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FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 • 13 Dhul-Qa’da 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6536 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Dust storm Call to avoid likely today, mercury high-priced set to rise DOHA: A dust storm is likely today with wind moving at speeds ranging from 19km an hour to 38km an hour and at products times reaching up to 46km. By night, however, high wind would likely to subside with speed Boycott campaign on social media coming down to 18km an hour. The weather forecast issued by DOHA: Several Qataris took criticized by the campaigner. the Met office for today said high to local social networking sites He said most traders in Qatar wind is expected and slight to yesterday calling on people are expats. “Qataris are licence- blowing dust (at places) could be to boycott products that they holders of businesses but they expected. Al Sharq, however, said Forensic experts investigate a lorry in which refugees were found dead on autobahn A4 between Parndorf and think are high-priced in a bid only charge a fixed sum as fee,” he a dust storm was likely in the day Neusiedl, Austria, yesterday. to curb galloping inflation in said. All manipulations are, thus, today and gave no further details the country. The drive seems done by expats. The Qatari owner except that coastal areas and the to be inspired by a social media doesn’t pay attention. seas could also be affected. campaign by people in Kuwait A person joining in, in the Visibility will be low — three against rising fish prices. social media campaign said an About 50 migrants found km initially and later improving The Kuwaiti campaign has independent media is needed to to four to eight km. been quite successful as a boy- help curb the price rise in Qatar. Day temperatures were rela- cott of fish by people has led fish “We need free media. A media tively low yesterday, but today wholesalers to drastically slash which represents people.” dead inside truck in Austria they are likely to soar to 45 their rates due to lower demand. Qatar is costlier than many degrees C in Doha. In Al Wakrah, The campaign he titled as European countries, he said. “The VIENNA: Austrian police found leaders, said she was “shaken” by Al Khor, Dukhan and Messaieed, “How to fight the greed of trad- rise in rents must be curbed. the decomposing bodies of up to 50 the “horrible” news. At least 30 die the maximum temperature fore- ers”, and gave a reference of the Business monopolies, including migrants in an abandoned truck “This is a warning to us to tackle cast is 43 degrees C. Kuwaiti social media campaign. car dealerships, must end (if price yesterday, sparking a cross-bor- this migrants issue quickly and in Night will be relatively cooler “People in Kuwait are socially rise is to be controlled.” Another der hunt for the people-smugglers a European spirit, which means in as boat sinks in places like Al Wakrah and aware. See how their campaign commentator blamed contractors responsible in the latest tragedy a spirit of solidarity, and to find TRIPOLI: At least 30 peo- Messaieed, with mercury levels has been successful. They have (contracting companies building in the Europe-wide crisis. solutions,” Merkel said. “Today is ple died when a boat car- dropping down to 29 degrees C. forced fish traders to reduce their Qatari homes?) and said they are The grisly discovery on a motor- a dark day... This tragedy affects rying around 200 migrants In Abu Samra, the minimum tem- prices,” said the man, exhorting to blame for soaring rents as they way near the Slovakia and Hungary us all deeply,” Interior Minister bound for Europe sank in the perature forecast is 28 degrees people here to boycott things that charge highly to build homes. borders came as European leaders Johanna Mikl-Leitner told a press Mediterranean off the coast C, while in Doha, 34 degrees C. they think are priced high and Yet another commentator again met to try to find ways to conference. “Human traffickers of Libya, the country’s coast The warning for the sea-goers for unjustifiably so. hinted that there is no public handle the flow of tens of thou- are criminals. Anyone still think- guard said. today is high wind and high seas The campaigner talks of expen- participation in market watch sands of people seeking refuge in ing that they’re kind helpers cannot “We have recovered 30 bod- to the north. THE PENINSULA sive automobile spare parts and and price monitoring and that the European Union. be helped,” the minister said. ies so far and rescued dozens food items and rising wages of free- could be the reason for price rise Police said the vehicle — which Police said more details including of people, with dozens more lance workers (like carpenters, in Qatar. There was no men- had the markings of a Slovakian the number of dead would be given still missing after a boat car- Crackdown on plumbers, electricians, masons, et tion, though, of high fish prices poultry company and Hungarian on today morning. The lorry, which rying around 200 migrants al). People joining in the campaign in the local market. Hamour, for number plates — contained police said was leaking “decompos- sank off (the western port partitioned villas added soaring rents to the list and instance, was sold here yesterday between 20 and 50 bodies. German ing body fluids”, was taken else- of) Zuwara,” a coast guard DOHA: Municipal inspectors in put it on top of the list. for QR84.50 a kg and King fish for Chancellor Angela Merkel, in where for the bodies to be removed. official said. REUTERS Al Rayyan have caught several Expatriates have been highly QR45. THE PENINSULA Austria for a summit with Balkan AFP illegally-partitioned villas in a crackdown that lasted a week. The drive was launched from August 18 and inspections were all conducted in the evenings. A total of 79 violations were Oil soars over 10pc in biggest one-day gain since 2008 caught in the jurisdiction of Al Rayyan Municipality during the drive. Many of the violations NEW YORK: Oil rocketed Chinese government measures to Front month Brent crude for short-covering rally in a bear prior to Wall Street’s close. Brent included illegally-partitioned vil- more than 10 percent higher stimulate the economy would pay October more than reversed a market they’re always violent. I briefly gave back more than $1 las while others were structures yesterday, posting its biggest off, while the dollar strengthened week’s worth of losses, rising wouldn’t be surprised to see it from its settlement price before that were built without licence one-day rally in over six years as risk aversion eased. $4.42 to settle at $47.56 a bar- continue another day or two,” said recouping all of it later. and labour camps in residential as recovering equity markets The rally was aided by news rel, marking a 10.25 percent rise. Tariq Zahir, managing member at US crude settled up $3.96, or areas. and news of diminished crude of a force majeure on Nigerian Gains accelerated toward the Tyche Capital Advisors in Laurel 10.3 percent, at $42.56 per bar- Vide law number 15 of 2010, supplies set off a short-covering oil exports declared by Shell and close, locking in the biggest one- Hollow, New York. As buying rel, its biggest one-day percent labour camps are banned in resi- scramble by bearish traders. private data indicating more day jump since late 2008, when pressure eases, prices may test gain since March 2009. It had dential areas where families live. Snapping back from a deep drawdowns in crude this week at prices were bouncing back after new lows, he added. hit a February 2009 low of $37.75 In Wakrah, in the meanwhile, two-month slump that knocked Cushing, Oklahoma, traders said. the financial crisis. That proved somewhat true in on Monday. There were signs 191 violations have been caught so US crude to 6-1/2 year lows below A big upward revision in second The contract traded on Monday Thursday’s post-settlement trade, that Thursday’s rally, while far this year and they also, argu- $40 this week, oil climbed as world quarter US economic growth at a March 2009 low of $42.23. when oil came off its highs, track- extreme, may not be long-lasting, ably, included illegally-partitioned stock markets rose on hopes helped. “Whenever you have a ing a volatile US stock market traders said. REUTERS homes. THE PENINSULA

Bolt wins world 200m gold for fourth time Two-day truce begins in More Republicans Syrian towns oppose Iran deal BEIRUT: A two-day ceasefire WASHINGTON: Opposition among Democrats held steady at between warring sides in Syria to a nuclear pact between Iran 16 percent. Republican support came into force yesterday in a and major powers grew among for the deal, which was agreed in rebel-held town near the bor- US Republicans over the past mid-July, fell to 19 percent from der with Lebanon, and two Shia month, a Reuters poll showed, around 26 percent in the July villages in the northwest, the reflecting a partisan struggle in survey. More than two-thirds of UK-based Syrian Observatory Congress as President Barack Republican respondents, or 71 for Human Rights said. Obama sought to win approval percent, said they would be less It is the second ceasefire in a for the deal. likely to vote for their member month in these areas between the The poll, taken from August of Congress if he or she endorsed Syrian army and the Lebanese 20-27, showed that 54 percent the historic deal. group Hezbollah on one hand, of Republicans now oppose the Republicans in Congress are and Syrian insurgents on the agreement to ease sanctions on staunchly against the deal, leav- other. The ceasefire came into Iran in exchange for restrictions ing the White House scram- force at 6am. on the country’s nuclear pro- bling to shore up support for the Sources close to negotiations gramme. That is up from 45 per- agreement among Democrats on both sides earlier said agree- cent of Republicans who opposed in the Senate and House of ment had been reached on a new the deal in July and just 30 per- Representatives. Congress is ceasefire in the town of Zabadani cent in April. expected to vote on whether to and the two villages of Kefraya Winner Usain Bolt of Jamaica celebrates with fans after winning the men’s 200m final during the Beijing 2015 Democratic support for the deal approve the deal next month and al Foua in the northwestern IAAF World Championships at the National Stadium in Beijing yesterday. See also page 19 fell slightly to 46 percent from 52 when its 60-day review period province of Idlib. REUTERS percent in July, but opposition expires. REUTERS FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Qatar holds joint ‘Decisive Decision 11’ drill in Mongolia ULANBAATAR: Qatar Armed Forces have concluded the ‘Decisive Decision 11’ exercise with their Mongolian counterparts in the capital Ulanbaatar. Minister of State for Defence Affairs and Cabinet Member H E Major General Hamad bin Ali Al Attiyah, who is on a visit to Mongolia, attended the clos- ing ceremony. Mongolian Defence Minister Tserendash Tsolmon, Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Ts Byambajav, Qatari Non-Resident www.swiss-belhotel.com Ambassador Sultan bin Salmeen Al Mansouri and Mongolian Tel commanders and Qatar Armed Fax Forces officers were present. The ceremony featured mili- tary parades at the end of the joint tactical exercise performed Tel by officer cadets of Ahmed Bin Fax Mohammed Military College Minister of State for Defence and Mongolian Armed Forces officers. Live ammunition was Affairs and Cabinet Member used. H E Major General Hamad bin Ali The ceremony also featured Al Attiyah with other officers at the Tel segments and audience praised event. Fax the college’s officer cadets and their efficiency. The exercise with the Mongolian armed was part of a training course forces was in the context of under the supervision of spe- close relations between both Tel + 974 44298888 cialist trainers. countries. Al Attiyah praised the effi- Meanwhile, Mongolian Fax ciency of joint forces that partic- Foreign Minister Lundeg ipated in the exercise, stressing Purevsuren and Mongolian that the college’s officer cadets People’s Party leader Tel have proven their high compe- Miyeegombyn Enkhbold held tence and combat capability. separate meetings with Al Fax The Minister also stressed Attiyah. the importance of such partici- Talks dealt with relations pations abroad which raise the between both countries and Tel level of Qatar Armed Forces and means of developing them. Al Fax improve combat preparedness Mansouri and Al Attiyah’s del- in different circumstances and egation attended both meetings. fields, noting that participation QNA

Tel Fax www.doha.hilton.com Tel SEC tells parents to ensure kids attend 44233333 974+ Fax 44233000 974+ school on first day of new academic year DOHA: Qatar’s education phone application through levels — primary, preparatory authorities are taking seri- which, among other things, and secondary. ously the issue of absenteeism Independent school manage- Nine of these schools are in state-funded Independent ments would inform parents if new. The total number of schools. a child bunks a class or school. students on the rolls of these The schools are reopening The SEC has a department schools is 102,355. Tel on September 6 for new aca- — Independent Schools’ office Al Dirham said: “We are demic year (2015-16) after the to look after these schools. following up and parents are Fax long summer break. Its director, Khalifa Al being urged to send their chil- Parents are being urged by Dirham, said in a statement dren to school on the first day school managements to make yesterday that all Independent itself,” reports QNA. sure their children attend the schools are ready to receive The SEC makes sure that Tel school on the first day. students for the new school its field officers periodically Fax Independent schools are year from September 6. visit Independent schools to run by private operators. “Necessary preparations check that they are following Attendance on the first day have been made,” Al Dirham SEC rules and guidelines. will not be counted but from Khalifa Al Dirham, Director, noted. The SEC has asked the Tel the second day — September 7. Independent Schools Office, The office is coordinating schools to not unnecessarily Fax According to new rules Supreme Education Council. with authorities to make sure burden parents and ask them imposed recently, students school buses are available from not to provide their chil- whose attendance falls short September 6, he said. dren with things not needed, of the minimum requirement, exams. School regulator, the There are 180 Independent including too many uniforms, will not be allowed to take Supreme Education Council schools all over the country, for instance. Tel periodical tests and terminal (SEC), has developed a mobile for boys and girls and of three THE PENINSULA Fax

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DOHA: Highlighting the airport are being planned in Tel importance of its ongoing the city and these develop- Fax expansion and commitment ments are likely to increase to the Indian market, Qatar the attractiveness of Nagpur Airways (QA) will reinstate and QA will be poised to meet it s non-s t op fl i g ht s t o Na g pu r demand in the market. from Doha on December 1. QA offers a wide selection of The service will take the flights from 12 cities in India airline’s total weekly passenger via its hub in Doha to desti- flights from 95 to 102 in 13 key nations, including Barcelona, cities in India. Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Tel QA had served Nagpur from London, Miami, New York, Fax September 2007 to May 2009. Paris, Philadelphia, Rome, Akbar Al Baker, Group Washington DC and many Chief Executive, QA, said: more. “Reinstating the Doha-Nagpur It has seen rapid growth in Tel route is part of QA’s strategy As part of its commitment to the Indian market, Qatar Airways is 18 years of operation and flies Fax to service increasing demand continuing expansion and reinstating non-stop flights on Doha-Nagpur a modern fleet of 164 aircraft by providing the best possible route. to 151 key business and leisure flying experience to our cus- destinations across Europe, www.marriottmarquisdoha.com tomers in India. flight time of over four hours. of over 900 audio and video the Middle East, Africa, Asia “Today, India has the larg- The aircraft will feature 144 on-demand options, with an Pacific, North America and Tel + 974 44195000 est number of destinations seats in a two-class configu- SMS text messaging service South America. Fax + 974 44195100 served by our carrier across ration of 12 in Business Class from each seat. Doha-Nagpur Daily any market and we will con- and 132 in Economy. Located in the State of Schedule: QR 588 leaves tinue to look for more destina- Selected aircraft will fea- Maharashtra and identified as Doha at 19:55 and arrives tions and additional flights to ture seatback TV screens, one of the flagship smart cit- in Nagpur at 02:15+1. Nagpur- expand our reach in the Indian providing passengers with the ies by the Indian government, Doha Daily Flight Schedule: subcontinent.” next generation interactive on Nagpur is set to emerge as an QR 589 leaves Nagpur at 03:45 QA will operate a daily A320 board entertainment system important trade and business and arrives in Doha at 05:55. on the route with an average Oryx One, featuring a choice hub. A new economic zone and THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 HOME / MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Leaders send Uganda president meets new Qatar envoy Chadian cultural event discussed greeting cables to Moldova president DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday sent a cable of con- gratulations to Moldovan President Nicolae Timofti on his country’s Independence Day. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani also sent a congratulatory cable to Timofti. Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent a similar cable to Timofti. Qatar relations with Thailand, Poland reviewed BANGKOK: Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister responsible for energy, agriculture, science Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni received Qatari Non-Resident Ambassador Ibrahim and technology affairs Prajin bin Mohammed Al Abdullah who presented his credentials. Juntong yesterday met Qatari Ambassador Jabor bin Ali Al Dosari. Talks dealt with rela- Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, Director-General, Katara, with Chadian Ambassador Abubakr tions between the two countries Al Siddiq Chourouma. and means of developing them. Qatar slams Israel’s closure of Al Aqsa gates In Warsaw, Deputy Speaker DOHA: Qatar has con- ities’ military and police. stressing the special status DOHA: Dr Khalid bin tural event. The ambassador high- of Polish parliament J demned Israeli closure of In a statement yester- of the mosque for Muslims. Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, Al Sulaiti said it would lighted the depth of ties Wenderlich met outgoing Qatari several gates of Al Aqsa day, the Foreign Ministry The ministry reiterated Director-General, Katara, bring the audience closer between both countries and Ambassador Extraordinary and Mosque for worshippers said Qatar condemns Israeli Qatar’s rejection of such yesterday met Chadian to the deep-rooted Chadian said the event at Katara Plenipotentiary Mansour Hadi and allowing extremists violations in holy places acts that would exacerbate Ambassador Abubakr Al culture, adding that Chad will be one of the fruitful bin Nasser Al Hajri and discussed and settlers to storm the and against the Palestinian tension and instability in Siddiq Chourouma and has rich African dimen- outcomes of cooperation relations between Poland and mosque under the protec- people and its infringement the region. discussed the possibility sions and authentic Arab between both countries. Qatar. QNA tion of occupation author- on freedom to worship, QNA of holding a Chadian cul- roots. QNA QNL’s ‘Back to School’ prepares FIFA 2022: Construction chemicals market to children for new academic year grow at 13 percent DOHA: Qatar National Library (QNL) yesterday organised its DOHA: The market for con- include BASF, Sika, Fosroc, first ‘Back to School’ event for struction chemicals in Qatar is Mapei, and Sodamco, says global young children at Education forecast to grow at a compound market research and consulting City Clubhouse. annual growth rate of (CAGR) company TechSci in its research Hundreds of children and of around 13 percent during report ‘Qatar construction chemi- their families attended the two- 2015-2020. cals market forecast & opportuni- hour event which included activ- Major factors boosting growth ties, 2020’. ities to inspire creativity among of the market include increasing “Post-2014, the infrastructure kids and set the mood for the housing demand by urban popu- sector is expected to pick up on beginning of the new school year. lation, rising awareness about account of government initiatives, “QNL organised the open quality of construction chemicals, especially increasing construc- event for children to develop expanding economy, high spending tion activities for FIFA World their abilities and nurture on construction activities by the Cup 2022 and implementation creativity. government and increasing con- of Qatar National Vision 2030 “It included activities for chil- struction of many infrastructure programme. dren and families such as sto- projects such as airports, subways, “This push in the sector is rytelling, songs, art and crafts tunnels, highways, bridges, rail- expected to boost construction to make them ready for the new way networks and power plants chemicals market over next school year,” Noor Mohamed, as a part of preparations for FIFA five years,” said Karan Chechi, Information Services Librarian World Cup in 2022. Research Director, TechSci for Children’s Services, QNL, The market is also driven by Research, a research-based man- told the media. increasing government spending agement consulting firm. “We are doing other events on building highways, drainage The report has analysed the but this is the first time we systems, stadiums and hotels, potential of the market and organised ‘Back to School’ and among others. provides statistics and informa- we hope to organise it every On account of high infrastruc- tion on market sizes, shares and year,” she added. ture growth anticipated in Doha trends. Under the supervision of QNL Children and parents take part in ‘Back to School’ event, organised by Qatar National Library, a member of Qatar City, demand for construction It intends to provide clients staff, participants challenged Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, to mark the beginning of the new academic chemicals is expected to witness with cutting-edge market intel- their creativity by designing year, at Education City Clubhouse yesterday. SALIM MATRAMKOT robust growth. ligence and help them take sound their pencil cases and toppers. With technologically advanced investment decisions. They also enjoyed listening to learners. Literature on learning resource for Pre-K to Grade 3), onwards) and Junior Reference products and wide distribution The report also identifies and stories and playing educational resources available online (www. Edutechnoz (database with over Collection (GALE) (award-win- network, foreign construction analyses emerging trends along games. qnl.qa) was distributed to par- 150 games for Arabic learning ning content for teens, including chemical players continue to with major drivers, challenges and The event was also an oppor- ticipants and visitors. from kindergarten to Grade 3), history, literature, science, social dominate in Qatar. opportunities in the construction tunity to inform the public about Online resources include Grolier Online (research and studies and more). Leading construction chemi- chemicals market. materials in store for young BookFlix (interactive literacy information tool for Grade 3 THE PENINSULA cal companies operating in Qatar THE PENINSULA

MERS virus kills Embassy team visits Indians 19 in a week in Tripoli group delays joining in prison, deportation centre Saudi: Ministry peace talks after official quits DOHA: Some 98 Indians them that the embassy deaths registered during RIYADH: Deaths from the SKHIRAT: Delegates of including Islamic State, Delegates of the rec- are in Qatar’s central would actively follow up 2014 was 279. MERS coronavirus have surged Libya’s rival government have taken advantage of the ognised government last prison while the number their cases with Qatari Following requests in Saudi Arabia ahead of Hajj, in Tripoli will hold off chaos to gain ground in the month agreed to a prelimi- of Indians at the depor- authorities. from Qatari authori- with 19 fatalities recorded in a joining peace talks that country. nary deal, but the Tripoli tation centre this week Arvind Patil, President, ties for travel documents week, according to health min- were due to start yester- A senior member of the team has refused to sign. was 214, according to Indian Community for Indian nationals in istry statistics. day until they form a new Tripoli delegation quit fol- They have been discuss- figures released by the Benevolent Forum (ICBF), the Deportation Centre, A total of 502 people have died team following the resig- lowing what his group ing a UN proposal that calls Indian embassy. a community association the embassy issued 18 in the kingdom since the virus nation of a senior negotia- described as differences for a one-year government A team of officials working under the aegis of Emergency Certificates first appeared in 2012, according tor, a representative said. with the head of the Tripoli of national accord in which a from the embassy visited the embassy for the wel- (ECs) in August, 2015. to updated figures posted on the The group did not say parliament over talks. Both council of ministers headed the prison and the centre fare of Indian workers, It also issued 19 air tick- ministry’s website, including 19, how long it might be until sides face divisions and by a prime minister and two this week to enquire about also attended the Open ets to Indians in distress all Saudis, since last Thursday. they could take part in the pressure from hardliners. deputies would have execu- the welfare of Indians, an House. for their return home, in The number of infections has UN-backed talks in Morocco Mowafaq Hawas, a rep- tive authority. embassy release said yes- This year, the Labour August. also surged to 1,171 cases, the to try and end months of resentative of that parlia- In Paris, the UN spe- terday, giving no details. and Community Welfare The ICBF continues website said. A surge in infections conflict with a separate ment, said they would have cial envoy to Libya said A monthly Open House Section of the embassy has to help Indian workers forced health authorities to shut internationally recognised to form a new team. “This is he was optimistic that the was held to address urgent received 2,778 complaints through welfare meas- the emergency ward at a main government. not because we want to leave two parliaments will be consular and labour issues so far. The number of ures, including air tickets, hospital in Riyadh last week, after The announcement was the UN dialogue,” he said. ready to agree on form- and cases of Indians in complaints received last financial assistance and at least 46 people, including medi- the latest in a series of The internationally rec- ing a unity government by Qatar at the embassy year was 3,943. medical help. cal staff, contracted the Middle hold-ups over talks, which ognised government and mid-September. yesterday. The number of deaths Assistance given by East Respiratory Syndrome. Western officials say are elected parliament have “I continue to believe Ambassador Sanjiv of Indians in Qatar regis- the ICBF to Indians dur- Saudi Arabia, preparing to host the only hope of halting the operated out of the east that around September 10 Arora, Deputy Chief of tered with the embassy in ing August includes nine more than two million Muslims fighting that has brought since an armed alliance we will be in a position to Mission R K Singh and August, 2015 so far is 26. air tickets for destitute from all over the world next Libya to its knees in the four known as Libya Dawn took have a final agreement,” other officials met com- The number of deaths workers, said the embassy month for the Hajj, is the worst- years since the overthrow of over the capital Tripoli and Bernardino Leon told plainants, discussed their registered during 2015 so statement. hit by the coronavirus. Muammar Gaddafi. set up its self-declared gov- France 24 in an interview. problems and assured far is 192. The number of THE PENINSULA AFP Islamist militants, ernment last year. REUTERS FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ISLAM Make travelling a Sunnah BY MARIA ZAIN

vid travellers who suddenly find they have embraced Islam tend Travelling is an important Sunnah to view the world in a new light. A Al Bukhari relays in a hadith in Islam as the Prophet encouraged that Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) once said: “Be in the world as a traveller or his followers to seek knowledge even stranger”, reminding Muslims that although the world is a temporary abode, as far away as China, indicating the appreciation of beauty still falls as an obligation upon every Muslim: to seek the that knowledge is borderless and world in contentment and to appreciate the bounty of God in all things big and travelling is a good way to expand small. Travelling is also an important Sunnah in Islam as the Prophet encouraged his the horizons of knowledge and followers to seek knowledge even as far away as China, indicating that knowledge experience. is borderless and travelling is a good way to expand the horizons of knowledge and experience. Travelling like this can also be for lei- sure, as long as the underlying intention is a good one, like to recuperate before going back to work, to appreciate a new culture or country, or to spend time with family. In Islamic history, Arab traders were ardent travellers, crossing into multi- nations for business purposes. This was soon followed by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and the first Muslims who migrated to different countries on dif- ferent occasions and later worked hard in spreading dawah to different communities. Even members of the companions were widely known to cross borders for the sake of Islam. They came as far as Abyssinia, Persia, amongst others, in order to seek knowledge from Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and later crossed Muslims. Another site, Crescent Rating, oceans to spread their love for Islam. Muslims are required to please Allah in whatever pools Muslim-friendly accommodation, Travelling as a Muslim is not different halal-dining facilities, masjids, du’as for as compared to travelling before becom- they do, whether it is in business, for leisure, during travelling Muslims, airports with prayer ing a Muslim, as long as certain guide- facilities, Muslim-friendly activities in lines are adhered to. Tourists, Muslim or educational trips or family vacations. various countries, amongst others. With not, are required to be respectful of their the worldwide Muslim population grow- place of travels, to represent themselves ing rapidly, it is safe to say that Muslim and their own country in a positive light. a Muslim community will also ease the his knowledge. Another person says that knowing the direction for prayer, searching travel is becoming easier, especially with For new Muslims, there is now a bigger travel for a new Muslim. At the very if Allah had given him similar to what He for prayer facilities and Muslim-friendly the widespread of information with obligation to represent Islam as a religion least, there will be a proper place for gave the first man, he would have acted in activities can also be challenging for the respects to unique Muslim needs. of knowledge and beauty. prayers. the same fashion. The reward for both of Muslim traveller. Consulting Muslim travel them will be the same. A third person is one, agencies is a good place to start. SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE DAILY WORSHIP AS A TRAVELLING A MUSLIM’S INTENTION OF whom Allah gives wealth but He does not Many service providers have a suite of Sharing travelling adventures with MUSLIM TRAVEL give knowledge. Therefore, he spends money travel packages for travelling Muslims, others is part and parcel of being a As a new Muslim, researching the fun- A Muslim’s intention as part and par- according to his desire. Another man says including airline services that will accom- member of a progressive Muslim com- damentals of worship when it comes to cel of his or her travels is also important. that if Allah had given him what He had modate halal meals; Muslim-oriented munity. Sharing a travelling experience travelling is important. Islam provides Muslims are required to please God in given that person, he would have acted in sight-seeing trips that include breaks will help promote Muslim service provid- ease and flexibility for Muslims to travel whatever they do, whether it is in busi- the same manner. These two will have the for prayer times and visits to local mas- ers, Muslim-friendly service providers in comfort, especially with regards to ness, for leisure, during educational trips same burden upon them.” (Ibn Majah, 4228) jids; halal dining throughout the stay and and add to the ease of travel of fellow prayers. The prayers of Dhuhr and Asr or family vacations. In light of this, Muslims need to refrain other activities that are Muslim-friendly. Muslims. Travelling the world in the can be shortened and combined within Thus, visits need to be planned with from anything that could compromise This would be helpful if travelling to a Islamic style is a good way to revive the their stipulated time frame, and so can good intentions: to search for better liv- their faith, like visiting night clubs, pubs, non-Muslim country for the first time. important Sunnah of learning of other the prayers of Maghrib and Isha. Having ing, to learn something new, to spend other places where alcohol is rampant, Otherwise, researching a place of cultures, spreading a good image of Islam said that, it would be wise to check in on quality time with loved ones or just engaging in activities such as gambling destination on one’s own is also possi- or simply enjoying the world from the prayer times of the given destination as to enjoy God’s blessings in His world, and spending time in places where there ble. Islamic Finder is a great website as lens of a Muslim, being reminded that this would also help plan daily activities through tourism. is free intermingling of genders. a starting point, pooling Muslim com- diversity is indeed the will of God. around such prayer times. After all, in order for a person to travel, These activities could very well compro- munities, their masjids (mosque), and As a new Muslim, there are many ways If travelling during Ramadan, or cus- God has provided wealth to facilitate the mise the intention to serve God as a believ- places of interests for the Muslim travel- one can enjoy being a tourist as long as tomary fasting days–such as Mondays journey, making it important that the ing Muslim. There are plenty of activities ler. Getting to know local Muslims before one refrains from engaging in activities and Thursdays–checking appropriate same person uses the given resources that Muslims can engage in that are fun, hitting the roads is a good way to begin that are frowned upon. Most importantly, times for Fajr and iftar is vital, and with good intentions. educational and healthy, without venturing one’s travels. Zabihah is also another web- a believing Muslim will find blessings in a packing quick snacks will help with the It has been narrated that: “There are into those that are specifically forbidden. site that has been proven useful for the trip if he or she wishes to please God and pre-dawn meal and breaking of fast, espe- four types of people: one is a man whom mobile Muslim. It lists out halal dining will really experience the essence of being cially if the day holds plenty of activities. Allah has given knowledge and wealth. DEALING WITH OTHER CONCERNS facilities around the world, complete with a mere stranger or tourist. Searching for a masjid (mosque) or He acts with respect to his wealth based on Looking for halal dining facilities, recommendations and reviews by other www.onislam.net How to be a VIP on the Day of Judgment BY MUZAMMIL H SIDDIQ with justice and fairness without any the special favor of Allah. It requires a only consenting but persuasive. Those favoritism or prejudice. Justice is the lot of moral strength to refuse tempta- who have such a strong character are We all need Allah’s bu Hurairah reported that the command of God for all people; but the tion when the other partner is attrac- indeed under the protection of Allah. Prophet (peace and blessings most critical is the doing of justice when tive, rich, and not only consenting but shade. We need be upon him) said, one has power and authority. More dif- persuasive. 6. A PERSON OF CHARITY WHO His shade in this A “Allah will cover seven people ficult is, of course, dealing justly with DOES NOT SHOW OFF CHARITY: with His shade, on the Day when there those who show hate and animosity 4. TWO PEOPLE LOVING EACH A person gives charity in such a way life and in the will be no shade but His: a just ruler, a towards you. A just person, especially a OTHER FOR THE SAKE OF ALLAH: that even his left hand does not know youth who has grown up in the worship of just leader or ruler, is given number one One should be friendly to all people what his right hand has done. This is a Hereafter. It is Allah, a man whose heart is attached to place in this list of seven. and deal with all people in a kind and very powerful and beautiful way to say the mosques, two persons who love each courteous manner. However, the friend- that a person gives quietly, discreetly mentioned that other only for Allah’s sake and they meet 2. A YOUNG PERSON GROWING UP ship for the sake of Allah, for the reasons and with sincerity. His/her purpose is and part in Allah’s cause only, a man who IN THE WORSHIP OF ALLAH: of piety and goodness is a very blessed not to show off, seek publicity, name or on the Day of refuses the call of a beautiful and influ- Worship of Allah is good for all people friendship. This is a sincere friendship fame; but only to please Allah. This is Judgment everyone ential woman for illicit relation with her at any age and time; but the worship and when two or more people become the highest kind of charity and it has a and says: I am afraid of Allah, a man who of Allah from the tender young age has attached to each other for Allah’s sake special reward and blessing from Allah. will be worried gives charitable gifts so secretly that his left special blessings. Many people become they bring a lot of good to themselves and hand does not know what his right hand devoted to Allah when they grow old. to those around them. This is a kind of 7. A PERSON WHO REMEMBERS and will try to find has given, and a person who remembers In the old age when the body becomes friendship that generates goodness in the ALLAH PRIVATELY: Allah while he is alone and his eyes are weak, people start paying attention to world and is especially blessed by Allah. Thinking of Allah, repeating His some protection flooded with tears.” (Al Bukhari) the spirit. However, to be conscious of Beautiful Names, thanking Him and and shade; but We all need Allah’s shade. To be under one’s spirit and growing up as a youth 5. A PERSON OF SOLID MORAL praising Him, these are the ways to Allah’s shade is to be protected by Him in the obedience of Allah bring a special CHARACTER: remember (dhikr) Allah. Doing the there will be no and be blessed by Him. We need His honor and blessings. The Prophet gave an example of this “dhikr” alone in one’s privacy, when no shade in this life and in the Hereafter. It solid character. He said a man tempted one is watching, with moving heart and shade on that Day is mentioned that the Day of Judgment 3. A PERSON WHOSE HEART IS for illicit relationship by a woman who tearful eyes is a sign of sincere faith and will be a very hard and difficult Day. CONNECTED TO THE MOSQUE: is beautiful and rich, influential or of a deep love of Allah. Those who have the except the special On that day everyone will be worried Literally it says that the heart is prestigious family (the word “mansib” love of Allah, they are indeed under His and will try to find some protection and hanging (mu`allaq) in the mosque. means all these things in Arabic) and shade and protection. shade of Allah. shade; but there will be no shade on that Imam Malik explained that it was a he refuses. Imam Ibn Hajar says that All these seven characters are deeply This shade will be Day except the special shade of Allah. person who when he leaves the mosque, this is not limited to a man only who is moral and spiritual characters. They This shade will be granted to seven spe- looks forward to coming back again soon. tempted by a woman; it equally applies indicate a person’s faith and sincere granted to seven cial types of people: Normally people’s hearts are attached to to a woman who may be tempted by commitment. They are related to feel- their jobs, business and home. Mosque a man who is very beautiful, powerful ing, thinking, speaking and action. These special types of 1. A JUST RULER OR A JUST is not the priority for many people. and rich and she refuses and says “I are true characters of sincere believers. LEADER: However, those who love the House of fear Allah.” It requires a lot of moral We pray to Allah to bless us with these people. It could be any person who has some Allah and keep it as their priority are strength to refuse temptation when the characters and with his shade in this authority and he/she uses this authority the blessed people and they shall receive other partner is attractive, rich, and not world and also in the Hereafter. Ameen. FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 US will be isolated if it rejects Iran deal: Envoy US Congress to vote next month on nuclear deal

UNITED NATIONS: The pain for its own sake.” continued to observe, through United States will be isolated on The ambassador urged US satellite imagery, the presence of the world stage and its influence senators and representatives to vehicles, equipment, and prob- diminished if Congress rejects carefully consider the fallout of a able construction materials. In the Iran nuclear deal, the US “no” vote on US diplomacy. addition, a small extension to an ambassador to the United “The price of our lonely walk existing building appears to have Nations has warned. away looks very high indeed,” constructed.” In an editorial published by she said. Even if the Republican- The changes were first observed Politico, Samantha Power argued dominated Congress passes a res- last month, a senior diplomat that a “no” vote from Congress olution against the deal, President familiar with the IAEA investi- would make it more difficult for Barack Obama could still veto gation said. The IAEA says any the United States to drum up that move, but the administra- activities Iran has undertaken at support for sanctions and part- tion would like to avoid such a Parchin since UN inspectors last ner with like-minded countries scenario. visited in 2005 could jeopardise to confront crises. “If Congress rejects the deal, we its ability to verify Western intel- “If the United States rejects will project globally an America ligence suggesting Tehran carried this deal, we would instantly iso- that is internally divided, unrelia- out tests there relevant to nuclear A girl cries at the yard of a school sheltering people displaced by Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen’s northwestern late ourselves from countries that ble, and dismissive of the views of bomb detonations more than a province of Saada, in the capital Sana’a, yesterday. spent nearly two years working those with whom we built Iran’s decade ago. Iran has dismissed with American negotiators to sanctions architecture in the first the intelligence as “fabricated”. hammer out its toughest provi- place,” Power warned. Under a “roadmap” accord Iran sions,” Power wrote in a piece Meanwhile, the UN nuclear reached with the IAEA parallel Coalition poised to retake Sana’a posted late on Wednesday. “We watchdog said in a report yester- to its groundbreaking settle- would go from a situation in which day that Iran appears to have built ment with the global powers, SANAA/RIYADH: Weeks Mansur Hadi remains distant, informed diplomats, but as anger Iran is isolated to one in which an extension to part of its Parchin the Islamic Republic is required after seizing Yemen’s south- five months after an advance grows over the humanitarian cost, the United States is isolated.” military site since May, delving to give the Vienna-based watch- ern port, Aden, members of a on his Aden bolthole by the the possibility of division appears The US Congress is due to into a major part of its inquiry dog enough information about its Saudi-led military coalition and Houthis, who overran the capi- to be growing. vote next month on whether to into possible military dimensions past nuclear activity to allow it to the local fighters it supports say tal a year ago from their north- “In the absence of a political endorse the deal reached in July to Tehran’s past atomic activity. write a report on the long vexed they are poised to oust Iranian- ern base, triggered the Saudi-led settlement the battle for Sanaa between Iran and six world pow- A resolution of the International issue by year-end. allied Houthi forces from the intervention. will be long, brutal, and deadly ers — Britain, China, France, Atomic Energy Agency’s Parchin “Full and timely implementa- capital Sana’a. At stake is not just who will with no obvious winner. A failure Germany, Russia and the United file, which includes a demand for tion of the relevant parts of the But Al Qaeda militants appear rule Yemen, which regional power to retake Sanaa by Hadi’s camp States. The agreement would lift fresh IAEA access to the site, is road-map is essential to clarify to be using the coalition’s gains will hold sway and whether its is likely to lead to a de facto par- crippling UN sanctions against a symbolically important issue issues relating to this location at against the Houthis in the south persistent jihadist threat can be tition of Yemen,” said Ibrahim Tehran in exchange for curbs on that could help make or break Parchin,” the new IAEA report to entrench their position, as ended, but its future as a single Fraihat, senior political analyst Iran’s nuclear program. Tehran’s July 14 nuclear deal with said. According to data given fractures start to show between state after centuries of tribal dis- at Brookings Doha Centre. Power argued that rejecting the six world powers. to the IAEA by some member local groups of fighters with putes and regional divisions. Such a settlement still looks deal would undermine the US’s The confidential IAEA report, states, Parchin might have housed the departure of their common Saudi Arabia and its allies elusive, with each side attempt- ability to seek sanctions in other obtained by Reuters, said: “Since hydrodynamic experiments to enemy. want to maintain the state cre- ing to escalate the fighting since situations because it would convey (our) previous report (in May), assess how specific materials The prospect of returning ated in 1990 by the merger of the the fall of Aden. an image of the United States as at a particular location at the react under high pressure, such exiled President Abd-Rabbu old north and south Yemen, say REUTERS “a superpower intent on inflicting Parchin site, the agency has as in a nuclear blast. AGENCIES

Seven killed Abbas seeks to consolidate power in PLO in clashes in GAZA/RAMALLAH: President 714-member Palestinian National Council, to be rejuvenated — and when we try to month unexpectedly dismissed the sec- Turkey’s restive Mahmoud Abbas is acting to shake up or parliament, into session within 30 days develop it, they call it a settling of scores,” retary-general of the PLO, Yasser Abed Palestinian politics with peace talks with to elect a new committee. That is when, his Ahmed Majdalani, a committee member Rabbo, who had been critical of his Israel in deep freeze and unity efforts critics say, he will be re-elected committee allied with Abbas, told Voice of Palestine decision-making. southeast with Hamas Islamists who run the Gaza chairman and pack it with cronies. radio. Abed Rabbo said that some of Abbas’ Strip stalled. If, as widely expected, Israel bars leg- Palestinian political analyst Hani Al close aides were behind what he called “silly ISTANBUL: Seven people, In power for more than a decade, and islators living in Gaza or in exile from Masri, however, said Abbas, who was conspiracies” inside the PLO in the bid to including a child, were killed facing a mounting challenge to his stew- attending the September 15 meeting of elected to a four-year term as president remove rivals like himself. in clashes between Kurdish ardship, Abbas, 80, resigned last week the legislature in Ramallah, in the Israeli- in 2005 and has not faced a vote since then, Mohammed Dahlan, a former official in militants and security forces as chairman of the Palestine Liberation occupied West Bank, Abbas loyalists will was signalling he did not plan to step down Abbas’ Fatah party who is now one of his in Turkey’s restive Kurdish- Organization’s Executive Committee, its likely be the ones choosing the committee. any time soon. “He wants everything to be main critics, issued a statement accusing majority southeast yesterday, top decision-making body. Abbas supporters said the president was in his hands,” Masri said. him of carrying out a “palace coup”. officials said. But few saw the move, in which nine of only trying to pump new blood into the Ghaith Al Omari, a senior fellow at The Hamas, which is not a member of the Fighting erupted in the Cizre Abbas’s colleagues on the 18-member com- PLO, the former main Palestinian guer- Washington Institute for Near East Policy, PLO but slated under a 2012 unity pact to district of Sirnak province when mittee also stepped down, as little more rilla group and now its umbrella national wrote on its website that the resignations be part of a committee — which has never Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) than a manoeuvre to bolster his own stand- independence movement. were “likely internal political manoeuvres met — to reform the organisation, called rebels attacked a military outpost ing and weaken his opponents. “Critics have been saying the PLO has aimed at consolidating power”. Abbas’ move a “retreat from the reconcili- with rocket launchers, a security Under PLO rules, Abbas’s step forces the aged and is paralysed and that it needs Fuelling such sentiments, Abbas last ation agreement”. REUTERS source said. Three Kurds, one of them a seven-year-old boy, died of gun- shot wounds in hospital, the Car bomb attack source said, adding that seven others, including three Turkish soldiers, were also wounded in Iran executes the fighting. Heavy fighting was also raging between the army and PKK militants in the Yuksekova district of Hakkari province, Kurdish activist where authorities imposed a cur- few late on Wednesday. DUBAI: Iran executed a fighters said they killed 12 Iranian Pro-Kurdish media reported Kurdish activist on Wednesday soldiers, but Iran only confirmed that several civilians had been accused of killing a public pros- five deaths. Many Kurds in Iran killed, but the reports could not ecutor, the second such case complain of oppression of their cul- be independently verified. this month, rights groups said, tural identity and of discrimina- The PKK has been staging daily as Iran, unsettled by Kurdish tion, mainly for government jobs, attacks against Turkish armed gains in the region, tightens the and want a regional government forces as the military keeps up air screws on its Kurdish minority. like that of the Kurds in Iraq. raids and operations against its Behrouz Alkhani, 30, was con- A ceasefire between the gov- strongholds in southeast Turkey victed in 2011 of having ties to the ernment and PJAK was signed in as well as northern Iraq. Party of Free Life of Kurdistan 2011, when Iran said it would sus- According to figures pub- (PJAK), an outlawed group that pend executions of Kurdish politi- lished Thursday by the state-run seeks self-governance for Iran’s cal prisoners if PJAK stopped Anatolia news agency before the Kurds and has links to Turkey’s its attacks. Both sides regularly latest incidents, 918 PKK mili- militant Kurdish Workers’ Party violated the deal, but in recent tants have been killed in the lat- (PKK). months the number of clashes est campaign. He was also found guilty of has shot up. The PKK took up arms against being involved in the shooting Iran’s seven million Kurds make the Turkish state in 1984 in an of a public prosecutor in West up around 10 percent of the popu- insurgency to seek independ- Azerbaijan Province in 2010, lation. Most live in Kurdistan, a ence for the Kurdish-dominated which the authorities blamed on region in the northwest on the southeast, although its demands the PJAK. His brother, Peyman border with Iraq. It is among the later moderated to autonomy and Alkhani, confirmed that he was most politically active regions in Members of the Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces inspect the site of a car bomb suicide attack in the northern greater rights. AFP a member of PJAK, but said he Iran, where little dissent is toler- city of Kirkuk, yesterday. never took up arms. ated. In recent months, workers Amnesty International called and activists have held a series of Alkhani’s trial “grossly unfair” and demonstrations and strike actions said his execution was a “denigra- calling for equal rights. tion” of both Iranian and inter- Iranian President Hassan Egypt to try suspects in foiled attack on tourists national law because his sentence Rowhani visited Kurdistan last was under appeal at the Supreme month, his first visit after Iran Court. Iranian officials have made reached a historic nuclear deal CAIRO: Egypt has referred 12 along with two “foreigners” who The June 10 attack was foiled Militants have carried out doz- no comments about the case. with world powers in July, a pow- men to military trial for alleged were killed in the incident at by a suspicious taxi driver and ens of attacks in Egypt since the Earlier this month, Iran exe- erful symbol that the country was involvement in a cell behind a the Karnak temple in Luxor, the police. One of the assailants blew army overthrew Islamist presi- cuted another PJAK-member, choosing the path of its moder- narrowly averted attack on tour- prosecution said in a statement. himself up and police shot dead dent Mohamed Mursi in 2013 and Sirvan Nezhavi. Within days, ate politicians over its hardliners. ists at a pharaonic temple in Eight of the suspects had been another before they could attack cracked down on his supporters. PJAK’s military wing retaliated However, on the Kurdish ques- June, prosecutors said yesterday. arrested and four were still on any tourists. A third, an Egyptian, Most of the attacks have targeted by attacking a Revolutionary tion, the hardliners in the judi- The assailants had been the run, said a prosecution offi- was mistakenly wounded by a stray soldiers on the Sinai Peninsula Guards’ base in Kamyaran near ciary and Revolutionary Guards recruited by the Islamic State cial. Their nationalities were not shot from another militant and where the Islamic State group’s the border with Iraq. The Kurdish currently prevail. REUTERS (IS) group’s Egyptian affiliate, immediately clear. arrested, the prosecution said. affiliate is based. AFP FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 06 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE ACTION is strikingly different, but the narrative sounds eerily similar: A disgruntled African- American fed up with marginalisation; complaints Tof being bullied at work because of being queer and Scott Walker stakes his black; a history of aggression apparently related to mental health issues; and the use of social media to brag about a deadly gun attack carried out in broad daylight. Vester Lee Flanagan, 41, also known as Bryce Williams, territory on foreign policy committed a shocking crime in Virginia, USA, when he shot BY JOSH ROGIN dead two journalists on air. The reporter and cameraman were he acknowledges would be difficult. Israel were like Dan Aykroyd and Eddie conducting an interview as part of a live breakfast TV show on In his speech, Walker plans to argue Murphy in the film “Trading Places.” In here comes a time in every presi- that the threats of Iran and the Islamic July, he was forced to distance himself WDBJ7 when they were killed. dential campaign when the can- State are intertwined and require a from a former Iranian hostage he had Flanagan, who later killed himself while being trailed by Tdidate must make his case to coordinated strategy. He casts both praised, after revelations that man had police, shot the video of the planned murders and immediately voters that he should be trusted to be threats as the result of a passive pol- advocated for expansive attacks on sev- put it up on social media. He also sent a 21-page fax to ABC the commander in chief of the US mili- icy practiced by Obama and former eral Middle Eastern countries. Earlier news that was a rambling manifesto of why he committed the tary and the leader of the free world. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, this month, Walker compared the Iran That moment is now for Wisconsin Gov what he repeatedly called “leading from deal to allowing teenage boys to have gruesome act. Scott Walker, and he is fighting for his behind.” Walker extended that critique girls in their bedrooms without adult Though America and the world has been shocked by the own foreign policy identity against rivals to bat down one contender who isn’t supervision. grisly killings of reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio. running yet: Vice President Joe Biden. Today’s speech is intended in part Ward, the sense of protest seems to have been muted by the Walker is ready to roll out his foreign Walker argued that governors have to replace the image that those com- realisation that the recurrence of such incidents cannot be policy in a speech today at the Citadel in more direct experience with leader- ments created. Following Obama’s prevented. South Carolina, just a couple of weeks ship and management, as opposed to advice, Walker has indeed been bon- after Bush laid out his plan to defeat senators like Rubio, Ted Cruz or Rand ing up. He now has a full foreign policy The offence is a repulsive concoction of gun crime, race the Islamic State. Rubio plans to give Paul. As for Bush, he said: “It’s not a senior advisory team. Led by former tensions and attitudinal issues at the workplace. In his his own foreign policy speech in South difference in terms of matter of expe- Sen Jim Talent, the group also includes confessional fax, Flanagan complained of being bullied at work. Carolina today as well, focused on China. rience; it’s just a difference in terms of former State Department official Kim In fact, he said it had become so In an interview Tuesday, Walker told approach.” Holmes; former State Department offi- bad with his colleagues at WDBJ7 me he would be demonstrably differ- He referenced the comments of cial Stephen Rademaker, now with the Another crime that he was a “human powder ent from Bush on Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol, Podesta Group; Center for Strategic foreign policy by who said last month, “Bush seems more and International Studies scholar in the US has keg... just waiting to go BOOM!!!!” scuttling the Iran Bush-like, and Walker seems more Heather Conley; former Pentagon offi- The crime has yet again stirred deal as soon as he Reagan-like.” cial Mary Beth Long; Hudson Institute roiled the gun debate over gun control laws and took office. Walker is careful to temper his call Middle East scholar Mike Doran; the Walker’s stance ownership race relations in US. The incident “My view is, for a more assertive US foreign policy American Enterprise Institute’s China took place on a day a Colorado on foreign if you think it’s with a recognition that the overreach hand Dan Blumenthal; former State a bad deal now, of the George W Bush administration, Department official David Kramer, court sentenced a man to 12 policy reflects debate, but you should be especially the invasion and occupation now with the McCain Institute; and stricter laws consecutive life terms for shooting the calculation prepared to do it of Iraq, is extremely unpopular. former Bush administration official dead a dozen people inside a that nuance and on Day One,” he “I’m not advocating that we become Robert O’Brien. He also has a small are unlikely. theatre screening a Batman movie moderation are less said. “I’m going the world’s policeman or that we in-house national security staff led in 2012. The killer was arrested to be a Day One become nation builders, but I do think by former Senate Foreign Relations with numerous weapons outside politically beneficial president.” we need to have a stronger presence in Committee aides Mike Gallagher and than clarity and Bush said last the world and that will make us more Daniel Vajdich. the theatre. month that he safe,” he said. (Walker likes to talk in Walker’s stance on foreign policy A large number of killings and violence have brought to the assertiveness. He’s would wait until terms of “safety” rather than “national reflects the calculation that nuance surface hidden tensions over race in the United States. Many been bolder than he had a Cabinet security.”) and moderation are less politically ben- crimes related to race have been committed with the help of Bush on calling out in place before When Walker first promised to eficial than clarity and assertiveness. deciding about quickly trash the deal, President Barack He’s been bolder than Bush on calling firearms. White supremacists have gone on a shooting spree China and Russia. and trigger-happy policemen haven’t hesitated to pull the the deal: “If you’re Obama told him to “bone up” on for- out China and Russia, even calling on running for presi- eign policy. Some of his early comments Obama to cancel next month’s state visit trigger at the slightest provocation, sometimes without any. dent, I think it’s on foreign policy have raised eyebrows, to Washington by Xi Jinping. He has Expressing regret over the incident, US President Barack important to be mature and thoughtful such as in February when he seemed to talked more than Bush, but less than Obama has reiterated the need to revisit gun ownership about this.” Donald Trump, who is lead- compare his fights with Wisconsin pro- Rubio, about promoting democracy and laws. Every such incident triggers an outpouring of rage in ing in the polls, has also said he would testers to the fight against the Islamic human rights. American society and the debate over guns turns starkly not terminate the Iran deal on Day One. State. Now, Walker says his comments Walker’s challenge, in the foreign pol- Walker said he would stop waiving were misinterpreted. icy speech today and beyond, is not just bipartisan. The stress on free speech and civil liberties in US sanctions against Iran and would “My point was, the kind of pressure to make a good impression. It is to carve the US has contributed significantly to the development of also work with Congress immediately that I was under at the height of the out a space in the foreign policy sphere a democratic society. Gun ownership remains a sore point to impose new, crippling sanctions with protests, with the death threats and that is different from competitors like around which Americans seem to be broadly divided. The time the hope of bringing Iran back to the everything else, showed that I have the Bush and Rubio, while spelling out why has come for US to reform gun ownership laws in the interest negotiating table. He said he would also capacity to handle pressure,” he said. “I he and not they should be commander of the general good even if it means denting freedom• work with allies to get them to reimpose wasn’t intimidated.” in chief. their own sanctions against Iran, a task In March, he said that Iran and BLOOMBERG The other side Quote of Looming crisis the day HE CRISIS-RIDDEN textile yarn, fabrics and garments attract the spinning segment, before an inter- the textile sector. The scheme, that is sector, being labour-intensive, duties respectively at rates of 3.5, 8.5 vention by the Union Textile Ministry estimated to have so far resulted in should have been an ideal and 14 per cent. Yet, Pakistan, Vietnam ensured resumption of smooth sup- investments of over `3,00,000 crore in candidate for a push as part and Cambodia enjoy zero-duty access plies. Tinkering with the cotton mar- the whole textile value chain, will expire of T the Prime Minister’s pet ‘Make in in some categories in the US, EU and ket through Minimum Support Price in March 2017. It should be extended. This is great. India’ initiative, but as the issues it is China. India’s trade negotiators need operations must be avoided. Instead, A comprehensive National Textile Policy mired in remain unresolved, and with to seek expedited results. China is not direct cash subsidy benefit to farmers must be announced at the earliest to This is the fourth losses mounting, the situation is grim. picking up much from India this year. could help reform the sector. China create a level playing field with regard Nearly half of India’s power looms are Cotton was cheaper in India this year has also decided to go in for direct to tariff rates, raw material costs, cost time over 200 at a standstill: the spinning industry in initially. But the Cotton Corporation of subsidies to cotton growers, with its of funding and transaction costs. Each the northern and southern regions has India for several months sold the textile industry free to source cotton power loom provides work to about 2.5 metres and it pressed in shutdowns of as much as 15 good-quality produce procured in at international prices. The Technology workers. Closures all across the coun- to 20 per cent of production capacity. Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and parts Upgradation Fund Scheme that was try could endanger livelihoods on a means a lot to The textile industry as a whole is reeling of Maharashtra at prices higher than originally brought in by the Atal Bihari large scale. Conversely, a healthy textile me. For me, it’s a under high input and transaction costs. international levels, making Indian cot- Vajpayee government and launched in sector could potentially create millions The products find it hard to compete ton uncompetitive. This added to the 1999, is a ready framework available of jobs. That should be the target. big deal. Usain Bolt in export markets, where India-made problems of the industry, especially to the Centre to address the needs of THE HINDUSTAN TIMES Jamaican sprinter FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Rowhani faces pressures at home Securing the release of the high-profile political prisoners would fulfil one of Rowhani’s biggest campaign promises two years ago, but it is fraught with risks and could lead to an outright showdown with Iranian hardliners.

BY BABAK to national security. Some hard- for the house arrest, though mem- 2009 election, attended the inau- DEHGHANPISHEH line clerics and politicians have bers of the opposition say it is gural meeting of the Union of even suggested they should be a result of a direct decision by Islamic Iran People Party, which aving struck a his- executed. “The political risks Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali is expected to put forward candi- toric nuclear deal are great. The hardliners still Khamenei, the country’s highest dates at next year’s parliamentary to end decades of control parliament. They con- authority. election. enmity between trol the security and intelligence All three have had serious None of the attendees men- Iran and the West, forces. They control the appara- health problems while under tioned the detained trio in HPresident Hassan Rowhani faces tus which has been instrumental house arrest and have been hos- speeches but some of those at a fresh challenge at home, to win in keeping these individuals under pitalised more than once. the meeting last Thursday lobbied the release of leading political house arrest,” said Faraz Sanei, Despite the boost that Rowhani Rowhani about the issue during a prisoners whose case has polar- the Iran researcher at Human received from the nuclear deal, meeting in June, according to the ised the Islamic Republic. Rights Watch. it is unlikely that Moussavi, opposition Kaleme site. Former presidential candidates By contrast Rowhani’s author- Karroubi and Rahnavard will Other prominent politicians Mir Hussein Moussavi and Mehdi ity, centred on the cabinet and be released in the short term, and clerics have also spoken up Karroubi, along with Moussavi’s his presidential office, has only Karroubi’s son Mohammad Taghi about the case. Some supporters wife Zahra Rahnavard, have been limited influence over whether said in an interview from Britain. of the trio have been targeted in under house arrest since 2011. to extend or end the reformists He pointed to two key elections recent months. Securing the release of the detention, he said. coming up next year: majles, or In March, parliamentarian Ali high-profile trio would fulfil one Moussavi, Karroubi and parliament, and the Assembly of Mottahari, who has brought up of Rowhani’s biggest campaign Rahnavard — a prominent aca- Experts, a body that selects the the issue in parliament repeat- promises two years ago, but it is demic who campaigned along- Supreme Leader. edly, was attacked in Shiraz by a fraught with risks and could lead side her husband — were blamed Given the 76-year old motorcycle mob who broke the to an outright showdown with for stoking the unrest after the Khamenei’s health woes — he windows of his car. Iranian hardliners, experts say. disputed 2009 presidential elec- had prostate surgery last year When one of Karroubi’s former Iranian President Hassan Rowhani at his presidential office in Tehran. Just how important the issue tion in which Ahmadinejad was — it is likely that this Assembly, spokesmen, Esmail Gerami is to Rowhani’s supporters was declared the winner. which will sit for eight years, will Moghaddam, returned to Iran has shown himself to be prag- having them in opposition.” If the made clear after the announce- But it was two years later, after choose his successor. “Lifting the after six years of self-imposed matic, experts say. issue of the house arrest of Iran’s ment of the nuclear deal last Moussavi and Karroubi called for house arrest might increase the exile in July he was arrested at Rowhani could appeal to that most prominent political prison- month, when people celebrating in street protests in solidarity with capabilities of the reformists and Tehran airport and transferred to pragmatism by arguing that ers is not addressed, the serious the streets of Tehran held up pic- the 2011 Arab uprisings, that the other groups and strengthen their Evin prison, according to a report releasing the trio could help tamp divisions created by the unrest in tures of Moussavi and Karroubi trio were placed under house hand in the elections,” said Taghi. by the International Campaign down internal tensions and stabi- 2009 will continue, experts say. and chanted for their release. arrest. Their detention is an “They don’t want to create a situ- for Human Rights in Iran. As lise the Islamic Republic. “In terms of the political con- The two men, who both ran ongoing reminder of the deep rift ation where the hardliners will the nuclear deal increases Iran’s “Rowhani comes from the core sciousness, those individuals against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad created in Iranian society, some- have a greater loss.” interaction with the world, there of the establishment. He thinks are on the minds of everyday for Iran’s presidency in the dis- times dividing households, by the The political threat from will likely be more pressure for that if you open up the system it Iranians,” said Sanei from Human puted 2009 elections, came to be street violence and arrests follow- reformists, many of whom were the release of Moussavi, Karroubi will make the system more dura- Rights Watch. “As long as that seen as figureheads of the coun- ing the 2009 elections. The issue arrested or harassed by security and Rahnavard, experts say. ble,” said Ervand Abrahamian, a issue is not resolved and those try’s reformist “green movement”. has even led to heated debates forces after the 2009 election But the key will be Khamenei. professor of Iranian and Middle people continue to be in limbo I Hardliners refer to them as between hardline and moderate unrest, increased last week when In the past, when the Iran’s vital Eastern history at the City think that open wound continues “sarane fetne”, or the “leaders politicians within the Iranian the first meeting of a new political security or economic interests University of New York. “And to to fester for hardliners, reformists of sedition” and have refused parliament. party was held. have been threatened — as with do that it make more sense to or ordinary Iranians who are not any compromise on their release Until now, no security agency or Dozens of prominent reform- sanctions over the country’s open up and bring in the reform- necessarily political in any way.” because they are seen as a threat individual has taken responsibility ists, out of the limelight since the nuclear programme — Khamenei ers into the regime rather than REUTERS

refugees,” Milic said. She organ- ised a group of people to produce a map in Arabic showing local Recalling their own banks, the Belgrade mosque and other points of interest to the migrants while in the Serbian capital. Milic said she was very proud of her fellow citizens’ response. war, Belgraders help “This is the same group of peo- ple that welcomed poor people” during the wars in 1990s, she said, referring to the period when Serbia hosted hundreds of thou- refugees from Syria sands of refugees. Sense of normality “People here have war mem- ories and that makes them sympathetic for the refugees,” Simon-Paunovic agreed. “When I tell vendors at the Kalenic open market that I am buying fruit for refugees, they always add a kilo of fruit free of charge for them. Each time,” she said, adding that people “from throughout ex-Yugoslavia are offering help”. But both she and Milic say that the migrants especially appreci- ate the time that local people are prepared to spend with them. “What gives them dignity is A young migrant girl from Syria looks around at the scene in a park in to eat with them, to spend some time with them, to talk to them. downtown Belgrade. That’s what they need, a sense of normality,” she said. “People keep coming to the sleeping on the ground or in some “Once they reach their destina- park bringing clothes, food, even of the dozens of small tents set up tion they all message us and that money. They play with the kids for them. feedback is priceless.” and that is really nice, it helps the Most of those in the park are Simon-Paunovic, a German children for a moment to forget Syrians, but there are also people national, goes to the park daily the ordeal we are going through,” from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and spends hours playing with 28-year old Hiba said. Bangladesh and elsewhere. children, drawing and teaching A migrant familly sleeps in a park near the main bus and train station in Belgrade. The only water truck is them the German alphabet and ‘We feel welcome in Serbia’ thronged by people trying to numbers or how to write their Travelling with her sister and wash, women doing their laun- names in German. BY KATARINA SUBASIC didn’t want it to be yet another during the conflicts that tore three nieces to Germany where dry and men grabbing a chance One day she came up with a fast food meal from a plastic bag, Yugoslavia apart in the 1990s, her two brothers live, Hiba, a law- for a shave. “flower project: handing roses to ordan Paunovic couldn’t but something that would remind Belgraders have responded yer by training, said she hoped to Social networks are playing an the female refugees and kids”. sleep the night after he them of lunch at home, at least with sympathy to the influx of bring her husband and two sons, important role as people share “Later on — during my playing met a Syrian refugee for a moment,” Gordan said. migrants, bringing with them all who have stayed in Damascus, to their experiences in the park and and teaching session with at least Gfamily in a Belgrade “We ate together, as a family sorts of aid. join her once she gets settled. inspire others to make their way 20 kids — the mothers came over park, where hundreds of migrants and friends,” in the park with no Local authorities and human “After our ordeal in Macedonia there. and threw rose petals all over us. pause for a rest before continuing name on Karadjordjeva Street, he rights organisations have opened where we spent three days on Jelena Milic brought a refugee But not everyone is as enthusi- their journey towards EU. added. an information centre, provid- the border and where police family to her home for a day and astic about welcoming those tran- “I wondered all night if I should That was just the beginning ing all necessary information to beat people, we feel welcome in a half. Her story went viral on the sitting Serbia. Milic said she had have invited some of them into of a surge of solidarity shown by refugees in Arab, Urdu and Farsi Serbia where even the police at Internet as she posted photos of received a number of xenophobic my home, to offer them a shower Belgraders in recent weeks to on where and how they can meet the entrance gave toys to the chil- the smiling children luxuriating comments and threats over her and to spend at least one night in some of the thousands of migrants their needs, but also receive medi- dren,” she said, while waiting in in a bed. efforts to provide aid. a bed,” he recalls. passing through the town on their cal aid and psychological help and the park for a bus to take her to “I posted photos so their family Some extreme-right groups The next day he and his wife way to what they hope will be a support. the north towards EU member can see they were fine, making my and political parties have called Susanne Simon-Paunovic went better life in western Europe. A taxi association sends drivers Hungary. Facebook profile a contact point for a wall to be erected on the back to the park with a lunch for Having endured the horrors of free of charge to donors’ homes to Hundreds of her fellow compa- for them, but it went viral and border with Macedonia, similar the family. war themselves and hosted hun- pick up donations and to trans- triots and other nationals were it helped spread the information to the one Hungary is building on “We brought a tablecloth. We dreds of thousands of refugees port offered aid collecting centres. spread out throughout the park, about other activities to help the its frontier with Serbia. AFP FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST

Syria approves visas for UN staff

IS kills two generals in Iraq UNITED NATIONS: Syria has agreed to grant visas to 47 UN staff members following Militant group seizes five villages from rebel forces in Syria months of haggling that have undermined UN relief efforts in BAGHDAD: A suicide attack the main command headquarters the war-torn country, the UN claimed by the Islamic State north of Ramadi. aid chief said yesterday. (IS) group killed two Iraqi gen- It said all six of the jihadists Stephen O’Brien, the under- erals yesterday in the key bat- were killed. secretary general for humani- tleground province of Anbar, The Iraqi Joint Operations tarian affairs, told the Security as the militants made gains in Command confirmed the deaths Council yesterday that the Syrian neighbouring Syria. of the two officers along with mission to the United Nations had IS overran large areas of Iraq an unspecified number of other informed him of the decision to in 2014 and seized Anbar capi- “heroic martyrs”. allow the UN staff in the country. tal Ramadi earlier this year. It The death or injury of senior “I have just this minute received also controls major territory in officers during battles against IS news from the Syrian mission Syria, where it has thrived amid is a persistent problem for Iraq. that the 47 pending visas for the a bloody civil war. Two heads of the Anbar United Nations are going to be Military spokesman Brigadier Operations Command have been granted,” O’Brien said. General Yahya Rasool said a wounded this year, while the He had asked the Syrian gov- suicide bomber in an explosives- commanders of a division and a ernment to approve the visa rigged vehicle struck the Al brigade were killed in Anbar in requests during his visit to Jaraishi area north of Ramadi as April. The province’s governor Damascus earlier this month. Iraqi forces advanced. was wounded in 2014. O’Brien also said yesterday The attack killed the deputy Senior army and police com- Damascus was taking less time to head of the Anbar Operations manders have also been killed in approve deliveries of humanitar- Command, Abdulrahman Abu other provinces since IS launched ian supplies after repeated com- Raghif, and 10th Division com- its devastating offensive in June plaints from the United Nations mander Safin Abdulmajid, said 2014, sweeping security forces over the lack of cooperation. Rasool. aside. The visa decision stood out as IS claimed responsibility for the Baghdad’s forces have managed a positive development in an oth- attack in a statement online, but to regain significant territory in erwise grim humanitarian crisis gave a different account of how it two provinces north of the capital, in Syria. unfolded, saying it was carried out but much of western Iraq, includ- O’Brien said violence has by four suicide bombers and two ing Anbar, remains outside gov- escalated in Syria over the past supporting gunmen who targeted ernment control. month, with indiscriminate attacks carried out by all sides in A Syrian migrant runs after crossing under a fence as he enters Hungary, at the border with Serbia, near Roszke, the conflict, now in its fifth year. yesterday. UN relief workers delivered US envoy for Syria in food to only 12 percent of the 4.6 In Syria, IS seized five villages Turkish border. IS has targeted in northern Aleppo. The plan has million Syrians living in hard-to- from rebel forces overnight in the it for months, seeking to expand backing from some rebel forces on reach and besieged areas during push for political solution northern province of Aleppo and westwards from territory it holds the ground, including the power- the first half of 2015, he told the deployed on three sides of a key in Aleppo province. ful Islamist Ahrar al-Sham move- council. WASHINGTON: The newly appointed US special envoy for opposition bastion there, said the The Observatory said there ment, which Washington does not Last month, he said, no food or Syria will travel to Geneva, Moscow and Riyadh this week as Syrian Observatory for Human were reports of dozens of rebel work with. other aid from the United Nations American efforts to find a political solution to the conflict inten- Rights. The jihadist group over- casualties in the fighting, but it But Al Nusra has rejected the reached any of the besieged areas, sify, the State Department said. ran three villages near the town had no immediate toll, while at proposal, despite its opposition to where some 422,000 people live. Michael Ratney will meet Russian, Saudi and UN officials “to try of Marea, cut the rebel bastion off least 18 IS members were killed IS, and earlier this month with- “I am angry, because we as the to come up with options for some sort of political process, a political from the north, east and south, in the fighting for Marea and the drew from its front lines against international community are not process that we know is going to have to include opposition groups and took two more villages fur- five villages. its jihadist rival in Aleppo in allowed and able to do more to and try to work through what that means and what that’s going to ther north in Aleppo province, it Mamoun Al Khatib, a journal- order to avoid cooperating with protect Syrians who more than look like,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said. said. ist and activist from Marea, also the plan. ever need our unfaltering sup- “I’m not going to speak for the Russians, but I’ll state it again as Those two villages were pre- said the town was cut off from Elsewhere in Syria, the port,” O’Brien told the 15-mem- clearly as I can: There’s not going to be a military solution to this. viously controlled by Al Nusra three directions and said dozens Observatory said a new 48-hour ber council. That is the United States government’s position. That is Secretary Front, Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, of jihadists had been killed trying truce between regime forces and The former British MP, who (John) Kerry’s position.” which withdrew from them after to storm it. He said some 5,000 rebels entered into force in three took over the key UN job in May, Ratney, who has previously worked for the State Department in Turkey and the United States civilians were inside the town, towns yesterday. It follows a urged the Security Council to Jerusalem, Doha and other cities in the Middle East, was appointed to announced plans to cooperate on which was under IS mortar fire similar ceasefire this month for show leadership and to push for his current post in July. The United States has stepped up efforts in an IS-free zone in the area. on Thursday afternoon. the towns that was intended to a political solution to end the war recent weeks to find an end to the four-year Syrian crisis, including at Marea is one of the most sig- The IS advances come despite lead to a broad agreement to end that has left over 240,000 dead. an August 3 meeting in Doha between Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister nificant rebel-held towns in an agreement between Turkey the fighting in Zabadani and the Some 7.6 million people have Sergei Lavrov and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir. AFP northern Aleppo and lies on a and the United States to work blockade of Fuaa and Kafraya. been displaced within the country key supply route running to the on establishing the IS-free zone AFP and four million have fled abroad. O’Brien said that over one mil- lion people have been driven from their homes this year alone. UN meet to discuss plight of minorities persecuted by IS He said he will travel to Turkey and Jordan next month for a closer look at the refugee crisis PARIS: A UN conference on subject in March. Some 60 nations Only around 400,000 Yazidis man of running an IS recruitment National Court judge Juan Pablo in those countries. minorities persecuted by the will be represented at the confer- remain in Iraq, compared to 1.4 network in Morocco that sought Gonzalez rejected his request, Russia, along with Iran, has Islamic State (IS) group will ence, including several countries million in 1987, which Fabius fighters to go to Iraq and Syria. saying he posed a flight risk and supported Damascus, while the be held on September 8 in from the Middle East, as well as blamed on a “barbaric enterprise The suspect, a Moroccan ordering him to be kept behind US and Saudi Arabia have sup- Paris, French Foreign Minister a wide range of NGOs and UN of ethnic and religious eradication”. national called Abdeladim bars while the investigation ported moderate portions of the Laurent Fabius said yesterday. agencies. He called for the creation of Achriaa, had lived in Spain for continues. Syrian opposition. “I will preside with my Fabius said in March that every an assistance fund to support years but was arrested on Tuesday “Abdeladim was coordinating On August 17, for the first time Jordanian counterpart over a UN effort should be made to ensure the return of refugees, as well as in a joint Spanish-Moroccan the members of a Syrian-Iraqi in two years, the UN Security conference to draw conclusions that persecuted communities the reconstruction of homes and police operation south of Madrid affiliate of Islamic State deployed Council, including Russia, agreed and propose a course of action,” — notably the Syrian and Iraqi places of worship destroyed by IS. that targeted alleged supporters in several cities in Morocco,” the to a statement in favor of a push said Fabius. The UN Security Kurds, and Christian Yazidis — Meanwhile, a Spanish judge of the Islamic State group. judge wrote after questioning for a political solution. Council launched a debate on the should be able to return home. yesterday accused a 26-year-old Achriaa applied for bail but Achriaa in court. AFP AFP

Saudi executes Pakistani for Hezbollah, Christian drug trafficking allies boycott RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yester- day executed a Pakistani man convicted of smuggling drugs into the ultra-conservative cabinet meeting kingdom, the interior ministry said. BEIRUT: The Lebanese Shia including a decision to extend It brought to 128 the number group Hezbollah and allied the term of army commander of executions so far this year in Christian politicians boycotted General Jean Kahwaji. Saudi Arabia, compared with 87 a cabinet meeting yesterday, Aoun has sought the appoint- for the whole of 2014, according a sign of rising political ten- ment of Brigadier-General to tallies compiled from interior sions that have paralysed Prime Shamel Roukoz, his son-in-law, ministry statements. Minister Tammam Salam’s as the next army chief. Zulfiqar Ali Mohammed was national unity government. The cabinet has spared caught while attempting to smug- Ministers from the Free Lebanon a complete vacuum in gle heroin found hidden in his Patriotic Movement (FPM) government with the presidency stomach, the ministry said in a led by Michel Aoun shunned vacant, and political sources say statement carried by SPA state the meeting in protest at what foreign governments with influ- news agency. the party’s website described ence in Lebanon are determined Saudi Arabia had executed as Salam’s usurping of pow- to prevent it collapsing. three of its citizens for murder ers reserved for the president. Grouping parties at oppo- and a Syrian convicted of drugs A Hezbollah minister said the site ends of the political spec- smuggling on Wednesday, a day group had boycotted in solidarity trum, Salam’s government has after Amnesty International with its allies. been largely crippled since urged a moratorium on rising The presidency, reserved for it took office with the bless- executions in the conservative a Christian in Lebanon’s sectar- ing of regional rivals Iran and kingdom. ian power-sharing system, has Saudi Arabia, which back rival Yesterday’s executions brought been vacant since last year when Lebanese factions. People drive past piles of garbage in the area of Jal Al Dib in the northern outskirts of the Lebanese capital Beirut, to 127 the number this year in Michel Suleiman’s term expired. Discontent with the paraly- yesterday. A trash crisis began in Lebanon after the government failed to find a replacement for the country’s Saudi Arabia, compared with 87 Aoun is a frontrunner for the sis has come to a head in recent largest landfill, which closed on July 17 and left trash piling up in and around Beirut. in 2014, according to AFP tallies post but it cannot be filled with- weeks with a crisis over waste compiled from interior ministry out cross-party consensus, which disposal that has triggered anti- government has so far failed to Ministers from Hezbollah The Salam government groups statements. Amnesty says Saudi he does not enjoy, and there is no government protests. Dozens of find a solution to the problem of and Aoun’s FPM walked out widely disparate parties includ- Arabia is one of the world’s most sign of compromise. people were injured at the week- where to dispose of garbage from of a another cabinet session on ing the Future Movement led by prolific executioners, along with Friction within Salam’s govern- end when protests turned violent. Beirut and surrounding areas, Tuesday, citing decrees signed Sunni politician Saad Al Hariri, as China, Iran, Iraq and the United ment, formed last year, has esca- Protesters are calling another leaving piles of rubbish to fester without their approval as the well as Christian rivals to Aoun. States. AFP lated in recent weeks over issues demonstration for Saturday. The in the summer heat. reason for the protest. REUTERS FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 EUROPE / AMERICAS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Obama lauds New Orleans’ progress since Katrina US President tours neighbourhood, says more needed to be done to overcome poverty and inequality

NEW ORLEANS: US Levees have been made stronger, More than 1,800 people were President Barack Obama her- homes have been built higher, and killed and one million more dis- alded the progress New Orleans jobs are starting to return, Brazile placed when Katrina barreled in has made rebuilding since told reporters traveling to New from the Gulf of Mexico, destroy- Hurricane Katrina battered the Orleans with Obama aboard Air ing levees and submerging 80 per- area 10 years ago but said more Force One. “We still have a long cent of the city in effluent-tainted needed to be done to overcome way to go,” she said, estimating storm water. Americans watched poverty and inequality. that it would take another five or shocked as stranded survivors On his ninth trip to the city 10 years of hard work. waited day after day on rooftops that made worldwide headlines Obama travelled to Louisiana for government help that was in 2005 after a devastating flood to mark the rebirth of a city eulo- painfully slow to come. and slow government response, gised by Tennessee Williams as “What started out as a natu- Obama toured a neighbourhood the “last frontier of Bohemia”, but ral disaster became a manmade of colourful new houses and a new which in August 2005 became a one — a failure of government to school and community centre. nightmare of death and looting. look out for its own citizens,” he “Just because the houses are Welcoming Obama at is expected to say. nice doesn’t mean our job’s done,” Armstrong International Airport Obama is expected to echo Obama told reporters after shak- was Louisiana Governor Bobby words he spoke as a senator: “New ing hands with residents and hold- Jindal, a Republican presidential Orleans had long been plagued by ing children from the community. candidate, Senator Bill Cassidy structural inequality that left too As a presidential candidate in and New Orleans Mayor Mitch many people, especially poor peo- 2008, Obama sharply criticised Landrieu. ple of color, without good jobs or Republican president George “This new community center affordable health care or decent W Bush for his administration’s stands as a symbol of the extraor- housing. Too many kids grew handling of the aftermath of the dinary resilience of this city and up surrounded by violent crime, storm. its people,” Obama is expected to cycling through substandard Donna Brazile, a Democratic say according to excerpts released schools where few had a shot to political strategist and New by the White House. break out of poverty.” Orleans native whose father was “You are an example of what’s Ten years on, like the rest of stranded during flooding from possible when, in the face of trag- America, the gap between rich the storm, said the city has begun edy and hardship, good people and poor — and often white and US President Barack Obama (right) and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu (left) meet residents during a tour of to address inequality and make come together to lend a hand, and black — has only grown. the Treme neighbourhood in New Orleans, Louisiana, yesterday. greater strides toward recovery. to build a better future.” AGENCIES

Nato opens Debate rages on slaying Journalists in danger worldwide Since 2000, more than 800 journalists have been killed on the job. training centre LIVES ON THE LINE DEADLIEST COUNTRIES in Georgia Number of journalists imprisoned or killed Ranked by total number of journalists images from ‘killer view’ killed in the country, 1992-2015 TBILISI: Nato yesterday 250 In prison that year opened a training centre in WASHINGTON: After a day Killed (confirmed motive) Iraq 167 Georgia as the ex-Soviet coun- 200 of mourning for the media, an try eyes closer partnership with Syria 84 ethics debate raged as several the Western military alliance newspapers splashed images of 150 Philippines 77 amid tensions with Russia. the killing of two US journal- Algeria 60 Georgia has long sought full ists on live television from the 100 Nato membership and hopes to shooter’s viewpoint. Somalia 57 be invited to join a Membership 50 The prominent publication of Pakistan 56 Action Plan (MAP), a formal the shocking images triggered a step towards membership, at 56 backlash from some readers and 0 Russia a Nato summit in Warsaw media ethicists, claiming that Colombia 46 next year. But analysts doubt their use stepped over the line 50 that NATO will grant the 35 of responsible journalism after India small South Caucasus country the killings of reporter Alison 100 Mexico 34 the membership plan in 2016 Parker, 24, and cameraman ’01 ’03 ’05 ’07 ’09 ’11 ’13 ’15* for fear of infuriating Russia Adam Ward, 27. Source: Committee to Protect Journalists. Note: Imprisonment data is not available for 2015. amid tensions over Ukraine. “The line is pretty clear to me. Staff, 27/08/2015 Nato Secretary-General Jens It is the moment when informa- Stoltenberg sounded non-com- tion becomes exploitation,” said Alison Parker and Adam Ward, two WDBJ7-TV employees, who were killed mittal Thursday. The estab- Ken Paulson, a former USA Today in an attack at Bridgewater Plaza in Moneta, Virginia, on Wednesday. violence, but that mainstream “We finally decided to send two lishment of the Nato-Georgian editor in chief who is now dean media still have a responsibility. screen grabs from the video to our Joint Training and Evaluation of communications at Middle one from his perspective as he said it was not reproducing the If news organisations use the clients,” Chetwynd said. Center, to be based just out- Tennessee State University. pulled the trigger. Daily News front page because images prominently, Wardle said, “We included the startling side the capital Tbilisi, is aimed “If a prominent celebrity were “NY Daily News just shared a it “crosses ethical and decency “they are saying to anyone else who image of the gun being pointed at buttressing the ex-Soviet raped and you captured that on disgusting image they plan to have lines”. “To select photos, taken is potentially unstable, ‘You will be at the unsuspecting journalist country which fought a five- video, would you run that? I don’t on cover tomorrow. Can’t imag- from the gunman’s view, dur- on the front covers of newspapers’” but we did not show any images day war with Russia in 2008. think so. Why would the murder ine how anyone involved can sleep ing the last seconds of Parker’s if you commit a similar crime. depicting the actual shooting or Stoltenberg, who arrived in of two people be any less obscene?” easy tonight,” tweeted Hunter life, clearly is beyond the pale,” “If people want to find these its aftermath. We also did not Tbilisi on Wednesday, said that Paulson said newspapers “owe Walker, a journalist at Business the media ethics blog said. images online, they can,” she said. move any video images to clients.” both Georgian and Nato troops a debt to readers to respect their Insider. Freelance photographer Broadcasters faced similar issues “But mainstream media have a But Harry Siegel, a Daily News would be trained at the centre. values and not shock or unset- Matthew Gregoire tweeted, “Who over the use of the killer’s video, bigger responsibility to tell the editorial writer and columnist, tle them” even though the same in their right mind would think which was shown on some outlets story and make them understand said violent images should not violent images may be available it’s OK to print that photo?? including CNN and the BBC. what happened.” be censored on social media or Trump’s lead online. “If your standard is ‘Will Shame on them!!” Claire Wardle, research direc- Phil Chetwynd, editor-in-chief elsewhere. “After 12 years of ugly other people tweet this?’ you have Responding to similar images tor at Columbia University’s Tow of Agence France-Presse, said wars most Americans never saw grows: Poll no standards whatsoever.” on the cover of the British tabloid Centre for Digital Journalism, said the news agency decided to take much of ... it’s high time we stop On Twitter, readers expressed The Sun, Twitter readers wrote, newsrooms appear to be desen- a cautious approach to the gun- trusting gatekeepers to decide WASHINGTON: Billionaire shock at newspapers displaying comments such as “trash,” and a sitised to violent images from man’s images and video, saying what violence is, or isn’t, accept- Donald Trump extended his lead the images taken by gunman “disgrace to journalism”. several years of dissemination of they were “effectively the killer’s able,” he wrote. yet again atop the Republican Vester Lee Flanagan, 41, including The news blog iMediaEthics images of beheadings and other propaganda statement”. AFP presidential field, with front-run- ning Democrat Hillary Clinton slipping and Vice President Joe Biden faring better than her against Republicans, poll results revealed yesterday. Trump, the combative real estate mogul, Greece names top judge UK migration hits new record leads the 16 other Republican candidates with 28 percent sup- LONDON: Net migration to and Bulgarian citizens, almost Nigel Farage, leader of the anti- port among registered voters as caretaker premier Britain has hit record levels, double the 28,000 in the previ- EU UK Independence Party, said nationwide, up from 20 percent official figures showed yester- ous 12 months. Prime Minister the figures “reflect borderless in a similar July 30 survey by ATHENS: Greece yesterday and her administration will be day, with the difference between Cameron has vowed to hold a ref- Britain and total impotence of Quinnipiac University. Retired named its top judge as care- sworn in today, the president’s migrants leaving and arriv- erendum on Britain’s membership the British government. neurosurgeon Ben Carson placed taker prime minister to organ- office said. The date for Greece’s ing in Britain rising to around of the European Union by 2017, “If open borders are not part of a distant second with 12 percent, ise early elections expected next general election is to be officially 329,000 in the year to March. and is hoping to wrest powers the Cameron renegotiation then followed by former Florida gover- month, the fifth in the crisis-hit announced by the end of the week, “The net migration figure was from Brussels, particularly over what’s the point of it?,” he said. nor Jeb Bush, Senator Ted Cruz country in six years. but it is likely to be scheduled for a statistically significant increase immigration, before the vote. The figures also revealed that and Senator Marco Rubio, each President Prokopis Pavlopoulos September 20. from 236,000 in year ending March Brokenshire called the figures Britain’s foreign-born population with seven percent. Wisconsin said he had chosen Vassiliki Outgoing Prime Minister Alexis 2014 and is the highest net migra- a “wake-up call”. has now surpassed eight million Governor Scott Walker was Thanou, the head of Greece’s Tsipras has ruled out forming a tion on record,” the Office for “While these figures underline for the first time, meaning one in next with six percent, and Ohio Supreme Court and the first national unity government should National Statistics (ONS) said. the challenges we need to meet to eight residents were born abroad, Governor John Kasich and busi- woman to assume the post. he fail to win a outright major- Immigration Minister James reduce net migration, they should up from one in 11 in 2014. nesswoman Carly Fiorina each Mother-of-three Thanou, 65, is ity in the snap elections triggered Brokenshire called the figures also act as a further wake-up call There were 25,771 asylum registered five percent. known for firing off an emotional after he resigned last week. “deeply disappointing”. Prime for the EU. Current flows of peo- applications in the 12-month letter to European Commission Tsipras called for the fresh Minister David Cameron had ple across Europe are on a scale period, an increase of 10 percent, chairman Jean-Claude Juncker in vote on August 20 after suffering vowed to reduce the numbers we haven’t seen since the end of with the largest number of appli- 8 killed in Kiev February, protesting that auster- a major rebellion in his hard-left to less than 100,000 by May of the Second World War,” he said. cations coming from nationals of KIEV: Ukraine and pro-Rus- ity cuts were “annihilating” the Syriza party over Greece’s huge this year. Some 636,000 people “This is not sustainable and Eritrea (3,568), Pakistan (2,302) sian rebels yesterday reported Greek people. new international bailout, its immigrated to Britain over the risks the future economic devel- and Syria (2,204) the death of eight people in fresh “The people are not responsible third in five years. 12-month period, a rise of 84,000, opment of other EU member Despite the refugee crisis in the clashes that erupted despite for the waste of public money by But on Wednesday, he dismissed while 307,000 people emigrated, states. It reinforces the need for Middle East and North Africa, ongoing talks on a new truce past governments and for mistakes suggestions he could work with down 9,000. further reform at an EU level as the figure remains low relative to agreement for the separatist in tax policy,” she wrote, adding the conservative opposition New The net figure is 9,000 more than well as within the UK.” the peak number of applications east. Government spokesman that the austerity measures “have Democracy, the Pasok socialists the previous record, which was set Keith Vaz, a senior lawmaker — 84,132 — in 2002. Immigration Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said failed as the recession continues as or the centre-right Potami if the in the year ending June 2005. The from the opposition Labour Party, has been a hot topic in Britain, seven Ukrainian servicemen the rich continue to evade taxes”. election results were inconclusive. report found that 269,000 EU citi- said the figures were “shocking”. with the front-pages dominated had been killed and 13 injured Thanou, who holds a degree “I will not become a prime min- zens had moved to Britain perma- “Broken promises on migration by news of migrants massed at in fighting that centred mostly in European law from France’s ister who cooperates with New nently, a “statistically significant” do not build confidence with the the French port of Calais trying around the pro-Russian repub- Sorbonne university, will take Democracy, Pasok or Potami,” increase of 56,000. public. We need a radically differ- to enter the country through the lic of Donetsk. her oath of office later Thursday Tsipras said. AFP Around 53,000 were Romanian ent approach,” he said. Channel Tunnel. AFP AGENCIES FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA Beijing holds massive Bus hijack remembered drills in East China Sea 100 missiles fired in exercise with 100 ships, 12 fighters BEIJING: China conducted Separately, China’s Defence Admiral Harry Harris, to provide large-scale air and sea exercises Ministry said China will hold joint air cover to a Philippine civilian in the East China Sea yesterday, military drills next month with ship that regularly delivers sup- the third time in the last two Malaysia in the strategic Strait plies to Second Thomas Shoal in months it has carried out such of Malacca, and will also hold the disputed waters. live-fire maritime drills. The training exercises with Australia “We want the US military training involved more than 100 and the United States in to watch over our ships, which ships, dozens of aircraft, infor- Australia. China attempts to block every mation warfare units as well the China’s rapidly modernising time we rotate troops and bring firing of close to 100 missiles, an armed forces have been increas- supplies to a ship that ran official said. ing their global reach and car- aground on Ayungin shoal,” It did not specify where exactly rying out exercises in ever more Padilla said. the exercises took place. China distant locations, as the govern- Harris was in Palawan yester- and Japan are involved in an ment seeks to protect its interests day to see first-hand the situ- increasingly bitter dispute over around the world. ation in the area near where ownership of a group of uninhab- But China has jangled nerves, China has built artificial islands. Former Philippine president and now Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada (second from right) is assisted by a Buddhist ited islets in the East China Sea, especially in its territorial China claims most of the South monk as he offers prayers during a ceremony to commemorate the 2010 bus hijack that killed eight people, at called the Senkaku by Tokyo and disputes in the South and East China Sea, through which $5tr Quirino Grandstand in Manila, yesterday. Diaoyu by Beijing. China Seas with a growing in ship-borne trade passes every China has in the last two assertiveness. year. months held similar exercises in Meanwhile, the Philippines The Philippines, Vietnam, the Yellow Sea, and also the dis- has sought help from the United Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei have puted waters of the South China States to monitor “real-time” overlapping claims. Pistorius’ parole review next month Sea. developments in the South China Vice Admiral Alexander Lopez, China claims most of the poten- Sea, providing surveillance and commander of military forces in JOHANNESBURG: South for release to be placed under September of culpable homicide, tially energy-rich South China reconnaissance, a military spokes- Palawan, told journalists the US Africa’s parole review board house arrest last Friday after after he fired four 9mm shots Sea, through which $5tr in ship- man said yesterday, amid China’s commander promised to help its will meet on September 18 to serving 10 months of a five-year through a locked toilet door in borne trade passes every year, rapid expansion in the area. oldest ally in the Asia-Pacific, but decide if Oscar Pistorius may be sentence, but the justice min- 2013 killing Reeva Steenkamp. and rejects the rival claims of Colonel Restituto Padilla said would also prevent conflict from released early from prison, after ister blocked his release saying Prosecutors argued Pistorius Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, the defence ministry had asked erupting. killing his girlfriend. The para- procedure was not followed. killed Steenkamp deliberately. Malaysia and Taiwan. US Pacific Command chief, REUTERS lympic gold medallist was due Pistorius was found guilty last REUTERS

Nigeria closes Hong Kong student leader booked for protests prayer houses HONG KONG: Hong Kong said Wong as he entered a police student leader Joshua Wong station last Thursday in Wan slammed police yesterday for Chai. “Being involved in the civic over noise what he called a “political pros- square action is the best mission LAGOS: Authorities in ecution” after he was charged I have made in the four years I’ve Nigeria’s financial capital Lagos over protests which led to last been involved in social student have shut down churches across year’s mass pro-democracy movements,” he said. the city after a glut of com- street rallies. “I will not regret it... even if plaints over noisy worship. The Wong, 18, who became the face I have to pay the price.” When chaotic megacity’s environmen- of the democracy movement, is they emerged less than two hours tal protection department said already due in court for separate later, Wong’s lawyer Michael it had sealed off 22 premises charges of obstructing police at an Vidler confirmed the teen had last Wednesday after receiving earlier demonstration. been charged. “I think the whole dozens of calls a day, according The teenager and other activ- rationale for proceeding a year to local newspaper reports. ists have accused the authorities after the event, is totally flawed,” Neighbours of one church said of a witch hunt against those at Vidler said. “In my view it’s a they were constantly disturbed the forefront of the Umbrella clear abuse of process.” by a congregation of mainly preg- Movement that brought parts of Around 40 supporters outside nant women, young mothers and the city to a standstill for more the police station held up yel- children. than two months. low umbrellas -- the symbol of Residents complain of intoler- Protesters called for fully free the democracy movement -- and abel noise among the churches elections of the city’s next leader, shouted “CY step down!” refer- and mosques where giant loud- in the face of a contentious ring to the city’s unpopular leader speakers pump out religious mes- Beijing-backed political reform Leung Chung-ying. sages and music. package in which candidates “The police were waiting for Officials receive around 50 tel- would have been vetted by a loy- the right opportunity so they ephone calls and 20 text messages alist committee. wanted everything to die down,” a day complaining about noise. That bill was vetoed in June Surya Deva, associate professor “With the enforcement yester- in an unprecedented rebuke to at the School of Law at the City day, we have sealed 55 premises. Beijing, leaving the city politically University of Hong Kong, said. Durng the last exercise we shut polarised. Wong was charged last Student protesters Joshua Wong (left) and Nathan Law (centre) talk to the media outside the Wanchai police Wong and Law, 22, were 33 premises,” Shabi said. Lagos, Thursday with “unlawful assem- station in Hong Kong, yesterday. brought to court last month on a city of around 20 million has bly, and inciting others to take separate charges of obstructing more than 6,000 traditional and part in an unlawful assembly”. September 26 last year during Demonstrations were held Thousands more took to the police at an earlier protest in June alternative places of worship that The charges, which could result which some climbed into a square against the arrests exploding two streets in the wake of what they 2014. sprung up in recent years, accord- in a sentence of up to five years, which is part of the city’s govern- days later when police fired tear saw as heavy-handed policing. Both pleaded “not guilty” last ing to authorities. relate to a student protest on ment complex. gas to disperse the crowds. “Today... is political prosecution,” month to those charges. AFP AFP Japan pitches for Indonesia rail Philippine massacre trial to end by this year

MANILA: Trial hearings clan which allegedly ordered the down from office in mid-2016. then-president Gloria Arroyo, of defendants accused of the slaughter of 58 people, including Widows of victims spoke out last who had tolerated the clan’s pri- massacre of 58 people in the 32 journalists, in the conflict- month after one of the principal vate army as a buffer against Philippines will finish by the wracked province of Maguindanao accused, Andal Ampatuan Snr, Muslim separatist rebels. end of the year, the country’s in November 2009 in an attempt died of liver cancer while under Widow Merly Perante, whose chief justice vowed yesterday. to crush a rival clan’s election hospital guard. journalist husband Ronnie was Prosecution and defence law- challenge. Sereno said the court has among those slain, said she was yers will finish presenting evi- The brutal massacre, one of the resolved most of the bail petitions cheered by Sereno’s announce- dence by the end of 2015, after world’s deadliest attacks against that caused much of the delays ment but stressed that getting which the judge has 90 days to media workers, saw some shot in in the six-year long proceedings. justice was still her priority. issue a verdict, Chief Justice their genitals before they were Two sons of Andal Ampatuan “I am willing to understand Maria Lourdes Sereno said. buried in a hilltop grave using an Snr, Andal Jnr and Zaldy, are and accept that the process is “It is excruciatingly slow for excavator. among 100 people on trial for one going to be lengthy, as long as the victims’ families. That is not The slow pace of the trial has of the world’s most shocking mass we are not disappointed with the debatable, it is painful, there must angered the families of the vic- murders. result, as long as they get con- be closure,” Sereno said. tims and frustrated President The Ampatuans ruled victed and get the right punish- The trial involves members Benigno Aquino, who has prom- Maguindanao for over a dec- ment,” she said. of the influential Ampatuan ised a verdict before he steps ade under the patronage of AFP Thailand probes Turkish link to Bangkok blast BANGKOK: Thai police said complain of Chinese government Thai media reported that Turkish foreign ministry yesterday they were looking at persecution. police were investigating 15 to 20 spokesman Tanju Bilgic said arrivals of Turkish nationals The blast at the Hindu Erawan Turkish people who had entered Ankara received no requests for in the days before a Bangkok Shrine, popular with Asian tour- the country over the two weeks information or assistance. bomb attack that killed 20 peo- ists, killed 20 people, more than before the blast. “Our minister called the Thai ple, but authorities in Turkey half of them foreigners. National police spokesman foreign minister yesterday and said they had received no Thailand last month deported Prawut Thavornsiri, asked about talked about the fight against ter- request for assistance with the more than 100 Uighurs to China, the reports, confirmed that police rorism,” he said. investigation. sparking condemnation by rights had been looking into the arrival The main evidence from the A passenger train crosses the Chikubang bridge as it travels from the city Police in Thailand and some groups and a protest outside of Turkish people. blast that police have is security of Bandung to Jakarta near Padalarang, West Java, Indonesia, yesterday. security analysts have raised the Thailand’s consulate in Istanbul. “There are probably more camera footage showing a man Japan’s prime minister has sent an envoy to Indonesia with a deal to build possibility of a connection in the The treatment of Uighurs is an Turkish coming into Thailand with a yellow shirt and dark hair a high-speed railway, highlighting the importance of the multi-billion-dollar August 17 blast to the Turkic- important issue for many Turks, than that. We investigated groups removing a backpack after enter- project China also wants to win. speaking Muslim Uighur minority who share a common cultural and which may have come into the ing the shrine, and walking away from the far west of China, who religious background. country,” Prawut said. before the explosion. REUTERS FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11

Arrest warrant out for ex-PM Nato joins Afghan fight for Helmand Yousuf Gilani US planes bomb Musa Qala nine times, join in ground offensive to repel Taliban from district KARACHI: A Pakistani anti- corruption court yesterday LASHKAR GAH: Soldiers operation is ongoing in full force his position, acting succes- a third district to the north, the media wing released videos of issued an arrest warrant for from the US-led Nato coali- to retake the district,” said Gen sor Mullah Mansour disavowed Taliban now sit on a big chunk fighters pledging allegiance to former prime minister Yousuf tion have joined combat to Dawlat Waziri, a defence ministry talks, while commanders in of Helmand, controlling lucra- Mansour after military victories Raza Gilani, in a case alleging stop a Taliban advance in spokesman. the field have responded with tive opium production and major including the fall of Nawzad. millions of dollars of graft in a Afghanistan’s Helmand prov- Nato's Resolute Support coa- surging offensives across the routes into Iran and Pakistan Another film this week showed trade development scheme, a ince, where battlefield success lition said US aircraft dropped country. used to smuggle heroin to Europe. a gathering of fighters in the security official said. has given the insurgents’ their bombs on Musa Qala nine times Hopes for reviving a planned “Musa Qala is of key impor- north sitting atop US-supplied The same day, another senior biggest symbolic victory in in the past 24 hours, and that for- second round of talks have faded tance. Hope (Afghan security Humvees captured from Afghan figure in the opposition Pakistan years and made talking peace a eign soldiers were also helping on in recent weeks, with Afghanistan forces) will move swiftly to regain forces. People’s Party (PPP) was accused fading hope. the ground. government sources saying they full control,” EU Ambassador The insurgents also released in court of financing terrorism Nearly 14 years on from the US “Resolute Support service are unwilling to let Pakistan act Franz-Michael Mellbin posted a victory song on the website after being arrested the previous invasion that toppled the Islamist members are training, advising, as a broker and with the Taliban on Twitter. Soundcloud called “Long live day. The PPP accuses its enemies regime after the September 2011 and assisting elements of the on the offensive. Such gains in the province Musa Qala” to commemorate of waging a smear campaign attacks, the Taliban are unde- ANDSF operating in Musa Qala,” “If your enemy feels stronger where British forces lost more the recapture of the town through the courts. feated and making gains since said spokesman Col Brian Tribus. day by day, it is hard to sit them than 400 men trying to defeat of 20,000 people they held for Gilani was prime minister in most foreign forces left last year, Incipient peace talks collapsed down for peace negotiations,” said the Taliban, and where some seven months until British and the PPP government from March but are still far from their goal of last month after it was announced Graeme Smith, a veteran Afghan 350 US Marines also died, are Afghan forces wrenched it back 2008 until his disqualification and retaking Kabul. that Taliban leader Mullah analyst at International Crisis powerful propaganda for the in 2007. ouster by the Supreme Court of A furious counter-assault led Omar had died two years before, Group. insurgent group that is also fend- The defence ministry said the Pakistan in April 2012. He is cur- by the Afghan army is on in the triggering recriminations with “If the government wants to get ing off competition from Islamic fighting had killed or wounded rently vice chairman of his party. Helmand district of Musa Qala Pakistan which Kabul accuses of them to the negotiating table, it State. 150 Taliban, with six soldiers The warrant was issued for that last Wednesday fell to the hiding the truth and helping the needs to stop them taking towns.” Seeking to shore up acting killed and four wounded. The Gilani and another senior party Taliban for the first time since insurgents. The fall of Musa Qala comes leader Mansour’s support with Taliban said 40 soldiers were leader, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, 2007. The announcement was fol- shortly after the Taliban commanders to fend off a splin- killed as they took over Musa according to Javed Akbar Riaz, an “The deputy defence minister lowed by a series of fatal attacks grabbed the neighbouring dis- ter group led by Omar’s son chal- Qala town. official with the Anti-Corruption is in Helmand right now and an in Kabul. Looking to consolidate trict of Nawzad. Combined with lenging his position, the Taliban's REUTERS Unit of the Federal Investigation Agency. The pair were ordered to appear before the court on September 10. Presidential talks Riaz said the agency had peti- tioned the court for the prosecu- tion of Gilani and Fahim over 100 websites to be their alleged approval and dis- bursement of hundreds of mil- lions of dollars to fake companies through the government Trade blocked for hate talk and Development Authority. SeNator Sherry Rehman said, LAHORE: The Federal Ironically, even the most noto- “It seems a revenge-like campaign Investigation Agency under the rious fan page of Charlie Hebdo is being carried out against the National Action Plan (NAP) has - a French weekly magazine - has PPP.” Another PPP figure was initiated action against more not been blocked in Pakistan as ordered in detention for 90 days than 100 websites spreading yet. by an anti-terrorism court in anti-Islam, anti-Pakistan, blas- A senior FIA official said on Karachi yesterday. phemous and sectarian content Thursday that under the 20-point Court papers alleged Asim inside Pakistan, it was learnt. National Action Plan, the gov- Hussain, a petroleum minister in The FIA’s Cyber Crime Wing ernment has announced action the previous PPP-led government, has unearthed over 100 such against the abuse of Internet and was involved in “terror and vio- sites and details of these sites social media for terrorism, coun- lence financing, misappropriation have been shared with Pakistan tering hate speech and extremist of funds”. Telecommunication Authority material, taking effective steps Critics accuse the military (PTA) the regulating authority of against religious persecution and of trying to weaken the civilian websites and the telecommunica- dealing firmly with sectarian political system. The military says tion sector of Pakistan for their terrorists. the crackdown is necessary to immediate blockage. It has also asked the PTA to break the cycle of corruption and The FIA has also instructed provide details of webmasters of violence in Karachi. It has so far the PTA to block the fan pages these websites or their represent- targeted mostly opposition politi- or other pages on social network- atives in Pakistan, he added. cians and not the ruling party of ing websites such as Twitter, A spokesman of PTA, Khurram Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Facebook and others spreading Mehran did not respond yester- AFP blasphemous content. day. INTERNEWS Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov (left) with his Afghan counterpart Ashraf Ghani at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, yesterday. 3 terror cases Commission summons official over RTI refusal withdrawn from ISLAMABAD: After a year of 31/08/2015. You may also submit "As per our record, the orders given by the Governor during last filed a complaint with the Punjab restraint over the blatant viola- your written explanation on or were not implemented. You also one year. Information Commission, which military courts tion of the Right to Information before the date of hearing,” says ignored our letter No. AD(A The commission unanimously issued orders on February 12, (RTI) law by the highest con- the letter signed by the infor- and C)PIC2-55/15/143 dated passed the order on April 15, 2015 whereby the designated LAHORE: Three terrorism stitutional office of the prov- mation commissioner Mukhtar 01/07/2015 whereby we directed 2015 directing the officer to Public Information Officer Tariq cases, including that of the ince, the Punjab Information Ahmad Ali. you to submit compliance report immediately release the informa- Shahzad (deputy secretary coor- attack on Sri Lankan cricket Commission has finally sum- A citizen had filed information as soon as possible but not later tion under the RTI law but the dination Governor House Lahore) team, are reportedly being moned a top official of the request with the Governor House than 08/07/2015,” says the letter. officials of the Governor House was directed to provide the withdrawn from military courts Governor House in Punjab in September 2014 under the The commission missive states: Secretariat have yet to provide requested information. due to insufficient evidence and province to explain failure in Punjab Transparency and Right “Why you have not implemented the information. However, Public Information technical reasons, it was learnt providing information about the to Information Act 2013, seeking the above referred orders of the The original information Officer, Farhan Aziz Khawja yesterday. financial affairs of the office. details of the expenses of consti- commission within the given request was filed in September secretary to governor, a DMG The Punjab government had The summon dated 20th of tutional office and gifts awarded time?” “The law requires radical 2014 but for the first six officer, wrote a letter No SOA/ sent seven terrorism cases to August is addressed to Tariq by the governor. changes in the management of months the officials denied the GS(Estt)1-11/2013 to the com- military courts for trial. Officials Shahzad, deputy secretary and “Refer to an earlier show- information,” he said. information. mission. In his letter Farhan Aziz said the cases were found unfit public information officer of the cause notice dated 03/03/2015 Interestingly, similar informa- Under the Punjab RTI law, came up with three reasons for for trial by these courts, asking Governor House, Lahore. and the orders of the commission tion was provided by the chief information has to be provided denying access to information. the Punjab government to trans- “You are directed to appear dated 12/02/2015 and 15/04/2015 minister’s office but the Governor within 14 days. The commission rejected all the fer them to anti-terrorism courts. before the Commission, along regarding a complaint about non- House is refusing to share the After failing to get the req- three “objections” raised by the The request was discussed and with relevant record at12.15pm on provision of information. details of its expenses and gifts uisite information, the person officer. INTERNEWS accepted by the provincial Apex Committee headed by the chief minister. As a result, the provin- cial home department wrote to ADB fund for Pakistan the Interior Ministry to withdraw the cases from military courts. Pakistan tells UN: Rigid Officials said Dr Usman, who was one of the principal accused in the Sri Lankan team attack on May 3, 2009 in Lahore, had been India spoilt NSA talks executed. Another main accused Malik Ishaq who was on bail was ISLAMABAD: Pakistan this because of Indian government’s killed along with 13 others in week pressed on with its dip- objection to the agenda proposed Muzaffargarh last month. Of the lomatic offensive at the United by Islamabad and an invitation to remaining nine accused, five were Nations headquarters in New the Kashmir’s Hurriyat leader- on bail and the remaining three York in an attempt to explain ship to a reception at Pakistan’s in jail. its stand on the cancelled meet- High Commission in Delhi in hon- The provincial government had ing between National Security our of Adviser on Foreign Affairs agreed to a request of the military Advisers (NSAs) of India and and National Security Sartaj Aziz. courts to withdraw the case on Pakistan and to pressure New “UN Deputy Secretary General the grounds that ordinary courts Delhi on continued ceasefire Jan Eliasson was briefed last could not cancel bail of the five violations along the Line of Monday by Lodhi, about India’s accused. The second case was the Control (LoC) and Working preconditions for the talks Jan 17, 2014 bomb blast on the Boundary. between the National Security track of Kushhal Khan Khattak A senior diplomat revealed that Advisers which led to the cancel- Express and the accused belonged immediately after cancellation lation of the meeting,” the source to Balochistan Liberation Army, of the meeting between the two said. officials said. NSAs, Pakistan’s permanent rep- A statement by UN Secretary- They said the third case was resentative at the UN Maleeha General Ban Ki-moon last the Jan 15, 2012 attack on a Lodhi was instructed to contact Tuesday regretted cancellation Muharram procession and was the UN leadership to discuss the of talks. being withdrawn on the grounds rejection of dialogue by India. Eliasson was told Pakistan that one of the accused was a The NSAs were scheduled to decided not to send Aziz to Delhi juvenile. meet last Monday in Delhi, but as it found the Indian condition of A girls plucks cotton blooms from a field on the outskirts of Faisalabad, Pakistan, yesterday. The Asian Another reason was that the the first talks between the two not inviting Kashmiri leaders for Development Bank has approved a new assistance programme worth $1.2bn annually to improve infrastructure evidence against him was based countries on terrorism concerns consultations unacceptable. and create more jobs in the country. on confessions corroborated by at this level had to be cancelled INTERNEWS police officials. INTERNEWS FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA GSAT-6 takes off on a successful mission ISRO scientists hug each other as rocket is ejected SRIHARIKOTA: India suc- the mission control centre were Currently ISRO flies its heavy cessfully launched its com- visibly happy, back-slapping and communication satellites by munication satellite GSAT-6, hugging each other once the European space agency Ariane. which has several strategic rocket ejected the GSAT-6 satel- ISRO officials said earlier that applications, in textbook style lite into the intended orbit. the country pays around $85-90m yesterday using its heavy rocket Speaking about the launch, or around `500cr as launch fee for geosynchronous satellite launch ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar sending up a 3.5 tonne communi- vehicle (GSLV-D6). said, “Today’s performance of cation satellites. The cost of satel- The GSLV rocket, with a cryo- launch vehicle was normal. The lite is separate. genic engine, slung the satellite in intricacies of cryogenic engine has The ISRO can send smaller a geosynchronous transfer orbit been understood.” communication satellites - weigh- (GTO) from where it would be This is the first successful ing around two tonnes - till such taken up to its final geostation- GSLV rocket launch that placed a time it gets ready an advanced ary orbit. satellite in orbit in Kiran Kumar’s GSLV variant-GSLV-Mark III- The successful flight of GSLV tenure. that can lug satellites weighing rocket gives the Indian space pro- The Indian space agency flew around four tonnes. gramme a much-needed booster the GSLV rocket with its own The space agency will be as getting the more-efficient cryogenic engine for the second launching satellites like GSAT-7, cryogenic engine (which pro- time yesterday after the success- 9 using a similar rocket. vides more thrust for every kilo- ful launch of a similar rocket in One of the notable aspect of the gram of propellant burnt) right January 2014 that put into orbit successful launch is the rocket’s is important for its future space GSAT-14. weight lift capacity. The current programmes. This was the second mission of GSLV rocket that ISRO flies has Indian space scientists have GSLV during the last five years a carrying capacity of around 2.2 Students pose for a selfie as they celebrate Onam at a college campus in Chennai, yesterday. spent around two decades in con- after two such rockets failed in tonnes. ceiving the cryogenic technology 2010. Five of GSAT-6’s predecessors and spent around `400cr in devel- One of the GSLV rockets flew were launched by GSLV during oping it. with Indian cryogenic engine 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2014 President greets people on Onam Precisely at 4.52pm, the and the other one with a Russian respectively. After its commis- Geosynchronous Satellite Launch engine. The GSLV is a three sioning, GSAT-6 will join the NEW DELHI: President by the people of Kerala “belong- the president added. Vehicle-Development 5 (GSLV stage/engine rocket. The core of group of India’s other operational Pranab Mukherjee and Vice ing to all communities, irrespec- In his message, Vice President D6) rose from the second launch first stage is fired with solid fuel geostationary satellites. President M Hamid Ansari yes- tive of caste, creed and economic Ansari said: “I extend my warm pad here at Satish Dhawan Space while the four strap-on motors The satellite provides commu- terday greeted people on the standing”. greetings and good wishes to the Centre. by liquid fuel. The second is the nication through five spot beams occasion of Onam, celebrated “It represents the spontane- people of our country on the aus- The 49.1 metre tall rocket liquid fuel and the third is the in S-band and a national beam in most prominently in Kerala. ous celebrations of the common picious occasion of Onam.” weighing 416 tonnes slung the cryogenic engine. C-band for strategic users. “On the joyous occasion of people as they welcome their “Celebrated with traditional 2,117 kg GSAT-6 communication For the country, ISRO’s perfec- One of the advanced features Onam, I convey my heartfelt legendary King Mahabali, who gaiety and enthusiasm, this fes- satellite in the geosynchronous tion of cryogenic engine technol- of GSAT-6 satellite is its S-Band greetings to all my sisters and was loved by all for his just and tival reflects the central role of transfer orbit (GTO) around 17 ogy is crucial as precious foreign Unfurlable Antenna of six metre brothers in Kerala and abroad,” benevolent rule. Coinciding with agriculture in Indian society. May minutes into the flight. exchange can be saved by launch- diameter - the largest satellite Mukherjee said in his message. the harvest season, Onam brings the festival usher in peace, pros- As the whole mission concluded ing communication satellites by antenna realised by ISRO. He said that Onam was a with it optimism for the future perity and happiness in our coun- successfully, ISRO scientists at itself. IANS unique secular festival celebrated and gratitude for nature’s bounty,” try,” he added. IANS Second terrorist held PM has `48,000cr for 98 smart cities NEW DELHI: In a move aimed Kolkata. The minister said the “It is a moment of pride as are the hopefuls in Bengal. at enhancing the quality of prime motive of the initiative the collective efforts of the But architectural expert in Kashmir after fight urban life, the government yes- was to enhance urban life. “The Chandigarh administration and Madhumita Roy, who is leading terday unveiled a list of 98 cit- mission is very practical and citizens have paid off. The selec- the heritage Writers’ Building SRINAGAR: A Pakistani Pakistan, officials said. ies in the country for the Smart realistic.” tion was done through intra-city restoration project, is hopeful terrorist was caught follow- Four terrorists were killed in the City Mission. Welcoming the centre’s plans competition which evaluated Kolkata will be included soon. ing a fierce gunfight yester- gunfight. The army statement said The central government pro- for 100 Smart Cities project, the various cities on parameters “The other cities are planned day in Jammu and Kashmir’s that based on intelligence inputs poses to give financial support to Mumbai-based architect and such as service levels, finan- cities so baseline data is easily Baramulla district, making about presence of terrorists in the the extent of `48,000cr to these urban planner Chandrashekhar cial and institutional capacity, available, whereas Kolkata has him the second terrorist from forested area Kazinag Dhar Ridge, cities over the next five years, Prabhu said the country aqctually past track record and reforms,” grown organically. Eventually, I Pakistan to be held this month. a search operation was launched Urban Development Minister M needs 300 Smart Cities. a Chandigarh administration am hopeful, it will be included,” The terrorist was identified as on August 24, which forced the Venkaiah Naidu said here. “But merely giving some money spokesman said. Roy, head of the Jadavpur Sajjad alias Abu Ubadullah, 22, terrorists to move towards the Naidu said a population of 13 will not make these cities ‘smart’ From the region (compris- University’s department of archi- a resident of Muzaffargarh dis- higher reaches of the ridge. “An crore across these cities will be since their existing problems may ing Punjab, Haryana, Himachal tecture, said. trict of Balochistan province, a effective cordon was established by covered under the initiative. not be resolved so easily. The need Pradesh and Chandigarh), She said successful imple- police officer said. “His prelimi- the army, including Special Forces, “There are 13 cities from Uttar is to take up urban development seven cities have made it to the mentation of the project means nary interrogation reveals the which were inducted by helicop- Pradesh, 12 from Tamil Nadu, 10 project from scratch, plan and list. Besides Chandigarh, these making services accessible to captured terrorist is a 22-year- ters to prevent the escape of the from Maharashtra, seven from design a Smart City, build it with are Amritsar, Ludhiana and everyone. old LeT operative and belongs to terrorists,” the statement said. Madhya Pradesh and three each all the required infrastructure Jalandhar (in Punjab), Karnal “Nowadays, people in the rural Pakistan,” an army statement said, “In a slow and systematic oper- from Bihar and Andhra Pradesh and amenities that will voluntar- and Faridabad (in Haryana) areas are also smart - they are referring to the Lashkar-e-Taiba ation owing to the difficult ter- in the list,” Naidu said. ily attract people to go and live and Dharamshala (Himachal using smartphones too. So they terror group. rain and thick foliage, the forces “Smart cities need smart peo- there,” Prabhu pointed out. Pradesh). Each Smart City would will be able to use technologies The captured terrorist was re-established contact with the ple. We need people’s cooperation In Maharashtra, the 10 nomi- get a central assistance of `100cr and IT services, but the only interrogated by the army and balance of the terrorists who had to move forward in our mission. nated Smart cities are Mumbai, per year for five years. thing is all facilities must be eas- Jammu and Kashmir Police. His taken shelter inside a natural cave Making them smart will make Navi Mumbai, Thane, Nashik, Though state capital Kolkata ily accessible for all and user- capture followed a four-day joint in the afternoon of August 26. them engines of economic growth Kalyan-Dombivali, Pune, has been left out, four planned friendly,” she observed. operation by the army and police. Sajjad was caught after Pakistani besides giving decent life to the Aurangabad, Solapur, Nagpur and cities in West Bengal have been Urban economic expert A gunfight with the terrorists terrorist Naveed was arrested on citizens,” he added. Amravati. listed by the central govern- Mahalaya Chatterjee, cautioned started last Wednesday afternoon August 5 following a terror attack The cities include 24 capitals of Chandigarh, a union territory ment as nominee to its ambitious against the dependence on high- after the army intercepted a group on BSF troopers on the Jammu- states and union territories. Some that is the joint capital of Punjab smart city project which experts end service activities versus a of militants in Toot Mar Gali of Srinagar highway. Naveed had of the capital cities that were and Haryana and is the country’s say should aim to be socially “trading and manufacturing hub” Nowgam sector in Kupwara. taken three people hostage, who not nominated include Itanagar, only planned city, has also made inclusive and sustainable. Town, which is the basis of emergence of They had sneaked into India from overpowered him. IANS Patna, Shimla, Bengaluru and it to the list. Bidhannagar, Durgapur, Haldia small Indian towns. 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Price protest Man kills self Create jobs to curtail for AP ‘status’ HYDERABAD: Upset over terrorism: Tripura CM the delay in Andhra Pradesh getting special status, a man AGARTALA: The newly- industrialisation policies. committed suicide in the state’s restructured National Skill “The central government must Nellore town yesterday. Development Mission (NSDM) allocate adequate funds to the Ramishetti Laksmaiah, 55, should create jobs in the north- state governments for the skill hanged himself at his house in east to put a stop to terrorism development schemes,” he said. Nellore town in south coastal in the region, Tripura Chief The final meeting of the sub- Andhra, police said. Minister Manik Sarkar said group of chief ministers on skill He left behind a suicide note, here yesterday. development, held at NITI Aayog in which he wrote that he is tak- “NSDM should not only con- last Tuesday, was presided over by ing the extreme step due to the centrate on skill development, the convenor of the sub-group and delay by the central government but also create scope of employ- Punjab Chief Minister Parkash in granting special status to the ment,” Sarkar told reporters after Singh Badal. state. returning here from New Delhi, The group consists of chief Beginning with the slogan of where he attended the meeting ministers of Assam, Chhattisgarh, “Jai Andhra.. Jai Jai Andhra”, of NITI Aayog sub-group of chief Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, he wrote that the state should ministers on skill development. Meghalaya, Odisha, Punjab, develop and the problem of unem- He said: “Unemployment is the Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and ployment should be solved. root cause of the five-decade-old Tripura. He is the second man to com- terrorism in northeast India. Sarkar said the chief minis- mit suicide over the issue of spe- Inimical forces misguide the ters of the northeastern states cial status. A Congress worker unemployed youths to join sepa- expressed their discontent at the had immolated himself in Tirupati ratist outfits.” current policy of the NDA gov- on August 8 during a rally organ- At the NITI (National ernment, and said that unless the ised by the party to demand the National Akali Dal activists shout slogans as they protest against high prices of essential commodities, espe- Institution for Transforming special industrial package was central government immediately cially pulses and onions, in New Delhi, yesterday. Onion prices have touched `70 per kg, the highest this year, India) Aayog meeting, he said revived, no investors would go to accord special status to Andhra. along with those of other basic supplies. skill development must be clubbed the land-locked northeast region. IANS with education, agricultural, and IANS FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Cops to grill mom’s former husband in Sheena murder case MUMBAI: In a bid to get to both in their 80s and suffer from the bottom of Sheena Bora’s dementia,” he said. murder, police yesterday twice Mikhail reiterated that he had grilled Rahul Mukherjea, the repeatedly asked Indrani about victim’s ex-lover and son of Sheena’s whereabouts, but the former media tycoon Peter former maintained she was in Mukherjea, officials said. the US. Simultaneously, a two-member The murder case took a stun- police team went to Guwahati in ning twist last Wednesday after Assam and spoke to Mikhail Bora, Peter Mukherjea, the former Shenna’s brother, who claimed CEO of INX Media, revealed that that he feared for his life from Sheena had an affair with his son his mother, Indrani Mukherjea, Rahul, something Indrani did not now in police custody. approve. For a third time in less than 24 Mukherjea also made a star- hours, Rahul was questioned here tling claim that until recently about his long relationship with he had believed that Sheena was Sheena, his step-mother Indrani Indrani’s step-sister and not Mukherjea, why he didn’t pursue daughter. the “missing person” complaint Mikhail insists he knows a lot filed after Sheena disappeared more about the case. and other related aspects. “The real reason behind the Members of the Communist Party of India (Marxists) grapple with police during a farmers rally in Kolkata, yesterday. Later, Rahul was escorted to murder is something else, which his two flats in Khar and Bandra I don’t want to reveal now,” he has where he and Sheena spent time said, adding he had “proof, docu- together, a fact brought in the ments and photographs which I open by his step-father Peter shall reveal later”. Mukherjea, Indrani’s husband. So far, Mumbai Police have The police now await the arrested three people in connec- Farmers’ rally turns violent arrival of Sanjeev Khanna, said tion with the Sheena’s April 24, to be the first husband of Indrani 2012 murder. who was arrested in Kolkata last They are Indrani Mukherjea, Police, protesters engage in pitched battles, scores injured in stone-pelting Wednesday. The Mumbai Police her driver Shyam Rai and her ex- yesterday got a five-day transit husband Sanjeev Khanna, whom KOLKATA: A farmers’ rally to the state secretariat - was to Banerjee claimed that over 100 solely for the purpose of creating remand for him. she had married in 1993. More called by the opposition Left press for their 17-point charter of Left activists were injured, some anarchy. Their motive is evident Thereafter, the police plan arrests may follow. Front here yesterday turned demands including issues such as of them grievously in the police from the fact that they carried to re-create the crime scene. Mumbai Police Commissioner violent with protesters and farmer suicides and rehabilitation action. bombs and bricks with them,” Indrani and her driver Shyam Rakesh Maria, who is directing the police engaging in pitched of farmers ruined by the recent “Police have acted much like said Mukherjee alleging several Rai are alleged to have have the investigation, said Sheena was battles and stone pelting lead- floods in West Bengal. Hitler’s Gestapo. Over 100 peo- Left leaders carried bricks. eliminated Sheena on April 23, killed on April 24, 2012 and her ing to a number of leaders and Taken out from four spots, two ple have been injured... many of “Biman Bose claims he has 2012, apparently in collusion with body was found by Raigad police workers and policemen getting in the city, Rani Rashmoni Road them have their bones shattered, been injured, he may be but not Khanna. on May 23, 2012. injured. and Kidderpore, and two from there is complete anarchy,” said because of police but because In Guwahati, Mumbai police- The driver Rai led the police to Leader of Opposition and neighbouring Howrah district, Ritabrata Banerjee after visit- of his party’s goons. The police men questioned Mikhail Bora at the murder site in Raigad, near CPI-M state secretary Surjya the rallies turned violent as police ing the injured at the SSKM resorted to only a mild baton his grandparents (Indrani’s par- Mumbai, a few months ago, from Kanta Mishra and Left Front resorted to baton-charging and Hospital. charge in self defence after ents) home in Ganeshpuri area. where police recovered Sheena’s chairman and veteran Marxist used water cannons to disperse Mishra claimed police did not the agitators broke away one While the investigators were remains three years ago. leader Biman Bose were caught in the agitators who, in their bid to even spare the women and the barricade after the other,” tight-lipped, Mikhail said he Khanna is expected to be the melee and claimed they were march towards Nabanna, broke elderly and went on a “baton added Mukherjee. Ridiculing could be the “next target” after brought to Mumbai yesterday or hit by bricks as agitators and police barricades. charging spree”. Mukherjee’s charges, CPI-M his sister (Sheena) if he visited todayfrom Kolkata. police engaged in pitched battles. While the Left Front dubbed Condemning the protest, senior Lok Sabha member Mohammad Mumbai for the murder probe. Last Tuesday, Indrani and her CPI-M Rajya Sabha member police as Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool leader and Panchayat Salim asserted the Trinamool “I do not know. I may be the driver were produced before a Ritabrata Banerjee claimed that “Gestapo”, the ruling Trinamool Minister Subrata Mukherjee was rattled by the massive public next target of my mother. She is Mumbai court which sent them over 100 people were injured. Congress accused the Left leaders claimed that the Left leaders response to the rally. very powerful. She can do any- to police custody till August 31. Led by the Communist Party of instigating trouble. have been planning to create “The chief minister has already thing she wants,” he told the Assuring full cooperation with of India-Marxist-affiliated All “Police have acted like trouble for long and even carried run away and his remarks are a media. the police, Mukherjea admitted India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) and Trinamool volunteers. Just to bricks and bombs with them. clear indication of how much the “I can go to Mumbai only if that he was stumped by his wife’s supported by other Left Front break a peaceful agitation, they “The rally was not taken out Trinamool has been rattled by the the Assam government ensures arrest. “I am dumbstruck by this affiliated peasant fronts, the rained batons on peasants,” said with any political aim or to press response to the rally,” said Salim. that two nurses take care of my level of criminality.” “Nabanna Abhiyan” - a march Bose. for legitimate demands, but it was IANS (ailing) grandparents. They are IANS

Modi practising Bihar will avenge PM’s divisive politics: DNA slur, says Kejriwal Rahul Gandhi SRINAGAR: Jammu and PATNA: The people of Bihar brought back to the country, and Kashmir’s ruling coalition is will respond in the assembly now they were being told to do opportunistic, Congress leader polls Prime Minister Narendra yoga. ejriwal said while millions of Rahul Gandhi said yesterday, Modi’s “DNA slur” about Bihar rupees had been spent on adver- and accused Prime Minister Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, tisements related to the “Swachh Narendra Modi of practising Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Bharat” drive, “not a single lane “divisive politics”. Kejriwal said here yesterday. was clean”. Addressing saffron farmers “It was wrong to say that there While not visibly taking sides in Pampore in south Kashmir’s was something wrong with the in the Bihar election, he said peo- Pulwama district, Gandhi DNA of Nitish Kumar. It was an ple in the state had two models to targeted the ruling People’s insult to Bihar,” the Aam Aadmi choose from -- the central and the Democratic Party (PDP) and the Party leader told a seminar Delhi governments. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) organised by the Bihar govern- Praising his own six-month-old coalition. ment on good governance. government, Kejriwal said he and “The UPA government had “The people of Bihar will reply the AAP were made fun of when brought Jammu and Kashmir to it in the assembly elections,” they spoke about providing cheap back on the rails. But the present he added. electricity ahead of the Delhi elec- ruling alliance here is an oppor- Kejriwal said the Bharatiya tion in February. tunistic coalition that does not Janata Party had committed The people of Delhi, he said, want to help the people or bring the same mistake during Delhi’s were happy with the subsidies back peace,” he said. assembly elections by questioning provided on power bills. “It is Gandhi, who is on a three-day his ‘gotra’. possible electricity may become visit to Jammu and Kashmir, said “Now they have raised the further cheaper.” his visits to the troubled state question of DNA... People will He claimed that if assembly Army troops clear road blocks left by protesters in Ahmedabad, yesterday. make him both happy and sad. reply to them.” elections were held in Delhi now, “I am happy because this is Kejriwal supported Nitish the AAP -- which bagged 67 of the the land of my ancestors. And I Kumar’s demand of special 70 seats in February -- would win am sad because you people have category status for Bihar and all 70 seats. suffered a lot over the years,” he described the `1.25 lakh crore Saying “negative politics” and Gujarat limps back to normalcy said, in an obvious reference to package for the state announced “politics of abuse” were losing the unending separatist campaign by Modi as an attempt to buy over their appeal, Kejriwal added that AHMEDABAD: Ravaged by as well as public and private banks damaged, are expected to resume in the state. the people of Bihar. the attraction of the young vis- violence since last Tuesday, reported near normal operation normal operations only by next Gandhi credited the erstwhile Kejriwal, who shared the dais a-vis the Modi government was Gujarat limped back to nor- yesterday. week. The two days of unrest fig- Congress-led United Progressive with Nitish Kumar, lauded his waning. malcy yesterday even as the Curfew imposed in certain ured prominently in the Gujarat Alliance (UPA) government of government’s good governance. Earlier, he arrived here yester- army was moved into three areas of Ahmedabad, Surat, assembly where a vociferous “slowly ushering in peace” in “People in Delhi also talk about day on a day-long visit. more cities to curb tensions fol- Rajkot and other cities since last Congress demanded the resigna- Jammu and Kashmir and for “fin- Nitish Kumar’s good governance.” He was shown black flags by lowing riots that claimed nine Tuesday was relaxed yesterday, tion of Chief Minister Anandiben ishing terrorism”. He said he was happy to know three people who claimed to be lives, officials said. enabling residents to go out and Patel, forcing two adjournment of “We gave `900cr for self-help that nearly 11 crore people had supporters of social activist Anna Besides Ahmedabad, soldiers buy essentials including milk, veg- the house. groups of women in the state. We benefited from the the Right to Hazare, police said, adding all joined paramilitary and state etables and medicines. The speaker suspended around got the local youths employed. We Service Act started by the Bihar three were detained. police in Surat, Rajkot and But night curfew may continue 30 Congress legislators for the day held panchayat elections.” government. Kejriwal dubbed Nitish Kumar, the chief guest Mehsana to patrol the cities. in the worst-hit cities and locali- after they rushed towards him Gandhi urged the saffron Modi’s ‘Clean India’ campaign a at Delhi government’s cultural Though there were no major ties, officials indicated. shouting slogans against the gov- farmers to “grow better qual- failure, and said youths were los- programme last week, had invited incidents of violence yesterday, While auto-rickshaws and taxis ernment. Congress leader Rahul ity and high yielding saffron so ing faith in the Modi government. Kejriwal to Bihar and speak on the situation remained tense, started plying yesterday, public Gandhi targeted Prime Minister that the world knows Kashmir He also hinted that electric- the public delivery system. and roads were deserted in most transport, which bore the brunt Narendra Modi for the violence saffron”. ity prices in Delhi may become Kejriwal and Nitish Kumar will major cities and towns. of mobs in Ahmedabad, Surat, in his home state. “Modi believes in divisive poli- cheaper. In a direct attack on visit Bodh Gaya to pray at the Schools and colleges were shut, Vadodara and other cities, oper- A statewide shutdown tics. He believes in ruling the Modi, he said people were prom- Mahabodhi temple, considered and so were most shops, offices ated only partially. was observed in Gujarat last country by dividing it. The UPA ised before the Lok Sabha elec- the birthplace of Buddhism. and commercial establishments. The BRT system, in which Wednesday, a day after a Patidar believes in uniting the country.” tion that black money would be IANS However, all government offices buses and stops were badly mega-rally was held. IANS IANS FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Global stocks climb after Qatar Exchange index jumps 3.08pc wild swings

DOHA: Qatar Exchange (QE) percent. Medicare Group came was 54,129,012 shares, up 115.62 and industrial stocks accounted index finished in the green yes- on the top of rising stocks after percent compared to 25,103,858 for 16.31 percent. Banks and finan- Frankfurt, Paris bourses up by 3pc terday, after a sharp rise in all growing 5.65 percent, while Gulf shares last week. Some 35,852 cial services topped in terms of the sectors. The market gained 3.08 Warehousing Company led losers transactions is an increase by number of transactions last week LONDON: Global stock mar- China said on Sunday that its percent or 337.84 points to reach with a fall of 2.06 percent. 84.22 percent compared to 19,461 with 31.62 percent of the total. kets rose yesterday on renewed huge state pension fund will be 11,295.46. The market saw a Gulf International Services was transactions registered the pre- Industrial counters accounted for confidence in the US recovery allowed to invest up to 30 per- total of 7,445 transactions being the market leader, both in terms vious week. 21.25 percent, telecom 17.92 percent after days of wild swings, but cent of assets — which totalled carried out as trading volume of volume and value. Of the total Banks and financial services whereas real estate stocks accounted dealers warned that the spectre 3.5 trillion yuan at the end of reached 11.35million shares, hit- 42 traded companies, 38 advanced sector led the trading value this for 16.94 percent of the total. Of of the slowing Chinese econ- 2014 — in stocks. ting turnover of QR485.5m. and four declined. week with 36.15 percent of the the 43 listed companies 10 ended omy threatens more turbulence Elsewhere in Asia, Hong Kong Among the sector indexes, the Meanwhile, Qatari stocks fell total trading value. Industrial higher last week, 31 declined and ahead. shares hurtled 3.60 percent telecoms was the best performer. during a week of trading. The counters accounted for 24.50 two remained unchanged. Equities in Europe and on Wall higher, Tokyo gained 1.08 percent The sector advanced 4.17 per- index was down 50.07 points in percent, the real estate accounted Gulf International Services Street climbed on revised US data and Sydney added 1.17 percent. cent, supported by Ooredoo which the week. The market capitali- for 16.71 percent and telecoms topped in terms of the trading showing stronger US growth in “For now there is quite a bit of gained 4.24 percent. The real sation fell, by 0.63 percent to accounted for 9.55 percent. value last week with 10 percent the second quarter of 3.7 percent, relief that stocks in China are estate sector gained 2.10 percent QR596.014bn from QR599.76bn Real estate topped in terms of of the total, Barwa Real Estate compared with the previous esti- finally staging a moderate and driven by a 1.59 percent increase the previous week. trading volume with a share of had a share of 8.97 percent in the mate of 2.3 percent. long-awaited bounce back,” said in Ezdan Holding Group. Weekly turnover rose by 96.69 27.74 percent of the total. Banks total while Commercial Bank of The news gave comfort to inves- analyst Markus Huber at broker- The banking and financial serv- percent to QR2.30bn as compared and financial services accounted Qatar accounted for 8.95 percent, tors rattled by slagging Chinese age Peregrine & Black. ices sector grew 3.87 percent, to QR1.17bn the previous week. for 26.89 percent, telecoms sec- reports QNA. growth, and sent US indices at World markets had suffered powered by QNB which rose 5.55 Trading volume last week tor accounted for 16.94 percent THE PENINSULA or near 1.7 percent higher in a torrid start to the week on mid-day trade in New York, after “Black Monday”, when Shanghai snapping a six-day losing streak collapsed by almost 8.50 per- China official blames on Wednesday by closing about cent, sparking fears that China’s 4.0 percent ahead. slowdown could herald a global Europe’s main markets recession. rebounded, erasing losses earlier Analysts have cautioned that Fed for market rout in the week, with Frankfurt’s the stocks rout, which wiped $8 DAX 30 index finishing up 3.18 trillion off world shares in just BEIJING: Concerns over a markets ample time to prepare. percent and the CAC 40 in Paris over two weeks and battered com- possible US rate rise by the The Fed should not only consider gaining 3.49 percent. London’s modities and emerging market Federal Reserve may have the US economy, but should also benchmark FTSE 100 index currencies, is far from over. sparked a global stock market consider the global economy soared 3.56 percent at the close. While not predicting a ‘hard rout rather than the devalua- which is very fragile,” he said in Asian equities also rallied after landing’ for China, “risks abound tion of China’s yuan currency, an exclusive interview. several tumultuous days, but deal- and the outlook is murky because a senior Chinese central bank The Fed, which has been prep- ers cautioned that enduring con- China has been the world’s official told Reuters yesterday. ping investors for a possible rate cerns about China would spell strongest engine of growth and Yao Yudong, head of the bank’s hike, declined to comment. Fed more uncertainty. Shanghai soared Asia’s manufacturing hub for the Research Institute of Finance and policymakers acknowledge their 5.34 percent to end the worst five- past 15 years and its slowdown is Banking, said the US central bank actions can stir global markets, day rout for almost two decades, associated with sharp declines in should delay any rate hike to give but argue they aren’t stewards cheered partly by this week’s inter- commodity prices,” said Mickey D fragile emerging market economies of the world’s economy. Market est rate cut from the People’s Bank Levy, Berenberg’s chief economist time to prepare. He said Beijing’s turmoil “is not a US problem,” of China (PBoC) aimed at boost- for US, Americas and Asia. decision to let the yuan fall in value New York Federal Reserve Bank ing the world’s second-largest “These price declines will ben- against the dollar should not make President William Dudley said economy, which represents some efit the US and European econo- it a scapegoat for the sell-off. on Wednesday. 13 percent of global GDP. mies over time, but will hurt “China’s exchange rate reform Dudley said the sell-off was In addition, after a strong rise select commodity-exporting had nothing to do with the glo- sparked by “developments in the last hour of Shanghai trade, nations, particularly emerging bal stock market volatility, it abroad,” although Kansas City brokers said there was specula- nations, depressing their curren- was mainly due to the upcoming Fed chief Esther George said yes- tion over state buying or a possi- cies, forcing changes in monetary U.S. Federal Reserve monetary terday that the US central bank ble top-level meeting of the State policy and affecting international policy move,” Yao said. “We were helped set the stage by pumping Council, or cabinet, which could trade,” he added. wronged.” trillions of dollars into the bank- detail more measures to support Concerns that the US Federal Yao’s comments, which came ing system in recent years. the market. Reserve could raise interest rates on the same day that state media Policy insiders have told Reuters “There were external funds as early as next month have also issued a number of commentar- that China has been so surprised flowing in, but it’s uncertain been heaping pressure on world ies defending China’s policy mak- by the global reaction to its yuan if it was the national team,” markets. In London currency trad- ing, show Beijing’s sensitivity to devaluation that it’s likely to keep Shenwan Hongyuan analyst Gui ing yesterday, the dollar bought suggestions it may have fum- the currency on a tight leash in the Haoming said, referring to enti- 120.95 yen up from 119.98 yen late bled economic policy. The rul- near-term to head off any currency ties which trade on behalf of the in New York on Wednesday. ing Communist Party has drawn war that could spark a broader government. Qian Qimin, also of The euro rose slightly to 135.90 much of its legitimacy in past financial crisis. Two Indonesians stand near the trade monitor at the Indonesian stock Shenwan Hongyuan, added that from 135.72 yen, but fell against decades from fostering economic Yao said the yuan is likely to see exchange (JSX) in Jakarta yesterday. The JSX finished 4.55 percent higher. investors expect that “pension the dollar to $1.1236 from $1.1312. growth and raising incomes, and two-way moves in the near term funds will enter the market.” AFP wants to be seen as a responsible and may resume its appreciation player in the global economy. over time. “The (yuan) exchange Many analysts, however, say rate will be basically stable with a key factor roiling markets is two-way volatility. We cannot rule Aluminium, copper strike six-year lows concern that China’s economy out the possibility of yuan appre- might be slowing sharply despite ciation after 2-3 years.” LONDON: Falling demand, rising produc- by the Bloomberg Commodity Index of 22 raw Capital Economics. For Jeff Currie, who heads Beijing’s efforts. That could have The surprise yuan devaluation tion and faltering growth in the world’s sec- materials, to a 16-year-low on Monday. commodities research at Goldman Sachs, it is a significant impact on global of nearly 2 percent on August ond-largest economy China have sent many Base or industrial metals were among the a case of history repeating itself from earlier growth, hitting company earn- 11 stoked global concerns about major commodities plummeting to their hardest hit, with aluminium and copper strik- periods of slumping commodity prices. ings and reducing demand for slowing growth in the world’s lowest level since 2009, with some experts ing six-year lows, while lead and zinc touched Demand for copper, an indispensible metal commodities. second-biggest economy, coming predicting the start of a new cycle. their lowest levels in more than five years. for a range of industrial sectors, had risen six Yao said China’s economy just days after poor trade data. Oil prices this week dived to 6.5-year lows Copper prices had already collapsed late percent over a year. Its current fall is linked remains on a sound footing, though But Yao shrugged off concerns as commodities tumbled over concerns that last week under the key barrier of $5,000 per principally to fears on China, where demand some emerging market economies about a possible ‘hard landing’ China’s slowing economy will curb demand for tonne for the first time since 2009. had recorded unprecedented growth over the face a possible financial crisis in the in China, saying growth was still metals and other vital raw materials which “Investor sentiment towards commodities last decade. years ahead stemming from liquid- underpinned by more resilient have helped feed its astonishing growth over has rarely — if ever — been more negative. That expansion had sent mining companies ity stresses if the United States services and consumption. “China’s the past three decades. However, the recent sharp falls in prices can on a roll, with huge investments and new mines raises interest rates. economy is in good shape. I’m very China’s shock devaluation of the yuan two largely be seen as the continuation of trends to cater to China’s burgeoning and seemingly “So we hope the Federal confident full-year growth will weeks ago stoked fears about its economic in place since 2011. The main difference is that insatiable appetite. China consumes around Reserve could further delay its reach 7 percent,” he said. expansion, sparking a slump in world equi- oil, previously an outlier, has caught up,” said half of the world’s output of industrial metals. interest rate rise, giving emerging REUTERS ties and sending commodities, as measured Julian Jessop, head of commodities research at AFP

14th Bosch factory in India Saudi’s foreign reserves fall slows in July after bond sale

DUBAI: The speed of decline in level since early 2013. They had mainly in the form of foreign Saudi Arabia’s foreign reserves dropped 1.2 percent month-on- securities such as U.S. Treasury slowed in July after the govern- month in June and at faster bonds — securities totalled ment began issuing domestic debt rates early this year. $465.8bn at the end of July - and to cover part of a budget deficit In July, the government began deposits with banks abroad, which created by low oil prices, central selling bonds for the first time totalled $131.2bn. The vast major- bank data showed yesterday. since 2007, placing SR15bn ($4bn) ity of the assets are believed to be The world’s largest oil exporter of debt with quasi-sovereign in US dollars. has been drawing down its funds; this month it sold SR20bn Early this year, the central reserves to cover the deficit. Net of bonds to banks. bank drew down its foreign bank foreign assets at the central bank, The domestic debt sales appear deposits. But the July data showed which acts as the kingdom’s sov- to have reduced the need for the it has changed its strategy in the ereign wealth fund, have been government to cover its deficit last two months, rebuilding its sliding since they reached a by drawing down foreign assets. foreign deposits while selling for- $737bn peak last August. Authorities have not publicly said eign securities more actively. But the latest data showed how many bonds they will issue in Securities shrank 3.6 percent The exterior view of the Bosch factory in Bangalore after the inauguration yesterday. The Bangalore facility net foreign assets shrank only future, but the market is expect- month-on-month in July while is Bosch’s 14th manufacturing facility in India. 0.5 percent from the previ- ing monthly issues of roughly deposits expanded 9.6 percent to ous month to SR 2.480 trillion SR20bn through the end of 2015. their highest level this year. ($661bn) in July, their lowest The foreign assets are held REUTERS FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 US growth revised up; weekly jobless claims fall WASHINGTON: The US econ- Diane Swonk, chief economist at increase,” said Stuart Hoffman, economic fundamentals, a meas- seasonally adjusted 271,000 for an increase in contracts to pur- omy grew faster than initially Mesirow Financial in Chicago. chief economist at PNC Financial ure of private domestic demand the week ended Aug. 22. chase previously owned homes in thought in the second quar- Concerns over slowing eco- Services in Pittsburgh. that excludes trade, inventories It was the 25th straight week July. In the second quarter, busi- ter on solid domestic demand, nomic growth in China sent The upward revisions to sec- and government expenditures that claims remained below the ness spending on equipment was showing fairly strong momen- global equity markets into a tail- ond-quarter GDP growth also rose at a 3.3 percent rate in the 300,000 threshold, which is usu- not as weak as initially thought. tum that could still allow the spin last week, raising doubts reflected the accumulation of second quarter, instead of the ally associated with a strength- The energy sector continued Federal Reserve to hike inter- that the U.S. central bank would $121.1bn worth of inventories, previously reported 2.5 percent ening labor market. Economists to weigh on growth as it strug- est rates this year. raise its short-term interest rate $11.1bn more than previously pace. also said they expected the recent gles with the lingering effects of Gross domestic product next month. Markets have since estimated. That meant invento- Consumer spending, which stock market rout to have only a deep spending cuts by oil-field expanded at a 3.7 percent annual recouped some of the huge losses. ries contributed 0.22 percentage accounts for more than two- limited impact on the economy. companies like Schlumberger pace instead of the 2.3 percent On Wednesday, New York Fed point to GDP instead of sub- thirds of US economic activ- “As long as this is a garden- and Halliburton in the after- rate reported last month, the President William Dudley said tracting 0.08 percentage point as ity, grew at a 3.1 percent rate, variety correction, the impact on math of a more than 60 percent Commerce Department said yes- that prospects of a September reported last month. rather than the 2.9 percent pace the US economy should be mod- plunge in crude oil prices in the terday in its second GDP estimate lift-off in the central bank’s key While the huge inventory build reported last month. Consumer est,” said Ryan Sweet, a senior past year. for the April-June period. lending rate “seems less compel- will likely weigh on growth in the spending got off a to brisk start economist at Moody’s Analytics Spending on mining explora- The GDP report, which was ling to me than it was a few weeks third quarter, the blow could be in the third quarter, with retail in West Chester Pennsylvania. tion, wells and shafts plunged at released in the wake of a glo- ago.” softened by rebounding business sales rising solidly in July. The Commerce Department a 68.3 percent rate in the second bal stock market sell-off, should US stocks rose sharply on the investment in capital goods. A strong labour market, said investment in nonresidential quarter, the largest decline since assure investors and cautious Fed GDP data, a day after posting Economists had expected that cheaper petrol and relatively structures was revised to show an the second quarter of 1986. The officials that the United States their biggest one-day gain in four second-quarter GDP growth higher house prices are boosting increase rather than a contrac- trade deficit was smaller than is in good shape to weather the years. Prices for US government would be revised to a 3.2 percent household wealth, helping to sup- tion, reflecting stronger spending previously reported, adding 0.23 growing strains in the world debt fell, while the dollar firmed rate. The economy grew at a 0.6 port consumer spending. on commercial and healthcare percentage point to GDP growth. economy. against a basket of currencies. percent rate in the first quarter. The employment picture was construction. The GDP report also showed “The US economy entered the “The Fed could certainly hold Output expanded 2.2 percent in further brightened yesterday Spending on residential con- a rebound in after-tax corpo- current market turbulence with off until later this year, citing the the first half of the year compared by a separate report from the struction, which includes brokers’ rate profits, but a strong dollar momentum, which will help it to recent market turmoil, but the to growth of 1.9 percent during Labour Department showing commissions, was raised. More and lower oil prices remain a shrug off the drag from China and economic fundamentals would the same period in 2014. initial claims for state unemploy- gains are likely this quarter after constraint. other developing economies,” said also justify a small September rate Underscoring the solid ment benefits slipped 6,000 to a a third report yesterday showed REUTERS

Cargo ship at Dar es Salaam port China energy Ukraine averts giants’ H1 profits fall on major default low oil prices

SHANGHAI: China’s three biggest energy firms saw their with debt deal first half net profits slump as low international oil prices and a weak global economy hit the Blow to Russia, says premier bottom line, they said. PetroChina, the listed arm KIEV: Ukraine stepped back keeping Ukraine’s pro-Western of China’s biggest oil producer from the brink of default yester- leaders from being forced into China National Petroleum Corp. day with a crucial debt deal that resuming their reliance on Russia. (CNPC), said its net profit for sees lenders accept a 20-per- Ukraine’s economy is expected the first half tumbled 62.7 per- cent write-down and keeps to shrink nearly 10 percent this cent year-on-year to 25.40bn yuan global markets open to the cash- year due in part to the loss of key ($4bn) according to a statement strapped ex-Soviet state. coal and steel mining factories in to the Hong Kong stock exchange The announcement marks a the pro-Russian separatist east. The Singapore-flagged Clemens Schulte cargo ship arrives in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, yesterday. The yesterday. monumental victory for Finance The resulting industrial pro- 255-metre-long container ship is the longest to have ever berthed at the port. Dar es Salaam port is The energy giant described the Minister Natalie Jaresko — duction slump of about 20 per- undergoing a transformation to improve its physical infrastructural capacity. market environment as challeng- a US-born economist whom cent has also limited Ukrainian ing due to the “weak recovery of President Petro Poroshenko exports and made Kiev increas- the international economy, the plucked from a Kiev investment ingly reliant on outside help. intensified downward pressure firm in December and tasked with The possibility of Ukraine on the domestic economy”. saving the war-torn country from either outright defaulting on its China’s economy grew 7 per- running out of cash. obligations or imposing a payment cent in each of the first two quar- Prime Minister Arseniy freeze could have shut Kiev out Philippine economic growth ters, slowing from a 7.4 percent Yatsenyuk described the agree- of global borrowing markets and expansion last year, which was its ment as a blow to “enemy” Russia. severely hampered its IMF-led weakest since 1990. And International Monetary austerity and economic restruc- PetroChina said international Fund head Christine Lagarde said turing drive. quickens to 5.6pc in Q2 oil prices fluctuated at low lev- she was “very pleased” because The IMF had patched together els during the period and market the deal “will help restore debt a $40bn rescue package aimed at MANILA: Philippine economic grow from 6.0 to 6.5 percent for fiscal management”. “This sta- demand for oil and gas was weak. sustainability” in a strategic stabilising the country’s financial growth quickened in the second the full year, below the govern- bility has helped the Philippines Oil prices hit their lowest levels nation that has seen its debt to footing after more than two dec- quarter, the government said ment’s 7.0 to 8.0 percent target. weather external shocks, proving since early 2009 this week over gross domestic product ratio bal- ades of corruption saw its econ- yesterday, placing the country Second quarter growth was once again that good governance concerns China’s slowing economy loon to an estimated 140 percent. omy shrink from levels seen in in a better position to weather also slower than 6.7 percent dur- is good economics,” he added. will curb demand for the com- Franklin Templeton and three Soviet times. the global fallout from China’s ing the same period last year, Finance Secretary Cesar modities that have helped drive other financial titans that hold But that deal required a com- economic woes. data showed. Balisacan and other Purisima said in a statement that its growth over the past three nearly half of the $19bn in com- promise with bondholders that Officials credited the growth officials stressed that the growth “robust domestic demand”, along decades. PetroChina’s turnover mercial debt under discussion had could save the nation $15.3bn over to “prudent fiscal management” showed the country could weather with the remittances from 10 mil- in the January-June period also originally argued that the east the next four years. The deal will and policies pursued by President the global financial turmoil. lion Filipinos working abroad and dropped, falling 23.9 percent on European nation was in strong see the lenders take a 20-percent Benigno Aquino, which has helped “Our economic fundamentals the booming business process out- the year to 877.62bn yuan, it said. enough shape to repay what it “haircut” to the face value of their transform the country into one of are still strong. We have to make sourcing industry, were all lifting It warned the market situation owed in full. bonds but obtain slightly higher the fastest-growing economies in sure we are mindful of the chal- growth. With the second quarter may remain weak in the second “I think it’s a historic success interest payments in return. the region. lenges we are facing,” Balisacan numbers in, Barclays said it cut half. “The mild recovery of the for Ukraine, I think for emerging Ukraine agreed to raise its cou- Boosted by higher government told reporters. “The quality its 2015 growth forecast for the global economy will remain highly markets generally,” Jaresko said pon rates to 7.75 percent from 7.2 spending, the April to June gross and the rate of growth of the Philippines to 5.5 percent, but said uncertain in the second half of shortly before Yatsenyuk made percent while the lenders accepted domestic product (GDP) grew 5.6 Philippine economy gives some Balisacan’s expectation of 6.0 to 6.5 2015... the global oil price is likely the formal announcement at a slightly longer repayment terms. percent, outpacing the 5.0-per- assurance that with greater vigi- percent growth was “realistic”. to keep fluctuating at a low level,” televised government meeting. The compromise also keeps cent growth in the previous lance... we can withstand the vola- Barclays regional economist the company said. The painful talks lasted for five Ukraine from being forced into quarter, which was the lowest in tile markets overseas,” he added. Rahul Bajoria warned that govern- It added “downward pressure months and saw the both the IMF making any principal payments three years, Economic Planning President Benigno Aquino’s ment spending still had not risen on the economy still exists” for and Washington put immense should its real annual growth rate Secretary Arsenio Balisacan said. spokesman Edwin Lacierda said fast enough and exports had been China in the second half. pressure on bondholders to accept stay below three percent. Despite the rebound, Balisacan the growth was due to political weak, weighing down growth. Another refining giant, short-term losses in return for AFP said the economy was likely to stability “along with prudent AFP Sinopec, reported net profit for the first six months slumped 22.3 percent to 24.43bn yuan, it said late Wednesday in a statement to Bulgaria tourism the Hong Kong stock exchange, where it is listed. It also blamed Total sells North Sea gas slow economy recovery and low oil prices for the drop. Sinopec’s rev- enue dropped 23.3 percent year- assets worth over $900m on-year to 1.04 trillion yuan in the January-June period. PARIS: French oil giant Total North Sea gas fields for $873m, Separately, China’s main off- announced yesterday that it had and brings total divestments for shore oil and gas producer, agreed to sell a North Sea gas the year to $3.5bn. CNOOC, reported a 56.1 percent terminal and two pipelines in a “The sale of these midstream year-on-year plunge in net profit deal worth over $900m in a move transportation assets is another to 14.73bn yuan in the first half, to help offset falling oil prices. example of Total’s strategy of the company said. Total said Britain’s North Sea active portfolio management and “Economic growth in China Midstream Partners had agreed the strong potential to unlock stabilised from slowing down and to buy the FUKA and SIRGE gas value from a range of infrastruc- saw signs of bottoming out, while pipelines and the St. Fergus Gas ture assets,” Total’s chief financial international oil prices continued Terminal in Scotland for £585m officer Patrick de La Chevardiere to hover at low levels,” CNOOC ($905m). said. “Transferring ownership to chairman Yang Hua said. The sale is part of Total’s effort an entity specialising in mid- Its revenue also fell sharply to sell $10bn worth of assets stream UK assets creates value by 35.5 percent year-on-year between 2015 and 2017, along for us and ensures a long and to 89.59 billion yuan in the first with reducing new investment bright future for the facilities.” half, according to the statement. and cutting production costs, to Total has also sold stakes in a CNOOC warned there was little A view of Emerald Princess cruise ship, the largest cruise ship to visit the Black Sea, moored at the har- compensate for sagging income refinery in Germany for $300m to hope for in the second half. bour of Burgas, Bulgaria, yesterday. The ship’s arrival also marked the start of the new cruise season. as oil prices have dropped to their and its South Africa coal affiliate “There is little optimism in the lowest levels since 2009. for $372m. Despite the sale, Total world’s macro-economic environ- The passengers from the ship were due to make trips to Sozopol, Pomorie and Nessebar. Bulgarian The deal announced yesterday stressed it remained committed ment; international oil prices are authorities expect more than 15,000 tourists to visit Burgas this season. follows on the heels of Total’s to gas exploration and extraction, expected to remain at a low level,” sale last month of stakes in three including North Sea fields. AFP Yang said. AFP FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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Felix wins women’s 400 metres gold BEIJING: Allyson Felix (pic- tured) of the United States won her ninth world champi- onships gold medal and first at 400 metres with a dominating performance at the Bird’s Nest Stadium yesterday. The Olympic 200-metre champion set off by far the quick- est of the eight women finalists to hold a com- manding lead by 150m. Off the final bend she was four metres clear of her near- est rival, Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas, who could not close the gap down the final straight. Felix’s 49.26 seconds winning time was the fastest in the world this year while Miller claimed silver in 49.67. The bronze medal was won by Shericka Jackson, who led home Jamaican team mates in fourth (Christine Day), Bolt cruises past Gatlin fifth (Stephenie McPherson) and sixth (Novlene Williams-Mills). Britain’s Christine Ohuruogu, the champion in 2007 and 2013 and Olympic gold medallist on this track seven years ago, faded on the home straight and finished for his fourth 200m gold eighth in 50.63. The gold medal won by 29-year-old Felix is only the third won by the US team When it comes to 200m, I am a different person, says the superstar after six days at the Beijing world championships. REUTERS

BEIJING: Jamaica’s Usain Bolt false start in the 100m at the 2011 “I feel tired. Going through Britain’s Zharnel Hughes and (pictured above) easily out- worlds in Daegu. three 100s and three 200s is tax- Jobodwana, Bolt, in fult tilt after stripped American rival Justin “There was no doubt,” said Bolt, ing on the body,” he said. an electrifying bend, responded Gatlin to claim his fourth con- who has had pelvic problems this “I’m the oldest person in the by moving into his famed “drive secutive world 200m title on season and did not consider an field and am still running and phase”, unleashing the full power Thursday and complete a rous- attempt on his own world record running pretty well. To be able from his long legs. ing sprint double in Beijing. of 19.19sec, set in 2009. to run 9.74sec is a really good Unlike the 100m, when it came Bolt clocked a world-leading “I knew I wasn’t in the shape showing. down to one-hundredth of a sec- 19.55 seconds to beat Gatlin by for a world record. But when it “I gave it all I could give,” he ond to separate Bolt from Gatlin, nearly two-tenths, thumbing his comes to the 200m, I am a dif- said. there was a clear gap this time. chest as he crossed the line to add ferent person, I was beaten there Huge cheers greeted Bolt, And Bolt knew it, thumbing the 200m to his 100m title at the only once. wearing lycra shorts and singlet himself in the chest as he crossed world championships. “My four world championships in the green, gold and black col- the line to complete a double The clear victory extends Bolt’s gold medals in the 200m, this is a ours of Jamaica and placed in lane many thought was in doubt when domination of sprinting which big deal, a great accomplishment.” six, with Gatlin on his inside in he missed six weeks of competi- stretches back to when he took There was drama after the lane four. tive action with pelvic pain. A the world by storm at the 2008 race, however, as a shoeless Bolt Applause also rang out for Gatlin, in the form of his life spectator, Beijing Olympics, also at the was downed by a cameraman on Gatlin, in a red one-piece suit, as at the age of 33, previously won who Bird’s Nest stadium. a Segway electric scooter who had the stadium comperes built up a world 200m gold in Helsinki entered Gatlin, who has served two strayed too close to the Jamaican. boxing-match atmosphere at the before testing positive for testo- doping bans and finished just The cameraman mounted a packed Bird’s Nest. sterone and serving a doping ban the track, one-hundredth of a second behind fixed railing and slipped back- The in-form American between 2006-2010, an enforced wants to Bolt in Sunday’s 100m, clocked wards, shooting the Segway from sprinter, as in the 100m, suffered rest he credits with extending his have his 19.74sec, with South African under him into Bolt’s heels and from a slower start than Bolt, who career. picture Anaso Jobodwana taking bronze making the newly-minted cham- shot out of his blocks. Gatlin, a Athletics has been mired in taken with with a national record of 19.87sec. pion fall backwards. renowned fast starter who hasn’t doping controversies, but Bolt, Usain Bolt The victory meant Bolt has Bolt got up gingerly and limped lost over 200m since 2013 and has one of track and field’s most of Jamaica now remarkably won 11 of the last away before continuing his vic- set personal best of 19.57sec this tested stars, again stepped up after the 12 individual Olympic and world tory lap. season, looked threatening com- to the mark to boost the sport’s men’s sprint titles dating back to Beijing Gatlin, meanwhile, said his age ing off the bend. credibility and also cement his 200m final 2008, his only blip coming after a had showed in the race. But sandwiched between legendary status. REUTERS in Beijing Dibaba and yesterday. Usain Bolt of Kiprop coast, Jamaica falls over after a TV holder Reese cameraman with a segway drove into out of long him after the men’s 200m final during the jump final Beijing 2015 IAAF World BEIJING: Ethiopia’s Genzebe Championships Dibaba eased through to the finals of the women’s 5,000 at the National metres yesterday to stay on Stadium course for a world athletics yesterday. World Championship Results championships double, while American Brittney Reese saw BEIJING: Results from finals at the world athletics champion- her six-year long jump reign ships in Beijing yesterday: end. Men’s 200m The 24-year-old Dibaba, who record was possible in Sunday’s It was a better day for Briton Monster leap as won the 1,500m gold on Tuesday 5,000 final. Katarina Johnson-Thompson at 1. Usain Bolt (JAM) 19.55sec; 2. Justin Gatlin (USA) 19.74; 3. Anaso in dominant fashion, was untrou- “If I keep my good performance the pit as she booked a spot in the Taylor wins triple Jobodwana (RSA) 19.87; 4. Alonso Edward (PAN) 19.87; 5. Zharnel bled in the opening heat of the I can run faster than the current final with an effort of 6.79m after Hughes (GBR) 20.02; 6. Ramil Quliyev (AZE) 20.11; 7. Femi Ogunode 5,000 as she won in a time of 15 world record,” she said. three long jump fouls cost her a jump gold (QAT) 20.27; 8. Nickel Ashmeade (JAM) 20.33. minutes 20.82 seconds on another Asbel Kiprop of Kenya also heptathlon medal on Sunday. hot and sunny morning at the showed his class in the heats Olympic champion Anna BEIJING: Olympic champion Men’s Triple Jump Bird’s Nest stadium. for the men’s 1500m, coasting Chicherova of Russia was among Christian Taylor produced the Dibaba crossed the line just through to today’s semi-finals in a group of experienced high jump- second longest triple jump in 1. Christian Taylor (USA) 18.21m; 2. Pedro Pablo Pichardo (CUB) ahead of Kenyan Mercy Cherono a time of 3:38.97 after winning the ers to secure passage through to history yesterday as he won the 17.73; 3. Nelson Evora (POR) 17.52; 4. Omar Craddock (USA) 17.37; (15:20.94), while compatriot second heat. tomorrow’s final. world title with a huge leap of 5. Lyukman Adams (RUS) 17.28; 6. Marian Oprea (ROM) 17.06; 7. Almaz Ayana, who won bronze The defending world cham- The 33-year-old cleared the 18.21m. Dmitriy Sorokin (RUS) 16.99; 8. Tosin Oke (NGR) 16.81; 9. Godfrey Khotso Mokoena (RSA) 16.81; 10. Leevan Sands (BAH) 16.68; 11. two years ago in Moscow, put pion, who won Olympic gold at required 1.92 metre mark along The Dutch-based American left Jonathan Drack (MRI) 16.64; 12. Benjamin Compaore (FRA) 16.63. down a marker for Sunday’s final the Birds Nest at the 2008 Beijing with 31-year-old double world it late before nailing the big jump by recording the fastest time of Games, played down his display. champion Blanka Vlasic of on his sixth and final attempt to Women’s 400m the day, 15:09.40, in the quicker “My plan was just to be in the Croatia and Spain’s 36-year-old add to the world championship second heat. top six and to go on to the semi- European champion Ruth Beitia. gold he won in 2011. 1. Allyson Felix (USA) 49.26; 2. Shaunae Miller (BAH) 49.67; 3. “As everyone knows, Mercy final,” the 26-year-old said. Defending champion Brianna Only Jonathan Edwards has Shericka Jackson (JAM) 49.99; 4. Christine Day (JAM) 50.14; 5. Cherono and Almaz Ayana are “It is not about sending a mes- Rollins cruised through the 100m jumped further, 18.29 in 1995, and Stephenie Ann McPherson (JAM) 50.42; 6. Novlene Williams-Mills challengers. We’ve been running sage to anyone. I was relaxed hurdles in a time of 12.67 seconds, Taylor said his sights were firmly (JAM) 50.47; 7. Phyllis Francis (USA) 50.51; 8. Christine Ohuruogu together many times,” Dibaba told because during my last three with American compatriot and fixed on the Briton’s world record. (GBR) 50.63. reporters. weeks of training in Nairobi I was 2008 Olympic champion Dawn “It was a great fight and I saved “Winning the 1500m gold medal in good shape.” Harper-Nelson also impressive. it until my last jump,” said Taylor. Women’s Hammer gave me confidence, but you never Elsewhere on the sixth morn- In the men’s discus, Fedrick “We are that close to a record, this 1. Anita Wlodarczyk (POL) 80.85; 2. Zhang Wenxiu (CHN) 76.33; 3. know what is going to happen in ing of the championships, triple Dacres of Jamaica (65.77 metres) makes you even hungrier! I am Alexandra Tavernier (FRA) 74.02; 4. Sophie Hitchon (GBR) 73.86; the final.” defending champion and Olympic and Pole Piotr Malachowski looking forward to Rio (Olympics) 5. Wang Zheng (CHN) 73.83; 6. Kathrin Klaas (GER) 73.18; 7. Betty Dibaba showed her pace in the gold medallist Reese missed out on (65.99) were the only two to with the other competitors.” Heidler (GER) 72.56; 8. Zalina Marghiev (MOL) 72.38; 9. Amanda 1500m final by taking the lead a spot in Friday’s long jump final pass the 65m automatic qualify- Cuban rival Pedro Pablo Bingson (USA) 72.35; 10. Alena Navahrodskaya (BLR) 70.09; 11. with two laps to go and blowing after finishing 24th in qualifying ing mark ahead of tomorrow’s Pichardo claimed silver with a Rosa Rodriguez (VEN) 67.78; . Amber Campbell (USA) 0 clear with ease. She said a world with a disappointing 6.39 metres. 12-man final. REUTERS best of 17.73m. REUTERS FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Novak Djokovic is UNICEF goodwill ambassador

World number one Green pitch leaves Novak Djokovic and Jim Young, President World Bank Group, laugh during a UNICEF press conference in New York. Djokovic teams guessing became a goodwill ambassador for the UN Fund for Children, Sri Lanka, India ready for series decider joining a roster of athletes and celebrities to hold the post. The COLOMBO: India and Sri 28-year-old Serbian, Lanka were left to ponder who grew up during the behaviour of an unusually the Balkans war, has greenish wicket as they delayed naming their line-ups for the already been working decisive final Test starting in to help vulnerable Colombo today. children through his The traditionally high-scoring role as UNICEF Serbia pitch at the Sinhalese sports club Indian ambassador and his (SSC) has undergone a dramatic captain own Novak Djokovic change in appearance from a Virat Foundation. brown, flat track to a moisture- Kohli is laden one that sports a tinge of watched grass. by team Sri Lankan captain Angelo Mathews refused to hazard a mate guess on the relaid pitch even Karun Serena chases calendar though the last time the hosts Nair as he played a Test at the SSC a year catches a ago, they swamped Pakistan by ball during 105 runs to break a sequence of a practice four successive draws since 2009. session Slam, history at US Open “After being relaid the wicket at the has a bit more carry,” he said. “As Sinhalease NEW YORK: World number of now, there’s a bit of grass on Sports one Serena Williams (pictured ATP Winston- the wicket. You can’t really pre- Club right) feels the pressure of dict a wicket 100 per cent. We just (SSC) chasing history at the US Open, Salem Results have to play it by the ear. Ground in but she accepts the intensity as “It looks a sporting wicket. We the price for dominating a gen- WINSTON-SALEM, Colombo United States: Results from just have to play positive cricket. yesterday. eration of women’s tennis. The batters have to look to score The 33-year-old American, the fourth day on Wednesday runs, bowlers have to take wick- who captured her first Grand of the ATP hardcourt tour- nament in Winston-Salem ets. We have to get the basics Slam title at the 1999 US Open (x-denotes seeded player): right.” at age 17, is a huge favourite as The series is tied 1-1 after Sri she tries to complete the first Third Round: Pierre- Lanka won the opening Test in calendar-year Grand Slam since Hugues Herbert (FRA) bt Galle by 63 runs and India drew Steffi Graf in 1988 by winning Aljaz Bedene (GBR) 6-3, 6-0; level with a thumping 278-run her 22nd career major title in the Pablo Carreno-Busta (ESP) win in the second match at the P. event that starts Monday on the bt Simone Bolelli (ITA) 6-4, Sara Oval in Colombo on Monday. New York hardcourts. 4-6, 6-1; Steve Johnson (USA The Test marks the start of a “I decided I prefer to have that x13) bt Jo-Wilfried Tsonga new era in Sri Lankan cricket fol- pressure than the pressure of not (FRA x3) 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (7/4); lowing the retirement of batting winning,” Williams said. “Not eve- Lu Yen-Hsun (TPE) bt Chung great Kumar Sangakkara from Smith to seek ryone can handle that pressure, Hyeon (KOR) 7-6 (7/1), 1-6, international cricket after the but I’m OK with it. I would rather 7-5; Thomaz Belluci (BRA x6) second Test. be in this position than another bt Jiri Vesely (CZE x11) 6-1, 6-7 Mathews confirmed that the one.” (7/9), 6-4; Malek Jaziri (TUN) 134-Test veteran Sangakkara Still, there’s no doubt Williams bt Teimuraz Gabashvili (RUS) will be replaced by another left- Ponting’s help is looking forward to seeing her 7-5, 6-4; Borna Coric (CRO x8) hander Upul Tharanga, who has designs in a New York fashion bt Diego Schwartzman (ARG) played 20 Tests, but admitted Sri MELBOURNE: New Australia show a few days after the US 6-2, 6-1; Kevin Anderson (RSA Lanka were undecided on the rest captain Steven Smith will seek Open. x2) bt Jerzy Janowicz (POL of the team. counsel from former skipper By then, the Grand Slam bid x16) 7-6 (7/2), 6-4. “We still have not found Ricky Ponting on how to lead will be over, win or lose. the best combination,” the Sri the team and be its best bats- “I’m ready. I’m so ready. WTA New Haven Lankan captain told reporters man in a period of transition. I’m ready to get it over with,” on Thursday. Smith took the reins of the Williams said. has been going very well,” said Results “With Sangakkara now retired, one-day team for the first time “I don’t care if I win or lose or Williams. “It also makes me real- we’ve got an opportunity to test in a one-off match against Ireland break even. I’m ready to start it, ize the feeling of winning. I like NEW HAVEN, United our players in different positions,” yesterday before taking charge get it over with, and be done and that feeling and want to do the States: Results from the he said. of the Test team for a series in go on to the next event.” hard work.” fourth day of the WTA New A finger injury sustained by off- Bangladesh in October. Williams seeks her fourth con- Williams has won six Haven hardcourt tournament spinner Tharindu Kaushal in the With the retirements of former secutive US Open title after hav- Wimbledon, US Open and (x denotes seeded player): second Test has compounded Sri skipper Michael Clarke and ing won this year’s French and Australian Open titles and three Lanka’s worries with Mathews opening batsman Chris Rogers, Australian Opens and Wimbledon French Open crowns to stand Second Round: Karolina indicating he will wait till today Australia will have a different as well as hardcourt events in one shy of Steffi Graf’s Open Era Pliskova (CZE x5) bt Olga Savchuk (UKR) 6-4, 6-1; morning to finalise the team. batting lineup going forward but Miami and Cincinnati, the last (since 1968) record of 22 Grand Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x3) India, seeking their first series Smith will be expected to be the US Open warm-up where she Slam singles trophies and only bt Roberta Vinci (ITA) 6-4, win in Sri Lanka in 22 years, will rock in both teams. defeated Romania’s Simona Halep three shy of Australian Margaret 6-7 (6/8), 7-6 (9/7); Agnieszka also not reveal their playing 11 “I’m looking forward to hope- in the final for a 69th career Court’s all-time record of 24. Radwanska (POL x7) bt Alize till they had assessed the wicket fully being able to get him on crown. Not since Graf won the 1989 Cornet (FRA) 6-4, 6-2; Petra before the toss, team director the phone and talk a few things “It gives me confidence to know Australian Open after her 1988 Kvitova (CZE x2) bt Madison Ravi Shastri said. about him and just continuing to that what I’ve been working on calendar Slam has a woman won Keys (USA) 4-6, 6-1, 6-2. “It’s far from being a finished try and learn,” he told Australian these past few days and weeks five Slams in a row, as Williams product yet,” Shastri told report- media ahead of the ODI match in could. ers after inspecting the pitch Belfast. Patrick Mouratoglou, Williams’ before practice yesterday. “I was lucky enough to play Australia’s captain Steve Smith Wozniacki coach, likes what he sees in his Federer and “There is still quite a bit of under him as a player. He’s cer- during the one-day international star pupil, especially her power- grass on it, but there could be tainly a little bit different to (ODI) against Ireland at Stormont reaches ful serve. Sharapova another cutting of grass. Only Michael (Clarke) in a few ways Cricket Club in Belfast yesterday. “She has probably get the best then can we decide who to play,” that he’s run things, both good Australia won the rain-hit game by New Haven serve in the history of the wom- to defend he said. and bad, each of them to their en’s game,” he said. 23 runs (D/L method). India, who have not won a Test own (style).” “Even when it’s not perfect, it’s series on the island since 1993, A member of some of Australia’s quarter-finals still good enough to win. She has Brisbane titles will be without the injured trio finest teams in the late 1990s and bookending a string of failures to continue to have faith in her of regular openers Murali Vijay early 2000s, Ponting led the team with a pair of centuries in the NEW HAVEN: Four-time serve.” BRISBANE: Seventeen-time and Shikhar Dhawan, plus wick- as a generation of greats came to second and fifth tests. champion Caroline Wozniacki Williams will be the US Open Grand Slam champion Roger etkeeper Wriddhiman Saha. the end of their careers. He will bat at three in the one- had to battle past Roberta Vinci top seed for a fourth time, having Federer and five-time major- Shastri admitted the injuries Though Australia struggled day team but is undecided where Wednesday to book her quarter- already won titles as top seed in winner Maria Sharapova had set the tourists back, but to regenerate following their he should bat in tests, despite final berth at the WTA hard- 2002, 2013 and last year. will defend their Brisbane insisted India will continue to play retirements, the hard-bitten most pundits urging him to stick court event in New Haven. Second seed Halep could be the International titles in the lead- positive cricket like they had done Tasmanian continued to lead the to the slot that Ponting owned for Denmark’s Wozniacki, seeded toughest healthy foe in Williams’ up to the Australian Open throughout the series. way at number three in the bat- most of his career. third this year in the US Open path. in January, organisers said “Fitness issues always hurt but ting order before giving up the “Hopefully first and foremost tune-up, saved three match points Russian third seed Maria yesterday. nothing has changed from day captaincy to Clarke after a poor I can keep making runs, that’s in the third-set tiebreaker en Sharapova, Danish fourth seed Federer won his 1,000th match one,” he said. series in the 2010-11 Ashes defeat pretty important to me,” Smith route to the 6-4, 6-7 (6/8), 7/6 Caroline Wozniacki and 2012 and in a tight three-set final against “We play to win. We have got on home soil. said. (9/7) win, which saw her reach 2013 US Open runner-up Victoria Milos Raonic in 2015 and said he ourselves in a position now where Smith batted at three in “To make sure I’m leading from the quarter-finals for the seventh Azarenka of Belarus all have leg was looking forward to being back if we win this Test, we will win the the recent Ashes series defeat, the front.” REUTERS time in eight appearances on the injuries. in Australia. series which is massive. courts at Yale University. In the end, Williams’ toughest “I’m excited, especially after “There’s no point being shy “I just kept fighting, really,” enemy might be herself and her this year with the win and the of going for a win. At the same Windies paceman Gabriel Wozniacki said. “It could have mental ability to handle trouble 1,000th match win, it was like a time, it’s not a case of being gone either way but thankfully it during matches. picture perfect moment,” said the over-confident. went my way,” she said. “If I am playing well then hope- Swiss world number two. “We have got to have the right joins Worcester; Ajmal fired Wozniacki next faces rising fully no one (else) will win, but “I’m coming back maybe with a balance and play proper cricket French star Caroline Garcia, we’ll see,” Williams said. “It’s all little bit more pressure next year like we did in the last Test over LONDON: Worcestershire have signed West Indies fast bowler who booked her quarter-final up to me. If I decide to play right, having to defend (the title), but five days.” Shannon Gabriel for the final two matches of their County spot on Tuesday with a win over it’ll be great.” I’ve played there two years now India are likely to bring in Championship campaign, the Midlands side announced yesterday. Magdalena Rybarikova. Not since Aussie Samantha and it’s gone so well.” Cheteshwar Pujara for the first The 27-year-old will replace Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal, who Defending champion and sec- Stosur beat Williams in the 2011 Federer became just the third time in the series to open the is returning home after being fired for lack of form. ond seed Petra Kvitova of Czech final has Williams lost at the US man in history to win at least innings with Lokesh Rahul in the Gabriel will be available for the First Division fixtures against Durham Republic lined up a last-eight Open. 1,000 matches, joining Ivan Lendl absence of Dhawan and Vijay. at Chester-le-Street and Middlesex at New Road, Worcestershire’s clash with seventh-seeded Pole “No doubt she is going to be and Jimmy Connors. Uncapped 32-year-old Naman home ground. Agnieszka Radwanska. Kvitova feeling the pressure,” Stosur said. Japan’s world number four Kei Ojha, a wicketkeeper-batsman “This will be my first taste of county cricket and I am looking for- rallied to defeat American “You know she wants to get that Nishikori also confirmed he will who reinforced the injury-hit ward to the challenge of keeping Worcestershire in Division One of the Madison Keys 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, while calendar Slam. She’s not immune play, as did Sharapova, who beat touring squad on Monday, is set Championship,” said Gabriel in a Worcestershire statement. Radwanska downed France’s to the nerves and pressure.” Ana Ivanovic in the 2015 decider. to replace Saha. REUTERS REUTERS Alize Cornet 6-4, 6-2. AFP REUTERS REUTERS FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 Rooney fires United; Mayweather Jr prepares for fight Lazio fail to make cut It was vital we went through any way we could; Rooney

PARIS: A Wayne Rooney hat- trick fired Manchester United Wayne Rooney UEFA Champions back into the group stage of celebrates a goal League play-off the Champions League with for Manchester Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr arrives at the Mayweather Boxing Club in a 4-0 win, 7-1 on aggregate, United on his new $4.8m Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita car for a media workout in Las Results Vegas, Nevada. BELOW: One of boxer Mayweather Jr’s Bugattis (left) and in their play-off second leg at Wednesday PARIS: UEFA Champions Club Brugge on Wednesday his Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita car are parked outside the Mayweather night. League play-off, second leg as Lazio crashed 3-0 at Bayer results on Wednesday: Boxing Club. Leverkusen, 3-1 on aggregate. At Nicosia Rooney’s treble was also a APOEL (CYP) 1 (Stilic 60) timely return to form for the Astana (KAZ) 1 (Maksimovic England striker, who had gone 10 84); Astana qualify 2-1 on games without a goal for United aggregate prior to Wednesday. At Belgrade “To go through to the group stage after being out of it last year Partizan Belgrade (SRB) 2 is a great result,” said Rooney. (Zhaunerchyk 74-o.g., Saponjic 90+3) BATE Borisov (BLR) 1 “It was a big disappointment (Stasevich 25); BATE win on last year not to challenge in it. away goals rule after tie fin- We didn’t think it would be as ished 2-2 on aggregate comfortable as it was, but it was At Moscow vital we went through any way we could. CSKA Moscow (RUS) 3 (Doumbia 49, 72, Musa 85) “Over the two legs we deserved Sporting Lisbon (POR) 1 that. We’ll enjoy the draw and it (Guttierez 36); CSKA qualify is nice to be back in there again.” 4-3 on aggregate In Germany, Lazio had gone At Bruges, Belgium to Bayer Leverkusen hoping to defend a one-goal advantage and Club Brugge (BEL) 0 Manchester United (ENG) 4 reach the main draw for the first (Rooney 20, 49, 57, Herrera time since the 2007/08 season. 63); Manchester United win But the Italians were trail- 7-1 on aggregate ing following goals from Hakan At Leverkusen, Germany Calhanoglu (40) and Admir Igor Stasevich put BATE ahead in Belgium, Dutch midfielder Mehmedi (48) and faced an uphill after 25 minutes after the ball Memphis Depay had a role in Bayer Leverkusen (GER) 3 battle as they played the last 20 bounced into his path, only for Rooney’s first two goals on 20 (Calhanoglu 40, Mehmedi 48, Bellarabi 88) Lazio (ITA) 0; minutes with ten men when Partizan to level after 74 min- and 49 minutes, with a Juan Mata Bayer win 3-1 on aggregate Brazilian Maurício was sent off utes via an own goal from BATE’s cross eight minutes later allowing for a second yellow card. Karim Maksim Zhavnerchik. the United captain complete his Played Tuesday Bellarabi put the result beyond An injury-time Ivan Saponjic hat-trick. At Monaco any doubt for the Germans when goal proved academic in the end Spaniard Ander Herrera com- Monaco (FRA) 2 (Raggi 18, he finished into an empty net two as Partizan earned a hollow vic- pounded a night of misery for the Elderson 75) Valencia (ESP) 1 minutes from time after good tory on the night. Belgian club after 63 minutes fol- (Negredo 4); Valencia win 4-3 work from Julian Brandt. 2010 quarter-finalists CSKA lowing a Bastian Schweinsteiger on aggregate Floyd Mayweather Jr (left) spars with Ramon Montano during a Astana made history as they Moscow also advanced after a cross to put the three-time win- At Tel-Aviv media workout at the Mayweather Boxing Club in Las Vegas, Nevada. became the first Kazakh team to come-from-behind 3-1 success ners of the Champions League Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR) 1 Mayweather will defend his WBC/WBA welterweight titles against Andre qualify for the main competition against Sporting Lisbon -- 4-3 through in style, despite substi- (Zahavi 24) FC Basel (SUI) Berto on September 12 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. with a 1-1 draw at Cypriot side on aggregate -- to add to their tute Javier Hernandez missing a 1 (Zuffi 11); 3-3 on aggregate. Apoel in a 2-1 aggregate victory. record of seven wins out of seven late penalty. Manchester United Maccabi advance on away goals The Kazakh club had taken in Russia this season. -- winners in 1968, 1999 and 2008 At Zagreb a 1-0 lead to the Cypriot capi- Portuguese giants Sporting had -- didn’t feature in the competi- Dinamo Zagreb (CRO) 4 tal Nicosia for their second leg taken a 2-1 advantage to Moscow tion last season but had previ- (Soudani 9, 80, Hodzic 15, against 2012 quarter-finalists and Teofilo Gutierrez scored an ously reached the group stages Taravel 55) Skenderbeu (ALB) LA ponders APOEL. away goal after 36 minutes before for 18 years in succession. 1 (Esquerdinho 10); Dinamo Semir Stilic’s superb free-kick a second half double from CSKA’s Brugge have not made the group win 6-2 on aggregate put the Cypriots ahead after 60 Ivorian striker Seydou Doumbia stages since the 2005/06 season At Malmo minutes but six minutes from on 49 and 72 minutes left the tie and coach Michel Preud’homme Malmo (SWE) 2 (Rosenberg time Nemanja Maksimovic tapped level. admitted the outcome was logical. 23, Boyata 55-og) Celtic (SCO) $4.1bn Games in the winner from close range. Nigerian striker Ahmed Musa “It’s a top team and they are 0; Malmo win 4-3 on aggregate In Serbia, Belarussian cham- got the winner for the Russians top players. They have every- At Donetsk pions BATE Borisov reached the five minutes from time as they thing,” said Preud’homme of the Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR) 2 group stages for the fourth time qualify for the main draw for the English club. “We are there to (Marlos 10, Gladkiy 27) Rapid in five years on away goals after third straight season. learn something and I hope we bid proposal Vienna (AUT) 2 (Schaub 13, a 2-1 loss at Partizan Belgrade, On a superb night for Louis can learn a lot from these two Hofmann 22); Shakhtar win having won the first leg 1-0. Van Gaal’s Manchester United confrontations.” REUTERS 3-2 aggregate LOS ANGELES: The Los President Herb Wesson’s office Angeles city council is reviewing said. a $4.1bn bid proposal for the 2024 The USOC must submit any bid Ozil says he Summer Olympics that backers city to the International Olympic say could produce a surplus of Committee in September. Mourinho faces Porto needs to be $161m if the city is awarded a Paris, Rome, Hamburg and third Summer Games. Budapest are already in the race. more selfish to A 218-page bid book made pub- The Los Angeles proposal pub- lic shows plans for a Los Angeles lished on Tuesday relies largely on Games rely on private-sector existing venue such as the down- in Champions League score goals partners to pay more than $1.7bn town Staples Center -- home of in venue costs and includes rev- the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers MONACO: Chelsea coach Jose LONDON: Arsenal midfielder enue projections such as $4.8bn and Clippers -- which would host Mourinho will face the club Champions League group stage draw Mesut Ozil says he can score from ticket sales, broadcast rights gymnastics. where he made his name and MONACO: Draw for the Group E more goals by being “a bit more and corporate sponsorships. The nearby Los Angeles Paris St Germain striker Zlatan UEFA Champions League Barcelona (ESP) selfish” but will continue to put Los Angeles are in the mix as Convention Center, the recently group stage made in Monaco Ibrahimovic the team where he Bayer Leverkusen (GER) the team ahead of any personal a potential US candidate for the renovated Forum arena and the began his career following the yesterday: glory. 2024 Games after Boston -- the StubHub Center in suburban Roma (ITA) Champions League group stage Group A Ozil joined the Gunners two city originally chosen by the US Carson -- a multi-sport facility BATE Borisov (BLR) draw yesterday. Paris Saint-Germain (FRA) seasons ago for a club record Olympic Committee in January best known as the home of Major Chelsea were drawn in Group Group F fee of £42.5m ($65.9m), making -- pulled the plug on its bid in the League Soccer’s LA Galaxy -- Real Madrid (ESP) G with Porto, the team Mourinho Bayern Munich (GER) him the most expensive German face of public opposition related to would also be used. Shakhtar Donetsk (UKR) led to the Champions League Arsenal (ENG) player in football history. financial concerns. The Rose Bowl in Pasadena The title in 2004 in the days before Malmo (SWE) The World Cup winner has Boston’s bid foundered for good Coliseum would be at the heart Olympiakos (GRE) he became known as the Special Group B since scored nine goals to go with after the city’s mayor and the of the plan, as it was when the Dinamo Zagreb (CRO) One, Dynamo Kiev and Maccabi PSV Eindhoven (NED) 17 assists in 51 Premier League governor of Massachusetts both Games were in Los Angeles in Tel Aviv. Group G appearances for Arsenal. declined to give their full support 1932 and 1984. Manchester United (ENG) PSG will face Sweden’s Malmo, Chelsea (ENG) “I want to score more goals because of fears the Games would The proposal calls for a $300m CSKA Moscow (RUS) Ibrahimovic’s first club, in Group Porto (POR) than in the last two seasons and leave taxpayers with debt. upgrade to the aging stadium, A which also includes Real Wolfsburg (GER) that’s my aim for this season,” the Los Angeles Mayor Eric stating that the University of Dynamo Kiev (UKR) Madrid and Shakhtar Donetsk. Group C 26-year-old, who was challenged Garcetti has been the key propo- Southern California -- which Maccabi Tel-Aviv (ISR) Arsenal meet five-times Benfica (POR) by manager Arsene Wenger to nent of a Los Angeles bid, quickly plays its home college football champions Bayern Munich, who Group H score more than 10 goals this saying after Boston’s withdrawal games at the Coliseum -- will have Atletico Madrid (ESP) knocked them out in the round Zenit St. Petersburg (RUS) campaign, told the club website that LA would be interested in already launched a $500m refit. of 16 in 2012/13 and 2013/14, in Galatasaray (TUR) (www.arsenal.com). stepping in as a replacement Only two major venues would Valencia (ESP) Group F along with Dinamo Astana (KAZ) “I think now and then I need to candidate. be built from scratch. Lyon (FRA) Zagreb and Olympiakos Piraeus. Group D become a bit more selfish -- then However, the full city council Meanewhile, Japan plans to Gent (BEL) Holders Barcelona take on Juventus (ITA) I’d definitely score more goals. must still decide whether to back slash construction costs for a new Bayer Leverkusen, BATE Borisov The group stages get underway “But I’m a player who thinks a bid. national stadium, the centrepiece Manchester City (ENG) and AS Roma in Group E. on September 15-16 with the for the team first and not for my They were to consider a “join- of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics by a Group D appears by far Sevilla (ESP) final to be played on May 28, own needs and that’s why I will der agreement” which would third from the previous estimate the toughest with Juventus, Borussia Moenchengladbach 2016 at the San Siro in Milan, carry on to play the way I always mean that Los Angeles will pur- of $2.1bn, several ruling party Manchester City, Sevilla and (GER) Italy. do. sue the Olympics, but since they lawmakers and senior govern- Borussia Moenchengladbach. “I think that’s one of my dis- only received the bid document on ment officials said yesterday. Meanwhile, West Ham United’s The towering centre-forward of fitness now to get him back,” tinguishing characteristics,” the Tuesday they have pushed back The government plans to put a Andy Carroll is “injury-free” but trained with the club’s first-team West Ham manager Slaven Bilic former Real Madrid midfielder a decision to give them time to cap for the stadium’s construction will not be fit for the Hammers’ squad on Tuesday for the first said at his pre-match press con- added. consider the details. costs at around 160 billion yen Premier League clash with his time since undergoing knee sur- ference yesterday. For Ozil, renowned for his “They will now meet today ($1.3bn), compared with the pre- former club Liverpool tomorrow, gery in February. “Before he joined us he had a ability to play defence-splitting where they expect to decide their vious plan, scrapped in July amid although he could feature against “Today Andy Carroll is going to minor setback but this week he passes, team success is much recommendation on what action public anger over sky-rocketing his other former club, Newcastle train with us and he’s improving. is partly training with us.” more important, the German the full City Council shall take,” costs, of spending 252 billion yen. United, on September 14. He’s injury-free, it’s only a matter REUTERS said. REUTERS a spokeswoman for City Council AGENCIES FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2015 SPORT 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

Action from GCC U-17 Championship at Aspire Academy Qatar take on Singapore in Doha today DOHA: Qatar’s national football team will take on Singapore in LEFT: Action from an international friendly under Qatar’s semi-final lights at Jassim bin Hamad against Oman at the Stadium at Al Sadd Club today. GCC U-17 Football The Maroons are preparing for Championship at the qualifiers for FIFA 2018 World Aspire Academy Cup and 2019 Asia Cup. in Doha yesterday. Earlier this week, Qatar con- Oman won 3-2. cluded an extensive training camp RIGHT: Action from in Austria and Switzerland with a game against a team from the Saudi Arabia’s semi- German professional association final clash against that ended in a 1-1 draw. Kuwait. Saudi Arabia In previous two games during won 4-0. PICTURES: the camp, Qatar drew 1-1 with BAHER AMIN Olympiacos and 2-2 with Austrian side LASK Linz. Coach Jose Daniel Carreno yes- terday recalled Sebastian Soria back to the squad. Soria will be making a come- back after nine months in the wilderness. THE PENINSULA NBA star says he wants to Four countries left in play for the Philippines MANILA: Rising NBA star Jordan Clarkson said yesterday he is eager to play for the Philippines’ national basketball team despite citizenship concerns from the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). “I want to assure my Filipino brothers and sisters that, if given the chance and everything can be worked out, I sincerely wish to race to host worlds play for Gilas and contribute to the total team effort for flag and country,” Clarkson said in a statement released by the Basketball Association of the Philippines (SBP). Qatar, China, Japan and Turkey eye hosting top event Clarkson, whose mother hails from the Philippines, is visiting the basketball-crazy Southeast Asian nation and has joined the national team, Gilas Pilipinas, for practice. SINGAPORE: Argentina has The 23-year old, who plays guard for the Los Angeles Lakers, said pulled out of the running to host that he was in the country to familiarise himself with the national the 2021 and 2023 world swim- team and would even accompany them when they play at the 2015 ming championships, leaving Jones Cup basketball tournament in Taiwan. just four countries as confirmed The basketball association’s executive director Sonny Barrios said bidders for the sport’s showcase he was hopeful they could clear all the requirements of FIBA, the event. International Basketball Federation, in time to get Clarkson to play World governing body FINA for Gilas in China in September at the Asia qualifying round for the will vote to decide the two host Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics. nations at a meeting in Dubai on “He is simply stating his willingness, he is not stating that he will November 8 following an abbrevi- play,” Barrios clarified. ated campaign to find a new host Barrios said that the association was rushing to submit the docu- for 2021. ments that would allow Clarkson to play as a Filipino for Gilas China, Japan, Turkey and Pilipinas in the Olympic qualifier. Qatar are in the running while The deadline for naming the Philippine team for the qualifier is the United Arab Emirates hope September 8 but Barrios said they would have to submit Clarkson’s to join the race if government documents even sooner. backing, one of the conditions for “We have to submit it ASAP so they will still have time to evalu- all potential hosts, can be secured ate. I am racing against time,” he said. before the October 20 deadline. FIBA rules allow one naturalised player on each national team Of the four confirmed can- but the Philippines already has a naturalised player in its squad, didates, all have previous expe- former Brooklyn Nets centre Andray Blatche. REUTERS rience in hosting swimming championships. China (2011) and Japan (2002) have already hosted the long- International swimmers are seen in action at one of the FINA events held at the Hamad Aquatic Center in Doha course championships and have over the last two seasons. offered up several potential host cities. Doha (2014) and Istanbul 2021 was needed, with Gwangju, and internet and also loved by America bidding to stage major (2012) have both staged the short- South Korea already confirmed youth more than any other sport.” events, resulting in a shift to Asia. course world title. for 2019. FINA announced in June Ayman Saad, a spokesman for Last month, the International Although they are bidding for that it had received expressions of UAE Swimming, said the UAE Olympic Committee awarded both, Turkish swimming officials interest from as many as seven federation would present its the 2022 Winter Olympics to want to stage the championships countries, including Australia and proposals to the Dubai and Abu Beijing, ensuring Asia would hold in 2023 as part of the country’s Germany, who have since ruled Dhabi sport councils before decid- three Olympics in a row, after 100th anniversary of its founda- out bidding and the list continues ing whether to enter the running. Pyeongchang, South Korea, was tion as a republic from the ruins to dwindle with Argentina also “If a big competition takes given the 2018 Winter Games and of the Ottoman Empire. opting out. place here we have a good chance Tokyo the 2020 Summer Games. Budapest had originally been “Argentina is not bidding now,” to improve all areas of (UAE) The ambitious Gulf states have awarded the 2021 world cham- Marculescu said. “There is still aquatics, not just swimming,” become a regular site for major pionships but a slot suddenly a lot of interest. We have some said Saad. events, including swimming with opened up when the Mexican city excellent candidates and swim- The enormous costs of stag- Dubai (2010) Doha (2014) and US basketball player Andre Iguodala, who led the Golden State Warriors of Guadalajara withdrew as the ming is in a very strong position. ing international sports events Abu Dhabi (2020) all awarded 2017 host, citing financial prob- “We just had a very successful has become a hot topic in recent short-course (25-metre pool) to championship glory in the 2015 NBA finals, poses during a photo lems caused by falling oil prices. championships in Kazan, I think years, particularly after Qatar world championships. Neither session with Japanese fans as part of the NBA Clutch Time Trophy Hungary agreed to step in at the best ever, and at the London was awarded the FIFA 2022 World has hosted the long-course (50- Tour at a sporting goods store in Tokyo yesterday. Iguodala captured short notice and host the biennial Olympics, we were the number Cup. There has been a reduction in metre pool) world championships. 2015 NBA finals’ MVP. event in 2017 but a new site for one sport worldwide for television countries from Europe and North REUTERS

Motor racing: Audi fined 200,000 euros for planned collision Lorenzo has no issues with Rossi

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Masicampo, assistant professor treated in the best way possible,” reared at Berlin zoo after his psychology research. should be less confident about “Not everything we do gets at Wake Forest College in North she said. mother rejected him, had a A team of 270 scientists tried many of the original experimen- published. Novel, positive and tidy Carolina. There are ways to fix the proc- type of auto-immune infla- reproducing 100 psychology and tal results.” results are more likely to survive She was part of a team that ess so that findings are more likely tion of the brain that is found social science studies that had Study co-author Brian Nosek peer review and this can lead to was able to replicate a study that to hold up under scrutiny, accord- in humans, scientists said been published in three top peer- from the University of Virginia publication biases that leave out found people who are faced with ing to Dorothy Bishop, professor yesterday. reviewed US journals in 2008. said the research shows the need negative results and studies that a confrontational task, like having of developmental neuropsychol- Knut, who was just four Just 39 percent came out with for scientists to continually ques- do not fit the story that we have,” to play a violent video game, pre- ogy at the University of Oxford. when he drowned at the zoo same results as the initial reports, tion themselves. he said. fer to listen to angry music and “I see this study as illustrating in 2011, was reared by his said the findings in the journal “A scientific claim doesn’t “If this occurs on a broad scale, think about negative experiences that we have a problem, one that keeper Thomas Doerflein. Fans Science. become believable because of the then the published literature may beforehand. could be tackled,” said Bishop, from around the world came The study topics ranged from status or authority of the person become more beautiful than the But when outside researchers who was not involved in research. to watch them play together, people’s social lives and inter- that generated it,” Nosek told reality.” tried to replicate Masicampo’s She urged mandatory registra- earning the zoo millions and actions with others to research reporters. Some experts said the problem own study — which hypothesised tion of research methods before- inspiring a dizzying range of involving perception, attention “Credibility of the claim may be even worse than the cur- that a sugary drink can help col- hand to prevent scientists from merchandise. and memory. depends in part on the repeatabil- rent study suggested. lege students do better at mak- picking only the most favour- Knut had an epileptic fit and No medical therapies were ity of its supporting evidence,” he John Ioannidis, a biologist at ing a complicated decision — they able data for analysis, as well as drowned in a pool in his enclo- called into question as a result told reporters. Stanford University in Palo Alto, were not successful. requiring adequate sample sizes sure. While a postmortem of the study, although a separate Problems can arise when sci- California, told Science magazine Masicampo expressed no bit- and wider reporting of studies revealed he had encephalitis, effort is underway to evaluate entists cherry-pick their data to that he suspects about 25 per- terness, chalking up the differ- that show null result, or in other or swollen brain, scientists had cancer biology studies. include only what is deemed “sig- cent of psychology papers would ences to geographical factors, and words, those do not support the remained puzzled by the exact “It’s important to note that nificant,” or when study sizes are hold up under scrutiny, about the stressing that the experiment hypothesis initially put forward. cause of the illness. this somewhat disappointing so small that false negatives or same “as what we see in many showed how complicated it can AFP Now animal and disease experts have tested samples of Knut’s brain for a condi- tion known as anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, which affects around 200,000 people a year. Shoe-shine man in a motorised stiletto in Tehran They say high concentra- tions of NMDAR antibodies in Knut’s cerebrospinal fluid TEHRAN: A giant, racy-red motorised After working the streets of central resolve the puzzle of his death. stiletto is not what you expect to see Tehran for 18 years, Ali is, however, known “Knut died in 2010 due cruising down the avenues of Iran’s capi- to many. “At first, I had a simple, three- to encephalitis which is an tal but it certainly attracts attention, wheel motorised scooter. Then I gave it the inflammation of the brain,” and business, for intrepid shoe-shine form of a man’s loafer. Three months ago I said Alex Greenwood, head man “Aliwaxima”. decided to change this to a red high heel,” of the department for wild- In conservative Tehran where veils for he says. life diseases at the Leibniz women are mandatory and Islamic moral- “And I have a lot more clients since. More Institute for Zoo and Wildlife ity police still mount patrols, 42-year-old than 1,500 people follow me on Instagram. Research. Aliwaxima proudly plies his trade unhin- “Before, I had mainly men clients but “The inflammation caused dered, in his coquettish scooter. now I also have women clients encourag- him to lose his motor con- “I am the only shoe-shine man in the ing me.” trol and he then lost his bal- country who works from his vehicle,” says The idea came from abroad after Ali ance and fell into the water in Mohammad Ali Hassan Khani, his real saw pictures of giant shoes used to adver- the enclosure and drowned,” name, who could pass for a bespoke tailor tise shoeshine stands. “But they were not Greenwood said. on Savile Row with his immaculate shirt, motorised,” he notes with a mischievous The results of their findings sober tie and — of course — spick-and-span glance behind his dark glasses. were published in the journal loafers. It took him two-and-a-half months to Scientific Reports yesterday. It He even has fans in this city of near 13 build the red stiletto shape and “people is the first ever diagnosis of the million residents little used to public flights adore my vehicle. They love to sit in it and condition in an animal. of fancy like his motorised high-heel. take photos.” It also turned into a wise — Bears can live much longer Be they on foot, car or motorcycle, people and lucrative — business move. than Knut did in captivity and stop in awe and clamour for selfies both in “I have all sorts of new requests. I’ve his mother, Tosca, died in June and outside the three-wheeled fibreglass already been asked to five marriages. The when she was nearly 30. stiletto. newlyweds have their pictures taken in By the time Knut had “Eight years ago, I decided to create a my car. reached adolescence, he had vehicle from which to propose my services Iranian shoe-shine man Mohammad Ali Hassan Khani drives his racy-red motorised stiletto “For weddings, I get paid five million generated ¤5m ($7m) for as a shoe-shiner,” he explained, in language in Tehran. rials,” a handy sum at $140 (¤120) com- Berlin zoo. as elegant as his dress. pared to what Ali says is his usual take of The German post office His business moniker merges his name account and a Facebook page — with scores transfer information via secure servers in “700,000 rials ($20 ) a day” — still more produced a stamp in his and the English word “wax” tweaked into and scores of friends — featuring his red other countries. And on the driver’s side than the usual worker’s average daily pay honour. Other German zoos an Iranian superlative to give “Aliwaxima”, high heel as the cover photo. is the understated slogan, “The first shoe of $15. have tried in vain to create the man who gives the best shine. Daringly, he has displayed these shape car in Iran”. When asked if police have ever bothered celebrity animals to match In sync with digital times, Ali has cus- addresses on his vehicle, notably the one “It’s wonderful,” raved an onlooker spot- him or tried to prevent him from working, his fame. tomer service 2.0 down pat. He carries a for Facebook, a site officially blocked in ting Aliwaxima for the first time while Ali lets out a big laugh. “The police, they’re REUTERS mobile phone, of course, for client calls but Iran — though residents bypass the ban another asked if it was an ad for a brand the first ones to want to have their picture also has an Internet site, an Instagram by downloading VPNs, networks that can of shoes. taken in my car!” he says. AFP