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Justice Ministry Qatar support opens branch in Industrial Area DOHA: The Ministry of Justice for Egypt as is decentralising its various services, including attestation of documents and real estate registration, and has plans to open centres in different parts of the country to offer services. a whole: FM The aim is to reach out to peo- ple and businesses in the areas they are based and operate from, ‘We never back any political party’ and ease congestion at its main DOHA: Qatar clarified yes- Receiving Prince Saud, French office. terday that its support was for President Francois Hollande To begin with, the ministry Egypt as a whole and not for invoked the “duty” of countries has opened a branch office in the the Muslim Brotherhood or any that have “a relationship of trust Industrial Area that will do docu- other political party or group. and friendship (with Egypt) to ment attestations. The Foreign Minister, H E Dr end the violence” so that politi- The branch is housed at the Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah, cal dialogue can begin. service centre of the Ministry of in France on a visit, told report- In Cairo, the interim cabinet Interior in the area. ers in Paris yesterday that Qatar discussed the bloody confronta- The Ministry of Justice said it began supporting Egypt right tion, with liberal Deputy Prime is inspired by the success of the after the revolution. Minister Ziad Bahaa El Din Interior Ministry in its service “And the support continues till advocating an end to a state of Supporters of ousted president Mohammed Mursi during a protest in Roxy Square in Cairo yesterday. Supporters decentralisation plans. date. There are misunderstand- emergency declared last week, marched across Egypt in defiance of a warning by the military that it will confront violence. “We will also have service ings about Qatar’s support. It is political participation for all par- centres in different parts of the for Egypt,” he said. “We never ties and guarantees of human country in collaboration with provide support to a political rights, including the right to free to take part in reconciliation.” the Interior Ministry,” said the party.” Dr Al Attiyah was address- assembly. Egyptian Foreign Minister Al Jazeera Mubasher under scrutiny Ministry of Justice. ing a news conference jointly with But his initiative seemed at Nabil Fahmy , meanwhile, insisted DOHA: Egyptian authorities said yesterday that they will review All types of documents that his French counterpart, Laurent odds with the stance of Prime the interim government had not the legality of Al Jazeera Mubasher (Al Jazeera Live) in Egypt. need attestation by the Ministry Fabius. Minister Hazem El Beblawi, abandoned the path to democ- The channel which reported the statement yesterday said it of Justice can now be attested at Saudi Arabia warned the who has suggested outlawing the racy amid a deadly crackdown on reflected a plan by the Egyptian government to ban Al Jazeera’s the Industrial Area branch office. West against putting pressure 85-year-old Brotherhood, which opponents. Fahmy told German activities in the context of the July 30 military take-over and the THE PENINSULA on Egypt’s military-backed gov- would force it underground. news weekly Der Spiegel that arrest of a number of Al Jazeera journalists in Egypt. Continued on page 4 ernment to halt a crackdown The meeting lasted about four military leaders were unlikely to The Egyptian Information Minister, Durriya Sharafaddin, said in on supporters of ousted Islamist hours, but ended with no immedi- extend a month-long nationwide the statement that the government decision came as the Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi. ate announcement of any major state of emergency imposed last people were disappointed by the way the channel was covering the Alwaleed sacks “We will not achieve anything decision. week. “I assure our friends that events in the country. through threats,” Saudi Foreign Ahmed Al Tayeb, leader of Al we are maintaining our road map Meanwhile, an Egyptian court has extended the remand of Al channel head over Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal, Azhar, Egypt’s supreme state to democracy.” Thirty-six Islamist Jazeera journalist Abdalla Al Shami for another 15 days. He was told reporters through an inter- Islamic institution, called for prisoners were killed yesterday taken into custody during a military crackdown on a sit-in at Rabia ‘Brotherhood links’ preter during a visit to Paris. respect for mosques and churches during an attempted jailbreak, Al Adabiya square in Cairo. DOHA: Saudi billionaire Prince France called on Saudi Arabia after reports of attacks blamed on bringing to almost 800 the toll in Al Jazeera Mubasher photographer Mohammed Badr was also Alwaleed bin Talal has given and Qatar to help find a solution the Brotherhood. five days of violence. AGENCIES arrested about one month ago. THE PENINSULA marching orders to the crisis in Egypt. He also called for “all Egyptians Picture on page 4 to a celebrated Kuwaiti Islamic scholar and motiva- tional speaker who headed his famous religious channel Abu Dhabi court extends Al Risalah, appar- Onion costlier as imports fall ently for his links to the Muslim Brotherhood. Qatari’s remand for a month DOHA: Prices of Indian onion, in Doha while some neighbour- official of a leading hypermarket Alwaleed said in a commu- a best-selling vegetable, have hood groceries were selling it at told this daily last evening. nication addressed to Dr Tariq DOHA: The detention of the Qatari who has been in custody in the shot up in the local market fol- QR5 or QR6 a kg. He said there is no panic buying Suwaidan (pictured) that the UAE since late last February was extended for a month yesterday. lowing a drastic fall in imports Indian onion is short in supply by customers until now. “People satellite channel was launched to Dr Mahmoud Al Jaidah was produced before a judge in Abu Dhabi from India, the major exporter at the central wholesale market will not stock onion or other veg- propagate moderation and not to and a UAE lawyer defending him was not allowed in to represent him, of onion to Qatar. causing a rise in retail prices. etables in huge quantities. In fact, be affiliated with any ideology or claimed a Qatari lawyer who has been following up on the case. Imports from India remain hit, Outlets directly importing onion many grocery owners are buying group — a veiled reference to the Abdullah Taher said on his twitter account late last night: “We don’t with the major onion producing from India have also hiked the from us in bulk to sell it out at Brotherhood. ask the UAE authorities to release Jaidah. All we want is to grant him states in the country experienc- prices in keeping with the daily higher prices.” He said Qatar is He said in the letter: “I am a fair trial”. ing a sharp decline in produce as price list issued by the Ministry looking for alternative sources highly disappointed by what you Taher, in earlier tweets, said there was a flicker of hope for Al a result of heavy monsoon show- of Business and Trade. to meet an expected shortage in have written in the social media, Jaidah’s release as investigators hadn’t been able to establish any links ers. Prices of onion in some parts “We were selling Indian onion supply in the weeks to come. “We which shows your inclinations between him and the banned UAE-based social organisation Dawat of the country have gone up as at QR3 a kg until Saturday but have stocks at least for one week and contradicts the goals of Al Al Islah. He said two UAE lawyers who were approached to defend Al high as 100 rupees per kg which the prices have gone up to QR4 and are looking for new sources Risalah. Jaidah refused to take up the case. is equivalent to about QR6. today. The impact of the price like Egypt.” India remains the top “Not only this, in a lecture in Taher was bitterly critical in his earlier tweets of the Qatari media Prices of Indian onion have hike in India is not yet felt in its exporter of vegetables to Qatar Yemen you announced that you saying they had turned a blind eye to Al Jaidah’s detention (since gone up by more than 50 per full force in Qatar because of the and onion forms the major por- are one of the leaders of the February 26). cent in the local market over the old stocks existing in the market. tion of its exports, according to Brotherhood.” Qatari newspapers haven’t written a word about him and no cor- past one week and a further hike “Prices will shoot up further data released by the ministry. The prince, as Chairman of Al respondent has visited Abu Dhabi to follow up on the case, he said. is expected very soon, when the with new shipments arriving A shortage in supply of Indian Risalah’s board of trustees, said Taking a dig at local newspapers for ignoring local issues, he said if stocks run out. in the market. There are also onion could lead to a hike in the he had repeatedly warned him you want to read about the goings-on extensively in Egypt, Libya and The commodity was sold at reports that India would impose prices of the commodity imported against political affiliation. Tunisia “please read Qatari dailies”. QR4 per kg yesterday at leading a ban on exports if the situa- from other countries as well, say THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA supermarkets and hypermarkets tion worsens in the country,” an market sources. THE PENINSULA Continued on page 4

AC buses serve as waiting areas for commuters DOHA: After the shaded area at the were stationed yesterday, as the terminus “I’ve seen several AC shelters at a few bus Mowasalat bus terminus in Al Ghanim was expected a surge in the number of passengers stops in Doha and they are hardly used by damaged by a rampaging bus on August since all offices had opened after Eid holidays. commuters, so I don’t see any reason why 11, the transport company has stationed People welcomed the initiative, saying it was Mowasalat would not build an AC waiting area two AC buses as waiting enclosures for more comfortable waiting there as the buses at this main station where many people wait passengers. were air-conditioned. for buses,” said a commuter. It was not known, however, if the buses would “It is much comfortable to wait here. My According to Mowasalat, the central termi- be used as waiting enclosures permanently. bus comes every 20 minutes but there are nus serves around 80,000-100,000 passengers Waiting sheds were badly damaged in the times when I miss it and I have to wait longer daily. “They should erect a fully covered AC freak accident which injured 13 people when so this comes as a relief for me,” said a Filipina waiting area because it is really hot during a bus driver accidentally stepped on the accel- commuter who avails public bus service. summer and waiting sheds are not enough,” erator instead of the brakes. During peak times when there are many said a Nepalese who is new to Doha, adding he What remains in the waiting area are iron people waiting at the terminus and buses can- found it hard to adjust to Qatar’s hot climate, benches, which become very hot during the not accommodate them, some wait beside the as he came from a cold region in Nepal. A day when temperatures soar over 40 degrees stall selling refreshments while others stay permanent AC waiting area, commuters say, Celsius, making it virtually impossible for peo- beside the Mowasalat management building. is needed at the terminus because summer ple to sit on. “These buses are positioned here Some people suggested improving facilities here is longer than winter. the whole day for people to use while waiting at the eight-year-old terminus by erecting a Mowasalat could not be contacted for com- Mowasalat buses used as waiting enclosures at the terminus for their bus,” said a driver, adding the buses permanent AC waiting area. ment. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Nearly 140,000 Public urged benefit from QRC Ramadan to remember campaign

DOHA: A total of 140,000 needy people have ben- house number efited from the projects implemented by Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) during Ramadan within and outside Over 80,000 number plates installed Qatar. This year Ramadan cam- paign was held under the slogan DOHA: The Ministry of the Ministry of Municipality and ‘Merciful Among Themselves’. Municipality and Urban Urban Planning (Baladiya) has The aim of the campaign Planning through an awareness already installed at least 80,000 was to remind the citizens campaign is urging the public house number plates under the and residents in Qatar to have to follow a convenient way to Qatar Area Referencing System compassion and mercy urging receive emergency and other (QARS) project. to donate to the needy, vulner- services fast. The centre installed the num- able and disadvantaged people. Residents are asked to know bers following an order given by Total cost of the projects and refer their building, street and the National Committee for the amounted to QR45m for 57 zone number while calling vari- Coordination of Infrastructure projects for relief, medical and ous services including the ambu- Public Services. The committee social aid which were carried lance services and civil defence to includes members from Public out in 14 countries. reach fast, as they could find the Works Authority (Ashghal), Needy people in places such place through the Geographical Kahramaa, Mowasalat, Qtel, as in Palestine/Jerusalem, Information System. Ministry of Environment, Civil refugee camps in Lebanon, “People can refer their house, Defence, Qatar Petroleum and Yemen, Pakistan, Nepal, street and zone number while the Planning Commission. Afghanistan, China, Sri making any complaint with the The system uses technologies Lanka, Niger, Somalia, south- ministry, so it would be easier for having database which is linked ern Sudan, Darfur, Chad and them to locate the place,” said a to the Internet that makes it easy Comoros. call centre representative at the for the service providers to reach In Syria out of this budget, ministry. each the buildings. Qatar Red Crescent allocated “They could do the same while Also in the first phase a deci- QR1.204,500 to support the calling emergency services like sion was taken to put the plates needy people. ambulance or the civil defence as on the right side of each build- Around QR6,000,000 was it could help them reach fast,” he ing and to assign odd numbers to allocated to the implementa- said. buildings located on the left side tion of projects within Qatar ‘Remember your house number’ of the road and even numbers to during the month of Ramadan. campaign has installed display those on the right. These projects included sup- boards showcasing that even The second phase produced port to needy families provid- Qpost and home delivery services the numbering and creating the ing them with iftar meals, can reach their customers faster database which also included Zakat Al Fitr, food vouchers, if the exact address is provided. Kahramaa number, type of build- distributing food items, Eid To recall, the ambulance serv- ing, old number, survey number, clothing, and conducting social ice through an awareness cam- zone and street. programs. Also a programme paign recently requested the The Ministry has ordered all was held to honour outstanding public to remember their exact municipalities to report on a students and the ‘This is My address as knowing the location monthly basis all new buildings Wish’ project which realised is very essential for an ambulance to be included in the database to the dreams of sick children. to reach at a case of emergency. be provided with plates, according The Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning has installed display boards in different places of Doha requesting The projects benefited around The Centre for Geographical to previous reports. people to ‘Remember your house number.’ QASSIM RAHMATULLAH 92,000 people. Information System (GIS) at THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA

Qatar’s UN HDI ranking distorted due to migrant workers: Study

DOHA: Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) have shown that Qatar would improve its ranking in the United Nation’s Human Development Index (HDI) if adjustments were made for the country’s large popula- tion of migrant workers. The study titled “Impact of migrant workers on the Human Development Index” was con- ducted by Dr Ravinder Mamtani, Associate Dean for Global and Public Health at WCMC-Q, Dr Sohaila Cheema, Director of Global and Public Health at WCMC-Q; and Dr Albert B Lowenfels, Professor of Surgery at New York Medical College. The study has been published in the UK-based journal, Perspectives in Public Health. “Our research study makes two important points. One, the Human Development Index must be adjusted for the migrant population because this group often has a low level of educa- tion. Failure to do so can result in a distorted HDI ranking for a nation such as Qatar with 70-80 percent migrant workers. Two, the current HDI ranking based on unadjusted data must be inter- preted with caution,” Dr Mamtani said. The HDI was developed to measure the overall wellbeing of a nation and is often used as a means of comparing countries. It Associate Dean for Global and Public Health at WCMC-Q, Dr Ravinder is calculated using three varia- Mamtani, and Director of Global and Public Health at WCMC-Q, Dr Sohaila bles: health, wealth and education. Cheema, who conducted the study titled “Impact of migrant workers on The health component is based the Human Development Index”. on life expectancy at birth and the wealth component is gross national income per capita. “The study makes a valuable permits and the wages that the Since 2011 the education com- point, that is, if the HDI meas- workers earned were not taxed ponent has been split into two ure was appropriately adjusted and, for the most part, trans- separate measures, which are for the presence of migrant work- ferred to their home countries. schooling years for adults and ers, then Qatar would rank near They concluded that there are expected school years for children Norway at the top of the United currently 14 countries with more entering the education system. It Nations Human Development than 30 percent migrant work- is the mean schooling years for list,” Dr Lowenfels said. ers whose ranking in the HDI adults that the researchers have The researchers said the other list is severely impacted and the concluded skews the results of components of the HDI – health researchers said that the HDI Qatar’s HDI measurement, as and income – did not have a sig- rankings of any country with a a large percentage of migrant nificant impact on the final meas- high proportion of expatriate workers have had less formal urement as generally only healthy workers should be interpreted education. workers were granted work cautiously. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Qatar plans to launch second satellite by 2017 All systems ready for first satellite launch on August 29

DOHA: Qatar will become an has already received several appli- “Contract for the satellite was official member of the interna- cations for subscribers even before signed with Space Systems Loral tional space club once satellite the launch of Sohail 1, which has (SSL) and ictQarar on behalf of Sohail 1 is launched on August in fact, helped to start planning Qatar as Es’hail was not yet estab- 29. Sohail 2. lished at the time. The contract The satellite will be launched “Sohail 2 will give Qatar a more of the satellite has now come to from European Spaceport in competitive and strong role in the Es’hailSat,” he added. Kourou, French Guiana, between satellite market,” he said. Qatar Satellite Company owns 5.30pm and 6.30pm in collabo- As per the capacity of Sohail 54.5 percent of the satellite ration with Qatar’s European 1, television channels running on project, while 45.5 percent of the partner company Eutelstat, the the Standard Definition Television share is owned by the French- leading satellite operator. (SDTV) service will have the based satellite provider Eutelstat. Sohail 1 aims to respond to capacity of 140 channels, while A plane carrying 47 Qatari Qatar’s needs and strategic goals, the High Definition Television delegates will leave from Qatar the Chief Executive Officer of (HDTV) would run 30 channels. On August 28 at 12:05 am to the Qatar Satellite Company It took three years to build attend the launching ceremony Es’hailSat, Ali Ahmed Al Kuwari, Sohail 1, which weighs about six in Kourou. told Al Sharq in an interview. tonnes. The expected time of launch is Experiments and technical The project on the satellite expected from 25 to 30 minutes, tests will be carried out for three started in 2009 with the estab- if everything goes as planned, Al months after which the orbit lishment of a temporary com- Kuwari said. of the satellite will be 25.5 east, mittee from government bodies Although he did not mention 36,000km up from the earth’s which included members from the the cost of the project, Al Kuwari surface Ministry of Interior, Ministry of said satellites generally cost “We expect to start providing Defence, ictQatar, Kahramaa and between $250m and $450m. Qatar’s first satellite, Sohail 1, arrives at the launch base in French Guiana ahead of the August 29 launch. services by December this year. Ooredoo. “This depends on the size of the BELOW: Chief Executive Officer of Qatar Satellite Company, Ali Ahmed Al Kuwari (left), explaining details of Sohail 1. Priority will be given to local TV “The mandate of the committee satellite and the technology used. channels and telecommunication was to identify the need for Qatar “We have also established a spe- services,” Al Kuwari said. to have its own satellite, keeping cial centre to deal with the cus- He said that Es’hail also plans in view services such as broad- tomers that will work for 24 hours to launch Sohail 2 by the end 2016- casting, telecommunication and throughout the week.” 17. Al Kuwari said that Es’hailSat Internet,” Al Kuwari said. THE PENINSULA

Engineers giving the final touches to Sohail 1.

Qatar slams explosion in Bahrain village

DOHA: Qatar has strongly Bahrain, reiterating that Qatar entrance to the village with a condemned the explosion denounces criminal acts that “home-made explosive device,” which hit Al Dair village in undermine security and stabil- the state-run Bahrain News Bahrain, injuring five secu- ity and terrorise people. Agency said. ritymen, an official source The policemen were wounded Witnesses said forces cor- at the Foreign Ministry said as security forces clashed with doned off the area, raided yesterday. opposition protesters in the Shia homes and made some arrests. In a statement to Qatar village of Al Dair north of capi- In Cairo, Arab League Secretary News Agency, the source tal Manama. General Dr Nabil Elaraby also affirmed Qatar’s solidarity with The injuries were inflicted by condemned the “terrorist” act. the people and government of a “group of terrorists” at the THE PENINSULA

The ambulances that were donated by the Qatari campaign for Syrian people. Qatar donates 10 ambulances to help destitute Syrians

DOHA: As part of Qatar’s con- the councils and medical centres at meeting the urgent needs of tinued support to the Syrian in areas which are not controlled the people living in areas where people, the Qatari campaign by the Syrian regime. The Qatari the health sector is affected due for the relief of the Syrian peo- campaign to help the Syrians had to attacks by the Syrian regime, ple delivered 10 state-of-the-art imported these state-of the-art which caused disruption of deliver- ambulances to local councils and vehicles. ing the medical needs, particularly medical centres operating in The relief aid which was the requirements of urgent aid. the area of East Gouta in rural delivered to the people of rural The delivery of ambulances Damascus. Damascus also included food and comes within the continuous The delivery took place on a humanitarian aid and medical assistance in various fields pro- Syrian territory near Bab Al assistance, and baby milk and vided by Qatar to the brotherly Hawa crossing between Syria and medicine. Syrian people, and delivered to Turkey. The ambulances were The delivery of medical and tens of thousands of Syrians inside handed over to representatives of humanitarian assistance aimed and outside the country. QNA MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Setting sun Diplomacy

The Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah with his French counterpart Laurent Fabius at the Foreign Ministry in Paris, yesterday. DFI joins hands with Sarajevo Film Festival

Labourers working at a construction site are silhouetted against the setting sun in Hilal area of Doha yesterday. SHAIVAL DALAL Move to boost Arab film industry

DOHA: Doha Film Institute recent works by Arab filmmak- (DFI) has partnered with the ers at next year’s Sarajevo Film Sarajevo Film Festival (SFF) Festival and again invite recipi- Indian airline cuts charges for additional baggage on a number of new initiatives ents of DFI grants to participate at their respective festivals to in the CineLink Co-Production increase and strengthen con- Market. Al Khater said, “As we DOHA: Air India Express has baggage — 20kg plus an additional to reduce the Free Baggage Passengers with tickets issued nections between Arab and at DFI continue to shape our two reduced the charges for addi- 10kgs — by paying QR30, the air- Allowance on flights operating before August 22 will continue European cinema. new festivals – the Ajyal Film tional baggage from QR50 to line said yesterday. into India from 30kg to 20kg per to be entitled to 30kg Free As part of the partnership, Festival for the Young and the QR30 on all flights operating Those who get their tickets passenger, which is the present Baggage Allowance , as reflected DFI is curating a selection of Qumra Film Festival, Doha – into India from Qatar and other issued on or after August 22 from Free Baggage Allowance on flights on their itinerary receipt, irre- films from the Arab world to be we are focusing on forming new Gulf countries. any part of the Gulf can benefit operating out of India. This will be spective of the date of travel, screened at this year’s Sarajevo partnerships with like-minded Passengers can now carry from the revised charges. applicable to tickets booked on or said the airline. Film Festival (August 16-24) organisations. an additional 10kg of checked-in The airline recently decided after August 22. THE PENINSULA including Mahdi Fleifel’s A World “DFI and the Sarajevo Film Not Ours (UK/Lebanon/Denmark, Festival share common goals 2012) and Ahd’s Sanctity (Saudi of cultural exchange. This new Arabia, 2012). partnership will allow us to con- Freedom not for sale, The films are featured as part tinue our support for emerging of the Sarajevo Film Festival Arab filmmakers by providing says Dr Al Suwaidan Partner Presents programme. them with an international festi- A delegation of DFI repre- val platform to show their work, Continued from page 1 sentatives, headed by DFI CEO giving recipients of DFI grants Dr Al Suwaidan reacted Abdulaziz Al Khater, will attend greater industry experience and sharply to the letter and tweeted SFF. Additionally, a recipient exposure.” he was nobody’s slave except that of funding from DFI’s grant Mirsad Purivatra, Sarajevo of Allah’s and stressed how he had programme will take part in Film Festival Director, said: “The made Al Risalah a great success. CineLink Co-Production Market, Sarajevo Film Festival is devoted “My mind, my freedom and my Sarajevo Film Festival’s industry to supporting and developing principles are not for sale. platform. regional cinema and its audi- After the cleric (who has a Further extending the partner- ence. We wish to discover young large number of Twitter follow- ship, Sarajevo Film Festival will film talents and help them step in ers) was fired, his angered sup- promote Southeast European the world of film industry. Being porters launched a campaign filmmaking with a presentation a part of very diverse film tradi- boycotting Al Risalah. of three films from its official 2013 tions and culture of the territory But Al Suwaidan has urged programme at the Qumra Film that we call our region, our fes- them to withdraw their Twitter Festival, Doha in March next tival is vivid and resonates with campaign saying: “Al Risalah is so year. many different voices. dear to me”. THE PENINSULA Finally, DFI will curate three THE PENINSULA

Visitors and officials at the new Justice Ministry service centre at the Industrial Area. Justice Ministry plans to open more service centres

Continued from page 1 The branch offices or service centres of the justice ministry to be opened in future will also provide real estate registration services. Currently, real estate registration is centralised and there are no branches. The Industrial Area branch of the Justice Ministry is, however, not offering real estate registration serv- ice now. The main document attestation office of the jus- tice ministry is open only on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays between 5pm and 8pm. Its newly-opened Industrial Area branch will, how- ever, work in two shifts on all weekdays. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

Foreign minister: 36 Islamists die in jailbreak bid Egypt still on path to democracy BERLIN: Egyptian Foreign Military chief pledges forceful response to violence; shops, banks reopen in Cairo Minister Nabil Fahmy insisted the interim government had not CAIRO: Thirty-six Islamist on police stations and govern- abandoned the path to democ- prisoners were killed yester- ment buildings. racy amid a deadly crackdown day during an attempted jail- The army and police have sent on opponents, in an interview to break, bringing to almost 800 reinforcements to the Abu Zaabal be published today. the toll in five days of violence prison, the scene of yesterday’s Fahmy, a former ambassador to since Egypt moved to crush deadly jailbreak attempt, the offi- the United States, told German supporters of ousted president cial MENA news agency reported. news weekly Der Spiegel that Mohammed Mursi. The pro-Mursi Anti-Coup Egypt’s military leaders were The violence comes amid a Alliance, which has been pressing unlikely to extend a month-long relentless security crackdown for the Islamist leader’s reinstate- nationwide state of emergency on Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood ment since the army toppled him imposed last week. movement that includes the in a popularly backed coup, accused “I assure our friends that we arrest of top Islamist leaders. police of killing 52 prisoners. are maintaining our road map to It has drawn widespread inter- “The killing of 52 of anti-coup democracy,” he said. national condemnation, with sen- detainees emphasises the system- He said Egyptians “would not ior European Union diplomats set atic violence practised against accept the country staying under to hold emergency talks today to opponents of the coup, and empha- the now-imposed state of emer- discuss the situation and future sises the killing operations in cold gency in the long run.” EU action. blood they face,” the group said in And he said the Muslim The Egyptian interior ministry a statement in English. Brotherhood backers of ousted said the prisoners had taken an “They were reportedly assas- Islamist president Mohammed officer hostage and died after suf- sinated in their truck with Mursi were welcome to a dia- focating on tear gas. live ammunition and tear gas logue on Egypt’s political future “Thirty-six of the prisoners fired from windows,” said the “as soon as calm and order have died of suffocation and crowding Brotherhood-led group. been restored”. after tear gas was used to stop The Islamists said they can- “Those who have not broken their escape,” the ministry said. celled “several marches” yester- the law can take part in the politi- The killings are the latest in day, citing fears of vigilantes and cal process,” he said. five days of bloodshed sparked snipers, but that others would go Fahmy chided Western allies by a bloody police and military ahead. for their sharp criticism of gov- operation to clear Islamists from At a mosque in the Dokki neigh- ernment force against pro-Mursi protest camps in Cairo. bourhood of Cairo, where one Egyptian soldiers place barbed wire to block the way leading to the constitutional court ahead of an anounced demonstrators. In his first remarks since the march was scheduled to begin, “I am disappointed that the vio- protest called for by the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo, yesterday. campaign was launched, military residents stood guard. lence by the other side has not chief Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, who “We are waiting for them. I been more clearly recognised and overthrew Mursi on July 3, warned swear we will kill them if they marched in the Suez canal city of showed signs of returning to nor- The European Union said yes- condemned by the West,” he said. security forces would confront any approach the mosque,” one said. Ismailiya, a correspondent said. mal, with traffic beginning to terday it would review ties with He discouraged direct interven- further violence from protesters. In the evening, the interior Two policemen were later killed flow again and banks and shops Egypt’s army and government tion in the conflict by the United “We will never be silent in the ministry announced a ban on in a shooting attack near the city, reopening for the first time since unless the bloodshed ends. States or the European Union. face of the destruction of the coun- vigilantes who have formed self- the interior ministry said. Wednesday. “The EU will urgently review in “This is an Egyptian problem try,” Sisi told top military and styled “popular committees” and The rallies had been expected Violence has continued to plague the coming days its relations with that we must solve,” he said. police commanders. urged citizens to respect a nightly to be a test of the strength of the Sinai Peninsula, where a civil- Egypt,” EU leaders Herman Van “I trust the military, I am sure “We are very prepared for curfew. Mursi’s loyalists in the wake of ian, two soldiers and a policeman Rompuy and Jose Manuel Barroso that the officers are not fixated this,” he said, pledging a “force- The announcement came as the crackdown. were killed overnight on Saturday, said. on power.” ful” response to further attacks hundreds of protesters briefly Last morning, the capital security sources said. AFP AFP Don’t pressure Egypt: Saudi warns West

PARIS: Saudi Arabia yester- He said cutting aid would be day warned the West against Iraq backs crackdown on Islamists difficult, as EU money allowed putting pressure on Egypt’s “Egyptians to eat and receive military-backed government BAGHDAD: Iraq’s premier backed the Egyptian military medical treatment”. However, to halt a crackdown on sup- crackdown on supporters of ousted president Mohammed “loans are easier to cut,” he porters of ousted Islamist Mursi in a statement yesterday, the latest Arab leader to added. President Mohammed Mursi. back the operation. Both Hollande and the Saudi “We will not achieve anything Nuri Al Maliki appealed for “self-restraint” but said Baghdad minister called for fresh elec- through threats,” Saudi Foreign stood with the Egyptian government, describing its moves against tions in Egypt. Egypt’s army Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal, the Muslim Brotherhood as efforts to impose law and order. has already promised an early told reporters through an inter- “We stand strongly with the Egyptian government in its steps presidential vote in a transi- preter during a visit to Paris. to impose the rule of law and install security and peace across tion plan it set out after Mursi’s The prince spoke after meet- all of Egypt,” Maliki said in a statement on his website. overthrow. ing French President Francois Maliki said the ongoing violence in Egypt was the result of a Riyadh was a close ally of Hollande, who on Thursday “conspiracy targeting the desires of the Egyptian people”. Egypt’s former leader Hosni called for a swift end to a He also called for “maximum self-restraint.” Mubarak, toppled by a popular state of emergency imposed by AFP uprising in 2011 that brought Egypt’s military authorities. Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood EU foreign ministers meet Mursi, deposed by the military violence continues, then we to power, and has long feared in Brussels this week to review on July 3. More than 800 people can and we probably must take the spread of the Islamist what steps to take follow- have died in the violence. decisions,” France’s Foreign group’s ideology to the Gulf ing a bloody crackdown since “If the situation calms down, Minister Laurent Fabius told monarchies. Wednesday on supporters of very good. If on the contrary France 2 television yesterday. REUTERS

Iran faces one-third budget shortfall DUBAI: Iran faces a shortfall of one-third in this year’s budget due to lower than expected revenues and spending plans will be revised next month, senior gov- ernment officials said. The country’s oil exports, its major source of revenues, have halved since 2011 as a result of sanctions on its oil, shipping and banking sectors imposed by Western nations over Iran’s disputed nuclear programme. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who took office this month, has pledged to improve the economy by cutting inflation of around 40 percent, repairing Iran’s oil sector and easing sanctions. About one-third of the approximately $68bn budget for March 2013-March 2014 will not be realised, said Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri, citing figures provided by the administration of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Jahangiri was quoted by the ISNA news agency as saying yesterday that officials told him that “more than one-third of the budget is unrealistic” and it must be cut to about $45bn. REUTERS

Abu Qatada’s family in Jordan AMMAN: The family of radical cleric Abu Qatada, who faces terror charges in Jordan following his depor- tation from Britain, has arrived in the Arab kingdom, his brother said yesterday. “They landed at Amman’s Queen Alia international airport and on Friday they visited Abu Qatada in jail,” Abu Omar said. “Abu Qatada is in good condition. We asked the authorities today (Sunday) to allow us to visit him in prison,” he said. Abu Qatada is in Muwaqqar prison, a maximum secu- rity facility in the desert east of Amman. AFP MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 06 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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INALLY, Bo Xilai is to go on trial on Thursday. The once-famous and now-infamous leader of the Chinese Communist Party faces justice over bribery and abuse Fof power. Once a revered figure in Chinese political Arab world needs EU-style circles, the former boss of the Chongqing Municipality has seen his fortunes plummet in the last one year after the mysterious murder of British businessman Neil Heywood. Bo’s wife Gu Kailai got into trouble last year after a protracted scandal that was sparked after a senior police officer sought shelter in the democratic union US Consulate in Chongqing. Amid speculation that Wang Lijun, BY AARON DAVID MILLER and the war-torn Balkans — including five design their own Acquis Communitaire, fabled for fighting corruption with an iron hand in booming EDWARD P JOSEPH states with significant Muslim popu- the raft of laws and regulations that Chongqing —the police force of which he headed, was seeking lations — citizens came to understand every aspiring EU state must pass asylum, the powers in Beijing came out with a statement. It HE United States isn’t respon- that disputes ultimately have to be and implement to demonstrate its declared that Wang was being sent on leave for stress and sible for the recent violent resolved within state institutions. democratic bona fides. This collabora- over-work. Tconfrontations in Egypt, but it The Arab world has no such assured tion would far surpass the patchwork Heywood died under suspicious circumstances in Chongqing is stunningly clear that the Obama common destination, making inter- of programmes of the US Agency for administration’s approach to the Arab necine violence almost inevitable. Egypt International Development and the EU’s in November 2011. His death drew headlines and later the uprisings is in shambles. Cataclysmic and its fractious neighbours desperately Egypt Task Force and, instead, open the incident got entangled with the fate of Bo Xilai, who was upheavals like those coursing through need a unifying vision that can incul- possibility for the intensive engagement later fired by the Communist Party. Bo was known in the the Arab world are rare; rarer still is a cate respect for democratic norms that has transformed Eastern European municipality for fighting corruption and Communist Party second chance at shaping the outcome of across glaring differences. Although institutions. leaders had been known to visit the area to have a look at his such change. Yet this is what the crisis in Arab nations have no interest in join- This Arab Acquis would be less exact- Egypt offers. The United States and its ing the European Union or NATO, the ing than its European counterpart to anti-graft policies. Immediately after the scandal broke, Bo European allies Arab world can draw on the model accommodate obvious differences from denied allegations that his policies in the city were oppressive need to broaden of Eastern European transition, with Eastern Europe (for example, Egypt leading to the demotion of police chief Wang. the international fledgling Arab democracies devising already has a market economy, albeit Bo’s family was known to be community’s their own supra-national organisation one badly in need of reform) and among The trial of close to Heywood. London had The Arab world narrow focus dedicated to advancing democracy. Like Arab states, as well as debate over the asked Beijing to conduct a probe has no such on the Muslim the EU in its infancy, this Union of Arab role of Islam. Still, obtaining formal Bo Xilai will Brotherhood and Democracies (UAD) could start with agreement on core principles would go into the death of its citizen amid bring the focus assured common the Egyptian limited objectives and evolve toward a long way toward establishing respect reports that Bo and Wang fell out destination, military and ambitious goals, including, ultimately, for democratic norms. In turn, the Arab over the politician’s bid to thwart seize the oppor- pan-Arab political union. The prospect union could spur progress on reducing back on China making internecine as it struggles the probe into the killing that was tunity to craft of an organisation designed not just to trade and other internal barriers among being linked to his family. Bo’s wife violence almost — in partner- partner with but eventually to rival the member states. The formalised rela- with a corrupt was ultimately arrested and tried an ship with Egypt United States and the European Union tionship between the UAD and NATO inevitable. Egypt and other Arab could win support across the spectrum could also target civilian control of the bureaucracy and year ago. The judgement pronounced and its fractious states in transi- of Islamists, secularists and members of military, a critical reform that has been her guilty in Heywood’s murder for tion — the archi- minority religions for whom the quest absent from Egypt’s 30-year cash-and- a graft-ridden which she was given a suspended neighbours tecture necessary for Arab dignity is the shared, central carry relationship with Washington. political system. death sentence. desperately need to sustain demo- preoccupation. The union’s mission, Membership criteria would be up to Bo’s Thursday trial will be held a unifying vision cratic change. composition and relationship with the charter members. To achieve its aim Lessons from Western institutions would be distinctly of creating a supra-national “destination” in the city of Jinan in Shandong province. The Chinese judicial that can inculcate Eastern Europe different from that of the Arab League, for fledgling democracies, the union could system has its own way of dispensing justice. The verdict on Gu respect for in the wake of which has no real democracy develop- link three categories of Arab countries: was given after a one-day trial. Though Bo may plead not-guilty, the Soviet Union’s ment function for its disparate member- those organised as democracies (Lebanon, it is most likely that he will get a harsh sentence. After so many democratic norms collapse sug- ship and cannot, as structured, advance Iraq, the Palestinian Authority); those corruption scandals rocking the most populous nation, the across glaring gest an alterna- the demands of so many for representa- transitioning from dictatorship to Communist bosses would want to be seen as least tolerant of tive model worth tive, accountable government. democratic rule (Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, differences. considering. The organisation’s Arab charac- Yemen); and monarchies that are lib- any wrongdoing, especially in the higher echelons of the party. After the fall ter would pave the way for far more eralising (Morocco, Jordan and possibly Bo’s trial will be the politically most relevant since of the Berlin Wall, presidents George meaningful partnership than exists with Oman). Bahrain and fellow Gulf states, Communist leader Mao Zedong’s wife, Jiang Qing, was H W Bush and Bill Clinton launched the three key Western organisations Algeria and other Arab League states in prosecuted more than three decades ago for her role in the a historic effort to bring the former responsible for overseeing the Eastern Africa might be accorded observer status, Cultural Revolution. Not after the 1989 Tiananmen Square Eastern bloc into transatlantic insti- European transition: the EU, NATO while Syria and Sudan would be excluded. protests, has such a political scandal rocked the country and tutions. The headlong embrace of the and the Organization for Security To succeed, the UAD would have to European Union and NATO supplied Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Turkey, be — and be seen as — an Arab initiative the establishment is likely waiting to see Bo severely punished. cohesion to disoriented former com- a long-standing NATO and OSCE mem- owned by respected Arab leaders who The much-anticipated trial will grab international headlines munist states. However halting those ber that commands respect in the Arab recognise that the region desperately and may be a preliminary test of the efficacy of the Chinese countries’ progress toward membership, world, could play a mentoring role, needs a positive, collective vision for a criminal justice system. However, while punishing the Bos and the fact that society shared an affirm- boosting Ankara’s democratic creden- democratic future of the kind that gal- Gus may be good, the country will have to tackle corruption at ative goal helped tamp down political tials at a crucial moment in its own his- vanised Eastern Europe. excess. In nations from the Baltics to tory. Mentors could help Arab states WP-BLOOMBERG its root to deal with the scourge in the long run • The other side Quote of Shrine casts dark shadow the day APANESE Prime Minister Shinzo Thursday marked the anniversary From the Nanjing Massacre in the Japanese conservative elites have Abe made a clear statement of Japan’s surrender in World War II, opening months of the war against proven steadfastly disinclined to seri- by having his ritual gift, with and not only did Abe avoid the promise China to the Rape of Manila in the ously open either their minds or the Jhis name and the title of his usually given by his predecessors to final stage of the Pacific War, imperial archives when it comes to the war. It is unacceptable Liberal Democratic Party, sent to the uphold Japan’s pledge not to engage in Japan’s soldiers left a trail of unspeak- They remain wedded to the narrow- controversial Yasukuni Shrine on war, he also broke with two decades of able cruelty and rapacity across Asia. est technical notions of reparations that there is Thursday. tradition by not expressing any remorse Abe and his supporters try to pre- and redress, and still proudly com- He did not visit the shrine, because over Japan’s aggression against its tend these atrocities never happened, memorate the country’s Class A war violence of this level it would have been a slap in the face neighbours. but history will not be denied by their criminals. to Japan’s neighbours and the United The Abe administration is deliber- attempts to obfuscate the past. But in doing so they are incurring the in a great country States, but he did not stop members ately trying to sweep that part of the To escape a crisis of national identity, odium of Japan’s neighbours. like Egypt. If the of his Cabinet from going to the shrine. country’s past under the carpet. The some Japanese politicians have tried Instead of trying to find glory in Even though, as he and they well know, neo-nationalist officials claim that the to rewrite history, claiming that people denial, they should give the country freedom to protest their visits to the shrine were not a mat- world is prejudiced against Japan, but who do not have a history to be proud back some pride by issuing sincere ter of personal choice, as the shrine that is because it refuses to acknowl- of cannot constitute a nation. But how statements of responsibility, repent- must be respected, commemorates 14 Class A war crimi- edge and apologize for the suffering it can people take pride in a nation that ance and apology. so must security. Francois Hollande nals among Japan’s war dead. caused with its imperialist ambitions. refuses to take an honest look at itself? China Daily French President MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Gibraltar: New era of sour Spain ties Spain says it will sue Gibraltarian authorities for environmental damage from the reef and has threatened to impose a 50 euro border fee on tourists, restrict air space or block the enclave’s lucrative ship- fuelling business.

BY FIONA ORTIZ own coastline to renew fisheries, said it was an envi- ronmental disaster, and retaliated by implementing he people of tiny Gibraltar, a wealthy a sporadic “go slow” policy at the narrow border British enclave perched on a rocky out- crossing, occasionally causing hours-long waits for crop near Spain’s southern tip, have tourists, workers and shoppers while agents meticu- a tradition of griping about their big lously searched cars for contraband. neighbour, which claims the territory Britain, which handles foreign relations and Tas its own. But the tetchy relationship has taken defence for the self-governing territory, is now a sharp nosedive as an escalating spat over fishing demanding the European Commission urgently send has interrupted a decade of relative calm, igniting a team of monitors to see whether the controls break concerns that Gibraltar’s tourism and port indus- European Union law. tries could be hurt. Spain says it will sue Gibraltarian authorities for From Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel environmental damage from the reef and has threat- Garcia-Margallo’s claim that “the party is over” for ened to impose a 50 euro border fee on tourists, Gibraltar, to the enclave’s Chief Minister Fabian restrict air space or block the enclave’s lucrative Picardo comparing Spain’s government to totalitar- ship-fuelling business. ian North Korea, the rhetoric has turned ugly. The diplomatic row has unluckily coincided with “I cannot remember anything quite so tense and Monday’s scheduled arrival in Gibraltar of British A cloud partially covers the tip of the Rock of the British territory of Gibraltar at sunrise from La Atunara port. language quite so vitriolic,” said Bruno Callaghan, warships on their way to practice manoeuvres in the owner of Callaghan Insurance company in Gibraltar. Mediterranean, leading right-leaning Spanish media “They’ve set the clock back 50 years. Whatever hap- to accuse Britain of military bullying. in which 99 percent of residents said they wanted A recreational fisherman who often takes his pens now, the mistrust is there.” Spanish pride over Gibraltar has in the past been to remain British, a desire Britain now pledges to 19-foot boat out into the bay, he said he was frus- For Gibraltarians and the thousands of Spaniards ruffled over far less. British royals now avoid visit- respect. The Spanish Socialist government of 2004- trated that Gibraltar police warnings to the fish- that stream onto the British outpost every day for ing after Prince Charles and Princess Diana upset 2011 took a softer stance on Gibraltar, for example ermen came to nothing. “I’m trying to spread work, many of them to build homes for this over- Madrid by spending part of their honeymoon on allowing flights to land at Gibraltar’s airport for the awareness. You have the Spanish government flowing town of 30,000 people, there is a lot at stake. “The Rock”. first time. Gibraltar is so small that the airport’s putting out anti-Gibraltar propaganda; they have It has seen its economy grow steadily since the When Gibraltar was admitted in May into the runway is crossed by a major road, on which traffic much bigger means than Gibraltar,” said Joyce, who 1990s, fuelled by online gambling and investment Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), stops several times a day to let planes land. has a Spanish grandmother. funds drawn to the low 10 percent tax on corporate it was on condition that Spain and Gibraltar not But the election of the centre-right People’s Party Gareth Gingell, 26, who also has a Spanish grand- earnings. Across the border in southern Spain, many directly play each other. in Spain in late 2011, as well as the election of a mother, is also lobbying for the local cause. His non- city halls are broke and battling joblessness as high “It’s astonishing that this type of measure has harder line leader in Gibraltar around the same profit organisation, Defenders of Gibraltar, leaflets as 40 percent. In contrast, Gibraltar has 3 percent been taken that is usually reserved for cases of mili- time set up an inevitable clash. tourists queuing at the border, urging them to lodge unemployment, a budget surplus, and pays tuition tary tension,” said Dennis Beiso, the Gibraltar team’s “Gibraltar does things to provoke Spanish pride, complaints with the European Union. for every youngster that gets accepted to a university liaison to UEFA. and Spanish officials react from the gut,” said Julian Spain complains that Gibraltar is soft on money- in the UK. The last shot fired over Gibraltar was more than Santamaria, a political scientist and former Spanish laundering, contraband and tax evasion. All issues Though Britain maintains a military base in 300 years ago when Spain ceded the territory to ambassador to Washington. that Gibraltar insists it has cleaned up. Gibraltar, the territory is self-sufficient. One in 10 Britain in the Treaty of Utrecht, a document written Political analysts and Spanish opposition leaders Spain says it seized 139 million illegal cigarettes vehicles in Britain are insured by Gibraltar firms, in Latin that has proven tough to interpret on issues say Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is stirring up smuggled in from Gibraltar last year. Gibraltar has ships line up to fuel at its port, and 11 million tourists such as airspace and that has unenforced conditions trouble with Gibraltar to distract Spaniards from no sales tax, so cigarettes cost 60 percent of what last year enjoyed its balmy weather, rare monkeys such as that the British expel Jews from Gibraltar. a major corruption scandal that has battered his they cost in Spain. and hyper-British pubs festooned with Union Jacks. Gibraltar’s Picardo says Margallo’s rhetoric People’s Party. Conservative British premier David Authorities in local towns are dismayed at the Stand-offs with Spain in recent years have erupted is comparable to the regime of Spanish dictator Cameron has also talked tough on Gibraltar at a hard line from Madrid. The local shops depend on over the handful of small commercial fishing boats Francisco Franco, who shut the border in 1969. It time when traditional voters on the right of his party shoppers from Gibraltar and the local tour operators from the neighbouring Spanish town of La Linea, was not completely reopened until 1985. are being lured away by the anti-European United take Spanish tourists into the territory. which regularly cross into shared waters Gibraltar “We are in a new space where Spain has given Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). “Any confrontational atmosphere ... immediately claims it has the right to manage. In July, Gibraltar herself no room for dialogue,” Picardo said. Meanwhile, Gibraltarians are getting active. means people (from Gibraltar) don’t want to cross dumped concrete blocks into a shallow part of the Britain has also alarmed Gibraltar in the past, Former boxer Kaelan Joyce, 30, has hundreds of the border and invest in Spain or do their shopping bay to form an artificial reef. About 30 Spanish fish- especially when former prime minister Tony Blair’s followers on Twitter, where he regularly posts com- here,” said Gemma Araujo, Mayor of neighbouring ing boats were circling in protest on Sunday. government in 2001 said it was willing to share sov- plaints about what he says are illegal fishing activi- La Linea, who is from the ruling People’s Party. Spain, despite having built similar reefs along its ereignty with Spain. Gibraltar held a referendum, ties by Spanish boats. REUTERS Option in Is cyberbullying a uniquely Egypt: Do British phenomenon? HELEN COWIE age-appropriate limits on Internet use. Poor parental monitoring is consistently associ- nothing n the wake of the recent suicides of teen- ated with a higher risk for young people to agers Hannah Smith and Daniel Perry, be involved in both traditional and online bul- there has been soul-searching about what lying, whether as perpetrator and/or target. OLIVER MILES Imight have been done to shield young However, adults may be less effective people from the dark side of the Internet, in dealing with cyberbullying once it has fter the deaths of hundreds and stop them from resorting to desperate occurred. Most studies confirm that it is this week, and a new wave measures. essential to tell someone about cyberbully- of protests across Egypt One reaction is to blame our British culture ing rather than suffer in silence, and many Ayesterday which brought of playground bullying. In comparison with students report that they would ask their further bloodshed, many people are other countries, we fare badly on measures of parents for help in dealing with a cyberbul- asking: What should Britain, our allies emotional health and well-being among chil- lying incident. But in practice, adolescents and other international players do to dren, as indicated by the 2007 Unicef report. don’t consult adults because they fear loss of help end the unrest? Are we in the UK not vigilant enough in see- privilege (having mobile phone and Internet My first point would be to stay calm, Demonstrators hold a giant portrait of Mohammed Mursi with a caption reading ing the signs of distress in young people? Are access taken away), and because they fear and recognise that doing nothing is ‘Egyptian President. No to the military ouster in Egypt’ and shout slogans during a schools taking sufficient action? Should par- that their parents would not be able to help an option. The situation is bad, but protest in Paris. ents be more alert to the dangers? Are the them as they are not accustomed to the web. hardly as bad as Iraq, where 3,400 providers lax in setting controls on cruel and In a web-based survey of 12- to 17-year- people have been killed in mainly sec- malicious messages? olds, of whom most had experienced at least tarian violence this year (in a situa- each other and from Egypt. Measures restraint” from the security forces The problem is international. A recent one cyberbullying incident in the past year, tion which one can argue was created that worked in Libya could not be and a political process to return to full survey of 23,420 children and young people Juvonen and Gross (2008) found that 90 per- by UK intervention), or Syria, where applied in Egypt, whereas the Russian democracy. The UN Security Council across Europe found that, although the vast cent of the victims did not tell their parents the numbers are higher, or Sudan, the interest which has blocked interna- also called for “maximum restraint” majority were never bullied online, 5 percent about their experiences and 50 percent of media ignores. Diplomats don’t take tional action on Syria might not block after an emergency meeting. This is were being bullied more than once a week, 4 them justified it with “I need to learn to deal the Hippocratic oath, but the principle it on Egypt. not just diplomacy for diplomacy’s percent once or twice a month and 10 per- with it myself”. Students also have a rather is the same: Above all, do no harm. The immediate danger is that the sake: The EU is a heavyweight; and cent less often. Research in Europe, the US, negative and critical attitude to teachers’ sup- The US does not have the do-noth- violent confrontation between Muslim all the permanent Security Council Australia, New Zealand and Canada identi- port and a large percentage consider telling a ing option, because it has a colossal Brotherhood demonstrators and the members, including Russia and China, fies the consequences of online bullying for teacher to be ineffective. military aid programme in the coun- military may be repeated and may have some common interest in avoid- the emotional health of children and young Far from cyberbullying being a uniquely try, which must continue or not con- escalate into the beginnings of civil ing another Middle East catastrophe, people: Victims experience a lack of accept- British problem, the UK has been active tinue. The administration is caught war. The UK and the other inter- and can play a useful or harmful role. ance in peer groups, which results in loneli- in developing peer support in schools. in a legalistic tangle, because there national players can probably not The “do nothing” option allows for ness and social isolation. The young person’s Additionally, many UK schools take account of is a law against aid to governments influence the behaviour and tactics diplomatic action of this kind. What consequent social withdrawal is likely to lead the bystanders who usually play a critical role installed by military coup, so it has of demonstrators, but perhaps the Britain should avoid is being bounced to low self-esteem and depression. as audience to the cyberbullying in a range had to avoid calling it one and have Americans can influence the tac- by events into intervention in Egypt, The UK has been a pioneer in developing of participant roles, and who have the poten- hedged by withholding some hardware tics of the military. The US military even of a modest political nature, technological solutions to the problem through tial to be mobilised to take action against and cancelling some joint military should speak to General Al Sisi in a unless it is clear about the objec- whole-school e-safety policies. Many schools cyberbullying. For instance, the BeatBullying exercises. Steps like that may or may tone which would convince him that tives and the exit strategy. I’ve seen now train pupils in e-safety and “netiquette” system of young CyberMentors, trained to not solve problems in Washington, he will pay a painful price — whether it before. to equip them with the critical tools they need monitor websites and offer emotional support but they won’t help in Cairo. I would in terms of military aid or whatever Thirty years ago Britain was in order to understand the complexity of the to cyber victims, was positively evaluated by question what US interest (other than else — if he doesn’t get his men to deal pressed hard by the US to reward digital world and become aware of its risks as adolescents. that of arms manufacturers) has been with demonstrators using well-tried Egypt for implementing peace with well as its benefits. Similarly, one study in the US showed that served by the military programme, or and patient police methods. Israel by offering military credits so Techniques include blocking bullying behav- peer leaders in school played a part in the by the larger programme of military Inevitably at a slower tempo, Britain the Egyptian army could buy fancy iour online or creating panic buttons for cyber prevention of cyberbullying by creating bul- aid to Israel which it was designed to should be mobilising its allies and hardware. After much sucking of victims to use when under threat. Blocking lying awareness, developing leadership skills balance. others, particularly through the EU teeth it declined (it couldn’t afford it). is considered a helpful online action by cyber among students as well as bullying interven- The outside world must ask: What and the UN. The EU Foreign Policy In less than two years the US was sup- victims, and a number of other studies have tion practices and team-building initiatives is the objective of any action we might Representative, Catherine Ashton, porting Egyptian pleas to “forgive” the additionally found that deleting nasty mes- and facilitating students to behave actively take? The simple answer is to avoid has been commendably active: Making debts. Others, including the French, sages and stopping use of the Internet were as bystanders. This led to a decline in the creating another Syria. But the sim- two well-publicised visits to Cairo in lost their stake. Britain didn’t, because effective strategies. number of students who participated in cyber- plicity is deceptive, because Syria, Iraq, two weeks, visiting the deposed presi- it had not put any money on the table. Parents play an important role in pre- bullying. It also increased students’ under- Libya and all others are different from dent Mursi and calling for “utmost THE GUARDIAN vention, by banning websites and setting standing of bullying. THE GUARDIAN MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST UN chemical weapons Amusement park inspectors reach Syria Advancing army kills local jihadist leader in Latakia DAMASCUS: UN inspectors last year for the first time that The mission is tasked to assess tasked with investigating alleged it has chemical weapons, threat- if chemical weapons were used use of chemical weapons in Syria ening to use them to protect the during the conflict that erupted arrived yesterday in Damascus country against Western military in March 2011 — but not to as fierce fighting raged in the intervention but “never against determine responsibility for any coastal heartland of President the people”. such attacks. Bashar Al Assad’s clan. At the time, US President On the battlefield, fierce fight- The fighting in Latakia came Barack Obama warned the use ing raged in the coastal province as Assad vowed again that he was of chemical weapons was a “red of Latakia as the army pushed determined to “eradicate ter- line” that would constitute a an advance to recapture villages rorism” which he blames for the “game-changer”. seized by rebels in the hinter- deadly conflict that has plagued On Thursday Damascus said it land of Assad’s Alawite minority his country for the past 29 months. has “nothing to hide”. community. A team of more than 10 inspec- The UN team is led by Swedish Rebels positioned in remote tors arrived at the Four Seasons arms expert Aake Sellstroem and enclaves of Latakia’s mountains hotel in the Syrian capital to is expected to investigate Khan Al launched the “battle for the libera- begin their hard-won mission Assal, near the northern city of tion of the Syrian coast” about two which UN officials have said will Aleppo. weeks ago. last two weeks. The government says rebels Rami Abdel Rahman of the Visitors walk around Chavy Land amusement park in Sulaimaniya province, 330km northeast of Baghdad. The The mission had been repeat- used chemical weapons on March Syrian Observatory for Human amusement park is part of a plan by Sulaimaniya city in the mountains of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region edly delayed over differences 19, killing at least 26 people, Rights said the army sent “mas- to attract more visitors from other parts of Iraq and neighbouring countries to boost its economy. with Assad’s regime concerning including 16 Syrian soldiers, but sive reinforcements” to Latakia to the scope of the probe into the the opposition says government fight the rebels and “bombed rebel alleged use of chemical arms in forces carried out the attack. areas heavily”. the Syrian war. Two other sites — Ataybeh near State television said the army Both the government and the Damascus and Homs in central reclaimed rebel positions in the rebels fighting to overthrow Assad Syria — are also expected to be province, including Kharata, Libyan interior minister resigns accuse each other of using chemi- inspected for attacks that report- Janzuriyeh, Baluta, Baruda and cal weapons. edly took place in March and Hambushiyeh. TRIPOLI: Libyan Interior Zeidan to threaten them with was quitting “namely because of The regime admitted in July December, respectively. But according to Abdel Rahman, Minister Mohamed Khalifa Al military force. lack of support from the prime “the army has only been able to Sheikh tendered his resignation Interior ministry spokesman minister,” Abdallah Al Gmati, an secure the outskirts of some vil- yesterday, just three months Rami Kaal said that Khalifa MP, said. Iran, Hezbollah now run Syria: Jarba lages. The battles are ongoing and into the job, his spokesman said, tendered his resignation in a “The minister complained (in they are fierce”. as unrest escalates in the North letter submitted to the General the letter) of not getting financial BEIRUT: Opposition leader Ahmad Jarba says Syria is now “Scores of foreign (jihadist) African country. National Congress, Libya’s higher and moral support to implement being run by regime allies Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, with fighters are being killed in the Sheikh became the second cabi- political authority, and to the his reform programme and said President Bashar Al Assad out of the picture. Latakia fighting,” he said, includ- net minister to quit since August prime minister. he did not have sufficient prerog- In an interview with Saudi-owned newspaper Al Hayat published ing a Libyan emir or local leader 4, when deputy prime minister Zeidan accepted the resigna- atives to carry out his policies,” yesterday, Jarba said Syrian rebels had seized control of “at least of the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq Awadh Al Barassi stepped down tion and asked deputy prime min- said Gmati. half” of the country, 29 months into an anti-Assad uprising. and the Levant. citing the government’s inability ister Sadik Abdelkrim to run the The MP said that Sheikh also Assad is “a killer and a criminal, and... he has collapsed,” the The air force also struck several to contain unrest. interior ministry until a replace- spoke of facing “pressure” from National Coalition chief charged. rebel positions in other parts of Libya has been hit by a spate of ment for Khalifa is found, official GNC members after he tried to Assad “no longer runs Syria. The real rulers of Syria are the Syria yesterday, a day after vio- attacks against Western targets, LENA news agency said. sack some officials from his min- Iranian (elite) Revolutionary Guard... with the participation of lence killed at least 124 people security forces and judges, as well Khalifa took the reins of the istry who refused to quit. (Lebanese Shiite) Hezbollah fighters,” Jarba said. nationwide, the Observatory said. as political assassinations since interior ministry at the end of In August, Barassi stepped Tehran is Assad’s main regional backer, while Hezbollah has sent Opposition National Coalition the ousting of dictator Muammar May to replace Achour Chwayel, down also complaining about in fighters from Lebanon to help the army fight the anti-regime chief Ahmad Jarba, meanwhile, Gaddafi in a 2011 uprising. who quit the job after a law was government policies. He said the rebellion. told a Saudi newspaper that Security guards, including passed banning those who served cabinet had failed to win the peo- Jarba said that supplying the rebel Free Syrian Army with sophis- rebel fighters control nearly half former rebels who helped top- under Gaddafi from holding gov- ple’s trust and provide state agen- ticated weaponry would “change the course of the revolution.” of Syria and the coming months ple Gaddafi, have gone on strike ernment jobs. cies with the resources needed for AFP would be “decisive”. since last month at key oil termi- In the letter read out before the development goals. AFP nals prompting Prime Minister General National, Sheikh said he AFP Tunisia opposition, Lebanon seizes explosives-laden car

BEIRUT: Lebanese secu- killed 27 people three days ago, the Lebanese border, with rocket outskirts of Hermel,” he added. Islamists hold talks rity forces seized a car loaded the sources said. attacks in the Bekaa Valley, street It was not immediately clear with explosives and arrested That attack in a Shia dis- fighting in the Mediterranean whether the rockets were TUNIS: Ruling Islamist move- movement which heads Tunisia’s four men suspected of prepar- trict of southern Beirut which cities of Sidon and Tripoli and launched from inside Lebanon or ment Ennahda and the opposi- ruling coalition has offered nego- ing bombs, days after a deadly is a stronghold of the Lebanese bombs in Beirut. from across the border in strife- tion Nidaa Tounes said yesterday tiations with the opposition to bombing in southern Beirut, militant group Hezbollah was Five rockets landed in and torn Syria, said the source. they have held secret talks in bring in other parties and form security sources said yesterday. the deadliest in the capital since around the eastern Lebanese Hermel and other areas of Europe to try to find a way out a government of national unity, The car was discovered on Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war. town of Hermel, a Hezbollah eastern Lebanon, a bastion of of Tunisia’s political crisis. but it rejects opposition calls to Saturday about 15km south of The bombing, which Shia stronghold, a security source said the powerful Lebanese Shia group Nidaa Tounes leader, ex- step down. the capital in Naameh, laden with Hezbollah blamed on radical Sunni on condition of anonymity. Hezbollah, have been hit by sev- premier Beji Caid Essebsi, a Ennahda’s supporters are five containers of TNT as well as Muslims, followed months of grow- “Two rockets landed in the eral rocket attacks launched from sworn enemy of the Islamists, determined that after long years nitroglycerin, they said. ing sectarian tension in Lebanon town of Hermel, in an area Syria in recent months. met Ennahda chief Rached of repression under president The four men were being fuelled in part by Hezbollah’s between the Mabarrat teaching “People are scared. No one Ghannouchi while on a European Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was held on suspicion of preparing intervention against Sunni rebels association and the Masharia Al knows how the situation will tour last week, his centre-right ousted in Tunisia’s 2011 revolu- explosives for possible use in car in Syria’s civil war. Qaa area, causing no casualties,” develop. No one in the Hermel party said in a statement. tion, the party not be denied a bombings, but were not believed The two-year conflict has killed the source said. area feels relaxed,” said Ali Ghannouchi himself wrote on share of power. to be connected to Saturday’s dis- 100,000 people inside Syria and “Another three rock- Shamas, a resident of Hermel. Facebook that he had held “posi- Last Tuesday, the two sides covery or to the car bomb that the violence has spread across ets have landed now on the AGENCIES tive and frank” talks with Essebsi held rival rallies, highlighting on Thursday, but he too did not the deep divisions over the bal- elaborate. ance to be struck between secu- The encounter took place in larism and democracy following Paris, according to Tunisian the revolution. Five police injured media reports. Ennahda insists it has the right Israel takes polio Ennahda has been holding to lead the government after in Bahrain clashes internal talks since Saturday to emerging as the largest party in shots campaign examine “initiatives” to resolve an October 2011 election for a DUBAI: Five Bahraini police the crisis which broke out with constituent assembly. nationwide were wounded late on Saturday the July 25 assassination of oppo- The mainly secular opposition as security forces clashed with sition politician Mohamed Brahmi. accuses Ennahda of failing to JERUSALEM: Israel took opposition protesters in a Shia A second round of negotia- take strong enough action against its polio vaccination campaign village north of the capital, tions with the powerful UGTT hardline Islamists accused of nationwide yesterday, saying police said. trade union organisation aimed at Brahmi’s murder and the slaying a two-week vaccination effort The injuries were inflicted by striking a compromise is sched- in February of another prominent in the south was not enough to a “group of terrorists” at the uled for today. secular politician, Chokri Belaid. curb the threat of an outbreak entrance to the village of Dair The moderate Islamist AFP of the virus. with a “home-made explosive “Beginning today, children born device,” a statement carried by after 1.1.2004 will be vaccinated the official BNA news agency said. with two drops of a weakened live Police in the Sunni-ruled Shia- (attenuated) polio strain, through- majority Gulf state routinely out the country,” the health min- refer to opposition protesters as Eight killed in Iraq violence istry said in a statement. terrorists. “The decision to vaccinate The authorities crushed mass BAGHDAD: Attacks in Iraq Also yesterday, gunmen on a nationwide is due to the ongo- pro-democracy demonstrations killed at least eight people motorcycle killed the leader of ing presence of the polio virus in in the capital with the help of A child is vaccinated at the Children’s Medical Center in Jerusalem yesterday. including an anti-Al Qaeda a local Sahwa, or anti-Al Qaeda, the Israeli sewage system, and it Saudi-led troops in 2011 but spo- militia leader yesterday, offi- militia and his three-year-old reaching children.” radic protests have continued in cials said, the latest in a surge of niece and wounded his 10-year- The ministry said that since German chided parents who Facebook page promotes medical the Shia villages. violence plaguing the country. old nephew near Kirkuk. the launch of the campaign in the questioned the need to vaccinate knowledge filed a petition to the Protesters generally burn tyres Two roadside bombs targeted Sunni militants consider the south of the country two weeks their children with an attenu- High Court asking for a freeze on and throw petrol bombs, but a bus stop and a supermarket in Sahwa, a collection of Sunni tribal ago, 60,000 children — or 60 per- ated virus in order to prevent the the campaign until questions are authorities say that recently there two separate areas of Baghdad, militias which joined forces with cent of the children in that region potential spread of the virus to answered on the specific vaccine have also been some shootings and killing at least four people and the United States from late 2006, — had already been vaccinated. others, calling the vaccination “a being used. bombings targeting police stations wounding 13, most of them gov- to be traitors. Speaking on military radio, matter of mutual guarantee.” Dikla Baranes, a lawyer repre- and patrols. ernment employees. And in Muqdadiyah, north of Health Minister Yael German said “This attitude is not socially senting the group, said the vac- Witnesses said security forces And the body of a local coun- Baghdad, a roadside bomb killed that while 98 percent of children in acceptable,” she told military cine in use was “not tested in any cordoned off Dair after Saturday cil member who was kidnapped a teacher. The teacher, a Sunni Israel had already been vaccinated radio. “We have an enemy in Western country,” only on a small night’s clashes, raiding several the day before was found south of Arab, had fled a Shia-majority as infants, “that does not prevent Israel, there is a virus and we group in India, and the results houses and making some arrests. Kirkuk, a disputed northern city. area of Muqdadiyah in 2006 and children vaccinated with a dead must take it out.” were “very significant” and raised There were also clashes in sev- He was shot in the head and his returned just two months ago. (inactivated) virus from being car- Meanwhile, the Izun Hozer serious question marks. eral other Shia villages. body bore signs of torture. AFP riers and passing the disease on.” group which according to its AFP AFP MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09

Thousands join Fishermen sail opposition march in Azerbaijan

BAKU: Thousands of in protest at Azerbaijani opposition support- ers held a rare authorised rally yesterday to demand a free-and- fair presidential election sched- Gibraltar reef uled for October in the tightly controlled ex-Soviet state. Police detained several activ- ists as some 3,000 supporters of Azerbaijan’s main opposition HMS Illustrious visits Spain coalition, the National Council of Democratic Forces, waved GIBRALTAR: Dozens of quarters but then turning back banners and chanted support Spanish fishing boats sailed to with no incident reported beyond for Oscar-winning screenwriter Gibraltar yesterday to demand an exchange of insults. Rustam Ibragimbekov’s bid to that the British outpost remove About 500 people watched unseat strongman president 70 concrete blocks it has dropped the one-hour protest from the Ilham Aliyev. in their fishing grounds. shores of Gibraltar, many wav- “Now that the opposition has British naval and Gibraltar ing Gibraltar and British flags. united into the National Council police patrols blocked the 38 Spanish spectators gathered in the in order to take on the authori- Spanish boats from entering dis- port of La Linea de la Concepcion, tarian Aliyev regime, this regime puted waters around the concrete some with Spanish flags and will be swept into history,” said Isa reef, which has sparked an angry T-shirts reading “Gibraltar Is Gambar, head of opposition group diplomatic row between London Spanish”. “We just want to send Musavat. and Madrid. a message to Gibraltar,” said “We are going to support the In the midst of the spat, Leoncio Fernandez, the head of single candidacy of Rustam Britain’s helicopter carrier HMS the La Linea fishermen’s guild. Leoncio Fernandez, head of the La Linea fishermen group, holds a red flare to mark the end of their protest at the Ibragimbekov until the end.” Illustrious visited a Spanish “All we want is to fish where we site where an artificial reef was built by Gibraltar with concrete blocks, in Algeciras bay, La Linea de la Concepcion Any display of public discontent port yesterday and a frigate was have always fished.” in southern Spain, yesterday. or political dissent usually meets a scheduled to dock in Gibraltar Gibraltar police said their main tough government response in the today as part of a pre-planned concern was safety. “When you’re the sea last month without consul- pressed the European Union to says it will not do so against the oil-rich nation, whose presidential naval exercise. working at sea in such close quar- tation — have cut them off from send observers to the border as wishes of Gibraltarians, who are vote is scheduled for October 9. The Spanish fishermen from ters, it can be very dangerous,” a rich fishing grounds and lowered soon as possible. staunchly pro-British. Sunday’s rally in the capital the nearby ports of La Linea de police spokesman said. their already meagre incomes. It is the latest in a string of With Madrid’s prior agree- Baku was sanctioned by the may- la Concepcion and Algeciras set The Gibraltar government says Britain accuses Spain of retali- diplomatic rows over the self-gov- ment, British helicopter and com- or’s office but only for an obscure sail on calm waters across the the reef will regenerate marine ating over the reef by imposing erning British overseas territory, mando carrier HMS Illustrious location about 10 kilometres from narrow strait, accompanied by a life and that the few Spanish excessive customs checks at the which measures just 6.8sqkm and on Sunday stopped at a Spanish the city centre, and police confis- half dozen Spanish police patrols. fishermen who raked there for border to Gibraltar, leading to is home to about 30,000 people. naval base in Rota in southern cated banners criticising Aliyev The Spanish fleet approached shellfish did so illegally under daily hours-long queues of cars. Spain ceded Gibraltar to Britain Spain for a technical stop of sev- ahead of the event. Aliyev has a cordon set up by a total of Gibraltar law. British Prime Minister David in perpetuity in 1713 but has long eral hours before leading naval faced repeated criticism over his 14 British naval and Gibraltar Spanish fishermen, however, say Cameron described the checks argued that it should be returned exercises in the Mediterranean. human-rights record. vessels, manoeuvring in close the concrete blocks — dropped into as “politically motivated” and has to Spanish sovereignty. London AFP AFP Govt survival crucial to Rival hammers Merkel in rally BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela The race has proved lacklustre so far, with recovery: Merkel’s struggling rival in next month’s gen- Merkel only returning from a two-week holiday eral election attempted to revive his campaign in the Alps last week. at the weekend by attacking her euro policy at The centre-left Tagesspiegel recently printed Italian premier his biggest rally to date. a political cartoon showing Steinbrueck exhaust- Peer Steinbrueck, candidate for the main ing himself with shadow boxing while Merkel RIMINI: Italian Prime opposition Social Democrats (SPD), said Merkel snoozed in an easy chair. Minister Enrico Letta yester- was hurting both Germans and the citizens of the Meanwhile, Steinbrueck has stumbled into a day warned that the collapse of ailing eurozone countries with an unwavering series of gaffes that have led even senior Social his government would under- focus on enforcing budgetary rigour rather than Democrats to question his strategy. mine economic recovery and spurring growth. He has complained that the chancellor’s salary anger voters after local media “Cuts, cuts, only cuts — that is not going to is too low, suggested that Merkel owes her suc- reported centre-right leader get the (eurozone) countries out of trouble,” said cess to being a woman and recently questioned Silvio Berlusconi was poised to Steinbrueck, who served as finance minister her “passion for Europe” because she grew up in pull the plug on the executive. under Merkel during her first 2005-2009 term the former communist east. Italian newspapers said in a left-right “grand coalition”. “(Many Social Democrats) are talking about Berlusconi, who was convicted Blasting a yawning wealth gap in Europe’s top what’s gone wrong during the campaign, as if of tax fraud earlier this month, economy, he also called for an across-the-board they’re already anticipating the discussion that would bring down the government minimum wage in Germany, which has done will come after the election—who’s responsible for in October if he is expelled from without one until now. the bad outcome,” political scientist Jens Walther the Senate — a measure the court “It’s not only fairer but also makes sense eco- of Duesseldorf University in western Germany ruling foresees but which requires nomically because it creates spending power,” said. a parliamentary vote to enact. Steinbrueck said, in a full-throated, 40-minute Merkel, for her part, never mentions her Berlusconi’s People of Liberty speech that was frequently interrupted by opponent by name in public, but said in a (PDL) party and Letta’s applause. recent interview that the SPD’s plans to hike Democratic Party (PD) joined “Freedom, justice, solidarity—those are the income taxes on the wealthy would be economic forces in an awkward right-left values I want to promote as chancellor.” “poison”. coalition in April to break a stale- Steinbrueck, 66, was speaking at a celebra- She got another boost last week when data mate that followed February’s tion of the SPD’s 150th birthday at Berlin’s showed that the eurozone economy had emerged inconclusive national election. Brandenburg Gate running throughout the week- from an 18-month recession, appearing to back “No one should block the hopeful end, where the party said up to 300,000 people up her claim that her austerity drive to battle path we have started down,” Letta had gathered on Saturday alone. the debt crisis is panning out. said in his first major speech since But he is the clear underdog in the September Merkel, who is widely seen as a foregone con- the Berlusconi verdict. “An exit 22 vote, as a new poll on Sunday showed. clusion to remain chancellor, said Saturday she from this crisis is within reach.” Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats could well imagine a rerun of a grand coalition “Italians will punish anyone have 40-percent support, according to the sur- if her alliance with the FDP failed to muster a who puts their personal interests vey for Bild am Sonntag newspaper, while the majority. ahead of the common good, which SPD scored just 24 percent—one point above its “I led a grand coalition once so I wouldn’t be is getting out of this crisis,” he record-low result in the 2009 election. credible at all if I ruled one out,” she told the daily said at a meeting of Communion Merkel’s pro-business coalition partners, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, while stress- and Liberation, an influential Free Democrats, tallied six percent, potentially ing her strong preference was for a centre-right Catholic group. giving the allies another ruling majority with five government. REUTERS weeks to go until election day. AFP MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL Workshop for zombies McCain: US has lost credibility in Middle East Obama pressured to act on Egypt

WASHINGTON: President players Israel and Saudi Arabia Barack Obama’s failure to act are pushing Obama to go easy on amid spiralling violence in the generals and are more con- Egypt has led the US to lose cerned by the perceived Islamist all credibility in the Middle threat presented by Mursi and East, senator John McCain said the Muslim Brotherhood. yesterday. Speaking on ABC’s This Week, The former presidential rival senior Democrat on the House and influential Republican foreign foreign affairs committee Eliot policy voice said Barack Obama’s Engel, also urged caution before failure to follow through on a cutting off military aid. threat to cut off aid if there was a Asked if he thought now was coup in Egypt, meant the admin- the time to end the funding of istration was “not sticking to our Egypt’s generals, he replied: “No, values”. I don’t, I think it’s a time to see McCain and senator Lindsey what the next step should be. Graham visited Egypt last week Obviously, we cannot let what’s Participants dressed up as zombies take part in a ‘zombie training day’ in Hyde Park, London, yesterday. The workshop is part of the Zombie and met general Abdel Fatah been happening just happen, but Evacuation Race (ZER) and is expected to be Britain’s biggest zombie event due to take place in October. The ZER is a 5km interactive obstacle Al Sisi — who ousted president I think we have to be careful and course race in which people run for their lives while zombies try to infect them. Mohammed Mursi — along with not cut off our nose to spite our interim president Hazem El face.” He continued: “We essen- Beblawi and others in an attempt tially have two choices in Egypt, to broker an agreement between and that’s a military government military leaders and Mursi’s — which hopefully will transition supporters. as quickly as possible to civilian Gitmo prosecutors push for 9/11 trial date McCain compared US inac- government — or the Muslim tion to Obama’s policy on Syria. Brotherhood. I don’t think the GUANTANAMO BAY The court has since scheduled once all five defense teams sign makers of ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ than “There is no policy. And there is Muslim Brotherhood is a choice.” US NAVAL BASE, Cuba: weeklong pretrial hearings about “memorandums of understanding” they’ve revealed to us,” Connell no strategy. And therefore we Beblawi has proposed banning Prosecutors in the Guantanamo every six weeks, mostly to hear on how to safeguard it, they said. said. react and we react poorly. One the 85-year-old Islamist move- war crimes tribunal are push- defence challenges. Most of the defence lawyers are The CIA cooperated with the of the best examples is Syria ment, a move McCain suggested ing the judge to set a September Some hearings were cancelled holding off on that until the judge makers of the Hollywood movie where the president said Bashar would prove a disaster. 2014 trial date in the 9/11 case, a because of computer problems clarifies issues such as whether about the hunt for Osama bin Al Assad uses chemical weap- “When a third of the people decision that could hinge on how and tropical storms at the remote they must treat information as Laden, and has acknowledged ons, that’s a red line. He’s used support the Muslim Brotherhood deeply the defence is allowed to Caribbean base. Others veered classified when it was not pro- one character was “modeled them and we have done virtually ... you are going to see insurgency delve into the defendants’ treat- away from the docket to address duced by the government and is after” Connell’s client, Ammar nothing in response to that. The all over the country. The Muslim ment in secret CIA prisons. whether military and intelligence publicly available through open al Baluchi, an alleged al Qaeda centrifuges in Tehran continue to Brotherhood has been under- A US military judge, Army agents were spying on suppos- sources. The judge will take that money mover also known as Ali spin, Iraq unravels,” he said. ground for years, they know how Colonel James Pohl, will hear edly confidential attorney-client up at this week’s hearing as well. Abdul Aziz Ali. He is Khalid Obama is facing pressure from to behave. I can see a long period arguments on the issue in a week- discussions, an issue that is still Defence lawyers said 80 percent Sheikh Mohammed’s nephew. both conservatives and liberals in of unrest in Egypt and repres- long pretrial hearing that begins unresolved. of the evidence they have received The movie showed interroga- Washington who want him to act sion. And again a violation of today at the Guantanamo Bay US Prosecutors want the judge so far consists of photos of the tors stringing up the Ammar over spiralling violence in Egypt the United States values and our Naval Base in Cuba. to set firm deadlines for new fil- destruction from the 9/11 attacks character with a rope, forcing him and withdraw $1.6bn in annual interests.” Prosecutors want to speed up ings, hold month-long hearings to and business records related to to wear a dog collar, waterboard- military aid until the coup lead- Pressure for the US to act the hearing schedule and start the work through a backlog of out- the hijackers — matters that are ing him and stuffing him into a ers put the country back on the increased yesterday as European death penalty trial next fall for standing motions and be ready to not in dispute. coffin-like box. The CIA has not path to democracy. Union leaders said they would the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 start picking a jury on September Defence attorney James acknowledged using those tech- More politicians yesterday “urgently review” relations with plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 22, 2014. Continuing at the cur- Connell, who did sign the memo- niques on Baluchi but has admit- added their voices to those call- Egypt. The EU has €5bn ($6.67bn) and four alleged co-conspirators. rent pace “will result in litigation randum of understanding, said ted using them on other prisoners. ing for a temporary suspension. in aid and loans earmarked for They were arraigned on terror- that is unnecessarily prolonged prosecutors have not turned over Defence attorneys say they can- Bob Corker, a senior Republican Egypt that is likely to come up ism, murder and other charges in and does not serve the interests any of the evidence that will be not adequately prepare for trial on the Senate foreign relations for review, officials said. May 2012, more than a decade of justice,” prosecutors wrote in most in contention, which relates unless they know what happened committee, told ABC’s This Week: Herman Von Rompuy, presi- after Al Qaeda hijackers smashed court filings. to the years the defendants spent to the defendants between their “I think the actions of the last dent of the European Council, and four commercial jetliners into the They said they had already in CIA custody. capture in 2002 and 2003, and week, no doubt, are going to cause José Manuel Barroso, head of the World Trade Center in New York, given the defence lawyers most of “The CIA and (Defence their transfer to Guantanamo in us to suspend aid. And I think it’s European Commission, called for the Pentagon in the Washington their evidence, including 170,000 Department) have revealed far 2006. All the defendants have said at the same time, a time for us to an end to the violence that has area and a field in Pennsylvania, pages of unclassified information. more information about what they were tortured in CIA prisons recalibrate and look at what is our left several hundred people dead. killing 2,976 people. The secret evidence will follow happened during that time to the during that time. REUTERS national interest.” But regional THE GUARDIAN

Miliband will turn up the volume before vote: Ally LONDON: A Labour front- Blue Labour movement. In his weekly Sunday Mirror ministers stopped tweeting at bencher has promised that Ed “As we come up to the elec- column, Prescott called for the end of July. I don’t begrudge Miliband will “turn up the vol- tion we will be turning up the Miliband to sack under-per- people having holidays, certainly ume” in the coming months, volume even louder than we forming frontbenchers and be not Ed, who is Labour’s man- after two senior party figures have been,” Umunna said. clearer about Labour’s message. ager. But you’ve still got to put urged their leader to “show he “I don’t think that so many “Radical change is now required out an effective team and have is a grownup” and let people senior members are unhappy to shape up the policy of organi- a good captain.” know what he stands for. with Ed Miliband’s leadership, sation and delivery alongside a His criticism was echoed by Chuka Umunna, the shadow but I think what people do want clear set of policies and prin- Lord Glasman, a Labour pol- business secretary, accused col- is they desperately want for ciples so people know what we icy guru, who said the party leagues of “hysteria” for pub- Labour to win the next general stand for,” he wrote. remained “parked in a layby of licly criticising Miliband, but election and all of us are focused “Labour put out a second introspection” when its battle signalled that the party was on winning back support.” team of junior spokespeo- bus should be revving up. prepared to intensify its attacks Labour MPs have become ple with most of Ed’s shadow In an article for the Mail yes- on the coalition. restless after some opinion polls cabinet on holiday at the same terday, Glasman said the party He defended Miliband’s lead- suggested the party’s lead over time. Bar a push on the cost of gave the impression of “not ership following fresh criticism the Conservatives was narrow- living, we didn’t set agendas, knowing which way to turn” from the former deputy prime ing and Miliband was trailing we followed the news and got when it should be powering minister Lord Prescott and behind David Cameron in per- nowhere. ahead of the coalition. Lord Glasman, founder of the sonal popularity. “Even shadow cabinet THE GUARDIAN

Bolivian says Andean diet has kept him alive for 123 years

FRASQUIA, BOLIVIA: certificate lists his birthday as Bolivian indigenous farmer July 16, 1890 and he has national Carmelo Flores (pictured), identity documents based on the who could be the oldest person certificate. to have ever lived, attributes Bolivia’s Civil Registry Office his longevity to quinoa grains, says it is looking into the valid- riverside mushrooms and ity of the documents and cannot around-the-clock chewing of comment until the investiga- coca leaves. tion is completed. Still, many in Speaking in the 4,000m high Bolivia are already celebrating hamlet where he lives in a straw- Flores’ longevity. A local govern- roofed hut, Flores says the tradi- ment official plans to award him tional Andean diet has kept him the title of “Living Heritage of alive for 123 years. Humanity” on August 26. “Potatoes with quinoa are deli- The title of oldest human cious,” said Flores in Aymara, being ever to have lived belongs the only language the nearly deaf to France’s Jeanne Calment, who man speaks. died at the age of 122 in 1997, It is impossible to verify according to the Guinness World Flores’ age as the poor, land- Records organization. Guinness enough to take daily walks in sedentary. Flores said he fought locked South American country did not immediately respond to shoes made of recycled tires, he in the brutal 1932-35 Chaco War only started issuing official birth a Reuters request for comment spends most of his time laying on between Bolivia and Paraguay, certificates in 1940. on Flores. a blanket watching village life go and had to hunt skunks to nour- But he says his baptism While Flores is still strong by. But his life was not always as ish himself. REUTERS MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 ASIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Cultural parade North, South Korean families’ reunion soon Pyongyang agrees to Seoul proposal

SEOUL: North Korea said yester- that the officials’ meeting to discuss day it has agreed to South Korea’s the family reunion be held at the proposal to resume reunions for border truce village of Panmunjom, families separated since the 1950- instead of Mount Kumgang. 53 war, in another apparent sign of Kim Hyung-Suk, spokesman for easing tensions. the South’s Unification Ministry The North has agreed to hold that handles cross-border affairs, the event during the traditional said Seoul would make a deci- Chuseok holiday that falls on sion on the proposed talks on the September 19 as suggested by the Mount Kumgang later after internal South, Pyongyang’s Committee for reviews. the Peaceful Reunification of Korea Millions of Koreans were left sepa- said in a statement on official media. rated by the war, which sealed the It also proposed a separate round peninsula’s division. Most have died of indirect family reunions via video without having had a chance to meet conference around October 4 — the family members last seen six decades anniversary of the 2007 inter-Korean ago. About 72,000 South Koreans — summit, said the statement on the nearly half of them aged over 80 — North’s official news agency. are still alive and waiting for a rare The move came days after the chance to join the highly competitive South’s President Park Geun-Hye family reunion events, which select last Thursday urged Pyongyang to only up to a few hundred participants “open its heart” and agree to hold each time. the first family reunions since 2010. At the reunions, North and South Indonesian youth perform during a cultural parade to mark Independece celebrations in Jakarta, yesterday. Indonesia gained independence Officials of the Red Cross from Koreans typically meet in the North from the Netherlands in 1945. both sides will meet on August 23 as for two or three days before the proposed by Seoul to discuss details, South Koreans — many in tears — the North said, suggesting the Mount head home again. Kumgang resort in the North as the For those too infirm to travel, venue for the talks. reunions via video conferencing have “Now is the time for the north and been arranged in recent years. Japanese return from island protest trip the south to make joint efforts for the Cross-border relations have improvement of the north-south ties showed signs of improving recently EAST CHINA SEA: Boats rich fishing grounds and poten- cat-and-mouse near the islands, That incident triggered a and peace and common prosperity after months of high tensions. Last carrying about 20 members of tially large oil and gas reserves. raising concerns that an unin- wave of protests across China on the Korean peninsula,” said the week the two sides agreed to work on a Japanese nationalist group The five Ganbare Nippon tended incident could escalate that grew larger after Japan’s statement. reopening the Kaesong joint indus- headed back to port yesterday ships were surrounded by about into a military clash. then-Prime Minister Yoshihiko Seoul described Pyongyang’s offer trial zone shut down in April. after sailing near tiny islands 10 Japanese coast guard vessels The trip by the right-wing Noda agreed to buy three of yesterday as “positive,” but insisted AFP in the East China Sea that when they approached within Japanese group comes days the islands from a private land- are at the centre of a dispute 1 nautical mile of the islands after Japanese Prime Minister owner. By buying the islands, between Japan and China. yesterday morning. Coast Shinzo Abe sent an offering to Noda had intended to prevent Members of the Ganbare guard crews in rubber boats Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine for friction from heightening with Many flee in Indonesia jailbreak Nippon (“Stand Firm, Japan”) urged them to leave through war dead — seen by critics as Beijing and Taipei by thwart- group did not attempt to land on loudspeakers. a symbol of Japan’s past mili- ing a rival bid from a national- LABUHAN RUKU: Up to of Labuhan Ruku prison after the the uninhabited islands, which Last week, Chinese patrol tarism — on the anniversary of ist politician. Shintaro Ishihara, 30 prisoners escaped from an inmates rampaged through the are known as the Senkaku in boats entered Japanese territo- Japan’s World War Two defeat. then the governor of Tokyo, had overcrowded jail on Indonesia’s jail, attacking warders and start- Japan and Diaoyu in China, but rial waters and stayed there for Ganbare Nippon is not offi- led a fund-raising drive to buy Sumatra island yesterday after ing fires. Television pictures showed had said they wanted to send a more than 24 hours, the long- cially affiliated with any politi- the islands and build on them. riots erupted, in the country’s several parts of the building on fire message to China. est since surveillance around cal party but its members have Abe, who came to power last third prison breakout in recent and plumes of smoke hanging over “We want to show these the islands was increased after organised rallies to support Abe year and consolidated his grip weeks. it. Police and soldiers outside fired islands are under Japanese Japan’s government purchased and visited Yasukuni en masse on power with a solid victory in “Several” prisoners were recap- warning shots into the air. control,” Satoru Mizushima, several of them from a private on Thursday, carrying Japanese elections to the Upper House tured soon after they escaped, “About 25 to 30 people took the right-wing film maker who owner in September last year. flags and banners. in July, has called for dialogue officials said, but the rest were advantage of the situation and leads Ganbare Nippon, told No Chinese vessels were Last August, activists from with China and sent advisers to on the run. It was not clear what escaped, police managed to recap- activists before departure late reported in the vicinity yes- Hong Kong landed on one of Beijing, trying to improve ties. offences the escapees had com- ture several of them,” said Denny on Saturday from a port in terday, although Chinese and the disputed islands and were China’s public response to the mitted, although the prison is not Indrayana, deputy justice and Okinawa. Japanese planes and patrol detained by Japanese authorities overture has been chilly. high-security. Police and soldiers human rights minister. The islands are located near vessels have been playing before being deported. REUTERS were still battling to regain control AFP

Chinese cop Hong Kong rage arrested for slamming baby to the ground

BEIJING: Chinese authori- ties have detained a policeman accused of grabbing a seven- month-old baby girl from her parents and throwing her on the ground, fracturing her skull, state media said yesterday. Guo Zengxi, a policeman from the central city of Linzhou in Henan province, was on his way to a karaoke bar after drinking with friends one evening last month when he saw a man holding a baby accompanied by his wife, the Legal Evening News reported. After betting with his friends that the child was just a doll, the policeman touched her face then A protester being detained by police during a demonstration against Hong Kong’s Chief Executive grabbed her from her father, Leung Chun-ying in Hong Kong’s Kwun Tong yesterday. This is the second meet-the-public session before lifting her up and smash- attended by Leung since he took office last year. Five people were detained during rallies held by ing her on the ground, the report Leung’s supporters and opponents outside the venue. said. The baby, named Yueyue, was immediately taken to hospital and is out of danger, state news agency Xinhua said. Guo, who was off-duty at the time, initially received 15 days of Bo’s trial to begin on Thursday disciplinary confinement after the incident but no additional punishment. BEIJING: The trial of dis- and her Gang of Four at the Thursday, Xinhua said in a However, Xinhua said yester- graced senior Chinese poli- end of the Cultural Revolution. terse report yesterday. It gave day he had now been arrested tician Bo Xilai will start on Bo’s wife, Gu Kailai, and his no further details. after an investigative team was Thursday, when he will face estranged police chief, Wang A court spokeswoman con- sent to probe the incident, which charges of bribery, corruption Lijun, have both been jailed firmed the report, but would sparked fury on Chinese social and abuse of power in China’s over the scandal stemming not say how long the trial media. most divisive and dramatic from the November 2011 mur- would last, though it could be “The policeman involved in the case in decades. der of British businessman Neil just a day. Bo’s main lawyer, Li baby attack was put under crimi- The long-awaited trial of Bo, Heywood in the southwestern Guifang, did not answer tel- nal detention on Saturday night 64, a “princeling” son of a late city of Chongqing, where Bo ephone calls seeking comment. and was transferred to a deten- vice premier who is still popu- was Communist Party boss. It is almost certain Bo will be tion centre in Anyang City this lar with conservatives and the Bo’s trial will open at the convicted as China’s prosecu- morning,” Xinhua quoted Guo disaffected, will be the coun- Intermediate People’s Court tors and judges are controlled Fajie, head of the public security try’s highest-profile hearing in Jinan, capital of the eastern by the ruling Communist Party, bureau of Anyang city, as saying. since the 1976 downfall of Mao coastal province of Shandong, and he could theoretically be AFP Zedong’s widow, Jiang Qing, at 8.30am (0030 GMT) on sentenced to death. REUTERS MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PHILIPPINES After sinking, quest for answers 82 listed as missing in Friday’s disaster Philippines’ ferry accidents Worst ferry/passenger ship disasters since 1987. TALISAY: As rescuers plucked an inter-island ferry loaded with said 2GO Group Inc, which owns more bodies from the sea after 870 passengers and crew, had the ferry. “They blew their horns Dona Paz Ship name Cebu City Princess of Super Ferry 14 Princess of St. Thomas a Philippine ferry and a cargo been at sea for about nine hours several times before the collision,” Mindoro Accident site Manila the Orient Manila the Stars of Aquinas 4,386 140 Batangas 116 Sibuyan Cebu ship collided late last week, a after leaving Nasipit, a port on Bimsy Mapa, spokesman for 2GO Deaths vexing but familiar question the southern Philippine island of Group, told Reuters. Dec. ‘87 Dec. ‘94 150 Feb. ‘04 793 38 Date faces a country plagued by an Mindanao, when it approached Another 2GO Group official, Sep. ‘98 Jun. ‘08 Aug. ‘13 abysmal record in maritime Cebu, a bustling economic zone speaking on condition of anonym- safety: what went wrong? about 560 km (350 miles) south ity because a formal inquiry into Authorities say 82 people of Manila. the accident is pending, said the 1990 19921996 2002 2006 2012 listed as missing are believed to The yellow-hulled MV Sulpicio ferry could not veer right because Lady of have died, trapped in the ferry Express Siete, laden with contain- the water was too shallow on Mount Dona Marilyn Anahanda Commander 6 Catalyn B Carmel that sank to the sea floor off the ers, had just left Cebu’s port with that side. Leyte Jolo Manila Manila Masbate central Philippine port of Cebu 36 crew. “Our options were to turn right 250 100 12 4 7 minutes after Friday’s collision. As they both entered a nar- or left, but we couldn’t turn right Oct. ‘88 Apr. 2000 May ‘09 Dec. ‘09 Jun. ‘13 Divers are trying to cut into the row channel about 600 yards because we would hit shallow vessel, at a depth of 45 metres (550 metres) wide in the dark at waters so we veered left,” the 2GO Source: Reuters (150 feet), and plug an oil leak. about 9pm, they appeared to have Group official said. G.Cabrera, 18/08/2013 Although a formal investigation strayed onto the same lane from Officials at Philippine Span will not begin until after the res- opposite sides, officials said. Asia Carrier Corp, which owns the other, there should be a safe dis- ships arriving and departing were formerly known as Sulpicio cue operation, attention is already Under navigational rules, both cargo ship, declined to respond to tance. Otherwise, you signify within one km (0.6 mile) from Lines Inc, which owned the MV turning to the final moments in vessels must steer to the right requests for comment. The vessel intention to move to the right the port, but the accident hap- Dona Paz ferry that collided with the latest fatal shipping disaster if they are on a collision course, remains in Cebu, a gaping hole in and the other should move to the pened four km (2.5 miles) out at a tanker in the Sibuyan Sea in to strike the Philippines, a coun- Commodore William Melad, its bow. right also, so that there won’t be sea, said Greg Castillo, a Cebu city the country’s main Luzon island try of 7,100 islands, where over- head of the coast guard district “We need to review whether any collision.” councillor. region in December 1987, killing crowded or overloaded vessels are in the central Visayas region, told both ships followed regulations,” Melad said the vessels’ speed Authorities have suspended 4,375 on the ferry and 11 of the common and sea regulations are Reuters. said Melad, the Cebu coast guard would also be checked for possible passenger and cargo shipping tanker’s 13-man crew. That ranks notoriously hard to enforce. The ferry repeatedly blew its chief. violation. operations of both companies. as the world’s worst peacetime The MV St Thomas of Aquinas, horn and sent warning signals, “If they are approaching each Tug boats typically accompany The cargo vessel’s owners maritime disaster. REUTERS 38 dead, but officials hope for survivors CEBU: Philippine divers hauled The official death toll rose “I cannot explain what I am it sank. bodies out of rough seas yester- from 31 in the morning to 38, feeling. It is painful, but I continue Divers were unable to reach day in the grisly aftermath of a and authorities cautioned that the to hope,” said Nanette Condicion, the source of the leak to try and ferry disaster that claimed at odds of finding any more survi- 44, who survived by jumping on to plug it. least 38 lives, as oil leaked from vors were low. the cargo ship but lost her elder The ships collided as they were the submerged vessel. “We are still hopeful, although sister and 71-year-old father in travelling in opposite directions Rescue efforts were focused you have to accept the reality that the chaos. at a well-known choke point near throughout yesterday on more their chances of survival are very “I am staying here to wait for the mouth of Cebu’s port. than 80 people missing and slim,” Neil Sanchez, head of the them, dead or alive. I am not The steel bow of the cargo ship, believed trapped inside the regional disaster management going to leave unless I see both caved in on impact but it sailed St Thomas Aquinas ferry that sank office in Cebu, told reporters. of them.” safely to dock. on Friday night near the central The number of people officially Meanwhile, leaking oil from Officials said they suspected city of Cebu after colliding with listed as missing was sharply the vessel added a new front to human error was to blame for one a cargo ship. reduced yesterday to 82 from the disaster response, spreading of the ships going into a wrong More than 800 passengers and 170, but this was due to tally- for more than five kilometres lane, although investigations had crew were aboard the ferry, which ing issues rather than any fresh (three miles) and into coastal only just begun. sank within 10 minutes of impact. rescues. villages, fishing grounds and Ferries are one of the main “It is possible that there are The number of missing was mangroves. forms of transport across the air pockets in its compartments cut after those involved in the “You can see it coming out of archipelago of more than 7,100 and there might be survivors,” search reconciled their figures, the sunken vessel. It is bunker islands, particularly for the mil- Navy spokesman Lieutenant said Sanchez. fuel and it is black,” Cebu coast- lions too poor to fly. Commander Gregory Fabic told However authorities were guard commander Weniel Azcuna But sea accidents are com- AFP, adding people could survive unable to say how many peo- told AFP. mon, with poor safety standards for 72 hours in such conditions. ple may be in the sunken ship, At one area about five kilome- and lax enforcement typically to “There is still hope that there which is at a depth of about 30 tres from the disaster site, man- blame. might just be survivors there.” metres (98 feet), giving some hope groves were coated in black oil at The world’s deadliest peacetime However, by nightfall the navy the number of missing could be low tide, and birds waded amid maritime disaster occurred near and coastguard divers had not reduced further. shallow water covered in a rain- the capital Manila in 1987 when a been able to reach the interior of Survivors and people with rel- bow sheen, according to an AFP ferry laden with Christmas holi- the vessel, with strong currents atives still missing waited anx- reporter. daymakers collided with a small and choppy waves hampering iously at the Cebu ferry passenger Authorities said the ferry was oil tanker, killing more than 4,300 A rescuer carrying a baby following the disaster, in this handout photograph efforts, and only bodies from its terminal and a local hospital for carrying 120,000 litres (32,000 people. released yesterday. outer areas had been recovered. news of loved ones. gallons) of bunker fuel when AFP

Megan is Miss World-Philippines

MANILA: Actress Megan Young was named the 2013 Miss World-Philippines during the pageant coronation night yesterday. Megan will represent the country in the upcom- ing Miss World 2013 pageant to be held in Jakarta, Indonesia, on September 28. The 23-year-old actress-turned-beauty queen, who sailed past 24 other contestants for the coveted title, also won six special awards during the pageant. Meanwhile, Janicel Lubina and Zahra Bianca Saldua were named 1st and 2nd princess, respectively. Completing the top five are Paula Bianca Paz (3rd princess) and Omarie Linn Osuna (4th princess). In an earlier television interview, Megan said she’s aiming to take the crown at the international Miss World pageant. “I wanna prove to them that well, of course, my goal there is to win it,” she said. Megan is the third holder of the Misss World- Philippines title since the franchise’s separation from the Binibining Pilipinas Charities Inc, which handles the Philippine representation to the Miss Universe pageant. The actress will follow the footsteps of 2011 Miss World first runner-up Gwendoline Ruais and 2012 Megan Young after being crowned Miss World-Philippines 2013 during the pageant Miss World top 15 contender Queenierich Rehman. coronation night in Manila, yesterday. PHILIPPINE STAR

Floods threaten many areas of Metro Manila

MANILA: Severe flooding is Administration said the heavy “All are advised to take pre- the suspension of classes in high expected in Metro Manila and to intense rains affecting Metro cautionary measures,” Pagasa school and college levels “is left nearby provinces in Luzon as Manila, Bataan, Zambales, said. The National Disaster Risk to the discretion of local chief Tropical Storm “Maring” was Bulacan, Pampanga, Tarlac, Reduction and Management executives.” The Metropolitan expected to continue to pound Rizal, Cavite, Laguna, Batangas Council has alerted all its units Manila Development Authority the capital region with heavy and northern Quezon will con- in the affected areas in Luzon. said seven to eight inches of rains until before dawn today. tinue until after 3am. The agency last night floodwaters were reported on In its Red Rainfall Alert Pagasa also warned of moder- announced the suspension of E. Rodriguez-Araneta Avenue issued at 12.10am, the Philippine ate to heavy rains over Nueva classes today in pre-school in Quezon City and 27 inches of Atmospheric, Geophysical Ecija and the remaining parts and elementary levels in many floodwaters on R Papa Street and Astronomical Services of Quezon. places. The NDRRMC said that in Manila. PHILIPPINE STAR MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Temporary stay of executions ordered Sharif govt’s decision follows objections by Zardari ISLAMABAD: Pakistan yes- Zardari steps down on “The new government should terday ordered a temporary September 8, to be replaced by demonstrate its clear opposition stay of executions following businessman Mamnoon Hussain, to any use of this ghastly punish- objections from the president a close Sharif ally elected in July. ment,” Zarifi added. and rights groups, days before Pakistan had intended to The rights groups cited official they were due to resume after a hang two convicted killers from figures as saying that Pakistan five-year moratorium. banned sectarian outfit Lashkar- had more than 7,000 prisoners The new government of Prime e-Jhangvi this Wednesday or on death row, one of the largest Minister Nawaz Sharif in June Thursday in the southern town populations of prisoners facing scrapped the moratorium on the of Sukkur, in Sindh province, offi- execution in the world. death penalty to crack down on cials had said. The Interior Ministry has said criminals and Islamist militants Other prisoners on death row up to 450 convicts are awaiting in the violence-torn country. had also expected to be executed execution and that their cases will But yesterday the govern- this week. be examined. ment announced that executions, On Friday, Human Rights Under the previous govern- scheduled to begin this week, Watch and International ment, led by Pakistan People’s would be stayed temporarily fol- Commission of Jurists called on Party, no one except a soldier con- lowing objections from outgoing Pakistan to commute all existing victed by court martial was put to People affected by floods wait for relief outside their temporary shelters in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan, yesterday. President Asif Ali Zardari. death sentences and abolish the death since 2008. The stay would last until death penalty. Pakistani Taliban militants, Zardari returns from abroad to “A return to executions will who have been waging a domestic discuss the matter with Sharif, a derail one of democratic Pakistan’s insurgency since 2007, have said statement said. most tangible human rights suc- they will consider the executions More than 330,000 hit by floods “In due deference to the wish of cesses,” said Sam Zarifi, Asia- of any of its prisoners a declara- the president, it has been desired Pacific Director of International tion of war. ISLAMABAD: Heavy monsoon rains have trig- three years and has been criticised for not doing that all executions of death sen- Commission of Jurists. Pakistan says tens of thousands gered floods affecting more than 330,000 people more to mitigate against the dangers posed by sea- tences may be held in abeyance “Under military rule, Pakistan of people have been killed in the across Pakistan in the last two weeks and killed sonal rains washing away homes and farmland. until discussion takes place,” it endured the widespread applica- country as a result of terrorism 108, disaster management officials said yesterday. Streets in all major cities, including Karachi, said. tion of the death penalty. since 2001. AFP “The rains affected 334,764 people, killed at least Lahore and Islamabad, suffer intermittent flood- 108 people and wounded 104,” a senior National ing due to downpours, damaging roads and private Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) official homes. said. Pakistan is on alert for flash flooding with a strong The rains have hit 770 villages and completely monsoon expected to hit its northern parts over the destroyed 2,427 houses across the country, he added. coming days. Sharif’s first Lahore police use digital The NDMA has established 44 relief camps in Flash floods during the monsoon are common in flood-hit areas to accommodate affected people, he Pakistan, where the worst deluge of 2010 submerged address to said. one-fifth of the country, killed more than 1,700 peo- nation today mapping to tackle crime Pakistan has suffered monsoon floods for the last ple and affected more than 20 million people. AFP ISLAMABAD: Pakistan LAHORE: The investiga- of the crime scene and the com- Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif tion wing of Lahore police has plainant, and mark it on a Google is scheduled to make a formal launched a mapping programme map of Lahore using the GPS in speech to the nation today. to identify the most dangerous the phone. Cleric acquitted in blasphemy case A senior official at the Prime areas and tackle crime. The data is stored directly to Minister’s House said arrange- Police officials have been the PITB database web server ISLAMABAD: A court acquit- Rimsha. But his lawyer, Wajid Ali lives. Rimsha is now in Canada. ments had been finalised and given Smartphones, loaded with in real time, accessible to the ted a Muslim cleric who accused Gilani, said: “The court has dis- Blasphemy is a sensitive issue his speech was being given final an application designed by the Investigations DIG and the CRO a Christian girl of blasphemy missed all charges against Chishti in Pakistan, where 97 percent of touches. Punjab Information Technology SP. before he was arrested on and has acquitted him.” the population is Muslim, and can In his first address to the Board (PITB) and taught how to A source at the PITB said similar charges, a lawyer said Gilani said the prosecution had be punished by death. nation since his election in June, use it to map crime. The board the main database server shows yesterday. failed to prove the charges while Even unproven allegations can Sharif is expected to apprise the has handed out 83 phones, one to Google maps marked with the The girl, Rimsha Masih, was all witnesses had withdrawn their provoke a violent public response. people of challenges his govern- each police station. crime data sent from the field by arrested in August 2012 for accusations. Local media previously said ment is facing in tackling issues Crime Records Office SP police on their smartphones. allegedly burning pages contain- Rimsha, who lived in a poor, Rimsha was 11, but an official like terrorism, energy crisis and Mustafa Hameed Malik said A satellite view from 300 ing Quranic verses but the case run-down neighbourhood on medical report classified her as revival of the economy. three or four Police Record and metres above ground level shows against her, which drew wide- the edge of Islamabad, spent “uneducated” and 14, but with a Sources in the ruling Pakistan Office Management Information the place and name of the crime spread international condemna- three weeks on remand in one of mental age younger than that. Muslim League-Nawaz said the System personnel at each station committed. tion, was quashed. Pakistan’s toughest jails and could In 2011, politicians Salman premier would also inform the had been taught to use the smart- A bubble appears at the spot Hafiz Mohammed Khalid have faced life in prison if she had Taseer and Shahbaz Bhatti were nation about policies and strate- phone app which allows policemen and upon clicking it the user can Chishti, the cleric who made the been convicted. assassinated for demanding that gies to resolve issues and decisions to enter the FIR number, date of see the data entered about the allegations, was accused of des- She and her family were forced the blasphemy law should be regarding electricity tariff. crime, time, description and area crime and the pictures. ecrating the Holy Quran and into hiding, living under govern- reformed. He may also announce the date of jurisdiction, as well as pictures INTERNEWS tampering with evidence against ment protection in fear of their AFP of the proposed conference of all political parties having represen- tation in parliament to discuss Cotton factory a national counter-terrorism Ban on export strategy being formulated by the Interior Ministry. of live animals One soldier killed, from October 1 ISLAMABAD: The two hurt in Quetta export of live animals, instead of processed meat, QUETTA: Two gunmen on has caused a loss of hun- a motorcycle opened fire yes- dreds of millions of dollars terday on a check-point of the to Pakistan in the last few paramilitary Frontier Corps in years and has pushed up Pakistan’s troubled southwest, prices of meat and leather killing one soldier and wound- in the domestic market. ing two, officials said. In the last financial year The attack happened on the 2012-13, Pakistan earned outskirts of Quetta, the capital $214.5m on export of proc- of Baluchistan province where a essed meat, higher than separatist revolt has been waged $20m earned from export for almost a decade. of live animals, sources say. Frontier Corps said one The Ministry of Food attacker was also killed when Security and Research troops returned fire but the proposed that the gov- other escaped. Nobody has so far ernment should abandon claimed responsibility. Recent the low revenue-generat- attacks in Quetta have been ing option and ban ani- linked to a Baluch separatist mal exports. Authorities insurgency. The rebels have been approved a summary by fighting since 2004 for political the ministry on the ban on autonomy and a greater share of commercial export of live profits from the region’s natural animals from October 1. resources. AFP An Afghan labourer looks on as he works at a traditional cotton factory INTERNEWS in Jalalabad yesterday. New facilities for Afghan refugees in Pakistan ISLAMABAD: Afghan refugees can are 1.62 million registered Afghan refugees meeting and refugees will now be able to use open bank accounts and obtain driving in the country, which incidentally matches money-transfer facilities in Pakistan and licences and mobile phone SIM cards in the figure of unregistered refugees. will get new Proof of Registration Cards, Pakistan now that Islamabad has agreed Federal Minister for States and Frontier Momand said. to extend their stay until the end of 2015. Regions Lt General (retd) Abdul Qadir PoR cards expired on December 31 last Pakistan and Afghanistan formalised the Baloch told the house that registration of year. The cards, issued by National Database agreement to extend the stay of registered unaccounted for refugees is under way. and Registration Authority, legalise the refugees during talks between the Afghan He said a policy submitted to the cabi- temporary stay of refugees until the time Minister for Refugees, Jamaheer Anwari, net suggests multiple steps to create agreed between both countries. and Pakistani officials in Islamabad, the conditions conducive for voluntary repa- The former Pakistan Peoples Party gov- Afghan Embassy Refugee Affairs Attaché, triation and create livelihood opportuni- ernment had agreed to extend the period for Misri Khan Momand, said yesterday. ties in Afghanistan to facilitate return and six months until June 30 this year. However, The decision came a day after the resettlement. the incumbent government extended the National Assembly was informed that there Some steps were formalised in the PoR period until 2015. INTERNEWS MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Hopes fade for govt’s Treacherous trek legislative agenda 43 bills remaining to be passed in Lok Sabha

NEW DELHI: With a little the Lok Sabha last week but and Development) Bill, 2013 was over a week left before parlia- could not as four TDP members introduced in the upper house. ment’s monsoon session ends kept disrupting the house pro- Experts said much would on August 30, there appears testing against the creation of a depend on the consensus among to be little hope for the gov- Telangana state. parties. ernment to pass the ambitous The government now hopes “Other than the first session legislative agenda of 43 bills to take up the bill on Tuesday in July 2009, in which the MPs remaining for the 16 work- as the Lok Sabha is likely be took oath, this monsoon session ing days of the month-long adjourned to condole the pass- is the shortest of the 15th Lok session. ing away of sitting BJP member Sabha. With no bills being passed Only the companies bill has Dilip Singh Judeo. by Lok Sabha in the first two been passed in the fortnight of Wednesday will be a holiday on weeks, important bills are now its working with some holidays the occasion of Raksha Bandhan. bunched together for passage in in between. The lower house would sit next the few days left in the session. The monsoon session, which weekend on August 24, in lieu of It remains to be seen whether started on August 5, has mostly the holiday it took on August 16. political consensus can be built been disrupted over various That leaves four working days to ensure debate on these key issues, including the creation of in the coming week. legislative proposals or whether Devotees walk during their pilgrimage to the Amarnath Cave Shrine, at Bairey Marg, yesterday. Every year, Telangana, the killing of Indian If there are no disruptions they would be passed with lit- soldiers by the Pakistani Army, in the last week of the session tle or no debate,” Chakshu Roy hundreds of thousands of pilgrims trek through treacherous mountains in revolt-torn Kashmir, along icy streams, communal riots in Kishtwar August 26-30, the government of think-tank PRS Legislative glacier-fed lakes and frozen passes, to reach the Amarnath cave, located at an altitude of 3,857m (12,729 feet). in Jammu and Kashmir and would have four or five working Research said. the alleged illegal land deals of days depending upon whether or The previous budget session Congress chief Sonia Gandhi’s not parliament sits Janmashtami was washed out as the BJP did son-in-law Robert Vadra. (August 28). not allow the house to function, Naam Tamizhar won’t The government had said it Parliamentary Affairs demanding Prime Minister Tunda ran madrasas was keen to pass a slew of bills, Minister Kamal Nath has said Manmohan Singh’s resignation allow release of including the food security bill, the opposition parties wants to over faulty allocation of coal Madras Cafe in TN those related to reforms in the pass the judicial commission bill blocks. insurance and pension sectors which deals with appointment of The opposition wants debates to indoctrinate youth, CHENNAI: After attending and an amendment to keep polit- judges, in this session. on the land acquisition bill, the special screening of John ical parties outside the Right to The Rajya Sabha fared better rampant corruption in the the Abraham-starrer “Madras Information (RTI) Act. and passed five bills, including mid-day meal scheme, the tussle children: Police Cafe” here yesterday, members Though the Lok Sabha could the Companies Bill, which had between the CBI and the IB in of Tamil activist group Naam not pass any bill, the government been earlier approved by the the Ishrat Jahan fake shootout Tamizhar vowed not to allow the introduced a bill to amend the lower house. case and the Chinese incursions NEW DELHI: Abdul Karim out Tunda’s activities since 1998, film’s release in Tamil Nadu con- RTI Act. The Rajya Sabha also passed along the border in the Ladakh Tunda, whose arrest on Friday when he came to India the last tending it portrays LTTE cadres The government also said the The National Waterway region of Jammu and Kashmir. is being touted as a big achieve- time. as terrorists. The private screen- it would table a constitution (Lakhipur-Bhanga Stretch of While the BJP has demanded ment for the security agen- Police is also trying to find out ing was attended by Tamil film- amendment bill in this session the Barak River) Bill, 2013, the the bill on the formation of cies, ran his own madrasas why was he was coming to India maker and group chief Seeman to negate a Supreme Court order National Highways Authority of Telangana be brought in the (religious schools) and was a this time and how Pakistan- and director R K Selvamani cancelling reservations for fac- India (Amendment) Bill, 2012, monsoon session, the CPI-M preacher in several others in based terrorist outfits and Inter- along with many others. ulty appointments in super spe- the Registration of Births and wants a discussion on the gov- Pakistan to indoctrinate youth Services Intelligence (ISI) carry “The film tries to portray late ciality medical and engineering Deaths (Amendment) Bill, 2012 ernment’s recent move to allow and children. out and control terror modules Prabhakaran, LTTE chief, as a courses. and the Citizenship Amendment more foreign equity in many Police said Tunda was running in India. terrorist. We don’t appreciate it The government tried to Bill, 2011. sectors. two madrasas in Karachi under “His bomb-making skills and and request the distributors to debate the food security bill in The Real Estate (Regulation IANS the name of Mehdud-Taleem- motivational power was the rea- not screen the film in the state. Islam-E-Darul-Funoon, for which son that led Tunda to meet Hafiz The sentiment of the film is anti- he got a lot of donations from indi- Saeed, Maulana Masood Azhar, Tamil and we don’t agree with it,” viduals and terror organisations. Dawood Ibrahim and the Bhatkal Seeman said. He was also teaching in sev- brothers of Indian Mujahideen in “We wouldn’t be bothered if our eral other madrasas in Karachi Pakistan,” said the officer. Sri Lankan brothers were not por- to indoctrinate youth and children He also recruited young poor trayed in a bad light. Prabhakaran to join jehad. children from Pakistan and Indian sacrificed his life fighting for Sri “Apart from giving motivat- youths who fled to Pakistan to Lankan Tamils. How can a film ing speeches, Tunda was train- join terrorist groups like Indian possibly portray him as a terror- ing these youths to use arms and Mujahideen. ist?” he asked. ammunition. Every batch would Due to his preachings at vari- However, speaking at an event have around 200 youths of all ous madrasas in Pakistan, he had recently here, John said: “My film ages,” said an official. a huge well knit network of ter- doesn’t take any sides. It doesn’t “He has great oratory skills rorists under him in Pakistan, portray anybody as terrorists.” through which he influenced peo- Bangladesh and Myanmar. Directed by Shoojit Sircar, ple. He is a sort of motivational Through this network, he Madras Cafe is slated to release on speaker who encouraged his dis- pushed explosives and terrorists August 23 worldwide. The film was ciples to join jehad,” said a police into India through the Bangladesh even dubbed in Tamil to be exclu- officer. border since 1998. sively released in Tamil Nadu. Due to his ability to motivate He was directly in touch with people, he was greatly sought after Hafiz Saeed and Zakiur Rehman terrorist groups. Lakhvi, and would get funds from Minor killed over kite Tunda told interrogators that the ISI and jehadi individuals. to carry out a terror attack, “you He met Hafiz Saeed in 1991 and flying in Delhi need a man, motivation and a returned to India and carried out NEW DELHI: A 16-year-old bomb. Tunda provided all this several blasts. He last met Hafiz died after being thrashed by and that is why he was so popu- Saeed in Pakistan just 10 days four minors over kite flying, lar among all terror outfits,” said before he was nabbed. police said yesterday. The vic- the officer. On hearing of Tunda’s works, tim’s friend was also beaten up. “His job was to recruit, moti- underworld don Dawood Ibrahim The incident occurred in east vate and provide explosives to met him in 2000 in Karachi for Delhi’s Harsh Vihar Saturday youths,” the officer added. the first time. around 7.30pm. Rajan and Dinesh Born in a poor family in 1943 at “Thereafter, he has met Dawood were rushed to Guru Teg Bahadur Chatta Lal Miya in central Delhi’s for around six to seven times. He Hospital where the former was Daryaganj, Tunda was running was handling Dawood’s fake India declared dead. these madrasas for 18 years and currency notes network,” said the “The culprits will be appre- training youths for 28 years. officer. hended soon,” said a police officer. Investigators are trying to find IANS AGENCIES Navy divers find another body on stricken submarine in Mumbai

MUMBAI: Indian navy divers the body was discovered late Samples have also been taken have recovered another burnt Saturday. from family members of the crew body from a submarine that Divers also gained access to the and forwarded to the same testing exploded in Mumbai as they forward compartment, which was laboratory. battled against the odds to find destroyed in the fire, by “breaking The navy, which has been 12 remaining crewmen, the open jammed hatches”, the state- providing emotional support to navy said yesterday. ment said. the families of the victims, said The diesel-powered INS The state of the bodies and divers would continue to make Sindhurakshak exploded and conditions within the submarine “repeated entries” into the sub- sank in a military dockyard have led the navy to conclude that marine in the coming days for early on Wednesday, dealing a finding any surviving personnel a comprehensive assessment of setback to India’s naval ambi- is unlikely. The ship, which had the damage. tions just days after it unveiled been returned by its original “The present state of the sub- its first domestically made air- maker Russia earlier this year marine and various options for craft carrier. after a major refit, sank after it salvage are being assessed,” it Eighteen crewmen were on was engulfed by a fireball that lit added. board when the submarine went up the Mumbai night sky. The navy also suggested that down. The first bodies were retrieved some bodies might never be found “They located and brought from the submarine on Friday. because of the fierce tempera- up the body of the sixth crew Samples from the bodies of all six tures generated in the fire, dur- member just forward of the con- found have been sent for foren- ing which some of the weapons trol room despite” poor visibility sic tests and finger printing to on board -- cruise missiles and “and mangled metal”, the navy establish their identities, Sunday’s torpedoes -- ignited. said in a statement, adding that statement said. AFP MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 GJAC asks Rajputs protest people to hit the streets Gorkhaland parties to petition PM

DARJEELING: In a change will fax our petitions to all the of strategy, the Gorkhaland leaders,” Pradhan said. Joint Action Committee The GJAC also announced it (GJAC) yesterday urged peo- planned to launch an economic ple in Darjeeling hills to hit blockade of tea and timber - two the streets for four days begin- mainstays of the hill economy ning tomorrow, threatened an besides tourism. However, the economic blockade and said it dates for the movement was yet would petition Prime Minister to be finalised. Manmohan Singh and other Meanwhile, the GJM and the leaders to realise its demand. Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League Two days after the newly- fought a verbal duel, a day after formed GJAC announced a five- the ABGL announced it would day ‘Ghar Bhitra Janta (people keep away from the GJAC unless inside homes)’ agitation from the GJM members resigned August 19 in the three hill sub- from the Gorkhaland Territorial divisions -- Darjeeling, Kurseong Administration (GTA) - the and Kalimpong -- of Darjeeling autonomous hill development district in northern West Bengal, council. it limited the programme to a sin- The GJM hinted at the involve- gle day, Monday. ment of “some external force” Instead, the GJAC drew up a behind the ABGL’s decision. fresh programme, calling upon the “Heard that ABGL has backed people to pour out on the streets out from the Gorkhaland agita- between August 20-23 in support tion because they believe GJM is of a Gorkhaland state to be cre- not ready to quit GTA. Why did Members of the Rajput community are hit by police water cannon during a protest in New Delhi yesterday. Thousands of Rajput community members ated out of Darjeeling district and ABGL back out after attending held a protest against TV serial Jodhaa Akbar which they say is historically inaccurate. The serial tells the story of the love and marriage between parts of Jalpaiguri district. two GJAC meetings? Some exter- Akbar, the 16th century Mughal emperor, and the princess Jodhaa. “We have noted that the peo- nal force? Well I guess it needs ple in the hills want to come out dedication and courage to lead on the streets in large numbers an agitation for Gorkhaland,” and demand Gorkhaland as they Gurung said. want the authorities to hear their Reacting to Gurung’s com- BJP eyes more than 272 seats in 2014 polls voices. So we are giving a call for ments, ABGL general secretary ‘Janta Sadak Ma (people in the Pratap Khati accused the GJM of streets)’ programme between “double standards” and being “not NEW DELHI: The BJP yester- planning and proper implementa- can win the four assembly polls confidence of domestic as well as August 20 to 23,” said GJAC con- serious” about the Gorkhaland day asked party cadres to put in tion of decisions. and realise its target of getting international investors. vernor Raju Pradhan. movement. their best to fulfil its “Mission “All out effort should be made majority on its own in the Lok “The decision to introduce GJAC spearhead, Gorkha Several pro-Gorkhaland par- 272+” or its aim of getting more to take all sections of society Sabha polls by winning over 272 capital control is a regressive Janmukti Morcha chief Bimal ties Friday came together to form than 272 Lok Sabha seats in the with the party and strengthen seats. method and will further hurt the Gurung said the decision was the (GJAC) and “unanimously” next general elections to form a the organization in the next 200 “The mood of the nation reflects economy,” he said. taken as the government was decided to repeal the GTA “but government on its own. days,” Modi said. this mission as an achievable tar- He also accused the Congress “suppressing our voices”. “The at an appropriate time”. Addressing a meeting of the He called upon panels set up to get,” he said. of being interested “only in politi- ‘Janta Sadak Ma’ programme Despite repeatedly dubbing party’s election campaign com- deal with election work to work Rajnath Singh attacked Prime cal security for itself” and “not in has been organised to voice our the GTA a “failure and would be mittee here, Bharatiya Janata with more speed. Minister Manmohan Singh for economic, internal and external demand for Gorkhaland,” Gurung repealed soon”, only Gurung has Party president Rajnath Singh According to a party release, “failing to manage the economy” security of the country”. said in a Facebook post. so far resigned as its chief execu- asked the cadre to make the mis- Modi “guided the deliberations and said it had resulted in more The meeting was attended Protest rallies will be held on tive while the other elected mem- sion a success and work towards about effective campaigning and and more hardships to people. by senior leaders including L K August 24 and 25. On August 26, bers are still continuing. winning assembly elections to urgency to reach out to each He said people were suffering Advani, Sushma Swaraj and Arun a human chain will be formed. Armed with more powers than four big states later this year. voter”. due to price rise and the con- Jaitley. Pradhan said that on August 27 its predecessor the Darjeeling Gujarat Chief Minister Modi told the gathering that tinuous depreciation of rupee Party leaders said that the and 28, the people of Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council formed in Narendra Modi, who is chief of people were eager to throw reflected inability of the govern- campaign committee will decide Hills would petition central polit- the late 1980s, the GTA was cre- BJP’s campaign committee for Congress out at the first available ment to improve the economy. schedule for mass rallies and con- ical leaders including the prime ated July 18, 2011 via a tripartite 2014 elections and party’s possi- opportunity, it said. Rajnath Singh termed prime stituency-level congregations and minister and United Progressive between the GJM and the central ble prime ministerial candidate, In his speech, Rajnath Singh minister’s Independence Day finalise programmes to reach out Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi and state governments. said that comprehensive victory said the mood of people was speech as “uninspiring” and to every household. for creation of Gorkahland. “We IANS can be achieved through detailed favourable for BJP and the party said it had further eroded the IANS

Kolkata Metro commuters can use I did not act on supposition: mobile phones soon KOLKATA: Commuters in the Khemka on Vadra land deal Kolkata Metro railway - India’s oldest underground tube rail - will at last be able to use their NEW DELHI: Ashok The allegations were made in possession was handed over and mobile phones when the trains Khemka, the IAS officer who his reply to the Haryana gov- taken over,” Khemka said. run inside the tunnel. hit the headlines last year over ernment in May this year on the He said that Sky Light Despite the city getting mobile his challenging action concern- findings of a three-member com- Hospitality had given details of connectivity way back in the 1990s, ing a land deal involving Sonia mittee of Haryana officials set up the land deal in the documents the network was long silent inside Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert by the Bhupinder Singh Hooda but they were not in the correct the metro tunnels. But not any Vadra, has said that cancella- government October last year on format. more. tion of mutation of the `580m issues raised by him. Khemka denied that he had The Kolkata Metro, which deal between Vadra’s company Asked by Karan Thapar if he acted with vendetta against began its journey October 24, with realty giant DLF was not had acted on the basis of suppo- Vadra. 1984, has decided to introduce based on mere supposition and sition, Khmeka said there was “Why should it be an act of the Global System for Mobile “the truth had to be estab- inference of wrongdoing. vendetta. What did I have against Communications-Railways (GSM- lished” through investigation. “It was not a supposition. It is the gentleman,” he asked. R) technology which would enable In an interview with Karan a likely, possible inference with Asked if it was a quasi-judicial the commuters to receive mobile Thapar, telecast on CNN-IBN, a high degree of probability,” procedure and the parties should connectivity inside the tunnel. Khemka justified his action of Khemka said. have been heard before the can- “First we will use it on a trial cancelling the mutation after he Answering another query, cellation of mutation, Khemka basis in our work. We are at an had been transferred from his Khemka said at his level he did said he had the authority to take advanced stage. It will help in post as director general (land have powers for requisite inves- the decision. improving communication between holdings and consolidation) on tigation. “Truth is to be estab- He said he had urged the state the motorman and the control October 11 last year. lished in criminal investigation,” government for another inquiry. room in the tunnels,” Kolkata “I relinquished charge on he said. “(About his reply) This is a Metro’s Deputy General Manager October 15 and I had all the right Khemka had said in his reply comment to the state govern- Protyush Ghosh said. to function as such till October to the Haryana government that ment when they were prob- “In the next stage, we will give 15. I had the right to use those Vadra’s land deal with DLF was ing whether licensing aspect the bandwidth to the mobile service powers. If my right was not a clear cut case of impropriety as was correct or not. I am giv- operators so that commuters can there, the DLF or Robert Vadra’s Vadra bought the land for `75m, ing my comments to the state avail of the facility.” Ghosh said. company could have approached procured a licence for a colony government that the commit- the high court with these very from the Hooda government and tee deliberately omitted these Chhattisgarh CM to facts and could have obtained a sold off the same land to DLF for facts. And please hold another moral setting aside of the order,” `580m. inquiry and, if I am wrong, you resume Vikas Yatra he said. He alleged that Vadra’s com- can pillory me. But you can- RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh Chief “As long as you hold charge, pany Sky Light Hospitality made not pillory me in favour of an Minister Raman Singh will you continue to do your duties. over `426m from the deal. accused,” he said. resume his Vikas Yatra today There is no personal interest In his interview to Karan Khemka said he was certain he from the Congress-held Arang here,” he said. Thapar, Khemka, however, had done the right thing. assembly seat in Raipur district. Khemka had conveyed to the admitted that Sky Light “Absolutely, it was the right Singh will address a series of Haryana government that the Hospitality had mentioned in thing to do. If you have to take meetings from his Vikas Rath whole deal done by Vadra in the its agreement given to the state action, the morality should at Arang, Nawapara, Abhanpur, purchase, getting licence and authorities for commercial start at the top. It is very easy Boriyakala and Mana. He will sale of prime land, measuring licence that land that had been to take action with people who unveil development works totalling 2.7 acres, in Shikohpur village transferred to DLF five months are downtrodden but it requires Rs.808 crore Monday in a bid to in Gurgaon district was based earlier. courage and guts to call a bluff a woo voters as the BJP eyes a third on “false” documents, including “The collaboration agree- bluff when it happens at the top,” consecutive assembly poll victory. a fictitious cheque, and was a ment signed by both Sky Light Khemka said. AGENCIES “sham sale”. hospitality and DLF admit that IANS MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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Royal Plaza Source : http://www.alasmakhrealestate.com/ Centrepoint A dumpster as home NEW YORK CITY: There’s crash pad — his home back in feet, but going up to 400 square nothing trashy about Gregory Oakland is rather more conven- feet — are fetching more atten- Kloehn’s Brooklyn pied-a-terre: tional — through a Dutch door tion, not least from aging baby a live-in dumpster that sleeps with an affixed minibar that is boomers looking to downsize in two with ease, hosts impromptu well-stocked with whiskey and their retirement years. barbecue parties and sports its vodka. In a back alley in Washington, own sundeck. To the right is the galley-style a four-unit tiny-house commu- It’s the California artist’s tin- kitchen with smooth granite nity has taken root at Boneyard can contribution to the tiny-house countertop, sink, single-burner Studios (www.boneyardstudios. movement that’s prompting many gas stove, concealed icebox and a com), showcasing the possibilities Americans to ask if bigger really hood fashioned out of an old wok. of small-is-beautiful housing in the is better when it comes to having Running around the edge is a heart of the nation’s capital. a roof over your head. cushioned sofa, upholstered in “It’s not for everyone by any “On the street, when it’s all black vinyl, with backs and seats means,” said Jay Austin, whose closed up, if you don’t know about that lift off to reveal storage space 140-square foot home at Boneyard it, you think it’s a garbage can,” and a marine toilet connectable to Studios, the Matchbox, is totally said Kloehn, 42. a city sewage system. off-grid, self-sustaining and “They don’t know I’m in here Twist a crank and up goes the carbon-neutral. sleeping... Even with the barbecue ceiling to reveal a pair of eyebrow In New York, the city’s museum going outside, chicken wings grill- windows to provide natural light is showing off a 325 square foot ing, people just walk by. They don’t and some welcome headroom. micro-apartment boasting all the see it as a home.” Welded onto the exterior is a features of a unit twice its size Kloehn had already turned shower and the gas barbecue. — and it’s invited a lucky few to 20-foot shipping containers into Electricity comes from whatever try it out for size by spending the housing units when he thought up socket happens to be nearby — night in it. The construction crew of Caves Unlimited react after the passage of the first train through the re-opened Tunnel the idea of doing likewise with the what Kloehn calls “living off some- Not content with making a #1, in Mendocino County, California. steel garbage receptacle known to body else’s grid.” dumpster just for himself, Kloehn Britons as a skip. A descendant of Civil War has used found materials — a “What I did is that I bought president Abraham Lincoln who, fridge door here, some castaway a brand new dumpster and just according to legend, grew up in lumber there, topped with a fibre- started going to town,” he said. a log cabin, Kloehn paid about glass hood from a pickup truck Historic train to resume run “I was going to make it a little $1,000 for the dumpster, known — to create a “debris home” on rougher at first, but then I started in the trash business as a six-yard wheels for the homeless. SAN FRANCISCO: A historic train that has primary industry, produced $124m for the county and I thought, ‘Let’s put in some humpback. “The bigger the home, the big- ferried tourists and residents through Northern in 2008, according to the most recent study avail- granite counter tops. Let’s put in He spent a couple of thousand ger the problems,” Kloehn mused. California redwood forests for generations will able from the Center for Economic Development at some hardwood floors. Let’s really on fittings and insulation — about “There’s more overhead, more resume service on Saturday after a caved-in tun- California State University, Chico. make it luxurious and liveable -- as much as one month’s rent for a things to go wrong, more yard to nel derailed the operation earlier this year. The Skunk Train received its nickname in 1925, really take everything a regular cramped Manhattan studio. take care of.” And, he shrugged, Train owners spent months rebuilding the tun- when the California Western Railroad began using home has and throw it into this In a nation where the average “you’re going to fill it up eventually nel, which collapsed under the pressure of a massive gas-fuelled railcars, instead of steam-powered small a space.” home is 2,600 square feet, tiny with junk.” rock, forcing the closure of the California Western engines, and potbellied stoves for heat. You enter Kloehn’s dark-green houses — typically 186 square AFP Railroad, which had run continuously for 128 years, The combination of smells from the gas and stoves train manager Robert Pinoli said. created an aroma similar to skunk spray, Pinoli said. “This is living, breathing history,” Pinoli said, add- “The old timers said that these rail buses were like ing that train staff was excited the popular tourist skunks,” Pinoli said, adding, “You could smell them attraction was ready to roll again. before you could see them because of their pungent The train, known as the Skunk Train, operates odour.” on 40 miles of railroad that connects Fort Bragg on Noted American merchant Charles R Johnson the Mendocino Coast to the city of Willits, inland funded Skunk Train in 1885 to transport logs and in Mendocino County on the highway 101 corridor. carry families and workers who set up logging camps It uses a 1925 M-100 railcruiser, which is believed to along the railroad route. be the only such train in The train was operated for many years by a union use today, in its collection lumber company and was sold in the 1960s to Arizona- of vintage locomotives, based Kyle Railways. A group of local investors have Pinoli said. owned the train since purchasing it in 1996. The train carries Today, residents who live along the Skunk Train roughly 50,000 passengers route still ride the train to and from home, Pinoli each year and generates said. The train will unload at individual homes and (Left) Living space inside the $20m in annual tourism campsites. “If you can believe it, in 2013, people still dumpster, including a sink, propane spending in Mendocino depend on this railroad to get in and out of their sum- stove and microwave; and (above) County, Pinoli said. mer homes or their year-round homes,” Pinoli said. the dumpster from outside. Tourism, Mendocino’s REUTERS Monday 19 August 2013 12 Shawwal 1434 Volume 18 Number 5796 Price: QR2

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DOHA: Qatar Development manufacture and installation. transportation and heavy truck- Bank (QDB) has unveiled huge Lease of construction equip- ing. QDB announces there is a number of business opportu- ment and heavy machinery are $12m worth business opportunity nities that local companies and another key attractive business in the supply and maintenance of Qatari entrepreneurs can seize opportunities. The combined pro- water and plumbing sector like from the upcoming Qatar Rail jected business size of the oppor- installation and maintenance of project. tunity is $625m. The size of the water and plumbing system for The opportunities range from opportunity to own and lease out stations. providing infrastructure to the heavy machinery for construction There is a huge $3.6bn oppor- tunnel constructions to running of rail network for Qatar Rail, tunity in project management retail stores and restaurants at including cranes, bulldozers, dig- services sector; which the local different locations. ging equipment, excavators, load- companies can go seize the QDB, the state-run a financial ers and trucks is $550m. This opportunity in joint venture in institution committed to diversify opportunity is in addition to the metro phase 1, with increased the economy by supporting the $970m business potential involved ownership or leading contractor Qatari private sector sees a $110m in the earth work services. in phase 2. worth business opportunities in QDB foresees another $480m Construction of bridges and providing the pre-fabricated tun- opportunity in the construction elevated structures, manufac- nel linings for the 80km-long of of deep foundations for build- turing of pre-fabricated concrete metro tunnels. ings including driving down pre- elements for elevated structures, Opportunity focuses on sup- fabricated piles into the ground supply and maintenance of plat- plying the prefabricated concrete to construction the foundation. form screen doors and sliding elements to maintain contractor Construction of structural frame- doors for stations buildings, oper- and capturing value during con- works for stations, workshops ation of self-storage parking solu- struction phase. for rolling stock maintenance, tions, running a chain of retail The Acura “NSX Concept” supercar is unloaded in front of the Lodge prior to being displayed on the Concept Based on the project break- construction of inner (non- stores and kiosks, coffee shops Lawn during the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in Pebble Beach, California, yesterday. down prepared by the McKinsey, structural) building divisions are and restaurants and maintenance QDB foresees a $200m business among other key opportunities of tunnels are among other busi- opportunity in the manufac- on offer. The combined revenue ness opportunities. turing of protection walls all potential from these opportuni- QDB is looking to impact along the 100km of protection ties has been put $1.9bn. Qatari economy by making a 3 alls to minimize noise, sight There are opportunities percent contribution to the GDP and potentially vibrations in the construction support of Qatar by 2015. from railway, including design, service, including materials THE PENINSULA

Eurozone bond Qatar leads Mena in market turning page on crisis A&M deals in H1 ’13

PARIS: The eurozone bond DOHA: Qatar leads the Middle market is gradually recover- East and North Africa (Mena) ing from the disruption caused region with four out of the top by the debt crisis, analysts say, 10 (40 percent) acquisition & with the gap in borrowing costs merger (A&M) deals by value, between fragile countries and followed by the UAE with 20 The largest Germany at two-year lows. percent, announced in the “The bond market is benefiting region during the first half (H1) sovereign wealth from both the staunch support of of 2013, according to a state- fund (SWF) deal the ECB for one year and better- ment issued yesterday by the was the acquisition than-expected economic indica- London-based Ernst & Young tors for the past couple of weeks,” (EY), the world’s third largest of five percent stake said Rene Defossez, a bond ana- accounting firm. in the Bharti Airtel lyst at French investment bank The largest sovereign wealth Ltd in India by Qatar Natixis. “This cocktail is reassur- fund (SWF) deal was the acqui- ing investors,” he added. sition of five percent stake in Foundation for A normalisation of the bond the Bharti Airtel Ltd in India $1.26bn. markets began in July 2012 by Qatar Foundation QSC for when European Central Bank $1.26bn. The majority of SWF chief Mario Draghi pledged to and private equity (PE) activity of inbound deals. The UAE contin- do “whatever it takes” to protect was in the telecommunications ues to play a key role in attracting the euro and later unveiled a facil- sector. investment to the region being the ity to provide massive support to The value of disclosed inbound target country focus of 25 percent countries implementing stabilisa- deals in the Mena increased of inbound deal volume for H1 2013. tion programmes. from $5.1bn in first half of 2012 This overall positive improvement And the past few months have to 10.6bn, a rise of 108 percent, of inbound investment could signify seen a series of more reassuring according to EY’s Mena M&A a continued level of confidence in economic indicators, culminating update. Whereas the outbound the Mena market irrespective of with data showing the eurozone deal value dropped by 37 percent the continued political uncertainty exited its record 18-month reces- from $10.5bn in H1 2012 to $6.6bn in the region.” sion in the second quarter with in H1 2013 and domestic deal Egypt saw the largest inbound 0.3-percent growth. value decreased by 13 percent. deal value, representing 83 percent Germany managed 0.7-percent The top announced deal in H1 of all inbound deal value in H1, and growth and France 0.5 percent. 2013 was Baskindale Limited’s has been the target country of two And while Spain and Italy still acquisition of Orascom Telecom significant announced deals total- contracted, the rate had slowed. Holding in Egypt for $6.4bn, ling $8.3bn in the telecommunica- At the height of the debt cri- followed by the acquisition by tion and construction sectors. sis, the difference — or spread — Sorouh Real Estate PJSC in the The largest volume of domestic between the low borrowing costs UAE of Aldar Properties PJSC deals was in the UAE, represent- enjoyed by powerhouse economy for $2bn and Netherlands based ing 25 percent of domestic deals Germany and the ballooning rates OCI N V acquisition of Orascom in H1 2013, followed by Saudi endured by crisis-wracked Italy Construction Industries in Egypt Arabia representing 19 percent and Spain soared to levels seen for $1.9bn. of domestic deal volume in Mena. as unsustainable. Head of Transaction Advisory In Q2 2013, the value of dis- In times of economic crisis, Services (Mena) at EY, Phil closed deals dropped by 43 per- investors demand higher returns Gandier, said: “Seeing the value cent from $14.3bn in Q2 2012 to to lend to countries seen as less of inbound deals double since H1 $8.1bn. However, announced deal stable, as they fear they may not 2012 is an interesting trend, as both volume increased by 20 percent be paid back. This pushed up the inbound and outbound deal flows from 92 deals in Q2 2012 to 110 borrowing costs for the likes of have seen a reversal compared to deals in Q2 2013, the highest Q2 Italy and Spain. a year ago, where outbound deal M&A activity since 2008. AFP value was nearly double the value THE PENINSULA MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Rising debt Spark of progress in heavy industries costs could hit govts: Analysts Drying up stimulus plans blamed

PARIS: Governments face a August and 1.990 percent at the rise in their borrowing costs beginning of the year. due to the winding down of At the height of the eurozone monetary stimulus programmes debt crisis, some eurozone money and as investors bet on central flowed into less risky bonds, such banks hiking interest rates as French debt. But as the debt sooner than promised. crisis eases, bond yields for the Moody’s Analytics warned this countries in trouble have fallen week that “US rates could rise as and there are signs that yields on the Fed moves to slow its pur- the safe haven countries may rise, chases of long-term debt, which with French bonds being closely in turn could push up the yields watched. on European government bonds.” For Germany, the yield on That has already begun. 10-year Bunds was 1.881 percent The yield on the debt of the on Friday, up from 1.667 percent United States and top European at the beginning of the month and countries, as well as emerging 1.442 percent at the beginning of economies, has risen recently as 2013. investors bet that the US Federal France’s 10-year bonds yielded Reserve could begin as soon as in 2.400 percent Friday, up from A worker cuts steel bars at a plant in Hefei, Anhui province, yesterday. Momentum is growing in China to allow market forces to end a titanic capac- September to lower the amount of 2.223 percent at the beginning of ity glut in heavy industry that a decade of state interventions has failed to resolve. monetary stimulus it injects into August and 2.077 percent at the the economy. beginning of the year. The $85bn (¤64bn) per month The drop in sovereign bond that the Fed has ploughed into yields to exceptionally low levels, the US economy led to lower thanks to the ultra-low interest bond yields in the US, as well rates set by central banks and GCC insurance market grows to $16bn in many other countries as easy huge monetary stimulus pro- money went abroad from the US grammes, have masked the debt DOHA: The GCC insurance valuations and a reluctance to all profits in 2012; meanwhile, critical mass—sufficient business in search of somewhat higher risk problems the countries face. sector grew to nearly $16bn in relinquish control are preventing nearly a third of Saudi insurers volumes—to cover their operating and yields elsewhere. Now their governments face terms of gross premium written smaller insurers from consolidat- reported losses. “We observed a expenses”, S&P report noted. But recently, investors have fac- having to pay more to finance new in 2012. The sector witnessed ing. In trying to avoid reporting similar trend in the United Arab Over time, a lack of profitabil- tored in the prospect of the easy debt as their borrowing costs rise growth rates of over 10 percent losses, we believe revenue-starved Emirates (UAE) — again, the ity erodes capital, leaving some money tap being slowly closed in line with the yields on the sec- in the region’s largest insurance insurers could distort market three largest companies reported companies with little prospect of down. This has pushed up yields ondary market where debt issued markets during the year. pricing for all. over 80 percent of the market’s finding a profitable niche. It is on US Treasury bonds, and has previously is traded. Ample capital is available Insurance in the GCC region profits in 2012. Even if we exclude just a matter of time before these caused some of the money placed The rise in sovereign yields within the industry to back the continues to benefit from gen- takaful companies, this figure is companies start to run out of abroad to be withdrawn, pushing has come even though central growth in insurance premiums. erally robust economic growth still over 50 percent. Results for capital and face a risk of default. up sovereign bond yields elsewhere. banks have pledged to keep those Both regional and international because the considerable hydro- UAE takaful companies were Therefore, for some companies, The rate of return for investors near-zero rates for the foresee- investors are looking for a slice of carbon wealth of the GCC states significantly skewed by losses at consolidation makes economic on 10-year US Treasuries rose able future. Bond analyst Rene the business because of the growth sustains their expanding econo- Salama/Islamic Arab Insurance sense. If companies merge, it to 2-year highs this past week, Defossez at French investment potential. This creates a highly mies. Real GDP growth in the Co. (P.S.C.). could improve their economies of implying a more than 50 percent bank Natixis said investors are competitive marketplace in which region was nearly 6% in 2012, and Many UAE-based insurance scale and offer them cost efficien- increase in US borrowing costs starting to bet that the signs of all companies are contending for we expect this growth momentum companies established in the past cies. Acquirers tend to be more since the beginning of the year. economic recovery which justify profitable business, Standard & to continue in 2013 and beyond. few years are struggling to deliver successful entities, indicating On Friday, 10-year Treasuries the winding down of stimulus Poor’s noted yesterday. Although the ratings agency sustainable levels of performance, that they are better-managed or were trading at 2.812 percent, up may induce central banks to raise In Standard & Poor’s Ratings estimates that the GCC markets despite acceptable reported loss that they have larger resources from 2.689 percent at the begin- rates sooner than they suggest. Services’ view, a small number are profitable as a whole, the ratios. at their disposal. Consequently, ning of the month and 1.828 per- “The factors which are push- of well-established insurers are profits tend to be concentrated “ In our view, inadequate profit- an acquired entity may benefit cent at the beginning of the year. ing yields higher are tending to reaping the benefits of the fast- at larger and more-established ability is more pronounced at the from the resources, know-how, Ten-year British gilts were at prevail” over the interest rate growing insurance markets in the entities. For instance, in Saudi lower end of the market because and technical expertise of its new 2.704 percent Friday, up from guidance issued by central banks. Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Arabia, the three largest com- smaller companies lack economies management team. 2.401 percent at the beginning of AFP region. Meanwhile, inflated panies reported 80 percent of of scale. Many of them lack the THE PENINSULA

China wants Lack of refinery deal halts China-Afghan oil project fewer curbs KABUL: Afghanistan’s land- eyeing the country’s vast oil and agreement with the Uzbek gov- international oil production agree- hold over 80 million barrels of mark oil project has ground to mineral wealth. ernment,” he said. ment reached by the Afghan gov- crude oil reserves. in free trade a halt and most Chinese staff But equipment at the site had Jumriany said a team would ernment for several decades, had Both Amu Darya and another have left less than a year after now been locked up and about travel to meet the Uzbeks next been expected to earn the war-torn Chinese-operated site, a giant production started because 16 Chinese workers had left, an week and was hopeful a deal could state billions of dollars over two copper mine at Aynak, have been zones there is still no transit agree- employee at the project said on be reached. CNPC said it had no decades. targeted by insurgents aiming to ment in place to refine the oil, condition of anonymity as he is not knowledge of problems or delays The Amu Darya venture was destabilise government revenues BEIJING: China hopes to sus- an employee and a government authorised to speak to the media. affecting the project when asked disrupted in June last year when and frighten off fresh investment pend its laws governing foreign official said yesterday. The removal of staff was early last week. Chinese engineers came under ahead of a pullout by most Nato investment in proposed free The venture between China only a temporary measure to Landlocked Afghanistan lacks attack by men loyal to army combat troops in 2014. trade zones, the cabinet said, in National Petroleum Corporation save money, according to Jalil the capacity to refine the oil it can chief of staff and Uzbek warlord Despite considerable disruptions a sign the world’s second-big- (CNPC) International and its Jumriany, policy director at the produce and until an adequate General Abdul Rashid Dostum, affecting the first projects seeking gest economy could open fur- Afghan partner, Watan Oil and Ministry of Mines in Kabul. He refinery is built will remain reli- according to Afghan government to exploit the country’s vast oil and ther to foreign competition. Gas, began producing oil in the said an agreement to refine the ant on trade agreements with its officials at the time. mineral wealth, estimated at $1 tril- The State Council, China’s Amu Darya basin in the north in oil over the border in Uzbekistan neighbours. Later in the year, China agreed lion, Chinese and Indian firms have cabinet, will ask senior members October, providing a much needed was being negotiated. The joint project launched to train 300 Afghan policemen to scrambled to secure their share. of the National People’s Congress confidence boost to investors “We are waiting for a transit in December 2011, the first safeguard the site, estimated to REUTERS for the power to suspend laws and regulations governing both for- eign-owned companies and joint ventures between Chinese and foreign companies in free trade zones, including Shanghai, the Fracking protesters cabinet said on its website. The move is aimed at “accelerat- ing transformation of the govern- ment’s role ... and innovating ways march in Britain of (further) opening up (to foreign investment),” according to the state- BALCOMBE, England: British more before they allow fracking,” ment, seen yesterday. It set no time- opposition to shale gas extrac- said 35-year-old Gabriel Schucan table, and gave no further details. tion flared up in the tiny village before the march. Foreign direct investment in of Balcombe yesterday as hun- Groups orchestrating the pro- China slowed in 2012 but reversed dreds marched on an oil explora- test said it would be followed by its decline in the first quarter of tion site in protest at the drilling two days of “direct action” today this year as confidence improved. process known as ‘fracking’. and tomorrow. Acting on police China attracted $38.3bn in for- Banner-waving men, women advice, Cuadrilla on Friday said it eign direct investment in the first and children travelled in by buses was suspending drilling due to the four months of 2013, up 1.2 per- and bikes to join locals in a mile- protests. “Direct action speeds up cent from the same period in 2012. long trek, surrounded by police, the national conversation a lit- China’s financial centre, towards a drilling operation run tle bit. It forces us to talk about Shanghai, will test yuan convert- by Cuadrilla Resources in the pic- the things we don’t want to talk ibility and cross-border capital turesque English county of West about,” said Ben Healey, a 39-year- flows in the free trade zone pilot Sussex. old environmental consultant. programme. Britain’s government needs to Activists are concerned the The country’s new leaders have win over a sceptical public if it is hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, signalled they want to speed the to stimulate a US-style produc- process used to extract gas from process of making the yuan fully tion boom and offset dwindling rocks underground can trigger convertible over the next few North Sea oil and gas reserves. small earthquakes and pollute water years, as part of efforts to boost The massive expansion of US supplies. Cuadrilla Resources, the currency’s use in trade and shale gas extraction has driven which is drilling a conventional oil support wider financial reforms. down energy prices and cut well in Balcombe, is the only com- Shanghai officials are keen dependence on imports there. pany to have fracked a shale gas to experiment with freeing up “I’d like the politicians to know well elsewhere in Britain, making the capital account and yuan Climate and anti-fracking demonstrators gather at a protest camp erected near the drill site operated by Cuadrilla that they have to be more care- its activities a target for protesters. convertibility. Resources Ltd in Balcombe in southern England, yesterday. ful and consult with communities REUTERS REUTERS MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19

Union Properties Egypt bourse tumbles 3.9 percent shares jump 11 percent on Index breaks major technical support; Saudi market reaches 59-month high massive volume DUBAI: Egypt’s bourse suf- Thursday because of the violence. DUBAI: Shares of Dubai prop- fered its largest one-day drop The market traded for three erty developer Union Properties, in four months yesterday after hours yesterday instead of the in which lender Emirates NBD hundreds of people were killed usual four, to give time for people holds a major stake, surged 11 in a crackdown by the army- to return home before a curfew. percent in massive trading vol- backed government on support- “Civil war is knocking on the ume yesterday — a fresh sign of ers of the Muslim Brotherhood. door and lots of lives have been growing optimism toward the Cairo’s main index tumbled shed and I don’t think it will stop emirate’s real estate. 3.9 percent to 5,335 points. It here,” Ali Adou, fund manager at The stock, which closed at 0.46 had dropped 1.7 percent on Abu Dhabi investment firm The dirham per share, saw 423.7 mil- Wednesday, when security forces National Investor, said of Egypt’s lion shares change hands on the started taking action to disperse political situation. Dubai equities market, accounting protesters, and was shut on “It will be a while before people for nearly two-thirds of the mar- will think of investing in the cur- ket’s entire traded volume of 660 rent environment.” million shares. Yesterday’s volume Qatar index up 0.23pc The index fell yesterday below was equivalent to about 12.5 per- major technical support around cent of UP’s outstanding shares. DOHA: Qatar Exchange 5,450 points, where it peaked in UP Chief Executive Khalid bin index yesterday added 23.17 May and July. The next, minor Kalban said he was not aware of points or 0.23 percent to chart support is at 5,275 points, the transactions but added that advance to 9,909.85 points the late July low. there had been huge demand for from 9,886.68 on Thursday. In addition to the bloodshed, UP’s shares over the last few weeks. The volume of the shares the government has threatened “Brokers tell me that there have traded fell to 5,798,919 from to ban the Brotherhood, which been good enquiries for the stock 6,720,116 on Thursday and could end remaining hopes for from local, regional and global the value of shares decreased inclusive parliamentary elections investors,” he said. “The share is to QR220,511,731.94 from and a return to civilian rule in undervalued. We are reducing our QR262,299,139.86 Thursday. coming months. debt exposure and we expect our Among the top gainers were The closure of some major for- balance sheet to improve drasti- Industries Qatar which was eign-owned industrial facilities in cally by the end of September.” up 0.31 percent to QR159.60, the past few days, as well as the ENBD declined to comment on Masraf Al Rayan which gained fresh blow to the tourist indus- whether yesterday’s trades were 1.18 percent to QR30.10, Doha try, suggest that even if billions A general view of the Egyptian stock exchange in Cairo yesterday. related to the bank cutting its Insurance added 1.57 percent of dollars in aid from Egypt’s Gulf stake in UP. The bank sold down to QR25.90 and Gulf ware- allies can keep it financially afloat Some foreign investors and is up 20 percent year-to-date; the In the United Arab Emirates, its stake from around 48 percent housing Company which rose in coming months, the economy economists, such as VTB Capital’s petrochemical sector index rose Dubai’s measure slipped 0.2 per- to about 31.4 percent in the first by 0.95 percent to QR42.40. could deteriorate further. The Middle Eastern chief economist 1.1 percent yesterday. cent, trimming 2013 gains to 61.9 half of this year, it said when The banking and financial resulting unemployment could Raza Agha, are discussing the pos- The rally is partly driven by the percent. announcing its second-quarter sector index dropped 0.07 worsen social tensions. sibility of Egypt following the exam- market’s break this month above Small-cap real estate stocks earnings last month. points while consumer goods The stock market is still up ple of Algeria, where a military 8,000 points, an important level surged, however, after lagging ENBD Chief Financial Officer and services sector index was 19 percent from its June low, crackdown on Islamists in the 1990s psychologically. earlier this year. Union Properties Surya Subramanian told a media down 0.30 points. The indus- thanks to hopes that the ouster led to a protracted armed conflict. “Investors are adding more risk jumped 10.8 percent to a three- call on July 22 that the bank was trial sector gained 0.12 points of President Mohammed Mursi Elsewhere, Saudi Arabia’s and the break above the 8,000 month high; it is up 16.5 percent looking to reduce some of its direct while insurance sector fell 0.87 would produce a more effective benchmark climbed 0.3 percent level has kept the positive momen- year-to-date. Volume in the stock and indirect real estate exposure points. government. That leaves plenty of to hit a new 59-month closing tum,” said John Sfakianakis, was a massive 423 million shares, so that it could continue to book QNA room for investors to sell further high of 8,157 points, boosted by chief investment strategist at its highest in more than two years. new business without exceeding in order to lock in profits. petrochemical shares. The market Saudi investment firm MASIC. REUTERS regulatory limits. According to the latest bourse data, ENBD now holds 30.25 percent of UP. Dubai’s residential real estate prices crashed by more than half between 2008 and 2011 as a bub- GCC commercial arbitration conference begins in Oman ble burst, but are now recover- ing; analysts estimate apartment prices have rebounded about 18 SALALAH: The 18th Annual Commerce and Industry (OCCI) progress in integrating into the Head of OCCI Branch in the General of the GCC-CAC deliv- percent from a year earlier. Conference “Arbitration in in the Governorate of Dhofar. global economy. Governorate of Dhofar delivered ered a speech during which he UP shares have lagged the bull- Disputes of Capital Markets During the meeting, Omani He was quoted by Oman News a speech during which he stressed expressed thanks and apprecia- ish stock market. They are up 16 in the GCC Countries”, opened Minister of Commerce and Agency (ONA) as explaining the importance of the conference, tion to Sulatanate of Oman for percent so far this year, compared in Salalah yesterday under the Industry Mas’oud Al Sunaidi that the theme of this confer- which is annually hosted by the providing all means of success to a 62 percent rise for the main patronage of Omani Minister of affirmed that the GCC joint ence, represented in arbitration branch in the Governorate of to the conference and the GCC- market index. Commerce and Industry Dr. Ali efforts achieve progress in the in disputes of capital markets in Dhofar during the Khareef sea- CAC for conducting the confer- The company reported a 36 bin Mas’oud Al Sunaidi. relevant systems and legislations the GCC, is within the framework son for the 18th consecutive year. ence for 18 successive years. The percent rise in second-quarter The three-day confer- aiming at stimulating investment of the attention accorded by the He highlighted the success of the conference aims to acquaint par- net profit to Dh113.3m, because of ence is organised by the GCC and stabilising stock markets. He Gulf countries for the stability of conference, as well as the success ticipants with modern methods of a saving of Dh80m due to liabili- Commercial Arbitration Centre pointed out that Oman pursues a the stock market. of the GCC- CAC (the organising contracting and give participants ties settlements with contractors (CAC), in cooperation with the policy of openness and economic Abdullah bin Salim Al Rowas, entity) in carrying out its mission. the necessary skills. for some projects. branch of Oman Chamber of liberalisation and makes tangible OCCI’s Board member and Ahmed Al Najim, Secretary QNA REUTERS GM, Metro reopen in Egypt 18 foreign oil firms qualified to STOCKHOLM: General Motors and German than 2bn crowns ($307m) last year, out of retailer Metro AG reopened facilities in Egypt total sales of about 110bn. Other interna- yesterday while Electrolux extended plant clo- tional firms said they were back open for bid for 20 blocks sures until security stabilises. business. Electrolux, the world’s second-biggest home Carmaker General Motors, which halted oper- appliances maker with nearly 7,000 employees in ations on Thursday, said it decided to reopen its in Yemen Egypt, suspended production in the country on production plant in 6th October City, as well as Wednesday for five days. its Cairo office, although it was still monitoring ADEN: Yemen has allowed 18 The Swedish company said in a statement the situation carefully. international oil firms to bid for it would reassess developments continuously. Metro AG closed its two cash and carry 20 onshore and offshore blocks “Operations will be resumed as soon as the secu- stores and its Egypt headquarters on Friday in the sixth auction issued by rity situation stabilises,” it said. and Saturday but said they were open again on the Oil Ministry, the state news More than 700 people have died, most of them Sunday. agency Saba said yesterday. backers of ousted president Mohamed Mursi, The group’s security staff were keeping an eye Saba quoted Ahmed Dares, in four days of violence during which the army- on current events, such as the funeral of the son Yemen’s oil minister, as saying backed government launched a fierce crackdown of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie, that 45 foreign firms had pre- on his supporters. a spokeswoman said. sented applications to bid for the Electrolux’s turnover in Egypt was more REUTERS blocks, of which nine are onshore and 11 offshore. Of the 45, only 18 had qualified to bid. World’s biggest container vessel The auction aims to increase Yemen’s oil and gas output through foreign investment, Dares was quoted as saying. The 18 firms include Hunt Oil and Gas, Norway’s DNO, Circle Oil, Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Company (Kufpec), Pakistan Oilfields and Dana Gas. The list also includes France’s Total, the Austrian oil and gas group OMV, UAE-based Crescent Petroleum, and Pakistan Petroleum. The qualified firms will now review the technical information available about the 20 blocks, the minister said. Yemen is a small producer with proven oil reserves of around three billion barrels as of January 1, 2013, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Oil reserves and production are sourced from two areas, the The world’s biggest container vessel Maersk Mc-Kinney Muller arrives at the container terminal Marib-Jawf basin in the north, during its maiden voyage in Bremerhaven, Germany, yesterday. The ship, constructed in South and Say’un-Masila basin in the Korea, measures 400M in length and can carry 18,000 containers. south. REUTERS MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

QE Indices Summary QE Index 9,909.85 0.23 % WORLD STOCK INDICES GOLD & SILVER EXCHANGE QE Total Return Index 14,158.91 0.23 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 2,846.46 0.57 % RATE QE All Share Index 2,495.27 0.10 % INDEX Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low QE All Share Banks & Financial 2,415.62 0.07 % GOLD Buying Selling Services All Ordinaries 5136.692 -4.294 -0.08 5229.8 4610.6 QE All Share Consumer Goods & 5,961.25 0.30 % QR156.8925 US$ ...... QR 3.6305 QR 3.6500 Services Cac 40 Index/D 4097.11 -17.09 -0.42 4122.16 3575.17 UK ...... QR 5.6572 QR 5.7399 QE All Share Industrials 3,182.77 0.12 % SILVER QE All Share Insurance 2,276.08 0.87 % Dj Indu Average 15337.66 -113.35 -0.73 15658.4 12471.5 QR 2.5867 Euro ...... QR 4.8101 QR 4.9075 QE All Share Real Estate 1,785.98 0.18 % CA$ ...... QR 3.4900 QR 3.5642 QE All Share Telecoms 1,473.78 0.34 % Egypt Cma Gn Idx 1026.29 32.57 3.28 999.95 312.38 Swiss Fr ...... QR 3.8911 QR 3.9798 QE All Share Transportation 1,820.63 1.78 % Hang Seng Inde/D 22539.25 -1.88 -0.01 23944.74 19426.36 Yen ...... QR 0.0369 QR 0.0378 QE Market Summary Comparison Aus$ ...... QR 3.3061 QR 3.3900 Iseq Overall/D 4218.19 -43.66 -1.02 4285.01 3396.67 CRUDE OIL Today Previous day Ind Re ...... QR 0.0583 QR 0.0596 18-08-2013 15-08-2013 Karachi 100 In/D 23687.89 74.69 0.32 23944.99 16036.31 Pak Re ...... QR 0.0352 QR 0.0359 Index 9,909.85 9,886.68 BRENT Peso ...... QR 0.0820 QR 0.0846 Change 23.17 119.68 Nikkei 225 Index 13752.94 -297.22 -2.12 15942.6 10398.61 SL Re ...... QR 0.0274 QR 0.0280 % 0.23 1.20 $ 110.77 S&P 500 Index/D 0 0 0 1709.67 1343.35 Taka ...... QR 0.0462 QR 0.0473 YTD% 18.55 18.28 DUBAI Volume 5,798,919 6,720,116 Straits Times/D 3220.92 -27.74 -0.85 3464.79 3065.42 Nep Re ...... QR 0.0368 QR 0.0374 Value (QAR) 220,511,731.94 262,299,139.86 SA Rand ...... QR 0.3631 QR 0.3701 Straits Times/D 2971.47 22.7 0.77 3035.78 2657.77 $ 107.20 Trades 2,967 3,368

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Federal Reserve QE tapering seems already priced in

HE US Dollar remained however closed the week at the strong at 97.50 data had already ¤5.8bn aid installment to Athens worry investors from returning under pressure against all lowest level since June. In the com- showed improve- had been “politically motivated”. back to the market. Tmajor currencies this week The Euro had a strong week modity complex, ment, most nota- UK beating expectations Reports out of Japanese news- despite the strong data out of the despite the better US economic while investors bly in the PMI The Unemployment in the papers quoted Japanese Prime US economy. Indeed, the lat- data and the higher yields in the thought Gold reports released UK held in the second quarter Minister Shinzo Abe looking at est drop in the USD index came US treasuries. The Euro reached would tumble Weekly Money Market Review lately. Those at 7.8 percent, but the outlook the option of cutting the nation’s despite higher treasuries yield a high of 1.3380 on Friday on again after the surveys need to brightened as jobless claims fell corporate tax rate, although the in the US, better economic data, light summer trading, however, strong US data, the yellow metal be backed-up with better activ- almost twice as fast as expected idea is still in its early stages with which both supported the specula- investors are reluctant to sell the exploded higher on technical trad- ity data in order to sustain the and the number of people in work a number of hurdles ahead. tion that the beginning of the Fed currencies before they see what ing. As trading remain illiquid Euro strength. As GDP has been hit a record high. Jobless claims The corporate tax cut would be tapering would start in the month the Fed has in store during the lately, investors sold the metal negative for six consecutive quar- declined by 29,200 to 1.44 million a way to cope with any negative of September. Jackson hole at the end of August while establishing stop losses ters through Q1 of this year, this in June, taking the rate to 4.3 per- economic fallout from a planned However, it is wise to keep in and the September Fed meeting. higher than their entry point and week’s GDP broke the trend and cent, the lowest since February sales tax hike scheduled to take mind that we are in the midst The Sterling Pound was the got hit on their short positions. showed a modest improvement for 2009 and the number of people in effect next year. According to the of the summer trading holidays best performer on stronger than Gold ended the week almost $50 the first time this year. employment rose by 69,000 in the report, Mr. Abe had instructed with a large number of investors expected data. Indeed, the cur- higher than Monday’s opening. According to the German press, three months to June to a record related ministries to look at the currently on holidays and illiq- rency was supported this week The continuous volatile situa- the German opposition par- 29.78m, compared to the three implication of such a move before uid markets shaping the trading by the stellar job and retail sales tion in the Middle East and the ties accused Chancellor Angela months to March. On another proposing it to the parliament. week. report. The Pound closed at the positive data our of the US con- Merkel of lying before elections front, retail sales in the UK rose According to the China For now, the stream of US highest level seen in weeks at tinue to put upward pressures next month about the risks of a at their fastest annual rate in Banking regulatory Commission, data suggest that the odds of a 1.5629. on Oil prices, even with the US new bailout for Greece. German over two years in July jumping Chinese banks’ bad loans rose for September tapering are continu- Japanese Yen traders got caught crude inventory coming higher newspapers also quoted an inter- 1.1 percent on the month almost a seventh straight quarter dur- ously increasing and the US bond again this week on the wrong foot than expected. Oil prices ended nal document prepared by the twice more than expected to give ing the April-June period. Non- and equities are suffering accord- as the US dollar pushed higher the week at $107.46. German central bank as saying an annual rise of 3 percent, the performing loans climbed by 13 ingly due to the expectation of a in the beginning the week after EUROPE & UK that Europe “will certainly agree highest since Jan 2011. billion Yuan in Q2, reaching 539.5 decrease in the money supply in talk surfaced that Prime Minister a new aid programme for Greece” ASIA billion Yuan. It does not seem that the market. Abe was set to lower corporate tax Europe back into positive by early next year at the latest. this fact has caused any concern On the foreign exchange side, rates to help mitigate any poten- growth The Bundesbank, which declined Australia’s situation remains to investors as the central govern- major currencies closed the week tially negative economic effects Looking at the latest economic comment, also described the risks messy ment has already demonstrated at the highest levels seen in weeks. from a likely sales tax hike. After figures out of Europe, it seems associated with the existing aid Between budget issues, busi- its willingness to funnel massive After opening the week at 81.12, reaching a low of 98.65, the Yen that the Euro zone has returned package for Greece as “extremely ness confidence slowing and hous- fiscal reserves through four state- the Dollar Index gained almost staged a comeback along with the to growth and the worst was high”, according to the report, and ing boom exploding, the situation owned banks to avert such a crisis. 1 percent on strong US figures; other majors and closed the week avoided for now. Some of the said the approval last month of a in Australia seems to constantly THE PENINSULA MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Baseball Results St Louis 4 Chicago Cubs 0 Boston 6 NY Yankees 1 Reed and Huh share lead Arizona 15 Pittsburgh 5 Baltimore 8 Colorado 4 LA Dodgers 5 Philadelphia 0 Former Masters champion Johnson still in the mix at Wyndham Detroit 6 Kansas City 5 San Francisco 6 Miami 4 GREENSBORO, United Milwaukee 2 Cincinnati 0 States: Rookie Patrick Reed Scores Chicago White Sox 8 Minnesota 5 fired a one-over 71 to maintain GREENSBORO, United a share of the lead with fel- Washington 8 Atlanta 7 States: Leading third-round low American John Huh after Toronto 6 Tampa Bay 2 scores yesterday in the $5.3m the third round of the PGA USPGA Tour’s Wyndham Texas 15 Seattle 3 Tour Wyndham Championship Championship (USA unless San Diego 8 NY Mets 2 yesterday. noted, par-70): Reed, 23, used three late bird- FROM LEFT: John Huh, LA Angels 6 Houston 5 ies as he overcame a three-hour Jordan Spieth and Patrick 200 Patrick Reed 65-64-71, John Huh Cleveland 7 Oakland 1 delay to join Huh atop the leader- Reed walk off the 2nd tee 68-62-70 board of the rain-hit tournament. box during the third round of 201 Zach Johnson 67-68-66, Bob Estes Reed and Huh are both sitting at the Wyndham Championship 67-66-68, Jordan Spieth 65-66-70 Springboks 10-under 200. at Sedgefield Country 202 Robert Garrigus 65-69-68, Matt Every “I am not happy with the round Club in Greensboro, North 67-67-68, Brian Harman 67-66-69 but I can’t be disappointed with Carolina, yesterday. 204 Brendan Steele 71-67-66 axe Nyakane the position I am in,” said over- 205 Charlie Beljan 69-67-69, Sergio Garcia night leader Reed, whose wife (ESP) 65-70-70, Alistair Presnell (AUS) Justine is caddying for him this for missing 67-71-67, Rory Sabbatini (RSA) 67-66- week. 72, Jim Herman 67-66-72 With weather forecasters pre- dicting more rain, organisers 206 Andres Gonzales 69-67-70, Park Jin flights decided to send players off two (KOR) 67-69-70, Trevor Immelman (RSA) tees in threesomes for the fourth 65-71-70, Bryce Molder 66-69-71, Bill JOHANNESBURG: Prop round, as was the case yesterday. Haas 69-66-71, Hideki Matsuyama (JPN) Trevor Nyakane has been 70-65-71, Nick O’Hern (AUS) 68-71-67, Reed began the rainy day at Justine was also Reed’s caddie 10 straight pars and then birdied fifth straight top-10 finish and dumped from the South Africa Scott Gardiner (AUS) 67-72-67 11-under and leading Huh, who is in La Quinta, California, where three of his next four. perhaps a first win of the season squad for missing flights and a also 23, by one stroke. He dropped Reed secured a PGA Tour card “It was pretty rough start for after posting a third-round 66. video session, the national rugby three strokes by the 12th hole but at qualifying school. me, you know, because the second Johnson was tied for third place Solheim Cup union announced yesterday. reeled off three straight birdies “She just has a knack for read- hole you don’t want to start like at nine-under with Bob Estes (68) A statement said the 24-year- starting at the 14th. ing greens extremely well,” Reed a triple. But, you know, I pulled and Jordan Spieth (70). Scores old forward would miss the Reed then dropped back into a said. my second shot a little bit and Robert Garrigus (68), Matt PARKER, United States: trip to Argentina for a Rugby tie with Huh when he couldn’t get Huh got off to a rough start put myself in the wrong spot and Every (68) and Brian Harman Results on the second day Championship match on August up and down at the 18th, where he with an early triple bogey before instead of taking medicine I get (69) shared sixth at eight-under, of the Solheim Cup USA vs 24 because of “repeated breaches missed an 11-foot putt to save par. settling in nicely and finishing too greedy and it turns out I make Brendan Steele (66) was in solo Europe women’s match play of team protocol”. If Reed he claims his maiden strong for an even-par 70. a triple there,” said Huh. ninth at six-under and defending tournament yesterday at the And a tweet from the official PGA Tour win it would be a fam- Huh’s triple bogey came at the Former Masters champion champion Sergio Garcia (70) was Colorado Golf Club: Springbok rugby account shed ily affair. second hole. He answered with Zach Johnson is vying for his tied for 10th. AFP USA 5.5 Europe 10.5 greater light: “No great scan- dal folks. Breach of protocol in Foursomes Trevor’s case means missing Anna Nordqvist/Caroline flights and video session.” Hedwall (EUR) bt Morgan Nyakane was among 30 players Europe on brink of Solheim win Pressel/Jessica Korda (USA) chosen for home and away Tests 2 and 1 against the Pumas at the start of PARKER, United States/ rookies Jodi Shadoff and Charley Stacy Lewis/Paula Creamer the annual southern hemisphere Colorado: Europe swept the Hull defeated Paula Creamer (USA) bt Azahara Munoz/ rugby championship that includes afternoon fourball matches to and Lexi Thompson 2 up, Spain’s Karine Icher (EUR) 1 up title-holders New Zealand and seize a five-point lead over the Azahara Munoz and Carlota Catriona Matthew/Caroline Australia. United States yesterday and Ciganda defeated Gerina Piller Masson (EUR) vs Brittany But the prop from stand poised to retain their and Angela Stanford 1 up and Lincicome/Lizette Salas Bloemfontein-based Super 15 out- Solheim Cup golf crown. Caroline Hedwall and Caroline (USA), halved fit the Cheetahs did not make the The European women, who Masson beat Michelle Wie and matchday 23 in the 73-13 rout of Michelle Wie/Brittany Lang have never won the Trans- Jessica Korda 2 and 1. Argentina at Soccer City stadium (USA) bt Suzanne Pettersen/ Atlantic match play showdown Anna Nordqvist had got what in Soweto this weekend. Beatriz Recari (EUR) 2 and 1 on US soil, take a 10.5 to 5.5 lead proved to be a big day for Europe The 118-kilogram forward rose into today’s 12 concluding singles off to a flying start when she aced Fourballs to prominence as an second-half matches. the 17th hole to seal a European Jodi Ewart Shadoff/Charley impact player for his province No team has come back from win in the day’s opening four- Hull (EUR) bt Paula Creamer/ and won his first Springboks more than a two-point deficit to somes match. Lexi Thompson (USA) 2 up cap against Italy last June as a win. Nordqvist’s hole-in-one on the Azahara Munoz/Carlota replacement. France’s Karine Icher finished par-three 17th was thought to be Ciganda (EUR) bt Gerina Nyakane also came off the off a perfect afternoon for Europe the first in Solheim history and Piller/Angela Stanford (USA) bench against Scotland and when she rolled in a birdie putt sealed a 2 and 1 win for her and FROM LEFT: European Team members Anna Nordqvist of Sweden, 1 up Samoa in other four-nation tour- from several feet off the green as Hedwall over Pressel and Korda. Catriona Matthew of Scotland, Graeme Matthew of Scotland and Suzann Caroline Hedwall/Caroline nament games and is considered a darkness was falling at the 18th “I don’t think it has hit me yet,” Pettersen of Norway celebrate as Carlota Ciganda of Spain and the Masson (EUR) bt Michelle long-term challenger to tighthead hole of the Colorado Golf Club. said Nordqvist. “It was a really European Team makes a birdie putt on the 18th hole to win the match Wie/Jessica Korda (USA) 2 incumbent Jannie du Plessis. That gave her and Spain’s good shot, going straight at it. We with her team-mate Azahara Munoz of Spain over Gerina Piller and and 1 Coach Heyenke Meyer has Beatriz Recari a 1 up victory thought it was -- it might be a Angela Stanford of the United States Team during the afternoon four-ball replaced Nyakane with uncapped over Americans Cristie Kerr and little long, but it pitched and hit, Beatriz Recari-Karine Icher Lourens Adriaanse while Piet van matches at the 2013 Solheim Cup at the Colorado Golf Club in Parker, Morgan Pressel. and it’s just an unbelievable feel- (EUR) bt Cristie Kerr/Morgan Zyl takes the place of unavailable Colorado, yesterday. Pressel (USA) 1 up In other fourball matches, ing.” AFP scrum-half Fourie du Preez. AFP

Pakistan’s Umar Uncapped duo in England suffered seizure, squad for Ashes finale says relative Northamptonshire’s LONDON: England London, and Middlesex’s Steven David Willey cel- KARACHI, Sindh: included the uncapped duo of Finn, dropped after the 14-run ebrates after the Pakistan’s fast-rising batsman Warwickshire all-rounder Chris first Test win over Australia at team defeated Umar Akmal (pictured) suf- Woakes and Lancashire left- Trent Bridge. Surrey by 102 runs fered a seizure during a flight arm spinner Simon Kerrigan “The inclusion of five pace bowl- in the Twenty20 to Jamaica and spent a night in a 14-man squad announced ers as well as an additional spin- final at Edgbaston in a hospital yesterday for next week’s fifth ner in Simon Kerrigan, who has cricket ground, before being and final Ashes Test against impressed with Lancashire and Birmingham, late rushed home, Australia at The Oval. England Lions in recent years, a relative said Woakes, already a one-day gives (coach) Andy Flower and on Saturday. yesterday. international, was brought in (captain) Alastair Cook plenty of “We are told after pace bowling all-rounder options once they have assessed that Umar suf- Tim Bresnan, the conditions fered a seizure who starred with Test Squad at the Kia Oval,” on the flight to bat and ball in said England Jamaica and England’s 74-run Alastair Cook (Essex, captain), national selector was rushed to a fourth Test win Joe Root (Yorkshire), Jonathan Geoff Miller in hospital where at Chester-le- Trott (Warwickshire), Kevin an England and he spent a night Street concluded Pietersen (Surrey), Ian Bell Wales Cricket Trott backs contentious DRS before being rushed back to Monday, was (Warwickshire), Jonny Bairstow Board statement. Pakistan,” the relative said. ruled out for the (Yorkshire), Matt Prior (Sussex, Meanwhile Umar had been playing for rest of the sea- wicketkeeper), Stuart Broad Miller also LONDON: England batsman Jonathan Trott and a bit of tension for the spectators. It creates a Barbados Tridents in the ongo- son with a stress (Nottinghamshire), Graeme said he hoped came to the defence of cricket’s controversial bit of drama. ing Caribbean League after fracture in his Swann (Nottinghamshire), Bresnan would Decision Review System (DRS) yesterday but “I’ve been on the receiving end of DRS where it’s Pakistan’s recent tour to the lower back. James Anderson (Lancashire), be fit for the called for greater “clarity” in the rules governing saved me a few times -- I think all batsmen have. West Indies. Meanwhile, Chris Woakes (Warwickshire), return Ashes its use. There have been times where it’s worked in our “Umar’s physio was with him with pitches Chris Tremlett (Surrey), series in During the ongoing Ashes series, where England favour. who took him to the hospital. at The Oval Steven Finn (Middlesex), Simon Australia start- have established a winning 3-0 lead over Australia “There are a few things that could be looked at The same official will be trav- renowned for Kerrigan (Lancashire) ing in November. heading into next week’s final Test at The Oval in but I don’t think it’s a bad system at the moment.” elling with him to Dubai as a taking turn, “Tim Bresnan south London, DRS has been a repeated source of Meanwhile the standard of on-field umpiring has precaution,” added the relative. Kerrigan was added to give has made valuable contributions controversy, with Trott himself just one player on also been a hot topic during this series, as with the Doctors in the West Indies England -- who’ve now won three with both bat and ball during the the wrong end of a debatable decision. bulk of the International Cricket Council’s leading have ruled Umar out of any successive Test series against series and I would like to wish him However, the Warwickshire right-hander told BBC officials coming from either England or Australia, danger, the family said. Australia for the first time since all the very best in his recovery Radio Five’s Sportsweek programme yesterday: “I there are currently just four ‘elite panel’ umpires The Pakistan Cricket Board the 1950s -- an extra spin option from his back injury,” said Miller. think the DRS has been good. It’s been under pres- empowered to control Ashes matches. (PCB) on Saturday pulled the in addition to off-break bowler “The focus for Bresnan now will sure and, (under) the scrutiny of an Ashes series, Whereas traditional practice was for any ‘benefit 23-year-old from the squad to Graeme Swann. be the tour of Australia later this there are a few grey areas that have been shown. of the doubt’ to go to the batsman, the advent of DRS tour Zimbabwe and replaced England also gave themselves year, while this Test will provide “We should straighten out the rules and get clar- has led to a situation where it instead goes to the him with wicket-keeper bats- additional fast bowling choices an opportunity for another mem- ity with how it should work and how decisions are umpire, with the result that the same ball can be man Sarfraz Ahmed. by including Chris Tremlett, ber of this squad to make equally going to be made, then the players or the spectators both out or not out on review depending upon the AFP who if selected will be playing on vital contributions,” Miller added won’t have a problem.” on-field official’s original decision. his Surrey home ground in south yesterday. AFP Trott added: “It does create a bit of atmosphere AFP MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Olympics: Anti-gay laws must not affect Sochi: Rogge

BERLIN: Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has insisted the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi must remain open to all despite the Russian govern- ment’s controversial anti-gay laws. “The International Olympic Committee is aware that sport is a human right and must be acces- sible to all, regardless of ethnic- ity, gender or sexual orientation,” the 71-year-old told yesterday’s Qatar’s Sarah Ghulam Mohammad is seen in action during a shooting competition at the 2nd Asian Youth Games in Nanjing, China, yesterday. Sarah won a silver behind gold winner Che edition of German newspaper Yufei of China. Home girl Ya Tianyuan won the bronze. RIGHT: Sarah is seen with Yufei and Tianyuan at the prize distribution ceremony. The 2nd Asian Youth Games are being held in Tagesspiegel. Nanjing from August 16 to 24, 2013. Just like the inaugural edition, the Games will serve as a dress-rehearsal for the upcoming 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, which will also be held in the “The Games themselves must same city. PICTURES: JOY PAUL/QATAR OLYMPIC COMMITTEE be open to all, this applies to spec- tators, officials, journalists and, of course, the athletes.” After 12 years in office, Rogge will be replaced as IOC president Federer next month when elections are held at the 125th IOC Session in Nadal beats Isner to win unfazed by Buenos Aires, Argentina. But the Belgian said there can be no place for discrimination at ranking fall any Olympic Games. “The IOC will continue to work to ensure that the Games take maiden Cincinnati title after loss place without discrimination,” Rogge added. CINCINNATI: Roger “We would oppose, with all The Spaniard to move up to second spot in rankings Federer heads into the US our might, any movement that Open gaining confidence in threatens this principle.” his game despite a heartbreak In June, Russian president CINCINNATI: Rafael Nadal 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 quarter-final Vladimir Putin signed a law continued his sizzling hard- loss to Rafael Nadal at the against “gay propaganda” which court form beating John Isner Cincinnati Masters. punishes the dissemination of 7-6 (8), 7-6 (3) in the final of The Swiss who owns a record information about homosexual- the Western and Southern 17 Grand Slam titles will drop ity to minors. Open yesterday, setting up the to seventh in the world rank- Activists say the law can be Spaniard as the red-hot favour- ings -- his lowest standing used for a broad crackdown ite heading into the US Open. Rafael Nadal of Spain bites since October, 2002 -- but says against gays and there are fears it Unbeaten on the surface in 15 the championship trophy he’s not bothered by his current could be used against participants matches this year and coming after defeating John Isner position with the final major of at the Sochi Olympics. off a win in Montreal, the third of the US in two sets to the year due to begin on August It has sparked calls for a boy- ranked Nadal, who will move up win the championship at 26. cott in some quarters and Russian to number two today, won back- the Men’s Cincinnati Open “It doesn’t change anything officials have said all athletes will to-back hardcourt finals on con- title in Cincinnati, Ohio, for the US Open. As long as have to obey the law at the Games. secutive weeks for the first time yesterday. you’re either in the top four or But Rogge has said he has reas- in his career. the top eight, I think at this surances from “the highest level” Nadal needed nearly two hours point that’s what matters. Or that the Sochi games, which run on a muggy centre court to tame you’re world number one,” he from February 7 to 23, will take the towering in-form American, said. place without discrimination who had knocked off three top 10 “Rankings at this point any- against homosexuals. players, including world number way are not what leads me. It’s “The IOC has commitments one Novak Djokovic, to earn his about getting my game back from the highest authorities in spot in the final. on track, and that’s what I’m Russia that this legislation will But the big-hitting Isner had with 14 of the his 16 career ATP without a single break opportu- 6-3 advantage then falling onto doing well. So that’s what’s not affect anyone who attends no answers for the relentless Tour final appearances coming in nity against Isner but came up big his back and leaping into the exciting right now, not the the Games or takes part in them,” Nadal, who has now claimed nine the US, had the capacity crowd in in both tiebreaks taking the first air when the American’s return rankings really.” added Rogge. titles from 12 events this season. his corner and bombarded Nadal set 10-8. slammed into the net. The Swiss could prove a dan- It was the 59th win of Nadal’s with 11 aces but could not crack Eager to avoid a third set Isner, who will move from 22 gerous early foe at Flushing career but first in nine tries on the Spaniard’s defences failing against the game Isner, the to 14 in the world, has also estab- Meadows, hopefully ready to ‘Anti-gay the Cincinnati hardcourts. to convert any of three break 12-time Grand Slam winner lished himself as a legitimate dominate his quarter of the Isner, who has traditionally chances. was even more aggressive in the threat when the US Open begins draw. With the back pain that law furore saved his best for the home crowd Nadal played the entire match second set tiebreak racing to a on August 26. REUTERS troubled him in July now gone and an experiment with a new Western media racquet abandoned for the moment, the 32-year-old is ready to tackle the Open. invention’ Serena, Azarenka reach final “I know my body’s fine and MOSCOW: Russia’s Sports my mind’s OK, so that’s two Minister Vitaly Mutko yester- CINCINNATI: World number good things looking ahead,” he day accused western media of one Serena Williams fought said. He said that the match in overplaying the anti-gay issue her way to a 7-5, 7-5 win over which he rattled Nadal in the that has plagued the World defending champion Li Na to opening set but failed to pro- Athletics Championships in reach the final of the Western duce a clean sweep by winning Moscow. and Southern Open yesterday the second gave him a lot of However, Mutko insisted the and close in on one of the few good data on the current state controversial law was not just titles to elude her. of his game “in terms of get- about homosexuality but also The 31-year-old American can ting information in terms of to protect Russian youth from fill that hole in her resume today tactics, in terms of point for ‘drugs, drinking and non-tradi- when she takes on Belarusian point mentality. tional relationships’ -- the term world number two Victoria “That’s something that’s used in Russia for same sex Azarenka, who was a 4-6, 6-2 been really difficult to do for relationships). 6-3 winner over 2009 champion the last sort of few months for Russian President Vladimir Jelena Jankovic of Serbia. me,” he said. Putin signed a law in June that Williams, who has been critical “I can definitely take more punishes the dissemination of of her performance in Cincinnati things away from this week information about homosexuality despite making it to the final for than I could for the last sort of to minors. But activists say it can the first time, was not at her three months. I’m happy about be used for a broader crackdown dominating best against Li but it that. That sets it up nicely for against gays. was a good enough effort to put me for New York, I think. Fears it could be used against herself in line for a $1m bonus. “My mind’s already totally participants at the 2014 Sochi Her appearance in today’s final geared into what I’m going to Winter Olympics have sparked combined with a win last week do tomorrow, next day, and calls for a boycott of the event in Toronto has put Williams at the following day and looking in some quarters and Russian the top of the US Open Series Serena Williams poses for photographers after being presented a trophy for clinching the Emirites Airlines US ahead at the US Open. So I’m officials have said all athletes bonus challenge and sends her to Open Series with her win over Na Li during the semi-finals of the Western & Southern Open. RIGHT: Victoria excited about the next 10 days.” will have to obey the law at the Flushing Meadows with a chance Azarenka of Belarus celebrates a point against Jelena Jankovic of Serbia in their Women’s Singles semi-finals REUTERS Games. to compete for the largest payout match. “I think the Western mass ever awarded at the year’s final media focus on this law much grand slam. more than we do in Russia,” he Williams can pocket $3.6m, “I came in here not playing my But the 31-year-old fifth ranked compared to Azarenka and ATP/WTA said at the end of championships with the million-dollar bonus sup- best and then now I’m in the final. Chinese got off to a sluggish start Jankovic, who managed to hold press conference. plementing the $2.6m cheque for It’s just almost weird. as Williams recorded the early serve a grand total of just four Cincinnati Results “The athletes who compete winning the women’s singles at “It was definitely a little break to move ahead 4-1. times over three ugly sets. CINCINNATI: Results from in the Winter Olympics will be the US Open. scratchy but I was able to get Li hit back, sweeping through Of the 27 games played, 23 the ATP and WTA Western granted all rights as they were In a career that has gener- through. I just tried to stay the next four games to pull in ended in breaks, with the miser- and Southern Open (x denotes here in Moscow. Aside from ated 54 singles titles including 16 positive. front 5-4, but Williams upped her able serving display marred by 20 seed): these championships we have also Grand Slams, Williams has won “When I was down, I just got game when needed, breaking her double-faults, 11 by Azarenka and just held the University Games Men - Semi-finals: John Isner just about everything there is to really relaxed and I felt like, you Chinese opponent twice more to nine from Jankovic. in Kazan with 11,000 athletes. I (USA) bt Juan Martin del Potro win in her sport but Cincinnati, know, Serena, you don’t really take the set. “I don’t care about that,” said have not heard of any problems (ARG x7) 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (11/9), one of the WTA Tour’s most pres- have much to lose. Williams and Li held serve to Azarenka, when asked about the relevant to obstruction of human 6-3; Rafael Nadal (ESP x4) bt tigious tournaments, is not among “So just kind of relax and get open the second but the set would incredible number of breaks. “As rights during those Games.” Tomas Berdych (CZE x6) 7-5, them. through it.” soon dissolve into series of breaks. long as I won the match, that’s all Mutko, formerly president of 7-6 (7/4). “I definitely would not have Li stepped onto centre court In the end, Williams claimed that matters, and I didn’t count. Russian football giants Zenit St predicted myself being in the well-rested having received a the decisive one when Li “I noticed it was a lot of breaks Women - Semi-finals: Serena Petersburg, said that he wished to final here at all,” said Williams, walkover into the semi-finals when double-faulted. but who really cares? I think eve- Williams (USA x1) bt Li Na once again impress on people that who will be chasing a career- Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska While Williams and Li may rybody kind of struggles with a (CHN x5) 7-5, 7-5; Victoria the law had nothing to do with high ninth title in a single season withdrew from the tournament to have struggled with their serves, serve here for some reason, but Azarenka (BLR x2) bt Jelena infringing human rights. Jankovic (SRB x14) 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. today. attend her grandfather’s funeral. their problems were minor whatever.” REUTERS REUTERS MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23 Chelsea sink Hull City 2-0 on Mourinho’s return Soldado scores a penalty as Spurs beat Crystal Palace

LONDON, England: Jose Mourinho made a winning return as Chelsea manager with a 2-0 success at home to promoted Hull City in the club’s opening Premier League game yesterday. Back at Stamford Bridge after AFP spells at Inter Milan and Real photographer Oliver Morin (left) gives Jamaica’s Usain Bolt Madrid, Mourinho saw his side a print of a picture he took of him during the 100m final prior to a prevail through early goals from press conference at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow during the World Oscar and Frank Lampard on a Athletics Championships on August 17, 2013. warm, sunny afternoon in west London. The Europa League champions looked on course for a handsome Superstar Bolt win after scoring twice in the first 25 minutes, but they took their foot off the pedal thereafter, per- receives ‘amazing’ haps with a view to Wednesday’s visit of Aston Villa. “There are no doubts it was a deserved victory,” Mourinho told lightning photo Sky Sports. “Brilliant first half -- high intensity, high quality, great MOSCOW: Ja m a ic a n tra ck s t a r Us a i n B olt on S atu r d ay r e c eive d movement, great football. It’s not a framed AFP photograph of the sprinter clinching world 100m a surprise that the second half gold as a lightning bolt illuminated the stormy skies above. couldn’t be the same as the first AFP photographer Olivier Morin, who snapped the photo as Bolt because the first was outstanding. reclaimed his 100m title at the World Athletics Championships in “Of course I’m happy with the Moscow last weekend, handed over the image after Bolt had secured victory and I’m happy because his third successive world 200m title. what we did in the first half was Bolt shook hands with Morin and posed for photos with the great.” Chelsea’s manager Jose Mourinho (right) reacts with Hull City’s manager Steve Bruce during their English Premier framed image on the dais before the official press conference for the On the reception he received League soccer match at Stamford Bridge in London, yesterday. RIGHT: Tottenham Hotspur’s Spanish striker Roberto podium finishers in the 200m, victory in which gave the Jamaican from the Chelsea fans, he added: Soldado celebrates scoring a penalty during their English Premier League football match against Tottenham seven world gold medals. “It was fantastic. It’s something Hotspur at Selhurst Park in London. “It’s a wonderful birthday present,” said Morin, who will be 48 you don’t forget, it’s something on August 31. that makes me think I made the then plunging to his right to repel injury time. That opportunity half, while Mourinho sent on new “It’s the first time I’ve found myself close to the lightning Bolt, right move by coming back. Lampard’s subsequent penalty in yielded the clearest demonstra- signing Andre Schuerrle. it’s impressive but not dangerous. Mourinho picked Fernando the sixth minute. tion of goal-line technology of the Hull centre-back Curtis Davies “In terms of photography, I can confirm that he’s still trickier to Torres ahead of Romelu Lukaku It was a temporary reprieve, season’s opening weekend, with headed straight at Petr Cech and catch than real lightning!” up front, with captain John however, as seven minutes later Hawk-Eye replays proving that Schuerrle chipped narrowly over Photographers, sports fans and commentators were left slack- Terry selected at centre-back Oscar put Chelsea ahead by pok- McGregor had clawed Ivanovic’s the bar, before Mourinho handed jawed after seeing the image, which was massively shared on social and returning loanee Kevin De ing the ball beneath McGregor header away from right on the a league debut to another new media sites, and on Twitter was tweeted and retweeted thousands Bruyne preferred to Juan Mata from De Bruyne’s pass. line. recruit, Dutch midfielder Marco of times. in attacking midfield. Lampard got on the score-sheet Hull manager Steve Bruce van Ginkel. Morin, who’s based in AFP’s Milan bureau, shrugged off his role in Goalkeeper Allan McGregor in the 25th minute with a dipping introduced Jake Livermore and Earlier, new Tottenham signing capturing the image, saying he can only claim “one percent” credit. was among five debutants for 30-yard free-kick that deceived on-loan Tom Huddlestone -- both Roberto Soldado proved there is But Bolt told the BBC, one of several media outlets in Moscow to Hull and he was quickly involved, McGregor, who had to save from of whom arrived from Tottenham life without Gareth Bale by giving have interviewed Morin, that it was “an amazing moment”. clumsily clattering Torres but Branislav Ivanovic in first-half Hotspur this week -- in the second his side a 1-0 win at another pro- “It’s one of those pictures that you just want to remember.” moted side, Crystal Palace. Morin, an AFP veteran of 23 years, said he’d set up five remote- Bale, strongly linked with controlled cameras along the edge of the track, all of them focused a move to Real Madrid, was on Bolt’s lane. He had envisioned getting a photo of the winner with absent with a foot injury, but a his hands in the air. Magnificent Barcelona 50th-minute penalty from £26m Morin’s blog posting of how he took the shot is at: u.afp.com/bolt. ($40.4m) club record signing AFP Soldado meant Spurs did not miss him. The decisive goal arrived five crush Levante 7-0 minutes into the second half, with Soldado adroitly sending goal- Swede protester has MADRID, Community of keeper Julian Speroni the wrong Madrid: Barcelona welcomed way from 12 yards after Dean new manager Gerardo Martino Moxey blocked Aaron Lennon’s with a stunning display in cross with a flailing hand. AFP nails revarnished his first competitive match in charge as they hammered Levante 7-0 at the Camp Nou Yesterday’s Results yesterday. Chelsea 2 Hull City 0 after IAAF warning The Spanish champions showed Crystal Palace 0 Tottenham Hotspur 1 no signs of early season rust as Ligue 1 MOSCOW: Swedish high Saturday’s high jump final that they ripped the visitors apart Monaco 4 Montpellier 1 jumper Emma Green-Tregaro they had talked with track and with goals from Alexis Sanchez, Lorient 2 Nantes 1 (pictured) has repainted her field’s governing body, the IAAF, Lionel Messi (2), Dani Alves, nails after being warned by the over the issue and Green-Tregaro Pedro and Xavi giving them an IAAF that the rainbow colours had revarnished her nails. incredible 6-0 lead at half-time. she sported in qualification in “We have been informally There was even more for the Falcao ridicules support of gay rights were a approached by the IAAF saying home fans to cheer after the breach of regulations. that this is by definition, break as Neymar made his com- Monaco exit Russian pole vault a breach of the regula- petitive debut as a substitute and gold medallist Yelena tions. We have informed even after Martino had shown claims Isinbayeva has provoked our athletes about this,” the visitors some mercy by with- a furore at the World Albertsson said. drawing Messi with 20 minutes Athletics Championships “The code of con- remaining, more woeful defend- PARIS: Radamel Falcao and over her outspoken anti- duct clearly states the ing allowed Pedro to round off his Monaco manager Claudio gay remarks, which she rules do not allow any the scoring with his second of Ranieri dismissed reports on later tried to play down commercial or political the game. Sunday that the Colombian saying she was “misun- statements during the Martino had taken the decision striker is set for a transfer back derstood” and opposed competition.” to leave Neymar, Andres Iniesta to Spain’s La Liga or to the to discrimination against Albertsson added that and Jordi Alba on the bench after English Premier League. homosexuals. he had not put pres- their international commitments FROM LEFT: Barcelona’s Dani Alves, Adriano, Gerard Pique and Lionel The 27-year-old, who scored his And she had called sure on Green-Tregaro in midweek and the Argentine’s Messi celebrate a goal against Levante during their Spanish First division second goal in two matches from Green-Tregaro “unrespectful” to to change the colour of her fin- mark on the side he only took league match at Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona, yesterday. the penalty spot during Monaco’s Russia after painting her nails gernails, but “understood from charge of on July 23 was very 4-1 victory over Montpellier, in the colours of the rainbow Swedish media her nails are now much in evidence as the hosts denied he wanted to quit the flag that symbolises support for red”. pressed high up the field from the pass, the ball dropped kindly for inside the crowd had been wait- Cote d’Azur club over his salary gay rights while competing in “If she knows she might be off to leave Levante camped inside Alves to convert. ing for arrived on 62 minutes as conditions. Moscow, a move that garnered breaking the rules, that’s a deci- their own half. Another incredible defence Neymar made his competitive “Everything is false even acclaim elsewhere in the world. sion she takes, we don’t have any It only took Barca barely two splitting pass from Messi allowed bow in a Barca shirt in place of the numbers being talked Anders Albertsson, general objections on how they paint their minutes to register their first goal Pedro to curl home the fourth the impressive Sanchez. about are false. I believe in the secretary of the Swedish ath- fingernails,” Albertsson said in of the campaign as a slick pass moments later and after Pedro Messi was then also surpris- project at Monaco and I’m stay- letics federation, said before Moscow. AFP from Xavi released Cesc Fabregas Lopez had stupidly upended ingly withdrawn by Martino for ing at Monaco,” said the South through on goal and he unselfishly Adriano inside the area, Messi Iniesta with the Argentine boss American striker. squared for Sanchez to roll into stepped up to slam home his sec- most likely looking ahead to the Ranieri also poured cold water an empty net. ond of the evening from the pen- first-leg of the Spanish Super Cup on the Spanish media claims and Messi then got his account for alty spot. to come on Wednesday away to said his prized asset had settled the season up and running as he Barca’s first-half rampage still Atletico Madrid. in well since his 60 million euro and Pedro exchanged a lovely wasn’t complete though as Xavi Even without Messi on the ($80m) transfer from Atletico one-two inside the area and the marked the 15th anniversary of pitch though Barca still had Madrid in the close season. Argentine side-footed home from his Barca debut with a prodded another goal in them as Fabregas “They are just rumours, always close range. finish from another delightful pounced on a slack passback by rumours and just to make up sto- The fingernails of Sweden’s Emma Green-Tregaro painted in different The third arrived on 23 minutes lofted through ball by Fabregas. Hector Rodas and after round- ries. Falcao is staying here, he’s colours, are seen as she competes in the women’s high jump qualifica- as this time Messi’s pressing high The Catalans weren’t quite as ing Navas he allowed Pedro to add happy and his daughter was born tion heats at the IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Luzhniki up the field proved decisive as he clinical after the break as Navas the finishing touch on a wonder- here,” said Ranieri in reference stadium in Moscow in this picture taken August 15, 2013. RIGHT: The robbed the ball and fed Fabregas got down to parry efforts from ful start to the defence of their to the recent birth of the player’s red painted fingernails of Green-Tregaro are seen as she competes and even when Keylor Navas got a Gerard Pique, Adriano and Messi. league title for the reigning cham- daughter during the week. during the women’s high jump final on Saturday. hand to the former Arsenal man’s However, the moment many pions. AFP AFP Monday 19 August 2013 12 Shawwal 1434 Volume 18 Number 5796 Sport Price: QR2 RAJDHANI - LARGEST SELLING NEPALI WEEKLY NEWSPAPER IN QATAR Reed and Hugh Nadal wins share lead at maiden title in Wyndham Cincinnati PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY DAR AL SHARQ AVAILABLE AT ALL THE LEADING BOOK STORES / SUPERMARKETS IN QATAR FOR ADVERTISEMENTS CONTACT: TEL: 4465 0600 EMAIL: [email protected] Sport | 21 Sport | 22

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World Championship Medals Table MOSCOW: World athletics championships Golden hat-trick for Bolt, medals table yesterday, the final day of the 2013 tournament (gold, silver, bronze, total): Russia 7 4 6 17 United States 6 13 6 25 Jamaica 6 2 1 9 Kenya 5 4 3 12 Fraser-Pryce in Moscow Germany 4 2 1 7 Ethiopia 3 3 4 10 Great Britain 3 0 2 5 Czech Republic 2 0 1 3 Bolt is most successful athlete in event history; Kiprop clinches title Ukraine 2 0 1 3 France 1 3 1 5 MOSCOW: Usain Bolt, already victory gave Germany their fourth Poland 1 2 0 3 enshrined as one of the greatest field event gold. Colombia 1 0 0 1 FROM LEFT: Olympians of all time, became Traditionally athletics pro- Croatia 1 0 0 1 Nesta Carter, the most successful athlete in grammes ended with the 4x400m Ireland 1 0 0 1 world championship history relay but such is Bolt’s worldwide Kemar Bailey- New Zealand 1 0 0 1 when he anchored Jamaica to selling power that recent events Cole, Nickel victory in the 4x100 metres have been rejigged to ensure the Ashmeade and Uganda 1 0 0 1 relay yesterday. Jamaican gets top billing. Usain Bolt of Sweden 1 0 0 1 Bolt followed up the 100 and Jamaica were pipped by Britain the Gold med- Trinidad 1 0 0 1 200m double with his third gold in the heats but the favour- allists Jamaica Australia 0 2 1 3 in the final event, taking his all- ites drafted in Bolt and Nickel pose during Ivory Coast 0 2 0 2 time tally to eight. That matches Ashmeade, while the US, unusu- the victory cer- Canada 0 1 4 5 American trio Carl Lewis, Michael ally, used the same four in their emony for the China 0 1 3 4 Johnson and Allyson Felix but the evening heat as in the final. men’s 4x100 Jamaican moved ahead by virtue Initially it seemed to be working Cuba 0 1 2 3 metres relay of his two silvers from 2007. in the Americans’ favour as they Nigeria 0 1 1 2 at the IAAF Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce led approaching the final bend Netherlands 0 1 1 2 also completed the hat-trick as but Rakieem Salaam’s handover World Athletics Championships Botswana 0 1 0 1 Jamaica won the women’s 4x100 to Justin Gatlin left the indi- Finland 0 1 0 1 relay in the second-fastest time vidual 100m runner-up off bal- at the Luzhniki Hungary 0 1 0 1 ever, giving them all six sprint ance. He clearly strayed into the Stadium in golds in Moscow to bring a smile Jamaicans’ lead outside him but Moscow, Italy 0 1 0 1 back to the Caribbean island somehow escaped disqualification. yesterday. Qatar 0 1 0 1 following the doping cloud sur- It made no difference to Bolt, Spain 0 0 2 2 rounding the build-up to Moscow. who streaked clear to complete Serbia 0 0 2 2 On a high-quality final day, victory in 37.36 seconds, the sixth- South Africa 0 0 1 1 there was a Kenyan middle- fastest ever, with the US in 37.66 Bolt delighted the crowed with to claim bronze. English Gardner Martinez grabbed third as she Djibouti 0 0 1 1 distance double as Asbel Kiprop Britain, another nation with a a celebratory Cossack dance, not had come to a complete standstill overhauled compatriot Alysia retained his 1,500 metres title and painful history of relay foul ups, easy for someone 6ft 5ins (1.95 by the time she finally collected Johnson Montano, who had run Estonia 0 0 1 1 Eunice Sum took a surprise gold crossed the line third but were metres) tall, before parading the baton for the third leg but a a brave front-running race but Japan 0 0 1 1 in the women’s 800. disqualified for a late changeo- round the track with his three brilliant bend and an astounding ended fourth, flat on the track Mexico 0 0 1 1 Frenchman Teddy Tamgho ver. That promoted Canada on to medals on show for 50,000 flash- last leg by Octavious Freeman and sobbing uncontrollably. Dominican Republic 0 0 1 1 delivered the third-longest leap the podium and somewhat made ing cameras. took the US through half the field Tamgho was already leading in history as he soared 18.04 amends for the 2012 Olympics America’s women also got it for bronze behind France. when he landed two fouls around metres to win the triple jump when they were disqualified after horribly wrong, although they By then Jamaica’s quartet of the 18 metre mark before nailing and Christina Obergfoell’s javelin finishing third. managed a super-human recovery Carrie Russell, Kerron Stewart, the breakthrough distance with Schillonie Calvert and Fraser- his last. Pryce were celebrating their win Only American Kenny in 41.29, second only to America’s Harrison (18.09) and Jonathan 40.82 set at last year’s Olympics Edwards’s 1995 world record of and inside the drug-fuelled 41.37 18.29 are longer. of East Germany that stood for Pedro Pablo Pichardo of FROM LEFT: Kerron 27 years. Cuba took silver with 17.68 and Stewart, Shelly-Ann Having become the fourth- American Will Claye was third Fraser-Pryce, Carrie fastest 1,500m runner of all time on 17.52, well clear of out-of- Russell and and last month, Kiprop started hot sorts compatriot and world and Schillonie Calvert of favourite and nobody could live Olympic champion Christian Jamaia pose next with his long-striding accelera- Taylor in a frustrated fourth. to the scoreboard tion over the last 200 metres as After years of agonising near after they set a he triumphed in 3:36.28. misses, an emotional Obergfoell American Matthew Centrowitz took her first major javelin title competition record took silver and South African at the age of 31 after throwing a after winning the Johan Cronje a surprise bronze season’s best 69.05 metres. women’s 4x100 as both men finished strongly. Defending champion Maria metres relay final. Sum’s victory was much less Abakumova could only manage expected as her late burst denied 65.09 behind surprise Australian Russia’s Mariya Savinova back- runner-up Kimberly Mickle Kenya’s Asbel Kiprop cele- to-back 800m titles. (66.60), to match the bronze her brates after winning the men’s She took gold in 1:57.38, ahead husband Dmitri Tarabin won in 1,500 metres final. of Savinova (1:57.80). Brenda the men’s final. REUTERS Marquez grabs fourth win of the season in Indy Results INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana: race in Austin, Texas, later that Marc Marquez’s amazing month, he became the youngest 1. Marc Marquez (Spain) Honda 44:52.463 MotoGP rookie run continued rider in series history to win a yesterday with victory in the pole and a race. 2. Dani Pedrosa (Spain) Honda 44:55.958 Indianapolis Grand Prix, the He failed to reach the podium Honda rider’s fourth win of his only once this year, after a crash 3. Jorge Lorenzo (Spain) Yamaha 44:58.167 debut season. at a race in Mugello in June. 4. Valentino Rossi (Italy) The 20-year-old Spaniard took With his win yesterday he Yamaha 45:12.358 over the lead on lap 13, diving completed a sweep of the season’s 5. Cal Crutchlow (Britain) under Jorge Lorenzo on turn two. three US races. He also won at Honda MotoGP rider Marc Yamaha 45:12.418 Marquez led the rest of the Laguna Seca last month. Marquez of Spain lifts the 6. Alvaro Bautista (Spain) way, finishing the 27-lap race in “I didn’t make such a good trophy on the podium after Honda 45:12.524 44minutes, 52.463seconds. start,” said Marquez, who was his win at the Indianapolis 7. Stefan Bradl (Germany) His countryman and Honda notching his third straight win Grand Prix in Indianapolis, team-mate Dani Pedrosa was and fourth of the season. He also Honda 45:17.305 yesterday. 8. Bradley Smith (Britain) second, 3.495 back. won in Germany. Yamaha 45:33.153 Yamaha rider Lorenzo, the The in-form Spanish rider 9. Nicky Hayden (U.S.) Ducati reigning world champion, was added after the race: “But I 45:33.164 third, 5.704sec behind the winner. knew before the race that the 10. Andrea Dovizioso (Italy) Marquez began his first most important part was toward Ducati 45:33.286 MotoGP campaign last April with the end of the race. I just tried 11. Andrea Iannone (Italy) a third-place finish in the season- to follow Dani and Jorge. Then I Ducati 45:52.131 opener at Losail International tried to attack. Now we go back 12. Aleix Espargaro (Spain) Circuit, in Qatar in April. to Europe, and we would like to Aprilia 45:59.113 At the Circuit of the Americans continue.” AFP