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Bubble boy SCH reports Qatar ranks low in sixth MERS case in Qatar Global Slavery Index DOHA: Yet another case of the deadly coronavirus — Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Ranking shows Qatar as a highly advanced state (MERS) — has been reported in DOHA: Qatar has received a the Mena region. The risks of foreign workers make up 40 to Qatar, taking the total number relatively low ranking in the enslavement in the region are 90 per cent of the populations of of confirmed cases in the coun- first Global Slavery Index, not the highest in the world, but Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the try to six. released by the Walk Free the level of risk is relatively high UAE and Kuwait, the report said. A 61-year-old Qatari, who suf- Foundation on Wednesday. across the region with little vari- “Not all migrants are enslaved, fered from flu, has tested posi- Of 162 countries in the 2013 ation, according to the report. but some will find themselves tive for the virus, the Supreme Index, Qatar ranked 96 globally “Trafficking of migrants from in situations that can foster Council of Health (SCH) said and ninth in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia is enslavement. yesterday. North Africa (Mena) region. widespread. Globally, this region “In 2013, modern slavery takes Of the five citizens infected ear- The Global Slavery Index 2013 has the highest measured level many forms, and is known by lier, three have died. provides a ranking of 162 coun- of discrimination against women. many names. Whether it is called The new case was diagnosed at tries, based on three factors: One result is the high level of human trafficking, forced labour, the National Influenza Center at estimated prevalence of modern forced and child marriages within slavery or slavery-like practices Hamad Medical Corporation. slavery by population, a measure the region, as well as the wide- (a category that includes debt The patient had been suffering of child marriage, and a meas- spread exploitation of trafficked bondage, forced or servile mar- from some chronic diseases, before ure of human trafficking in and women in forced prostitution and riage, sale or exploitation of chil- he was infected with MERS, the out of a country. A high rank- as domestic workers,” the report dren including in armed conflict) SCH said in a statement. ing indicates a more severely said. victims of modern slavery have “The patient is under treat- concentrated modern slavery Rapid political change fol- their freedom denied, and are ment and his condition is stable,” situation. lowing the Arab Spring calls used and controlled and exploited it added. Qatar ranked below three other into question continuing politi- by another person for profit, sex, Investigations showed that he Gulf countries — Saudi Arabia cal commitment to implemen- or the thrill of domination,” it had not travelled out of the coun- (82), the UAE (88), Bahrain (96) tation of anti-slavery policies said. try during the two weeks prior and above Oman (11) and Kuwait in a number of key countries. The countries with the highest to the onset of MERS symptoms. (12). In recent years, several coun- numbers of enslaved people are He had also not come in contact In the Mena region, Sudan tries, including Egypt, Syria and India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, with another confirmed MERS (22) topped the list, with Libya Morocco, have passed laws on the Ethiopia, Russia, Thailand, case, said the SCH. (78) and Saudi coming second issue but due to ongoing conflict Democratic Republic of Congo, Medical check-ups were con- and third. Iran (103) ranked just and social unrest the laws are Myanmar and Bangladesh. Taken ducted on all of his family mem- below Kuwait and Tunisia (122) not being effectively enforced, it together, they account for 76 bers and others associated with came last in the list. added. percent of the total estimate of him and initial results were nega- It is estimated that 2.54 per A number of Middle Eastern 29.8 million in modern slavery, tive, the SCH added. cent of about 29.8 million peo- countries host large numbers of according to the report. A child gets enclosed in a bubble during the Live Bubble Show at Pearl THE PENINSULA ple in modern slavery are in migrant workers. On average, THE PENINSULA Qatar as part of Eid celebrations yesterday. SHAIVAL DALAL See also pages 2 & 3 Americans fed up with Washington, Qatar moves up says Obama Saudi wins UN Security Council seat WASHINGTON: President three places on Barack Obama scolded congres- UNITED NATIONS: Saudi alarm at what it considers inter- back from standing for the coun- supported the Syrian strug- sional Republicans yesterday FIFA ranking Arabia yesterday won a UN national inaction on Syria. cil in the past. But it wants to be gle for “freedom and prosperity hours after a fiscal crisis was Security Council seat for the Saudi Foreign Minister Prince “a voice” for those worried about and unity.” “We look forward narrowly averted and called on ZURICH: Qatar has moved first time in a new show of Saud Al Faisal refused to speak Assad in Syria, Iran and other to working with the rest of the his opponents to help repair the up three places to 105 in the determination to make its voice or hand out a copy of his speech issues, Obaid said. international community to help economic damage caused by a latest edition of the monthly heard, joining Chad, Chile, at the General Assembly in A senior council diplomat our Syrian brothers achieve their 16-day government shutdown FIFA World Ranking released Lithuania and Nigeria in taking September out of anger over the welcomed the election of Saudi objectives,” he added. and a close brush with a debt yesterday. places on the key body. council deadlock on Syria and Arabia — a key Middle East coun- Five countries have permanent default. Qatar numbered 12 in Asia All five countries stood unop- Palestine. try — as the world attempts to seats on the Security Council — He said he is willing to work zonal rankings and 10 in Arab posed in an election by the 193- “It was a sign of the frustration bring to an end the two-and-a- the US, Britain, France, Russia with lawmakers wherever they countries’ rankings. member UN General Assembly. felt,” said Nawaf Obaid, a visit- half-year-old civil war in Syria and China. The other 10 seats can agree, but the tone he Saudi Arabia went up eight They will replace Azerbaijan, ing fellow at Harvard University’s that has killed more than 100,000. are awarded for two-year periods struck amounted to a rebuke of places to 101, while Iraq was Guatemala, Morocco, Pakistan Belfer Center and adviser to Saudi “Our election today is a reflec- by the General Assembly, which Republicans, whom Americans ranked 103. and Togo on the 15-nation council officials. “There is a conscious tion of a long-standing policy holds a vote every year for five of largely blame for pushing the Jordan was up three places to on January 1. decision to be more aggressive in support of moderation and the seats. This year was the first US to the brink of an economic 70, followed by the UAE (71, up 11 Saudi has never competed for a and vocal on the international in support of resolving disputes time since 2009 that there has not calamity. “The American peo- slots). Oman ranked 92, up four place on the council which has a stage.” in peaceful means,” said Saudi been a contested seat. ple are completely fed up with places, and Kuwait maintained its key role pronouncing on conflicts The kingdom, which takes over Ambassador to the UN, Abdullah Saudi is also campaigning to be Washington,” he said in a White ranking at 109. such as that in Syria. The king- from Pakistan as an Asia-Pacific Al Mouallimi, after the vote. elected to the UN Human Rights House speech. REUTERS Of the top 10, only Spain’s posi- dom has several times expressed representative, deliberately held He told reporters that Saudi Council. AGENCIES See also page 9 tion remains unchanged, while Germany has pushed Argentina out of second place. Panorama artwork New entries into the top 10 are Switzerland (seven, up seven places) and England (10, up seven) due to their recent strong New EU rules to curb performances in the final group games in the World Cup qualify- ing. Italy paid heavily for its draw data transfer to US against Armenia, dropping four places to eight. BRUSSELS: New European complying with the new rules. The next FIFA/Coca-Cola rules aimed at curbing ques- “As parliamentarians, as poli- World Ranking will be published tionable transfers of data from ticians, as governments we have after the completion of the World EU countries to the US are lost control over our intelligence Cup qualifying on November 28. being finalised in Brussels in services. We have to get it back the first concrete reaction to the again,” said Jan Philipp Albrecht, Attacks, car bombs Edward Snowden disclosures on the German Greens MEP steer- US and British surveillance of ing the draft through parliament. kill 66 in Iraq digital communications. Data privacy in the EU is under Regulations on European data the authority of governments with BAGHDAD: Eleven car bombs protection standards are expected standards varying across the 28 hit Baghdad province yesterday, to pass the European parliament countries, complicating efforts killing at least 44 people, while committee stage on Monday after towards satisfactory data transfer 22 died in two suicide bombings political groupings agreed on a deals with the US. The current in northern Iraq, officials said. new compromise draft following rules are easily sidestepped by the More than 120 people were two years of gridlock. big Silicon Valley firms, Brussels also wounded in the car bomb- The draft would make it harder argues. THE GUARDIAN ings in eight areas in and around for big US Internet servers and the capital, while two bombers social media providers to transfer blew themselves up near Mosul A view of the panorama artwork by British-born Anthony Lowe in the bottle tower of the Royal Palace in European data to third countries, INSIDE and in a cafe in the town of Tuz Altenburg, Germany, yesterday. The 360-degree panorama comprises photography, painting, digital editing subject them to EU law rather Schedule of Khurmatu further south. and printing and shows towns and landscapes in Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. It opens to the public than secret US court orders, and QNA & AGENCIES authorise fines running into bil- Eid events tomorrow. at various venues Full report on page 8 lions for the first time for not FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2013 HOME 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Instability in financial markets threatens developments: Qatar Qatari delegation attends UN Economic and Financial Committee debate

NEW YORK: The absence and Financial Committee the international system, cre- deceived by those indicators of stability in the interna- debate on “Follow-up to and ating a favourable environment since the achieved growth is tional financial markets and implementation of the out- for development, and reaching still fragile, and the structural the turmoil seen in the econo- come of the 2002 International agreements on growing and and economic conditions of mies of developing and devel- Conference on Financing for predictable official develop- most developing countries are oped countries as a result of Development and the 2008 ment assistance (ODA), debt still at a very critical stage in the financial and economic Review Conference. relief, fighting corruption, pol- light of the decline of exports crisis threaten the achieve- Al Sada said: The Monterrey icy coherence, as well as the and freezing of credit available, ments attained in financing Consensus and the Doha strong commitment of devel- Al sada said. for development, Qatar has Declaration represent key ref- oped countries to maintain Underlining the impor- warned. erences in finance and devel- ODA regardless of the finan- tance of the implementation It called for concerted efforts opment field as they contain cial crisis. of commitments to financ- to deal with the new emerging the obligations of developing He added although we are ing for development and the www.swiss-belhotel.com challenges, both resulting from countries to develop financial, witnessing what is believed to Monterrey Consensus and the the crisis or from other new economic and social policies be early signs of recovery from Doha Declaration, Al Sada said Tel topics, such as energy and food to achieve growth, as well as the effects of the crisis in the Qatar, through the cooperation Fax crises and the issue of climate the commitments of developed developed countries, the effects programs it provides in eco- change. countries to provide support to are still being felt strongly in nomic and social development, This came in a state- developing countries through developing countries which humanitarian affairs and the ment delivered by Abdul Aziz increasing and improving aid, are still suffering from low fight against poverty, has proven Tel Mohammed Al Sada, member reducing the burden of debt flows of financial and invest- that it as an active partner in Fax of Qatar’s delegation to the and considering trade exchange. ment and trade, low flows of this area and reaffirmed again 68th session of the UN General This will allow greater equality official development assistance. its commitment in this context. Assembly, before the Economic in deciding on things related to Therefore, we should not be QNA

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DOHA: The monumental amphitheatre of years ago. The music then became an Anas Alapuzha, Akbar Akku, Akbar at the newly opened West End Park in integral part of the Muslim culture and Chavakkad and Qatar-based singers Mesaimeer attracted thousands of expa- traditions in the state, still maintaining its Neetha and Fazil. Tel triates, including children and families, at charm through renderings by popular sing- A special performance by young Doha- a musical show on the first day of Eid Al ers, composers and lyricists. based artistes presenting a fusion of Mappila Fax Adha. The show titled Eid Malhar was organised art forms oppana, kolkali and dafmuttu The show featured popular singers from by Youth Forum, a socio-cultural organisa- added colour to the show. An Arabic style the southern Indian state of Kerala, who tion of Keralite expatriates with support welcome dance was also performed by chil- enthralled the audience with hit numbers of the Community Policing department at dren as a symbol of solidarity with Qatar. Tel from the traditional Mappila songs of the the Ministry of Interior and Media Plus, as The main sponsor of the event was the Fax Muslim community in the state. event managers. recently-opened Grand Mall Hypermarket Mappila songs are said to have their ori- The show was led by Rehana, a popu- at West End Park, the first Doha outlet of gin in the songs of the Arab sea fearers, who lar Mappila singer from Kerala and was the Dubai based Regency Group. had landed on the coasts of Kerala hundreds joined by noted and upcoming singers THE PENINSULA Tel Fax

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First batch of Haj pilgrims return

DOHA: People who went for Haj from here have begun returning. The first batch of the pilgrims arrived here in two special flights later yesterday. The first special flight that arrived was by a local pilgrim- age operator and it carried 130 pilgrims. A total of 1,200 pilgrims have gone for this year’s Haj, two- thirds (some 800) of whom were Qataris, while the remaining are Qatari pilgrims are greeted by relatives at the Doha International Airport. expatriates. The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has, mean- pilgrims from Qatar are reference is to the deadly coro- detected in Saudi Arabia. media they had a safe pilgrimage was relatively less this year. while, announced that all the safe. The Ministry’s oblique navirus whose cases have been Some pilgrims told the local because the number of pilgrims THE PENINSULA Cyber cafes struggle to survive Low mobile call rates by telecom providers and easy internet access force several cafes to shut DOHA: Cyber cafes that once business. Many internet cafes been a considerable reduction in mushroomed across the city have closed down because their their numbers.” and its sprawling suburbs have business had been suffering due An Indian from a south- fallen on bad days after cheaper to the twin factors of internet ern state who gave his name as mobile phone handsets with services’ availability on cheaper Mahadevan said now that he internet access inundated the mobile phone handsets on low could call home for 19 dirhams market. charges and affordable call rates. a minute using telecom services And telecom providers drasti- And those cafes that continue on his mobile phone, there was no cally slashing their call rates for to operate braving the odds say need to either visit a café or an busy sectors left the cafes further their revenues are down at least illegal internet telephony services. devastated. 25 percent or more in the past “I used to visit either an illegal Rising shop rents came as a two to three years. telephony service joint or a cyber further jolt and had a multiply- “Our business isn’t the same. café every second day to call my ing affect, forcing several cafes We have fewer customers as most family. Now I don’t because of the to either shutter down or switch people call their relatives and low mobile call rates,” he said. their business. friends home using their mobile “For five riyals I can speak for 20 Affordable calls rates by tel- phones,” said an official in-charge to 25 minutes.” ecom providers had a double of a small café in Doha. The cafes had a gala time until impact as they almost wiped off He requested anonymity as he 2009 and 2010, the operator who the illegal internet telephony was not allowed to talk to the spoke on grounds of anonymity service providers that had been media and said even if the café’s said. “I think our business cycle thriving until recently. location was mentioned the own- is coming to an end.” The telephony services were ers would know he gave the infor- He said he wasn’t worried, for provided by expatriates in viola- mation since his is the only cyber if his sponsor decided to switch tion of the law, and crackdowns café in that locality. to some other business, he would by law-enforcement officials saw A vast majority of café visi- retain him. “This business is hard many of them closed even before tors are low-income single work- to sustain.” the telecom providers reduced ers. “Most of them have mobile Long holidays during Eid Al their call rates. handsets now that give them easy Fitr and Eid Al Adha are the About two years ago, for exam- access to the internet at cheaper time when the internet cafes used Many internet cafes have closed down because their business had been suffering due to the twin factors of internet ple, an Indian working as an rates,” said the café operator. to have brisk business in their services’ availability on cheaper mobile phone handsets on low charges and affordable call rates. imam in a mosque was deported “A majority of our custom- hey-days. after being repeatedly warned by ers are Nepalese, Indians and “That isn’t the case anymore. single workers would come in as many people on the third day on,” said the operator. the authorities to stop the illegal Egyptians,” he said. “There has We used to have long queues as hordes. You can see there aren’t of Eid when the holidays are still THE PENINSULA

Widam assures enough stock of Australian sheep

DOHA: Qatar Meat and Livestock Company (Widam) that sells subsidised Australian mutton has said it has released enough stock of Australian sheep to the market for retail- ing to help meet the shortages of the meat that was witnessed on the second day of Eid Al Adha. People complained of short- ages on Wednesday. There are no shortages anymore, the com- pany said. THE PENINSULA Sky News Arabia lost contact with The Qatar Tourism Authority has brought globally famous characters from films and cartoon features such as Smurfs, Ice Age, Ben 10 and Snow White for this year’s Eid Al Adha festival. crew in Syria

DUBAI: Abu Dhabi-based Sky News Arabia said yesterday it had lost contact with three Popular cartoon shows entertain audience crew members on assignment in northern Syria, considered the BY RAYNALD C RIVERA Mall and Landmark Mall while remember for quite sometime, watching the Snow White Show a science fiction concept, Ben 10 world’s most dangerous place Ice Age is being shown at the City she said. yesterday at Al Rayyan Theatre has been entertaining hundreds of for journalists, and appealed for DOHA: World renowned shows Centre Mall. The classic tale of The Smurfs show lasts for 30 in Souq Waqif. children at Landmark Mall since help to locate them. glut Doha audience’s eyes this Snow White on the other hand minutes and is shown thrice, The hour-long stage play the first day of Eid. The television broadcaster Eid Al Adha, thanks to a rich plays at the 980-seat Al Rayyan at 5.30pm, 7pm and 9pm until appealed to the young audience The Ice Age show has also been said reporter Ishak Moctar, a programme Qatar Tourism Theatre in Souq Waqif. Sunday at The Gate Mall. It was as the 18-member cast including a main attraction at the City Mauritanian national, camera- Authority (QTA) along with “I commend QTA for bringing originally introduced as a series Snow White and the seven dwarfs Centre Doha. The shows held man Samir Kassab, a Lebanese its partners offers to the public these shows which are popular to of characters by a comic artist, sang songs live, telling the classic at the ice rink features some of citizen, and a Syrian driver this Eid. children around the world,” said which then later evolved into a story that has enthralled millions the well-loved characters in whose name is being withheld Unlike the previous editions of Myrna, a Filipina mother whose television franchise that was cen- around the world from the story- the movie including Sid, a giant at his family’s request, went the Eid Al Adha festival, this is daughter is a fan of the Smurfs. tered on a group of small blue fic- book and the stage to television ground sloth; Manny, a wooly missing while on assignment the first time organisers brought They were watching the show tional cartoons. and the wide screen. mammoth and Diego, a smilodon, near Aleppo, northern Syria, on at one time shows featuring glo- yesterday at The Gate Mall. The series aims to positively The audience enjoyed the play among others. Tuesday morning. The channel’s bally famous characters from She had to buy some merchan- impact children by incorporating as the cast, dressed in colourful Providing a wide variety of head, Nart Bouran, said the team films and cartoon features such dises for her daughter after the good values and morals into each costumes, interacted with them shows is part of the QTA’s strat- was on an assignment that was as Smurfs, Ice Age, Ben 10 and recent showing of the film Smurfs episode. at some parts of the show. egy to cement a reputation for focused largely on covering the Snow White. 2, and meeting the adorable blue “What a fabulous show! My A popular cartoon network Qatar as a popular Eid destina- humanitarian aspects of Syria’s Smurfs and Ben 10 are being characters in person was an kids really enjoyed it,” said show that entertains children by tion in the GCC. 2-1/2-year-old civil war. staged alternately at The Gate experience her daughter would Catherine, mother of two, after entwining multiple stories with THE PENINSULA REUTERS CELEBRATIONS

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Dazzling shows enthuse thousands

DOHA: The Eid Al Adha Festival at Pearl Qatar has been a huge draw with a unique lineup of cultural, artistic and entertainment programs for the entire family. Live music played by a number of talented artistes entertained hundreds of visitors at Porto Arabia parcels 2 and 4. People also enjoyed watching beautiful photos projected on a water screen at the Porto Arabia Marina. Children enjoyed having their pictures taken while inside a giant soap bubble at the live bubble show held at Porto Arabia Parcel 3. Complete with bouncy castles, face painting, balloon twisting, arts and crafts and inflatable games, the Kids Zone had also been popular at the venue. The host of activities at Souq Waqif also continued to mes- merize thousands of visitors who stayed at the venue until late night to watch acrobatic, magic, juggling and musical shows. Those who wanted to get close to nature, preferred to visit the Al Dosari Zoo and Natural Reserve, 40 kilometers from Doha. Many families picnicked at the 100,000sqm zoo where they saw some over 300 animals, birds and reptiles. A number of games for children and musical enter- tainment were also held at the zoo. THE PENINSULA

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EVENT ORGANISER ENTRY TIMING DURATION VENUE City Center Qatar Tourism 15 - 20 Free 4:30pm -9:30pm City Center Mall - Onaiza Area Eid Festival Authority October Hyatt Plaza Qatar Tourism 15 - 20 Free 4:30am - 9:30pm Hyatt Plaza - Al Aziziyah Area Eid Festival Authority October Lagoona Mall Qatar Tourism 15 - 20 Lagoona Mall - Zig Zag Tower, Free 4:30am - 9:30pm Eid Festival Authority October West Bay Landmark Mall Qatar Tourism 15 - 20 Free 4:30pm - 9:30pm Landmark Mall - Al Gharafa Area Eid Festival Authority October The Gate Mall Qatar Tourism 15 - 20 The Gate Mall - Al Abraj Street, Free 4:30pm - 9:30pm Eid Festival Authority October Onaiza Area Villagio Mall Qatar Tourism 15 - 20 Free 4:30pm - 9:30pm Villagio Mall - Al Aziziyah Area Eid Festival Authority October Al Khor Mall Qatar Tourism 15 - 20 Free 4:30pm - 9:30pm Al Khor Mall - Al Khor City Eid Festival Authority October Ministry of Culture, 15 - 18 Al Bidaa Park - Rumeilah, Cultural Village Free 6:00pm - 12:00am Arts and Heritage October opposite Al Corniche Road Tour of the State Ministry of Awqaf and 15 - 20 Al Dafna Area - Opposite Qatar Free 9:00am - 7:00pm Mosque of Qatar Islamic Affairs October Sports Club First show: Giant puppets: 5:30pm - 6:30pm 15 - 18 Katara Cultural Village Ali Baba and Katara Cultural Village Free Second show: October West Bay the forty thieves 8:30pm - 9:30pm

Katara Cultural 15 - 18 Katara Beach - Katara Cultural Katara Cultural Village Free 9:30pm - 9:45pm Village Fireworks October Village - West Bay First show: Entrance 5:30pm - 6:30pm 16 - 20 Al Rayyan Theater - Al Mirqab Snow White Show Souq Waqif Tickets : Second show: October Boutique Hotel, Souq Waqif QR40 - QR60 7:30pm - 8:30pm n the occasion of Eid Al Adha, Katara has First show: in store various activities and events for its Ovirtuous visitors full of joy and happiness, 4:30pm -5:00pm In addition to that Fireworks and water shows Second show: 16 - 20 Opposite Souq Waqif Police will be fun filled activities for the families. Katara Magician on a Stick Souq Waqif Free 6:00pm - 6:30pm October Station, Souq Waqif will present an artistic show the first of its kind in Arab World, Giant Puppets “Ali Baba and the forty Third show: thieves’’ will go around the Cultural Village in its 8:30pm - 9:00pm streets and hallways and the final destination is the Amphitheater. First show: The visitors of Katara will experience everyday in 4:30pm -5:00pm Eid Al Adha the Adventure of one thousand night Second show: 16 - 20 Opposite Souq Waqif Police and night in new creative style, the visitors will Bjorn the Polar Bear Souq Waqif Free 6:00pm - 6:30pm October Station, Souq Waqif witness events from Arabic heritage, through the excited stories specially the story of “Ali Baba Third show: and the forty thieves’’, also acrobatic dance tilted 8:30pm - 9:00pm “Dance on fire”. The shows will take place all days of Eid Al Adha, First show: 4:30pm the first performance will start from 5:30 until 6:30, -5:00pm the second from 8:30 to 9:30 then the fireworks will Second show: 16 - 20 Opposite Souq Waqif Police last for 15 minutes. Colorful Parade Souq Waqif Free 6:00pm - 6:30pm October Station, Souq Waqif Third show: 8:30pm - 9:00pm EID @ ALKHORMALL First show: 4:30pm -5:00pm Day Show Start Finish Second show: 16 - 20 Opposite Souq Waqif Police 17/10 Carnival Samba 4:30 5:00 Titan the Robot Souq Waqif Free 6:00pm - 6:30pm October Station, Souq Waqif Talking Friends 5:30 6:00 Third show: Carnival Samba 7:00 7:30 8:30pm - 9:00pm Magic Show 8:00 8:30 Bubble Show 9:00 9:30 First show: 18/10 Pink Panther 4:30 5:00 4:30pm -5:00pm Over Boys 5:30 6:00 Second show: 16 - 20 Opposite Souq Waqif Police Pink Panther 7:00 7:30 Balloonatic Souq Waqif Free 6:00pm - 6:30pm October Station, Souq Waqif Lulu Caty 8:00 8:30 Third show: Shaolin Martial Arts 9:00 9:30 8:30pm - 9:00pm 19/10 Magic Show 4:30 5:00 Shaolin Martial Arts 5:30 6:00 First show: Traditional Parade 7:00 7:30 4:30pm -5:00pm Bubble Show 8:00 8:30 Dave the Second show: 16 - 20 Area in front of Mirqab Boutique Souq Waqif Free Lulu Caty 9:00 9:30 Chameleon 6:00pm - 6:30pm October Hotel, Souq Waqif 20/10 Over Boys 4:30 5:00 Third show: Talking Friends 5:30 6:00 8:30pm - 9:00pm Chicago Boyz 7:00 7:30 Pink Panther 8:00 8:30 Carnival Samba 9:00 9:30 Katara Cultural Village Fireworks

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EVENT ORGANISER ENTRY TIMING DURATION VENUE QAR 10 Souq Waqif Eid 16 - 20 Al Ahmad Square - Souq Waqif for every 4:30pm - 9:00pm Competition October Souq Waqif competition First show: 4:00pm -5:00pm Second show: 7:00pm - 16 - 20 Outdoor Theater - Circus: Mother Africa Souq Waqif Free Haj: The Journey 8:00pm October Souq Waqif Third show: 9:00pm - Through Art 10:00pm

Until January 5 2014 First show: 5:30pm -5:45pm At the Museum of Islamic Second show: 6:00pm - 16 - 20 Area Adjacent to Ahmed Trampoline Souq Waqif Free Art, Doha, Qatar 6:15pm October Square - Souq Waqif Third show: 9:00pm - 10:00pm For more than 1350 years, pilgrims have travelled to the First show: 6:00pm city of Mecca in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for Haj, and -6:30pm today about 3 million Muslims take part every year from all 16 - 20 Outdoor Theater - over the world. Live Statues Souq Waqif Free Second show: 8:30pm - October Souq Waqif 9:00pm This MIA-curated exhibition, in collaboration with the British Museum, takes visitors on a journey exploring and illuminating the Muslim pilgrimage of Haj. It presents artworks from MIA and objects from Qatari collections, First show: 5:30pm many of which have never before been displayed in public. -6:00pm Second show: 8:00pm - 16 - 20 Outdoor Theater - Ian Marchant Souq Waqif Free The exhibition examines the history of this pilgrimage 8:30pm October Souq Waqif through the centuries, focusing on the rituals of Haj as depicted through art, the routes taken and the experiences Third show: 10:00pm - of pilgrims upon their return. The exhibition also includes a 10:30pm special section dedicated to the oral histories and objects of pilgrims from Qatar. Sunday, Monday and Wednesday : 10:30am An outdoor photography display featuring unique visions -5:30pm of Haj by five international photographers will run in Museum of 16 - 20 Museum of Islamic Art - Doha Museum Tour Free Thursday , Saturday: conjunction with the exhibition. Islamic Art October Corniche 12:00pm - 8:00pm Opening times: Sunday, Monday 10:30am - 5:30pm, Friday : 2:00pm - 8:00pm Tuesday closed, Wednesday 10:30am - 5:30 pm Thursday 12pm - 8pm, Friday 2pm - 8pm, Saturday 12pm - 8pm, Tuesday: Closed Last admission ½ hour before closing. Sunday, Monday and Wednesday : 10:30am - 5:30pm Hajj - Journey through Museum of 9 October - 5 Museum of Islamic Art - Free Thursday and Saturday: Art Islamic Art January Doha Corniche 12:00pm - 8:00pm Friday : 2:00pm - 8:00pm Tuesday: Closed Jazz in the Park - Museum of Museum of Islamic Art Park - Free 7:00pm - 8:00pm 16 October Etienne Charles Islamic Art Doha Corniche Sheikh Faisal Bin 9:00am - 6:00pm Al Samereya Field - 15 - 20 Museum Visit Qassim Al Thani Free Closed on Friday & Shahaneya Roundabout, Al October Museum Tuesday Rayyan Street Saturday - Thursday: Confusionism - Katara Art Center, Bldg 5, 10:00am - 10:00pm 6 October - 9 an exhibition by Katara Art Center Free Katara Cultural Village - Friday: 2:00pm - November Mahmoud Obaidi West Bay 10:00pm Sout Al Rayyan Music 16 - 20 Al Rayyan Theater, Al Mirqab Sout Al Rayyan Free 8:30pm - 12:00am Festival October Boutique Hotel, Souq Waqif Live Music 15 - 18 Porta Arabia - Parcel 2 and 4 The Pearl - Qatar Free 6:00pm -10:00pm Entertainers October - The Pearl-Qatar Water Screen 15 - 18 Porta Arabia - Marina - The The Pearl - Qatar Free 5:00pm - 10:00pm Projections October Pearl-Qatar 15 - 18 Porta Arabia aisle - Parcel 18 Kids Zone The Pearl - Qatar Free 6:00pm - 9:00pm October - The Pearl-Qatar 15 - 18 Porta Arabia aisle - Parcel 3 - Live Bubble Show The Pearl - Qatar Free 8:00pm - 9:00pm October The Pearl-Qatar Morning: 8:00am - AL Dosari Zoo 11:00am 15 - 20 Al Kheireb - 7km south of Zoo Tour and Game Free Afternoon: 3:00pm - October Shahaneya Roundabout Reserve 6:00pm Friday: 8:00am - 6:00pm Aqua Park - Salwa Road, QAR 100 per 15 - 20 Eid Celebrations Aqua Park Qatar 12:00pm - 8:00pm beside Abu Nakhla Petrol Sealine person October Station Aerial QAR 100 for Qatar Shooting 25 shots 15 - 26 Lusail Shooting Club - Paragliding Shooting Practice and Archery Applicable 4:00pm - 8:00pm October Al Khor Coastal Road Association for 18 years Tour or older By Qatar Air Sports QAR 250 Committee per trip for Sealine beach area - before Sealine Aerial Qatar Air Sports each person 16 - 21 12:00pm - 6:30pm Sealine Beach Resort QAR 250 per trip for Paragliding Tour Committee Applicable October roundabout each person Applicable for 18 years for 18 years or older or older 12:00pm - 6:30pm 16 - 21 October Doha Film Institute presents screening of Journey to Mecca Sealine beach area - Directed by American filmmakerBruce Neibaur before Sealine Beach Journey to Mecca is the story of young scholar Ibn Battuta who leaves his home in Morocco to traverse the 4800-kilometre long journey east to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Resort roundabout Where: Museum of Islamic Arts auditorium When: Thursday and Friday, October 17 & 18, 2013, 7pm and 4pm, respectively FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ISLAM The concept of animal sacrifice

House. (Quran 22: 33) Almighty Allah says in the Quran: “It is “The word ‘In them’ refers to cattle or animals offered for sac- not their meat nor their blood, that reaches rifice. It is quite true that they are useful in many ways to humans, Allah; it is your piety that reaches Him. He e.g., camels in desert countries are useful as mounts or for car- has thus made them subject to you, that ye rying burdens or for giving milk, and so, for horses and oxen; and camels and oxen are also good may glorify Allah for His guidance to you.” for meat, and camel’s hair can be woven into cloth; goats and (22: 37) sheep also yield milk and meat, and hair or wool. But if they are used for sacrifice, they become ctually, there are many ultimately speaks against blood that Allah never advocates evil symbols by which people show misconceptions fill- atonement. Allah says: (see 7:28 and 16:90) and that only that they are willing to give up ing the mind of many When the son reached the age Satan advocates evil and vice some of their own benefits for Anon-Muslims, who fail of (serious) work with him, he said: (24:21). The notion that Allah the sake of satisfying the needs to perceive the significance and “Oh my son! I see in vision that I would want us to do an immoral of their poorer brethren.” (Yusuf wisdom behind acts of worship offer thee in sacrifice: Now see what act runs counter to Allah’s justice. Ali commentary) in Islam. That is why addressing is thy view!” The son said: “Oh my As far as the yearly tradition Allah also says: those misconceptions becomes father! Do As thou art commanded: that has followed this event (that To every people did We appoint obligatory in order to erase dis- Thou wilt find me, if Allah so wills is, the sacrificing of a ram to com- rites of sacrifice that they might tortions about Islam. one practicing patience and con- memorate Abraham and Ismail’s celebrate the name of Allah over Sacrifice is not a pillar of Islam. stancy!” So when they had both sub- great self sacrifice), we must the sustenance He gave them from We must look at the occurrences mitted their wills (to Allah), and he understand it and the Quranic animals (fit for food). But your God in a contextual manner, under- had laid him prostrate on his fore- versus that pertain to animal is One God: Submit then your wills standing not only the pre-Islamic head (for sacrifice), We called out sacrifice, in relation to the time to Him (In Islam): and give thou institution of sacrifice, the Quranic to him, “Oh Abraham! Thou hast and place circumstances under the good news to those who humble reforms concerning this practice, already fulfilled the vision!” Thus which these revelations were themselves. (Quran 22: 34) and the continuance of sacrifice indeed do We reward those who received and how people were try- “This is the true end of sac- in the Muslim world, but also the do right. For this was obviously a ing to make a personal sacrifice rifice, not propitiation of higher context in which the Quranic rev- trial and We ransomed him with a by sharing their limited means of powers, for Allah is One, and He elations occurred. For it seems that momentous sacrifice.) survival with the poorer members does not delight in flesh and blood, with many people, both non-Mus- (Quran 37: 102-107) of their community. but a symbol of thanksgiving to lims and Muslims alike, context is Notice that the Quran never That is to say, the underly- Allah by sharing meat with fellow the key that they are missing. says that Allah told Abraham to ing implication of Islam’s atti- humans. The solemn pronounce- With this in mind, let us start kill (sacrifice) his son. Though tude towards ritual slaughter is ment of Allah’s name over the with the situation as it was in subtle, this is very important, for not that of blood atonement, or sacrifice is an essential part of pre-Islamic Arabia with regard the moral lesson is very differ- seeking favour with Allah through the rite.” (Yusuf Ali commentary) to animal sacrifice. Not only did ent from that which appears in another’s death, but rather, the Allah says further: the pagan Arabs sacrifice to a the Bible. Here, it teaches us that act of thanking Allah for one’s It is not their meat nor their variety of gods in hopes of attain- Abraham had a dream in which he sustenance and the personal sac- blood, that reaches Allah; it is your ing protection or some favor or saw himself slaughtering his son. rifice of sharing one’s possessions piety that reaches Him. He has thus material gain, but so, too, did the Abraham believed the dream and and valuable food with one’s fel- made them subject to you, that ye Jews of that day seek to appease thought that the dream was from low humans. The ritual itself is may glorify Allah for His guidance the One True God by blood sacri- Allah, but the Quran never says NOT the sacrifice. It is merely a to you: And proclaim the Good News fice and burnt offerings. Even the that the dream was from Allah. method of killing where the indi- to all who do right. (Quran 22: 37) Christian community felt Jesus However, in Abraham and Ismail’s viduals kill as quickly as possible “No one should suppose that to be the last sacrifice, the final willingness to make the ultimate and acknowledge that only Allah meat or blood is acceptable lamb, so to speak, in an otherwise sacrifice—Abraham of his son, has the right to take a life and to the One True God. It was a valid tradition of animal sacrifice Ismail of his own life—they are that they do so as a humble mem- pagan fancy that Allah could be (where one’s sins are absolved by able to transcend notions of self ber of Allah’s creation in need of appeased by blood sacrifice. But the blood of another). and false attachment to the mate- sustenance just like every other Allah does accept the offering of Islam, however, broke away rial realm, thus removing a veil species in Allah’s creation. our hearts, and as a symbol of from this longstanding tradition between themselves and Allah, So let us examine some of the such offer, some visible institu- of appeasing an “angry God” and enabling Allah’s mercy to descend appropriate verses in the Quran tion is necessary. He has given us instead demanded personal sac- upon them as the Spirit of Truth to see what it has to say about sac- power over the brute creation, rifice and submission as the only and illuminate them with divine rifice and how it related to life in and permitted us to eat meat, but way to die before death and reach wisdom (thus preventing a mis- 500 C E Arabia. (Also included is only if we pronounce His name at “fana’” or “extinction in Allah.” carriage of justice and once and commentary by Yusuf Ali to show the solemn act of taking life, for The notion of “vicarious atone- for all correcting the false notion that even someone who was pro- without this solemn invocation, ment of sin” (absolving one’s sins of vicarious atonement of sin). sacrifice with an understanding we are apt to forget the sacred- through the blood of another) For, certainly, Allah, the Ever of animals as subject to humans, ness of life. By this invocation we is nowhere to be found in the Merciful, Most Compassionate, did not champion wanton cruelty are reminded that wanton cruelty Quran. Neither is the idea of would never ask a father to go or notions of blood atonement.) is not in our thoughts, but only gaining favour by offering the life against His command of “thou Allah says: the need for food …” (Yusuf Ali of another to Allah. In Islam, all shall not kill” and kill his own In them ye have benefits for a commentary) Pilgrims head to the ‘Jamarat’ ritual, the symbolic stoning of Satan, in Mina that is demanded as a sacrifice is son in order to be accepted by term appointed: In the end their It is quite clear from the during the Haj. one’s personal willingness to sub- Him. For the Quran teaches us place of sacrifice is near the Ancient Quranic passages above that mit one’s ego and individual will the issue of animal sacrifice is and that they should sacrifice to Allah. in relation to the role animals something of value to themselves One only has to look at how The notion of “vicarious atonement of sin” (absolving played in Arabian society at that to demonstrate their apprecia- the Quran treats this subject, to place and time (as well as other tion for what they have been see a marked difference regard- one’s sins through the blood of another) is nowhere to societies with similar climates given (which in their case was ing sacrifice and whether or not be found in the Quran. Neither is the idea of gaining and culture), in that humans the very animals on which their Allah is appeased by blood. The are commanded to give thanks survival was based). Quranic account of the sacrifice favour by offering the life of another to Allah. to Allah and praise Allah for the Excerpted, with slight modifications, from of Ismail (peace be upon him) sustenance He has given them http://www.islamveg.com/sacri.html Muslims’ duty towards the oppressed

llah Almighty commands This evidently is a direct and cat- relentless jihad for the liberation of the Muslims in the Quran to: egorical command from Allah to oppressed. We should indeed adopt all Hold fast, all together, by the Muslims to fight for the liberation of possible measures to effectively resist Arope which Allah (stretches out the weak and the helpless people from all forms of oppression, exploitation, for you), and be not divided among your- oppression and tyranny; and note that aggression, and occupation. Indeed, we selves. (3:103) this fight is real jihad in the cause of should relearn the very purpose and And again: Allah Almighty. meaning of “striving with might and The Believers, men and women, are pro- In view of the foregoing, we may out- main” in the way of Allah. tectors one of another: they enjoin what is line the ways in which we can respond Also, through constant and sincere just, and forbid what is evil: they observe to the present scenario: prayers to Allah Almighty, we need to regular prayers, practice regular charity, First of all, we must utilise all the lend moral and emotional support to and obey Allah and His Apostle. On them political means to protect our broth- those oppressed people who are deprived will Allah pour His mercy: for Allah is ers and sisters, and what is more, we of their means of livelihood and their Exalted in power, Wise. (9:71) must urge our rulers to be committed very human dignity. And this is the least The above injunctions in the Quran to the welfare of the Ummah. Also, we we can do for our brothers and sisters. clearly teach us that at all times, and must persuade the United Nations, May Allah ease the travails of our most particularly in times of trials and the European Union, and even the people, and guide all Muslims, especially tribulations, it is the duty of Muslims Organisation of the Islamic Conference our rulers and leaders, to uphold justice to stand together helping and support- to stop adopting policies that directly and truth. ing one another. Allah has decreed or indirectly support the tyrants and There is a lot we can do to help, here that the Muslims should form an oppressors. are a few examples: Ummah (a closely-knit community) Individually and collectively we - Cooperating with human rights that loves and cares for one another should raise funds to help our broth- organizations to raise awareness and and are ever willing to make sacrifices ers and sisters in need, and we should support people’s rights to freedom. for one another. use the media to bring before the - Sending aid and medical supplies The Prophet (peace be upon him) with confidence and put an end to injus- dismembered, and massacred. world’s eye the sufferings of oppressed through aid agencies taught that the Muslim Ummah should tice and oppression. The sad state of Allah tells us in the Quran: Muslims. We need to highlight the tar- - Sending support through your act like a body: If one part of the body affairs faced by Muslim peoples today And why should ye not fight in the cause geted killings, the ruthless demolition friends in these countries suffers pain, the other part also suffers. is undoubtedly due to the fact that we of Allah and of those who, being weak, of civilians’ homes, the blatant depri- - Reporting corruption if you’re in When there is such a spirit of mutual do not follow the guidance of Allah are ill-treated (and oppressed)? — Men, vation of basic needs inflicted on the a society where that happens and has trust and help, there will be unity and Almighty given in the Quran or the women, and children, whose cry is: “Our innocent and the defenseless people been hidden strength, safety and security. Unity Sunnah of the Prophet. Lord! Rescue us from this town, whose peo- by the tyrants. - Praying and asking God to support was the blessing the early Muslims had Consequently, Muslims in one ple are oppressors; and raise for us from With the help and cooperation of our the freedom seekers and relieve them when they faced threats of extinction, part of the world are apathetic when thee one who will protect; and raise for us religious leaders as well as fearless jour- of oppression. so they could confront their enemies Muslims in another part are tortured, from thee one who will help! (4:75) nalists and activists, we should wage a www.onislam.net FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2013 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

Turkey told Iran At the crossroads about Israeli spy ring: Report Officials say bid to discredit Turkey

JERUSALEM: Turkey delib- denies this. The Washington Post erately blew the cover of an allegation angered officials in Israeli spy ring working inside Ankara, already on the defensive Iran in early 2012 and dealt a after a Wall Street Journal article significant blow to Israeli intel- last week suggested Washington ligence gathering, according to was concerned intelligence chief a report in the Washington Post Hakan Fidan had shared sensitive yesterday. information with Iran. Officials in Ankara, speaking A senior official from Erdogan’s on condition they not be named, ruling AK Party said such accu- described the article as part of sations were part of a deliberate an attempt to discredit Turkey attempt to discredit Turkey and by foreign powers uncomfortable undermine its role in the region with its growing influence in the following election of Iran’s rela- Middle East. tively moderate president Hassan There was no immediate com- Rowhani. ment from Israel, but Israeli “Turkey is a regional power and ministers have accused Turkish there are power centres which are Prime Minister Recep Tayyip uncomfortable with this ... Stories Erdogan of adopting an anti- like these are part of a campaign,” Israeli stance in recent years to the official said, asking not to be bolster his country’s standing in identified because of the sensitiv- the Muslim world. ity of the subject. Once-strong relations between “It’s clear the aim of some is Iranian women wearing headscarves in line with strict Islamic rules imposed after the 1979 Revolution, which gave birth to the Islamic Republic Turkey and Israel hit the rocks to spoil the moderate political following the overthrow of the pro-West monarchy in Iran, cross a street in central Tehran yesterday. in 2010 after Israeli commandos atmosphere after Rowhani’s elec- killed nine Turkish activists seek- tion ... and to neutralise Turkey, ing to break Israel’s long-standing which contributes to solving prob- naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. lems in the region and which has Relations between the two US a relationship with Iran.” allies have been fraught ever since, In April 2012, Iran announced with military cooperation frozen that it had broken up a large Israel warns West against easing Iran curbs and mutual distrust scuppering Israeli spy network and arrested attempts to restore ties, despite 15 suspects. It was not clear if JERUSALEM: The world’s But Israel, which has mounted Tuesday and Wednesday, Iranian policy changes of substance from efforts by US President Barack this was connected to the alleged positive response to the latest a massive lobbying campaign to officials touted a “breakthrough” President Hassan Rowhani, the Obama to broker a reconciliation. Turkish leak. nuclear talks with Iran drew keep up the economic and mili- in the decade-old negotiations on moderate cleric who took office Washington Post column- Deputy Israeli Foreign Minister bitter scepticism from Israel, tary pressure on its number-one allaying international concerns in August and on whom the ist David Ignatius said Israel Zeev Elkin declined to comment which warned its Western allies foe, insisted Iran’s intentions over its nuclear ambitions. West has pinned its hopes of a apparently used to run part of on the Washington Post report, but yesterday they risked being could be proved only by concrete They said they were hopeful of breakthrough. its Iranian spy network out of said relations with Turkey were duped into easing sanctions steps to wind down its nuclear a “new phase” in Iran’s relations “Except for the more relaxed Turkey, giving Turkish secret “very complex”. prematurely. programme, not by “sweet talk” with the world after outlining a tones and the demonstratively services the opportunity to moni- “The Turks made a strategic Energy Minister Silvan from its new president. three-step plan, including spot positive approach, there is noth- tor their movements. The paper decision ... to seek the leader- Shalom, a former foreign min- “Iran will be judged by its checks on nuclear facilities, to try ing significant of substance this quoted US officials as saying ship of our region, in the Middle ister, went further, accusing the actions and not by its presenta- to reach a comprehensive agree- time that we didn’t have in the Israel believed the Turks would East, and they chose the conven- European Union and the United tions,” a senior Israeli official said. ment “within a year.” previous rounds in 2012 and ear- never turn on the Jewish state ient anti-Israeli card in order to States of being more interested “Until significant steps are Although there was no official lier this year,” wrote Landau, an after years of cooperation. build up leadership,” he told Israel in the resumption of Iranian oil carried out on the ground, which response from the office of Prime analyst at Israel’s Institute for However, it said that in early Radio. Obama tried to broker a exports than with addressing prove that Iran is breaking up its Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, National Security Studies. 2012 Erdogan disclosed to Tehran reconciliation between Turkey an issue that Israel regards as a military nuclear programme, the Israel’s army radio quoted a “As long as there is no indica- the identities of 10 Iranians who and Israel in March, persuading threat to its very existence. international community must source close to him as taking a tion that Iran has changed direc- had travelled to Turkey to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Washington, which has had no continue to impose sanctions hard line. tion in its nuclear plans and has Israeli spies. Netanyahu to apologise for the diplomatic relations with Tehran upon it,” he added. “The Americans are the angels decided to give up its intent to Iran has long accused Israel of 2010 killings. However, Israeli since the aftermath of the 1979 “The pressure of sanctions while the Iranians have given develop a military nuclear capa- spying on its soil and of killing sev- officials said subsequent attempts Islamic Revolution, said Iranian brought Iran to this point and nothing,” the source said, adding bility, all of its proposals should eral Iranian nuclear scientists — to build bridges by agreeing on a negotiators had shown a greater must continue until Iran is that there was “no reason for any be seen as tactical steps in the the last in January 2012. Israel and deal to compensate families of level of “seriousness and sub- stripped of its nuclear military enthusiasm.” Writing in Israel’s negotiations with the interna- the West accuse Iran of looking those killed in the Israeli naval stance” in this week’s talks than programme.” Maariv newspaper, Iran special- tional community.” to build an atomic bomb. Tehran raid had floundered. REUTERS ever before. After the talks in Geneva on ist Emily Landau said she saw no AFP

Bashir performs Haj Iraq gets arms Iran judiciary divided from Russia after historic deal over re-hanging man MOSCOW: A top Iraqi official said yesterday that Baghdad had begun receiving arms from TEHRAN: Iran’s judiciary over what should be done. Russia under a historic $4.3-bil- chief, Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani, One high-ranking judge, lion deal it signed last year but faced competing calls yesterday Nourollah Aziz-Mohammadi, then scrapped amid graft allega- whether to spare a convicted told the Iran newspaper the law tions. The October 2012 agree- drug trafficker who survived required that the convict be put ment promised to make Russia the gallows. to death, and that he should be into Iraq’s second-largest arms The prisoner, identified only as taken to the gallows a second supplier after the United States. Alireza M, 37, was pronounced time. “When a convict is sen- It also heralded Moscow’s dead by the attending doctor after tenced to death, he must die after return to a lucrative Middle East spending 12 minutes hanging from the sentence is carried out,” Aziz- market it dominated in the Soviet the noose suspended from a crane Mohammadi said. era but where it suffered more in a jail in northeastern Iran. “Now that he is alive, we can recent reverses with the loss of But the following day, staff at the say the sentence was not carried allies in countries such as Libya. mortuary in the city of Bojnourd out and must be repeated.” But Iraqi officials announced at where his shrouded body was But other lawyers signed a the start of the year that Baghdad taken discovered to their shock petition to the judiciary chief had cancelled the contract due that he was still breathing. appealing for a stay in the excep- to corruption allegations that He is now recovering in hospital tional case. “In our law, nothing were not spelt out. Iraqi Prime while jurists argue over whether has been said about a person who Minister Nouri Al Maliki’s top Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al Bashir (second left) visiting the Prophet Mohammed Mosque in the the law requires that he be taken survives hanging after 24 hours,” media adviser said yesterday that Saudi holy city of Madinah yesterday. Bashir performed the Haj. Some 1.4 million Muslim pilgrims from 188 to the gallows a second time. one signatory, Abdolsamad Baghdad had ultimately decided countries started to leave Saudi Arabia yesterday at the end of what authorities hailed as a successful and Amnesty International called Khoramshahi, told the paper. to keep the deal. AFP for an immediate stay of execu- “Since the sentence was carried incident-free Haj. tion for Alireza M and for all out, there is no reason to repeat other death row prisoners in Iran, the sentence.” which carried out more execu- Shargh newspaper quoted a tions last year than any other former judge as saying that the country except China. same rules should apply as when “The horrific prospect of this a person survives a sentence of Two policemen killed in Tunisia clash man facing a second hanging, being stoned to death. after having gone through the “A condemned person who TUNIS: Two policemen were the smooth running of the opera- December been tracking an armed deadly attack on the US embassy whole ordeal already once, merely survives should not be sent again killed in a clash with a “terror- tion” by security forces. group thought to be linked to in Tunis last September. He underlines the cruelty and inhu- for execution,” the daily quoted ist” group west of the Tunisian According to Radio Shams-FM, Al Qaeda in the Chaambi moun- is thought to be holed up in manity of the death penalty,” ex-judge Mohammad Hossein capital yesterday, the interior the police had been tipped off tain region along the Algerian Chaambi. the watchdog’s Middle East and Shamlou as saying. ministry said. about an armed group operating border. Some 15 soldiers and police North Africa programme director Under Iran’s interpretation of “Two National Guard agents out of a house in the area. The The group is linked to Tunisia’s have been killed in jihadist shoot- Philip Luther said. Islamic Shariah law in force since were killed and a third was gunmen escaped, it said. main Salafist movement, Ansar ings or bombings in the region “The Iranian authorities must its 1979 revolution, adultery is wounded in a confrontation with Islamist militancy has been Al Sharia, charged with murder- since the end of 2012. immediately halt Alireza M’s exe- punished by the stoning of con- an armed terrorist group” in the on the rise in Tunisia since the ing opposition politicians Chokri Authorities have not con- cution and issue a moratorium on victed adulterers. Beja region, 70km from Tunis, it 2011 revolution — the first of the Belaid and Mohamed Brahmi firmed media reports of an attack all others,” Luther said. Women are buried up to their said in a statement. Arab Spring — but authorities this year. on Wednesday on a post in the “Carrying out a second exe- shoulders, but men only up to The wounded man is in seri- had not previously reported that Ansar Al Sharia leader Saif northwestern region of Jenduba cution on a man who somehow their waists. They are spared if ous condition, a police source told armed groups were active in the Allah bin Hussein, a former along the border with Algeria. managed to survive 12 minutes of they manage to free themselves AFP. The ministry gave no details Beja region. Al Qaeda fighter in Afghanistan, No casualties were reported. hanging ... is simply ghastly.” before dying. on the incident “in the interests of Security forces have since last is also accused of orchestrating a AFP Iranian jurists were divided AFP FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2013 06 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE Russia under Vladimir Putin stays in the news all the time — mostly for the wrong reasons. After Putin started his third term as president of the country last Tyear, the international glare has failed to leave him. US soft power takes a hit Soon after he took over, there were huge protests against him that were brutally suppressed. As is his wont, the hard-faced Putin, instead of sounding contrite, made fun of the protesters. Yesterday, a major opposition figure in the country that is over government shutdown seeing an erosion of its talent pool because of bad governance, was freed by a court. Alexei Navalny’s five-year sentence was BY PAUL TAYLOR suspended by the court in a case that drew international bound to ask whether they should de-Americanised world”. The risk of attention and saw Russia being criticised for stanching dissidence hold so much of their reserves in US severe damage to the global economy against the Kremlin. Though the outspoken critic of Putin has picture spoke volumes about Treasury bonds and dollars, he said. from the US government paralysis and got some relief, albeit temporary, he is not out of danger as his the United States’ loss of glo- Obama and Congressional leaders a possible debt default — now banished suspended sentence can be activated any time. bal prestige and influence due agreed a temporary fix on Wednesday for a few months at least — dominated to the shutdown of its govern- to keep the government running until meetings of the Group of 20 world lead- The Greenpeace issue is another case in point. A number of A ment in a partisan standoff over the January and raise the national debt ceil- ers in St. Petersburg, Russia, last month activists of the global environment NGO have been charged with federal budget and debt. ing, hours before it was set to lose the and G20 finance ministers last week in piracy after they tried to board a Russian oil rig in protest in the Chinese President Xi Jinping and authority to borrow — a prelude to a Washington. Arctic. The green group was protesting against oil exploration Russian President Vladimir Putin potential default. Putin berated the United States in the sensitive ecological zone. Nobel Peace laureates have beamed front and centre in the fam- The president acknowledged yester- publicly over the uses and abuses of its ily photograph of Asian leaders at day that the 16-day shutdown had hurt power as he engineered a diplomatic deal jumped into the controversy by writing a letter telling Putin last week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Washington’s global position. to avert a US military strike on Syria. to reconsider his decision, but Moscow seems to be in no mood Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bali. “Probably nothing has done more “Millions around the world increasingly to relent. Probably showing his worst authoritarian streak, the US Secretary of State John Kerry, damage to America’s credibility in the see America not as a model of democ- former KGB chief tries to desperately hold on to his image of an standing in for an absent President world, our standing with other coun- racy, but as relying solely on brute force, intransigent leader. Authoritarian Barack Obama, detained at home by tries, than the spectacle that we’ve cobbling coalitions together under the leaders, who have scant regard for protracted budget negotiations, waved seen these past several weeks,” he said slogan ‘you’re either with us or against forlornly from the edge, about as far in a speech at the White House. “It’s us’,” he wrote in the New York Times on Putin faces compassion and human values, try to from the centre encouraged our enemies, it’s embold- September 11. multiple hold on to power with help from such as possible with- ened our competitors, and it’s depressed Former US policy practitioners said events that work to further their out falling off the our friends who look to us for steady the spectacle of a chronically divided challenges in interests at least in the short term. platform. leadership.” political system unwilling to compro- Russia, but his Russia under Putin has been Experts said For an admin- Nye said the fiscal crisis had com- mise on the big issues of taxation, public going from weakness to weakness in the spectacle istration that has pounded damage to trust in the United spending and borrowing had weakened record of dealing focused its for- States from revelations about the the country’s international sway. the years gone by, with its leaders of a chronically eign policy on a National Security Agency’s tentacular “There is no question in my mind that with them leaves showing that good governance is the divided political “pivot” to Asia, global Internet surveillance by fugitive this has a corrosive effect on American much to be last thing on their minds. the world’s most former intelligence consultant Edward authority and influence in the world,” Another problem facing the system unwilling economically Snowden. said Samuel Berger, who was national desired. country has been the recent spurt in to compromise vibrant region, “On culture and values, we are doing security adviser to President Bill this may be more pretty well,” he said. “But on govern- Clinton. ethnic feelings against people from on issues of than a momen- ment policies, whether on surveillance “For the president not to be able to the Caucasus. The Muslim-majority region in the south of the taxation, public tary setback. And or on our management of the world’s go to Asia for the East Asia summit is expansive nation has been hit by a low-level insurgency for years. not just in Asia. most important reserve currency, that’s a blow, with President Xi being able to In the run up to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, security forces spending and Joseph Nye, the where the danger is.” be there, be triumphant, announce a have launched a huge crackdown against Islamist radicals. Rights borrowing had Harvard profes- While Obama was marooned in $50-billion development fund, makes abuses and disappearances have become common in the region sor who coined the White House, Xi and Premier Li other Asian nations very uncomfort- weakened the the term “soft Keqiang swept around southeast Asia, able about our steadfastness,” Berger, with security agents picking up people in unmarked cars. US’ international power” to describe dispensing goodwill, big investments who now chairs a global strategy consul- Moscow claims to have busted a plot to blow up a chemical a nation’s ability and promises of surging trade, includ- tancy, the Albright Stonebridge Group, weapons depot in the interior of the country. Militants, the sway. to wield influ- ing with US allies such as Indonesia, told Reuters. government said, planned to attack the facility with bombs. ence through its Thailand and Malaysia. For US allies in the Arab world and Putin has challenges faced by anyone leading a huge nation culture, values and governance rather The Chinese state news agency Israel, acutely sensitive to any fluc- and they are formidable. However, he has not dealt with them than by force, said the United States Xinhua excoriated the United States for tuation in American engagement and had suffered a serious blow from the putting international financial stability deterrence, the signals have been both in the right spirit. He baulks at western democracy, promotes shutdown. at risk with domestic “political brink- confusing and worrying. rulers like Syria’s Bashar Al Assad, supports Iran in this context, “It’s clearly very damaging for manship”. The lesson for America’s Yet for all the criticism and hand- sides with China’s autocratic leaders, and persecutes countries American soft power in the sense that creditors was that “US Treasury bonds wringing, historical precedent suggests like Ukraine that refuses to toe the line. The Russian leader the reputation for effective management may no longer be a safe investment”. the damage to US influence may not should realise that hubris and browbeating dissidents wouldn’t of government and of the world’s reserve Gloating over Washington’s paralysis, be enduring, given the dynamism of its currency are hurt,” Nye told Reuters. another Xinhua commentary said it was innovative economy and the attraction take him anywhere. It would rather weaken his capacity to Foreign governments and investors, “perhaps a good time for the befuddled of its popular culture. govern and damage the country’s reputation • from China to the Middle East, were world to start considering building a REUTERS The other side Quote of India has let down its girl children the day

ost children have at some forced child marriages at the United ostensibly for the safety of girls. Child brides are unlikely to make point of time played Nations General Assembly last week The fact that parents often willingly informed reproductive choices and this ‘house’, designating roles has raised serious questions about its marry off their young girls due to eco- means closely timed pregnancies and Mof husband and wife to political commitment to end this prob- nomic necessity, to fend off unwanted frequent abortions — putting the health Given what we dolls, making them cook invisible food lem that has far-reaching negative sexual advances and to prevent them of the adolescent mother and child at in miniature utensils, often adding a effects on young girls — far more girls from marrying outside the caste gives risk and often leading to high rates of know on Iran, the baby doll to the family. Now replace are forced into a child marriage than this heinous practice wide social maternal and infant mortality. Despite these dolls with real children, and it is boys. Sadly, not a single South Asian acceptance in the country, especially the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, Guide (Supreme not a cute game anymore. It is the ugly country — specifically India, Sri Lanka, Rajasthan, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, and 2006 being a secular law in that the reli- face of child marriage. With 24 million Bangladesh, Afghanistan or Pakistan Uttar Pradesh. It is sad that it is little gion of the contracting parties does not Leader Ayatollah child brides — representing 40% of the — with significantly high rates of child understood that marrying off young girls matter, Muslim organisations in Kerala Ali Khamenei) world’s 60 million child brides — India marriage co-sponsored the resolution before they are physically and psycho- have opposed the law banning child leads the world in this gross violation that is supported by a cross-regional logically mature not only denies them marriage on the ground that it is against being the same, we of human rights. group of over 107 countries. access to education but also makes the provisions of the Muslim personal In such a scenario, India’s refusal to Though marriage before the age of them vulnerable to domestic violence, law and khap panchayats are pushing are compelled to be Laurent Fabius co-sponsor the first-ever global resolu- 18 is illegal in India, it is widely prac- sexual abuse, sexually transmitted dis- for child marriage as a preventive for cautiously open. tion for elimination and prevention of tised under the garb of tradition and eases and enslavement. rape. The Hindustan Times French Foreign Minister FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Plan to reward Iran without lifting sanctions The removal from Iran of its stockpile of enriched uranium would be worth less than total suspension of enrichment. BY JEFFREY GOLDBERG desperate need of this cash. The crip- pling of the Iranian economy by the US ne of the several dilemmas sanctions regime is the only reason why facing Obama administra- Iran is even negotiating at all. tion officials in their chess Several administration officials told me match with Iran is this: At that US negotiators currently in Geneva what point do they meet for the Iran negotiations are prepared seriousO Iranian nuclear concessions to offer Iran access to at least some of (assuming, as I don’t, that these conces- this money in exchange for verifiable sions are in the offing) with actual sanc- concessions. tions relief? If Iran shows itself willing to American officials are careful to note scale back dramatically its stockpiles of that such access would not violate their enriched uranium, or give up a substan- promise — and they’ve made this promise tial number of its centrifuges, wouldn’t repeatedly — that actual sanctions relief the US have to meet such gestures by is not a near-term prospect, barring lifting of at least some sanctions? something like total Iranian capitulation. And here lies a problem — many of This plan, to reward Iran, in essence, the Americans involved in these nego- with its own money, would not violate a tiations believe that any sanctions relief pledge to keep the sanctions in place until at all would lead to the quick crumbling a final deal is within reach. of the entire sanctions programme. Pull This idea has an unlikely provenance: one brick out of the sanctions wall, I’ve As best as I can tell, the notion first sprang heard it said repeatedly, and the entire from the mind of Mark Dubowitz, an Iran edifice crumbles. Certainly, this is the sanctions expert at the Foundation for Israeli position. Many countries, and the Defence of Democracies, a hawk- many companies, are eager to see the ish think tank that usually argues that sanctions disintegrate, and they would President Obama is soft on the issue take any American move to provide even (I’ve disagreed with this assessment, for the tiniest bit of relief to Iran as a sign what it’s worth). Dubowitz, who is also UN Security Council members raise hands in the June 9 vote to impose a fourth round of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear activities. that the crisis is over, and that they can the foundation’s executive director, first go back to business as usual. We may be, suggested this idea privately last week, concessions might make for contentious to — or use of — its overseas financial about its nuclear programme. New sanc- right now, at (to borrow a phrase) peak and it has since percolated through the side-negotiations, but Dubowitz thinks it reserves for any purpose except permitted tions — such as the aforementioned stick sanctions. It only gets harder from here State and Treasury Departments, and might be possible. The dismantling of all humanitarian trade. The punishment? A suggested by Dubowitz — could be seen for the Obama administration to hold into the White House. but a limited number of centrifuges under total cutoff from the US financial system. as unnecessarily punitive, but this is a the line. In an email, Dubowitz explained to me strict safeguards would be worth quite a Dubowitz’s plan could be backdated so stick that comes paired with an offer But if the US meets an Iranian con- how this concept might work. “If Iran lot in dollars; the removal from Iran of that banks and other financial institutions to the Iranians of immediate financial cession with absolutely no concessions agrees to meaningful nuclear concessions, its stockpile of enriched uranium would that are toying with the notion of giving relief, if they actually make intermediate of its own, then the entire denuclearisa- it can get paid out of semi-accessible . be worth less than the total suspension Iran access to these frozen cash reserves concessions. tion effort could be in serious trouble; . . escrow accounts where it has about of enrichment. Again, this plan leaves the would think twice about doing so. “The basic theory of the case is, ‘I’m the Iranians, sensing no give whatsoever $50 billion that it currently can only use sanctions in place until the West is con- His idea: “Regardless of when the bill doing a deal with you, and we’ve all read in the US position, could simply go home for barter trade in China, India, Japan, vinced that Iran has been verifiably and is signed into law, any financial institu- ‘Getting to Yes,’ but we don’t trust you and and proceed apace with their nuclear South Korea and Turkey. Instead of being comprehensively constrained. tion that gives Iran access to or use of you don’t trust us,” Dubowitz wrote. “This programme. This dilemma has caused limited to these countries, where it cur- In Dubowitz’s formulation, a stick its money between October 31st and the is about deal structure that rewards per- some in the administration to embrace a rently cannot find enough non-sanction- accompanies this carrot. If Iran refuses date of final signature by the President, formance and punishes non-performance. third path, a programme of what might able goods to spend down about half of to make significant compromises in the will face sanctions for financial transac- You don’t get all the money up-front — be called non- sanctions-related financial its $3.4bn in new monthly oil revenue current negotiations, the administration tions dating back to October 31.” There there would be a balloon payment at the relief. More than $50bn of Iranian money — never mind its existing funds — it can should, he said, layer in a provision to a has been a lot of debate recently about end — but you do get money. And we get is frozen, or semi-frozen, in banks around get hard currency released from these new Senate sanctions bill — one that is the wisdom of threatening Iran with to keep the sanctions in place.” This idea the world, thanks to the Herculean accounts commensurate with the value being held in abeyance while negotiations additional sanctions now, at precisely is elegant, and it is canny, and I hope efforts of the Obama White House and of each nuclear concession.” start. This would punish any financial the moment it seems ready at least to it’s one the Obama administration will the Treasury Department. Iran is in Placing a dollar value on Iranian nuclear institution that provides Iran with access have a facsimile of a serious discussion pursue further. WP-BLOOMBERG The power in president’s mandate Afghanistan: The poll electorate a clear choice in 1932 by announc- campaign season Presidential mandate ing that he intended to be a transformational president. “The country needs, and, unless BY J DANA STUSTER is an ideal brickbat I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation,” Roosevelt declared at Oglethorpe University in Georgia. ith six months until presidential elections and half the in a political struggle In Albany Roosevelt, who as governor of New country undecided, it’s officially campaign season in York had created the first comprehensive sys- Afghanistan. Twenty-seven candidates have registered because it is so tem of unemployment relief, urged Americans Wto be put on the ballot — though many of these will likely to focus their attention on “the forgotten man be disqualified as their paperwork is reviewed. The first tracking poll, at the bottom of the economic pyramid.” conducted by the Afghan news network TOLOnews and consulting carelessly used. Roosevelt was the first candidate in company ATR, is already out — and it shows that Afghans have a long American history to deliver an acceptance way to go to make up their minds about who should succeed President BY WILLIAM E LEUCHTENBURG address at a party convention. He flew through Hamid Karzai. squalls to Chicago in a tri-motored plane, The leading contender in the race is Abdullah Abdullah, the country’s he controversy over responsibility twice having to land for refuelling. When he former foreign minister who ran against Karzai in 2009 but ultimately for the government shutdown has appeared before the cheering delegates, he withdrew from the contest rather than force what would have been a brought about one surprising conse- said: “I have started out on the tasks that lie divisive runoff election. He has the support of about 22 percent of the Tquence: a debate over the meaning of ahead by breaking the absurd tradition that country, far more than any other candidate. “Abdullah’s lead at this the term ‘presidential mandate.’ the candidate should remain in professed igno- early juncture is not surprising, since he has more name recognition Republicans are asserting President Barack rance of what has happened for weeks until than others and has also spent the last few years organising for the Obama has no warrant to call on Congress US President Barack Obama he is formally notified.… You have nominated 2014 elections,” Omar Samad, a senior Central Asia fellow at the New to fund the Affordable Care Act — since his me and I know it, and I am here to thank America Foundation and former Afghan ambassador to France and victory margin in 2012 was so slender and you for the honour. Let it … be symbolic that Canada, told FP, “whereas many other nominees entered the race at the voters kept Republicans in control of effectively and to ignore those times when they in so doing I broke traditions. Let it be from the last minute.” the House of Representatives. The White did so. In the 20th century, there is no clearer now on the task of our party to break foolish Statisticians are quick to warn about the predictive ability of early House, meanwhile, is countering that the instance than the 1932 election, which ushered traditions.… I pledge you, I pledge myself to a campaign polls, and this one’s no different. Javid Ahmad, a programme healthcare legislation was not only approved in President Franklin D Roosevelt’s electrify- New Deal for the American people.” coordinator at the German Marshall Fund, points out that Abdullah’s by both houses of Congress, and validated by ing First Hundred Days of the spring of 1933 In a campaign whose outcome may legiti- support is dwarfed by Afghanistan’s large bloc of undecided voters. the Supreme Court, but also was authenti- and the birth of the New Deal. mately be regarded as yielding a mandate, it is They make up half the country: 38 percent of poll respondents said cated by his election triumph — after a cam- Instead of embarking on a fruitless quest important, too, for the opponent to demarcate they hadn’t settled on a candidate and another 12 percent said they paign in which his opponent made hostility for a precise definition of mandate, it is more major disagreement. That Hoover surely did. don’t believe there are any good candidates in the field. to the healthcare reform law his main point rewarding to explore what a real mandate In November 1932, the nation left no doubt Abdullah will be competing with another 2009 candidate, former of attack. looks like. about its verdict. In ousting Hoover, Roosevelt Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani (sometimes referred to with Presidential mandate is an ideal brickbat in Be forewarned that there is never perfect became the first Democrat to enter the White his tribal affiliation, Ahmadzai), who was favoured by approximately a political struggle because it is so carelessly congruence between ballots cast and subse- House with a popular majority (50 percent or 14 percent of respondents. Like Abdullah, Ghani’s support is con- used. Republicans who question Obama’s cre- quent presidential behaviour. In every contest, more of the ballots) in 80 years — not since centrated in urban areas. Rounding out the top three is President dentials today were quick to claim after the some voters are more interested in personality Franklin Pierce in 1852. Karzai’s brother, Qayum, who polled under 10 points, but enjoyed more 2004 presidential election that, in then-Vice than policy, and others merely register tradi- Hoover received the pitiful proportion rural support than the leading candidates, especially in Afghanistan’s President Dick Cheney’s words, “the nation tional party identification. Moreover, in 1932 of less than 40 percent of the popular vote. southern and eastern provinces. Of the other 24 candidates, only five responded by giving [Bush] a mandate.” They the Republican incumbent, President Herbert FDR swept every state south and west of were selected by at least 0.5 percent of the poll’s respondents. ignore the reality that Obama gained re-elec- Hoover, was so strongly disliked that the Pennsylvania. He ended the long period of The challenge, Samad and Ahmad noted, will be for the candidates tion by a larger percentage of the popular vote Democratic challenger, Roosevelt, who knew Republican predominance and began the crea- to transcend ethnic and regional lines and build nationwide support. than George W Bush had received, and that that he was running well ahead, thought it tion of “the FDR coalition” whose influence As in US elections, some of that can come through the careful selec- his advantage in the Electoral College was 126 ill-advised to risk articulating controversial persists, though in muted fashion, in the 21st tion of running mates — a consideration that already shows somewhat votes in contrast to Bush’s 35. positions. century. in the polling data, as Ghani’s vice presidential candidate, General Journalists have further muddied the On a couple of occasions — notably at Forbes At times, the rhetoric of a negative man- Rashid Dostum, is earning him supporters in northern Afghanistan. waters. After Bush’s 2004 re-election win, for Field, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates — he date finds a place in the theatre of the absurd. That will take a combination of broad appeal, political finesse, example, an NPR reporter stated, “By any even voiced a conservative message. (When In 2012, GOP presidential nominee Mitt and old-fashioned patronage — the effects of which aren’t apparent definition, I think you could call this a man- Roosevelt was set to return to Forbes Field in Romney’s web video underscored his intent yet in the polling data. This sort of network-building is something date.” Following Obama’s victory in 2012, how- the 1936 campaign, he instructed his speech in a terse slogan: “Day one. Job one. Repeal Hamid Karzai has mastered over the past decade, and which Qayum ever, NPR headed its website: “For Obama, writer, Samuel Rosenman, to prepare a draft Obamacare.” was deeply involved in during his 2009 campaign. “With Karzai still Vindication, But Not a Mandate.” So debased claiming that massive New Deal spending was Yet Republicans, after being soundly beaten in power and as a key powerbroker, he can easily employ his vast has “presidential mandate” been in the cur- consistent with his 1932 emphasis on frugality a year ago, maintain that, in shutting down patronage network in support of whomever he will back,” notes Ahmad. rency of discourse that exasperated scholars when he was last at the ballpark. Rosenman the US government unless the president puts There’s also the issue of corruption. Reuters reports that votes are are recommending that the expression be came back later that day with a facetious healthcare in abeyance, they are being faith- already being bartered and sold; the going rate is about $5. jettisoned. answer: “Mr President, the only thing that ful to the popular will. To take that claim The real prize — and what to watch over the next six months — is But to abandon the idea of mandate alto- you can say about that 1932 speech is to deny seriously would be to strip the conception of Afghanistan’s undecided voters, and which candidate can build sup- gether is to conclude that, in a democracy, categorically that you ever made it.”) “mandate” of all meaning and to render it a port not just in the north or the east, but across such a factionalised American citizens can never express their will For the most part, however, FDR offered the farce. REUTERS country. WP-BLOOMBERG FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2013 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST No trace of Syria says talks possible in Nov missing US General in charge of military intelligence killed by Islamist fighters in Jamaa journalist DAMASCUS: Syria said yesterday that Under the resolution, a team from the peace talks are possible next month and United Nations and the Organisation for in Syria chemical weapons experts passed the the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has half-way mark in their inspections, as been in Syria overseeing the destruction of WASHINGTON: US journalist rebels killed a top military intelligence its chemical arms. James Foley turns 40 this week officer. Yesterday, the OPCW, which was but his family will not be able State television announced that Major awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last week, to celebrate with him. Foley was General Jamaa Jamma “was martyred said nearly half its inspections of the arse- kidnapped almost a year ago while carrying out his national duties to nal were complete. while covering Syria’s civil war. defend Syria and its people and pursuing “We have done nearly 50 percent of the Foley, an experienced freelance terrorists in Deir Ezzor.” verification work of the facilities that have reporter, was seized by armed Jamaa was in charge of military intelli- been declared to us,” Malik Ellahi, a politi- men in the northern Syrian gence in the eastern province, where jihad- cal advisor on Syria for OPCW, told jour- province of Idlib on November 22, ist forums said he was killed in clashes with nalists in The Hague. according to witnesses, and he has radical Islamist fighters in the city of the Despite the progress, Ellahi said security not been heard from since. same name. remained a concern for the unprecedented US news organisation In Moscow, Syrian Deputy Prime mission in war-torn Syria, with mortar and GlobalPost, one of Foley’s employ- Minister Qadri Jamil told reporters that car bomb attacks taking place in areas near ers, has a team of investigators proposed peace talks in Geneva could take to the inspectors’ Damascus hotel. seeking information on his where- place on November 23-24, saying “we are “There have been a number of incidents abouts, and his family have made closer than ever to holding the Geneva 2.” over the last few days which gives some multiple appeals for information. Both the Russian foreign ministry and cause for concern,” Ellahi said. Syrian President Bashar the United Nations said the date of the So far Damascus has won praise for its Al Assad’s government has denied conference would be decided by UN chief cooperation with the inspectors, but the it is holding him, and more than Ban Ki-moon. United Nations has stressed that key dead- 11 months on his family is anxious “When it is time for an announcement, lines be met. for news. the secretary general will make one,” UN These include verifying Syria’s disclosed “We have so many good peo- spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters chemical weapons, identifying key equip- ple trying to help us but we’re in New York. ment, destroying production facilities and not making a terrible amount of “And I would remind you and everybody starting the destruction of Category 3 progress,” Foley’s mother Diane that it is the secretary general who will be chemical weapons by November 1. told Agence France-Presse, convening the conference and it will be the Inspectors have until June 30 next year another of his clients. A Syrian opposition fighter aims a catapult at regime forces in the northern embattled Syrian secretary general who invites the different to complete the destruction of Syria’s “It’s very, very difficult to figure city of Aleppo yesterday. parties to attend.” chemical arsenal. out even where Jim is. We still Russia and Western nations have been The United Nations said yesterday that have very limited information.” pushing since May for new talks between talks. The National Council, an opposition renewed its push for the Geneva confer- a Canadian staffer held by a radical group Media watchdog Reporters the Syrian regime and rebels on a nego- umbrella group, said it would hold internal ence in the wake of a deal under which in Syria for eight months had been freed Without Borders reports that at tiated solution to the conflict, which has discussions next week culminating in a vote Syria will turn over its chemical arsenal in good health and without a ransom being least 16 foreign journalists are killed more than 115,000 people since on whether to attend the gathering. for destruction. The agreement, enshrined paid. Carl Campeau, a legal advisor with the missing in Syria, including Foley March 2011. But Jamil said there was “no alterna- in a UN Security Council resolution, staved UN force that monitors a ceasefire in the and fellow American Austin Tice, The Syrian opposition is divided on tive” to the peace conference and that the off threatened US military action against Golan Heights between Syria and Israel, who disappeared on August 13 attending the conference, and President absence of parts of the Syrian opposition Assad’s regime in the wake of an August 21 was abducted on February 17 as he drove last year. The exact number of Bashar Al Assad’s regime says his removal would not affect the timing or format. sarin attack outside Damascus that killed in a Damascus suburb, UN officials said. international reporters being held from office will not be on the table at any The international community has hundreds. AFP captive is difficult to estimate, as some victims’ families and gov- ernments have asked the media not to report their cases. The situation inside Syria has also become more complicated and dangerous for journalists US to sell $10.8bn since the war began, with multi- ple rebel factions on one side and diverse militias fighting for the government. arms to Saudi, UAE Where once reporters could work in areas held by anti-Assad WASHINGTON: The bunker-buster “precision-guided fighters keen for international Pentagon said yesterday it plans glide bombs,” fuelling speculation exposure of their cause, now many to sell Washington’s Gulf allies that it was preparing for poten- rebels are loyal to anti-Western Saudi Arabia and the United tial preemptive air strikes against jihadi Islamist groups. Arab Emirates $10.8bn worth of underground nuclear sites in Iran. Foley’s family, who have missiles and munitions, includ- The proposed sales “will con- mounted a vigorous campaign to ing “bunker-buster” bombs. tribute to the foreign policy and plead for news of their missing The move follows a series of US national security of the United son, have long insisted he is pro- weapons deals in recent years that States” by improving the secu- fessional, independent reporter have bolstered the air power and rity of friendly countries that who was covering the conflict missile arsenals of Gulf states, remain forces for “stability,” the fairly. There have been moments which view Iran as a menacing DSCA said. of hope, but some trails have run rival with nuclear ambitions. Under the arms package, the cold, and as the one year anniver- The pending sale comes as Saudis were due to receive $6.8bn sary of the kidnap approaches his the United States and five other in weapons, parts, training and parents John and Diane are living major powers pursue high-stakes logistical support. through tough times. diplomacy on Iran’s disputed The Saudis and the UAE will “We’re really trusting in God nuclear programme, with talks purchase hundreds of Standoff and Jim’s resilience to get through this week portrayed as positive Land Attack missiles, or SLAM- this,” Diane said, as she and her by both sides. ERs, and Joint Standoff Weapons husband prepared for another Officials said the Defense (JSOW). round of media interviews to keep Department notified Congress These advanced missiles that the case in the public eye. this week of the planned deal that will enable their warplanes to hit In an article to mark Foley’s will provide a thousand bunker- radar installations and other tar- birthday, GlobalPost chief execu- buster GBU-39 bombs to the gets from beyond the range of air tive Philip Balboni said investi- Civilians gather at the site of a bomb attack in the village of Mwafaqiya, in Iraq’s Nineveh province, yesterday. Saudis and 5,000 to the UAE. defence systems. gators were seeking news from The sale will also include The Saudis will purchase 650 of contacts in Lebanon, Jordan and sophisticated air-launched cruise the Boeing-manufactured SLAM- on the Syria-Turkish border. missiles that can hit targets from ERs and 973 Joint Standoff “In the light of recently a long distance. Weapons, made by Raytheon, as obtained information, and in the 66 killed, scores injured in Iraq The weapons are designed for well as other missiles. best interests of Foley’s security, use by US-made F-15 and F-16 The United Arab Emirates is the Foley family and GlobalPost BAGHDAD: A series of car four people and wounding 27. authorities and the Kurdish fighter jets previously purchased due to buy $4bn worth of weap- have decided that no further bombs hit Baghdad province Another bomb exploded near Regional Government,” which is by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, onry, including the bunker-buster details about his likely captors of yesterday, killing at least 44 the house of a Shabak family in responsible for the autonomous according to the Defense Security bombs, 300 SLAM-ERs and 1,200 the location where Foley is being people, while 22 died in other Mosul itself, killing a child and region bordering Nineveh. Cooperation Agency (DSCA). JSOW missiles. held be released at this time,” he attacks, including two suicide wounding three people, while Analysts say the Shia-led gov- In 2010, Israel bought the same AFP wrote. AFP bombings in northern Iraq, offi- gunmen killed one policeman and ernment’s failure to address the cials said. wounded a second in an attack grievances of Iraq’s Sunni Arab The attacks come as Iraq wit- in the city and killed another to minority — which complains of nesses its worst violence since its south. political exclusion and abuses by 2008, when the country was just The 30,000-strong Shabak security forces — has driven the emerging from a brutal sectarian community mostly live in a pocket surge in unrest this year. Spike in Israel settlement activity conflict. of villages east of Mosul. Violence worsened sharply The violence, which has They speak a distinct language after security forces stormed a included sectarian attacks, has and traditionally practise a blend Sunni protest camp in northern JERUSALEM: Home starts in Jewish settle- raised fears of a relapse into the of Shia Islam and local beliefs, Iraq on April 23, sparking clashes ments rose by a “drastic” 70 percent in the first intense bloodshed that peaked in which has made them a target for in which dozens died. half of 2013, jeopardising peace talks, an Israeli 2006-2007 and killed tens of thou- attack by extremists who regard The authorities have made NGO and a Palestinian official said yesterday. sands of people. them as heretics. some concessions aimed at pla- Anti-settlement group Peace Now said in a state- Eleven car bombs exploded in Last month, a suicide bomber cating the protesters and Sunnis ment that between January and June construction as many areas in and around the targeted a Shabak funeral near in general, such as freeing pris- started on 1,708 new homes in the occupied West Iraqi capital yesterday, killing Mosul, killing 26 people and oners and raising the salaries of Bank, including annexed east Jerusalem, compared at least 44 people and wounding wounding 46. UN envoy Nickolay Sunni anti-Al-Qaeda fighters, with 995 in the first half of 2012. more than 120, officials said. Mladenov issued a statement but the underlying issues remain Billing the figures as a “drastic rise,” Peace Now More attacks, including two condemning the attack in Al unaddressed. said 86 percent of the new construction was carried suicide bombings, were carried Muwaffaqiyah “in the strong- With the latest violence, more out in areas where tenders were not required, mean- out in northern Iraq. est terms,” saying “the United than 380 people have been killed ing that building activity did not technically flout the One suicide bomber detonated Nations pays particular attention so far this month, and over 5,050 quiet freeze on tenders Israel reportedly agreed to a vehicle rigged with explo- to the protection of minority com- since the beginning of the year, this year as Washington pushed for a resumption of sives in a residential area of munities who continue suffering according to AFP figures based direct peace talks. Al Muwaffaqiyah, a village east of from heinous attacks, economic on security and medical sources. Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told Mosul that is mainly populated by and social barriers.” A study released this month by AFP the settlement building is “destroying the peace Pope Francis talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud members of the Shabak minority, He added that “the recent rise academics based in Canada, Iraq process” relaunched with US prodding in July, and Abbas during a private audience yesterday at the killing 15 people and wounding 50. in violence in the Nineveh prov- and the United States said nearly that Israel is “fully responsible for this situation and Another bomber, wearing police ince calls for urgent action and half a million people have died its outcome.” Vatican. uniform, detonated an explosives strengthened security coopera- from war-related causes in Iraq Peace Now’s Hagit Ofran concurred. settlements, but there is a chance that if this policy belt in a cafe in the town of Tuz tion between the Government of since the US-led invasion of 2003. “Fortunately the Palestinians did not leave the continues, then it will be very, very hard to hold on Khurmatu further south, killing Iraq, the Nineveh provincial AFP talks because of the continued construction in to the talks,” she said. 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WASHINGTON: US President payments and withholding gov- says report Barack Obama warned yes- ernment funding — for narrow terday that America’s political political ends. He said that sharp WASHINGTON: The National dysfunction had encouraged ideological disagreements should Security Agency is deeply involved its enemies and depressed its not stop leaders from cooperating. in US drone strikes against Al friends, and said the crisis had “There’s no good reason why we Qaeda militants, using electronic left “no winners” in Washington. can’t govern responsibly, despite surveillance tools to track down In trying to heal the wounds our differences, without lurching terror suspects, The Washington of the last two weeks of political from manufactured crisis to man- Post reported yesterday. drama, Obama hoped to avoid ufactured crisis,” he said. “If you The report was based on a new round of brinkmanship don’t like a particular policy or a documents provided by Edward within months after a temporary particular president, then argue Snowden, the US intelligence truce between Republicans and for your position. Go out there contractor turned leaker who has Democrats. and win an election. Don’t break exposed the massive scale of the “There’s been a lot of discussion what our predecessors spent over NSA’s eavesdropping efforts. lately of the politics of this shut- two centuries building.” NSA cyber spying helped pin- down,” Obama told an audience of Obama appeared to have more point a senior Al Qaeda figure, returning executive branch work- than one eye on the next possi- Hassan Ghul, who was killed in a ers in the State Dining Room of ble political crisis — set up in the drone strike in Pakistan’s tribal the White House. “Let’s be clear. language of the bill that ended belt in 2012, the Post wrote. There are no winners here.” the shutdown and the threat The operation was made pos- The president called on war- of default before an October 17 sible in part by an email from ring politicians to come together deadline. Ghul’s wife that was scooped up to pass a long-term budget and The compromise plan hashed by the National Security Agency’s to give up the “brinkmanship” in the Senate and passed by the vast surveillance dragnet, it said. that threatens the economy House only funds government until The United States has never and squandered the trust of the January 15 and extends US bor- publicly confirmed that it took out American people. rowing authority until February 7. Workers crowd food trucks in Washington after the government shutdown ended yesterday. Ghul. But documents passed to He spoke less than 11 hours It remains unclear if Republicans the Post by Snowden made clear after signing legislation that will seek to use the levers of shut- he was killed by the US govern- ended a 16-day government down and default again. ment last year. shutdown and a showdown over The deal calls for negotiators Employees eagerly return to work Ghul was captured in 2004 and raising his government’s borrow- from the Democratic-led Senate under questioning helped reveal ing authority. The bill brought a and Republican-led House to WASHINGTON: Cups of coffee from his job at the Environmental said. “This is an extremely busy Osama bin Laden’s courier net- temporary end to a stand-off that craft a framework for a long-term in hand, Washington bureau- Protection Agency, joked he had month for us and so being behind work — information that eventually had threatened to pitch the US government budget by December crats went back to work yester- been in training for early retire- by more than two weeks is going led to the US commando raid that economy into a historic default. 13, a herculean task given the day to a glad-handing welcome ment. “It was very unproductive,” to be very challenging.” killed the Al Qaeda mastermind. Obama urged Congress, specifi- vast differences between the two from Vice President Joe Biden he said. “I kept thinking I have Outside the Museum of Ghul spent two years at a cally Republicans in the House chambers’ budget plans. as tourists eagerly thronged the tomorrow, why do it today, and American History, Walter Sanders secret CIA prison and in 2006, of Representatives, to now come In a sign of their intent to con- US capital’s reopened museums. tomorrow never really came.” and his wife were overjoyed. the United States transferred him together to pass stalled legislation duct good faith haggling, Senate “It was hard not knowing when On hand to greet the return- “We are blessed. It’s open,” said back to his native Pakistan, where on agriculture and on reforming Budget chair Patty Murray and I was going back to work,” said ing EPA employees was Biden, all Sanders, who had traveled from he was released and returned to America’s immigration system. House Budget chief Paul Ryan a young woman in the uniform smiles as he handed out muffins. North Carolina to visit Washington Al Qaeda. To help the CIA locate “These last few weeks have inflicted broke bread yesterday and of the National Park Service, the “Welcome back, everybody,” many museums and monuments. Ghul and other terror suspects, completely unnecessary damage on pledged to seek “common ground” agency that manages parks and he said. “And I hope everybody Janet Woodward, of Perth, the NSA placed “a surveillance our economy,” Obama said. in reducing the deficit and reining historic monuments. walks away with a lesson, that Australia, said she was looking blanket over dozens of square “Probably nothing has done in excess spending. “Our job over “We are here to serve the this is unnecessary, and I hope forward to “a museum feast” miles of northwest Pakistan” to more damage to America’s cred- the next eight weeks is to find American public and all the visi- we can regain the trust of the during her remaining three days uncover communications and the ibility in the world, our standing out what we can agree on, and tors that come to the parks. It was American people.” in Washington. Some tourists whereabouts of Al Qaeda mili- with other countries, than the we have agreed that we are going hard not to be able to do that.” Jean, a woman in her thir- strolled through the World War tants, the newspaper said. spectacle that we’ve seen these to look at everything in front of Around her, the US capital ties arriving at the Commerce II Memorial. The email from Ghul’s wife past several weeks,” he added. us,” Murray told reporters. resumed its work-a-day rhythms, Department, was a little wistful Dave Jessop came from Halifax, “about her current living condi- “It’s encouraged our enemies, it’s Despite the ferocity of the the morning after an agonising, now that the shutdown was over. Canada, to see it and wound up tions” included enough details to emboldened our competitors and shutdown drama, sparked by last minute deal was reached to “I actually enjoyed spending more cooling his heels for a few days. confirm the coordinates of their depressed our friends who look to Republicans who wanted to end a 16-day shutdown of the time with my family,” she said. “ “It But he was confident the shut- home, according to a document us for steady leadership.” defund or delay Obama’s signa- federal government. Office work- was nice to be home with my girls down wouldn’t last. “They can’t leaked by Snowden. “This infor- The president’s message was ture health care law — the par- ers in coats and ties or skirts and when they got home from school, default on the debt,” he said. mation enabled a capture/kill a warning to conservative “Tea ties did not engage on one of the heels poured out of the Metro and to send them off to school with- As he entered the EPA, Harris operation against an individual Party” Republicans to stop using most fundamental differences rushed through the security gates out being rushed, ... time for more had this message for the lawmak- believed to be Hassan Ghul on their most potent weapons — between them. at government offices. exercise, lunches with friends.” ers: “Hopefully, you won’t repeat October 1,” said the document threatening to halt US debt AFP Jeff Harris, who was furloughed Now comes the hard part, she this in three months.” AFP quoted by the Post. AFP

Australia bushfire Tymoshenko Merkel, SPD agree to should be free in a month: Kin seek grand coalition BERLIN: German Chancellor said conservative negotiator KIEV: The daughter of Angela Merkel’s conserva- Alexander Dobrindt, the general Ukraine’s jailed opposition tives and her defeated election secretary of Merkel’s Bavarian leader Yulia Tymoshenko sees rivals the centre-left Social allies the Christian Social Union. two years of pain and “psycho- Democrats agreed yesterday to Sigmar Gabriel, the leader of logical torture” ending for her launch formal talks to build a the Social Democrats (SPD), sig- mother with her departure to “grand coalition” government. nalled that the traditional party Germany for medical treatment Such a left-right alliance rul- of working class Germany would by November 19 under a deal ing Europe’s biggest economy drive a hard bargain in helping brokered by European envoys. would have a strong parliamen- Merkel back into power, especially The release of Tymoshenko, tary majority and be able to drive on its core demand for a mini- jailed for seven years in 2011 after through policy against the oppo- mum wage. what the West said was a politi- sition of the two smaller parties, Emerging from a meeting, he cal trial, is expected to clear the the ecologist Greens and the far- said Merkel’s Christian Democratic way for the ex-Soviet republic to left Linke. Union (CDU) “knows that a gen- sign landmark agreements with The deal to embark on thorny eral minimum wage of ¤8.50 ($11.5) the European Union at the end negotiations on policy and hag- is a central demand without which of November. gling over ministerial posts, likely a grand coalition with the SPD Yevgenia, Tymoshenko’s from next Wednesday, came wouldn’t make any sense”. 33-year-old English-educated almost a month after Merkel’s He said the seven-member SPD A bushfire jumps the Bells Line Road north of Lithgow, Australia, yesterday. A pink haze hung over Sydney daughter, said that her mother party triumphed in September 22 delegation had agreed unani- as the fire blazed on all three flanks of Australia’s biggest city. was ready to compromise now so elections but missed out on a clear mously that talks should go ahead as not to jeopardise the signing in majority to form her third-term and would take this proposal to a the Lithuanian capital Vilnius on government. party meeting on Sunday, while November 28. “We have noted commonalities, the conservatives were to hold a “Her decision was mainly based we have noted differences and we party committee telephone con- on the fact that Ukraine is liv- have seen there is mutual trust,” ference today. AFP UK’s Charles warns of pensions misery ing through this historical time when Ukraine should decide, LONDON: Britain’s Prince climate change “unprecedented many decades, surely the current and must take the step of join- Charles, the heir to the throne, levels of financial indebtedness” focus on ‘quarterly capitalism’ is ing the European family. It was to has urged the pensions industry and a rising population that the becoming increasingly unfit for make sure that the signing is not to bolster itself against looming world is already struggling to purpose?” he asked. blocked or stalled because of her US Navy rescues 128 Somali global turbulence to avoid gen- feed. “Your sector plays a very sig- decision to stay,” she said. erations being consigned to a “You have a need — and argu- nificant role indeed in how our “It was very hard for her to miserable future. ably a duty — to ensure that these economic system works, both now make this decision (to leave) but migrants in rough seas Charles told investors they emerging environmental, social and in the future. So it really does she has now made the decision had a responsibility to make sure and economic risks are identified fall to you, I am afraid, to help and now we are waiting for the ROME: A US warship has rescued 128 migrants from an inflat- their business was sustainable and managed.” shape a system designed for the decision from the president,” able raft that was threatening to capsize in rough seas in the amid high levels of debt, a rap- The NAPF, which represents 21st and not the 19th century. Yevgenia said. Mediterranean after a request from Malta, officials said yesterday. idly growing world population a variety of pension schemes, say “Make that innovative and The likely option is for The USS San Antonio, which is equipped with an amphibious and climate change. their members have combined imaginary leap that the world Tymoshenko to be freed to go transport dock that can help in rescue operations, was scrambled on The prince’s remarks came assets of nearly £900bn ($1.45 tril- so badly needs, otherwise your to Germany for treatment at Wednesday after a Maltese military aircraft spotted the dinghy. in a speech recorded in July lion). Charles, who turns 65 next grandchildren, and mine for that Berlin’s Charite clinic, she said. “We successfully transferred 128 men between the ages of 20 and and screened at the National month, is used to voicing his views matter, will be consigned to an Her departure to Germany, 30 from an inflatable raft on the San Antonio,” a US Navy official in Association of Pension Funds’ on subjects like architecture, faith, exceptionally miserable future.” whenever it comes, will mark the Italy said. “The raft was being rocked by winds and seas and we had annual conference in Manchester, urban deprivation, farming and the The state pension age is now 68. end of a battle of wills between expected that overnight the seas would increase. If they were to be northwest England, on Wednesday. environment, and his speech to the Someone retiring in Britain President Viktor Yanukovich left out to sea they would probably be in the water right now,” he said. “We live in increasingly uncer- NAPF was a rare foray into the at 65 is forecast to live until 84, and Tymoshenko, his arch rival “We provided food, water, medical attention and temporary shelter.” tain times,” Charles said. “We are pensions industry. The Times newspaper reported, whom he only narrowly defeated The migrants, who said they were from Somalia, were transferred facing what could be described “With an ageing population, while a quarter of all children are in a run-off for the presidency in onto two patrol boats and were being taken to Malta. It said they were as a perfect storm,” citing pol- and pension fund liabilities that expected to live beyond 100. February 2010. rescued around 75 nautical miles southwest of Malta. lution, dwindling resources, are therefore stretching out for AFP REUTERS AFP FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA

Ex-minister Fresh blasts held over graft JAKARTA: Indonesia’s anti- corruption agency arrested a former sports and youth rattle Yangon, minister yesterday in a multi- million-dollar graft case, one of several to rock the presi- dent’s party ahead of polls next year. Andi Mallarangeng stepped down from his post in one killed December after being named a suspect by the Corruption Eradication Commission US slams explosions as terror acts (KPK) in the construction of a sports centre. The KPK YANGON: Three bombs American woman. accused Mallarangeng of abus- exploded in eastern Myanmar The United States condemned ing his authority in handling leaving one person dead, police the attacks, urging the authori- the project, worth more than said yesterday, the latest in a ties to “proceed with full respect 1trn rupiah ($88m), accord- series of explosions that the for due process under the rule of ing to the agency. In a bright United States denounced as law”. orange vest, Mallarangeng “acts of terror”. “Acts of violence like those Union workers from Serikat Pekerja Seluruh Indonesia walk during a protest in the business district in Jakarta spoke to reporters outside Myanmar state media also perpetrated and attempted over yesterday. the KPK’s headquarters after branded the bombings a “terror- the past week have no place in more than six hours of ques- ist act” and said they appeared to civilised society, and we are con- tioning, confirming he had be targeted at tourist spots as the fident in the people of this coun- been officially detained. country gears up for an influx of try to confront such acts of terror foreign visitors. with strength, determination Thousands protest for wage hike New US envoy The three bombs exploded and a continued commitment to overnight Wednesday-yesterday national peace, development, and JAKARTA: Thousands of on President Susilo Bambang Jakarta is on average 1.9m rupiah for Japan in Namkham in restive north- reconciliation,” the US embassy in Indonesian workers took to the Yudhoyono to improve the lot of ($172) a month. eastern Shan state near the Yangon said in a statement. streets of the capital yesterday, low income workers ahead of next “For sure, some investors are WASHINGTON: The US Chinese border, police said. Myanmar state media said the demanding the government year’s parliamentary and presi- worried that the government Senate late on Wednesday A municipal worker was killed, attacks came at a “critical junc- raise wages and adding to fears dential elections. will give in like they did last approved Caroline Kennedy, a police official said. ture” for the nation, with the that labour costs in Southeast His government has said it year,” Sofjan Wanandi, head of the sole surviving child The region has been shaken in government seeking a nation- Asia’s biggest economy are would announce an inflation- the Employers’ Association of of slain president John F recent years by fighting between wide ceasefire deal with all ethnic becoming non-competitive. linked basket to set minimum Indonesia said. Kennedy and an early sup- the military and ethnic minority armed groups. About 7,000 members of the wages but manufacturers worry A presidential spokesman porter of President Barack rebels. No group has claimed respon- country’s largest labour unions that rising costs are already declined to comment when asked Obama, to be ambassador Western governments have sibility for the string of blasts, marched through the centre of threatening to make Indonesian how the government intended to to Japan. On a hectic day in warned travellers to exercise which bore some similarity to Jakarta to the presidential pal- products less competitive. respond to the latest demands. which the US Congress voted extreme caution in Myanmar explosions seen under the former ace to press their case for a 50 The government-set minimum Union leaders said they planned to end a government shut- after the series of minor bomb junta, which usually blamed percent increase in the mini- wage rose 44 percent last year in more protests in the next few down, the Senate gave the blasts, including one at the lux- armed exile groups or ethnic mum wages and improved social greater Jakarta, where the bulk of weeks, including a national strike final nod to Kennedy and ury Traders Hotel in Yangon rebels. welfare. the country’s factories are based. in late October. 22 other nominees unani- late on Monday that injured an AFP The demands add to pressure The minimum wage in greater REUTERS mously without roll call votes. Kennedy, who was days away from her sixth birthday when her father was assassinated 50 years ago next month, will Court rules out step into the most public role Outrage over $2.5bn projects to mark Mao’s birth of her adult life after largely shying away from the family retrial of death profession of politics. BEIJING: More than $2.5bn schemes linked to the occasion, this week. But Chinese Internet economy is not doing well and a row man over is being poured into the home- the Changsha Evening News said, users reacted to the 15.5 billion lot of people have been laid off China mayor town of Communist China’s including renovating a tour- yuan sum, which far exceeds a by state-owned enterprises. And 1961 killings founding father Mao Zedong ist centre and preserving Mao’s 1.95 billion figure reported earlier, they spent so lavishly! I am so faces probe for projects marking the 120th former residence. with indignation on the country’s ‘proud’ of them. Who are those TOKYO: A Japanese man who anniversary of his birth, local The works also include broader popular micro-blogging platforms. Xiangtan officials really serving?” SHANGHAI: Chinese poisoned his wife, lover and media reported, prompting out- infrastructure projects, such as “How much money does it cost The comments underscore authorities are investigat- three other women with pes- rage yesterday. high-speed rail stations and high- to deal with pollution?” wrote one the thorny issue of such lavish ing the mayor of Nanjing for ticide-laced drink has lost his Mao, who led the Communist ways, to impress the expected poster on Sina Weibo. “How much outlays at a time when many suspected “law violations”, final bid for a retrial after over Party to victory in China’s civil influx of visitors. does it cost to provide medical ordinary Chinese are lashing the government said yester- 40 years on death row, a court war, was born in Shaoshan, in Local authorities in Xiangtan insurance? How much to offer out at officials over corruption, day, the latest official to be spokeswoman said yesterday. the central province of Hunan, have hailed the commemoration students from poor districts free and the government itself has targeted by a crackdown on The supreme court decision on on December 26, 1893. by saying its “importance over- lunch? I can’t believe they’re launched an austerity campaign, corruption. The Communist Wednesday means that Masaru Xiangtan city, which includes rides any other at the moment”, spending this much money on a banning banquets and other Party agency which investi- Okunishi, 87, has exhausted all Shaoshan, is spending 15.5 bil- the Global Times, which is close to dead man, a controversial dead over-indulgences. gates corruption said Ji Jianye avenues of appeal and will likely lion yuan ($2.54 billion) on 16 the ruling party, reported earlier man.” Another said: “Xiangtan’s AFP was suspected of serious vio- die in prison — either by old age lations of party discipline or execution. The octogenarian, and the law, according to a who spent decades in solitary con- Rescue operations brief statement, which gave finement and is now hospitalised, no further details. Ji, 56, has has long protested his innocence, been Mayor of Nanjing, an saying his confession in the 1961 Abe makes another eastern city with a population killings was coerced by police. of around eight million, since Okunishi was charged in the January 2010, according to deaths of five women who con- his official biography. A state- sumed the drink laced with pesti- offering to war shrine backed newspaper, the 21st cides at a community party in the Century Business Herald, said remote mountain village of Nabari the investigation was looking in central Japan. The farmer ini- TOKYO: Japanese Prime was made before yesterday, but into economic corruption and tially told police he added lethal Minister Shinzo Abe has made gave no details. A deputy govern- construction projects. chemicals to the drink to murder his third ritual offering to the ment spokesman said Abe made both his wife and mistress so he controversial Yasukuni Shrine the offering in his private capacity Search on for could end a complicated love tri- for war dead, but again he did and that the government was in angle. A dozen others fell ill but not visit it to avoid angering no position to comment. crash victims survived. Asian victims of Japan’s war- “I believe it’s natural to express Okunishi withdrew the con- time aggression. homage to those who fought and PAKSE, LAOS: Rescuers fession and was acquitted in a Visits by Japanese leaders to sacrificed their precious lives for searched for bodies yesterday 1964 trial, with the court citing the shrine in Tokyo have out- the sake of their country, and to after a Lao Airlines plane a lack of evidence. The decision raged China and South Korea, pray for the repose of their souls,” believed to be carrying 49 was overturned by a higher court which suffered under Japanese Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary people, around half of them which sentenced him to death in occupation before and during the Katsunobu Kato said. foreigners, plunged into the 1969. In the latest appeal, the Second World War because war- Chinese Foreign Ministry Mekong River during stormy seventh bid to win a re-trial, time leaders convicted as war spokeswoman Hua Chunying, weather. Seven French citi- Okunishi’s defence argued that criminals by an Allied tribunal speaking at a regular briefing in zens, six Australians and pesticide used was not the kind are honoured there along with Beijing, admonished Abe not to five Thais were among those found in the tainted drink. The Japan’s war dead. visit the shrine. thought to have been killed court ruled that the evidence was Abe made the offering in the “We again ask Japan to seri- when the turboprop ATR-72 not enough to overturn previous name of the prime minister to ously contemplate its history came down on Wednesday rulings, but some rights groups mark the shrine’s autumn festival, of aggression, and to sincerely near Pakse airport in have called for a re-trial over the which runs until Sunday, a shrine respect the feelings of China and Champasak province. Debris possibility that his confession was official said. other victimised countries,” Hua was seen floating in the river coerced. AFP The official said the offering said. REUTERS at the scene of the disaster, Rescue workers search for victims at a site damaged by a landslide caused while suitcases were wedged by Typhoon Wipha on Izu Oshima island, south of Tokyo, yesterday. in mud on the riverbank. Khmer Rouge UK lawmakers attack government ‘timidity’ over Sri Lanka trial closes PHNOM PENH: LONDON: Britain’s decision parliament’s Foreign Affairs Heads of Government Meeting CHOGM will see the situation should or should not have boy- Prosecutors at Cambodia’s to set aside worries about Sri Committee said the govern- (CHOGM). Britain’s David on the ground in Sri Lanka and cotted the meeting is now coun- war crimes court yester- Lanka’s human rights record ment had opposed Sri Lankan Cameron will go and has prom- deliver a clear message that Sri ter-productive, it added. Leaders day accused two ex-Khmer and back its selection as host attempts to host the meeting in ised to raise the issue of human Lanka needs to make concrete of Commonwealth states — a Rouge leaders of playing a of a Commonwealth leaders’ 2011 on human rights grounds, rights. The British Foreign Office progress on human rights.” group of 53 countries, nearly all “critical role” in a regime meeting showed a lack of prin- only to support its 2013 bid with- rejected the label of “timid and The lawmakers, whose cross- former British colonies — meet that left millions dead in the ciple, a panel of lawmakers said out seeing evidence of change. inconsistent”, saying it shared party committee has influence every two years. late 1970s. Delivering closing yesterday. “That approach now appears the lawmakers’ wish to see sub- but no binding powers, said there The panel said the British gov- statements the prosecution The Sri Lankan government timid,” it said. “The UK could and stantial and sustainable improve- was scant evidence of progress on ernment was aware of torture in alleged “Brother Number has faced condemnation of its should have taken a more prin- ments in human rights in Sri rights in Sri Lanka since the end Sri Lanka and attacks on law- Two” Nuon Chea, 87, and ex- rights record, in particular for cipled stand... in the light of the Lanka. of the war. The British govern- yers, reporters and campaigners. head of state Khieu Samphan, its final campaign against separa- continuing serious human rights “The CHOGM meeting will ment “should have taken a more The Sri Lankan govern- 82, helped orchestrate one of tist Tamil Tigers, an offensive the abuses in Sri Lanka.” be a spotlight on Sri Lanka and robust stand” with its former col- ment says its rights record has the worst horrors of the 20th United Nations said killed tens Canadian Prime Minister highlight either progress or its ony before the November summit improved since the war, accus- century. of thousands of civilians in 2009. Stephen Harper has said he will absence,” it added. in the capital Colombo, the panel ing Western states of waging a AGENCIES In a critical report, the British not attend the Commonwealth “The British delegation to said. Debating whether Cameron vendetta. 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LOBOC: The Philippines Manila. There were 11 deaths estimates restoring Bohol’s dam- started to clear roads blocked on the nearby Cebu islands and aged port of Tagbilaran City by debris yesterday as it reck- another on Siguijor Island. would cost about P500m. oned up the cost of this week’s The number of injured reached After providing food and shel- powerful earthquake, with the 374, with at least 22 people miss- ter to victims, restoration of death toll rising to 161. ing. The government has declared Bohol’s centuries-old churches, Thousands of residents of Bohol a state of calamity in Cebu and usually thronged by tourists, island, which took the brunt of Bohol, where more than 3.4 mil- would top the government’s Tuesday’s 7.2 magnitude quake, lion people were hit by the quake. agenda, Chatto said. remained living outdoors, for fear Schools remain closed. Loboc, whose residents depend of aftershocks bringing down Damage to infrastructure, on tourism for livelihoods, will damaged homes. Authorities have mostly roads and bridges, was need weeks to recover before it recorded more than 1,200 after- initially estimated at P179.15m can resume such tourist draws shocks including one of magni- ($4.2m). The quake caused big as river cruises and sightings of tude 5.5. landslides and wrecked more the world’s smallest primate, the Nearly 17,000 people have yet to than 130 schools and 2,000 houses, tarsier, a tourism official said. return home in the town of Loboc, completely destroying some, Meanwhile surgeons were where the island’s second oldest besides damaging 34 bridges and planning to save lives on open- church, the Church of St Peter, nine main roads. air operating tables in a hospital was pulverised in the quake. Engineers say at least three carpark as rescuers struggled to “All left their homes because bridges in Bohol are structurally help isolated survivors. of the strong aftershocks,” said unsound and need to be replaced. Patients waited to be operated Mayor Helen Alaba, adding she “To make these roads pass- on in the parking lot of a provin- had sent out teams of engineers able at the soonest, they will cial hospital, their beds sheltered to check if homes were safe. need about P700m,” said Bohol under makeshift tents because The national disaster agency Governor Edgardo Chatto. “We’re the main building was filled with said at least 146 of the dead were not talking of replacements yet.” injured survivors. A destroyed road in Sagbayan, Bohol province, in central Philippines after the earthquake hit the island on Tuesday. on Bohol, 630km south of capital The transport department AGENCIES

Passengers Ex-Marcos aide on trial for selling $32m Monet work escape bus fire MANILA: A passen- NEW YORK: A debt-ridden Bautista is accused of schem- bottom, this case is really quite Hoffinger said in her opening. With a massive collection of ger bus travelling on the onetime aide to Imelda Marcos ing to sell the artwork — part of simple — it’s about greed and After ruling the Philippines shoes, Imelda Marcos became south-bound lane of EDSA wrongly sold a hidden treas- the French Impressionist’s famed fraud,” Manhattan Assistant with an iron fist for two decades, a symbol of excess. But she has caught fire yesterday morn- ure: A $32m Monet painting “Water Lilies” series — and trying District Attorney Garrett Lynch Ferdinand Marcos was forced by a emerged relatively unscathed from ing as it approached Cubao, the former Philippine first lady to peddle other valuable paintings told jurors in an opening statement. “people power” revolt into exile in hundreds of legal cases against the Metropolitan Manila had acquired and her country that prosecutors say she had no The defence said Bautista Hawaii. He died three years later. her and her late husband, and she Development Authority wants back, prosecutors said right to sell. The artwork van- believed that Imelda Marcos right- Philippine officials say Marcos is now a congresswoman in the (MMDA) said. Wednesday as the ex-assistant’s ished amid Ferdinand Marcos’ fully owned the paintings and that and his associates looted the coun- Philippines. She’s not expected to According to the MMDA’s conspiracy trial opened. 1986 ouster, ended up in Bautista’s Bautista had authority to sell them try’s treasury to amass between testify at Bautista’s trial. Metrobase, the Commuter In a New York courtroom, hands and is part of a multibil- for her. Bautista is just an inter- $5bn and $10bn. The nation’s Bautista was a foreign service bus (TXl-836) was traversing Vilma Bautista is facing charges lion-dollar roster of property the mediary who got caught up in a Presidential Commission on Good officer assigned to the Philippine EDSA at about 9:40am when that invoke the tangled history Philippines claims the Marcoses decades-long dispute between a Government has seized a number Mission to the United Nations it caught fire. of Philippine officials’ efforts acquired with the nation’s cash, nation and its former leader, attor- of companies, bank accounts and and later served as Imelda Immediately, the driver, to reclaim items from Marcos prosecutors said. ney Susan Hoffinger said. “That other assets suspected of being Marcos’ New York-based personal identified as Florentino Corpuz, and her late husband, former But for all the art-world intri- battle doesn’t belong here” in a part of that wealth. The Marcoses secretary. guided his 21 passengers out of President Ferdinand Marcos. cacies and Philippine politics, “at Manhattan criminal courtroom, denied their wealth was ill-gotten. THE PHILIPPINE STAR the bus to safety. No was hurt in the fire, the MMDA said. The burning bus caused traf- fic to build up along EDSA as firefighters and rescuers from Army clears two war-torn the MMDA rushed to the Risk assessment maps distributed scene. villages in Zamboanga MANILA: Risk assessment governments with science-based do not have to lead to disasters Rebels cut maps were turned over yester- data for a better understanding of especially if we are able to care- ZAMBOANGA CITY: Security forces have cleared two of the four day to local governments in the existing risks in their area. fully assess the risk of an area and rubber trees barangays that were placed under siege by Moro National Liberation Greater Metro Manila area to They can also be used to craft properly plan for the long-term. Front (MNLF) rebels after more than two weeks of clearing opera- help them craft effective disas- disaster risk reduction and man- But we can only do that if we have MANILA: Communist tions, Mayor Ma Isabelle Climaco-Salazar said here yesterday. ter response policies. agement policies and land use the data,” he added. rebels in Surigao del Sur Police Director Carmelo Valmoria, Task Force Suyod chief, reported A total of 24 local government plans, enhance contingency meas- Tweddell said Australia is recently destroyed newly- that barangays Rio Hondo and Zone IV were cleared of unexploded units each received an average of ures, identify relocation areas pleased to have worked with the planted rubber trees due to ordnances, booby traps, firearms and MNLF stragglers who escaped 87 maps from member agencies and communicate hazards to the Philippine government in produc- the refusal of farmers to yield the government offensive. of the National Disaster Risk public. ing the maps. to the insurgents’ extortion The two villages along with the barangays of Sta Barbara and Sta. Reduction and Management The maps illustrate areas that Philippine Institute of demands, the military said Catalina were heavily damaged after more than 20 days of clashes Council (NDRRMC) and the are vulnerable to disasters like Volcanology and Seismology yesterday. between government troops and MNLF fighters loyal to Nur Misuari. Australian government. earthquakes, severe wind, land- (Phivolcs) chief Renato Solidum Cpt Alberto Caber, spokes- At least 2,000 public and private buildings were burned or damaged, Greater Metro Manila Area slides and floods. They also take Jr said a series of training would man of the Armed Forces including the local offices of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the Hall is composed of areas in Metro into account key details like the be conducted to enable local offi- Eastern Mindanao Command, of Justice, the Bangko Sentral and Land Bank of the Philippines. Manila as well as Bulacan, Cavite, population and existing infra- cials to use the maps. He said said about 15 rebels uprooted More than 10,000 houses made of concrete and light materials were Laguna and Rizal. structure to allow authorities to preparation is crucial in mitigat- around 7,000 seedlings owned also razed to the ground. Task Force Suyud members have so far recov- The turnover ceremony was evaluate the potential risks to life ing the impact of natural hazards. by the Bacolod Upland Farmers ered 396 unexploded ordnance, 19 firearms and 53 bodies and skeletal held two days after the killer and property. For his part, NDRRMC Association last Monday. remains. More than 400 followers of Misuari stormed Zamboanga City earthquake in Visayas that left “The increasing scale and fre- Executive Director Eduardo del The incident reportedly last Sept 9 to seize the city hall and raise the flag of an “independent more than 150 persons dead and quency of natural disasters are Rosario said it is important for transpired at a rubber nursery Bangsamoro Republik.” several centuries-old churches costing the country million every local governments to be aware in Sitio Cagburao, Barangay Some 190 MNLF rebels were killed after more than three weeks of damaged. year,” Australian Ambassador to of the risks in their respective Bacolod in Cagwait town. fighting, while 292 other suspects were either captured or have sur- The multi-hazard maps the Philippines Bill Tweddell said. communities. “The farmers and residents rendered. THE PHILIPPINE STAR are expected to provide local “Natural hazards, however, THE PHILIPPINE STAR were mad at the attack of their source of living and requested responding troops to assist them in filing appropriate charges against the NPA (New People’s Army),” Caber said in Aquino defends Korea trip a statement. Overloaded amid quake devastation trucks ban plea MANILA: The government has allocated P12m ($273,000) for the two-day state visit of President Benigno Aquino III to South Korea. TUBA: A ban on overloaded An article posted on the Presidential Communications Operations trucks is being sought along Office (PCOO) website said the budget covers transportation, accom- the historic Kennon Road, modation, food and equipment requirements for the president and his here, amidst residents’ com- 60-member official delegation. plaints over authorities’ Aquino left this morning for Seoul via a chartered flight and was alleged inaction to imminent accompanied by Senate President Franklin Drilon and several mem- danger. Camp 1 residents bers of his Cabinet, including Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del here are seeking the ban of Rosario, Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima and Defence Secretary overloaded trucks passing Voltaire Gazmin. through Kennon Road and The president pushed through with his trip while rescue efforts are asking the Cordillera are still ongoing in Cebu and Bohol, which was hit by a 7.2-magnitude police and the Department of earthquake that killed over 160 people. Public Works and Highways Aquino justified his trip amid the earthquake devastation, saying he to stand firm and implement already went to Bohol and Cebu on Wednesday. He added that members the anti-overloading law. of his Cabinet were also left in both provinces. In a letter complaint to The President’s trip to Seoul is on the invitation of Republic of Korea DPWH - Cordillera director President Park Geun-hye. Edilberto Carabaccan, Sitio Aquino is expected to tackle several issues with Park, including those Dungon residents of Camp 1 related to politics, defence, labour, trade and development assistance. want to implement the load Philippine President Benigno Aquino (right) and his South Korean counterpart Park Geun-hye greet children waving He is also expected to meet members of the Korean business com- limit of 10 tons for aggregate the two countries’ national flags during a welcoming ceremony at the presidential house in Seoul yesterday. mittee to boost business relations and tourism. carrying trucks. AGENCIES THE PHILIPPINE STAR FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2013 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Troops must Market fire be under US purview: Kerry Notion of immunity for remaining soldiers in Afghanistan rejected WASHINGTON: US Secretary be any forces there of any kind.” of State John Kerry insisted But he stressed the deal yesterday that any American “doesn’t mean that anybody’s troops left in Afghanistan immune.” after international combat “We recently tried a soldier forces withdraw in 2014 will who murdered a number of peo- remain under Washington’s ple in Afghanistan. He was tried jurisdiction. and found guilty.” Fresh from negotiating a bilat- Army Sergeant Robert Bales, eral security deal with Afghan who was convicted of murder- President Hamid Karzai last ing 16 Afghan villagers in a hor- week, Kerry however again rific rampage in March 2012, was rejected the notion that such a sentenced to life imprisonment in move would give US soldiers legal August with no parole by a six- immunity from prosecution if member US military panel at they committed any crimes. Joint Base Lewis-McChord, in In two days of talks in Kabul, Washington state. the two men reached a deal Kerry told NPR he believed that now has to be approved by the Afghan people and parlia- Afghanistan’s council of public ment would back the deal, saying: Firefighters try to put out a blaze in a fruit market in Karachi, Pakistan, on Wednesday. More than 200 shops were gutted and stocks worth hundreds of and tribal leaders known as a “I believe they understand that thousands of rupees destroyed. “loya jirga.” this agreement is in the inter- “Everything that will be neces- ests of Afghanistan, because it’s sary to a successful agreement is an agreement that provides for in the agreement. We succeeded international support, not just the in defining exactly what the limits United States.” India accused of killing Pakistan soldier would be for American partici- Washington wants the secu- pation in the future,” Kerry told rity deal signed within weeks to ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Britain in 1947. The violence has the eastern city of Sialkot. The attacks in Mumbai that killed National Public Radio. enable the Nato military coalition accused India of killing a para- been focused on Muslim-majority incident comes just weeks after 166 people. The Afghans still have to agree, to plan its withdrawal of 87,000 military soldier in “unprovoked Kashmir, the divided Himalayan the prime ministers of the two Fresh violence erupted on the however, whether any American combat troops from Afghanistan firing” across the border in territory claimed in full by both countries pledged to restore calm LoC after five Indian soldiers troops accused of crimes would by December 2014. eastern Punjab province yester- India and Pakistan, which has along the Line of Control (LoC), were killed in a raid in August. be tried by US or Afghan courts. A similar US security agree- day in the latest frontier flare- witnessed some of the worst the heavily militarised de facto Delhi blamed that ambush on “Needless to say, we are ada- ment with Iraq in 2011 collapsed up between the nuclear-armed clashes between the two sides in border in Kashmir, at a meeting the Pakistan army, but Islamabad mant it has to be the United over the issue of troop immunity. neighbours. a decade. in New York. denied the claims and has repeat- States of America. That’s the way The US pulled its troops out of A spate of cross-border skir- A Pakistani military official A deadly flare-up along the edly called for restraint and dia- it is everywhere else in the world,” the country, which is currently mishes this year have raised said a member of the paramili- LoC in January stalled peace logue. Pakistani border posts near Kerry said. suffering its worst sectarian vio- tensions between India and tary Rangers was killed “due talks which had only just Sialkot came under Indian fire in “And they have a choice: Either lence since 2008. Pakistan, who have fought three to unprovoked firing by Indian resumed following a three-year August, but no casualties were that’s the way it is or there won’t AFP wars since independence from Border Security forces” near hiatus sparked by the 2008 reported. AFP

Islamabad needs US audit finds waste in spare parts for Afghan army $76.19bn to WASHINGTON: A US-led the Afghans have failed to keep the special inspector general’s or usage data,” it added. The the ANA can conduct an offi- effort to supply spare parts to an up-to-date tally on what parts office on the US aid effort to report included photos of boxes cial inventory and transfer,” the pay off debts: IMF the Afghan army is plagued are in stock, what parts have been Afghanistan, including a scath- of vehicle spare parts that have report said. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan by waste and potential fraud ordered and when those parts are ing account of a $34m facility not been registered in the army’s The Nato training mission in requires Rs8trn ($76.19bn), or because of Kabul’s shoddy scheduled to arrive, the report built for the US Marine Corps inventory, piled up at warehouses Afghanistan said it had intro- 30 percent, of its per annum record-keeping, according to a said. that will probably never be used. in Afghanistan. duced measures to better track GDP in order to pay off its report issued on Wednesday. The audit found no documen- The US has approved more The security transition com- spare parts and to ensure Afghan maturing debt, estimates the Much of the $370m spent tation confirming that spare than $95bn in aid to Afghanistan mand, which is run by the Nato- army vehicles are ready as coali- IMF’s Fiscal Monitor Report. by the United States and its parts were delivered to the since the Taliban regime was led coalition in Afghanistan, had tion combat forces withdraw over This place Pakistan firmly at allies on spare parts for Afghan Afghan army from 2010 to 2012, ousted in a US-led invasion in requested the audit after find- the next year. “As part of this the top of the list of indebted National Army (ANA) vehicles it said. As a result, the transi- 2001. The inspector general’s ing that it could not account for transition process, we are facili- emerging countries. between 2004 to 2012 “cannot be tion command’s “current process team visited four spare part $230m worth of spare parts. tating a culture change within the The size of Pakistan’s economy accounted for,” said a report from for managing vehicle spare parts depots across the country and The command accepted the ANA, helping to assure compli- stands at Rs26trn, while Rs8trn the Special Inspector General for purchases leaves US-purchased found that the Afghan army “did audit’s findings and now plans to ance with inventory management is required for the repayment, Afghanistan Reconstruction. equipment and funds vulnerable not keep fully accurate records redirect all spare parts to a US processes that will help ensure instead of the rolling over, of The US-led Combined Security to waste, fraud, and abuse,” the at any of the four locations,” the “transfer point” before handing ANA mission success,” Major matured debts in the current Transition Command relies on report said. report said. “Moreover, the ANA them over to Afghan forces. General Dean Milner, deputy fiscal 2013-14, according to the the Afghan army to maintain The audit follows a series of continues to place orders for vehi- It also is “attempting to repos- commanding general of the train- IMF’s assessment. Among 27 accurate inventory records but sharply critical reports from cle spare parts without demand sess vehicle spare parts until ing mission, said. AFP countries Pakistan is on top where maturing of debt will require 29.9 percent of GDP in fiscal 2013-14 against 25 percent of GDP in last financial 2012-13. The report by the IMF said Overseas remittances shore up foreign exchange reserves gross financing needs in advanced economies, though still large, have KARACHI: Remittances sent by over- Foreign reserves held by the SBP stood Remittances in September were higher falling sharply despite first tranche of stabilised at about 22 per cent seas Pakistanis rose to $3.9bn in the first at $3,953.6m while net foreign reserves by $43m compared to August, but these IMF and loans from commercial banks. of GDP. They are set to rise in quarter. The amount is equal to foreign held by banks other than SBP stood at were 13pc more than the remittances However, commercial banks have created emerging market economies in exchange reserves held by the State $5,174.0m. received during the same month last year. a history by holding dollars more than the 2013-14 relative to previous pro- Bank of Pakistan as reported last week. Though in absolute terms, export proceeds The monthly average also rose to $1.309bn State Bank. Commercial banks succeeded jections, mainly driven by higher The grim situation of foreign exchange are higher than remittances, trade imbal- while it was $1.199bn during the first to maintain their gradual increase in the levels of maturing debt. They are reserves has made remittance inflows ances consume proceeds from this source. quarter of last year. The State Bank last reserves which rose to $5.174bn, 31pc higher particularly large (exceeding 20 critical for shoring up foreign exchange The State Bank reported on Friday that week issued weekly position of the foreign than the State Bank’s reserves. percent of GDP) in Egypt, Jordan, reserves. remittances for July-September increased exchange reserves of the SBP as well as Pakistan hopes to receive more funds Hungary, and Pakistan, reflecting Total liquid foreign reserves held by the by 9.14pc to $3.927bn. In the same period last commercial banks. from IMF, World Bank and Islamic short maturities and high deficits. country stood at $9,127.6m on October 10. year, remittances were $3.6bn. The reserves of the State Bank are Development Bank. INTERNEWS INTERNEWS

Governor’s funeral Rare bird species in Cholistan excites Pakistan wildlife experts ISLAMABAD: A recent dis- during a seven-day survey car- Resources (IUCN). closure about the presence of ried out in the desert areas He said during 2012 survey, “Great Indian Bustard ” in green stretching over 350 kilometres no such bird was spotted any- areas of Pakistan's Cholistan in Nawankote, Bijnot, Ghorara where in the desert. According desert is a source of satisfaction and other areas along the Indo- to the Houbara Foundation for the wildlife lovers. Pakistan border, the team sighted International only 200 to 250 A survey team found the four birds and found evidence of birds were seen in 2011. It car- bird near Bahawalpur and the presence of six more of them. ried regular surveys in Cholistan Bahawalnagar. The Houbara According to him the total desert and found 15 birds in 2009. International Foundation’s number of Indian bustard in the In 2005, it claimed, a starv- Lt-Col Shammas (retired), World world was no more than 200 and ing bird was rescued, treated, Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) the presence of 10 of them in restored to excellent health and Ornithologist Muhammad Pakistan was a matter of pride. released back to the wild. Jamshed and District Wildlife This was due to the natural It is one of the endangered spe- Officer Mujahid Kaleem (accompa- habitat for the bird, he said. He cies which is mainly found in India Afghans carry the coffin of Arsala Jamal, governor of Logar province, for burial ceremony in Kabul yesterday. Jamal nied by WWF cameraman Zahoor said the data had been provided and adjoining areas of Pakistan was killed in an attack on a mosque on Tuesday. Ahmed) conducted the survey. by the International Union for along the border of Rajasthan. Mujahid Kaleem claimed that the Conservation of Natural INTERNEWS FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

Tattoo helps cop find family after 24 years SC orders CBI Govt backs coal probe of Radia tapes revelations allocations; NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court yesterday ordered a CBI probe into the dimensions of criminality that have emerged from the tapes of former corpo- BJP targets PM rate lobbyist Niira Radia. A bench headed by Justice G S Singhvi ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to We have nothing to hide: Official probe issues that were identified by the investigating agency after NEW DELHI: The government do not sign papers out of fear was going through the transcript of said it had nothing to hide on the a “recipe for disaster”, Sharma the Radia tapes submitted to it controversial coal allocations and said, contending that the eco- by the Income Tax Department. pointed out that the CBI book- nomic environment had been The court has also referred one ing corporates in the matter was vitiated over the past three years. of the matters to the chief vigi- creating sensation even as the “You cannot hold decision- lance officer of the department BJP targeted Prime Minister making to ransom so that nobody of mines for investigation, while Manmohan Singh amid a request takes a decision, everybody is one has been referred to the chief to add his name in the FIR. fearful,” he said. justice of India. “We have nothing to hide,” Coal Minister Sriprakash Asking the investigating agency Minister of State in the Prime Jaiswal too defended the prime to probe into six issues identified Minister’s Office V Narayanasamy minister. “The entire nation by the six member team that said, adding that allocations had knows about the commitment and had perused the transcripts, the been made to public sector under- honesty of the prime minister. He court said: “Prima facie there is takings and some private compa- does not need any certificate from Police commando, Ganesh Raghunath Dhangade (right), shows a tattoo to his family in Thane district on the a deep rooted malice by private nies “on the recommendations of any quarter to prove his honesty,” outskirts of Mumbai yesterday. Dhangade who got lost as a child at a crowded railway station was reunited enterprises in connivance with state governments where coal Jaiswal said. with his family after 24 years — thanks to a tattoo on his arm. Dhangade was separated from his parents in government officials for extrane- blocks were available”. The ministers also targeted the 1989 aged just six when they were boarding a train. He ended up on his own in Mumbai, where he was cared ous purposes.” The investigating The Bharatiya Janata Party Central Bureau of Investigation for by a fisherman and then at two orphanages. agency has been asked to submit (BJP) targeted the prime minis- (CBI) for booking corporates. In its probe report to the court by ter. “The trail of the coal alloca- a veiled criticism of CBI, Sharma December 16. tion scam goes all the way to 7, said authorities should not “play The criminality dimensions in Race Course Road (PM’s resi- to the gallery and create an envi- the Radia tapes surfaced after dence). If in the Commonwealth ronment of sensation and shock”. Modi boosts opposition hopes: Poll the transcripts were perused by a Games scam, the person who “So, the larger question which team of six officers — five belong- put the final signature was held comes up is that whether we have ing to CBI and to the Income Tax accountable and jailed, then what an environment which is condu- NEW DELHI: Opposition hard- to clinch the 272 seats needed to hit by corruption scandals and Department. The team was set up is the reason that the prime min- cive to decision-making and also liner Narendra Modi has boosted form a government. claims of policy paralysis, would by the apex court by its February ister, who held the coal portfolio, which gives confidence to the his party’s chances of winning Modi, three times chief min- struggle to win a third term in 21, 2013, order. is not responsible,” BJP spokes- investors and to the corporate looming general elections since ister of thriving Gujarat state, office, sinking to 102 seats at elec- The CBI had on July 31 told the person Shahnawaz Hussain said. world,” Sharma told NDTV. being named as its prime min- was declared the BJP’s candidate tions from the 206 it holds now. court that there was an element Cabinet ministers defended Jaiswal too cautioned that eve- isterial candidate last month, an in September as the opposition The BJP has increased its popu- of criminality in the conversations the prime minister. Commerce ryone should refrain from issu- opinion poll showed yesterday. gears up for elections due to be larity since Modi was named, with which Radia had with several and Industry Minister Anand ing such statements which could The Bharatiya Janata Party held by May, despite his polarising a survey by the same pollsters people, including journalists, in Sharma hit out at the BJP. “Now weaken the economy of the coun- (BJP) would win 162 seats in the character. conducted in August predicting the 2G spectrum allocation scam. who is going to give certificate to try or prevent bureaucracy from lower house of parliament if elec- Many are convinced Modi, 63, the party would win 130 seats, The apex court had said that prime minister of India, who is working. tion results reflected the survey, can replicate Gujarat’s economic compared with 162 now, in the some aspects of the Radia tapes globally respected, or to his min- “Everyone should take precau- well ahead of the scandal-hit rul- success at the national level and 545-seat lower house of parlia- were “uncomfortable”. isters? I don’t think we need cer- tion that no such statements are ing Congress party, forecast to revive India’s slumping growth, ment. The survey comes as Modi “The CBI has drawn several tificates,” Sharma told Times Now issued which could impact market win 102. but he remains tainted by deadly and Congress leaders Sonia and conclusions and tentative infer- TV channel. sentiments, weaken the economy But a coalition led by the BJP religious riots that erupted in his Rahul Gandhi, 43, hold a series of ences highlighting many things The prime minister did nothing or could prevent bureaucrats from was expected to win just 186 seats, home state. mass rallies across the country in in this meticulous transcript. wrong by signing the coal alloca- working,” he said, without referring according to the poll, meaning it The survey, conducted by poll- a battle to win five key state elec- Many things are uncomfortable tion file, he said. An atmosphere to any specific person or party. would need to win over new allies sters Team Cvoter for two televi- tions later this year. in it,” it said. where ministers or bureaucracy IANS such as small or regional parties sion channels, suggests Congress, AFP IANS Seemandhra workers call off strike

HYDERABAD: In a major their concerns. Kiran Reddy the assembly. He said they would development that could help assured employees that he would all work with the employees to restore normalcy in Seemandhra, write a letter to Prime Minister keep the state united. the Andhra Pradesh government Manmohan Singh on referring Over 400,000 government employees from the region yes- the Telangana resolution to state employees of Seemandhra terday decided to call off their assembly. (Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra) indefinite strike to oppose the The chief minister, in his let- were on strike since August 12 to central government’s decision to ter, would urge the prime min- oppose the decision to bifurcate the carve out a separate Telangana. ister to follow the Constitutional state. The strike had crippled the Leaders of various associations process adopted while carving state administration in all 13 dis- of employees agreed to temporar- out Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and tricts of the two regions. ily call off the 66-day-long after Uttarakhand, said a statement Over 200,000 teachers and talks with Chief Minister N Kiran issued from the chief minister’s employees of state-owned Andhra Kumar Reddy. State ministers office. The employees wanted an Pradesh State Road Transport Anam Ramnarayana Reddy and assurance that the resolution Corporation last week called off P Satyanarayana announced after would come before the assembly their strike. The chief minister the talks that the employees would so that it could be defeated. had appealed to all employees to attend their duties from today. Ramnarayana Reddy said all call off the strike as it has para- They said the associations Seemandhra Congress leaders lysed the administration and all agreed to call off their strike fol- including the chief minister and welfare and development pro- lowing some assurances given state Congress chief were com- grammes in Seemandhra. by the chief minister to address mitted to defeat the resolution in IANS

Kochi gold smuggling: Third Nine dead in customs official arrested Bengal floods

KOCHI: With another senior Kochi customs official arrested yes- KOLKATA: Flood fury raged in terday by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for allegedly four West Bengal districts claim- aiding gold smuggling, the total number of officials arrested in this ing nine lives over the past four connection rose to three. Assistant commissioner of customs Anil days while the army was deployed Kumar was placed under arrest after the CBI had subjected him in East Midnapore district to to intensive interrogation. The events leading to the arrest of the repair a 75-metre embankment, three officials and smuggling gang kingpin Fayas began with a 20kg officials said yesterday. gold haul at the Kochi airport here in September when two women Eighty blocks are affected, over from Dubai were nabbed with 20 gold bars hidden in their clothes. 83,000 hectares of crops destroyed The arrest of the two women and their interrogation led to arrest and 71,000 makeshift and per- of Fayas on September 24. The two other customs officials attached manent houses damaged in the to the Cochin airport and who are in custody are Kochi Customs calamity, caused by days of heavy deputy commissioner C Madhavan and customs preventive officer rainfall due to cyclone Phailin and Sunil Kumar. The CBI probe team found Fayas had links not only release of water into rivers by the with top customs officials but also politicians. Fayas and his associ- reservoirs in Jharkhand. ates smuggled more than 50kg gold through the airport here in the The situation was grim in East past six months, with the alleged connivance of customs officials. Midnapore district where seven deaths have been reported. An Briton held over drugs bust in Goa army column was deployed to seal a breach in an embankment PANAJI : Police in the holiday resort state of Goa yesterday said on river Kangsabati that caused a that they had arrested a British man after their biggest ever drugs worrisome situation in the lower seizure, worth Rs20.5m ($330,000). Gary Baird, 45, was arrested parts of East Midnapore. on Wednesday for illegally possessing more than 4kg of ampheta- “The flow of water along the mine, said police superintendent Karthik Kashyap. “The accused breach is fast and sealing the had come to deliver the narcotics to a customer,” he said and added breach is underway which poses that Baird had visited Goa several times and was staying in a hotel. a challenge. The troops from the The Briton was held during the raid in Aguada village, 10km from Barrackpore army cantonment are state capital Panaji, and Kashyap said more arrests were expected working to restore the embank- in the case. Kashyap said amphetamines were a relatively new phe- ment even as additional columns nomenon in the state. “This is the biggest seizure in the history of from Sukhna cantonment are also drug seizures by the Goa police,” he said. AGENCIES on their way to the site. IANS FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

North America, New car registrations in Europe climb Russia vie for fuel pie in Asia Mideast competitors competing hard

DAEGU, SOUTH KOREA: North America has already Fast-growing oil and gas pro- pushed Australia out of the top ducers Russia and North spot for new Asian investment America are spending billions in gas development, while sev- of dollars on pipelines and port eral pipeline projects are being facilities to supply energy to planned in Canada to send land- Asia, intent on grabbing a big- locked crude to Asia. ger share of the world’s fast- Pipeline operator est growing fuel market from TransCanada Corp is partici- Middle East suppliers. pating in projects worth nearly China has driven global oil C$14bn ($13.5bn) that aim to fill demand growth for a good part of Asia’s fast-growing demand for the past decade, galloping ahead Canadian oil and gas and could of the United States as the world’s build more, Chief Executive Russ top net oil importer last month. Girling said. “I would have never The Asian superpower’s surge predicted that 24-36 months in consumption has kept prices ago,” Girling said. supported despite a rise in North Russia, the world’s largest American shale output and a gas producer, also plans to open Newly manufactured Ford Fiesta cars are seen on the deck of the car transport ship “Tossa” as it travels along the Rhine, from a Ford plant in the weak economy in the West. up liquefied natural gas exports German city of Cologne to the Dutch seaport of Vlissingen, close to Emmerich in Germany. Automotive industry association ACEA said that new That pivot in growth away from next year to meet growing car registrations in Europe climbed 5.5 percent to 1.19 million vehicles in September. the West has meant producers demand from Asia-Pacific mar- such as Canada have had to look kets. The government plans to further from home to find a mar- submit a bill in parliament on ket. At the same time, Russia, its it soon. Central Asian neighbours and That comes after Russian pro- other exporters are also queuing ducer Rosneft signed one of the Dark trading up at Beijing’s door to sell their biggest deals in the history of the UK to allow Chinese majority oil and gas. global oil industry in June — a “The centre of gravity shift- $270bn pact to supply 365 million volumes hit ing east is becoming a reality,” tonnes, or 300,000 b/d, of oil for 25 Maria van der Hoeven, Executive years. That would come on top of stakes in N-power projects Director of International Energy the 300,000 b/d Rosneft is already record high Agency said on the sidelines of the sending to China. BEIJING: Britain will allow Nuclear Power and French discuss specific commercial deals World Energy Congress in South Middle East producers are Chinese companies to take energy giant EDF have agreed a and said discussions between the Korea. competing hard among them- majority stakes in nuclear controversial deal to build a new British government and EDF over in Europe “They (China) would like selves and with other suppliers for power projects in the coun- atomic power station at Hinkley the Hinkley Point reactor project to get oil from everywhere. the Asian market. Fast emerg- try, finance minister George Point in Somerset. were “ongoing”. Whether it’s by ship or, let’s not ing as a key competitor to Saudi Osborne said yesterday. Osborne said his announce- The MOU establishes a “strate- LONDON: The volume of forget about Russia, by pipeline.” Arabia, Iraq said China is seek- Osborne made the announce- ment was “an important potential gic framework” for the two sides European shares traded pri- Net oil imports in the Asia- ing to increase purchases of its ment during a visit to the Taishan part of the government’s plan for to work together in “investment, vately rather than on a public Pacific will rise to more than crude by more than two-thirds atomic power station in southern developing the next generation of technology, construction and exchange jumped 35 percent 25 million barrels per day (b/d) next year, to 850,000 b/d. More China, the British government nuclear power in Britain”. expertise”, the British release year-on-year to a record high in 2035, close to current crude requests for 2014 supply from said in a release, at the end of a “It means the potential of more said, with the latest announce- in the last six months, despite output in the Middle East, the China may come in, deputy prime trip which saw a memorandum investment and jobs in Britain, ment marking “the first step and regulators’ efforts to make Asian Development Bank said, minister for energy Hussain Al of understanding signed on civil and lower long-term energy costs signal by the UK Government” as markets more transparent in giving a sense of the region’s ris- Shahristani said. nuclear cooperation between the for consumers,” he added. part of the agreement. the wake of the financial crisis. ing demand. Saudi Arabia, which increased two countries. The Taishan facility is a joint Britain’s claim to be the Trading infrastructure pro- While Asia’s market grows, the its annual capital budget 10-fold “Today is another demonstra- venture between the Chinese firm world’s oldest civil nuclear power vider Fidessa said yesterday that United States, which has been for to $40bn in the last 10 years, tion of the next big step in the and EDF, according to the release. derives from the opening of the the total value of so-called dark decades the world’s biggest mar- will export more of better qual- relationship between Britain and The civil nuclear accord—the first commercial nuclear power trading rose 45 percent to ¤207bn ket for oil and gas, could slash its ity light crude by 2017 from two China — the world’s oldest civil first ever between the countries— facility at Calder Hall in 1956. ($279bn) in the second and third oil imports by half by the end of fields — Shaybah and Khurais — nuclear power and the world’s was signed on Tuesday in Beijing China has 17 operating nuclear quarters, compared with ¤143bn 2020 from levels seen two years while its giant Manifa field will fastest growing civil nuclear at a China-UK economic dialogue. reactors with another 28 under in the same period last year. ago due to the shale oil and gas provide heavy crude supply. power,” Osborne said. The docu- Then, Osborne hailed it as her- construction. However, that is still well below boom and improving energy effi- The race is on for producers ment said initial Chinese stakes in alding government support for The MOU also ensures that the ¤4.67 trillion estimated to ciency, the IEA said. who can provide steady, large nuclear power stations in Britain “closer collaboration” between British companies including Rolls have been traded on exchanges Gas producers in North volumes of oil to China as it were likely to be minority shares, British and Chinese companies, Royce, International Nuclear such as the London Stock America and Asian buyers are may overtake the United States but added: “Over time stakes in adding: “I hope that this strategic Services and engineering enter- Exchange over the same period. working on multi-billion dollar as the world’s largest crude subsequent new power stations agreement will form the founda- prises such as Mott MacDonald Dark trading is conducted on projects to liquefy the region’s importer by 2017, according to could be majority stakes.” tion for specific areas of commer- can grab a share of China’s nuclear electronic networks that allow abundant gas supply and ship the Wood Mackenzie. The announcement comes cial cooperation.” programme, the release said. investors to buy and sell stocks super-chilled fuel to the East. REUTERS amid reports that China General At the time he declined to AFP anonymously, in private deals so other shareholders are not aware of the trades. Some of the details are made public but only after the Bank of America in black market has closed. They are typically used by large India clears Walmart fund managers and banks that regularly trade large volumes of stocks. Critics say dark trading drains of FDI violations liquidity from public exchanges, making it harder for other inves- NEW DELHI: India has has found no contravention of for- tors to value stocks accurately, cleared US supermarket giant eign exchange laws as the govern- while proponents say the com- Walmart of accusations it broke ment has recently amended the petition they provide helps to a ban on foreign investment Foreign Exchange Management reduce the cost of trading on in supermarkets by taking an Act (FEMA) and the guidelines exchanges. indirect stake in a local chain, regulating FDI in the multi-brand The number of companies reports said yesterday. retail sector,” a senior official said. whose stocks were used in dark The Indian government has “There is no concrete basis for trades rose by just 2 percent, been investigating a purchase by the agency to take forward the meaning the growth in value Walmart of $100m in convertible probe, unless otherwise there are stemmed from more of the same debt from the retail arm of Indian some new directions,” the official stocks being traded, Fidessa said. conglomerate Bharti Enterprises was quoted as saying. The Wall A Fidessa league table showed to see whether the US supermar- Street Journal also carried a simi- Swiss bank UBS’s MTF — multi- ket chain was seeking to circum- lar report on its website, citing an lateral trading facility — ranked vent curbs on foreign investment unnamed official familiar with the first in terms of value of dark in the sector. probe as saying there appeared to trades, followed closely by BATS Walmart’s purchase of deben- be no violation. Chi-X Europe’s CXE and DXE. tures had sparked accusations it India last year allowed for- The most heavily traded stocks was trying to get round foreign eign supermarkets to operate in were among Europe’s most liquid, direct investment (FDI) rules as the country as part of a move to the data showed. Vodafone ranked the debt could be converted into open up the economy to FDI. The first, Switzerland’s Nestle second an equity stake in violation of probe was ordered after a com- and drugmaker Sanofi third. Dark regulations in force at that time. munist lawmaker wrote to Prime trading counted for between 4.7 But the Enforcement Minister Manmohan Singh com- percent and 8 percent of the total Directorate, a federal investiga- plaining about Walmart’s 2010 value of trades for these stocks. tion agency, said it had found no purchase of the convertible deben- More than one third of Europe’s A woman walks past as customers use ATMs at a Bank of America banking centre in New York. Bank of violation of FDI guidelines by the tures in Cedar Support Services, dark trading occurred in Britain, America Corp reported a third-quarter profit of $2.22bn, compared with a loss a year earlier, as provisions multinational retailer under new the holding company through while France and Germany each for credit losses and expenses fell. rules, the Press Trust of India which Bharti controls Easyday, a counted for around 14 percent, news agency reported. multi-brand retail chain. Fidessa said. “The Enforcement Directorate AFP REUTERS FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 WTO: Budget cap delaying trade disputes Delays in adjudications by panels

GENEVA: The World Trade wrote. The budget is tight because Organisation has warned mem- WTO members, who contribute in ber countries that their refusal proportion to their share of inter- to increase its budget is causing national trade, have told Azevedo a logjam in dealing with trade that he must operate with zero disputes. nominal growth in 2014 and 2015, In a confidential budget pro- capping annual spending at 197.2 posal seen by Reuters, WTO million Swiss francs. chief Roberto Azevedo told the The budget may face further 159 member countries to expect pressure if the WTO manages delays in adjudications by WTO to agree a landmark global trade panels “for the next while” and reform at a ministerial meeting “serious difficulties and delays” in Bali in December, which would for appeals in the next two years. break a 12-year deadlock in glo- “The Appellate Body can expect bal trade talks and unleash much to receive around 20 appeals dur- more negotiating activity. ing the biennium 2014-15 includ- “Members are expecting that ing several of massive size,” said the Secretariat has to maintain all the budget proposal, sent to WTO its activity, be able to reinforce the members on October 2. dispute settlement function and be “Such an increase in the number ready to respond to the post Bali of appeals, on top of the increasing situation,” Azevedo wrote. “The Traders working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. complexity and size of the average question is how can the Secretariat appeal, will put a huge strain on operate within those constraints?” the resources of the Appellate Body About two-thirds of the WTO and its Secretariat in the course of budget goes on its staff, which has Global stocks diverge after US debt deal the next biennium.” become more top heavy over the The current lawsuits include past decade, and which Azevedo LONDON: The dollar slid to on from the Washington deal, Obama in the early hours. But most market participants a multi-billion dollar fight over said had more people at higher an eight-month low against shifting attention to corporate Some investors breathed a sigh “are able to decipher for them- subsidies for Boeing and Airbus, grades than other comparable the euro and stock markets earnings, with a 6 percent plunge of relief, but the weeks of bitter selves that when a government a challenge to Australia’s land- organisations. diverged yesterday as investors in IBM’s shares after it reported rows on Capitol Hill that called comes within hours of a default, mark tobacco packaging laws and No promotions have been budg- weighed up the last-gasp deal a sharp fall in third-quarter sales. into question Washington’s cred- their credit might not be as good a dispute about Chinese exports eted for, and Azevedo said he in Washington to avert a disas- The Dow Jones Industrial ibility and the prospect of a repeat as it used to be,” he added. of rare earth metals. planned to look at reallocation of trous US default. Average shed 0.33 percent to at the beginning of 2014 tempered The dollar also gave up ground WTO rulings going to appeal staff “in a more active way”, while European stocks began the day 15,323.77 points in midday trading. optimism. But the US govern- versus the yen, falling to 97.86 yen now average about 364 pages, twice promising to consult broadly with down significantly despite the But the broader S&P 500 added ment’s borrowing costs fell on the from 99.01 yen late on Wednesday. as long as in the early days of the staff representatives. A former 11th-hour deal, but later recouped 0.23 percent to 1,725.48 points, and news, with the 10-year Treasury The pound rose to $1.6161 from WTO, and cases routinely involve Brazilian diplomat, Azevedo took much of the losses. the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite yield falling to 2.62 percent from $1.5945 the previous evening, and more complainants and third par- over as head of the WTO in London’s benchmark FTSE 100 rose 0.30 percent to 3,850.96. 2.67 percent late Wednesday. to 1.1835 euro from 1.1783. ties, generating more written and September from Pascal Lamy and index ended the day with a gain Global markets had been on The price of safe-haven gold oral submissions and exhibits. earns a base salary of 302,537 Swiss of 0.07 percent to 6,576.16 points, tenterhooks over the US gov- DOLLAR SINKS meanwhile hit a one-week high The WTO has already moved francs ($335,500) plus allowances but the CAC 40 in Paris slid 0.10 ernment impasse, which saw However the dollar took a hit, point at $1,321.38 an ounce on the staff internally to cope with the of almost 200,000 francs. percent to 4,239.64 points and Democrats refuse to give in with the euro rallying to reach London Bullion Market, driven disputes, and hired 14 dispute Lamy kept the WTO within Frankfurt’s DAX 30 gave up 0.27 to Republican demands for a its highest level against the also by the weaker dollar. It later lawyers on two-year contracts, budget for each of the past seven percent to 8,811.98 points. new budget to include cuts to greenback in over eight months, fell back to $1,319.25, up from other WTO documents show. years, achieving a surplus of 14.9 “The age old city adage of buy President Barack Obama’s flag- climbing to $1.3682. It later pulled $1,278.25 on Wednesday. The new budget proposal steps up million francs in 2012. But that the rumour and sell the fact ship healthcare bill. back to $1.3663, still up sharply Asian equities were broadly spending to handle the challenge. saving was wiped out by the adop- was perfectly demonstrated this But with just hours to go before from $1.3560 late in New York on positive, with Tokyo closing up “We expect that the rises in tion of new accounting standards morning, with the recent rally on a Thursday deadline to raise the Wednesday. 0.83 percent, Seoul adding 0.29 those areas might be significantly that forced the WTO to recognise resolution whispers reversing as debt ceiling, legislators agreed to CMC Markets analyst Matt Basi percent and Sydney climbing 0.38 more important than currently 820 million francs of long-term final confirmation of a deal hit reopen a government that was par- said the drop in the dollar was percent in value. But Hong Kong budgeted for and that additional pension and health insurance the headlines,” said Alex Young, tially shut down on October 1, while coming as “markets price in com- lost 0.57 percent and Shanghai savings might be required while liabilities, pushing 2012 into a 20 a trader at CMC Markets UK. extending the debt ceiling until ments from global credit ratings closed down 0.21 percent. executing the budget,” Azevedo million franc loss. REUTERS Wall Street also quickly moved the new year, and it was signed by agencies” on US government debt. AFP

LG Display profit rises HSBC to shut Chinese firms to star India retail in Brazil oil auction brokerage RIO DE JANEIRO: Chinese oil demonstrations to “denounce giants CNOOC and CNPC will the threat to (national) sover- NEW DELHI: British finan- be in pole position in next week’s eignty and the losses the Brazilian cial giant HSBC announced first auction of deep-water con- nation will suffer if multinationals yesterday that it was closing its cessions in Brazil’s coveted Libra grab Libra.” struggling retail brokerage and oilfield, experts say. Petrobras will automatically depository business in India, Making Monday’s auction be sole operator of any wells and the latest international bank to highly anticipated is Libra’s esti- will have a minimum 30 percent reduce operations in India. mated eight to 12 billion barrels stake in any consortium under The move comes five years after of recoverable crude, which trans- the terms of a 2010 law brought in HSBC, one of the three largest lates into nearly a million barrels under the rule of then president foreign banks in India, entered a day production for five years, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. the country’s fiercely competitive according to Brazil’s National The law aimed to earmark retail broking business. Nearly 300 Petroleum Agency. some of the oil royalties for edu- employees of the company stand to “Markets expect Asian com- cation and health. lose their jobs due to the decision, panies will be the stars of these The National Petroleum A man walks out of the headquarters of LG Display in Seoul. LG Display Co Ltd posted its highest quarterly the Press Trust of India said. auctions as the US ‘majors’ are Agency, or ANP, will oversee the profit this year thanks to increased sales of displays for devices such as Apple Inc’s iPhone, but said prices “We are discontinuing retail not at the table and will merely sale of the remaining 70 percent, for mainstay TV displays will keep falling along with TV set demand. broking and retail depository sit back,” said Carlos Assis, who for which Petrobras can also bid services business here, oper- heads Ernst&Young’s Americas alone or as part of a consortium. ated under HSBC InvestDirect oil and gas advisory unit. The winner will be the com- Securities,” HSBC India said. With state-owned Brazilian pany or consortium that offers “Impacted employees will be giant Petrobras leading the pack, the most oil to the Brazilian state. offered a fair and equitable sev- 11 companies have anted up more An Ernst&Young study con- Potential growth in East Europe: IMF erance pay in line with HSBC than 2m reais ($900,000) each to cluded that “market expectations policy,” the statement added. take part in the auction in which are that the Chinese companies HSBC India entered the Indian the Brazilian state is assured of will propose at least 50 percent WARSAW: The economies on the IMF said the countries fac- of an economy’s capacity to pro- retail brokerage business in May at least a 41.6 percent production of the oil produced” go to the Europe’s southern and east- ing the sharpest declines in duce without overheating, as com- 2008 — just months ahead of the stake. Brazilian government, Assis said. ern flanks are able to grow less potential growth were Ukraine, pared with the actual GDP, which global financial crisis — by buy- Seven bidders rank among the The Libra field is in the Atlantic than half as fast as they could Latvia, Russia, Slovakia, Bulgaria measures how much an economy ing a 73 percent stake in ILFS world’s 11 biggest oil companies off Rio de Janeiro where Brazil do before the 2008 financial cri- and Romania. Ukraine’s potential is actually producing. Investsmart for $242m. Later it by market capitalization: second- discovered huge “pre-salt” deep sis without overheating, a study gross domestic product (GDP) “It is likely that potential out- took its stake to over 93 percent, ranked China National Petroleum water oil reserves in 2007. Buried by the International Monetary growth for 2013-2017 was 1.4 per- put growth will remain subdued, bringing its total investment to Corporation, number three Anglo- under layers of salt, these deposits Fund (IMF) showed yesterday. cent, according to the IMF, com- held back by tight credit supply, $296m. HSBC’s exit comes after a Dutch Shell, Colombia’s Ecopetrol cover 149,000 square kilometres It put the annual growth poten- pared to 6.6 percent in the five low capital flows, tepid growth review of its businesses, the state- (6), Petrobras (7), France’s Total and lie 183km off the coast. tial of the region’s previously years before the global crisis hit. in trading partners, and demo- ment said. (8), China National Offshore Oil Currently, Brazil produces two fast-expanding economies at 2.3 In Russia, the forecast was 3.1 graphic pressures,” the IMF The statement, however, said Corporation (10) and Spain’s million barrels a day but hopes to percent over the next five years, percent growth in the next five said. Its forecast for actual GDP that HSBC remains committed Repsol/China’s Sinopec (11). boost output to five million a day compared to 5.2 percent achieved years, against 7.1 percent between growth in the region was 1.7 per- to the Indian market, where it The sale of deepwater con- by 2020, thanks in large part to in 2003-2007 and 1.7 percent 2003 and 2007. Poland, the cent for 2013, improving to 2.7 employs over 30,000 at the group cessions to foreign companies the pre-salt reserves. between 2008 and 2012. European Union’s biggest emerg- percent in 2014. level. HSBC will keep investing is not without opposition here. “With the exception of Shell The IMF has said the decline in ing economy, is affected too: the The IMF report covers central, in other businesses such as retail Petrobras workers launched an and Total, the ‘majors’ are not potential growth is, in large part, forecast is for 2.5 percent potential eastern and southeastern Europe, banking and wealth management, indefinite strike early Thursday to taking part owing to a number of because Western banks which in output growth in 2013-2017, against including Russia, the Balkans, the commercial banking, investment demand the “immediate suspen- risk factors,” said Assis. better times flooded the region 4.4 percent before the crisis. Baltic states, Turkey, Ukraine, banking and capital markets, sion” of the auction, the National These include “a geological risk, with capital are now retreating Turkey and ex-Soviet Moldova Moldova and Belarus, as well as institutional broking, asset man- Oil Workers Federation said. the difficulty of extraction (and) to nurse their home markets. had the smallest forecast declines the EU’s ex-Communist states in agement and insurance services, The federation, which groups the percentage of oil to hand over In a semi-annual report in the region, according to the eastern Europe. the statement said. 12 Petrobras oilworkers’ unions, to the state,” he said. launched in the Polish capital, IMF. Potential GDP is a measure REUTERS AFP also called for nationwide AFP FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2013 SPORT 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

Johansson and Bjorkman mask Pakistan beat South Africa fall of Swedish Misbah-ul Haq’s side posts seven-wicket win on day four of first Test tennis STOCKHOLM: Once a con- ABU DHABI: Wily spinner youngsters. Both openers and De Villiers hit seven boundaries v e y or b elt of t en n i s g r e at s l i k e Pakistan’s captain Misbah Saeed Ajmal took four wick- Zulfiqar Babar, they really did and a six off 157-ball in a resist- Bjorn Borg, Mats Wilander Ul Haq (right) hits the ets to fire Pakistan to a seven- a tremendous job for us. I think ance filled innings before he mis- and Stefan Edberg, Swedish wicket win over world number everyone chipped in, especially cued a drive off paceman Junaid winning run as South Africa’s tennis now finds itself in the ones South Africa in the first with the bowling.” Khan with just three to avoid an Jacques Kallis fields on doldrums but two old warri- Test in Abu Dhabi yesterday. South African captain Graeme innings defeat. the fourth day of their first ors have helped lift the mood The off-spinner (4-74) was Smith was left “extremely Pakistan’s bowlers had grabbed Test at the Sheikh Zayed at the Stockholm Open this superbly supported by left-arm disappointed”. two wickets in the morning ses- Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi week. paceman Junaid Khan (3-57) and “We have set really high stand- sion to boost their chances on yesterday. Former world No.4 Jonas fellow spinner Zulfiqar Babar ards for ourselves, but credit goes a pitch offering good turn after Bjorkman, aged 41, came out (2-51) as South Africa collapsed to Misbah and his boys, right from South Africa resumed at 72-4, of retirement to partner com- to 232 in their second innings on session one, they have been ahead trailing by a big 121 runs. patriot Robert Lindstedt in the fourth day at Sheikh Zayed in the game and played better Left-arm spinner Babar dis- the men’s doubles and Joachim Stadium. cricket. Even though we showed missed nightwatchman Steyn Johansson, once regarded as That left Pakistan to score 40 good character in parts, our skills (seven) and then paceman Jinaid the next big thing before injury runs for their overall fourth win were not up to the mark,” said Khan removed Jean-Paul Duminy struck, made a rare singles over South Africa and take a 1-0 Smith. (nought) as South Africa strug- appearance. lead in the two-match series. It was AB de Villiers who hit a gled against a spirited bowling Both shook off the rust to Pakistan made heavy weather fighting 90 to help South Africa attack. win. of the small target losing openers avoid an innings defeat while Steyn had frustrated Pakistan Bjorkman, who quit five Shan Masood (nought), Azhar Ali Robin Peterson scored a valiant in the first hour, playing defen- years ago, was approached by (three) and Khurram Manzoor 47 not out but it only delayed sively till the 12th over of the day Lindstedt after breaking up (four) in the space of seven runs Pakistan’s win. when Babar was introduced into with his regular partner before by the fourth over. This is Pakistan’s fourth win the attack and with his first deliv- the US Open and jumped at the Vernon Philander took 2-11 over South Africa in 22 Tests ery bowled the nightwatchman. chance of a one-off appearance. while Dale Steyn had 1-7. and also broke South Africa’s Duminy, who hit 57 in South “It’s not a comeback, just Senior batsmen Younis Khan unbeaten 15-Test run since los- Africa’s first innings of 249, sur- here in Stockholm,” Bjorkman, (28) and Misbah-ul Haq (nine) ing to Sri Lanka at Durban in vived just five deliveries before he who is also the tournament’s were left to see off the target with December 2011. was trapped leg-before by Khan, marketing director, said in an the Pakistan captain deservedly De Villiers added an invalua- leaving South Africa tottering at interview on the tournament’s hitting the winning six. ble 57 for the eighth wicket with 109-6. website. “It’s really unbelievable and a Petersen to carry the match into Pakistan removed Faf du “Robert is one of the best in much-needed win for us,” said the final session. Plessis soon after the lunch break the world and I hope he can Misbah, whose team lost to min- Peterson added an invaluable when Ajmal had him caught and carry me on his shoulders. The nows Zimbabwe in their last Test 42 for the ninth wicket with bowled for eight. aim is to win the title.” in September. Vernon Philander (10), much to The second and final Test will Bjorkman, who won all four “It was a team effort and eve- the frustration of the Pakistani be played in Dubai from October majors in doubles and reached ryone contributed, especially the bowlers. 23. REUTERS two Grand Slam singles semi- finals, and Lindstedt beat fel- Scoreboard low Swedes Isak Arvidsson McDermott returns as Australia India’s Agarkar and Andreas Siljestrom in South Africa (I innings): ...... 249 Fall of wickets: 1-38 2-57 3-58 4-72 5-104 the first round and were up calls it a day against Ernests Gulbis and Test bowling coach Pakistan (I innings): ...... 442 6-109 7-133 8-190 9-232 South Africa (II innings): Bowling: Mohammad Irfan 13-1-42-1 (nb-2), Dmitry Tursonov in the sec- SYDNEY: MUMBAI: Former paceman Craig McDermott was yesterday G Smith st Adnan Akmal b Saeed Ajmal ...... 32 Junaid Khan 18-1-57-3, Saeed Ajmal 32.4-7- All-rounder Ajit ond round. (pictured) appointed bowling coach for Australia’s Test team ahead of the A Petersen c Adnan Akmal b M Irfan ...... 17 74-4, Zulfiqar Babar 19-6-51-2 Agarkar , who Johansson, nicknamed Pim Ashes series against England, barely a year after quitting the role. H Amla c Adnan Akmal b Zulfiqar Babar ...... 10 Pakistan (II innings): last repre- Pim, rolled back the years to The 48-year-old shocked Cricket Australia when he resigned in J Kallis lbw b Junaid Khan ...... 0 Khurram Manzoor c de Villiers b Philander ... 4 sented India when he reached the 2004 US May 2012 after a successful 12 months in the job, which then also AB de Villiers c Shan Masood b Junaid Khan 90 Shan Masood c de Villiers b Philander ...... 0 in September Open semi-final, with a 6-1, 6-3 included mentoring the one-day and Twenty20 bowlers, citing D Steyn b Zulfiqar Babar ...... 7 Azhar Ali c Kallis b Steyn ...... 3 2007, has victory over Colombia’s world the conflicting demands of touring with family life. JP Duminy lbw b Junaid Khan ...... 0 Younus Khan (not out) ...... 9 announced his No. 112 Alejandro Falla. But he has been enticed back in a revised role in which he will F du Plessis c & b Saeed Ajmal ...... 9 Misbah-ul-Haq (not out) ...... 28 retirement The former top tenner’s focus on the Test team, with the incumbent Ali de Winter moving R Peterson (not out) ...... 47 Extras (LB-1) ...... 1 from all forms performance was remarkable into a new position overseeing the limited overs’ bowlers only. V Philander c Adnan Akmal b Saeed Ajmal . 10 Total (for three wickets, 13.5 overs) .... 45 of cricket. as it was his first main tour McDermott, who has been prominent in the development of M Morkel c & b Saeed Ajmal ...... 0 Fall of wickets: 1-4 2-7 3-7 Agarkar rep- match for four years, although young fast bowlers James Pattinson, Pat Cummins and Mitchell Extras (B-4, LB-4, NB-2) ...... 10 Bowling: Steyn 5-3-7-1, Philander 5-1-11-2, resented India he has performed Davis Cup Starc along with the renaissance of Peter Siddle, said he was look- Total (all out, 82.4 overs) ...... 232 Morkel 2-0-12-0, Peterson 1.5-0-14-0. in 26 Tests, 191 duties for Sweden on occa- ing forward to the challenge. ODIs and four T20 Internationals sions since. “There is obviously a huge focus on regaining the Ashes this sum- from 1998 to 2007. He took 288 Johansson burst through in mer and I’ll work as hard as possible to prepare our bowlers for the wickets in ODIs and 58 wickets 2004, defeating Andy Roddick challenge ahead,” he said. Tendulkar to get ‘unique’ salute in Tests. on his way to the semis at He has just over a month to work his magic before the first Test He was a member of the Indian Flushing Meadows, but after starts in Brisbane on November 21, with his goal being to have up at farewell Test team that won the inaugural ICC reaching the top 10 the follow- to six quicks hitting their peak at the same time. World T20, played in South Africa ing year the shoulder problems “We’ve got to have four to six guys bowling well from a fast bowl- MUMBAI: When he retires after his 200th Test match in Mumbai in 2007. that forced him to retire in ing point of view to bowl in conjunction with our spinners... we’ve next month, legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar will get a salute In 1998, Agarkar established a 2008 surfaced. got to make sure they’re all firing,” he said. from a familiar but an unexpected and equally legendary tribe - the record for taking the fastest fifty The 31-year-old, who once “I’d just like to talk to (Siddle) about a few things I’ve noticed Mumbai “dabbawalas” who make daily lunch-box deliveries. wickets in ODIs, completing the served a then record 51 aces over the last couple of months, and the same with a number of the “Around 50-100 ‘dabbawalas’ will take a few days off from the tiffin tally in only his 23rd game. against Andre Agassi at the other bowlers I’ve been watching on TV around the place.” delivery service to be present at Wankhede Stadium and give a salute His best performance in Tests Australian Open in 2005, will Cricket Australia team performance manager Pat Howard said to the legend who is retiring,” said Subhash Talekar, spokesperson of was his match-winning 6-41 face one of the big-hitting new they had been considering splitting the bowling coach roles for some the Nutan Mumbai Tiffin Box Suppliers Trust (NMTBST). against Australia at Adelaide in generation in Canadian Milos time, given the amount of cricket played. He said that the dabbawalas have been serving Mumbai for the past 2003-04. Raonic. “We feel that with the amount of touring now it is extremely 123 years, while Tendulkar has been serving and bringing laurels to His finest performance with the Win or lose he has said his difficult for every member of the support staff to be on every tour,” the nation in the past nearly three decades. bat in Tests was his unbeaten 109 comeback is for one event only. he said. McDermott took 291 wickets at 28.63 in 71 Tests between “He is a symbol of Mumbai who has made all Indians proud. We feel scored against England at Lord’s Johansson’s brief return 1984 and 1996 and with five Ashes Tests against arch-rivals England it is our duty to be present on this historic occasion,” Talekar said. in 2002. masks the sad state of on the horizon, coach Darren Lehmann said it was good to have The dabbawalas will pay for their own daily or season tickets for the In ODIs, his highest individual Swedish tennis, especially in him back in the fold. Test match scheduled November 14-18, which Tendulkar’s mother will score was 95 against the West the singles ranks, where their “Less time travelling for both Ali and Craig also means more time witness for the first time. Indies at Jamshedpur in 2002-03. top player is Markus Eriksson, at home to plan, work with the states or Big Bash League teams and Mumbai’s nearly 5,000 “dabbawalas” have carved a global niche for He led Mumbai to victory in ranked 406th in the world. also directly with the bowlers on technical aspects or other areas themselves for their efficient delivery of nearly 200,000 lunch boxes the 2012-13 edition of the Ranji REUTERS for improvement,” he said. REUTERS around the city. IANS Trophy. IANS

Rory Mcilroy of Northern Golf: Scott wins Grand Slam Ireland takes a shot on the Four-way lead in BERMUDA: Masters cham- Standing on the 11th tee, didn’t course during pion Adam Scott stormed back look like a score like that was McIlroy has the Pro-Am Perth International from four shots behind with 10 going to be possible. competition holes remaining to clinch the “But I played very well and tough day at of the Kolon PERTH: American golfers four-man PGA Grand Slam managed to slowly claw away at Korea Open at Dustin Johnson and Bo van Pelt of Golf by two strokes with a Justin. After he made bogey on 16, Korea Open Woo Jeong Hills were just off the pace behind scintillating finish in Bermuda I managed to capitalise on that by Country Club a leading quartet in the $2m yesterday. hitting such a great shot into 17.” SEOUL: Former world number near Cheonan. Perth International at the Lake The Australian, who had trailed Scott had covered the front one Rory McIlroy rallied for a Karrinyup course yesterday. by three after the opening round, nine in three-under 33, then sub-par 70 after a difficult start Australian duo Clint Rice and eagled the par-five 17th to forge birdied the 13th and 15th before at the Kolon Korea Open yes- James Nitties led after the open- two ahead of overnight leader seizing the outright lead with his terday to sit in a disappointing ing round at four-under 68, along Justin Rose, then parred the last eagle three at the 17th. tie for 12th. with South Korean Jin Jeong and for a course record seven-under- Current US Open champion The two-time major winner is water off the tee. After his round, seven-way tie, three shots off the Sweden’s Peter Hedblom. par 64. Rose, who had been four ahead the star attraction at the Woo McIlroy admitted he felt “a little leader -- South Korean veteran World number 21 Johnson shot Scott covered the last six holes after making four consecutive Jeong Hills Country Club where rusty” after four weeks off and Jang Ik-Jae. a three-under 69 with van Pelt in a sizzling four-under to post birdies from the fourth, faded the $1m One Asia Tour event is had to battle to finish under par Jang fired the only bogey-free one stroke further adrift. an eight-under total of 134 at the with bogeys on two of the last 10 the Northern Irishman’s first for the day. round of the day to shoot a 67 and England’s 12-time European Port Royal Golf Course in the holes on the way to a 69 and sec- taste of competitive golf after a “I just wasn’t very comfortable holds a one-stroke lead going into Tour winner Paul Casey (four- elite 36-hole event which brings ond place at six under. month-long break. with the tee shot,” he said. “I took today’s second round. over) and rising South African together the winners of the year’s “I started with a two-shot lead McIlroy, who lies in lowly 60th a long time to get settled over it It included a spectacular eagle star Branden Grace (one-over) four majors. and somebody had to shoot well position on the European Tour and then just didn’t make a very on the par-4 10th, when he found had days to forget. “Obviously I’m thrilled to come to beat me,” said Englishman standings, was two-over par with good swing.” the bottom of the cup with a Australians Nick O’Hern, out on top,” Scott told reporters Rose, who had been two ahead of five holes to play before bounc- He added: “It was tough, some 9-iron from 155 metres (170 Brady Watt, Nick Cullen and after setting up his win at the 17th American Jason Dufner overnight ing back with three birdies to of the pin positions out there yards) away. Dimitrios Papadatos were among with a brilliant six-iron from 190 after opening with a 67. complete a first-round score of today were brutal, just cut on Jang led the 2005 Korea Open a large group of players at three- yards that finished a few inches “When you’re in that position one-under. slopes and very hard to get close through three rounds but shot a under. The Perth International is from the cup for a tap-in eagle. you want to close it out, but when The 24-year-old world number to them. And when you did get 76 on the final day to drop to a the nation’s only event to be co- “Fun, but a trying couple of somebody finishes it out like that, six exchanged a bogey with a close to them, you left yourself tie for 14th. A two-time winner sanctioned by the European Tour days here really, especially today. you have to tip your hat and say, birdie on the front nine before very tricky putts.” on the Japan Golf Tour, Jang is and the PGA Tour of Australasia It felt like a long round out there you were beaten rather than los- coming away with a double bogey The 2011 US Open champion seeking his first victory on native this season. REUTERS but I was happy with the score. ing.” REUTERS on the par-3 13th after finding and 2012 PGA winner is in a soil since 2005. REUTERS FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17

Football Fixtures Your TV guide for (All times in GMT) Switzerland coach English Premier League live matches today Tomorrow Newcastle United vs Liverpool (1145) Event Competition Time Channel Arsenal vs Norwich City (1400) Tunisia vs Venezuela FIFA World Cup U-17 16:00 HD6 Chelsea vs Cardiff City (1400) Croatia vs Morocco FIFA World Cup U-17 16:00 +3 Hitzfeld to retire Everton v Hull City (1400) Lekhwiya vs Muither Qatar Stars League 17:30 Global Manchester United vs Southampton (1400) Al Ahli vs Umm Salal Qatar Stars League 18:15 +1 The World Cup will be his last tournament Stoke City vs West Bromwich Albion (1400) Zenit vs CSKA Moscow Russian Premier League 19:00 +2 Swansea City vs Sunderland (1400) Russia vs Japan FIFA World Cup U-17 19:00 HD6 West Ham United vs Manchester City (1630) BERNE: Panama vs Uzbekistan FIFA World Cup U-17 19:00 +3 Switzerland coach Sunday Ottmar Hitzfeld will quit after Al Sailiya vs Al Kharaitiyat Qatar Stars League 20:30 2 the World Cup in Brazil next Aston Villa vs Tottenham Hotspur (1500) Eljaish vs Al Wakra Qatar Stars League 20:30 Global year, he told a news conference Monday yesterday less than a week after Nice vs Marseille Ligue 1 20:30 HD5 Crystal Palace vs Fulham (1900) guiding his side to the finals. Reims vs Toulouse Ligue 1 21:30 HD4 The 64-year-old German, La Liga Roma vs Napoli Serie A 21:45 .TV one of Europe’s most successful Tomorrow coaches, said it was the most diffi- Real Madrid vs Malaga (1400) cult decision of his career but that he could “live without football.” Valencia vs Real Sociedad (1600) England to face Belgium, Swiss Hitzfeld, who won the Osasuna vs Barcelona (1800) Bundesliga five times with Bayern Espanyol vs Atletico Madrid (2000) Germany, Chile seeded for 2014 Munich and twice with Borussia Dortmund, as well as Sunday World Cup, Italy the Champions League with both Granada CF vs Getafe (1000) in friendlies clubs, took over from Koebi Kuhn Almeria vs Rayo Vallecano (1500) in 2008. LONDON: England will miss out His reign began disastrously Real Betis vs Elche (1700) begin their World Cup with a home defeat against German Ottmar Hitzfeld, head coach of the Swiss national team, looks Real Valladolid vs Sevilla (1900) PARIS: preparations with a pair of Belgium and Luxembourg in a World Cup on during a press conference in Bern, Switzerland, yesterday. Hitzfeld Monday friendly games against Chile Switzerland will figure among qualifier in one of his first games, announced he will retire from football after the 2014 FIFA World Cup Celta Vigo vs Levante (1800) and Germany next month, the eight teams seeded for the but they recovered to reach the in Brazil. the Football Association World Cup draw, FIFA con- 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Athletic Club vs Villarreal (2000) announced yesterday. firmed yesterday, in contrast to Unbeaten in 14 games, Ligue 1 Both games will take place at 2006 champions Italy and 2010 Switzerland won seven and drew doing it, I’m always right,” he said his playing career in the coun- the iconic Wembley Stadium in finalists Holland. three of their 2014 qualifiers and yesterday. try and also began his coaching Today London, with England tackling Italy have paid dear for last also beat Brazil in a friendly in Hitzfeld has been helped by career there, back in 1983. Nice vs Olympique Marseille (1830) Chile on November 15 before week’s 2-2 draw with Armenia, August. Switzerland’s successful youth Perhaps not surprisingly for Stade de Reims vs Toulouse (1830) locking horns with old rivals slipping four places in the lat- Those results helped catapult development policy, which has a former mathematics teacher, Germany four days later. est world rankings published them to seventh in the FIFA also been hailed as an example of Hitzfeld prepares for matches Tomorrow All three countries have yesterday. rankings and means they will be successful integration in a coun- with geometric precision although Paris St Germain vs Bastia (1500) qualified for next year’s World It is this list which FIFA is seeded at the World Cup draw in try sometimes criticised for its he can also think on his feet and Ajaccio vs Nantes (1800) Cup in Brazil. using to determine the seedings December, ahead of teams such as treatment of immigrants. find a quick solution when things Germany, who thrashed for the December 6 draw for next Italy and England. Almost half the Swiss squad do not go according to plan. Evian Thonon Gaillard FC vs En Avant England 4-1 when the teams year’s World Cup. “After the World Cup in Brazil, consists of players from immi- His management of the play- Guingamp (1800) last met in the last-16 stage of Joining hosts Brazil are world I will be 65 years old,” Hitzfeld grant backgrounds, particularly ers is generally considered excel- Montpellier HSC vs Lille (1800) the World Cup in 2010, where champions Spain, Germany, told reporters at the Swiss fed- Kosovo. Several, such as Xherdan lent, so much so that former Stade Rennes vs Valenciennes (1800) they reached the semi-finals, Argentina, Colombia, Belgium, eration’s headquarters. Shaqiri (Bayern Munich), Blerim Daimler-Chrysler chief Juergen will be the last team that Roy Switzerland, and Uruguay. “After 30 years in the strength- Dzemaili, Gokhan Inler and Valon Schrempp once described him as Sunday Hodgson’s side face in the FA’s Should Uruguay fail to qualify - sapping world of football, my time Behrami (all Napoli) have gradu- a role model for German business Sochaux vs Monaco (1200) 150th anniversary year. they face a play-off against Jordan has come to stop.” ated to play with top European leaders. St Etienne vs FC Lorient (1500) South American side Chile - then it is the Dutch who will “I can live without football, clubs. Hitzfeld’s career has also been last visited London in 1998, take their place. there are more important things Hitzfeld has long had connec- marked by the spectacular 2-1 loss Olympique Lyon vs when two goals from striker The Italians, as a result of in life and my wife will be happy tions with Switzerland. He was to Manchester United in the 1999 Girondins Bordeaux (1900) Marcelo Salas secured a 2-0 their October 15 stalemate with about this,” he added. born near Basel, on the other side Champions League final, when his Scottish Premier League victory for the South American Armenia, drop from fourth to However, he will continue his of the border, and speaks the local Bayern side led for almost the Tomorrow side. AFP eighth place in the latest world work as a television analyst with Swiss dialect. entire game but capitulated in order . AFP a German cable network. “I like He spent considerable part of the dying minutes. REUTERS Hibernian vs Celtic (1130) Aberdeen vs Dundee United (1400) Kilmarnock v Ross County (1400) QSL: Round five begins today Casillas mulling over Motherwell vs Hearts (1400) St. Mirren vs St Johnstone (1400) DOHA: Al Gharafa will be aim- He added: “We continue to work the title race when they take on Sunday ing to register their first vic- hard though because I believe we Eljaish. Real Madrid exit Inverness Caledonian Thistle vs Partick tory of the Qatar Stars League have the players here who are Al Wakra have a tally of 10 (QSL) season when the former good enough. We have targets for points from four matches with Thistle (1145) champions visit Al Rayyan the season and we will keep work- three wins so far in this year’s MADRID: Real Madrid and seek an exit. “Players go through Serie A tomorrow in the fifth round of ing to meet these goals.” campaign. Spain captain Iker Casillas moments when if you are not play- Today the campaign. His opposite number Zico Eljaish, on the other hand, will (pictured) may consider leav- ing a part you think about mak- Billed as pre-season favourites, admits his team must improve also seek a win to add to their ing his lifelong club if he does ing some sort of decision,” Casillas AS Roma vs Napoli (1845) both sides have faltered in the their finishing in front of goal, impressive tally of 8 points from not get more playing time, the said at a promotional event in the Tomorrow first four matches of the season, after seeing his side dominate four matches. 32-year-old was quoted Spanish capital, according Cagliari vs Catania (1600) with Al Gharafa, whose former against Qatar SC in the 1-1 draw In another match today, sec- as saying yesterday. to local media. coach Bruno Metsu died earlier in their last match. ond-placed Al Sailiyah take on Casillas lost his place in “Of course I want to AC Milan vs Udinese (1845) this week of cancer, still unde- He said: “We were clearly the Al Kharaitiyat while former two- the Real team after break- stay here, winning more Sunday feated with four points. better side against Qatar SC. We time champions Lekhwiya will ing a bone in his hand mid- titles with Real Madrid,” Atalanta Bergamo vs Lazio (1030) Sheikh Jassim Cup and Emir dominated the exchanges from aim to get back to winning ways way through last season. he added. Cup winners Al Rayyan have just early in the game but failed to with a match against Muaither Coach Jose Mourinho, “I have been here since Fiorentina vs Juventus (1300) won once so far this season - a take advantage of a lot of the at home. with whom Casillas had a I was a small boy but the Genoa vs Chievo Verona (1300) crushing 4-0 victory over Al Khor chances we created.” Al Ahli have a date with Umm testy relationship, bought day will come when maybe Livorno vs Sampdoria (1300) in week three. The Brazilian, who won the Salal which completes today’s fix- Diego Lopez from Sevilla a decision will have to be Al Rayyan coach Diego Aguirre Asian Cup title in 2004 with tures programme. as cover in the January made.” Sassuolo vs Bologna (1300) is optimistic his team can end Japan, added: “We have to work The fifth round will continue transfer window and stuck He added: “I have Verona vs Parma (1300) their poor form. on our finishing in front of goal. tomorrow with defending cham- with the him even after Casillas decided I want to be part of Torino vs Inter Milan (1845) He said: “For sure we have not We deserved our first win against pions Al Sadd playing Qatar SC recovered. this squad for a long time but had the best start to the season Qatar SC but we will keep work- who are in third spot on the Carlo Ancelotti has since insti- if the situation doesn’t change Bundesliga but we keep preparing as hard ing hard to secure it.” points table. tuted a policy of playing Lopez in three months and you ask Today as we can. We played very poorly Before that clash, four matches Also tomorrow, Al Arabi in La Liga and Casillas in the me the same question perhaps I Hoffenheim vs Bayer Leverkusen (1830) against Sailiya and it’s a result we take place today as QSL points face a home match against Al Champions League, prompt- will answer that I am planning were not happy with.” leaders Al Wakra eyes a surge in Khor. THE PENINSULA ing speculation the latter could to leave.” REUTERS Tomorrow Bayern Munich vs Mainz (1330) Borussia Dortmund vs Hanover 96 (1330) Eintracht Braunschweig vs Schalke 04 (1330) First chance for Marquez to clinch title Eintracht Frankfurt vs Nuremberg (1330) Werder Bremen vs Freiburg (1330) PHILLIP ISLAND, Australia: Young Marquez’s task of sealing victory could be best for me, we tried everything at Aragon Hertha Berlin vs Borussia Spaniard Marc Marquez can clinch the complicated by his Honda team-mate Dani and Sepang, we couldn’t do it,” Lorenzo said Moenchengladbach (1630) world MotoGP championship and become Pedrosa. yesterday. Sunday the first rookie to win in 35 years if results Spaniard Pedrosa scored a dominant win “I guess this circuit can suit us better than Hamburg SV vs VfB Stuttgart (1330) fall his way at Australia’s Phillip Island cir- at Malaysia’s Sepang track last weekend and Aragon or Malaysia so I look forward to riding cuit this weekend. is not mathematically out of the champion- in a good shape this weekend.” FC Augsburg vs VfL Wolfsburg (1530) The Repsol Honda Team rider can carry off ship, as he trails Marquez by 54 points with Pedrosa is another who has had mixed Qatar Stars League the title in his debut premier class season if he 75 points still in play. results in the past at Phillip Island but last Matches begin Doha time beats Yamaha Factory Racing’s Jorge Lorenzo “For me it will be another race, there are weekend’s win in Malaysia has given him by sufficient points to carry a 50-point margin still more races so the most important thing renewed confidence. Today into the last two races in Japan and Spain. is to try and get it (world championship), it “I will look to finish these three remaining Al Ahli vs Umm Salal, 6.15pm at Al Arabi The 20-year old Spanish star holds a doesn’t matter when,” Marquez said ahead of races as strong as possible,” he said. Stadium 43-point lead heading into Sunday’s Australian the weekend test. “The track is a lot of fun, the layout makes Lekhwiya vs Muaither, 6.15pm at Lekhwiya showdown and a win, worth 25 points, could “I will try to concentrate this weekend, try for an interesting race, and I’m also excited Stadium land the title if Lorenzo cannot finish second. to be focused and then we will see on Sunday to testing the new asphalt surface.” If that happens Marquez would become the if I can fight for the victory, for the podium, or Nine-time world champion Rossi is a proven Eljaish vs Al Wakra, 8.30pm at Lekhwiya first rookie to clinch the premier class cham- take the points for the championship.” performer around Phillip Island with two Stadium pionship since American Kenny Roberts in Defending world champion Lorenzo has yet 250cc wins in 1998 and 1999, a 500cc win in Al Sailiyah vs Al Kharaitiyat at 8.30pm at 1978. to claim a premier class win at the Phillip 2001 and an unbroken four-year premier class Qatar SC Stadium Australia’s five-time premier class title win- Island circuit but does have two 250cc victories win sequence from 2002 to 2005. Tomorrow ner Mick Doohan said yesterday the world in Australia in 2006 and 2007 and sealed his Rossi cannot win this year’s world title, but Repsol Honda Team Spanish crown is for Marquez to lose. world title here last year. said: “I really like the Phillip Island circuit, Al Sadd vs Qatar SC, 6.15pm at Al Sadd rider Marc Marquez smiles “The championship is his to give up at the Lorenzo and Yamaha team-mate Valentino the track is very different from Sepang and I Stadium while talking to fans at the pad- moment -- although the likelihood of that is Rossi will be banking on the notoriously colder think that for us it will be better.” Al Arabi vs Al Khor, 6.15pm at Al Arabi dock, ahead of the Australian very remote. Marquez really needs to have and blustery conditions at the exposed island “We are improving with every race Stadium some sort of mechanical problem or some track to suit their bikes better than last week and I’m curious to see what happens in Motorcycle Grand Prix at Phillip Al Rayyan vs Al Gharafa, 8.30pm at Al other mishap for Lorenzo to have any chance in the heat of Sepang. Australia. I made good races here and I’ve Island, yesterday. Rayyan Stadium going forward from here,” Doohan said. “The last two race results were not the won a lot.” AFP LATEST NEWS UPDATES FROM PHILIPPINESPHILIPPIN

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DETROIT: Detroit’s reshuf- kind of switched going into a “And then Molina, I know if you fled lineup erupted for five things up, shook Major League Baseball must-win Game hit on the ground there is a good runs in the second inning yes- it up a little playoff results Five at Dodger chance it’s either going to be a hit terday en route to a 7-3 vic- bit and I think Stadium, the or a double-play. Risky going in, WASHINGTON: Major League Baseball’s tory over Boston that knotted it definitely home team’s bases loaded, because he could do semi-final playoff results yesterday (series baseball’s American League worked out. It’s offense sizzled some damage. best-of-seven): Championship Series. just a different in bright after- “He can adjust to anything and After the Tigers’ potent offense mindset, Miggy National League Championship Series noon sunshine I kind of got lucky, I guess. I made combined for just six runs over hitting second, At Los Angeles as they trimmed a good pitch but still even with a the first three games of the best- me leading off. Los Angeles 6 St. Louis 4 the Cardinals’ good pitch he can hurt you. It just of-seven series, manager Jim It gave us a dif- (St Louis leads series 3-2) lead to 3-2 in worked out.” Leyland reshuffled his batting ferent mindset American League Championship Series the best-of-seven After enduring two rough lineup and saw the move pay off, to go out there At Detroit National League innings to start, Greinke reverted with the Tigers levelling the set and make some Championship to his usual dominance, allowing Detroit 7 Boston 3 at two games apiece. things happen.” Series. just two runs and six hits while “I didn’t know what else to Detroit will (Series tied 2-2) Left-hander striking out four and walking one do,” Leyland said of the shake- try to maintain Gonzalez set the in seven innings pitched. up, which was welcomed by Torii the momentum today, when tone with his first home run in The Los Angeles batters took Hunter. they send Anibal Sanchez to the the bottom of the third before control in the bottom of the sec- Hunter replaced struggling mound against Boston ace Jon adding a second in the eighth, ond, sparking thunderous roars at Austin Jackson in the leadoff spot Lester. Sanchez and four reliev- while Carl Crawford and AJ Ellis Dodger Stadium with RBI singles and contributed a two-run double. ers came within two outs of post- also weighed in with huge blasts from Juan Uribe and Greinke as Jackson, who had been batting ing the first combined no-hitter in to keep St Louis under continual they opened up a 2-0 lead. .091 in the playoffs until yesterday, post-season history in the series pressure. Former Cy Young win- Carlos Beltran and Matt was demoted to eighth in the bat- opener, which ended with Detroit ner Greinke initially struggled on Holliday each drove in a run to ting order and went 2-for-2 with taking a 1-0 victory. the mound but dug his way out of tie the score in the top of the two walks, two runs-batted-in The winners of the series will a jam in the top of the first with third for St Louis before Gonzalez and a run scored. take on the National League bases loaded and no outs, strik- blasted the first homer of the “I think it just helped me relax,” champions in Major League ing out Matt Adams and getting afternoon to right field in the Jackson said of the move. Baseball’s World Series. Yadier Molina to ground into an bottom of the inning to put the Slugger Miguel Cabrera, bat- In Los Angeles, pitcher Zach inning-ending double-play. Dodgers ahead 3-2. ting second instead of third, also Greinke survived a shaky start “That was big,” Greinke told Crawford kept the power surge had two hits, drove in two runs before dominating and Adrian reporters. going for the Dodgers, hitting a Boston Red Sox centre fielder Jacoby Ellsbury claps after his triple and stole a base for the reigning Gonzalez powered two homers as 0“I was real nervous out there massive homer 447 feet into the off Detroit Tigers reliever Joaquin Benoit scored team-mate Xander American League champions, who the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the with that situation and trying right-field pavilion in the bottom Bogaerts during the ninth inning of Game 4 of the American League host game five on Thursday. St Louis Cardinals 6-4 yesterday to make a good pitch and get of the fifth, and Ellis followed suit Championship Series at Comerica Park in Detroit, yesterday. “That was pretty good,” Hunter to stave off playoff elimination. Adams to chase and get him into with another blast in the bottom said of the lineup changes. “He With their backs to the wall a double-play. of the seventh. AGENCIES

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DOHA: The Qatar Swimming brain deficits Association (QSA) is taking part in the 4th round of the LONDON: Scientists have FINA World Cup Short Course found “profound abnormalities” Swimming Championship in in scans of brain activity in a Dubai. group of retired American foot- Abdullah Mohamed Al ball players, adding to evidence Yahri, Khalid Walid Jassim, indicating that repeated blows Abdulrahman Eiss Al Ishaq and to the head can trigger longer- Walid Rafiq Dalloul are some of term aggression and dementia. the swimmers who are compet- Although the former National ing in the two-day championship, Football League (NFL) players Katinka Hosszu of Hungary (centre) celebrates her gold medal win in the which ends in Dubai today. in the study were not diagnosed QSA informed that Women’s 200m Butterfly, with bronze medallist Lok Kin Chan of Hong with any neurological conditions, Abdulrahman and Walid had par- Kong (left) and her compatriot silver medallist Zsuzsanna Jakabos at brain-imaging tests showed unu- ticipated in the two rounds, held the Swimming World Cup, at Hamad Aquatic Center in Doha in this file sual activity that correlated with in the Dutch city of Eindhoven on picture of October 2012. The fifth round of the FINA World Cup Short the number of times they had left August 7 and 8, and the second Course Swimming Championship will take place in Doha on October the field with a head injury during round which was staged in Berlin, 20 and 21 at Hamad Aquatic Center. their football careers. Germany on August 10-11. Adam Hampshire at Imperial The Qatar swimming team has College London, who led the study, been training in Czech Republic participation of world’s top ath- as the Doha stop-over offers said the ex-NFL players showed from Augsut 10 to September 3, letes and will take place at Hamad $102,000 in prize money. “some of the most pronounced in preparations for the 23rd GCC Aquatic Center on October 20 and Leading swimmers from China, abnormalities in brain activity” Aquatic Games Championship to 21. Australia, Netherlands, US, he had ever seen. he hosted in Oman from October More than 200 swimmers from Hungary, Germany, Great Britain, “And I have processed a lot 27 to 30, next year, the QSA said. 40 countries have confirmed their Russia, Italy, South Africa, France, of patient data sets in the past,” Doha will be the next stop participation in the two-day elite Tunisia and Brazil are among those he said in a statement about the of the FINA World Cup Short event, which Doha is organising taking part, organizers said. research. Course Swimming Championship. for the second year. Qatar will The event competition schedule A growing body of scientific The swimming competi- compete with eight swimmers. can be found at www.qatarswim- research shows that repeated tion in Doha has attracted the Keen contests are on the cards ming.com. QNA knocks to the head can lead to a Washington Capitals’ centre Nicklas Backstrom (19) checks New York condition known as chronic trau- Rangers’ right wing Ryan Callahan (24) in the third period at Verizon matic encephalopathy, which can Center, yesterday. The Rangers won 2-0. Tennis: Murray conferred royal honour lead to loss of decision making control, aggression and dementia. Previous research has also found that former American foot- ball players have higher rates of Lundqvist dazzles neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. These latest findings, published in Rangers victory in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, suggest players also face WASHINGTON: Playoffs a row against familiar postseason a risk of subtle neurological defi- or regular season, New foe Washington, including Games cits that would not necessarily York Rangers goalie Henrik 6 and 7 of the teams’ first-round show up on normal clinical tests. Lundqvist has been absolutely playoff series in May. New York John Hardy at University perfect the past three times he and Washington have met in the College London’s Institute of has faced Alex Ovechkin and playoffs four times in five years, Neurology, who was not involved the Washington Capitals . splitting those series. in this study, said the findings So what if the Rangers were “The games against the Rangers showed what he and others have struggling under first-year coach are always tight,” Capitals for- long suspected - that common Alain Vigneault? Lundqvist felt ward Brooks Laich said. “ We dysfunctional behaviour among good about his team’s chances knew that going in. We knew it former sportsmen such as yesterday, then backed that up wasn’t going to be a shootout.” American footballers, ice hockey with his 46th NHL shutout in Lundqvist only needed to make enforcers and boxers is related New York’s 2-0 victory over 22 saves, thanks in part to 22 to sub clinical brain injuries sus- Washington. blocked shots by his teammates. tained during their careers. “I felt like we came in here with By the end, Rangers fans in the The NFL agreed in August a lot of confidence that we can beat crowd were chanting, “Hen-reek! to pay $765m to settle a lawsuit them,” the Swedish goalie said, Hen-reek!” brought by thousands of former “even though we’ve had a rough “Tonight Hank was on, and we Wimbledon champion Andy Murray poses with his girlfriend Kim Sears and parents Judy and Will as he displays players, many suffering from start.” It was his third shutout in didn’t give them a whole lot,” said his Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) medal, after receiving it from Prince William dementia and health problems. Brad Richards, who assisted on during an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London, yesterday. Murray, who in July became the They accused the league of hid- NHL Results goals by Ryan Callahan and John first British man to win the Wimbledon men’s singles title in 77 years, was made an Officer of the Most Excellent ing the dangers of brain injury NY Rangers 2 Washington 0 Moore less than two minutes Order of the British Empire (OBE), two ranks below a knighthood, for his services to tennis. while profiting from the sport’s Anaheim 3 Calgary 2 apart in the second period. violence. REUTERS AGENCIES FRIDAY 18 OCTOBER 2013 BREAK TIME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19

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THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER Outdoor air pollution a ATHENS 23/16 Clear 23/15 Partly cloudy WASHINGTON 23/12 Chance of showers 18/09 Partly cloudy SYDNEY 21/10 Partly cloudy 21/12 Mostly cloudy LONDON 12/10 Mostly cloudy 17/11 Chance of rain PARIS 18/13 Partly cloudy 19/13 Mostly cloudy ISTANBUL 15/12 Rain 16/10 Partly cloudy leading cause of cancer MANILA 31/24 Partly cloudy 32/24 Partly cloudy DHAKA 32/25 Chance of storm 32/24 Chance of storm DELHI 32/20 Clear 31/20 Clear GENEVA: The World Health ISLAMABAD 31/18 Chance of rain 29/16 Partly cloudy Organization yesterday clas- sified outdoor air pollution as a leading cause of cancer in humans. “The air we breathe has become polluted with a mixture of cancer-causing sub- stances,” said Kurt Straif of the Youths say technology WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). can be dehumanising: Poll “We now know that outdoor air pollution is not only a major risk to health in general, but also NEW YORK: Millennials are tech-savvy young adults who a leading environmental cause of grew up with smartphones and iPads, but many think tech- cancer deaths.” nology makes people less human, according to a poll released In concrete terms, said IARC yesterday. The survey of 12,000 people aged 18 and older in director Christopher Wild, out- eight countries, commissioned by Intel Corporation, also door air pollution has been clas- showed that 18-to24-year-olds want technology to be more sified as a “Group 1” cause of personal and know their habits. Older women and those cancer, the riskiest category on living in emerging markets are the most enthusiastic about its four-step scale. the role technology can play in their lives, the findings The IARC underlined that a showed. panel of top experts had found The most recent data, from 2010, shows that 223,000 lung cancer deaths worldwide were the result of air pollution. Dr Genevieve Bell, an anthropologist and research direc- “sufficient evidence” that expo- tor at Intel Labs, said although the results of the survey that sure to outdoor air pollution with large populations. The most breathes rather than focus on community to take action without examined global attitudes towards technology innovation may caused lung cancer and raised the recent data, from 2010, showed specific air pollutants,” said the further delay.” indicate that young adults are rejecting technology, the find- risk of bladder cancer. that 223,000 lung cancer deaths IARC’s Dana Loomis. The IARC said it was set to ings could be more complicated. Wild underlined that air pollu- worldwide were the result of air “The results from the reviewed publish its in-depth conclusions “A different way to read this might be that millennials want tion was not a primary cause of the pollution, the agency said. studies point in the same direc- on October 24 on the specialised technology to do more for them,” she said in a statement. disease. “We have well over a mil- The data did not enable experts tion: the risk of developing lung website The Lancet Oncology. Nearly 90 percent of young adults questioned in the poll lion lung cancer cases per year, the to establish whether particular cancer is significantly increased The IARC said it had also con- admitted innovations in technology make life easier, but about vast majority of which are actually groups of people were more or less in people exposed to air pollution,” ducted a separate evaluation of 60 percent said people rely on it too much and that it can be due to tobacco, rather than I think vulnerable to cancer from pollu- he added. “Nobody has private air. what is known as “particulate dehumanizing. Seventy percent said technology enhances their around 10 percent, perhaps, which tion, but Straif said it was clear We can’t do very much for the matter”, classifying it as a Group personal relationships and about half believe it will have a good are to things like ambient air pol- that risk rose in line with expo- air we breathe. This really needs 1 cancer cause. impact on education, transportation and healthcare. lution,” he told reporters. sure. In the past, the IARC had collective action to solve the prob- Particulate matter includes Women age 45 and older, and those living in emerging mar- Although the composition of air measured the presence of indi- lem,” he said. both solid particles and liquid kets such as Brazil and India, are more enthusiastic about the pollution and levels of exposure vidual chemicals and mixtures of The predominant sources of out- droplets found in air — such as impact technology could have on their lives. can vary dramatically between chemicals in the air -- including door air pollution were transport, soot — which can penetrate deep In China, more than 70 percent of women said technology is locations, the agency said its diesel engine exhaust, solvents, power generation, emissions from into the respiratory system. not used enough. “Women historically have become avid users conclusions applied to all regions metals, and dust. factories and farms, and residential Beyond cancer, known health of technology when that technology solves a problem, helps us of the globe. Air pollution was Diesel exhaust has already been heating and cooking, the agency effects include coughing or diffi- organize our live and that of our families, as well as aids us in already known to increase the classified as carcinogenic by the said. “Classifying outdoor air pol- culty breathing, chronic bronchi- saving time and time shifting,” Bell said. risk of respiratory and heart IARC. The latest findings were lution as carcinogenic to humans tis, and premature death in people The findings showed that Italians and Japanese held the most diseases. based on overall air quality, and is an important step,” said Wild. with heart or lung disease. negative attitudes towards technology. The IARC said pollution based on an in-depth study of “There are effective ways to reduce In addition, such matter has The survey, which was conducted in Brazil, China, France, exposure levels increased sig- thousands of medical research air pollution and, given the scale environmental effects such as India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan and the United States from July nificantly in some parts of the projects conducted around the of the exposure affecting people corrosion, soiling, damage to veg- 28 to August 15, has a margin of error of plus or minus 0.89 world in recent years, notably in world over decades. “Our task worldwide, this report should send etation and reduced visibility due percentage points. REUTERS rapidly industrialising nations was to evaluate the air everyone a strong signal to the international to haze. AFP Skull discovery suggests early man was single species WASHINGTON: A stunningly well- of a modern human’s, protruding brows of indisputable early Homo remains from found that while their jaw, brow and skull lineages some experts have described in preserved skull from 1.8 million years and jutting jaws like an ape, the skull was any one site.” shapes were distinct, their traits were Africa — such as Homo habilis and Homo ago offers new evidence that early man found in the remains of a medieval hilltop The skulls vary so much in appear- all within the range of what could be rudolfensis — were all just ancient people was a sin- city in Dmanisi, Georgia, said the study ance that under other circumstances, expected among members of the same of the species Homo erectus who looked gle species in the journal Science. they might have been considered dif- species. different from each other. It also suggests with a vast It is one of five early human skulls — ferent species, said co-author Christoph “The five Dmanisi individuals are con- that early members of the modern man’s array of dif- four of which have jaws — found so far Zollikofer of the University of Zurich. spicuously different from each other, but genus Homo, first found in Africa, soon ferent looks, at the site, about 100km from the capital “Yet we know that these individuals came not more different than any five modern expanded into Asia despite their small research- Tbilisi, along with stone tools that hint from the same location and the same geo- human individuals, or five chimpanzee brain size. ers said at butchery and the bones of big, saber- logical time, so they could, in principle, individuals, from a given population,” said “We are thrilled about the conclusion yesterday. toothed cats. Lead researcher David represent a single population of a single Zollikofer. “We conclude that diversity they came to. It backs up what we found With a tiny Lordkipanidze, director of the Georgian species,” he said. within a species is the rule rather than as well,” said Milford Wolpoff, a paleon- brain about a National Museum, described the group as The researchers compared the varia- the exception.” tologist at the University of Michigan. third the size “the richest and most complete collection tion in characteristics of the skulls and Under that hypothesis, the different AFP