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Sunday 14 September 2014 • 19 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6188 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Pre-marriage counselling PM attends Police College meeting for Qataris on the anvil Bid to check high rate of divorces; draft law ready

DOHA: Qatar is taking a closer making the counselling manda- the prospective bride and groom. look at the possibility of mak- tory for wedding is ready and has Al Sharq said it talked to ing pre-marriage counselling been forwarded to the authorities the Director of the Family mandatory for marriage in an concerned. Counselling Centre, known as apparent bid to check the soar- The idea is to check the high Family Consultancy Centre, Mona ing rate of divorce. rate of divorce in the country. Al Khulaifi, on the above issue. Courses may be designed by the The source told the daily that She said 219 divorce cases were authorities concerned in future Malaysia has made such counsel- referred to them between January for pre-marital counselling and ling compulsory for marriage and and March of this year. Of these, men and women wanting to it has helped bring down the rate bids for rapprochement were being marry must attend those courses, of divorce substantially. made in respect of 107 cases. albeit separately. “The rate of divorce in Malaysia Some 44 of the cases were final- They must then obtain a cer- is down between 40 and 70 per- ised and no patch-up was possi- The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, who is also the tificate that indicates that they cent after this pre-marital coun- ble, she said. Some 50 cases were Chairman of the Police College Supreme Council, presiding over the second meeting of the Council at the have attended the mandatory pre- selling law was introduced,” Al already settled and estranged College’s headquarters in Al Sailiya. During the meeting, the Council was briefed on the preparatory proce- marriage counselling course. Sharq said. Divorce rate is simi- couples got back together. This certificate would have to larly quite high in Qatar and Mahmoud Abul Ala, a mar- dures including educational and training plan for the academic year 2014/2015. be produced for a marriage to other GCC states as well. riage counsellor, said why divorce be registered by the authorities The counselling course might takes place is because the wife concerned in the country, reports be designed to provide the man and husband do not know what Al Sharq. This would be like the and woman practical insights into their responsibilities are. This is Turkish President mandatory health checks a man married life and the challenges particularly true of divorces that and woman must undergo in that might surface up and how to take place within five years of a Workers to be screened arrives today order to get married. The rule of make adjustments. marriage. compulsory health checks applies According to Al Sharq, there Prospective brides and grooms DOHA: Turkish President to both, Qataris and expatriates. are some conservative families in are not given an opportunity to for hepatitis at home Recep Tayyip Erdogan will It is, however, not known if Qatar that do not discuss details see and know each other after arrive in Doha today on an offi- the pre-marital counselling rule with their daughters after fixing engagement and that’s why the DOHA: Foreign workers seek- prevention and control strategy, cial visit. The Emir H H Sheikh would apply to both or only to the their marriage. rate of divorce has been going up, ing employment in Qatar will enhancing education and aware- Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Qatari community since divorce Such unwanted trends in the said Ala. He lauded plans to make have to screen for hepatitis in ness, strengthening surveillance, Turkish President will discuss expatriate communities is not so community could be effectively pre-marriage counselling compul- their home countries starting sustaining high vaccination cov- bilateral relations and ways to common. Al Sharq quoted reliable checked if pre-marriage counsel- sory for marriage. from end of this year, according erage and developing research enhance them. sources as saying that a draft law ling is made compulsory for both, THE PENINSULA to a senior official. agenda to address knowledge gaps QNA Pre-arrival test for hepatitis and improve the health response will be part of a compulsory medi- to viral hepatitis. cal screening for some chronic “People come from different 70pc of new El Jaish beat Al Arabi diseases. “It’s recommended to test backgrounds. Some are with- for hepatitis before arrival, cur- out prior knowledge about their students at QU Hamas official rently we are working on it. Pre- medical history and many don’t arrival screening is to start by end give true details. Employers need are females rules out of this year,” said Dr Ahmed Ismail, quick results but sometimes it Consultant and Chief Laboratory needs more time to confirm if DOHA: Qatar University will Services, Medical Commission, the person actually has the infec- open for the new academic year direct talks Supreme Council of Health. tion, sometimes six to 12 months,” today with 3,200 new students, The Medical Commission con- said Dr Ismail. In 2013, a total of of whom more than 70 percent with Israel ducts health checks on newly 1,021 non-Qataris and 178 Qataris are females and a nearly equal arrived foreign workers to make were found with different types number, Qataris. GAZA CITY: Hamas former sure that they test negative for of hepatitis. The newly enrolled students Gaza prime minister Ismail HIV, tuberculosis, hepatitis B and Meanwhile, a study conducted include 2,232 Qataris and 2,286 Haniyah said yesterday that the C to be entitled to a work visa. by the Medical Commission females. Of the total 936 male stu- militant Islamist Palestinian However, only some segments of among single workers this dents, 562 are Qataris, the Qatar group would not hold any direct foreign workers including health year has found that prevalence News Agency said yesterday. talks with Israel. care professionals, nursery teach- of hepatitis C virus infection Qataris constitute about 70 There would be “no direct nego- ers, cabin crew, food handlers, among single male workers was percent of the new students tiations with the Zionist enemy”, hair dressers and athletes are 0.8 percent. while Qatari females (1,670) Haniyah said in a public address screened for hepatitis B and C. The study titled ‘Viral hepatitis constitute more than 73 per- in the Gaza Strip, and called Dr Ismail, speaking at C serological and behavioural sur- cent of the total female students. on Western-backed Palestinian the ‘National Viral hepatitis vey among single male labourers Females including foreigners President Mahmoud Abbas to Symposium’, said that screen- in Qatar’ found that only 5.9 per- account for more than 71 per- “review” his own strategy of talks ing for hepatitis should not be cent of single male workers had cent of the total new students. with Israel. Hamas does not recog- expanded for everyone seeking received information on hepati- The total number of students nise Israel which denounces Hamas employment here unless a strong tis C infection. Around 42 per- at QU has reached 18,000, with a as a “terrorist” organisation, and evidence is found about high cent of workers included in the significant growth over the past the two sides have never had any prevalence of the disease in their study have reported at least one three years. The new students overt direct contact. home countries. practice that puts them at risk have been selected from more But on Friday, exiled Hamas In his presentation on of hepatitis C infection. Ear or than 7,000 applicants based on official Mussa Abu Marzuq — ‘Screening for viral hepatitis body piercing (21.9 percent), tat- a strict admission criteria, QNA along with Haniyah one of the among expatriate population tooing (13.3 percent) and injecting said quoting a university official. movement’s two deputy lead- seeking employment in Qatar: with used needles or syringes (7.4 Qataris have been given pri- ers — said direct talks with the Al Arabi’s Sayed Ashkan Mohammad and El Jaish’s Ali Sanad Al Nuaimi Challenges and recommen- percent) were most reported risk ority in admission and no eligi- Jewish state might be unavoidable in action during the Qatar Stars League match at Lekhwiya Stadium dations’, Dr Ismail suggested practices. THE PENINSULA ble Qatari candidate has been See also page 4 in light of planned negotiations in yesterday. El Jaish won 3-1. See also page 27 KAMMUTTY VP developing national hepatitis left out. THE PENINSULA Cairo to consolidate last month’s tentative Gaza truce. “If the situation remains as it is now... Hamas could find itself forced to do this,” Abu Marzuq said, referring to the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza after 50 days of Israeli pounding from air, land and ‘No’ campaign leads Scottish polls sea, which ended on August 26. “From a legal (Islamic) perspec- LONDON: Scottish support far from over,” Blair McDougall, debate saying a breaking up of the before its official release. It showed tive there is nothing wrong with for independence seems to be campaign director of the “Better UK would not be a sensible step. “I support for the pro-independence negotiating with the occupation,” waning, a new opinion poll Together” campaign said. hope Scotland votes to stay part of “Yes” campaign rise to 54 percent, he said, indicating it could be nec- has showed, just 5 days before The poll comes as a boost to the the United Kingdom,” Blair said. a 9-point swing from their last essary in order to guarantee the Scotland votes on whether to anti-independence campaign after “For all the reasons given by all online poll, with support for “No” “rights” of the people of Gaza. separate from the rest of the the latest “poll of polls” on Friday the party leaders of the UK, in the at 46 percent. Truce talks are due to resume United Kingdom. showed the vote remained on a 21st Century to rip up the alliance However, a small sample size in Egypt later this month, but The survey by the pro-union knife-edge, with just 51 percent between our countries would not be of 705 people means its margin of Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal “Better Together” campaign support for staying in the UK. sensible, politically, economically or error is higher than most other has himself ruled out face-to-face found support for staying in the While polls had consistently even emotionally.” polls and polling expert John dealings with the Israelis. United Kingdom was at 54 per- shown strong leads for the “No” Meanwhile, an ICM poll said Curtice said the survey came with “Direct negotiations with the cent, while 46 percent were plan- campaign to reject independ- support for Scottish independ- “a substantial health warning.” Israeli occupier are not on the ning to vote for independence on ence, a recent surge in support ence from the United Kingdom has Scotland votes on Thursday agenda of Hamas; if negotiations September 18, once undecideds for “Yes” has prompted some taken the lead over unionists. The whether to end a 307-year-old A member of the Grand Orange Lodge are necessary they must be indi- were excluded. investors to sell the pound. poll was taken for the Telegraph union with England and break of Scotland pins a ‘No’ campaign rect,” he said on Friday. AFP “This poll suggests that ‘No’ are Former UK prime minister Tony newspaper but was reported by away from the UK. AGENCIES badge to his shirt in Edinburgh. See also page 6 in the lead but that the race is Blair, decided to wade into the the Sunday Times on its front-page See also page 11 SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME QU expands Arabic programme SEC hits back at criticism over hiring of teachers Programme for non-native speakers converted to dedicated centre DOHA: Criticized for ignor- preferred to qualified locals for ing Qataris in its recruitment Independent school teaching jobs. DOHA: Qatar University 50 students”, Dr Mustafawi said, traditions of the Qatari, Arab and In his remarks, Dr drive for primary teachers and The SEC said a lot of Qatari has expanded the scope of its adding “800 applications were Islamic peoples and communities Abdulrahman explained that the instead preferring expatriate teachers who had earlier quit jobs Arabic for Non-Native Speakers received this year but the pro- and to share it with people from programme offers three tracks — women, the Supreme Education had come back after the salary programme by converting it gramme can accommodate only around the world to further a Morning, Evening (Continuing Council (SEC) has hit back. and allowances for Qatari teach- to a dedicated centre at the 55 students, so we have become better understanding and build Education), and Distance The SEC has said it has a con- ers were upped 120 percent under University’s College of Arts and very selective”. bridges of communication.” Education. tinuing hiring programme for citi- new regulations. Sciences (CAS). Dr Mustafawi detailed the cen- Dr Mustafawi also noted that “The morning track is the zens and jobs are guaranteed for Recently, the Council has Dr Eiman Mustafawi, tre’s history as a unit established with the numerous projects in the backbone of the centre; it offers them in state schools after they recruited 280 teachers and many CAS dean, and Dr Abdullah within the College’s Department country leading up to World Cup courses at six levels each year finish graduation and a diploma of them are Qataris, said the SEC. Abdulrahman, the centre’s direc- of Arabic Language in 1987 to its 2022, the centre would be able to and focuses intensively on basic course in education or teachers’ Teaching jobs are guaranteed tor, spoke on the new centre’s expansion to an independent pro- support Qatar’s efforts towards language skills; the evening training courses. in primary sections for Qataris plans and direction. gramme in 2006. cultural communication and track offers general and tailored The Monthly salary for a junior who hold a bachelor’s degree in In establishing the programme “This was in recognition of the exchanges that would benefit the courses for the diplomatic, health, Qatari teacher in an Independent education. Similarly, primary as a centre, the College is build- language’s historical significance country, region, and the world. business and other sectors; and School can, for instance, go up to teachers’ jobs are guaranteed for ing on its continuing development among the other modern lan- The centre will also spur fur- the distance education track is QR28,000 (for the unmarried) and Qatari university graduates who and its vision for quality and guages, the reality of it being one ther collaboration with external designed to meet the needs of QR30,000 for the married, earlier do a diploma in teaching. Then, if excellence in all its offerings, Dr of the most-spoken languages in institutions, Dr Mustafawi said, international students who wish media reports suggest. eligible Qataris complete different Mustafawi told the media. countries around the world, and noting the cooperation agree- to study Arabic language but are Besides, Qatari teachers, if they training courses, they are offered She noted that from its incep- its growing popularity globally, ments it currently holds with top- not on-site in Qatar”, he said. He put in some extra hours a day, are junior teachers’ jobs, said the SEC. tion, the programme had grown especially in western societies”, ranked universities worldwide further explained that admission paid up to QR5,000 extra a month, “The SEC is always keen to considerably in the number of she said. such as Georgetown University, to the programme now has two according to these media reports. recruit local hands in both teach- students and applicants from She added: “QU also recognised Osaka University, University of stages — one for applicants from The SEC sent a rejoinder to Al ing and non-teaching positions (in every corner of the world. “The that as the national university it Tokyo, New Bulgarian University, abroad and the other for those Sharq in reply to an earlier report Independent schools),” the Council programme started with 20 stu- had a responsibility to advance Kiev University and Pusan based in Qatar. that quoted some Qataris as say- said. dents, and last year we admitted the language, culture, history and National University. THE PENINSULA ing that expatriate women were THE PENINSULA

Dar Al Sharq Qatar to support building holds raffle draw of planetarium in Jordan DOHA: Dar Al Sharq Foreign Publications, in cooperation with AMMAN: Sheikh Salman bin They also discussed the estab- Consolidated Gulf Co, conducted the Jabor Al Thani, head of the lishment of an integrated data- raffle draw of its ‘Read and Win’ promo- astronomy section of Qatar base with information on Arab tion yesterday. Center for Astronomy and institutions and scholars working The promotion was for readers of the Space Sciences, who is also in the fields of space and astron- six foreign newspapers published by Dar advisor to the Arab Union for omy at the global level. Al Sharq — Pilipino Star Ngayon daily, Astronomy and Space Sciences, According to a press release Lankadeepa weekly, Rajdhani weekly, has expressed Qatar Center’s issued by the Royal Jordanian Siasat weekly, Kantipur weekly and readiness to support the build- Geographic Centre, Sheikh Tamil Times. Sixty winners were selected, ing of a planetarium and an Salman backed the idea of estab- with 10 coupons being drawn for each optical telescope in Jordan for lishing centres of joint research newspaper. The draw was done by Dr scientific and astronomical in astronomy and space, and sup- Abdulmotalab Makki, Managing Editor purposes. porting scientific projects that of Al Sharq newspaper, Nabil Moustafa, This was discussed dur- contribute to achieving the objec- Tawseel Distribution Manager, and ing a meeting between Sheikh tives in these areas, and invest- Bashir Osman Bashir Ibrahim, Dar Salman bin Jabor Al Thani and ment in training and technical Al Sharq Assistant Administration the Director General of the advisory services. Manager. FROM LEFT: Dr Abdulmotaleb Makki, Managing Editor of Al Sharq newspaper, Nabil Moustafa, Tawseel Royal Jordanian Geographic He welcomed collabora- The prizes were Nokia Lumia 925 and Distribution Manager, and Bashir Osman Bashir Ibrahim, Dar Al Sharq Assistant Administration Manager, Center, Brigadier General Dr tion with the Royal Jordanian Nokia Lumia 620 smartphones. draw coupons during the raffle draw of Dar Al Sharq Foreign Publications ‘Read and Win’ promotion. Awni Khasawneh, at the Center’s Geographic Center. THE PENINSULA headquarters. QNA SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Expert urges rent freeze

DOHA: Given the soaring hous- they were making good profits. aimed at helping certain sections ing rents the government should But what they need to do now is of property owners (those who consider freezing rent increases turn their attention to affordable have apartment blocks ready to by landlords, says an expert. housing. let out), Al Jolo said that was Rents might increase beyond Local banks should also extend not true. The crackdown was control if affordable housing a helping hand to developers in launched after careful studies and stocks are not built for limited- this initiative and provide them for the safety and security of those income people following the crack- easy loans. living in the makeshift residential down on illegally partitioned villas, Asked by Al Arab if the crack- units, he said. said Ahmed Al Jolo. down on partitioned villas was THE PENINSULA Head of Qatar’s Engineering Society, Al Jolo said real estate developers must now focus on afford- able housing to help meet the growing demand for such stocks due to action against partitioned villas. “Following the crack- down on partitioned vil- las, demand for affordable housing is bound to grow manifold,” said Al Jolo. He, however, said that the decision of the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning to act against illegally partitioned villas was justified due to safety concerns. Not only were people’s safety and security at risk in illegally partitioned vil- las, but there was also undue pressure on precious resources, said Al Jolo. Following the crackdown on partitioned villas, rents that are now rising at an annual rate of 10 to 20 per- cent might go up by 13 to 23 percent in the initial phase of the drive, he said. In the latter phases of the crackdown, when all partitioned villas are gone, the rent growth could spin out of control, Al Jolo told local Arabic daily Al Arab in comments published yesterday. This should make the government think in terms of putting a freeze on rent increases by landlords, said Al Jolo. He said most real estate developers were focusing on luxury housing stock and SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME HMC survey finds 2pc PM meets Sudanese minister hepatitis C prevalence Policy to eradicate viral infection recommended BY FAZEENA SALEEM illness. registries. The available data is DOHA: Some two percent A total of 13,704 people at aver- based on prevalence of anti hepa- of people screened in a ran- age and high risk were screened titis virus antibodies. dom survey by Hamad Medical and 272 (two percent) were In Qatar, anti-hepatitis C viral Corporation (HMC) were diag- found with hepatitis C antibodies. antibodies among blood donors nosed with hepatitis C viral Among them, 193 participated were measured at 0.06 percent. In infection. for evaluation, nine were found to Bahrain this figure is 0.30 percent, Among them 79 percent were have minimal disease, and 60 peo- in the UAE it is 0.11 percent, in Egyptian, 4.7 percent were Qatari, ple underwent liver biopsy. Saudi Arabia is 0.65 percent and The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani met Engineer eight percent were Pakistani and Then 68 people were given in Kuwait 3.1 percent. Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid, Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation in Sudan, yesterday. Their talks dealt with eight percent were others. treatment for hepatitis C and 45 Around 180 million cases of relations between Qatar and Sudan and means of enhancing them. The study found that screening responded to the treatment, Dr hepatitis C found each year and helps in early detection of hepatitis Sharma said in a presentation. 18,000 die due to the illness around C and can help reduce the disease Those screened were aged the world. burden. between 15 and 50 years. The Hepatitis C is an infectious dis- It recommended implementing male-female ratio was 13:1, and ease affecting primarily the liver, practical and strong national poli- many of them weighed between caused by the hepatitis C virus Zoologist plans film on falcons cies to eradicate hepatitis C viral 80kg and 100kg. (HCV). The infection is often infection form Qatar, as there is According to the World Health asymptomatic, but chronic infec- DOHA: An Indian zoologist Jaisalmer in the western Indian bustard away from it by offering a trend of cases of the disease Organisation, the burden of hepa- tion can lead to scarring of the doing research on falcons for the state of Rajasthan as also to the it a pigeon or another bird. increasing in the country, said Dr titis C is increasing in the Middle liver and ultimately to cirrhosis, past 16 years is now making a GCC region. The falcon is an aggressive bird Manik Sharma, a gastroenterol- East. which is generally apparent after documentary on the raptor. Bustards, the favourite and and can attack and seriously injure ogy consultant at HMC, speaking In Middle East except for Egypt many years. In some cases, those The documentary will be in main prey of the falcon, also a person who is not its owner and at the National Viral Hepatitis the exact prevalence is unknown. with cirrhosis will go on to develop English, Arabic and Malayalam, migrate at that time. In the GCC tries to take a hunted bustard Symposium. A rough estimate of prevalence failure, liver, or life-threatening the mother tongue of the film- region, the aristocrats and the rich away from it, said Medammal. ‘Screening for hepatitis C in of hepatitis C in the Gulf coun- esophageal and gastric varices. maker, who hails from the south- are fond of bustards as their meat Falcons can also hunt rabbits, Qatar: A community-based sur- tries is known through blood bank THE PENINSULA ern Indian state of Kerala and is tasty. The meat is also consid- hares, pigeons, small birds and vey’ was conducted between 2008 teaches at Calicut University. ered an aphrodisiac by some, said even small deer. and 2010. Dr Zubair Medammal said he Medammal. In the GCC region, falconry is Its primary aim was to detect had chosen ‘Biology and Behaviour A bustard can cost up to most popular in the United Arab infection with hepatitis C antibod- of Falcons/Falcons and Falconry in QR5,000. If a Bedouin sights a Emirates, followed by Qatar, said ies randomly, assessment of the the Middle East’ as the title of his bustard in the desert and informs Medammal. prevalence rate, disease charac- documentary. a hunter, it is the tradition that On average, falcons live for 12 to teristics and response to standard Medammal, assistant professor the latter, after hunting it with 15 years. They, as well as bustards, treatment. of zoology at Calicut University, is a falcon, gives the equivalent of are an endangered species due to The survey was done in three here on a visit, not his first one QR10,000 and a feather of the the use of illegal traps and pesti- phases. Phase one lasted six weeks to the region. During his years of hunted bustard as a reward to cides in farms. and 400 hospital visitors were research on falcons, he has been to the Bedouin. Medammal said he was looking screened. Among them 33 were this region several times. When they have caught a bus- for sponsors to make his documen- at risk of developing the disease. He said he got interested in tard, falcons don’t easily let it go tary, which is estimated to cost In the second phase, 3,212 peo- falcons when travelling in Abu since they are fond of its meat. QR100,000. ple were screened in shopping Dhabi in 1998. In Al Khazna, near But the falcon’s owner takes the THE PENINSULA malls over six weeks and 31 were Abu Dhabi, he saw Sheikh Zayed found positive. Falcon Research Hospital and In phase three, lasting 24 weeks, FROM LEFT: Dr Hamad Al Romaihi, Manager, Health Protection and CDC, tried for a job there. 6,492 people at high risk of devel- SCH, Dr Ahmed Ismail, Consultant and Chief, Laboratory Services, Medical After failing to land employ- oping hepatitis C were screened Commission, SCH, and Dr Manik Sharma, Consultant, Gastroenterology, ment there, he decided to pursue and 208 were diagnosed with the HMC, during a viral hepatitis symposium in Doha yesterday. ABDUL BASIT research on the bird of prey, which is popular in the Gulf. Falcons, though, are not native to the GCC or the Arab world but falconry is popular here because the region is cash-rich and the sport involves a lot of expense, said Medammal. Falconry involves hunting using trained falcons. A good, trained falcon can cost anywhere between $15,000 and a whopping $400,000. Falcons originated from Russia and parts of Pakistan, he said. During winter, they migrate, Dr Zubair Medammal with a falcon. mainly from China, to places like

Mowasalat to host Large Events Summit DOHA: Mowasalat will for sustainable future mobility and future challenges and best host the UITP Large Events solutions attracting business practices for a sustained mobil- Summit and Showcase at Qatar opportunities, Mowasalat said ity. They will focus on safer and National Convention Centre yesterday. cleaner environment, enhanced from November 25 to 27 this The Ministry of Transport quality of urban life, steady eco- year. is taking several measures to nomic growth over the rising The summit, to be held under achieve integrated multimodal urban population and inflation. the patronage of the Ministry transportation system that will Experts from world over will of Transport, will focus on the stimulate trade, improve the flow share their experiences and safety and security aspect for of people and goods and encour- lessons learned from hosting large events transportation. It age economic sustainability. large events including London aims to highlight the importance The Congress sessions will run Olympics, Brazil FIFA world Cup of public and mass transportation on “Public Transport for Large 2014, Korea Asian Olympics 2014, and its role as a key constituent Events” addressing current THE PENINSULA

La Vie en Rose launches Fall 2014 collection

DOHA: La Vie en Rose has launched its early Fall collec- tion with pieces in vibrant vio- let, emerald green and animal prints, in comfortable fabrics and fits. Arriving in stores this month, the collection features new styles as well as La Vie en Rose’ best- sellers in new seasonal colours. The collection is pleasing to the FROM LEFT: Natasha D’Souza, Assistant Marketing Manager, La Vie en eye and exudes sensuality while keeping in mind the comfort fac- Rose, Apparel Group Dubai; Pabithra Dey, Operations Manager, Sunil tor. One such example is the leop- Kambrat, General Manager, and Shaheen Muhammad, Marketing Manager ard print that has been combined of Apparel Group Qatar; and Vidhi Khanna of Apparel Group Dubai during with the most comfortable style. the launch of the new collection. In addition to lingerie and sleepwear, La Vie en Rose is collection allows each woman to available: cami, T-shirt, shorts offering a new swimwear collec- create her own two-piece to suit and capris, all with a body hug- tion for the upcoming season. It her style and silhouette. ging cut and made of stretchable is an array of colours, prints and The brand has introduced a fabric, making them perfect for styles to suit every taste. With its capsule active collection: Body yoga, fast walking and running. mix and match concept, the new Mind Soul. Four styles are THE PENINSULA

SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Rebels seize most of Syria side of Golan Regime on the retreat: NGO

BEIRUT: Rebels including the Six-Day War of 1967, then Al Qaeda loyalists have seized annexed it in 1981 in a move never most of the Syrian side of the recognised by the international armistice line with Israel on the community. Golan Heights, a monitoring Syria has never relinquished group said yesterday. its claim to the territory and its Al Qaeda affiliate Al Nusra return was the subject of peace Front and its allies launched a talks with Israel in the 1990s and major offensive against govern- again in 2008. ment forces in Quneitra province Any prospect of the the talks’ last month, capturing the sole resumption has been torpedoed crossing point over the armistice by the uprising against President line to the Israeli-occupied sector Bashar Al Assad’s regime that of the strategic plateau. erupted in March 2011 and swiftly “The regime is on the retreat escalated into a civil war that has Forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad in the village and hill of Al Samsam in Hama countryside, after saying they have regained control of before the advancing rebels,” claimed more than 191,000 lives. the area yesterday. Syrian Observatory for Human The regime has lost control of Rights director Rami Abdel much of the east to jihadists of Rahman told AFP. the Islamic State group, including “The regime has now lost con- all of Raqa province and much of trol of about 80 percent of towns Deir Ezzor. Islamists destroy Sufi shrines in Syria and villages in Quneitra province.” The air force carried out The rebels seized 45 UN peace- strikes on an IS training base in BEIRUT: The hardline Syria, has destroyed dozens of said the latest destruction more than 40 wounded in Syrian keepers on the Golan on August Deir Ezzor province yesterday, Al Qaeda offshoot Islamic State shrines, tombs and Shia Muslim included two shrines and two government air strikes target- 28 and held them hostage until killing eight of its militants, the has destroyed several Sufi mosques. tombs devoted to Sufi sheikhs, ting a training camp west of Deir Thursday. Observatory said. Muslim shrines and tombs in Sites affiliated with the Sufi all in Deir al-Zor province, which Al Zor city. They are part of the The Assad regime has stepped the eastern Syrian province of sect, a mystical school of Islam is almost entirely controlled by The United States has been 1,200-strong UN Disengagement up its air campaign against IS in Deir Al Zor, a monitoring group opposed by puritanical Salafists Islamic State militants. carrying out air strikes against Observer Force, which monitors a the east in recent weeks, but the said yesterday. from which Islamic State draws The Observatory, which moni- Islamic State in neighbouring Iraq 1974 ceasefire between Israel and near-daily strikes have exacted The Sunni Muslim group, its members, have been among the tors Syria’s conflict through a and US President Barack Obama Syria on the Golan. a heavy toll among civilians in which enforces a strict interpre- group’s main targets. network of sources in the coun- this week raised the prospect of Israel seized 1,200 square kilo- militant-controlled towns. tation of Islamic law in territo- The Britain-based Syrian try, also said at least eight Islamic also striking the group in Syria. metres of the territory during AFP ries under its control in Iraq and Observatory for Human Rights State fighters were killed and REUTERS

Homeless Palestinians get temporary housing German jihadist, 20,

KHAN YUNIS: Fifty Palestinian families made set to go on trial homeless by Israeli bombing during the summer’s fierce offensive on the Gaza Strip were BERLIN: A 20-year-old Federal prosecutors say that rehoused yesterday in mobile German alleged jihadist goes he was driven by his “radical reli- homes in the southern town of on trial tomorrow on charges gious convictions” but are unclear Khan Yunis. of fighting for Islamic State in about the reasons for his return During the 50-day con- Syria, in Germany’s first court to Germany. However, they say flict, 9,800 homes were totally proceedings involving the mili- there is no evidence he was plan- destroyed and another 8,000 tant group. ning an attack. left uninhabitable, according to The defendant, identified by They say the seeds of his data from the housing ministry the court only as Kreshnik B, radicalism appeared to have in Gaza. was arrested last December been planted in 2011, soon after Imad Al Haddad, Gaza head at Frankfurt airport in west- Kreshnik B joined a job training of a United Arab Emirates asso- ern Germany on his way home centre, where he fell in with a ciation providing these 50 mobile from Syria. group of Muslim fundamentalists. homes, told AFP that, in the Prosecutors say he joined the Acquaintances say he started town’s Khuzaa neighbourhood Islamic State (IS) jihadist group skipping classes, insulting his alone 500 families lost the rooves fighting to create a “caliphate” teachers and watching hours of over their heads. straddling Syria and Iraq. jihadist propaganda online. Mohamed Al Najjar, 60, While in Syria, he allegedly Two years later, on July 2, whose three-storey house was underwent weapons training 2013, he boarded a bus with six crushed by an Israeli air strike, with the jihadists and fought in at friends in the southwestern city is one of those moving into the least three battles against Syrian of Mannheim bound for Istanbul, UAE accommodation, which he President Bashar Al Assad’s then headed for the Turkish- described as an “excellent initia- troops. Syrian border following a well- tive” for the near term. Justice officials say this is the trod path. “We expect to rebuild our first time a German court will Once he slipped into Syria, house; we do not just want a tem- hear a criminal case against an Kreshnik B and his comrades porary solution,” he said. IS suspect, and the trial will open were taken to a nearby build- Al Haddad said each unit — under tight security three days ing where they were subjected to comprising two bedrooms, a after the government announced harsh interrogation by militia- bathroom and kitchen — could Workers place containers donated by Human Appeal for Palestinians, as temporary replacements for the houses a major crackdown on the group’s men fearful of being infiltrated accommodate six people and cost that were destroyed during a seven-week Israeli offensive, in the east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip activities. by Western agents. an estimated $7,000. AFP yesterday. The case underlines European Weekly magazine Focus fears of the threat posed by hun- reported that, as a warning, dreds of young Islamic militants the newcomers were shown the returning from Syria and Iraq, decapitated heads of purported where they have gained weapons spies mounted on spikes. UN rapporteur training and combat experience. After passing muster, Kreshnik US warned beheaded journalists’ Kreshnik B, who was born B gained admission to a training in Frankfurt to a family from camp to groom him for combat. raps Oman over Kosovo, faces 10 years in prison In Internet chats with his sister if convicted by the city’s superior that were intercepted by investi- assembly rights families against paying ransom regional court of membership of gators, Kreshnik B recounted his a foreign terrorist organisation. life among the IS fighters, and MUSCAT: The right of Omanis WASHINGTON: The fami- this,” Barak Barfi told Yahoo News. was “totally unaware and would A verdict is not expected before described paying monthly dues to peaceful assembly is “virtu- lies of two journalists beheaded “The Sotloffs felt there was not condone anybody” at the mid-November but authorities of around 50 euros ($65) to the ally non-existent in practice” by Islamic State jihadists were nothing they could do to get State Department making any hope the trial will provide insights group. a United Nations special rap- both warned by US government Steve out.” He added that Sotloff’s threatening statements. into IS activities. AFP porteur said yesterday during a officials they could face pros- father was “shaking” after the Meanwhile, White House visit to the Gulf country, which ecution if they raised a ransom meeting with the official from the spokesman Josh Earnest said detained hundreds in 2011 for their release. National Security Council. long-standing US policy forbids after quashing pro-democracy The recent executions of The remarks followed simi- paying ransoms because doing so Libya protest protests. James Foley and Steven Sotloff lar comments by Foley’s mother “only puts other Americans in a Oman, a US ally which occupies by Islamic State (IS) extremists Diane, who told CNN in an inter- position where they’re at even one side of the narrow Strait of triggered worldwide revulsion and view aired Thursday that her greater risk.” Hormuz, the world’s busiest oil Washington has since declared it family was warned it could be He referred questions about shipping route, has an elected is at war with the radicals. charged if it tried to come up with whether the Foleys would have parliament but ultimate power The United States has a policy ransom money. been prosecuted to the Justice rests in the hands of H M Sultan of never paying ransoms, contend- The family was also told no Department. Qaboos bin Said, who has ruled ing that doing so would endanger prisoners would be exchanged But he said President Barack since 1970. Americans all over the world. for Foley, nor would the gov- Obama used “every tool at our “In my meetings with the gov- Late Friday, a spokesman for ernment take military action, disposal” to try to free Foley, ernment, I observed a consist- Sotloff’s family said the murdered she said. It was also told not to including a “high-risk” military ent focus on maintaining peace, journalist’s parents were told by go to the media and “trust that rescue attempt. Islamic State mil- order and stability in Oman, often a White House counterterrorism it would be taken care of.” The itants released a video of Foley’s used as the rationale for limiting official last May that they could Sotloff’s “heard the same thing beheading on August 19, followed assembly and association rights,” face prosecution if they paid a the Foleys did,” Yahoo News quoted in early September by footage of said Maina Kiai, UN Special ransom in an attempt to secure Barfi as saying. Secretary of State Sotloff’s killing. James Foley, 40, Libyan mufti Sheikh Sadeq Al Ghariani (centre) speaks as others flash Rapporteur on the rights of the release of their son. John Kerry responded to Foley’s had covered wars in Afghanistan, the vitctory sign during a rally in central Tripoli’s Martyr’s Square in peaceful assembly and association. “The family felt completely and remarks Friday, saying he was Libya and Syria. support of “Fajr Libya” (Libya Dawn), a mainly-Islamist alliance. REUTERS utterly helpless when they heard “really taken aback” and that he AFP SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 US seeks Egypt support for war on jihadists Top diplomat says Cairo on the frontline in fighting terror; has frank discussion on human rights in Egypt

CAIRO: US Secretary of State John second city Mosul in June. Kerry said yesterday Egypt was on the In Jeddah on Thursday, Kerry gained frontline against “terrorism” after he Arab support for the push to weaken IS. met its leadership to garner support But Washington has insisted it will not to fight Islamic State jihadists in Iraq work with President Bashar Al Assad of and Syria. Syria, where three and a half years of Egypt’s formidable army is unlikely to conflict have allowed the emergence of take part in a military coalition against IS, the most violent and powerful group IS, but has closely cooperated with the in modern jihad. United States on counter-terrorism. Atrocities in IS-controlled areas The Arab world’s most populous state include attacks on ethnic and religious boasts the prestigious Sunni Muslim minorities and beheadings of American authority Al-Azhar, which Kerry said journalists and soldiers, many of which it would fight back against the Islamic recorded and posted online. State’s use of the religion. Kerry did not invite Iran to join the Washington says it is “at war” with IS coalition, saying it would “not be appro- and has named retired Marine general priate given the many other issues... with John Allen, a hawkish former commander respect to their engagement in Syria and in Afghanistan and Iraq, to coordinate its elsewhere”. campaign against the movement that has Under mounting criticism for not tak- seized large chunks of Iraq and neigh- ing swifter action, US President Barack bouring Syria. Obama set out a strategy on Wednesday to Kerry, who flew in from Ankara, met stamp out the group, including air strikes President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and Arab in Syria and expanded operations in Iraq. League chief Nabil Al Arabi. The CIA put the number of IS fight- He later travelled to Paris ahead of a ers at 20,000 to 31,500 in Iraq and Syria, conference tomorrow on Iraq to be hosted up to three times the previous estimate. by French President Francois Hollande. US aircraft have carried out more than Cairo’s involvement in the coalition 160 strikes in Iraq since early August, may help to soothe its relations with the US Central Command said yesterday. Washington, after the United States sus- Washington plans to help revamp pended — then restored — military aid the Iraqi army, which withered under when the army ousted elected Islamist US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi at the presidential palace in Cairo yesterday. the IS-led onslaught in June, and has president Mohamed Mursi last year. announced it will fly combat missions Mursi’s successor, former army chief from an airbase in the Kurdish regional Sisi, is fighting Islamist militants in include Al-Azhar university. their ideology is linked,” Shoukri said. Sunni Arab heartland north and west of capital Arbil. Iraqi Prime Minister the restive Sinai Peninsula who have “As an intellectual and cultural capital Kerry said he also had a “frank” dis- Baghdad in June. Haidar Al Abadi yesterday ordered his expressed support for the Islamic State. in the Muslim world, Egypt has a critical cussion on human rights in Egypt amid There, he spoke of “a broad-based country’s air force to stop bombarding “Egypt is on the frontline of the fight role to play in publicly denouncing the a bloody crackdown on the government’s coalition with Arab nations, European populated areas in a bid to minimise civil- against terrorism, particularly when it ideology that ISIL disseminates,” Kerry opponents, and the jailing of three Al nations, the United States and others”. ian casualties, a move welcomed by the comes to fighting extremist groups in said, using another acronym for IS. Jazeera television journalists and secular Turkey is a fellow NATO member but United Nations. Three years after the Sinai,” Kerry told a news conference with Egypt has branded its Islamist political dissidents. On Friday, Hollande travelled has so far refused to open its air bases to end of the nearly nine-year US military Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukri. opposition as well as militants as “terror- to Baghdad, where he offered to boost US forces and other coalition members. presence in Iraq, which some observers After securing the backing of 10 Arab ists” vaguely linked to regional militant French military assistance to Iraq. A Turkish official told AFP that say nurtured what is now IS, Obama governments this week, Washington was groups. The same day, Kerry was in neighbour- Ankara’s hands were tied by concern for has also been careful to stress to war- seeking approval for its campaign from “We of course monitor the relation ing Turkey to address the threat posed 49 Turks, including diplomats and their weary Americans that he will not commit Egypt and its religious institutions, which between the different organisations, and by the jihadists, who seized much of the children, kidnapped when IS seized Iraq’s ground forces. AFP Iraq PM orders halt to air strikes on civilian areas US violating sovereignty BAGHDAD: Iraq’s Shia Force to halt shelling of civil- said. Diplomats and Iraqi politi- the past two years, using barrel Prime Minister Haider Al ian areas even in those towns cians from across Iraq’s politi- bombs to hit Islamic State fight- Abadi said yesterday that he controlled by ISIS,” Abadi said cal spectrum hope Abadi, who ers who hide among civilians. of Iraq and Syria: Iran had ordered his air force to on his official Twitter account, formed a cabinet on Monday, Abadi said the order had been halt strikes on civilian areas, using the former name for mili- can detoxify the political system issued on Thursday. On the TEHRAN: The secretary of official to criticise an international addressing a condition set by tant group Islamic State. to form a unified front against same day, 14 barrel bombs were Iran’s Supreme National Security coalition the United States is build- Sunni Muslim tribal figures to The United Nations rep- Islamic State. dropped on Falluja city, killing Council accused the United States ing against the jihadist Islamic support his campaign against resentative in Iraq, Nickolay Sunni Muslim tribal fig- 22 civilians, a source at a hospi- yesterday of violating the sover- State group, which has captured Islamic State fighters. Mladenov, welcomed the com- ures have demanded a freeze tal in the city said. eignty of nations on the “pretext large parts of Iraq and Syria. Rights groups say Iraqi gov- ments, which were repeated on military action on civilian A resident in Islamic State of fighting terrorism” in Iraq and On Thursday, foreign ministry ernment attacks this year, many by Abadi at a conference about areas as one of the conditions dominated Ramadi said there Syria. spokeswoman Marzieh Afhkham of them in areas held by the refugees yesterday in Baghdad. for their support of Abadi’s had been attacks through- “On the pretext of fighting ter- cast doubt on the “sincerity” of the Islamic State which controls one “Protection of civilians and Shia-led government against out Friday on villages around rorism, the United States want to coalition. third of the country, have indis- ensuring their safety and secu- Islamic State. the city, killing at least three pursue their unilateral policies and Last week, Foreign Minister criminately targeted civilians. rity is a paramount priority for Iraqi authorities have cracked civilians. violate the sovereignty of states,” Mohammad Javad Zarif accused “I have ordered the Iraqi Air the United Nations,” Mladenov down on Sunni protests over REUTERS Ali Shamkhani said, quoted by the the United States of not taking the official IRNA news agency. threat from IS militants in Iraq and He said Washington was “trying Syria seriously. to divert the eyes of the world from He also charged that US aid Disagreements Back to school its pivotal role in supporting and had previously helped the jihad- equipping the terrorists in Syria ists, alluding to support given by remain over in a bid to topple the legitimate Washington to other rebel groups regime.” in Syria, some of which has found N-talks: Tehran Shamkhani was the latest Iranian its way into the hands of IS. AFP TEHRAN: A top Iranian nuclear negotiator said yester- day that “disagreements over serious questions” persisted in the latest talks with the world powers on his country’s atomic programme. “After two rounds of negotia- tions with the European repre- sentatives, our positions have not been reconciled and disagree- ments over serious questions still exist,” said Majid Takht- Ravanchi, who is also a deputy foreign minister. Takht-Ravanchi urged the so- called P5+1 group to “respect the red lines” drawn up by Iran to reach an agreement that would end the decade-old dispute. His remarks came after the Iranians and their European counterparts exchanged views Thursday in Vienna ahead of negotiations in New York on September 18. “We are always optimistic. But we have a difficult road to go,” Tehran’s lead negotiator Abbas A girl inspects stationery prior to the beginning of school in Damascus yesterday. Araqchi said after the latest talks with Britain, France and Germany, which followed a simi- lar meeting last week in Geneva. The three EU nations form part of the P5+1 group with the Lebanese arrested for ‘beheading’ prank United States, Russia and China BEIRUT: Lebanese police have arrested a Adding to the pathos of the incident, the cry- due to resume negotiations with man who staged a sick prank by filming him- ing children respond by pointing at each other. Iran in New York. self threatening to behead three Syrian refu- A security official said the video proved to be The six powers, all of which gee children left in his care, a security official a “sick joke,” and that the children had been left except Germany sit on the UN told AFP yesterday. in the man’s care by their mother, his neigh- Security Council and have nuclear The police also briefly arrested the children’s bour, while she was out at work. weapons themselves, want Iran to mother, who confessed to enjoying the scene she “The intelligence branch of the Internal scale back its atomic programme found when she returned from work. Security Forces has detained the man who to ease fears the Islamic republic The video, which was posted on YouTube made the video,” said the police official, add- gets the bomb. Friday and shared widely, shows the three ter- ing that the incident had taken place in the Tehran says its nuclear pro- rified children crying as a man standing behind southern Nabatiyeh province. In security forces gramme is exclusively for electric- a camera waves a knife and asks: “Whom do statement added that the children’s mother was ity generation and medical uses. we behead first?” also briefly detained. AFP AFP SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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mid the international brouhaha generated by the Islamic State threat,many bilateral and multilateral alliances have been formed and broken. The Ainternational campaign against the jihadists has brought out many a rift and unity among nations given to English tell Scots, you stay varying forms of government and disposition. The alliance of nations being forged against the Islamists in Syria and Iraq, though, has shown some strains as well. US Secretary of State John Kerry, on a tour of Middle East and we will leave EU countries, is trying his best to bring together a coalition of like-minded nations against the blood-thirsty terror group, BY MARC CHAMPION for reasons of security (they needed a which has beheaded two kidnapped US journalists and shows bigger Protestant ally against potential no signs of let-up in its killing spree. F SCOTLAND votes to leave the Catholic threats) and near-bankruptcy Kerry yesterday said that Iran should not attend the United Kingdom on September (Scotland had lost spectacularly in the conference in Paris being held tomorrow to devise a strategy 18, one cause will be the disguised 1690s from an attempt to compete alone Handled intelligently against the Islamic State. This is one instance in which the English nationalism of unionists in the colonial trading game). who try to argue, at the same This head-over-heart decision and honestly from the rift between different powers is showing up. Itime, to keep the United Kingdom worked well for Scotland for most of start, I doubt that the The top US diplomat cited Iran’s military support for together and break the European Union three centuries, but evidently is now Syrian President Bashar Al Assad and alleged Iranian support apart. vulnerable. Many in England find the vote in Scotland would for terrorist groups elsewhere as reasons for not wanting The most colourful example of this Scottish enthusiasm for a divorce per- Tehran to be part of the meeting. hypocrisy, UK Independence Party plexing, if not hurtful. Yet those same be a nail-biter now. It is hard to find common ground when international leader Nigel Farage, was in Glasgow people argue vehemently for their own today to deliver this message: Scotland heart-over-head decision to leave the Equally, there was no issues are concerned. But there should be sufficient reasons would be better off if it stays in Britain, EU — which Britain joined not because for states to dissipate energies in their own conflicts when and wouldn’t gain real independence by Brits loved the Germans and French, need for Cameron to they are fighting a common enemy. Extremist groups like leaving; Britain, however, should leave but because the British economy faired the Islamic State try to feed upon the EU, because it would thrive econom- poorly after World War II, and by the set up a vote on leaving sectarian and other differences ically and gain true sovereignty. 1970s was a basket case. Membership in the EU, in such a way Countries need among legitimate powers to spread Both debates the European Economic Community, as focus on the the EU was then called, seemed the best that he has unwittingly to set aside canards and parade their divisive costs and ben- way to achieve German levels of growth. differences to ideologies to create illegitimate efits of leaving, Farage is an extreme case. Yet much engineered it to favour authoritarian structures they call Scots agreed yet in reality are of Britain’s ruling Conservative Party, forge a strong states. driven by emo- which has just one of Scotland’s 59 MPs, separation. The Islamic State, an offshoot to merge with tion. In both, shares his essential view on Scotland’s global banks and position in the United Kingdom, as of Al Qaeda, was born in Iraq — coalition England primarily auto manufactur- opposed to their own in the EU. This fail to get the rest of the EU to devolve against in the sectarian bog created by ers are warning conflicted logic has infected the very top the kinds of powers he has promised to Shia Iraqi leader Nouri Al Maliki, for reasons of that a split may of the decision-making process. When, British voters, increasing the possibility jihadists. who didn’t make any secret of his security (they force them to for example, Prime Minister David of an EU exit. divisive ideology. leave the smaller, Cameron was negotiating the terms Which gets to the foolishness in all While it is important that needed a bigger seceding unit for of next week’s referendum, Scotland’s this: There is no need for Britain to be the mother ship, First Minister Alex Salmond wanted on the cusp of breaking up. Handled Washington is addressing security concerns thousands of miles Protestant ally meaning a loss of two alternatives on the ballot: inde- intelligently and honestly from the from home, it knows the importance of taking on jihadists as wealth and jobs. pendence and a continued union with start, I doubt that the vote in Scotland they would inevitably come knocking at its door. At the same against potential An economist vis- greater devolved powers for Scotland would be a nail-biter now. Equally, there time, the US should keep its differences with Iran on the side Catholic threats) iting from Mars (“Devo Max” in Westminster slang). was no need for Cameron to set up a table while devising a strategy against jihadist terror. Nuclear would conclude Cameron refused. vote on leaving the EU, in such a way issues and the like have also kept tensions simmering between and near- that the big risks Just months later, Cameron promised that he has unwittingly engineered it to for both Scotland the country a referendum on whether to favor separation. the West and Tehran, but this is not the time to ponder on bankruptcy. and Britain lie stay in the EU by 2017. Only this time, The greatest misunderstanding here concerns that keep the two sides apart. with leaving, if the choice would be between leaving the is the belief — held by the Scots nation- Rather than pointing fingers at each other — Iran has said only because less EU and staying in a reformed union that alists and English Eurosceptics alike — US air strikes in Iraq and Syria will violate the countries’ change involves less uncertainty. devolved more powers to Britain — a that by going it alone they will become sovereignty — they should come together in formulating a Which gets to the “nationalist” part of “Devo Max” for the United Kingdom As truly independent. Both will find they these debates. Scots, on the whole, don’t the “yes” vote in Scotland has soared, have to negotiate ties remarkably simi- strategy against the extremists. The tentacles of the Islamic get misty-eyed about Britain. In 1707, Cameron has panicked: Now he is trying lar to those they cut, resulting in lit- State are creeping across international borders. Scores of when the Acts of Union were signed, to persuade Scots to stay by promising tle new power or freedom. Both will radicalised people, including those with families, are being the streets of London were thronged to give them, if they do, the Devo Max find that in a world where politicians recruited by extremists from places as far removed as in celebration, while in Edinburgh they offer that he kept from their ballot, but struggle to impose their nations’ will Malaysia and Scandinavia. were empty and the mood was sour, not Britain’s. in a globalised economy, life in splen- This is not the time for bickering but outright action according to historical accounts. Scots Worst of all — or best, if you are a did isolation is less glorious than they agreed to merge with England primarily Farage supporter — Cameron may well thought. WP-BLOOMBERG against a common enemy• The other side Quote of Better late than never the day

ome of the world’s most neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) has ravaging West African communities products through the costly late stages gruesome diseases are finally long been highlighted by health cam- could change those statistics as biotech of clinical development. Significantly, getting a bit of attention. paigners, but it rarely gets on to the firms and pharmaceutical companies, much of the funding for Ebola has been S The worst-ever Ebola out- political radar in the West. Out of 336 spurred on by government funding, driven not by concerns about sporadic break, which has already killed at least brand-new drugs approved for all dis- fast-track drug development programs. outbreaks in Africa but by a bio-defense 2,296 people in West Africa, has trig- eases between 2000 and 2011, only “This will draw more attention to Ebola strategy in the United States and other Egypt is on the gered a scramble to develop the first four, or 1 percent, were for such condi- and (neglected) diseases like it, because countries fearful of the potential to frontline of the fight drug or vaccine for a deadly disease tions — three for malaria and one for this is the first time we’ve seen an out- weaponize the virus. There are signs that was discovered nearly 40 years diarrheal disease, according to a study break of this magnitude,” said Chris that the threat from neglected diseases against terrorism, ago in the forests of Central Africa. published in The Lancet journal last year. Elias, head of global development for is now moving up the agenda but efforts particularly when But Ebola is not the only tropical dis- The pipeline is also thin, with just the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, remain woefully inadequate, according ease without a cure, and many other 1 percent of clinical trials under way which has just pledged $50 million to to Jean-Herve Bradol, a former presi- it comes to fighting infections for which effective treatments around the world focused on NTDs fight the epidemic. dent of Medecins Sans Frontieres who are lacking or not widely available afflict such as rabies, sleeping sickness, leish- It is not that scientists don’t have leads research at the group’s CRASH extremist groups in far larger populations. The absence of maniasis, elephantiasis, trachoma and ideas for new drugs and vaccines but, Foundation research center and who Sinai. economic incentives for drug makers other parasites that maim, blind and until now, they have lacked the indus- co-wrote the Lancet paper. John Kerry to develop and supply medicines for kill millions. The Ebola outbreak now try buy-in needed to take experimental ARAB NEWS US Secretary of State SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Why breaking up Britain could tear EU apart

imagine the current coalition winning To make matters re-election — especially given the sense of shock and national failure implied by worse, a Labour-led Scotland turning its back on Britain. The probability of a Labour-led gov- ernment taking charge next year would government would rise to something like 70 percent or 80 percent. That prospect could be quite lack proper political alarming to international investors in Britain and sterling, since Labour would likely campaign on a platform of higher legitimacy to enact taxes, shrinking the City of London’s financial activities and abolishing the its manifesto concessions to foreign residents that now make Britain one of the world’s top tax havens. promises — much To make matters worse, a Labour-led government would lack proper political less negotiate the legitimacy to enact its manifesto prom- ises — much less negotiate the terms of terms of separation separation from Scotland. For its major- ity would depend on Scottish members of Parliament due for expulsion in 2016 from Scotland. should Scotland leave Britain. A constitutional crisis therefore seems almost inevitable. Labour would likely BY ANATOLE KALETSKY have to respond by promising another general election after Scotland’s seces- hile recent opinion polls sion in March 2016. This would mean two have swung slightly years of unprecedented political turmoil back toward the “no” and economic policy uncertainty for busi- camp, there remains a nesses and investors in Britain, leading distinct possibility that up to a second election in mid-2016. WThursday’s Scottish referendum will trig- Labour would almost certainly lose that ger a previously unthinkable breakup of election to a Conservative Party that, by Britain. A bunch of ‘Yes’ balloons are seen as Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond campaigns in Edinburgh, Scotland on Wednesday. that time, would be strongly committed If this were to happen, the biggest risks to exiting the European Union. for global businesses and investors do not Which brings us to the European ques- lie in the economic problems created by European countries? The answers to all in the union or breaking it — instead of until the May election. The only issues on tion. If Scotland leaves Britain, many Scotland’s choice of currency or the inevi- four questions promise to be more desta- taking up the Scottish National Party’s the political agenda would be the terms Conservatives would consider their hold table arguments about sharing North Sea bilising than almost anyone would have proposal for a third option of increasing of Scottish separation and the Cameron on power in Westminster as virtually oil revenue and the British national debt. predicted a month ago. self-government within Britain. Cameron government’s astonishing complacency guaranteed because of the removal of These are crucial challenges for Scotland Starting with the issue of other also allowed preserving the union to be about presiding over national breakup. Scotland’s 59 members of Parliament and have been much discussed in finan- European independence movements, the presented as a negative option in the This complacency, which voters, inves- — only one of whom is a Conservative. cial institutions and think tanks. But the answer is obvious. If Scotland votes for phrasing of the referendum question and tors and businesses have only just started So the party would surely move further crucial issue for the world economy and independence, it would become extremely accepted the National Party’s controver- to notice, was exemplified on Monday toward the Europhobia of its most vocal financial markets is about the resulting difficult for the Spanish government to sial decision to lower the voting age from when Sir Jeremy Heywood, head of grass-roots activists. impact on the European Union — and continue denying a similar democratic 18 to 16. the British Civil Service, calmly told a The Tories have already promised to especially on Britain, which would remain right to the Catalans and Basques. For all these reasons, plus his unpopu- shocked parliamentary committee that renegotiate Britain’s EU membership and the world’s sixth largest economy even if Beyond that, Flemish separatists would larity in the Conservative Party’s power- government departments were doing hold an “In or Out” referendum in 2017. Scotland departs. intensify pressure in Belgium, and the ful anti-European wing, Cameron would absolutely nothing to prepare for the pos- Whether they are returned to power These political risks, which I discussed Northern League in Italy could get a new likely face huge pressure to resign if the sibility of Scottish independence. in 2016, or manage to win re-election here last week, can be broken down into lease on life. referendum passes. “The government has made it clear,” in May, the Tories would probably be four questions: What would Scottish Focusing back on Britain, the politi- The Conservative Party has a his- Heywood said, “that it does not wish to emboldened by their “natural” majority independence, if it happens, mean for cal implications become more complex. If tory of turning suddenly and ruthlessly do any contingency planning and that in a Britain without Scotland to demand British politics and economic manage- Britain breaks up after Thursday’s vote, against its leaders. In September 1990, applies to the Civil Service. When we are conditions for maintaining EU member- ment over the nine months, until the May Prime Minister David Cameron would nobody imagined that Prime Minister given a clear instruction by ministers, ship that Brussels, Paris and even Berlin 2015 general election? What effect would have to take responsibility for promoting Margaret Thatcher was even remotely we obey it.” would reject. it have on the election results? How the referendum on needlessly risky con- vulnerable. Less than three months later What would all this mean for the 2015 Thus if Scotland breaks Britain next would all this turmoil affect Britain’s ditions that in hindsight look downright she was gone. election and subsequent policy, espe- week, a chain of events would begin that fraught relationship with Europe? Would reckless. Whether or not Cameron is ousted cially on Europe? With the government is likely to end with Britain breaking the Scottish independence act as an inspira- It was Cameron who decided to offer after the vote, the British government stumbling and consumed by recrimina- Europe Union. tion for secessionist movements in other the Scots a simple choice between staying would be reduced to lame-duck status tions between now and May, it is hard to REUTERS Obama’s Isis plan a way for perpetual war A big month lies ahead While the existence of the Forever for US-India relations War has been evident for years BY CHANDRAHAS CHOUDHURY hat ails relations between India and the United States? to anyone who has been paying Nothing, if you were to believe the leaders and diplomats tasked with keeping the road between the two well- attention, it is only in the last few Wlit and clear of obstructions. The relationship between America and India links the world’s oldest democracy and the world’s largest one, between the great beacons of democracy in the West and days that it became overt US policy. the East. The contact between our peoples grows ever more robust and more BY TREVOR TIMM Force against Al Qaeda – which diverse. Immigration, tourism, education, culture — each has a bur- expelled IS months ago. geoning place in this story. We have similar visions of democracy and n a speech that would The justice department’s Office are committed to a secular state that best liberates the potential, and make Dick Cheney proud, of Legal Counsel, which already ensures the fundamental rights, of their multiethnic societies. the president told us (and has an egregious habit of declaring Well, perhaps my fancy begins to wax into excess here, but you see the Pentagon repeated) this their legal interpretations of pub- the point. There’s nothing wrong with Indo-US relations, but given week that we are at war lic laws classified, may not have what the countries share, they could be so much better. The history of Iwith Islamic State (IS) “in same even bothered to put this particu- the two countries in the last six decades is of the people taking every way we are at war with Al Qaeda lar tortured legal interpretation chance they can to forge enduring links while their governments fail US President Barack Obama talks to reporters at the end of the Nato Summit and its affiliates” – a war that in writing. As the Washington to achieve meaningful amity (for a host of reasons, including the Cold will go on indefinitely, is based Post reported, when questioned in Newport, Wales last week. War, the Kashmir dispute and the war in Afghanistan), then miss on a strategy that’s been failing by reporters “Administration offi- each new chance to redefine the relationship because of mistrust, for over a decade and will never cials have declined to provide the Despite Feinstein’s statement has not been able to destroy Al disinterest or inertia. I can’t say I’ve ever given a lot of credence to legally be called a war. administration’s legal rationale in that “The threat IS poses can- Qaeda or any terrorist group Sen. John McCain’s opinions on foreign policy, especially because they While the existence of the detail.” not be overstated”, both the New in the last decade “through two usually involve more airstrikes than conversations. But earlier this Forever War has been evident Make no mistake: if George York Times and Washington wars, thousands of drone strikes week I heard him speak on the subject of US-India relations at the for years to anyone who has been W Bush had used a 13 year-old Post published prominent sto- and hundreds of covert operations Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, and I paying attention, it is only in the law to wage war on a group that ries documenting how virtually around the world.” thought he made a lot of sense — and achieved a meaningful rather last few days that it became overt didn’t even exist when the law all “American intelligence agen- The only question now is how than banal use of the word “strategic,” which in our time is no small US policy. was passed – and done so for cies have concluded that (IS) far this Forever War against IS thing — when he said: Now, even generals are openly the express purpose of bypassing poses no immediate threat to goes. How long until there is a Worse, America’s wars abroad and indulgence of Pakistan have often agreeing with Thompson’s senti- Congress – Democrats would be the United States.” clamoring for a ground invasion imposed unreasonable costs on India and generated intractable sticking ments. “We’re not going to see an rioting in the streets. This is in stark contrast to in Iraq or Syria – or both – when points in the conversations between the respective regimes of the day, end to this in our lifetime,” retired More conservative members of Congress, which, seems to be in the current strategy of airstrikes whether Republican or Democrat on the US side or the Congress or Air Force general Charles F Wald Congress – many of whom that a contest over who can make and a massive influx of arms inev- the Bharatiya Janata Party on the Indian side. said. have been calling Obama a coward the most ridiculously hyperbolic itably fails? To the student of Indo-American relations, a romantic haze attaches The president also announced for weeks – have now suddenly statement about IS. As The Guardian’s Spencer itself to the days when John F Kennedy took a great interest in the that he wouldn’t be needing con- decided to take their sweet time The Times and Post also ran Ackerman reported, there are problems of newly independent India, committed a vast sum to India gressional approval for prolonged before acting on their own consti- detailed stories looking at the already 1,200 special operations in aid, and sent to India as ambassador perhaps the most influential airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, ignor- tutional obligations and delayed inescapable morass into which forces and “advisers” on the American in that position to date: the charismatic and influential ing both their constitutional obli- any vote on it until November (if this war will quickly turn, along ground in Iraq. The Army’s own economist John Kenneth Galbraith. President Barack Obama should gations and his … and that we’d then). with how “success” will likely be newspaper, Stars and Stripes, respond to that energy instead of trying to deflect it into initiatives be funnelling more weapons to a They are, apparently, more impossible given the myriad com- reported that the US Army that would once again be “no more than the sum of their parts.” It’s group of “moderate” fighters that worried about their re-election plexities at play – including the Contracting Command has put essential he contemplate India without the shadow of American inter- hardly anyone believes is moder- prospects than “the most vicious, precarious Iraqi government coa- out a call for contractors – ie ests in Pakistan and China falling over those thoughts. If for no other ate nor particularly good at fight- well-funded and militant terrorist lition, our supposed enemy Bashir retired soldiers now operating reason, it would show respect for the aspirations and realities of India’s ing, including Obama. organisation we have ever seen” Al Assad in Syria and the double as mercenaries – to help bolster 1.2 billion people. Legal scholars on the left and as Senator Dianne Feinstein put dealing and disinterest of many the Iraqi government. How many It’s hard to see when there has been a more opportune moment to the right denounced the presi- it last Sunday. of the US’s so-called allies in the troops have to be on the ground put down on a clean slate a vision of ties between the US and India for dent’s unconstitutional decision Thankfully after the presi- region. before we admit that we have the 21st century, commensurate to political first principles and to the to bypass Congress and author- dent’s speech, the media seems Somehow, despite all this, the “ground troops” in Iraq? ties the two countries have already forged as societies and as econo- ize military action unilaterally to have finally noticed that the Obama administration thinks it Because in the Forever War, it’s mies. “Historic” is another overused word, but it would be a waste of by pinning it to the 13 year-old coming war on IS is both unnec- can “destroy” IS, though, as the only a matter of time. the capital granted uniquely to political leadership if this month were Authorisation for Use of Military essary and impossible to win. Post noted, the US government THE GUARDIAN not a historic one for US-India relations. WP-BLOOMBERG SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL

Uganda uncovers ‘terrorist cell’; US Ukraine premier slams Putin alerts citizens

KAMPALA: The US Embassy Ceasefire again under strain in Uganda told its citizens to seek safety yesterday, warn- KIEV/DONETSK: Fighting and the key aggressor is the ing that local authorities had flared near an airport in eastern Russian Federation ... Putin wants uncovered a “terrorist cell” run Ukraine yesterday in breach of a another frozen conflict (in eastern by Somali militant group Al fragile eight-day ceasefire as the Ukraine),” said Yatseniuk, a long- Shabab, which they believed was prime minister accused Russian time fierce critic of Moscow and planning an imminent attack. President Vladimir Putin of a supporter of Ukraine’s eventual Ugandan police later said it planning to destroy his country. Nato membership. had foiled an attack in central Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said Putin would Kampala and was increasing Yatseniuk said only membership not be content only with Crimea security at hotels and other pub- of Nato would enable Ukraine - annexed by Moscow in March lic places, but declined to say who to defend itself from external - and with Ukraine’s mainly was behind the attack. aggression. Russian-speaking eastern region. The embassy, in a statement Kiev and its Western backers “His goal is to take all of Ukraine published on its website, said it was accuse Moscow of sending troops ... Russia is a threat to the global not aware of specific targets but and tanks into eastern Ukraine order and to the security of the said the authorities had increased in support of pro-Russian sepa- whole of Europe.” security at key sites including ratists battling Ukrainian forces Ukrainian military spokesman Entebbe International Airport. in a conflict that has killed more Andriy Lysenko told a daily brief- “Today Ugandan authorities than 3,000 people. Russia denies ing that one soldier and 12 rebels reported the discovery of an Al the accusations. had been killed in the past 24 Shabab terrorist cell in Kampala, A ceasefire negotiated by hours, without specifying where Uganda,” the embassy said. “We envoys from Ukraine, Russia, the they had died. That would bring remain in close contact with our separatists and Europe’s OSCE the death toll among Ukrainian Ugandan counterparts as investi- security watchdog, has been in forces since the start of the cease- gations continue into what appears place in eastern Ukraine since fire eight days ago to six. to have been planning for an immi- September 5 and is broadly hold- The rebels have not said how nent attack.” Ugandan police said ing despite regular but sporadic many of their men have died in they had seized explosives and violations, especially in key flash- the same period. Government arrested an unspecified number of points such as Donetsk. forces still hold Donetsk air- A Ukrainian serviceman guards a rally supporting a united Ukraine in Mariupol yesterday. foreigners after foiling an attack. Witnesses yesterday heard port, while the city is in sepa- But Fred Enanga, a spokesman heavy artillery fire in northern ratist hands. Putin says Russia Europe and Russia, but Kiev has The Ukraine conflict has trig- it does not care about the sanc- for Uganda Police, declined to say districts of Donetsk, the largest has the right to defend its ethnic stepped up cooperation with Nato gered several waves of Western tions,” he said, noting that Russia if he believed the cell was con- city of the region with a pre-war kin beyond its borders, though in a range of areas and has pressed sanctions against Russia, most relied heavily on its energy sec- nected to Islamist militants Al population of about one million. Moscow denies arming the rebels member states to sell it weapons recently on Friday. The new tor and some of the sanctions Shabab or to name the nationali- They saw plumes of black smoke and helped broker the current to help defeat the separatists. measures, branded by Putin “a bit targeted its oil firms. ties of those detained. above the airport, which is in gov- ceasefire with Kiev. Meanwhile, about 100 Russian strange” in view of the ceasefire, Yatseniuk defended his govern- Uganda, as one of the coun- ernment hands. The city is con- Asked about future Nato mem- lorries arrived in the war-ravaged target banks and oil companies. ment’s efforts, despite the conflict, tries that contribute forces to an trolled by the rebels. bership, a red line for Russia, eastern city of Luhansk, part of a Russia, which has already to tackle rampant corruption and African Union peacekeeping mis- Speaking at a conference in Yatseniuk said he realised the alli- convoy sent to deliver 1,800 tonnes introduced bans on a range of US overhaul the creaking economy, sion battling Al Shabab in Somalia, Kiev attended by Ukrainian and ance was not ready now to admit of humanitarian aid to residents. and European food imports, sig- adding: “It is very hard to attract has suffered militant attacks in European lawmakers and busi- Kiev, but added: “Nato in these It is the second such Russian nalled it would respond with fur- investors when you have Russian recent years. The US Embassy ness leaders, Yatseniuk made particular circumstances is the aid convoy and it passed the bor- ther sanctions of its own against tanks and artillery in your coun- told its citizens, in a message clear he did not view the cease- only vehicle to protect Ukraine.” der without any major difficulty. Western interests. Yatseniuk said try.” His centre-right People’s posted on Twitter, to stay at home fire as the start of a sustainable There is no prospect of the The first convoy in August was yesterday that the latest sanc- Front party is expected to do or proceed to a safe location while peace process because of Putin’s Atlantic alliance admitting denounced by Ukraine and its tions posed a big threat to the well in a parliamentary election Ugandan authorities completed ambitions. Ukraine, a sprawling country of Western allies for crossing the Russian economy. on October 26. operations against a suspected “We are still in a stage of war 45 million people between central border without Kiev’s permission. “It is bluff (by Russia) to say REUTERS cell in Kampala. REUTERS

Hungarians protest Congo oppn vows more protests Reeva Steenkamp’s family after crackdown

KINSHASA: Democratic shocked at Pistorius verdict Republic of Congo’s opposition pledged to escalate its campaign PRETORIA: The parents of and “amputating” her arm. South African law. But Masipa against a possible third term for Reeva Steenkamp have reacted Masipa, dismissing swathes of — who has a reputation for hand- President Joseph Kabila after with shock and disbelief after prosecution evidence as incon- ing out stiff sentences — could police dispersed a protest march a judge acquitted star athlete clusive or irrelevant, ruled that decide to fine Pistorius or put him with tear gas here yesterday. Oscar Pistorius of her murder, on the charge of murder “the behind bars for more than a dec- Anti-government protests were convicting him of the lesser accused is found not guilty and ade. “It all comes down to how she suppressed in at least three other charge of culpable homicide. is discharged. Instead he is found feels, how bad the mistake was,” towns, the opposition said. In “We were shocked. Shocked. guilty of culpable homicide”. said Johannesburg lawyer David Butembo, in the eastern province Disappointed,” June Steenkamp Pistorius stared straight ahead Dadic. “It’s a very serious negli- of North Kivu, police fired tear gas told Britain’s ITV News. “You know as the conviction was read, show- gence crime.” and threw stones at protesters, your heart drops because you just ing little emotion. But from the Pistorius’s uncle Arnold said the according to Fabrice Kakubuzi, a want the truth,” she said, referring courtroom gallery there were damage done to the athlete’s career local civil society coordinator. to the death of her daughter. sniffles and shallow breaths as and life as a result of the trial had Provincial authorities in South African Judge Thokozile friends and family of 29-year-old been “tragic”. “We always knew the Kinshasa refused to authorise the Masipa acquitted Pistorius of Steenkamp wept. facts,” the family spokesman said, march in the capital, organised by murder, but found he acted “neg- Steenkamp’s father Barry “and we never had any doubt in a coalition of leading opposition ligently” in killing the blonde law looked at Pistorius and ran his Oscar’s version of this tragic inci- groups, arguing they had already graduate and fashion model by hand over his head while her dent.” He thanked Masipa for her permitted another rally yesterday firing at her through a bathroom mother June pursed her lips and verdict. “On behalf of the family, and could not secure two of them. door. The 27-year-old athlete will shook her head. “I just don’t feel we would really like to show how The international community hear his punishment when sen- that this is the right (verdict),” deeply grateful we are to Judge has spent billions of dollars and tencing begins on October 13. she said in a separate interview Masipa who has found Oscar not deployed a 21,000-strong UN The father of the victim said with America’s NBC News after guilty of murder.” peacekeeping mission in Congo he found it difficult to believe the final judgement was handed But lawyers and crime-weary in the wake of a 1998-2003 civil Pistorius’ version of the events. down in Pretoria. South Africans voiced surprise war in which millions of people “There is still something missing,” The mother said her daughter and even anger that Pistorius was died mostly from starvation and Barry Steenkamp told ITV News. had died a “horrible, painful, ter- found not guilty of murder. The disease. REUTERS “I think there was more to the rible death”. “And I can’t believe National Prosecuting Authority Hungarians lift giant cut-out hand and raise their hands in Budapest whole story, you know, coming up that they believe that it was an said it was “disappointed” with Three killed after to protest against a perceived government crackdown on civil society to the actual shooting, the killing.” accident,” she said. the verdict, but had not yet following police raids on two Norway-backed NGOs. The govern- His trial had heard that in the Pistorius was escorted by more decided on whether to appeal. early hours of Valentine’s Day last than a dozen policemen wearing “We respect the court’s decision church building ment of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, re-elected in April, accused the year Pistorius fired four hollow bullet proof vests out of the court- to convict the accused on culpa- organisations that help disburse grants from Norway — mostly for collapses in Lagos point pistol rounds into a locked room and into a heaving crowd ble homicide, which is in fact a human rights, transparency and environmental projects — of politi- toilet door, hitting Steenkamp outside. Culpable homicide car- serious crime,” said spokesperson LAGOS: At least three peo- cal meddling and has launched an investigation in June. Norway and and causing her head to “explode” ries no mandatory sentence under Nathi Mncube. AFP ple were killed when a Lagos the organisations refute the claim that they have a political agenda. guest house being built by one of Nigeria’s biggest Christian churches collapsed, and the final toll was likely to be higher, rescue officials said yesterday. Merkel warns SPD to shun coalition with Left in eastern state The building collapsed on Friday at a compound belonging APOLDA, GERMANY: Chancellor how strong the CDU is they’d rather join up (Socialist Workers Party) was founded The SPD has formed several coalitions to the Synagogue Church of All Angela Merkel warned the centre-left with the Left. That’s incredible. Who would in the Thuringian town of Gotha in 1861. at the state level with the Left party in Nations headed by one of Nigeria’s Social Democrats (SPD), her junior part- have thought that? A big, proud party like the Many traditional SPD supporters here are eastern Germany and currently rules with best-known evangelical pastors, T ners in national government, against form- SPD is making itself small.” leery of the Left party due to the forced the Left in Brandenburg. The SPD and B Joshua, who draws tens of thou- ing a coalition to install the first hardline Thuringia was a part of the former com- merger in Communist East Germany of the Left had also formed coalitions in the past sands of followers from all over Left party regional premier after Sunday munist East Germany. Merkel, who nor- SPD and the Communist KPD party into in the city-state of Berlin, Mecklenburg- West Africa. polls in the eastern state of Thuringia. mally does not intervene in the policies of the SED (or Socialist Unity Party) in 1946. Vorpommern and in Saxony-Anhalt. “We recovered three bodies “There’s something strange happening in other parties, also warned the ecologist Opinion polls show Merkel’s CDU, who But the SPD has never before been jun- .... there are more we fear were Thuringia,” Merkel said, referring to specu- Greens in Thuringia against joining a pos- have ruled in Thuringia for the last 24 years ior coalition partners to the Left party trapped,” Ibrahim Farinloye, lation the SPD might switch allegiances in sible Left-SPD-Greens alliance in the state, with different coalitions, leading on 36 per- and if they were to help elect a Left party spokesman in Lagos for Nigeria’s Thuringia, where they are now junior part- telling about 2,000 people at the rally that cent, the Left is on 26 percent, the SPD 16 candidate as state premier in Thuringia National Emergency Management ners in a similar grand coalition as at the the Greens would betray their traditions percent and the Greens on 6 percent. it could cause tension in Merkel’s grand Agency (NEMA), said. national level in Berlin, and join a coalition in the formerly communist east. The eurosceptic AfD (Alternative for coalition with the SPD at the national level. Members of the church pre- with the Left. Christian Democrat (CDU) “The Greens emerged 25 years ago from Germany) party is at about 8 percent but Such a three-way left-leaning coalition vented emergency services offi- leader Merkel told the SPD it would be the ‘democracy now’ movement and now none of the parties would form a coalition with the SPD, Left and Greens could serve cials from participating in the unfaithful to its traditions if it joined forces they want to help the Left party form a with the AfD. Either another CDU-SPD for the first time as a test for a similar rescue work, so it had been with the Left to elect the first Left party coalition,” she said. “Karl Marx is to be coalition or a Left-SPD-Greens coalition coalition one day at the national level that impossible so far to establish an state premier in united Germany. carried into offices of the state government. are the two possible outcomes on Sunday. many leftists want — although Left party accurate final number of the dead “There’s a big national party here, the SPD, That just can’t be possible.” “The opinion polls show that we’ve got policies, especially its anti-Nato stance, and injured, he added. with a proud history nationally. But before this Merkel was also referring to the SPD’s different possible options,” the SPD leader make that unlikely any time soon. REUTERS state election, they’re signalling that no matter history — a forerunner called the SAD in Thuringia, Heike Taubert, said. REUTERS SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

US seniors still Scottish ‘Yes’ burdened by student camp warns loan debt

WASHINGTON: Decades after their university days, an increasing number of US sen- businesses iors are still struggling to pay off student loan debt, according to a new report. BP might face nationalisation And for some retirees, that mean s smaller Social Security EDINBURGH: The battle over be,” Sillars said. When asked checks — sometimes the only Scottish independence took a about the comments in a BBC funds elderly Americans bitter turn yesterday when a interview yesterday, Sillars con- live off when they leave the senior nationalist warned busi- firmed he had raised the prospect workforce. nesses such as BP that they of nationalisation but said he had For those aged 65 and older, the could face punishment for voic- used the term to get media cover- total amount of federal student ing concern over the impact of age and that nationalisation was debt ballooned more than six- secession. not on the table. fold from some $2.8bn in 2005 With the fate of the United A spokesman for BP declined to about $18.2bn in 2013, says a Kingdom balanced on a knife to comment but the boss of BP, Government Accountability Office edge, the economic future of Bob Dudley, has said that Scottish report released last week. Scotland has become one the most independence could cause his That’s a small fraction com- fiercely debated issues five days company “uncertainties” and that pared to the $1 trillion in total before Scots decide on whether he did not want to see Scotland federal student loan debt held to break away. drifting away across all age groups. Nationalists accuse British Major banks, oil companies But it can still hit cash- Prime Minister David Cameron of and supermarkets have said that Supporters wait for the arrival of Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond at a housing estate in Glasgow yesterday. strapped seniors hard since, coordinating a scare campaign by a vote for secession would cre- according to the report, a cut of business leaders aimed at spook- ate concern. North Sea oil would attempt by Britain’s government the final weekend before the vote “It’s your own history being the borrower’s Social Security ing voters while unionists say sep- have to be divided up while there to scare voters out of backing which is expected to have record taken away from you. What will disability, retirement, or survivor aration is fraught with financial is uncertainty over the future independence. turnout for a Scottish election. you tell your grandchildren?” said benefits can be claimed to pay off and economic uncertainty. currency and central bank of an In an extraordinarily strong From the windswept islands Jim Prentice, a gardener, wear- the loan in question. But former Scottish Nationalist independent Scotland. attack on business, Sillars said of the Atlantic to the inner ing a Rangers soccer club shirt, The GAO found that, from 2002 Party deputy leader Jim Sillars Salmond did not slap down banks such as Standard Life city estates of Glasgow, Scots who had travelled from south of to 2013, the number of people who went much further than separatist Sillars but struck a softer tone. would face tougher employment are debating whether to vote Glasgow to watch the march. saw their Social Security benefits leader Alex Salmond, warning that “Mr Cameron and his Tory laws after a vote for independence. ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to the ballot paper Organised by the Orange Order offset to pay such debt rose about BP’s operations in Scotland might friends in Downing Street and the Until September, all polls question they will be asked on of Scotland, the march demon- five-fold — from some 31,000 to face nationalisation if Scots voted Labour front men in Scotland are but one in 2013 had shown the Thursday: “Should Scotland strated that the anti-independ- 155,000. for secession on September 18. going to get their comeuppance unionists with a comfortable lead be an independent country?” ence campaign could count on a In the 65 and older age group, “This referendum is about next Thursday because Scotland is but several surveys this month About 12,000 Protestant union- solid, substantial, bloc of votes that number grew from approxi- power, and when we get a ‘Yes’ going to vote yes in very substan- show the nationalists have won ists, including contingents from in Glasgow, Scotland largest city mately 6,000 to about 36,000 majority we will use that power tial proportions,” Salmond said. over hundreds of thousands of Northern Ireland, marched and the main battleground of the during the same timeframe, rep- for a day of reckoning with BP “It’s unfortunate that a number of Scotland’s four million voters. through Edinburgh’s Old Town on campaign. resenting roughly a 500 percent and the banks,” Sillars, a national- businesses have allowed themselves A Survation poll on behalf of Saturday in an emotional show of But it also injected a sectarian increase, it said. ist rival of Salmond’s, was quoted to be recruited by David Cameron the pro-union Better Together support for keeping Scotland in element with a bitter and some- While limits have been imple- by Scottish media as saying. and Downing Street but let me say, campaign found support for stay- the United Kingdom. times violent history into the mented on the amount that “BP, in an independent after a ‘Yes’ vote, and we are going ing in the United Kingdom was at With fife and drum bands, campaign. The Order is linked to monthly benefits can be off- Scotland, will need to learn the to get one, it is incumbent on us to 54 percent, while 46 percent were bowler hats and orange sashes, the Northern Ireland Protestant set, “the value of the amount meaning of nationalisation, in reach out everyone and build that planning to vote for independ- the marchers said the referendum “loyalist” organizations and many protected and retained by the part or in whole, as it has in other atmosphere of ‘Team Scotland’.” ence on September 18, once those on Scottish independence, which lodges had crossed over the Irish borrower has fallen below the countries who have not been as Salmond demanded an inves- where undecided were excluded. takes place this Thursday, threat- Sea for the event. poverty threshold,” the GAO soft as we have been forced to tigation into what he said was an Emotions are running high on ened their culture and history. REUTERS found. It warned that student loan debt held by seniors can be especially difficult to deal with “because, unlike other types of debt, it generally cannot be dis- Family of British charged in bankruptcy.” Venezuela arrests 64 for anti-Maduro protest “Such debt can reduce net hostage appeals worth and income, thereby dimin- CARACAS: Venezuelan secu- discontent continues,” Alfredo “We are not going to have even been the occasional small ishing overall retirement financial to IS for response rity forces have arrested 64 Romero, head of the Penal Forum a minimum of tolerance with the protest, with anti-Maduro security,” the GAO said. people during renewed dem- group, said, saying 47 people were protests ... I will have no hesita- activists’ hopeful talk of pro- Still, only about three percent LONDON: The family of a onstrations against President arrested in Caracas and 17 in tion in ensuring peace and jus- moting a “Venezuelan Spring” of households headed by those British aid worker being held Nicolas Maduro’s government Barquisimeto. tice, which is what the people evaporating. aged 65 or older have student loan hostage by Islamic State (IS) in the capital as well as the city The Venezuelan government want,” Maduro said in a speech Friday’s arrests add to some 68 debt. That compares to about 24 jihadists have appealed to his of Barquisimeto, a rights group has not given figures for arrests on Friday night, referring to the people still behind bars from the percent of households headed by captors to respond to their said yesterday. on Friday, but Maduro ordered latest flare-ups. more than 3,000 arrested during those 64 or under. messages. The detentions came on Friday police and National Guard troops Images on social media showed the February-May troubles. In fact, older Americans are David Haines, a 44-year- when mostly student demonstra- to show zero tolerance toward any masked protesters facing off with Demonstrators’ demands more likely to have other types old father of two from Perth in tors organised protests to coin- so-called troublemakers. security forces who fired tear gas range from Maduro’s resignation of debt, the GAO said, noting Scotland, was kidnapped last year cide with seven months since the The successor to the late Hugo — a common image earlier in the to fixes for economic problems for example that 29 percent of while working for the French February 12 start of a major wave Chavez says the protests are year during the violent clashes that include the region’s highest those aged 65 and over have agency ACTED. of demonstrations. promoted by opposition politi- that rocked the South American inflation and scarcities of basic home mortgage debt and 27 Earlier this month, he was “The protests have died down cians and backed by the United Opec nation daily between consumer goods from milk to car percent owe money from credit shown kneeling in the sand but are still sporadic, as we States to destabilise his socialist February and May. parts. card use. wearing an orange jumpsuit in saw yesterday. Obviously the government. Since then, there have only REUTERS AFP an IS video which showed the beheading of US hostage Steven Sotloff. The video contained a warn- Texas governor’s race heats up ing from a militant speaking with a British accent that Haines would be the next to be killed if DALLAS: The race for Texas governor her story.” Davis, who rose from being a single Washington continued to launch entered a new chapter this week with the mother in a trailer park to a Harvard Law school air strikes against IS fighters in release of a memoir from Democratic candi- graduate, gained national standing in 2013 when northern Iraq. date Wendy Davis that rekindled attention on she donned pink running shoes and staged a dra- “We are the family of David abortion and led to an ethics complaint from matic 10-hour filibuster at the Texas statehouse Haines,” relatives said in a state- her opponent, Republican Greg Abbott. against sweeping abortion restrictions. ment released by Britain’s Foreign Abbott, currently the state’s attorney general, Polling shows that Abbott’s lead has narrowed Office. is accusing Davis of misusing campaign contri- in recent weeks from about 12 to 14 percentage “We have sent messages to you butions to promote the book called “Forgetting points to single digits as Davis has attacked him to which we have not received a to Be Afraid,” in which Davis, a state senator, for being part of an old boys’ network putting reply. We are asking those hold- reveals she had terminated two pregnancies. their interests above that of the state. ing David to make contact with “Senator Davis’ book promotion has gone from Abbott’s campaign has tried to show Davis as us.” ethically questionable to outright unlawful,” out of touch with Texas values and not up to the Paris-based ACTED has pre- Abbott campaign spokesman Matt Hirsch said. challenge of running a state with a $1.4 trillion viously said Haines had been The gubernatorial race, which is set to be the a year economy. engaged in humanitarian work most expensive in the state’s history, has heated “Many presidential candidates release policy since 1999, helping victims of con- up this month with both campaigns reaching into books that cast them in a favorable light while flicts in the Balkans, Africa and their war chests to start spending heavily on TV campaigning,” said Cal Jillson, a political science the Middle East and that he was advertisements. professor at Southern Methodists University in taken hostage in March 2013 in Davis campaign spokesman Zac Petkanas Dallas. “Wendy Davis’ book is a different mes- Syria. called the complaint frivolous and said it shows sage, with warts showing.” REUTERS “how worried Greg Abbott is about the power of REUTERS

Cuba helps fight Ebola with medical diplomacy

HAVANA: Cuba’s pledge to deploy a workers spread across 66 countries in Latin are clearly our most important need.” Morales 165-strong army of doctors and nurses to America, Asia and Africa, according to Cuba’s said members of the team had “previously par- help fight the Ebola outbreak is the latest Health Ministry. Cuban Health Minister ticipated in post-catastrophe situations” and example of the Communist country’s dec- Roberto Morales Ojeda told reporters in had all volunteered for the six-month mission, ades-old tradition of “medical diplomacy.” Geneva on Friday some 62 doctors and 103 which begins in early October. Since 1960, when Cuba dispatched a team nurses were being sent to Sierra Leone. “Medical diplomacy, the collaboration of doctors to help with the aftermath of an World Health Organisation Director between countries to simultaneously produce earthquake in Chile, the Caribbean island General Margaret Chan welcomed the Cuban health benefits and improve relations, has has sent more than 135,000 medical staff to aid, the largest offer of a foreign medical team been a cornerstone of Cuban foreign policy all corners of the globe. from a single country during the outbreak. since the outset of the revolution fifty years The latest batch being sent to help in west “Money and materials are important, but ago,” said US researcher Julie Feinsilver in Africa’s Ebola crisis are part of a 50,000-strong those two things alone cannot stop Ebola virus a study for Georgetown University. foreign legion of Cuban doctors and healthcare transmission,” said Chan. “Human resources AFP SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES China urges central Asian states to step up fight against extremism

BEIJING: China’s President Uighur minority, are seeking to efforts to crack down on the the group’s Regional Counter- Many experts and rights groups stoking resentment among Xi Jinping urged Central Asian form their own state called East ‘three evil forces’ of terrorism, Terrorism Structure (RCTS) say economic marginalisation of Uighurs. states to step up the fight Turkestan and have links with extremism and separatism,” the should enhance efforts to combat Uighurs is one of the main causes China’s leaders have vowed to against religious extremism and militants in Central Asia as well official Xinhua news agency said drug trafficking. of ethnic violence that has killed strike hard at religious militants cyber terrorism, state media as Pakistan. late on Friday, citing Xi’s speech China, Russia and four Central hundreds of people across China and separatist groups. said, as Beijing reaches for help The government says such sep- in Tajikistan to the heads of state Asian nations - Kazakhstan, in the past year and a half. On Friday, a Chinese court sen- across its borders in addressing aratists are influenced by militant of other Shanghai Cooperation Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and They argue that benefits tenced three people to death and security concerns in its restive groups’ training videos and audio Organisation (SCO) members. Uzbekistan - formed the SCO in of development in Xinjiang, one to life in prison for an attack Xinjiang region. from beyond its borders, though “Currently, (we) should focus 2001 as a regional security bloc resource-rich and strategically at a Yunnan province train sta- Beijing says separatist groups experts dispute their influence on combating religion-involved to fight threats posed by radical located on the borders of ex- tion in March in which 31 people in the far western region of and reach. extremism and Internet ter- Islam and drug trafficking from Soviet central Asia, largely have were killed and 141 injured. Xinjiang, home to the Muslim “(We) should make concerted rorism,” Xi said, adding that neighbouring Afghanistan. gone to majority Han Chinese, REUTERS Thai army dragnet douses peace hopes Decade-long conflict has claimed more than 6,100 lives across Thailand’s lush, forested southern provinces

PATTANI: A bomb suspect said 78 people were arrested in held for two weeks without the deep south between July 7 and charge in Thailand’s insur- August 28. The figures omit the gency-battered south says an initial six weeks after the coup army dragnet following the coup and do not reveal how many of is calcifying hostility towards those detained were subsequently the kingdom -- and undercut- released or charged. ting a fresh bid for peace. Three people died in raids -- The decade-long conflict has including a 14-year-old boy mis- claimed more than 6,100 lives takenly shot on August 20 by a across Thailand’s lush, forested paramilitary soldier, who is now Muslim-majority southern prov- facing charges after planting inces, where shadowy rebels are a handgun on the dead teen to fighting for a level of autonomy cover up the killing. from the Thai state. “Our security measures have Most of the victims are civil- been more aggressive in hunting ians caught up in the near-daily for suspects,” ISOC spokesman bombings, shooting -- and occa- Colonel Pramote Promin said. sional beheading -- that define a The result has been a further war largely ignored by Thais and erosion of trust in the justice sys- forgotten by the wider world. tem and the sincerity of the Thai From a remote hamlet side to address local grievances, cocooned by fruit trees, 23-year- according to Anchana Heemmina, old Ri says he was arrested on of advocacy group Duay Jai. suspicion of planting one of a “No-one believes in Prayut and series of bombs that rocked the his peace talks... they will be held provincial capital Pattani. under the gun,” she said. “The “They took me to an (army) recent experience of villagers is rangers’ base. I told them I was the opposite of peace, they have innocent, but they still held me. been harassed and arrested.” I don’t know why,” the student, While exact numbers of the whose identity has been changed, detained are hard to gather across said of his arrest in July. A Thai soldier checks a driver’s licence at a checkpoint in Thailand’s restive southern province of Narathiwat on September 3, 2014. remote communities stalked by The blasts, which occurred fear, Anchana says false arrests two days after the May 22 coup, are a “story that is told many killed several people and wounded But they have comprehensively It took two days for Ri’s father an apology or explanation for his An already parlous rights sit- times,” hardening mistrust and scores more -- appearing timed to failed to staunch the insurgency, and brother to trace him, with the detention offered. uation has deteriorated sharply acting as a recruiting tool for the remind the junta that new politi- which has ground on since 2004. detainee denied phone calls. The ordeal has left Ri scared following the military takeover, rebels. cal realities in Bangkok had little In that time security forces “They kept asking me ‘Did you and angry but also dismissive of according to campaigners, with Several rounds of peace dis- bearing on the battle for the deep have been accused of widespread do it? Where were you when the a loudly trumpeted effort by the scores of suspects swept into arbi- cussions last year floundered and south. human rights abuses -- including bombs went off?’” the student junta to forge peace. trary detention for days or weeks questions remain over the ability Thailand colonised the area extra-judicial killings. said. “Prayut says he wants peace,” amid the power plays in the Thai of the rebel interlocutors to tug more than a century ago and has The three southern provinces Despite protesting his inno- he said referring to new Thai capital. the leash of increasingly ruthless tried to corral the local Muslim bordering Malaysia are also cence, Ri was held for a further 10 Prime Minister Prayut Chan- Despite tightening security foot soldiers. population into accepting its rule smothered by emergency pow- days under an emergency decree Ocha -- who is also the outgoing the junta insists it is focused on In his weekly televised speech through assimilation schemes, ers allowing suspects to be held before being released. army chief. rebooting stalled peace talks. Friday, Prayut said Kuala Lumpur cash inducements and hard mili- without charge for more than five His family say no evidence was “But first they have to stop Thailand’s Internal Security had agreed to continue facilitating tary power. weeks. brought against him, neither was arresting us.” Operations Command (ISOC) peace talks. AFP

Joint US-Indonesia military drill Taiwan arrests Manila starts probe into official in food safety scandal Filipino militants in Syria TAIPEI: The head of a MANILA: The Philippines is gradual increase of foreign Taiwanese company at the cen- investigating the involvement of fighters heading to Syria com- tre of a widening food safety Filipino Islamists in the three- ing from Indonesia, Malaysia, scandal has been detained for year civil war in Syria after the Philippines, Thailand, and selling hundreds of tonnes of two locals were reported killed Xinjiang, a troubled province in “gutter oil” that caused mass fighting for Islamic State mili- western China. product recalls, authorities said tant group. But the movement is not only yesterday. A senior police intelligence offi- one way, he said. Some locals Yeh Wen-hsiang, chairman of cial said Manila was also monitor- who saw action in Syria, labelled Chang Guann Co, was taken into ing young Filipino Muslims who themselves as “veterans” had custody early yesterday on suspi- have gone to Syria and Iraq, and returned to the south of the cion of fraud, officials said, deem- then tried to radicalise others on mainly Catholic state to spread ing him a flight risk and fearing their return home. extremist Muslim ideologies. he could collude with other sus- The Philippines has been bat- Documents showed two Filipino pects or destroy evidence. tling its own small but violent Muslims had died in the Syria Investigators found that in Islamist militant group, Abu conflict in March. The foreign the six months from February, Sayyaf, which has been blamed for ministry also reported in May Chang Guann had purchased 243 kidnapping, beheading and bomb- that about 100 Filipinos trav- US Marines and their Indonesian counterparts compete in a race as they carry logs during a ten-day 2014 Marines tonnes of tainted oil -- collected ings in the south. Since 2002, a elled to Iran to undergo military from cookers, fryers and grease US special forces unit has been training and were subsequently Tactical Warfare Simulation, a joint US and Indonesia military exercise in Sidoarjo, eastern Java island, yesterday. traps -- from an unlicensed fac- advising and training local troops. deployed in Syria. tory and mixed it with lard oil Thousands of fighters from “One of them was raised in for sales to its customers island dozens of countries have trav- Syria and the other was a local wide. elled to Syria and Iraq to fight passport holder,” said the intel- Lanka’s bid to expel refugees opposed A total of 782 tonnes of such with extremist groups, prompt- ligence official. oils had been produced. ing the United States to draft a Rommel Banlaoi of the Centre Chang Guann was already fined UN Security Council resolution for Intelligence and National COLOMBO: Sri Lankan rights They have life-threatening condi- The UNHCR said Colombo had Tw$50m by the authorities for demanding countries “prevent Security Studies said the threats activists have gone to the coun- tions if they go back. That is why initially responded to its appeals illegally selling poor-quality lard and suppress” the recruitment from Islamic State militants in try’s highest court in a bid to local rights defenders decided to and released 71 Pakistanis and oil -- a clear oil pressed from pig and travel of foreign fighters. the Philippines “is real rather stop the government summarily file this case.” two Iranians earlier this month, fat. “These are disturbing devel- than imagined.” deporting Afghan, Iranian and The UN High Commissioner but 102 people -- 38 Pakistanis Hundreds of tonnes of moon- opments that could affect our “ISIS is replacing Al Qaeda as Pakistani refugees, their lawyer for Refugees in a statement and 64 Afghans -- remained in cakes -- traditionally served at internal security situation,” the the champion of the world Islamic said yesterday. Friday urged Sri Lanka to stop custody and fresh arrests were this time of year -- along with intelligence official, who declined caliphate,” Banlaoi said, adding a Six human rights defenders arrests and deportations of those taking place. pineapple cakes, bread, instant to be named because he was not video on YouTube last month indi- have petitioned the Supreme who have filed refugee claims with Between September 3 and 11, noodles as well as steamed buns allowed to talk to the press, said. cated an Islamic caliphate in the Court to challenge the expul- the agency’s Colombo offices and 62 Pakistanis and three Iranians and dumplings have been removed “We have scant data based on Philippines has been established. sions, which are being carried out sought access to those already had been arrested and 40 of them from shelves in Taiwan since the intermittent information made Militants from Abu Sayyaf, despite warnings that Sri Lanka detained. had already been deported, the case surfaced last week. available from different agen- Khilafa Islamiyah Mindanao, is in breach of its international Sri Lanka’s Court of Appeal, UNHCR said. More than 1,000 restaurants, cies, including the Department Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom obligations, lawyer Lakshan Dias which is one step lower than The refugee agency has main- bakeries and food plants had used of Foreign Affairs. We are now Fighters and the Muslim convert said. the Supreme Court, earlier this tained that the deportations go the tainted oil, according to the exchanging intelligence with our group Rajah Solaiman Islamic “The case is coming up on month overturned an order sus- against the principle of no forced Food and Drug Administration. foreign partners so we can build Movement had pledged support September 29,” Dias said. “We feel pending the deportations and return, or non-refoulement, Many have apologised to custom- our own data base.” to Islamic State militants in Syria that some of the people who are cleared the way for the authori- enshrined in international law. ers for having unknowingly used Based on these exchanges, and Iraq. REUTERS being sent back face real danger. ties to continue expulsions. AFP tainted oil. AFP he said they have noted a SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

Poll crises delay Bomb blast kills three in Quetta polio campaign ISLAMABAD: The lacklustre attitude of the federal govern- 16 injured as attack targets troops ment coupled with the ongoing sit-ins at Constitution Avenue QUETTA: A bomb explosion on Resource-rich Baluchistan is has hindered strengthening a busy road in Pakistan’s south- home to a long-running separatist of the polio eradication pro- western Baluchistan province conflict that was revived in 2004, gramme in the country. yesterday killed three people, with nationalists seeking to stop “Pakistan is facing a major set- including a paramilitary soldier, what they see as the exploitation back in its effort to eradicate the and wounded at least 16 other of the region’s natural resources crippling disease from the country people, security officials said. and alleged rights abuses. as the total number of polio cases The bomb, planted in a car Terrorism in Pakistan has this year has reached 146 which parked by the side of the road on become a major and highly is terrible but unfortunately they a crowded crossroads in Quetta destructive phenomenon in recent are not even bothering to take the city, apparently targeted a para- years. The annual death toll from matter seriously,” said a senior military vehicle passing the area. terrorist attacks has risen from official at the Ministry of National “The bomb was detonated by 164 in 2003 to 3318 in 2009 with Health Services, Regulation and remote control when a vehi- a total of 35,000 Pakistanis killed Coordination (NHSRC), who cle of the Frontier Corps (FC) between September 11, 2001 and wished not to be named. came close to a busy crossroads,” May 2011. The official said at present Quetta police chief Abdul Razzak According to the government of Pakistan is at a stage where a Cheema said. Cheema said two of Pakistan, the direct and indirect slight delay in polio eradication the dead and most of the wounded economic costs of terrorism from activities can wreak havoc for the were labourers who were waiting 2000–2010 total $68bn. entire nation but still it is shock- in the area. President Asif Ali Zardari, ing that no one is taking the issue A member of a bomb disposal along with former President seriously. unit said that high quality explo- ex-Pakistan Army head Pervez Sharing details, the official said sives weighing up to 40 kilograms Musharraf, have admitted that for the past couple of months the (up to 90 pounds) had been used terrorist outfits were ‘deliber- ministry is planning to establish to make the bomb. ately created and nurtured’ by a National Emergency Operation A Frontier Corps spokesman, past governments ‘as a policy to Centre for strengthening polio Manzoor Ahmed, confirmed that achieve some short-term tactical monitoring and coordination one soldier has died in the attack objectives’ The trend began with between the federal government while another was wounded. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq’s con- and provinces. No group has yet claimed troversial ‘Islamization’ policies “However, this plan is still pend- responsibility for the attack but of the 1980s, under which con- ing due to the current political Baluch separatists are active in flicts were started against soviet situation and they are unable to the area and often attack govern- involvement in Afghanistan. Pakistani security officials examine the site of a bomb explosion in Quetta yesterday. materialise the plan,” said the offi- ment forces and installations. AFP cial. INTERNEWS UN threatens to cut Afghanistan aid if election staff harassed

KABUL: The United Nations aiding vote-rigging. both candidates - former Foreign body apparently decided to draw in Kabul, declined to elaborate on the next week, though a specific threatened yesterday to cut aid It was another sign of height- Minister Abdullah Abdullah and a line. specific abuse or threats against date has not been set. to Afghanistan if its staff are ened anxiety in the run-up to the ex-Finance Minister Ashraf “Intimidation and verbal UN staff. It is widely believed that harassed, responding to ten- release of final election results Ghani - each claimed victory and attacks directed at #UN are The threat to cut aid under- Ghani, who was ahead by 1.2 mil- sions surrounding its participa- over the next week. A two- accused the other of fraud in early unacceptable,” said a tweet by the scored the high stakes in lion votes in preliminary results, tion in a drawn-out and bitter month-long crisis over results July. official UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan’s election crisis, will be declared the winner even investigation into fraud in the of the vote to succeed President UN workers have frequently Afghanistan yesterday. which marred hopes for a smooth after suspect votes are thrown still-unresolved presidential Hamid Karzai has been destabil- been caught up in heated dis- A second post continued: “If transition of power ahead of the out. election. ising Afghanistan just months putes by the rival candidates’ such abuse continues, #UN will foreign troops’ withdrawal. Abdullah, who has charged that The warning came a day after before most international troops audit observers. After Friday’s be forced to severely limit its Talks between both sides on more than 2 million ballots were dozens of demonstrators gathered withdraw. small demonstration, which was activities, reducing its assistance forming a unity government have fraudulent, has vowed he will outside the Kabul headquarters of The UN has been monitoring peaceful but also featured chants to #Afghanistan and its people.” broken down in recent weeks. reject results that give the elec- the world body and accused it of a vote-rigging investigation since of ‘Death to the UN” the world Ari Gaitanis, a UN spokesman Final results are expected in tion to Ghani. REUTERS Open classroom in Jalababad Imran can only Malala’s family happy blame himself over arrest of attackers if march fails ISLAMABAD: Malala persistently chasing the attack- ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Yousufzai’s father Ziauddin ers of Malala and arresting Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Yousufzai welcomed Pakistan them. Chairman Imran Khan should Army’s confirmation that ten “We are proud of their role. blame no one else but himself Taliban members involved in They have worked hard to chase if his campaign launched to attacking his daughter, who the outlaws who have brought dislodge Nawaz Sharif govern- now lives in Birmingham, have destruction and bloodshed to the ment fails and he returns back been arrested. people of Pakistan,” he said. empty-handed with his bogie of After ISPR’s confirmation at “The arrest of these attack- ‘Azadi March’ without achiev- a live press conference, Ziauddin ers will help improve Pakistan’s ing most of its objectives. expressed joy on behalf of his fam- image abroad as a country where Imran failed to understand that ily and confirmed that he had also institutions work and where kind of public mobilisation done spoken to ISPR’s Asim Bajwa and criminals are punished. It will by him was half-cooked and not thanked him for releasing the help increase the trust level in enough which could have supple- good news. Pakistan and we are very happy,” mented his claims to bring one It is understood that Malala Ziauddin added. million people to the federal capi- was in school when the news was Ziauddin said that there are tal to paralyse the system, for it broken that her Taliban attackers thousands of victims of Taliban was not realistic. He had assured have been arrested. who will receive justice too and his followers that the ‘mission’ Ziauddin said this was good any one who is involved in ter- would be achieved within no news not only for Malala, Kainat ror attacks will be brought to time; at least he did not estimate and Shazia and their families but justice. it might take a month or even also ‘for the people of Pakistan Ziauddin said he was aware more and keeping the mob intact and the civilised world’. that some people didn’t even for such long period would be next He paid tributes to Pakistan believe that Malala was ever to impossible. army, police forces and other attacked by Taliban and called it An Afghan schoolgirl writes on a blackboard at an open classroom on the outskirts of Jalalabad yesterday. Above all, Imran, despite his law enforcement agencies for a ‘drama’. INTERNEWS tall claims, that he was campaign- Afghanistan has had only rare moments of peace over the past 30 years, its education system being undermined ing to bring true democracy in the by the Soviet invasion of 1979, a civil war in the 1990s and five years of Taliban rule. country to replace Sharif family dynasty in which accountabil- ity and justice would prevail, he proved himself to be an autocrat in his decisions and actions. Tense stand-off in Islamabad as poll crisis drags on Javed Hashmi, his right hand man, abandoned him on the grounds that he did not hear or ISLAMABAD: A court in trying to slash the tyres of a police many people in a nation where abide by the majority party deci- Pakistan ordered yesterday van and shouting ‘Go, Nawaz, go!’ power has often changed hands sions and took unilateral decision that 100 opposition activists Although the crowd eventually though military coups rather than which proved fatal in the end. be sent to jail for holding ille- left peacefully after a two-hour elections. The first mistake that he com- gal protests, prompting a tense stand-off with police, the episode The army, which has ruled mitted in first week of his ‘dharna’ confrontation between demon- highlighted just how nervous both Pakistan for more than half of was that he singularly decided to strators and police in the centre sides of the conflict remained its history, has stayed out of the march on towards PM House fol- of the capital. after talks to resolve the crisis conflict, urging both sides to find lowing in the footsteps of Tahirul Protesters led by Imran Khan, failed several times. a political solution. Qadri which police had declared a former cricket star, and Tahir Protest leaders accuse Sharif of Yet, some ruling party officials as ‘red line’ in the Red Zone and ul-Qadri, a firebrand cleric, have rigging last year’s election which have accused the military itself warned not to cross it, resultantly been locked in a bitter stand-off brought him back to power in a of instigating the unrest as a way clash with police played havoc with the government for weeks, landslide and say they will not of unsettling Sharif and exerting with the PTI supporters. refusing to leave their protest back down until he resigns - a supremacy over him. Khan’s campaign met with camp until Prime Minister Nawaz demand Sharif has repeatedly The army has denied it was instant setback when he lost sym- Sharif resigns. rejected. meddling in civilian affairs, say- pathies of those people who agreed Yesterday, a crowd of protest- “The end of the incumbent gov- Tahir-ul-Qadri (left) and Imran Khan ing it is neutral. with his connotation of the polls ers gathered outside a court in ernment’s rule is near,” Qadri said Late on Friday, an army spokes- having been grossly rigged and Islamabad in a protest against yesterday. man once again repeated that the illegitimacy of the present govern- its decision to send 100 activists The confrontation turned vio- trying to storm Sharif’s house and channel off the air. Violence in the army had nothing to do with the ment. INTERNEWS to jail for two weeks, with some lent last month, with thousands briefly taking the state television usually quiet capital has alarmed conflict. REUTERS SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

16 killed as bus Receding waters falls into gorge in Uttarakhand reveal 43 bodies DEHRADUN: At least 16 peo- ple were killed and over a dozen passengers seriously injured when a bus fell into a gorge in in Kashmir Uttarakhand yesterday, police said. The accident took place at Juyalgarh near the Mobile services partially restored Chandraprabha bridge. The ill-fated bus was going from SRINAGAR: Mobile services State government officials con- Haridwar to Gwaldam and had were partially restored yes- firmed that 29 bodies were found 33 passengers in it. terday in flood-hit Jammu and in the Kashmir Valley alone after Police said the survivors told Kashmir as rescue and relief the flood waters receded. them that the driver was speeding efforts continued on a war foot- Officials said there was four and lost control while negotiating ing. The receding floodwaters to 10 feet of flood waters in the a turn. A rivulet created follow- revealed the death of 43 peo- residential areas of Shivpura, ing the heavy rain that has been ple, including 14 children in an Rajbagh, Jawahar Nagar, pounding the hill state added to inundated government hospital Wazirbagh, Gogjibagh, Karan the problems in the rescue opera- here. Nagar, Shetrashahi, Bemina, tion as the bus fell into it. Over 1,42,000 people have Qamarwari and some other areas The injured were admitted to been rescued so far from various in Srinagar. the Srinagar base hospital. Only parts of the state by the armed The main business hubs of the one passenger survived unhur. forces and the National Disaster city — Lal Chowk, Residency Chief Minister Harish Rawat Response Force (NDRF), an offi- Road, Maisuma, Hari Singh High has announced Rs.1 lakh compen- cial statement said yesterday. Street and Karan Nagar — are sation for the kin of the dead. He Union Telecom Minister Ravi still submerged. The financial loss will fly to the hospital Sunday to Shankar Prasad said in New to businesses in these markets is meet the injured. Delhi that mobile services have estimated to be in several crores. been “somewhat” restored in the The markets in the old city An Indian Air Force helicopter flies above flooded-affected areas of Kashmir region yesterday. state, barring Poonch. areas of Srinagar have been closed Bihar issues He said the state-run Bharat for the last six days because of unending queues at petrol pumps Bharati-controlled FM station here. Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) shortage of goods, although these in north Kashmir’s Ganderbal The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) sent emergency relief supplies to flood alert in was allowing free calls for one areas have not been affected by district. said it has received generous dona- the state to help it overcome the week and private telecom play- floods directly. Authorities have started bring- tions from India Inc. for carrying acute shortage of medicines and five districts ers were allowing 60 minutes free The Srinagar-Jammu national ing in petroleum products into the out rescue and relief operations. blankets. talk time every day. highway through which all sup- valley through the Manali-Leh- Prime Minister Narendra Eighty-six transport aircraft PATNA: Bihar issued a flood Fourteen children died in plies are routed to the land- Srinagar highway that is open for Modi had appealed for donations and helicopters of the Indian Air alert in five districts yesterday the government-run G B Pant locked valley remained closed for traffic. towards the Prime Minister’s Force and Army Aviation Corps following a heavy gush of water Hospital here. The hospital and the sixth day yesterday. Efforts More than 15,000 people from National Relief Fund Friday. have been pressed into rescue and in Son river from Indrapuri other major hospitals in the city, were on to restore this lifeline to different parts of the country are According to the PMO, the relief operations, the defence min- Barrage, an official said. including the Shri Maharaja Kashmir. waiting at the Srinagar airport to Mahindra and Mahindra Group istry statement said. “We have sent alerts to the Hari Singh (SMHS) and the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah be flown out of the flood-ravaged and Samsung Electronics have The army has deployed around district magistrates of Arwal, Government Medical College has confirmed that all records valley, officials said. donated Rs.2 crore and Rs.3 30,000 soldiers for the operations, Rohtas, Aurangabad, Jehanabad (GMC), were inundated in the of the state’s premier financial Although the local radio station crore, respectively, to the Fund. in which 21,000 soldiers have been and Patna in view of likely floods floods. institution — The Jammu and and Doordarshan are still unable West Bengal Chief Minister deployed in Srinagar region and in low lying areas along the Son The 14 children were among Kashmir Bank Ltd — were safe to resume services, an alterna- Mamata Banerjee Saturday 9,000 in Jammu region. Armed after the discharge of nearly the 43 people found dead in the and people need not worry about tive arrangement was started announced the dispatch of drink- forces personnel have been distrib- three lakh cusecs of water from Kashmir Valley as flood waters their deposits. Friday by airing flood-related ing water pouches for people in uting water bottles and food packets. Indrapuri Barrage caused by began receding in the state. People were seen lining up in messages through the Prasar the flood-ravaged state. IANS incessant rain,” an official of the state disaster management department said. The district magistrates have been asked to Watery patrol shift people to safer places and provide all possible help in case Family refuses to receive of flooding, the official said. body of MERS victim Four held for extortion in RIYADH: The family of an has refused to claim the body Indian expatriate, who died after they learned from mislead- Bengal of Middle East Respiratory ing sources that they could be Syndrome (MERS) corona infected with the disease if they SILIGURI: Four people, includ- virus in Saudi Arabia, has touched the body. ing a father-son duo, who extorted refused to receive his body in The employer has been coop- money in the guise of Maoists, India, amid fears of contract- erating to repatriate the body to were yesterday arrested here in ing the deadly disease, a media India but the family has refused to West Bengal, police said. Siliguri report said yesterday. complete the formalities. This has Police Commissioner Jagmohan MERS is a serious viral res- led to the body lying unclaimed in said the gang used to extort piratory illness caused by the a morgue, the report stated. money from local businessmen corona virus and can be trans- Repatriation or burial of an by making threat calls posing as mitted by air to humans. expatriate worker in the Arab Maoists. They were arrested from Dasharati Sattaih, who worked nation can be a complicated proc- a rented house in Siliguri. in a maintenance company in ess which can only be eased with Police also suspect the gang to Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province the cooperation of the kin. be involved in earlier instances that had contracts with several In a related incident, another of extortion using the names of hospitals, contracted the viral Indian expatriate who died after a Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) disease while on the job and prolonged illness in Saudi Arabia supremo Bimal Gurung and gen- later died June 20, Arab News has been ruled out to be MERS eral secretary Roshan Giri. Three reported. infected. The body of Akrim Singh mobile phones and several SIM The family of Sattaih, who hails from Punjab, was finally repatri- cards, and Rs11,500 in case was from the Adilabad district of the ated home. seized from them. Border Security Force soldiers patrol the fenced border with Pakistan as they wade through floodwaters on south Indian state of Telangana, IANS IANS the outskirts of Jammu yesterday. Online data Overseas deposits: What if the ‘buck’ doesn’t stop here? base for URING the past made it more attractive for its total external debt. In its annual exchange rate leverage and dental care few years, when the overseas citizens to pump money THE NR EYE publication titled ‘India’s exter- other purely technical advan- Indian rupee was into the home economy. nal debt: A status report 2013- tages that have attracted NRI GREATER NOIDA: Information taking a battering, Incremental flows of deposits Moiz Mannan 14’ released a few days back, the investments, the underlying related to data on oral health can the Indian govern- into Non-Resident Rupee Account Department of Economic Affairs reason has been confidence in now be accessed on a first of its Dment did everything possible to Scheme (NRE)/Foreign Currency by them on comparable domestic (DEA) said the rise in external the performance of the Indian kind online data base for dental shore up its stock of dollars with Account Scheme (FCNR) were rupee deposits, RBI decided to debt was due to long-term debt, economy. A vast majority of care, a release said yesterday. the help of deposits from non- made exempt from cash reserve give banks the freedom to offer particularly NRI deposits. NRI have left home shores for Launched by the FDI World resident Indians. Now that the ratio and statutory liquidity ratio interest rates on all incremental According to the report, the economic reasons and are gen- Dental Federation, a leading crisis appears to have eased out, requirements. Incremental flows NRE deposits without any ceiling. surge in NRI deposits reflected erally astute investors. international organisation rep- the financemen are worried about were also exempt from prior- The current account deficit, the impact of fresh FCNR(B) One might like to think that resenting the dental profession, how patriotic is this money really. ity sector lending requirements. which touched a record high of deposits mobilised under the patriotism drives their deci- ‘Data Hub for Global Oral Health’ With a diaspora strength of Interest rates on deposits in $87.8bn in 2012-13 dropped to swap scheme during September- sions, but pragmatism tells us would be a first of its kind online more than 25 million people, it foreign currency accounts were $32.4bn in 2013-14. On September November 2013 to tide over the to be cautious in taking this data-base for oral health and is not surprising that India fre- deregulated. 1 this year, India’s current account difficult BoP (balance of pay- argument at face value. As related information. quently looks to tap this vast The Reserve Bank of India deficit narrowed sharply to 1.7 per ments) situation in the initial Business Standard writer A K The launch took place at potential in tough times or other- (RBI raised the ceiling on interest cent of the GDP. parts of the year. Bhattacharya says: “The social the FDI Annual World Dental wise. In the midst of a balance-of- on longer-term deposits of non- Now that’s good news. The bad The country’s external debt bond that NRIs have with this Congress held here. Sharing payments crisis in 1991, India used residents by 100 basis points in news, though, is that this is ‘hot stock increased 7.6 percent country can be an effective argu- insights on the launch of the data a tax-forgiveness plan for NRIs to a bid to attract foreign currency money.’ That is to say, there’s no over the last fiscal and stood at ment only as long as invest- hub, Li-Jian Jin, chair of the FDI get them to bring money home. flows. For foreign currency non- telling when it will fly away. So, $440.6bn at end-March 2014, ing in India continues to make Oral Health Data Task Team said: In 1998, it issued a five-year resident bank (FCNRB) accounts worries over the current account increasing by $31.2bn over that economic sense for them. So, “The FDI Data Hub creates a net- Resurgent India Bond offering with maturities of 3-5 years, RBI deficit and forex reserves have at end-March 2013. an increased reliance on NRI work for monitoring and sharing 7.75 per cent in dollar terms, rais- raised the interest rate ceiling to given way to concerns over exter- External debt of the country deposits to help meet the coun- global oral health data.” ing more than $4.8bn. In 2000, it Libor/Swap plus 400 basis points nal debt. continues to be dominated by the try’s capital flow requirements It sheds light on the crucial raised $5.5bn through an India from Libor/ Swap plus 300 basis Recent data released by India’s long-term borrowings. At the is not without risks and should need for growing and enhancing Millennium Deposit scheme, points. RBI also removed the finance ministry point to the fact end of March 2014, NRI depos- not be played down just because the available network by con- which paid 8.5 percent for five- ceiling on interest rates on non- that NRI deposits now account its in India were estimated at the money is coming from NRIs.” tinuously feeding it up-to-date year dollars. resident external rupee deposits for almost a quarter of India’s $104bn. In 2011-12, the share of Indeed, India will have to keep collected data that aims to make The last such crisis faced by with maturities of three years and total external debt, standing next NRI deposits in the total net capi- itself economically rather than oral health a priority on the global India was that of a huge current above. Since interest rates offered only to external commercial bor- tal flows was 17.6 percent and in emotionally attractive to keep health agenda, he said. account deficit and a plummeting by banks on NRE deposits can- rowings, which have the largest 2013-14, it shot up to 79.7 percent. enjoying the money sent home. IANS currency. Once again, the country not be higher than those offered share at about a third of India’s Apart from the incentives, THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

Indian challenge to Barbie Cheerful Lalu Judicial freedom walks out not negotiable: of hospital MUMBAI: Eighteen days after undergoing three cardiac sur- geries, a hearty and cheerful Chief Justice RJD chief Lalu Prasad yester- day walked out of the Asian Heart Institute here, doctors said. “Lalu Prasad has been Transparency urged in judges’ appointment an excellent and cooperative patient with a strong willpower NEW DELHI: Chief Justice R about the working of the Judicial which has helped him immensely M Lodha yesterday said that the Appointments Commission which in his speedy recovery,” said independence of the judiciary is is headed by a person of non-judi- Ramakanta Panda, the hospital’s not negotiable and any attempt cial background. vice chairman and MD, who is to tinker with it will not suc- Chief Justice Lodha said that also a renowned heart surgeon. ceed, adding that to strengthen despite some initial difficulties, Normally, in such cases (with the rule of law the judiciary will the system, introduced in Britain triple heart surgeries), the medi- have to ensure that it was com- five years back, was working and cal authorities start cardiac reha- pletely corruption-free. he was told that there was no bilitation after 15 days of surgery, He made these observations at decline in the quality of judges. but considering Lalu Prasad’s sta- the Rule of Law Convention, 2014 They (British) said that there ble condition, it was started nine organised by the Bar Association of was no change in the quality of days after the operations, he said. India in the national capital here. judges and (they) said that “they Indian fashion designer Hima Sailaja Theerdhala poses with five self-designed Indian fashion dolls “Kiyaa” The former Bihar chief min- He said: “The independence have achieved transparency (in in different outfits at her Shel design studio in Hyderabad yesterday. ister will remain temporarily on of the judiciary is not negotiable. the appointment of judges at all blood thinning medication for the I can say with confidence that levels) and that is important.” next around 10 weeks with a sim- judicial independence has come Law and Justice Minister Ravi ple and less oily diet. to stay and no effort will succeed Shankar Prasad said: “The gov- He will also be required to con- in taking it away.” ernment has highest regard for Peaceful by-polls in 10 states tinue with his regime of exercises “By and large, people under- the judiciary. The independence for the next fortnight. stand that judicial independence of judiciary is sacred and sacro- “Lalu-ji had come to us for is something which cannot be sanct for the government. When NEW DELHI: Moderate to Chandrasekhar Rao — resigned not met. Over 53 percent voters heart treatment, but eventually, touched,” said Chief Justice Lodha I say so, I say it with deep sense heavy turnout was reported in from Vadodara (Gujarat), cast their ballot in by-polls to one he captured all our hearts with in his inaugural address. of commitment and conviction.” the biggest democratic exercise Mainpuri (Uttar Pradesh) and Lok Sabha and 11 assembly con- his positive attitude and happy- “When economy grows, indus- In his welcome address, in India since the April-May Medak (Telangana) respectively. stituencies in Uttar Pradesh. go-lucky nature,” said the hospi- try grows and also grows corrup- Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi general election as three parlia- Simultaneous by-polls were At a polling booth in tal’s medical director Vijay D’Silva tion. It is very, very important said that the rule of law is the mentary and 33 assembly con- held to three assembly seats in Saharanpur, supporters of the while seeing off the RJD leader. that judiciary is corruption free... spine of democracy and with that stituencies spanning 10 states Assam, nine in Gujarat, four in BJP and the Congress clashed Discussing his medical con- it is a worst form of ailment for a goes the independence of judici- went for by-polls yesterday. Rajasthan, 11 in Uttar Pradesh, during which a person suffered dition, D’Silva said all his vital thriving democracy,” he said while ary, rule of law, the enforcement The elections — regarded as a two in West Bengal and one each a heart attack and died. Officials parameters were within normal exhorting the legal fraternity to of fundamental rights and the test of popularity of the respec- in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, rushed to the spot, pacified the range and his post-operative guard against any attempt to cor- respect of every organ of the tive state governments as also of Sikkim and Tripura. people and took the body for a recovery went smoothly. rupt the judiciary. state, including respect for each the Bharatiya Janata Party which The biggest turnout — 88 percent post-mortem examination. The hospital’s cardiac rehabili- The chief justice said that organ’s domain. held many of these seats — were — was recorded in the tiny north- In another incident, BJP’s ally tation chief Nilesh Gautam said “judicial independence gives con- Rohatgi said that unless litiga- generally peaceful. eastern state of Tripura where a Apna Dal MP Anupriya Patel and Lalu Prasad was doing regular fidence to the people that there is tion is reduced drastically, rule of However, one person died of a by-election was held for the Manu Samajwadi Party supporters were cardiac rehab exercises since the an independent judiciary that will law will suffer as the mounting heart attack following a clash in assembly seat. In the western state engaged in a verbal spat at a polling surgery with a dramatic increase come to their rescue if any wrong litigation will affect the expedi- Uttar Pradesh while a few other of Gujarat, voting was slow. booth in Rohania. Samajwadi Party in his exercise capacity. is done to them by the executive tious disposal of cases. political workers sustained inju- Modi vacated Vadodara after chief Mulayam Singh Saturday said “He regularly did bicycle exer- or others.” “Problem seems to be with the ries in violence elsewhere. he was elected to the Lok Sabha his party will sweep the polls and cises, walked the treadmill for He said that the appointment mindset in bureaucracy that the The elections to the three Lok from two places, including will win the Mainpuri Lok Sabha 8-10 minutes continuously twice of judges for the higher judici- thing should be left to the court. Sabha constituencies became Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. and all the 11 assembly seats. daily, all with a very positive ary should be in a transparent The idea is to pass the buck to the necessary after three politi- Residents of several colonies Mainpuri with 1,647,176 voters frame of mind,” Gautam said. manner. law officer or the court,” he said, cal stalwarts — Prime Minister in Vadodara city, where flood is crucial for the Samajwadi Party The Rashtriya Janata Dal He referred to the discus- deriding the escapist mindset of Narendra Modi, Samajwadi Party waters created havoc three days as the seat has been held by the chief was admitted August 25 for sions he had with the heads officialdom. chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and ago, boycotted the voting as their party for over two decades. heart-related ailments. of the legal system in Britain IANS Telangana Chief Minister K demand of constructing roads was IANS IANS SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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REUTERS ISLAMABAD 31/21 Chance of storm 32/21 Clear ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ to hit PS4 and Xbox One in November SAN FRANCISCO: Rockstar Games action behind an age-gate online at www. for gamers, according to a slew of reviews announced that the latest installment rockstargame.com/V. Actress Lindsay giving it top marks. of its crime-themed blockbuster video Lohan is suing the creators of “Grand The GTA franchise has won legions of game “Grand Theft Auto” will hit Theft Auto V” over a character she con- fans, and about as many critics, for game PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles tends is an unsanctioned virtual version play in which winning depends on acts in November. of herself. She filed a lawsuit in July in such as carjacking, gambling and killing. “Grand Theft Auto V” will be packed New York City, where Take-Two is based. The fifth installment in the GTA series with enhancements when it is released for Lawyers for Take-Two and subsidiary is set in a fictional city of Los Santos play on the new-generation consoles from Rockstar have fired back in court, argu- based on real-world Los Angeles and its rivals Microsoft and Sony, according to ing Lohan’s suit is without merit and was nearby hills and beaches. Rockstar said publisher Take-Two Interactive Software. pursued for publicity. that GTA V “focuses on the pursuit of The game “will feature a range of major Versions of GTA V hit the streets in the almighty dollar” in a re-imagined visual and technical upgrades to make Los September of last year for PlayStation 3 Southern California. Santos and Blaine County more immersive and Xbox 360 consoles as well as on com- It was billed by Take-Two as the “larg- than ever”. GTA V for the beefed-up con- puters powered by Windows software. est and most ambitious” title in a fran- soles will boast new weapons and vehicles GTA V raked in more than a billion chise that has sold more than 114 million along with “denser traffic.” dollars in a record-shattering first three copies since its debut in 1997. The number of people who could play days on the shelves for the unabashedly Fans say GTA appeals with captivating simultaneously in online sessions will be violent video game. Take-Two chief exec- story lines and an open-world format that ramped to 30. People who pre-order the utive Strauss Zelnick called the game “a lets players go wherever they wish in game title are being promised a million dol- cultural phenomenon”. Take-Two’s unit worlds, noting that players can rob banks, lars - in pretend in-game cash to spend Rockstar Games spent five years craft- take a yoga lesson or fly a plane, as well as A file picture shows the packaging of console game ‘Grand Theft Auto 5’ in central London. while playing. ing the title, with a rumored production play with or against one another online. Take-Two posted a new video of game budget of $270m, and the time paid off AFP London Fashion gets digital LONDON: London Fashion tech-savvy fashion capital in the but Peter Fitzgerald, a top sales Week opened on Friday with world,” said Natalie Massenet, the executive at Google UK, has been a new push for online sales, chairman of the British Fashion holding boot camps and “digital as designers seek to turn the Council and founder of designer surgeries” to show them the way. democratisation of the catwalk fashion portal Net-a-Porter.com. The rewards are huge — online through live streaming and The BFC, which organises clothing sales are set to reach Twitter into cold, hard cash. London Fashion Week, has £10.7bn ($17.4bn) in Britain this The five-day event will show- enlisted Internet giant Google to year, 17 percent of total spend, case the creative talents of more help in its efforts to get design- according to market research firm than 80 designers including ers to boost their online presence, Mintel. “The UK is so advanced in Burberry, Vivienne Westwood, and a raft of new initiatives are how much people spend and their Mary Katrantzou and Christopher planned this week. appetite for fashion,” Fitzgerald said. Kane, including a one-off show by Burberry Prorsum will sell New technology is not just a New York-based Marchesa. the nail varnish used in its run- way of making money, however. More than 5,000 visitors are way show tomorrow directly to For some designers in London it expected — but as elsewhere, the Twitter users during the event, is a tool for creativity and even an abundance of live streaming, and as the social media site trials its inspiration in its own right. instant updates on Twitter and new “Buy Now” button. The label Fyodor Golan, one Instagram mean the latest looks Fans of the funky label House of rising stars in London, used are now available to anyone with of Holland will be able to watch smartphones to film its show on an Internet connection. the show live online and try the Friday and streamed the blurry Bigger and more established clothes on their very own digital pictures live on a giant inverted names in New York, Paris and avatar as the models walk out. pyramid descending onto the cat- Milan are seizing on ways to And Hunter boots will be post- walk from the ceiling. turn this new interactive and glo- ing curated video clips from its The collection itself was bal audience into sales. But like catwalk show almost instantane- inspired by the “new visual a teenager showing her parents ously on Twitter, and targeting language that’s all around us”, how to use the latest smartphone, content based on users’ geo- where people express their mood London — traditionally the young graphic location. by posting pictures on social upstart of the fashion world — More than half the designers media, said Fyodor Podgorny, the A model presents a creation from the Hunter Spring/Summer 2015 collection at the Seymour Leisure Centre during intends to lead the way. here still have to set up a way Latvian-Russian designer who London Fashion Week yesterday. “London is set to be the most of selling their wares online, forms half of the label. AFP Sunday 14 September 2014 19 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 Volume 19 Number 6188 Price: QR2

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DOHA: As part of efforts to in its Lean Startup programme. development.” promote economic diversifica- Accordingly, the 15 projects will Based at a 20,000 square metre tion, Qatar Business Incubation be offered office space and financ- site in the New Industrial Area, Center (QBIC) under its flag- ing, with incubation services, for QBIC has been established as a ship ‘Lean Startup’ programme two years. joint effort between the QDB has supported and launched The QR100m worth QBIC, and Social Development Center more than 21 projects that truly the largest business incubator (SDC). It is a flagship project in showcase entrepreneurs’ poten- in the Middle East, was officially the government’s wider effort to tial and progress in the country. launched recently at a high-level support and encourage entre- “We will continue to work ceremony. The Centre will oper- preneurs in Qatar to set up and closely with our partners across ate under the patronage of H E establish Small and Mid-sized Founders of the “Original Unverpackt OU” (originally unpacked) shop, Milena Glimbovski (left) and Sara Wolf the entrepreneurial landscape Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Enterprises. in their shop in Berlin. Berlin’s first store that sells its goods unpacked opened yesterday. to achieve the utmost benefit Khalifa Al Thani, Prime Minister Al Khalifa (Chairman of QIBC), for these great innovators,” said and Minister of Interior, who was added: “We are proud of our joint Abdulaziz bin Nasser Al Khalifa, joined by statesmen and dignitar- efforts with the SDC to equip and CEO of Qatar Development Bank ies from across the public and pri- launch the largest incubator in the (QDB) and Chairman of QBIC in a vate sectors during the ceremony, Mena region, which will add tre- DFM sees first flotation since 2009 press statement issued yesterday. including H E Sheikh Abdullah bin mendous value to Qatar’s entre- Al Khalifa said: “The Centre Saud Al Thani, Governor of Qatar preneurial ecosystem. In addition DUBAI: Dubai retailing and res- improve. Marka initially planned to region. Dubai’s Emaar Properties is a new milestone in the overall Central Bank and Chairman of to funding the construction of the taurants group Marka will list list its shares on the DFM around will begin offering shares in its development effort of the State the Board of Directors of QDB. incubator, we allocated another its shares on the Dubai Financial the first week of June, but the mar- shopping malls unit today, aiming of Qatar in the field of entrepre- Sheikh Abdullah Al Thani said: QR27m to support the incubated Market (DFM) on September 25 ket was hit by volatility that month. to raise at least $1.4bn, and will list neurship and private sector sup- “QDB has been delighted to part- projects and offer all the facilities in the market’s first flotation for The firm raised Dh275m ($75m) the shares on the DFM on October port. It is also aligned with the ner with the SDC throughout the and services entrepreneurs need five years (since 2009), the com- in April through a share offer that 2. Other share offers are believed Qatar National Vision 2030 pil- establishment of this important from a project’s inception to its pany said yesterday. was 36 times subscribed. Founded to be in the pipeline. lars of economic, social and human national project. We are confident operation — providing office space, New share issues dried up in this year by prominent United Two companies have listed resources development.” that QBIC will now take its place industrial workshops, administra- Dubai when its financial crisis Arab Emirates investors, it plans to shares on the smaller of Dubai’s In May, QBIC announced that in the front rank of incubators tive and technical support, and erupted five years ago and Marka’s spend the proceeds of the share sale two stock markets, NASDAQ it will incubate 15 projects of around the world, and provide a a 20,000 square metre project flotation signals a reopening of the on opening fashion retail outlets, Dubai, over the past 12 months. entrepreneurs who participated major boost to Qatar’s economic space.” THE PENINSULA market as investment conditions restaurants and cafes across the REUTERS SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS EU moves to watered-down ‘Tobin’ tax Plans tax on financial transactions

MILAN: European finance min- go it alone. But with public atten- isters struggled to agree a long tion turned away from the crisis, promised financial transaction some of those countries, notably tax yesterday, with Germany France, have cooled to the idea, urging a watered-down version preferring to enact a watered- amid resistance from France, down version that would be less eager to protect its lucrative onerous on key types of financial FROM LEFT: ECB President Mario Draghi, Finnish Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen, Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem and European Stability derivatives trading sector. trades. The derivatives trading Mechanism Managing Director Klaus Regling at the European Financial Ministers meeting in Milan, Italy. “The first step will only be market “is very developed” in small, that’s unfortunately true,” Paris, a source said. said German Finance Minister For now, there is little detail Wolfgang Schaeuble, an influen- on what the tax would entail, EU seeks billions of euros to revive economy tial backer of the scheme on the but another EU diplomat said sidelines of European Union min- the aim is to have a proposal “by ister talks in Milan. the end of the year”. In 2013, the MILAN: The European Union There were no details of what of the United States, with around unless this changes,” he said. “Given the different situations Commission floated a 0.1 percent sought ways yesterday to those projects might be. 25 million people unemployed. Unlike in the United States, in the different countries, we will levy on stock and bond trades and marshal billions of euros into To finance them, the ministers Investment is the new buzz European companies rely on probably only agree on a small 0.01 percent on the more complex its sluggish economy with- discussed four ideas: an Italian word among ministers, overrid- banks to provide 80 percent of first step, but a small first step is derivatives, which would raise out getting deeper into debt, paper on new financing tools for ing the German mantra of budget loans, but banks are reluctant to better than none,” Schaeuble said. about €35bn ($45bn) a year, it considering options from a pan- companies, a Franco-German cuts. Germany is under pressure lend following the worst crisis in Blamed for the financial cri- said. The banking lobby has been European capital market to a proposal on how to boost private from France and Italy to loosen a generation. sis that had sparked a global fierce in its opposition to a trans- huge investment fund. investments, a Polish proposal on the fiscal reins and use its over- In Italy, Europe’s fourth-largest recession, public anger in 2011 action tax. With Europe’s economy strug- creating a joint EU fund worth flowing government coffers to economy, credit to companies has against bank traders ran high. “Even when an FTT is intro- gling to recover from the worst €700bn ($907bn) and a call from ramp up public investment. shrunk by more than 70 billion This pushed the European duced in a limited number of financial crisis in a generation, incoming European Commission German Finance Minister euros since mid-2011 and is still Commission, backed by Germany member states in the EU its EU finance ministers tasked President Jean-Claude Juncker Wolfgang Schaeuble strongly sup- contracting, central bank data and France, to propose a tax on effects will be detrimental to the the European Commission, the for a €300bn investment pro- ports the search for investment, shows. That problem is mirrored financial transactions. entire European economy,” the EU executive, and the European gramme to revive the European but this week rebuffed calls for across Europe, holding back the The idea was inspired by the European Banking Federation Investment Bank (EIB) to draw economy. The European Central Berlin to spend more to boost the recovery because smaller com- ‘Tobin Tax’, named after Nobel said in the runup to the talks in up a list of projects that would Bank’s plan to resurrect a market eurozone economy, which showed panies provide two out of every laureate James Tobin, who pro- Milan. “Despite this overwhelm- create growth and decide how to for asset-backed securities would no growth in the April-to-June three private-sector jobs in the posed it in the 1970s as a means ing evidence against the merits finance them. be another financing tool. period. The eurozone will grow European Union. of reducing speculation in global of an FTT, the plan remains on “We have given a mandate to “We don’t have a magic wand again in the third quarter but Indebted countries like Italy markets and redistributing Wall the table,” the lobby group added. the Commission and the EIB to but we need growth, we need to full-year growth will be below and France have little public Street profits to poor countries. Despite the resistance, swiftly present an initial report stimulate demand without taking 1 percent, ECB Vice President money for businesses. Another In the European version, the Germany’s Schaeuble said he was on practical measures that can on debt,” France’s finance minis- Vitor Constancio said after the hangover of the crisis is the dif- proceeds would go towards financ- hopeful that a scaled-back tax be taken, on profitable invest- ter, Michel Sapin, told reporters meeting. fering cost of financing across the ing future bailouts, sparing the could gain support and eventu- ment projects that are justifi- after the gathering in Milan. “We In a speech to the EU finance eurozone in a currency area that taxpayer from saving big banks ally attract more member states. able,” Italy’s economy minister, need the right mix of public and ministers in Milan on Thursday, aimed to create the same financ- caught out by over-speculation. “I am very optimistic that, if we Pier Carlo Padoan, told a news private money.” ECB President Mario Draghi ing conditions for all. Many member states, led by make the first step, we will cre- conference. The European Union’s econ- described business investment as Spain’s Economy Minister Luis Britain eager to protect its City ate a knock-on-effect that leads Ministers are expected to dis- omy, which generates about a “one of the great casualties” of De Guindos cautioned against of London financial hub, opposed to further steps and that could cuss the projects and investment quarter of global output, grew by the financial crisis, saying it has expecting a big spending spree, the scheme, leaving 11 countries, convince other countries to join tools at their next meeting in just 0.1 percent last year and its fallen 20 percent since 2008. “We saying investments must go hand including France and Germany, to in,” he said. AFP Luxembourg in October. jobless rate is almost double that will not see a sustainable recovery in hand with reforms. REUTERS

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A pedestrian walks by a Lululemon retail store in San Francisco. Lululemon Athletica Inc reported better than expected second quarter profits with net income of $48.7m, compared to $56.5m one year ago. New ECB move to boost exports, avoid deflation, says QNB Group

DOHA: The European Central package included the introduc- much lower than the ECB’s stated Bank (ECB) surprised markets tion of a negative interest rate inflation target of “below, but on September 4 by announcing on deposits (-0.1 percent) — the close to, 2 percent”. its first dose of Quantitative first time a major central bank The ECB has, for the first time, Easing (QE) for the moribund has charged commercial banks announced its plan to start its eurozone economy. Policy rates for their deposits at the cen- own version of QE. This comes were cut by 10 basis points, tral bank. It also included the almost six years after the US taking the deposit rate further Targeted Long-Term Refinancing Federal Reserve introduced its into the negative territory (-0.2 Operations (TLTROs), which aim first round of QE in response percent). to provide cheap funding to banks to the financial crisis. Starting In addition, the ECB has belat- in order to encourage lending to in October 2014, the ECB will edly joined other major central the real economy. purchase a portfolio of private- banks in announcing QE in the While it takes time for mon- sector assets, which include form of private sector asset pur- etary policy to have an effect on asset-backed securities and cov- chases. It remains to be seen the real economy (in fact, the ered bonds. These purchases will whether the new set of measures, first TLTRO is planned to take be financed by an increase in the which have started to become place this September), recent monetary base. The ECB aims known as Draghinomics (after weak macroeconomic data in the to use QE and TLTROs to sig- Mario Draghi, President of the eurozone have prompted the ECB nificantly expand the size of its ECB), will be enough to combat to do more last week. balance sheet by about €1 trillion the eurozone’s problems of slow Since the June meeting, eco- to around €3 trillion, the level it growth, high unemployment and nomic activity in the eurozone reached in the beginning of 2012. near zero inflation, says a report has been sluggish. GDP was flat Such large expansion in the by the QNB Group yesterday. in Q2 relative to the previous balance sheet could have a signifi- However, the new policy is quarter. PMI surveys show mod- cant impact on the euro. Overall, already leading to a further est expansion in the third quarter, Draghinomics may help the euro- depreciation of the euro, which with contraction in countries like zone to recover and avoid defla- could boost exports and avoid France and Italy. More danger- tion. Its new flagship scheme, a deflation. ously, eurozone inflation has con- private-sector QE programme, The ECB had previously deliv- tinued to edge down reaching 0.3 may have come later than other ered a significant monetary eas- percent in August from 0.4 per- major central banks, but better ing package to spur economic cent in July. late than never. activity in its June meeting. The Inflation is expected to remain THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Record orders delay iPhone 6 plus shipments Three to four weeks delay expected Apple mixes up NEW YORK: Customers the year-end before they can Canadian cities may have to wait three to four buy the iPhone 6. Apple is yet weeks to get their hands on to set a release date for China, Apple Inc’s iPhone 6 Plus, after the world’s biggest smartphone TORONTO: Geography has a record number of orders for market. again stumped Apple Inc, with the company’s latest smart- The company unveiled its lat- the technology company mixing phones strained available est iPhones along with a watch up and relocating both Canada’s supply. and a mobile payments service largest city and its national cap- The new iPhone 6 goes on on Tuesday. ital on a map showing when dif- sale on September 19 in the AT&T’s chief executive of ferent parts of the country can United States but the company mobile and business, Ralph de expect new iPhone deliveries. began taking online orders on la Vega, told investors at a con- Not only did Apple’s Canadian Thursday. While the larger 5.5- ference in New York that iPhone website misplace Toronto and inch “Plus” models now display a 6 orders have so far surpassed Ottawa, it incorrectly placed wait time of up to a month, the orders last year and the year Edmonton west of Calgary, and 4.7-inch version remains avail- before. missed the apostrophe in St able for delivery on September “It is such a great thing to John’s, screen grabs from local 19, Apple’s website showed. wake up in the morning to know media showed. The offending map Verizon Wireless, AT&T and that you have hundreds of thou- was quickly removed. Sprint Corp, also showed ship- sands of orders already before The error prompted a new ment delays of up to six weeks you even have a cup of coffee,” round of light-hearted digs at the on their respective websites. said the executive. Apple, which has a history of get- Apple said the pace of orders Apple’s iPhones tend to incite ting lost with its maps. has so far outstripped any of its the kind of initial buying frenzy “You would think they could’ve previous iPhones. “Response to unknown to many other brands, asked Siri for help with that,” said iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus has partly because of the company’s Twitter user Jennifer Hoegg, been incredible, with a record well-honed marketing tactics. A sign shows the prices of new Apple iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, between HK$10,000-20,000 ($1,282-2,564), higher than referring to Apple’s voice-recog- number of pre-orders overnight. On secondary markets online, the official retail prices, next to dummies of the phones, at a mall selling smartphones in Hong Kong. nition software. REUTERS Pre-orders are currently avail- the rights to a pre-ordered able online or through the Apple iPhone 6 Plus are worth as Store App,” spokeswoman Trudy much as double the unsubsidised Muller said. sticker price. China demand to fuel Hong Kong grey market Apple routinely grapples with One eBay auction for an iPhone supply constraints, par- unlocked 128-gigabyte gold ver- HONG KONG: Wealthy main- larger screen, in a bid to recap- district, posters and replica mod- Mainland China was among the ticularly in years that involve a sion of the 5.5-inch phone, for land Chinese looking to buy the ture its role as a technological els of both iPhone 6 models are first countries where the iPhone smartphone re-design. The lat- example, was bidding at $1,625 new iPhone 6 next week could trend-setter. already on display on virtually 5s was available for sale last year, est iPhones come with larger on Friday afternoon, compared expect to pay an eye-watering The phones will be made avail- every corner. and the then newly introduced screens and some analysts had with a face value of $949. $2,500 for the handsets in Hong able in 10 countries — including “The demand in the mainland gold iPhone 5s model was par- anticipated that production One post on the New York Kong, following Apple’s decision Hong Kong — from September 19, is bigger for the iPhone 6 com- ticularly popular. issues may keep a lid on initial City edition of Craigslist sought to delay the launch in China. but Apple has not yet stated when pared to the iPhone 5s because Yiu said his store received runs. $10,000 the privilege to “be one Hong Kong has long been a hub they will be available on the main- there are bigger changes made scores of pre-orders for iPhone 6 Its suppliers had scrambled of the first & few people to own for resold and refurbished phones, land, despite it being one of the to it,” Arthur Chung, who runs a models a week before its release, to get enough screens ready this model and before the rest of and delighted vendors there US tech giant’s largest markets. phone reseller shop at the three- with mainland Chinese custom- because the need to redesign a the world.” were coping with a flood of pre- Massive queues and frantic storey shopping centre, said. ers making up half of the orders. key component had disrupted New iPhones tend to get listed orders from the Apple-obsessed trading were seen outside Apple Chung said he will order phones Those customers could easily turn panel production, supply chain at stratospheric prices on vari- mainland. stores in the southern Chinese from the United States to match a profit by reselling the phone on sources said last month. ous online retail sites from the The price, say sellers in the city on previous iPhone launches, a pre-order made by a mainland the return home, he said. It was unclear whether the United States to China, on the southern Chinese city, is a bargain with resellers buying units from customer for 300 units of the “There have been reports say- hiccup could limit the number assumption that there’s big — the phones can then be resold hundreds of new iPhone owners iPhone 6. ing that the iPhone 6 prices could of phones available to consum- demand from people who must on the mainland, where fans could to sell on later at inflated prices The 128-gigabyte gold version reach over 20,000 yuan to 30,000 ers, the sources said at the time. get their hands on the phone pay up to 30,000 yuan ($5,000) for on the legal but unauthorised of the larger iPhone 6-Plus could yuan ($3,260 to $4,890) in China, Apple declined to comment on from day one. That in turns fuels a new handset. “grey market”. be resold for over HK$20,000 so the Hong Kong price isn’t all supply chain issues. a grey market of dealers who buy Apple this week unveiled the At Sin Tat Plaza, a bustling ($2,580), Gary Yiu, the manager that expensive,” Yiu said. In addition, Chinese custom- in bulk for resale. two latest models in its iPhone mall crammed with mobile phone of the nearby iGeneration mobile Lau Chi-kong, who runs the ers may also have to wait until REUTERS series, both of which boast a stores in the city’s Mongkok phone store, said. G-World store, agreed. AFP Britain plans JPMorgan hackers first yuan bond outside China accessed servers LONDON: Britain said it would BOSTON: Hackers accessed month that it had been the victim be the first country outside dozens of servers at JPMorgan of a cyberattack and was working China to issue yuan-denomi- Chase & Co in a cyberattack with US law enforcement author- nated bonds, as London seeks to launched in June, though no ities to determine its scope. become a Western hub for trad- money was taken, the New York The Times said the attack began ing in the Chinese currency. Times reported on Friday, citing in June, was detected in July and The UK Treasury said the gov- people familiar with the inves- that the bank last week briefed ernment plans to issue the bond tigation into the case. financial regulators on the extent in the coming weeks, subject to “We are confident we have of the damage. market conditions, without giving closed any known access points The report said that hackers an exact amount or other details. and prevented any future access accessed information on about “This will be the first non-Chi- in the same way,” the paper 1 million customer accounts. It nese issuance of sovereign RMB quoted JPMorgan spokeswoman cited one source as saying that (yuan) debt and will be used to Kristin Lemkau as saying. hackers had not gained access to finance Britain’s reserves,” it said She added that the bank had financial information or Social in a statement. “Up to now, Britain “not seen any unusual fraud activ- Security numbers, and may have has only held reserves in US dol- ity” since the intrusion was dis- only been able to review names, lars, euros, yen and Canadian covered and said there was no addresses and phone numbers. dollars, so today’s announcement evidence that they have taken Bank spokeswoman Trish signals the RMB’s potential as any proprietary software or had Wexler said she could not elabo- a future reserve currency.” Last a blueprint of the bank’s network, rate on Lemkau’s statements to year the yuan overtook the euro according to the New York Times the paper or otherwise comment as the world’s second-largest trade report. on the report. currency after the dollar. AFP JPMorgan disclosed late last REUTERS

EBay dismisses Google stake talk

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK: Shares of eBay Inc lost much of their Friday gains after the online retailer dismissed market speculation that Google Inc may be preparing to buy a slice of the company. The stock rose as much as 4.7 percent in unusually heavy vol- ume in the morning, with two European-based traders and one US-based trader citing rumours that Google would possibly take a large stake in eBay as the reason for the move. “We’ve had no conversations with Google about acquiring a stake in the company,” eBay spokesman Alan Marks said. Google said it would not com- ment on rumours or speculation. EBay shares were up 2.6 per- An eBay sign is seen at an office building in San Jose, California. cent at $52.02 at midday after rising as high as $53.07. into the morning session, accord- the previous three sessions fol- Google dipped 0.7 percent to ing to data from options analytics lowing Apple’s announcement of $587.08. firm Trade Alert. the Apple Pay mobile payment Options volume in eBay spiked EBay shares are down more service, which analysts viewed as to 2.4 times normal, with 98,000 than 6 percent for the year so far. a threat to PayPal, eBay’s online puts and 26,000 calls traded late The stock fell nearly 7 percent in payment service. REUTERS SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS China factory growth Nozza Grande debuts slows to six-year low Cooling housing market drags on other sectors

BEIJING: China’s factory out- a sharp economic slowdown will by billionaire Warren Buffett, put grew at the weakest pace in endanger the undergoing struc- recently warned profit may fall nearly six years in August while tural reforms,” Liu Li-Gang and by as much as a fifth in the first growth in other key sectors also Zhou Hao at ANZ wrote in a note. nine months of the year. cooled, raising fears the world’s “As such, we reckon that Chinese Fixed-asset investment, an second-largest economy may authorities should further relax important driver of economic be at risk of a sharp slowdown monetary policy as soon as possi- activity, grew 16.5 percent in unless Beijing takes fresh stim- ble to prevent growth momentum the first eight months from the ulus measures. from decelerating further.” same period last year, lower than The output data, combined with Reinforcing the tepid economic forecasts. Economists polled by weaker readings in retail sales, activity, China’s power genera- Reuters had expected 16.9 percent investment and imports, pointed tion declined for the first time in growth, slowing from 17.0 percent to a further loss of momentum four years, falling 2.2 percent in in Jan-July. as the cooling housing market August from a year earlier, and Much of the broader decline increasingly drags on other sec- pointing to slackening demand appears linked to the slowdown tors from cement to steel and from major industrial users. in the property market, which is saps consumer confidence. Jiang Yuan, a senior statistician intensifying. Industrial output rose 6.9 per- with the bureau, said the dip in Property investment data also cent in August from a year ear- August factory growth was due released on Saturday showed lier — the lowest since 2008 when to weak global demand, especially further declines in sales and the economy was buffeted by the from emerging markets, and the new construction, while growth global financial crisis — compared slowdown in the property sector in sales of housing-related goods Yamaha Motor president Piroyuki Yanagi displays the new 125cc scooter “Nozza Grande” with Blue Core with expectations for 8.8 percent that hit demand for steel, cement such as home appliances, furni- technology in Tokyo. and slowing sharply from nine and vehicles. ture and building materials all percent in July. China’s economy got off to slowed. “The August data may point a weak start this year as first- Mortgage issuance in the first to a hard landing. The extent quarter growth cooled to an eight months fell 4.5 percent from of the growth slowdown in the 18-month low of 7.4 percent. a year earlier, worse than a 3.7 Atlas Mara’s third quarter won’t be small,” Beijing responded with a flurry of percent drop in January-July. Officials charged with said Xu Gao, chief economist at stimulus measures that pushed the Some would-be buyers have com- CEO gets $6m Everbright Securities in Beijing. pace up slightly to 7.5 percent in plained of long delays in getting “The chances of cutting inter- the second quarter, but soft July loans as banks grow more cau- BES turnaround quit est rates and bank reserve and August data suggest the boost tious, while others may be holding in shares requirements have increased. I from those steps is rapidly waning. off in anticipation of further price think they are more likely to cut “The government must take declines. LISBON: The rebuilding of Weekly newspaper Expresso LONDON: Atlas Mara, the interest rates.” forceful policy measures to sta- Data on Friday showed that Portugal’s Novo Banco — the said earlier the executives African banking venture of Some analysts believe annual bilise growth,” said Li Huiyong, credit levels in China appeared to successor to Banco Espirito objected to the central bank’s plan former Barclays boss Bob economic growth may be slid- an analyst at Shenyin & Wanguo improve in August after an alarm- Santo (BES) after a state rescue to sell Novo Banco as soon as pos- Diamond, has awarded its Chief ing towards seven percent in the Securities in Shanghai. ing drop in July, but remained last month — was dealt a blow sible and were reluctant “to run a Executive John Vitalo shares third quarter, putting the govern- Other activity indicators for below average. Bad loans are on yesterday with the resignation project that is not theirs”. worth $6m (£3.6m). ment’s full-year target of around August were also mostly weaker the rise and banks expect more of the three men handpicked by “A process for a swift sale of the Vitalo was poached from 7.5 percent in jeopardy unless than expected. to go sour as the economy slows. the central bank in July to turn bank has already been launched Barclays in April to run Atlas it takes more aggressive action. Retail sales climbed 11.9 per- That followed trade data that BES round. and is being managed by the Mara, which has struck three Experts reckon output growth cent, lagging forecasts of 12.1 per- showed China’s exports were buoy- Chief executive Vitor Bento, Resolution Fund and the Bank deals and wants to become the of around nine percent would be cent and July’s 12.2 percent, with ant but import growth unexpect- finance director Joao Moreira of Portugal. We now feel that the leading bank in sub-Saharan needed to attain such a goal. growth in car sales in particular edly fell for the second consecutive Rato and deputy CEO Jose right thing to do is to hand over Africa. Vitalo, a former US “Short of outright policy easing, off sharply, suggesting consumers month in August, posting its worst Honorio said they were leaving the reins to another management marine who headed Barclays’ China will likely miss the 7.5 per- are more cautious. performance in over a year. because their initial mandate team,” Bento said. Middle East and North Africa cent growth target this year, and Carmaker BYD Co Ltd, backed REUTERS to revive the bank with private Expresso said the executives region and previously built up money had changed too much had offered to resign previously its African investment bank, was since the government bailout. as they were against the central given 300,482 Atlas Mara shares BES had to be rescued after the bank-ordered split of BES into a on Thursday, worth $3.2m at cur- collapse of the business empire of good bank that is now Novo Banco, rent prices. its founding Espirito Santo fam- and a bad bank that inherited the The company also awarded ily, whose main holding firms are exposure to the Espirito Santos’ Vitalo options for another 300,000 under creditor protection. troubled web of businesses. shares, and handed options on The management resignations Bento said he and his team another 653,000 shares to other followed a reported disagreement believed Novo Banco was “a great employees and consultants. with the central bank over Novo institution, with dedicated people, Atlas Mara said the shares Banco’s long-term strategy. loyal customers and a business that were subject to certain restric- However, the three men denied can strongly contribute to lead tions on dealing until April 2017. any conflict. “Our decision to Portugal through the recovery.” One third of the options vest on resign is due to the fact that our Bento said his early announce- the date of grant, one third on the mandate significantly changed ment of his intention to resign first anniversary and the other since we began our roles, in mid- gave time to prepare a smooth third a year after that. Atlas July. During our time at Novo transition to new management. Mara shares closed on Thursday Banco, we have contributed to the Bank of Portugal officials at $10.5. stabilisation of the bank, taken were not immediately available Vitalo is paid a base salary of steps to normalise operations and to comment, but local media about $500,000, can receive an improve systems and launched a said the regulator was likely to annual cash bonus of up to $1m medium-term plan,” they said in announce Bento’s replacement and is paid an annual allow- a joint statement. this weekend. ance for expenses and benefits of Bento’s initial mandate was to Bento, a respected economist and $550,000. save BES using private capital, business manager, was picked by Diamond, who founded Atlas before the central bank decided Bank of Portugal Governor Carlos Mara last year with Africa-based on August 3 to step in with ¤4.9bn Costa to replace Ricardo Salgado, billionaire entrepreneur Ashish ($6.4bn), mostly in public funds the patriarch of the Espirito Santo Thakkar, was frequently slammed from the country’s bailout, to clan that founded the bank some by UK politicians and media for recapitalise the “good bank” Novo 150 years ago. Salgado had resigned the scale of his pay packets at Banco that it carved out of the under pressure from Costa. Barclays. troubled BES. REUTERS REUTERS HSBC to pay $550m to settle US mortgage bond claims

NEW YORK: HSBC Holdings The lawsuit accused HSBC of billion. Last month, Goldman Plc will pay $550m (£425m) to falsely representing to Fannie Sachs Group Inc agreed to a set- resolve a US regulator’s claims Mae and Freddie Mac that loans tlement that the FHFA valued at that the British bank made underlying $6.2bn of mortgage- $1.2 billion. false representations in selling backed securities sold from 2005 Lawsuits remain pending mortgage bonds to Fannie Mae to 2007 met underwriting guide- against Nomura Holdings Inc and and Freddie Mac before the lines and standards. Royal Bank of Scotland Group financial crisis. HSBC has denied the allega- Plc. The FHFA said it “remains The settlement announced tions, and did not admit wrongdo- committed to satisfactory resolu- Friday between the bank’s U.S. ing as part of the settlement. The tion of these actions.” unit and the Federal Housing bank stopped issuing residential Many of the banks settled Finance Agency, the conservator mortgage-backed securities in after US District Judge Denise for the two government-control- 2007. Cote, who has overseen most of led mortgage finance compa- “We are pleased to have the FHFA litigation, issued sev- nies, came less than three weeks resolved this matter,” Stuart eral rulings making it harder to before a September 29 trial in Alderoty, general counsel for mount defences. New York, where HSBC has said HSBC North America, said in a The deal with HSBC came it could have faced up to $1.6bn statement. after it last month lost a bid to in damages. Under the settlement, HSBC dismiss the case as untimely, in The deal is the latest arising will pay $374m to Freddie Mac light of a recent U.S. Supreme from 18 lawsuits that the FHFA and $176m to Fannie Mae, the Court ruling. filed in 2011 to recoup losses on FHFA said. The case is Federal Housing $200bn in mortgage-backed secu- Along with settlements with Finance Agency v. HSBC North rities sold to Fannie Mae and other banks including Bank of America Holdings Inc, US Freddie Mac, which the US gov- America Corp, Deutsche Bank AG District Court, Southern District ernment took into conservatorship and Morgan Stanley, the FHFA of New York, No. 11-06189. amid the 2008 economic crisis. has so far recovered nearly $17.9 REUTERS SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 BUSINESS VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Argentina’s economy is United Kingdom’s wage falling into deeper hole BY SARAH MARSH crisis really can’t go on BY JAMES CHARLES rgentina’s government is ramping up state intervention their wages have been frozen year after year. interest rates. An increase in Britain’s key in the economy to try to prevent a new debt default Inflation has soared, too. As a result, wages interest rate from 0.5 percent, where the from triggering a balance of payments crisis but its amily wages have slumped in the in real terms – adjusted for inflation – have Bank rate currently stands, to 0.75 percent Apolicies are also battering business confidence and may aftermath of the global financial actually fallen. or more will reverberate across the economy, deepen a recession. crisis in 2008 and the collapse At one point inflation hit 5 percent, while sending all our borrowing costs spiralling In the six weeks since Argentina failed to complete a debt of Lehman Brothers bank. Now wages were growing at around 1 percent. upwards. coupon payment and defaulted for the second time in 12 years, the threat of an interest rate rise Even now, wages are growing by just 0.6 Debt charities also suggest drawing up the government has restricted the amount of dollars available to Fnext spring means things could get worse percent, while inflation is at 1.6 percent. a provisional household budget now, which importers, boosted subsidies and drawn up proposals to interfere before they get better. The squeeze on wages has left millions takes higher interest rate payments into in private companies’ output plans. This week Mark Carney, the governor drowning in debt, only just able to get by. account. It is also worth looking at other Along the Santa Fe shopping boulevard in Buenos Aires, the of the Bank of England, acknowledged the Low interest rates, government assistance debts, which could be harder to repay when choke on imports and a sharp decline in consumer spending have catastrophic impact of the great recession and leniency by banks have kept households interest rates are rising. driven up shop closures and forced retailers to bring forward sales. on wages, telling the TUC conference that afloat. But far from getting easier, things Consolidating a wallet full of credit card The leftist government’s measures are meant to shore up for- workers have been forced to share the bur- are set to get even tougher for these fami- balances in one place could help you manage eign reserves that stand at less than five months worth of imports den of higher overall employment and eco- lies. Carney has warned that interest rates repayments, but double check the costs of and boost consumer confidence to prevent the $490bn economy nomic growth in the form of lower pay. will rise before wages increase in real terms, taking out a new personal loan or another already contracting. But with no signs of a deal to emerge from Over the past five years, households have which the Bank does not expect to happen interest-free credit card. default and thus no prospect of a return to global debt markets, faced a relentless squeeze, the worst in until later next year. Transferring balances usually results in capital flight has intensified, pushing the peso currency to record almost a century. An increase in interest rates could push a fee, sometimes running to hundreds of lows and fuelling inflation. Research by the Centre for Economic and some families into a spiral of indebtedness, pounds. In his speech to the TUC, Carney One company manager who imports agricultural machinery, Business Research thinktank shows that if charities have warned. An alarming report highlighted moves by the Bank to ensure all including water pumps and generators, describes the govern- wages had continued to climb since 2008 as by the Resolution Foundation released in its employees were earning the living wage, ment’s policies as “lethal” even before the default, and says they they did in the six years before, the average July found that interest rate rises over the currently £8.80 an hour in London and £7.65 are now even worse. worker would now be earning £5,000 more coming years would lead to more than 1 mil- in the rest of the country. He said the import curbs mean he been able to import goods every year than they currently do – £29,796 lion households facing a problem with debt The government could also introduce a worth just $2,795 in the first six months of the year compared instead of £24,960. repayments. hike in the national minimum wage. High with an average $25m in previous years. What’s more, even an expected recovery The good news is that inflation is finally inflation in the years since the start of the Heavy government spending and high commodity prices helped in wage growth over the next eight years coming down and will continue to fall for recession means the full-time salary of an drive strong growth in the early years of her presidency but tight will not recoup this devastating loss of the rest of the year. And the prices of some adult on the minimum wage is now worth controls on prices and the currency market have caused imbal- income. By 2022, CEBR forecasts that the goods, such as groceries, have been falling £770 less in real terms. ances in the economy and it fell into recession this year. average worker will be earning over £10,000 even faster than the headline figures sug- The minimum wage is going up to £6.50 Foreign reserves have slumped and inflation is running at more less every year than if wages have continued gest, as our biggest supermarkets battle to next month, but the government should than 30 percent. Argentina’s reserves stand at eight-year lows of to rise at their pre-2008 pace. attract hard-pressed shoppers. move to increase to at least £7 as soon as $28.4bn and the central bank cannot keep tucking into its hard The problem for families isn’t only that But that will not ease the pain of higher possible. THE GUARDIAN currency savings to defend the peso. Exports are also falling more sharply than expected so the government risks having to drain its reserves perilously low to meet its energy imports bill and make good on its pledge to keep servicing performing debt. Siobhan Morden, an economist at Jefferies, forecasts that Argentina will owe about $14bn in debt payments next year and that reserves could drop as low as $7bn by the end of 2015. That has left policymakers few options beyond fighting to pro- tect the trade surplus, their primary source of dollars, so the cen- tral bank has restricted further the dollars available to importers. Reuters could not independently verify the numbers but busi- nesses say the restrictions are harsher for industries where imports are considered nonessential or where the government wants to promote domestic production, including agricultural machinery and auto parts. Adding to their woes, importers complain the debt default and the weak economy have undermined the confidence of suppliers in the ability of Argentine firms to pay their bills. Exports are down 10 percent this year as key trade partner Brazil tipped into recession and global prices for soy, corn and wheat fell to their lowest levels since 2010. Industrial output has been in decline for 12 months. In an attempt to keep production lines running and stem job losses, the government is threatening to intervene in the produc- tion decisions of large companies while also boosting subsidies to some industries in a attempt to spur growth. The so-called “Supply Law”, which is passing smoothly through Congress, would allow the government to cap prices, set profit margins and determine production levels. The proposal has alarmed big business. Last week, leaders from the agricultural, banking, industry and retail sectors joined forces to threaten legal action against the bill. Private economists say the printing of money to finance govern- ment spending is also stoking inflation, adding pressure to the ailing peso. The black market “blue peso” traded at 14.25 per dollar on Thursday, down around 30 percent so far this year. Supermarket sales have fallen for seven straight months, including a 4 percent slide in June, and many smaller stores have been hit even harder. Think of it. The deteriorating economic outlook is pushing Argentines to seek refuge in dollars and the margin between the official exchange rate and black market rate has widened to 70 percent from 44 percent predefault. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

These are the 1937 parallels for today’s global economy

BY ROBERT SHILLER System with its proven collateral – and not only in Russia and to save will not add to aggregate ought to enjoy a higher quality of that they may produce a recession system and Central Counterparty Ukraine – since the financial saving to start new businesses, life with more leisure. Maybe they throughout Europe and beyond. he depression that fol- guarantees, which has been oper- crisis. construct and sell new buildings, are right. That will leave the world with lowed the stock-mar- ating successfully in Russia and That name is the “new normal,” and so forth. But the real issue is self-esteem unhappy Russians, unhappy ket crash of 1929 took demonstrated its capability dur- referring to long-term diminished Though investors may bid up and the social-comparison proc- Ukrainians, and unhappy a turn for the worse ing more than one crisis. prospects for economic growth, a prices of existing capital assets, esses that the psychologist Leon Europeans whose sense of con- eight years later, and Currently the Ukrainian term popularized by Bill Gross, their attempts to save only slow Festinger observed as a universal fidence and support for peace- Trecovery came only with the enor- Exchange holds trading in futures a founder of bond giant PIMCO. down the economy. human trait. ful democratic institutions will mous economic stimulus provided contracts on the UX Index of local The despair felt after 1937 led Secular stagnation and under- Though many will deny it, we weaken. by the second world war, a con- shares and options on UX Index to the emergence of similar new consumptionism are terms that are always comparing ourselves While some kinds of sanctions flict that cost more than 60 mil- futures contracts, with an aspi- terms then, too. “Secular stag- betray an underlying pessimism, with others, and hoping to climb against international aggression lion lives. By the time recovery ration to introduce futures on nation”, referring to long-term which, by discouraging spending, the social ladder. People will never appear to be necessary, we must finally arrived, much of Europe various underliers (securities, economic malaise, is one example. not only reinforces a weak econ- be happy with newfound opportu- remain mindful of the risks asso- and Asia lay in ruins. currency, commodities, etc.). The word secular comes from the omy, but also generates anger, nities for leisure if it seems to sig- ciated with extreme or punishing The current world situation is According to the International Latin saeculum, meaning a gen- intolerance, and a potential for nal their failure relative to others. measures. not nearly so dire, but there are Monetary Fund, both Ukraine eration or a century. violence. The hope that economic growth It would be highly desirable parallels, particularly to 1937. and Russia experienced spectac- The word stagnation suggests In his magnum opus The promotes peace and tolerance is to come to an agreement to end Now, as then, people have been ular growth from 2002 to 2007: a swamp, implying a breeding Moral Consequences of Economic based on people’s tendency to the sanctions; to integrate Russia disappointed for a long time, and over those five years, real per ground for virulent dangers. In Growth, Benjamin M Friedman compare themselves not just to (and Ukraine) more fully into many are despairing. capita GDP rose 52 percent in the late 1930s, people were also showed many examples of declin- others in the present, but also to the world economy; and to cou- They are becoming more fear- Ukraine and 46 percent in Russia. worrying about discontent in ing economic growth giving rise – the what they remember of peo- ple these steps with expansionary ful for their long-term economic That is history now: real per Europe, which had already pow- with variable and sometimes long ple – including themselves – in economic policies. future. And such fears can have capita GDP growth was only 0.2 ered the rise of Adolf Hitler and lags – to intolerance, aggressive the past. A satisfactory resolution of the severe consequences. percent last year in Ukraine, Benito Mussolini. nationalism, and war. According to Friedman: current conflict requires nothing For example, the impact of and only 1.3 percent in Russia. The other term that suddenly He concluded: “The value of a “Obviously nothing can enable less. the 2008 financial crisis on the The discontent generated by became prominent around 1937 rising standard of living lies not the majority of the population to Robert J Shiller is the 2013 Ukrainian and Russian economies such disappointment may help was “underconsumptionism” – just in the concrete improvements be better off than everyone else. Nobel laureate in economics and might ultimately be behind the to explain Ukrainian separatists’ the theory that fearful people may it brings to how individuals live But not only is it possible for most professor of economics at Yale recent war there. anger, Russians’ discontent, and want to save too much for difficult but in how it shapes the social, people to be better off than they University. He is coauthor, with The derivatives market on the Russian president Vladimir times ahead. political, and ultimately the moral used to be, that is precisely what George Akerlof, of Animal Spirits: the Ukrainian Exchange was Putin’s decision to annex Crimea Moreover, the amount of sav- character of a people.” economic growth means.” How Human Psychology Drives launched on May 27, 2010. and to support the separatists. ing that people desire exceeds Some will doubt the importance The downside of the sanctions the Economy and Why It Matters It operates on the trading plat- There is a name for the despair the available investment oppor- of economic growth. Maybe, many imposed against Russia for its for Global Capitalism. form provided by Russian Trading that has been driving discontent tunities. As a result, the desire say, we are too ambitious and behaviour in eastern Ukraine is THE GUARDIAN SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com GECM & TENDERS

GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS MAP (GECM) Every Sunday China inflation softens to Britain’s trade position four-month low deteriorated unexpectedly Public debt hit new record in BEIJING: China’s economy showed in July Japan’s economy shrinks 1.8pc second quarter of 2014 new signs of sluggish domestic US trade deficit narrows to LONDON: London--Britain’s demand on Thursday, as August in the three months to June MADRID: trade position deteriorated Spain’s public debt hit a consumer inflation unexpectedly $40.5bn dollars in July new record between April and June. TOKYO: Japan’s economy shrank unexpectedly in July after fell to a four-month low and some WASHINGTON: The US trade deficit The Central Bank released data on 1.8pc in the April-to-June imports increased more than narrowed in July to the lowest level Friday revealing that the country’s economists warned of the potential period, worse than forecast and in six months, according to figures exports, frustrating the coalition public debt reached €1 trillion for deflationary pressure if pricing raising more questions about the released by the US Department of government’s ambitions to or a debt-to-GDP ratio of 98.9 weakens further. government’s economic policy. Commerce. Exports of goods and rebalance the economy. percent. Figures show that the The official data confirmed that services rose to 198 billion dollars Central Government’s debt grew the world’s third largest economy in July, up from 196.2 billion by 7.84pc, totalling €885m (a debt- suffered its sharpest quarterly dollars in June. to-GDP ratio of 86.4pc), while the contraction since the 2011 Autonomous Communities’ debt earthquake disaster. increased by 15.7pc, adding up to €228m (22.3pc of GDP). Indian shares fall for 3rd session; state-run firms drop South Africa’s deficit account MUMBAI: Indian shares fell for widened: Investec a third consecutive session on JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s Thursday to their lowest in nearly Australia’s unemployment current account deficit widened two weeks as three state-run rate falls to 6.1pc in August Argentina’s unemployment in the second quarter of 2014 to companies, including Oil and rate rises to 7.5pc SYDNEY: Australia’s jobless rate R222.1 billion, from R161bn in Natural Gas Corp, slumped after the dropped to 6.1pc in August from a BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s the first quarter, Investec said government said it would pare its 12-year high of 6.4pc in July. unemployment rate rose to 7.5pc in on Tuesday. “As a percentage of stakes in them. The decline was larger than the second quarter as the country’s GDP, the magnitude of the current economists expected and may recession appeared to worsen and account deficit increased to 6.2 take some pressure off the federal more companies laid off workers. percent from 4.5 percent, and was government. Some 121,000 jobs The jobless rate, published by the larger than market expectations of were added to the economy in government on Tuesday, is up from a 5.5 percent shortfall,” economist August, according to data released 7.1pc in the first quarter and 7.2pc a Kamilla Kaplan said in a statement. on Thursday, although only a small year earlier. proportion of those were full-time.

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Ferry steps Serbia beat France, to away from Hawks’ operations ATLANTA: Atlanta Hawks face US in World Cup final general manager Danny Ferry is taking an indefinite leave of absence over racial comments Teodosic leads the way as Serbs defeat European champions 90-85 he made in a team meeting with the NBA club’s top officials. Ferry, who has since apolo- MADRID: Serbia continued gised and said he was read- their remarkable run in the ing comments from one of the basketball World Cup knockout team’s scouting reports, has come rounds after a 90-85 win over under fire over racially charged European champions France on comments he made about player Friday steered them into today’s African-born Loul Deng during a final against holders United conference call with Hawks own- States. ership and management in June. The Serbs, who have secured Atlanta chief executive Steve their first World Cup podium Koonin on Friday said that Ferry finish as an independent nation, requested an indefinite leave of will head into the showdown with absence after making remarks. the US under no pressure after Head coach Mike Budenholzer punching well above their weight will take over the operations of in the 24-nation tournament. the team. They squeezed into the last 16 The leave of absence comes one from a tough preliminary group day after an audio surfaced of the with a 2-3 record but then brushed June 6 team call. aside more fancied Greece and Speaking to Hawks’ manage- Brazil before an impressive win ment and owners in a conference against the French. call, Ferry says of Deng: “He’s a “It was a great match and this good guy overall but he’s not per- victory means the world to us fect. He’s got some African in him, and our fans back home,” forward and I don’t say that in a bad way Nikola Kalinic told Serbian televi- other than he’s a guy that...” sion in a courtside interview. At that stage someone in the “We will head into the final room — apparently Hawks co- with our heads high and deter- owner Michael Gearon — inter- mined to play our best basketball. rupts Ferry and says: “That’s “The match against the going to be on TMZ tonight.” Americans will be a great expe- Ferry continues talking about rience for us. We won’t make idle Deng: “He has a nice store out threats of course but we won’t roll front that’s beautiful and great over either.” but he may be selling some coun- An inspired performance by terfeit stuff behind you.” Milos Teodosic paved the way NBA commissioner Adam for the Serbs as the 27-year old Silver told USA Today newspaper playmaker nailed 24 points, 18 of Serbian players celebrate a point during their basketball World Cup semi-final against France at the Palacio de los Deportes in Madrid on Friday. Tuesday that he does not think them in the first half when his Ferry should be fired for the team built a 46-32 lead. dished our four telling assists loud celebrations among their physically superior French team added the 47-year old former remarks during a team meeting. France headed into the clash converted by centre Miroslav fans in Madrid’s City Arena. made life difficult for us,” Serbia playmaker, who won a haul of Silver says Ferry was reading a as favourites after stunning hosts Raduljica, whose physical pres- Five other Serbian players fin- coach Aleksandar Djordjevic said. international medals with the report on Deng as the team was Spain in the quarter-finals but ence stifled an athletic French ished with double scoring digits “After beating Brazil and former Yugoslavia. analysing potential free agents were overran in the opening 20 team. to cancel out a valiant solo effort Greece in the previous two rounds France will meet Lithuania to sign. While calling Ferry’s minutes by a fast-flowing Serbian France tightened their defence by France shooting guard Nicolas we realised just how compact a in the bronze medal game on remarks “clearly inappropriate outfit who engineered plenty of in the second half and cut the Batum, the game’s top scorer with unit we really are and it was a Saturday after the Baltic nation and unacceptable”, Silver also easy baskets. deficit to 84-82 with a flurry of 35 points. massive confidence boost for us. were beaten 96-68 by the United said that, “in my view, those com- Teodosic nailed seven of eight three-pointers but Serbia held “We had a great first half but in “I am really proud of my players States in the other semi-final on ments, taken alone, do not merit shots from the field and also on in the closing stages, sparking the second we suffered because a as they exceeded all expectations,” Thursday. REUTERS his losing his job.” AFP Mayweather NFL: Players union votes for looking more vulnerable HGH testing, new drug rules MIAMI: The NFL Players “We have collectively bargained Another new element in the than ever Association (NFLPA) has drug policies that will keep the deal will see the introduction of approved a new league drug game clean and safe, but also pro- an independent arbitrator to han- LAS VEGAS: Known for his policy following a vote on Friday vide our players with an unprec- dle appeals of positive tests. stingy defence, boxer Floyd that will allow testing for human edented level of fairness and The league and the NFLPA will Mayweather was looking more growth hormone (HGH) for the transparency. Players should be jointly select, approve and pay vulnerable than any other time first time, starting this season. proud of their union for stand- for the retention of three to five in his career ahead of yester- The new policy also raised the ing up for what was best for the arbitrators. day’s world title rematch with threshold for positive results game.” The union said they had suc- Marcos Maidana. for marijuana and also re-clas- The NFL had struggled to find cessfully rejected a bid by the San Francisco Giants starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner throws the The 37-year-old undefeated sified the punishment for use agreement with the union over league to issue discipline for ball against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the first inning at the AT&T Park champ has been taking more of amphetamine during the off- HGH testing since including the the arrest of driving under the in San Francisco on Friday. punches lately in the ring and season, the NFLPA said in a item in the collective bargaining influence of alcohol, prior to Argentine slugger Maidana came statement. agreement signed in August 2011. adjudication. closer than anyone to beating Previously the use of ampheta- According to the NFLPA, the Instead a two-game suspension Mayweather in their first fight mines were considered perform- agreement allows for testing for will be issued upon conviction or in May. ance enhancing drugs by the HGH in the 2014 season but their plea agreement for violations of Bumgarner shines as Maidana landed 221 punches league but now their off-season statement said “players have the law involving alcohol and driving. in that fight against Mayweather, use will be penalised as ‘substance right to “challenge any aspect of “We stood up and fought for who hasn’t lost since the semi- abuse’. the science of the HGH isoforms what was right,” NFLPA execu- Giants rout Dodgers finals of the 1996 Olympics. The policy is ‘retroactive’ and test. The collection of blood speci- tive director DeMaurice Smith “I am going to try to change so allows for some players who mens is prohibited on game days.” said. REUTERS history and change Mayweather’s were banned for amphetamine SAN FRANCISCO: Madison he dealt with in May that landed record,” Maidana said at Friday’s use during the most recent off- Bumgarner pitched himself into him on the disabled list, raising weigh-in at the MGM Hotel and season to have their suspensions Peterson turns the San Francisco record book, doubt whether he will pitch again Casino. “I am going to come out lifted. took a share of the major league this season. aggressive like I came out in the The league’s website, NFL.com, himself in, posts lead for wins and, most impor- Ryu will be re-examined first fight.” said that around 20 players could tant to the soft-spoken south- Saturday in the Bay Area. The atmosphere inside the be instantly affected by the deal. bond paw, moved his team one step “I’m staying positive. I felt this MGM’s Grand Garden Arena was Denver Broncos receiver Wes MINNEAPOLIS: NFL star run- closer in an NL West race that before in the past, so hopefully it electric as the two fighters made Welker could have his ampheta- ning back Adrian Peterson (pic- could go down to the wire. will be the same time that it took their way on to a raised stage for mine ban revoked while Cleveland tured) turned himself in to Texas Bumgarner struck out eight to recover from that,” Ryu said Friday’s televised weigh-in. Browns All-Pro receiver Josh authorities early yesterday, hours on the way to his 18th victory, through a translator. “I think it Mayweather (46-0) weighed in Gordon may see his one year after he was indicted on charges and the Giants moved within one was a week or two.” AGENCIES a half pound less than Maidana ban cut to 10 games, the website of hitting his four-year-old son game of NL West-leading Los for yesterday’s welterweight suggested. with a tree branch. Angeles by beating the Dodgers world title fight. The policy must now be final- ESPN.com said Peterson was 9-0 on Friday night. Baseball Results Maidana was the first to enter ised between the league and union booked into the Montgomery “It’s not hard to get up for the the arena, stripping off his light negotiators although it could take County, Texas jail around 1:06am (0606 GMT) and released about Dodgers series, especially the cir- Baltimore 2 NY Yankees 1 blue and white track suit and a while to reach an accord after half an hour later after posting the $15,000 bond. cumstances we’re in,” Bumgarner Baltimore 5 NY Yankees 0 stepping on the scales wearing NFL spokesman Greg Aiello He has been indicted by a grand jury on charges reckless or neg- said. “The offense did an unbeliev- Philadelphia 3 Miami 1 white boxers with blue stripes. He admitted barriers remained. ligent injury to a child. able job and kept scoring runs.” Pittsburgh 7 Chicago Cubs 3 tipped the scales at 146 pounds “We have not yet reached an The emerging scandal is only the latest to hit the world’s richest Pinch-hitter Travis Ishikawa Tampa Bay 1 Toronto 0 (66kg). agreement with the union on sports league. splashed a three-run homer into Mayweather looked fit and trim revisions to our drug programs. The NFL is also reeling from the uproar caused by a surveillance Detroit 7 Cleveland 2 McCovey Cove, and Brandon in his green track suit and ball There continue to be significant video of former Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice brutally punching Crawford hit a two-run drive in NY Mets 4 Washington 3 cap which read “Money just make unresolved issues,” Aiello said on the woman who is now his wife in a hotel elevator. the fifth to help Bumgarner win Texas 2 Atlanta 1 it”. He tipped the scale at 146.5 his verified Twitter account after The charges against Peterson were in connection with disciplining his fifth straight start. Buster Boston 4 Kansas City 2 pounds. the NFLPA had earlier hailed the his four-year-old son. The Minnesota Vikings running back alleg- Posey and Crawford hit RBI Milwaukee 3 Cincinnati 2 “I had a tremendous train- breakthrough deal. edly hit the boy with a tree branch as a form of discipline over the doubles in the first as the Giants St Louis 5 Colorado 1 ing camp,” Mayweather told the “This is an historic moment summer. The punishment allegedly resulted in multiple injuries to jumped on Hyun-Jin Ryu (14-7). San Diego 6 Arizona 5 crowd. “I am ready to fight. I for our players and our league,” the boy, Houston’s CBS radio 650 said. The Dodgers’ left-hander exited know I can make adjustments.” NFLPA President Eric Winston The league’s former most valuable player was summoned by a LA Angels 11 Houston 3 after only one inning because of Like their first bout four said in a statement after player grand jury in Texas, his lawyer said, reportedly on charges of reck- irritation in his pitching shoulder. Seattle 4 Oakland 2 months ago, the rematch will be representatives voted for the less or negligent injury to a child. AFP He said it’s similar to the problem San Francisco 9 LA Dodgers 0 fought at 147 pounds. AFP changes. SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

I’m getting closer to France in final, Italy fight number one, says Nishikori

TOKYO: Japan’s Kei Nishikori back against Switzerland was given a hero’s welcome by over 200 fans when he arrived in Tokyo yesterday after becom- Frenchmen Gasquet, Tsonga secure unassailable 3-0 lead over Czechs ing the first Asian man to reach a Grand Slam final at the US Open. PARIS: France reached the to Serbia. “It’s for sure one of the The 24-year-old’s dream of Davis Cup final for the first time best moments in our career to claiming the holy grail of a first since 2010 yesterday when they play here in a semifinal and to win major title came to a shuddering took an unassailable 3-0 lead in the second day,” said Tsonga (From left to halt in a 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 thrashing over two-time defending cham- after the victory. right) French by Serbian giant Marin Cilic in pions Czech Republic in their “We always kept the fighting players Richard last Monday’s final in New York. semi-final. spirit and stayed in the match Gasquet, Gilles But a defiant Nishikori, who In the November 21-23 -- we all know the Davis Cup is Simon, captain has risen to eighth in the world final, France will tackle either tough.” Arnaud Clement, after his swashbuckling run at the Switzerland or Italy whose semi- In Geneva, doubles duo Simone Julien Benneteau, year’s last slam, insisted he could final in Geneva saw the home Bolelli and Fabio Fognini took Gael Monfils and push on and threaten the top of side pegged back to 2-1 after the advantage of the absence of Roger Jo-Wilfried Tsonga the men’s rankings. Italian team won doubles. Federer to keep Italy’s semi-final celebrate after the “It was obviously hugely frus- At Roland Garros, nine-time hopes alive. French pair won the trating to lose the final,” Nishikori champions France clinched the Bolelli and Fognini both lost told a news conference at Narita doubles match of winning point when Richard their singles ties on Friday to Airport after being mobbed by the Davis Cup semi- Gasquet and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Federer and Stan Wawrinka fans and being presented with a defeated Tomas Berdych and respectively but came through final against Czech bouquet of flowers. Radek Stepanek 6-7 (4/7), 6-4, 7-5, 3-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 against Swiss Republic yesterday “But in terms of my tennis 7-6 (7/5), 6-1. pairing Wawrinka and Marco at the Roland Garros career I’ve taken a very impor- It was just the second loss in 17 Chiudinelli to ensure that the tie Stadium in Paris. tant step. It feels like I’ve moved doubles outings for the veteran will be decided today. a little bit closer to realising my Czech pair. Their previous defeat Federer, who was rested yester- dream of becoming the world was against Spain in 2009 final. day as in 2009 against the same number one.” Gasquet and Tsonga, who had rivals, will once again be called Nishikori, who stunned cur- only previously played together on on to seal the decisive point today rent world number one Novak one occasion -- in January’s first against Fognini. Djokovic in the US Open semi- round win over Australia -- had On Friday, Federer, a 17-time finals and sparked tennis fever won Friday’s opening singles with Grand Slam champion who has Leander Paes of across Japan despite the time Gasquet beating Berdych 6-3, 6-2, never appeared in a Davis Cup difference added: India hugs his 6-3 and Tsonga seeing off Lukas final, defeated Bolelli 7-6 (7/5), “This is the most amazing wel- partner Rohan Rosol 6-2, 6-2, 6-3. 6-4, 6-4 in the opening rubber and come I’ve ever had.” However, their efforts on yes- then Wawrinka crushed Fognini Bopanna after Already a superstar in Japan, terday were aided by a hip injury 6-2, 6-3, 6-2. winning the men’s Nishikori stopped to sign auto- to Stepanek while Berdych was “This point was very important doubles match graphs and pose for photographs clearly unsettled by the patriotic for us, even if Roger wasn’t play- against Ninad after arriving back in Asia for fervour inside Roland Garros, the ing,” said Fognini. Zimonjic and Ilija appearances at the Malasyia home of the French Open. “I am much happier with my Bozoljac of Serbia, Open and the Japan Open. Despite dropping the first set, performance today, I served much during the Davis Nishikori, whose career has the French pair capitalised on better than yesterday, I returned Cup World Group been blighted by injuries, almost Stepanek’s woes who struggled much better. It’s still going to be play-off tie at The pulled out of the US Open after for movement around the court very difficult for us but it’s a little KLSTA Stadium developing a cyst on his toe and especially in the fourth set. less difficult than before.” in Bangalore with little time to get ready man- After two breaks of serve, The Swiss are bidding for a yesterday. aged to overcome three top-10 Tsonga served out the match to place in the Davis Cup final for players in New York, two of them secure a place in the final, four just the second time after finish- in five-setters. “The goal now will years after their last appear- ing second to the United States in be for me to win a major next year ance which resulted in a defeat 1992. AFP for sure.” AFP Spain’s Langdon, AlBalooshi excel at

QMMF Racing Lorenzo ends Team’s rider Anthony pole drought Carolina National qualifying West ahead CONCORD, North Carolina: of the San MISANO ADRIATICO, Italy: Marino Grand Reigning World Champion Prix practice Spain’s two-time world cham- Shawn Langdon and his team- pion Jorge Lorenzo took the mate, Khalid AlBalooshi, made in Misano 30th pole position of his career excellent efforts yesterday for Adriatico, Italy but first of the season when he the Qatar Al Anabi Racing Top on Friday. posted the fastest time in quali- Fuel team, the three-time and fying on his Yamaha yesterday defending NHRA Mello Yello for the San Marino MotoGP at Top Fuel World Champions Misano. owned by His Excellency, The 27-year-old -- who is bid- Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad Al ding for a fourth successive win Thani. in the race -- will be accompanied Langdon finished second and West 17th, Ramos 33rd on the front row of the grid by AlBalooshi ended seventh after two Italians in Andrea Iannone the first day of qualifying for the on a Ducati and Lorenzo’s team- seventh annual Pep Boys NHRA mate Valentino Rossi delighted Carolina Nationals in Concord, at San Marino practice his many fans on his home track. North Carolina, the 19th of 24 Lorenzo, who is yet to win a races making up the United MISANO ADRIATICO, Italy: the bike, but I didn’t want to stop, race this season as Honda have States’ NHRA Mello Yello Drag On a wet and slippery Misano I wanted to keep going and make dominated with Marc Marquez Racing Series season and the first World Circuit, QMMF Racing laps. I then braked a little bit later winning all bar one of the races of six races that comprise the Team riders Anthony West and than the laps before, with the bike and team-mate Dani Pedrosa the Countdown to the Championship Roman Ramos settled for 17th not really set up a hundred per- other, said it was a huge moment NHRA play-offs. and 33rd spots respectively on cent. I finally crashed, which was to record their first pole of the Langdon’s day did not begin as Khalid AlBalooshi (left) and Shawn Langdon enjoy a light moment before the first day of practice for the my fault,” he explained. campaign. planned as the silver Al Anabi the first round of qualifying at the Pep Boys NHRA Carolina Nationals in San Marino Grand Prix. “My confidence in the bike “Finally after a long, long time, car started well but smoked the Concord, North Carolina yesterday. Rain king West, who stormed was really good. There were just we make a pole position so I’m tires during the run, and Langdon to the top of the time sheets for some small things that I wanted very proud. From the beginning was 14th after the end of first a short while, ended the first ses- to change to go faster in the after- we’ve been competitive, not like session. His 3.919-second effort at how to make the car faster,” said sion with a crash in treacherous noon. We made these changes, but in Silverstone where we had some Later in the afternoon, it was a nearly 312 mph placed him ninth the Al Anabi team’s driver. conditions. maybe we went too far and made issues,” said Lorenzo. very different story for the World in the order after the first quali- Al Anabi Racing operates out For the afternoon, he and his too many changes at the same “It seems like the Yamaha is Champion Langdon, who entered fying attempt. of multiple locations in both the crew made some set-up changes time,” he added. working very well as Valentino is the play-offs as the third seed, In the late-afternoon pass, the United States and Qatar. that didn’t have the desired effect “All of them together made the also very fast.” AFP blasting down the track posting gold Al Anabi car was quicker as In the United States, the and West couldn’t improve his lap bike jump too much away from a brilliant 3.840-second pass at the Dubai driver needed just 3.867 Brownsburg, Ind.-based operation time. what we wanted. I had problems San Marino GP Grids more than 317 mph and moved seconds to reach the finish line at is a two-car NHRA Mello Yello Ramos made good use of the pushing the front and we went 1. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Yamaha) 1min all the way up to second after the 315.27 mph. Drag Racing Series team that is first session to learn the best line too soft with the rear suspension, 33.238sec, 2. Andrea Iannone (ITA/Ducati- first day of qualifying. AlBalooshi who finished sev- managed by Alan Johnson Racing. around the 4.2 kilometre track which was bottoming out and Pramac) at 0.051sec, 3. Valentino Rossi (ITA/ “We made a really good run in enth was satisfied at the end of Sheikh Khalid’s initiative has and ran into technical difficulties working the rear tyre too hard. Yamaha) 0.064., 4. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) the second round,” Langdon said the first day of qualifying in North created increased international in the afternoon. It was impossible to go faster with 0.122, 5. Dani Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) 0.180, after the qualifying. Caroline. awareness of the State of Qatar Unable to do a flying lap, he this set-up.” 6. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/Ducati) 0.201, 7. Pol “We were a little down on “I think we are in good shape,” while highlighting the nation’s also got stuck with his previous Ramos who ended 33rd hoped Espargaro (ESP/Yamaha-Tech3) 0.319, 8. Aleix power in the first round and AlBalooshi commented after the international sports outreach in best time. for better performance for grid. Espargaro (ESP/Yamaha-Forward) 0.475, 9. smoked the tires, but we came round. the world. Since better weather and dry “I ran into a problem with the Bradley Smith (GBR/Yamaha-Tech3) 0.523, 10. back in second and made great “We made both runs down the Alan Johnson is a 15-time conditions are expected for the quickshifter that didn’t work Moto2 run,” he said hoping to improve track; we have a good car, and this NHRA champion in various remainder of the weekend, the lap properly. I couldn’t do a single fly- 1. Mika Kallio (FIN/Kalex) 1min 38.043sec, in the main contest. is the way to start the weekend, I capacities including crew chief, times in rainy weather will not ing lap in the second session and 2. Esteve Rabat (ESP/Kalex) at 0.067sec, 3. “Making strong run like that is think. Our car was not the fast- team owner and team manager. have a lot of significance. the bike eventually stopped on the Thomas Luthi (SUI/Suter) 0.071, 4. Maverick a very positive way to go into the est car today, but at least we have For additional information on “I had a good feeling with the back straight,” he said. Vinales (ESP/Kalex) 0.159, 5. Dominique rest of the weekend - great job by a car that went down the track the Al Anabi Racing Team, team bike and it felt easy,” said West. “The good thing for tomorrow Aegerter (SUI/Suter) 0.193, 6. Johann Zarco the Al Anabi team.” both times,” he said before stress- manager Alan Johnson or driv- “I was going faster and faster is that I know the track now, (FRA/Caterham Suter) 0.370, 7. Ricard Cardus Meanwhile, AlBalooshi, the ing for improvement in order to ers Khalid AlBalooshi or Shawn every lap, until I made a small which I will try to use to my (ESP/Tech3) 0.456, 8. Takaaki Nakagami (JPN/ seventh seed in the play-offs, obtain desirable result in the cov- Langdon, please visit www.alana- mistake towards the end. We advantage when the conditions Kalex) 0.463, 9. Randy Krummenacher (SUI/ made two consistent runs on the eted competition. biracing.com. needed to change the setting on improve.” THE PENINSULA Suter) 0.479, 10. Axel Pons (ESP/Kalex) 0.583 qualifying day. “Now we just have to figure out THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

Nonu injury All Blacks outwit Springboks clouds All Blacks victory

WELLINGTON: The All Blacks injury toll continued to rise yesterday with key inside to top Championship table centre Ma’a Nonu taken to hos- pital with a suspected broken arm in their brutal 14-10 win NZ set sights on third rugby title in a row after 14-10 win over SA over the Springboks. It was a no-holds barred clash of the the sport’s two heavy- WELLINGTON: The All who said the outcome came down weights who are bitter rivals, with Blacks had a third successive to one lineout at the end with the win putting the All Blacks on Rugby Championship crown in Kieran Read preventing Victor the cusp of claiming the southern their sights after beating South Matfield from winning the ball. hemisphere crown for the third Africa 14-10 yesterday in a top- “It could have gone our way but consecutive year. of-the-table clash involving the it didn’t. It’s a tough one to swal- They need to win just one of world’s top ranked sides. low. It is a loss against a quality Kieran Read their two remaining games, away In a dramatic closing 10 min- side, a very good team. (We were) (centre) of New to Argentina -- who have not won utes, the All Blacks produced just not good enough at the end.” Zealand’s All a game in this competition -- and a heroic defensive effort when The All Blacks, who defended a Blacks clears South Africa to be assured of the penned in their own 22 to hold proud record of not having been the ball against title. out rampaging Springboks press- beaten on home soil in 34 matches South Africa’s The veteran Nonu, a blockbust- ing for a match-winning try. dating back to 2009, were guilty Springboks ing number 12 playing his 94th “It was desperate times and of poor skill execution and a during their Test, suffered the injury 10 min- that reveals the character of the predictable game plan that the Rugby utes from half-time but played team,” All Blacks captain Richie Springboks easily read and came Championship through the pain barrier until McCaw said. close to trumping. being replaced before the start of match at “We just had to keep tack- The tourists shored up the the second half. Westpac ling and a mistake came thank inside channel where Brodie “We’ve got a pretty good idea goodness.” Retallick lead the All Blacks heavy Stadium in of Ma’a’s prognosis,” coach Steve All Blacks coach Steve Hansen runners at fledgling Springbok Wellington Hansen said. likened the clash to arm-wrestling fly-half Handre Pollard, and put yesterday. “We think it’s probably broken. that could have gone either way. sweepers in to cover the excessive He got sore in his arm and it got “The arm-wrestle was won in All Blacks kicking. worse and the doctor took a look the last hundredth of a second of The All Blacks points came at half time and said ‘I don’t think the game because they could eas- from a try to Richie McCaw, two you should go back’.” ily have scored right at the very penalties by Aaron Cruden and a Utility Ben Smith, who started end and won it.” penalty to Beauden Barrett. on the wing and has also played Although it was a bruising For South Africa, who saw Tests at fullback and outside encounter, it was not champagne their title hopes slip further away, put the All Blacks on the board. after captain Richie McCaw was blew a first half try opportunity centre, covered for Nonu for the rugby and far from the nine- Cornal Hendricks scored a try The 20-year-Pollard refused to held up over the line but was when he lost the ball diving for remainder of the game. try spectacular when they last with Pollard landing the conver- be rattled from all the attention unsuccessful with a third attempt the line, missed a second oppor- The versatile Smith excelled clashed in Johannesburg last year. sion and a drop goal. he was getting and two minutes just on half-time that would have tunity in the second spell when in the unaccustomed role, win- This time, both sides could only It was a second consecutive later the fledgling international regained the lead for the All he toed the ball over the line only ning praise from backs coach manage one try each and were defeat for South Africa after los- was instrumental in setting up Blacks at the turn. to be outsprinted by their Willie Ian Foster for a “magnificent” guilty of multiple errors in the ing 24-23 to Australia last week the Springboks opening try. The All Blacks opening try le Roux. performance. heated atmosphere. when Bryan Habana reached his After drilling the All Blacks came early in the second half Pollard brought the Springboks Foster said they had talked It was a match which South century of Tests. into the corner with a rack- with a well-weighted cross kick to within a point of the lead with a about the possibility of Smith cov- Africa desperately wanted to win Although the All Blacks con- ing kick he then put Cornal Read and he was able to stand up drop goal to narrow the gap to ering for Nonu but “I told him not to cap celebrations for captain trolled much of the game they Hendricks through a gap for the in the de Villiers tackle to pop a 11-10 before replacement All to worry because Ma’a never gets Jean de Villiers 100th Test “The were guilty of too many turno- right wing to step around Israel simple pass to McCaw who scored Blacks fly-half Beauden Barrett injured. That didn’t work. disappointment overshadows the vers and it took a penalty from Dagg to score. Cruden closed the in the corner. landed a penalty to extend the Although the reigning achievement,” de Villiers said, Cruden in the 10th minute to gap to 6-7 with his second penalty Scrum-half Aaron Smith, who margin to four points. AFP world champion All Blacks remain unbeaten in the Rugby Championship, Hansen found plenty to criticise about their per- Wallabies keep Pumas winless formance against South Africa. “The character of this team’s GOLD COAST: The Wallabies Championship after going down The Wallabies went forward been tested a few times of the held on grimly to deny 33-31 to the Springboks in Salta. 29-13, heading into the final quar- last couple of years and they keep Argentina their first win in the Argentina have had an unfor- ter of the match when scrum-half coming up with an A-plus mark,” Wallabies’ player Rugby Championship, edging giving introduction to the series Nick Phipps darted through and he said praising a strong defen- Tevita Kuridrani home 32-25 on the Gold Coast and they have yet to win in 16 his long pass put winger Peter sive effort when the Springboks (top) is tackled yesterday. Tests over three seasons against Betham over for his first Test try pressed for a match-winning try by Argentina’s Australia looked set for a con- southern hemisphere power- in the corner. in the closing stages. Marcelo Bosch vincing win with a 29-13 lead and houses New Zealand, South The dogged Pumas refused to Fortunately for the All Blacks, during the Rugby 20 minutes left, but the Pumas Africa and Australia. give and two tries got them within Nonu’s understudy Ryan Crotty, Championship stormed back with two late tries The Pumas looked set to draw four points with nine minutes left. who suffered a fractured jaw Test at the Cbus to have the home side clinging on level with minutes left when Centre Marcelo Bosch crossed in their second Test against Super Stadium inside their own quarter. replacement scrum-half Tomas wide out with 16 minutes left and Australia, is due to rejoin the in Brisbane The Pumas had a scrum metres Cubelli made a break, but dum- fullback Joaquin Tuculet raced squad next week. yesterday. out from the try-line in the final mied rather then passing and the through to score off Sanchez’s However, locks Sam Whitelock moments but conceded a penalty try chance went begging. well-weighted grubber kick inside and Dominic Bird, and loose for- to get the Wallabies home for It was the same story on the the final 10 minutes. wards Liam Messam and Jerome their second win in the southern Gold Coast two years ago, up 19-9 Foley kicked his fifth penalty Kaino have already been injured hemisphere series. with 20 minutes to go before los- with six minutes left to give the out of the championship while fly- Yet again Argentina came ing 23-19, while Argentina failed Wallabies some valuable breath- half Dan Carter and lock Luke desperately close to winning to convert forward dominance in ing space as the Pumas went after Romano have not been available their first Test in the Rugby driving rain last season in Perth. the win. AFP at all through the series. AFP

Tour Championship Scores Mcllroy in hot pursuit as Horschel leads Scores from the US PGA Tour Tour Championship at the par- ATLANTA: Billy Horschel, Level with McIlroy at six under in style as he drained successive 70 course yesterday in Atlanta, seeking a second consecutive were Australian Jason Day (67) birdie putts from 26 feet at the Georgia PGA Tour victory, birdied three and American Chris Kirk (68), seventh and eighth. 132 Billy Horschel (US) 66 66 of the last eight holes to move the FedExCup points leader who He picked up another shot at 134 Jason Day (Australia) 67 67; Rory McIlroy two strokes clear of the chasing had been joint pacesetter with the par-five ninth, where he sank (Britain) 69 65; Chris Kirk (US) 66 68 pack in the Tour Championship Horschel after the opening round. an eight-footer, to join Day in a 136 Jim Furyk (US) 67 69; Kevin Na (US) 70 second round yesterday. Horschel, who tied for second at tie for the lead at six under, then 66; Ryan Palmer (US) 69 67; Cameron The American, ranked second the Deutsche Bank Championship knocked in a six-foot birdie putt Rory McIlroy Tringale (US) 68 68 in the FedExCup standings com- two weeks ago and then won the at the 10th to edge a stroke in of Northern ing into this week, fired a second BMW Championship on Sunday, front. 137 Rickie Fowler (US) 69 68 Ireland successive four-under-par 66 at did well to par the short 18th However Kirk stumbled with celebrates as 138 Russell Henley (US) 70 68; Justin Rose East Lake Golf Club to seize con- after hitting his tee shot into a a three-putt bogey at the short (Britain) 72 66 he birdies No. trol of the fourth and final play- greenside bunker and splashing 11th to drop back into a three- 18 during his 139 Bill Haas (US) 68 71; Matt Kuchar (US) off event with an eight-under out to seven feet. way tie at the top with Day and 5-under score 68 71 total of 132. He coolly sank the par putt to Horschel, who moments earlier 140 Bubba Watson (US) 67 73; Sergio Garcia However, Northern Irish world end his day with an overall tally of had rolled in a 13-foot birdie putt that puts him (Spain) 69 71 number one Rory McIlroy was in six birdies and two bogeys, in pole on the 11th green. in a three- hot pursuit after carding a best- position heading into the weekend Day and Horschel both birdied way tie for of-the-day 65 in hot and humid with his sights set on victory and the 14th to get to seven under, second place, European Tour conditions to soar into a three- the staggering FedExCup play-off Horschel by draining a 25-footer, two strokes way tie for second at six under. bonus of $10m. but the Australian faltered with behind leader Dutch Open Scores McIlroy has already enjoyed a “Drove the ball really well a bogey at the last after missing Billy Horschel, Scores from the European Tour brilliant 2014 campaign, clinching today,” said the 27-year-old the green to the right off the tee. during the Dutch Open at the par-70 course two major titles among four wins Horschel, arguably the hottest McIlroy had ended his second second yesterday in Zandvoort worldwide, and has now set his player in the game. “Just didn’t round with a birdie-birdie flourish round of the 196 Romain Wattel (France) 67 65 64 sights on claiming play-off hon- hit very good chips, but played for a brief share of the lead but PGA Tour 199 Richie Ramsay (Britain) 69 65 65 ours on the US circuit for the first pretty solid coming in. Probably Horschel moved two strokes clear Championship 200 Paul Casey (Britain) 68 70 62 time after a season-long race. could have hit some better iron at the top after hitting a superb at East Lake “I just want to finish my season shots. approach to four feet at the 17th 201 Peter Uihlein (US) 66 68 67; Andy Golf Club off the way I feel like I should and Horschel, McIlroy, Kirk, Day and knocking in the birdie putt Sullivan (Britain) 67 68 66 in Atlanta the way I feel like it deserves to be and American Patrick Reed all to lead. yesterday. 202 Simon Dyson (Britain) 70 66 66; Gary finished off,” McIlroy told report- held at least a share of the lead Any of the top five in the Stal (France) 66 71 65; Joost Luiten ers after piling up six birdies and in the second round as the play- points standings would clinch the (Netherlands) 65 70 67 a sole bogey with a sizzling display ers jostled for position in the PGA FedExCup by winning the Tour 203 Edoardo Molinari (Italy) 66 66 71; in the second round. Tour’s season-ending event. Championship - and that quin- Maximilian Kieffer (Germany) 67 68 “I’m not putting too much Kirk, who won the second tet comprises top-ranked Kirk, 68; Eddie Pepperell (Britain) 69 68 pressure on myself because it’s play-off event earlier this month, Horschel (second), Bubba Watson 66; Andrea Pavan (Italy) 66 70 67; already been a great year, but slipped back with two bogeys in (third), McIlroy (fourth) and Thomas Pieters (Belgium) 70 66 67 I still want to win this thing.” the first six holes but rebounded Hunter Mahan (fifth).REUTERS SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Roma go top Neymar double continues with 1-0 win at Empoli

MILAN: An own goal by Empoli ‘keeper Luigi Sepe helped send Roma provisionally top of Italy’s Barcelona’s perfect start Serie A yesterday four days before the Giallorossi make their much-awaited return to Enrique’s side defeat Athletic Bilbao to register third successive win European competition. With Wednesday’s Group E opener against CSKA Moscow MADRID: Barcelona made it at the Olympic Stadium on the three wins from three under Spanish League horizon, Roma coach Rudi Garcia new boss Luis Enrique as opted to rest a number of first Neymar came off the bench to Results team regulars for their first away score twice in a 2-0 win over Barcelona 2 (Neymar 79, 84) Athletic Bilbao 0 trip of the season. Athletic Bilbao yesterday. Playing today Ivorian striker Gervinho, iconic The Brazilian had been left out Rayo Vallecano vs Elche (1000), Valencia vs playmaker Francesco Totti, for- of the starting line-up after his Espanyol (1500), Sevilla vs Getafe (1700), ward Juan Iturbe and defender exertions in captaining his coun- Granada vs Villarreal (1900) Davide Astori warmed the bench try for the first time in wins over Tomorrow at the Carlo Castellani stadium, Colombia and Ecuador in the past where the hosts were making Eibar vs Deportivo (1845) week, but made the difference in their top flight return after a Played on Friday a tight contest when he slotted seven-year absence. home from Lionel Messi’s pass 11 Almeria 1 (Mendez Ortega 12) Cordoba 1 Empoli had held Roma to just minutes from time. (Cartabia 19) a point on the capital side’s last And the two combined once three visits to Tuscany, but at the more five minutes later as this comfortably with Barca in the tail end of a largely uneventful time Messi breezed past three final third, though, and threat- opening half the tide turned in Athletic defenders before cutting ened themselves when the excel- Roma’s favour. the ball back for Neymar to side- lent Ander Iturraspe broke into Five minutes from the break foot home. Barca remain at the top the box but his shot lacked the Maicon’s first-time effort from of the table, five points clear of La power to trouble Claudio Bravo. close range came off Sepe’s far Liga champions Atletico Madrid Barca upped the pressure on post. Miralem Pjanic followed and six ahead of Real Madrid with the Athletic goal just before half- up, but his effort met traffic and both sides from the capital to face time as Iraizoz did well to parry despite the ball appearing to hit off at the Santiago Bernabeu. Ivan Rakitic’s fierce low drive the arm of Lorenzo Tonelli the Fresh from making his debut before spreading himself to block visitors’ claims for a penalty were with Spain in a 5-1 thrashing of from Munir at point-blank range Barcelona’s Brazilian forward Neymar da Silva Santos Junior (left) and Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel waved away. Macedonia on Monday, 19-year- as the youngster latched onto Messi celebrate after scoring a goal during the Spanish League match at the Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona Roma finally earned the old Munir El Haddadi once again another Messi assist. yesterday. Barcelona won 2-0. breakthrough on the stroke of started ahead of Neymar and was Munir thought he had broken half-time. a constant threat despite not hav- the deadlock at the start of the Radja Nainggolan collected a ing his best day in front of goal. second period as he swept home entrance just after the hour mark home his first goal of the season. now turn to Champions League cross from the right and had time Munir’s first opening of the day from close range, but was this gave Barca the extra touch of Messi played the role of pro- action on Wednesday as Barca and space to unleash a bouncing came 20 minutes in when he col- time denied by the offside flag as class they needed to punish the vider once more six minutes from host Cypriots APOEL Nicosia strike from 25 metres that came lected Messi’s pass and turned he failed to time his run. Basques. Aymeric Laporte’s way- the end as he floated down the and Athletic welcome Shakhtar off post and ‘keeper before land- Oscar de Marcos with ease, but Iraizoz was on top form once ward pass was picked off by Sergio right wing and pulled the ball Donetsk to the new San Mames ing in the far corner of the net. then fired wastefully over with more to turn Jordi Alba’s low Busquets and he fed Messi before back for the unmarked Neymar in their first group stage game It should have been the just Gorka Iraizoz to beat. drive behind and hold a powerful the Argentine freed Neymar in to slot home. in the Champions League for 16 Belgian’s second goal of the cam- Athletic were coping header from Munir, but Neymar’s behind the Athletic defence to roll Both sides’ attentions will years. AFP paign after his strike in a 2-0 win over Fiorentina last week, but it was ruled an own goal. Celtic hold on Empoli, undone by Antonio Di Natale’s brace in a 2-0 defeat to for victory over Ribery scores on return as Udinese last week, battled but were ultimately left frustrated. Dons in SPL Georgia international Levan Mchedlidze thought he had won a won a penalty after tumbling GLASGOW: Celtic earned their Bayern Munich go joint top under a challenge from Kostas first victory in five matches as Manolas to the left of goal. they held off a late Aberdeen BERLIN: Bayern Munich play- Ramos found Kagawa, who side- But his claims were waved surge to defeat the Dons 2-1 maker Franck Ribery scored in Bundesliga Results footed home in what was his 50th away, and Empoli coach Maurizio at Parkhead in their Scottish his first game this season as the Bayern Munich 2 VfB Stuttgart 0 Bundesliga game. Sarri saw red on 72 minutes for Premiership clash yesterday. champions moved joint top of Borussia Dortmund 3 Freiburg 1 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang protesting the decision. The Hoops, inspired by the the Bundesliga yesterday, while scored a breakaway goal shortly Minutes later Mchedlidze Hertha Berlin 1 Mainz 3 inclusion of captain Scott Brown Shinji Kagawa also enjoyed a after coming on before Oliver launched a fierce drive which in the starting line-up as he goalscoring return as Borussia Hoffenheim 1 VfL Wolfsburg 1 Sorg pulled one back for Freiburg. Roma ‘keeper Morgan De Sanctis returned from injury almost a Dortmund saw off Freiburg. SC Paderborn 0 Cologne 0 Dortmund are third on the did well to block up high. month ahead of schedule, made Mario Goetze put the defending under Sven Ullreich with five Bundesliga table a point behind Gervinho made a cameo an impressive start with Jason champions ahead in the first half minutes left. Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern. appearance when he replaced Denayer giving them a seventh- before Ribery came off the bench Meanwhile, Kagawa made a Elsewhere, Japanese striker Adem Ljajic with 10 minutes to go minute lead. to seal a routine 2-0 win over VfB dream start to his second spell Shinji Okazaki scored twice and and although the Ivorian did little The Glasgow giants added to Stuttgart at the Allianz Arena. at Borussia Dortmund after get- Sami Allagui also found the net Garcia will be expecting more on their advantage seconds into Bayern are now equal on seven ting on the scoresheet in their 3-1 against the team he has just left as Wednesday when Roma return to the second period when a Kris points with Bayer Leverkusen who win over Freiburg at Signal Iduna Mainz won 3-1 at Hertha Berlin. Europe’s top table after a four- Commons strike took a wicked were held 3-3 by Werder Bremen Park. Okazaki gave the visitors the year absence. deflection off Shaleum Logan on on Friday night and are ahead The Japanese midfielder lead after 36 minutes, finishing its way past Jamie Langfield. on goal difference after three returned to Dortmund from on the rebound after home keeper Celtic were dominating but a games. The Bavarians scored the Manchester United last month Thomas Kraft twice denied South Hull name lack of concentration in defence first goal of the afternoon after and his clever pass for Kevin Korea midfielder Koo Ja-Cheol. allowed David Goodwillie to pull 27 minutes when Goetze drove a Grosskreutz helped the hosts Julian Schieber fired a great change one back with his first goal for the shot through a crowd of players open the scoring after 34 minutes. chance wide for Hertha before Dons on the hour mark. when a free-kick was only par- Grosskreutz’s low cross was swept Allagui rounded off a lovely team inevitable: Bruce The goal handed Aberdeen tially cleared. in by Adrian Ramos for his second move with twenty minutes left. the momentum and both Niall Munich’s Franck Ribery in action In the second half Ribery, who goal of the campaign. Ronny’s late penalty gave LONDON: McGinn and Willo Flood saw during the Bundesliga match has been suffering from a recur- The same three players Hertha hope but Okazaki’s third Hull City man- efforts stopped by Craig Gordon against VfB Stuttgart in Munich, ring knee injury, came on and were involved when Dortmund league goal of the campaign ager Steve Bruce believes owner as Celtic held on for their 19th Germany, yesterday. the French midfielder secured stretched their lead four min- ensured that Mainz got their first Assem Allam will ultimately suc- consecutive home league win the three points when he slotted utes before half-time. This time league win of the season. AFP ceed in his bid to change the club’s over the Dons to move into name to Hull Tigers, he said in fourth spot. comments reported yesterday. “We should have killed the Allam revealed earlier this game much quicker than we did Japan, South Korea kick off football week that he put Hull up for but I think there were spells in sale in April after the Football the first half when we played at a Association rebuffed his attempt very high level,” Celtic manager to rebrand the club. Ronny Deila said. But the 75-year-old Egypt-born “We need to be more clinical competition at Asian Games today British businessman has launched but the fitness has to get better. a process of arbitration with the I am delighted that we won and SEOUL: Japan and hosts South groups of Korean and Japanese “We want to show that Japan goalkeeper Kim Seung-Gyu, FA -- not the Court of Arbitration that we played good football.” Korea will get the Asian Games fans unfurling political banners are Asia’s number one side,” Mainz 05 defender Park Joo-Ho for Sport, as was originally Meanwhile, Aberdeen manager off to an unofficial start today when the sides met at last year’s Teguramori said. and 6ft 5in (1.95m) Ulsan Hyundai reported -- and Bruce thinks he Derek McInnes was disappointed when the bitter rivals begin East Asia Cup. “Our team is united and we striker Kim Shin-Wook. will end up getting his way. his side didn’t get anything from their bids for glory in what could A final between Japan and can be flexible with tactics,” he “He has great skills for a player “I think there will be a posi- the match. be a tense football competition. South Korea would mean a secu- added. his size. I think he should really tive outcome. That means he will “We came here expecting Former war-time aggressor rity headache for organisers in “We will be going for a win in thrive against Asian opponents,” stay and he will win his case. I to win and I thought we were Japan, the defending champions, what would be a game brimming each match and I want to bring said Lee of Kim Shin-Wook. genuinely believe that will be the good enough to go on and win,” can expect a frosty reception by with emotion and national pride. out the best in every player.” Iran, whose four titles remains case,” Bruce said. McInnes said. AFP home fans as they taste their first Apart from a gold medal, some Today’s eight matches consti- an Asian Games record, are “Those are my thoughts. We action in Incheon, five days before players in the under-23 line-ups tute the first competition of the expected to be Japan and South have seen change before. One club Scottish Premiership the opening ceremony. will be hoping to secure a spot in Asian Games, which encompass Korea’s closest challengers in the (Wimbledon) went from London Officials will be braced for their senior teams for next year’s 36 sports offering 439 gold medals men’s competition. to Milton Keynes. Arsenal left Results a repeat of their controversial Asian Cup, where Japan are also and close on October 4. Twenty-nine countries will Highbury. I never thought that Celtic 2 (Denayer 7, Commons 46) Aberdeen London Olympics clash if both defending champions. Japan kick off their campaign compete across eight groups, would have happened back in the 1 (Goodwillie 61) Japan and South Korea, brack- Korean patience would be against Kuwait, while three-time with the top two progressing to day. Or Manchester City leaving Dundee Utd 2 (Ciftci 17, Fojut 45) Hamilton 2 eted in separate groups, reach the sorely tested if Japan do the dou- winners South Korea take on the knockout stages. Each squad Maine Road. The fans even sang (Antoine-Curier 28, Andreu 34) October 2 final. ble by also winning gold in the Malaysia in their opening match is restricted to under-23s and ‘Maine Road till we die.’ But they In 2012, after South Korea won women’s competition, where their on Sunday. three over-age players. moved into a nice new stadium Kilmarnock 2 (Muirhead 63, Connolly 82) St 2-0 to secure the bronze medal, “Nadeshiko” are the world, Asian The Koreans had to settle for In the women’s, Japan are and everyone forgot about it.” Mirren 1 (Drury 71) Park Jong-Woo held up a sign and defending Asiad champions. bronze four years ago and they grouped with three-time win- Allam’s commitment to chang- Partick 3 (Lawless 20, Osman 23, saying “Dokdo is our territory”, For Japan’s men’s coach haven’t won gold since Seoul 1986, ners China. They also can expect ing Hull’s name has put him in Higginbotham 72) Inverness CT 1 (Doran 13) referring to a highly charged dis- Makoto Teguramori, the goal is something coach Lee Kwang-Jong a challenge from 2002 and 2006 opposition with some of the Ross County 1 (Boyce 78) Motherwell 2 pute over a group of islands. simple: reinforcing their status will be keen to rectify. champions North Korea, who club’s fans, who formed a group (Vigurs 49, Sutton 54) Park was hit by a two-match as the dominant force in Asian His squad includes three play- have reached the last four finals. called City Till We Die in order St Johnstone 0 Dundee 1 (Harkins 28) ban but it did not stop rival football. ers with World Cup experience: AFP to oppose his proposals. SUNDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Lekhwiya beat Al Gharafa to maintain perfect start Atletico Madrid’s Arda Turan (centre) celebrates a goal with QSL: Al Sadd, El Jaish bag full points, Qatar SC register first victory his team-mates during their La Liga match against Real Madrid at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in DOHA: Defending champions Madrid yesterday. Lekhwiya edged Al Gharafa 1-0 in a third round match of the Qatar Stars League (QSL) to make it three wins from three. Derby At the Abdulla bin Khalifa Stadium — the home of the Red Knights — Nam Taehee scored delight for the match winner in the 47th minute. At the end of the third round, Lekhwiya head the points tally Atletico with nine points followed by Al Ahli with seven points. In the other matches yesterday, over Real Al Sadd, El Jaish and Qatar SC all bagged full points. MADRID: Atletico Madrid At Wakra Stadium, goals from gained some measure of Rodrigo Tabata and Khalfan revenge for their heartbreaking Ibrahim helped Al Sadd register Champions League final defeat a fluent 2-0 win over Al Wakra. to Real Madrid by beating the Both the goals came in the European champions 2-1 at the second half for the former Santiago Bernabeu yesterday. champions. A second consecutive La Liga Striker Tabata opened the defeat for Real leaves them scoring in the 60th minute and his Al Gharafa’s Moayad Hassan Fedaily kicks the ball past Lekhwiya’s Jose Manuel already six points adrift of leaders striking partner Ibrahim added Moreno during their Qatar Stars League (QSL) match at Lekhwiya Stadium in Doha Barcelona after just three games the second one 12 minutes later. yesterday. as they were 2-0 winners over Al Sadd now have six points Athletic Bilbao earlier in the day from two matches. thanks to a double from Neymar. In the other matches yester- Atletico got off to the best pos- day, El Jaish rallied from behind sible start as Tiago headed home to down Al Arabi 3-1. Koke’s corner, but Real were The army men, who finished soon level as Cristiano Ronaldo second last year, now have six won and then converted a penalty points from three matches. midway through the first-half. Meanwhile, Qatar SC defeated However, with suspended coach Al Sailiyah 3-2 to register their Diego Simeone watching on from first win of the QSL season. the stands, Atletico grabbed all THE PENINSULA three points 13 minutes from time when Arda Turan swept home Juanfran’s low cross. QSL Results Ronaldo was playing after a El Jaish 3 (M. Mathnani 53, three-week layoff due to injury, Romarinho 71, A. Issa 76) Al but even his return couldn’t cure Arabi 1 (I. Ezekiel 7) Madrid’s weakness at set-pieces which was exposed in their 4-2 Al Wakra 0 Al Sadd 2 (R. defeat to Real Sociedad last time. Tabata 60, K. Al Khalfan (pen- Atletico went in front with the alty) 72) first clear opening for either side Lekhwiya 1 (Nam Tae-Hee 47) as Koke’s in-swinging corner was Al Gharafa 0 met with a bullet header from Qatar SC (H. Harbaoui 17, An El Jaish player celebrates during their QSL match against Tiago at the near post. H. Harbaoui (penalty) 42, Lekhwiya players celebrate after scoring a goal during their QSL match against Al Al Arabi at Lekhwiya Stadium in Doha yesterday. The conceding of the goal led H. Saham 90+1) Al Sailiya (I Gharafa at Lekhwiya Stadium in Doha yesterday. PICTURES: KAMMUTTY VP/OSAMA FAISAL to large swathes of the Bernabeu Jemaa 56, A. Al H 63) booing Real captain Iker Casillas when he touched the ball. However, the hosts responded well to going behind and after Miguel Angel Moya had pro- Qatari girls go down to Lebanon duced a stunning save to claw Sluggish PSG miss out on away a Gareth Bale free-kick, Ronaldo levelled from the pen- alty spot after he had been felled by Guilherme Siqueira. top spot with Rennes draw Karim Benzema then had a great chance to put Real in front RENNES, France: Paris Saint after a neat one-two with Ronaldo Germain missed the chance but his first touch let him down to take provisional top spot in and Moya flew out from his goal Ligue 1 yesterday with a 1-1 draw to smother. at Rennes putting a dampener And Moya denied the on preparations for next week’s Frenchman once more with a Champions League action. great low save after Benzema had The two-time defending cham- powered a Ronaldo cross towards pions have nine points from five goal just before the break. games and now see their second Real’s momentum towards spot under threat from the chas- the end of the first-half petered ing pack while leaders Bordeaux, out after the restart, though, on 10 points, can pull further as Atletico began to take con- ahead as they travel to lowly trol after the introduction of Guingamp today. substitutes Turan and Antoine It was a third draw in three Griezmann. outings for PSG who had opened Turan was inches away from the scoring two minutes before restoring Atletico’s lead when he the break through a rare goal cut inside Alvaro Arbeloa and from defender Zoumana Camara. Paris Saint Germain’s Zoumana Camara left celebrates with team-mate curled the ball just wide 15 min- But a slipup by Camara allowed Maxwell after scoring a goal against Stade Rennes during their French utes from time. the hosts get a share of the points Ligue 1 match at the Route de Lorient Stadium in Rennes yesterday. The Turkish international as Cameroon striker Paul-Georges made amends just two minutes Ntep got one past PSG goalkeeper later though as he swept the ball Salvatore Sirigu after 55 minutes. second goal but everything was The win lifted Lyon to 12th into the far corner at the end of a The visitors only had one other against us,” said Blanc with skip- place, four points behind leader lovely move involving Griezmann, clear chance on goal through per Thiago Silva still sidelined Bordeaux, as they prepare to Juanfran and Raul Garcia. Swedish international Zlatan while David Luiz suffered a knee play at Paris Saint-Germain next Atletico now trail Barcelona Ibrahimovic in the first half. knock playing for Brazil and week. by two points after the Catalans “I would have preferred not Serge Aurier needs extra tests Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim made it three wins from three to score and to win the match,” after losing consciousness during has endured a difficult start to life under new boss Luis Enrique admitted Camara. a clash of heads playing for the in Ligue 1 after seeing a host of as Neymar came off the bench “It’s not worrying. It’s a draw. Ivory Coast. leading players depart without to score twice in a 2-0 win over There’s nothing alarming about Rennes move up to third, a being replaced. Athletic Bilbao at the Camp Nou. that. Now we have to recover point behind PSG. “The team has lost five first- The Brazilian had been left out because the Champions League Lyon, meanwhile, got back to team regulars, including its three of the starting line-up after his match is on Wednesday. It’s going winning ways on Friday with a 2-1 top scorers, two leading assist exertions in captaining his coun- to be something else, that’s for home win against Monaco. providers and its captain,” said try for the first time in wins over sure,” he added. Nabil Fekir opened the scor- Jardim after seeing Radamel Colombia and Ecuador in the past “We could have done better, ing after 30 minutes for the hosts Falcao follow James Rodriguez, week, but made the difference in surely,” PSG keeper Salvatore before Lucas Ocampos equalized Emmanuel Riviere and Eric a tight contest when he slotted Sirigu said. nine minutes later. Abidal out of the principality. home from Lionel Messi’s pass 11 Laurent Blanc’s side now have Corentin Tolisso’s goal after 73 “We can therefore no longer minutes from time. a busy schedule with six more minutes ended a three-game los- compare the team to that of last And the two combined once A Lebanese player (right) defends against her Qatari counterpart during games in the next three weeks, ing streak for new coach Hubert season. more five minutes later as this a friendly match at the Qatar Women Sport Committee indoor hall at with their Champions League Fournier, as Monaco sit 16th after “The club’s plans have changed. time Messi breezed past three Aspire Academy in Doha yesterday. The Qatar women’s basketball team campaign beginning at Ajax next five games, ahead of Tuesday’s It is a different team, with a few Athletic defenders before cutting suffered a 63-30 defeat against Lebanon yesterday. Wednesday. Champions League game at home experienced players to supervise the ball back for Neymar to side- “We really wanted to score a against Bayer Leverkusen. the youngsters.” AGENCIES foot home. AFP Sunday 14 September 2014 19 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 Volume 19 Number 6188 Sport Price: QR2

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GROS-ISLET, Saint Lucia: West Indies’ new-look open- ing pair of Kraigg Brathwaite and Leon Johnson capitalised Costa sends Chelsea clear on wayward Bangladeshi bowl- ing to reach the lunch interval at 61 without loss on the open- Agbonlahor nets winner for Villa; Arsenal and Manchester City draw 2-2 ing day of the second and final Test at the Beausejour Stadium yesterday. LONDON: Liverpool crashed Stamford Bridge thanks to a hat- Brathwaite, fresh from a to a surprise 1-0 loss at home trick by Diego Costa. patient double-century in the to Aston Villa yesterday, after John Terry’s own goal from first Test in St Vincent a week Chelsea beat Swansea City 4-2 Neil Taylor’s left-wing cross gave earlier, was on 20 with Johnson, to move clear at the Premier previously unbeaten Swansea making his debut as the West League summit. an 11th-minute lead, but Costa Indies’ 300th Test cricketer in Villa striker Gabriel equalised on the stroke of half- this historic 500th Test for the Agbonlahor scored the only goal time with a header from a right- Caribbean side, will resume after at Anfield in the ninth minute, wing corner. the interval on 27. hooking home from close range He struck twice in 11 minutes Chelsea’s Diego Given first use of a pitch offer- after Philippe Senderos’s header to put Chelsea in control, polish- Costa (right) is ing considerably more assist- was blocked by Javier Manquillo. ing off a Cesc Fabregas cut-back challenged by ance to the faster bowlers than After debutant Adam Lallana and a mishit Ramires shot, and Swansea’s Ki was evident at any stage of the and Mario Balotelli shot wide, Loic Remy made it 4-1 with a Sung-Yueng first Test, Bangladesh’s trio of Liverpool manager Brendan debut goal before Jonjo Shelvey during their fast-medium bowlers -- Al-Amin Rodgers sent Raheem Sterling replied for Swansea. English Premier Hossain, Shafiul Islam and Robiul on, but the closest the hosts Brazil-born Spain interna- League match Islam -- wasted the opportunity came to equalising was a shot tional Costa now has seven at the Stamford to make early inroads in a rela- from Philippe Coutinho that hit goals to his name and is the first Bridge in London tively inexperienced batting line- the post. player to score in his first four yesterday. up. All three sprayed deliveries While Villa -- who have not Premier League games since repeatedly down the leg-side and lost at Anfield since December Coventry City’s Micky Quinn in hardly beat the bat, therefore 2010 -- remain unbeaten this 1992. making life easy for Brathwaite season, Liverpool have now lost “Diego Costa is one of the best and Johnson to settle down and twice, following last month’s 3-1 strikers we have at this moment eventually start picking off the loss at Manchester City, and trail in football,” said Chelsea manager runs after a very watchful start Chelsea by six points. Jose Mourinho. through the first hour. Villa climbed to second, two “The team is an attacking team Robiul was the chief culprit, points behind Chelsea, who came that creates a lot and creates the stocky seamer starting his from behind to beat Swansea at spaces for a striker. It could have spell with a no-ball and adding been five or six.” creative,” City manager Pellegrini will be out for, but it doesn’t look Graziano Pelle scored twice as two more along with two wides English Premier Earlier, Martin Demichelis told BT Sport. too good.” Southampton sent Newcastle in an effort that would have been scored an 83rd-minute equaliser “But both goals by Arsenal were Elsewhere, Everton claimed United to the foot of the table extremely disappointing. AFP League Results as champions Manchester City very clear fouls: the first one, two their first win of the season with with a 4-0 win at St Mary’s. Jack Arsenal 2 (Wilshere 63, Sanchez 74) held Arsenal to a 2-2 draw in an or three continuous fouls, and the a 2-0 success at West Bromwich Cork and Morgan Schneiderlin Scoreboard Manchester City 2 (Aguero 28, Demichelis 83) entertaining encounter at the second one, (Danny) Welbeck on Albion. were also on target. Chelsea 4 (Costa 45, 56, 67, Remy 81) Emirates Stadium. Vincent (Kompany).” Romelu Lukaku opened the Leicester City secured their West Indies (I innings): Swansea 2 (Terry 11-og, Shelvey 86) Arsenal looked set for victory Arsenal manager Arsene scoring in the second minute first victory since gaining promo- K Brathwaite (batting) ...... 20 when Alexis Sanchez slammed Wenger drew encouragement against his former club, pouncing tion, winning 1-0 at Stoke thanks Crystal Palace 0 Burnley 0 L Johnson (batting) ...... 27 home a sumptuous volley in the from the way his side came from on a loose clearance from Jonas to a second-half effort from new Liverpool 0 Aston Villa 1 (Agbonlahor 9) Extras (B-8, W-3, NB-3)...... 14 74th minute, after Jack Wilshere’s behind to lead, but he was also Olsson and curling home, with signing Leonardo Ulloa. Total (for no loss, at lunch) ...... 61 Southampton 4 (Pelle 6, 19, Cork 54, neatly constructed goal had can- given serious cause for concern Kevin Mirallas sealing victory in But fellow promoted side To bat: K Edwards, D Bravo, S Chanderpaul, J Schneiderlin 90) Newcastle 0 celled out Sergio Aguero’s first- by an ankle injury to right-back the 67th minute. Burnley failed to follow suit, with Blackwood, D Ramdin (captain), J Taylor, K Stoke 0 Leicester 1 (Ulloa 64) half opener for City. But Argentina Mathieu Debuchy. An own goal by Harry Kane Scott Arfield seeing a late penalty Roach, S Benn, S Gabriel. Sunderland 2 (Johnson 4, Kane 82-og) centre-back Demichelis headed in “It was a game of top qual- saw Tottenham Hotspur held to saved by Julian Speroni in a 0-0 Bowling: Al-Amin Hossain 10-2-15-0; Tottenham 2 (Chadli 2, Eriksen 48) an Aleksandar Kolarov corner to ity and we did remarkably well a 2-2 draw at Sunderland. draw at Crystal Palace. Shafiul Islam 9-3-20-0 (1w); Robiul Islam West Brom 0 Everton 2 (Lukaku 2, Mirallas prevent Manuel Pellegrini’s side to come back, but then we gave After Nacer Chadli and Adam Manchester United host 6-1-14-0 (2w, 3nb); Taijul Islam 1-0-4-0. 66) from slumping to a second con- a cheap goal away,” said Wenger, Johnson had exchanged quick-fire Queens Park Rangers today, when Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal, Shamsur Rah- Playing today secutive defeat after their shock who handed a debut to former goals, Chadli teed up Christian Radamel Falcao, Luke Shaw, man, Anamul Haque, Mominul Haque, Mah- 1-0 loss at home to Stoke City. Manchester United striker Danny Eriksen to restore Spurs’ lead, Marcos Rojo and Daley Blind Manchester United vs QPR (1500GMT) mudullah, Mushfiqur Rahim (captain), Nasir “I think it was a great game: Welbeck. only for Vlad Chiriches’s clear- are all in line to make their first Playing tomorrow Hossain, Shafiul Islam, Taijul Islam, Robiul Is- two very good teams, who try “Debuchy has a bad ankle ance to hit Kane and bounce in for appearances for Louis van Gaal’s lam, Al-Amin Hossain. Hull vs West Ham (1900GMT) to play. Both teams are very sprain. I don’t know how long he an own goal in the 82nd minute. side. AFP Contador poised for Vuelta glory after stage win

PUERTO DE ANCARES, of Froome motivates me to com- Sky did everything they could to Spain: Alberto Contador is on pete with the best in the world,” try to turn the Vuelta his way but Vuelta a Espana the brink of claiming a third he said. Contador would not be denied. Tour of Spain victory after win- “It’s true that this season has Froome’s pressing and acceler- Results ning yesterday’s 20th and penul- been a challenge for me. Everyone ations on the final 12km-long hors 1. Alberto Contador (Spain / Tinkoff - Saxo) 5:11:43” timate stage over 185.7km from knows that the Vuelta wasn’t category Puerto de Ancares climb Santo Estevo de Ribas to Puerto exactly my aim but as luck would shed the entire field with even the 2. Chris Froome (Britain / Team Sky) +16” de Ancares. have it I came here. likes of Valverde, Rodriguez and 3. Alejandro Valverde (Spain / Movistar) +57” Tinkoff’s With only today’s 9.7km time- “Through hard work and some Italian Aru unable to follow. 4. Joaquim Rodriguez (Spain / Katusha) +1:18” Spanish trial left, Contador is virtually luck I’ve stayed in the top two But no matter what he tried, 5. Fabio Aru (Italy / Astana) +1:21” cyclist Alberto certain to claim overall victory throughout the race so I couldn’t Froome could not rid Contador, 6. Warren Barguil (France / Giant) +2:51” Contador cel- in Santiago de Compostella, add- do any more than that. I just hope 31, from his rear wheel and the 7. Giampaolo Caruso (Italy / Katusha) +2:55” ebrates as he ing to his Vuelta triumphs in 2008 to keep the lead tomorrow.” Tinkoff-Saxo leader bided his 8. Samuel Sanchez (Spain / BMC Racing) crosses the and 2012. Froome, who was also second time before streaking clear to +2:58” finish line to It will be his sixth Grand Tour in the race in 2011 and fourth snatch the stage win, his second 9. Daniel Navarro (Spain / Cofidis) +3:15” win the 20th success after wins in the Tour de in 2012, said on Twitter that he of this tour. 10. Damiano Caruso (Italy / Cannondale) +3:20” stage of the France in 2007 and 2009 and the could not have done any more. Earlier in the day, a four-man Standings after Stage 20 69th edition of 2008 Giro d’Italia. “Emptied the tank out there break opened up a lead of more Tour of Spain The Spaniard tracked his today, what a battle! Thank you than 10 minutes after the first 1. Alberto Contador (Spain / Tinkoff - Saxo) in Puerto closest rival Chris Froome, the for all the support #LaVuelta,” 100km of racing but Sky team and 81:12:13” de Ancares, 2013 Tour de France winner, all he wrote. Aru’s Astana soon started setting 2. Chris Froome (Britain / Team Sky) +1:37” the way up the final 12km climb Alejandro Valverde came home a fierce chase. 3. Alejandro Valverde (Spain / Movistar) +2:35” Spain, yester- before accelerating past the third 57sec down and retained The escapees began the penul- 4. Joaquim Rodriguez (Spain / Katusha) +3:57” day. The Tour of Spain will Briton in the final 500m to win that overall position at 2:35. timate climb, the 10km long first 5. Fabio Aru (Italy / Astana) +4:46” end today. by 16sec and increase his overall Joaquim Rodriguez and Fabio category Alto de Folgueiras de 6. Samuel Sanchez (Spain / BMC Racing) lead to 1min 37sec. Aru rounded out the top five on Aigas, with just over 3min on the +10:07” Contador, who broke his leg less the stage as the five best riders peloton and 30km left. 7. Daniel Martin (Ireland / Garmin) +10:24” than two months ago during the in the race came home exactly in By the time they reached the 8. Warren Barguil (France / Giant) +12:13” Tour de France, said the battle their overall positions. top the lead was down to just with Froome had inspired him. Froome, 29, who started the 43sec and final hors category 9. Daniel Navarro (Spain / Cofidis) +13:09” “To fight for victory against a day second at 1min 19sec behind Puerto de Ancares loomed ahead 10. Damiano Caruso (Italy / Cannondale) rider with the record and quality his Spanish rival, and his Team after a rapid descent. AFP +13:15”