat Hosni of the time since, with a brief of those on the list are already Wani, a US citizen since 2005, said rights. of Islamist President Mohammed Mubarak in 2011 refused to stand change of two stars instead dur- detained over separate incidents mounting international pressure THE GUARDIAN/REUTERS Mursi after mass protests against up when it was played. By some ing a brief union with Syria. following Mursi’s ouster. AP

Providing solace South Sudan Egypt more stable in rebel chief says ready to Sisi’s hands: UAE ABU DHABI: The United from around the world involved, Arab Emirates foresees greater whether it be partners like resume talks stability in Egypt after former Germany ... or institutions like army chief Abdel Fattah Al Sisi the World Bank and the IMF,” NAIROBI: The leader of South won a presidential election last Sheikh Abdullah said at a news Sudan’s rebels, former vice week and will continue to back conference in Abu Dhabi on the president Riek Machar, said he it financially, the UAE foreign occasion of a visit by his German was “committed to peace” and minister said yesterday. counterpart. ready to resume peace talks Since the army ousted Egypt’s The minister said the UAE had next week in Ethiopia. first freely elected president, the a plan to revive Egypt’s economy Speaking after talks in Nairobi Islamist Mohammed Mursi amid and put it back on track. with Kenyan President Uhuru mass protests against his rule last “The next period will be differ- Kenyatta, Machar also described July, the UAE has become a major ent. The previous one was a tran- the nearly six-month-old conflict donor for Egypt, taking a hands- sitional period and now there will in the world’s youngest nation as on approach in its support for be more stability,” he said. “senseless war”. Cairo. Some Gulf countries were The International Monetary “I have come to push forward opposed to Mursi and his Muslim Fund and Egypt have discussed a this process. And I want to assure Brotherhood, which they regard possible loan worth up to $4.8bn you that we are serious about as a security threat. In total, to help the economy embattled bringing peace to South Sudan,” Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the since a 2011 uprising that top- he said in a brief statement after UAE have pledged over $12bn in pled president Hosni Mubarak the talks. loans and donations since July. and drove away tourists and for- “I want to assure you that we Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed also eign investors, two main sources are serious in ending this sense- told reporters the UAE wanted of foreign currency. less killing in South Sudan. I want international partners to join in These talks took a backseat to assure you that we support the their efforts to repair Egypt’s when financial aid began flowing cessation of hostilities, that we A man comforts a woman after activists said people were killed by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant shattered economy. from Gulf states following Mursi’s will respect the roadmap and that (ISIL), in a village near Ras Al Ain city in Hasakah province on Friday. The Al Qaeda renegade group killed 15 “We want to have partners ouster last year. REUTERS we will move forward together,” Kurdish people, seven of them children, in the attack on the village. he added. Machar’s rebels have been battling forces loyal to President Salva Kiir since December 15, when fighting between rival army Supreme leader’s edict wants Iranians to have more kids factions broke out in the capital Juba. Kiir accused Machar of having TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme and efficient steps must be taken in 2013 to 40 by 2030, according university students are female but Population Reference Bureau, a attempted a coup, but has in turn leader has called for a popula- to offset the steep fall in birth to UN data. only 12.4 percent of the workforce Washington-based thinktank, said been accused of starting the war tion increase in an edict likely rate of recent years,” he wrote But many Iranians are con- is, according to the Statistical if Tehran was concerned about an by launching a purge of his rivals. to restrict access to contra- on his website. cerned about policy shifts to Centre of Iran. aging workforce, it would employ The two sides agreed a cease- ception that critics fear could Khamenei’s order, which must boost the population, something Fertility is one of many issues more women. fire in January and again earlier damage women’s rights and be applied by all three branches of proposed for years by conserva- that divides conservatives “The government could tap this month, but the truces have public health. government, replaces the “fewer tives, including the former presi- and reformists in Iran, where the women labour force, many of not held. In his 14-point decree, Ayatollah kids, better life” motto adopted in dent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President Hassan Rowhani has whom do not work in the formal The civil war has claimed thou- Ali Khamenei said increasing the late 1980s when contraception who favoured nearly doubling the called for as easing of social economy,” she said. sands — possibly tens of thou- Iran’s 76 million-strong popula- was made widely available. population to 120 million, encour- restrictions. He has said little on Roudi added that the political sands — of lives, with more than tion would strengthen national Since then the birth rate has aging women to stay home and birth control, focusing his atten- push for a baby boom was unlikely 1.3 million people forced to flee identity and counter undesir- fallen from 3.2 percent in 1986 devote their time to child-rearing. tion on negotiating a deal with to succeed. their homes. Some 75,000 peo- able aspects of western lifestyles. to 1.2 percent , according to the Reformist Iranians fear the world powers on Iran’s nuclear “It’s hard for me to imagine ple are also sheltering inside UN “Given the importance of popula- CIA World Factbook. At current fertility campaign could under- programme in order to escape that people will have more chil- bases in fear of ethnic violence. tion size in sovereign might and fertility rates, Iran’s median age mine the position of women in economic sanctions. dren because Khamenei wants AFP economic progress … firm, quick is expected to increase from 28 a country where 60 percent of Farzaneh Roudi of the them to.” THE GUARDIAN SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Clashes on Gezi park protest anniversary Turkish police disperse protesters seeking to mark first anniversary of anti-government demonstrations

ISTANBUL: Turkish police fired to cause the three-time premier serious pots and pans, a traditional form of dis- tear gas and water cannon yester- political damage. A senior AK Party offi- sent that was employed throughout the day to disperse protesters in central cial said yesterday that Erdogan would Gezi protest. Istanbul who sought to mark the one- run for the presidency and rule Turkey Erdogan accused opponents of taking year anniversary of the country’s big- until 2023. to the streets to push their demands but gest anti-government demonstrations Near Taksim, hundreds of people said a March 30 municipal election that in decades. chanted “Resign, murderer AKP” and his party won decisively means he had Authorities closed roads and stopped “Everywhere is Taksim, everywhere is been authorised to fight back. public transport to deny access to Taksim resistance” before police fired teargas at “I want my people to see clearly that Square and the adjoining Gezi Park where the crowd, forcing it to retreat. young people were used as pawns by government plans to raze the green space Eighty people were detained and 13 were internal and external traitors in the Gezi and build a shopping mall sparked last injured in clashes with police, Turkey’s incidents,” he said in a television address. year’s unrest. Human Rights Association said, but no “On March 30, you authorised us to fight Police lines kept back activists who official figures were immediately avail- against these traitors and pawns.” had hoped to read a statement at Taksim able. Police helicopters circled overhead. On May 31, 2013, police forcefully Square and lay flowers at the park to Tourists lugging suitcases were forced to evicted environmentalists from Gezi commemorate the deaths of at least six turn back to escape the stinging gas. A Park who had staged a peaceful sit-in for people in the protests against Prime few hundred protesters carrying politi- several days to try to stop government Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s rule. cal banners ran away from police down plans to erect a shopping centre and Another half-dozen people died in a hill towards the Bosphorus Strait, the luxury flats in one of central Istanbul’s sporadic unrest in the ensuing months waterway bisecting Istanbul, Europe’s big- few remaining parks. as anger at Erdogan and his AK Party gest city with about 14 million residents. Angered by the use of violence, tens simmered. Police also broke up protests in the of thousands of people from a variety of Street protests could be a recurring capital Ankara and the southern city of political backgrounds descended on Gezi feature in the run-up to an August Adana, CNN Turk reported. and occupied Taksim Square for two presidential election in which Erdogan In neighbourhoods across Istanbul, res- weeks before authorities finally cleared Turkish riot police disperse people during a demonstration on the first anniversary of the is expected to stand, but few expect this idents opened their windows and banged the space. REUTERS Gezi Park movement at Taksim Square in Istanbul yesterday. Bombing kills 40 Syrian soldiers

AMMAN: At least 40 Syrian soldiers were killed yesterday when rebels detonated explo- sives packed beneath an army base in Aleppo, activists and rebels said. The Islamic Front, an umbrella rebel organisation, claimed responsibility for the bombing, though the claim could not be immediately verified. A video posted on the inter- net showed a massive blast sending clouds of dust and debris into the air as gunshots rang out in the old Zahrawi area of Aleppo. The front said 40 govern- ment soldiers were killed. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than 20 died in the blast and added that fierce clashes had erupted along the divided city’s frontlines, where fighting between rebels and troops has escalated in recent days. Rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar Al Assad regularly carry out guerrilla attacks but have only recently A man inspects a damaged tank beside Al Salam checkpoint in Khan Sheikhoun, northern Idlib province of begun using large tunnel bombs Syria. on military targets. Last week, they claimed responsibility for blowing up a hillside army base residential areas in rebel-held people a day in Syria, where a north and east to insurgents, and a hotel used by soldiers in Aleppo, killing at least 132 civil- conflict that started as a peace- Syria plans to hold a presiden- Aleppo. ians in the last three days, a ful protest movement has killed tialelection next Tuesday that The government has vastly local medical group said. over 150,000 people and forced is all but certain to give Assad superior firepower and has Gunbattles, air strikes, car millions from their homes. a third term. Opponents have intensified air strikes using bombs, shelling and executions Despite the carnage and loss dismissed the vote as a farce. crude barrel bombs on regularly kill more than 200 of swathes of territory in the REUTERS

Amnesty urges Tehran to halt dissident’s execution

LONDON: Amnesty International urged Iran yes- terday not to execute a political dissident convicted of “enmity against God” in what it said had been an unfair trial, as his family said they feared he would be hanged within hours. Gholamreza Khosravi Savajani was sentenced in 2010 in connection to alleged links with the People’s Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) a group that seeks to over- throw the Islamic Republic, Amnesty says. The PMOI, which has an office in Paris, said Savajani’s family had been summoned to the jail where he was being held and had been told he would be executed this morning. “Yet again Iranian authorities are about to execute a man who did not even receive a fair trial in total dis- regard of both international law and the Iranian law,” said Hassiba Hadj Saharoui, of London-based Amnesty International. Iran says its judicial system is fair and accuses Western powers of using accusations of human rights abuses as a way to undermine it. Human rights groups say Iran executes more people as a proportion of the population than any other country and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in March that the rate of executions had risen since the election of President Hassan Rowhani last year. REUTERS

Two held in UK for Syria links LONDON: British Syria and a 20-year-old police arrested two peo- man was held on suspi- ple at Heathrow airport cion of “sending property yesterday on suspicion overseas for the purpose of “terrorism”-related of assisting terrorism in activities in Syria, they Syria.” said. A 19-year-old man A police spokesman said was arrested on suspicion the two arrests were not of “preparing for acts of connected. terrorism” in relation to REUTERS SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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The announcement is certain to create anger among anti-Erdogan activists and the opposition, who BY COLBERT I KING have been campaigning for less of Erdogan in the coming This past week, Obama announced a doer. years, while the prime minister has been vigorously trying to during a White House Rose Garden Nothing in the intervening five years our and a half years ago, appearance that “now we’re finishing has changed their minds. His 2009 impose more of himself on his people. President Obama made a the job we started.” He said US forces announcement of a military surge, the The growing anti-Erdogan protests and the growing divide speech at West Point in in Afghanistan will be greatly reduced death of Osama bin Laden and the rout- between the government and the opposition have created huge which he announced an by the end of this year, and our military ing of Al Qaeda leadership, the upcom- tensions in Turkey, with both sides hardening their positions escalation of the war effort commitment will be over by the end of ing democratic transfer of power — the Fin Afghanistan. “After 18 months,” he 2016. first in Afghanistan’s history: None of and taking their differences to the streets. Though protestors declared, “our troops will begin to come The president wasn’t able to say that that mattered if it meant giving credit enjoy huge support in Istanbul, the fact remains that Erdogan home.” Al Qaeda has been eliminated, but he to Barack Obama. remains Turkey’s most popular politician despite a huge I sipped the Kool-Aid at the time but could claim, correctly, that “significant Before the president had shaken the corruption scandal and last year’s virulent anti-government left a lot of it in the glass. blows” have been struck against the first West Point graduate’s hand last protests. AK Party officials said they expected the party to I wrote that it was inconceivable group’s leadership. He could also note week, the critics were baying. Wrote take more seats in the 2015 general election, enough to change that the “cautious, thoughtful leader that Osama bin Laden is no more and leading Obama-slammer Sen. Lindsey the constitution and allow Erdogan to remain the head of his who presciently assert that Afghanistan is no longer a Graham, R-S.C., on Twitter: “President opposed the haven for Al Qaeda or the Taleban. With Obama is not ending wars, he’s losing party, rather than being a supposedly neutral head of state. Iraq war would, the help of US training and equipment, them.” The three-time prime minister is widely expected to become after months Obama said, Afghan security forces have Nothing short of a US occupation of Turkey’s first directly elected president after constitutional of painstak- assumed the lead for combat operations Afghanistan and Iraq, America bombing changes made in 2007. Under Nothing short of ing review of and have accepted responsibility for Damascus and Tehran and the deploy- current rules, the president must the situation their country’s security next year. ment of US troops to the Ukraine- cut ties with political parties a US occupation in Afghanistan, US troops are still there — patrol- Russia border will satisfy those who Differences decide on a ling cities, launching airstrikes. Not take issue with everything our presi- and has powers that are largely of Afghanistan between course that for long, the president promised this dent does or does not do. While legiti- ceremonial. and Iraq, leads America past week. mate questions about US foreign policy Turkish prime The continuing tension has to military, But even if — as the administration are being raised responsibly in some hit both the economy and peace America bombing financial expects — the Afghan government signs quarters, there is no winning over the minister and of the state. There is a dire need and political a bilateral security agreement with the Republican attack dogs. Damascus and disaster.” United States, we will remain there. Not when all they will settle for is for reconciliation between the his opponents Tehran and the But I contin- Our presence will be smaller — from a Obama doing it their way. two sides. The prime minister ued with more peak of 100,000 to nearly 10,000 after They refuse to accept a president who should not must refrain from amassing more deployment of skepticism. the end of our combat mission — but is cautious and thoughtful and all too powers and there are enough US troops to “The Obama we will still be there. aware, as Obama said last week, that be allowed to leaders in his party who can administra- America’s longest war. More than every problem related to peace and free- take over from him and lead the the Ukraine- tion,” I wrote, 2,100 US military dead, thousands dom does not have a military solution. deepen. “would have wounded, many thousands more scarred “Tough talk often draws headlines, country to more progress and Russia border will us believe that for life. Tens of billions of dollars spent. but war rarely conforms to slogans,” he prosperity. There is no doubt that in all of a year Yet this conflict is not ending in said. So true. a leader continuing in power for satisfy those who and a half, tens disaster, unlike the debacle of Iraq, His call for a Counterterrorism such a long period will have only adverse impact in many take issue with of thousands which is steadily descending into civil Partnerships Fund of up to $5bn to help respects. At the same time, protesters and the opposition must everything our of US troops war. Afghanistan, by most reasonable train and advise partner countries fac- shed their animosity to the prime minister and adopt peaceful will be mobi- accounts, was a war of necessity. Al ing Al Qaeda affiliates and extremists president does or lized and sent Qaeda jihadists based there started it deserves congressional support. means to express their opinions. to Afghanistan, on September 11, 2001. We finished it, So, too, does Obama’s declaration to Yesterday’s protests in Istanbul suggest that future will does not do. where they killing their leader, chasing them almost take direct action when necessary to be as acrimonious as the present. The authorities had closed will join other completely out of Afghanistan, pushing protect the homefront. roads and stopped public transport to deny access to Taksim forces and in back their Taliban protectors and giv- The critics will take issue with our Square and the adjoining Gezi Park where government plans that time deny ing the Afghan people a chance to run president whatever he decides. But, for Al Qaeda a haven, reverse the Taliban’s their own homeland. But for Obama’s me, it comes down to this: In whose to raze the green space and build a shopping mall sparked last momentum and reduce its ability to critics, nothing he does will ever be good hands would I entrust the fate of my year’s unrest. And Erdogan warned people to stay out of overthrow the Afghanistan govern- enough. Five years ago, national secu- children and grandchildren — Barack Taksim, but protesters gathered and the police teargas and ment, strengthen the capacity of Afghan rity think-tankers were banging their Obama or the likes of Lindsey Graham? water cannon to disperse them. security forces so they can fend for spoons for escalation, Republicans were No contest. Turkey was touted as a model to the Islamic world under themselves and stabilise neighbouring demanding that Obama give the gener- (King is a former deputy editorial Erdogan where modernity, democracy and Islam existed in Pakistan.” als everything they want, and conserva- page editor of The Washington Post) And here we are today. tives were calling him a ditherer, not WP-BLOOMBERG harmony. But that image has taken some beating• The other side Quote of Another opportunity for India, Pakistan the day f, as one Indian commentator put consultation with Delhi. Modi’s recipro- plenty of people in both communities trial of the seven Pakistanis suspected it, the Indian and Pakistani prime cal action was swift. that simply do not believe that a lasting of involvement in the 2008 Mumbai ministers found themselves “on After the Indian premier had been resolution can be found. massacre. The accused include Hafiz Ithe same page” during their talks sworn in, his private talks with Sharif well Before he left for India, the Pakistan Saeed, the leader of the outlawed group Today the American this week, there is also a general overran their allotted time. At the finish, military made it clear to Sharif that it Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD). This is a hugely acknowledgement that the page in both leaders were all smiles. There were had deep reservations about his trip. sensitive issue for Islamabad. Just how people are pleased question is inside a book with very hard those who thought Sharif went too far There is deep distrust of Modi given sensitive was made clear last week. covers, which could be slammed shut when he declared the meeting “historic”. his failure to stem anti-Muslim riots in Prosecutors in the Anti-Terrorism Court that we will be able in a trice. But then if this is at last the start of the 2002 when he was chief minister of in Rawalpindi requested greater protec- Nawaz Sharif was quite right to make rapprochement so important to both Gujarat. Meanwhile some members of tion because of threats made to them by to welcome home the trip to Delhi to attend Narendra countries, history itself will judge him Modi’s BJP, whose real political birth extremists. Pakistani lawyers who have Sergeant Bowe Modi’s swearing-in as India’s new pre- right. There is however such a mountain was effectively marked by the destruc- taken on unpopular cases have in the mier. The trip was preceded by the to be climbed by both sides. To settle tion of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya in past been beaten and murdered. It is Bergdahl, held freeing of 151 Indian and 32 Pakistani the differences that have scarred their 1992, questioned the warm welcome not simply relations with India that are in fishermen detained by each country. relations since both countries achieved being extended to Sharif. the balance over this terrorism trial. The captive for nearly Barack Obama This was promising. Sharif ordered the independence, nearly 70 years ago, will Modi used his talks with his oppo- whole system of Pakistani justice is in five years. release of the Indians without any prior require above all confidence. There are site number to press for action on the question. Arab News US President SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Despite poll results, reason still rules Europe The chances are that mainstream politicians will respond to the upsurge of populism defensively, circling their wagons around existing EU institutions and sticking more doggedly to outdated treaties.

BY ANATOLE KALETSKY 20 percent of the total, to genuinely euro- sceptical and populist groups — ranging hen can a vote of 25 from the neo-fascist Golden Dawn in percent be described Greece to the French National Front as a “stunning vic- and UK Independence Party to the neo- tory” or even a “politi- communist German Linke. cal earthquake”? None of these parties can work WAccording to the European establish- together, even for tactical gains.UKIP, ment, it’s when these votes go to a rab- for example, will not cooperate with the ble of odd-ball extremists, ranging from French National Front — which it con- overt racists and even disciples of Adolf siders racist. The National Front will not Hitler to unreconstructed Stalinists and cooperate with Golden Dawn, which it comically naïve anarchists. regards as fascist. Germany’s anti-euro However, the most alarming symptom Alternative will not cooperate with UKIP of political breakdown revealed by the — which it considers too extreme. European parliament election is main- As a result, there will probably be stream politician’s hysterical reaction to no major disruption or change in the a perfectly predictable — and justifiable workings of European institutions. — upsurge of populist anger after the The chances are that mainstream pol- euro crisis. iticians will respond to the upsurge of Supporters of the Greek party Golden Dawn holding a rally in Athens on the eve of European Parliament elections on May 23, 2014. After all, people have suffered five populism defensively — circling their years of unnecessary hardship as a result wagons around existing EU institutions of misguided economic policies. Why and sticking more doggedly to outdated its own against the populists, but to gain International Monetary Fund. Renzi’s to be shared or mutually-guaranteed; then should anyone be surprised that treaties. massively at their expense. Italy’s centre- first action as prime minister was to banks will have to be jointly backed by? tens of millions of voters decided “to give Moreover, the fact that Germany was left Democrats, under the new leadership promise Italians that there would be no All eurozone nations, and the ECB will their governments a kicking” as British the country where the anti-EU vote of Matteo Renzi, did far better than any further tax increases and then quickly have to become a lender of last resort in Prime Minister David Cameron put it? proved weakest and where the govern- other national ruling party. Its 41 per- translate these promises into legislation, sovereign bond markets, like the Federal Especially when the European elections ing coalition retained the strongest public cent vote almost doubled the share in though Italy’s budget deficits were over- Reserve and the Bank of England. provided an ideal opportunity for people support will reinforce the German gov- last year’s domestic election. shooting EU-mandated targets. Unfortunately, all of these reforms have to vent their anger with national govern- ernment’s self-confidence in dictating This massive pro-government swing The European Commission and the been ruled out by the German govern- ments, with no risk of letting the popu- terms to the rest of Europe. crushed the populist anti-euro Five Star ECB have criticised this budgetary back- ment and the German courts have ruled lists get anywhere near true power. The most likely scenario, therefore, is Movement from more than 30 percent sliding. Renzi has made clear, however, them incompatible with the German con- While the media were banging on that Germany will continue to thwart any last year to just 21 per cent. It also forced that he would respond to such concerns stitution and the Maastricht Treaty. about the shock and devastation of serious efforts to reform the misguided Silvio Berlusconi’s Forz Italia into a not with further emergency austerity But if Europe desperately needs Sunday’s supposed political earthquake, fiscal and monetary rules that caused humiliating third place, with just 17 per- measures, but with long-term structural reforms that are incompatible with the this benign, and perfectly plausible, inter- the euro crisis and will probably con- cent, its worst performance for 20 years reforms, including gradual labour liber- German constitution and the EU treaties, pretation was quietly adopted by finan- demn Europe to long-term stagnation. in a nationwide poll. alisation, privatisation and restructur- then the rational response is surely to cial markets and the European business Aggravated by an ever-widening division Renzi’s popularity was partly attribut- ing bureaucracy. A second lesson follows revise the German constitution and the community. between creditor and debtor countries. able to novelty and personal charisma. from this: Though Renzi has not yet faced EU treaties. Not to impose a ban on any Sober analysts noted that out of the There, is however, a more hopeful pos- Yet there are clear lessons from his suc- that long-term structural reforms, they discussion of reforms. 751 seats in the European parliament, sibility. While EU institutions are not cess that mainstream politicians in other are more important than fiscal targets. True believers in the “European an overwhelming majority of 467 were seriously threatened by the outcome countries could emulate if they want to For Europe’s economic governance will project” now talk about responding to won by the three main blocs of conven- of this election, some national govern- reverse populism, xenophobia and anti- have to be reconsidered if the euro is to the upsurge of populist anger by revising tional pro-European Union parties — the ments are – especially President Francois EU sentiment. survive. the EU treaties and national constitu- centre-right European People’s Party, the Hollande’s Socialists in France. The main lesson from Italy is that gov- Though the acute phase of the euro tions to reflect the lessons of the euro centre-left Socialists and the centre-cen- If the French mainstream parties start ernments must offer voters immediate crisis may be over, the single currency crisis. But transforming national politi- tre Liberals. Another 53 seats are held by to feel a genuine existential threat from relief from the fiscal austerity imposed has been revealed as a fundamentally cians into genuinely European leaders the even more pro-European Greens and the upsurge of the National Front, they during the euro crisis by the dreaded unstable system. will require a bigger earthquake than this 45 by the British Conservatives and allies. could try to learn from the one govern- “Troika” of the European Commission, For the euro to be viable in the long- week’s election. This left only about 140 seats, less than ment that has managed not just to hold the European Central Bank and the run, national debt burdens will have REUTERS

By the people’s will, Egypt’s The threat of rising global violence revolution won’t be undone is a challenge US policymakers cannot view Americans must separately from their other agendas, since vio- BY AHDAF SOUEIF lence is likely to prevent -- or even destroy recognise that -- any progress. fter the presidential elections there’s a subdued air about The long-term costs of the Syrian conflict Cairo. Flag-sellers wave their leftovers at passing traffic: withdrawing from are also staggering. The United Nations esti- half-price flags, but nobody stops. mates that 3 million children have dropped out A In the Tahrir wilderness, unrecognisable now from the of school since the onset of the crisis, leading swirling, buzzing, gallant place it was three years ago, a man stands the world is not a Syria’s opposition president, Ahmad Jarba, to alone at the edge of the central island. He is old and silent, and he fear a generation of uneducated children who carries a banner with a picture of the new president and the legend: know only the language of violence and power. “Congratulations Egypt!” viable option. Turning Those in the national security community, A camera stands on a tripod with nothing much to film. A knot of for instance, must recognise more forthrightly people is gathered nearby. They are in a kind of rugby scrum, and it’s the nation’s back on the limits of force and invest in the long-term impossible to make out what they’re doing. Cars honk impatiently and task of building peace. This entails not just refuse to give way to one other. the high politics of diplomacy, but also grass Two elderly men yell angrily from the window of a car with posters resurgent violence will roots efforts to build political constituencies of the president-elect, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, plastered all over it. Sisi for peace. We need stronger and more effec- supporters should be happy, yet they seem angry, their shouts scolding not make it go away. tive instruments of nonviolent power, such as the passersby rather than inviting them to share the joy. diplomacy, mediation, conflict resolution, non- Like a sci-fi monster, the blocks of the old regime break and dissolve violent civic mobilisation, and public engage- only to rise again in a new configuration. In the later Mubarak years, BY KRISTIN LORD ment through media and national dialogue, the president held the balance and the peace between his family and and we need to share them broadly with those their capitalist cronies on the one side, and the military on the other. he White House and State US President Barack Obama in positions to mitigate violent conflicts. The security establishment served the president and his friends, with Department are hard at work on Those in the peace building and conflict-res- no love lost between them and the military. two major new documents that will Meanwhile, tensions are rising in the South olution communities should also admit more As the government abandoned its responsibilities in education, health Tlay the foundation for America’s China Sea, Myanmar, Ukraine and elsewhere. forthrightly that force may have a role. Some and social services, the Muslim Brotherhood picked up the slack. It national security policy for the remainder In most of these circumstances, the influence dictators are simply too ruthless to come to built up its own web of patronage, never challenging the government of the Obama administration and possi- of international institutions is limited. The the negotiating table if they think they are enough to scupper the deals over seats in parliament and opportuni- bly beyond: the National Security Strategy, options available to US policymakers are lousy. winning militarily. The National Security ties to make money. rumoured for release this summer, and the This rise in violence across the globe is not Strategy and QDDR can help to promote Now the building blocks are morphing into a new arrangement. The Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development the challenge expected at this juncture. more effective modes of conflict management military have been voted into the presidential palace. Review (QDDR), slated for release later this For many, the end of the Cold War also by showing how the legitimate use of force They are trying to build bridges with the security establishment; year. The usual bureaucratic tussles will ensue ended the risk of war between great pow- can support efforts at political institution- they need them to quell dissent. about what should and should not be included ers. The decade that followed saw negotiated building, civil society development, and public They’ve made themselves the channel through which Gulf money in these documents, and the administration peace agreements end lengthy -- and seem- dialogue to improve conditions in places like will come into the country, and they’ll use it to establish a network of will inevitably struggle to determine priorities ingly intractable -- civil wars. Rwanda began Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Myanmar business cronies. amid the unenviable palette of challenges and rebuilding after a horrible genocide, and wars -- and how the United States can help to sup- The Brotherhood is out in the cold, ousted last July and declared a paucity of big opportunities. in the Balkans concluded. More than a decade port such efforts. terrorist organisation, but it would probably be allowed back in if it One challenge, however, looms larger than later, a newly elected President Barack Obama Finally, Americans must recognise that settled for its old, compromised opposition role. the rest, and addressing it should be a cen- pledged to wind down the new era of conflict withdrawing from the world is not a viable And what of the biggest block of all, the people? Hosni Mubarak, trepiece of these forthcoming strategy docu- inaugurated by the terrorist attacks of 9/11. option. Turning the nation’s back on resur- in his later years, thought he could ignore popular protest. He was ments: the growing threat posed by global US troops withdrew from Iraq, Nato began gent violence will not make it go away. The proved wrong. Mohamed Mursi, the Muslim Brotherhood president, violence and the urgency of preventing violent to draw down its forces in Afghanistan, and consequences of violence will harm America made the same mistake – to his cost. conflict before it escalates. Prioritising these conversations about how to cut the US defence too, in myriad ways, despite the natural pro- Field Marshal Sisi courted the people, crooned to them. But the challenges is necessary because violent conflict budget commenced. tection of two oceans. The country’s economy, wafer-like thinness of this amour was exposed on the first day of threatens to derail progress on a host of other Yet violent conflict is now resurging, security and health are intricately intertwined presidential elections, on Monday, when the masses failed to show up. issues critical to US national interests and whether we like it or not. The growing scale with the rest of the world. Its self-image as Television anchors and media celebrities became hysterical, berating, values. And doing so will also encourage US and scope of the violence shocks both the heart a moral nation, not just one that protects its lambasting and insulting the Egyptian people for their “apathy”. government agencies to develop more effec- and the conscience. It also harms American own interests, cannot withstand rigid isola- By day two – hastily declared a holiday – huge speakers mounted tive strategies and techniques for reducing interests. Indeed, these conflicts now threaten tionism. The National Security Strategy and on patrolling vans alternated love songs to the military with rants at violence. every major element of America’s foreign pol- QDDR can articulate, with clarity and vision, people to “leave their air conditioning” and come out and vote. Shopping Rising global violence is the challenge of icy, whether it’s economic growth or energy why global engagement is essential if America malls closed early. our time. Serious conflicts now stretch across security, human development or human rights, wants to be the strong and prosperous force The government swore it would fine nonvoters half a month’s mini- swaths of Africa, the Middle East, and South counter-terrorism or illicit trafficking, envi- for good in the world it imagines itself to be. mum wage. Even so, they had to extend voting to a third day to get Asia, and they hold the potential to spread. ronmental conservation or global health. It WP-BLOOMBERG the numbers. THE GUARDIAN SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL

UK ‘could quit Malawi votes EU if Juncker picked bloc in Mutharika president’

BERLIN: British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that his country could as president leave the European Union if Luxembourg’s former premier Jean-Claude Juncker became Court turns down recount plea the next European Commission president, Der Spiegel reported. BLANTYRE, MALAWI: Banda prevailed and took office Quoting “sources close to the Democratic Progressive Party as decreed by the constitution, participants” of Tuesday’s EU leader Peter Mutharika was booting the former foreign min- leaders summit in Brussels, the declared the winner of Malawi’s ister out of the administration. German magazine reported that disputed presidential election on Mutharika, a law professor Cameron had issued the warning Friday after defeating President and former cabinet minister, to German Chancellor Angela Joyce Banda. faces additional counts of incit- Merkel, who backs Juncker for Mutharika, the brother of ing a mutiny and conspiracy to the top commission job. former president Bingu wa commit a felony, along with other Cameron reportedly told Mutharika, took 36.4 percent of officials. Merkel that picking Juncker for the votes cast against Banda’s The trial is still pending, but the job would “destabilise his gov- 20.2 percent, the electoral com- analysts say it is likely the case ernment to such a point that it mission said. will be set aside as Malawi’s presi- would bring forward a referen- The results were announced dents enjoy immunity from prose- dum on whether to exit the EU” minutes after the high court cution as long as they are in office. — a move which is likely to result refused a last-ditch attempt to There is speculation that once in a popular consensus to leave block their release and allow time Mutharika is in power he could A Metro shop, allegedly looted by pro-Russian supporters, near the International airport in Donetsk, Ukraine, the bloc. for a recount. turn the tables on Banda and yesterday. “A figure from the 80s cannot Electoral commission chief have her charged with corruption resolve the problems of the next Maxon Mbendera declared over a $30m graft scandal dubbed five years,” Cameron reportedly Mutharika “president-elect” after “Cashgate”. said, according to extracts of the last week’s vote, which Banda said Banda has claimed the credit Spiegel article. Cameron is deeply was marred by “serious irregu- for uncovering the fraud, which Six Ukraine separatists wary of Juncker, a EU federalist, larities” and “null and void”. saw aid money syphoned into top particularly after his party suffered The results showed that Banda government officials’ pockets. But a humiliating loss to eurosceptic was beaten into third place by critics, including Mutharika, say UKIP in the European elections. Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi the funds went into her party’s killed near Donetsk airport He has already pledged to hold Congress Party (MCP), who gar- election war-chest. a referendum on Britain’s EU nered 27.8 percent of the vote. “Banda did everything in her DONETSK, UKRAINE: the Crimean peninsula by Russian will ask the International Red membership in 2017. Party spokeswoman Jessie power to prevent Mutharika from Ukrainian separatist leader troops. Cross to remove corpses by the Contacted by AFP, a Downing Kabwila told AFP the MCP, which becoming president... and then Denis Pushilin said yesterday “They died trying to take back aiport. It was unclear how many Street spokesman declined com- had made the bid for a recount, bringing charges against her,” said six rebels had been killed while the Ukrainian airport, and our remained. ment on the Spiegel article, saying would challenge the results in Clive Gabay of the Queen Mary trying to collect the bodies of boys were trying to get their bod- A spokesman for the Kiev- it is too early to be making any court. University of London. comrades who had died under ies out,” Pushilin said over the led “Anti-terrorist operation” comments on potential candidates “We are disappointed because The election in the tiny south- Ukrainian army fire earlier this telephone, without giving further or ATO said earlier in the day for the European Commission job. this is not a credible election. We ern African nation was dogged by week close to Donetsk airport. details of the violence. He said two new attacks on the airport Merkel had said Friday that will fight through legal means...we controversy from the start, with Ukrainian forces regained the six had died during the day had been repelled by Ukrainian talks were being held in the are not taking this lying down.” some polling stations opening 10 control of the airport in the east on Friday. forces with no injuries to their “spirit that Jean-Claude Juncker Mutharika is set to take the hours late and some voting sta- of the country on Monday, kill- Though fighting has died down side, Interfax reported. It was not should become president of the reins of the impoverished south- tions recording more votes than ing at least 50 separatists, after for now in Donetsk, the stand- clear whether the attacks were European Commission” in her ern African country under the there were registered voters. a Sunday presidential election off over the city airport remained in fact attempts by separatists clearest statement of support for shadow of a treason charge. Anyone with complaints has which gave billionaire Petro unresolved yesterday with ama- to clear bodies. the veteran politician. The 74-year-old brother of seven days to lodge petitions with Poroshenko an overwhelming teur video footage showing a In Donetsk itself, 2,000 peo- But besides Cameron, Sweden’s former president Bingu wa the courts. victory. cargo plane taking off and releas- ple gathered in the city’s central Fredrik Reinfeldt, Hungary’s Mutharika is accused of attempt- Riot police patrolled key It was the first time the ing decoy flares as it was fired at Lenin Square yesterday, wav- Viktor Orban and, according to ing to conceal his brother’s death areas of the commercial capi- Ukrainian side had unleashed its from the ground. ing Russian flags and chanting several European sources, the in office two years ago in an tal Blantyre as the results were full force on the pro-Russian two- Regional newsagency Interfax “Russia! Russia!” in support of the Netherlands’ Mark Rutte and attempt to prevent Banda — then announced after earlier demon- month rebellion, caused partly by cited the prime minister of the self-proclaimed republic, which Finland’s Jyrki Katainen, are also vice-president — from assuming strations turned violent. the ouster of a Moscow-friendly self-styled Donetsk People’s has sought help from Moscow. hostile to Juncker. power. AFP president and the annexation of Republic as saying the separatists REUTERS AFP

Fun with colours Italy rescues Abkhazia nod for early 3,500 migrants; Renzi asks for presidential election SUKHUMI, GEORGIA: The August 24, Butba said. help from EU parliament of Georgia’s break- On Friday, Ankvab, who is away region of Abkhazia has believed to be at a military base ROME: Italian navy patrol voted to hold early presiden- under Russian jurisdiction outside ships rescued more than 3,500 tial elections in August, a dep- the main city of Sukhumi, said he migrants including hundreds of uty said yesterday, in a move would ignore an appeal by parlia- women and children from boats denounced by the prime minis- mentarians to quit and to sack his coming from North Africa, ter as “revolutionary” after the prime minister. authorities said yesterday, opposition seized control. The vote for early elections was while Prime Minister Matteo On Tuesday protesters broke backed by 23 of the 24 members of Renzi called for help from the into the capital’s presidential the 35-seat parliament who were European Union. headquarters and opposition present at yesterday’s session, but The rescues, which the coast leaders formed a Provisional Prime Minister Leonid Lakerbaya guard said have been going on National Council in the Russian- said the result was unconsti- since Friday evening, are the lat- backed province, which they say tutional. “It’s not within the est in a seemingly endless succes- is now under their control since parameters of the law. It’s a rev- sion as the chronic migrant crisis President Alexander Ankvab fled olutionary decision,” Lakerbaya in the southern Mediterranean the capital. said in a statement. Whoever has picked up this year. “We asked him (Ankvab) to leads Abkhazia, it will continue A total of 3,612 migrants step down two days ago. Today to have close ties with Moscow, on from Syria and North Africa we decided that we can simply which it depends for political and were picked up from 11 boats set up new elections,” opposition economic assistance. The oppo- and taken to ports in Sicily and deputy Beslan Butba told Reuters sition describes the unrest as a the Mediterranean island of by telephone. local issue and draws no parallels Lampedusa, a coastguard spokes- The parliament’s speaker will with events outside the province. man told Reuters. Participants of Colour Run throw powder in the air in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, yesterday. The event act as president until the vote on REUTERS Some 43,000 people have mixes sport and entertainment. crossed from North Africa to Italy so far this year, the same amount as in the whole of 2013, the coastguard said. That leaves the annual total set Six climbers missing Six cops charged in car death case to surpass the 60,000 who made the trip in 2011 when the Arab Spring revolutions loosened bor- CLEVELAND: A night-time a public safety threat has ended. know why Russell didn’t stop. der controls, according to the UN on US mountain car chase in Cleveland that He said the other officers on the Brelo fired a total of 49 shots. refugee agency UNHCR. ended on a schoolyard where scene had stopped firing after the In all, 137 shots were fired at the The near daily arrivals of SEATTLE: A Mount Rainier of the day, but we didn’t get in a more than 100 shots were November 2012 chase ended. schoolyard, authorities say. None migrant boats, mostly leaving expedition guide company check in the morning, which you fired at the suspect’s vehi- “This was now a stop-and-shoot of the other 12 officers who fired from ports in Libya, was an issue spokesperson said yester- know happens, and then by the cle appeared to be over when – no longer a chase-and-shoot,” shots were indicted, McGinty said in Italy in the European parlia- day six people are missing afternoon alerted the rangers to an officer opened fire again, a McGinty said in announcing two on Friday. Five supervisors were mentary elections on Sunday. on the 14,410ft mountain in keep an eye out for them,” said prosecutor said in announcing counts of manslaughter against charged with dereliction of duty The anti-immigrant Northern Washington state. Janow. charges against the patrolman Brelo. “The law does not allow for for failing to control the chase. League, which had lost much of Two guides from Alpine An aerial search and rescue and five police supervisors. a stop-and-shoot.” The killings have been decried its support over the last two years Ascents International and four was initiated yesterday, after the Cleveland patrol officer Michael Driver Timothy Russell was as a racially motivated execution due to corruption scandals and guests, all skilled, male climbers, group still hadn’t been heard from Brelo stood on the hood of the shot 23 times. Passenger Malissa — both victims were black — and leadership changes, recovered to were supposed to return from and it was confirmed their vehi- suspect’s car and fired at least 15 Williams was shot 24 times. are part of a wide-ranging federal win more than 6 percent of the the ascent on Friday, but never cles remained at the mountain’s shots through the windshield — five No gun was found on them or investigation, including into the vote. Renzi said in an interview checked in with the climbing trailhead, according to Janow and fatal — at the two unarmed people in their vehicle. The chase had police department’s use of deadly with several European newspa- company or park rangers, accord- the Associated Press. inside, Cuyahoga County prosecu- begun when an officer thought he force and its pursuit policies. pers yesterday that the EU and ing to director of programmes The climbers were last in touch tor Tim McGinty said on Friday. heard a gunshot from a car speed- The chase involved five dozen the UN were not doing enough Gordon Janow. with park rangers on Wednesday McGinty cited a US supreme ing by the police and courts com- cruisers and wove through resi- to help Italy handle the surge of “They generally check in when at 12,800ft, the AP reported. court ruling this week that said plex, jumped into his patrol car dential neighborhoods. migrants. REUTERS they leave the park at the end THE GUARDIAN police can’t fire on suspects after and radioed for help. Police don’t THE GUARDIAN SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 ASIA / PHILIPPINES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

N Korea gives US, China clash at defence meet hard labour to spy from South

Washington takes no position on territorial claims but opposes use of force to assert claims SEOUL: North Korea sen- tenced a South Korean mis- SINGAPORE: The United China claims almost the entire sionary to hard labour for States and China squared off oil- and gas-rich South China life after accusing him of at an Asian security forum Seas, and dismisses compet- espionage and setting up an yesterday, with the US defence ing claims from Taiwan, Brunei, underground church, state secretary accusing Beijing of Vietnam, the Philippines and media said yesterday, the lat- destabilising the region and a Malaysia. Japan also has a terri- est Christian preacher to run top Chinese general retorting torial row with China over islands into trouble in the secretive that his comments were “threat in the East China Sea. state. and intimidation.” Tensions have surged in recent Prosecutors had sought a Using unusually strong lan- weeks after China placed an oil death sentence for Kim Jeong- guage, US Defence Secretary rig in waters claimed by Vietnam, Wook, identified by the North’s Chuck Hagel took aim at Beijing’s and the Philippines said Beijing official news agency KCNA as handling of territorial disputes could be building an airstrip on a Kim Jong Uk, during Friday’s with its Asian neighbours. disputed island. trial. “In recent months, China has Japan’s defence ministry said However, according to undertaken destabilising, unilat- Chinese SU-27 fighters came as KCNA, Kim confessed his guilt eral actions asserting its claims in close as 50 metres to a Japanese -- including state subversion, the South China Sea,” Hagel said. OP-3C surveillance plane near espionage, anti-state propa- In the same forum, he warned disputed islets last week and ganda and agitation, and illegal Beijing that the United States within 30 metres of a YS-11EB entry into the country -- and was committed to its geopoliti- electronic intelligence aircraft. “sincerely repented.” cal rebalance to the Asia-Pacific Japanese Defence Minister “The accused admitted to all region and “will not look the other Itsunori Onodera said Tokyo his crimes,” KCNA said in its way when fundamental principles perceived an “increasingly severe report on the trial. of the international order are regional security environment.” “He committed anti-DPRK being challenged.” “It is unfortunate that there religious acts, malignantly Hagel said the United States are security concerns in the East hurting the dignity of the took no position on the merits and South China Seas,” he said. supreme leadership of the US Secretary Chuck Hagel and Vietnam Defence Minister Phung Quang Thanh meet in Singapore yesterday. of rival territorial claims in the “Japan as well as all concerned DPRK (North Korea) over- region, but added: “We firmly parties must uphold the rule of seas and tried to infiltrate into oppose any nation’s use of intimi- Hagel’s comments followed than our expectations,” he said. The US official said Hagel’s law and never attempt to unilat- Pyongyang ... for the purpose dation, coercion, or the threat of the keynote address by Japanese “Although I do think those criti- speech had been well received by erally change the status quo by of setting up underground force to assert these claims.” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the cisms are groundless, I do appre- other Asian delegations with the force.” church and gathering informa- His speech at Singapore’s same forum on Friday evening, ciate your candour, likewise we exception of China. On Friday, Prime Minister tion about the internal affairs Shangri La Dialogue, Asia big- who pledged “utmost support” to will also share our candour.” In Beijing, President Xi Jinping Shinzo Abe pitched his plan for of the DPRK while luring its gest security forum, provoked Southeast Asian countries, sev- A senior US defence official said China would not initiate Japan to take on a bigger inter- inhabitants into South Korea an angry reaction from the dep- eral of which are locked in mari- said that, despite Wang’s opening aggressive action in the South national security role and told and spying on the DPRK.” uty chief of staff of the Chinese time disputes with China. remarks, the tone of the meeting China Sea but would respond if the Singapore forum that Tokyo Army, Lieutenant-General Wang “I felt that they were just trying had been “business-like and fairly others did, the official Xinhua would offer its “utmost support” Volcano ash Guanzhong. to echo each other,” Wang said. amicable.” news agency reported. to Southeast Asian countries in “I felt that Secretary Hagel’s Hagel later held a bilateral While Hagel went over ground “We will never stir up trouble, their efforts to protect their seas grounds flights speech is full of hegemonism, meeting with Wang, where the he covered in his speech, Wang but will react in the necessary and airspace. threat and intimidation,” he told Chinese military leader expressed spent most of the meeting talking way to the provocations of coun- In a pointed dig at China, PERTH: Some flights reporters just after the speech. his surprise at the US defence about US-China military-to-mil- tries involved,” Xinhua quoted Xi he said Japan would provide between Australia and south- Wang said the speech was secretary’s speech. itary contacts, including Chinese as saying in a meeting on Friday coastguard patrol boats to the east Asia and all domes- aimed at causing trouble in the “You were very candid this participation in forthcoming mili- with Prime Minister Najib Razak Philippines and Vietnam. tic flights operating out of Asia-Pacific. morning, and to be frank, more tary exercises, the official said. of Malaysia. REUTERS Darwin airport in the coun- try’s north were cancelled yesterday after the erup- tion of Sangeang Api in Indonesia’s south produced a Thai diesel large cloud of ash. Kidnapped Chinese, Filipina rescued in Malaysia International flights to and from Australia to Singapore, tanker hijacked, East Timor and the Indonesian KUALA LUMPUR: A Chinese ransom had been paid to secure have already been tested over the a bloody armed assault last year holiday island of Bali were claims IMB tourist and a Filipina worker their release. Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 by Islamic guerillas from the among those cancelled, have been rescued nearly two “Success due to cooperation of that vanished on March 8 with nearby southern Philippines. including those departing KUALA LUMPUR: A months after they were abducted Malaysia and Philippines security 239 people aboard -- two-thirds The Philippine military has from Australia’s eastern sea- Thai diesel oil tanker with 14 from a Malaysian dive resort, forces,” Najib said on Twitter late of them Chinese. said the Abu Sayyaf, a small band board after an ash cloud from crew members en route from Prime Minister Najib Razak said. Friday, adding Malaysia would Chinese relatives of passengers of Islamic militants infamous for Sangeang Api’s initial erup- Singapore to Indonesia is The two women — Gao help Gao return home “as soon have harshly accused Malaysian kidnappings for ransom, are the tion on Friday evening tracked believed to have been hijacked, Huayun, 29, from China and as possible.” Najib is currently in authorities of ineptitude and a prime suspects in the kidnapping across central Australia. the International Maritime Marcy Dayawan, 40, from the China on a five-day visit aimed at cover-up. The plane is believed of Gao and Dayawan. “The volcano is undergoing Bureau (IMB) said yester- Philippines — were kidnapped boosting bilateral ties. China had to have crashed in the southern Abu Sayyaf has been blamed a sustained, rather signifi- day, the second major case in from the Singamata Reef Resort in urged Malaysia to secure Gao’s Indian Ocean but a massive inter- for the kidnapping of 21 people cant eruption at the moment, months on one of the world’s Malaysia’s Sabah state on April 2 safe return. national search has failed to find from another Sabah diving resort so for the last 10 hours we’ve busiest waterways. in a late-night raid by gunmen and Another Chinese national, a any sign of wreckage so far. in 2000. Twenty of those hostages been observing large masses of “It could be a hijacking. We taken to the southern Philippines. 34-year-old fish farm manager, Sabah’s eastern coast -- known were released within five months, volcanic ash being generated,” have sent signals for ships in the Najib said the women were was kidnapped early this month for its pristine beaches and dive reportedly after hefty ransoms Emile Jansons, manager of the area to keep a lookout and the brought back to Malaysia after by gunmen along the same coast- sites popular with tourists -- has were paid. A Filipino captive was Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory authorities have been alerted,” being rescued, stressing that no line. China-Malaysia relations seen a string of violence, including held until 2003. AFP Centre said. Noel Choong, the head of IMB’s AGENCIES Kuala Lumpur-based Piracy Reporting Center, said yesterday. Authorities lost contact with the MT Orapin 4 after it departed World Heritage Site from a terminal in Singapore on May 27, according to a report by Thai forces out to stifle unrest the IMB. It was headed for Pontianak, BANGKOK: Thai police and Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel reduced the number of people on Indonesia. soldiers flooded downtown urged the Thai armed forces to streets and walkways. Pirates raided a tanker off the Bangkok yesterday to pre-empt release detainees, end censorship Security was being enforced by coast of Malaysia in late April, further protests against a May and “move immediately to restore police, who had at least seven large taking 3 million litres of diesel 22 coup after the army chief power to the people of Thailand, trucks parked nearby. Police stood from the tanker said a return to democracy through free and fair elections”. taking photos of each other, chat- Previous tanker hijackings and would take more than a year. Australia scaled back relations ting to a small group of soldiers cargo thefts have taken place In a televised address late on with the Thai military yesterday standing around a Humvee with closer to Singapore, with five such Friday, General Prayuth Chan- and banned coup leaders from a loudspeaker strapped to the top. incidents between 2011 and 2013, ocha said the military would travelling there. Trucks and police also lined the according to the government- need time to reconcile Thailand’s At the heart of turmoil is con- road near a central shopping mall to-government body, Regional antagonistic political forces and flict between the Bangkok-based where demonstrations took place Co-operation Agreement on to engineer reforms. royalist establishment dominated a week earlier, but there was no Combating Piracy and Armed Prayuth, who ousted the gov- by the military, old-money fami- sign of any rallies. Robbery against Ships in Asia ernment of Prime Minister lies and the bureaucracy, and an A man was arrested and (ReCAAP). Yingluck Shinawatra after upstart clique led by former tel- another fled when police thwarted There were eight armed attacks months of sometimes violent pro- ecommunication mogul Thaksin their attempt to hold a protest in the Malacca Strait and around tests, appealed for patience from Shinawatra which draws much of at another downtown shopping Singapore in the first quarter this Thailand’s international allies. its strength from the provinces. centre. One of the men held up year, compared with one in the But the response from foreign Security was tight around a sign before a media scrum that same period last year, Singapore- governments was to keep up the Victory Monument where pro- said “election only” for less than a Nepalese people walk on the side of a water tank in Bhaktapur, a Unesco headquartered ReCAAP said, pressure on the ruling junta to tests flared earlier in the week. minute before police pounced and although most were small thefts. call elections quickly. At a confer- The closure of the overhead city bundled him into a police truck. World Heritage Site, famous for fine architecture and pottery making, some REUTERS ence in Singapore yesterday, US rail station at the landmark REUTERS 12km south-east of Kathmandu yesterday. China indicts eight people in Beijing attack, offers rewards for guns

SHANGHAI: Prosecutors Xinjiang. Forty people were hurt minority, following a series of terrorist case” can be rewarded suicide bombers hit a market in closer to ethnic groups across in far western China have in the attack. bloody attacks that Beijing as much as ¥30,000, it said. Urumqi killing 39 people. central Asia and Turkey than indicted eight people over an The procuratorate of Urumqi, blames on Islamists and separa- Xinhua said those indicted A few weeks earlier a bomb the Han Chinese who make attack on the edge of Beijing’s the capital of Xinjiang, accused tists from the region. would stand trial at the Urumqi went off at a train station killing up the vast majority of China’s Tiananmen Square last the eight of “organising, leading The Xinjiang police are offer- Intermediate People’s Court but one person and wounding 79. population. October when a car ploughed and participating (in) a terror- ing cash rewards for weapons, did not give a date. Chinese authorities have Chinese President Xi Jinping into a crowd and caught fire, ist group and endangering public Xinhua reported separately Since the October 28 attack blamed what they called the East this week pledged to alleviate state media reported yesterday. security with dangerous method,” yesterday. Bullets will fetch ¥5 there have been several other Turkestan Islamic Movement poverty and improve ethnic unity Three people in the car and Xinhua news agency said. apiece, a kilogramme of dyna- attacks that the government has (ETIM), a Muslim Uighur sep- in restive Xinjiang. Experts have two bystanders were killed in China is waging a year-long mite will get ¥20, grenades and blamed on separatist militants aratist group, for the October long said economic marginalisa- the attack which the govern- anti-terrorism campaign and landmines are good for ¥100 and from Xinjiang, the deadliest of 28 attack at the foot of the tion of Xinjiang’s Uighurs is one ment blamed on separatist mili- has focused on Xinjiang, home people who give tips that prevent which occurred on May 22 when, Forbidden City in Beijing. of the main causes of the violence. tants from the western region of to a large Muslim Uighur or break up an “explosives-related according to the government, five The Uighurs are culturally REUTERS SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN 21 killed in air Slain Pakistani’s husband killed her: Sister LAHORE: The family of a pregnant Pakistani woman who was bludgeoned to death in broad daylight this week strikes along accused her husband of killing her, in stark contrast to his ver- sion of a story that has shocked people around the world. Police and witnesses said Afghan border Farzana Iqbal, 25, was murdered by assailants including her own father outside a court building on Tuesday because she had mar- 124 rockets target Taliban hideouts ried a man of her own choosing, Muhammed Iqbal, instead of a ISLAMABAD: Taliban fight- yesterday. He added that 124 cousin they had selected for her. ers attacked several Pakistani rockets had landed in the prov- But yesterday, Farzana’s elder military posts along the Afghan ince yesterday alone. sister said it was Iqbal who had border yesterday, sparking Afghanistan and Pakistan killed her. an hours-long gun battle that share a 2,250km border and mili- “Muhammed Iqbal and his included Pakistan launching tants from both sides routinely accomplices killed Farzana, and air strikes into Afghanistan, launched cross-border attacks her father and the rest of her authorities said. Pakistan said before fleeing back into their family were wrongly accused of soldiers killed 16 militants, other country. The border area is murder,” Khalida Bibi said. while Afghan officials said the remote and off limits to reporters, “I was present at the scene and air strikes killed five civilians. making it difficult to independ- when she came out of the lawyer’s Two Pakistani military offic- ently confirm information about chamber and as soon as she saw ers blamed the local Pakistani fighting or military operations in us standing on the other side of Taliban for the attack, saying the tribal regions. the road, she rushed towards us. dozens of fighters from the group Pakistani Prime Minister Iqbal and his accomplices chased crossed into Pakistan overnight to Nawaz Sharif has made nego- her and hit her with bricks.” Mansoor-ur-Rehman Afridi, the lawyer for Khalida Bibi, holds a picture which according to Bibi is of Farzana's first stage the attack. tiations with the Taliban a Iqbal says they married for marriage with her cousin Mazhar Iqbal during a news conference in Lahore yesterday. The insurgents attacks at least centerpiece of his government. love in January. On Friday, he two military checkpoints in the Supporters of the peace talks said that he and his wife were northwestern tribal region of Bajur, argue that negotiations are the attacked by her family outside the Farzana in a women’s shelter last Police have arrested five people Many conservative families in killing one soldier and wounding only way to end the cycle of vio- High Court in Lahore, Pakistan’s month where she said she was including Farzana’s father. Pakistan consider it shameful two others, local government offi- lence while critics say a deal will cultural capital. hiding from Iqbal. The brutality of the case, and for a woman to fall in love and cial Shah Naseem said. only strengthen militant ranks, In a dark twist, Iqbal has also “She told me that Iqbal had the fact that it happened in broad choose her own husband. Refusal Naseem said the heavily armed allow them to regroup and strike admitted that he had killed kidnapped her and forced her into daylight outside one of Pakistan’s to accept arranged marriages attackers also targeted several back with more force. his first wife in a dispute over marriage,” she said. “She feared top courts drew international frequently results in “honour military posts in the border village Mortar attacks and other mili- Farzana in 2009. Khalida Bibi that Iqbal might kill her like his condemnation, including from the killings”. of Nao Top, about 50km north- tary operations routinely strain said she had spent 13 days with previous wife, Ayesha.” United Nations. REUTERS west of Khar, the main town in relations between Afghanistan Bajur. The army responded, send- and Pakistan. Afghanistan says ing helicopter gunships into battle hundreds of rockets and bombs as troops chased the attackers. have landed in Afghan vil- Work on Punjab’s The assault killed 16 insur- lages close to the border since gents, the two army officers said. the offensive began 11 days ago. first coal-fired The attackers then fled toward Anger over the strikes prompted NEC cuts education budget Afghanistan, the officers said, Afghanistan President Hamid project begins speaking on condition of anonym- Karzai on Wednesday to demand ity because they were not author- the Pakistani government take ISLAMABAD: The National from Rs18bn in outgoing fiscal to upcoming financial year. LAHORE: Prime Minister ised to talk to journalists. action to stop its military killing Economic Council (NEC) of Rs15bn in the next year. But the In the last budget, the alloca- Nawaz Sharif yesterday inau- The officers said their intel- Afghan civilians. Pakistan which met under chair- Planning Commission informed tion for education stood at Rs25bn gurated two 660-megawatt ligence suggested the attack Pakistan said the airstrikes had manship of Prime Minister the KP Governor that the govern- and again it was envisaged at the coal-fired power projects, the local Pakistani Taliban fighters targeted Taliban militants con- Nawaz Sharif decreased the share ment envisaged a special package of same level. The overall size of the first of its kind in Punjab — launched the attack. They said ducting attacks on Pakistani soil of budget allocation on education Rs4bn for Fata so its actual alloca- PSDP stood at Rs425bn in outgo- having a capacity of 1,320MW the fighters, originally from the from across the Afghan border, in Public Sector Development tion would not decrease in 2014-15. ing fiscal year and would go up to in Qadirabad, Sahiwal. The Bajur tribal region and the north- but agreed to investigate claims Programme (PSDP) for the next The NEC approved the federal Rs525bn in accordance with the project, which will be com- western Swat Valley, have been that civilians had been killed. financial year. PSDP to the tune of Rs525bn of approved size by the NEC. pleted by 2016, will not only hiding in the village of Ghund In turn, Afghanistan has long The NEC also approved to which Rs25bn has been allocated The share of allocation on edu- help meet the country’s elec- in neighbouring Afghanistan’s accused Pakistan of sheltering the increase the power of Central for education including Higher cation will decrease from 6 per- tricity demand but also cre- Kunar province. Afghan Taliban on its territory. Development Working Party Education Commission (HEC) cent to less than 5 percent. ate employment for the people Gen Abdul Habib Sayedkhaili, In a separate incident in east- (CDWP) for approving devel- and other education sector But the official sources said of Sahiwal district and con- the provincial police chief ern Ghazni province, a roadside opment schemes from Rs1bn related development projects. that the education had been tribute to the GDP. “We of Kunar province, said two bomb has hit two cars, killing 12 to Rs3bn. The NEC did not “The share of PSDP for educa- devolved in the aftermath of chalked out the plan for this Pakistani helicopters crossed civilians. The casualties were all accept the summary of Planning tion decreased from 6 percent in 18th constitutional amendment project in just two months into his country and opened fire civilians including seven women, Commission in which the power outgoing fiscal year to less than 5 so there was not much need to ago. The Punjab government in Dangam district. Their attack three children and two men, an of CDWP was proposed to be percent in the next budget 2014- enhance its allocation at the fed- and Chinese companies have killed five Afghan civilians and official said. Afghan forces have increased from Rs1bn to Rs10bn. 15,” said the sources. eral level. It may be added that undertaken the development wounded 10, Sayedkhaili said. stepped up security operations Governor KP Mehtab Abbasi Planning Commission high-ups education had been devolved on work at such a fast pace,” he Sayedkhaili said Pakistani ahead of the second round of the also protested over cutting the on Thursday night said that the eve of the last budget so it was said, voicing hope the project forces fired mortar shells into presidential election on June 14. size of the PSDP allocation for allocations for education was pro- not new a phenomenon this year. would bring 30 percent Afghanistan throughout the day AP/REUTERS Fata. The allocation was decreased tected at Rs25bn in outgoing and INTERNEWS returns to the investors. “This is the third coal-based power project that my government has inaugurated in the last Afghanistan poll run-off few months,” the premier said. One-third of Pakistani Up to 15pc hike in salary proposed adults obese: Report ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Finance of Pakistan has proposed 10 to 15 percent ISLAMABAD: One-third of Dr Bhutta is also the found- increase in salary and pen- adults in Pakistan are over- ing director of the Centre for sions of all civil and uniformed weight or obese, and the gender Excellence in Women and Child government employees and six gap in excess weight is widen- Health at the Aga Khan University. special honoraria for its offi- ing, with more women gaining The study conducted by an cials in the next federal budget. weight than men, according to a international consortium of Sources said yesterday that new first-of-its-kind analysis of researchers led by the Institute the ministry had presented trend data from 188 countries for Health Metrics and Evaluation two options for the increase published in The Lancet. at the University of Washington and at a recent meeting on “These global findings under- shows that rates of adult over- budgetary proposals presided score the double burden of mal- weight and obesity have grown over by the prime minister. nutrition in Pakistan with high globally from 30 per cent in 1980 In the first option, the minis- rates of under-nutrition among to 37 per cent in 2013. try has proposed the increase children, and adolescents/young “Pakistan has seen rates increase in salary and pensions, with women and rising rates of obes- from 26 percent to 33 percent over a total financial impact of ity among adults. Some of these the same period. In 1980, 24 percent Rs30bn on the budget. In the issues may be related to rapid of men and 29 percent of women second option, it has proposed health transitions with changes were overweight or obese, a five per- up to 15 percent increase in in lifestyle, dietary patterns and centage point difference, but, in 2013, salary and pensions as an ad limited physical activity,” Dr the rates were 28 percent for men hoc relief. A decision on the A boy on a bicycle passes by electoral billboards of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani in , Afghanistan Zulfiqar Bhutta, one of the study’s and 38 percent for women. proposals will be taken at a yesterday. The election for a new president in Afghanistan will go to a run-off vote in June, the election commis- co-authors, said. INTERNEWS meeting of the federal cabinet. sion said, after no candidate received the majority of votes needed to win outright. Rebels abduct PML-N member ISLAMABAD: Armed Wounded US veterans return to Afghanistan gunmen kidnapped Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz FORWARD OPERATING army uniform, flying in a military by the end of 2016. While an end Shinseki resigned on Friday, paying wounded US soldiers a chance to (PML-N) member of Punjab BASE SHANK: Seven years helicopter with another soldier is now in sight for America’s long- the price for an expanding scan- write a new epilogue to their tour Assembly Rana Jamil ago, Jose Navarro’s platoon wounded in the same attack. est war, many of the more than dal over failures in health care for of duty. Hassan and his wife late on was ambushed and nearly “I wanted to walk out of here 19,000 Americans wounded in America’s retired warriors. On his trip back to Afghanistan, Friday night while he was on overrun by Taliban fighters in on my two feet. Last time I was Afghanistan will be coping with Although elderly veterans often the former staff sergeant was accom- his way to Islamabad, Geo Afghanistan. here I got shot in my stomach injuries for years to come. revisit battlefields decades after panied by a “mentor”, Joshua Ben, News reported. The kidnap- The troops found themselves and got an RPG (rocket-propelled And, at home, the wounded they fought, Navarro and some who was in the same 82nd Airborne pers blindfolded the couple pinned down, desperately call- grenade) through my leg,” he said. vets are now facing another other former soldiers are return- Division platoon encircled that day and took them away to an ing for air strikes. Bullets ripped Washington is winding down fight, struggling to secure medical ing to a country still at war, to try in Wardak province. Ben, Navarro undisclosed location. Later, through Navarro’s stomach, and its 32,000 troop deployment treatment in the face of incessant to conquer painful memories. and four other veterans wounded they freed Rana Jamil’s wife medics at one point thought he in Afghanistan after nearly 13 bureaucratic delays blamed on the The return trip was organised in Iraq and Afghanistan began a in Rawalpindi with a message was dead. But this week, after years of war, with US President Obama administration’s Veterans by the Troops First charity under tour this week that will take them to arrange Rs50m ransom dozens of surgeries, Navarro Barack Obama announcing this Affairs department. its “Operation Proper Exit” pro- to US bases across Afghanistan. amount. AGENCIES returned to Afghanistan in an week that all US forces will leave Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric gramme, which is designed to give AFP

SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Ministerial groups axed for fast decisions Congress criticises PM Narendra Modi’s move

NEW DELHI: Doing away with GOMs and take appropriate deci- Since neither the Bharatiya one of the relics of coalition poli- sions at the level of ministries and Janata Party (BJP) nor the tics, Prime Minister Narendra departments itself.” Congress had the numbers to Modi yesterday abolished all In a way, the decision to abol- form governments of their own 30 ministerial groups to ensure ish the groups also poses greater and relied on their allies, these that his colleagues heading vari- accountability on Modi himself ministerial groups were to let ous portfolios take faster deci- as he will now have to adjudicate coalition leaders deliberate key sions with more accountability. matters where there are differ- matters before bringing them to Criticising the move, the ences among cabinet colleagues, the cabinet. Congress said the EGOMs and rather than let a panel of col- Pranab Mukherjee, now India’s GOMs brought “a collective leagues deliberate on them first. president, P Chidambaram and multi- disciplinary approach” to Congress leader and former AK Antony of the Congress issues of governance. union minister Manish Tewari party and Sharad Pawar of the There were nine empowered tweeted: “While it is the preroga- Nationalist Congress Party led groups of ministers (EGOMs) and tive of every government to run the maximum of these ministe- 21 groups of ministers (GOMs) an administration in a manner rial groups — that at one point in operation. They were meant to which they deem appropriate, but had swelled to as many as 60. take decisions on various matters it would be germane to point that The EGOMs were even — and several of them on mat- EGOMs/ GOMs brought a collec- bestowed with the authority to ters seen as tricky — before they tive multi-disciplinary approach take decisions, and a subsequent came up before the cabinet for to issues of governance as most discussion and approval by any Veiled mothers of the two teenaged girls who were raped and hanged from a tree, speak to the media in Badaun consideration. matters have inter-ministerial cabinet committee, presided over district in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh yesterday. “This (the decision to abolish implications.” by the prime minister, was a mere the groups) would expedite the The idea of such ministerial formality. process of decision-making and panels first cropped up and was The subjects of the EGOMs usher in greater accountability in implemented during the regime of included effective management the system,” said an official state- the National Democratic Alliance of drought, pricing of natural gas UP government ready for federal ment from the Prime Minister’s under Atal Bihari Vajpayee. More and ultra mega power projects, Office. were added under then prime while those of the GOMs included “The ministries and depart- minister Manmohan Singh’s strategies for water management ments will now process the issues United Progressive Alliance and administrative reforms. probe into Badaun incident pending before the EGOMs and government. IANS LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh against two unidentified people. cases of violence against women Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav Earlier in the day, Congress in the state. yesterday said his government vice president Rahul Gandhi vis- BSP chief Mayawati has also Hagel: US seeks was okay with the demand for ited the family of the girls and demanded a CBI probe into the a CBI probe by the family of the offered his condolences. incident. transformational Raj Thackeray projects two girls gang-raped and killed Accompanied by state Congress The two minor girls went miss- in Badaun district. president Nirmal Khatri ing Tuesday when they went to a Talking to reporters the side- and party general secretary field to answer nature’s call and cooperation himself as CM candidate lines of an event here, he said Madhusudan Mistry, Gandhi later were later found hanging from a the government will soon refer told media persons that the family tree in the village. Post-mortem SINGAPORE: US Defence MUMBAI: Undaunted by after the Lok Sabha elections. the matter to the investigating members wanted justice and not examination later confirmed rape. Secretary Chuck Hagel yes- the political drubbing in the Lauding Prime Minister agency. monetary compensation from the While the police initially dith- terday said he was plan- recent Lok Sabha elections, Narendra Modi for leading the Meanwhile, the fifth accused in state government. ered in taking action, two erring ning to visit India later this Maharashtra Navnirman Sena BJP-led NDA to victory in 2014 the case has also been arrested, Gandhi supported the fam- policemen were later suspended year to drive “transforma- chief Raj Thackeray has pro- Lok Sabha, Thackeray said that it officials said. The other four were ily’s demand that a CBI probe and investigation into the case tional cooperation” with the jected himself as a chief min- was the “Modi effect” which had arrested on Friday. be ordered into the case. He also expedited. country which is playing an ister for the coming assembly prompted him to take the elec- Cases have been registered expressed concern over the rise in IANS “active role” in strengthening elections in Maharashtra. toral plunge in state politics. security in Asia. Thackeray, 45, declared that he “We may have suffered a set- “We welcome India’s would not only contest the assem- back. After a careful study of the increasingly active role in bly elections but also head the gov- Lok Sabha results, I am confident Asia’s regional institutions, ernment if his party was voted to that MNS will surge ahead in the which strengthens regional power. assembly elections. That’s why I order. We also welcome India’s The development — which have taken this decision (to con- Top UP bureaucrat replaced growing defence capabilities was greeted with scorn by the test elections),” Thackeray said. LUCKNOW: In a major bureau- (SP) formed the government in production commissioner, Alok and its commitment to free- Congress — came even as the The Congress-NCP alliance has cratic shake-up, Uttar Pradesh the state after a huge victory Ranjan, soon after taking over as dom of navigation in the Indian Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv been ruling the state since 1999. Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in the assembly polls, the suave the state’s top bureaucrat, said Ocean,” Hagel said in a wide- Sena were debating over who A nephew of the late Shiv Sena yesterday removed Chief Usmani, however, failed to inspire that his first priority would be to ranging policy speech at an should be projected as the chief supremo Bal Thackeray, Raj Secretary Jawed Usmani and the bureaucracy and despite a motivate officials. international security confer- ministerial candidate. Thackeray quit the party in 2006 appointed Alok Ranjan to the two-year stint, officials failed to “We have some very good offi- ence, the Shangri la dialogue, “Raj Thackeray will directly following irreconcilable differences post. deliver, leading to his falling from cials and they would now be in Singapore. contest the assembly elections. with his cousin Uddhav Thackeray, Usmani, considered close to the grace of the SP leadership in directed to work for the welfare To strengthen defence ties, People really love us. But if we who is now Shiv Sena president. the chief minister’s father and the state. of the state,” he added. he said he was directing the succeed in winning their trust An admirer of Modi, Raj Samajawadi Party chief Mulayam Alok Ranjan, a 1978 batch On being asked what were his Pentagon’s Undersecretary for and they give a verdict in favour Thackeray had supported the BJP Singh Yadav, had sought permis- officer, is known for being a media- priorities, Alok Ranjan said that Acquisition, Technology, and of my party, that I shall lead the leader for PM, but still put up 10 sion to go on central deputation, friendly official who has served as he would need some time to settle Logistics to lead the US-India MNS government,” he declared candidates against the NDA in the said informed sources. secretary to three chief ministers down and discuss issues with the Defence Trade and Technology to thunderous ovation from a state, all of whom were routed. Made the chief secretary in 2012 in the past. officials. Initiative with the Indian huge gathering in his first rally IANS soon after the Samajwadi Party Currently the agriculture IANS government. “I plan to play an active and very personal role in expand- ing this initiative because it is a centrepiece of America’s defence cooperation with Mother sells newborn in W Bengal India, and it should reflect the trust and confidence KOLKATA: Forced by abject dweller and begs for a living. submitted a report about the President Obama and I have in poverty, a woman sold her She sold the newborn — her incident to the district admin- our nation’s relationship with newborn child for Rs13,000 fourth child — for Rs13,000. istration, which may take suit- India.” to a childless couple in West After we got to know about it, able action,” added the official. “To reinforce this effort — Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district, we traced the baby and he is The child will be kept under and to drive even more trans- an official said yesterday. now under the care of CWC,” the custody of the CWC for formational cooperation — I The baby, born on May 25, an official of the district social 60 days and will be put up hope to visit India later this has been rescued and is in welfare department said. for adoption if the biological year,” he said. the care of the district Child “While the mother and the mother refuses to take him IANS Welfare Committee (CWC). couple who bought the child back. “The mother is a slum have not been arrested, we have IANS

Pre-monsoon shower Lok Sabha TV CEO removed

NEW DELHI: Days before her exit as speaker, Meira Kumar has given the Lok Sabha TV CEO his marching orders with immediate effect without citing any reason. The official, Rajiv Mishra, said that no reason was given to him for ending his tenure in a sudden manner. The letter dated May 30, said “the speaker has limited the tenure of Shri Rajiv Mishra as Chief Executive of LSTV till May 31, 2014”. Attempts to contact Meira Kumar did not succeed. Mishra alleged that his exit was to do with the channel flash- ing the news of Meira Kumar having lost the Sasaram seat in Bihar. “My colleagues told me that Madam was angry that the chan- nel ran the flash of her having lost the Sasaram seat,” Mishra told IANS. Meira Kumar is caretaker speaker of the lower house till the new house is sworn in. The 16th Lok Sabha will meet from June 4 to 12, during which the new members will take oath and a new speaker will be elected. Mishra, whose contract had been extended on December 17, 2013 “until further orders”, claimed that under him the Lok Sabha TV channel had been showing profits. Vehicles ply in heavy rain in Kolkata yesterday. A pre-monsoon shower The staff of Lok Sabha TV channel have written to the disrupted daily life in the city. speaker urging her to review the decision and reinstate Mishra. IANS SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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DOHA: The manufacturing increased from 13,002 factories in incentives and supported the industries in the GCC, led by 2009 to 15,689 in 2013 (a cumula- industrial sector, hence increasing chemical and petrochemical tive growth rate of 4.8 percent for the value of investments in facto- sector, have witnessed a major five years). ries operating in GCC countries expansion over the last five In addition, the number of work- end of 2013. years. ers jumped from nearly 10,31,825 In this regard, chemical and With an annual average growth in 2009 to almost 13,79,257 in 2013 petrochemical products manu- of 4 percent, the total value of (a cumulative growth rate of 7.5 facturing gathered the biggest the industries touched $369bn in percent). amount of investments, $220.3bn 2013. With 22.2 percent share of Abdulaziz bin Hamad Al Ageel, (59.6 percent of the total invest- the total industrial investments, Secretary General of GOIC, ments) with an average growth Qatar ranked second in the region said: “The industrial sector has rate of 21.7 percent for five years. only after Saudi Arabia (54.2 per- witnessed a huge progress and Ranked second, the basic met- cent), according to data released impressive achievements because als industry received investments by the Gulf Organisation for of the support of GCC countries worth $51.6bn (14 percent of the H E Dr Mohamed bin Saleh Al Sada (centre), the Minister of Energy and Industry, announcing the decision. Industrial Consulting (GOIC). and the major role it plays in total investments) with an aver- In the industrial invest- accomplishing strategic and eco- age growth rate of 19.6 percent. ments ranking, the United Arab nomic objectives.” The sector of construction met- Emirates stood at third (8.8 per- He added: “GCC countries’ als, transport and other indus- Nakilat takes over ship Milaha takes cent), in the six-member council efforts to back industrial develop- tries gathered investments worth followed by Oman (6.5 percent) ment included providing adequate $34.6bn (9.4 percent of the total and Kuwait (5.5 percent). Bahrain infrastructure, creating industrial investments) with an average delivery of DSV stood at the bottom with 2.8 per- cities and industrial development growth rate of 23.6 percent. management from OSG cent of industrial investments. funds and offering several other The building materials sec- DOHA: Halul Offshore The GOIC revealed that the industrial incentives. The positive tor’s investments were almost DOHA: Qatari marine trans- onboard safety management sys- Services Co (HOSC) and its GCC industrial base has witnessed response of the private sector and $34.5bn (9.3 percent of the total port company, Nakilat, has tems. “We enjoy a remarkable parent company, Milaha, a major expansion over the last its cooperation with governments investments) with an average taken over the full ship manage- safety track record and we aim have taken delivery of their five years. The value of investment resulted in achieving industrial growth rate of 13.5 percent. Food ment and operations of its first at the highest safety standards newest state-of-the-art capital increased from nearly development goals.” products, beverages and tobacco LNG vessel, the QFlex Al Hamla, within the industry,” he added. Dive Support Vessel (DSV) $181bn in 2009 to almost $369bn According to GOIC’s IMI Plus received almost $18.1bn worth of from OSG Ship Management – Nakilat’s Managing Director “Shaddad”. in 2013 (a cumulative growth rate databases, there are several indus- investments (4.9 percent of the UK Ltd. This was announced by Abdullah Fadhalah Al Sulaiti also At a ceremony held under of 19.5 percent for five years). trial development indicators in total investments) with an aver- H E Dr Mohamed bin Saleh Al congratulated Nakilat’s staff and the patronage of H E Dr The number of factories par- GCC countries between 2009 and age growth rate of 10 percent. Sada, the Minister of Energy the ship’s officers and crew on this Mohamed bin Saleh Al Sada, alleled this growth rate. It has 2013. These countries offered THE PENINSULA and Industry and Chairman of remarkable achievement. the Minister of Energy and Nakilat recently. “We have invested heavily Industry, “Shaddad” was The planned takeover of opera- on building and developing the unveiled on May 28 at Doha tions by Nakilat, the world’s larg- infrastructure and foundation at Port in the presence of top est LNG shipping company, is the Nakilat. The decision to take over management from Qatar first in a series that will include the operation is part of a long- Petroleum, Milaha and other Spain to cut Moody’s grants Islamic three other LNG vessels within term strategic decision,” said Al companies from Qatar’s off- the next two months. Dr Al Sada Sulaiti during a press conference shore maritime sector. officially initiated the takeover of held at Nakilat’s Al Sadd office. “Shaddad” was designed and corporate Insurance positive outlook the technical ship management of Asked if fluctuations in demand built to the latest specifica- the first LNG vessel in Nakilat’s for LNG in 2013 have had any tions and requirements of oil fleet via a video conference call in impact on Nakilat’s activities, he and gas majors. Built in India tax, boost DOHA: Qatar Islamic The new outlook also reflects the presence of media and senior said: “All our capacity was fully by ABG Shipyard, the vessel is Insurance Company (QIIC) the insurer’s sustained strong management of the marine trans- utilised, and we are not worried equipped with the latest div- yesterday announced that rat- profitability at both the under- port company. with regard to demand-supply ing equipment that qualifies investments ings agency Moody’s Investors writing level (relative to peers in He said: “This great achieve- fluctuations. In fact, with the the vessel to undertake sub- Service has affirmed its ‘Baa2’ the middle east) and the bottom ment against a fast and chal- latest announcement of Nakilat sea maintenance with satu- MADRID: Prime Minister insurance financial strength line (with a Moody’s basis five lenging timeline, could not have being the owner as well as opera- rated diving capability up to Mariano Rajoy announced a new rating (IFSR). The outlook of year average Return on Capital been possible without the hard tor of the LNG fleet, coupled 300 meters depth, as well as stimulus plan to boost Spain’s QIIC was changed to “Positive” of 16.8 percent and a five year work and the dedication of eve- with our strong foundations, we air diving and remotely oper- competitiveness, including from “Stable” based on the average Combined Ratio of 68.9 ryone in Nakilat, the OSG office are looking forward to enhance ated Vehicles operations. €6.3bn ($8.6bn) of investments company’s continued strong percent as of 2013). in Newcastle, and onboard the capacity in the days to come.” and a cut in corporate tax. “Next performance, said a press In 2013, QIIC recorded a 3 per- vessels.” With a cargo capacity of 216,000 with its objective of taking over Friday, the government will statement. cent increase in gross contribu- The minister said: “At Nakilat, cubic metres, Al Hamla is owned ship management responsibilities present a package of measures Moody’s said that its positive tions to QR212m from QR207m, we hold great pride in our mission 50.1 per cent by Nakilat and 49.9 of more LNG vessels as part of its to increase competitiveness and outlook for QIIC’s rating reflects largely driven by increase in and vision of being the world’s per cent by OSG. The vessel was long term strategic vision, plan productivity,” Rajoy said. the company’s improving and its General Accident and leading owner and operator of built in South Korea by Samsung and growth. “The plan will include invest- extremely strong capitalization in Takaful Life and Health vessels for the transportation of Heavy Industries and was deliv- Nakilat provides the essential ments totalling €6.3bn, of which relation to insurance risk (with business. liquefied natural gas and associ- ered in February 2008. Al Hamla transportation link in the Qatar’s €2.67bn will come from the private the 2013 consolidated equity The QIIC is considered one ated products”. is in active service for charterer LNG supply chain. Its LNG ship- sector and €3.63bn from the public increasing by QR40m to QR450m of the leading Islamic insurance Al Sada urged everyone to meet Qatargas II and has completed ping fleet is the largest in the sector,” he added, accompanied by since 2011, and maintain a Gross companies around the world. the highest of safety standards, delivery of 45 cargoes worldwide. world, comprising 61 LNG vessels. European Commission vice presi- Underwriting Leverage of (0.7 x). THE PENINSULA and to ensure the full use of the Nakilat intends to continue THE PENINSULA dent Joaquin Almunia and former Italian leader Enrico Letta. Corporate tax rates will also be lowered from 30 percent to 25 percent, following advice from the International Monetary Fund in a Greece to get $4.6bn IMF aid report released last week. He also ruled out any increase WASHINGTON: Greece is progress in cutting its debt and in Spain’s 21-percent value- set to receive $4.6bn from the bringing its primary budget into added tax rate, saying: “We will International Monetary Fund surplus ahead of schedule. not touch the tax reforms that after the institution’s board “Greece has gone from hav- we approved in June.” Rajoy’s signed off on the latest review of ing the weakest to the strongest announcement comes after the Greece’s rescue package. cyclically-adjusted primary fiscal IMF on Tuesday declared that The disbursement comes after balance in the euro area in just four “Spain has turned the corner” in the IMF and Greece’s European years,” Naoyuki Shinohara, deputy its economic recovery, hailing a lenders finished analysing Greece’s managing director at the IMF, said return to growth in the eurozone’s progress under its €173bn bailout in in a statement. The primary bal- fourth-largest economy. March, ending six months of pro- ance excludes interest payments Spain last year made a weak tracted negotiations. Greece last and other one-off items. exit from its second recession in got an IMF aid disbursement in “(But) public debt is projected five years after the 2008 property July 2013, of $2.3bn. The IMF has to remain high well into the next crash destroyed millions of jobs, so far lent Greece about $15.8bn decade, despite a targeted high pri- flooded the nation in debt and under a four-year programme, mary surplus,” Shinohara said. forced the country’s banks to seek meant to help Athens recover from Greece’s budget surplus, a €41.3bn bailout. The country’s a sovereign debt crisis, rebuild its announced in April, is a sign of the unemployment rate of nearly 26 economy and return to markets. progress the euro zone country has percent is still one of the highest Given the delay with the fifth made to fix its finances after four in the developed world and many review, Greece should get the years of tough bailout-imposed working-age Spaniards are either equivalent of three more disburse- austerity that wiped out almost a giving up looking for a job or leav- Women are reflected as they look at a shop window in the commercial Ermou Street in central Athens. Greek retail ments this year, spread out over quarter of its GDP and sent unem- ing the country in search of work, sales by volume fell 0.8 percent in March compared to the same month last year. any remaining reviews, the IMF ployment to record highs of nearly official data show. AFP said. The lender praised Greece’s 28 percent. 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Venezuela to Oman on way to new growth model: QNB repay $2bn of Non-hydrocarbon sector has been driving economic growth in recent years debt to local DOHA: Oman is on its way and employment. “As a result, we which the government budget is by increasing the share of non-oil compared with 29 percent in 2012. to a new growth model, QNB forecast real GDP growth to slow in balance) has risen from $62 revenue through the introduction This leaves room for the private Group said in a weekly report to 3 percent in 2014, from an esti- per barrel in 2008 to $80 in 2012, of new taxes and customs. sector to take part in the financ- importers yesterday. mated 3.8 percent in 2013,” the and is expected to increase fur- In this respect, Oman can draw ing of big investment projects. It Figures released last month report said. ther to $120 by 2018 according useful lessons from Dubai’s diver- has also recently indicated that it CARACAS: Venezuela showed a nominal GDP growth of Growth in recent years has to the International Monetary sification experience over the last is looking closely at the possibility announced it would repay a 2.8 percent, while real GDP will been mainly driven by the non- Fund’s (IMF) forecasts. This is three decades. In the 1990s, Dubai cutting fuel subsidies. small part its debt to local be available only later this year. hydrocarbon sector as oil pro- well above QNB Group’s forecast was also facing dwindling hydro- This is a good start. Oman importers, after currency con- Underlying the headline figure, duction has plateaued. The key of $102 per barrel in 2018, sug- carbon resources, like Oman today. needs to achieve strong and sus- trols have sparked mass short- the non-hydrocarbon sector saw growth sectors — construction, gesting the government faces a In response, the Dubai govern- tainable growth to ensure steady ages of basic goods in the oil-rich a nominal growth rate of 7.6 per- transport, public administration significant risk of running a siz- ment opened up the economy to job creation while maintaining country. cent, while the hydrocarbon sector and defence — have benefited able fiscal deficit by then. Indeed, private investments and slashed medium-term fiscal sustainabil- The government said it will declined by about 1 percent. These from a large expansion in govern- the latest IMF forecast shows the business regulations, making its ity and reducing its dependence disburse roughly $2bn — signifi- numbers summarise well the eco- ment spending. As a result, gov- fiscal deficit exceeding 10 percent economy the most competitive in on oil. Key to this is fostering cantly less than the $14bn the dis- nomic dynamics in Oman in recent ernment expenditure has jumped of GDP in 2018. the region. These reforms suc- the private sector to carry the gruntled private sector firms say years, where the non-hydrocarbon from 33 percent of GDP in 2010 to A growth model resting on high cessfully diversified the economy, burden of growth while the gov- they are owed in hard currency sector has been driving economic 43 percent of GDP in 2012. oil price assumptions is likely to enhancing the role of the private ernment adjusts its fiscal imbal- and need to pay their parent com- growth, the report said. As non-oil revenues continues to be unsustainable. The govern- sector and making it the driving ances. The policies of recent years, panies or foreign suppliers. This has been underpinned by account for less than 20 percent of ment needs to contain its cur- force of its growth model. which have increased public sector The debt stems from a large expansion in government government revenue in Oman, the rent expenditure bill, whose size Omani policymakers are taking wages relative to the private sec- Venezuela’s strict exchange rate expenditure, mainly financed by government financed the spending has ballooned by 50 percent since steps in the same direction as the tor go against this objective and controls, which require companies higher oil revenues. The reliance spree through higher hydrocarbon 2010 as the government created Dubai model to enhance growth may need to be reversed if Oman to sell products in bolivars, the of this growth model on high oil revenue, taking advantage of high 100,000 new jobs in civil service and maintain fiscal sustainability. wants to achieve a stronger model national currency, on the govern- prices though suggests the need international oil prices. and defense sectors during 2011- The government has announced of economic growth, QNB Group ment promise to reimburse them for further reforms in order to Consequently, the break-even 13. In addition, the fiscal authori- that its spending would rise by said in the report. in dollars. achieve higher sustainable growth fiscal price of oil (the price at ties need to diversify their income about 5 percent in the 2014 budget, THE PENINSULA Rafael Ramirez, vice president for economic affairs, said $1.188bn would be paid out next week to 939 small and medium-sized com- panies from “priority” sectors. An additional $900m will be allocated to large companies from Pressure on Apple various sectors, including $486m for airlines, he told reporters. With the controls in place since 2003, Venezuela is only providing chief to prove US dollars at the official rate of 6.3 bolivars to importers of desig- nated priority goods such as food and medical supplies. Others who innovative flare need dollars have to buy them at a higher rate of 10 to 50 bolivars. On LONDON: When Apple’s Chief behind once-dominant Nokia, the black market, the greenback Executive Tim Cook takes the though some way behind South can cost as much as 60 bolivars. stage at the Moscone Centre in Korea’s Samsung. Venezuela, an Opec nation San Francisco tomorrow, he will Critics say Cook’s team still has that sits atop the world’s largest face one key question: can Apple big questions to answer. Where, for proven oil reserves and imports do it again? Can the company example, are mobile payments to most of what is consumes, is that upended the phone business compete with Google Wallet, so its struggling with shortages of goods with the iPhone in 2007, and 800 million iTunes account hold- as basic as toilet paper. made tablets an everyday item ers — the largest number of credit In addition to high inflation and with the iPad in 2010, find a new card accounts outside a bank — soaring crime, the shortages have must-have product — a fresh can pay for things with their fueled at times violent anti-gov- leap of innovation? iPhones? Where is a smartwatch, ernment protests that have killed The audience, thousands of when Samsung has released two at least 42 people since February, developers who write apps for the versions since September, while with opposing sides trading blame iPhone and Mac, will be eager to Google is pushing its “Android for the bloodshed. know: their income relies on Apple Wear” software? On Thursday, Venezuelan Participants at the workshop. getting its products in front of Instead, critics argue, Apple has authorities met with interna- people. But for Cook and his exec- its $3bn purchase of Beats — which tional airlines, to which it owes utives the mutterings are grow- makes headphones and offers more than $4bn, after many cut ing louder before the Worldwide music streaming, both of which back or halted service. QDB conducts workshop to support Developers Conference (WWDC) Apple does already. “It makes Meanwhile, Venezuelan author- that Apple just isn’t innovat- no sense,” wrote analyst Pascal- ities met with international air- ing any more, since the death in Emmanuel Gobry. “This deal lines to which the oil-rich country October 2011 of Steve Jobs, its co- stinks, but more importantly it owes more than $4bn, after many local firms for export promotion founder and Cook’s predecessor. reveals that Apple as we’ve known cut back or halted service. To counter that, Cook and his and loved it is gone — for ever.” Caracas will pay out the funds DOHA: As part of its efforts from the finance community as with the latest practices to pro- team are expected to announce a Apple’s previous biggest purchase at a discount over a three-year to support local companies well as those interested in the mote Qatari companies by pro- “smart home” initiative, whereby was of NeXT Computer for $400m period to Delta, Avianca, Copa, for export promotion, Qatar export sector and the wider busi- viding exporters with financial an iPhone or iPad will be able to in 1996 — a deal that brought Jobs Tap and Air Europa, Venezuelan Development Bank (QDB) suc- ness community. solutions, credit insurance and interact with lighting controls, back to lead the company. Airlines Association president cessfully concluded its work- The workshop underscores the advisory services, helping them heating systems, air condition- The suggestion that Apple is Humberto Figuera said. shop titled ‘Uniform Customs bank’s commitment in support- boost their export capabilities.” ers and appliances, as well as wallowing in its success irks the In certain cases, the discounts Procedures for Documentary ing and assisting the development Tasdeer was created to develop a “Health Book” software for team. But that was a year ago. And exceed 20 percent of the debt Credits Workshop (UCPDC)’ of Qatari companies by provid- and promote Qatari businesses, future versions of the iPhone that the pace of progress in the tech- owed to the airlines. Of the total which was organised by ing export credit guarantees and providing export credit guar- will gather personal health data nology industry is relentless. debt, a big chunk — $3.5bn — was Tasdeer, the bank’s export arm, financial solutions designed to antees and financial solutions — perhaps through some sort of Apple’s top executives say they incurred last year. to identify best practices in mitigate risk for exporters. designed to mitigate risk for unrevealed wearable technology. have plenty in store. Cook has The Venezuelan government, management of international Abdulaziz bin Nasser Al Khalifa, exporters. The bank also pro- But is that enough? Apple’s promised “some exciting new which owes $14bn to firms commercial and enhance the CEO of QDB, said: “Our sponsor- vides consulting services in to backers can point to its being the products ... across 2014”, while importing food products, medi- businesses productivity, said a ship of this workshop embodies help entrepreneurs develop their most valuable company in the Eddy Cue, who runs Apple’s cine, industrial supplies and press statement yesterday. our commitment to identify and businesses. This includes feasibil- world. Apple’s revenues and profits iTunes, Maps and iCloud divisions, services, has proposed partial The workshop was presented strengthen the knowledge of the ity studies, market research and outstrip the combined totals for said this week: “Later this year, payments to each sector. by Vincent O’Brien, Chair, ICC requirements of export documen- other services that help SMEs in Microsoft and Google; and iPhone we’ve got the best product pipe- But many representatives of Banking Commission, Market tary credits according to inter- Qatar build the right skills and sales are nudging 10 percent of the line that I’ve seen in my 25 years the sectors have claimed that only Intelligence Group (MIG) and national standards and practices. grow their businesses. mobile phone market (including at Apple.” some of the announcements were saw in attendance professionals We should always stay up-to-date THE PENINSULA even the cheapest handsets), just THE GUARDIAN followed by action. AFP

IMF-Mozambique meeting Egypt opens tender to Huge dip in Tunisia’s oil import fuel in July-Sept production CAIRO: Egypt has launched a The tender would remain tender to import hundreds of open until the first week of June, TUNIS: Tunisia’s oil produc- thousands of tonnes of petro- the official said, declining to be tion has declined, to reach for leum products in the third named. Saudi Arabia would give the first time 59,000 barrels quarter of 2014, an energy offi- Egypt about 240,000 tonnes of per day from 115,000 barrels, cial said yesterday, as the coun- gasoline and 850,000 tonnes of since no exploration wells have try tries to stave off a summer diesel in July and August “as a been drilled over the last four energy crisis. gift”, he said. months, for failure of licens- Egypt’s government wants to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the ing or renewal of permits,” avoid major power blackouts dur- United Arab Emirates (UAE) said Minister of Industry, ing the months of increased con- pledged more than $12bn in loans Energy and Mines sumption in the summer, when and donations. Kamel Bennaceur. outages are worsened by a dilapi- The head of the EGPC said in The minister said during dated grid and a wasteful subsi- May that Egypt would receive a seminar on “the Reality of dies system. about $650m to $700m worth the Energy Sector in Tunisia The tender comes in addition to of petroleum aid per month in and Its Economic and Social supplies from Saudi Arabia, which August, totalling to more than Consequences” that no deci- will deliver energy products to $3 billion from April to August. sion was taken yet on the Egypt in July and August. Power cuts and long queues licences submitted to the An official from the Egyptian at petrol stations contributed National Constituent Assembly General Petroleum Corp (EGPC) to widespread discontent in the (Parliament) since about six said that Egypt launched a ten- country. months, stressing the conse- der on Thursday to import 90,000 Raising energy prices could quences of the decline in pro- tonnes of diesel each in July and cause more unrest in a country duction on the Tunisian economy August, and 120,000 tonnes of where street protests helped since 10,000 barrels per day pro- IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde with Mozambique’s Finance Minister Manuel Chang (left) in the con- gasoline and 500,000 tonnes of bring down two presidents in vides annually about $300m. cluding roundtable at the Africa Rising Conference at the Chiasson Conference Centre in Maputo, Mozambique. diesel in September. three years. REUTERS QNA SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 US bond market faces Mexico to boost economy possible reckoning Benchmark 10-year yeilds at lowest levels in 11 months

NEW YORK: The rally in US showing price gains. Since it’s far the euro-zone economy have also Treasury bonds surprised many, from certain how the jobs data helped drive US and European taking 10-year yields to their will come in or how forcefully the bond yields down to levels not lowest levels in 11 months. Jobs ECB will act, the bond market is seen in a year. Benchmarks in data and the European Central likely to remain on edge. Italy and Spain have dropped dra- Bank meeting this week will David Keeble, global head matically, making US rates look determine whether bond prices of interest rates strategy at attractive by comparison. have further to go. Credit Agricole Corporate and Part of the drop in yields stems The bond market’s rally is the Investment Bank in New York, from investors trying to exit ear- result of a confluence of factors said a decent jobs report could lier bets on rising yields. Some — falling yields in Europe, extra “remind us that we have to get bond fund managers were stung Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto (centre), who swears in Gerardo Gutierrez Candiani (left) as demand from pension funds, back to the reality that the econ- by a bet on lower five-year note chairman of the Business Coordinating Council at a ceremony in Mexico City. Pena Nieto announced a concerns among investors about omy is picking up.” yields and higher 10-year yields, series of actions to accelerate economic growth. long-term economic demand and Employers are expected to have a strategy favored by many hedge technical factors, including short- added 215,000 workers in May, funds heading into the year. covering from those who thought according to a Reuters poll, fol- “These positions have under- bond yields were headed higher. lowing an increase of 288,000 in performed so far this year as the Prices have jumped, pushing April, which was the biggest gain yield curve has flattened and bond Element close to buying PHH’s unit the yield on benchmark 10-year since January 2012. While the yields have fallen,” Wells Fargo US Treasuries Thursday to 2.422 labour market continues to heal, analysts wrote in a note. NEW YORK: Canadian equip- weekend to approve the transac- shares were up 1.3 percent at percent, the lowest since last it has not been enough to jump- The bond market’s price gains ment finance company Element tion, the terms of which are being $13.61 on Friday afternoon. June, despite the US Federal start wages, the most potent fac- could be far from over, given Financial Corp is close to a finalised, according to the sources. It was reported on May 21 Reserve’s easing back on its bond- tor in kindling inflation concerns. recent history. But if the mar- deal to buy PHH Corp’s auto A deal for the unit, PHH Arval, that PHH and Element were in buying stimulus programme. “The key is wages moving higher ket’s direction reverses and yields fleet leasing business for about could be announced as soon as exclusive negotiations for a deal. Investors aren’t convinced and inflationary expectations move higher, they could do so in $1.35bn in cash, two sources tomorrow, they said. The transaction is structured to that the Fed is cutting stimulus starting to move higher,” said rapid fashion. familiar with the matter said. Element, which provides include significant tax benefits. because of an impending surge Quincy Krosby, market strategist “It’s like playing a game of PHH’s net proceeds from the financing for industrial, aerospace PHH has deferred tax liabili- in growth. Instead, they’re more at Prudential Financial, based in Russian roulette with the bond deal, after taxes and expenses, are and automotive equipment leas- ties — which amount to expected worried about weak economic Newark, New Jersey. markets right now,” Keeble said. expected to be around $750m, one ing, declined to comment. PHH future tax payments — linked to indicators and a lack of inflation, Expectations that the ECB “You know something is going to of the sources said. could not immediately be reached. the fleet business of $798m as of which could change in the case will announce more aggressive go ‘bang,’ and you just don’t know The boards of the two compa- PHH shares were up 0.3 per- December 31, 2013, according to of a strong jobs report or data action next Thursday to boost when.” REUTERS nies are expected to meet this cent at $25.51 while Element KBW analysts. REUTERS Dow, S&P 500 end Leading investors cut cash holdings in May LONDON: The world’s top among beneficiaries of the hunt showed cash holdings within the highest since June 2011, though investors cut cash holdings for yield. The European Central model portfolio fell to a six-month remained at a relatively modest at record highs in May to their lowest since Bank is expected to ease mone- low of 5.7 percent in May, down 2 percent. November and put money to tary policy this week, and mixed from 6 percent in April. The poll was taken between NEW YORK: The Dow and but remained below 2.5 percent, work in risky assets, on the US economic data have pushed Bond holdings rose to a two- May 12 and 28, when world stocks the S&P 500 edged up to end at near an 11-month low hit during expectation that developed mar- back forecasts for a rise in US month high of 35.9 percent from rose to six-and-a-half year highs record highs on Friday, wrap- Thursday’s session. ket interest rates will remain interest rates. 35.6 percent, while equity hold- and investors became less nervous ping up four straight months The low yields helped to bolster low, polls showed on Friday. The monthly polls covering 51 ings eased to a two-month low of about tensions between Russia of gains, after mixed economic dividend-paying stocks. High- Property holdings and emerg- leading investment houses in the 50.8 percent from 51 percent. and Ukraine. data gave investors little reason yielding utilities ranked as the ing market stocks and bonds were United States, Japan and Europe Property holdings rose to their REUTERS to rush into stocks. best-performing S&P sector on After the benchmark S&P 500’s Friday, up 0.8 percent for the day. latest record closing high — its The Dow Jones industrial aver- fourth in the last five sessions age rose 18.43 points or 0.11 per- RBC may invest — gains may be harder to come cent, to 16,717.17. The S&P 500 by until the market’s direction gained 3.54 points or 0.18 percent, becomes more clear. Payrolls data to 1,923.57. The Nasdaq Composite in hedge funds and a European Central Bank fell 5.33 points or 0.13 percent, to meeting will be the major cata- 4,242.62. Friday’s gain lifted the TORONTO: Royal Bank of lysts next week. Dow above its previous record Canada may invest as much as US consumer spending fell for close of 16,715.44 set on May 13. $1bn in a hedge fund spun off the first time in a year in April, For the week, the Dow rose 0.7 from its proprietary trading but the decline probably will not percent, the S&P 500 gained 1.2 business. change expectations for a rebound percent, and the Nasdaq climbed RBC, Canada’s largest bank by in growth this quarter. An infla- 1.4 percent. market capitalisation, has been tion gauge rose at its quickest pace The Dow gained 0.8 percent for considering options for the propri- since November 2012 while busi- May and the S&P 500 rose 2.1 per- etary trading unit — in which the ness activity in the US Midwest cent, marking the fourth straight bank invests with its own funds rose in May at its strongest pace month of gains for both indexes. — as it works to comply with the since October 2013. The Nasdaq, up 3.1 percent, scored Volcker rule, a new U.S. regula- “Very mixed signals, which pre- its first monthly gain in three. Big tion meant to prevent banks from vents bears from getting aggres- Lots shares jumped 13.1 percent to taking on too much risk. The fund sive and keeps bulls in place. It’s $42.44 after the closeout retailer will open by year-end and will be effectively forestalled any real sig- posted better-than-expected called Taursa Capital Partners, nificant directional shift to what results and higher sales. citing two people with knowledge we’ve seen thus far,” said Peter In contrast, shares of apparel of the matter. It said RBC would Kenny, chief executive officer of retailers Express and Guess invest in the fund without retain- Clearpool Group in New York. slumped a day after the compa- ing an ownership stake. “This is an unusual time and nies forecast disappointing prof- RBC spokesman Kevin Foster place in the market, in that we its for the current quarter amid would not comment on whether are in a real holding pattern, a sluggish revival in consumer the bank planned to spin out the and the markets are looking for spending. Express shares sank unit. “We are actively working to more in the way of confirmation 7.5 percent to $12.61. Guess fell restructure our proprietary trad- in the way of economic data that 5.1 percent to $25.50. ing business to comply with the suggests our economic activity is Volume was modest, with about Volcker rule,” he said. accelerating.” 5.92 billion shares traded on US The bank reported stronger- Equity investors kept an eye exchanges, slightly above the 5.75 than-expected second-quarter on US Treasury yields. The billion average for the month, results last week, driving its 10-year note’s yield rose after according to data from BATS shares to an all-time high. the strong Chicago PMI data, Global Markets. REUTERS REUTERS

Ford recalls more vehicles

A 2010 Ford Escape is seen on a used car lot yesterday in Miami, Florida. Ford announced a recall of Ford Escapes from the 2008 to 2011 model year to fix a problem with a torque sensor. Along with the Escape, the company is recalling the 2011 to 2013 Explorer and the Taurus. SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

McDonald’s plans big in China Air New Fed against using rates Zealand to to fight asset bubbles place new Interest rate movements should not be linked: Officials Airbus order DOHA: Air New Zealand is PALO ALTO: A trio of US tools to mitigate financial insta- were in Palo Alto attending a cen- close to placing an order for Federal Reserve officials who bility risks would lead to infla- tral banking conference put on around a dozen A320-family disagree deeply with one tion below target and additional by Stanford University’s Hoover aircraft worth well over $1bn another over the appropri- resource slack,” Evans said in Institution that also featured at list prices to expand its fleet ate stance of monetary policy slides released on Friday for a Kansas City Fed President Esther of mainly Airbus medium- expressed a shared distrust for talk he is set to give in Istanbul George. haul jets, industry sources said using interest rates to head off tomorrow. On Friday, Williams reiter- yesterday. asset bubbles and other forms of The role financial instability ated his view that rates, near zero The deal, which could be financial instability. concerns should play in Fed poli- since December 2008, should not announced on the sidelines of a Both Richmond Fed President cymaking has long been a subject rise until next year and should global airlines meeting in Doha Jeffrey Lacker, a policy hawk, and of debate at the US central bank. do so only slowly. That’s the view today, is the latest step in the San Francisco Fed President John Over the past year, Fed Governor also of Fed Chair Janet Yellen, airline’s fleet renewal programme Williams, a centrist, told report- Jeremy Stein has argued strongly who has said rates will stay low that will also see it soon introduce ers after a policy conference here that there may be times when the for a “considerable time” after the the latest version of Boeing’s 787 that they would not want to risk Fed should raise rates to stamp Fed winds down its bond-buying Dreamliner . unmooring the public’s expecta- out potential bubbles. program this coming fall. Airbus has called a news con- tion that inflation will rise back Stein left the Fed earlier last Lacker said he would support ference to announce an airplane to the Fed’s 2 percent goal in the week to return to his post at an immediate tightening of mon- order today, but declined to give next few years. Harvard University, leaving the etary policy by selling the Fed’s further details. Air New Zealand That, Williams said, is what Fed without a forceful public holdings of mortgage-backed did not immediately respond to a appears to have happened in advocate of that idea. securities, but added that the request for comment. Sweden and Norway after those Philadelphia Fed’s Charles size of the Fed’s balance sheet will The announcement comes as countries raised rates to address Plosser told reporters on Friday not prevent it from carrying out the International Air Transport financial stability risks. Fed econ- he was “kind of on the same page” proper monetary policy. Association (IATA), whose 240 omist Andrew Levin had shown a as Williams and Lacker, in terms Plosser said he would be open airline members include Air slide making that point earlier at of rejecting a financial stability to varying approaches toward New Zealand’s Tasman partner a presentation that both policy- mandate for the Fed. trimming the Fed’s massive bal- Virgin Australia and its main makers attended. But he added that he is wor- ance sheet, which now tops $4 rival Qantas, prepares to hold Chicago Fed President Charles ried about the risk that the Fed’s trillion after years of stimulative People in front of a McDonald’s fast food restaurant in Beijing. China meetings from June 1 to 3. Evans, one of the Fed’s most extraordinarily easy policies over bond-buying, but said his prefer- remains the largest foreign market for American-owned McDonald’s, Air New Zealand oper- ardent doves, echoed those the past five years themselves ence is for an eventual return to with plans for a new store to open about every week across the country. ates mainly Airbus short- and sentiments. could stoke financial instability. a smaller balance sheet. medium-haul aircraft and Boeing “Degrading monetary policy Williams, Lacker and Plosser REUTERS long-haul aircraft. It has been evaluating the latest offering from Airbus, the A320neo, against the Alibaba, others looking competing Boeing 737 MAX for Plosser floats new approach on rates use on trans-Tasman routes — where it competes with Qantas PALO ALTO: The Federal Reserve should pro- in inflation and output, he said. The Fed has been to invest in AppNexus unit Jetstar in partnership with vide more information on the likely future path criticized for sending conflicting signals on rates. Virgin Australia, of which it owns of interest rates and explain its policy decisions Each quarter, it publishes a matrix of “dots,” each WASHINGTON: Chinese about the company’s recent US around 25 percent. In 2009, it in the context of those forecasts, a top Fed representing the forecast of a single, unnamed poli- e-commerce giant Alibaba plans. AppNexus expects to raise ordered 14 Airbus A320 jets to official said. cymaker. When they were published in March, the Group Holding Ltd is one of sev- about $100m and is considering replace Boeing 737-300 models “I favour clearer communication concerning the dots suggested policymakers expected a slightly eral companies that are in talks offers that value the company at and placed options for a further 11 formulation of policy,” Philadelphia Fed President steeper path of rate rises than they had earlier. to invest for a stake in US-based more than $1bn, the WSJ said. including the possibility of taking Charles Plosser said in remarks prepared for deliv- But Fed Chair Janet Yellen, speaking shortly after advertising technology firm Alibaba plans to gain com- the larger A321. Its Airbus order ery to Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. the release of the matrix, told market participants AppNexus, the Wall Street petence in advertising through tally has since edged up to 15, of Plosser, who has floated the idea before, said the not to pay too much attention to the dots but to Journal said, citing sources investment in AppNexus, while which it has already taken 10. It Fed could include guidance on where rates should go, instead rely on her guidance that rate rises will be familiar with the matter. the latter looks to expand its is also the launch customer for based on several different monetary policy rules, in gradual. The talks are in an advanced reach outside the United States, the Boeing 787-9, a bigger ver- its biannual monetary policy report. The Fed could “Providing information about how the policy path stage but there is no confirmation Wall Street Journal reported the sion of Boeing’s carbon-composite then explain “whether and why it anticipates policy is likely to evolve forces policymakers to think more whether they would result in an sources as saying. Dreamliner. It is due to take first to be somewhat more restrained or more accom- deeply and more systematically about policy,” Plosser investment. Alibaba, which powers 80 per- delivery in the middle of the year modative relative to the projections given by the said. Plosser said the Fed could use an economic Last week, Technology publica- cent of all online commerce in to phase out older Boeing 767s, various rules.” model developed internally by the Fed, called FRB/ tion The Information said Alibaba China, is gearing up for what fitting into its network for Asian Doing so would force the Fed to explain its poli- US, as the basis for the forecasting process, but the is looking to take stakes in sev- could be the world’s biggest tech- routes alongside the bigger Boeing cies more clearly to the public, which should lead central bank could also try other models. eral non-Chinese Web companies, nology initial public offering. 777 serving North America. to better economic outcomes by reducing volatility REUTERS citing an executive who was told REUTERS REUTERS

Bank of Cyprus Intel TV creator leaves Verizon months after deal posts first profit SAN FRANCISCO/NEW the Internet, known as an “over technology and talent going for- open a market tightly controlled is great, the future is secure, the YORK: Erik Huggers is leaving the top”, or OTT, service. While ward to grow our business. That by a handful of cable and enter- dream lives on. It’s time to hand since 2012 Q1 Verizon Communications Inc other companies have been talk- has not changed.” tainment conglomerates. the baby over to someone else,” just five months after joining the ing up their plans to deliver such Verizon had previously said With the acquisition, Huggers he said. NICOSIA: Bank of Cyprus, company via the acquisition of a service, a source familiar with OnCue would help it offer video and many of his employees moved Verizon’s rivals are working the island’s largest lender, the Intel Corp “OnCue” stream- the matter said that Verizon was over its Fios fiber-optic infra- over to Verizon, where he hoped on their own Internet TV serv- announced Friday it had made ing service he developed, signal- now moving away from the OTT structure as well. to launch the service to consum- ices. AT&T Inc, which made an a €31m net profit in the first ling the communications giant’s strategy and that the departure of Seen by some as a bold attempt ers. But he said that he advised offer to buy DirecTV last week in quarter after seven consecutive waning interest in providing an Huggers, who was a proponent of to revolutionise TV and oth- his staff on Thursday that he was a $45.5bn deal, has said it would quarterly losses. Internet-delivered TV service. an Internet-only service, reflected ers as a distraction from Intel’s leaving the company. take 12 to 18 months for the com- BoC’s January-March gain The former BBC executive, who that. chip business, Intel CEO Brian Huggers said in an interview he bined companies to come up with compared with a loss of €103m said on Friday that he is depart- A Verizon spokesman confirmed Krzanich pulled the plug and put had worked well with his imme- an over-the-top service. in the previous free months, and ing the company, had worked on Huggers’ departure and in regards the unit up for sale before it was diate boss at Verizon, Marni Dish Network Corp has said it was the first by the troubled bank OnCue for Intel for more than to its strategy said, “We obtained launched. Walden, recently appointed to expects to launch its personalised since the first quarter of 2012. two years before Verizon bought a strong combination of tech- Intel’s retreat from streaming head product development, as well streaming product by year-end, Group profit after tax and it in January to accelerate a nological and personnel assets TV was a disappointment to peo- as Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam. having already struck a deal for before restructuring costs and push into video services, includ- from Intel Media. We intend to ple in Silicon Valley who hoped the “There were no conflicts at all. programming from Walt Disney discontinued operations (profit ing TV channels delivered over strategically utilise the OnCue technology company could break The technology is great, the team Co. REUTERS from continuing operations) was €72m, against a loss of €38m in the 2013 fourth quarter. The cost-to-income ratio Gupta’s two-year prison term begins on June 17 was reduced to 36 percent from 41 percent in the last three Infoblox shares dip 41pc months of 2013. Customer deposits were down 6 percent NEW YORK: Shares of $14.50, by D A Davidson, by mid- to €14.06bn from €14.97bn on Infoblox Inc slumped 41 percent day Friday. December 31, 2013. to their life low on Friday, a day “With the sales effort in transi- In March 2013, Cyprus clinched after the network equipment tion, and a slowing of growth in a €10bn loan from the European maker warned of a lower-than- the general IP address manage- Union and International expected profit for the fourth ment market in favor of other IT Monetary Fund to bail out its quarter, hurt by contract delays priorities, we believe it will be sev- troubled economy and oversized and a slowdown in customer eral quarters until a strong rev- banking system. additions. enue growth path re-materializes That included closure of the At least five brokerages lowered for BLOX,” D A Davidson’s Mark island’s second-largest bank, their rating and eight cut their Kelleher wrote in a note. Laiki, and a 47.5 percent “hair- price target on Infoblox’s stock, The brokerage had a “neutral” cut” on deposits above €100,000 at citing uncertainty around the rating on the stock, similar to BoC. The bank has since under- company’s new sales strategy as most other brokerages. No bro- gone major restructuring, which IT customers prioritized spend- kerage had a “sell” rating. included absorbing the good assets ing on network security over Infoblox said it expected to of the former Laiki Bank. automation. break even or earn up to 2 cents “We have made significant Analysts also highlighted con- per share on an adjusted basis in progress in the implementation cerns that any turnaround in the quarter ending July. of our restructuring plan dur- Infoblox’s fortunes, which could Pacific Crest’s Brent Bracelin ing the first quarter of 2014, and last more than a year, would not said there was no “quick and easy we continue to deliver against be led by its chief executive of fix” for the slowdown in orders our strategic objectives,” CEO nearly 10 years, Robert Thomas, that began last October. John Patrick Hourican said in a who said on Thursday that he Wedbush Securities analyst statement. would step down. Sanjit Singh said a turnaround “Loans in arrears for more More than $450m was wiped could take anything between than 90 days declined for the first off the company’s market value three to six quarters as Infoblox Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc board member Rajat Gupta departs Manhattan Federal Court after being time following sixteen consecutive when the stock hit a life-low of could take up to nine months to sentenced in New York. Gupta will begin serving a two-year prison term on June 17 after a US federal appeals quarterly increases,” he added. $12.165 on Friday. The lowest book revenue from a sale. court rejected his bid to stay free while he appeals his insider trading conviction. AFP target price set on the stock was REUTERS SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

An independent Scotland In Africa, America promotes would certainly be fairer security, China does business BY JOHN SWINNEY BY LARRY HANAUER combating Al Qaeda in east Africa, and end- volumes, negligible in 2000, hit $198.5bn in s Scotland approaches the referendum on independ- and LYLE MORRIS ing violence in South Sudan, eastern Congo 2012. By comparison, US-Africa trade in ence – in just over 100 days’ time – and we consider the and the Central African Republic. 2012 was half that, reaching roughly $100bn. opportunity a yes vote can offer, there is absolutely no ecretary of State John Kerry and Li visited two of the same countries Trade between China and Africa, mean- Adoubt that it is a wealthy country. We have extraordi- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang both (Ethiopia and Angola) the next week, as while, is estimated to hit $280bn by 2015, nary resources and natural talent. made high-profile visits to Africa well as Kenya and Nigeria, to pledge $12bn according to Standard Chartered research. That fact has been clearly established by Scotland being the within a week of each other this in development loans to African nations and Chinese imports from Africa overwhelm- richest part of the UK outside London and the south-east, even month. Kerry sought to resolve the sign 60 agreements to invest in local energy ingly consist of natural resources, sparking when we exclude our oil and gas wealth. Scotland would have been Scontinuing violence in South Sudan and the and infrastructure projects. strong criticism that China is seeking to “lock ranked 14th in the OECD in terms of output per head in 2012 Central African Republic, Li came bearing During Li’s visit to Kenya, for example, up” Africa’s resources. The United States, and among the richest in the world in terms of gross national aid and investment deals. China offered a $3.8bn loan to build a rail- however, has recently upped its economic income. The CPPR’s figures show that even on its lowest assess- The United States could learn something way link between Kenya’s Indian Ocean port game in Africa. President Barack Obama ment Scotland would be in the top 20 of the OECD in terms of from Beijing’s economic playbook. of Mombasa and Nairobi. The first stage of announced the framework for a signature wealth per head. On Scottish government figures Scotland would The two leaders’ agendas could not offer the line would link neighbouring Uganda, initiative, Power Africa, while visiting Senegal, be wealthier per head than France, Japan and the UK. a more vivid picture of the different pri- Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan, increas- Tanzania and South Africa last summer. This That is not surprising – we have top universities, we are a hot- orities that each power pursues in Africa. ing intra-regional transportation networks $7bn US project aims to improve electric gen- bed of life sciences, our food and drink industry is world class, we Washington plays regional peacemaker, and trade that are crucial for Africa’s eco- eration in African nations. have key strengths in growth sectors such as creative industries, while Beijing focuses intently on its long- nomic growth. Africans require both security and eco- and we have 25 percent of the EU’s offshore wind potential and term economic interests. This $12bn in credit adds to the $20bn nomic growth. Global powers like China and nearly 60 percent of the EU’s oil reserves. China’s two-way trade with Africa, for in loans that then-Chinese President Hu the United States do not need to choose So no matter which measure you use, the wealth of Scotland example, has grown by 30 percent a year Jintao promised to African nations in 2012. between the two when focusing their for- is undeniable. The issue at the heart of the referendum debate is over the last decade. It is now Africa’s largest Washington does little to promote US eign policy efforts. Even as Beijing pursues not whether we are wealthy enough to be an independent coun- trading partner, importing largely natural trade and investment in Africa — particu- its economic agenda in Africa, for exam- try but how we ensure that wealth properly benefits the people resources. More than 85 percent of China’s larly when compared to Beijing. The US ple, China has also begun contributing to of Scotland. imports from Africa consist of petroleum, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, regional security - providing troops to The reality is that while we are a wealthy country, for too copper, iron, and other raw materials needed which encourages investment in emerging United Nations peacekeeping missions. many people in Scotland it does not feel that way. Our economy to build China’s growing domestic infrastruc- markets through financing, loan guarantees Similarly, as Washington seeks to defuse is strong, but we need the powers to create more opportunities ture and fuel its continued economic growth. and political risk insurance, has dedicated conflict and reduce security threats across and build greater security. That is one of the key drivers behind Meanwhile, US engagement in Africa is just $6.3bn to support US investment in the continent, it should do far more to our argument for independence. dominated by security issues — particu- Africa since 1974. Meanwhile, the US Trade promote trade and investment in ways The fact that Scotland has a lower rate of business start-ups, larly counterterrorism, counter-piracy and and Development Agency has provided only that benefit both US business and African research and development and corporate HQs – particularly efforts to resolve internal conflicts. During $90m since 1981 — roughly $3m per year — economies. By supporting Africa’s economic when compared to other similar-sized countries – is to my mind Kerry’s trip to Ethiopia, Angola and the to facilitate US business in Africa. and commercial development, greater US an indictment of the status quo. Democratic Republic of Congo, he embarked Differences in the China and US trade fig- business engagement can also strengthen A comparison between the handling of oil and gas revenues by on an ambitious security-related agenda ures in Africa also underscore the countries’ security and stability throughout the region. the UK and Norwegian governments demonstrates the problem. aimed at promoting democratic elections; divergent priorities. Sino-African trade REUTERS Norway not only established an oil fund to ensure that its citizens would benefit indefinitely from their natural resources – some- thing the UK has singularly failed to do – it also ensured that as the industry developed, domestic businesses were supported to play their part in it. Norway’s oil savings fund is now the biggest sovereign wealth fund on the planet, worth more than £500bn; Scotland’s oil fund stands at zero. That is not to say Scotland isn’t doing well. We have some excellent homegrown firms, and in the oil and gas industry busi- nesses like the Wood Group are world leaders. Aberdeen Asset Management is now one of the world’s largest investment man- agers, and companies like Alexander Dennis are pioneering low- carbon technology and exporting their products around the world. But we can achieve more. The current situation has come about because decisions about Scotland are not made by the people of Scotland. I have no doubt that with the powers to make those decisions in Scotland we could do a better job. This week the Scottish government set out some of our ambitions for Scotland. If within 15 years we can improve our productivity growth by just 0.3 percentage points a year, increase our employment rate by around three percentage points, and boost our working-age population, then we can generate at least £5bn a year of addi- tional revenues. We will give people the jobs and opportunities that allow them to stay. Highly skilled students educated at Scottish universi- ties would remain in their country. The resulting revenues can be reinvested in growth, in building a more equal society and in developing more homegrown firms. If we remain under Westminster, Scotland will continue as a regional economy with the inherent risk that jobs and wealth flows out of the country. As an independent country Scotland will be an open, flexible economy trading with the rest of the world. Ensuring we benefit from our own wealth doesn’t involve putting up barriers. It is about having the tools to steward your economy properly. With independence we can marry the talents of the Scottish people to the natural wealth of our nation and, as the Scottish government set out this week, we can take the steps that are nec- essary to grow our economy, increase productivity and increase the opportunities for young people to pursue their careers in Scotland. It is time for Scotland to take its future into its own hands. THE GUARDIAN Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Savage capitalism is back, and it will not tame itself

BY DAVID GRAEBER In Europe, you had the social wel- some predictable petty squab- the destruction of capital during things have gone back to their machine, but try to build a slightly fare state … “ bling) that, in the case of at least the world wars, and the high rates normal state: that is, to savage smaller vacuum cleaner sucking in ack in the 90s, I used to “But, Sergei,” I protested (I one core equation, the numbers of taxation and regulation that inequalities, with a miserly 1 the opposite direction. get into arguments with forget his actual name), “that simply don’t add up. Capitalism war mobilisation allowed. Others percent presiding over a social What’s more, he doesn’t seem Russian friends about didn’t happen because capitalists does not contain an inherent ten- have different explanations. order marked by increasing social, to understand that it doesn’t mat- Bcapitalism. This was just decided to be nice. That hap- dency to civilise itself. Left to its No doubt many factors were economic and even technologi- ter how many books he sells, or a time when most young east- pened because they were all afraid own devices, it can be expected to involved, but almost everyone cal stagnation. It was precisely summits he holds with financial ern European intellectuals were of you.” He seemed touched by my create rates of return on invest- seems to be ignoring the most the fact that people such as my luminaries or members of the avidly embracing everything naivety. ment so much higher than over- obvious. The period when capital- Russian friend believed capital- policy elite, the sheer fact that in associated with that particular At that time, there was a all rates of economic growth that ism seemed capable of providing ism would inevitably civilise itself 2014 a left-leaning French intel- economic system, even as the series of assumptions everybody the only possible result will be to broad and spreading prosperity that guaranteed it no longer had lectual can safely declare that he proletarian masses of their coun- had to accept in order even to be transfer more and more wealth was also, precisely, the period to do so. does not want to overthrow the tries remained deeply suspicious. allowed to enter serious public into the hands of a hereditary when capitalists felt they were Piketty, in contrast, begins his capitalist system but only to save Whenever I’d remark on some debate. They were presented like elite of investors, to the compara- not the only game in town: book by denouncing “the lazy it from itself is the reason such criminal excess of the oligarchs a series of self-evident equations. tive impoverishment of everybody when they faced a global rival rhetoric of anti-capitalism”. He reforms will never happen. and crooked politicians who were “The market” was equivalent to else. in the Soviet bloc, revolutionary has nothing against capitalism The 1 percent are not about to privatising their countries into capitalism. Capitalism meant In other words, what happened anti-capitalist movements from itself – or even, for that mat- expropriate themselves, even if their own pockets, they would exorbitant wealth at the top, but in western Europe and North Uruguay to China, and at least the ter, inequality. He just wishes asked nicely. And they have spent simply shrug. it also meant rapid technological America between roughly 1917 possibility of workers’ uprisings to provide a check on capital- the past 30 years creating a lock “If you look at America, there progress and economic growth. and 1975 – when capitalism did at home. In other words, rather ism’s tendency to create a use- on media and politics to ensure no were all sorts of scams like Growth meant increased prosper- indeed create high growth and than high rates of growth allow- less class of parasitical rentiers. one will do so through electoral that back in the 19th century ity and the rise of a middle class. lower inequality – was something ing greater wealth for capitalists As a result, he argues that the means. with railroads and the like,” I The rise of a prosperous middle of a historical anomaly. There is to spread around, the fact that left should focus on electing gov- Since no one in their right remember one cheerful, bespec- class, in turn, would always ulti- a growing realisation among eco- capitalists felt the need to buy off ernments dedicated to creating mind would wish to revive any- tacled Russian twentysomething mately equal stable democratic nomic historians that this was at least some portion of the work- international mechanisms to tax thing like the Soviet Union, we explaining to me. “We are still in governance. A generation later, indeed the case. There are many ing classes placed more money in and regulate concentrated wealth. are not going to see anything like the savage stage. It always takes we have learned that not one of theories as to why. Adair Turner, ordinary people’s hands, creating Some of his suggestions – an 80 the mid-century social democracy a generation or two for capitalism these assumptions can any longer former chairman of the Financial increasing consumer demand that percent income tax! – may seem created to combat it either. If we to civilise itself.” be assumed to be correct. Services Authority, suggests it was itself largely responsible for radical, but we are still talking want an alternative to stagnation, “And you actually think capi- The real importance of Thomas was the particular nature of mid- the remarkable rates of economic about a man who, having dem- impoverishment and ecological talism will do that all by itself?” Piketty’s blockbuster, Capital in century industrial technology that growth that marked capitalism’s onstrated capitalism is a gigantic devastation, we’re just going to “Look at history! In America the 21st Century, is that it dem- allowed both high growth rates “golden age”. vacuum cleaner sucking wealth have to figure out a way to unplug you had your robber barons, then onstrates, in excruciating detail and a mass trade union move- Since the 1970s, as any signifi- into the hands of a tiny elite, insists the machine and start again. – 50 years later – the New Deal. (and this remains true despite ment. Piketty himself points to cant political threat has receded, that we do not simply unplug the THE GUARDIAN SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com GECM & TENDERS

GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS MAP (GECM) Every Sunday UK hits record high economic German unemployment China’s GDP growth may growth in years rate dips to 6.6pc fall to 5pc by 2017 LONDON: The British Chambers BERLIN: Germany’s BEIJING: - China’s economic Japan’s inflation at highest of Commerce released their latest unemployment rate dropped growth could slow to around 5 rate for 23 years to 6.6 percent in May, but the economic forecast figures today. percent in the next two to three traditional springtime decline TOKYO: Japan’s inflation US economy shrank 1pc in Their outlook is generally positive was smaller than expected. years, Chinese media quoted accelerated in April to a 23-year first quarter with GDP forecast to grow from The Federal Labor Office a researcher at an influential high while industrial output and WASHINGTON: The US economy 2.8pc for this year to around 3.1pc. said Wednesday that 61,000 think tank linked to the state household spending fell after a was battered even more than That’s the first time annual growth fewer people were without cabinet as saying, a forecast sales tax increase. Japan’s core first suspected by the harsh has topped 3pc since 2007. And work compared with April, that contrasts with rosier official consumer price index, which winter, actually shrinking from they forecast interest rates to rise when the unemployment estimates. excludes fresh foods, rose 3.2pc January through March, marking in early 2015 and unemployment rate was 6.8 percent. Overall, from a year earlier in April to 2.88 million people were the first retreat in three years, to fall - though not by much. VoR’s the highest level since 1991, the without work in May. but economists are confident the Tim Walklate spoke to Suren Thiru, government said. That is up from downturn was temporary. an economist with the Chambers of a 1.3pc increase in March. Commerce.

SA’s GDP shrinks for the first India’s current account deficit time since 2009 (CAD) narrowed sharply to JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s 0.2pc of GDP in Q4FY14 gross domestic product (GDP) has NEW DELHI: India’s current account shrunk for the first time since the deficit (CAD) narrowed sharply to Brazil economists raise 2014 2009 recession, decreasing by US$ 1.2 billion (0.2pc of GDP) in inflation forecast for second week 0.6pc in the first quarter of the Q4FY2014 from US$ 18.1 billion BRASILIA: Brazil economists raised year, and causing analysts to scale (3.6pc of GDP) in Q4FY2013, which their 2014 inflation forecast for the back their predictions of upcoming was also lower than US$ 4.2 billion second straight week as they forecast interest rate hikes. The nominal (0.9pc of GDP) in Q3FY2014. The the central bank will pause the world’s GDP at market price during the lower CAD was primarily on account NZ trade surplus narrows longest tightening cycle this week. first quarter of 2014 decreased of a decline in the trade deficit as more than expected in April Brazil’s inflation will accelerate to by R2-billion from the last quarter decline in imports was sharper than AUCKLAND: New Zealand’s trade 6.47 percent this year, compared to R874-billion. This marked a that in exports. surplus narrowed more than with the previous week’s forecast of sharp change in direction from last expected in April as exports fell 6.43 percent, according to the May quarter’s GDP growth of 3.8pc. more than imports, driven by a drop 23 central bank survey of about 100 in shipments of dairy products and analyst. meat. The trade surplus was $534 million in April, from a revised $935 million in March, and $171 million a year earlier, according to Statistics New Zealand.

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NBA faces Sterling’s legal Heat trounce Pacers action on Clippers’ sale LOS ANGELES: The National wife had sold the team. “There Basketball Association said yes- was no ‘forced sale’ of his team terday that it has reached an by the NBA - which means his agreement with the estranged antitrust and conversion claims wife of Los Angeles Clippers are completely invalid,” Buchanan owner Donald Sterling to sell said in a statement. to reach NBA finals the team, opening a new chap- Sterling’s attorney, Maxwell ter for the franchise after 33 Blecher, said he had no com- years under Sterling. ment on the NBA’s move to ten- James, Bosh excel with 25 points each in 117-92 win Sterling, 80, was banned for life tatively approve the $2bn sale of by the NBA for racist remarks in the Clippers by Shelly Sterling a private conversation that were to former Microsoft Corp chief MIAMI: LeBron James and recorded secretly and leaked to executive officer Steve Ballmer. Chris Bosh scored 25 points NBA Play-offs the media while the Clippers “I have big dreams for the team. each as the two-time defend- were playing in the NBA play- I’d love to win a championship. I’d ing champion Miami Heat clob- Semi-final Result offs. The news brought shame on love the Clippers to be the most bered the Indiana Pacers 117-92 1 2 3 4 T the league, sponsors cut ties with dynamic, vibrant team and name yesterday to reach their fourth Miami 24 36 31 26 117 the team and players considered in professional sports, but I’ve got consecutive NBA finals. a boycott. a lot to learn,” Ballmer said in an Indiana 13 21 24 34 92 Miami used a game six blow- Also yesterday, Sterling interview published by The Los out to join an elite NBA group by (Miami win the best-of-seven series by 4-2) sued the NBA and league Angeles Times yesterday. becoming the first team to reach (Chicago) Bulls of our era and you Commissioner Adam Silver in US NBA owners still must approve the championship four straight have to tip your hats to them,” District Court in Los Angeles for the sale, but the vote is believed times since the Boston Celtics did said Pacers coach Frank Vogel. at least $1bn. to be a formality because Ballmer it from 1984-87. Dwyane Wade and Rashard As a result of the settlement, was vetted by the NBA last year James also had six assists and Lewis each tallied 13 points the league canceled its Tuesday as a suitor for the Sacramento shot eight-of-12 from the field in while Chris Andersen grabbed hearing to terminate Sterling’s Kings. 32 minutes of playing time for 10 rebounds for the Heat, who ownership, avoiding a vote by As part of the deal between Miami who used an emphatic lost the finals in 2011 then won NBA owners to consider remov- Shelly Sterling, the Sterling victory to claim the best-of-seven back-to-back titles in 2012 and ing one of their own. Family Trust, which owns the Eastern Conference final series last season. In his lawsuit, Sterling says Clippers, and the NBA, she agreed 4-2. Miami will start the NBA finals he was unaware he was being not to sue the league. “We are going to four straight on the road against the winner of recorded and was caught in a Donald Sterling has listed the finals and we will never take this the other NBA semi-final playoff jealous quarrel with a “lover.” He Sterling Family Trust as a plain- for granted,” James said. “We will series between San Antonio and alleges Silver and the NBA forced tiff in his suit against the NBA celebrate this for sure and when Oklahoma City. The Spurs, who him to sell the Clippers using a which alleges breach of contract we start getting ready for the lost to the Heat in seven games recording illegal under California and antitrust violations among finals we will lock in.” in last year’s finals, can close out law as evidence. other damages. James regrouped in a huge way that series with a win Saturday Sterling also says in the suit the A source with knowledge of yesterday after coming off one of in game six. NBA did not respond to his query the situation told Reuters that the worst offensive performances The Heat are the third team on Friday if the hearing had been Shelly Sterling is now sole trustee of his brilliant career in game five, in NBA history to make the canceled following the sale of the of the family trust that controls where he battled foul trouble and finals four straight years. The Clippers. the Clippers after physicians this finished with a career playoff low Celtics made a staggering 10 in NBA executive vice presi- month deemed that her husband seven points on just two-of-10 a row from 1957-66, then the Los Miami Heat’s owner Mickey Arison (left) and Miami Heat’s player Greg dent and general counsel Rick has Alzheimer’s disease. Blecher shooting. Angeles Lakers did it from 1982- Oden celebrate their win against the Indiana Pacers following their Buchanan called Sterling’s law- did not respond to phone calls “We are competing against the 85. Boston was also the last team Eastern Conference Finals NBA play-off game in Miami, Florida yesterday. suit baseless and said Sterling did or emails seeking comment on (Michael) Jordan of our era, the to do it, beginning in 1984. AFP not have any recourse since his Sterling’s health. REUTERS NHL: Blackhawks bounce back to level series against Kings

LOS ANGELES: The defend- nine minutes remaining in the Watched by a sellout crowd ing Stanley Cup champion NHL Play-offs third period. of 18,500, the game began at Chicago Blackhawks, with “It was disappointing, espe- a lightning-fast pace with the Patrick Kane back to his best, Conference Final cially when we feel we could have Blackhawks initially posing more staved off play-off elimination prevented that second goal and of an offensive threat but it was for a second straight game by Result then you take the penalty to make the Kings who opened the scoring beating the Los Angeles Kings it 3-2,” he said. with just under three minutes left 4-3 at Staples Center yesterday. 1 2 3 T “I was out on the ice for two of in the first period. Two goals in the second period, Los Angeles 1 0 2 3 the goals before that and felt I had Left wing Dwight King, on followed by two more late in the to do something to get it back. an assist from Jarret Stoll who Chicago 0 2 2 4 third, made the difference in a Luckily I was able to do that.” retrieved a loose puck from Game Six of electrifying pace, (The best-of-seven series is level at 3-3) Kings Dustin Brown the corner, rifled a shot past dramatic lead changes and high was bitterly disappointed after his Blackhawks goaltender Corey energy as Chicago tied the best- a single point after the first four team surrendered two late goals, Crawford to put the Kings ahead of-seven Western Conference games of the series before regain- goaltender Jonathan Quick end- 1-0. finals series at 3-3. ing his customary form, told NBC ing the night with 21 saves on 25 Chicago, who beat LA5-4 in Trailing 0-1 after the first television. shots in a match-up between the double overtime on Wednesday period, the Blackhawks scored “For some reason when the past two Stanley Cup champions. to fend off play-off elimination, twice in quick succession in the chips are down, it seems like “I don’t think we can expect to then responded with a flurry of second through right wings Kane we’ve got a lot of guys that step give up four goals in one game,” two goals within two minutes in and Ben Smith, then rallied from up. Huge team effort tonight.” said forward Brown. “It’s been our the second period. 2-3 down in the third as defense- Kane, the Conn Smythe Trophy problem the last two games, giv- Kane scored with a wrist shot man Duncan Keith and Kane, winner last season as the most ing up too many goals. at 1.12 before Smith followed Chicago Blackhawks’ and Los Angeles Kings’ players line up for the face again, struck with wrist shot. valuable player of the Stanley “That’s the result of making up 97 seconds later after bank- off to start the third period in game six of the Western Conference Final “This team just sticks to it, it’s Cup playoffs, was delighted by mistakes in the neutral zone and ing the puck into the net off the of the 2014 Stanley Cup Play-offs at Staples Center yesterday. an unbelievable group of guys,” his team’s efforts in coming back mistakes on coverage. If we clean back of goaltender Quick’s foot. the enigmatic Kane, who had just from a 2-3 deficit with less than that up, we’re good.” REUTERS Nationals pummel Rangers AlBalooshi continues fine run,

TEXAS: Ian Desmond hit his pitched six effective innings as stands 6th in New Jersey race team-leading 10th home run of Baseball Results the Kansas City Royals defeated the season, a three-run blast Cleveland 5 Colorado 2 the Toronto Blue Jays 6-1 for their that allowed the Washington Minnesota 6 NY Yankees 1 second win in a row. ENGLISHTOWN, NEW posting a 3.792-second effort at qualifying when the blower belt Nationals to overcome a two- Washington 9 Texas 2 Cain, the Royals’ center fielder, JERSEY: One year ago at 320.66 mph. broke, and the engine could no run deficit and cruise to a 9-2 had a two-run homer and two the Toyota NHRA Summer The third-year Top Fuel driver longer perform. Philadelphia 6 NY Mets 5 victory over the Texas Rangers. RBI singles, and left fielder Alex Nationals some 45 miles was No. 1 after the first session. Langdon’s 4.022-second run The Nationals, who trailed 2-0 Kansas City 6 Toronto 1 Gordon also hit a two-run homer from New York City, Khalid In the yesterday night’s ses- was still good enough for seventh. heading into the bottom of the Boston 3 Tampa Bay 2 as the Royals (26-28) handed the AlBalooshi was the No. 2 quali- sion. AlBalooshi was in the final In the evening session, the silver fourth inning, got singles from Atlanta 3 Miami 2 Blue Jays (32-24) their second fier and advanced to the final pair because he was No. 1 in the Al Anabi car was once again on outfielder Jayson Werth and San Diego 4 Chicago White Sox 1 loss in a row after they had won round. first session, but five cars had a great run when the car smoked first baseman Adam LaRoche off Milwaukee 11 Chicago Cubs 5 nine straight. Yesterday in Englishtown, run quicker than his afternoon the tires just shy of half track. Texas starter Colby Lewis (4-4) Vargas (5-2) allowed one run AlBalooshi remained strong for run dropping him to sixth. The Because several drivers were Houston 2 Baltimore 1 to set the stage for Desmond, the on seven hits and three walks the Qatar Al Anabi Racing Top gold Al Anabi team made a very able to improve their times in the San Francisco 9 St Louis 4 Nationals’ shortstop. while striking out seven. Fuel team, the three-time and aggressive run and was clearly night session, Langdon dropped Washington entered the game Cincinnati 6 Arizona 4 Ricky Nolasco picked up his defending NHRA Mello Yello Top going for the No. 1 qualifier. back to 14th at the middle of the hitting just .127 with runners in Oakland 9 LA Angels 5 first win in over a month by pitch- Fuel World Champions owned by Unfortunately, it was too much qualifying process. scoring position over its last seven Detroit 6 Seattle 3 ing six innings and the Minnesota H E, Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad power and AlBalooshi’s gold Al “In the first round, we were on contests, but Desmond crushed Pittsburgh 2 LA Dodgers 1 Twins hit a season-high three Al Thani. Anabi car overpowered the race a great run that would probably a Lewis fastball over the right- home runs in a 6-1 victory over AlBalooshi is sixth while track and smoked the tires; he have been the low qualifier, but center wall to give the Nationals inning against right-hander Tom the New York Yankees at Yankee defending race winner Shawn was unable to improve his posi- we broke the blower belt at half a 3-2 advantage en route to their Koehler (4-5). Stadium. Langdon is 14th after the first tion and is sixth at the mid-point track,” Langdon said. second win in eight games. Teheran helped his own cause Right fielder Oswaldo Arcia day of qualifying for the 45th of qualifying. “On the night run, we just Atlanta Braves right-hander with a leadoff double down the and left fielder Josh Willingham annual Toyota NHRA Summer “Our team is very good at this missed the setup a little bit and Julio Teheran tossed 7 1/3 solid first-base line. Right fielder Jason supported Nolasco’s first vic- Nationals, the ninth of 24 events race track,” AlBalooshi said. “We smoked the tires a little before innings and catalyzed the offense Heyward drove him in with an tory since April 24 by hitting that make up the United States’ made a very good run in the first half track.” in a 3-2 comeback victory over RBI triple to left center. Center solo home runs. Third baseman 2014 NHRA Mello Yello Drag round; it was a good job by Jason Langdon, however was hoping the Miami Marlins in front of fielder B.J. Upton followed with Trevor Plouffe added a two-run Racing Series season. (crew chief Jason McCulloch) and to do well in the following stages 18,469 at Marlins Park. the go-ahead sacrifice fly to left. homer for the Twins, who won for AlBalooshi and the gold Al all of the crew.” of the event.” We’ll try again on Atlanta erased a 2-1 deficit Lorenzo Cain drove in four runs the second time in their last eight Anabi team were stellar in late- Langdon was on his way to a Saturday,” he said. with two runs in the seventh and left-hander Jason Vargas games. REUTERS afternoon qualifying session brilliant run in the first round of THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT LPGA: Johnson ties McIlroy stumbles, falls course record with 62

GALLOWAY, United States: Jennifer Johnson equalled the ShopRite LPGA course record with a nine- under 62 to take a one-shot Classic Scores nine back of Casey lead after the first round of the LPGA Tour’s ShopRite Classic GALLOWAY, United States: yesterday. Leading scores after Friday’s World No. 1 Adam Scott seven shots off the pace The 22-year-old American first round of the ShopRite has one win on the LPGA tour, LPGA Classic (USA unless capturing the Mobile Bay LPGA noted, par-71): DUBLIN, OHIO: Overnight US PGA Tour Memorial Classic in 2013. 62 Jennifer Johnson leader Rory McIlroy experi- “I’ve been playing well the past 63 Haru Nomura (JPN) enced a stunning free-fall to few weeks, and so I felt pretty good 64 Christina Kim plunge nine strokes behind Tournament Scores about my game, and you know, if 66 Choi Na-Yeon (KOR), Park In-Bee leader Paul Casey after the Scores from the US PGA Tour you just let it happen and just let second round at the Memorial Memorial Tournament at the a good round come together, nor- (KOR) Tournament in Dublin, Ohio par-72 course on Friday in mally it does,” Johnson said. 67 Chella Choi (KOR), Sandra Gal (GER), yesterday. Dublin, Ohio. The cut was set Japan’s Haru Nomura carded Stacy Lewis, Sarah Kemp (AUS), After snaring the first- at 144. an eight-under 63 to sit alone in Laura Diaz, Brittany Lincicome, round lead with an opening 63 132 Paul Casey (Britain) 66 66 second place, while Christina Kim, Jennifer Kirby (CAN), Gerina Piller, Michelle Wie at Muirfield Village Golf Club, 135 Bubba Watson (US) 66 69 of the United States, is in third at McIlroy notched three consecu- seven-under 64 at the Stockton 68 Jodi Ewart Shadoff (ENG), Lee Mi- 136 Chris Kirk (US) 66 70 tive double bogeys en route to a Seaview Golf Club course. Hyang (KOR), Mina Harigae, Kang six-over-par 78. 137 Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) 70 67; World number one Park In-bee Hae-Ji (KOR), Paola Moreno (COL), But he did not blame his dis- Martin Flores (US) 69 68 and Choi Na-Yeon shot matching Jane Park, Lydia Ko (NZL), Lindsey mal day on a sore left knee he 138 Scott Langley (US) 72 66; Thorbjorn five-under 66s to share fourth. Wright (AUS), Caroline Westrup tweaked during the first round, Olesen (Denmark) 71 67; Hunter Park has been ranked number (SWE), Sydnee Michaels, Katy Harris, instead admitting that it was poor Mahan (US) 68 70; Ryan Moore (US) one for 59 straight weeks, but has Stacy Keating driving caused his high score. 68 70 yet to win a tournament this year. “I just kept missing fairways 139 Marc Leishman (Australia) 71 68; She rolled in a 15-foot birdie the course record set previously and making it tough for myself Robert Streb (US) 72 67; Adam Scott putt at her opening hole to get by Kang Ji-Min and Laura Davies and obviously that little three- (Australia) 69 70; Brendon Todd (US) her round off to a strong start. nine years ago. hole stretch didn’t help,” the 71 68; Gary Woodland (US) 71 68; “After I birdied the first hole, She went on to post five con- Northern Irishman told report- Camilo Villegas (Colombia) 71 68; that really gave me a lot of con- secutive birdies beginning at the ers on a day when Englishman Scott Brown (US) 70 69 fidence going into the rest of the ninth. Johnson, who began playing Casey surged three shots clear of 17 holes,” said Park, who had six golf at age nine, said getting off a the field. Tour events, he shot 77 (Masters), birdies and one bogey. to a quick start Friday helped her “Take those three holes out and 76 (Wells Fargo Championship) Stacy Lewis, Michelle Wie, confidence. it wouldn’t have been that bad a and 74 (Players Championship) . Sandra Gal, Chella Choi, Sarah “I just gave myself chances all day but these little runs I’m get- Meanwhile, World No. 1 Adam Kemp, Laura Diaz, Brittany day long, and that really helps on ting on it just seems to get away Scott is seven shots behind the Lincicome, Jennifer Kirby and these greens when you hit it close from me.” leader as he finished the day with Gerina Piller were tied for sixth because if not, you’re going to be McIlroy was referring to the a gross of 139, along with several at four-under 67. hitting some bumps out there,” bad habit he has fallen into other golfers. He ended yester- Phil Mickelson tees off on the second hole during the third round of the Johnson’s round included 10 said Johnson, who shot a 63 on recently of shooting poor second day’s round with 68 after carding Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin yesterday. birdies and a bogey as she equalled this course two years ago. AFP rounds. In his past three PGA 71 in first round. REUTERS New proposal for Tokyo Quintana on cusp of Giro win 2020 Stadium a ‘sin’

TOKYO: A revised plan for until now,” Suzuki told Reuters Japan’s new stadium for the on Friday, a day before an event after resisting in Zoncolan 2020 Olympics is still so waste- to bid the current National ful and large for the site that it Stadium farewell ahead of its July MONTE ZONCOLAN, Italy: Rigoberto Uran, who remains sec- is a “sin” - one that also destroys demolition. Quintana of Colombia was ond overall, 3:07 behind. the power of the original design, “But it’s happening in my gar- poised to win the Giro d’Italia Italian Fabio Aru, who crossed said a Tokyo architect run- den, in our garden ... We just at the first attempt after hold- the line some 15 seconds behind, ning a petition drive against the can’t let it happen. It’s a sin, it’s ing off his rivals in the penulti- is still third. structure. a crime.” mate stage, a 167-km mountain Today’s 21st and final stage The spaceship-like stadium was The National Stadium was ride won by Australian Michael is a flat ride over 172-km from designed by Zaha Hadid, who also built for Tokyo’s first Summer Rogers yesterday. Gemona del Friuli to Trieste. designed the aquatics centre for Olympics, in 1964. The new sta- Tinkoff-Saxo rider Rogers, Earlier, the Colombian wear- the 2012 London Olympics, but dium, set to have 80,000 seats - up who was last month cleared ing the leader’s pink jersey, closed the plans came under fire soon from 54,000 at present - will be of wrongdoing after a posi- in on victory by winning the 19th after Tokyo won the Games last completed in time for the Rugby tive test for clenbuterol last stage of the Giro d’Italia on the year for ballooning cost estimates World Cup in 2019. year, was the strongest rider slopes of Monte Grappa on Friday and a lack of harmony with the The new proposal shrinks the involved in the 20th stage’s early after a good show. surrounding cityscape. overall space of the stadium to breakaway, beating Italians The Movistar rider con- This week, the Japan Sports about 222,600 square metres, Franco Pellizotti and Francesco solidated his race lead two days Council released a new design including competitive spaces such Bongiorno for his second stage before the finish as he crossed proposal reducing the size of the as the pitch, from 290,000 square victory of the tour. 17sec ahead of Italy’s Fabio Aru stadium by more than 20 percent metres, mainly by downsising Bongiorno was with Rogers in following a 26.8km time-trial. and cutting costs from some 300 areas used for things like media the finale but was cost time when Colombian Rigoberto Uran, billion yen ($2.95bn), more than facilities and display rooms. he lost his balance after being second in the overall standings, twice the original bid estimate, to The height of the stadium at its touched by a spectator. finished third at 1min 26sec.. roughly 162bn yen. tallest point will be cut from 75 Tour de France runner-up Quintana holds a 3min 7sec But Edward Suzuki, a Tokyo- metres to 70 metres, but Suzuki Quintana, 24, was never bothered lead on Uran in the overall stand- based architect, says the new said this is still too tall for the by his rivals in the final ascent, an ings with Aru at 3min 48sec. proposal is still flawed, especially surrounding area, which includes intimidating climb up the Monte ”It was my speciality, I couldn’t given the number of trees that a long avenue of trees.“It’s so The overall leader, Colombian rider Nairo Quintana of Movistar Team Zoncolan at an average gradient let this stage go,” he said after will have to be cut in one of the overpowering, it’s not a human (top), celebrates with team-mates on the podium after the 20th stage of of 11.9 per cent over 10.1-km. winning the stage and soon added city’s rare green areas. scale. It’s going to replace all the the Giro d’Italia 2014 cycling race, over 167km from Maniago to Monte The Movistar rider arrived “Especially given my family had “I’ve never felt so emotional trees that had once been there,” Zoncolan in Italy, yesterday. almost five minutes behind come from Colombia to watch about any kind of architecture up Suzuki said. REUTERS Rogers, just ahead of compatriot me.” AGENCIES West on the pace; rain stops progress for Ramos

MUGELLO, Italy: Anthony for his Speed-up prototype. 33rd West had a strong start into the in the time sheets so far, the Grand Prix of Italy. 23-year-old Spaniard now hopes Despite a gearbox problem for better conditions on the sec- in the dry morning session, the ond day of practice. 32-year-old QMMF Racing Team “Normally, Mugello is the worst rider scored 17th place and was track for me in all the champion- only 1.2 seconds behind provi- ship, but this time, we seem to be sional leader Esteve Rabat. all right,” said West. In wet conditions in the after- “I think we are on a good pace noon, the Australian “rain king” and I am feeling good despite a lived up to his reputation, clock- small mistake with the gearing ing eighth fastest despite sliding that cost us a lot of time in the a lot due to his dry suspension dry session this morning,” he set-up. stated. Ramos said: “Mugello is Fast in all conditions, West is another new circuit for me and as now confident to be able to score beautiful it is, it is also challeng- a top result in qualifying on ing, because it is so fast, long and Saturday afternoon and in the complex,” he said. race today. The first free practice session Mugello-newcomer Roman was very difficult because I had Ramos spent the morning ses- to learn my way around the track sion to learn his way around the and the set-up of the bike wasn’t magnificent 5.2 kilometre track perfect, either,” he observed. of Mugello, but his progress was “In the second practice, it interrupted by rainshowers in the started to rain and we didn’t do afternoon that made it impossible too many laps. Now we hope that The QMMF Racing Team rider Anthony West relaxes after the session at Mugello Circuit in Italy. RIGHT: Roman Ramos in action on debut at the to methodically work on improve- the weather will improve tomor- Mugello Circuit. ments on riding style and set-up row.” THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 MCC ‘snub’ sparked academy to Flintoff return LONDON: Andrew Flintoff has revealed how being overlooked for the upcoming Lord’s Bicentenary match between Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the Rest of the World spurred him on to make a comeback with Lancashire. be set up in Qatar The Red Rose county confirmed Friday that Flintoff, one of their favourite sons, had been included in the squad for the county’s domestic Twenty20 campaign. Former England captain Flintoff, in injury-induced retirement for State-of-the-art venture to start operations next year five years, wasn’t selected to play in the team that faced Warwickshire on Friday but is in line to return at home to Lancashire’s arch-rivals DOHA: A state-of-the-art Kevin Pietersen role in the acad- Yorkshire at Old Trafford a week on Friday. cricket academy in Qatar - till emy Al Mana said: “Kevin came Before announcing his comeback, the 36-year-old said he’d hoped now a dream - is expected to to know about my cricket vision to have been chosen for the star-studded match marking the 200th become a reality thanks in a through my Dubai fans, so he anniversary of Lord’s in July. large measure to the untir- came to visit us.” But pace bowling all-rounder Flintoff said the effect on his chil- ing efforts of Mana Ibrahim Al The star cricketer came to dren of being told he wasn’t wanted for the fixture had fuelled his Mana. Doha on Wednesday and was desire to return to the middle. “The academy should be opera- taken on a guided tour of the “John Stephenson from the MCC phoned me up and I thought tional by the start of the next year West End Park Stadium. the call was to tell me where to turn up and who was in the side,” and will be based at the West End “Kevin was impressed by what Flintoff told BBC Radio Five in an interview broadcast Friday. Park Stadium. The academy will he saw in Qatar and he wrote “The kids were in the car and he told me they didn’t want me. He be equipped with practice facili- back saying ‘I am excited and said they’ve got Brian Lara and all these other people. ties, both indoors and outdoors. looking forward to work together “I saw my kids’ faces and that’s the first time they’d seen their We will have indoor pitches for with you’,” said Al Mana. dad told he can’t do something. They said: ‘Never mind, there will training and also facilities for net Besides the academy Al Mana be other games’. And I thought: ‘There will be actually.’” practices outside. We will also has lined up a number of cricket Concerns have been expressed that, after such a long time out of have a gymnasium, swimming tournaments at the West End Park the game, Flintoff risks tarnishing his reputation by not being able pool and facilities for students to Stadium to promote the game. to perform at his best. study,” said Al Mana, Chairman of “We will plan to host one tour- However, he said: “I’d sooner try and have it not come off than sit the West End Park in Industrial nament every month. We will at home for the rest of my days thinking I should have tried this, I Area, while talking to journalists. be hosting a Ramadan tourna- should have had a go.” The West End Park hosts a ment and also a Doha League in “I feel young, I behave like I’m young,” Flintoff added. “It’s the number of entertainment and September. The Ramdan event easiest decision I’ve made in my career. sports facilities, including the will feature 12 to 14 teams. The “Lancs think I can do it, I think I can do it. I can’t guarantee per- cricket stadium. winners will get QR50, 000 and formance but I’m going to have a go at this. I’ve got to prove myself.” Al Mana love affair with cricket the runners-up QR25, 000. A powerful batsman, as well as an aggressive bowler and assured came about a year back and since “All the teams at the Ramadan slip fielder, Flintoff played 79 Tests, 141 one-day internationals and then the Qatari businessman is tournament are local ones and will seven Twenty20 internationals for England. determined to promote the game be allowed to field four interna- Fans’ favourite Flintoff’s greatest all-round series came when he and setting up the academy is one tional players. We are in the proc- scored 402 runs at an average of just over 40 and took 24 at step in that direction. ess of finalising the details,” he said. under 28 apiece as England regained the Ashes 2-1 in 2005. “I knew nothing about cricket a He also disclosed that West But the subsequent Ashes saw Flintoff, miscast as England cap- year back. I became a cricket fan Chairman of West End Park, Mana Ibrahim Al Mana End Park will also have its own tain, lead his country to a 5-0 series defeat in Australia in 2006/07. after watching a match in Dubai cricket team. Even so, his international career finished with a flourish when he between Pakistan and South to schools to tap the talent,” said from Bangladesh and other offi- “Our team will play their first ran out Australia captain Ricky Ponting in the fifth Test at The Oval Africa, and since then I have the Al Mana. cials have assured to pitch in,” he match either in the Ramadan in 2009, a match England won by 197 runs to regain the Ashes 2-1. game on my mind,” the football “I have visited Lords in London added. tournament or in the Doha For Lancashire, for whom he made his debut as a 17-year-old, fan of Spanish giants Barcelona and met Marylebone Cricket Club “Our academy will be a run on League.” Al Mana said. Flintoff scored 4,042 runs at 35.14 and took 92 wickets at 29.16 in and locally of Al Sadd Club said. (MCC) officials who have assured professional lines and we have “We want to make cricket the 80 first-class matches. “My target is to improve the all help to me in setting up an some of the top coaches on our second most popular sport in In 16 county Twenty20 games he averaged 13.94 with the ball and standard of the cricket in Qatar academy in Qatar. International rooster,” said Al Mana. Qatar and aim one day to host the 29.64 with the bat, with a highest score of 93 against Derbyshire in and we need an academy to help Cricket Council (ICC) besides On former England batsman World Cup in Qatar,” he added. 2009. Since retiring from cricket, Flintoff has appeared in a number to raise the level. We need to go Pakistan Cricket Board, officials and Delhi Daredevils captain THE PENINSULA of television programmes and even had one bout of professional boxing. Now though he is set to go back to where it all started for him by playing for boyhood club St Annes against Penrith in the Northern League on Saturday as a means of ‘warming-up’ for his county return. ECB and Downton apologise “Andrew is as fit as a fiddle,” said St Annes captain Andy Kellett. “That is why Lancashire are so happy for him to play for them again. “It will be a bit weird for me being captain of the side when there is a former England captain in the side, but I have done it before. “We always knew when Andrew first played here as a youngster over Pietersen comments that he would go on to much better things, though not the superstar he became.” AFP LONDON: The saga of Kevin Africa-born Pietersen to remain made in breach of a settlement rather than the points behind Pietersen’s extraordinary exit in the team. An angry Pietersen agreement between the ECB and them. Pietersen responded to from the international arena responded by labelling Downton’s Kevin Pietersen which was con- Downton’s radio interview by say- took a fresh twist on Friday remarks “wholly untrue”. cluded at the time Kevin’s central ing: “The suggestion that I was Narine to miss when the England and Wales And having gone to the trou- contract was terminated earlier uninterested during the winter Cricket Board and its manag- ble of negotiating an exit with this year. Ashes series against Australia is Test series after ing director, Paul Downton, Pietersen, the ECB was embar- “Paul Downton and the ECB wholly untrue. apologised for criticism of the rassingly forced to admit that both apologise to Kevin Pietersen “Although I was having injec- putting West batsman made by the former some of Downton’s comments for those comments made that tions in my knee, which inhibited England wicketkeeper. were “in breach of the settlement were in breach of the settlement my mobility and thus my ability to Downton appeared on BBC agreement” made with the bats- agreement and have confirmed field close to the , I was fully Indies second Radio’s Test Match Special pro- man when his England central that they will abide by its terms motivated to play for England and gramme on May 22 and during contract was terminated. moving forward.” whilst I accept that the series as GUYANA: West Indies spin- the course of a wide-ranging “On May 22 during an inter- Until recently, the ECB’s expla- a whole fell well below my own ner (pictured) interview went into details about view on BBC Test Match Special, nations for effectively ending the personal standards, I finished the will miss next month’s three- England’s controversial decision Paul Downton of the ECB made international career of Pietersen, series as the (England) top scorer. Test series against New Zealand to ditch former captain Pietersen a series of comments about Kevin England’s leading run-scorer across “I did, and continue to have a after opting to stay with his following the team’s 5-0 Ashes Pietersen with which Kevin takes all formats, had contained only good relationship with most of the team, series loss in Australia. issue, including the comments limited detail. But by focusing on England players.” the West Indies Cricket Board ECB chief Downton said the he made regarding his percep- Pietersen’s attitude, Downton had Pietersen is still on the books of (WICB) has said. 33-year-old appeared “disinter- tion of Kevin’s attitude during appeared to clarify the situation. Surrey but his planned return to The “Windies First Policy” of ested” and “distracted” in the fifth the Sydney Test on last winter’s However, the tome of the ECB action for the Oval-based county the WICB required the 26-year- Test in Sydney, and added he was Ashes tour,” said an ECB state- statement suggested they and on Friday in a Twenty20 fixture old spinner to join the training unable to find anyone within the ment issued late Friday. Downton were apologising for his against Middlesex was scuppered camp by Sunday, also the day England squad who wanted South “Some of those comments were remarks being broadcast in public by a finger injury. AFP when his Twenty20 team plays the final. “The onus of the WICB is to protect the integrity of inter- national cricket at all times,” IPL: Rampaging Kings XI Punjab seek glory the board’s Director of Cricket Richard Pybus said in a statement. BANGALORE: Storming into leg, Knights bounced back with Robin Uttappa, captain Gautham “International cricket, and spe- an Indian Premier League (IPL) seven consecutive wins in the Gambhir, Manish Pandey and the cifically Test cricket, is priority final for the first time, Kings tournament’s domestic leg against unpredictable Yusuf Pathan, who and requires dedicated prepara- XI Punjab are all charged up to other teams, resulting in grabbing can script victory at ease. tion which is integral to team take on 18 points from nine wins and five Teams: Kings XI: Manan success. (KKR) at the Chinnaswamy losses. Vohra, Virender Sehwag, Glenn “The WICB policy requires Stadium here today. Knights were title holders Maxwell, David Miller, George players to commit to sufficient Though Kings lost to Knights in 2012 having beaten CSK in Bailey (capt), Wriddhiman preparation leading in to a series by 28 runs in the first qualifier Chennai, while the former won Saha (wk), Akshar Patel, as part of a culture of excellence,” in Kolkata on Wednesday, they twice (2010, 2011) and were run- Mitchell Johnson, Rishi Dhawan, Pybus added. bounced back to beat Chennai ners up thrice -- in 2008 against Karanveer Singh, Parvinder Difficult to read and more suc- Super Kings by 24 runs for the Rajasthan, 2012 against Knights Awana, Shivam Sharma, cessful in the shorter formats, third time to make their first and Mumbai Indians 2013. Cheteshwar Pujara, Shaun Narine has played six tests claim- appearance in IPL final. Kings bowlers will be under Marsh, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, ing 21 wickets, 18 of them coming With dashing opener Virendra pressure again, as they were Mandeep Singh, Anureet Singh, against New Zealand. Sehwag back in form, as evident against CSK whose south paw Beuran Hendricks, Murali Kartik, His absence would force West Friday from his flamboyant 122 in Suresh Raina exposed their chinks Shardul Thakur, Lakshmipathy Indies to look at off-spinner 58 balls against CSK, Kings’ mid- on Friday with an explosive innings Balaji and Sandeep Sharma, Shane Shillingford, just back dle order - Glenn Maxwell, David of 87 in just 25. But for a smart Knights Riders: Gautam from a suspension for an illegal Miller and captain George Bailey run-out by Bailey when Raina was Gambhir (capt), bowling action, and towering left- - have to fire again as in the league in full cry after posting 100 runs on (wk), Manish Pandey, Yusuf arm spinner Sulieman Benn who games, which made them head the board in just six overs of power- Pathan, , Ryan played his last test in December points table (22), with a record 11 play, Kings would not have been in ten Doeschate, Suryakumar 2010. wins and three losses. finals even through eliminator. Yadav, Morne Morkel, Piyush Narine will be considered for After Kings won by 23 runs at While Kings will bet on Chawla, Sunil Narine, Umesh the two Twenty20 Internationals Abu Dhabi April 26 during the Mitchell Johnson and Parvinder Yadav, Jacques Kallis, Manvinder against New Zealand in July, the George Bailey (left) captain of Kings XI Punjab and Gautam Gambhir tournament’s first leg, Knights Awana for early breakthrough, Bisla, , Veer Pratap WICB said. Kingston hosts the of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) pose with the Indian Premier League avenged this by winning by nine onus will be on Sandeep Sharma Singh, Chris Lynn, , first Test from June 8, followed by wickets at Cuttack May 11. and Akshar Patel contain- Sayan Mondal, , matches in Port-of-Spain (June (IPL) trophy at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore on the eve of the Interestingly, while Kings won ing Knights’ marauders like its Debabrata Das and Vinay Kumar. 16-20) and Guyana (June 26-30). IPL final. all its five league ties in the UAE orange cap holder and opener IANS REUTERS SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Germany to miss stars England outplay Peru 3-0; in Cameroon friendly tie

Bosnia edge out Ivory Coast MOENCHENGLADBACH: Germany host Cameroon in their penultimate World Cup warm-up today with head coach Chile fight back for an impressive victory over Egypt in Santiago Joachim Loew missing several first-choice stars. Germany captain Phlipp Lahm, LONDON: England overcame who is nursing an ankle knock, some stubborn resistance from and goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, a well-organised defensive Peru who has a shoulder injury, both side before sealing a comfort- sit out the Moenchengladbach able 3-0 win in their last home match. World Cup warm-up match at The Bayern Munich pair have Wembley yesterday. both only been able to take a lim- England head off to their final ited part in the pre-World Cup training camp in Miami boosted camp since picking up knocks in by an excellent opener from the German Cup final a fortnight Daniel Sturridge after 32 minutes ago. which lit up a lifeless first half. “We don’t want to take any Two second-half goals from risks with Philipp Lahm and set-pieces by central defenders Manuel Neuer will also not play,” Gary Cahill and Phil Jagielka said Loew. gave England a deserved win in “Marcel Schmelzer and Bastian the first match between the two Schweinsteiger should be availa- countries since they last met 52 ble and I’ll try and make the most years ago just before the 1962 of the substitutions. World Cup in Chile. “It’s an important opportunity Peru, who failed to reach this for me to learn a few things, both year’s finals in Brazil after a poor tactically and also about individ- campaign in the South American England’s Wayne Rooney in action against Peru during an international soccer friendly at Wembley Stadium yesterday. RIGHT: Chilean national team ual players.” qualifiers, defended well and Jean footballer Eduardo Vargas (#11) celebrates his goal against Egypt during a friendly football match in Santiago. The 28-year-old Neuer is Deza stood out in midfield with expected to play in Germany’s a solid performance, forcing final friendly against Armenia England goalkeeper Joe Hart into with 10 men behind the ball you minutes and drilled a shot high defence for Eduardo Vargas, Wednesday in their final warm-up in Mainz next Friday before the two good saves. have to be patient but I had no into the Chilean net. whose right-foot shot brought match. In other match , Striker squad flies to Brazil. He also had a 40-metre shot doubt we would win. Four minutes later, Khaled Chile level. Edin Dzeko scored a double to In Neuer’s place against that swirled and dipped and just In Santiago, Barcelona striker Kamar did the same down the With 12 minutes to play, lead Bosnia to a 2-1 win over Ivory Cameroon, Borussia Dortmund went over the bar. Alexis Sanchez set up all three right, beating the Chilean offside Sanchez split the Egyptian Coast in an international friendly shot-stopper Roman Weidenfeller, “It was a wonderful send off to goals as Chile fought back from trap and chipping goalkeeper defence with an inch-perfect pass in Missouri. 33, will deputise to make only his the World Cup by a quite incred- 2-0 down to beat Egypt 3-2 in Claudio Bravo to double Egypt’s for Vargas to stroke home his sec- Dzeko scored once each half second international appearance. ible crowd,” England manager their penultimate World Cup lead. ond of the night. to give Bosnia a 2-0 lead before His Dortmund team-mate Erik Roy Hodgson told ITV. warm-up match. On 26 minutes, he surged down After Australia, Chile face Didier Drogba scored a late con- Durm is set to make his debut at “We had to be patient but we The Chileans, who play the right and fired in a low cross Spain and the Netherlands in solation goal for Ivory Coast, left-back. were dominant throughout. It is Australia in their World Cup for Marcelo Diaz, who teed the what is widely regarded as the Africa’s highest ranked national Real Madrid’s Sami Khedira the perfect end to a perfect two opener on June 13, fell behind ball up with his first touch before toughest group in the finals in team. should feature at some stage weeks. I am delighted that 85,000 to two early goals on the volleying home off the far post. Brazil. With both teams having quali- despite suffering an injury scare fans came here to wish us well on counter-attack. On the hour mark, Sanchez Before that, Jorge Sampaoli’s fied for World Cup, the match gave in training. He has spent last six our way. First, Mohamed Salah broke drifted in from the right flank and side host Northern Ireland in both sides a chance to limber up months on sidelines after tearing “When you play against teams free down the left after 12 lofted the ball over the visiting the port city of Valparaiso on with little pressure. REUTERS his cruciate knee ligament. AFP Kongolo retained in Australia say won’t be Dutch squad for Brazil overawed in World Cup

AMSTERDAM: Coach Louis in that game on Wednesday led NETHERLANDS SQUAD VITÕRIA, BRAZIL: World Cup,” said the 25-year-old. “It looks like I’m doing the van Gaal cut six players from Dutch media to speculate he Goalkeepers: Jasper Cillessen Australia stars Jason Davidson Davidson meanwhile went on right thing and hopefully, like I his preliminary squad yester- might be picked but he was left (Ajax Amsterdam), Tim Krul and Matthew Spiranovic said an early charm offensive as he put said, I’m going to work hard in day as the Netherlands named out, along with team mates Jean- (Newcastle United), Michel they were rapidly acclimatising to good use Portuguese language training camp in Brazil and try their final 23-man roster for the Paul Boetius, Karim Rekik and Vorm (Swansea City) to Brazil after their marathon skills learned from two seasons to keep the position for the first World Cup in Brazil, just hours Tonny Vilhenna. Defenders: Daley Blind (Ajax trip from Sydney and ready to spent in Portugal before joining game against Chile.” before a warm-up international Experienced midfielder Rafael Amsterdam), Stefan de Vrij, tackle three daunting World Dutch side Almelo. His debut two years ago fea- against Ghana in Rotterdam. van der Vaart was ruled out of Daryl Janmaat, Terence Cup group rivals. “Ola boa tarde. Este cidade tured an own-goal against There was only one surprise as contention on Wednesday after Kongolo, Bruno Martins Indi Bookies make Ange e muito bonita (good afternoon Scotland -- but he has put that 20-year-old centre back Terence suffering a calf injury in Portugal. (all Feyenoord Rotterdam), Postecoglou’s team, the first to this city is very beautiful),” said behind him. Paul Verhaegh (FC Augsburg), Kongolo kept his place in the The final selection for Brazil arrive in Brazil, rank outsiders as Davidson as he addressed the “Obviously it wasn’t the ideal Ron Vlaar (Aston Villa), Joel squad despite being taken off at includes four players who have they face Chile in Cuiaba on June media. debut, but I think I just tried to Veltman (Ajax Amsterdam) half-time on his international been to the last two World Cups 13 before tackling 2010 runners Bedding in as a regular under work hard at club level and with Midfielders: Jordy Clasie against Ecuador last week, while in Germany and South Africa - (Feyenoord Rotterdam), up Holland on June 18 in Porto Postecoglou, Davidson said: “the the national team as well and Patrick van Aanholt fell out of Dirk Kuyt, Arjen Robben, Wesley Jonathan de Guzman (Swansea Alegre and then champions Spain training facilities are fantastic tried to earn my spot here.” contention when he was expected Sneijder and Robin van Persie. City), Nigel de Jong (AC Milan), in Curitiba five days later. and the pitch is very good,” he Davidson agreed with to be chosen as a back-up left Nigel de Jong, Klaas-Jan Leroy Fer (Norwich City), Arjen But the Aussies say the under- said. Spiranovic that the Socceroos back. Huntelaar and Michel Vorm also Robben (Bayern Munich), dog tag could work in their favor. “We are very happy to have plan to give as good as they get Van Gaal also dropped PSV went to the 2010 edition, where Wesley Sneijder (Galatasaray), “If the other teams under-esti- good facilities and now we can in Group B. Eindhoven goalkeeper Jeroen the Dutch finished runners-up to Georginio Wijnaldum (PSV mate us or become complacent concentrate on training,” he “We’re going in as under- Zoet and four players from the Spain. Eindhoven) we can definitely take advantage added. dogs and it’s up to us to work hard Dutch under-21 side who had not The Netherlands kick off their Forwards: Memphis Depay of that,” said Spiranovic, who Asked if he felt he could and try to prove a point,” he said been at last week’s training camp campaign against Group B rivals (PSV Eindhoven), Klaas-Jan enjoyed a sterling season with cement his recent run in the before insisting: in Portugal but were preparing Spain in Salvador on June 13 with Huntelaar (Schalke 04), Dirk Western Sydney Wanderers. side, Davidson said: “You’re only “We can use that to our advan- for a European Championship matches against Australia and Kuyt (Fenerbahce), Jeremain “It’s been a good year for me as good as your last game. I’m just tage and try to upset a couple qualifier against Scotland. Chile to follow. Lens (Dynamo Kiev), Robin van personally and for my club -- I trying to work hard so I don’t let of teams at the World Cup,” he A hat-trick for Quincy Promes REUTERS Persie (Manchester United). can take that confidence into the anyone else take my position. insisted.” AFP Qatari colts make their mark against elite European teams

DOHA: Young Qatari football- enrolled at Aspire Academy. However, a tough final day of ers gave a spirited show against Over the past ten days the sixth games meant that the Qatari elite European opposition at Tri-Series tournament, featuring youngsters could not finish the Aspire Tri-Series tournament. 15 highly competitive matches, Tri-Series season with a victory. Aspire Academy’s youth foot- has taken place. The Academy’s U-16 team suc- ball Tri-Series came to a thrilling With the edition split into cumbed to a 0-1 loss to Denmark’s conclusion as the Academy’s U-16 five age groups, last week saw u-16 national side, while the U-17s and U-17 teams pitched them- the U-15, U-14 and U-13 Aspire were defeated 0-4 by Palmeiras. selves against elite European and Academy teams compete against Commenting on the overall high South American opposition. youth sides from AS Monaco, standard of football during the Though the Academy students Club Brugge and VfBStuggart. Tri-Series, Roberto Olabe, Aspire were unable to defeat their inter- Meanwhile, as part of the same Academy Football Director, said, national counterparts, the players edition, this week has seen Aspire “It has been hugely satisfying to produced impressive perform- Academy’s U-16 and U-17 teams watch our performances improve ances against Brazilian U-17 side face their counterparts from steadily during the course of the Palmeiras and Denmark’s U-16 the Denmark national team and tournament,” he said. national football team that sug- Brazilian side Palmeiras. “Playing against such opposi- gested huge progress has been The final tournament matches tion in competitive circumstances made this past season. offered plenty of goals and drama will only benefit our young players Since it began in September last for the enthusiastic supporters .” Ivan Bravo, Director General of year, the Tri-Series tournament in the stands. Aspire Academy’s the academy said the event was a Qatar’s promising footballers showcased their skills and impressed at the Aspire Tri-Series also featuring elite has pitted some of the world’s U-16 team made their local fans golden chance for future players teams from Europe. strongest young teams against the proud with a thrilling 3-2 victory to ,familarise with Qatar’s football Qatari student-athletes currently over Palmeiras’ U-16s. environment. The PENINSULA SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Hodgson Del Bosque includes injured defends lacklustre Costa in Spain Cup squad Rooney

LONDON: England manager No place for Navas and Negredo; Torres shines in 2-0 win over Bolivia Roy Hodgson said that he was satisfied with Wayne Rooney despite the Manchester United MADRID: Spain coach Vicente Australia make up Group B and striker producing a subdued del Bosque has included Diego Spain’s first game is against Bolivia’s defender Ronald Eguino showing in his country’s 3-0 Costa in his final 23-man squad Netherlands on June 13, a repeat (left) vies with Spain’s forward friendly win over Peru. for the World Cup finals despite of the 2010 final which Spain won Fernando Torres during the inter- Goals from Daniel Sturridge, the Brazil-born forward’s recent 1-0 after extra time. national friendly football match Gary Cahill and Phil Jagielka ena- injury woes. Meanwhile striker Torres bled England to sign off with vic- at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan The Atletico Madrid striker capped an impressive perform- tory in their final pre-World Cup Stadium in Sevilla on Friday night. has been suffering with a series ance with a well-taken penalty game on home soil on Friday, but of muscle problems and limped as the depleted holders strolled Rooney played a peripheral role. out of last Saturday’s Champions to a 2-0 win over Bolivia. The 28-year-old, who missed League final against Real Madrid In the world and European United’s last three games of the early in the first half. champions’ penultimate warm- season with a groin injury, threat- Spain have one more warm- up game before they begin the ened only once, with a first-half up game, against El Salvador in defence of their title in Brazil header, before being replaced by Washington DC on June 7, before next month, Torres made the Liverpool winger Raheem Sterling the tournament in Brazil when most of his starting place up front in the 66th minute. Del Bosque can test Costa’s fit- and substitute Andres Iniesta was However, Hodgson said that ness. If he does not recover suf- also on target as Spain ruthlessly he was encouraged by the former ficiently, Spain can replace him in dominated the defence-minded Everton striker’s display after a the squad up to 24 hours before South Americans in Seville. month of inactivity. their opening Group B match Bolivia, who failed to qualify for “I was happy with Wayne against Netherlands on June 13 as the World Cup finals, managed to Rooney’s performance,” Hodgson long as they can prove his injury hold out until halftime before Javi said. is serious enough to prevent his Martinez was bundled over in the “We think we know where he participation. penalty area and Torres calmly is. We think we know how his fit- As well as Costa, Del Bosque slotted the spot kick past Romel ness is being maintained or pro- included fellow forwards Quinonez in the 51st minute. gressing. We obviously took him Fernando Torres of Chelsea, who It was the 30-year-old Chelsea off tonight (Friday). Him and netted a penalty in Friday’s 2-0 forward’s 37th goal in 107 appear- (Steven) Gerrard are important friendly win against Bolivia in ances for Spain after an indiffer- members of our squad. Seville, and David Villa, Spain’s ent season with his club and he showed his class when he surged Squad: Goalkeepers: Iker Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), Cesc “We’re not blessed with loads record scorer. will hope to have done enough forward in the 84th minute and Casillas (Real Madrid), Pepe Fabregas (Barcelona), Santi of senior players and at 3-0 it There was no place for winger to be included in coach Vicente curled a low effort in off a post Reina (Napoli), David De Gea Cazorla (Arsenal), Koke (Atletico seemed to be a great opportunity Jesus Navas, who missed the del Bosque’s final squad to be and Sergio Busquets crashed a (Manchester United) Madrid), Javi Martinez (Bayern to give younger ones a go. final part of the Premier League announced on Saturday. long-range drive off the frame Defenders: Sergio Ramos Munich) “I don’t have any fears in that season with an ankle injury, or Chances were scarce for of the goal moments later as the (Real Madrid), Gerard Pique Forwards: David Silva respect (about Rooney’s fitness). his Manchester City team-mate both sides at Sevilla’s Sanchez home side pressed forward in the (Barcelona), Raul Albiol (Napoli), (Manchester City), Diego His attitude and commitment are Alvaro Negredo. Pizjuan stadium, with Cesar final stages. Cesar Azpilicueta (Chelsea), Costa (Atletico Madrid), first-class, even in a game of this Real Madrid fullback Dani Azpilicueta striking a long-range “It’s always much better to Juanfran (Atletico Madrid), Jordi Fernando Torres (Chelsea), nature. And he’s got two more Carvajal was also left out, with effort against the post in the travel (to a major tournament) Alba (Barcelona) Pedro (Barcelona), Juan Mata weeks to keep that going.” Del Bosque preferring the more 30th minute and Torres forc- with good feelings,” Iniesta said in Midfielders: Xavi (Barcelona), (Manchester United), David Villa Hodgson saw all of his play- experienced Juanfran of Real’s ing a sharp save from Quinonez an interview with Spanish televi- Xabi Alonso (Real Madrid), (Atletico Madrid) ers come through Friday’s game city rivals Atletico. Chile and shortly before the break. Iniesta sion broadcaster Cuatro. Sergio Busquets (Barcelona), AGENCIES unscathed and described it as “the perfect end to a perfect two weeks”. Having previously completed a warm-weather training camp in Brazilian Uruguay include recovering Portugal last week, England will mid- fly to Miami on Sunday, where fielder they face Ecuador and Honduras Alison in two further warm-up games. (left) Suarez for the World Cup Hodgson explained that the vies with decision to withdraw Leighton Qatar MONTEVIDEO: Uruguay faith with 15 Caceres (Juventus), Jorge Fucile Baines late in the game against forward striker Luis Suarez (pictured) veterans who (Porto) Peru was “pure caution” after the Akram will be going to the World Cup helped Uruguay Midfielders: Alvaro Gonzalez Everton left-back felt discomfort Afif as finals after a scare less than two finish fourth at (Lazio), Alvaro Pereira (Sao in his calf. Brazilian weeks ago when he aggravated the South Africa Paulo), Walter Gargano (Parma), He also revealed that Phil Jones an injury and needed knee car- finals in 2010. Egidio Arevalo Rios (Morelia), and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are defender tilage surgery. Suarez’s Diego Perez (Bologna), Cristian in line to start Tuesday’s game Auro Coach Oscar Tabarez named Liverpool team Rodriguez (Atletico Madrid), against Ecuador in Miami after (centre) the Liverpool player, who was mate Sebastian Gaston Ramirez (Southampton), proving their fitness in training looks top scorer with 31 goals in the Coates managed Nicolas Lodeiro (Botafogo) this week. on dur- Premier League last season, in his to play his way Forwards: Luis Suarez United defender Jones damaged ing the 23-man squad yesterday for the into the squad (Liverpool), Edinson Cavani his shoulder towards the end of Under- tournament starting on June 12. in recent weeks (Paris St Germain), Abel the season, while Arsenal mid- 21 inter- Suarez, England’s Footballer after recovering from damaged Hernandez (Palermo), Diego fielder Oxlade-Chamberlain has national of the Year, had suffered a knock knee ligaments in August and Forlan (Cerezo Osaka), Christian been working to overcome a groin football during Liverpool’s last league missing most of the season. Stuani (Espanyol) problem. match match and Uruguay team doctors The tall centre back, one of Meanwhile, Uruguay missed “They’re going to play on between found he needed keyhole surgery. eight World Cup newcomers in the clinical finishing of Suarez Tuesday,” said Hodgson, who Brazil He missed Friday night’s 1-0 the squad, returned to his first when they beat Northern Ireland handed Everton defender John and win over Northern Ireland in a club Nacional of Montevideo 1-0 in a World Cup warm-up. Stones his international debut Qatar, at World Cup warm-up game at the on loan and played in the final Only a fine display by visiting against Peru. the Leo Centenario and will also sit out weeks of the Uruguayan Clausura goalkeeper Roy Carroll and a poor “They could have both played Lagrange Wednesday’s last friendly against championship. final touch by the home side in tonight, but I determined that Slovenia at the same stadium. Squad: Goalkeepers: Fernando front of goal at the Centenario, they would start the game on Stadium Uruguay kick off their Group Muslera (Galatasaray), Martin site of the first World Cup Tuesday and we had number of in Toulon, D campaign against Costa Rica Silva (Vasco da Gama), Rodrigo final won by Uruguay in 1930, substitutes on the bench. southern on June 14 before facing fellow Munoz (Libertad) prevented a rout. Substitute “We decided it would be bet- France, former world champions England Defenders: Maximiliano Christian Stuani, who came on ter for them to do an extra day’s on Friday and Italy. It is unclear how soon Pereira (Benfica), Diego Lugano at halftime for Diego Forlan, put training. We’ve got Saturday free night. Suarez will be available. (West Bromwich Albion), Diego the dominant Uruguayans ahead and Sunday’s a travelling day, so There were no surprises in the Godin, Jose Maria Gimenez (both in the 61st minute from fellow rather than have them with three squad issued by the Uruguayan Atletico Madrid), Sebastian striker Edinson Cavani’s pass. days with no training, we chose to FA (AUF) with Tabarez keeping Coates (Liverpool), Martin AGENCIES train them.” AFP Kick-boxer knocks Sneijder into World Cup shape ROTTERDAM, Netherlands: Wesley Saki dwarfs his illustrious pupil who Europe’s star leagues. “I cannot under- enough. My level had gone down.” Sneijder (pictured) is back from the was in the front row of at least one of the stand why a player under 30 and of his At the start of May, van Gaal welcomed World Cup wilderness and he may have fighter’s Istanbul bouts this year. calibre would make such a choice,” van the progress made by his star midfielder to thank world heavyweight kick-box- “Thanks to him, I got back to my opti- Gaal said at the time. but added that “Sneijder must prove that ing champion Gokhan Saki for rescuing mal weight, like when I was 22-years- Sneijder’s performances for he can again be the superb player he was him. old,” said former Ajax, Real Madrid and Galatasaray were also unpredictable in 2010.” Less than a year ago, Sneijder was Inter Milan star Sneijder. and in mid-2013, van Gaal dropped him The training camp in Portugal seems dropped by Dutch coach Louis van Gaal. “In terms of footwork and agility, I am from the national squad for a series of to have convinced the arch-disciplinarian, A few weeks ago doubts were being raised back to my old level.” friendlies. who will head for Manchester United whether the temperamental but bril- The difference was noted at the “Wesley is more present at the gala after the World Cup. liant midfielder would be on the plane Netherlands World Cup training camp parties than in the opposition half,” van Ready to work, sharp on the ball, to Brazil. in Portugal this week. Gaal said in a jibe at Sneijder’s physical Sneijder won praise from his boss this But the 29-year-old member of the Now van Gaal calls Sneijder, Robin condition at the time. week. The old Wesley Sneijder is back. team that reached the 2010 World Cup van Persie and Arjen Robben one of the Even one month ago, some Dutch “I read that it was thanks to me, but final is back in fighting shape and back world’s best strike forces. media were questioning whether Sneijder its really thanks to him,” said van Gaal. in van Gaal’s good books. But the footballer also praises the -- who in 2010 was in the team that “If he keeps this form, he can bring a Sneijder, who plays for Galatasaray in coach for making him get back to work reached the World Cup final and won lot to the team. With him, Robben and Turkey, was depressed and out of shape even though relations between the two the Champions League with Inter Milan van Persie, the Netherlands has one of when he turned to Saki to get back to have never been easy. -- would make the World Cup squad. the best potential strike forces in the World Cup fitness. Van Gaal has been a frequent critic of But Sneijder had already started with world.” Some media reports say that van The 103 kilogramme (227 pound) Sneijder. Sneijder and handed it to van Persie Saki by then. “I had got back to work,” Gaal would like to take Sneijder with him Dutch-Turkish fighter imposed a near When he returned for a second spell and Robben. Sneijder was outraged. Van he said recently. to Manchester. Relations may be better military training routine in between his as national coach in 2012, van Gaal Gaal said it was a because the player had “With hindsight I can see that Louis but Sneijder says he is not ready for that fights on kickboxing’s Glory World Series. took away the captain’s armband from moved to Turkey, away from Western van Gaal was right. I was not working yet. AFP Sunday 1 June 2014 3 Sha’baan 1435 Volume 19 Number 6083 Sport Price: QR2

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PARIS: Rafa Nadal put down more confident now in myself, and Marquez an attempted coup at the Order of play at I feel the ball really good here at French Open as the eight-time the French Open,” said Halep, champion saw off Argentine French Open who has won more titles in the takes sixth Leonardo Mayer 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 to (Prefix number denotes seeding, all fourth- last 12 months than any other reach the fourth round in com- round singles, play starts at 0900 GMT, 5 woman except Williams. manding fashion yesterday. AM ET): Halep, who has dropped only 11 straight pole Mayer went for his shots in a Court Philippe Chatrier games in three straight-set wins, tense second set and broke the 18-Eugenie Bouchard (Canada) v will next meet American 15th of the season world No.1 back for 4-4, only for 8-Angelique Kerber (Germany) 18-Ernests seed Sloane Stephens for a place the Spaniard to show why he is Gulbis (Latvia) v 4-Roger Federer in the quarter-finals. still the man to beat in Paris. (Switzerlarnd) 13-Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Stephens was in less devastating MUGELLO, ITALY: Marc “It is for me very emotional (France) v 2-Novak Djokovic (Serbia) form than in her first two matches Marquez (pictured) made it six thing when I am on (court Garbine Muguruza (Spain) v Pauline but she was still too strong for pole positions out of six this sea- Philippe) Chatrier, a lot of mem- Parmentier (France) Ekaterina Makarova in a 6-3, 6-4 son when he was fastest in qual- ories come to my mind,” said Court Suzanne Lenglen win over the Russian left-hander. ifying for the Italian MotoGP at Nadal, who made only 10 unforced 6-Tomas Berdych (Czechoslovakia) v 10- The American has shown her Mugello yesterday. errors with just two coming in a John Isner (U.S.) Ajla Tomljanovic (Croatia) consistency on the big stage by The Spaniard produced a lap masterful opening set. v 14-Carla Suarez Navarro (Spain) 8-Milos reaching the fourth round at six of one minute 47.27 seconds early One moment that may live long Raonic (Canada) v Marcel Granollers (Spain) successive grand slam events, the in the second qualifying session in the memory occurred in the 19-Samantha Stosur (Australia) v 7-Maria only active woman to do so, but while Italian Andrea Iannone was second set when the defending Sharapova (Russia) her ability to blow hot and cold on second, 0.18 seconds behind, and champion recovered after being the WTA Tour has prevented her Jorge Lorenzo of Spain third. wrongfooted by Mayer to pull off opening set but let his guard down from climbing further up the rank- Defending champion Marquez a perfect backhand lob to break in the second after an early break ings. Roland Garros has not been has also won the first five races of decisively for a 6-5 lead. and was forced into a tiebreak he a happy hunting ground for Ana the season and leads the stand- He followed up with a game to won 7-2. Ivanovic since she won the title ings with a maximum 125 points. love, sealing the set with a jaw- The third set was a mere for- in 2008 and the popular Serbian A 1’47.270 lap gave Marquez dropping forehand passing shot mality and the fifth seed finished failed to break that jinx yesterday his sixth consecutive pole this before steaming through the third it off on his first match point with as she lost 6-3, 6-3 to Czech Lucie year and his seventh successive and ending the contest with a one of his trademark forehand Safarova. top grid spot including Valencia service winner. winners down the line. The 23rd seeded Safarova, who last year, as his perfect form Nadal next faces Serbian Dusan Earlier, Simona Halep had too entered the match with a 4-2 continued. Lajovic, who beat American Jack many tricks up her sleeve for record against the 11th seed hav- An excellent effort from Sock 6-4, 7-5, 6-3 and also has yet Spaniard Maria-Teresa Torro- ing won their last four encoun- Iannone (+0.18s) saw him show his to drop a set. Flor as the fourth seed glided ters, was never really bothered pace again to get his first premier Should he prevail, he could face into the fourth round with a 6-3, by Ivanovic’s uncontrolled power. class front row start, the perfect compatriot David Ferrer in the 6-0 win. A dejected Ivanovic said: “It’s response to his two recent DNF quarter-final, the man he beat to The wily Romanian, the highest definitely tough. She’s a lefty, it’s results and an ideal performance claim last year’s title and one of seed left in the draw after Serena not something we face every day from an Italian rider on an Italian three men to have beaten him on Williams, Li Na and Agnieszka and the ball comes a little bit bike at the Gran Premio d’Italia. the red dust this season. Radwanska were knocked out differently. Lorenzo got his third row one Rafael Nadal of Spain reacts after a shot during his French Open men’s The fifth-seeded Ferrer contin- early, found perfect angles and “In the beginning I felt like I result of the year in third place, third round match against Leonardo Mayer of Argentina at Roland ued his stroll through the draw defended superbly to counter had a lot of chances I didn’t use. meanwhile, as he lapped a quarter Garros in Paris, yesterday. Nadal defeated Mayer 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 to with a 6-2, 7-6(2), 6-3 win against Torro-Flor’s powerful forehand Had I used them, the match of a second off Marquez. advance to the fourth round. Italian Andreas Seppi. in Paris. maybe would have had a differ- Dani Pedrosa (Repsol Honda) Ferrer blazed through the “It’s not a surprise because I’m ent tone to it.” REUTERS still holds the pole record at Mugello with his 1’47.157s time from last year - and he qualified in fourth position with a late lap 0.314s from today’s pole. A big crash on an out lap ended Monster Yamaha Tech3 rider Pol Espargaro’s session early as he Buttler effort goes in vain as Sri Lanka win went down at turn nine and was clearly annoyed, but the Spaniard LONDON: Sri Lanka held their final game at Edgbaston on 19, Tillakaratne Dilshan and was unhurt and still ended up 5th nerve after a brilliant century Tuesday. Sangakkara dominated a limp on the grid. by to beat England “That’s the best I’ve ever England bowling attack to add A good qualifying result for Cal by seven runs in the fourth one- played,” man-of-the match 172 for the second wicket. Crutchlow (Ducati Team) in sixth day international at Lord’s yes- Buttler told reporters. “It’s bril- Dilshan was bowled by James saw him outperform teammate terday and level the series at liant to play that well but it’s Anderson for 71 attempting Andrea Dovizioso who was eighth. 2-2. disappointing not to get over the his infamous scoop shot, but Sandwiching Dovizioso on the top- line. Sangakkara continued to dis- third row are Bradley Smith scored with 112 in a commanding Having skittled Sri Lanka patch the England bowlers with (Monster Yamaha Tech3) and Sri Lanka total of 300 for nine out for 67 in the third ODI on ease, reaching his 19th ODI Stefan Bradl (LCR Honda and England struggled in reply Wednesday, England won the toss century from 95 balls. Mahela MotoGP) in seventh and ninth until the arrival of Buttler who and elected to bowl as they strove Jayawardene fell for seven and places respectively, with all three smashed 121 off 74 balls. to wrap up the series. Sangakkara was by qualifying within 0.5s of pole. He fell in the final over bowled However, the tourists attacked Buttler after dancing down the Valentino Rossi (Movistar by Lasith Malinga and the series England early and despite los- track to spinner James Tredwell. England’s Jos Yamaha MotoGP) did not get the will be decided in the fifth and ing opener Kusal Perera for Sri Lanka lost steady wickets Buttler hits a Q2 result he wanted as he quali- after the dismissal of Sangakkara six during the fied down in 10th for his 300th Scoreboard and Harry Gurney finished with fourth one-day Grand Prix race. Alvaro Bautista figures of four for 55, but Ajantha international (GO&FUN Honda Gresini) and Sri Lanka England Mendis clubbed the last ball of the (ODI) match Aleix Espargaro (NGM Forward TM Dilshan b Anderson ...... 71 AN Cook* lbw b Malinga ...... 1 innings for four to leave England against Sri Racing) made it through from Q1 MDKJ Perera c Jordan b Gurney ...... 19 IR Bell c Jayawardene b Malinga ...... 7 chasing a mammoth total. Lanka at Lord’s but were ultimately 11th and 12th. England’s reply got off to a AGENCIES KC Sangakkara st Buttler b Tredwell ...... 112 GS Ballance c Sangakkara b Mendis ...... 42 Cricket Ground dismal start when Malinga dis- DPMD Jayawardene c Anderson b Gurney ... 7 JE Root c Mendis b Mathews ...... 43 in London, missed captain Alastair Cook (1) AD Mathews* c Anderson b Jordan ...... 30 EJG Morgan st Sangakkara b Senanayake .12 yesterday. HDRL Thirimanne c Ballance b Anderson ...16 RS Bopara c Thirimanne b Mendis ...... 51 and Ian Bell (7) to leave the hosts MotoGP Results SMA Priyanjan c Morgan b Gurney ...... 9 JC Buttler run out (Malinga) ...... 121 reeling at 10 for two. Results from the Motorcycling Grand Prix KMDN Kulasekara b Jordan ...... 0 CJ Jordan c Dilshan b Malinga ...... 5 Gary Ballance (42) and Joe Italy MotoGP qualification yesterday SMSM Senanayake c Cook b Gurney ...... 12 JC Tredwell () ...... 1 Root (43) built a steady part- 1. Marc Marquez (Spain) Honda 1:47.270 nership before falling in quick BAW Mendis (not out) ...... 4 JM Anderson (not out) ...... 0 2. Andrea Iannone (Italy) Ducati 1:47.450 succession but Ravi Bopara (51) SL Malinga (not out) ...... 0 Extras (LB 6, W 3, NB 1) ...... 10 3. Jorge Lorenzo (Spain) Yamaha 1:47.521 Extras (LB 3, W 16, NB 1) ...... 20 Total (8 wkts; 50 overs) ...... 293 and Buttler put on 133 to give 4. Dani Pedrosa (Spain) Honda 1:47.584 Total (9 wkts; 50 overs) ...... 300 Did not bat: HF Gurney England a chance. Buttler was Fall of wickets: 1-26, 2-198, 3-217, 4-233, Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-10, 3-94, 4-107, run out in the final over with nine 5. Pol Espargaro (Spain) Yamaha 1:47.612 5-261, 6-279, 7-280, 8-292, 9-296 5-111, 6-244, 7-290, 8-292. runs required from three balls to 6. Cal Crutchlow (Britain) Ducati 1:47.659 Bowling: M Anderson 10-1-60 -2 (1nb); HF Bowling: KMDN Kulasekara 10-0-81-0; SL send the series into a final-game 7. Bradley Smith (Britain) Yamaha 1:47.681 decider. Gurney 10 -2-55-4 (3w); JE Root 6-0-40-0; CJ Malinga 10-2-52-3 (1nb, 1w); AD Mathews 7-1- 8. Andrea Dovizioso (Italy) Ducati 1:47.754 “That was one hell of a game,” Jordan 10-0-67-2 (8w); JC Tredwell 10-0-39- 30-1 (1w); Senanayake 10-0-49-1; BAW 9. Stefan Bradl (Germany) Honda 1:47.765 1; RS Bopara 4-0-36-0 (1w) Mendis 10-0-60-2 (1w); Priyanjan 3-0-15-0 Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews said. REUTERS 10. Valentino Rossi (Italy) Yamaha 1:47.791