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Friday 13 June 2014 • 15 Sha’baan 1435 • Volume 19 • Number 6095 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatari tweeters Petrol station launch ‘boycott UK’ campaign shortage hits over FIFA reports DOHA: Qatari social media enthusiasts have launched a campaign on Twitter urging fel- low citizens not to travel to the motorists UK this summer as a show of protest against reports appear- ing in a section of the British CMC receiving lots of complaints media questioning Qatar’s right to host the 2022 FIFA World DOHA: For a motorist in Qatar, the woes motorists face. Cup. filling up his car at a petrol sta- Many old petrol stations in the The boycott call has gone viral tion is becoming as nightmarish city have faced the bulldozers and on Arab social media, with many as having to wade through cha- given way to modern structures. describing the negative media otic and congested city roads For example, the filling sta- campaign against Qatar as a during peak hours. tion that existed near the QNB manifestation of the racist nature Motorists increasingly com- headquarters (adjacent to the old of the British democracy, Al Sharq plain that at any given time Mashreq Bank building) is gone. reported. of the day a petrol station is So is Al Tadamun petrol sta- Ilham Badr, a prominent Qatari crowded with vehicles and queues tion next to Naseem Al Rabeeh woman media personality, on her Dancers perform during the opening ceremony prior to the FIFA World Cup 2014 group A preliminary round match are sometimes frustratingly polyclinic on D Ring Road. Twitter account urged Qataris between Brazil and Croatia at the Arena Corinthians in Sao Paulo, Brazil, yesterday. Brazil won 3-1. serpentine. The one on the C Ring Road and all those who love Qatar to For those stuck in a queue, remains closed. avoid travelling to the UK this eventually getting out of it with On the B Ring Road, near what summer and look for “other their cars filled with fuel is always once was the Crazy roundabout, beautiful cities that are not racist a relieving experience. there was a petrol station which Fans enjoy free Cup opener and whose governments are not “It takes no less than half-an- has vanished, too. defaming our country.” Racism hour every time I take my car to A motorist told this news- DOHA: A huge crowd of people the ball into his own net as he the crowds, traffic leading to the in Britain is targeting not only a petrol station,” said a Qatari. paper that he recently went to of various nationalities turned tried to clear it away from the souq moved on a snail’s pace. Qatar but all Arabs, she added. “There always are long queues.” a petrol station near The Mall up with loud chatting and clap- danger zone. The mood, however, The souq was presumably the Another media personality, The lines are sometimes so long Roundabout and the machine pings, to watch the first match returned to celebration in the only place where the match could Jabir Al Merri, tweeted, “Racism that they block traffic on main there got stuck after a while. of the World Cup, at Souq 29th minute when Neymar de be watched for free. against the Arabs has surfaced roads, causing jams, he added. “I had to rush to another petrol Waqif in which the host and five Silva Desantos equalised. Many football fans have been after one of the Arab countries The increasing number of vehi- station.” times champions Brazil hosted “This is what we have been posting complaints on social proved that it is capable to host cles in the country means that Central Municipal Council Croatia. waiting for,” said Omar Al Ali, media about higher charges by the World Cup”. there is a severe shortage of pet- member, Mubarak Fraish, said “There is nothing so much uni- another Qatari. “Those minutes of TV channels for watching the “No doubt they will fail. All the rol stations in and outside Doha, the CMC hadn’t so far discussed fying in this world as football,” Croatia leading have been so pain- matches live. world is against their racism and the local Arabic daily Al Raya the issue. However, he said a lot said Ahmed Abdullah, a Qatari, ful for our team [Brazil] which World Cup broadcast rights is supporting us. FIFA will not reported yesterday. of people have been complaining among the crowd. “Not anywhere is the favourite to win the Cup.” have been given to Qatar-based kneel down to their media cam- “Petrol stations haven’t kept of problems. would you find all nationalities People were glued to a big beIN Sports, which is part of Al paign,” wrote Hamad Al Qahtani. pace with the exploding popula- “The situation is worse outside united and happy like they are screen showing the match, block- Jazeera network. Meanwhile, a survey of Arab tion and the increasing number Doha. In the city, you still have here today.” ing most roads leading to major Those who want to watch youth has found that more than of cars,” it added. many petrol stations,” said Fraish. The crowd, mostly supporting restaurants at the souq while action from Brazil in the comfort 60 percent of youth in GCC coun- Several motorists The Peninsula “Actually, some areas have several Brazil, briefly fell silent in the 11th families struggled to break up the of their homes have to subscribe tries and 57 percent in non-GCC spoke to on the issue said many petrol stations while others don’t minute, shocked when Croatia got crowd for easy passage. to beIN via Ooredoo by calling 111. Arab countries believe Qatar is old petrol stations in Doha having have even one.” a goal from a fault of a Brazilian Police regularly kept on asking Continued on page 2 the right choice to host the 2022 been demolished to give way to Continued on page 5 defender. spectators, mostly bachelors, to See also pages 20, 21; Edit 6 World Cup. See also page 3 modern projects, had aggravated THE PENINSULA Marcelo Viela da Silva poked leave way for passers-by. Due to THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA

Dust storm hits Qatar Obama warns Woqod must clarify on car of military tank threat: CMC member strikes in Iraq DOHA: A member of the Central Municipal Council (CMC) has criticised local petro- BAGHDAD: President Barack leum products distributor, Woqod (Qatar Fuel Obama threatened US military Company), saying it doesn’t bother to clarify on strikes in Iraq yesterday against issues that directly concern people’s safety. Sunni Islamist militants who Mubarak Fraish (pictured) said there is a dis- have surged out of the north to cussion raging on the local social media suggesting menace Baghdad and want to that filling up a car’s petrol tank to capacity in establish their own state in Iraq this extremely hot weather can be risky as it can and Syria. explode. “Woqod should have issued a clarification “I don’t rule out anything through the media but it hasn’t bothered, even as because we do have a stake in the debate rages on,” Fraish said in remarks to this newspaper. making sure that these jihad- The company should be sensitive to such issues as they directly ists are not getting a permanent concern people’s safety. “It should have immediately issued a statement foothold in either Iraq or Syria,” clarifying whether what is being discussed is true or false.” Obama said at the White House Experts, meanwhile, told this newspaper that since petrol in Qatar when asked whether he was con- is of high quality, it expands in volume due to extreme heat, causing templating air strikes. Officials pressure inside the tank. So it is always advisable not to fill the tank later said ground troops would Skyscrapers in West Bay blanketed by dust storm that lashed Qatar since last morning, leading to poor vis- to its capacity. THE PENINSULA not be sent in, however. ibility. Dust winds associated with heatwave are expected to continue over the weekend, probably leading to Full report on page 5 a further rise in temperature. QASSIM RAHMATULLAH US moves inmates out of Afghan jail UK passport delay could ruin Doha family’s vacation plan WASHINGTON: The Obama BY FAZEENA SALEEM administration has quietly as authorities here have no role the world, the daily added. embassy is in close contact with find they have to change their repatriated a dozen detainees in British nationals getting new But the report gives a false the Foreign and Commonwealth travel arrangements at the last from a small US military prison DOHA: Some Britons, espe- passports. impression as if Qatari authorities Office and Her Majesty’s Passport minute. In particular, I am very in Afghanistan, moving a mod- cially families with newborns in Daily Record, the UK-based are to be blamed for the plight of Office, seeking suitable solutions concerned about the unnecessary est step closer towards wind- Qatar, are unable to travel over- newspaper, on Wednesday the Scottish family, which is not to solve the passport problem. stress this situation is putting on ing down the US’ controversial seas because of delay by their reported that a Scottish family true. It is strict security checks “I would advise anyone who families with newborn babies,” he post-9/11 detainee system. country in issuing new pass- is ‘trapped in Qatar’ because they by the UK’s Passport Office on has already submitted a passport added. President Barack Obama, in ports, according to the British have not been able to get a pass- applications submitted online by application (be it a renewal or British nationals experienc- a letter to Congress, said about embassy. port for their newborn. Britons living abroad, the embassy first time application), to please ing delay in receiving their pass- 38 third-country, or non-Afghan, Some Britons here are not able The couple is ‘being fined every- said yesterday. It asked its citizens contact my consular team in the ports were also asked to lodge prisoners remained at the Parwan to go home for summer vacation day (here) by authorities because who have applied for passports first instance consular.dohaa@fco. complaints on https://www. detention centre outside Kabul, because of delay in issuing pass- their newborn daughter doesn’t and experiencing delay in receiv- gov.uk,” he said. gov.uk/government/organisa- down from 50 a few months ago. ports by the UK which does strict have a passport, therefore, cannot ing the documents to contact the “I am aware of the significant tions/hm-passport-office/about/ A defence official said that at checks on applications. get the resident permit’. consular section. delays with the issuing of pass- complaints-procedure. May-end, a Frenchman, a Kuwaiti A report in the British media They are also likely to cancel Ambassador Nicholas Hopton ports, not only in Qatar but glo- Continued on page 5 and 10 Pakistani prisoners were that at least one Scottish family is their flights home during summer, said in a statement on the bally, and the inconvenience this See also page 9 sent back home. AGENCIES ‘trapped in Qatar,’ is not correct like thousands of Britons around embassy’s Facebook page that the is causing many expatriates who THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 13 JUNE 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

TBY launches Qatar 2014 edition

Football fans celebrating Brazil’s equaliser against Croatia on a big screen at Souq Waqif yesterday. PICS: SALIM MATRAMKOT High price to watch World Cup

Continued from page 1 been subscribed to their services. People without Internet connections in their BeIN is also criticised for fleecing football fans homes have to start with buying the Ooredoo despite that it would have channeled some of its Internet and Mozaic services. A 10Mbps for TV revenues from advertisements. and broad band is QR350, for 50Mbps QR550 and “If more fans are not restricted with the fees 100Mbps is QR700. The subscriber would then and could watch the matches, then more compa- be required to pay QR80 (this increased from nies would advertise and BeIN would reap a lot QR50) each month to watch the matches and of profits in the tournament,” said another fan. The Managing Editor of The Business Year (TBY), Leland Rice, presenting a portrait of the Emir H H Sheikh the minimum one can subscribe is three months Even those who are not going to watch the Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to the Minister of Economy and Commerce H E Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim bin which means an additional QR240 from each of matches from their homes have to pay a lot of Mohamed Al Thani, during the launch of the Qatar 2014 Edition of TBY at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Doha the earlier mentioned packages. Even though the money at different venues to watch the matches. yesterday. World Cup finals are to be completed in just one Most cafés and hotels across the country are month, a subscriber to the sports channels is sup- charging QR60 to QR80 for a single match, it posed to pay at least three months subscriptions. has been learnt. One social media enthusiast said that the high The venues that would be showing the matches prices for watching the matches imposed by BeIN for a price include La Cigale Qatar, The Gaming is encouraging piracy as many football fans who Lounge, Oryx Rotana Doha, Four Seasons Doha, Huge rise in Qatari can’t afford the cost would seek alternatives. Kempinski Residences and Suites, Ezdan hotels, Another football fan on social media said that Hilton Hotel, Intercontinental Hotel Doha, St by overcharging the matches BeIN was being Regis Doha, Holiday Villa Hotel and Residence. unfair even to its old clients who for so long have THE PENINSULA household spending Average monthly expenditure increases by 82.2pc

DOHA: There has been a sig- (11.2 percent in 2007 compared with 6.6 percent in 2001. nificant increase in average with 17.5 percent in 20010). These Wages and salaries were the Qatari household expenditure proportions are important to source of 56.7 percent of Qatari and a shift in the pattern of measuring the standards of living. household income in 2007, com- expenditure during the period The survey found that there pared to 72.9 percent in 2001. of seven years beginning 2001, was a 45.9 percent increase in Private projects of Qataris con- results of a ‘household income the average monthly household tributed 33 percent of the income, and expenditure’ survey has expenditure for non-Qataris, from in contrast with 18 percent in revealed. 9,100 in 2001 to 13,300 in 2007. The 2001. The latest Qatar “Social largest expenditure of the average Current transfers from govern- Statistics 2003-2012” survey by household was housing, including ment constituted 6 percent of the the Ministry of Development, water, electricity and fuel. income, in contrast to 0.5 percent Planning and Statistics, reveals It took 31 percent of total in 2001; these transfers were in average monthly expenditure for expenditure, in contrast to 21, the form of periodic social assist- Qatari households increased by 7 percent in 2001, followed by ance, government grants, assist- 82.2 percent from QR22,400 to transport (14.2 percent), and ance for widows, divorced women QR40,800. Among Qatari house- food and beverages took 13.8 per- as well as the disabled, and pen- holds, housing took up the big- cent, in contrast with 19 percent sions. As to the financial invest- gest share (29.3 percent of total in 2001. ments in shares, they comprised expenditure per month), in con- As a result of rising income 3.7 percent of the Qatari house- trast to 17.6 percent in 2001, fol- and improved standards of liv- hold income in 2007, compared to lowed by transport expenditure ing, Qatari households moved 0.8 percent in 2001. 13.8 percent and different goods from the lower expenditure cat- Wages and salaries were the as well as services expenditure egories to the upper ones. Qatari conventional source of income 13.3 percent. households in the expenditure for non-Qatari households; it Culture, recreation and trans- category of below of QR5,000 per represented 95.9 percent of their port were the sectors where the month were 0.1 percent in 2007, income in 2007, compared to 97 proportion of Qatari households’ compared to 1.3 percent in 2001; percent in 2001. Projects of non- expenditure increased, also (4.6 while household categories that Qataris contributed 3.5 percent percent in 2007 compared to spent over QR50,000 a month of their income in 2007, compared 2.4 percent in 2001), whereby it constituted 21.2 percent of Qatari with 1.9 percent in 2001. decreased for food and drinks households in 2007, compared THE PENINSULA

Sign language workshop concludes

DOHA: The sign language workshop and classes organ- ised by the National Command Centre (NCC) concluded at the centre. The training pro- gramme, which was conducted in association with the Qatari Centre of Social Cultural for the Deaf (QCSCD) for four months, was attended by 19 male and Supporters of Brazil female participants from the and Croatia watch NCC officers. the opening cer- Col Saeed Hasan Al Mazroui, emony of the FIFA Operations Department World Cup 2014 at Director and Ali Obaid Al the Renaissance Sinari, Chairman of QCSCD, Certificate being distributed to one of the participants. Doha City Center ateended the convocation cer- Hotel yesterday. emony. Speaking on behalf of the chairman of NCC, the director of efficiency of emergency services develop the emergency services QASSIM RAHMATULLAH Operations Department said: in 999 and emergency service for for the deaf. “The training programmes the deaf in 992. Our ambitions to Ali Mohammed Al Sinari have grown as the basic pillars for ensure security in all walks of the expressed his pleasure for the capacity building and performance community will be held high and high level cooperation of Ministry development, especially in light of we put it in our priorities to cer- of Interior that helped skilled the current and future figures that tify the utmost safety and secu- trainees to serve in terms of require more attention to human rity,” He added. security services for the deaf. The elements to carry out tasks and Col Saeed al Mazroui and Major trainers were honoured and cer- missions. Hassan Muhammad Al Kuwari tificates were distributed to the “The main objective of the lauded the cooperation between participants in the event. programme was to improve the NCC and QCSCD in order to THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 13 JUNE 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Majority of youth in GCC favour Qatar 2022 Participants in non-GCC Arab nations also back Qatar

DOHA: More than 60 percent Over a quarter (26 percent) interviews with exclu- of youth in the GCC countries of youth in non-GCC countries sively Arab men and women believe Qatar was the right and 25 percent in the Gulf aged 18-24 in the six Gulf choice to host the 2022 FIFA states “don’t know” if Qatar Cooperation Council countries World Cup, shows a regional was the right choice while (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, survey. 14 percent and 20 percent in Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain), ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller GCC and non-GCC countries, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Arab Youth Survey results respectively, believe it was the Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, show that 57 percent of Arab wrong choice. Algeria, Yemen and, for the youth from GCC and non-GCC Qatar beat off bids from first time in 2014, Palestine. countries believe Qatar was the Australia, Japan, the United The survey was conducted right choice to host the World States and South Korea for the between December 2013 and Cup. right to stage the 2022 FIFA January 2014. Support for a Qatar World World Cup. The Arab Youth Optimism about the develop- Cup is strongest in the GCC Survey is an annual initiative of ment of football in the Arab countries with 61 percent say- ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller, the world on the back of the tour- ing the Gulf state was the right leading public relations consul- nament win is broadly con- choice to host the tournament tancy in Middle East and North sistent between the GCC and compared to 54 percent in the Africa (Mena). non-GCC countries with just non-GCC Arab countries ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller’s over two thirds (68 per cent) Two thirds of youth (65 per sister agency, international poll- in the six Gulf states agreeing cent) think Qatar 2022 FIFA ing firm PSB, which officially that Qatar hosting the tour- World Cup will encourage devel- established its Middle East nament will positively impact opment of football in the Arab offices in January of this year, the game compared to 64 per Just 18 per cent of young Arabs tournament will have a positive while 17 percent “don’t know”. world. conducted 3,500 face-to-face cent in non-GCC countries. aged 18-24 do not think the impact on football in the region THE PENINSULA

Filipinos celebrate Minister meets Morocco PM Independence Day

DOHA: The Filipino commu- and also my own dream and aspira- nity in Qatar yesterday joined Emir, Premier tion that one day not only in Qatar hands to celebrate the 116th but also in all parts of the world anniversary of the Proclamation send greetings and the Philippines that Filipinos of Philippine Independence with will be one and will pursue one a flag hoisting ceremony at the DOHA: The Emir H H dream, one goal and vision.” Philippine Embassy. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad The Ambassador revealed plans During the ceremony Labour Al Thani sent a cable of con- to submit his recommendations Attaché Leopoldo B De Jesus, gratulations to President to further improve expatri- Vice Consul Kristine F Bautista of the Republic of the ate organisations in Qatar. “I’m and Ambassador Crescente R Philippines on the occasion of thinking of making a white paper Relacion read the messages the anniversary of his coun- to be submitted to the Minister of of Department of Labour and try’s Independence Day. Labour and Social Affairs to fur- Employment Secretary Rosalinda The Emir also sent a ther cement this legacy that I’m Baldoz, Foreign Affairs Secretary cable of congratulations to leaving behind because in Qatar we Albert F Del Rosario and the President of the Russian have full support from the Qatar The Minister of Transport H E Jassim Seif Ahmed Al Sulaiti with the Prime Minister of Morocco, Abdelilah President Benigno S Aquino III, Federation on the occasion of government but we also know for a Benkirane, on the sidelines of the National Road and Transportation Conference in Morocco. Qatar Ambassador respectively. This year’s theme his country’s National Day. fact that there are some measures Abdulla bin Falah Al Dosari and the accompanying delegation were present during the meeting. is “Pagsunod sa yapak ng mga The Prime Minister and that have to be taken in order for dakilang Pilipino, tungo sa mal- Interior Minister H E Sheikh the expatriate community to stay awakan at permanenteng pagba- Abdullah bin Nasser bin together and enjoy their stay here.” bago” (Following the footsteps of Khalifa Al Thani has greeted Among the proposals he men- great Filipinos, towards inclusive the Presidents of Philippines tioned was the allotment of a and permanent change). and Russia. QNA venue where expatriate commu- Four-fold rise in moviegoers Philippine Embassy officials nities could gather and celebrate and staff, Filipino community National Day and other impor- DOHA: The number of people in the country’s libraries more in, photography and business and leaders and faculty and staff of the you so much for your support,” tant events. Another is for other going to cinemas has increased than doubled in 10 years, from social camps ranked first with three Philippine schools in Qatar he said. countries to establish umbrella four fold in seven years, accord- 13,000 in 2002 to 28,000 in 2012. nearly 50 percent of youth while attended the ceremony which was The Ambassador, who has organisations like the UFOQ for ing to the second issue of the The number of borrowed books 34 percent were involved in cul- followed by a community break- served the Filipino community their own communities and have “Qatar Social Statistics” report reached 54,000 in 2012. tural, scientific and artistic activi- fast. Speaking to the media after here in the last five years, is them recognised by Qatar as a by the Ministry of Development Having been the Capital of ties in 2012. the event, Ambassador Relacion known for his efforts to unite legal personality and entity. Planning and Statistics. Arab Culture in 2010, Qatar Most of those involved in tradi- expressed gratitude to Filipinos Filipino organizations here which “These are some initiatives that From 375,000 moviegoers in witnessed many events and the tional crafts in 2012 were females in Qatar for their support to the culminated in the founding of the I want to pursue and accomplish 2005, the number increased to Qatar National Theatre saw 125 accounting for 91 percent of the Philippine Mission and his inten- United Filipino Organisations in before I leave Qatar,” he ended. 1.6m in 2012 proving the key events in 2010 compared to seven total number, Social Development tion to leave a legacy as he wraps Qatar (UFOQ) last year. He said he The celebration continues today role cinema plays in entertain- in 2005. The number of events Centre records have shown. Other up his term at the end of the year. was hopeful that the UFOQ would with a grand event to be held at ment in Qatar. Proportional to however dropped to 36 in 2012. focuses were traditional food “This is my last Independence continue even as he ends his term the Al Wakrah Sports Club which this was the increase in cinema The Museum of Islamic Art making, weaving, and headband Day celebration in Qatar and I and leaves Qatar for good. will kick off with the release of 116 halls, from seven in year 2000 to recorded the highest turnout in making. would like to thank the Filipino “We are hopeful that this balloons. The whole day event will 38 in 2012. the last quarter of 2012 up to The tourism sector witnessed people in Qatar for the support (UFOQ) would continue as I end feature Filipino dances, a con- With regard to newspapers January 2013 with 126,000 visi- substantial improvement as the you have given to the Philippine my term in Qatar, that Filipinos cert of Doha-based Filipino rock and magazines, there were five tors, while July and August of number of hotel guests in 2012 Embassy and to the Filipino com- in this part of the world will be bands, the annual ‘Kantahan sa daily newspapers from 2000 to 2012, which is the peak of sum- reached 2.5m. With the open- munity for all the undertakings united as one people because this Doha’ singing competition grand 2007 which increased to seven in mer recorded the lowest number ing of new hotels, the number and endeavors. To all the leaders is the dream of our forefathers. finals, cultural presentations, and 2008-2012, while monthly maga- which was 23,000 visitors. of hotel rooms increased from of more than 140 Filipino commu- This is also the dream of our trade fair and food festival. zines increased from our in 2006 Among the non-sport activi- 3,339 in 2003 to 13,407 in 2012. nity organisations in Qatar, thank President Benigno S Aquino III THE PENINSULA to six in 2012. Book borrowers ties where young people engaged THE PENINSULA

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Ireland tops Islamic view of afterlife in Islamic uslims believe that the present death has its consequences not only in the values life is a trial in preparation for Hereafter but also in this world. When a the next realm of existence. nation as a whole denies it, all kinds of new survey by a lead- MWhen a Muslim dies, he or evils and corruption become rampant in ing US academic has she is washed and wrapped in a clean, white that society and ultimately it is destroyed. found that Ireland cloth (usually by a family member) and The Quran mentions the terrible end Aleads the world in buried after a special prayer, preferably of Aad, Thamud and the Pharaoh in some embodying Quran teachings the same day. Muslims consider this a final detail: The tribes of Thamud and Aad denied of justice and Islamic val- service that they can do for their relatives the Striking Calamity (i.e. the Resurrection). ues in a list where Western and an opportunity to remember that their So as for Thamud, they were destroyed by the societies came at a lead- own existence here on earth is brief. overpowering blast. And as for Aad, they were ing position ahead of many The question of whether there is life after destroyed by a screaming, violent wind which Muslim-majority countries. death does not fall under the jurisdiction of He (God] imposed upon them for seven nights “We must emphasise that science, as science is concerned only with and eight days in succession, so you would see many countries that profess classification and analysis of sense data. the people therein fallen as if they were hol- Islam and are called Islamic are Moreover, man has been busy with scientific low trunks of palm trees. Then do you see of unjust, corrupt, and underde- inquiries and research, in the modern sense them any remains? And there came Pharaoh veloped and are in fact not of the term, only for the last few centuries, and those before him and the overturned cities ‘Islamic’ by any stretch of the while he has been familiar with the concept (i.e. those to which Lot was sent) with sin. And imagination,” Hossein Askari, of life after death since time immemorial. they disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, so an Iranian-born professor All the Prophets of God called their people He seized them with a seizure exceeding [in of International Business to worship God and to believe in life after severity]. Indeed, when the water overflowed, and International Affairs at death. They laid so much emphasis on the We carried you [i.e. your ancestors] in the sail- George Washington University, belief in life after death that even a slight ing ship (i.e. which was constructed by Noah). was quoted by the Telegraph. doubt in it meant denying God and made all That We might make it for you a reminder and “Looking at an index of other beliefs meaningless. that a conscious ear would be conscious of it. Economic Islamicity, or The very fact that all the Prophets of (Quran, 69:4-12) how closely the policies and God have dealt with this metaphysical Actually, if there is no life after death, the very achievements of countries question of life after death so confidently EVENTS OF THE DAY OF JUDGMENT reflect Islamic economic and so uniformly — the gap between their belief in God becomes meaningless or even if God states in the Quran about the events teachings — Ireland, Denmark, ages in some cases, being thousands of one believes in God, it would be an unjust and of the Day of Judgment: Then when the Luxembourg, Sweden, the years — goes to prove that the source Horn is blown with one blast, and the earth United Kingdom, New of their knowledge of life after death as indifferent God, having once created man and and the mountains are lifted and leveled with Zealand, Singapore, Finland, proclaimed by them all, was the same, i.e. now not being concerned with his fate. one blow [i.e. stroke] - Then on that Day, the Norway, and Belgium round up Divine revelation. Occurrence [i.e. Resurrection] will occur, And the first 10,” he added. We also know that these Prophets of the heaven will split [open], for that Day it In their study, Askari and God were greatly opposed by their people, no doubt,” but most of the people do not know. be in the most miserable state. Drawing a is infirm (i.e. weak, enfeebled and unstable). his colleague Dr Scheherazde mainly on the issue of life after death, as (Quran, 45:24-26) comparison between them, the Quran says: And the angels are at its edges. And there S Rehman rated 208 countries their people thought it impossible. But in Surely God will raise all the dead. But Then is he whom We have promised a will bear the Throne of your Lord above them, and territories as being more spite of opposition, the Prophets won many God has His own plan of things. A day good promise which he will meet [i.e. obtain] that Day, eight [of them]. That Day, you will be compliant with the teachings sincere followers. The question arises: what will come when the whole universe will be like he for whom We provided enjoyment of exhibited [for judgment]; not hidden among of Islam and Quran. made those followers forsake the estab- destroyed and then the dead will be resur- worldly life [but] then he is, on the Day of you is anything concealed (i.e. any person or The unexpected results lished beliefs, traditions and customs of rected to stand before God. That day will Resurrection, among those presented [for any secret you might attempt to conceal). So showed that the top countries their forefathers, notwithstanding the risk be the beginning of a life that will never punishment in Hell]? (Quran, 28:61) as for he who is given his record in his right in both economic achievement of being totally alienated from their own end, and on that day every person will be The Quran also states that this worldly hand, he will say, “Here, read my record! and social values are Ireland, community? The simple answer is: they rewarded by God according to his or her life is a preparation for the eternal life after Indeed, I was certain that I would be meet- Demark, Luxembourg and made use of their faculties of mind and good or evil deeds. death. But those who deny it become slaves ing my account.” So he will be in a pleasant New Zealand. Britain also heart and realised the truth. The explanation that the Quran gives of their passions and desires, making fun of life — In an elevated Garden, Its fruit to be ranks in the top ten. Did they realise the truth through per- about the necessity of life after death is virtuous and God-conscious persons. picked hanging near. They will be told, “Eat The first Muslim-majority ceptual consciousness? They couldn’t, as what the moral consciousness of man Such persons realise their folly only at and drink in satisfaction for what you put nation is Malaysia ranking at perceptual experience of life after death demands. Actually, if there is no life after the time of their death and wish to be given forth (i.e. literally, advanced in anticipation 33, while the only other state is impossible. God has given man besides death, the very belief in God becomes a further chance in the world but in vain. of reward in the Hereafter) in the days past.” in the top 50 is Kuwait at 48. perceptual consciousness, rational, aes- meaningless or even if one believes in God, Their miserable state at the time of death, But as for he who is given his record in his left “If a country, society, or com- thetic and moral consciousness too. It is it would be an unjust and indifferent God, and the horror of the Day of Judgment, and hand, he will say, “Oh, I wish I had not been munity displays characteristics this consciousness that guides man regard- having once created man and now not being the eternal bliss guaranteed to the sincere given my record, and had not known what such as unelected, corrupt, ing realities that cannot be verified through concerned with his fate. believers are very clearly and beautifully is my account. I wish it (i.e. my death) had oppressive, and unjust rulers, sensory data. That is why all the Prophets Surely, God is just. He will punish the mentioned in the following verses of the been the decisive one (i.e. ending life rather inequality before the law, une- of God while calling people to believe in God tyrants, whose crimes are beyond count Quran: For such is the state of the disbeliev- than being the gateway to eternal life). My qual opportunities for human and life after death, appeal to the aesthetic, — having tortured and killed hundreds or ers, until, when death comes to one of them, wealth has not availed me. Gone from me is development, absence of free- moral and rational consciousness of man. thousands of innocent people, created great he says, “My Lord, send me back that I might my authority.”God will say, “Seize him and dom of choice (including that For example, when the idolaters of corruption in society, enslaved numerous do righteousness in that which I left behind shackle him. Then into Hellfire drive him. of religion), opulence alongside Makkah denied even the possibility of life persons to serve their whims, etc., because (i.e. in that which I neglected).” No! It is only Then into a chain whose length is seventy poverty, force, and aggression after death, the Quran exposed the weak- man has a very short life span in this world a word he is saying; and behind them is a cubits insert him.” Indeed, he did not used to as the instruments of conflict ness of their stand by advancing very logi- and because numerous individuals are barrier until the Day they are resurrected. So believe in God, the Most Great. resolution as opposed to dia- cal and rational arguments in support of it: affected by one’s actions, adequate punish- when the Horn is blown, no relationship will (Quran, 69:13-33) logue and reconciliation, and, And he (man) presents for Us an exam- ments and rewards are not possible in this there be among them that Day, nor will they The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) above all, the prevalence of ple (i.e. attempting to establish the finality life. The Quran very emphatically states ask about one another. And those whose scales taught that three things continue to benefit injustice of any kind, it is prima of death) and forgets his own creation. He that the Day of Judgment must come and are heavy [with good deeds] - it is they who a believing person even after death — char- facie evidence that it is not an says, “Who will give life to bones while they that God will decide the fate of each soul are the successful. But those whose scales are ity which he had given (which continues to Islamic community,” Askari are disintegrated?” Say, “He will give them life according to his or her record of deeds: light - those are the ones who have lost their benefit others), beneficial knowledge which said. who produced them the first time; and He is, of But those who disbelieve say, “The Hour (i.e. souls, [being] in Hell, abiding eternally. The he had left behind (i.e. authored or taught), “Islam is, and has been for all creation, Knowing.” It is He who made for the Day of Judgment) will not come to us.” Say, Fire will sear their faces, and they therein will and supplication on his behalf by a right- centuries, the articulation of you from the green tree, fire, and then from it “Yes, by my Lord, it will surely come to you. God have taut smiles (i.e. their lips having been eous child (Narrated by Saheeh Muslim). the universal love of Allah for you ignite. Is not He who created the heavens is the Knower of the unseen.” Not absent from contracted by scorching until the teeth are Thus, there are very convincing reasons his creation and for its unity, and the earth Able to create the likes of them? Him is an atom’s weight within the heavens or exposed). (Quran, 23:99-104) to believe in life after death: and all that this implies for Yes,it is so; and He is the Knowing Creator. within the earth or what is smaller than that The belief in life after death not only 1) All the Prophets of God have called all-encompassing human and (Quran, 36:78-81) or greater, except that it is in a clear register guarantees success in the Hereafter but their people to believe in it. economic development.” On another occasion, the Quran very - That He may reward those who believe and also makes this world full of peace and hap- 2) Whenever a human society is built on Muslims make up 1.1 per- clearly says that the disbelievers have no do righteous deeds. Those will have forgive- piness by making individuals most respon- the basis of this belief, it has been the most cent of the 4.5 million people sound basis for their denial of life after ness and noble provision. But those who strive sible and dutiful in their activities. ideal and peaceful society, free of social and in Ireland, but their ranks death. It is based on pure conjecture: against Our verses seeking to cause failure Think of the people of Arabia before the moral evils. are swelling due to immigra- And they say, “There is not but our worldly (i.e. to undermine their credibility) - for them arrival of the Prophet Muhammad (peace 3) History bears witness that whenever tion, domestic births, and in life; we die and live (i.e. some people die and will be a painful punishment of foul nature. be upon him). Gambling, wine, tribal feuds, this belief is rejected collectively by a group some cases conversion. Two others live, replacing them) and nothing (Quran, 34:3-5) plundering and murdering were their main of people in spite of the repeated warning decades ago, they numbered destroys us except time.” And they have of that The Day of Resurrection will be the traits when they had no belief in life after of the Prophet, the group as a whole has about 4,000. A 2011 census no knowledge; they are only assuming. And Day when God’s attributes of Justice and death. But as soon as they accepted the been punished by God even in this world. recorded 49,204 Muslims, when Our verses are recited to them as clear Mercy will be in full manifestation. God will belief in the One God and life after death 4) Moral, aesthetic and rational facul- including nearly 12,000 evidences, their argument is only that they shower His mercy on those who suffered they became the most disciplined nation of ties of man endorse the possibility of the school-aged children. The say, “Bring back our forefathers, if you should for His sake in the worldly life, believing the world. They gave up their vices, helped life after death. numbers represent a 51 per- be truthful.” Say, “God causes you to live, then that an eternal bliss was awaiting them. each other in hours of need, and settled all 5) God’s attributes of Justice and Mercy cent increase since 2006. causes you to die; then He will assemble you for But those who abused the bounties of God, their disputes on the basis of justice and have no meaning if there is no life after AGENCIES the Day of Resurrection, about which there is caring nothing for the life to come, will equality. Similarly the denial of life after death. www.islam-guide.com Fasting in the second half of Sha’ban

asting in the second part through Sha’ban, i.e., starting (Reported by Muslim) suggested that the prohibition were Al Bayhaqi and At-Tahawi. scholar Sheikh Ibn Baz was asked of the month of Sha’ban from the sixteenth day of the Imam An-Nawawi said: In here is to be understood as mean- Ibn Qudamah said in Al-Mughni about the hadith which says that is a controversial issue month. the words, “He used to fast all ing that it is makruh but not that Imam Ahmad said concern- fasting after halfway through Famong Muslim jurists. However, there are reports of Sha`ban, and he used to fast haram. In Riyadh As-Saliheen ing this hadith: “It is not sound. Sha’ban is not allowed, and he According to the Hanbali School, which indicate that it is per- Sha’ban except a few days” the (p. 412): Imam An-Nawawi has a We asked `Abd Ar-Rahman Ibn said: This is an authentic hadith as it is makruh (disliked). For the missible to fast at this time. For second phrase explains the first, chapter entitled: “On the prohi- Mahdi about it and he did not Sheikh Nasir Ad-Deen Al-Albani Shafi’i School, it is haram (for- example: and indicates that the word “all” bition on anticipating Ramadan class it as authentic, and he did said. What is meant is that it is bidden). The majority of Muslim Abu Hurayrah (may Allah means “most of”. by fasting after halfway through not narrate it to me. He used to not allowed to start fasting after jurists state that it is permissible. be pleased with him) said: The The above hadith indicates Sha`ban, except for one who is avoid talking about this hadith. halfway through the month. But Hence, it is better for the person Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: that it is permissible to fast after continuing after fasting before Ibn Al Qayyim said: “With if a person fasts most or all of the to avoid fasting in the second half “Do not anticipate Ramadan by halfway through Sha’ban, but halfway through the month or regard to those who think that month, then he is following the of the month of Sha’ban unless the fasting one or two days before it only for those who are continu- who has a regular pattern of fast- there is a contradiction between Sunnah. (Majmoo` Fatawa Ash- person himself is accustomed to begins, but if a man habitually ing after fasting in the first half ing such as fasting on Mondays this hadith and the hadiths which Shaykh Ibn Baz 15/385). fast regular days such as Mondays fasts, then let him fast.” (Reported of the month. The Shafi’i School and Thursdays”. speak of fasting in Sha`ban, there Moreover, the prominent Saudi and Thursdays of every week, or by Al Bukhari and Muslim) followed all of these hadiths and Some scholars are of the view is no contradiction. Those hadiths scholar Sheikh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen when a person is obliged to make This indicates that fasting said: that the hadith which forbids fast- speak of fasting half of it along said in his commentary on Riyadh up for missed days of Ramadan after halfway through Sha’ban It is not permissible to fast ing after halfway through Sha’ban with the previous half, and of As-Saliheen (3/394): before the new Ramadan begins. is permissible for someone who after halfway through Sha’ban is weak, and based on that they habitual fasting during the second Even if the hadith is authen- Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be has the habit of fasting, such as except for those who have a habit- said that it is not makruh to fast half of the month, whereas the tic, the prohibition in it does not pleased with him) reported that a person who regularly fasts on ual pattern of fasting, or who are after halfway through Sha’ban. hadith speaks of the prohibition of mean that this is haram, rather the Messenger of Allah (peace Mondays and Thursdays, or who continuing after fasting before Al Hafiz said: The majority of fasting deliberately only after the it is simply makruh, as some of and blessings be upon him) said: fasts alternate days, and the like. halfway through the month. scholars said that it is permissible month is halfway over, not about the scholars have understood it “When Sha’ban is half over, do ‘A’ishah (may Allah be pleased According to some scholars, to observe voluntary fasts after fasts that a person observes regu- to mean so. But whoever has the not fast.” (Classed as authentic with her) said: The Messenger the prohibition here means that halfway through Sha`ban and larly or that are a continuation habit of fasting regularly should by Al Albani) of Allah (PBUH) “used to fast it is haram. (See Al-Majmoo`, they regarded the hadith con- after fasting during the first part fast, even if it is after halfway This hadith indicates that it is all of Sha`ban and he used to 6/399-400; Fath Al Bari 4/129) cerning that as weak. Also, among of the month. through Sha’ban. not allowed to fast after halfway fast Sha’ban except a few days.” Some, such as Al Ruyani, those who classed it as weak The late prominent Saudi www.onislam.net FRIDAY 13 JUNE 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Iraq jihadists advance; US mulls ‘all options’ Drone strikes being considered; Kurds control Kirkuk

BAGHDAD: Jihadists moved Washington found rare com- showed up for the session, a sen- closer to Baghdad yester- mon cause with its long-time foe ior official said. day after capturing a town Tehran, with both voicing dismay The swift collapse of Baghdad’s just hours to the north, as at the Sunni extremists’ advance control comes on top of the loss President Barack Obama said and pledging to boost aid to Iraq’s of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, ear- Washington was exploring all beleaguered Shia prime minister. lier this year. It has been a blow options to save Iraq’s security The militants, who have swept for Western governments that forces from collapse. up a huge swathe of predomi- invested lives and money in the With the militants closing in nantly Sunni Arab territory in invasion that toppled Saddam. on the capital, forces from Iraq’s northern and north-central Iraq The Iraqi foreign minister autonomous Kurdish region took since launching their offensive acknowledged the collapse of control of Kirkuk, an ethnically in second city Mosul late on the security forces in Mosul and divided northern city they have Monday, advanced into ethnically other cities had been precipi- sought to rule for decades against divided Diyala province. tate, with many personnel melt- the objections of successive gov- Late yesterday, they captured ing away after discarding their ernments in Baghdad. the Jalawla and Saadiyah areas of uniforms. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hosyhar the province, whose mixed Arab “It is a setback definitely for Zebari acknowledged the security and Kurdish and Sunni and Shia the Iraqi security forces, who forces which Washington invested population has made it a byword collapsed in the largest city and Kurdistan’s Peshmerga forces transfer tanks on the borders of Kirkuk city, in northern Iraq, yesterday. billions in training and equip- for violence ever since the 2003 abandoned their weapons and ping before withdrawing its own overthrow of Sunni Arab dictator equipment,” he said. troops in 2011, had simply melted Saddam Hussein. Zebari said the security forces Sergei Lavrov said the spec- “We are in touch with all the responsible for the autonomous away. ISIL spokesman Abu were mounting a fightback in tacular collapse of the Western- groups in Iraq including Kurds region’s former rebel security Obama said Iraq was going to Mohammed Al Adnani vowed the Tikrit — the hometown of the trained Iraqi army exposed the and Turkmens,” a government forces was targeted by a bomb need “more help from the United jihadists would not stop there, but now executed Saddam — and wit- failings of the 2003 invasion. official said. attack as he made an inspection States and from the international would press on to the capital and nesses and officials reported air “The events in Iraq illustrate The city of Kirkuk, which tour of the city’s outskirts yester- community.” the Shia shrine city of Karbala, strikes on the dictator’s former the total failure of the adventure Kurdish forces took over yester- day but escaped unharmed. “Our national security team is visited by millions of pilgrims palace in the town as well as a involving the United States and day, has Turkmen and Christian But a news photographer was looking at all the options... I don’t from around the world each year. former army base taken over by Britain,” he said. minorities as well as a substan- killed and 14 Kurdish troops rule out anything,” he said. The Shia-led government in militants in Mosul. And Obama’s Republican oppo- tial Arab population, some of it wounded in fighting with the mil- Russia said the lightning Baghdad has been left flounder- Washington is considering sev- nents in Congress were swift to deliberately settled by Saddam to itants who have seized a string of gains by the Islamic State of ing by the speed of the jihadist eral options for offering military accuse the president of abandon- undercut historic Kurdish claims mainly Sunni Arab towns in the Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), assault. assistance to Baghdad, including ing Iraq in his haste to pull out to the province’s oil wealth. west of the province. a movement so radical it has Prime Minister Nuri Al drone strikes, a US official said US troops in 2011. The Kurds have never given up As many as half a million peo- been disavowed even by the Al Maliki said he would seek par- on condition of anonymity. Turkey said it was holding their claim to the city, returning ple have fled the jihadist offen- Qaeda leadership, showed the liament’s authorisation to But there is no current plan to talks to secure the release of to war with Baghdad in the 1970s sive in northern Iraq, and the pointlessness of the 2003 US-led declare a state of emergency send US troops back into Iraq, dozens of its citizens kidnapped to press their demand for the city World Food Programme said it invasion, carried out in the after- but MPs failed to muster a where around 4,500 American by Islamist militants in northern to be incorporated in their auton- had started providing assistance math of the September 11, 2001 quorum for the vote yesterday. soldiers died during the conflict. Iraq amid international calls for omous region in the north. to 42,000 of the most vulnerable. attacks in the United States. Only 128 out of 325 MPs Russian Foreign Minister their release. The Kurdish minister AFP

Somali Islamists Existing passports will be extended Former Egypt minister plotting Djibouti Continued from page 1 directly to the UK passport office. overseas on behalf of their chil- attack: Britain Delia Antoine, Political and She also acknowledged that dren will be given emergency Press Secretary at the embassy, the embassy received emails and travel documents. acquitted of corruption NAIROBI: Somalia’s Al told The Peninsula that overseas complaints from British nation- However, the embassy is yet to Qaeda-linked Shebab insur- passport applications were being als whose passports were delayed, be officially informed about the CAIRO: An Egyptian court his position and forcing police gents are planning fur- subjected to further security but didn’t disclose the details of new regulations. acquitted former Hosni Mubarak conscripts to work on his private ther attacks in the Horn of checks in the UK. such people. “We are yet to be notified, it interior minister Habib Al Adly property. Africa nation of Djibouti, “It’s (the delay) an unfortunate British Home Secretary would be on Sunday,” said Antoine. of corruption yesterday in a Along with Mubarak, he had Britain warned yesterday, situation, but it’s not in the hands Theresa May yesterday announced “If we are to issue emergency retrial after he had been sen- been sentenced to life in prison in after suicide bombers last of the embassy. But anyone who measures to help clear the backlog travel documents for newborns, tenced to 12 years in 2011. 2012 over the killings of protest- month attacked a crowded has applied for a passport, and if in passport applications. both parents will have to bring In March 2013, a cassation ers in the 2011 uprising. A court restaurant. it has exceeded eight weeks, can She said people renewing their their identification documents court had ordered the retrial of overturned the verdict on tech- “There are credible reports let the embassy know,” she said. UK passports overseas would have proving their British identity and Adly, who had been convicted of nical grounds and they are now that Al Shebab plan, and have However, Antoine couldn’t pro- their existing passports extended we would issue a passport for a money-laundering and illicitly being retried along with six police the capability, to attack targets vide the number of applications as for 12 months. newborn baby,” she said. enriching himself. commanders. in Djibouti, including Western people apply for passports online Those applying for passports THE PENINSULA The charges were linked to the An official enquiry into deaths interests,” the Foreign Office sale of land owned by Adly. He during the revolt found at least said, noting “there is a high tasked police officials with finding 846 civilians and 26 police officers threat from terrorism” in the a buyer who would pay the highest were killed. port city. possible price. Adly also stands accused in a Troops from Djibouti are The disgraced ex-minister, separate trial on charges of illicit part of the African Union who ran Mubarak’s security gains worth 181 million Egyptian force in Somalia fighting the Car bomb kills seven in Homs services for more than a dec- pounds (around $25m). The next Shebab, and Djibouti’s port also ade before a popular uprising hearing in the trial will take place serves as a key base for ships DAMASCUS: At least seven which President Bashar Al Assad days after a similar attack there overthrew the strongman in on September 18. taking part in international people were killed when a car belongs. killed 100 people. 2011, will remain in detention. In May, Mubarak received three anti-piracy operations off the bomb exploded in the central In May, Syrian government Those attacks were claimed by Adly was widely unpopular years in prison on corruption Somali coast. Syrian city of Homs yesterday, forces retook control of almost all Al Nusra Front, the official affili- because of abuses committed by charges, while his two sons Alaa “Djibouti and Western inter- Syrian state media reported. of Homs, once dubbed the “capi- ate of Al Qaeda in Syria. his security agents, and rights and Gamal each received four- ests within Djibouti may be “Seven killed and others injured tal of the revolution,” after a deal Meanwhile north of Homs, the groups said torture of suspects year terms. They were accused of seen as a legitimate target by according to a first toll in a ter- allowing the withdrawal of rebel Observatory said at least 18 rebels, was commonplace during his term embezzling more than one hun- Al Shebab because of its sup- rorist car bomb explosion in Wadi fighters trapped under siege. including fighters from Al Nusra, in office. dred million Egyptian pounds port to the Somali govern- Dahab in Homs,” state television Alawite districts and areas were killed battling regime forces In February, a court upheld a earmarked for the maintenance ment and its participation in said. under regime control in Homs near the village of Umm Sharshuh. three-year jail sentence handed of presidential palaces. the African Union peacekeep- The blast was also reported by have come under attack, including Yesterday, regime warplanes to Adly for taking advantage of AFP ing mission,” the Foreign Office the Syrian Observatory for Human with car bombs, in recent weeks. carried out air raids on the vil- statement said. Rights, a Britain-based monitor, On May 25, 12 people were killed lage, which rebels captured a day Last month, at least one which said the neighbourhood is in a twin car bomb attack in the earlier. person was killed and several majority Alawite — the sect to city’s Zahra neighbourhood, just AFP wounded when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in Some remote areas a restaurant, the first attack in Djibouti to be claimed by the Shebab since it joined the AU force in 2011. have no fuel stations The Shebab said the attack Continued from page 1 their cars even in an emergency was also carried out in retalia- Citing an example, he said that as there are long queues of heavy tion for Djibouti’s hosting of the while driving to Mesaieed from vehicles, buses and vans at almost United States’ biggest military Doha, there are two petrol sta- all petrol stations for diesel. base in Africa. tions on the way, but none when In the Industrial Area, the The US base is used for oper- driving back. crowding at petrol stations is ations across the region, includ- “The geographical distribu- huge. “We need more filling sta- ing drone strikes against the tion of petrol stations is wrong,” tions here,” said a Nepalese truck Islamists in Somalia. said Fraish. “They should be dis- driver. France, the former colonial tributed based on the density of Qatar Fuel Company (Woqod), power, also has a base in the population.” which has been opening sev- country. In some remote areas there eral petrol and service stations Britain has this week also are no petrol stations, so people across the country, says it builds released warnings to citizens are forced to rush to areas where facilities on land provided by the in several East African nations these facilities exist. “Sometimes, government. — including Ethiopia, Djibouti, people come to Doha just to fill In its 2013 report, the company Kenya and Uganda, who all have their cars.” said new petrol stations were troops in Somalia — speaking of Some petrol stations are close under construction in Al Jamiliya, the threat of attacks at public to schools, which is dangerous, Lusail, Al Dhakhira and Al Wajba. screenings of the World Cup. considering that students’ safety Another five are in the “Previous terrorist attacks is at risk. design phase and will be built in the region have targeted “What happens if there is in Al Qatifiyah, east of Hamad places where football matches an explosion like the one that International Airport, west of are being viewed,” Britain said, occurred at an eatery in a petrol HIA, Al Rayyan, Al Jaded and adding that crowded areas station complex last February,” Umm Ghraibiyah. including “transport hubs, asked Fraish. In 2013, Woqod opened five pet- hotels, restaurants and bars” Motorists say that during peak rol stations across the country, are also possible targets. The scene of a car bomb explosion in the Wadi Dahab neighbourhood of the central city of Homs yesterday. hours, particularly in the morn- the report added. AFP ing, it is difficult for them to fill THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 13 JUNE 2014 06 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE quadrennial carnival of the Beautiful Game got under way to a rocking start at the spectacular Corinthians Arena in Sao Paulo yesterday. Brazil’s Tlargest city was a cornucopia of festivities and protests yesterday as the 2014 World Cup football tournament Will Hillary Clinton please break brought together thousands of fans from across the planet to converge in the South American nation, which has long held sway over the sport. The football World Cup, equally a festival highest glass ceiling? of culture as that of the game, is eagerly awaited in all parts of the world. The Middle East, where the game is played with BY RUTH WISHART overriding enthusiasm, is going to see the tournament being gender inequality than there was in from other women,” she writes. “I didn’t 2008 when Clinton was running for the think that made political sense, and it played in Qatar in 2022 for which preparations have begun. ILLARY Clinton is only a White House. But, sadly, that’s because didn’t feel right.” The opening ceremony of the tournament had American few pages into her new mem- there have been so many reminders that Does that overlooked passage sig- singer Jennifer Lopez scorch the stadium with the World Cup oir, Hard Choices, when she even now women in this country are nal that, unlike in 2008, Clinton would song “We Are One.” Hthrows out a hint that she, as still struggling to get to the top tiers of make a more deliberate effort to The World Cup, often branded the ‘greatest show on earth,’ a woman running for the White House, power, and to stay there. appeal to voters by casting herself as a would run differently than a man. It would be great, finally, to hear change-maker? brings together synergies of the teams and the cultures they She says there is no way she would what Hillary Clinton thinks about it all. The 585 pages that follow don’t make represent from all parts of the world. It is a show which ever give in to the sexist impulses of Because if there is one takeaway from that clear. That’s because, as a strat- combines skills of the players — reaching a new high every Obama campaign aides and attack the other big political event of the week egy, Hard Choices closely resembles time — with the organising and administrative prowess of the another candidate - Sarah Palin, in this - House majority leader Eric Cantor’s Clinton’s 2008 campaign, burnishing country hosting it. The nation hosting the World Cup brings case - just because she is a woman. stunning loss on Tuesday night - there her establishment credentials, cleaving upon itself a responsibility to bear the legacy of the game It’s one of the very few revelations is no such thing as an inevitable candi- to the political centre - and trying to in a book - more like a campaign docu- date. You have to stand for something. avoid serious consideration of what it in the times to come along with putting up a show which ment, produced by three ghost writers You have to have something to say. would mean to have a woman running is worth years of efforts that go and reviewed by any number of political Sure, Clinton jokes in the book about for president. It’s not actually a hard into it. And Brazil yesterday did consultants - that has been scrubbed of scrunchies and outfits and nail polish choice at all; it’s the easy way out. exactly that. anything that could make news or pro- to make her point that woman in pub- Clinton has always said she doesn’t With a smooth The South American nation, voke strong opinions, especially about a lic life are forced under a microscope. want to be seen as a “woman candidate”. at the opening ceremony, female president. “There is a persistent double standard In 2008, she did not readily embrace opening of the So it’s fair applied to women in politics,” she writes, the fact that she, like Obama, was also combined colour and pageantry to assume that “regarding clothes, body types, and of making history - until the day she was World Cup, with responsible entertainment. Clinton - six course hairstyles.” forced to accept defeat. “[W]e weren’t Brazil has been It brought together the feat of years removed But Clinton is still not ready to talk - able to shatter that highest, hardest science used for the development Clinton has always from her first at least not in a substantive way - about glass ceiling this time,” she said in her able to put of human ability vital for the said she doesn’t run for the White what it meant to be the first woman concession speech. House, and two to go so far, yet still fall short, in the Campaign aides later told those of us game. When a standing paraplegic want to be seen as a many glitches years away from race for the 2008 Democratic nomina- on the trail that publicly denying the man kicked the first ball of the “woman candidate”. her next (assum- tion. And she is certainly not saying, in glass ceiling was a mistake. Clinton, and kinks World Cup in the stadium, it was a In 2008, she did not ing she is run- Hard Choices or in the rounds of inter- by choosing to project inevitability moment the world of science could readily embrace the ning) - has a lot views and appearances surrounding its and experience, failed to capitalise on behind. be proud of. The development is she wants to say release, how she would overcome biases the excitement among young people, part of a research project meant to fact that she, like about negotiating on women seeking power when and if women and minorities at the prospect Obama, was also the treacherous she decides to run in 2016. of change. give people who don’t have feeling terrain of women It’s about time she did. After that epic campaign, and four in their legs the ability to walk again. Brazilian neuroscientist making history — and power. As the author of a slim book about exhausting years as Secretary of State, Miguel Nicolelis has developed a robotic exoskeleton to assist until the day she Except that she Clinton, published during her first run young people, women and minorities are the disabled patients’ movement. The opening ceremony was forced to doesn’t say it. for the White House, and someone who even more excited than they were in Sheryl covered that campaign, it’s hard to 2008 at the prospect of a Clinton can- displayed the varied culture of the nation that has made accept defeat. its presence felt in the international sphere due to its fast Sandberg’s Lean escape the impression that her nascent didacy. She’s demonstrated her grit and In unabash- 2016 campaign-as-book-tour is repeat- her gravitas many times over. growing economic might. Topping it with a football World Cup edly gave advice ing the mistakes of the past, assuming Now it’s time for her to show that is sure to add to the country’s international standing. about how to lead in the workplace. once more an air of invincibility, com- she gets it. She gets what it’s like for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has weathered many Jill Abramson’s sacking as editor of the mitting the kind of unforced error - like American women to struggle for equal a storm in the run up to the tournament, which saw scores New York Times, the Boko Haram kid- her comments about being “dead broke” pay at work. She gets how to use her of agitations and last-hour walkouts by workers. The grand nappings of school girls in Nigeria, any - that comes from being shut off from power as president to campaign against number of numbskull comments from the public by overly cautious handlers. sexual violence used as a means of social opening ceremony worked to soothe frayed nerves among Republicans about rape and abortion, Clinton starts the book by looking control in India or Nigeria or here in organizers and Brazilian authorities. the boys’ club nature of new internet back at that 2008 race, choosing to the US. And, most importantly, she gets The first game between Brazil and Croatia brought an start-ups - all of these have led to con- reveal that the Obama campaign team that millions of women are willing her initial surprise — Brazil trail by a self-goal in the initial centrated bursts of debate over the last asked her to go after Sarah Palin - and on to the goal of shattering that glass stages. However, the hosts came back sharply to win 3-1. The year in the US and elsewhere about the that she refused. ceiling, for them - and she is not going Brazilian team emerged victorious and it is hoped the nation future of women and power. “I was not going to attack Palin just to try to downplay that. There is a whole lot more talk about for being a woman appealing for support THE GUARDIAN will emerge at the top by holding a smooth World Cup. The other side Quote of Brazil’s economy needs much more than a World Cup victory the day

RAZIL is favored to win this are sanguine, however. Brazil ranks percent) and India (4.4 percent). With is a Byzantine tax system: According year’s World Cup. Yet the seventh in the world for attracting rising debt levels, plateauing demand to the World Bank, compliance with cost of hosting the games, foreign direct investment, according for the riches that God gave it and a 27 different tax codes can take busi- Balong with some expensive to the McKinsey Global Institute, and workforce that’s all but tapped out, nesses 2,600 hours a year — the promises made by a president seeking only five cities in the world are home Brazil must improve productivity if it most in the world. Multinationals must The events in re-election, may turn any athletic to more large foreign subsidiaries than wants to grow faster. And that will also contend with high tariffs and laws triumph into a Pyrrhic victory. Brazil’s Sao Paulo. take policies to promote economic that require them to use local compo- Iraq illustrate economy is sputtering. Seventy-two Such companies help satisfy the competition. nents and partners. percent of Brazilians don’t like how consumer urges of the tens of mil- The obstacles are entrenched Such barriers help explain why a the total failure things are going in their country — lions of Brazilians who have been lifted enough to have earned their own Brazilian pays 144 percent more than which comes as little surprise after from poverty over the past decade. name — the “Brazil cost,” shorthand an American pays for a Toyota Corolla of the adventure more than a million of them took to They’re a magnet for other busi- for everything from the country’s (even one built in Brazil), 329 percent involving the the streets last year to protest price nesses. And most important, they underdeveloped infrastructure to its more for a Sony PlayStation 4, and hikes, poor services and the billions can be a catalyst for improving Brazil’s overdeveloped bureaucracy. Near 89 percent more for Nike sneak- United States and the government was throwing at labor productivity, which rose by only the top of what makes the world’s ers. Brazil’s new middle class needs arenas and airports. 1.2 percent from 1990 to 2012, an seventh largest economy a peren- stronger purchasing power. Britain. Sergei Lavrov Many of Brazil’s foreign investors increase well below that in China (8.4 nial tail-dragger on competitiveness The Washington Post Russian Foreign Minister FRIDAY 13 JUNE 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Obama’s indignity: Bush more competent?

Like Carter, Obama can’t seem to The American catch a break. At least not since the bril- liantly successful Osama bin Laden raid president may be three years ago. The comparison with Carter may be unfair. Carter never had to face a doing what people Republican Congress or a Tea Party revolt. The political situation is much want, but they’re tougher for Obama. Gridlock has become the rule. And it’s not likely to get better anytime soon. not satisfied with Look closely at the Gallup trends on ideology and you see that the country the outcome. has become more liberal mostly because rank-and-file Democrats have become more liberal. Republicans have not BY BILL SCHNEIDER changed much. If anything, Republicans have become greement is not enough. more conservative on economic issues Performance matters more. since Obama took office. But they are That’s why the outlook for smaller in number than Democrats. The Democrats this November distance between the parties has been looks bleak. More and more growing so fast it’s in danger of becoming AAmericans now agree with Democrats unbridgeable. on the issues. But they are increasingly Which is why the only way Obama dismayed by President Barack Obama’s can get anything done is by bypassing inability to get results. Congress — as he did on the new climate The Gallup poll reports that, ideologi- change regulations and on the prisoner- cally, Americans are moving to the left on of-war exchange. In each case, setting a both social and economic issues. Though new fire. more Americans continue to identify as Don’t voters understand that Obama conservatives than as liberals, the con- has to deal with an impossible political servative advantage is shrinking. Former US president George W Bush (left) and President Barack Obama. situation? Don’t they blame Congress for In 2010, for example, which saw a huge the stalemate? Actually, they do. backlash against Obama, self-described voters agree with Obama, they give him latest Washington Post-ABC News poll. The ultimate indignity? George W Congress’s ratings are far worse than economic conservatives outnumbered low ratings. Nonetheless, Obama gets a 57 percent Bush is now seen as a more competent Obama’s. But that doesn’t get the presi- economic liberals by 36 points. Every year Take gun control. Most voters sup- negative rating on foreign affairs. president than Obama (by 48 to 42 per- dent off the hook. His job is to get things since, the conservative lead has gotten port Obama’s call for background checks Obama may be doing what people want, cent in a Fox News poll). done — no matter how difficult the politi- smaller. It’s now 21 points. for gun purchasers. But last year, he but they’re not satisfied with the out- According to the Washington Post, the cal situation. On social issues, the conservative lead couldn’t get a bill through the Senate. come. No gun control law, no immigration public has “long viewed ‘getting things Didn’t President Ronald Reagan work has virtually disappeared. It was 17 points In this month’s CNN poll, 64 percent reform, no economic boom, no impact on done’ as more of a Bush thing than an with a Democratic Congress? Yes, but in 2010. It’s now 4 points. “This move- of Americans say they disapprove of events in Syria or Ukraine, no marked Obama thing.” Democrats then were not nearly as hos- ment is consistent with trends Gallup Obama’s handling of gun policy. improvement in the security situation Don’t they remember Hurricane tile to Reagan as Republicans now are has seen on specific issues,” the poll- Voters also agree with the president in Afghanistan. Katrina? Weapons of mass destruction to Obama. ing organisation reports, “most notably on immigration reform. His rating on Instead, everywhere the president and the war in Iraq? Maybe. But they Bottom line? People are likely to vote Americans’ views toward gay rights and handling illegal immigration? Sixty-one turns, he’s facing controversy — on the also remember Bush as a president of for Republicans this year even though legalising marijuana.” percent disapproval. Helping the middle Bowe Bergdahl prisoner-of-war swap, immense resolve. they don’t agree with Republicans on If public opinion trends favour class? Fifty-eight percent negative. on the Benghazi episode, on veterans’ Bush’s resolve eventually morphed most issues. Two years from now, it will Democrats, why are they facing a setback In foreign affairs, Obama is doing healthcare. Obamacare may be working, into stubbornness — but he was never be different. in this year’s midterm elections? Because essentially what the public wants in but it’s still broadly unpopular. Coal-state less than sure of himself. By comparison, In the 2016 presidential election, there voters are deeply dissatisfied with Syria, Ukraine and Afghanistan. We’re Democrats are in open rebellion against Obama seems ineffectual. won’t be an incumbent on the ballot and Obama’s performance. He hasn’t deliv- not militarily involved in Syria or the president’s new environmental President Jimmy Carter was often voters will face a stark choice between ered. When it comes time to vote, per- Ukraine and we’re withdrawing troops regulations. called ineffectual in the 1970s. The two candidates. That’s when ideological formance counts more than agreement. from Afghanistan. “We have to quit putting out fires,” a Iranian hostage crisis, inflation, gas lines, issues will come into focus. And when That distinction explains a puzzling More than three-quarters of Americans Democratic senator told the New York recession — he didn’t seem to be able to the Democrats’ advantage on the issues finding in the polls. On issues where support the withdrawal, according to the Times. do anything about them. is likely to materialise. REUTERS Iraq invasion has led to bloody chaos US election laws that stop people from voting Moussa warned the Iraq war would ‘open BY JOSHUA SPIVAK fter a half-century in the House of Representatives, Representative John Conyers (D-Mich), now the second long- the gates of hell’. est serving member of Congress, may be an unsympathetic victim to show how election laws can be unfairly used to keep BY OWEN JONES A potential challengers off the ballot. But recent court rulings on Conyers as well as a New Jersey recall have encountered no sense of vindication, attempt highlight how election laws are frequently designed to benefit no “I told you so”, among veterans of the those in power — and block potential challengers. anti-war protest of 15 February 2003 in Due to its mix of an embarrassing level of incompetence and Conyers’ Iresponse to the events in Iraq. Despair, long service, his failure to get enough signatures got attention. Conyers yes, but above all else, bitterness – that we needed 1,000 valid registered voters in his district to sign his petition were unable to stop one of the greatest calami- in order to get on the ballot. His supporters collected enough raw sig- ties of modern times, that warnings which natures, but many people either didn’t live in the district or weren’t were dismissed as hyperbole now look like registered voters. After striking these and other nonconforming sig- understatements, that countless lives (liter- natures, Conyer only had 455 valid signatures. The county clerk struck ally – no one counts them) have been lost, and Conyers from the ballot. will continue to be so for many years to come. The New Jersey recall was much different, but the same principles In July 2002, the Guardian warned that of who is allowed to gather signatures were at stake. A group targeting Britain was “sleepwalking to war”. Blair’s com- the mayor of Vineland never handed in the signatures in the first place. mitment to invade come what may – which Iraqi refugees from Mosul arrive at the Khazir refugee camp outside Irbil on Wednesday. The recall proponents had plenty of time to get the 9,447 signatures the Chilcot inquiry (when it is finally pub- — 160 days — but they seem to have failed. lished) will either confirm or whitewash – demonstration on that chilly February day in the kidnappings and hostage videos, the car They still sued, however, blaming a law similar to the one in Michigan. is now established. By September 2002, the 2003 was the biggest Britain had ever seen, bombs, the IEDs, the Sunni and Shia insur- The only people allowed to collect signatures for recall petitions are inevitability had sunk in. In the first demon- is testament to the fact that disaster seemed gencies, the torture declared by the UN in registered voters in the affected municipality. This law, according to stration, hundreds of thousands of people took inevitable to so many people. 2006 to be worse than that under Saddam the recall proponents, blocked them from organising in force and using to the streets in London on 27 September – The commentators who cheered on the Hussein, the bodies with their hands and feet more than just the people of Vineland to get the recall moving. me and my grandfather among them – full of conflict, far from being driven from public bound and dumped in rivers, the escalating In both cases, the courts agreed that these laws unfairly infringed determination and foreboding. Three weeks life are still feted: still writing columns, still sectarian slaughter, the millions of displaced on the rights of petitioners. earlier, Amr Moussa, then-secretary general dispensing advice in TV studios, still hosting civilians, and the hundreds of thousands who Consider, Conyers is now on the ballot and the Vineland recall has of the Arab League, warned that the Iraq war think-tank breakfasts. “If nothing is eventu- died: it has been one never-ending blur of hor- been granted more time to collect signatures. The courts ruled that would “open the gates of hell”. ally found, I – as a supporter of the war – will ror since 2003. the laws limiting signature gathering is an infringement of free speech I remember the premature triumphalism never believe another thing that I am told by The invasion was justified as an indispensa- and free association. and hubris of the cheerleaders in the run-up. our government, or that of the US ever again,” ble part of the struggle against Al Qaeda. Well, This isn’t the first time that the courts tossed out laws limiting In my first year at university, one of Britain’s declared David Aaronovitch in this newspaper. to be fair, large swaths of Iraq have not been signature gathering. Ralph Nader needed just such a court decision to most senior army officers came to talk to stu- A few months after the invasion, he wrote: handed over to Al Qaeda: they are now run by get on the presidential ballot in some states during the 2008 election. dents as the guest of Lord Butler, who would “There have been very few suicide attacks.” Isis, a group purged from Al Qaeda for being What the courts seem to recognise is that these laws are designed later head one of the inquiries into the war. In the seven years that followed, 12,284 civil- too extreme. Iraq and Syria are trapped in a to prevent insurgents from threatening those in power. When Iraq was invaded by western forces, ians would perish in 1,003 suicide bombings. bloody feedback loop: the growth of Isis in Iraq This is not new. But these laws need to be confronted head-on. he told us solemnly, 99 percent of the Iraqi He went on: “If Iraq becomes anything like helped corrupt the Syrian rebellion, and now New York gained fame in the past, for example, for having extremely population would be on the streets, throwing a democratic and pluralistic state, then just the Syrian insurgency has fuelled the break- convoluted ballot laws. Petitions signed with the wrong colour pen flowers at advancing troops. about everything that the opponents of inter- down of Iraq, too. Those who believe that the or that didn’t have the correct Assembly district number written in The other 1 percent would still be cowering vention predicted will have turned out to be west should have armed Syria’s rebels should were tossed out. at home, too scared to celebrate, but would be wrong. If it descends into long-term chaos and consider the fact that Isis reportedly raided It took two disgraces on the national level to get any significant rule quickly reassured. Men like this helped direct civil war, then just about everything they said an arms depot in Syria which was stocked changes made in Albany. The Republican Party managed to use the the entire war effort. And then there those will turn out to have been right.” with CIA help. ballot access rules to do fatal damage to the New York presidential who were not listened to, such as former UN If Aaronovitch was to stay true to his word, Such is the brutal sectarianism of Iraq’s primary campaigns of two leading contenders — Steve Forbes in 1996 chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who he would now be expressing the greatest mea Shia Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki that and Senator John McCain in 2000. warned in 2002 that “since 1998 Iraq has culpa of the century; instead, he has written some Mosul residents are reported to be flee- These questionable petition-gathering rules are not just designed to been fundamentally disarmed”; or Robin Cook, a column in the Times today [paywall] which ing because they fear an army counterattack; keep challengers off the ballots. They also have real value to incumbents who told a hushed House of Commons as he makes it clear he has no intention of express- other Mosul residents are even welcoming Isis — even beyond their most obvious use. They are a bare-knuckled tactic. resigned that “Iraq probably has no weapons of ing any regret. as a liberation. They force opponents into spending money and time in a fight just to mass destruction in the commonly understood In a way, opponents of the war were wrong. What hope, then, for the future? It is dif- get on the ballot. The signature petitions remain the most obvious place sense of the term.” We were wrong because however disastrous ficult to see how the continuing collapse of for officials to use their power to help friends and punish adversaries. The catastrophic results of the Iraq invasion we thought the consequences of the Iraq war, Iraq can be avoided: the more informed the But they are by no means the only one. are often portrayed as having been impos- the reality has been worse. The US massa- expert, the more despairing they seem to Control of the electoral process — from the rules that govern who sible to predict, and only inevitable with the cres in Fallujah in the immediate aftermath be. There will be those who champion more gets on the ballot to whether one should even be scheduled – must be benefit of hindsight. If only to prevent future of the war, which helped radicalise the Sunni western intervention. But whatever happens, closely watched. History shows that incumbents and their support- calamities from happening, this is a myth that population, culminating in an assault on the this calamity must never be allowed to hap- ers simply can’t be trusted to not try to craft rules that protect them needs to be dispelled. The very fact that the city with white phosphorus. The beheadings, pen again. THE GUARDIAN from electoral threats. REUTERS FRIDAY 13 JUNE 2014 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Iran says it is Turkish protest organisers go on trial ISTANBUL: Twenty-six people went on trial in Istanbul yester- day on charges related to organ- ising anti-government protests last year in a case that rights redesigning activists have described as a scandal. The defendants join an esti- mated 5,500 people on trial in 95 separate prosecutions, includ- Arak reactor ing some on terrorism charges, according to Turkish rights groups, linked to the unrest that Move to reduce plutonium capacity challenged Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decade in power. DUBAI/VIENNA: Iran is news agency late on Wednesday. In the latest court case, five “busy redesigning” a planned The amount of plutonium the of the defendants are accused of research reactor to sharply cut reactor will be able to yield will forming a criminal organisation its potential output of pluto- be reduced to less than 1 kg a year — which they deny — and could nium, a senior Iranian official from 9-10 kg in its original design, face up to 30 years in prison, law- said in comments that seemed to he said. Western experts say 9-10 yers said. address a thorny issue in nego- kg is more than enough for one The indictment cites, among tiations with big powers. nuclear bomb. its primary pieces of evidence, The future of the Arak plant is “We are currently busy rede- messages on social-media web- among several sticking points that signing that reactor to arrange for sites Twitter and Facebook that Iran and six world powers need to that alteration,” Salehi was quoted encouraged people to come to pub- resolve if they are to reach a deal by IRNA as saying. lic protests. by late July on limiting Iran’s con- After discussions with senior “It is an absolutely scandalous troversial nuclear programme in US officials in Geneva earlier prosecution that should have never exchange for an end to sanctions. this week, Iran questioned the been brought to court,” Andrew Supporters of the Taksim Solidarity umbrella group hold flags and signs as they gather in front of the Caglayan The main stumbling block is feasibility of the July deadline for Gardner, Turkey researcher for the permissible scope of Iran’s a permanent accord, intended Amnesty International, said ear- law court yesterday as more than two dozen anti-government protesters went on trial, accused of organising last uranium enrichment. to minimise the risk of a wider lier this week. year’s demonstrations in Istanbul. The West is worried that Arak, Middle East war over Tehran’s “The indictment is completely once operational, could provide a nuclear ambitions. without evidence of a crime, in “We came together as Taksim that political dissent, and some is an atmosphere of intimidation significant supply of plutonium — While an extension is possi- the understanding of international Solidarity to fulfil our duties and observers say the trials of Gezi and creation of a fear psychosis one of two materials, along with ble under the terms of the talks, human rights laws and Turkey’s protect our most basic constitu- activists have a chilling effect on within society,” said Amnesty’s highly enriched uranium, that can experts believe both Iran and the own laws ... The right to peaceful tional rights,” architect Mucella civil society. secretary-general, Salil Shetty. produce a nuclear explosion. powers may face domestic political assembly is being put on trial,” he Yapici, who is accused of leading “There is no question that there REUTERS Iran says the 40-megawatt pressures to toughen their terms told a news conference. the protests, told a packed court- reactor is meant to produce iso- during this extra time period, Most of the defendants are room, denying the charges against topes for cancer and other medi- making a breakthrough harder part of Taksim Solidarity, an ad her. Yapici’s daughter Cansu, 27, is New purge in judiciary, central bank cal treatments. It agreed to halt to achieve. hoc collection of engineers, archi- also on trial. installation work at Arak under The next round of negotiations tects, doctors, business owners and Other defendants in the latest ANKARA: Turkey’s Islamic-rooted government has launched a a six-month interim deal struck will be held in the Austrian capital activists who opposed Erdogan’s trial risk between one- and three- new mass purge in the judiciary in its political fight against an with the powers last November Vienna from June 16 to 20. plans to redevelop Taksim Square, year jail terms for offences such as erstwhile ally, and replaced five executives at the central bank. to buy time for negotiations on a “There is a lot of work to be including razing Gezi Park to build breaking the law on public assem- The country’s top judicial body, the Supreme Board of Judges comprehensive accord. done to reach a comprehensive, a shopping centre, amid a con- bly, according to the indictment. and Prosecutors, on Wednesday published a list of 2,224 judges and After the latest round of talks credible and lasting agreement,” struction boom that has trans- Thousands of other defendants prosecutors who have been reassigned, the latest large-scale shake- in Vienna in May, a diplomat from French Foreign Ministry spokes- formed Istanbul. face charges mainly to do with vio- up in the wake of a corruption scandal embroiling the government. one of the powers said Iran had man Romain Nadal said. He said The small environmental move- lent incidents that occurred dur- Thousands of police and prosecutors have been dismissed or reas- appeared to row back on its previ- talks between French and Iranian ment to save Gezi, one of the few ing the unrest. signed in what critics have blasted as a government bid to stifle a ous readiness to address Western officials in Geneva on Wednesday public green spaces in Europe’s “This trial is the government’s graft probe launched last year that targets Prime Minister Recep fears about the nuclear weapons were “useful”. biggest city, quickly mushroomed effort to discredit the Gezi move- Tayyip Erdogan and his inner circle. potential of Arak. Iran has since Nuclear expert David Albright into nationwide anti-govern- ment ... but the reality is: Taksim Erdogan has blamed the scandal on supporters of his former ally, dismissed one mooted solution as said a key issue was whether Iran ment protests in June 2013, Solidarity awakened public oppo- exiled Islamic cleric Fetullah Gulen, who he accuses of trying to “ridiculous”. would agree to change the Arak with many accusing Erdogan of sition that was dormant since topple him. But the head of Iran’s atomic reactor core to one sized for low- authoritarianism. probably the 1980 (military) coup,” Meanwhile, the central bank has replaced five executives after energy organisation, Ali Akbar enriched uranium fuel. “Then it At least six people died in said Melda Onur, an opposition Erdogan’s strong criticism of the interest rate policies pursued by its Salehi, appeared to return to cannot revert back to a natural clashes with police, and the lawmaker. governor Erdem Basci, local media reported yesterday. a more conciliatory stance in uranium core so easily.” Turkish Medical Association says Erdogan’s critics say the gov- AFP comments to the official IRNA REUTERS 10,000 were seriously hurt. ernment is using courts to quash

Newspaper group Jordan slaps Iraq TV staff stops printing with terror charges Hamas titles AMMAN: Jordanian military urging their immediate release. RAMALLAH: A Palestinian prosecutors accused a group of Al Abasiya, which began broad- newspaper group yesterday journalists of terrorism after casting from Amman four years said that it had stopped print- closing an Amman-based tel- ago, “has been critical of both the ing titles run by Islamist group evision channel critical of Iraqi Maliki administration and Iran’s Hamas after receiving a series Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki, alleged meddling in the region,” it of warnings from the Israeli a judicial official said. added. army. “State security court pros- It was not disclosed what the The Al Ayyam newspaper ecutors charged the owner and station had broadcast that was group, which is based in the West 13 journalists of the Al Abasiya considered to be offensive to Iraq, Bank, has stopped printing and satellite station with using the or dangerous to Jordan. distributing Hamas newspapers Internet to carry out acts that Jordan’s Audiovisual Falastin, Al Resala and Al Istiqlal, would expose Jordanians to acts Commission chief Amjad Qadi has its managing editor Abdel Nasser of aggression,” the official said, said Al Abasiya was broadcasting Al Najjar said. without elaborating. from Amman illegally, without a The decision followed a phone The suspects face up to five licence. call late on Wednesday from the years in prison if convicted of the “Al Abasiya was inciting terror- Israeli army, threatening to close charges, filed under the kingdom’s ism and affecting Jordan and other Al Ayyam’s offices if it did not anti-terrorism laws. countries,” he said. stop publishing the papers, he On Monday, authorities raided RSF said the Iraqi authorities said. the station and arrested Iraqi, had initiated legal action against The army had no immediate Jordanian and Syrian journal- several other Iraqi satellite televi- comment. ists, after Baghdad accused it sion stations for allegedly inciting Israeli soldiers raided Al of “inciting terrorism and sec- violence and sectarianism in their Palestinian protesters hold placards depicting their relatives during a demonstration to show their solidarity with Ayyam’s offices last month and tarian conflicts,” Reporters broadcasts from Jordan. hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, outside the Red Cross building in Jerusalem, yesterday. issued similar threats. Without Borders (RSF) said, AFP Al Ayyam has been printing the three papers since April, when a surprise reconciliation deal between the Hamas rulers of Gaza Petrol shortage irks Libya motorists and its Fatah rivals brought the Live fire killed Palestinian: NGO TRIPOLI: Islamist group’s publications back Angry motorists in Libya’s capital Tripoli queued to JERUSALEM: The post-mor- “They all agree that it was live cameras firing his weapon during to West Bank newsstands. fill up yesterday, some having slept in their cars for nights as tem of a Palestinian teenager ammunition,” she told said. the clashes, but said there was no In April, Hamas and the petrol stations awaited promised supplies from a state oil firm. killed in clashes with the Israeli The conclusion Nuwarah was proof his shot was responsible for Palestine Liberation Organisation “I have been queuing in front of this gas station for two days,” said army in the West Bank showed shot by a live bullet through his killing Nuwarah. — which Fatah dominates — one driver in a long line at a petrol station in central Tripoli. “It is a live round caused his death, chest were “based on the entry The forensic experts were also unveiled a reconciliation deal very depressing. My kids have finished their exams and I want to an NGO said yesterday. and exit wounds in the body, and “able to track the trajectory of under which they formed a go out with them but unfortunately we cannot”. Nadeem Nuwarah, 17, was x-rays that traced (bullet) frag- the bullet (that hit Nuwarah) merged administration for the Libya is in turmoil as the government struggles to control the mili- killed on May 15 during a day of ments in the body,” Michaeli said. and assess the angle from which West Bank and Gaza last week tias who helped oust Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 but now defy state protests and clashes with Israeli “They ruled out any other it was fired,” Michaeli said, but for the first time in seven years. authority and seize oil ports at will. The country has struggled to forces in Beitunia, southwest of cause of death, rubber bullets or was unable to elaborate before the That was seized upon by Israel, keep the 120,000-barrel-a-day Zawiya refinery that supplies western Ramallah in the occupied West anything else.” findings were published officially. which said it would not negotiate Libya running after protesters closed the connecting El Sharara field. Bank. Israel’s army says it used “riot Nuwarah’s family, who said with any Palestinian government State oil firm Brega Petroleum Marketing Company, which is in His body was exhumed for a dispersal” means, a term which they found the bullet that killed backed by Hamas, putting the charge of delivering fuel to petrol stations, said a lack of security at post-mortem examination on includes rubber bullets, and denied him in the backpack he was wear- final nail in the coffin of the lat- some petrol stations made it difficult to deliver supplies. Wednesday, which was carried out using live fire during the day of ing when he died, had handed est round of US-brokered peace “We supplied several petrol stations with a large amount of fuel,” by two Israeli forensic patholo- protests as Palestinians marked the round over for investigation, talks. said Brega spokesman Fathi Al Hasmi. “Also, another tanker with gists, one Palestinian, a Danish the “Nakba”, or catastrophe, of Michaeli said. In a separate crackdown on fuel arrived at Zawiya port, but the security problems remain.” and an American. Israel’s establishment in 1948. Israel’s army did not imme- Palestinian media, Israeli police Ordinary Libyans, some taking turns with relatives to keep their “They (the experts) have a Palestinian leaders accused diately comment on the raided the Jerusalem studios place in queues, are getting increasingly fed up. clear agreement on the cause Israel of Nuwarah’s “deliber- investigation. of Palestine TV on Friday and Waiting motorist Mohamed Abdullah Ajwaid said: “Most of the of death,” said Sarit Michaeli of ate execution” at the time, after Mohammed Udeh, 16, was shot briefly detained three staff for gas stations in Tripoli are closed, and we do not know the reason.” Israeli rights group B’Tselem, CCTV footage appeared to show dead in the same location around questioning. On Wednesday, acting oil minister Omar Shakmak said Libya had which coordinated the post- Nuwarah was shot unprovoked, an hour lated but his family did Israeli public radio said police started diverting cargoes from its two offshore fields used for exports, mortem with NGOs Defence for during a lull in the violence. not consent to a post-mortem, suspected Palestine TV of broad- its last two fields unaffected by the wave of protests at oilfields. Children International, Al Haq Israel suspended a non-combat B’Tselem said. casting “incitements to violence.” REUTERS and Physicians for Human Rights. soldier spotted by CNN television AFP AFP FRIDAY 13 JUNE 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 UK Passport Office orders photograph leak probe 30,000 ‘straightforward’ backlog of applications

LONDON: The Passport Office “This is being viewed as a seri- trips because of this mess. has ordered an inquiry into pho- ous security breach and I have “The hero who took these pho- tographs leaked to the Guardian notified the internal investiga- tos has offered my constituents which showed hundreds of files, tions team accordingly. They will and millions of others hope that full of passport applications, be making a full investigation and this shambles might not continue. stacked in a room usually used if there is clear evidence linking a Instead of wasting resources for meetings. member of HMPO, Steria or our chasing a genuine whistleblower, The move, which could lead contracted staff to the breach, the Passport Office should spend to disciplinary action, has been formal misconduct procedures their time and money getting peo- described as heavy-handed, a waste will be considered,” he wrote. ple their passports,” he said. of money and against the public “Whatever the motives behind Mark Serwotka, the head of interest by MPs and union officials. the leak, there does not appear to the PCS union whose members Photographs, taken in a con- be any recognition of the impact represent staff in Britain’s seven ference room in the Passport this has had on colleagues working Passport Office centres, said the Office centre in Liverpool, were exceptionally hard to manage the move was heavy-handed and published as the agency’s chief unprecedented levels of demand against the public interest. executive, Paul Pugh, was deny- currently being experienced.” “This is a ludicrously over-the- ing there was a backlog of cases. He added that any further top response from the Passport A day after their publication, security breaches could result in Office and will do nothing to Prime Minister David Cameron a blanket ban on mobile phones restore the goodwill that has been admitted for the first time that on the premises. lost in recent days and weeks, there was a problem in the John Mann, Labour MP for as officials and ministers have Passport Office. Theresa May, Bassetlaw, said the person who sought to cover up the extent of the home secretary, launched a took the photographs should be the problems caused by a chronic series of measures to ease the congratulated by the Passport shortage of staff. A leaked photograph showing files containing applications at the Passport Office centre in Liverpool. The orange backlog, which the government Office because their actions had “Arguably if it wasn’t for those boxes show overseas applications while the white boxes show applications from the UK. puts at 30,000 “straightforward” revealed the extent of problems photographs, we wouldn’t have applications. that were being denied. had the debate in the Commons in each box, and that the orange during the peak period last year Insiders said this was the first Andy Bannon, the security liai- “Over the last few weeks I today and there was clearly an boxes were overseas applications and had not been used before for time the room had been used to son officer, sent a letter to staff have had to intervene to get a overwhelming public interest in while the white boxes showed this purpose. store files of applications, forcing on Wednesday saying: “I am sure 90-year-old war veteran a pass- publishing them,” he said. those from the UK. Two other meeting rooms on them to hold meetings in a sta- everyone is now aware of the pho- port so he could get to the D-day The photographs show hun- The room is usually used for the first floor of the building tionery cupboard. A Home Office tographs of the temporary stor- celebrations after the Passport dreds of boxes of orange and white meetings and induction sessions and another second-floor meet- spokesman said the department age facility on the second floor Office failed to process his appli- files stacked on tables. A source and is usually partitioned into ing room were also being used to would not comment on a leaked that were leaked to the press cation. Children in my constitu- close to the Liverpool office said two, the source said. It was not store applications waiting to be document. yesterday. ency have missed their school there were 15 to 20 applications used to store application files processed, said the source. THE GUARDIAN Russia piles pressure US most polarised in decades: Research WASHINGTON: The political of mutual antipathy”. While 16 liberal views do not make up the Such echo-chamber logic is seen on Ukraine leader middle ground is shrinking and percent of consistent Democrats majority of Americans, the most as helping to contribute to the the partisan gulf in Washington saw Republicans as “very unfa- ideologically oriented participate conventional wisdom that there MOSCOW: Russia accused Ukraine’s military dismissed — and the rest of America — vourable” in 1994, that figure has more deeply in every stage of the are fewer competitive districts in Ukraine’s new leader yester- the banned weapon charges as is getting wider, according to risen to 38 percent today, while political process than those in the the House of Representatives. day of failing to follow through “absurd” and accused Russia of extensive findings unveiled yes- consistent Republicans’ similar political centre. The preferences for the types of on his vow to end two months allowing the rebels to send three terday by Pew Research Centre. views of Democrats have soared, It found that in an age of communities in which Americans of separatist bloodshed and Soviet-era T-72 tanks across its Growing ideological uniform- from 17 percent in 1994 to 43 Washington gridlock and height- wish to live offer examples of the demanded a probe into claims border and into the eastern zone ity on both sides is leading an percent today. ened frustration with Congress, deep divide. Three quarters of that his forces used banned of conflict yesterday morning. increasing number of Americans “The overall share of the most politically polarized consistent conservatives say they bombs against civilians. But there was also a hint of to see followers of the other party Americans who express con- Americans are most active in would opt to live in a community Moscow’s latest diplomatic compromise in Moscow’s tone. as a “threat to the nation’s well- sistently conservative or con- political life, “whether primary where “the houses are larger and offensive reflects the vast chal- Lavrov observed that “there is still being,” the report said. sistently liberal opinions has voting, writing letters to officials, farther apart, but schools, stores lenge facing Petro Poroshenko as hope that President Poroshenko’s Dislike of people on the oppo- doubled over the past two dec- volunteering for or donating to a and restaurants are several miles he tries to use the momentum of statement about stopping the vio- site side of the political spectrum ades, from 10 percent to 21 per- campaign”. away,” the study said. Consistent his convincing May 25 presiden- lence will be carried out and nego- has grown, Pew said, with about cent,” Pew said in its 121-page Ideological Americans on both liberals are virtually the opposite, tial election victory to overcome tiations will begin.” one third of far-right and far-left report, “Political Polarisation sides, although more so among with 77 percent preferring smaller Ukraine’s gravest crisis since its And the two sides are due to Americans saying they would be in the American Public,” which Republican conservatives, find it houses closer to amenities. When independence from Moscow in send a joint humanitarian mission unhappy if an immediate family surveyed more than 10,000 increasingly important to live in it comes to compromise, the polit- 1991. into the separatist rust belt today member married someone of a adults nationwide. a place where neighbours share ically polarised are less inclined Poroshenko’s office said he also — a rare example of cooperation different ideological persuasion. And while voters with uni- their political views, or to have than most Americans to accept it. had “substantive and extended” in a conflict that has claimed 270 The study tracks “a rising tide formly conservative or uniformly close friends share such views. AFP talks with Russian President lives and brought Ukraine’s most Vladimir Putin by telephone yes- economically vital region to a terday about ways to stop the fight- standstill. ing convulsing the separatist east. Poroshenko on Sunday made French rail workers strike The talks are the first reported the surprise promise to end the between the two leaders since fighting by the end of the week. UK judges block German Chancellor Angela Merkel His aides and a top Kremlin got them to shake hands on the envoys have since had daily con- bid for first fully sidelines of D-Day commemora- sultations in Kiev that produced tions in Normandy on June 6. what Ukraine said was an ini- secret terror trial The 48-year-old chocolate tial “peace plan” now requiring baron is trying to keep the future Putin’s formal support. LONDON: Britain’s Court of of his splintered and nearly-bank- Poroshenko further hinted on Appeal yesterday blocked an rupt country tied to Europe while Wednesday that he was ready to unprecedented attempt to hold at the same time not provoking meet separatist leaders who had a major terror trial entirely in the Kremlin — already in control laid down their arms. secret, ruling that limited ele- of the Crimea peninsula — into But the militants have shown ments of the proceedings must any more aggressive moves. no sign of abandoning their drive be made public. But Russia indicated that its to have the economically-vital The core of the case against patience with Poroshenko’s prom- eastern industrial belt come two men accused of terrorism ises was wearing thin. “The lack under Kremlin control. offences will still be held behind of any progress whatsoever in Meanwhile there were fresh closed doors, but the charges, efforts to stop the violence and manoeuvres in the third “gas war” part of the judge’s introductory halt military operations... is caus- between the two neighbours in remarks, some of the prosecution ing increasing concern,” Foreign less than a decade, which flared remarks and the verdicts will be Minister Sergei Lavrov said. up when Moscow nearly doubled heard in open court. He pointed to Russian media Kiev’s gas rate in the wake of The decision was made follow- claims of Ukrainian forces using the February ouster of Ukraine’s ing an appeal by media organisa- incendiary bombs — designed to Russian-backed president. tions against a lower court’s ruling set off fires and used widely dur- Ukraine receives half of its gas last month that the entirety of ing the Vietnam War before being supplies from Russia and trans- A protester wearing a gas mask holds a smartphone and gestures during a demonstration by striking employ- the proceedings should be private. banned by the United Nations — ports 15 percent of the fuel con- ees of the French state rail company SNCF near the Transport Ministry in Paris yesterday, the second day of Prosecutors had argued that as “a cause for special concern”. sumed in Europe. AFP a nation-wide strike to protest a government railway reform project. disclosures from the trial — which is due to begin on Monday — could jeopardise national secu- rity, in what would have been the first ever secret criminal trial in Britain. In a written decision, ICC to try Ivory Coast’s Gbagbo for crimes against humanity three Court of Appeal judges said the case was “exceptional”. They accepted that there was a THE HAGUE: The International state brought before the ICC, where he is should be charged. Gbagbo was handed over prosecutors say. The evidence relates to four “significant risk” to the adminis- Criminal Court said yesterday that accused of masterminding a campaign of to the court in November 2011, but a confir- main incidents: the brutal crushing of an tration of justice in an open trial, as it will try Ivory Coast’s ex-president violence during the presidential vote stand- mation of charges hearing in February last opposition march on Ivorian state television prosecutors might be deterred from Laurent Gbagbo for crimes against off in the world’s largest cocoa producing year requested ICC chief prosecutor Fatou in commercial capital Abidjan in December proceeding with the case because of humanity allegedly committed during a country. He maintains that he was evicted Bensouda to provide additional evidence 2010, the putting down of a women’s march the sensitive nature of the evidence. bloody 2010-2011 election standoff. in favour of his rival, current President against him. in Abobo, Abidjan, an attack on a market in The judges said that “the core The pre-trial chamber “confirmed by Alassane Ouattara, thanks to a plot led by The former president is accused of the same neighbourhood and reprisals car- of the trial must be ‘in camera’ majority four charges of crimes against former colonial ruler France. “having engaged his individual criminal ried out by Gbagbo supporters in Yopougon, (behind closed doors)”. But they humanity against Laurent Gbagbo and French and UN forces backed an assault responsibility for committing these crimes, also in Abidjan, between April and May 2011. added: “No departure from the committed him for trial,” the court said in on Gbagbo’s villa in Abidjan after which jointly with members of his inner circle Dissenting judge Christine Van den principle of open justice must be a statement of the much-anticipated deci- Ouattara’s forces detained him and handed and through members of the pro-Gbagbo Wyngaert said however that the evidence greater than necessary.” sion. One of three judges dissented however, him over to the ICC. forces,” the court said. against Gbagbo was “still insufficient”. As well as deciding that some saying there was not “a realistic chance” The charges are for allegedly fomenting The prosecution says Gbagbo master- There was no convincing evidence that parts of the trial must be public, of a conviction. the wave of violence as he refused to hand minded a plan to “stay in power by all means... Gbagbo had an “inner circle” that agreed the judges overturned a ruling that The charges include murder, rape and over to election winner Ouattara after 10 through carefully planned, sustained and to commit crimes against civilians, she said the defendants could not be named. persecution committed during post-election years in power. He has denied the charges deadly attacks” against Ouattara support- noting also that Gbagbo faced an armed Previously known only as AB and violence over three years ago in the west against him. The court had to decide if ers. Between November 28, 2010 and May 8, uprising from rebels, allied with Ouattara, CD, the men can now be identi- African nation that claimed over 3,000 lives. there were “substantial grounds to believe 2011 Gbagbo’s forces killed between 706 and which could justify sending the military fied as Erol Incedal and Mounir Gbagbo, 69, is the first former head of that Gbagbo committed the crimes” and 1,059 people and raped more than 35 women, into civilian areas. AFP Rarmoul-Bouhadjar. AFP FRIDAY 13 JUNE 2014 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES

Yangon, Dhaka Ferry family agree to avoid border clashes YANGON: Myanmar and Bangladeshi authorities yes- boss eludes terday vowed to strengthen border security and combat “illegal armed groups and crim- inals” following clashes on their shared frontier that Dhaka said left one of its soldiers dead. big manhunt The neighbours said they would take measures to avoid a repeat of “untoward” incidents in May, which saw gunfire exchanged Police said Yoo still in the country between both countries’ security forces, the Myanmar Police and SEOUL: South Korea’s big- coast on April 16 on a routine Border Guard Bangladesh said in gest and most bizarre manhunt, journey from Incheon on the a joint statement. linked to a ferry disaster in mainland to the southern holiday The unrest comes amid which hundreds drowned, has island of Jeju. Myanmar assertions that an come full circle at the compound Of the 476 passengers and crew insurgent group claiming links of a sect known for its organic on board, 339 were children and to the Rohingya Muslim minority ice cream as police yesterday teachers from the same school. had started to operate in the area. used earth movers to search for Only 172 people were rescued and Waves of sectarian conflict two tunnels. the remainder are all presumed to Policemen gather at the compound of Yoo Byung-Eun, a leading member of the Evangelical Baptist Church of years ago in Rakhine state, on the Police have raided the grounds have drowned. Myanmar side of the border, left Korea, in Anseong, in the biggest and most bizarre hunt for the Sewol ferry owner yesterday. of the Evangelical Baptist Church The hunt for Yoo, who once the region largely segregated on in Anseong, a two-hour drive held a photographic exhibition religious grounds. south of Seoul, twice as they try at the Louvre in Paris, has sent One said church members United States and his wherea- after they were caught on video Myanmar provided informa- to flush out church cofounder Yoo authorities chasing leads from the would protect Yoo. bouts could not be established. abandoning ship as the children tion about the activities of the Byung-un, 73, South Korea’s most sect compound to remote towns “I don’t know where he is, but “We haven’t received informa- stayed put in their cabins. Rohingya Solidarity Organisation wanted man since the Sewol ferry in southwestern Jeolla province - he won’t turn up until everything tion that they have stowed away Enlisting the military’s help in (RSO) “inside the territory of sank in April killing more than and back again to the compound. is clear about why the ferry sank,” or left for somewhere. We believe the hunt shows just how desper- Bangladesh which are detrimen- 300 people, mostly children from The latest raid began on a man who said he had been a sect we can capture Yoo and his son,” ate the government is to catch tal to peace and stability along the same school. Wednesday and involved 6,000 member for 30 years, said outside Lee Sang-won, commissioner of Yoo and satisfy an outraged pub- the border areas,” according to But, so far, Yoo, a businessman police and investigators. Besides the compound. the Incheon Metropolitan Police lic’s demand for accountability. the statement. and photographer who was once Yoo and one son, prosecutors said “I respect him as a mentor. He Agency, said. “Basically in the south and Bangladesh also affirmed it jailed for fraud, has eluded cap- they were looking for two middle- is our fellow believer and we will Yoo’s daughter, Yoo Som-Na, west, the units based there have “always show zero tolerance on ture in a case which has become aged female sect members known protect him.” has been held in France since been looking out for people ille- the issue of miscreants/illegal an embarrassment for authorities as “mamas” accused of helping Authorities have offered a May 28 after Interpol called for gally entering, especially at night,” armed groups”. already under pressure for their him escape. Dogs roamed the half-million-dollar reward for her arrest “for fraud and embez- Defence Ministry spokesman Kim The US State Department handling of the disaster. compound sniffing for scent from Yoo, the maximum allowed for zlement”. She was denied bail on Min-seok told a news briefing. says the RSO was active on the Yoo is wanted on charges of Yoo’s belongings. an individual in a criminal case, Wednesday. “Related to that, there’s a border in the early 1990s after embezzlement, negligence and Last month, police arrested a and quietly enlisted the military, There have been no charges chance Yoo Byung-un may try to a Myanmar military crackdown tax evasion stemming from a web man on suspicion that he deliv- a sensitive subject in a country against Yoo directly related to the secretly flee, so guard duties are that caused tens of thousands of of business holdings centred on ered organic food grown and where memories remain vivid ferry disaster, although prosecu- focused a little more on people Rohingya to flee into Bangladesh. I-One-I, an investment vehicle marketed by the church to Yoo, of troops mobilised to suppress tors are trying to establish a link being smuggled out.” But experts say it has long been owned by his sons that ran the as well as one of his drivers. democracy movements from the between the financial charges and Yu Chang-seon, an independent viewed as a defunct armed force. shipping company, Chonghaejin Some church members handed 1960s to the 1980s. the sinking. political commentator, said the “They are not a new group,” Marine. out ice cream to police and jour- Police said they believe Yoo Fifteen members of the ferry’s search was excessive, expressing a senior police official said, add- Chonghaejin owned the Sewol nalists on Wednesday. Others and one son are still in the coun- crew are on trial on charges rang- a minority view in a country still ing that the RSO were viewed as which sank off the southwest threatened to fight police. try. Another son is based in the ing from homicide to negligence in mourning. REUTERS “extremists”. AFP

Protest against deal Japan calls China envoy over mid-air near clash

TOKYO: Japan yesterday Suga, of the Wednesday incident. China hits back, insisting “ignored the facts” and “hyped summoned the Chinese ambas- It was the second time in less Japanese pilots had been at fault up this incident and the so-called sador, as the two sides traded than three weeks that Tokyo and that Tokyo was lying to the China threat.” accusations of blame for a near has accused Beijing of playing international community about “(Japan has) deliberately miss involving fighter jets over chicken in the skies near the hotly China’s behaviour. deceived the world. So we can’t the East China Sea, the second contested Japanese-controlled “Japan has hyped the claim that help but wonder what is the true similar incident in less than a Senkaku islands, which China a Chinese fighter flew ‘unusually intention of Japan.” month. also claims and calls the Diaoyus. close’ to a Japanese surveillance The incident occurred as Japan In the latest confrontation in a “It comes after a similar event plane, exaggerating China’s mili- and Australia held the fifth round long-running territorial dispute, which occurred last month,” Suga tary threat,” said on the Chinese of so-called “2+2” talks between Tokyo says two Chinese SU-27 said. “The government will con- defence ministry website. their defence and foreign affairs jets flew just 30 metres away from tinue urging China to prevent an “The Chinese pilot’s opera- chiefs in Tokyo. its aircraft in a spot where the accident and restrain itself.” tion was professional, standard The meeting was in line with two countries’ air defence zones Japan’s vice minister for for- and maintained restraint. The a trend towards strengthening overlap. eign affairs, Akitaka Saiki, called Japanese pilot’s practice was dan- and political alliances in the Asia- “It was an action that was the Chinese ambassador to Japan, gerous, and obviously provocative Pacific, as countries look with extremely regrettable, and which Cheng Yonghua, to the ministry, in nature,” alarm at China’s willingness to cannot be tolerated,” said top gov- where he said similar manoeuvres Foreign ministry spokeswoman forcefully push its claims in ter- Demonstrators attend a rally to protest against Enhanced Defence ernment spokesman Yoshihide “could lead to a real accident.” Hua Chunying said Japan has ritorial disputes. AFP Cooperation Agreement that has strengthened defence ties between the Philippines and the US, outside the US embassy in Manila yesterday. Tallest vertical garden Hostages freed North Korea rejects talks after four years on South missionary’s fate in captivity SEOUL: North Korea yes- ministry said in a statement. DHAKA: Seven Bangladeshi terday rejected Seoul’s call for The North has ignored Seoul’s sailors, held hostage by Somali talks on the fate of a South repeated calls to free the mis- pirates for almost four years, Korean missionary sentenced sionary, and sentenced him to finally returned home yester- to hard labour for life for alleg- hard labour for life on charges day, saying it was “unbelievable” edly spying and operating an of espionage, running an under- to be alive. underground church. ground church and being involved The sailors, who had been held South Korea proposed Tuesday in “anti-state propaganda and in dire conditions and suffered that the two sides should meet agitation.” beatings, flew into the Bangladeshi at the border truce village of Fellow activists and missionar- capital after the foreign ministry Panmunjom for discussion on Kim ies said Kim had been providing said they were freed last week Jeong-Wook, who was captured in shelter and food to North Korean after lengthy negotiations. the North last October. refugees living in China’s north- “It’s unbelievable that I am still In a reply two days later, the eastern border city of Dandong. alive and free. I want to see my North insisted that Kim’s fate They said Kim had crossed the family,” Abul Kashem, 46, one of should not be the object of debate border to establish the wherea- sailors, said at Dhaka airport. because he broke the country’s law bouts of some North Korean “Every day in captivity was like and was punished in accordance refugees arrested in Dandong by A view of Tree House Condominium, a 24-storey tower that houses the tallest vertical garden in the world, in hell. We were not given proper with it, the South’s unification Chinese authorities. AFP food. They used to torture us on Singapore yesterday. The 2,289 square metres garden that fronts the condominium built by City Developments almost every day for ransom,” Limited has entered Guinness World Record. Kashem said. Although Bangladesh said they were freed, other officials have said they were among 11 sailors Nations must cooperate, not impose views on others: Aquino mostly from Asia who escaped last week and were taken to safety in Kenya. MANILA: As the country approach to governance is balance must be struck to avoid inequality, injustice, and conflict, have no chance at all,” he said. The group “sneaked out a win- remains locked in a territorial doomed to fail; any responsible interfering in others’ affairs. This and thus foster lasting progress, Aquino recently accused China dow” of their pirate prison to dispute with China, President country knows that it must also can be achieved by rendering gen- peace, and stability in an environ- of violating an informal code of escape their captors, before being Benigno Aquino III yesterday work alongside its brother nations uine and meaningful assistance, ment that truly upholds the rule conduct in the disputed waters rescued by local security forces, called for unity among nations to address the world’s problems,” rather than by imposing our own of law,” Aquino added. with the reported reclamation a British mediator who helped to solve global issues. Aquino said in his toast. views and policies on others—this The President told the foreign activities of the Asian giant on secure their freedom said last Speaking at the 2014 The President added that while can be achieved through sincere diplomats that the Philippines some of the contested territories. week. Independence Day Vin D’Honneur, nations are beset with their own cooperation,” Aquino said. and their respective nations The Philippines has urged Their boat, the Malaysian- Aquino said that being a sov- internal problems, they should “Indeed: the world is united should maximize cooperation and China to be a responsible nation flagged-ship MV Albedo, was ereign nation also means being also consider the problems of the by more than just the inter-con- avenues for dialogue. by upholding the rule of law and hijacked in November 2010 by part of the larger international global community. nectivity afforded by technology; “Together, we have the best join the arbitration proceedings in Somali pirates in the Indian Oce community. “None of us can realize our we are united by a commonal- chance of eliminating our com- an international tribunal. an. AFP “A solely inward-looking goals in isolation. As such, a fine ity of purpose: how to overcome mon problems. Divided, we may THE PHILIPPINE STAR FRIDAY 13 JUNE 2014 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 10 die as drones raid Taliban hideouts ‘Express approval’ to US after Karachi airport attack

ISLAMABAD/ too many civilians and violate its a full-scale military operation MIRANSHAH: US drones sovereignty, although in private in North Waziristan, a scenario fired missiles at Taliban hideouts officials have admitted the gov- Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has in Pakistan killing at least 10 ernment supports them. resisted for months in favour of a militants in response to a deadly “The attacks were launched negotiated end to the insurgency. attack on Karachi airport, offi- with the express approval of the But talks with the Taliban have cials said yesterday, in the first Pakistan government and army,” collapsed many times since Sharif such raids by unmanned CIA said a top government official, announced his plan in February aircraft in six months. requesting not to be named as he and set up a committee of nego- Two top government officials was not authorised to discuss the tiators, mainly over Taliban said Islamabad had given the issue with the media. demands that the government Americans “express approval” “It is now policy that the withdraw all troops from tribal for the strikes - the first time Americans will not use drones areas and impose Shariah law. Pakistan has admitted to without permission from the The Pakistani Taliban are allied such cooperation. Underlining security establishment here. with the Afghan militants of the Pakistan’s alarm over the brazen There will be complete coordina- same name and share a similar Taliban attack on the airport, tion and Pakistan will be in the jihadist ideology. just weeks after peace talks with loop. “We understand that drones But they operate as a sepa- the Islamist militants stalled, the will be an important part of our rate entity, focused entirely on officials said a “joint Pakistan-US fight against the Taliban now,” the toppling the Pakistani state and operation” had been ordered to official added. The strikes were establishing strict Islamic rule, hit the insurgents. the first in the nuclear-armed whereas the Afghan Taliban are Another official said Pakistan South Asian nation since an united by their campaign against had asked the United States for attack in December last year in invading foreign forces. help after the attack on the coun- which three suspected militants The government condemned try’s busiest airport on Sunday, were killed. The CIA conducts the latest strikes and said such and would be intensifying air covert drone operations against attacks “have a negative impact on strikes on militant hideouts in terrorism suspects. the government’s efforts to bring coming days. Pakistan opposes Speculation has been rising peace and stability in Pakistan Pakistani demonstrators burning the US flag during a protest against drone strikes, in Multan yesterday. US drone strikes, saying they kill that Pakistan is preparing for and the region”. REUTERS Pro-govt elder, son Court lifts travel ban on Musharraf KARACHI: A Pakistani court between the country’s powerful leave the country, saying it is a trying to extend his tenure. killed in NW Pakistan yesterday ordered the govern- generals and the government of decision for the courts. Musharraf Musharraf, who seized power KHAR: Gunmen shot dead a elder Malik Juma Gul and his son, ment to lift a travel ban on Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, as deposed Sharif in a coup in 1999, in 1999 and resigned in 2008, pro-government tribal elder and killing them both on the spot,” former military ruler Pervez well Pakistan’s increasingly asser- and memories of that are still pleaded not guilty to five counts his son in a restive Pakistani senior local administration offi- Musharraf, his lawyer said, tive judges. fresh in Sharif’s team. of treason in April. The ex-gen- region near the Afghan border, cial Abdul Haseeb Khan said. No paving the way for him to leave “The travel ban on Pervez Musharraf’s lawyers say the eral is also on bail in three other officials said yesterday. group claimed responsibility, but the country in 15 days’ time. Musharraf has been struck down former ruler wants to travel major cases, including the 2007 The incident took place in the Taliban militants have carried out Musharraf, who has faced a by the Sindh High Court,” lawyer abroad for treatment, and to visit assassination of prime minister area of Kitkoot, 32 kilometres such attacks in the past. battery of court cases, including a Farough Naseem said. “But the his ailing mother in Dubai. Benazir Bhutto and the murder of northwest of Khar, the capital of The incident came hours after charge of treason, since returning order will be effective after 15 But many believe it is a ruse to a Baluch nationalist leader Nawab Bajaur tribal region. gunmen ambushed a car of local to Pakistan from exile last year, days, during which time the gov- flee the country and avoid pun- Akbar Bugti in 2006. “Up to five gunmen entered a pro-government fighters in Kooza has been waiting since April for ernment can appeal this decision ishment if convicted of charges The progression of the cases so mosque after evening prayers on Bandi village in the northwest- a decision to lift the travel ban. in a higher court,” he added. over his suspension of the consti- far is a victory for the increas- Wednesday and opened fire on ern Swat Valley, and killed three His departure from Pakistan Sharif’s government has so far tution and imposition of emer- ingly independent judiciary. the local pro-government tribal people. AFP would remove a source of friction resisted allowing Musharraf to gency rule in 2007, when he was REUTERS Pakistan raises Afghans to vote in run-off $387m in United election as US troops exit Bank stake sale KARACHI: Pakistan has sold KABUL: Afghans head to the election process, which began with its 19.8 percent stake in one of polls Saturday for a second- campaigning in early February the country’s largest banks for round election to choose a suc- and will end when the final result $387m, officials said yesterday. cessor to President Hamid is announced on July 22. The government decided to sell Karzai, with the threat of “There is concern that the its shares after receiving a high Taliban attacks and fraud enemy who failed in the first level of interest in United Bank looming over the country’s first round will seek revenge, but Limited (UBL), which became a democratic transfer of power. we can assure you they will fail private entity in 2002, a govern- The vote pits former foreign again,” General Afzal Aman, head ment statement said. minister Abdullah Abdullah of Afghan army operations said. “There was an unprecedented against ex-World Bank econo- “We have been conducting interest from both the domestic as mist Ashraf Ghani in a head-to- missions all over Afghanistan for well as foreign buyers and the UBL head contest to lead Afghanistan election security for the past two deal was oversubscribed by almost as US-led troops withdraw after months.” two times,” the statement said. 13 years of fighting Taliban Ahead of the vote, the Taliban Foreign buyers including insurgents. issued a warning to voters, say- Morgan Stanley, Wellington and April’s first-round vote was ing that polling booths would be Templeton and other interna- hailed a success as turnout topped targeted by “non-stop” assaults. tional equity funds bought more 50 percent and Islamist militants “By holding elections, the than 80 percent of the stake, failed to launch any high-profile Americans want to impose their Mohammad Zubair, Pakistan’s attacks on polling day. stooges on the people,” the insur- privatisation minister said. But Saturday presents another gents said on their website. AFP major challenge in the prolonged AFP

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An Afghan National Army soldier keeps watch at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Jalalabad City yesterday. Military troops are on guard as the second round of presidential poll takes place tomorrow. FRIDAY 13 JUNE 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Plan to raise Narmada dam’s height cleared after 8 years Modi begins

GANDHINAGAR: In a sig- of deficient or sparse rainfall, officials of the central and state the decision or necessity of the without increasing the height and Bhutan visit nificant decision, the Narmada though Narmada Bachao Andolan governments and all the con- decision. are not able to use even 20 per- Control Authority (NCA) has (NBA) led by social activist cerned ministers (including “The Sardar Sarovar Dam at its cent of the water already available on Sunday cleared an eight-year-old proposal Medha Patkar and the South Water Resources Minister Uma present height itself has two lakh at the present height. to raise the height of the Sardar Asia Network on Dams, Rivers Bharti, Environment Minister people in its affected region. So if “This is clearly unnecessary, NEW DELHI/THIMPHU: Sarovar Dam by 17 metres, and People (SANDRP) bitterly Prakash Javadekar, Social Justice the height is raised by installing 17 unjust and unwarranted decision Prime Minister Narendra Chief Minister Anandiben Patel criticised the move. Minister Thaawar Chand Gehlot, metre high gates, the densely popu- that is not likely to have even a Modi embarks on a two- announced yesterday. The NCA permission will Maharashtra Chief Minister lated villages in Nimad (Madhya legal sanction. The only additional day visit on Sunday to the “The NCA has granted approval allow the dam height to be raised Prithviraj Chavan in addition to Pradesh) with houses, farms, benefit that the height increase can Himalayan kingdom of to raise the dam height to 138 from the present 121.92 metres Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh shops, religious places, and stand- provide is about 10-20 percent addi- Bhutan, his first destination metres,” Patel said at a function to 138.72 metres and the work is chief ministers) have toed the ing crops will face a watery grave,” tional power generation in which abroad after assuming office. in Junagadh, even as anti-dam expected to be taken up after the line dictated by Prime Minister said Patkar in Mumbai. Gujarat’s share is only 16 percent, The visit is a signal that the activists protested the move. monsoon. The decision comes just Modi and the Gujarat government “It is an absolutely obnoxious while 57 percent goes to Madhya neighbourhood is a foreign “Heartfelt gratitude from a few days after Prime Minister in this regard, within two weeks contrast that the new govern- Pradesh and the rest 27 goes to policy priority of the new gov- the people of Gujarat to Hon Narendra Modi took office. of new government taking over,” ment (headed by Modi) has not Maharashtra,” Thakkar said. ernment. Modi will hold talks PM Narendra Modi. The deci- However, the NBA and SANDRP said SANDRP’s spokesperson given us any hearing, nor has SANDRP said that if Gujarat with his Bhutanese counter- sion pending has come so swiftly. have questioned the decision which Himanshu Thakkar. it taken any time, or made any had built the necessary canals part, Tshering Tobgay, and Achchhe din aa gaye hain!!” she they claim could lead to submer- He said that no additional attempt to know the ground real- and water distributions in Kutch, also call on the Bhutanese confirmed on Twitter, before leav- gence of thousands of hectares of rehabilitation could have been ity, before deciding to go forward Saurashtra and north Gujarat, royal family. He is also likely ing to Kevadia for a visit to the land, displacement of lakhs of trib- accomplished in these two weeks, with SSP dam construction to its Narmada River waters would to address the Bhutanese Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) site. als and farmers in three states — which seems to indicate that a final height,” Patkar added. have reached these regions even parliament. Modi is expected The decision will come as a Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya political decision has been taken SANDRP claimed that Gujarat eight years ago, without increas- to hold talks on key bilateral boon to Gujarat, which regu- Pradesh. without considering the ground and Rajasthan can get their share ing the dam height as permitted and regional issues with the larly faces water crises because “It is shocking that all the realities, merits or justification of of water from the Narmada River by NCA yesterday. IANS Bhutanese leadership. Rohatgi named World Day Against Child Labour Attorney General

NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government yesterday Alarming rise appointed senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi as the new Attorney General of India. Rohatgi, who appeared for the Gujarat government in several 2002 post-Godhra riot-related in abuse of cases, will serve as attorney general of India for a period of three years, a statement said. He succeeds G E Vahanvati who resigned following the women in UP rout of the Congress-led UPA in the 2014 general election. As the country’s first law officer, Heat on CM to keep law and order the attorney general is the only non-member of parlia- LUCKNOW: Police said yester- state-run National Commission ment who can come to parlia- day that they were investigating for Women, urged Yadav to resign, ment to give his opinion when a spate of rapes and hangings calling his government’s failure to it is sought. The official also in a troubled northern region, protect women “shameful”. advises the government on as the national women’s rights But Yadav, speaking on a visit to the legal issues surfacing from body called for the state govern- New Delhi, insisted that the situa- time to time in discharge of its ment to resign over the crisis. tion was no worse than elsewhere legal and constitutional obli- India has been trying to restore in the country. “Law and order is Rescued child labourers take part in a procession on the occasion of World Day Against Child Labour in Siliguri gations. According to the con- its battered reputation for vio- an important issue for any state. yesterday. Some 28 million Indian children are engaged in some form of labour, according to a Unicef estimate. stitution, the attorney general lence against women, but pub- The government is working to The 2009 Indian Right to Education Act mandates free and compulsory schooling for those aged 6 to 14, will be a person who is quali- lic outrage was reignited by the maintain law and order,” he said. fied to be appointed as an apex but an outright ban on child labour, proposed by the government in 2012, is yet to be passed by parliament. deaths last month of two girls, In southwest Uttar Pradesh, court judge. aged 12 and 14, who were gang- the woman who alleged she was raped and lynched in their impov- raped by four officers at a police 1,122 candidates erished village in Uttar Pradesh. station said the attack occurred On Wednesday, a woman said as she was trying to seek her hus- clear UPSC exams she had been gang-raped by four band’s release. The woman filed a NEW DELHI: The Union officers at a police station in the complaint against the sub-inspec- Anger rises as country swelters Public Service Commission state, and police said they were tor and three other officers, alleg- (UPSC) yesterday declared also investigating the death of a ing she was attacked in Hamirpur the final results of the 2013 19-year-old found, like the two district when she refused to pay civil services examination that girls, hanging from a tree. them a bribe, police said. under record heatwave 1,122 candidates have cleared. “The body was strung up using Although police said they were Of the 1,122, 861 are males and the girl’s dupatta (long scarf),” sen- investigating, they cast doubt on NEW DELHI: Swathes of Residents staged sit-in protests grid, causing blackouts. Seventy- 261 females. Among the candi- ior police superintendent Ashutosh her allegations. District Inspector north India are sweltering outside electricity substations in nine unidentified bodies were dis- dates, 30 are physically chal- Kumar said, adding the incident General Amitabh Yash also said under the longest heatwave on the state of Uttar Pradesh late covered in Delhi in the last four lenged. Gaurav Agarwal from occurred in a village in Moradabad a report of her medical examina- record, triggering widespread on Wednesday, days after protest- days, said the Centre of Holistic Jaipur in Rajasthan topped district. “The FIR (first informa- tion showed the woman suffered breakdowns in the supply of ers had set substations on fire and Development, a group working to the examination in his second tion report) was lodged by the girl’s no injuries, the PTI reported. electricity and increasingly taken power officials hostage after end homelessness. Founder Sunil attempt. The candidates who brother against unidentified per- Prime Minister Narendra Modi angry protests over the govern- weeks of daily blackouts. Kumar Aledia attributed the high have cleared have been rec- sons. He has alleged the girl was on Wednesday urged all politi- ment’s failure to provide people “God alone can provide any number of deaths to the extreme ommended for appointment murdered,” Kumar said. cians to work together to protect with basic services. relief from the prevailing power weather. to the Indian Administrative Her husband said she was women, in his first comments on The power crisis and heat wave, crisis,” said A P Misra, direc- India has long-suffered deadly Service (IAS), Indian Foreign singled out for attack as she the issue since the hanging of the which some activists say has tor of Uttar Pradesh Power heatwaves. Periods of extreme tem- Service (IFS), Indian Police returned home in Bahraich dis- girls sparked public outrage. caused dozens of deaths, is one Corporation. Having drawn on peratures have led to thousands Service (IPS) and other cen- trict as punishment for trying to Modi warned politicians against of the first major challenges for all available supplies, Misra said of deaths since the 1990s, largely tral services against 1,228 halt the sale of alcohol in her area. “politicising rape”, saying they Prime Minister Narendra Modi, power would only return once in rural areas where basic infra- reported vacancies. The sec- “My wife used to fight against the were “playing with the dignity of who was elected three weeks ago rain arrived and demand fell. structure is poor. R K Jenamani, ond ranker is Munish Sharma, local liquor mafia. They created a women” in his first speech to par- partly on promises to provide reli- For L D Chopra, a 76-year old director of the meteorological office who graduated with a B.Sc. ruckus here every other day and liament since sweeping to power able electricity supplies. asthmatic in Delhi, the power in Delhi, said his research did not degree from Delhi University’s attacked you if you said anything at last month’s national elections. In Delhi, where temperatures cuts almost mean the difference point to any long-term trend of ris- Sri Venkateswara College. Of to them,” her husband told NDTV. The appeal came ahead of a have hit 45 Celsius for six days between life and death. ing temperatures. the top 25 candidates, 15 are “We have detained four of the scheduled meeting between chief straight, residents marched Chopra was taken to hospital on But a combination of urbani- males and 10 females. A total five men accused and are inter- minister Yadav and Modi in Delhi. through the streets in protests May 31 after falling unconscious sation, extensive use of concrete of 7,76,565 candidates applied rogating them,” district superin- Uttar Pradesh, with a popu- organised by opposition parties when a machine he depends on and more cars did appear to be for the examination, of which tendent Happy Guptan said. lation of some 200 million, has yesterday. In the north of the for oxygen support switched off changing microclimates within 3,23,949 appeared for the pre- The case is the latest in a series a history of communal clashes city, people enraged by night-long in the outages, he said. and near cities, exacerbating the liminary examination while of attacks in Uttar Pradesh whose and violence. The state recorded outages clashed with police and Like Chopra’s home in the east impact of heat waves, he said. 14,959 qualified for the main chief minister Akhilesh Yadav is 23,569 crimes against women in torched a bus, media reported. of the city, much of Delhi has been Temperatures were rising examination that was held in under mounting political pressure 2012, the third highest in the Delhi is suffering staggered without power for 10 hours per faster earlier in the day and stay- December, 2013. Based on the to resign over his handling of law country, according to the National cuts as power companies ration day in the last week, after a jump ing higher for longer in congested performance in the mains, and order. Crime Records Bureau. spikes in demand as people crank in demand and damage from a built-up areas, he said. 3,003 candidates were short- Mamata Sharma, head of the AFP up air coolers to fight the heat. thunderstorm overwhelmed the REUTERS listed for the personality test which was conducted during April-June. Yadav elected to Outages in Kerala could play RS from Bihar

PATNA: Ruling JD-U’s presi- spoilsport for football fans dent Sharad Yadav was yes- terday elected unopposed to THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: power supply is available. the Rajya Sabha from Bihar, Power outages due to shortfall The issue surfaced in the an official said. “Yadav has in allocation of power, main- Kerala assembly Thursday when been declared elected after the tenance work and inadequate Pradeep Kumar of the CPI-M deadline for the withdrawal of rainfall, are likely to disappoint asked if state Power Minister nomination papers ended at football buffs in Kerala as they Aryadan Mohammed could help 3pm yesterday in the absence will miss the FIFA World Cup lift load shedding from 9.30pm of any other candidate. There matches that start at 9.30pm. onwards. will be no formal election,” the According to the scheduled load Mohammed said it would be official said. Sharad Yadav lost shedding, power cuts of a duration difficult to lift the load shedding the Lok Sabha election from of 45 minutes to one hour daily take as the state is currently facing Madhepura constituency in place between 6.30pm and 11.15pm serious power shortage. “He said Bihar last month. To ensure his in different parts of the state. that if the rains improved, then presence in parliament so that In all, 24 matches of the FIFA maybe, it (the load shedding) can he can play an active role in World Cup are being played at be lifted,” Kumar said. the national politics, the Janata 9.30pm (Indian time), which “But if the power supply from the Dal-United (JD-U) decided to includes two quarter final central pool is not consistent, it may send him to the Rajya Sabha, a matches. Given the load shedding not be possible to lift load shedding party leader said. schedule, many may not be able to at peak times,” Kumar added. IANS A water vendor walks past posters of Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Brazil’s Neymar in Kolkata yesterday. watch the matches unless back up IANS FRIDAY 13 JUNE 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

OFID’s development plan will be ready next year Qatar hosts 35th OFID ministerial meeting

DOHA: H E Ali Shareef Al participate in the sessions of the The Minister said that markets Emadi, the Minister of Finance, Ministerial Council, which meets of the emerging economies are yesterday announced that the annually. The council reviewed expected to achieve better growth Opec Fund for International accounts, and the annual report of of 5.3 percent in 2015 against five Development (OFID) will the Fund’s president on the past percent in 2014, which is antici- present its new development performance and future plans, as pated to accelerate global trade, plan for the next 10 years to the well as the new fiscal year. especially between developed and Ministerial Council next year. The ministers after the open- developing countries. This was announced during ing session met closed doors to Citing International Monetary the Minister’s opening address approve the budget of the Fund Fund’s global growth forecast at the OFID’s 35th Session of the and discussed its operations, he said that the world economy Ministerial Council and 147th including the grants provided will continue to witness positive Session of the Governing Board over the last year. growth from 3.6 percent in the which concluded here yesterday. The Fund is involved in vari- current year to 3.9 percent in He said that OFID’s current ous developmental activities such 2015. development strategy will end as providing funds, scholarships Speaking about the Sub- by 2015, and a comprehensive and awards to non-governmental Saharan Africa region, he said plan determining the goals and organisations from around the that as a result of investments priorities for international devel- world, with special focus to the in natural resources the region opment will be presented to the Sub-Saharan African countries. is witnessing exponential growth Ministerial Council next year This year’s $100,000 award but more needs to be done to Officials at the opening of the OFID’s 35th Session of the Ministerial Council in Doha yesterday. which will ensure the continua- was jointly shared by Kenyan achieve sustainable development. tion of its role for next decade. Centre for Education (KCE) and He noted that providing poor strengthening the education and adopted by the public sector of the private sector to promote Finance Ministers of Opec ASHESI University in Ghana households an access to energy, health services. and supported by development economic march as the budget member countries, and their sen- which was founded in 2002 by health and education services He stressed that all of these banks, including Ovid, pointing of these countries will not be ior representatives arrived here to Patrick Awuah, Jr. is essential, but that requires goals need to be large projects to the need for the intervention enough. THE PENINSULA QE index Opec facing dark clouds on supply horizon dips 1.91pc VIENNA: Opec faces a period risks amid ongoing supply jitters day, from a potential 1.5 million violence in Opec member Iraq. concerning with Mosul taken of static oil prices as traders in the Middle East and North bpd. “There is little risk that The nation’s provincial cities of over by ISIL,” added Schieldrop. track supply-side uncertain- Africa region,” VTB Capital ana- Opec will lose control of the oil Tikrit and Mosul have fallen to “Increasing terror attacks in last week ties surrounding Iraq, Iran and lyst Andrey Kryuchenkov said. price to the downside the next six militants from jihadist group Iraq’s southern (city of) Basra Libya, as well as Ukraine, ana- “Sustained gains are hard to months,” said SEB analyst Bjarne the Islamic State of Iraq and the would probably drive oil higher.” DOHA: Qatar Exchange (QE) lysts said yesterday. justify past $110, with the glo- Schieldrop. Levant (ISIL). Elsewhere, traders remain index lost 253.20 points, or The oil exporters’ cartel opted bal supply growth still outpacing “That Opec does not change its Iraq’s Oil Minister Abdelkarim unsure how developments will 1.91 percent, last week when this week to maintain its crude demand at this point given a fairly overall target or ceiling does not Al Luaybi played down the impact, pan out in Ukraine. it closed trading at 12,978.86 output ceiling, expressing confi- weak European demand and an mean that Opec is not actively telling reporters in Vienna that Investors fear a full-blown points yesterday. dence in the market despite global economic growth moderation in managing the market. Saudi most of the nation’s crude pro- conflict because the ex-Soviet The trading value during the tensions keeping prices high. China” he added. Arabia is constantly managing duction was in the south. state is a conduit for a quarter week decreased by 44.55 percent Opec, which will convene again Some cartel members are its supply level to balance the “We haven’t any production of European gas imports from to QR4.04bn compared to the pre- in late November to assess the meanwhile pumping more crude market.” from the region. All our pro- Russia. vious week’s QR7.2bn. The trad- state of the market, remains to compensate for supply short- The cartel’s 12 member nations duction is from the south area, “Flows of gas and oil have come ing volume of decreased by 38.91 happy with Brent oil prices hov- falls in Iran, Iraq and particularly left their collective oil production and from Kirkuk,” Luaybi said under scrutiny since the begin- percent to 99.97 million shares as ering close to $110, benefitting Libya — which remains plagued ceiling at 30 million barrels per Wednesday. ning of March, and any significant against 163 million. The number producers. “Long term we remain by unrest. Libya has been rocked day on Wednesday. But spreading unrest in the drop in oil flows from Russia into of transactions fell by 25.36 per- rangebound, $100 to $110 per bar- by violence that has slashed the World oil prices meanwhile south could spark an oil price Europe will push prices higher,” cent to reach 46,458 transactions rel, which suits most Opec mem- North African nation’s output advanced above $110 as trad- spike, analysts argue. said Inenco analyst Gary Hornby. from 62,244 transactions. bers, and with persistent upside to less than 200,000 barrels per ers seized on a fresh outbreak of “The situation in Iraq is AFP The market capitalisation fell by 1.85 percent to QR705bn from QR718bn at the end of previous week. Toy trade show in Tokyo Banks and financial services sector led traded value week with 42.72 percent of the total traded Jordan mulls first value. Industries sector accounted for 17.22 percent. Real estate sec- tor accounted for 16.10 percent and consumer goods and services sukuk offering sector accounted 9.32 percent. Banks and financial services AMMAN/SYDNEY: Jordan’s purpose vehicles, and specify sector led traded volume during government is studying a pro- the structures that can be used. the last week with 34.08 per- posal to issue its first Islamic These include ijara, mudaraba and cent of the total traded volume. bond but pressure to cut public musharaka — all common Islamic Real estate accounted for 23.85 debt and a preference for con- finance formats. percent. cessionary loans from aid donor A second source from the The consumer goods and countries could hinder the plan. finance ministry said a Jordanian Services accounted for 15.13 A sukuk programme may sovereign sukuk could raise over percent and telecoms sector start as early as next year, two $1bn, and that it might be issued accounted for 12.31 percent. government officials with direct in multiple currencies and sold to Banks and financial services knowledge of the discussions said, retail investors. However, a gov- sector led traded number of declining to be named as the mat- ernment preference to use soft transactions with 36.44 percent of ter is not yet public. loans from aid donor countries, the total number of transactions. A committee including the which carry more favourable Industrials sector accounted for finance ministry and the central terms, may present an obstacle to 20.37 percent. Real estate sector bank is looking at a proposal for a the plan, the source added. and consumer goods and services recurring issuance programme, said Last month, the central bank accounted for 16.94 percent and one source, adding that details such said it would issue $1bn in con- 11.25 percent respectively. as the size, tenor and frequency of ventional sovereign bonds backed Of the 43 listed companies, A Toyota Motor Corp’s Ractis vehicle (right) designed on Pokemon series character and a Pikachu- issuance had yet to be determined. by the United States in July. The 14 ended higher, 28 fell and one designed Porte vehicle on display at the International Tokyo Toy Show 2014 in Tokyo yesterday. The “The government plans to start US backing is expected to allow remained unchanged. trade show is open for public June 14 and June 15. issuing sukuk from next year. All Jordan to secure very cheap pric- Masraf Al Rayan topped the these aspects for the sukuk are in ing on the bonds; it is not clear traded value during the week the process of discussion now.” that the government would be with 20.14 percent of the total Jordan passed a long-awaited willing to increase its costs by issu- traded value. law at the end of 2012 allowing the ing sukuk without such backing. Yesterday, the bourse edged Intel loses case against EU fine government to raise funds through If a recurring sukuk programme up marginally by adding 66.05 sukuk, but no issue has materi- does go ahead in Jordan, it could points or 0.51 percent to close at alised since then, even though the give a boost to the banking system 12,978.86 points. LUXEMBOURG: US chip- buying most of their computer implemented a long term compre- state is increasingly using inter- by providing a tool for Jordan’s The volume of the shares maker Intel lost yesterday chips from Intel. hensive strategy to foreclose AMD national bonds to help cover its four Islamic banks to manage their traded fell to 12.7 million from 14 its challenge against a record The EU competition authority from the strategically most impor- budget deficit. surplus funds. The central bank million and the value of shares €1.06bn European Union fine said Intel also paid German retail tant sales channels,” the court said Although the country has an estimated last year that the four decreased to QR610 m from handed down five years ago, as chain Media Saturn Holding to in a near 300-page decision. established Islamic banking sector, banks accounted for 17 percent of QR659m. Europe’s second highest court stock only computers with its Judges said the EU watchdog had sukuk have been slow to appear the total surplus reserves in the Among the top gainers were said regulators did not act too chips. Judges at the Luxembourg- not been heavy-handed with the because of legal limitations on kingdom’s banking sector. Gulf International which was up harshly. based General Court said yester- level of the fine, equal to 4.15 per- the transfer of assets required to The banks include Jordan 3.19 percent to QR93.70, Qatar The European Commission in day they backed the Commission’s cent of Intel’s 2008 turnover, versus underpin such transactions. Islamic Bank, Jordan Dubai Islamic Navigation gained 1.52 percent to its 2009 decision said Intel tried decision. “The Commission dem- a possible maximum of 10 percent. In April this year, lawmak- Bank and Islamic International QR93.80, Masraf Al Rayan added to thwart rival Advanced Micro onstrated to the requisite legal While Commission penalties rarely ers appeared to clear away that Arab Bank; they held combined 3.77 percent to QR44.00 and Doha Devices (AMD) by giving rebates standard that Intel attempted hit the top figure, the rising level of obstacle by enacting two by-laws assets of $6.6bn at the end of 2012, Insurance was up by 1.20 percent to PC makers Dell, Hewlett- to conceal the anti-competi- fines is a source of worry for many that allow sukuk to be issued with- according to the company data. to QR25.40. THE PENINSULA Packard Co, NEC and Lenovo for tive nature of its practices and companies. REUTERS out a transfer of assets to special REUTERS FRIDAY 13 JUNE 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Egypt’s gas Narayana Murthy logs out of Infosys production SAP veteran Vishal Sikka takes charge as new chief to rise by MUMBAI: Indian outsourc- left the company last month. as Tata Consultancy Services and ing giant Infosys announced a At a press conference yes- HCL and the recent staff depar- new Chief Executive yesterday terday, Murthy laid out various tures had only further tainted and said its co-founder N R changes at the top management its image. “I believe there were December Narayana Murthy would step level, including the dissolution of many reasons for the depar- down as executive chairman his own office after he steps down. tures, including Murthy’s focus CAIRO: Egypt’s oil minister after a string of high-profile “Vishal will have the opportunity on weeding out non-performers said that natural gas production departures. to chart out his own path while and adjusting responsibilities of would increase by 500 million Vishal Sikka, previously with leading the company,” he said. others,” Ashish Chopra, an IT cubic feet daily by December, German software giant SAP, will Sikka himself said he was hon- analyst with brokerage Motilal when several gas fields are due take the helm as chief executive oured to lead the “iconic” com- Oswal Securities in Mumbai, said. to come on stream. from August 1 and pledged to cre- pany but that it was too early to “Along with these, some people Sherif Ismail was quoted by ate a “more global” company that comment in detail on his plans. who believed they would not be the website of Egypt’s flagship was “not limited by geography”. “My sense of companies and able to enjoy power or move into Al-Ahram newspaper as saying Murthy, who returned from customers in not limited by geog- bigger positions also left.” that the expected increase would retirement as executive chair- raphy,” he told reporters. “Each Infosys rose nearly 4 percent in effectively be closer to 450 mil- man in June last year to help area has a set of challenges and early trading after the new posts lion cubic feet daily once natural revive the company’s fortunes, opportunities. I want to create a were announced but levelled out attrition in well productivity is will step down from his current more global company.” later to be down 0.50 percent at accounted for. The boost would role tomorrow. His son Rohan — Sikka’s appointment means Rs3,163. Last October, Infosys bring gas production to 5.2 billion who joined as executive assistant that S D Shibulal, the current said it would pay $34m to the US cubic feet (bcf) per day by the end at the same time — will leave on chief of Infosys, will retire nearly government to settle an investiga- of December, Al-Ahram website the same day, the statement said. five months earlier than expected. tion into alleged visa fraud by the quoted Ismail as saying. That The IT giant seems keen on Indian media had been rife company. Many of India’s IT out- amount is lower than the 5.4 bcf/ ending the string of senior depar- with speculation about likely sourcing firms have reported sub- day the ministry forecasted for tures since Murthy returned to candidates to step into Shibulal’s dued growth in recent years due the fiscal year that begins July 1. the company — as many as 12 shoes, and Sikka is the first per- to the global economic slowdown. That forecast, released in have departed over the past year, son in the job who is not one of In April however, the Nasdaq- February, saw gas production according to local reports. the company’s founders. Created listed Infosys beat market esti- failing to meet surging domestic The last big name to quit was three decades ago by Murthy, mates with the announcement demand in the next fiscal year. President B G Srinivas, who was Shibulal, and five others around that its consolidated net profit Ismail said the fields due to thought to be a frontrunner for a kitchen table, Infosys has been had surged 25 percent in the Infosys’ newly appointed CEO Vishal Sikka speaks during a news conference come on stream by the end of the the chief executive post before he losing market share to rivals such January to March quarter. AFP at company’s headquarters in Bangalore yesterday. year included Daka, Sapphire, and Libra, but did not name the firms developing the fields. He said that Egypt is currently producing 680,000 barrels of oil and condensate per day. India industrial output Egypt’s rapidly growing popula- AirAsia flies into Indian skies tion and increasing dependence on natural gas due to artificially BANGALORE: Asia’s biggest to compete with Indian Railways The carrier faces a tough battle low subsidised prices have led to jumps beating forecasts budget carrier AirAsia launched rather than with other low-cost to break into the Indian market, gas shortages and power cuts in its debut flight in India yester- carriers,” Chandilya told report- where no-frills carriers already recent years. NEW DELHI: India’s indus- industry were the most positive in day, fuelling a cut-throat fare ers at Bangalore airport before dominate with a near-65 percent The growing population of 85 trial production jumped in many months,” chief Asia econo- war in a sector already reeling the plane took off. market share in the country of 1.2 million and generous subsidies April, beating market forecasts mist Mark Williams from Capital from losses. “Our fares will be 35 percent billion people. have kept demand increasing to in another positive sign for new Economics said in a note. AirAsia India will fly from the lower than the market rates,” AirAsia’s rock bottom fares the extent that Egypt has cut into Prime Minister Narendra Modi Modi vaulted to power last high-tech hub of Bangalore to the Chandilya said. have triggered a price war in an exports of LNG previously prom- who has pledged to revive the month after a landslide elec- popular coastal resort of Goa, as Malaysia-based AirAsia already competitive market. ised to foreign firms. faltering economy, data showed tion victory over the left-leaning it seeks to become the lowest-cost already operates international All but one of India’s half- Egypt’s energy prices are yesterday. and scandal-plagued Congress budget airline in the country. routes into the Indian cities dozen airlines are losing money, among the lowest in the world, Output grew 3.4 percent year- party, with a promise to reform AirAsia India Chief Executive of Bangalore, Chennai, Kochi, worsened by high operating costs and the cash-strapped govern- on-year in April after contracting the sluggish economy growing at Mittu Chandilya said he believed Kolkata and Trichy. Its domestic including for fuel and taxes. But ment spends more than a fifth of for the past two months, driven under five percent. the company would “break even Indian operation will begin with passenger numbers are expected its budget keeping them down. mainly by increases in the manu- The right-wing Modi has in four months” despite the fact just one plane servicing one route, to triple to 452 million by 2020-21. Current account figures facturing, mining and power sec- pledged to rebuild India’s manu- almost all of its local competitors but aims to scale up to flying 10 The carrier’s founder and chief released by the central bank on tors, government data showed. facturing sector, overhaul crum- are haemorrhaging losses. planes between 10 cities by the executive Tony Fernandes — a Wednesday showed Egypt’s spend- Manufacturing grew 2.6 per- bling infrastructure and bring The airline is offering a pro- end of the fiscal year in March millionaire former music execu- ing on oil imports between January cent, while output of capital back foreign investors. motional fare of Rs990 ($17) for 2015. “We will soon announce the tive — was in a celebratory mood and March at $3.8bn, almost $1bn goods such as plant equipment, a In a boost for the new gov- flights between Bangalore and new routes we will operate after ahead of the flight. more than last year. Its revenues harbinger of future investment, ernment, figures released on Goa — cheaper than a second- our second flight to Chennai from “It’s a proud day for me as my from oil exports declined to $2.7bn increased 15.7 percent. Wednesday showed India’s exports class train ticket. “We will con- Bangalore commences June 19,” dad was from Goa,” Fernandes from just over $3bn in the same “Today’s figures on Indian jumped to a six-month high. AFP tinue to charge Rs990 per ticket Chandilya said. said on Twitter. AFP period. REUTERS

QATARI MARKET DP World to Al Hilal Bank eyes sukuk issue Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 105.44 0.99% Aa2 AA Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 121.13 1.93% Aa2 AA issue $1bn DUBAI: Abu Dhabi govern- the investor meetings, subject to biggest corporate issue ever and ment-owned Al Hilal Bank may market conditions, the document another for the cheapest pricing. Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 114.88 2.39% Aa2 AA sell a benchmark-sized Tier 1 added. Traditionally, benchmark Also on Wednesday, Emaar Malls Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 110.63 2.93% Aa2 AA convertible capital-boosting sukuk after size is understood to mean at least Group issued a debut sukuk which Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 163.00 4.27% Aa2 AA announcing plans to meet fixed $500m. secured cheap pricing thanks to Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 124.00 4.77% Aa2 AA income investors, joining a raft Al Hilal joins a growing pipe- strong investor demand. Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 115.00 4.77% Aa2 AA bond offering of issuers from the United Arab line of UAE borrowers looking to Other UAE borrowers in the Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 103.06 0.69% Aa2 AA Emirates taking advantage of access the capital markets ahead process of completing capital mar- Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 112.63 2.74% Aa2 AA benign markets. of the holy Muslim fasting month ket transactions include National DUBAI: DP World plans to The unlisted Islamic lender, of Ramadan, which starts at the Bank of Ras Al Khaimah, which Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 101.88 0.52% A1 A- raise $1bn with a convertible owned by the Abu Dhabi end of June. aims to issue a debut bond next Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.63 1.69% A1 A- bond issue of 10 years dura- Investment Council, has cho- Favourable market conditions week. QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.00 0.77% NR NR tion to fund growth opportu- sen itself as well as Citigroup , have pushed borrowing costs to Al Hilal will meet investors in QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.13 0.90% Aa3 A+ nities and diversify its funding Emirates NBD, HSBC, National record lows, with foreign inves- the Middle East on June 15 before QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.63 1.60% Aa3 A+ sources, the Dubai-based ports Bank of Abu Dhabi and Standard tors eager to put money into moving to Hong Kong on June 17, Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.63 1.76% A2 A- operator said in a statement Chartered to arrange roadshows, Gulf assets at a time of turmoil followed by Singapore on June 18. Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 105.25 1.08% A2 A- yesterday. a document from leads said in other emerging markets. After a day in London on June The issue is a rare example of yesterday. Abu Dhabi telecommunications 20, roadshows end in Switzerland Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 125.63 2.39% A2 A- an international convertible bond A benchmark-sized, US dollar- operator Etisalat sold a $4.3bn, on June 23, a separate document Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 109.63 3.14% A2 A- from a Middle Eastern issuer, but denominated sukuk offer with a four-tranche bond on Wednesday, from leads showed. Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 107.88 4.12% A2 A- comes at a time of spiking con- perpetual lifespan may follow setting one record as the region’s REUTERS Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 101.63 -0.17% Aa3 A vertible issuance among European Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 106.75 2.76% Aa3 A corporates. Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 109.63 3.57% Aa3 A DP World’s debut convertible Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 108.13 3.87% Aa3 A issue is expected to pay a coupon Japanese firms to supply Boeing parts in a range of 1.5 to 2 percent, and SOVEREIGNS will have a conversion premium Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid-Price Yield Moody’s S&P between 35 and 40 percent above Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 122.88 1.77% Aa2 AA the reference share price, the Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 107.50 0.88% NR NR bourse filing said. Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 109.50 1.51% NR NR The reference price will be set according to the volume-weighted Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 126.13 3.15% NR NR average price between the start Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 121.38 3.34% NR NR and close of trading of DP World Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 102.13 0.40% Aa2 AA shares yesterday. At 0730 GMT, Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 116.63 2.30% NR BBB the shares were trading down 3.75 Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 111.00 3.39% NR BBB percent at $19.25. Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 105.13 4.74% Caa1 B- The company can buy back the Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 108.63 2.98% NR BBB- bonds after three years, should the DP World share price be 30 Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 105.63 3.32% NR BBB- percent above the value of the ref- *Periodic Distribution Amount erence share price or if more than IMPORTANT NOTE: 85 percent of the bonds have been Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which converted by investors. Investors is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services can have the company buy back Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising the bonds at years four and seven. out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not The deal, aimed at institutional take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds investors, priced yesterday, the can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant company said. liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and The last major convertible bond consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. sold by a Gulf company was in May 2013 when National Bank of Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Ray Conner (right) with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Chairman and Japan Abu Dhabi completed a $465m, Aircraft Development Corporation Chairman Hideaki Omiya next to models of Boeing’s 777X airplane in Tokyo five-year convertible that was yesterday. US aviation giant Boeing said that five Japanese firms would supply major parts of the fuselage later raised to $500m. for its new 777X jet, which is set for delivery in 2020. REUTERS

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Henrik Lundqvist (in blue) of the New York Rangers defends a shot by Jarret Stoll of the Los Angeles Kings during the third period of Game Four of the 2014 NHL Stanley Cup Final at Madison Square Garden in New York on Wednesday. NHL: Rangers keep Cup hopes alive Lundqvist stops 40 shots as LA Kings go down 2-1 NEW YORK: New York goal- NHL: Stanley Cup couple of them.” tender Henrik Lundqvist The Rangers, seeking their stopped 40 shots Wednesday to Play-off Results first Stanley Cup crown since help the Rangers stay alive in New York Rangers 2 Los Angeles Kings 1 1994, got three lucky bounces on the Stanley Cup finals with a 2-1 (Los Angeles lead series 3-1) Wednesday. triumph over the Los Angeles One of those led to St. Martin’s Kings. only one shot off in the game’s game-winner. New York’s Derek With a 3-0 lead in the best-of- final 20 minutes. Stepan was trying to pass to seven NHL championship series, Lundqvist stopped 15 shots in Chris Kreider in the slot when the Kings were looking to com- the third period to preserve the his stick broke and the puck slid plete a four-game sweep on the Rangers’ lead. off a Los Angeles defender and Rangers’ home ice at Madison “He had to make some huge under Quick. Square Garden. saves in the second and the third,” St. Louis held his position and But Lundqvist and the Rangers Rangers coach Alain Vigneault poked the puck in from the near were determined not to be said of Lundqvist. “He got, and post at 6:27 of the second for the the first club since 1998 to be we got, a few bounces. You need 2-0 lead. swept out of the Stanley Cup those. Maybe the luck is changing Less than three minutes finals. a little bit. later, Brown cut the deficit on a “Whatever happens, we’re “We’ve got to keep compet- breakaway. winning this game,” Sweden’s ing hard, keep working. We get The Kings, who had come Lundqvist said of the mindset another chance to play,” Vigneault back from two-goal deficits among the Rangers going into the said. “We’re going to be ready for to win the first two games of contest, and it was largely thanks it.” the series, seemed energized, to him that New York made good Dustin Brown scored and but they couldn’t get past on the vow. Jonathan Quick made 17 saves for Lundqvist. Martin St. Louis gave New the Kings, who still own a com- Los Angeles dominated the York a 2-0 lead early in the sec- manding three-games-to-one lead third, notching nine shots before ond period and the goal proved and can wrap up their second title the Rangers managed one. decisive for the Rangers, who in three seasons when they host The Kings twice put the puck improved to 11-2 in their last game five on Friday. on the goal line but couldn’t get 13 elimination games and 5-0 “We had a lot of good opportu- it across for a score. when facing elimination in this nities,” Kings coach Darryl Sutter “Tonight, we had the bounces,” post-season. said. “But you’ve got to finish. Lundqvist said. “Especially Benoit Pouliot put the Rangers You’re only going to get a handful against this team, you need that ahead with a first-period goal, and most nights against the New York little extra puck luck.” New York hung on despite getting Rangers — you’ve got to finish a AFP Tanaka strikes Felix, Lavillenie out 11 for 10th Yankees dominate victory

OSLO: Allyson Felix coasted to SEATTLE: Japan’s Masahiro victory in the women’s 200m at Tanaka struck out 11 in his sec- Wednesday’s Diamond League in ond complete game for the New Oslo as French pole vault master York Yankees Wednesday in a Renaud Lavillenie (pictured) 4-2 Major League Baseball vic- extended his winning streak in tory over Seattle. 2014 to 10 competitions. The 25-year-old right-hander In balmy conditions at Bislett improved to 10-1 in his first North Stadium, there was also a notable American season, matching performance from Ashton Eaton, Toronto’s Mark Buehrle for the the American becoming the first most wins in the major leagues decathlete to win an event in the this season. Diamond League when he claimed “I personally really can’t make victory in the 400m hurdles. and setbacks, it’s going to take me an assessment on it,” Tanaka said American runner Felix looked a little bit to get back to that top through a translator. “All I’m try- unruffled in her win, coasting form... It’s a work in progress!” ing to do is just go out there and home in 22.73sec ahead of Briton Renaud Lavillenie stretched pitch the best that I can every Jodie Williams and France’s his winning streak in 2014 to 10 night that I’m allowed to go out Myriam Soumare, both of whom events, a best of 5.77m enough to there.” had earlier also run in the 100m, see off the opposition. “As a result, this is where I the Frenchwoman winning in It continues a remarkable am, but I think a lot of that has 11.18sec. year for Lavillenie, who has also to with how my teammates have For Felix, a four-time Olympic broken Sergey Bubka’s long- been playing with me.” gold medal winner and one of the standing world record when he Tanaka scattered four hits and dominant figures over the dis- vaulted 6.16m indoors in Donetsk a walk over eight innings and was tance having won three consecu- in February. two outs shjy of his second shutout tive world titles, it was a further “I’m just taking it one compe- with the Yankees before surren- step back towards recovery after tition at a time in the build-up dering a James Jones single and an injury-plagued 2013. to the European championships,” giving up a home run to former “I just wanted to work on some Lavillenie said. Yankee Robinson Cano before of the things I’ve been doing in “Zurich is in two months, that’s retiring the last two batters. practice,” said Felix. “The speed a lot of time for me, there’s a lot “Obviously, I wasn’t very happy is not quite there, but it’s coming, of work to do, there’s a lot of com- about that home run, but at the and hopefully the rest of season petitions to be ready for that. It’s end, I’m pretty satisfied that I it’ll keep progressing. normal for me to be in progres- was able to go a full nine innings,” “It’s definitely been a rocky sion. I think in July I’ll be in good Tanaka said. AFP road, there’ve been ups and down, shape to jump high.” AFP FRIDAY 13 JUNE 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 New boy Craig makes mark as NZ beat Windies by 186 runs Off-spinner wins Man-of-the-Match award, produces game figures of 8-188

KINGSTON: Off-spinner “I can’t fault how we played the Mark Craig (pictured) cap- game.” Pakistan tured the best figures by a New Tim Southee had torn the top Zealand bowler on debut as the off the hosts’ second innings on visitors beat West Indies by 186 Wednesday with two wickets runs late on the fourth day of while Craig and legspinner Ish consider the first Test at Sabina Park on Sodhi shared the wickets in the Wednesday. final session with Sodhi tak- The hosts were bowled out for ing 3-42 as New Zealand won fitness 216 after New Zealand captain just their second Test in the Brendon McCullum had asked for Caribbean. an additional 30 minutes of play Tailenders Shane Shillingford fines when they reduced West Indies and Sulieman Benn had provided to 115 for seven with four overs a scintillating 10th-wicket part- remaining in the regulation day’s nership for the crowd, belting 82 LAHORE: Pakistan plans to play. runs from 56 balls before Benn fine its most unfit players if Craig finished with 4-97 and was caught by wicketkeeper BJ they fail to meet tough new match figures of 8-188, the best Watling from part-time spinner standards, former fast bowler from a New Zealand bowler on Kane Williamson for 25 with two Mohammad Akram said as he debut, as the hosts were dismissed balls remaining in the day’s play. wrapped up a month-long boot in the final over of the day, chas- Shillingford was left on 53 not camp with the team. ing an improbable 403 runs for out, having scored the second- Long regarded as one of victory in Kingston. fasTest Test half century from 25 cricket’s most mercurial teams, “Nigh on the perfect Test for balls. He hit five sixes and three Pakistan have thrived on the us,” McCullum said. “Obviously a fours in his innings. efforts of talented individuals in crucial toss to win and to put 500 McCullum had earlier declared the past — but their fitness levels on the board (in the first innings) New Zealand’s second innings on have often let them down, par- allowed us to dictate the game. 156 for eight, pushing the tourists ticularly when fielding. “It didn’t feel easy throughout to a lead of over 400 runs. That’s part of the reason they the Test. They certainly presented Southee had earlier reduced have stayed stuck in the middle us with some tough challenges the hosts to 15-2 at tea when he rankings over the past decade as (and) ... we absorbed pressure at captured Kieran Powell for a duck England’s Joe Root looks on after playing a shot as a Sri Lankan fielder dives during the first day of the first fitter teams like Australia, South times. and the dangerous Chris Gayle for Test match at Lord’s in London yesterday. Africa and Sri Lanka have raced 10 before Craig took over in the ahead. elongated final session. The team has not been helped The offspinner captured two by the country’s reputation as a wickets in an over when he had “no go” location for international Darren Bravo caught behind for Ton-up Root turns Lanka tide squads ever since terrorists 12 and then Marlon Samuels attacked the Sri Lankan team bus caught at forward short leg for a LONDON: Joe Root’s second Moeen Ali (48), one of three softer,” Root told Sky Sports. “It in Lahore in March 2009, killing two-ball duck, the batsman mak- hundred in as many Lord’s debutants in a new-look England was a day when you had to scrap. eight people. ing his first pair in Test cricket. Tests was the cornerstone of side following their 5-0 Ashes “There’s nothing that beats The attacks forced Pakistan “If you told me this was going to England’s recovery on the first drubbing in Australia, had previ- Test cricket and the challenge to play all its home matches in happen before I came here, I’d tell day of their series opener with ously helped Root steady the ship of scoring runs in the first Test neutral venues within the United you to go away. So this is a dream Sri Lanka yesterday. during a fifth-wicket stand of 89. of the summer after the winter Arab Emirates, while the recent start,” Craig said of his impressive Root’s 102 not out helped take “It’s a very slow wicket and we had was something that I rel- efforts of the Pakistan Cricket debut. REUTERS England to 344 for five at stumps hard to time when the ball goes ished.” AFP Board to see an international on the first day of the first Test side play in the troubled country Scoreboard after they’d been struggling at 74 Scoreboard have been further thwarted by New Zealand (I Innings) .....508/7 decl. J Taylor c wkpr Watling b Sodhi ...... 18 for three when the 23-year-old England (I Innings) Fall of wickets: 1-14 (Robson), 2-22 (Cook), terrorism. West Indies (I Innings)...... 262 S Benn c wkpr Watling b Williamson ...... 25 Yorkshireman walked out to bat. A Cook b Kulasekara ...... 17 3-74 (Ballance), 4-120 (Bell) Ireland on Wednesday can- New Zealand (II Innings) .....156/8 decl. S Shillingford (not out) ...... 53 Root, who made a Test-best S Robson c P Jayawardene b Pradeep .....1 Bowling: Kulasekara 20-3-61-1; Pradeep 17- celled a scheduled September West Indies (II Innings) Extras (B-4, LB-2, W-1) ...... 7 180 against Australia at Lord’s G Ballance c P Jayawardene b Pradeep .23 1-67-2 (2nb); Eranga 18-2-86-1 (3nb); Math- tour following a militant siege at C Gayle c wkpr Watling b Southee ...... 10 Total (47.4 overs, all out ) 216 last year, was well supported by I Bell lbw b Eranga ...... 56 ews 11-2-39-0; Herath 22-2-68-1; Thirimanne Karachi airport on Sunday that K Powell c Latham b Southee ...... 0 Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-11, 3-30, 4-54, 5-54, Matt Prior (76 not out) in a so- J Root (batting) ...... 102 1-0-7-0 left 37 people dead. K Edwards c Neesham b Craig ...... 14 6-76, 7-115, 8-121, 9-134, 10-216. far unbroken sixth-wicket stand M Ali c M Jayawardene b Herath ...... 48 Sri Lanka: Kaushal Silva, Dimuth Karunaratne, Akram, who took charge of D Bravo c wkpr Watling b Craig ...... 12 Bowling: Boult 10-3-29-0, Southee 9-2-32-2, of 135. M Prior (batting) ...... 76 Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawardene, La- a boot camp last week, said S Chanderpaul lbw Sodhi ...... 24 Craig 15-2-97-4, Neesham 2-0-9-0 (1w), So- However, recalled wicketkeeper Extras (B5, LB11, NB5) ...... 21 hiru Thirimanne, Angelo Mathews (capt), Pras- Pakistan was nevertheless aim- M Samuels c Latham b Craig ...... 0 dhi 11-1-42-3, Williamson 0.4-0-1-1. Prior was fortunate not be out for Total (5 wkts, 89 overs, 395 mins) ..344 anna Jayawardene (wkt), Nuwan Kulasekara, ing to rectify its fitness situation D Ramdin b Sodhi ...... 34 Result: New Zealand won by 186 runs a second-ball duck before com- To bat: C Jordan, S Broad, L Plunkett, J Ander- Rangana Herath, Nuwan Pradeep, Shaminda in time for next year’s World Cup K Roach c wkpr Watling b Craig ...... 19 Man of the Match: Mark Craig pleting just his second 50 in 21 son Eranga in Australia and New Zealand. Test innings. AFP Murray stunned by US Open: Mickelson in early contention PINEHURST (NORTH the ones you need to make, the said after mixing an eagle at the display this morning, but you CAROLINA): Phil Mickelson, 15, 20-footers, you need to have a par-five fifth with three birdies don’t have to strike it amazing Stepanek who has suffered more US Open good round.” and three bogeys on an increas- around here, you just have to posi- heartache than any other player, American Kevin Na and ingly firm and fast-running tion the ball correctly at all times. LONDON: Andy Murray’s thrilled his fans as he moved Northern Ireland’s Graeme layout. “I spent the last few days just reign as Queen’s Club champion into contention yesterday for McDowell, the 2010 US Open “I had an early tee time and I preparing myself mentally for the ended in stunning fashion yes- the only major title which has champion at Pebble Beach, both was able to capitalise on that. challenge, really, knowing that terday as Czech veteran Radek eluded him. opened with 68s on Pinehurst’s “A long way to go and I’m obvi- this golf course wasn’t going to Stepanek clinched a shock 7-6 The American left-hander, fabled No. 2 Course where dan- ously at two-under par right now, give much and it was only going (12/10), 6-2 win over the world who has been a runner-up in his ger lurked on virtually every hole but at the end of the tournament, to take.” number five. national championship a record because of the unique turtle-back I think even par is going to win Snedeker, a six-times winner Murray’s tame third round exit six times, ground out an even- greens. this championship.” on the PGA Tour, made a sizzling at the hands of the unheralded par 70 in the opening round at Swedish world number two McDowell was delighted with start to reach the turn in four- world number 42 is a major blow Pinehurst Resort to finish two Henrik Stenson, Japan’s Hideki his course management to start under 31 but then went bogey, to his grass-court preparations strokes off the early pace. Matsuyama and Americans the season’s second major as he double, bogey to slide down the less than two weeks before the “I drove it great,” five-times Matt Kuchar, Brandt Snedeker, recovered from an early bogey leaderboard. start of Wimbledon, where he will major winner Mickelson, whose Jordan Spieth and Brendon with an eagle at the fifth before “I got off to a great start on Phil Mickelson tips his hat after defend the title he won so memo- most recent runner-up finish at Todd carded 69s while defending picking up another shot at the the front nine, and hit a bunch making a putt for birdie on the 14th rably last year. the US Open came last year at champion Justin Rose of England par-four 14th. of quality shots, left them in the green during the first round of the It was also the 27-year-old’s Merion said. “Every time I hit launched his title defence with “I’m very pleased,” said the right places,” said the fast-talking 114th US Open at Pinehurst, North first loss since his surprise deci- driver, I hit the fairway. a 72. 34-year-old from Portrush. “It American who totalled six birdies Carolina, yesterday. sion to hire Frenchwoman Amelie “I putted OK but didn’t make “I got off to a great start,” Na wasn’t my best ball-striking on the day. REUTERS Mauresmo as his new coach last Sunday. Since losing to Roger Federer in the 2012 Wimbledon final, Murray had been unstoppable on grass, but his 19-match winning Rugby: Squads ready for super Saturday run, which brought him Olympic gold, a first Wimbledon crown DUNEDIN: Next year’s World their preparations for a successful For tomorrow’s second match A subsequent media storm and a third Queen’s title, came Cup is undoubtedly the under- world title defence. in Melbourne, the Hulking cen- questioned security in the to a shattering halt in the west lying subtext of the second Hansen remarked that one of tre Mathieu Bastareaud makes New Zealand capital two London sunshine. test between New Zealand and the reasons why he had refused a long-awaited Australia debut years out from the World Cup Murray conceded he had no England, although both sides to make wholesale changes from in France’s second test against and prompted Prime Minister excuses after failing to take any have immediate points to prove last week’s team was because had the Wallabies, five years after an John Key to issue an apology, of the eight set points he earned when they face off at Otago he dropped everyone who played embarrassing scandal denied him but CCTV footage later showed in the first set. Regional Stadium at Dunedin badly, he would not have been able his first match Down Under. Bastareaud returning to his hotel “I have only got myself to blame tomorrow. to field a side for the game. As a callow 20-year-old on his unharmed. that I lost the first set. I don’t The All Blacks, largely “We shouldn’t lose sight of the first southern hemisphere tour in The bulky back changed his know how many set points I had, unchanged from the side that fact we did win the test but at 2009, Bastareaud was set to play a story, saying he had sustained but quite a lot of them were on looked unconvincing in a last-gasp the same time they’re very proud one-off test in Sydney after play- his injuries by drunkenly falling my serve. On this surface espe- 20-15 win at Eden Park last week, people who want to play a game ing the All Blacks, but flew home on a desk in his hotel room and cially you shouldn’t really be los- have been given an opportunity to we can all be proud of and last from New Zealand with facial had concocted the false account of ing sets like that. That’s what’s show a performance described by week we weren’t proud of our per- injuries, claiming he had been his assault because he was scared disappointing about the match,” coach Steve Hansen as the worst formance,” Hansen told reporters attacked when returning to his of the fallout from team manage- Mathieu Bastareaud he said. AFP in his tenure was a minor blip in in Dunedin yesterday. Wellington hotel after a night out. ment. REUTERS FRIDAY 13 JUNE 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Spain vs Netherlands SALVADOR, Brazil: Spain will play the Netherlands in a Group B match in Salvador today. Spain eye deja vu in opener Where: The Fonte Nova arena, Salvador Capacity: 52,048 When: June 13, 1900 GMT Referee: Nicola Rizzoli (Italy) Probable teams: Spain: 1-Iker Casillas; 22-Cesar against the Netherlands Azpilicueta, 15-Sergio Ramos, 3-Gerard Pique, 18-Jordi Alba; 14-Xabi Alonso, 16-Sergio Busquets; 21-David Silva, 8-Xavi, 6-Andres Iniesta; 19-Diego Costa. Finalists of 2010 World Cup clash in Group B match in Salvador today Netherlands: 1-Jasper Cillessen; 7-Daryl Janmaat, 3-Stefan de Vrij, 2-Ron Vlaar, 4-Bruno Martins Indi, 5-Daley Blind; 6-Nigel SALVADOR, Brazil: Holders de Jong, 8-Jonathan de Guzman; 10-Wesley Platini Spain open their World Sneijder; 9-Robin van Persie, 11-Arjen Cup campaign against the Robben. withdraws Netherlands today in a repeat Key stats: of the 2010 final with the Dutch - For the first time in the competition’s out for revenge. history, the finalists from the previous edition support for Andres Iniesta’s strike four meet in the first round of the following minutes from the end of extra- tournament. time in the Johannesburg final - Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas is three FIFA’s Blatter crowned Spain as world cham- World Cup clean sheets short of matching pions for the first time and now, the 10 game record shared by England’s SAO PAULO: UEFA president four years later, the European Peter Shilton and France’s Fabien Barthez. Michel Platini withdrew his giants clash again at Salvador’s In addition, Casillas has gone 433 support from FIFA counterpart Arena Fonte Nova in the mouth- consecutive minutes unbeaten. A clean Sepp Blatter yesterday, plung- watering opening match of Group sheet against the Dutch would see him ing world football into open B. surpass the record of 517 minutes set by warfare. With South American dark Italy’s Walter Zenga in 1990. “I am supporting him no longer, horses Chile and Australia still to Last meeting: July 11, 2010, Johannesburg, it’s finished,” Platini said. come, a win for either side would World Cup final - Netherlands 0 Spain 1 “He knows it, I told him. I think set the group’s agenda. (After extra time) FIFA needs a new breath of fresh Captain Robin van Persie, air.” Arjen Robben, Wesley Sneijder, Chile vs Australia The 78-year-old Blatter has Nigel De Jong and Dirk Kuyt are CUIABA, Brazil: Chile play Australia in a faced calls to stand down when the five survivors from the 2010 World Cup Group B match in Cuiaba today. his term ends next year. final in the current squad and Where: The Pantanal arena, Cuiaba Platini said he agreed with the Dutch have made no secret Capacity: 42,968 some other UEFA members of their desire for revenge. When: June 13, 2200 GMT that it was time for 78-year-old “It was a big chance for us to Referee: Noumandiez Doue (Ivory Coast) Blatter, who has been in power win the World Cup and we were since 1998, to stand down next really close,” said Aston Villa Probable teams: year. defender Ron Vlaar. Chile: 1-Claudio Bravo; 17-Gary Medel, “I share the European posi- “It should always burn inside 18-Gonzalo Jara, 2-Eugenio Mena; 4-Mauricio Isla, 20-Charles Aranguiz, tion,” said 58-year-old Platini. to make something right. To play A combination of photos show Netherlands’ midfielder Wesley Sneijder (Left) on March 5, 2014 in Paris and 21-Marcelo Diaz, 16-Felipe Gutierrez; “A new mandate for him would against them now in the first Spain’s midfielder Xavi on October 15, 2013 in Albacete. Spain will face Netherlands in their Group B match 10-Jorge Valdivia, 7-Alexis Sanchez, not be good for football. But he is game is a great challenge.” at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Salvador, Brazil, today. a person one has to respect and Veteran midfielder Wesley 11-Eduardo Vargas he has all my respect.” Sneijder, who will win his 100th Australia: 1-Mat Ryan; 2-Ivan Franjic, Blatter told the FIFA Congress cap in the match, said the wounds at right-back. Cesc Fabregas Van Persie is expected to be Sneijder, while their defence has 6-Matthew Spiranovic, 22-Alex Wilkinson, in Sao Paulo on Wednesday that of that defeat were still raw. should start up front for Spain fit, despite arriving in Brazil as been criticised as the team’s weak 3-Jason Davidson; 23-Mark Bresciano, 15- he was ready to take on a new “It’s like a scar that hasn’t yet with Brazil-born Atletico Madrid an injury concern after sustain- link. Mile Jedinak, 5-Mark Milligan; 11-Tommy mandate despite having said in healed. It always gets me down striker Diego Costa expected to ing a groin problem in last week’s Spain are wary of their oppo- Oar, 7-Mathew Leckie, 4-Tim Cahill 2011 he would not seek re-election when I think about it,” said the make a second-half appearance 2-0 friendly win over Wales in nents’ ability to hit them on the Key stats: - Chile were second only to for a fifth term. Galatasaray star. from the bench. Amsterdam. Coach Louis van break, warned midfielder Sergio winners Argentina in the in the South “I’m ready to accompany you in As the double European and “We don’t have any fear. But we Gaal has experimented with a Busquets. American qualifying group scoring chart with the future,” he told the Congress. reigning world champions, do have respect,” said del Bosque. 5-3-2 formation designed to close The 25-year-old Barcelona 29 goals in 16 matches after a fine run-in Platini, who won great praise Vicente del Bosque’s Spain are “Holland are a well-organised down Spain’s potent attack and star, who played in the 2010 final, with five wins and a draw to finish third in 1998 for his organisation of bidding to join Brazil and Italy as team, well-coached, and I am sure counter-attack hard. said while most of the team that behind Colombia - Striker Eduardo Vargas the World Cup hosted by France, the only teams to have enjoyed they will make things difficult for But the future Manchester won the World Cup remained, and midfielder Arturo Vidal were joint top indicated that he and his support- back-to-back World Cup wins. us.” United manager used a 4-4-2 Holland now have a lot of new scorers for Chile in the qualifiers with five ers had not been happy with the The ever-loyal Del Bosque is Spain can expect a hostile formation against the Welsh to young talent. apiece - Australia rely heavily for goals on Congress. expected to make just one change reception in Salvador, judging by keep the Spanish guessing which “We have practically the same veteran Tim Cahill who holds the national Several of Platini’s colleagues from the side which started and last year’s Confederations Cup system he will use in Salvador. players whereas they have had record of 32 in 68 appearances confronted Blatter on Tuesday won the Euro 2012 final with when they were widely booed on Much relies for the Dutch on an infusion of new players and a Last meeting: Feb. 9 2000, Valparaiso, Chile when he addressed UEFA tell- Chelsea’s Cesar Azpilicueta their run to the final where they their attacking triumvirate of new coach (Louis van Gaal),” said (friendly four-nation tournament) - Chile 2 ing him that his claims that the coming in for Alvaro Arbeloa lost 3-0 to hosts Brazil. Van Persie, Arjen Robben and Busquets. AFP Australia 1 accusations against Qatar were “racist” were without foundation. British media have reported most of the corruption allegations. The FIFA leader was helped by Chile, Australia primed a congress vote not to consider age- and term-limits for offi- cials. He later denied having any designs on a life-time presidency “Well it wasn’t the Europeans for Cuiaba meltdown who blocked the reforms, it was clear who voted against the age CUIABA, Brazil: World Cup Jedinak and features experi- his first training session since limit,” said Platini. outsiders Australia are aim- enced duo Tim Cahill and Mark making an unforecast 15-minute However, Platini, whose sup- ing to punch above their weight Bresciano. comeback a week ago in the 2-0 port for Blatter in his first elec- and give a Chile side choc-a- The Aussies laid down a marker friendly victory over Northern tion campaign was rewarded by bloc with talent a bloody nose in of their intent in a battling sin- Ireland. the Swiss when he backed him in Cuiaba today. gle goal defeat to fellow finalists Like Vidal, another vital the UEFA presidential election in The two Group B protagonists Croatia in their last warm-up. component of this Chile team 2007 against long-time incumbent are worlds apart in FIFA’s rank- Alex Wilkinson, who played a is Barcelona forward Alexis Lennart Johansson, still would ings -- Chile are 14 with Australia part against Croatia, hopes he’s Sanchez, reportedly a target of not commit himself to a run for down at 62 -- so the South done enough to make it on to Manchester United’s new boss the FIFA presidency. Americans are heavy favourites Postecoglou’s starting XI. Louis van Gaal who is in Brazil At present there is just one to sweep aside the Socceroos and Wilkinson hinted that Chile as Holland manager before mov- candidate -- former FIFA dep- get their campaign off to the per- could be in for a surprise. ing to Old Trafford. uty secretary-general Jerome fect start. “They’re expecting us to be And Sanchez stoked up expec- Champagne. The odds may be stacked physical and we will be physical -- tations back in Santiago on “It is an option to run but it is against them, but Australia, but we also want to show them we Wednesday when he told a local not because Sepp Blatter is a can- unshackled by any smidgen of can play football as well,” said the newspaper: “I believe Chile are didate that Michel Platini won’t pressure, are not short of self- player with South Korean outfit going to win the World Cup, if I be,” said Platini. belief ahead of this clash against a Jeonbuk Motors. didn’t believe that I’d be at home “In any case this situation it is team they held to a goalless draw Despite the infectious enthusi- watching television.” not exactly as if I have to choose on their World Cup debut in 1974. asm emanating from the Aussie Of Chile’s chances of solving the in between going to hospital or to “We don’t care who we’re up camp the serious money on complex first round puzzle set by prison,” he said laughing. against,” said Swiss-based attack- Friday is on Chile. a Group B including Holland and Given the reception Blatter ing midfielder Dario Vidosic. Coached by Argentine Jorge world champions Spain he said: received at most regional con- “There can be 11 Ronaldos Sampaoli, the South Americans “I’d be happy if we finished as federation meetings in Brazil this or Messis out there. We want take to the Arena Pantanal pitch runners-up behind them (Spain).” week, any challenger faces a tough to make everybody proud back buoyed by the apparent recov- Sanchez’s rags to riches story task to dethrone him although it home. We’ve worked very hard ery from injury of midfield star from a humble background to was clear the normally outwardly to get to this stage. Arturo Vidal. world class footballer is the stuff unflappable Swiss had been rat- “We’ve got three guaranteed The Juventus man, who under- of any kid’s dreams, and he is fully tled by the UEFA opposition. games and we’re just going to give went knee surgery last month, conscious of the benevolent hand “Something like this, lacking it everything that we can to get was a doubt after battling an dealt to him by fate. respect like I saw and heard in Chile’s forwards Alexis Sanchez (left) and Eduardo Vargas (right) out of the group stage.” inflammation. “If I hadn’t become a footballer the UEFA meeting, I have not take part in a training session at Toca da Raposa in Belo Horizonte, Coach Ange Postecoglou’s But he appeared to have I’d have probably ended up work- had in my entire life,” Blatter told yesterday. largely transitional side is skip- shrugged off that problem when ing down the mines, or something reporters after the congress. AFP pered by Crystal Palace’s Mile turning out on Wednesday for more basic,” he suggested. AFP FRIDAY 13 JUNE 2014 21 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

Factbox on Mexico vs Cameroon Mexico, Cameroon NATAL, Brazil: Mexico play Cameroon in a Group A match in Natal today. Performers are Where: The Dunas arena out to ride their luck thrown into the air Capacity: 38,958 during the 2014 When: June 13, 1600 GMT NATAL, Brazil: Mexico and in a friendly last week offered World Cup open- Referee: Wilmar Roldan (Colombia) Cameroon would be prime con- some hope that Volker Finke’s ing ceremony at Probable teams: tenders for the title of most for- team were starting to click. the Corinthians tunate qualifiers for the World Cameroon football is never that Mexico: 13-Guillermo Ochoa, 4-Rafael arena in Sao Cup but both will fancy their simple, however, and the squad Marquez, 2-Francisco Javier Rodriguez, Paulo yesterday. chances of progressing from boarded a flight to Brazil some 15-Hector Moreno, 22-Paul Aguilar, The month long Group A if they can win their 12 hours late on Monday after 7-Miguel Layun, 23-Jose Juan Vazquez, opening encounter today. a threatened strike over bonus football extra- 18-Andres Guardado, 6-Hector Herrera, Hosts Brazil and Croatia round payments was averted by fran- gavanza began 10-Giovani Dos Santos, 19-Oribe Peralta out the group so traditional early tic negotiations. The differences yesterday. Cameroon: 16-Charles Itandje, 3-Nicolas tournament caution could be between skipper Samuel Eto’o and Nkoulou, 22-Allan Nyom, 12-Henri Bedimo, thrown to the wind at the Dunas some of his team mates have been 14-Aurelien Chedjou, 6-Alex Song, 18-Enoh arena with both teams knowing well publicised but the 33-year- Eyong, 10-Vincent Aboubakar, 11-Jean that a draw is unlikely to much old remains a formidable striker Makoun, 8-B Moukandjo, 9-Samuel Eto’o help their cause. and will be hoping to emulate the Key Stats: CONCACAF powerhouse even more aged Roger Milla’s - Mexico have never beaten an African team Mexico just scraped through to heroics at the 1990 finals in Italy. in the World Cup a playoff only courtesy of a dra- That unprecedented journey - Cameroon go into this match on the back matic last gasp victory by the to the quarter-finals was the of four successive World Cup defeats United States over Panama last last time Cameroon progressed - The match will be Mexico’s 50th World year before overwhelming New beyond the first round, however, Hosts Brazil off to Cup game. Zealand to secure their place at and they will be looking for only Previous Meetings: The teams have only a sixth successive World Cup. their second World Cup win in the played once with Mexico winning 1-0. They have shown distinct signs intervening 24 years on Friday. of revival under the aggressive With Alex Song and Enoh Last Meeting: September 22, 1993, Los guidance of Miguel Herrera - the Eyong offering a solid bedrock to Angeles, United States (friendly) - Mexico 1 team’s fourth coach since last the Cameroon midfield, Mexico Cameroon 0 a winning start September - and should offer are likely to focus their attack plenty of entertainment to the on the flanks, where Herrera’s Resolute Rooney many fans who have followed wingbacks will look to get behind Neymar scores double in win over Croatia them down to Brazil. the defence. Up front, Herrera Cameroon’s Lions likewise looks likely to leave Manchester determined to looked anything but indomitable United striker Javier “Little Pea” SAO PAULO: Brazil rode a in their qualifying campaign and Hernandez - Mexico’s third most wave of national fervour to enjoy World Cup they needed the reversal of a 2-0 prolific goalscorer of all time launch the World Cup with a 3-1 defeat to Togo after their West - on the bench in favour of the victory over Croatia yesterday African rivals fielded a suspended partnership of Oribe Peralta and as an opening day which began RIO DE JANEIRO: After two player to get to a playoff. Giovani dos Santos. with violent clashes gave way to forgettable experiences at previ- They thumped Tunisia 4-1 on “El Tri” are also likely to be an outpouring of joy. ous World Cups, England talis- aggregate to reach a seventh suc- cheered on by the majority of the Barcelona superstar Neymar man Wayne Rooney has vowed cessive World Cup finals, however, fans at the 38,958-capacity Dunas scored in each half as Brazil to enjoy himself at the 2014 and a 2-2 draw against Germany arena. AFP recovered from conceding an early tournament in Brazil regardless Marcelo own goal to set up a win of the outcome. before hordes of golden-shirted Having injured himself ahead fans at the 61,600 Corinthians of his maiden tournament in Messi, Ronaldo duel Arena in Sao Paulo. Germany in 2006, the Manchester Chelsea midfielder Oscar put United striker was sent off for the seal on the win with a late stamping on Portugal’s Ricardo strike from distance to trigger Carvalho as England went out on for Cup stardom delirium. penalties in the quarter-finals. The host nation’s Group A vic- In 2010 he went to South RIO DE JANEIRO: One is Both average more than 50 tory was greeted by an explosion Africa on the back of the most the world’s best known foot- goals a year in all competitions of fireworks across Sao Paulo, a prolific season of his career, but baller, the other the most valu- for their clubs. sharp contrast to several hours again failed to impress, snarl- able. They have scored the same Ronaldo is the world’s most earlier when riot police fired tear ing at a television camera after number of Champions League recognisable and marketable foot- gas and stun grenades to disperse Brazil’s Neymar (right) and Hernanes celebrate after Neymar scored a England’s 0-0 group-stage draw goals and are loaded down with baller, according to the Repucom, angry protests. goal from a penalty kick during the 2014 FIFA World Cup opening match with Algeria and drifting through titles. But superstars Cristiano a sports marketing research But a largely free-flowing tour- against Croatia at the Corinthians arena in Sao Paulo, Brazil yesterday. the 4-1 humiliation by Germany Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are company. nament-opener was shrouded in in the last 16 like a ghost. stuck in a World Cup dead end. But Messi remains the world’s controversy, with Brazil’s winner Four years on he remains with- Between them Messi and most valuable footballer on the coming courtesy of a dubious pen- of Brazil’s national anthem with in Sao Paulo had threatened a out a World Cup goal to his name, Ronaldo have monopolised the market, according to the Swiss- alty when Croatia defender Dejan fans -- exhorted to unite behind stormy start to the month-long but ahead of England’s opening past six world player of the year based CIES Football Observatory. Lovren was harshly adjudged to the team by coach Luiz Felipe football extravaganza. Group D match against Italy in awards. But each have attended It put the Argentine’s value at 216 have shoved Fred over. Scolari -- roaring their support A torrid seven-year build-up Manaus on Saturday, the 28-year- the last two World Cups and million euros ($294 million), while The hosts, chasing a record for the “Selecao.” bedevilled by delays and public old is determined to relish the failed to even get near the trophy. because of his age Ronaldo was sixth World Cup, had also enjoyed Even after the music stopped, anger at the tournament’s $11bn experience. Messi has scored just one goal at worth just 114 million euros. a degree of good fortune in the fans and players alike put their (8m euros) cost, and scattered “I’ve learnt to enjoy this one the finals, Ronaldo only two. The case for the elevation first half when Neymar received hearts and souls into one more protests took place in several of because I haven’t enjoyed the Now though the weight of of Messi and Ronaldo to the only a yellow card for elbowing verse. Brazil captain Thiago Silva the cities which will host World last ones,” Rooney told a group Argentinian hopes rests on almost deified heights of Pele and Croatia’s playmaker Luka Modric. epitomised the mood, bellowing a Cup games. The worst violence of journalists at England’s seaside Messi’s slight shoulders. Portugal Maradona would surely be unan- Moments later Neymar scored rallying cry to his team-mates as took place just a few kilometres training base in Rio de Janeiro. are desperate swerable were Brazil’s equaliser to settle home they embarked on their quest to (miles) from the opening match, “All of a sudden you’re looking for Ronaldo’s either to lift nerves after Marcelo’s 11th- earn first title on home soil. as anarchist demonstrators in back and they’ve gone and I didn’t goals to get out the trophy on minute own goal. The victory provided a euphoric black shirts and masks lit bonfires enjoy it. This one, I’m going to enjoy of one of the July 13 in Rio. The match had kicked off counterpoint to scenes earlier in of rubbish after armoured police it regardless of what happens. I’m most difficult “Both play- after a spine-tingling rendition the day when violent protests sought to quell protests. AFP going to make sure I take positive groups in the ers are incred- memories from this one.” contest. ibly great Rooney cites the 2004 European The Brazil athletes and Championship in Portugal, when World Cup both have out- FIFA Chief Blatter calls for he burst onto the international could finally standing quali- scene, as the last tournament decide Cristiano ties. Both can where he felt relaxed enough to whether the RonaldoC win a match Lionel Messi fully express himself. name of Messi in their club In current colleagues such as or Ronaldo or national tennis-style challenges 20-year-old Ross Barkley and is etched into football legend team on their own,” said Ottmar 19-year-old Raheem Sterling, alongside the Peles and Diego Hitzfeld, the respected German SAO PAULO: FIFA chief Sepp Sao Paulo. Yesterday, the tourna- analyse it outside the field of he sees glimpses of his own old Maradonas and Zinedine Zidanes. coach who will be in charge of Blatter yesterday called for ment opener between Brazil and play but also inside. I spoke fearlessness. It is the competition which trans- Switzerland at the World Cup. football managers to be given Croatia became the first World with former footballers, former “That’s the good thing about forms reputations. But the World Cup, high pres- two challenges per match when Cup match to feature goal-line coaches,” he said. the younger lads in the squad: The softly-spoken Messi is 26, sure over one month, is vastly dif- they could check key refereeing technology, a failsafe to check “You must have the feeling you can see that in them, in Ross just 1.69 metres (5ft 7inch) tall ferent from the Spanish league decisions against video replays. whether a team has scored. when you’re looking at so many and Raheem,” said the stocky for- and 67 kilogrammes (148 pounds) and Champions League duties The suggestion, which came Blatter’s enthusiasm for tech- matches of football and you’re ward, who scored seven goals for in weight. But his goalscorer which Messi and Ronaldo so bril- out of left field at the close of the nology is counter to the views of having 34 cameras there and it’s England in qualifying. record and brilliance pack the liantly execute week in, week out. FIFA congress, would mimic sys- UEFA chief Michel Platini, who so evident what happened,” added “You can see that there’s no same weight as the 29-year-old Maradona is adamant that tems used in tennis and cricket is expected to challenge for the Blatter. “I think it’s a good idea, fear with them. They’ll be good Ronaldo -- 1.85m (6ft 1inch) and “Messi doesn’t have to win the and comes with goal-line technol- FIFA presidency next year and is if it’s feasible or applicable we players, big players for us.” 80kgs (176 pounds) -- who revels World Cup to be the best in the ogy about to make its World Cup an opponent of the goal-line sys- will see in the future. But when Rooney’s explosion as an in his glamour lifestyle. world.” debut. tem. Blatter, who previously also I have an idea, generally I try 18-year-old at Euro 2004 sparked Messi capture three Champions For the 1986 world champion, “I think it’s a good idea, if it’s opposed goal-line technology, said to bring it through.” He said he expectations that he would League wins with Barcelona while “one world title more or one less feasible or applicable we will see “if you have a mind you can also would raise the proposal with the develop into one of the world’s Ronaldo responded by adding can’t take anything away from in the future. But when I have an change the mind. International Football Association greatest players, but for all his a crown for Real Madrid last anything (Messi) has achieved to idea, generally I try to bring it “I think when I’m analys- Board (IFAB), which oversees the achievements with United, he month to his earlier success with be where he is today.” through,” Blatter told reporters in ing football you should not only laws of the game. 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HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER US President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Malia and Sasha (left) board Air Force One at Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Obama says he’s a “good, fun dad” who at times might cause his two teenage daughters to cringe. MUSCAT 38/29 Clear 39/29 Clear MAKKAH 35/25 Partly cloudy 36/25 Partly cloudy KUWAIT 42/29 Clear 42/26 Partly cloudy BAHRAIN 44/28 Clear 43/28 Partly cloudy SANAA 31/16 Partly cloudy 30/16 Chance of storm Secret Service tails my girls: Obama RIYADH 41/28 Clear 41/29 Clear DUBAI 41/29 Mostly cloudy 38/30 Partly cloudy WASHINGTON: US President Obama commented ahead of As for their budding social their high school years.” BAGHDAD 41/29 Mostly cloudy 38/30 Mostly cloudy Barack Obama says he’s a “good, Father’s Day — Sunday here in lives? The president says he In other comments, Obama — fun dad” who at times might the United States — in an exclu- doesn’t worry too much about who grew up without a father — THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW cause his two teenage daughters sive with Jenna Bush Hager, that. “They’ve got their heads on said he promised himself early on HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER to cringe. daughter of Obama’s Republican straight. They’re strong, confi- he would be a present dad once he In an interview aired yesterday, predecessor in the White dent young ladies.” had a family of his own. America’s first father also joked House, George W Bush who also Still, the Secret Service detail “I made a decision in young ATHENS 30/22 Clear 30/21 Partly cloudy that he sought a second term so grew up in the glare of the public shadowing the two sisters likely adulthood that it was going to be WASHINGTON 29/18 Chance of storm 27/18 Clear the Secret Service could keep a eye. means a better night’s sleep for important for me to make sure SYDNEY 19/09 Chance of storm 17/09 Partly cloudy close eye on 13-year-old Sasha Obama said he and First Lady the commander-in-chief. that I was there for my kids,” said LONDON 24/13 Thunderstorm 21/09 Chance of storm and 15-year-old Malia. Michelle are “really proud” of “Well as you know, from expe- Obama, known for making a point PARIS 26/19 Clear 26/19 Chance of storm “I think they would say that I their daughters, adding they don’t rience, shaped under this a little of regularly having dinner with ISTANBUL 24/18 Partly cloudy 26/19 Partly cloudy am a good, fun dad who teeters have to check on their homework bit, they do have a secret service his family and attending school on the edge of being embarrassing or “nag them too much about detail,” he told Hager Bush. sports games. MANILA 31/26 Chance of storm 31/26 Chance of storm sometimes,” Obama told NBC’s stuff.” “Which I joke, the main rea- “The one thing the girls know DHAKA 38/27 Chance of storm 36/28 Thunderstorm Today show when asked how his “They’ve got their acts son I ran for re-election was to about me is I love them to death.” DELHI 41/32 Partly cloudy 43/32 Partly cloudy girls would describe him. together,” he said. sustain that all the way through AFP ISLAMABAD 42/29 Clear 45/30 Clear Bush turns 90 with a skydive Six months to make world’s WASHINGTON: Former US president George H W Bush celebrated his 90th birthday tallest building, in China yesterday by carrying out his eighth parachute jump. BEIJING: “It’s always said that the end of this year, he hopes. His fungal growths, a wealth-bringing “It’s a wonderful day in Maine the solution to environmental crusade is brought to life in vivid zero-carbon Silicon Valley about — in fact, nice enough for a para- problems starts at the grass detail in a new documentary by which the local villagers couldn’t chute jump,” tweeted the elder roots level,’’ says Chinese bil- Finnish film-maker Anna-Karin be more excited. Bush, who has seemed frail in lionaire Zhang Yue, sitting in Gronroos. Zhang, meanwhile, battles with recent public appearances, and is his office in Changsha, central Wandering the verdant the inevitable suspicion with often seen in a wheelchair. China, in a building modelled on Mentougou valley outside which the international press The 41st commander-in- the Palace of Versailles. Out of Beijing, looking like a lost Father receives a plan for the tallest, chief parachuted out of a heli- the window extends a long cere- Christmas, we meet the white- most environmentally-friendly copter near his family home in monial avenue, lined with orna- bearded Eero Paloheimo, a building, built in less than a year, Kennebunkport, Maine. mental box hedges and cypress 77-year-old Finnish professor who by an air-con tycoon who has Television footage showed the trees, terminating in a replica has devoted the last 10 years to never erected anything more than aircraft hovering over the tar- of the Great Pyramid at Giza. trying to realise his lifelong vision 30 storeys. get of the skydive, the jump and “I think that’s a mistake. Rich for a clean-tech ‘’Eco Valley’’ in “There are rumours on the then the former president on the people recognise environmen- Europe, to no avail. internet calling Sky City a bluff,’’ ground a short time later, with tal problems first. How can you “It’s all that red tape and he tells a colleague in a heated a swarm of people assisting him. wake up if your living standard is bureaucracy that makes it so meeting, as they plot a lavish “41 doing ‘great, exhilarated’ very poor? Only the richest of the slow,’’ he bemoans. “But when I launch party to win the support of following his skydive and a ‘hot’ rich, the smartest of the smart, come here, it just takes a month politicians and suppliers. “People landing,” his spokesman Jim the greatest of the great, wake to get off the ground.’’ don’t trust us anymore. Therefore McGrath said on Twitter after up first.’’ The documentary follows the we need to convince them with a the jump. Former US President George H W Bush and Mike Elliott, US Army Sergeant Zhang would know about such trials and tribulations of these two ceremony.’’ The tandem jump was 1st Class (retirted), land on the lawn at St Anne’s Episcopal Church after things. He was the first man in men, giving fascinating glimpses The saga ends just as the Sky Bush’s eighth, with the first on jumping out of a helicopter yesterday in Kennebunkport, Maine. China to own a private jet, having behind the scenes of the Chinese City project begins on site, with a September 2, 1944 — when he was made his millions selling air con- eco gold rush. lavish ground-breaking party that shot down over the Pacific island said. “And that, I decided that leading the way, telling NBC the ditioning units, but at the age of We follow the bumbling has all the pomp and ceremony Chi Chi Jima as a pilot in World later on, well I want to do it right. 90-year-old was a “fine man.” 54 has now renounced his mate- Paloheimo as he attempts to of a project that is doomed to War II. He recalled that experi- And so that did spark my interest “And I just want him to know rial possessions in favour of sav- win approval for his grand remain a rendering. Sure enough, ence in an NBC interview with his in making another jump — this that from the whole Obama fam- ing the planet. And his answer? plan, attending conferences and just a few weeks later, construc- granddaughter Jenna Bush Hager time getting it correct.” ily, we wish him all the best,” the Building the tallest building in trade shows and grappling with tion was suspended when the aired yesterday, acknowledging it The Republican, who was in the current president said. the world in the fastest pos- the Chinese way of doing busi- authorities declared it lacked the actually made him want to jump White House from 1989 to 1993, The US Senate, meanwhile, sible time: Sky City, a vertical ness, like someone trying to use proper permits — not to mention again — and do it right. also jumped to mark his 80th and passed a resolution in honour of metropolis of homes and hotels, chopsticks for the first time. He the concerns over elevator design “I pulled the rip cord too early, 85th birthdays. Bush late on Wednesday, extend- schools and hospitals — along presents fly-through animations and fireproofing, wind-loading hit the tail of the plane with my Washington wished Bush well, ing best wishes to him and his with indoor farms capable of of sparling white blobs emerging and ground subsidence. head, just a glancing blow,” he with President Barack Obama wife Barbara. AFP feeding 20,000. To be finished by from the hillsides like futuristic THE GUARDIAN Doctors reach man in cave Hearth in the earth

BERLIN: Rescuers said yesterday that doctors had reached a researcher trapped for days with a serious injury in Germany’s deepest and longest cave and that he was fit enough to be rescued. The two doctors have deemed the 52-year-old explorer “transporta- ble” out of the dark and cold spot around 1,000 metres deep after reach- ing him late on Wednesday, the Bavarian mountain search and rescue service said. He was exploring the labyrinth-like Riesending cave on the Austrian border with two other people on Sunday when he suf- fered head injuries from falling rocks. “The patient is transportable. We can begin with the rescue of the patient,” Stefan Schneider, of the mountain rescue service, told reporters. A further six teams carrying rescue and care equipment accessed People visiting “The Gateway to Hell,” a huge burning gas crater in the heart of Turkmenistan’s Karakum desert. The fiery pit was the result of a the cave yesterday. Rescuers said they could not indicate when the simple miscalculation by Soviet scientists in 1971 after their boring equipment suddenly drilled through into an underground cavern and a deep operation to move Johann Westhauser would get under way due to sinkhole formed. Fearing that the crater would emit poisonous gases, the scientists took the decision to set it alight. But the flames have not gone the difficult conditions. AGENCIES out in more than 40 years.