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Spike in court cases over bounced cheques DOHA: The problem of cheques being issued by people and companies without sufficient balance in their bank accounts is becoming worse as an estimated 150 to 250 such cases are being heard by the courts on a daily basis. According to sources in the legal frater- nity, cheques being issued by individuals in their day-to-day transactions top the list of the cases that are being taken to the courts. Sources say that the cases involving bounced cheques are the largest in number in the courts and cannot be compared in any way to other civil or commercial dis- putes in volume. See also page 3 Netanyahu seals deals to form new govt JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed deals with key coalition partners on Friday, forming a new government just before a deadline and a milestone visit by US President Barack Obama. The alliance of Netanyahu’s Likud party and former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu had been locked in intense negotiations for 40 days with the centrist Yesh Atid and far-right Jewish Home parties, which held the key to building a government with a majority in the 120-seat parliament. He had previously signed with the centrist HaTnuah party of former foreign minister Tzipi Livni, who is to be justice minister and Israel’s negotiator in talks with the Palestinians. CURBING With Yesh Atid and Jewish Home now on board, the coalition will command a total of 68 parliamentary seats. See also page 4 Li Keqiang is China’s new prime minister BEIJING: China’s legislature formally chose Li Keqiang as premier yesterday, installing an English-speaking bureau- crat as the man in charge of the economy, the world’s second-largest, and its aim of ACCIDENTS reviving growth through consumer-led expansion. The largely rubber-stamp National People’s Congress, as expected, chose THE ISSUE 57-year-old Li to replace Wen Jiabao. Nearly 3,000 delegates gathered in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People to vote on Li’s For the past several years, tens of thousands Then, drivers are different. Some drive appointment, putting the final stamp of

A sudden surge in population Abraham Augusthy of new vehicles and drivers have been annually slowly and abide by traffic rules, while there approval on a generational transition of caused by a heavy influx of joining the ever-increasing fleet of automobiles are others who are reckless and give a damn power. Li drew only three no votes and

foreign workers and the resulting and motorists on Qatar’s roads. “We have to to rules, he added. “That also contributes to Design: six abstentions from the carefully selected explosion in the number of new consider this factor as well while talking about mishaps.” parliament. increasing road accidents in the country,” Jolo Statistics suggest that more than 67 per- See also page 11 vehicles being added to Qatar’s told this newspaper yesterday. cent of those involved in road accidents last roads should be considered one In the old days, not more than 15,000 to year were in the age group of 18 to 35 years. Dreamliner to be back in of the factors responsible for the 20,000 new vehicles came on the roads in a According to prominent psychologist Dr Moza year — a number that has multiplied more than Al Malki, young people have an enzyme in their service soon: Boeing large number of traffic accidents, threefold over the past decade. “And now, you brain that prevents them from considering the TOKYO: The grounded Dreamliner is suggests the Qatari Engineers’ have so much load on these roads,” Jolo said. consequences of what they think is daredevilry, “absolutely” safe and will be back in the According to him, the designs of the major and that could be a reason why so many young air within weeks, plane-maker Boeing Association. roads were conceived years ago, and such a big people perish while driving recklessly. said in Japan yesterday as it sought to explosion in the number of men and vehicles “The role of the family assumes tremendous reassure airlines and passengers about might not have been anticipated. importance here. They should deal properly the aircraft. hen talking about the rise in Asked why the February 22 Road was so with their youngsters and keep the fact about The 50 planes grounded around the world the number of road accidents, much prone to mishaps and if there were faults the brain enzyme in mind while handling since two lithium-ion battery malfunctions it should also be borne in mind in its design, Jolo hinted there could be some them,” Al Malki told this newspaper. sparked a global no-fly order in mid-Janu- PAGEWthat the6 designs of many of the problem with the design and execution of the She said stringent laws and fines did not ary will undergo fixes to their systems and major thoroughfares were conceived years road project but added that one of the major always prove deterrent against violation of be operational again soon, senior executives ago, according to Ahmed Jolo, head of the reasons was that the road led to a number of traffic rules. said. Association. busy commercial and service areas. Continued on page 2 See also page 14

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Tougher rules cut road deaths Qatar aims to reduce the number of serious traffic accidents from 300 to 250 per 100,000 people by 2016.

BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB manoeuvre. The traffic depart- The traffic village is equipped ment has no way to register such with large screens that show films DOHA: With about 90,000 new violations, which may sound small on traffic safety. In addition, there vehicles and more than 100,000 but are often the cause of big are toy vehicles on which children new drivers coming on Qatar’s accidents,” said Barkatullah, an can take part in races. roads every year, the country Indian with more than 15 years of The village aims at creating is facing a monumental task driving experience in the United awareness among children about in preventing traffic accidents Arab Emirates and Qatar. public safety in an entertaining and ensuring the safety of road During the event, Talib Afifa, a way. It provides them knowledge users. victim of a traffic accident, pre- and training to avoid accidents The 29th Gulf Traffic Week sented a poem about the tragedies resulting from reckless driving. has once again brought this issue faced by those who ignore traffic In addition to awareness cam- into focus with its central theme: rules and etiquette. paigns, the government is consid- “Your safety is our goal.” Students also visited the ering other measures, including The week-long campaign- Ministry of Interior’s tent and use of advanced technology, to cum-exhibition has evoked an pavilions of the participating reduce accidents. overwhelming response from the companies, and learnt about the There are plans to install more public, with the activities slated services provided by MoI depart- speed radars on highways. Once to conclude today. ments to the public. They also the initiative is implemented, the “The campaign was very suc- participated in a quiz contest on distance between two radars will cessful. We received a great traffic safety in which the winners be reduced to two kilometres from response from visitors, including were given prizes. the current four kilometres. schoolchildren. Over 10,000 men, were issued in 2011. Regency. fellow road users in sedan cars, A traffic village for kids is A large number of road cas- women and children, includ- However, a nationwide aware- The six-day event, organised by even if they have priority on the a major attraction of the 29th ualties involve pedestrians. ing 7,000 students from various ness campaign being waged by the MoI, was inaugurated by Staff roads. Some honk from behind GCC Traffic Week. It replicates Pedestrians, in the absence of schools, visited the event every the Traffic Department in col- Major General Saad bin Jassim to make others realise their mis- a small village with traffic signs, pedestrian bridges or subways, day, and we are expecting another laboration with several private Al Khulaifi, Director General of takes, and at times put undue signals, small cars and bikes that sometimes cross roads when 20,000 visitors over the next and public entities, combined Public Security. pressure on other drivers to get conform to safety and security traffic is in full flow. They often two days,” an official from the with stringent traffic rules, has “Today, we celebrate the 29th ahead, even if there is no room for requirements. fail to correctly judge the speed Ministry of Interior (MoI) told resulted in a gradual fall in the Gulf Traffic Week embodying the of cars while crossing roads, and The Peninsula last Thursday. number of accidents and casual- spirit of brotherhood and coop- fall victim to accidents. Some GCC Traffic Week, which has ties, says the Department. eration among the GCC countries 27.4 percent of the victims of been taking place for the past 29 Despite a surge in the number in the face of common concerns Accidents major challenge for GCC road accidents in 2012 were years in all the member states of new vehicles in 2012, the death and challenges to establish rules Continued from page 1 pedestrians. of the Gulf Cooperation Council, toll from traffic accidents was and etiquette of traffic and spread According to media reports, aims to educate people, especially restricted to 204. According to traffic awareness through public “I suggest that a motorist involved in a careless accident should the Traffic Department is coor- children, about traffic rules and the latest figures, the number of participation,” the director said instead be asked to serve an accident victim in the hospital for a dinating with the Public Works road safety. Delegates repre- traffic accidents dropped 9.5 per- on the opening day of the event. week or a few days.” Authority (Ashghal) to build senting the traffic departments cent in 2012 as compared to 2011. Apart from traffic awareness “That would not only make him behave responsibly on the road in pedestrian bridges and subways of the member countries share And the number of pedestrians activities, the event includes a future but also give him a first-hand insight into the consequences for pedestrian crossings. vital information to improve road who died in road mishaps dropped wide range of recreational activi- of an accident that could have been avoided by being a little care- In addition, the Traffic safety and reduce road accidents. last year to 56 from 61 in 2011 and ties for children, besides parades ful,” she added. Department has formulated a Nearly 90 public and pri- a high of 74 in 2010. by a police music band and units An increasing number of people have been, meanwhile, blaming strategy for 2011 to 2016, which vate entities, according to the “The ongoing traffic awareness of police canines, cavalry and the Public Works Authority (Ashghal) for the increasing number aims to reduce the number of organisers, are participating in campaign, coupled with stiff pen- camels. of road accidents, citing dug up roads and diversions. serious traffic accidents from 300 this year’s event. They include alties for speeding, rash driving Visitors can enjoy artistic per- “You find excavations on the main roads here and there and to 250 per 100,000 people by the Lekhwiya’s Search and Operation and signal jumping, has brought formances in the Kids Theater there are too many diggings and traffic diversions, and that is one year 2016. Department, the Traffic positive results in reversing the and free food, including tra- of the major causes of road accidents,” said a national not wanting Qatar has set up a National Department, MoI’s Medical upward trend in the number of ditional Qatari dishes such as his name in print. Traffic Safety Committee that is Service Department, dealers in road accidents and casualties. We makhboos, haris and sarid, served Meanwhile, in a column in Arabic daily Al Sharq published last working to improve traffic safety Toyota and Nissan vehicles, and have been going to schools, uni- inside beautifully decorated tents. Thursday, its editor-in-chief, Jaber Al Harami, said road accidents on roads, use the latest traffic sys- driving schools, all of whom have versities and community events The government is trying to were a major challenge for the GCC states and cost them a whop- tems and raise awareness about stalls to provide tips on safe driv- such as iftar parties to educate engage public and private organi- ping $19bn a year. traffic issues among citizens and ing and road safety. people about the significance of sations and get cooperation from That is about 3.7 percent of the global cost of road mishaps, he expatriates. Qatar, of late, has witnessed following traffic rules and safety other GCC countries in finding said. While the population of the US is so large, the death ratio due The Committee will recom- a huge influx of foreign workers measures,” said the official. the best solutions to traffic issues. to road accidents is 21 per 100,000 people. This ratio in the GCC is mend legislation for roads, trans- as projects related to the 2022 The Gulf states, includ- Many people become victims 24 per 100,000 people despite the population of the region being so portation and road engineering football World Cup begin. This ing Qatar, with large numbers of others’ mistakes on the road. small, Al Harami said. plans, carry out research and has caused a massive rise in the of expatriate workers who are Some drivers, overconfident Saudi Arabia has the worst record of traffic mishaps. Citing an studies, and improve medical res- number of new vehicles hitting accustomed to different driving about their driving skills, often expert from Madinah, he said that in the past 20 years, some 86,000 cue services. the roads every year. According styles and norms, are struggling engage in other activities behind people had died in Saudi Arabia in road accidents. “This is more According to an expert at the to the latest statistics released to raise awareness about traffic the wheel, such as texting, at the than the death tolls in worst wars,” said Al Harami. Traffic Department, not using by the Traffic Department, more safety among people through dif- cost of others’ lives. Speeding and The problem is worsening, he said, adding that according to the seat belts, distraction due to use than 88,000 new vehicles hit the ferent means. reckless driving, particularly by Saudi expert, 7,153 people were injured in the country in traffic of mobile phones or other devices, roads in 2012, while the number This year’s Gulf Traffic Week young men, are usually the causes mishaps in 2011, while the casualties in Iraq in that year were only balloon tires and speeding are the of new driver’s licences issued in Qatar, taking advantage of the of accidents. 4,200. “Traffic accidents are a street terror in Saudi Arabia,” Al four major causes of accidents in during the year totalled 108,000. pleasant weather, has been organ- “Some impatient drivers in Harami said. Meanwhile, the 29th GCC Traffic Week, organised Qatar. When some of these fac- The number of new vehicles reg- ised outdoors at the Darb Al Sai their big sport utility vehicles here to raise public awareness about road safety, has received 36,000 tors are combined, it can lead to istered in 2011 was 70,000 while ground near Sports Roundabout, often commit traffic violations visitors, 15,000 of them being students. THE PENINSULA major accidents. about 105,000 driver’s licences in front of Windham Grand such as not giving way to their THE PENINSULA Pics: Shaival Dalal Pics: Shaival Home MARCH 16, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 ON SATURDAY

Heir Apparent meets Prince Charles Emir, Premier greet Court cases Pope Francis DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has sent a cable of congratula- tions to Pope Francis on the occasion of his election as the over bounced Catholic Church’s new Pope. The Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani cheques rise sent cables congratulating Pope Francis on the same occasion. Call for stringent punishment Chinese president

DOHA: The problem of cheques congratulated being issued by people and com- panies without sufficient balance DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh in their bank accounts is becom- Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani ing worse as an estimated 150 to sent a congratulatory mes- 250 such cases are being heard Cases involving sage to Xi Jinping on his elec- by the courts on a daily basis. bounced cheques tion as President of the People’s According to sources in the are the largest Republic of China. The Heir legal fraternity, cheques being Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim issued by individuals in their day- in number in the bin Hamad Al Thani and the to-day transactions top the list of courts. Prime Minister and Foreign the cases that are being taken to Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin the courts. Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani sent And since the population of the similar messages to Xi Jinping. country has been increasing due mostly issue them as a guaran- to a large influx of foreign workers tee in business and personal deals. The Heir Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received Prince Charles of Wales at Al Bahr Palace Attiyah leaves for and banks are quite lenient about From tenants, of both residen- yesterday. They discussed bilateral relations, especially in humanitarian fields. Later Prince Charles and his issuing cheque books to account tial and commercial premises, to wife left the country. Saudi Arabia holders, people tend to issue petty traders, just about every- DOHA: Chairman of cheques for every transaction. body issues cheques as guarantee. Administrative Control and “There is also a severe lack of “There is no other option. The Transparency Authority H E awareness as many people don’t only way one can provide financial Koolhaas to speak at Tasmeem Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah know the legal consequences of security in a deal or in a tenancy left yesterday for Saudi Arabia issuing cheques without sufficient agreement is through post-dated on a two-day official visit. He balance in their bank accounts,” cheques,” a source said. DOHA: Acclaimed architect sociology, fashion and technology, and popular tourism destination. will attend the meeting of agen- a source said. Also, as an increasing number and Pritzker Architecture Prize with OMA’s think tank, AMO. The theme ‘hybrid making’ cies responsible for anti-corrup- The increasing number of court of development projects are being winner Rem Koolhaas, whose Virginia Commonwealth explores hybridity within acts of tion and protection of integrity cases are not only putting burden launched and business activities current projects include the University in Qatar, in partner- making, building and sustaining in the GCC. on the courts but also on the police are increasing the transactions new Qatar National Library, ship with the Qatar Foundation a contemporary society, engaging and the prosecution, for a complaint are mainly through cheques. will deliver the keynote address and Mathaf: Arab Museum of with art, design and other inter- Salwa Road is to be lodged with the police first Meanwhile, in an online survey at the Tasmeem Doha 2013 Modern Art recently concluded ventions conceived, designed or and is forwarded to the prosecution conducted by Al Sharq Arabic daily Conference. lab and workshop sessions of fabricated in Qatar. subways open for filing charges in the court. on the issue of bounced cheques, a The public event tomorrow its biennial international design Mathaf hosted 13 student labo- Sources say that the cases majority of respondents (64 per- starts at 7.30pm at the Hamad conference Tasmeem Doha 2013 ratories. For five days groups of DOHA: All subways between involving bounced cheques are the cent) said the punishment pre- bin Khalifa University Student - ‘Hybrid Making’. 20-25 students and faculty, led by the Qatar Décor rounda- largest in number in the courts scribed in the law for the crime is Centre Ballroom. A major component of the con- international designers and art- bout and the Industrial Area and cannot be compared in any not stringent enough. The punish- Multi-awarded Koolhaas is one of ference is the exploration of the ists, designed and created full- traffic intersection on Salwa way to other civil or commercial ment ranges from a jail term of the foremost architects, known for role art and design is playing in scale semi-permanent structures Road were partially opened by disputes in volume. three months to three years and or his pioneering buildings around the the transformation of Qatar from (walk-in sculptures), perform- the Public Works Authority Cheques have become a way of fine of up to QR3,000 to QR20,000. world, books, exhibitions, teaching a small pearl fishing community ances or catalytic interventions. (Ashghal) yesterday. life in the country and individuals THE PENINSULA and projects in the fields of media, to a pre-eminent centre for arts THE PENINSULA QNA/THE PENINSULA

Ministry of Interior officials announcing the Arab Human Rights Day activities. MoI to observe Arab Human Rights Day

DOHA: The Ministry of This year’s theme has been cho- Tomorrow, Community Police Interior will observe Arab sen by the League’s general secre- and Human Rights Department Human Rights Day tomorrow tariat and Arab Commission for officials will visit the industrial under the theme ‘Dialogue and Human Rights. zone in Ras Laffan for a seminar tolerance to promote and pro- Head of research and develop- to highlight how Qatar cares for tect human rights’. ment section at the department, expatriate workers, their iden- Director of Human Rights Major Saad Salem Al Dosari, tity and cultural and religious Department at the minis- said a preparatory commit- rights. try, Colonel Abdulla Saqr Al tee of officials from Community A scholarly forum on ‘Culture Muhannadi highlighted the min- Police of the Department of of dialogue and tolerance’ is a istry’s contributions to joint Arab North Security, Women’s Affairs support to security and strength work within the Arab League’s Committee, Public Relations for social peace’ will be held in framework for human rights. Department and other depart- the main hall of the Criminal The ministry will contribute ments, has been set up. Investigation Department on to preparation of draft laws and Activities include lectures on Tuesday. Arab human rights conventions. ‘Dialogue and Tolerance’. THE PENINSULA

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C Street Brass, a quintet based in Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, visited Qatar Academy stu- dents as part of their recital tour in Doha. The musicians – all veteran performers in their own right – played before the Senior School band members and teachers and conducted a workshop. MARCH 16, 2013 ON SATURDAY 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East Netanyahu seals govt deal Swearing-in on Monday; Likud to take charge of defence portfolio

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister government, it said. “We shall work together Jewish Home, which won 12 seats, receives Benjamin Netanyahu signed deals with in cooperation in the new government for a newly-named economy and trade portfolio key coalition partners yesterday, forming all of Israel’s citizens,” it quoted Netanyahu along with housing and pensioners’ affairs. a new government just before a deadline as saying. The allocation of ministries for Likud- and a milestone visit by US President Netanyahu had a legal deadline of Beitenu was not detailed, but Netanyahu Barack Obama. Saturday evening to come up with a coali- was expected to temporarily handle foreign The alliance of Netanyahu’s Likud party tion or admit defeat. affairs, pending the conclusion of former and former foreign minister Avigdor He had previously signed with the cen- foreign minister Lieberman’s trial on Lieberman’s Yisrael Beitenu had been trist HaTnuah party of former foreign charges of fraud and breach of trust. locked in intense negotiations for 40 days minister Tzipi Livni, who is to be justice Lieberman’s hardline Yisrael Beitenu ran with the centrist Yesh Atid and far-right minister and Israel’s negotiator in talks with on a joint ticket with Netanyahu’s Likud, Jewish Home parties, which held the key the Palestinians. with the list winning 31 seats. to building a government with a majority With Yesh Atid and Jewish Home on The Likud was also to take charge of the in the 120-seat parliament. board, the coalition will command a total defence and interior ministries, according “The prime minister welcomes the coa- of 68 parliamentary seats. to press reports. www.swiss-belhotel.com lition agreements that have been signed The new cabinet is expected to be sworn The Likud said coalition members pledged between the Likud and Yisrael Beitenu, and in by parliament on Monday, 48 hours before among other things to pursue “a peace Tel the Yesh Atid party and the Jewish Home,” the arrival of Obama. agreement with the Palestinians with the Fax Netanyahu’s Likud party said in a state- Copies of the coalition agreements pub- aim of reaching a political agreement that ment, about an hour before the start of the lished by the Likud confirmed that Yesh will end the conflict.” Jewish Sabbath which runs from sundown Atid leader Yair Lapid would be finance If such a deal could be negotiated, it Friday to sundown Saturday. minister and that his party, which has 19 would be put to the cabinet, parliament Tel “On Saturday evening, the prime minister seats in parliament, would also take the edu- and a national referendum for approval, Fax will inform President Shimon Peres that cation, social services, health, and science the party said. he has completed the task” of forming a and technology portfolios. AFP

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UNGARIAN Prime Minister Viktor Orban triggered alarm bells around Europe in 2011 when he used a two-thirds majority in parliament to push through a Hseries of measures that concentrated political power, It is time for West to take sides weakened checks and balances and restricted the freedom of the media, religious groups and minorities. Under pressure from the European Union, which Hungary joined in 2004, and from the United States, which shepherded Hungary into NATO, Orban in Syria, and lift arms embargo backed down a little, modifying measures on the media and courts; at the same time, Hungary’s constitutional court struck BY WADAH KHANFAR crisis: it is set to become a cross-bor- the west should not prohibit supplies down several other laws. der conflict posing the greatest chal- of weapons to the revolutionaries. Now Orban, a right-wing populist, has attracted more red HE Syrian revolution is lenge to the region’s stability since its The US has justified such prohi- flags. He recently appointed a close aide as head of the central entering its third year. An current borders were drawn after the bition in various ways: the fear of bank, one of the few remaining independent institutions, estimated 70,000 people first world war. post-Assad chaos; the possibility of triggering a run on the Hungarian currency. Then on Monday the Thave been killed, hundreds The crisis may spill over into Islamists rising to power; the fact that of thousands have been injured, 1 Lebanon first. It borders Syria, and its Syria is a neighbour of Israel and that parliament passed extensive new amendments to the constitution million are now refugees, and a gen- internal political players are already weapons could fall into the hands of Orban introduced only a year ago, ignoring explicit warnings from eration has been lost to violence. involved in the crisis; when Hezbollah jihadists. E.U. leaders. The State Department said the revisions “could However, the worst is yet to come. If supported the Assad regime politically But that hesitation has been disas- threaten the principles of institutional independence and checks the Assad regime does not fall soon, and logistically, other Lebanese parties trous for the US’s objectives. Because and balances that are the hallmark of democratic governance.” the conflict will spread to the entire lent their support to the revolutionar- of its fear of potential terrorism, it region, from Basra on the banks of ies. After two years of pulling and tug- failed to bring down the Syrian regime In Europe there have been calls for Hungary to be stripped of the Gulf to Beirut on the coast of the ging, this has resulted in heightened at a time when the revolution was its E.U. voting rights or deprived of some of the $600 billion in Mediterranean Sea. levels of tension and polarisation in completely removed from the influ- funding it was awarded in the union’s new seven-year budget. Britain and France have expressed Lebanon. ence of Al Qaida or any other jihadist Orban’s spokesmen insist this is all a misunderstanding. their intention to arm the Syrian The more lethal development, how- groups. US hesitation drove the revo- Parliament, they say, merely resistance and want to lift the ever, would be for the conflict to reach lution to become what the US feared re-ratified provisions of the new European arms embargo. However, Iraq. We have started to see indica- most: it was a self-fulfilling prophecy. In Europe there many in the tions of this, including political con- The Syrian regime’s sense of rela- have been calls charter that the constitutional court Syrian opposi- flict between the Shia regime of Nouri tive security led to the acceleration struck down on technical grounds. tion believe this Al Maliki, which is supportive of the of the violence against civilians. In for Hungary to be Changes in a new judicial regime is not sufficient Assad regime, the Sunni-dominated response to this, and in the face of stripped of its EU and in a media supervisory organ unless it is part provinces, and the Kurdish region of international reluctance to supply made to satisfy the European Union The West’s of a clear strat- Iraq. arms to the moderate Free Syrian voting rights or remain in place, they say, while the egy to over- Moreover, the protests that have Army, jihadist elements increased. policy in Syria throw the Assad gone on for three months in the We are now faced with the emer- deprived of some authority of the constitutional court – to let neither regime. Sunni areas have reached a dead end, gence of groups such as the Al Nusra of the $600bn in has been slightly broadened — the The Western as Maliki has not responded to their Front, which the US recently added to opposite of the interpretation of side win – has approach, led demands. This has led to another the list of terrorist groups. This was a funding it was domestic and foreign critics. by the US, has round of bloody violence, to which mistake, as it distracted the interna- While there appears to be some strengthened so far achieved the Syrian crisis will be a natural tional community and regional powers awarded in the only a stale- extension. from the priority of overthrowing the merit to the government’s account, union’s new seven- Assad and mate between Iraq, which has not yet recovered regime, and directed it instead to fight many of the new constitutional the rebels and from the wounds of the civil war that the jihadists. Meanwhile, the Al Nusra year budget. provisions remain objectionable. created the regime. The tore it apart after the US invasion, Front benefited from its American Marriage is defined as the “conjugal jihadism. regime’s recent would take the sectarian conflict in classification and has become more union of a man and a woman;” use of Scud mis- the area to unprecedented levels. It powerful. churches allowed public funding siles, and the would also pull neighbouring coun- The absence of a clear strategy to continued supply tries, such as Iran, Turkey and the deal with the Syrian crisis has sent must “collaborate with the state for the public interest.” Political of arms from Russia and Iran, have Arab Gulf states, into the conflict as conflicting messages to the region’s advertising during election campaigns is restricted to public tipped the balance between the rebels the fight over Iraq will be not only countries. Some, fearing the “Islamic media, while “free speech cannot be aimed at violating the dignity and the regime in the regime’s favour. for its oil resources, but for the true danger”, have armed smaller secu- of the Hungarian nation.” Seen in this light, the latest move by soul of the Middle East. What hap- lar groups, even though most of the Students who receive scholarships to state universities are the British and French is simply an pens there would determine the bal- effective groups in the arena are required by the constitution to work for Hungarian firms, and attempt to rebalance the conflict, and ance of regional power and redraw the mainstream Islamists, and there are is part of a wider western strategy to political map. now conflicting opinions about who local jurisdictions are given authority to “outlaw the use of certain use stalemate to force both sides to Can this scenario be avoided? It should be supplied with arms, and who public space for habitation,” a measure widely seen as aimed achieve a peaceful settlement. depends on how the regional and should be contained. So far the efforts at Hungary’s Roma minority. The former Communist Party is This will not put an end to the international forces act in the com- of the international community have constitutionally defined as a criminal organisation, a step that violence, nor will it lead to a settle- ing months. The US must redirect its strengthened Assad’s hand, sown con- critics say could expose some opposition leaders to prosecution on ment any time soon. Indeed, the third priorities to allow the rebels to over- fusion, and driven the revolutionaries year of the Syrian revolution will now throw the regime. Although direct towards extremism. political grounds. almost certainly see a shift in the military intervention is not welcome, THE GUARDIAN The other side Quote of Confidence in consumption the day VERY year around March butchers and meat dealers inject desirable. When we were informed that and law enforcement. There is noth- 15, which has been water into all kinds of meat in order duck farmers feed their birds some ing wrong with arming consumers designated International Day to make more money. It is important kind of dye to make the eggs they with a better sense of self-protection. Efor Protecting Consumers’ to alert consumers to the problem, produce look nicer, we condemned But it is more effective for the govern- I have decided to Rights, the media tell consumers ways and it is better to instruct them in how the farmers as heartless. When we ment to take harsher actions against they can distinguish quality goods from to protect themselves from potential learned that some dairy producers had wrong-doing. join negotiations for substandard ones. Usually the day harm. The root cause of the problem, used the dangerous industrial chemical That is how consumers can have the TPP, the Trans- is used to try and raise consumers’ however, is butchers’ profit-driven melamine to increase the protein con- confidence in consumption. As the awareness of their rights and the wrong-doing. Investigations have also tent in their milk, we called for harsher National People’s Congress approved Pacific Partnership various kinds of tricks that are used to revealed some butchers can bribe punishments for the culprits. government restructuring on Thursday, deceive them. But the advice and the meat quality checkers. Since safety-related scandals have supervision over the safety of food and to make the Pacific activities held to mark this occasion There have been many scandals brewed pervasive fear of some of our medicine, at least, will be consolidated Ocean a sea where do not get to the root cause of shoddy involving the ways consumers are most important daily supplies, there is as a major part of the reform. This is a goods or poor service. cheated; a lot has been said and done a pressing need to make a substan- new beginning for the government to goods, services and Take meat injected with water, for about enhancing watchdog oversight. tial difference. More limelight needs protect consumers’ interests and make investment are Shinzo Abe example. It is no secret that some But the outcomes have been less than to be focused on watchdog functions their confidence last. CHINA DAILY freely exchanged. Japanese Prime Minister MARCH 16, 2013 Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 ON SATURDAY Who’s afraid of Kim? Lift veil of secrecy N Korea’s provocations on drone policy BY JOHN PODESTA are very calculated, All branches of the people’s rom Attorney General government have the right to Eric Holder’s testi- know the rules and standards they tend to stop short mony before the Senate under which the other branches FJudiciary Committee act. Congress has the power of what would force last week, we learned that the to oversee the conduct of the Obama administration is “strug- executive branch, and lawmak- gling” with how to provide more ers must be permitted to use it. serious escalation. information on its so-called tar- As Woodrow Wilson wrote: “The geted killing programme; that informing function of Congress BY FRED KAPLAN senior officials have “talked about should be preferred even to its a greater need for transparency” legislative function.” Appropriate f North Korea were a normal country, about the programme; and that congressional oversight is critical even a normal dictatorship, there would we “will hear the president speak in building long-term credibility be nothing at all worrisome about the about this” in the future. After a with the public across the politi- threats and bombast billowing forth limited document review by the cal spectrum for the actions the from its ludicrous leader, Kim John Un. Senate intelligence committee; a administration undertakes in the IBut by design, it is not a normal country. Its spirited 13-hour filibuster led by people’s name. power stems almost entirely from its unpre- Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, and a last- This isn’t to say that the execu- dictability; its diplomacy consists of careen- minute admission by Holder that tive branch is obligated to disclose ing in and out of well-marked lanes; its harsh the president does not have the information on operational details domestic controls are legitimised by a constant authority to use drones to kill a or case-specific profiles that are, state of emergency. Add to this a small nuclear US citizen on American soil who deservedly, highly classified. But arsenal, an opaque political facade, and a very is not engaged in combat, the that information can be redacted young new lord whose only claim to the throne Kim Jong-un (foreground) and his military officers watching a live shell firing drill. White House is still bobbing and without undermining the public’s is dynastic inheritance — and it’s no wonder weaving on whether to share with understanding of the legal justifi- that a crisis erupts now and then. In one sense, this too is nothing new. The deaths on both sides. The most recent episode, Congress the legal opinions and cation on which the government’s But the latest eruption is rattling nerves elder Kims also defied the UN and other out- in November 2010, resulted in the sinking of a memorandums governing tar- actions are based. more than usual. It’s not because of Kim John siders when it served their interest, in part South Korean ship, killing 46 sailors on board. geted killing, which include the The American people have Un’s histrionics about transforming Seoul into because they knew they could count on neigh- The South Korean government held back; the legal justification for killing US the right to know the laws they a “sea of fire”; that’s a perennial in the Kim bouring China to keep trade and aid flowing. conflict gradually settled. If a similar conflict citizens without trial. live under. In addition to allow- dynasty’s phrasebook of dire threats. Nor is it (Beijing’s leaders have recently wagged their broke out today, President Park might feel The Obama administration is ing Congress to properly fulfil its because he declared the 1953 armistice, which fingers at Pyongyang’s transgressions, but lit- compelled to retaliate with greater force; Kim wrong to withhold these docu- oversight duties, the administra- ended the Korean War, “null and void”; his tle more.) The elders, though, would shrewdly might feel compelled to respond in kind; and ments from Congress and the tion should make available to the father and grandfather, Kim Jong Il and Kim manipulate the enemy’s anxieties. They would onward and upward the fighting could escalate. American people. I say this as a public the criteria justifying the Il Sung, the only other past leaders of North make a threat, and wait for the enemy (the Kim’s motives are further clouded by what former White House chief of staff targeted killing of Americans and Korea, did that a few times as well. Nor is US, South Korea, the UN, or some combina- seems to be his own growing domestic crisis. who understands the instinct to the safeguards put in place to pro- it because he has mobilised the military or tion of the above) to offer a bribe in exchange North Korea may be the world’s most closed keep sensitive information secret tect against wrongful death. ordered the people to prepare for evacuations; for their forbearance. They would take the society, but it’s not as cloistered as it once was. and out of public view. It is beyond This level of transparency is this too is par for the totalitarian course. bribe — and they’d forbear. But this new Kim The past decade has seen limited, but very dispute that some information important for our democracy and No, what’s causing many officials and took the promise of a bribe — then went ahead popular experiments with commercial mar- must be closely held to protect for governments around the globe. observers to gulp a bit is all that, plus the fact and carried out the threat anyway, even before kets and considerable cross-border traffic with national security and to engage The US is not the only country that Kim John Un — about 29 and in power for the payment, in this case desperately needed China. Defectors have told US officials that the in effective diplomacy, and that with drone technology. We are not barely a year — is still an unknown quantity. food, came through. What the hell? North Korean people — probably not a majority, unauthorised disclosure can be the only country with the ability Kim Jong Il, was 52 when he succeeded his This is the question that officials and ana- but still a growing number — are aware of the extraordinarily harmful. But pro- to deploy cyberweapons. We are father; he’d spent a quarter-century preparing lysts are asking: Does Kim John Un know how glaring contrast between their own lives and tecting technical means, human not the only country grappling for the ascension in several senior party posi- to play his family’s game? It’s always been an the rest of the world. Faced with this looming sources, operational details and with how to apply the rule of law tions. Kim John Un had no political or military odious game, but in the old days, when the crisis, a totalitarian regime can open up fur- intelligence methods cannot be an — and the laws of war — when experience before taking putative control of father and grandfather were around, it would ther — a course that can trigger the regime’s excuse for creating secret law to the nature of conflict has changed the army, the party, and the nation. Kim Jong end with peace, at least for a while, if the west demise (the Soviet Union) — or it can sound guide our institutions. dramatically, and in a short time. Il learned the subtleties of managing power, played along. American diplomats learned the alarms louder still and try to convince the In refusing to release to But we cannot lead if the domestically and internationally, from a wily how to play the game, though testily, during people that they are in constant danger from Congress the rules and justi- American people are kept in the master; scholars and diplomats who study the presidencies of George W Bush and Bill outside attack, a state of mind that can trigger fications governing a program dark. We cannot lead if the world the regime saw continuity in the two lead- Clinton; some of them finally got the hang of pressures for attacking pre-emptively. that has conducted nearly 400 does not know the principles and ers’ patterns; Bill Clinton’s secretary of state, it (though way too late) in the last two years Some doubt that Kim would take any such unmanned drone strikes and laws that guide us, or if others can Madeleine Albright, held lengthy negotiations of George W Bush. But now, the rules of the action in the next few weeks, as two major killed at least three Americans credibly say that our commitment with him in 2000 about a possible missile ban, game, even the contours of the game board, US-South Korean military exercises — annual in the past four years, President to a government of the people, by and, according to her aides, who sat in the are unclear. Does Kim John Un believe his affairs, scheduled routinely for around this Barack Obama is ignoring the the people and for the people is same room, he had a clear command of the ridiculous rhetoric? Or is he playing it as a time — are taking place: Foal Eagle, a joint system of checks and balances simply window-dressing, or that issues. By contrast, Kim John Un had little tactic, like his elders did, though quite a lot field exercise involving about 10,000 American that has governed our country we sacrifice our constitutional time to learn anything; his behaviour is at best more bunglingly? In either case, he seems to troops, most of them deployed from outside the from its earliest days. And in principles when it is expedient. hard to read, and at times bewildering. be overplaying his hand. He seems to be mis- region; and Key Resolve, a naval training exer- keeping this information from James Madison said that “a For example, on February 29, 2012, in calculating. (Could he really have believed that cise that includes about 3,000 US personnel. the American people, he is under- popular government, without part as a test of the new leader’s intentions, engaging with Dennis Rodman might endear North Korea, which is always invited to observe mining the nation’s ability to be a popular information, or the means President Obama agreed to provide the him to America’s No 1 basketball fan? He but always refuses, mounts its own exercises leader on the world stage and is of acquiring it, is but a prologue North Koreans with 240,000 tonnes of food might have!) And miscalculations, as much around the same time. Restraints are tightly acting in opposition to the demo- to a farce or tragedy; or, perhaps, aid if they suspended all missile and nuclear history tells us, can lead to war. held on both sides: these are demonstrations cratic principles we hold most both.” tests. On April 13, before the food began to A few other factors aggravate this situa- of solidarity, theatrics of power; nobody wants important. March 16 is Madison’s birthday. be shipped, North Korea launched a missile tion. In response to Kim’s outbursts, South them to devolve into actual conflict... usually. This is why I say, respectfully: Mark it, Mr President, by uphold- test. Obama cancelled the aid and pushed a Korean president Park Geun-hye not only Again, who knows what Kim John Un wants? Give them up, Mr President. ing the promise of openness and resolution through the UN Security Council, warned him that she will retaliate to any act Daniel Sneider, Associate Director of the Begin by fully sharing with transparency you made in your denouncing the launch as a “serious violation” of aggression, but also threatened to take Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Centre at the congressional committees State of the Union address last of international law. Kim responded with a action against the north pre-emptively if the Stanford University, puts it this way: “North that have jurisdiction all of the month. Release the legal guidance public speech, heralding the missile launch as situation warranted. Meanwhile, influential Korea’s provocations are very calculated. They documents used by your admin- governing your targeted killing a display of North Korea’s “military superior- South Koreans are wondering aloud whether tend to stop short of what would force serious istration to legally substantiate programs, including the justifi- ity” and vowing to resist imperial pressure. it might be time for South Korea to build its escalation.” But the context of these provoca- and govern the targeted killing cations for targeting Americans, Since then, he has launched another satel- own atomic arsenal. tions — the uncertainty of what lies behind program, including the justifica- and take charge of the informed, lite into space successfully and conducted two In recent years, North and South Korean them and what they might further provoke tion for targeting US citizens. free and vigorous debate that underground tests of atomic bombs — prompt- naval forces have clashed a half-dozen times — changes the calculus. “The talk tends to be The law that directs our govern- undoubtedly will follow. ing more condemnations from the Security over a disputed maritime border known as the tougher than the action,” Sneider says. “Still ment’s activities should not be WP-BLOOMBERG Council. Northern Limits Line, resulting in over 300 it’s worth being scared.” WP-BLOOMBERG kept secret. Harlem Shake moves to a more radical beat in Tunisia

BY RACHEL SHABI in with the wild gyrations, all set such assault. Islamist movements. to a trap music track courtesy of It may look like a textbook tus- This suspicion goes wider, ou can probably guess the Brooklyn DJ Baauer. There sle between pious conservatives with the same coalition charged what happened when are thousands of versions, but and nonreligious youth: One side with doing nothing to stop the Tunisian officials the Tunisian rendition is palpa- decrying an immoral western rise in political violence that has Ytried to clamp down bly politicised, with the dancers influence, the other striking back plagued Tunisia in the past year, on something as irreverent as dressed as ultraconservatives, at imposed strictures. But this culminating in the tragic killing the Harlem Shake. When the and a few of the men appearing isn’t as simple as secular students of the opposition leader Chokri Islamist-led government reacted in their underwear. pushing back at religious control. Belaid last month. badly to a local manifestation of Tunisia’s government couldn’t If the Arab revolutions were, in Some Tunisians have the global dance craze, it back- enforce its proposed ban, but the part, a mass reclamation of public responded to conservative reli- fired in a big way. First, students suggestion was enough to prompt space, then what we’re seeing in gious attempts to control the in Tunis — who had initiated students to bunk off class to film Tunisia now is partly a continu- streets with a surge of perform- the country’s renditions of the a bigger, more sarcastic Harlem ation of that. Inspiration for the ances in public spaces. YouTube dance — hacked into Shake outside the education uprisings across the Middle East, A new, post-revolutionary the education ministry’s website, ministry. Tunisians — the people, not its movement, Art Solution, has making it wobble in time to the This is easy enough to fathom, ruling dictatorship — have long staged spontaneous public pieces, Harlem tune. And then, inevi- as one student explained: “We are championed a unique ecosystem tagged: “I will dance despite eve- tably, where there was just one not able to express ourselves by of religious freedom, with space rything.” This is one example, Tunisian Shake, hundreds more talking, so we have chosen danc- for differences and tolerance. It from the old city of Tunis late followed. ing to speak out. Plus, it’s been seems like those features, which last year. It looks like protest, International media have banned now, which has energised many Tunisians see as defining spawned by Tunisia’s revolution, pounced on this story, presumably us. It’s exciting to defy the ban... characteristics, are now being has found new momentum and because the symbolism is just too it adds meaning to our actions.” tested. fresh appeal in forms of cultural good to miss. The Harlem Shake, Meanwhile, some Tunisian The trouble is that the gov- Tunisian students perform the Harlem Shake outside their school last month. expression. for those who haven’t sifted Salafis made it their mission to ernment, a coalition led by the In that context, it makes sense through the viral video clips, is try and shut down the Shake — in Islamist Ennahda party, stands that Tunisia’s contribution to a 30-second meme with myriad some cases with physical as well accused of being biased towards official) said that school-staged meetings held outside schools, or the eye-rollingly comic Harlem riffs on one theme: A sole dancer as verbal attacks: One student in the Salafi position in this street Harlem Shakes would be inves- the replacement of one school’s Shake craze should end up being is surrounded by disinterested the coastal city of Mahdia needed battle. When the education min- tigated, students wondered why national flag with the black sha- so deeply political. friends who then erupt and join 12 stitches to the head after one ister (who is not an Ennahda he hadn’t similarly pursued Salafi hada favoured by conservative THE GUARDIAN MARCH 16, 2013 ON SATURDAY 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East Syria threatens to strike at rebels in Lebanon European Union rejects Franco-British push for arms supplies to opposition BEIRUT/BRUSSELS: Syria should recognise that the Syrian EU summit in Brussels, diplomats has warned it may strike at crisis represents an existential said, but EU foreign ministers rebels hiding in neighbouring threat to Lebanon and should will consider the issue again next Lebanon if the Lebanese army show Lebanon ... much stronger week. French President Francois does not act, the state news support than has happened until Hollande, backed by British Prime agency Sana said yesterday. now,” he told reporters in Beirut. Minister David Cameron, pressed Syria’s Foreign Ministry told France and Britain will urge for the embargo to be lifted, say- its Lebanese counterpart that a European Union governments ing Europe could not allow the “large number” of militants had to lift an embargo on supplying Syrian people to be massacred. crossed Lebanon’s northern bor- weapons to the Syrian opposi- Western nations have mostly der into the Syrian town of Tel tion, President Francois Hollande stood on the sidelines as 70,000 Kalakh over the past two days, said on Thursday, warning that Syrians have been killed, accord- Sana said. France could go it alone if no EU ing to a UN estimate, during a “Syria expects the Lebanese agreement is reached. two-year-old revolt against Syrian side to prevent these armed ter- More than one million Syrians President Bashar Al Assad. rorist groups from using the bor- are believed to have taken shel- German Chancellor Angela ders as a crossing point, because ter in Lebanon. They live among Merkel, a leading opponent of they target Syrian people and are a nation of 4 million, which fought lifting the arms embargo, said violating Syrian sovereignty,” the its own devastating 1975-1990 civil there was a danger that Assad’s diplomatic cable said. war and whose own sectarian ten- allies Russia and Iran could step It said Syria’s “patience is not sions between Christians, Sunni up arms supplies to his govern- unlimited”, even though “Syrian and Shias have been heightened ment if the 27-nation EU lifted forces have so far exercised by the fighting in Syria. its restrictions. restraint from striking at armed Meanwhile, European Union Pressed by the two major gangs inside Lebanese territory.” governments yesterday rejected EU powers to help tip the bal- Fighting near the border Franco-British efforts to lift an ance in the conflict by arming resulted in a large number of A Syrian boy chants slogans as he holds opposition flags during a protest marking two years since the start of EU arms embargo to allow weap- the ill-equipped rebels fighting casualties, Sana said, before the the uprising in the Al Myassar neighbourhood of Aleppo, yesterday. ons supplies to Syrian rebels, say- Assad, leaders of the 27-nation gunmen retreated into Lebanon. ing this could spark an arms race bloc agreed to discuss the issue Lebanon has a policy of “dis- feel their country is increasingly says has killed 70,000 Syrians. that the Syrian conflict threatens and worsen regional instability. again next week, but there was sociation” from the two-year civil at risk of being dragged into a UN refugee agency chief Lebanon’s existence. France and Britain found little little sign of a deal in the offing. war in Syria but officials say they conflict that the United Nations Antonio Guterres said yesterday “The international community support for their proposal at an AGENCIES

12 killed in Iraq Tunisia sets timetable for constitution, polls ahead of invasion TUNIS: Tunisian lawmak- favour of the timeline. An as-yet revolts against repressive leaders Islamist party said yesterday, neither by Ennahda nor by reli- ers voted yesterday to have unformed supreme electoral com- across the Arab world. despite signs that radical imams gion, and which is not a part of anniversary a draft constitution ready by mission will have the final word The North African state’s new are encouraging young Tunisians our culture,” Rached Ghannouchi BAGHDAD: Separate gun the end of April and hold elec- on the date for Tunisians to go Islamist-led government won a to fight.“Our support for the told a news conference in Tunis. attacks north of Baghdad killed tions by December at the latest, to the polls. confidence vote on Wednesday Syrian resistance is moral and “Whoever approves of female 12 security members — eight steps meant to rescue a falter- “Agreement on these (dates) as the death of an unemployed political, not military,” Rached circumcision cannot remain soldiers and four militiamen ing democratic transition in the is an important message to both man who set himself on fire in Ghannouchi told a news confer- within our ranks,” he added. — yesterday, a second deadly country that launched the Arab inside and outside the country despair over economic hardships ence in Tunis, while condemn- Ennahda MP Habib Ellouze day in Iraq as it nears the 10th Spring. ... that we are on the verge of underscored the depth of popular ing “the repression carried out sparked outrage in the north anniversary since the US-led The agreed timeline could completing the last stages of the discontent. The government was against the Syrian people.” African country with comments invasion. The violence comes a ease tensions festering since the democratic transition and going broadened to include non-party The influential Islamist leader- he reportedly made last week day after a string of coordinated February 6 assassination by sus- on to the stage of democratic sta- independents in major cabinet denied any implication in sending in an interview published in an bombings and a brazen assault pected radicals of secular oppo- bility,” Moufdi Mssidi, Ben Jaafar’s posts to defuse outrage over young Tunisians to join rebels in Arabic newspaper. on a ministry complex in the sition leader Chokri Belaid, and spokesman, told Reuters. Belaid’s assassination. Syria, saying his party “does not “There are more circumcisions capital left 18 people dead, with encourage local and foreign inves- Feuding Islamist and secular Despite freedom of expres- have fighting forces.” but it is not true that circumcision barely a month to go before the tors needed to hoist Tunisia out politicians have missed previous sion and political pluralism won “We have nothing to do with removes the pleasure for women. country holds its first elections of economic crisis. deadlines to draw up a democratic in 2011, the high unemployment, the departure of these young peo- It is the West that has exagger- in three years. Mustafa Ben Jaafar, speaker of constitution and set dates for inflation and perceptions of out- ple for Syria,” he said. ated the issue. Circumcision is an In yesterday’s deadliest attack, the constituent assembly, said the parliamentary and presidential of-touch, corrupt government Ghannouchi also insisted that aesthetic surgery for women,” he gunmen killed eight Iraqi sol- draft should be ready on April 27 elections. that fuelled the anti-Ben Ali his group was opposed to female reportedly said. But Ellouze on diers as they were on their way — with July 8 as a final, fallback Belaid’s murder ignited the revolt remain unresolved and circumcision, after one of its MPs Monday accused the newspaper to report to their unit in a town deadline if needed — with the next worst violence in Tunisia since often kindle further unrest. caused a storm by reportedly say- of distorting his quotes, saying the north of Baghdad, security and election to follow between October the January 2011 fall of autocratic Tunisia’s support for the Syrian ing the operation was “aesthetic.” journalist “attributed remarks to medical officials said. 15 and December 15. President Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali revolution is “moral” and not “We do not approve of female me that I have not said.” The soldiers had set off from Deputies voted 81-21 in to a mass uprising that inspired military, the head of the ruling circumcision, a practice supported AGENCIES the town of Qaiyarah in the northern province of Nineveh and were headed to a military camp in Taji, 25km north of Baghdad. Protest march When they were about half way along the route and near the town of Baiji, gunmen opened fire on their minibus, causing it to over- turn, at which point the militants shot at the soldiers.

Ahmadinejad’s remarks ‘heresy’ TEHRAN: A senior Iranian cleric accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of “heresy” yesterday by saying in his tribute to late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez that he would be resurrected with Jesus Christ. “Those comments on Chavez’s return with Christ were heresy,” Ayatollah Ahmad Janati, the hardline chief of the influential Guardians Council, Anti-government protesters, holding banners reading ‘Never Surrender’, march during a demonstra- told worshippers at Friday tion organised by Bahrain’s main opposition party Al Wefaq, in the village of Sanabis, west of Manama, prayers in Tehran. yesterday. Janati was referring to com- ments by Ahmadinejad on March 6 in which he called Chavez a UN women text a threat: Brotherhood “martyr” who would “return, along with the righteous Jesus and the perfect human.” Janati said CAIRO: Egypt’s Muslim imposing universal stand- need for a husband’s consent in Iran’s clergy had been “upset” by Brotherhood has warned that a ards to fight violence against matters like travel, work or use the remarks. “Should people say UN document demanding global women and called on women’s of contraception.” whatever comes to mind? I wish standards to prevent violence organisations “to commit to It slammed “granting wives (Ahmadinejad) had spent a few against women is un-Islamic their religion and the morals full rights to file legal com- days in a seminary before discuss- and would lead to the “complete of their communities... and not plaints against husbands accus- ing such issues,” he said. degradation of society.” be deceived with misleading ing them of rape or sexual Governments and NGOs calls for decadent modernisa- harassment” as well as “remov- from around the world are to tion and the path of subversive ing the authority of divorce Israel arrests 10 wrap up two weeks of discus- immorality.” from husbands and placing it sions in New York on ways to The Brotherhood’s state- in the hands of judges.” Palestinians end violence against women and ment is its clearest yet on The Brotherhood said the JERUSALEM: The Israeli children with the aim of reach- women and their role in soci- document provided society with army has arrested 10 ing a consensus by Friday. ety — an issue the group had “destructive tools to undermine Palestinians on suspicion of But the Muslim Brotherhood, tried to skirt around since the family,” including “grant- stonethrowing blamed for a from which President being thrust into power follow- ing girls full sexual freedom” road accident in which an Israeli Mohammed Mursi hails, said ing a popular uprising in 2011. and “providing contraceptives woman and her three daughters the document includes articles The Brotherhood warned that to adolescent girls and train- were injured, a statement said “that contradict established “decadence awaits our world” ing them in their use.” It also yesterday. The accident took principles of Islam, undermine should the UN document be opposed the “full sharing of place on Thursday evening near Islamic ethics” and, if rati- signed. It said it opposed 10 roles within the family between the West Bank settlement of fied, “would lead to the com- key points of the text, includ- men and women, such as spend- Ariel. One daughter, aged two, plete disintegration of society.” ing “full equality in marriage ing, childcare and domestic was seriously injured. The movement argued against legislation” and “cancelling the chores.” AFP AGENCIES MARCH 16, 2013 International www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ON SATURDAY

BRIEFLY Pope is wrong Trapped in snow on Falklands:

Norway to file complaint over British PM pork in halal food Vatican rejects Argentina junta’s claim OSLO: The Norwegian Food Safety Authority said yester- BRUSSELS: British Prime Cameron said, jokingly referring day it would file a police com- Minister David Cameron said to the signal over the Sistine plaint against a food company yesterday that Pope Francis Chapel that announces the suc- after finding large quantities had been wrong to say last year cessful election of a new pope. of pork in its halal-labelled that Britain had “usurped” Meanwhile, the Vatican yes- products. Kebab meat sold the Falkland Islands from terday rejected claims that Pope by Norwegian group Kuraas Argentina, saying he respect- Francis failed to do enough to to restaurants contained fully disagreed with the new protect two priests kidnapped between five and 30 percent Pontiff. and tortured by Argentina’s mili- pork even though it was Argentine media quoted Jorge tary junta and said he had in fact marked as halal, the agency Bergoglio saying at a mass last helped save lives. Jorge Mario A member of the Hungarian rescue team tries to clear the road at the M1 highway, 80km west of Budapest, found. “We will file a com- year to mark the 30th anniver- Bergoglio, the first pope to hail yesterday. Thousands of motorists got trapped in heavy snow as a sudden cold snap and high winds struck plaint against the producer,” sary of the war over the islands from Latin America, has been the country. Catherine Signe Svinland, between Britain and Argentina criticised by leftist critics for his an adviser at the food safety that the territory had been actions during Argentina’s “Dirty watchdog, said. “In a halal “usurped”. In 2010 he was quoted War” in which 30,000 people died product, there should be no as saying it was “ours”. or disappeared from 1976 to 1983. pork at all and when we find When asked whether he agreed His role in the arrest of two such quantities ... we don’t with the former archbishop young Jesuits, Orlando Yorio and US court rebukes CIA over believe it’s an accident but it of Buenos Aires on the issue, Francisco Jalics, who were taken is in fact fraud,” she said. Cameron said yesterday: to a notorious torture centre by The group denied any “I disagree with him, respect- the brutal right-wing junta, has wrongdoing, Norwegian media fully,” adding that residents of the come under intense scrutiny. reported. “We buy huge quanti- South Atlantic islands had made Vatican spokesman Federico secrecy on drone war ties of halal meat and we can it clear in a referendum held ear- Lombardi said: “There has never show invoices corresponding lier this week that they wanted to been a credible, concrete accusa- WASHINGTON: A federal responsive to this request ...is a “We hope that this ruling will to what we bought and sold,” remain under British rule. tion against him. The Argentinian court ruled yesterday the CIA currently and properly classified encourage the Obama adminis- marketing manager Kenneth “There was a pretty extraor- justice system... has never charged can no longer refuse to confirm fact, the disclosure of which rea- tration to fundamentally recon- Kuraas told news agency NTB. dinarily clear referendum in the him with anything.” or deny whether it has records sonably could be expected to cause sider the secrecy surrounding the “Pork ending up in these Falkland Islands,” Cameron told He said the campaign against related to drone strikes, in a damage to the national security.” targeted killing program,” Jameel products is simply due to rou- a news conference in Brussels, Bergoglio was “well known” but blow to the government’s secrecy But the three-judge panel Jaffer, ACLU deputy legal direc- tines not being followed,” he where he was attending a claimed it was defamatory and over the bombing campaign. concluded the CIA’s stance was tor, said. added. The Food and Safety European Union summit. aimed at discrediting the Church. The Court of Appeals for “not justified,” opening the way “The public surely has a right Authority also said it had found “That is a message to every- “The accusations come from Washington DC said the govern- for more court battles over the to know who the government is more than 60 percent pork in one in the world that the peo- parts of the anti-clerical left to ment’s stance was no longer cred- issue. killing, and why, and in which pizza meat sold by another ple of these islands have chosen attack the Church and must be ible as President Barack Obama Citing public statements from countries, and on whose orders. Norwegian company. very clearly the future they want. denied,” said Lombardi, insisting and a senior adviser had publicly Obama and John Brennan, former Human rights groups and That choice should be respected that Bergoglio “did a lot to protect acknowledged the drone attacks counter-terrorism adviser and many foreign governments view by everyone.” people during the dictatorship” on Al Qaeda suspects abroad. now CIA director, the court said the drone attacks as a breach of Bus crash kills 24 Argentina, 500km to the west when he was not yet a bishop. The Central Intelligence “it is neither logical nor plausible international law and a reckless of the Falklands, has claimed Bergoglio himself has always Agency had argued it did not for the CIA to maintain that it tactic that claims the lives of civil- in South Africa the South Atlantic archipelago denied any involvement in the have to cooperate with a freedom would reveal anything not already ians who happen to be in the area CAPE TOWN: Twenty- for almost 200 years and in 1982 case, and even says he inter- of information request from the in the public domain” to admit when a bombing raid takes place. four people were killed in invaded the islands only to be vened with the head of the junta, American Civil Liberties Union that it has an interest in the Obama has promised to be South Africa yesterday when repelled in a 74-day war with Jorge Videla, to beg for them to be rights group, saying that merely drone campaign. more transparent about the a double-decker bus carry- Britain. Diplomatic rows between freed. The two men were released admitting whether it had docu- The ACLU hailed the decision strikes by unmanned robotic air- ing a church group crashed London and Buenos Aires have after five months. ments on drone strikes could as a “victory” for their effort craft but some lawmakers from in a mountainous pass near escalated in recent months, The newly-elected pontiff, who jeopardise US security interests. demanding the US government his own party and rights advo- Cape Town. Rescue teams with Britain resisting calls by is also the first Jesuit pope, ear- A CIA official, Mary Cole, the lift the cloak of secrecy around cates say he has so far failed to had to use a crane to lift the Argentina’s President Cristina lier urged the troubled Catholic information review officer for the the drone bombing raids, which live up to that promise. bus and cut away bodywork Fernandez to renegotiate the sov- Church that he has inherited not spy agency’s national clandes- began under George W Bush’s “I think that we have to be to extract victims trapped in ereignty of the islands. to succumb to “pessimism” and tine service, insisted in a filing presidency but have increased judicious in how we use drones,” the overturned wreckage in “The white smoke over the to find new ways of spreading the to the court that “the existence dramatically since Obama took Obama said in an online chat in the Hex River pass. “Twenty- Falklands was pretty clear,” faith. AGENCIES or nonexistence of CIA records office in 2009. January. AFP three died on the scene and one person on the way to hospital,” said Faiza Steyn, Western Cape health spokes- Royal couple woman. Two of the dead were children. Forty-five injured people were taken to hospital. Heavy snow causes chaos in Slovakia BRATISLAVA: Heavy snowfall caused travel chaos in Slovakia yesterday and left some 19,000 households with- out power in eastern regions, local media reported. More than 25 centimetres (10 inches) of fresh snow and bliz- zard conditions closed parts of a highway connecting the capital Bratislava in western Slovakia with the eastern city of Kosice, Slovakia’s second largest. Local roads and bor- der crossings with neighbour- Britain’s Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, react as they watch the second race at ing Poland and Hungary have the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meet in Gloucestershire, western England, yesterday. also been closed. Hundreds of cars were trapped on roads and trains were delayed. 13 ‘Black Death’ skeletons Romanian judges detained over graft found under London rail site BUCHAREST: Two Romanian judges were LONDON: Workers build- 1348 and 1353. “The depth of Records refer to a burial arrested yesterday on charges ing a new railway in London burials, the pottery found with ground in London’s Farringdon of seeking tens of thousands of have unearthed 13 skeletons the skeletons and the way the area, where Charterhouse euros in exchange for helping thought to be victims of the skeletons have been set out all Square is located, that opened to set free several detainees. ‘Black Death’ plague that point towards this being part in 1348. Viorica Dinu and Antonela swept through Europe in the of the 14th century emergency The 13 skeletons were found Costache of the Bucharest 14th century, archaeologists burial ground,” said Jay Carver, over the last two weeks, laid out court are accused of agreeing said yesterday. The remains Crossrail’s lead archaeologist. in two rows several feet below to take ¤150,000 ($196,000) were dug up at Charterhouse “This is a highly significant road level. in January, promising to Square in central London discovery and at the moment They will be taken to intercede with other judges during excavation work for we are left with many questions the Museum of London in favour of a Romanian the city’s £15bn ($22.7bn, that we hope to answer. Archaeology for laboratory businessman, Dinel Nutu, ¤17.4bn) Crossrail project. “We will be undertaking sci- testing and possibly carbon- detained over fraud. Archaeologists believe the entific tests on the skeletons dating to try to establish their Prosecutors said the site could be the location of a over the coming months to burial dates. manoeuvre failed so the two plague cemetery described in establish their cause of death, Scientists are hoping to use judges handed back ¤55,000 medieval records, where up whether they were plague vic- the skeletons to map the DNA euros they had received in to 50,000 victims of the Black tims from the 14th century or signature of the plague, in advance from Nutu’s brother. Death were buried. later London residents, how old research they hope could help AGENCIES The plague wiped out a third they were and perhaps evidence combat modern diseases. of Europe’s population between of who they were.” AFP MARCH 16, 2013 ON SATURDAY 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Philippines

Cops told to beef up Envoy seeks to mend Beijing ties security during Lent MANILA: Police were ordered to implement a security plan for the Lenten Erlinda Basilio’s mandate is to improve relations amid a festering territorial dispute season and summer vaca- tion. Philippine National MANILA: The Philippines dis- is to improve Philippine-China the Philippines than the Chinese leaving the post vacant amid the same areas. Police Director General Alan patched a new ambassador to relations through projects,” mainland, is part of Chinese territorial dispute. Diplomatic sources said Basilio Purisima said the plan would China yesterday with a mandate Hernandez said in a statement territory. China claims most of the South had helped draft the Philippines’ complement contingency to improve ties amid a festering to the press. Hernandez in his statement China Sea, including waters close hardline stance against China’s measures for the elections. territorial dispute between the He made no direct reference to instead cited commitments forged to the shores of its neighbours. controversial claims, which has He said that aside from the South China Sea neighbours, the stand-off between Manila and by Philippine and Chinese leaders These areas include major sea irked Beijing. Holy Week, various town fies- the foreign department said. Beijing that began in April 2012 in 2011 to boost ties, particularly lanes and are believed to hold vast President Benigno Aquino tas will be held from the last Ambassador Erlinda Basilio in waters around the Scarborough economic, sports, tourism and mineral and oil resources. named Basilio to the vacated week of March until May. left for Beijing to assume her Shoal, when Chinese ships pre- “people-to-people relations”. China’s claims are contested post in December even if it “Such events are expected post, which had been vacant since vented the Philippine Navy from The previous Filipino envoy by the Philippines as well as meant the 68-year-old leaving her to generate numerous com- August last year, department arresting Chinese fishermen. to China, Sonia Brady, had suf- Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and more senior position as foreign muters and tourists who will spokesman Raul Hernandez said. Beijing insists the shoal, an out- fered a stroke in August last year, Vietnam, which have overlapping undersecretary. travel to the provinces and “Erlinda Basilio’s mandate cropping of rocks much nearer to forcing her recall by Manila and claims to some or all of those AFP tourist destinations and these may cause peace and order concerns including traffic Water problem congestion, accidents and other crimes,” he said. Opposition urged to stop High alert over rebel attacks CCT programme debate MANILA: The govern- ment has put in place addi- MANILA: The administration impending defeat in the May 13 tional security to thwart any has called on the opposition to polls.” He cited the poor perform- attacks by the leftist New stop politicising the distribution ance of UNA in the surveys of People’s Army (NPA). An of cash to poor families under senatorial candidates where Team announcement was made the conditional cash transfer PNoy aspirants have dominated following the collapse of (CCT) programme. the top 12. peace talks between the gov- Team PNoy spokesman Evardone said that the claims ernment and the National Eastern Samar Representative of the opposition about the CCT Democratic Front (NDF). Ben Evardone said the CCT being used to entice recipients to The NDF is the political wing programme has nothing to do vote for the administration can- of the Communist Party of with the ongoing campaign and didates are false. Senator Francis the Philippines and the NPA. should be spared by the opposition Pangilinan expressed his concern Deputy presidential spokes- from its propaganda against the about the plan to suspend imple- man Abigail Valte said police administration. mentation of the CCT programme and military personnel have “It is a pro-poor program during the campaign period. increased their presence in designed to alleviate the plight Pangilinan opposed this pro- areas where the NPAs are of the marginalised sectors of posal because it would have a huge allegedly extorting money our society. The beneficiaries impact on the daily lives of the from candidates in the mid- of the CCT were not chosen by recipient families. term elections in May. the Liberal Party nor the politi- “The call should be rejected. cians. They were chosen by the The programme is meant to keep Suspected Abu Department of Social Welfare and children in school and to ensure Development through a scientific women seek health services member nabbed method,” Evardone said. needed to ensure their wellbeing MANILA: Policemen He said the United Nationalist in exchange for cash transfers,” arrested a suspected mem- Alliance (UNA) could just be Pangilinan said. ber of the Abu Sayyaf group making excuses to “justify its THE PHILIPPINE STAR in Zamboanga yesterday. A man filling water containers in a slum area in Manila. Nearly two-thirds of people in the Asia-Pacific region Philippine National Police have no clean, piped water at home despite the region’s strong economic growth. spokesman Chief Supt Generoso Cerbo identified the suspect as Jailani Basirul, alias “Bas” and “Angkig. “ Prosecutor claims gains He was arrested by Task Milf bares attempts to delay talks Force Salinlahi at the vicin- ity of Valderoza Street in MAGUINDANAO: The Iqbal made the statement “I’m very hopeful we will be able Zamboanga City. Basirul in ex-president’s trial chairman of the Moro Islamic during a meeting with Japanese to wind up the discussion on the was arrested for his alleged Liberation Front (Milf) peace Ambassador Toshinao Urabe, substantive issues, on the issue of involvement in the kidnap- MANILA: A Commission on statement is contrary to what the negotiating panel disclosed on who visited the Bangsamoro wealth sharing and power sharing. ping and massacre of work- Elections (Comelec) prosecutor defence is saying. Wednesday attempts to post- Leadership and Management I think we can manage to settle ers of the Golden Harvest claimed initial gains yesterday Defence lawyer Ben Santos, pone talks with the Philippine Institute Training Center that that. But the issue of normaliza- Plantation in Tahiran village in the trial of former president legal counsel of Arroyo, said government in Kuala Lumpur was constructed with funding tion is a continuing agenda, I do not in Lantawan town, Basilan and now Pampanga Rep Gloria that Cabanban admitted during by tying it up with the crisis in assistance from Japan. think we can finish that,” he said. province in January 2001. Macapagal-Arroyo and her co- cross-examination that there was Sabah. According to Iqbal, they did not The Milf has a “no comment” accused former Maguindanao no cheating and that she had no Mohagher Iqbal warned against raise the issue before the govern- official policy on the Sabah issue, Pulse Asia to Governor Andal Ampatuan personal knowledge if other peo- a postponement of the negotiation ment panel about the attempts to which “is complicated,” Iqbal said. Sr and former election officer ple committed fraud. scheduled from March 25 to 27 in postpone the talks. “There are so many players. All continue surveys Lintang Bedol. When asked by Reynaldo Kuala Lumpur, saying “unscrupu- He said the Milf has no plans kinds of interests are converging,” MANILA: Independent poll- Comelec lawyer Charlie Lim Princesa, lawyer of Bedol, if the lous” persons are behind the move to raise the Sabah issue during Iqbal said. “The official policy of ster Pulse Asia said it would Yap told reporters after yester- original results were canvassed, to postpone the talks by associat- the negotiation in Kuala Lumpur. the Milf is no comment. We do not stop conducting pre- day’s hearing that the testimony Cabanban said it was the man- ing it with the Sabah situation. “There is no need to postpone not comment on the Sabah issue. election surveys amid calls of their first witness has strength- ufactured election results that Iqbal called the crisis in Sabah the talks,” Iqbal said. “I do not It is so sensitive. Whatever state- from political coalitions urg- ened their case of alleged cheating were submitted to the National a “non-issue.” imagine that it is postponed. For ments you make you are creating ing survey firms to disclose in the province of Maguindanao Board of Canvassers. “We are receiving some ideas us, all systems go.” more problems.” their subscribers. Pulse Asia province during the 2007 mid- Cabanban also told Judge Jesus from unscrupulous persons who “It is a non-issue. We will not Maj Gen Dato Fadzil Bin president Ronald Holmes also term elections. Mupas that Norie Unas, former want to tie the negotiation with discuss that. What is important is Mokhtar, the head of the new said they could not reveal He said Susan Cabanban, former provincial administration of the Sabah standoff. I told them the issue of postponement does not Malaysian contingent to the the identities of those who municipal election officer of SK Maguindanao, was present dur- this is more important. The peace come from the Milf because for us, International Monitoring Team commission their surveys. Pendaton town in Maguindanao, ing a meeting on the tasking of process is more important than I said all systems go,” he added. overseeing the ceasefire between Holmes said only the person testified during direct examina- Comelec officers to alter election what is happening now in Sabah,” When asked what are expected the government and the Milf, also who commissioned or paid tion that the alleged cheating in results.“I did not recognise the Iqbal said. to be achieved during the talks, said the Sabah issue would not for the surveys can decide the province was orchestrated by voice but out of fear I complied,” Iqbal said both panels would Iqbal said substantive issues, affect the peace process because whether or not his identity provincial officials. she said in Filipino. talk on wealth and power sharing including wealth sharing and it is a “separate” matter. will be disclosed as part of Not surprisingly, Yap’s THE PHILIPPINE STAR during the talks in Kuala Lumpur. power sharing, would be discussed. THE PHILIPPINE STAR their agreement in undertak- ing the polls. “(We are) not required (to disclose), only Whale shark those who commissioned,” Holmes said. “We will just continue to comply with what is established by law,” Holmes Senator sees leadership change said.

MANILA: Confident that a Senate leadership “is already a filed on January 21 but Cayetano More Navy ships majority of the administra- given since two months ago.” did not act on it even if it sent a tion Team PNoy senatorial “We knew already that there follow-up letter to the senator on deployed in Sulu Sea candidates would win, Senator will be changes in July when the February 13. MANILA: The Philippine Sergio Osmeña III revealed that new Congress comes about. We Cayetano has vowed to attend Navy has deployed more ships Senator Franklin Drilon is the can practically be definite it will to the group’s complaint as soon in the Sulu Sea to facilitate most qualified to replace Senate happen,” he said. Osmeña added as Congress resumes session. humanitarian efforts and President Juan Ponce Enrile in the pro-LP senators have allied Meanwhile, Senator Francis assist Filipinos fleeing vio- the 16th Congress. with the Nacionalista Party Escudero called for reforms yes- lence in Sabah. “We are eye- “President Aquino already group led by Senator Manny terday in the use of the P25bn ing an influx of returnees so announced or floated the name of Villar. Priority Assistance Development our ships, with supplies and Senator Drilon and I think Drilon UNA senatorial candidates said Fund (PDAF), the official name personnel aboard, are out is well qualified to be the next it would be up to Senator Alan of the congressional pork barrel. there ready to assist them,” Senate president. And Senator Peter Cayetano to conduct an He made the call in the Major Franco Alano, acting Drilon’s relationship with Senator investigation on the Christmas wake of the latest Commission spokesman for the Western Enrile is very good,” Osmeña said. cash gifts given by Enrile to sena- on Audit report that nearly Mindanao Command said. Speaking at the weekly tors last Christmas. P200m in PDAF allocations of Eleven vessels have been sent Kapihan sa Senado at the Senate VACC accused Cayetano of Enrile, Senate President Pro- to the Sulu Sea, in addition building, Osmeña added that he violating the Code of Conduct Tempore Jinggoy Estrada, and to the 25 patrolling the area. does not see any problem with and Ethical Standards for Public Senator Ramon Revilla Jr ended The Navy initially deployed Drilon becoming the next Senate Officials and Employees. up with a nonexistent private its transport and auxiliary president. The group said Cayetano had foundation. ship BRP Tagbanua to Tawi- “Of course, there might be a ignored its complaint regarding Every senator receives Tawi to pick up evacuees but dark horse who might have ambi- Enrile’s grant of millions of pesos P200m a year from PDAF, while request for the transport ship tion but I don’t see anything at as Christmas gifts to his fellow each member of the House of A whale shark approaches a feeder off the beach of Tan-awan, Cebu. to dock in Sabah was denied this time,” he said. senators last December. Representatives gets P70m. Tan-awan used to be a sleepy village that never saw tourists unless they by the Malaysian government. Osmeña said change in the VACC said the complaint was THE PHILIPPINE STAR were lost, yet now they flock there to swim with whale sharks. AGENCIES MARCH 16, 2013 Asia www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 ON SATURDAY

Huge wind farm Li Keqiang China’s new premier turbine snaps TOKYO: A 38-tonne wind turbine crashed 50 metres Wen Jiabao’s replacement aims to revive growth through consumer-led expansion (165ft) to the ground in west- ern Japan after the steel col- BEIJING: China’s legislature crisis, state radio reported, with- friends included activists who umn supporting it snapped, formally chose Li Keqiang as out providing details. went into exile after the June officials said yesterday. The premier yesterday, installing As premier, Li is faced with one 1989 crackdown. “He has a better Dutch-made turbine atop a an English-speaking bureau- of the world’s widest gaps between understanding of how Westerners Japanese-made steel column, crat as the man in charge of the rich and poor, an economy over- think,” a source familiar with was part of a wind farm in economy, the world’s second- reliant on investment spending China’s foreign policy said. mountains near Kyoto, and largest, and its aim of reviving and a persistently frothy housing Li, who has a degree in law and was installed in 2001 with an growth through consumer-led market that has stoked resent- a doctorate in economics, will take expected life of 17 years. “We expansion. ment among the middle class. the reins of an economy whose are asking experts to look The largely rubber-stamp “I believe that in this class (of growth slowed in 2012 to a 13-year into the cause of the prob- National People’s Congress, as new leaders), his intent to reform low, albeit at a 7.8 percent rate that lem. We suspect metal fatigue expected, chose 57-year-old Li to is quite strong,” said Chen Ziming, is the envy of other major econo- might have played a role,” replace Wen Jiabao. Nearly 3,000 an independent political commen- mies. Analysts have described the said a government official. No delegates gathered in Beijing’s tator in Beijing. “He has a close Wen years as a lost decade during one was injured. Great Hall of the People to vote relationship with reform-minded which economic reforms slowed on Li’s appointment, putting the economists. We’ve seen from his and state-backed industries tight- Myanmar statute final stamp of approval on a gen- speeches after the 18th party con- ened their grip on the economy. erational transition of power. gress that the gap between them Both Xi and Li will need to under review Li drew only three no votes and and him isn’t far.” deliver a blueprint to stabilise the YANGON: Myanmar’s par- six abstentions from the carefully More than any other Chinese real estate market. They need to liament took the first step selected parliament. party leader until now, Li was do this quickly to calm a market yesterday towards possible While President Xi Jinping is immersed in the intellectual in which real estate prices have amendments to the constitu- the country’s top leader, Li heads and political ferment of the soared 10-fold in major cities dur- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (left) is greeted by President Xi Jinping after tion drafted under a military China’s State Council, or cabinet, decade of reform under Deng ing the last decade. his election yesterday. regime and bars Nobel lau- and is charged with executing Xiaoping, which ended in the 1989 Despite his leanings toward reate and opposition leader government policy and oversee- Tiananmen Square protests that reform, Li has been criticised by Aung San Suu Kyi from the ing the economy. were crushed by troops. activists for helping to cover up “When the AIDS epidemic Yesterday, China also appointed presidency. The constitution, German Chancellor Angela As a student at Peking the extent of an HIV/AIDS cri- exploded, everything that Li Zhou Qiang, the former party ratified after a rigged 2008 Merkel became the first foreign University, Li befriended ardent sis in central Henan province Keqiang did was with the aim chief in the southern province referendum, disqualifies pres- leader to call Li to offer congrat- pro-democracy advocates, some while he was posted there from of covering it up,” said Hu Jia, of Hunan, as the head of the idential and vice-presidential ulations, state media said. They of whom later became outright 1998 to 2004, and presiding over one of China’s most prominent Supreme People’s Court. candidates whose spouses or also discussed the European debt challengers to party control. His a crackdown. dissidents. REUTERS children are citizens of a for- eign country. Suu Kyi’s late husband, academic Michael Aris, was British, as are their two grown-up sons. The con- stitution also reserves a quar- Blind Chinese activist ter of parliamentary seats for Malaysia scam detective dies military personnel chosen by the armed forces chief. KUALA LUMPUR: A difficulties and later died in a when Najib was defence minister. Chen to visit Taiwan Malaysian private investigator clinic. DCNS is alleged by the oppo- Nepal war crimes who returned from self-exile Balasubramaniam, an eth- sition to have paid kickbacks to TAIPEI: Blind Chinese lawyer The 41-year-old has been liv- vowing to lift the lid on a sen- nic Indian Malaysian citizen, top officials amounting to more panel probe set and activist Chen Guangcheng ing in New York since May last sational scandal linked to the returned from India last month, than 114m euros ($142m) via a KATHMANDU: A truth hopes to visit Taiwan in June, a year after a dramatic escape from country’s prime minister died with media reports quoting him purported shell company linked commission examining rights group said yesterday, as house arrest to the US embassy in suddenly yesterday, his lawyer as saying he would expose the to Abdul Razak Baginda, a former Nepal’s civil war will only the island’s government said a Beijing. The office of President Ma said. truth in the murky scandal. close associate of Najib’s. investigate “serious viola- visit could help facilitate under- Ying-jeou said it had not formed 53-year-old P Balasubramaniam His return came as Malaysia Balasubramaniam had said tions” of rights and could standing with China. an official position on the planned died of a heart attack in the cap- braces for hotly contested elec- he was hired by Abdul Razak to recommend an amnesty for Chen and his family plans to visit, but Taiwan’s top China ital Kuala Lumpur, less than a tions due within months, in investigate the latter’s mistress perpetrators, the government arrive in Taipei on June 23 for policy decision-making body, the fortnight after suffering an ini- which the opposition is seen as Altantuya Shariibuu, a Mongolian said yesterday. According to a 20-day visit, according to the Mainland Affairs Council, reacted tial attack that hospitalised him having its best chance ever to translator. Abdul Razak alleged an ordinance issued by the Taipei-based Taiwan Association positively to the proposal. for a week, his lawyer Americk dethrone the long-ruling coa- she was blackmailing him for a president’s office, the panel for Human Rights, which has “We welcome any visit to Sidhu said. lition now headed by Prime cut of the money. will probe alleged abuses organised the trip. Taiwan by people from the Balasubramaniam was a Minister Najib Razak. In 2006 she was shot dead and “committed systematically or “Primarily Chen will meet with Chinese mainland as long as key figure in a scandal linking Americk said Balasubramaniam her body was blown up with plas- targeting an unarmed person people from the Taipei lawyers’ they can apply for entry with Malaysian premier Najib Razak had planned to campaign for the tic explosives near Kuala Lumpur. or community”. The commis- association and advocates who the authorities according to the with a Mongolian woman’s mur- opposition. Two police bodyguards assigned sion aims to help Nepal heal have dedicated themselves to the regulations. We believe such visit der and alleged kickbacks in a The scandal revolves around to the prime minister’s office have some of the wounds left by island’s judicial reforms,” Yang will help facilitate understand- 2002 submarine deal. a $1.1bn purchase by Malaysia been convicted of the killing. The the 10-year civil war in which Sen-hong, the head of the rights ing between the two sides,” the Americk said Balasubramaniam of two submarines from French ruling is under appeal. more than 16,000 people were group, said. organisation said. AFP had complained of breathing arms giant DCNS, inked in 2002 AFP killed. Missiles test-fired Thai blast by North Korea SEOUL: North Korea’s N Korea blames South, military fired short-range missiles into the East Sea (Sea of Japan) yesterday, Yonhap. A single unit of the US for cyber attacks military test-fired the mis- siles presumed to be KN-02, SEOUL: North Korea yester- capabilities, KCNA said the estimated to have a range day accused the United States attack was a “cowardly and des- of about 120km (74 miles), and South Korea of carrying picable act” motivated by fear. it added. “The launch was out a “persistent and intensive” Military tensions on the Korean seen as testing its capability cyber attack against its official peninsula have escalated dramati- for short-range missiles. It websites in recent days. cally since the North conducted seemed to be conducted on A number of official North its third nuclear test last month. a military-unit level, not at Korean websites, including Pyongyang responded to the a national level,” said a mili- those of the Korean Central subsequent UN sanctions and tary source. News Agency (KCNA), the daily joint military dril with threats of Rodong Sinmun newspaper, and “all-out war” backed by nuclear Japan approves Air Koryo airline became inac- weapons. “We’ll never sit idle in cessible early Wednesday. the face of such cyber attacks by treaty on kids “Internet servers operated by the enemy... which have reached TOKYO: Japan moved one our republic have come under daily an extremely reckless and grave step closer to adopting a cyber attack(s) which are persist- stage,” KCNA said. long-delayed treaty on child ent and intensive”, said KCNA, There was no immediate abductions yesterday when which noted that the problem response from Seoul to the accu- the cabinet of Prime Minister coincided with an ongoing South sations. In a report datelined Shinzo Abe gave its approval, Korea-US joint military drill. Pyongyang, Russia’s ITAR-TASS a government spokesman Accusing the United States news agency cited an informed said. Japan is the only mem- and its South Korean “puppets” source blaming “a powerful hacker ber of the Group of Eight of building up their cyber-war from abroad” for the attack. AFP industrialised nations that Thai bomb squad members watch as a crane is used to lift a wrecked car from a river after it was hit by a road- has not joined the 1980 Hague side bomb triggered by suspected separatist militants in the restive southern province of Narathiwat yesterday. Convention, which requires children be returned to their usual country of residence snatched during the collapse UN urges probe into of an international marriage. Indonesia resumes executions US lawsuit over JAKARTA: Indonesia put to executions since 2008, when five “Three were shot dead and Rohingya ‘shootings’ death a Malawian drug traf- people were put to death. four were arrested,” police Japan disaster ficker yesterday, the govern- No one jailed on the resort spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said. WASHINGTON: US serv- BANGKOK: The UN’s refugee agency yesterday called for the ment said, in the country’s first island of Bali, where many for- He said the suspects were ice members are suing the Thai government to probe reports its sailors shot at Rohingya boat execution for several years. eigners are held mainly on drug shot after resisting arrest in Tokyo Electric Power Co. people fleeing sectarian strife in Myanmar. Adami Wilson was executed offences, is due to be executed this three raids. Police confiscated for more than $2 billion on Citing survivors of the alleged shooting in late February, the UNHCR by firing squad in the Thousand year as they are pursuing legal 14 homemade bombs, five home- grounds the utility lied about said at least three shots were fired by Thai sailors as they intercepted Islands, an archipelago popular challenges. made firearms, 34 munitions and the dangers of helping clean a Rohingya boat off Phang Nga, southern Thailand, and towed it fur- with holidaymakers to the north Meanwhile, police shot dead 1kg of gold. up the nuclear disaster that ther out to sea. But it was unclear “whether these were warning shots of the capital Jakarta, Attorney three suspected militants and Police said those involved in struck two years ago. The or aimed at the passengers,” it said, adding the boat had been at sea General Basrief Arief said. seized 14 homemade explosives, Sunday’s robbery were part of a case was filed by nine plain- for three weeks and was low on supplies since leaving Myanmar’s Wilson, sentenced to death in the latest of a series of deadly terrorist network. “We managed tiffs in December but has now unrest-hit Rakhine State. The survivors were among a group of 121 in August 2005 for smuggling raids. to cut their funding from abroad... expanded to 26, and another Rohingya who spoke to the UNHCR after arriving in Aceh, Indonesia 1kg (2.2 pounds) of heroin into Police conducted raids in the that’s the reason they carried out 100 are in the process of join- on February 26. Indonesia, was the first of 10 peo- capital Jakarta and on its out- the robbery,” a police official said. ing it, Stars and Stripes news- “Survivors and local fishermen near Phuket said two dead bodies ple scheduled to be put to death skirts after the suspected mili- Police have linked several rob- paper said yesterday. were recovered from the sea, though it was unclear if the cause of death this year. tants robbed a jewellery store last beries in recent years to the fund- AGENCIES was shooting or drowning,” it said. AFP There have been no reports of weekend. ing of militancy. AFP MARCH 16, 2013 ON SATURDAY 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Pakistan / Afghanistan

Tax holiday plan for smuggled vehicles Biggest truck bomb defused ordered closed ISLAMABAD: The anti-trust watchdog has asked the govern- The eight-tonne bomb was to ment of Pakistan to immedi- ately withdraw the tax amnesty destroy 1.5km area of Kabul scheme for smuggled vehicles, terming the policy a violation KABUL: Security forces in the Afghan capital defused of competition laws besides a truck bomb packed with nearly eight tonnes of explo- becoming a source of expansion sives, the biggest of its kind discovered in the country, of grey market in the country. officials said yesterday amid heightened security. In a policy note to the federal Intelligence forces discovered the explosives in eastern government, the Competition Kabul, wired and ready for detonation. Five Al Qaeda- Commission of Pakistan (CCP) linked Haqqani network insurgents were killed in a result- highlighted flaws in the recently ing firefight. announced policy of legalis- “This bomb could have destroyed an area around 1.5km ing smuggled vehicles by pay- (in radius). Yan you imagine the kind of catastrophe it ing comparatively less taxes. It could be,” Shafiqullah Tahiri, a spokesman for the National said the scheme has placed both Directorate of Security, told a news conference. It con- the importers of used vehicles tained sodium chloride, ammonium nitrate, other chemi- and assemblers of new cars at a cals and some diesel. After more than 11 years of war, disadvantage. insurgents are still able to strike strategic military targets “This may result in a creation and launch high-profile attacks in Kabul and elsewhere. of grey market for automobiles in The bomb was discovered on Wednesday two days after the country on a sustained basis.” US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel left the capital. On The existence of grey market the first day of his visit, a suicide bomber struck about will act as a parallel market of 1km away from his morning meetings at a Nato facility. vehicles and create unfair com- Two Haqqani operatives were arrested during a raid petition for the formal sector, the at night and Tahiri said the militants had been planning CCP added. to target a military facility in the capital. There are sev- “People who have violated the eral foreign and Afghan military bases in Kabul, housing law by not paying taxes and duties thousands of soldiers. Weapons recovered from the truck are displayed at a checkpoint in Kabul, yesterday. have been incentivised to import The Haqqani network is regarded as the most dangerous motor vehicles of their choice US foe in Afghanistan. Kabul is bracing for the start of Kabul would be in danger after President Hamid Karzai International forces in Afghanistan have also been without imposition of any allow- the spring fighting season, and officials fear militants will ordered US special forces tasked with fighting the Taliban warned that recent inflammatory remarks by Karzai able age restriction on them,” it infiltrate the capital as the snow melts in the mountains to leave Wardak. have put them at risk, Nato Commander General Joseph said. to the east where they hide. Insurgent groups, including US special forces are expected to play a major role after Dunford said in an email this week, the New York Times Many have viewed the Federal the Taliban, the Haqqani network and Hizb-i-Islami, led most Nato combat troops withdraw by the end of 2014, and said this week. Karzai accused the US of colluding with the Board of Revenue’s move as a by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, are known be living in restive Karzai’s decision could complicate negotiations between Taliban hours before he met Hagel. His remarks, rejected political decision aimed at facili- Wardak province, 40 minutes drive from Kabul. the US and Afghanistan over the scope of US operations by Washington, highlight an often tense relationship with tating influential people to make Afghan officials said this week they were worried that after the pullout. the US. REUTERS money by legalising the vehicles brought illegally into the country. “It is recommended that the policy may be reconsidered and withdrawn or suitably amended to eliminate discriminatory treat- India halts group visa for Pakistanis ‘US drone strikes violate ment resulting from the Statutory Regulatory Order (issued to give ISLAMABAD: India put on given for the latest move. belonged to it. Making identical effect to the scheme),” said the hold yesterday the proposed Both countries had agreed to statements in the Lok Sabha and Islamabad’s sovereignty’ CCP. group tourist visa facility for operationalise the facility for each the Rajya Sabha, Home Minister The All Pakistan Motor Pakistanis apparently because other’s citizens from March 15. Sushil Kumar Shinde said some ISLAMABAD: US drone strikes targeting the Taliban and Al Dealers Association has already of the growing unease in ties India has put on hold visa on items bearing markings of Qaeda violate Pakistan’s sovereignty because Islamabad says it has raised voice against the scheme. following Wednesday’s suicide arrival facility for senior citi- Pakistan had been recovered from not consented to the attacks, a UN envoy has said. The facility is limited to only attack in Srinagar, Press Trust zens — part of the new relaxed the terrorists who were killed in Pakistan repeatedly denounces US drone strikes, criticising them smuggled vehicles and is not of India said. visa agreement — hours before the ensuing encounter shoutout as a violation of sovereignty that inflame anti-US sentiments despite applicable to the import of vehi- “We are not going to operation- its operationalisation on January with a CRPF camp. leaked US diplomatic cables that showed leaders allegedly agreed to cles via a customs station in vio- alise the facility to be offered to 15 following heightened tension He made the statement after them in private. lation of the Import Policy Order Pakistanis from Friday,” a Home along the LoC in Jammu and criticism by members from vari- UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, Ben and the vehicles which have been Ministry official said. Kashmir. ous parties, who said the gov- Emmerson, visited Islamabad as part of a probe into civilian casualties auctioned. PTI cited the killing of two Amid strong attack from politi- ernment had repeatedly failed caused by drone strikes. The position of the government is clear. It The age limit for import of a Indian soldiers along the Line of cal parties over the latest terror in preventing terror incidents does not consent to the use of drones by the US on its territory and it car is three years, but there is no Control in January as another strike in Kashmir, India hinted and dealing with Pakistan from considers this a violation of its sovereignty, Emmerson said. It involves age limit for smuggled vehicles, possible reason for the decision at a Pakistani link but refrained where, they said, these originated. the use of force on the territory of another state without its consent which is anti-competitive, said though no official reason has been from saying that the militants INTERNEWS and is a violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty, he said. AGENCIES the CCP. INTERNEWS Three killed in Three Britons admit terror 21 world records at Punjab Youth Festival Karachi TV blast KARACHI: A remote LAHORE: Two more world He broke American Kevin So far not a single world record controlled bomb at a tel- training in Pakistan records were established on Shelley’s record of 32 pin boards beater of the first phase has been evision network office in the the last day of the Punjab broken in 30 seconds, set at El honoured with any cash prize and Pakistani city of Karachi LONDON: Three British Muslims, including a convert to Islam, Youth Festival in Lahore yes- Show Olimpico, in Mexico City, nothing has been announced for has killed three people and pleaded guilty in court yesterday to travelling to Pakistan for ter- terday, officials said. on July 30, 2008. the new beaters too. wounded five others, officials ror training. Richard Dart, 29, Imran Mahmood, 21, and Jahangir The first was made in breaking And youngsters improved A report said two more records said yesterday. The explosive Alom, 26, appeared by video-link before a judge at the Old Bailey, maximum pine boards in 30 sec- the previous record of painting in lighting maximum number device, which went off late England’s central criminal court. onds with the head and the other with a new mark of 3,717 square of candles and making biggest Thursday, was planted in a The charges said they travelled to Pakistan for terror training, was in making the largest paint- metres beating the previous one human chain were to be made on bag near the gate of the cable travelled abroad to commit acts of terrorism and provided informa- ing. The records raised the total of 3,130.55sqm. Thursday. network operator’s office in a tion about travel to Pakistan, terrorism training and operational in the Punjab Youth Festival to 21. Students of different colleges But participants after receiv- poor area in the east of the security while there. The three men were arrested in July 2011. The Guinness World Records has and universities painted the ing their candles left the venue city, police said. “Somebody Dart once featured in a BBC documentary made by his stepbrother registered them. Punjab Youth Festival on the without demonstration. put a bag filled with explosives after he converted to Islam and was said to have changed his name Mohammad Rashid, of Karachi, sheets at the Punjab Stadium. Many said they would use the near the gate of the cable to Salahuddin al-Britani. The son of teachers from the southwestern improved his number of records to In the first phase of the festival, candles during loadshedding at operator’s office and exploded county of Dorset, Dart reportedly formerly worked as a police support four by breaking 34 pine boards in 11 records were improved. In the home. it through remote control,” officer and a BBC security guard. AFP the stipulated time with his head. final phase 10 more were made. INTERNEWS senior police official Naeem Baroka told reporters. “Three people were killed and five Taliban casualties others wounded.” Another police official, Raja Umer ‘CIA’ medics Khitab, said two kilograms 58 Baluch legislators of explosives were used. “Two shops near the cable operator reinstated office were also damaged by the impact,” he said. PESHAWAR: A court has fail to pay income tax ordered the authorities to rein- Justice Pervez state 17 health workers sacked ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s governor’s family who are mem- over CIA efforts to track down southwestern Baluchistan bers of provincial assemblies of caretaker CM Osama bin Laden, officials said Assembly members have out- Baluchistan and Sindh in addition ISLAMABAD: The gov- yesterday. shone their counterparts in the to National Assembly and Senate, ernment and the opposition The order was made on national and provincial assem- becoming the top political family in Pakistan’s northwest- Thursday in the northwestern blies in tax evasion as 58 MPAs with so many lawmakers. ern province of Khyber town of Abbottabad, where Bin out of 65 declared themselves as None declared to have paid Pakhtunkhwa Friday Laden was found and shot dead non-tax payers in 2008. income tax, raising doubts about announced the name of by US special forces in May 2011. A study of their poll documents Magsi tribe’s head and Governor Justice (retd) Tariq Pervez “We will formally reinstate shows 58 MPAs served as minis- Zulfiqar Magsi as a taxpayer. Khan, a former judge of the them after receiving written ters, advisers or held other pub- Besides Tariq, the governor’s Supreme Court, as the care- orders,” Mohammad Qasim, lic offices but none demonstrated three other relatives were elected taker chief minister. Chief Abbottabad district health officer compliance to tax laws. MPAs of Baluchistan Assembly Minister Ameer Haider said. The medics worked on a vac- Even Chief Minister Raisani and none has declared any tax- Khan Hoti and Leader of cination programme set up by the declared Rs1,492 as income tax able income. They are Shama the Opposition in provin- CIA to confirm that Bin Laden in 2008 poll papers, while the Parveen Magsi (Zulfiqar’s wife), cial assembly, Akram Khan was living in the city. recently-installed opposition Irfan Karim (his brother-in-law) Durrani, announced the Fifteen women health work- leader and the governor’s brother, and Rubina Irfan (brother-in- name of Justice Tariq while ers were dismissed in August Tariq Magsi, does not have a law’s wife who was later elected addressing a joint press con- 2011, and a woman doctor and an National Tax Number. senator to fill the seat vacated by ference. The two leaders con- assistant coordinator were sacked He has also been featured her sister-in-law Rehana Yahya sidered several names before in March 2012. Defence lawyer among those 3.5 million Pakistanis Baloch). Rehana had also declared agreeing to send the name of Sultan Ahmad Jamshed confirmed that authorities detected as out zero income when elected to the Justice Tariq Pervez to the the order, which does not relate to Afghan security officials inspecting the bodies of suspected Taliban of the tax net but who frequently Senate in 2006. The governor’s governor for appointment as surgeon Dr Shakeel Afridi, who after they were killed by police during an operation in Sangin district travels abroad, rides on luxury relatives in the National Assembly caretaker chief minister. was jailed for 33 years for treason. of Helmand province, yesterday. vehicles and lives in posh villas. and Senate are also non-taxpay- AGENCIES AFP There are 10 members of the ers. INTERNEWS MARCH 16, 2013 India www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 ON SATURDAY Airports alerted on Italian envoy’s exit No restrictions on movements within country; Mancini’s position untenable if marines don’t return: Tharoor NEW DELHI: In an unprecedented two Indian fishermen would return the Vienna Convention on diplomatic He said one should wait till Monday, the two marines had behaved after leav- move, India yesterday put airports after four weeks in Italy to face trial. protocol. “We are bound by it and will the date the apex court has issued notice ing India. “We have time till the 22nd of across the country on alert to prevent “The prime minister has said the not violate it. I don’t think what the to the diplomat to give his reply. March to see if the two return. If they Italian Ambassador Daniele Mancini marines not returning is unaccept- Supreme Court has said is violation of Italy has not contacted India since don’t, then the Italian ambassador’s posi- from leaving the country as per the able,” External Affairs Minister Salman Vienna Convention.” March 12, when Mancini was summoned tion becomes untenable because it was he apex court’s orders. The government Khurshid told CNN-IBN. Diljeet Titus, a lawyer who is acting to South Block by Foreign Secretary who has given the undertaking that the said there were no restrictions on his “In the world of diplomacy when such for the Italian government and the two Ranjan Mathai and told of New Delhi’s two will return,” said Tharoor. movements in the country and it had things happen you are agitated,” he said, marines following the resignation of disapproval of Rome’s action. The two marines shot dead two Indian not violated any protocols of diplomacy. adding that “this story is not over yet”. another attorney, refused to comment Attorney General G E Vahanvati con- fishermen, Ajesh Binki and Gelastine, on The union home ministry sounded the Asked if there were restrictions on the on the alert order. veyed the court notices to the Italian February 15 last year, allegedly mistaking alert at airports a day after the Supreme envoy’s movements, he said the ambas- The Supreme Court, on February 22, authorities yesterday, a source said. them for pirates. Court restrained Ambassador Mancini sador was “absolutely free to move” in allowed the two marines, Massimiliano In Thiruvananthapuram, Minister of Last December, they were allowed to from leaving India without its permission. the country. “We only want to know what Latorre and Salvatore Girone, accused of State for Human Resource Development travel to Italy for Christmas, after which The ambassador was issued notice happened to the guarantee he has given killing two Indian fishermen off Kerala, Shashi Tharoor said that Mancini’s posi- they returned ahead of schedule earlier in the wake of the Italian government to the court... That is not violation of the to fly to Italy to vote in the February tion would become untenable if the two this year. The apex court then ruled that going back on its undertaking to the Vienna Convention.” 24-25 national election. The two marines Italian marines did not return to India. they can be tried in Delhi. court that two marines accused of killing He stated that India was bound by were to return by March 23. He denounced the manner in which IANS Parliament slams Army chief for keeping emergency law in Kashmir NEW DELHI: The “time is not ripe” for withdrawing the Armed Forces Special Powers Pakistan; hockey Act from the Kashmir Valley, Indian Army chief General Bikram Singh said here yes- terday. He also noted that the series cancelled proposed mountain strike corps was in an advanced stage of NEW DELHI: India hit back the 2001 attack on Indian parlia- finalisation. yesterday at Pakistan after it ment that almost sparked a war Referring to the AFSPA as denounced Afzal Guru’s execu- between the two countries. an enabler, Singh said it should tion, with parliament passing He called for an end to a dia- stay. “The time is not right at a resolution against Islamabad logues with Pakistan. the moment to tamper with the and the government axing a External Affairs Minister framework,” he said at the India bilateral hockey series. Salman Khurshid said the Indian Today conclave, two days after Ruling and opposition MPs resolution would give a clear mes- five Central Reserve Police Force showed rare unanimity in both sage to Islamabad. (CRPF) troopers were killed houses as they passed a resolution Until now, Pakistan, which sup- in a suicide attack in Jammu rejecting the Pakistani national ports the separatist campaign and Kashmir’s summer capital assembly’s motion against the in Jammu and Kashmir, had Srinagar. hanging of parliament attack refrained from commenting on Referring to the attack, he said convict Afzal Guru. the February 9 execution of Afzal it was important “to wait and “This house totally rejects the Guru, a Kashmiri, for plotting the watch” before taking a decision Paramilitary soldiers patrol on a deserted street during a curfew in Srinagar yesterday. resolution passed by the national parliament attack. on AFSPA. This decision should assembly of Pakistan on March Simultaneously, India cancelled not be politicised and the army 14,” said the resolution, read out in a hockey series with Pakistan. was only strengthening the hands All political parties in the “The mountain strike corps is asymmetry in military spend- the Lok Sabha by Speaker Meira Hockey India and the Pakistan of the state government, he said. Kashmir Valley, except the in advanced stage of finalisation,” ing between India and China, the Kumar and in the Rajya Sabha by Hockey Federation had planned “The nation has to take a deci- Congress, have for long been he said. army chief said he did not see this Chairman M Hamid Ansari. the two-leg series after seven sion which is pragmatic in terms demanding partial or total with- Analysts say the mountain impacting on strategy. “The house rejects interference years. Pakistan were to play a five- of national security,” he said, drawal of the AFSPA. strike corps is aimed at bridging He also noted that India and in the internal affairs of India and match series in India from April 5 adding the army did not want Singh rejected suggestions that operational gaps along the Line China had set a target of taking calls upon the national assembly to 15. India were to tour Pakistan to turn the clock back in Jammu the army did not want to give up of Actual Control (LAC) and bilateral trade to $100bn by 2015 of Pakistan to desist from acts of for five matches from April 23. and Kashmir, Gen. Singh said at its counterinsurgency role. to acquire offensive capabilities and that geoeconomics was as support for extremists and ter- Sporting ties between the two an interactive session on “Role of “Who wants to die? We are against China. important as geopolitics. rorists,” it said. countries were snapped after the Army in nation building”. not there for fun. We are there At the same time, he said, India Answering queries from a Both Congress and Bharatiya 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks by He said the attack in Srinagar because the nation wants us to be and China had mechanisms in Pakistani journalist on the Janata Party (BJP) leaders spoke Pakistani gunmen. pointed to the emboldened stance there,” the general said. place to deal with matters con- Siachen glacier, Singh said agree- out strongly against Pakistan. Outside parliament, the BJP of terrorists. Singh said India was also going cerning their vexed border issue ments could not be reached on the BJP’s Arun Jaitley said the asked India to scale down diplo- Singh said a decision on AFSPA for modernisation and accretions that saw the two countries fight issue due to a trust deficit between Pakistani resolution was an matic ties with Pakistan. had to be finally taken by the to its armed forces but this was a bitter war in 1962. New Delhi and Islamabad. “official stamp of approval” on IANS government. not aimed at any country. Asked about growing IANS

‘Slumdog’ star Sebi seeks arrest of Sahara chief would have been NEW DELHI: Market to the secretary general of the estate companies — Sahara regulator Securities and court. India Real Estate Corporation wedding planner Exchange Board of India The market regulator’s plea Ltd and Sahara Housing (Sebi) yesterday moved the sought the nod to “take meas- Investment Corporation Ltd — NEW DELHI: Actress Freida Supreme Court seeking the ures for arrest and detention were directed by the court on Pinto, of Oscar-winning Slumdog arrest and imprisonment of in civil prison of promoter of August 31, 2012 to return the Millionaire fame, said yesterday Sahara group chief Subrata Sahara Subrata Roy Sahara investors’ money with 15 per- she would have become a wed- Roy and two other directors and the two male directors cent interest. ding planner if she had not suc- of the group for not comply- — Ashok Roy Choudhary and Sebi had begun attaching two ceeded in show business. ing with a Supreme Court Ravi Shankar Dubey — after real estate companies’ proper- Pinto, a former model, said order to refund Rs24bn to its giving reasonable opportunity ties after their failure to pay “my only passion was acting” but investors. of hearing”. the sum by the February 2013 she had told her sister that if The court said it would hear Sebi, which has been asked deadline. she hadn’t become successful by the matter after its Holi break to recover Rs24bn from Sahara The apex court, by an order the age of 25, she would switch starting on March 25. group’s two real estate compa- on December 5, 2012, had profession. Mentioning the matter nies to pay three crore inves- directed the Sahara real estate “But fortunately, when I was before a bench headed by Justice tors, also sought the court’s companies to deposit all the 23, Slumdog Millionaire happened K S Radhakrishnan, Sebi also nod to appoint an officer on money they had collected from and so I didn’t become a wedding sought the court’s direction to special duty to oversee the sale investors through optionally planner,” Pinto, now 28, told a restrain Roy and other direc- of Sahara properties attached fully-convertible debentures conference organised by Indian tors from leaving the country so far. by the first week of February. media group India Today. and surrender their passports The Sahara group’s two real IANS Since the actress shot to fame with the 2008 Slumdog Millionaire, she has worked in other interna- tional movie projects like Woody Petrol prices cut Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Rise of the Planet of the NEW DELHI: Petrol prices Indian doctor faces trial for Apes and Trishna. have been cut by Rs 2 per litre She said dealing with sudden effective from midnight yes- fame with Slumdog Millionaire terday, state-owned Indian manslaughter in Australia directed by Danny Boyle was Oil Corp (IOC) announced. SYDNEY: Australian relating to Patel’s time in difficult. The prices of the fuel effec- prosecutors yesterday said Bundaberg between 2003 Since then, her biggest effort tive today will be Rs 68.34 in they will pursue remaining and 2004. These include two has been to avoid being stere- Delhi, Rs 75.84 in Kolkata, Rs charges against an Indian- counts of manslaughter, two of otyped as the “token Indian girl” 75.14 in Mumbai and Rs 71.41 born surgeon, including two causing grievous bodily harm in Hollywood movies. in Chennai. counts of manslaughter, and several fraud charges. “I played the racial ambiguity IOC sources had Thursday after he was cleared over the Patel, 62, was jailed for card when I had to look for roles indicated the likelihood of a death of another patient. seven years in July 2010 after in the West,” she said. petrol rate cut in view of falling Jayant Patel was on a jury found him guilty of “I didn’t want to be the ethnic international crude oil prices. Wednesday acquitted of the criminal negligence resulting Indian girl, but I had no problem Since prices were last revised, manslaughter of 75-year-old in the deaths of three patients, doing (other) ethnic roles,” said international petrol prices have Mervyn Morris, who died but the High Court last year Pinto, who has played Middle come down from $131 to $120 three weeks after the sur- quashed the convictions and Eastern and Latin American parts. per barrel (159 litres). geon operated on his bowel in ordered retrials. He has been She has so far avoided Bollywood The petrol price was Queensland’s Bundaberg Base on bail since the High Court movies and their song-and-dance increased by Rs 1.50 a litre on Hospital in 2003. decision in August. routines, but she told the audience February 16 and by a further Prosecutor Michael Byrne His lawyer Ken Fleming said the type of films being produced in Rs 1.40 per litre on March 2. told the Supreme Court in the defence intended to ask the India were changing. IANS Brisbane that the state would court to drop all charges. AFP pursue all outstanding matters AFP MARCH 16, 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business ON SATURDAY 14

Dreamliner to be back in service soon: Boeing

TOKYO: The grounded Dreamliner is “absolutely” safe and will be back in the US manufacturing air within weeks, plane-maker Boeing said in Japan yesterday as it sought to reassure airlines and passengers about the aircraft. The 50 planes grounded around the world output bounces since two lithium-ion battery malfunctions sparked a global no-fly order in mid-January will undergo fixes to their systems and be operational again soon, senior executives back; CPI rises said. “I get often asked if I think the airplane is still safe. My answer is simple: absolutely,” Mike Sinnett, the chief project engineer on Petrol hits consumer sentiments the 787, told reporters. The Dreamliner “is among the safest air- WASHINGTON: U S manu- grew at only a 0.1 percent pace in the planes our company has ever produced”, he facturing output bounced back fourth quarter. added. in February, the latest signal of Separately, the Labor Department Ray Connor, president of Boeing strength in an economy that is said its Consumer Price Index Commercial Airplanes, said measures the showing clear momentum despite increased 0.7 percent last month, the company had put in place and which were the headwind of government largest gain since June 2009, as the now undergoing flight testing would put the austerity. cost of petrol jumped 9.1 percent. The aircraft back in the skies. While other reports yesterday CPI had been flat for the two previ- “We are going to be dependent upon showed a surge in petrol prices ous months. (moving) through the certification process. caused a spike in consumer inflation Gasoline accounted for about We will determine when we actually get last month and eroded consumer three quarters of the spike in con- back in the air in terms of flights,” he said. Boeing Vice-President and 787 Dreamliner Chief Production Engineer Mike Sinnett with a model sentiment in early March, the impact sumer inflation in February, and “Previously as I have been anticipating of Boeing’s 787 Battery Design Improvements at a news conference in Tokyo yesterday. on the economy was likely to be lim- so-called core prices advanced that in months, we are talking more along ited and temporary. just 0.2 percent, leaving the door the line of weeks,” he said. scenarios that could cause a battery failure The worldwide grounding of Dreamliners “It appears that real economic open for the Federal Reserve to The company chose to give its first pub- and worked to provide solutions and pre- threw schedules into disarray, especially in growth is on an upswing,” said John press ahead with its bond-buying lic explanation of the fix in Japan, home to ventative measures. These included boost- Japan where ANA, the biggest operator of Ryding, chief economist at RDQ stimulus. two of its biggest customers —All Nippon ing insulation inside the battery pack and the plane, has been forced to cancel more Economics in New York. Economists polled by Reuters had Airways and Japan Airlines — and to sup- adding vent lines so any escaping vapour is than 3,600 flights to the end of May. The Factory production increased 0.8 expected the CPI to advance 0.5 pliers who make around a third of the air- discharged outside the aircraft. Federal Aviation Administration, the US percent last month after falling percent. In the 12 months through craft’s parts. “We design so that no single failure can watchdog, gave Boeing the go-ahead to begin 0.3 percent in January, the Federal February, it was up two percent, The Dreamliner has been lauded for its place flight landing at risk,” Sinnett said. flight testing after “thoroughly reviewing” Reserve said. The gain was broad the largest gain since October and use of next-generation materials that have “Every critical system on an airplane has Boeing’s February 22 plan to address risks. based and double what economists an acceleration from January’s 1.6 cut weight and slashed fuel costs. multiple layers of redundancy.” Aviation expert and Waseda University had expected. percent. Boeing opted to use lithium-ion bat- Sinnett said the probe into the two inci- professor Hajime Tozaki said Boeing’s going The increase combined with a big Core prices, which strip out vol- teries for the plane, which engineers say dents had proved the aircraft’s safety meas- ahead with flight testing before it knew for rise in utilities’ output to lead over- atile food and energy costs, also are lighter than other batteries, provide a ures had worked. “After the battery failure sure what exactly had gone wrong was not all industrial production up by 0.7 increased two percent over the past higher power output and retain their charge the airplane responded in exactly the way ideal. “Boeing should really start flight test- percent, a good sign for first-quar- 12 months. The gain was the largest when not in use. we had designed and anticipated,” he said. ing after knowing 100 percent what went ter economic growth after activity since October. However, a separate But the batteries have come under scru- Sinnett said there had been no fire inside wrong,” he said. stalled at the end of 2012. inflation index the central bank fol- tiny after a small fire on a parked 787 at the battery on either aircraft, and what “The potential of a lithium-ion battery Data ranging from employment to lows more closely has been falling Boston’s Logan Airport in January. Days appeared to the untrained eye to be smoke has been recognised in other fields, including retail sales have suggested a limited and hit a nearly two-year low in later, what appeared to be smoke from a was electrolyte venting from the cells. automobiles. They should continue investi- hit on the economy from the end of a January. battery on an ANA flight forced an emer- “Are we confident that there will never, gating what the fundamental problem was.” 2 percent payroll tax cut and higher “The way the data has been gency landing in Japan. ever be another battery failure? The answer Aviation shares gained on Friday, with tax rates for wealthy Americans, playing out it gives them a free The company said despite the efforts of a to that is: parts fail,” he said. ANA up 1.43 percent at 212 yen and JAL which went into effect at the start hand to be extremely aggressive to 500-strong team of engineers from different “We know that someday a battery may up 1.90 percent at 4,540. Battery maker of the year. bring down unemployment,” said disciplines, the fundamental problem had fail. We need to make sure that there is GS Yuasa also rose 1.35 percent at 448, all Economists, who had already Stephen Stanley, chief economist eluded them. no significant impact at the airplane level broadly in line with the market. raised their first-quarter growth at Pierpont Securities in Stamford, But teams identified 80 potential when it does.” AFP forecasts substantially this week, Connecticut. were further encouraged by the rise Officials at the central bank meet in factory output. next week to assess the economy and “It had seemed like the economy are widely expected to keep purchas- was going to be leaning primarily ing $85bn in bonds per month to spur IMF urges EU to on the consumer and housing. We even stronger growth. Abe pushes for Pacific trade pact have another leg to stand on with The dollar fell against a basket of manufacturing kicking-in,” said currencies as the inflation data rein- clean up banks’ Ryan Sweet, a senior economist at forced expectations of the Fed would TOKYO: Japan’s hard-charging prime min- countryside in the process. Japan’s rural heart- Moody’s Analytics in West Chester, continue to pump money into the ister yesterday said he wanted in on talks to land is a crucial source of support for Abe’s brand balance sheet Pennsylvania. economy. US Treasury debt prices forge a huge trade pact, the latest bold move of conservative nationalism and any suggestion First-quarter GDP growth esti- rose, while stocks dropped on cor- from a man who says he is determined to lick that farmers will lose their unparalleled protec- WASHINGTON: The mates currently range as high as a porate news. the frail economy into shape. tion could be politically costly for him. International Monetary 3.0 percent annual rate. The economy REUTERS With caveats aimed squarely at reassuring the But, said the premier, the agricultural sec- Fund said yesterday that the cosseted farming industry, Shinzo Abe said Japan tor could not stand still. He said it was already European economy and finan- could not afford to miss negotiations on thrashing facing challenges and participation in the TPP cial system remained weak and out the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). presented an opportunity. urged the region to quickly clean The announcement came just hours after his “I am sure that Japan’s delicious and safe farm up its banks in order to advance pick for central bank chief was approved by par- products will become popular all over the world,” toward a banking union. liament, boosting the likelihood of more of the he said. In a first-ever assessment of aggressive monetary easing he has been calling “The TPP is not a crisis but, rather, a huge the stability of the European for to counter chronic deflation. chance. I have heard many who worry that Union financial system, the IMF “A huge economic bloc that would account for Japan’s agriculture would be devastated if we join. said banks in the region were still roughly a third of the world economy is about to “I promise that I will protect Japan’s farm weak and needed more capital begin,” Abe told a news conference. industry and Japan’s food industry by any means.” strengthening. “Much has been “What the TPP is aiming to achieve is to make The TPP forms a vital plank in US President achieved to address the recent the Pacific Ocean a sea where goods, services and Barack Obama’s vaunted “pivot” to Asia, and financial crisis in Europe, but vul- investment are freely exchanged.” is seen by some as part of a US bid to contain nerabilities remain, and intensi- Supporters of the TPP say participation would China’s rising economic might. fied efforts are needed across a give Japan’s flagging economy a boost — the gov- Washington has been keen to get Japan on wide front,” the IMF report said. ernment estimates by as much as 3.2 trillion yen board because of the economic heft its partici- “Financial stability has not ($33bn) over a decade — and increase consumer pation lends to the project and Acting US Trade been assured,” it said, pointing choice. Representative Demetrios Marantis said the US to continued falls in asset prices, They say opening up Japan’s cosseted markets welcomed Abe’s “important announcement”. distrust of sovereign debt and is vital if its stumbling economy is going to pick But the US Alliance for American the overall weak economy, which up speed, a key campaign promise from Abe. Manufacturing, which is backed by the US auto remains in recession. But opponents claim it could be a body blow industry and is nervous of allowing Japanese The first priority, the IMF said, to the country’s ageing farmers, removing the rivals unfettered access to the huge auto market, is to shore up banks by cleaning sky-high tariffs that have sheltered them and was critical of the idea of Japan joining the talks. up their balance sheets, weighed sending many to the wall, changing the face of the AFP down by large but still-unclear levels of bad assets, and put them through more stress tests. Secondly, the EU must com- Red Bull sees red plete the establishment of a region-wide financial over- sight mechanism, necessary to strengthen the eurozone currency union and the single market for banking, and then a regional reso- lution mechanism for winding up failed financial institutions. All that needs to be done this year, the IMF emphasised, stress- ing that market and economic threats continued to hang over the European economy. With those jobs tackled, it said, the region can move toward a banking union with, ideally, a road map laid down by the middle of this year. “The crisis has shown that national decisions, even well- intended ones, have Unionwide repercussions on financial stability, and that there is a need for single frameworks for crisis management, Red Bull drink cans inside a metal recycle container in Vienna yesterday. The beverage and sports deposit insurance, supervision and marketing giant said it was the target of a blackmail attempt by someone who had threatened to resolution, with a common back- contaminate its energy drinks. stop for the banking system.” AFP MARCH 16, 2013 Business www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 ON SATURDAY Cyprus bailout seen shrinking EU talks focus on deposit, interest taxes; depositor losses off the table Russian central bank

BRUSSELS: International plans for privatisations and an European Central Bank’s prom- the European Commission and lenders are aiming to give overhaul of the banking sector ise to do whatever it takes to European Central Bank need to leaves rate unchanged Cyprus a bailout of close to ensure Cypriot debt is sustain- shore up the currency bloc. present a report on the state of to ¤10bn, less than initially able and Nicosia can pay back Cyprus originally estimated Cyprus’ banking sector, its econ- MOSCOW: Russia’s central bank Analysts praised Nabiullina as a expected, with taxes imposed what it borrows. that it needed about ¤17bn omy and possible solutions. yesterday left its main interest wise economist but said she could on Cypriot bank depositors Russia could help finance — almost the size of its entire One official said a report had rate unchanged at 8.25 percent nevertheless be pressured by Putin. likely to fill the gap, officials the programme by extending annual output — to restore its been delivered by the troika but in a closely-watched decision that The Kremlin has expressed disap- said yesterday. a ¤2.5bn loan already made to economy to health. Up to ¤10bn orally, not in writing. followed the appointment of a pointment at the slow growth and Euro zone finance ministers Cyprus by five years to 2021 and of that were earmarked to recap- Cypriot Finance Minister new governor with close ties to hinted that the rates are too high. meet at 1600 GMT along with potentially reducing the interest italise its banks and 7bn required Michael Sarris will travel to President Vladimir Putin. Some analysts said the bank IMF chief Christine Lagarde rate, which is now at 4.5 percent, for servicing debt and running Moscow for meetings on Monday, The Bank of Russia kept the decided not to act now in part to discuss the bailout, mainly officials have said. general government operations. Cypriot diplomats said, raising same rate for the sixth month run- because it could not be seen as needed to recapitalise the Germany’s Chancellor, Angela But because a loan of that the possibility that an agreement ning despite pressure to act in the being swayed by the nomination of Mediterranean island’s banks Merkel, underscored the prior- magnitude would increase its on participation can be struck face of weakening growth. Putin’s new choice. which were hit hard by a sov- ity that was being given to solv- debt to unsustainably high levels with the Russians that would be The institution had until now “While (Friday’s decision) was ereign debt restructuring in ing the country’s problems at a and call into question its ability included in a final deal. fought off such calls by pointing expected by the market, this was Greece last year. news conference after a meeting ever to pay it back, policymak- The IMF has pushed the idea to inflation that has been running related to the understanding that The ministers might not reach of European Union leaders. ers sought to reduce it by finding that depositors in Cypriot banks above its upper target of six per- the Central Bank of Russia would a final decision, officials said, “To leave Cyprus up to it own more revenue sources in Cyprus should bear some of the costs of cent, and which reached an annu- not like to add to excitement that because of the complexity of devices and simply see what hap- itself. bailing out the island, a proc- alised 7.3 percent last month. surrounded the nomination of Elvira the issues including the possible pens would not be responsible, in Talks this week already cut ess dubbed “bail-in”. But that The bank said in a statement Nabiullina as the new governor,” said involvement of Russia, which has my view,” Merkel said. the bailout to a range of ¤10- approach is rejected by Cyprus, that the cost of living increase Ivan Tchakarov of the Renaissance strong business ties with Cyprus. Cyprus, with gross domestic 13bn, which was in turn nar- the European Commission and “could lead to higher inflation Capital investment bank. “We’re going to take stock of product of barely 0.2 percent of rowed down to the lower end in some members of the ECB. expectations... and is a source of But the analyst said that infla- the situation in Cyprus, hear the bloc’s overall output, applied preparatory talks among techni- In the preparatory talks ahead inflationary risk, especially con- tion was high due to seasonal factors from the institutions ... we will for financial aid last June, but cal experts yesterday. of the ministerial meeting, the sidering plans to increase tariffs” and the bank would be wise to spur see how far we will get,” the negotiations were stalled by pres- “The Cypriot bailout will be idea of bailing-in depositors lost on electricity and gas. growth soon by bringing down rates. Chairman of Eurozone Finance idential elections in February. close to ¤10bn in total,” one euro support because it would be The decision came three days “The combination of continuously Ministers Jeroen Dijsselbloem Without emergency lending, zone official with insight into the legally difficult and carry the after Putin said he would nomi- weakening economic activity and said on entering the meeting. Cyprus will default and threaten negotiations ahead of the minis- risk of weakening confidence in nate economic adviser and close supply-driven inflation should indis- The package is likely to contain to shatter the return of inves- terial meeting said. banks across the euro zone, offi- ally Elvira Nabiullina to replace putably provide the right rationale a mixture of tax increases, one- tor confidence in euro zone For a final agreement, the cials said. the widely-trusted outgoing bank to cut rates,” Tchakarov argued. off revenue raising measures, public finances fostered by the International Monetary Fund, REUTERS chief Sergei Ignatyev this summer. AFP

Porsche scores record results Recession-hit Portugal given until 2015 to reach deficit target

LISBON: Recession-plagued eased in September to 4.5 percent aid to the country, which nego- Portugal yesterday won an for this year, 2.5 percent in 2014 tiated a rescue package worth extra year from its creditors to and two percent in 2015. ¤78bn ($102bn) in May 2011. bring down its public deficit in Eurozone countries are obliged A joint statement issued by the line with EU regulations, but to run public deficits of no more EU, IMF and European Central faces record unemployment and than three percent of out- Bank said that implementation of mounting social discontent. put, and are supposed to work a Portuguese reform programme Finance Minister Vitor Gaspar towards a balanced budget, and “remains broadly on track, said Portugal, suffering its worst even a surplus in times of eco- against the background of diffi- recession in 40 years, will now nomic growth. cult economic conditions. have until 2015 to bring the deficit Last year, Portugal’s public def- “The end-2012 fiscal deficit tar- below 3.0 percent of gross domes- icit came to 4.9 percent of GDP, get was met, financial sector sta- tic product (GDP). Gaspar said, taking account of bility has been safeguarded, and a “The new deficit limits are 5.5 revenues raised through the sale wide range of structural reforms percent of GDP in 2013, 4.0 per- of stakes in Portuguese airports. is progressing,” it added. cent in 2014, and 2.5 percent in But he said some EU authori- Talks between the troika and 2015,” Gaspar told a press confer- ties would estimate that the defi- Portuguese officials lasted two ence as he presented a quarterly cit stood at 6.6 percent last year, weeks however, the longest period review of reforms agreed to in without including the airport so far for payment approval, sug- return for aid from the European sales. gesting that the creditors had Matthias Mueller, Chairman of the sports car builder Porsche, stands next to a Porsche Carrera 4S at the Union (EU) and the International Portugal’s troika of public cred- closely scrutinised Portugal’s balance sheet press conference at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, Germany, yesterday. Monetary Fund (IMF). itors have given a green light to accounts. Porsche achieved record results in the past year. The targets had already been an eighth payment of emergency AFP

QATARI MARKET Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Iran crude exports to Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 104.69 0.67% Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 105.81 1.56% Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 124.13 2.26% Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 117.00 2.53% Aa2 AA plunge by a quarter Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 112.00 2.95% Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 170.00 4.06% Aa2 AA TOKYO/SINGAPORE: Iran’s crude oil exports in March Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 129.25 4.51% Aa2 AA may plunge by a quarter from a month earlier to the low- Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 119.50 4.53% Aa2 AA est since tight Western sanctions came into effect in 2012, Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 105.13 1.27% Aa2 AA industry sources said, squeezing income for Tehran as sanc- Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 114.00 2.87% Aa2 AA tions cast doubt over its future revenues. Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 105.63 1.56% A1 A- The fall may result in a revenue loss of about $1bn for Iran, Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.63 2.18% A1 A- according to Reuters calculations based on current oil prices, QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.38 2.08% NR NR just as the country’s parliament debates President Mahmoud QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 104.00 1.58% Aa3 A+ Ahmadinejad’s spending proposals. QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.50 2.17% Aa3 A+ Tight Western sanctions imposed over Tehran’s disputed Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.25 2.38% A2 A- nuclear programme have cut oil exports by more than half over Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 105.50 1.78% A2 A the past year, resulting in a plunge in the rial currency. The Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 130.63 2.52% A2 A country passed a three-month stop-gap budget at the weekend. Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 111.50 3.10% A2 A Iran’s customers will load 810,000 barrels per day (b/d) of Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 110.38 3.95% A2 A crude in March compared with about 1.1 million b/d in February, Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 106.75 1.04% Aa3 A according to an industry source with direct knowledge of the Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 108.13 3.37% Aa3 A matter and a company that tracks the country’s crude shipments. Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 111.38 3.56% Aa3 A Excluding Turkey, the only European buyer of Iranian crude, SOVEREIGNS Tehran’s top customers in Asia — China, India, South Korea and Japan — will load 703,000b/d in March versus about 960,000b/d Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P a month earlier. The numbers are based on loading plans and Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 105.00 0.71% Aa2 AA the amount ultimately imported may vary. Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 126.00 2.14% Aa2 AA The drop may be partly due to Indian refiners struggling to Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 110.38 2.46% NR NR find insurance cover to process Iranian crude because of sanc- Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 107.50 2.95% NR NR tions, as well as the seasonal shutdown of refining capacity Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 124.63 3.94% NR NR elsewhere in Asia. Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 117.38 4.14% NR NR Europe and the US last year introduced tough sanctions aimed Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 105.63 0.90% Aa2 AA at Iran’s oil trade to force Tehran to the negotiating table over Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 115.38 3.28% NR BBB its nuclear programme. Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 109.88 3.88% NR BBB Western powers suspect Iran is trying to develop the capabil- Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 92.50 7.11% B2 B- ity to build nuclear weapons under the cover of a declared civil- Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 106.13 3.56% NR BBB- ian atomic energy programme. Iran says its uranium enrichment

*Periodic Distribution Amount work is for peaceful energy only. IMPORTANT NOTE: Oil consumption in March typically slows as northern hemi- Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which sphere winter ebbs, reducing demand for heating fuel. With is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services summer demand to run air conditioners still a few weeks away, Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary data refiners use the window to carry out annual maintenance. and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not take into Buyers of Iranian oil may have used the seasonally low-demand account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds can and month to make steep cuts in purchases to ensure they qualify does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant liquidity for US sanctions exemptions granted in return for reducing oil or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not a reliable trade with Iran and reviewed every six months. indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and consult your “What we’re seeing is the politics bubbling away in the back- financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. ground and there are some simple logistical issues that may be responsible for this trend,” said Richard Gorry, managing director at JBC Asia. “There is sizeable maintenance in Asia going on right now, which has cut crude demand in the region.” REUTERS MARCH 16, 2013 Classifieds www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17 ON SATURDAY

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Panesar tipped for key role as Spinners give India edge Wellington Test The hosts restrict Australia to 273 for 7 wickets on day 2 in Mohali advances WELLINGTON: A bit of drift MOHALI: Australia failed to Scoreboard into the northerly wind and bite capitalise on a century-strong and bounce that New Zealand’s opening stand and were reduced England (I innings): 5-325, 6-366, 7-374, 8-457, 9-465, 10-465 Bruce Martin extracted from to 273/7 in their first innings A Cook c Fulton b Wagner...... 17 Bowling: Southee 32-9-77-0; Boult 30-4- the Basin Reserve pitch sug- after the second day’s play in N Compton c Taylor b Martin ...... 100 117-2; Wagner 33-5-122-2; Martin 48-11- gests that England spinner the third cricket Test against J Trott c Watling b Boult ...... 121 130-4; Williamson 3.5-0-16-2. Monty Panesar could come into India at the Punjab Cricket K Pietersen c Fulton b Martin ...... 73 New Zealand (I innings): his own when the second Test Association (PCA) Stadium I Bell c Fulton b Martin ...... 11 P Fulton c Cook b Anderson ...... 1 between the two sides resumes here yesterday. India’s Ravindra J Root c Watling b Martin ...... 10 H Rutherford c Cook b Broad ...... 23 today. Opening batsman David Jadeja M Prior c Wagner b Williamson ...... 82 K Williamson (batting)...... 32 England are in the box seat Warner (71) and Ed Cowan (86) after the first two days, having celebrates one S Broad c Watling b Boult ...... 6 R Taylor b Broad ...... 0 gave a steady start with their 139- been dismissed shortly before tea of his three S Finn c McCullum b Wagner ...... 24 D Brownlie (batting) ...... 8 run stand, the first century-part- yesterday for an imposing 465, wickets on day J Anderson (not out) ...... 8 Extras (NB-2) ...... 2 nership for Australia in the series. M Panesar c Taylor b Williamson ...... 0 Total (for 3 wkts) ...... 66 courtesy of a counter-attacking It was the third time in 16 Tests two of the third 82 from Matt Prior that wrested Test against Extras (W-7, LB-3, NB-3) ...... 13 Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-48, 3-48 that the pair had overhauled 100. Total (all out) ...... 465 Bowling: Anderson 10-3-17-1; Finn 7-1-11- control of the game back for the Australia in However, Australia’s inability Fall of wickets: 1-26, 2-236, 3-267), 4-302, 0; Broad 7-0-18-2; Panesar 9-3-20-0. visitors. to play left-arm spinners came to Mohali, India, Stuart Broad and his fellow the fore as Ravindra Jadeja (3/56) yesterday. After fast bowlers James Anderson and and Pragyan Ojha (1/62) struck in a fine opening Steven Finn then worked over tandem as the visitors slumped partnership of Prior and seamers put New Zealand’s top order, with from 139/0 to 151/3. 139, Australia Broad taking two wickets in two Ishant Sharma (2/41) and slipped to 273 balls to reduce the home side to Ravichandran Ashwin (1/64) also for 7 wickets 66 for three by stumps. gave crucial breakthroughs that England in control Despite the penetration exhib- at the close of left Steve Smith (56 not out) and play. ited by England’s fast-bowling Mitchell Starc (20 not out) bat- WELLINGTON: Matt Prior produced an exceptional counter- trio late yesterday, both Prior tling at the crease at stumps. attacking innings then Stuart Broad captured two wickets in suc- and Martin agreed the pitch, After the first day’s play was cessive balls as England took control of the second Test against New while still a good one to bat on, washed out due to rain without Zealand by the close of play of the second day yesterday. could provide the England left a ball being bowled, bright sunny England, bowled out for 465 just minutes before the tea interval, arm spinner with some decent skies welcomed the two teams on reduced New Zealand to 66 for three at stumps and put themselves opportunities. Day 2. Play started 30 minutes firmly in charge of the match with three days still to play. “The wicket has changed early at 9am, local time. Kane Williamson was 32 not out, while Dean Brownlie was on eight enough to show that it’s going to Australia did well in the first after England’s pace bowlers had given the New Zealand lineup a torrid deteriorate,” Prior told reporters. session scoring 109 runs without working over in the final session. “It spun a little bit today as well losing a wicket but slipped in the The Australian captain, who Scoreboard Broad seized on the earlier work by James Anderson and Steven so that’s good news for Monty and second when they lost three quick had made good use of his feet Finn to lure Hamish Rutherford (23) into chasing a full wide delivery there’s still that little bit of pace wickets for 71 runs. In the third in the series, came out only to Australia (I innings): that only succeeded in catching an outside edge and the ball flew to and carry, as you’ve seen. and the final session, Australia be beaten and Dhoni was quick E J M Cowan c Kohli b Ashwin ...... 86 Alastair Cook at first slip. Prior, who took the match by added another 93 runs but at the enough to remove the bails. It was D A Warner c Dhoni b Jadeja ...... 71 Former New Zealand captain Ross Taylor was then clean bowled the scruff of the neck in the sec- expense of four wickets. Clarke’s first golden duck of his M J Clarke st Dhoni b Jadeja ...... 0 with a beautiful delivery that seamed slightly away and clipped the top ond session yesterday to force Following Michael Clarke’s career and his promotion up the of Taylor’s off stump to leave the hosts in dire straits on 48 for three. it along after New Zealand had P J Hughes c Dhoni b Ojha ...... 2 decision to bat, Warner and order didn’t work. Brownlie survived the hat-trick delivery with a push to midwicket reduced the visitors to 374-7, S P D Smith (batting) ...... 58 Cowan made a cautious start but Ojha, who replaced Harbhajan for two runs. added that it was imperative for BJ Haddin b Sharma ...... 21 grew in confidence as the game Singh, removed an out-of-form “For Broady to get two balls in the right area back to back was credit England to stick to their game progressed. They played within Phil Hughes (2) to leave Australia M C Henriques b Sharma ...... 0 to him (and) those couple of wickets at the end certainly turned that plan. their limitations and collected at 151/3. Cowan fell soon after P M Siddle lbw Jadeja ...... 0 last session,” said Prior, who launched a blistering counter-attack to “There’s plenty there for us runs efficiently. tea with Ashwin producing a fine M A Starc (batting) ...... 20 score 82 runs from 99 balls and halt any momentum New Zealand to work with. It’s just about get- Cowan was lucky on 35, when tossed up delivery and the opener Extras (B-4, LB-8, NB-3) ...... 15 had been gathering. ting our processes right, making his attempted cut shot whizzed gave an edge to Kohli. Total (for 7 wkts) ...... 273 “That was hats off to the bowlers, grabbing the opportunity. sure our skills are right and our past Virat Kohli at slip off Ojha. Smith and Brad Haddin (21) To bat: XJ Doherty, NM Lyon “We’ve got to make sure that we come in tomorrow and really press basics are right and not chasing Warner also had a lucky escape tried to repair the innings but Fall of wickets: 1-139, 2-139, 3-151, this advantage home.” the game too much. batting at 50 when his edge went Ishant ended the 46-run stand 4-198, 5-244, 6-244, 7-251. After being flogged all around a sun-drenched Basin Reserve on “When you get in a position past Kohli’s right hand off left- by removing Haddin, who tried Bowling: B Kumar 7-0-38-0 (2nb); I Sharma Thursday, the hosts took three wickets in the first session, including like this, you can try and force it. arm spinner Jadeja. to play it behind square but found 21-7-41-2 (1nb); R Ashwin 33-8-64-1; P P that of Jonathan Trott, who failed to add to his score of 121 and was It’s still a good batting wicket, but It was, however, Jadeja who a bottom edge that rattled his Ojha 21-4-62-1; R A Jadeja 22-6-56-3. dismissed on the first ball he faced. making sure that we stick to our drew first blood as Warner edged stumps. Two balls later, Ishant got India: S Dhawan, M Vijay, CA Pujara, S R Kevin Pietersen (73) and Broad (six) then fell in quick succession processes will be very important to skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni past Moises Henriques’ defence Tendulkar, V Kohli, R A Jadeja, M S Dhoni, R after the lunch break to leave the visitors on 374-7 and in danger of for us tomorrow.” and struck with the next ball to that left Australia tottering at Ashwin, P P Ojha, B Kumar, I Sharma. throwing away their advantage. Left-armer Martin, who enjoys get rid of Clarke. 244/6. IANS The aggressive Prior, however, took up the challenge to bat with the Panesar’s exuberance and joyous tail as long as possible as well as move the game along. celebrations less so now he is He punished anything outside off-stump, punching the ball in the arc playing against him, also felt the between backward point and extra cover for 40 of his runs, while he England spinner could be a factor Ponting supports also produced two superb lofted straight drives for six off Neil Wagner. over the next few days. Finn, who batted as nightwatchman for almost five hours in the “It’s a pretty nice wicket out drawn first Test in Dunedin, shared in an 83-run partnership with there,” he said. “I think it’ll start suspended Watson Prior before he was caught by Brendon McCullum at short extra cover turning a little bit more the next off Wagner for 24 with less than 10 minutes remaining in the middle couple of days, which is going to session. REUTERS bring Monty in to the game a bit SYDNEY: Former Australian against Victoria. “He’s obviously more. captain Ricky Ponting has made a blue here -- I don’t like to “I haven’t played on many turn- backed Shane Watson as a team refer to it as homework because ing wickets this year. So I was player and said the Cricket it wasn’t homework -- not getting quite excited when I saw a couple Australia official who suggested his tasks done that were given to go past KP’s (Kevin Pietersen) he was not would live to regret him by the coach. bat early on (yesterday). But his comments. “I’ve never known him to be there’s enough there.” Watson returned to Sydney late anything other than a very good Tuesday from the tour of India team player and a great bloke to after he was dropped for failing have around your team,” he added. Need some to prepare feedback on how the Ponting said he made a point team could improve and deliver of getting to know Watson, time to rebuild it to management. Three other whose wife gave birth to a boy players received the same punish- on Thursday, during his time as team culture, ment. Ponting, who retired from Australian captain. international cricket in December “To tell the truth I think I and has been in sizzling form for understood him and his per- says Hussey his Sheffield Shield side Tasmania sonality as well as anyone that I MELBOURNE: Former since, said he knew the 31-year- ever played with,” he said. “Pat’s Australian Test batsman Mike Bangladesh’s Abul Hasan during old well and had no doubts about (Howard, Cricket Australia’s Hussey has warned coach a practice session at the R his commitment. GM)) known Shane for 12 months Mickey Arthur that putting the Premadasa Cricket Stadium in “Shane worked as hard as any- and (Australian captain) Michael England’s captain Alastair Cook (third right) catches New Zealand’s right team culture in place will Colombo yesterday. body around his cricket, there’s no (Clarke) and Shane have known Hamish Rutherford (centre) for 23 runs during the second day of the take time. doubt about that,” he said yester- each other for the best part of 20 second Test at the Basin Reserve in Wellington yesterday. Hussey, who surprisingly day after making another century years.” REUTERS announced his retirement in January, said rebuilding a close- knit team will be a slow process. “The thing about that team is it didn’t really change much for Sri Lanka under pressure in home series probably a 10-year period, so they got to know each other extremely COLOMBO: Favourites Sri Lanka will scoring a century in each innings of the “We try to be as positive as we can. spinner Abdur Razzak may also make it to well, like brothers,” Hussey was be desperate to deliver when they clash Test. Bangladesh are a very dangerous team, so the playing XI. quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo. with a buoyant Bangladesh side in the Tillakaratne Dilshan, Lahiru Thirimanne we cannot underestimate them. They per- Sri Lanka (from): Angelo Mathews “The environment now will second and final Test starting in Colombo and Dinesh Chandimal also made hundreds. formed extremely well in Galle, so we got (capt), Dimuth Karunaratne, Tillakaratne get back to that I’m sure, but it today. Sri Lanka skipper Angelo Mathews, cap- to be careful,” he said. Dilshan, Kumar Sangakkara, Lahiru just takes time. There’s been so Bangladesh exceeded expectations in taining in his first Test series, will hope The Bangladesh captain, who described Thirimanne, Dinesh Chandimal, much change and upheaval in the drawn first Test in Galle, posting their the pitch at the R Premadasa Stadium in the draw as a “huge achievement”, said he Kithuruwan Vithanage, Shaminda Eranga, Australian cricket over the last highest total of 638 in 76 matches since Colombo offers help to his bowlers, who hoped his team would be able to repeat Rangana Herath, Tharindu Kaushal, year or so, changing of coaches gaining Test status in 2000. The draw struggled for success on the flat Galle track. their Galle performance. Nuwan Kulasekara, Suranga Lakmal, and selectors, players have come was their first after 12 successive defeats Spinners Rangana Herath and Ajantha “They (Sri Lanka) are a pretty strong Ajantha Mendis, Jeevan Mendis, Kushal out of the team and new players against Sri Lanka. Mendis and paceman Shaminda Eranga side and I am sure they will come hard at Perera, Chanaka Welegedara. have come in,” he said. Skipper Mushfiqur Rahim led from the each conceded more than 100 runs in the us. We want to be consistent. That’s our Bangladesh (from): Mushfiqur Rahim Hussey said that team culture front with a solid 200, the first double-cen- first innings. main target,” said Rahim. (capt), Mohammad Mahmudullah, Abdur is built over a period of time. tury by a Bangladeshi batsman in Tests. While another draw will be a moral vic- “The last Test is history. Probably there Razzak, Abul Hasan, Anamul Haque, “So you’ve got to expect it will Mohammad Ashraful and Nasir Hossain tory for Bangladesh, it would severely dent will be couple of changes in our side. Elias Sunny, Jahurul Islam, Marshall take time for trust to build up, also scored hundreds, dominating the Sri Sri Lanka’s bowling reputation. Tamim Iqbal is fit and ready to play,” the Ayub, Mohammad Ashraful, Mominul friendships to build, the hard Lankan attack. “It looks like a sporting wicket. To win Bangladesh skipper added. Haque, Nasir Hossain, Robiul Islam, Rubel times, the good times together, it The home team’s batsmen also caught a Test match we need to take 20 wickets,” Hard-hitting opener Tamim missed Hossain, Shahadat Hossain, Sohag Gazi, all builds the culture over a period the eye in Galle, with Kumar Sangakkara said Mathews. the first Test due to injury, while left-arm Tamim Iqbal. REUTERS of time,” he said. 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The quarter-finals Champions League NYON, SWITZERLAND: Barcelona to take on PSG The draw for the Champions League quarter-finals made at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Champions League quarters: Qatar-owned PSG play former champs Switzerland, yesterday: Matches to be played on April 2/3 and April 9/10 NYON, SWITZERLAND: great nights but I know Juventus UEFA Paris Saint-Germain (FRA) vs Champions League favourites very well and they are currently Champions Barcelona (ESP) Barcelona will play big-spending the best team in Italy with a League final Malaga (ESP) vs Borussia Dortmund (GER) Paris Saint-Germain in the pick very strong defence and plenty ambassador Real Madrid (ESP) vs Galatasary (TUR) of the quarter-final matches of offensive quality too.” Steve after the draw was held in Nyon, Bayern midfielder Bastian McManaman Bayern Munich (GER) vs Juventus (ITA) Switzerland yesterday. Schweinsteiger - who cut a dis- shows the Former England captain David traught figure after missing the Europa League Beckham will get the chance to penalty that cost his side the name of Paris Matches to be played on April 4 and 11 return to the Nou Camp where trophy in last year’s final against Saint-Germain he famously helped Manchester Chelsea - also paid tribute to the during the Chelsea (ENG) vs Rubin Kazan (RUS) United defeat Bayern Munich 2-1 Serie A leaders. draw at Tottenham Hotspur (ENG) vs Basel (SUI) in the 1999 final although they will “They are a very, very good the UEFA Fenerbahce (TUR) vs Lazio (ITA) be without leading scorer Zlatan team with some great players headquarters Ibrahimovic who is suspended such as (Andrea) Pirlo.” in Nyon, Benfica (POR) vs Newcastle (ENG) for the first-leg at the Parc des Bayern chief executive Karl- Switzerland. Princes. Heinz Rummenigge said: “That Barcelona Europa League Lionel Messi will lead four- is certainly not a dream draw for will play big- last 16 results time champions Barcelona after us.” He added: “Statistically we spending At Moscow the Argentine superstar scored have not had good experiences Paris Saint- twice and inspired the 4-0 thrash- with Juventus. It will be difficult Germain Rubin Kazan (RUS) 2 (Rondon 100, ing of AC Milan on Tuesday that and we will need to play two good in the Dyadyun 112) Levante (ESP) 0 -- aet overturned a 2-0 deficit. matches, be well organised and quarter-finals. Rubin win 2-0 on aggregate “I think it’s brilliant to play make no mistake if we want to Barcelona. I’m very happy reach the semi-finals.” At St Petersburg but it’ll be very difficult... Jose Mourinho contin- Zenit St Petersburg (RUS) 1 (Witsel 30) Barca have a lot of expe- ues his quest to become Basel (SUI) 0 rience, quality and con- the first coach to win the Basel win 2-1 on aggregate fidence but PSG have a tournament with three chance of going through. different teams after At Milan We’ll have to play the full Porto in 2004 and Inter Chelsea lead English trio Inter Milan (ITA) 4 (Cassano 20, Palacio 52, 180 minutes,” said Paris Milan in 2010 but former Gallas 75-og, Alvarez 110) Tottenham (ENG) Saint-Germain’s Italian Real Madrid striker 1 (Adebayor 96) -- aet coach Carlo Ancelotti. Emilio Butragueno 4-4 on aggregate; Tottenham win on away PSG sporting director expects a tough battle. goals Leonardo also focussed on “Galatasaray are a into Europa last eight the daunting prospect of great team and have At Bordeaux playing a team widely recognised fantastic fans so we are expect- LONDON: Chelsea led a Papiss Cisse headed the win- Viktoria Plzen to go through 2-1 Bordeaux (FRA) 2 (Diabate 74, Jardel as the best in club football. ing two tough matches,” said the trio of English clubs into the ning goal against big-spending on aggregate after a narrow first- 90-og) Benfica (POR) 3 (Jardel 30, Cardozo “It’s the toughest draw we former Spanish international. Europa League quarter-finals Anzhi Mackhachkala with the leg victory in the Czech Republic 75, 90) could get and it’s going to be diffi- “They have some great play- on Thursday after Tottenham last action of the game to take and former Europan champions Benfica win 4-2 on aggregate cult,” said the former PSG player. ers like (Wesley) Sneijder and Hotspur survived a thrilling them through 1-0 after a goalless Benfica are also in the last eight “It’s not going to be easy but the (Didier) Drogba but our objective Inter Milan fightback to advance first leg. thanks to a 3-2 win at Bordeaux At London two matches will bring us a lot of is to win that 10th European Cup. on away goals and Newcastle Another wealthy Russian side, for a 4-2 aggregate success. Chelsea (ENG) 3 (Mata 34, Terry 58, Torres enjoyment and they will be great That is our goal,” he added. United got a late winner. 2008 UEFA Cup winners Zenit St But it was Inter’s stirring 71) Steaua Bucharest (ROM) 1 (Chiriches matches of football,” added the In the final quarter-final, Goals from Juan Mata, John Petersburg, also went out to Basel comeback, spoiled by lacklustre 45) Brazilian. Spanish outsiders Malaga were Terry and Fernando Torres, 2-1 on aggregate despite a 1-0 win Tottenham’s vital away goal, and Chelsea win 3-2 on aggregate Last year’s losing finalists drawn against 1997 champions who also missed a penalty, put on the night after they had a late Chelsea’s second-half display to Bayern Munich, will play the first- Borussia Dortmund with the European champions Chelsea penalty saved against the Swiss see off spirited former European At Istanbul leg at home against Italian giants first-leg to be played in Spain. through 3-1 on the night and 3-2 team, who played the second half champions Steaua that lit up Fenerbahce (TUR) 1 (Ucan 44) Viktoria Juventus, while record nine-time “We can live with this draw,” on aggregate after visiting Steaua with 10 men. a fascinating night of Europa Plzen (CZE) 1 (Darida 60) champions Real Madrid will take Dortmund sports director Bucharest’s Vlad Chiriches equal- Rubin Kazan fared better than League action. on a Galatasaray team attempt- Michael Zorc said. ised on the stroke of halftime. their compatriots as they saw off Spain striker Torres led the Fenerbahce win 2-1 on aggregate ing to become the first side from “At least it is better than play- Spurs striker Emmanuel Levante 2-0 in extra time to end way for Chelsea in a rousing sec- At Rome Turkey to lift the trophy. ing Barcelona, Real or Bayern,” Adebayor pounced in extra time Spanish interest in this season’s ond half by scoring a sublime goal, Lazio (ITA) 3 (Kozak 6, 8, 87) Stuttgart “They are an opponent with a he said. to score a vital away goal in their competition. his second in 19 games. (GER) 1 (Hajnal 62) lot of calibre and they are very, The final is set for Wembley 4-1 second-leg defeat at the San Lazio’s Libor Kozak scored a The English teams’ Europa very strong,” said Bayern coach on May 25 although there are no Siro as they scraped past three- hat-trick in a 3-1 win over VfB League success contrasts with Lazio win 5-1 on aggregate Jupp Heynckes who won the tro- English clubs remaining in the times European champions Inter Stuttgart for a 5-1 aggregate vic- their failure in the Champions At Newcastle phy with Real Madrid in 1998, last eight for the first time since after the nail-biting tie ended 4-4 tory as they kept Italian hopes League which did not feature any Newcastle (ENG) 1 (Cisse 90+3) Anzhi but is set to leave at the end of 1996, while defending champions on aggregate. alive with a place in yesterday’s when the draw was made for both Makhachkala (RUS) 0 the season and make way for Pep Chelsea failed to make it out of Newcastle United joined their quarter-final draw. competitions yesterday. Guardiola. “It’s going to be two the group stages. REUTERS Premier League rivals when Fenerbahce drew 1-1 with REUTERS Newcastle win 1-0 on aggregate Vettel fastest in first outing

MELBOURNE: World champion Sebastian Vettel put his rivals firmly in their place by dominating both practice sessions on the opening day of the Formula One season at the Australian Grand Prix yesterday. The German, embarking on his quest for a fourth successive world title, steered the car he has nicknamed ‘Hungry Heidi’ around the Melbourne street circuit in one minute 25.908 seconds half an hour before the end of the second session. That lap topped the time sheets for the day, edging his Australian team mate Mark Webber (1.26.172) into second place as the Red Bull team scattered a few seeds of doubt over the consensus that the gap to the rest of the grid was narrowing. “Overall it was a good day for us, it was pretty seamless and there was no trouble with the car,” the 25-year-old Vettel told reporters. German F1 driver Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing in action during the second practice “After all the mileage of testing, it was session for the Grand Prix of Australia at the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne, Australia, fun to be out there - this circuit doesn’t get yesterday. The season’s first Grand Prix will take place tomorrow. easier, it’s a good challenge.” Nico Rosberg (1.26.322) was the best of Hamilton had started brightly on a warm quickest time overall, outperforming not the rest on what would have been an encour- and sunny day at Albert Park and finished only his team mate Paul Di Resta but also aging day for Mercedes had he not later fourth quickest in his first practice ses- both McLarens. ground to a halt with a gearbox problem sion for Mercedes after his switch from Jenson Button, who has won three of the moments after team mate Lewis Hamilton McLaren. last four Australian Grands Prix, managed had driven over the gravel and into a wall. The 2008 world champion faced the lonely only the 11th fastest time - 2.386 seconds off Former world champion Kimi Raikkonen, walk back to the paddock seven minutes the pace - with his new team mate, Mexican third in the championship last year, and from the end of the second session, however, Sergio Perez, lapping 13th quickest. Romain Grosjean grabbed the fourth and after a crash the team said had been caused “It was one of the most difficult days I fifth best times to confirm some impressive by a bodywork problem which caused him can remember,” said team principal Martin showings for Lotus in pre-season testing. to understeer. Whitmarsh. Twice world champion Fernando Alonso “Overall it was a good day, if perhaps not “We’ve made a lot of changes to the car and his team mate Felipe Massa had more the smoothest,” said the Briton. for this season and we don’t fully under- competitive first than second sessions for “I’m happy with where we are and to see stand how to get the best out of it yet,” he Ferrari, finishing sixth and eighth fast- Nico in third place on the timesheets shows said. est overall to sandwich the unfortunate that we’re pretty competitive. None of the five rookie drivers set the Hamilton. “The Red Bull is massively quick as it world alight but Dutchman Giedo van der “We already knew we were not the quick- always is,” he added. Garde had the worst of it, banking his est and that was confirmed today,” said “They’ve obviously been sand-bagging it Caterham on the trackside gravel after Spaniard Alonso, runner-up in the cham- the whole time in winter as expected and all miscalculating the same turn six that later pionship last year. “The weather is expected of a sudden they’ve pulled out (that) time.” ended Hamilton’s day. to change completely from tomorrow, with German Adrian Sutil made an excellent A third practice session takes place toay wind, rain and a significant drop in temper- start on his return to Force India after a before qualifying for the race tomorrow. ature, which could influence Sunday’s race.” year out of the sport by setting the ninth REUTERS MARCH 16, 2013 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 ON SATURDAY

Spurs beat Mavs to clinch Resurgent Nadal in semis play-off spot SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS: Tim Duncan finished with 28 The ‘clay king’ crushes Roger Federer in straight sets; Berdych wins points and 19 rebounds as the San Antonio Spurs clinched a play-off spot by edging the INDIAN WELLS, game but the Spaniard served out Dallas Mavericks 92-91 yester- CALIFORNIA: Rafa Nadal in the 10th, taking the set when Indian Wells ATP day night. produced vintage form against a backhand service return by the Duncan made the most of his an out-of-sorts Roger Federer Swiss sailed wide. Masters and WTA return to the lineup as he missed to crush the Swiss 6-4, 6-2 in Moving much more fluently the Spurs’ 107-83 loss on Tuesday their heavily anticipated quar- than his opponent and finding Results to struggling Minnesota with a ter-final at the BNP Paribas his range with searing crosscourt sore knee. Open yesterday. forehands, Nadal broke Federer INDIAN WELLS, Gary Neal added 16 points The Spanish left-hander, com- in the first game of the second California: Results yester- and Kawhi Leonard, who also peting in his first hardcourt set when the Swiss lunged to his day from the ninth day of sat during Tuesday’s loss, had 12 event since returning from seven right but was unable to return a the ATP Masters and WTA along with six rebounds for San months on the sidelines with a dipping crosscourt shot. BNP Paribas Open (x denotes Antonio, who earned a play-off knee injury, moved around the Federer also failed to hold seeded player): spot for the 16th straight season. court well and outplayed his long- serve in the third, saving one Men - Quarter-finals Dallas came into the game hav- time rival at the Indian Wells break point before the Spaniard Tomas Berdych (CZE x6) bt ing matched a season high with Tennis Garden. unleashed a crunching forehand Kevin Anderson (RSA) 6-4, 6-4 four consecutive victories. They Nadal broke the defending pass to lead 3-0. appeared to be poised to add their champion once in the first set and Urged on by the crowd, the Rafael Nadal (ESP x5) bt Roger fifth after scoring seven unan- three times in the second to wrap Swiss immediately rebounded by Federer (SUI x2) 6-4, 6-2 swered points to pull within 92-91 up victory in one hour 24 minutes breaking Nadal’s serve for the Women - Quarter-finals in the closing seconds. in front of a packed house at the first time in the match in the next Angelique Kerber (GER x4) REUTERS Stadium Court. game when his opponent hit a bt Samantha Stosur (AUS x7) The Spanish world number backhand long, then held for 2-3. - walkover five improved his record against However, with Federer con- NBA Results Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x8) Federer to 19-10 and will next tinuing to make unforced errors, bt Victoria Azarenka (BLR x1) San Antonio 92 Dallas 91 face sixth-seeded Czech Tomas the Spaniard again broke in the - walkover Portland 105 NY Knicks 90 Berdych, who beat South African seventh game before serving out Kevin Anderson 6-4, 6-4 earlier for the match in the eighth. in the day. Asked how much of a problem NHL Results “After seven months away, I his troublesome back had been Boston 4 Florida 1 am very happy to be in the semi- against Nadal, Federer said it was Pittsburgh 3 Toronto 1 finals here,” a beaming Nadal said the same as in the previous round Washington 3 Carolina 2 courtside after taking advantage against Stanislas Wawrinka. Chicago 2 Columbus 1 of a slew of backhand errors by “I mean, I could play. I’m happy Roger Federer (left) of Switzerland and Rafael Nadal of Spain greet NY Islanders 2 Tampa Bay 0 Federer, who has been struggling to be out there and able to com- each other at the net after Nadal defeated Federer in their men’s singles with a back niggle throughout the pete, you know,” he said. quarter-final match at the BNP Paribas Open ATP in Indian Wells, Winnipeg 3 NY Rangers 1 tournament. “But it’s obviously a small issue, California, yesterday. Nadal won 6-4, 6-2. RIGHT: Former professional St Louis 3 Phoenix 0 “I played great the first set. and that doesn’t work against tennis player Andre Agassi attends the men’s singles quarter-final match Minnesota 5 Colorado 3 I played a fantastic first set, in guys like Rafa, obviously.” between Nadal and Federer. Agassi won eight Grand Slam tiles before Anaheim 2 Dallas 1 my opinion. The second set I Earlier, Berdych, who has not retiring in 2006. Vancouver 7 Nashville 4 think Roger didn’t fight as usual. dropped a set in his first four San Jose 4 Los Angeles 3 Probably he had some problems matches here, broke Anderson in and he didn’t feel comfortable the final game of both sets to seal enough to keep fighting. his win in 90 minutes on a sizzling New look for NHL “But for myself I have to take afternoon. the first set. The first set was a “It feels great,” Berdych said Azarenka, Stosur pull out from next season good match, my opinion. Both of after beating Anderson for a sixth us tried to play our best. I played time in six career meetings. INDIAN WELLS, Kerber said. “It’s not great. I up for their matches. Now both NEW YORK: Sparked by the much better than yesterday.” “I am happy to go through, and CALIFORNIA: The women’s think everybody would like to are just hoping to be fit for the return of the Jets to Winnipeg Asked what had pleased him the fact that I haven’t lost a set is quarter-finals at Indian Wells play and win of course. Caroline hard court tournament in Miami the board of governors approved most about his game, Nadal just a nice bonus.” ended with a whimper yesterday now has the same situation, so I that starts next week. its realignment plan yesterday, replied: “My movement tonight The Czech knows he faces as defending champion Victoria think we are both ready for the “I’ll talk to the physios and the the National Hockey League was much better than yesterday. a tough task against Nadal in Azarenka and seventh seed Sam next match.” doctors and work out a good plan announced. I played longer than yesterday.” the last four, having beaten the Stosur both pulled out with The other women’s semi was for how many days off I need to The board and the NHL Players He added: “I had a good feeling Spaniard only three times in 15 injuries. set on Wednesday, with second- take off and go from there,” said Association have now both given on my forehand, even if I had a meetings, his most recent victory Azarenka’s bid to become seeded Maria Sharapova setting Stosur, who said she “felt some- the green light to the realignment few mistakes with my backhand in in Madrid in 2006. the first woman since Martina up a meeting with fellow Russian thing go” in her calf in the last which calls for groupings based the second set. Sometimes today “With his lefty hand and heavy Navratilova in 1990-91 to retain Maria Kirilenko. game of her fourth-round win primarily on geography and will I am not able to play all the shots spins, it’s very tough, you know, her title in the California desert Sharapova won Indian Wells over Mona Barthel on Tuesday. cut down dramatically on travel with my forehand that I used to especially in these conditions,” crashed to a halt as the world No. in 2006 and was runner-up to “It’s all a bit up in the air at the costs for teams like Winnipeg. be because I am not that fast yet said world number six Berdych, 2 from Belarus withdrew before Azarenka last year. She’s in the moment because I’ve never been The Players Association had to do it. That’s why the backhand who has reached two ATP finals her clash with Caroline Wozniacki semi-finals for the sixth time. through this type of injury before, already signed off on the plan. today is very important.” this season, in Marseille and with tendinitis and inflammation Kirilenko, who upset third- so it’s a matter of wait and see, The plan, which goes into effect With a near-capacity crowd Dubai, losing both. in her right foot and ankle. seeded Agnieszka Radwanska in talking to the people who know for the 2013-14 season, calls for eagerly watching, the opening set “If it’s going to be hot like this, Stosur, a former US Open the fourth round and fifth-seeded and reassessing each day,” she four divisions and two confer- went with serve until the seventh yeah, it could be a very, very tough champion, pulled out with a right former Wimbledon champion said. ences, the Eastern and Western game when Nadal broke Federer one. calf injury, granting fourth seed Petra Kvitova in the quarters, Azarenka is unbeaten on the Conference. The new plan allows with a stunning crosscourt back- “But, you know, one day I hope Angelique Kerber of Germany a reached the final four for the first court in 2013, a 17-0 run that each team to play once a season hand pass to lead 4-3. that I’m going to find the way walkover. time in 10 appearances here. includes an Australian Open tri- in every NHL arena for the first Federer saved two set points to beat him again, and why not “I think the situation is very Both Azarenka and Stosur umph and a title in Doha. time since the 1997-98 season. on his serve in a protracted ninth here?” REUTERS strange for the tournament,” withdrew after trying to warm REUTERS REUTERS

Avantha Masters Scores Chapchai, Liang share Masamichi GREATER NOIDA, India: Uehira of Leading scores after the Japan is second round in the $2.3m seen in Avantha Masters golf at the halfway lead in India action on Jaypee Greens in Greater day two of Noida yesterday: NEW DELHI: Chapchai Nirat to go and, hopefully, I can be atop carded a bogey-free round of six- the Thailand 132 Chapchai Nirat (THA) 66-66, Liang of Thailand and China’s Liang the leaderboard like today.” under-par 65. Open at Wenchong (CHN) 66-66 Wenchong both carded second Chinnarat Phadungsil, who Fellow American Brian Thana City 134 Chawalit Plaphol (THA) 66-68, David successive rounds of six-under- reeled off eight birdies in nine Harman, playing the back nine Golf and Drysdale (SCO) 67-67, Tommy Fleetwood par to share a two-shot lead holes for an inward 28 and a five- first, bogeyed his final hole to spoil Sports Club (ENG) 69-65, Joonas Granberg (FIN) after the second round of the shot first round lead, took 40 on an otherwise flawless round, set- in Bangkok 67-67 Avantha Masters yesterday. the back nine yesterday before tling for a 67 and outright second yesterday. Chapchai and Liang, both chas- joining five others at nine-under. place. 135 Chinnarat Phadungsil (THA) 61-74, Rahil The $1m ing their first wins since 2007 that The 2010 Ryder Cup-winning Tag Ridings birdied his last two Gangjee (IND) 69-66, Scott Hend (AUS) event ends came a week apart, were level at captain and eight-times holes to join Brendan Steele and 67-68, Abhijit Chadha (IND) 66-69, tomorrow. 12-under 132 ahead of four players European Tour number one Colin Harris English in a three-way tie Jaakko Makitalo (FIN) 67-68, Julien on 10-under. Montgomerie made a forgettable for third at three-under on a day Quesne (FRA) 69-66, Adilson Da Silva (BRA) 70-65. “This is a very long course and India debut, missing the cut after when only 25 players among the I managed to hit the balls long a second successive 76. 156 starters broke par. 136 Thomas Aiken (RSA) 67-69, Rikard the last two days,” a satisfied Defending champion Jbe English might have fin- Karlberg (SWE) 67-69, Maximilian Kieffer Chapchai said after a sparkling Krugar of South Africa was ished higher but made a double (GER) 68-68, Baek Seuk-Hyun (KOR) round that included seven birdies another one to miss the weekend bogey on his last hole when he Tampa Bay Championship scores 68-68, Pablo Larrazabal (ESP) 68-68, and a single bogey. while former Ryder Cup player found a greenside bunker, then Kiradech Aphibarnrat (THA) 68-68 “I also managed to hole several Edoardo Molinari and twice PGA three-putted. 65 Shawn Stefani 137 Brett Rumford (AUS) 68-69, Mark Foster long putts as well and luck did Tour winner Daniel Chopra also Former world number one Vijay 67 Brian Harman (ENG) 70-67, Jeev Milkha Singh (IND) play a part in getting me to my had early exits. Singh of Fiji was among a group 68 Tag Ridings, Brendan Steele, Harris English position today,” said the three- of eight players who finished at 69-68, Victor Dubuisson (FRA) 69-68, 69 Chez Reavie, Vijay Singh (FIJ), K.J. Choi (KOR), Dicky Pride, Peter Tomasulo, Roberto Castro, Peter Whiteford (SCO) 68-69, Gaganjeet times Asian Tour winner. two-under, while last year’s cham- Stefani two ahead Lucas Glover, Geoff Ogilvy (AUS) Bhullar (IND) 68-69, Anirban Lahiri (IND) Former Asia number one pion, Luke Donald, signed for a 68-69 Liang’s putting was no less at Tampa Bay one-under 70 despite bogeys on 70 JJ Henry, Luke Donald (ENG), Nick Watney, Patrick Cantlay, Billy Horschel, Marc Leishman (AUS), Scott Brown, Adam Scott (AUS), Jason Day (AUS), Jerry Kelly, Trevor Immelman (RSA), 138 Paul Waring (ENG) 70-68. impressive as he sank a 25-foot three of his last four holes. birdie putt at the 17th, one of his Championship “I’m extremely disappointed Justin Hicks 139 Mardan Mamat (SIN) 68-71, Magnus eight. TAMPA, FLORIDA: PGA right now. I played just lovely Carlsson (SWE) 66-73, Lee Slattery “I have played some of my best Tour rookie Shawn Stefani golf for 16 of the 18 holes today,” LPGA Tour’s Founders Cup scores (ENG) 72-67, Scott Barr (AUS) 67-72, golf this week and I managed to grabbed a two-shot lead after Donald said. 63 Ai Miyazato (JPN) Andy Sullivan (ENG) 71-68, Ashok Kumar hole several long putts,” said the a tricky opening round of the “I just had it really under con- 65 Jee Young Lee (KOR) (IND) 68-71, Soren Kjeldsen (DEN) 72-67, world number 201. Tampa Bay Championship trol and could have been six or 66 Phatlum Pornanong (THA), Gerina Piller, Candie Kung (TPE), Brittany Lang Martin Wiegele (AUT) 72-67, Matthew “I’ve learnt to be patient and yesterday. seven under with a couple of putts 67 Katherine Hull-Kirk (AUS), Sandra Gal (GER), Jiyai Shin (KOR), Lexi Thompson Baldwin (ENG) 69-70, Emiliano Grillo my playing experience from all On a difficult day for low scor- and obviously to finish like that, it (ARG) 68-71, Maarten Lafeber (NED) over the world has taught me ing on the Copperhead layout at leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.” 68 Jennifer Gleason, Danielle Kang, Amy Yang, Angela Stanford, Stacy Lewis, Lindsey Wright 73-66. well. There are two more rounds Innisbrook Resort, the American AGENCIES (AUS), Jimin Kang (KOR), Juli Inkster, Eun-Hee Ji (KOR), Kris Tamulis MARCH 16, 2013 ON SATURDAY 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport

Rugby: England face Welsh wall in northern supremacy Players and team officials battle today of Al Rayyan are seen CARDIFF, UNITED with Sheikh KINGDOM: History awaits Saoud bin the winner of today’s climax to Abdulrehman the Six Nations as Wales and Al Thani, Grand Slam-seeking England President battle for northern hemisphere of Qatar supremacy. Basketball A tournament blighted by the Federation weather and that has delivered (QBF), at precious few highlights at least got the finale it so needed and Al Gharafa desired. Indoor Hall England are unbeaten after in Doha four rounds and a fifth success yesterday. Al would see Stuart Lancaster Rayyan beat deliver his country’s first Grand Eljaish to Slam in a decade. win the Heir However Lancaster, in only Apparent his second year in charge, is Cup. well aware what awaits him at the Millennium Stadium, where England have never clinched the Slam. It took World Cup winner Clive Woodward seven attempts to land the greatest prize in European rugby and England’s inability to seize the moment has become part of Championship folklore, having lost four of their last five Grand Slam deciders. “We’re going to Cardiff with strong self-belief given we have four out of four in a tournament in which it is notoriously diffi- Al Rayyan crush Eljaish, cult to win as well as that New Zealand win last autumn,” said Lancaster. “We know it’s going to be tough in Wales against a team with plenty of experience of playing in big games in the past few years corner Cup glory in style and playing at home is an advan- tage to any side. But we’re pretty confident and looking forward to the game.” The Heir Apparent Cup final: Boys in black win QR300,000 prize In contrast Wales have little to lose and everything to gain. BY DANOTZKI SANTOS Jeremeo Davidson converted both The defending champions chances from the stripe off an Past Heir Apparent feared their reign was nearing an DOHA: Al Rayyan beat Eljaish Army foul for a 47-42 advantage Yaseen Cup champions end when they lost the opening last night, 70-62, and clinched for Al Rayyan going into the final Mousa of game of the tournament -- which this season’s Heir Apparent Cup period. Al Rayyan DOHA: Here’s a list of remains the most entertaining tie teams who have won the Heir championship title along with Davidson drew first blood in the celebrates so far -- to Ireland. the top plum of QR300,000. final canto. Yaseen Mousa then Apparent Cup since the 1999 They have never won the after his season. Al Rayyan’s swarming defense scored one from under, Ngombo team beat Championship after losing their held on until the end pestering hit back-to-back twinner and 1999-00 Al Ahli SC bt Al opening game. Yet three succes- Eljaish in the stubborn Army squad who Watson canned two from the Rayyan sive victories on the road, in Paris, the final while barging into the final match stripes for a 10-2 early Al Rayyan 2000-01 Al Ahli SC bt Al Rome and Edinburgh, have galva- unbeaten, could not get their assault that got the black shirts of the Heir Sadd nised the sleeping dragons. game going. soaring high at 57-44. Apparent 2001-02 Al Rayyan bt And thanks largely to Italy’s Army took the first period, 17-9 Eljaish were getting got smoth- Cup at Al Qatar SC gutsy display at Twickenham last but Coach Brian Rowsom’s wards ered on the offensive end until Gharafa 2002-03 Qatar SC bt Al week, they now have a genuine unleashed their shackling defense Fadi put the fight up for Army Indoor Hall Rayyan opportunity to retain the title for and limited Eljaish’s output in igniting an 11-4 blitz to make it in Doha 2003-04 Al Rayyan bt the first time in 34 years. the second period to four points 55-61 with 4:09 left in the game. yesterday. Qatar SC Interim coach Rob Howley said: to take the driver’s seat 27-21 at Ali brought it to 59-63 with Mousa was 2004-05 Al Rayyan bt Al “It’s great to come towards the halftime. another rainbow and as time went adjudged Sadd end of a championship when one Ali Turki drilled back-to-back down to 1:59, he buried another Best Player 2005-06 Al Rayyan bt Al team is going for the Grand Slam three-point shots to bring Eljaish after a Watson split from the foul of the Gharafa and the other has got the oppor- closer at 31-36 at the onset of the lane, and all of a sudden Eljaish Tournament 2006-07 Al Arabi bt Al tunity for the championship.” Sadd third quarter but Harold Boney came breathing down Rayyan’s and went He added: “Six Nations are Watson and Erfan Saeed sank a neck at 62-64 with 1:35 left. home 2007-08 A Rayyan bt Qatar normally special but to come to SC basket each to keep the count at Ngombo scored an under goal richer by the end of a long campaign with 40-31. stab and the black shirts played 2008-09 Al Rayyan bt everything up for grabs, it is going QR15,000. Ali connected with one more good defense on the other end as Qatar SC to be a special atmosphere on the from beyond the arc but Watson time ticked away with Rayyan 2009-10 El Jaish bt Al weekend. I have said to the play- countered with his own trey to leading, 66-62. Gharafa ers to embrace it.” AFP bring back their lead back to nine Mousa was fouled in the dying 2010-11 Al Gharafa bt Al at 43-34 with 1:46 left in the third seconds and he cashed in on both Sadd at Al Gharafa Stadium. occasions to seal the win and the Player of the Tournament and since the league began in 1999, 2011-12 Al Arabi bt Eljaish Six Nations Results, Eljaish went on an 8-2 ram- championship title for Al Rayyan. went home richer by QR15,000. and their first after getting it last 2012-13 Al Rayyan bt page to inch closer at 42-45 before Mousa was adjudged Best The title is Rayyan’s seventh in 2009. THE PENINSULA Eljaish Table and Fixtures LONDON: Fixtures, results and table in the Six Nations ahead of today’s final round of matches: P W D L G/F G/A Pts England 4 4 0 0 91 48 8 Wales 4 3 0 1 92 63 6 Scotland 4 2 0 2 82 84 4 Ireland 4 1 1 2 57 59 3 Action from the Italy 4 1 0 3 53 96 2 Heir Apparent France 4 0 1 3 50 75 1 Cup final between Al Rayyan (in Previous Results black) and Eljaish Wales 22 Ireland 30 at Al Gharafa Indoor Hall in England 38 Scotland 18 Doha yesterday. Italy 23 France 18 Al Rayyan won Scotland 34 Italy 10 the final 70-62 to France 6 Wales 16 bag the trophy Ireland 6 England 12 for the seventh Italy 9 Wales 26 time. PICTURES: WASFY England 23 France 13 ABUSHUSHA Scotland 12 Ireland 8 Scotland 18 Wales 28 Ireland 13 France 13 England 18 Italy 11 Today’s Fixtures Italy vs Ireland France vs Scotland Wales vs England MARCH 16, 2013 Break Time www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 ON SATURDAY CINEMA LISTINGS TV LISTINGS

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MUSCAT 33/23 Clear 35/23 Clear MAKKAH 36/25 Partly cloudy 33/23 Clear A bee collecting pollen from a sunflower on a field near the northern Swiss town of Leibstadt. European Union governments failed to reach a deci- KUWAIT 30/20 Clear 29/21 Mostly sunny sion yesterday on whether to ban three widely-used pesticides linked to the decline of honeybees, the European Commission said. BAHRAIN 27/21 Clear 28/22 Clear SANAA 28/09 Partly cloudy 28/09 Clear RIYADH 32/17 Partly cloudy 33/19 Partly cloudy DUBAI 32/23 Clear 34/21 Partly cloudy BAGHDAD 34/21 Partly cloudy 24/12 Chance of rain Liver ‘kept alive’ outside Organ transplant THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW patient dies of HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER rabies in US ATHENS 12/07 Chance of rain 11/06 Clear human body for first time WASHINGTON 10/03 Chance of rain 08/03 Chance of rain WASHINGTON: A person SYDNEY 23/13 Clear 23/15 Partly cloudy in the northeastern state of LONDON 07/04 Rain 08/00 Rain LONDON: A donated human unfit for use in patients who need a liver functioning normally — just Maryland who recently died PARIS 10/05 Rain 09/04 Mostly cloudy liver has been kept alive, warm them.Surgeons say keeping livers as if in a person, with blood circu- of rabies was found to have ISTANBUL 11/05 Rain 10/00 Mostly cloudy and functioning outside a “on ice” beyond 14 hours starts lating through its capillaries and contracted the illness from MANILA 32/24 Chance of rain 34/24 Partly cloudy human being on a newly-devel- becoming risky, although they can bile being produced - outside the an organ transplant done DHAKA 36/21 Cloudy 36/21 Clear oped machine and then success- last up to 20 hours. body for 24 hours or more. over a year ago, US health DELHI 29/17 Partly cloudy 30/16 Clear fully transplanted into patients Hepatitis infection, alcohol The results from the first two officials said yesterday. in a medical world first. abuse and drug-induced cholesta- transplants using the new tech- The patient died in early ISLAMABAD 26/13 Partly cloudy 26/14 Partly cloudy A British team of doctors, engi- sis - a blockage in the flow of bile nology, carried out at King’s March. Subsequent tests on neers and surgeons announcing from the liver - can all cause liver College Hospital (KCH) in the deceased donor’s tissue and the achievement yesterday said it failure. Some patients with liver London last month, suggest the the organ transplant patient’s could be common practice in hos- cancer can also benefit from a device could be useful for all tissue confirmed that both had pitals across the developed world transplant. patients needing liver transplants, a type of rabies usually linked Singer with snake within a few years, up to doubling Around 13,000 liver trans- Field told reporters. to raccoons. the number of livers available for plants are carried out each year The new device could also mean The Centers for Disease transplant. in Europe and the United States, livers which would otherwise be Control and Prevention said So far the procedure has been but there is a combined waiting discarded as unfit for transplan- such cases are extremely rare performed on two patients on list of around 30,000 patients who tation could be preserved and — in the United States there Britain’s liver transplant waiting need a new liver. made viable - potentially as much are typically one to three cases list and both are making excellent Experts say up to a quarter of as doubling the number of organs of human rabies diagnosed recoveries, the medical team told these patients die while they are available for transplant, he said. yearly. a news conference. waiting. At the same time, more “If we can introduce technology “In the United States, only “It was astounding to see an than 2,000 livers are discarded like this into everyday practice, one other person is reported to initially cold, grey liver flushing every year because they are either it could be a real, bona fide game have died from a raccoon-type with colour once hooked up to damaged by oxygen deprivation or changer for transplantation as rabies virus,” the CDC said in our machine and performing as do not survive the cold preserva- we know it,” said Nigel Heaton, a statement, which did not it would within the body,” said tion process. The new technology, director of transplant surgery at identify the sex of the donor Constantin Coussios, a profes- developed by Coussios together KCH and part of the team that or recipient, or the organ that sor of biomedical engineering at with Peter Friend, director of the carried out the first two trans- was infected. Oxford University and one of the Oxford Transplant Centre, pre- plants using the device. Doctors did not suspect machine’s co-inventors. serves the liver at body tempera- Coussios and Friend have rabies as the cause of death in “What was even more amazing ture and “perfuses” it — supplying been researching the technol- the donor, who died in Florida was to see the same liver trans- it with oxygenated red blood cells ogy for the device since 1994 in 2011 and was not tested for planted into a patient who is now to keep it alive. and are developing it through an rabies before the heart, liver walking around.” “This device is the very first Oxford University spin-off com- and kidneys were harvested Currently livers destined for completely automated liver per- pany called OrganOx. The first for donation, the statement transplant are kept “on ice” in a fusion device of its kind,” Coussios person to receive a transplanted said. process which cools them to slow said. “These first clinical cases liver kept alive on the OrganOx The organs were sent down their metabolism and does confirm that we can support system was 62-year-old Briton to recipients in Maryland, not keep them functioning as they human livers outside the body, Ian Christie. He is still recover- Illinois, Georgia and Florida. would inside a body. This system keep them alive and functioning ing from the surgery but said in The other three recipients US rock singer Alice Cooper performs on the main stage with a boa has worked for several decades, on our machine and then, hours a statement he was getting better of the donor’s organs have been that weighs 10 kilos, during the Caprices Festival in Crans-Montana, but can also often lead to livers later, successfully transplant them day by day. “I just feel so alive,” he tracked down and are being Switzerland, yesterday. Ten percent of the Cooper concert revenues will becoming damaged and rendered into a patient.” The device can keep said. REUTERS treated with anti-rabies shots, go to the cash-stricken Vivarium in Lausanne. the CDC said. “The organ transplantation occurred more than a year before the recipient developed symptoms and died of rabies,” the CDC said. Obama urges $2bn for electric car research “This period is much longer than the typical rabies incu- NEW YORK: Barack Obama Officials chose Argonne Labs, and the uncertainties of appro- campaigners had hoped for dur- see any diversion of royalties as a bation period of one to three will use a visit to a Chicago- outside Chicago, because the facil- priation cycles. ing Obama’s second term. new tax. The White House said it months, but is consistent with area lab to call on Congress to ity led research into electric car “(M)uch of our new-found The White House has all but had been reaching out to Congress prior case reports of long incu- set aside $2bn over the next batteries. energy is drawn from lands and conceded that there is no chance on the fund. Lisa Murkowski, an bation periods.” decade to fund research into a The fund was first proposed by waters that we, the public, own of moving a climate law through Alaska Republican, has proposed The CDC said that despite next generation of electric cars. a non-partisan group of former together,” Obama said in January. Congress. Officials have also a similar idea - although her ver- this case, the benefits of organ The White House said the generals and military executives, “So tonight, I propose we use ruled out the idea of a carbon sion would require an expansion transplantation “generally out- Energy Security Trust, which called Securing America’s Future some of our oil and gas revenues tax, leaving Obama to focus on of drilling. weigh the risks.” Obama first proposed in his Energy. However, the original to fund an energy security trust relatively small-scale projects That could be a sticking point “All potential organ donors state of the union address, proposal called for a much larger that will drive new research and like the Energy Security Trust. for Obama’s initiative. House in the United States are would use royalties from oil fund, with some $500m in annual technology to shift our cars and The White House said Obama’s Republicans have been push- screened and tested to identify and gas drilling on public lands investment. trucks off oil for good.” proposal would not open up areas ing for an expansion of oil and if the donor might present an and waters and would not add Obama incorporated the idea In his remarks on Friday, of land or water where drilling is gas drilling to boost government infectious risk,” it said, noting to the deficit. into his state of the union address, Obama is expected to once again currently banned. revenues. that tests are typically run for But the proposal, which would pitching the trust as part of his cast the Energy Security Trust as Instead, they are counting on Obama’s use of oil and gas roy- HIV and hepatitis. divert $200m a year over 10 years plan for job creation, arguing a potential job creator. increased production to spin off alties for research — even to get “If rabies is not clinically to the research fund, remains a that America needed to retain But he is expected, too, to frame additional revenues that could cars off oil is also running into suspected, laboratory test- hard sell in Congress. its technological edge to remain the issue in terms of climate be used to fund research. The criticism from environmental ing for rabies is not routinely The White House said the competitive in the global economy. change, arguing that research government currently collects groups. performed, as it is difficult for money would help fund research White House officials said into advanced vehicles, such as more than $6bn in oil and gas The group 350.org, which has doctors to confirm results in into “breakthrough” technolo- much research remains under- electric cars, would help reduce royalties. led opposition to the Keystone the short window of time they gies, such as advanced batteries funded by the private sector, the emissions that cause climate But the fund would still need XL pipeline, announced a protest have to keep the organs viable for electric cars, or biofuels made unless there Is a direct commer- change. approval from Congress - and outside Argonne labs on Friday for the recipient.” from switch grass rather than cial application. A fund would also Even so, the initiative is on a that is expected to be difficult afternoon. AFP corn ethanol. free research labs from Congress, much more modest scale than with Republicans predisposed to GUARDIAN NEWS