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Al Sada lays QP Complex foundation stone Qatari dies Qatari held in of influenza UAE ‘safe A (H1N1) DOHA: A 43-year-old Qatari man died here yesterday due to influenza A (H1N1), the Supreme and healthy’ Council of Health (SCH) said. This is the first death in the country this year caused by the Sons meet Al Jaidah in Abu Dhabi virus. Influenza A is a different strain of H1N1, which caused sev- DOHA: The mys- Taher suggested eral deaths across the world in tery surrounding the that because of good 2009. The citizen was admitted to arrest of a Qatari relations between a hospital on March 23 complain- doctor in the UAE Qatar and the UAE, ing of difficulty in breathing and a while he was on his the UAE authorities rise in temperature, the SCH said way to Doha from had allowed two of Al in a statement. Bangkok late last Jaidah’s sons to meet Medical examinations showed February is deepen- him recently. The that the patient was suffering ing as no charges UAE’s laws don’t allow from severe pneumonia and was have yet been filed that. The sons, Hassan given anti-flu treatment. He was against him. and Abdul Rahman, The Minister of Energy and Industry and Chairman and Managing Director of Qatar Petroleum H E Dr admitted to the intensive care Asked why Dr Mahmoud Al met their father for 15 minutes Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada laying the foundation stone for the new Support Campus Complex of QP Gas unit under the supervision of a Jaidah (pictured) might have been in the presence of Qatar’s ambas- Operations at Mesaieed, yesterday. Full report on page 13 medical team but his condition arrested, a Qatari lawyer following sador to the UAE, Abdullah Al did not improve and he died yes- up on his case in Abu Dhabi said Othman. They were back in Doha terday, the statement added. it was too early to talk about that. now, said the lawyer. The SCH said it was closely Speaking on the phone from Abu When told that 15 minutes was monitoring the situation in Dhabi, lawyer Abdullah Taher a very short duration, the lawyer cooperation with the National suggested in remarks to The said he didn’t agree because the Traffic intersections to replace Influenza Centre of Hamad Peninsula late last evening that meeting was facilitated despite Medical Corporation, which is since Qatar and the UAE enjoyed the fact that it was not legally one of the accredited centres in very cordial relations, Al Jaidah allowed to see suspects held in the world operating under the could not have been detained remand in the UAE. roundabouts on Corniche Road supervision the World Health without a valid reason. Next week, the lawyer said, Al Organisation (WHO) to diagnose Taher said that under the Jaidah’s entire family, consisting DOHA: Plans are afoot to con- Converting these roundabouts leading from Al Rufaa intersec- the influenza virus and provide UAE’s laws a suspect could be of his wife, sons and daughters, is vert all roundabouts on the into intersections will immensely tion to the Corniche, has also been the necessary information. held in police custody for up to set to travel to the UAE and meet Corniche Road, except the one contribute to smooth flow of traf- closed. Another lane is closed on The Council appealed to citizens 90 days for investigations to be him as a special concession by the near Sheraton Doha, into traffic fic on the road, a local Arabic the street exiting the Port. and residents to take preventive completed. The law authorised UAE authorities. intersections. daily reported yesterday. A dedicated lane has been measures and visit the nearest the prosecution to file charges Al Jaidah was safe and healthy, The project aims to ease Work is progressing on a new allocated for trucks entering the health centre when flu symptoms after the remand period. the lawyer said, when told that the heavy traffic on the entire intersection on the Corniche Port and those heading from the were suspected, especially a rise in Prodded if Al Jaidah might there was talk that he might stretch of the road during peak Road between Al Meena street Port to Corniche Street. They temperature, coughing, sneezing have been detained for political not be feeling well. “The UAE hours on weekdays as also on and Doha Port. can use the Sharq interchange or shortness of breath. or legal reasons, Taher said: “It authorities are treating him very weekends. A section of the Corniche Road instead of the MIA roundabout. The Council stressed the is still too early to say anything”. well,” Taher reiterated. Al Jaidah The small intersection linking remains closed since last night Once completed, the new importance of vaccination against He, however, added on second was arrested on February 26 this the Corniche with Souq Waqif to facilitate work on the new intersection will ease the flow influenza, especially for people at thoughts: “It could even be a case year in Dubai while he was trav- will be expanded as part of the intersection. of traffic from Al Rufaa inter- risk of influenza complications, of mistaken identity”. elling to Doha from Bangkok. He project. One lane on each side of the section towards the Corniche including the elderly, persons suf- Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign was shifted to Abu Dhabi. Taher The Corniche Road currently Corniche Road, between the Port and allow direct access to the fering from chronic diseases, chil- Affairs had intervened in the is in Abu Dhabi to follow up on has seven major roundabouts entrance and the Museum of MIA Park, the Public Works dren under five, pregnant women matter, said the lawyer, adding Al Jaidah’s case and see on what starting from the VIP roundabout Islamic Art (MIA) roundabout, Authority (Ashghal) said in a and people suffering from immune that the UAE authorities were charges he has been detained. to the Conference Center rounda- has been closed. statement. deficiency. treating Al Jaidah very well. THE PENINSULA bout after the Doha Sheraton. A lane on Al Meena street, THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA

Clashes in Hebron Insects in pasta close Spinneys outlet

DOHA: Grocer Spinneys was “Unfortunately, there were been relocated to Spinney’s The forced to temporarily close its weevils in a packet of dry pasta. Mall branch in the mean time. outlet at the Pearl-Qatar after The municipality have decided Spinneys is the second outlet Doha municipality discovered that the store should close for a on the manmade Pearl-Qatar to health violations, arabianbusi- period of time,” wrote Michael be closed down in recent weeks. ness.com reported yesterday. Wright, Spinneys CEO, on An outlet of Thai restaurant The Beirut-based firm is one of Spinneys Qatar’s Facebook page. Mango Tree was shuttered after the Middle East’s major food retail Wright added in a follow-up expired food was reportedly dis- chains, with stores across Lebanon, message that the closure would covered in the kitchen, said the Egypt, the UAE, Qatar and Jordan. last a month, and that staff had magazine. THE PENINSULA

A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot to throw a stone during clashes with Israeli soldiers following the funeral of Maisara Abu Hamdiyeh in the West Bank city of Hebron, yesterday. Thousands of mourners turned Egypt seizes ship out for the funerals of three Palestinians, including two teenagers killed by Israeli army gunfire in some of the China begins poultry cull worst violence in the occupied West Bank in years. Full report on Page 4 carrying arms BEIJING: Authorities in cases climbing to 14. “(China) will Shanghai began the mass strengthen its leadership in com- CAIRO: Egyptian navy forces slaughter of poultry at a mar- bating the virus ... and coordinate seized a ship carrying heavy ket after the H7N9 bird flu and deploy the entire nation’s weapons as it entered Egyptian virus, which has killed five health system to combat the Al Jazeera denies bounty on Assad territorial waters in the Red people in China, was detected virus,” the Health Ministry said. Sea, a military spokesman said. there, even as Japan and Hong In Japan, airports have put up DOHA: Al Jazeera has denied “All accounts accounts, “whether they are pro- The Togolese-flagged ship, called Kong stepped up vigilance and posters at entry points warning reports circulating in the media claiming to or anti- the Syrian revolution, for COMR, was found 12 nautical Vietnam banned imports of all passengers from China to seek about its reporter Ghada Owais belong to me claiming to represent me.” miles north of Ras Muhammad in Chinese poultry. medical attention if they suspect (pictured) announcing a bounty are in fact false “These smear campaigns are the Sinai Peninsula, general staff The discovery of the virus in they have bird flu. Also, all pas- of $1m on the head of Syrian and pretending just current examples of threats spokesman Ahmed Mohamed samples of pigeon came as health sengers on flights in and out of President Bashar Al Assad. to represent made by some Syrian regime sup- Ali said on his Facebook page. officials said they were treating Hong Kong were being asked to The channel said the announce- me. I officially porters against some of our key “Inside they found a number of a person for flu-like symptoms notify flight attendants or airport ment made on behalf of Owais on disown these presenters and correspondents of weapons and quantities of ammu- who had been in close contact staff if they were feeling unwell. Facebook and Twitter was totally accounts. I am Al Jazeera Channel,” said Helal. nition of various types,” Ali said. with one of the dead, Xinhua Flu experts across the world false. Ghada Owais had officially not responsible Threats against Al Jazeera staff Sources said that the ship, with news agency reported. are studying samples isolated denied owning an account on the for any of what is being posted, on social media and other out- a crew of at least seven, spent a There had previously been no from the patients to assess the social networks, Ibrahim Helal, in any form, on them,” Owais was lets in recent weeks were made week in international waters before evidence of possible human-to- human pandemic potential of the director of Al Jazeera Arabic quoted as saying in the statement. to put pressure on the network entering Egypt. The vessel was human transmission. Two more strain. Other strains of bird flu, News, said in statement, denying She added that she had to change its editorial line with escorted into the port of Safaga fatalities yesterday brought the such as H5N1, can be transmit- a similar report that appeared in reported the incident, through Al regard to the conflict in Syria and where the crew members were death toll from the virus to five — ted from bird to bird, and bird The Peninsula yesterday quoting Jazeera Network, to Facebook and other regions of conflict, he added. being questioned and an investi- four of them in Shanghai — with to human, but not generally from Al Sharq. requested it to shut down these THE PENINSULA gation was under way. REUTERS the number of confirmed infection human to human. AGENCIES FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 HOME 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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DOHA: About 150 volunteers Red Crescent Jordan, explained place, appropriate timing, “We meet today at an histori- Tel are taking part in the fourth what preparation is, what it type and number — were also cal stage that is crucial to this Fax edition of a training camp on comprises, its surrounding ele- explained to the participants. nation, region, and possibly the disaster management, organ- ments and other topics, with a He added that logistics whole world”, he said. ised by Qatar Red Crescent broader focus on the concept of involve intervention teams car- He also spoke about the hope (QRC) in Al Khor. preparing in the field of human- rying out the assessment and they bring along and the need Tel They will earn certifi- itarian relief. survey process and helping to extend support to the cri- Fax cates from the International Al Ijja explained to volunteers programme managers through ses affected communities dur- Committee of the Red Cross, the criteria used in the selec- providing them with informa- ing difficult times and the need www.doha.hilton.com International Federation of tion of needs with surrounding tion about products and logistics for the Arab nations to have Red Cross and Red Crescent details of the items that should tools. confidence in its longstanding Tel +974 44233333 Societies and QRC. be distributed as relief. A Social and Humanitarian civilisation. The volunteers, at the 10-day He also addressed the trans- Tent has been set up on the “There is no doubt that this Fax +974 44233000 camp which started on Monday, fer process from the outside, the sidelines of the camp to host nation has problems in terms of are divided into groups. transport management process lectures, like that of Mohammed physical strength, but our true Each group will be trained on on the inside and the methods bin Ghanem Al Ali Al Maadheed, strength is our cultural heritage the following: Field assessment, of storage management and fol- Chairman of QRC Board of and belief that we are a civilised registration, shelter, logistics, low-up of relief products. Directors and vice president of nation that refuses to live on the water and sanitation, media and The standards of the the International Federation of sidelines of history. This belief communications, health, nutri- International Federation which Red Cross and Red Crescent is held by every member of this tion and distribution. comprise five priorities for Societies. The expert talked nation, young or old, rich or Experts taking part in the specific relief materials — the about The Impact of Arab Spring poor”, he stated. camp, such as Subhi Al Ijja from appropriate access, appropriate on Humanitarian Work. THE PENINSULA Tel Fax Demand for Tel Fax garments to rise by 40pc Tel DOHA: With the long sum- Fax mer vacations approaching, the demand for garments is expected to grow by 40 per- cent, says the head of Al Saeed Commercial Center, Tel Mabkhout Salem Al Khawar. Fax “Traditionally, with the arrival of spring season and summer vocations, the mar- ket witnesses huge turnout of Tel customers and face increas- ing demand for garments,” Al Fax Khawar was quoted by Arabic daily Al Sharq yesterday. He added that the trade in garments and textiles in Qatar Tel grew by almost 25 percent in Fax the last two years taking the total value of the industry to Products displayed by visiting companies such as Amino Up Chemical, Katsuri and HABA, at the Hokkaido nearly QR2bn in 2012 compared Fair at the Japanese ambassador’s residence in Doha. to QR1.6bn in 2010. Al Khawar said that the cen- tre is preparing for the open- ing of new branches in the local Embassy hosts Hokkaido Fair market to meet the growing demand for garments and fab- ric. His company is also planning Tel BY NADA EL ZEIN Fax opportunities for marketing markets for cosmetics and food to import more internation- in Qatar. products.” ally renowned brands that are DOHA: A 20-member del- The evening began with Representatives from visit- famous in the fashion and gar- egation from Hokkaido-based the ambassador and METI ing companies HABA, Amino ment industry. He said that the Tel small and medium enterprises Director Toshikazu Masuyama Up Chemical co. and Katsuri centre has achieved good growth, Fax was hosted at the Japanese addressing guests. Inc set up a display area with and it is always keen in bring- Ambassador, Kenjiro Monji’s, The ambassador spoke about samples of their products for ing high-quality merchandise residence last Saturday. 40 years of diplomatic ties guests to try. and new collections from good www.renaissancedoha.com Hokkaido is the second between Qatar and Japan, and There was a multitude of cos- designers and famous models to largest of Japan’s four main how both countries agreed to metics and natural dietary sup- enhance consumer’s confidence. Tel +974 44195000 islands. The Hokkaido Fair promote each another beyond plements on display. He pointed out that accord- Fax +974 44195100 was organised by the Japanese trade. Some products like ‘Balance ing to the recent statistics, embassy, in collaboration On the sidelines of the event, Do no. 7’ a facial cream pro- the exports of Qatari fabrics with the Hokkaido Bureau of Masuyama said that the com- duced by Katsuri Inc. claimed amounted to about QR50m, Ministry of Economy, Trade panies were looking to diversify to improve facial conditions, while the total value of garments’ and Industry (METI). their market opportunities in while Amino Up products were exports stood at QR360m, while The event aimed to cre- Qatar beyond the automobile made to assist in weight loss and the total value of readymade gar- ate awareness of Hokkaido- and energy markets. strengthen immunity. ment imports stood at QR800m. based products and explore “We’re looking to expand THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Emir, Deputy Emir Norway, Sweden greet Senegal president to attend Darfur DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday sent a cable of greet- ings to the Pesident of the donors’ meeting Republic of Senegal, Macky Sall, on his country’s National Day. The Deputy Emir and Heir Sudanese official lauds Qatar Apparent H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a similar DOHA: Norway and Sweden Al Mahdi, during an inter- cable congratulating the Senegal will attend Darfur donors con- view with Qatar News Agency leader. ference in Doha starting from lauded the role being played by The Prime Minister and Sunday. Qatari leadership in boosting Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Tadjadine Bechir Niam, Darfur peace and the arrange- Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Minister of Reconstruction, ments being made for hosting Thani also greeted the president Development and Infrastructure three-day Donors’ Conference for on the occasion. in Darfur Regional Authority Rehabilitation and Development. (DRA), led a delegation to the “Qatar is active in helping Scandinavian countries to brief resolve regional conflicts. The Culture Minister them on the International Donor consistent efforts made by the Conference for Reconstruction Deputy Prime Minister and receives Iranian and Development in Darfur Minister of State for Cabinet (IDCRDD) and invited them to Affairs H E Ahmad bin Abdullah counterpart participate. Al Mahmoud to persuade the non- DOHA: The Minister of “We are mobilising all our signatories Armed Movements in Culture, Arts and Heritage, energies and efforts to ensure a Darfur to join the Doha Document H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz successful meeting in Doha as we for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) is The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud with Al Kuwari met here yesterday believe that this conference will laudable”, he said. the Chairman of Darfur Regional Authority and Head of the Liberation and Justice Movement Dr Tijani Sissi. They Iran’s Minister of Culture and allow the international commu- The Sudanese official said he discussed final preparations for the International Conference on Reconstruction and Development in Darfur, to Islamic Guidance Dr Seyed nity to reaffirm to its support to held in Doha ‘positive talks’ with be held in Doha from Sunday. Mohammad Hosseini, who our efforts to make peace a reality Qatari senior officials to boost extended to him an invita- in Darfur”, he said. bilateral ties, especially at the Justice and Equality Movement Conference will transfer Darfur and his initiative to release all tion to attend the 3rd meeting Meanwhile, Assistant of the economic level. due to be signed in Doha tomor- to a new phase of stability and political detainees in the country, of high ranking officials and President of the Republic of Talks also dealt with the posi- row, in addition to a number of development. Al Mahdi said this will pave the culture ministers of the Asia Sudan, Abdul Rahman Al Sadiq tive developments of the Darfur regional and international issues On the Sudanese President way for a comprehensive dialogue Cooperation Dialogue (ACD), Al Mahdi has praised Qatar in peace process in light of the new of mutual concern, he said. Omar Hasan Al Bashir’s call to and engage all the political forces due to be held in Tehran on May supporting Sudan, especially in peace agreement between the Al Mahdi expressed hope all the political forces to engage in to take part in drafting the new 6 and 7. Darfur issue. Sudanese Government and the that the upcoming Donors’ a comprehensive national dialogue constitution. AGENCIES QNA Laughter club set up

DOHA: In arguably a first, a hearty laugh burns up to four want people to join in and see laughter club has been set up calories, said the release. for themselves the powerful and in Doha and it is being inaugu- Laughter brings more oxygen immediate benefits of Laughter rated on April 15, the promot- to the body and brain. Laughter Yoga in terms of their mental, ers of the novel initiative said also releases endorphins, a physical, and spiritual wellbeing. in a release. chemical more powerful than We want to show how scientifi- Some 30 VIPs have been the pain-relieving drug, mor- cally laughter can be practiced invited to the opening event on phine, adds the release. as physical and behavioural April 15 at the club’s premises in The events are being organ- exercise to relax muscles, bring Najma. A similar event has been ised in collaboration with Gabi smile, add confidence, hope and lined up on April 18 which will Pezo, a certified laughter yoga optimism in their everyday lives. be open to the public. leader and teacher. Gabi Pezo Though it’s a new concept but Nicole van Hattem, Director was quoted as saying: we are expecting a lot of inter- and CEO of the ‘Art of Abundant “Doha is going to laugh like est from people from all walks of Living’, the wellbeing company, never before and everyone who life, nationality and age.” said in the release: “Our health joins us will be able to experi- There will be two inaugu- education will ral sessions: teach about Laughter laughter Yoga session as the best 1, which will medicine”. take place on After the April 15 from April 18 6 to 7 pm. It event, classes will be spe- compris- cifically for The Assistant Foreign Minister for Services Affairs Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa holding talks with China’s special ing laughter the corporate envoy for the Middle East Wu Sike (centre) and Ambassador Gao Youzhens, in Doha yesterday. exercises for and individ- stress release, ual clients of will be held the company weekly at the club’s premises. ence a stronger immune system, and media representatives. Minister discusses China ties Laughing 100 times a day is reduced stress, increased pain Session 2 which will be held equivalent to 10 minutes of hard tolerance, and no side-effects on April 18th from 10 to 11am DOHA: Rashid bin Khalifa Al the Middle East is now on a tour Sports Muamar Al Iriani and rowing. A good, strong laugh for supplement for weight loss and in the morning is going to be a Khalifa, the Assistant Foreign of the region which took him the delegation accompanying 10 to 15 minutes a day increases it could actually change your free session open to all public. Minister for Services Affairs, earlier to Bahrain where he met him. weekly energy consumption by life if you are willing to laugh All laughter yoga classes will met yesterday Wu Sike, the with Crown Prince and Deputy The two sides reviewed aspects up to 280 calories, the release unconditionally, despite your be held at the wellbeing cen- Chinese special envoy for Supreme Commander and Deputy of cooperation in sports and said. circumstances”. tre, situated on Najma street, the Middle East, and his Prime Minister Prince Salman means of boosting and develop- Laughter yoga is a com- She further quotes her trainer off C ring road. The Laughter delegation. bin Hamad Al Khalifa. ing them. Sheikh Saoud expressed plete wellbeing workout. It has and the creator of the Laughter Yoga sessions will highlight the During the meeting, the two QOC’s readiness to exchange brought significant changes in Yoga Movement, Madan Kataria importance of laughter in miti- sides discussed bilateral relations YEMENI MINISTER expertise between the two coun- the lives of people from all over “Fast and powerful. No - Sweat gating tension and injecting and means of bolstering and pro- Meanwhile, Qatar Olympic tries in the fields of training and the world with physical and even Cardiovascular Workout. 10 exuberance and vivacity into the moting them. The meeting was Committee Secretary General sporting events. The Yemeni mental disabilities. minutes of Belly Laughter practicing individuals through attended by a number of foreign H E Sheikh Saoud bin minister expressed pleasure at It has proven health ben- equals 30 minutes on the Rowing different laughter, breathing and ministry officials. Abdulrahman Al Thani met visiting Doha, hailing the sports efits and promotes circulation Machine.” stretching exercises. The Chinese special envoy for Yemen’s Minister of Youth and renaissance in Qatar. QNA and blood flow. A just one good Nicole van Hattem added: “We THE PENINSULA Experts recommend review of Sudanese draft media law DOHA: Experts have recommended country, which had been described by national security laws which allow secu- re-examination of the Sudanese draft journalists as the ‘worst media law ever.’ rity authorities to ban publications and media law in its entirety to ensure its Participants also discussed the impact confiscate newspapers. compatibility with the constitution and of the Arab Spring and the cessation They noted that there is a need to add international rules. of South Sudan on press freedom in legal articles that reinforce Sudanese This follows a two-day meeting on the Sudan. journalists’ easy access to information draft law at the Doha Centre for Media Second, participants discussed whether instead of the vague article in the Draft Freedom (DCMF). the law meets fundamental standards of Law. Academics, government representa- press freedom, and whether it enables Participants agreed to scrap the tives and journalists discussed legal journalists to carry out their work freely article which allows the suspension implications of new proposals and made and safely. of journalists from work for ten days a series of recommendations. The experts then addressed the issue and proposed to replace it by a punish- The meeting was supervised by of balancing the need for and right to ment that complies with international Egyptian academic and legal expert, access to information, with the restric- standards. Nijad Bari, and chaired by the Sudanese tions and punishments journalists might The meeting recommended that the Parliamentary Media Committee chief face for failing to carry out their work issue and confiscation of licenses and the Afaf Tawer. responsibly. suspension of journalists from work must Other participants included Hisham Finally, participants examined the be reconsidered. Jaz from the Sudanese embassy in Qatar role of the National Council of Press and Participants agreed that punish- and Jordanian lawyer Mohamed Kteishat, Publication in implementing the new law ments of journalists must be recon- General Director of Doha Center for Media Freedom (DCMF), Jan Keulen, Chairperson of as well as a number of locally-based and how to ensure its independence and sidered to ensure that they comply Sudanese journalists. Sudanese Parliamentary Media Committee, Afaf Tawerm, and Egyptian Academic and effectiveness in defending media freedom with internationals standards, includ- DCMF framed the meeting by four Legal Expert, Nijad Bari, at the press conference at the DCMF headquarters yesterday. in Sudan. ing punishments related to arresting important questions. First, the meeting Participants agreed that there is journalists. asked why a press and publications law is needed in Sudan. This focused on the flaws of the previous media law in the a need to amend punishments and THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Mursi visits Four million Sudan for trapped inside first time as president

KHARTOUM: Egypt’s Syria, says UN President Mohammed Mursi arrived in neighbouring Sudan yesterday to push economic and other ties on a visit Khartoum US trying to organise aid calls “historic” but which comes nearly a year after Mursi’s WASHINGTON: UN officials fighting, while UN-led operations election. believe some four million people to try to get assistance across bat- The two-day trip is the former are now trapped inside Syria tle lines have proved dangerous Muslim Brotherhood leader’s first after fleeing the fighting, as the and complex involving delicate to Sudan, which Egypt jointly United States echoes calls for negotiations. ruled with Britain until 1956. donors to step up and help in a “Really the most pressing Mursi assumed office last June burgeoning aid crisis. challenge for all of us is just after a popular uprising top- The figure, due to be officially how dangerous and unpredict- pled long-time president Hosni released in the coming days, is a able the security environment is Mubarak in 2011. dramatic rise on earlier estimates and the need for greater access,” The Egyptian leader is to by the UN High Commissioner said Nancy Lindborg, assistant hold talks with President Omar for Refugees of some 2.5 million administrator for the US Agency Hassan Al Bashir, a fellow displaced living in precarious con- for International Development Islamist, as well as with business ditions inside the country. (USAID). people and political party leaders. It also adds to the 1.2 million Working through partners Posters of the two leaders have refugees who have streamed such as the World Food Program, been hung on street corners. across borders into neighbouring the United States has sponsored “It is a historic visit because of countries, placing a huge strain on programmes such as providing the strategic depth of the rela- governments in Jordan, Turkey flour to bakeries in northern Palestinian nurses hold posters of Maisara Abu Hamdiyeh, a Palestinian prisoner who died of cancer while in tions between the people of the and Lebanon who have kept fron- Aleppo — enough to feed some Israeli detention, outside Al Ahli hospital in the West Bank city of Hebron, yesterday. two countries, and both leaders tiers open. 210,000 people for the next five are elected,” Emad Sayed Ahmed, With almost a quarter of months. Bashir’s press secretary, told AFP. Syria’s population of around 22.5 With the UNHCR they are try- Mursi’s office said the visit has million now in flight, the two-year ing to provide shelter, tents and “particular importance because conflict is wreaking a huge toll on blankets, to communities of dis- Palestinians clash with it is the first of its kind since the civilians caught in cross-fire as placed people hunkered down in president took office, and is aimed opposition forces seek to topple schools or public buildings and cut at stressing the special and strong President Bashar Al Assad. off by the fighting. strategic relationship between “What we’re seeing... is The US has also focused Egypt and Sudan.” that now it is not just vio- on health and medical needs. Israeli troops at funeral Cairo is keen to establish “a lence that is driving flight,” US Although initially the aim was to real economic partnership with Deputy Assistant Secretary train doctors to deal with battle HEBRON, PALESTINIAN negligence. As news of his death this escalation. “The Israeli gov- Sudan, to meet the ambitions and for Population, Refugees and injuries, increasingly they are fill- TERRITORIES: Clashes spread, protests that erupted ernment is responsible for the goals of growth and prosperity for Migration Kelly Clements said. ing the gap providing basic health rocked the West Bank yester- in several places quickly turned (negative) impact on US and both peoples,” the Egyptian state- “It is also just a decline in liveli- care as hospitals crumble. day as thousands attended the into clashes with the Israeli international efforts to restart ment said ahead of the visit. hoods, a decline in the economic They are also working with the funerals of a prisoner and two army, notably in Hebron, Abu negotiations.” Sudan is an important ally for means for families to be able to local Syrian coordination councils teenagers shot dead by Israeli Hamdiyeh’s home town. He charged in a separate speech Egypt in terms of its agricultural support themselves. It’s disrup- in liberated areas to help reha- troops and Palestinian presi- Near the northern village of to his Fatah party that “Israel potential and in Cairo’s efforts to tion to services, it’s kids not being bilitate schools to get children, dent Mahmoud Abbas said the Anabta close to Tulkarem, the is trying to ignite chaos,” add- secure an acceptable agreement able to go to school, it’s water sys- some of whom have lost two killings jeopardised US efforts clashes turned deadly, with two ing that “there’s no way peaceful with upstream river Nile coun- tems that have been either cut off years of education, back into the to rekindle peace talks. teenagers shot dead overnight demonstrations should lead to two tries on vital water supplies. or somehow affected.” classroom. Israeli soldiers fired rubber by troops, Israeli and Palestinian deaths.” Two years ago, Egypt’s then Health services, bakeries, Initial figures of 2.5 million bullets in the southern city of sources said. His remarks come just days prime minister Essam Sharaf said schools, vital components of nor- displaced in the country drawn Hebron after furious crowds lined Palestinian security officials ahead of a visit by US Secretary his country was the third largest mal life are teetering or have up earlier this year “no longer the streets to pay their respects said Amer Nasser, 17, was killed of State John Kerry, who will hold investor in Sudan. But University shut down, leaving a population reflect the quickly evolving situ- to 63-year-old Maisara Abu by a bullet to the head and Naji fortnightly meetings with Israeli of Khartoum political scientist in distress. ation,” UNHCR regional public Hamdiyeh, whose body was car- Balbisi, 19, whose body was dis- and Palestinian leaders, local Safwat Fanous said Mursi’s trip Those who could flee have information officer Reem Alsalem ried in a cortege to a local mosque covered at dawn, was shot in the media say, as he tries to revive the “comes too late,” after he visited already gone, leaving the most acknowledged. for burial. chest. stalled Middle East peace process. several other countries includ- vulnerable to fend for themselves, The UN is revising its plan- Abu Hamdiyeh, who had The Israeli military said troops In Anabta, where schools and ing India and Pakistan. “Sudan many of whom have now been ning and scenarios and believes served 10 years of a life term had opened fire at “rioters who shops were closed in mourning, is very important to Egypt, has forced to relocate two or three now that the number of internally for attempted murder, died of hurled petrol bombs” at a mili- around 6,000 people gathered for been and will be in the future, for times as the fighting has shifted displaced people inside Syria “is throat cancer on Tuesday in tary post. the funerals, many calling for many reasons” including histori- and swelled. around 4 million,” she said in an hospital, sparking tension on the Abbas slammed the killings, revenge as the two bodies arrived, cal factors, the resources of the Aid agencies themselves have email. Palestinian street and its leader- saying in a statement that “the both wrapped in Palestinian flags, Nile river, and close ties between lost team members killed in the AFP ship accusing Israel of medical Israeli government is behind an AFP correspondent said. AFP the two peoples, Fanous said. AFP

Bahrain clash Abbas to suspend action against Israel Iran defiant ahead RAMALLAH: President Mahmoud Abbas will tempo- rarily refrain from unilateral of nuclear talks action against Israel to give US-brokered peace talks a ALMATY: Iran’s chief nuclear be that ... our people will defend chance to resume, a Palestinian negotiator Saeed Jalili sounded their right with more rigour,” official said yesterday. “Abbas a defiant note ahead of a new Jalili said. and the Palestinian leadership round of talks with world pow- There is broad unity within the have decided to give a suffi- ers in Kazakhstan, saying yes- Iranian political establishment cient chance for (US Secretary terday they had to recognise on pursuing the nuclear pro- of State John) Kerry’s efforts Iran’s right to enrich uranium gramme and policy on the issue to succeed,” the official told to see any breakthrough. is closely overseen by Ayatollah AFP, speaking on condition of The six powers — United Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme anonymity. States, Russia, China, France, leader who has the last word on Britain and Germany — will meet all momentous matters. Meshaal to work for Iranian negotiators today and In Almaty, their second meet- tomorrow in the Kazakh city of ing with Iran in Kazakhstan’s unity with Abbas Almaty, hoping Tehran agrees commercial centre in five weeks, to scale back its most sensitive the powers want Iran to agree to CAIRO: The newly re-elected atomic work that they suspect suspend higher-grade uranium chief of the Palestinian Islamist is aimed at achieving a nuclear production in return for modest movement Hamas, Khaled weapons capability. relief from economic sanctions. Meshaal, pledged yesterday Iran has refused to do so during Stakes are high in the negotia- to work to end a rift with his a decade of on-and-off negotia- tions. Israel, widely assumed to West Bank rival, Palestinian tions, despite hardening economic be the Middle East’s only nuclear Authority President Mahmoud sanctions, arguing its uranium power, has said it would bomb Abbas. Meshaal, speaking at a Riot police run past bursting Molotov cocktails thrown by anti-government protesters in the village of Diraz, enrichment has peaceful purposes Iran’s military installations if pro-Palestinian conference in Bahrain, yesterday. only and therefore can continue diplomacy and sanctions fail to Cairo, “affirmed his movement’s under international law. curb nuclear progress. solicitude for ending the division Jalili, speaking at a university That could in turn spark with its negative effects,” the in Almaty, said that stance would reprisals by Iran and its regional Palestinian Safa news agency not change. allies, engulfing the Middle East quoted his as saying. “We think our talks tomorrow in a new war. Oil prices could Salam may be Lebanon’s new PM can go forward with one word. jump and threaten the fragile Sudan newspaper That is the acceptance of the global economy. BEIRUT: Lebanese politi- of a top security official. Mikati, colonial mandate. rights of Iran, particularly the At the core of the international editor suspended cian Tammam Salam, a former who had called for a “national He won endorsement from right to enrichment,” he said. community’s concerns are Iran’s minister from a prominent salvation” government to ensure March 14, which has 60 seats World powers argue Iran has efforts to enrich uranium to 20 KHARTOUM: Sudan’s state Sunni Muslim political dynasty, stability in a country shaken in the 128-seat parliament, at a given up its right to enrich ura- percent fissile purity, a level that intelligence agency ordered that emerged as a potential new by the conflict in neighbouring meeting of the political alliance nium under international rules closes an important technological the chief editor of a respected prime minister yesterday when Syria, said yesterday he would in central Beirut after a lightning because it has hidden nuclear gap en route to making weapons- daily newspaper be suspended, he was endorsed by the coun- not put his name forward again trip to Saudi Arabia for talks with work from United Nations grade material. the editor said yesterday, a rare try’s pro-Western March 14 because he could not win con- March 14’s leader, former prime inspectors in the past and has During the last meeting in action against such a prominent coalition. sensus backing. minister Saad Al Hariri. refused to open fully to their Almaty in February world powers journalist. Al Nour Ahmed Al Lebanon faces a parliamen- Salam — a Sunni Muslim as all March 14 groups mainly Sunni investigations. told Iran to stop producing such Nour, who led the Al-Sahafa tary election in June but was prime ministers must be under and Christian parties which Jalili said Iran would continue uranium and constrain the ability daily, told AFP that the deci- plunged into uncertainty two Lebanon’s confessional distri- pushed, with US and European to defend its policy regardless of a to quickly resume operations at sion appeared to be linked to weeks ago by the resignation of bution of power — is the son of support, for Syria to end nearly June presidential election, which the Fordow facility, buried deep a dispute over the censorship Prime Minister Najib Mikati, a former prime minister. His three decades of military pres- Western diplomats say compli- in a mountain near the Iranian process. after a dispute over the electoral grandfather served under the ence in Lebanon in 2005. cates Tehran’s approach to talks. city of Qom. AGENCIES law and an extension to the term Ottoman Empire and the French REUTERS “The impact of the election will REUTERS FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 ISLAM www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Hijab a must, not a choice uslim women wear hijab — For example: Allah Almighty says in the which is more than just a Quran that He only talks to humans from head cover — because God behind a hijab. Mordered them to do so in two It is not given to any human being that places in the Quran, and because Prophet Allah should speak to him unless by revela- Muhammad (peace be upon him) also tion, or from behind a veil (Ashura 42:51). ordered it. The Quran says in Chapter The Virgin Mary worshipped behind 24, verses 30-31: a hijab: She placed a screen (to screen her- Tell the believing men to lower their gaze self) from them. (Maryam 19:17). and be modest. That is purer for them. Lo! And, on Judgment Day there will be a Allah is Aware of what they do. And tell hijab between the residents of Paradise the believing women to lower their gaze and and the residents of Hell: be modest, and to display of their adorn- And between them will be a barrier ment only that which is apparent, and to (screen). (Al A’raf 7:51). In all these verses, draw their veils over their bosoms, and not the Arabic word hijab was used to mean to reveal their adornment save to their own different things. In this light, let’s ponder husbands or fathers or husbands fathers, or the logic of hijab. The Quran teaches us to their sons or their husbands’ sons, or their look around us with open eyes and minds, brothers or their brothers’ sons or sisters to think, rationalise, and reach logical sons, or their women, or their slaves, or male conclusions. If we look at the universe, attendants who lack vigor, or children who from the tiny atom to the huge celes- know naught of women’s nakedness. And tial bodies, don’t we see how everything let them not stamp their feet so as to reveal important or precious is protected and what they hide of their adornment. And turn concealed with a cover? Think of the skin unto Allah together, O believers, in order to the human body, the womb to the baby, that ye may succeed. the plasma wall to the cell, the bark to These verses tell us that Islamic dress the tree trunks, the shell to the egg, even is not just a matter of covering the head the entire planet we live on is enjoying alone, but also of covering the bosom, the protection of a “hijab”—which we call which is attractive to men, and of low- the atmosphere—against the dangers of ering the gaze and walking in a way that asteroids and harmful cosmic rays. Think does not attract attention. Note that the how other planets—Mars for example— order to lower the gaze was addressed deprived of their “hijab” have suffered first to men… much harm. Also read the other verse about the The Arabic word khimar means “top- same point, which is verse number 59 in Complete hijab includes conduct cover” and it also applies to many things Chapter 33. It may be translated as: besides women’s head covers. For exam- O Prophet! Tell thy wives and thy daugh- ple, it applies to the top covering a pot or ters and the women of the believers to draw ccording to the Quran and conduct, behaviour, attitude, and intention by the media that opposes hijab or belit- jar, to any head cover worn by people even their cloaks close round them when they go Sunnah, there are basically of the individual. tles its significance, as those who spread men. Notably, that’s where liquor and abroad. That will be better, that so they may six criteria for observing hijab: A person only fulfilling the criteria of these ideas only desire evil for her. The narcotics got their Arabic name khamr be recognised and not annoyed. Allah is ever A 1. It is obligatory for males hijab of the clothes is observing hijab in a Quran warns by saying: because they “cover” the reasoning when Forgiving, Merciful. to cover at least from the navel to the limited sense. Hijab of the clothes should But the wish of those who follow their a person is intoxicated. The above verses very clearly show that knees. be accompanied by hijab of the eyes, the lusts is that you should deviate away from Khimar is the word used to prescribe it is Allah Almighty Himself, Who com- For women, it is obligatory to cover heart, the thought, and the intention. the right path, far, far away. (Annisaa’ the head cover of Muslim women in the mands the women to wear hijab, though the complete body except the face and It also includes the way a person walks, 4:27). verse you referred to. The Quran says: that word is not used in the above verses. the hands up to the wrist. If they wish talks, and behaves. Therefore, the hypo- It is interesting to note that the very And say to the believing women that they In fact, the term hijab means much more to, they can cover even these parts of critical use of hijab is not a good example same people who find fault with the should lower their gaze and guard their than the covering of the body; it refers to the body. of Muslim conduct. Islamic dress code for women do not find modesty; that they should not display their the code of modesty outlined in the verses Some scholars insist that the face anything improper in the dress of nuns. beauty and ornaments except what must quoted above. Look at the expressions and the hands are part of the obliga- LIFTING THE VEIL WILL NOT It is evident that the hijab of Mother ordinarily appear thereof; that they should used: “Lower their gaze”, “be modest”, tory extent of hijab, especially if tempta- UPLIFT WOMEN Teresa did not prevent her from social draw veils over their bosoms and not display “not to display their adornment”, “draw tion (fitna) is feared in times and places Woman’s liberalisation mostly dis- work! And the western world honoured their beauty except to their husbands, their the veils over their bosoms” “not to stamp where Islamic rules are not prevalent or guises exploitation of her body, degra- her with the Nobel Prize! But the same fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons... their feet” etc. if security is scarce. dation of her soul, and deprivation of people would argue that the hijab is a (Annur 24:31). It must be clear to any thinking person All the remaining five criteria are the her honour. hindrance for a Muslim girl in a school The meaning apparent to the Arabic what is meant by all the above expres- same for men and women: Non-Muslim societies claim to have or for a Muslim lady working as a cash- reader is that in the presence of men who sions in the Holy Quran. Women in the 2. The clothes should be loose and uplifted women via allowing them to ier in a supermarket! This is the kind are not mahrams to a Muslim woman, she Prophet’s time used to wear a kind of should not reveal the figure. expose their bodies, but on the contrary, of hypocrisy or double standards which should wear a head cover that extends dress that covered the head, but not the 3. The clothes should not be transpar- this has actually degraded them to mere paradoxically some “sophisticated” peo- long enough to cover the bosom, not that bosom properly. So when they are asked ent or see-through. tools in the hands of pleasure seekers ple find fashionable! only the bosom is covered. Another verse to draw their veils over their bosoms so as 4. The clothes should not be so glam- and sex marketers, hidden behind the Is hijab an oppression? It could cer- in Chapter Al Ahzab clarifies this further. not to reveal their beauty, it is clear that orous as to attract attention. colourful screen of “art” and “culture.” tainly be so, if someone forces a woman The Quran says: the dress must cover the head as well as 5. The clothes should not resemble Muslim women should be well aware to wear it. But for that matter, semi- O Prophet! Tell thy wives and daughters, the body. And hair is considered by people those of the opposite sex. of these facts. They should be aware nudity also can be an oppression, if and the believing women that they should in most cultures of the world — not only 6. The clothes should not resemble that hijab protects them from evil someone forces a woman to adopt that cast their outer garments over their per- in the Arab culture — as an attractive those of the unbelievers, that is, clothes glances and evil desires of those who style. sons when abroad; that is most convenient, part of a woman’s beauty. that identify or are symbols of the unbe- are sick in the heart, as described in If women in the west — or east — have that they should be known as such and not The above verse also indicates that one lievers’ religions. the Quran. the freedom to dress as they please, why molested. And Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most of the reasons for hijab is to distinguish Complete hijab, besides the six crite- Muslim women must adhere to Allah’s not allow the Muslim women to prefer Merciful. (Al Ahzab 33:59). the believing woman from the non-believ- ria of clothing, also includes the moral rules and not be persuaded or tempted a more modest dress? The Arabic word used here to indi- ing. This relates to the logic behind hijab. cate the cover is the plural of jilbab. Ibn • Ask yourself, if a female judge walked Taymiyyah stated in Majmu` Al-Fatawa into the courtroom wearing a tight mini- so widely publicised as the women’s dress way when she’s doing housework. If a long Him and His Messenger, and total refusal 22:110-111: “The jilbab is a cover which is skirt and low-cut blouse, would you take code. Men must at least be covered from head covering would get in the way in of shirk (associating anyone with Allah) large enough to cover the woman’s head her seriously? Who would you respect the navel to the knees with loose fitting her work or pose a danger to her — if the in all its forms. The Quran states: and the rest of her body hanging from more, a woman dressed like that or clothing. The rules for men are different woman were working around machinery It is not for a believer, man or woman, the top of her head.” one dressed modestly? The Quran was because women are less likely to ogle men or in a laboratory, for example — she can when Allah and His Messenger have decreed Islam uplifted women, gave them revealed for all times, and though cir- than the other way around. wear a different style that doesn’t have a matter that they should have any option in equality, and expects them to maintain cumstances change, human nature does • Do women feel hot in hijab? To be dragging ends. Actually, hijab — perhaps their decision. And whoever disobeys Allah their status. The status of women in not. The fact is that men do like to look honest, sometimes, yes, so smart women loose trousers and a long shirt if her work and His Messenger, he has indeed strayed Islam is often the target of attacks in the at women’s bodies, so a woman who cov- wear cotton. But overall, loose dresses requires her to bend, lift, or climb steps into a plain error. (Al Ahzab 33:36). secular media. The hijab or the Islamic ers herself is more likely to be respected are much cooler and healthier than pants or ladders — gives a woman more free- Muslims should not argue the com- dress is cited by many as an example of as a person than looked upon as a piece (trousers) or pantyhose. dom of movement while protecting her mands, rules, or laws of Allah and His the “subjugation” of women under Islamic of meat! • Some women cover their faces either modesty than does a short dress. Prophet (PBUH). They do not need law. Yet, the truth is that 1400 years ago, Up until the end of the nineteenth because they think it is required of them • Is hijab an oppression? Quite the proof from Allah for everything He asks Islam recognised women’s rights in a way century, a Western woman who had any — only a minority of scholars say so — or contrary. Dr Fatima Naseef, author of of them. Their obedience is the mark that grants them the utmost protection self respect covered her head—though because they think it is better for them Women in Islam, sees hijab as a woman’s of their true faith. In addition, Islam and respect as well, a combination other perhaps not all her hair — in public. to protect their modesty. Others do not right to maintain her modesty and to be is a complete way of life that should be systems fail to offer. Islam granted them Your audience may argue that a woman think it is required, but they prefer to act respected as a person. If one woman has wholly adhered to by its followers. Thus, freedom of expression, political partici- who does not cover her hair is no longer as the wives of Prophet Muhammad did, the right to go half naked in public, why Muslims are not supposed to worship pation, business and financial rights, and looked upon as a loose woman. That may for they take them as a model in their doesn’t another woman have the right to selectively, picking out whatever rules asked the rest of society to hold them in be true, but women still know that men every day life. Those, believe that such act cover herself in public? Why is it looked or rituals appeal to them and leaving high esteem and offer them due respect look at them. Otherwise, why would they is a fadl (extra good deed), which would upon as an oppression if she chooses to the rest. Denying a basic Islamic rule or as mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters. spend millions of dollars every year to earn them more heavenly reward. be modest? ritual is a serious sin. Islam expects women to maintain their style, colour, and treat their hair? • Does a head cover prevent a woman Islam means total submission to Allah Hijab in Arabic means “barrier” or status by following Allah’s rules designed • It is true that men don’t have to from practicing her daily activities? A — in mind, heart, body, and soul — total “screen” and thus it appears in vari- for their advantage. Hijab is one such cover their heads, but there is a dress woman does not normally wear hijab in acceptance of His laws and rules without ous Quranic verses, referring to many rule. code for them, as well, although it is not her own house, so it shouldn’t get in the doubts or arguments, total obedience to things besides the woman’s head cover. www.onislam.net One-day hijab leads young Briton to Islam one-day experience of around the world who donned could give me the answers I was out to new converts to help them just Westerners who can be nar- wearing hijab has led hijab as part of the annual World looking for,” she said. know better about Islam. row-minded, misguided etc.” a 21-year-old Briton to Hijab Day on February 1. Deciding to revert to Islam, “I have had some support, but “Sometimes I am unsure – A read more about Islam The event was meant to clear Rhodes was met with mixed not many people seem to want the reaction from most of the and eventually embracing the misconceptions that the head- reactions to her conversion. “It to reach out to me,” Rhodes Muslims that I have spoken to religion. scarf, an obligatory code of dress, was a bag of mix,” she recalled. lamented. “It is always me ask- has led me to feel like I should “I took part in the first World is a symbol of suppression of “Parents were not happy but ing for help.” leave Islam and go back to pagan- Hijab Day and challenged myself women in Islam. they accepted my decision. My She says that many Muslims ism as in that religion I was given to wear the hijab for a month,” After wearing the outfit, in-laws have been extremely sup- are “narrow-minded” about a choice about how I practice my Jessica Rhodes (pictured), told Rhodes says that she could not portive,” Rhodes said. different interpretation of the religion, and nobody cared if I did Muslim Mirror. remember what it felt like to go “My friends are unfortunately Quran. “When I go and ask ques- things my way or another way,” “I then began reading the without wearing hijab. a mixed bag — some are happy tions, people quote the Quran at she said. Quran and the words in the After the experience, Rhodes with my decision, others want me and do not seem open to a “As for the Muslim ummah… Quran seemed logical and clear, began to read more about Islam to argue with me about it, and convert’s interpretation of the that is in the hands of Allah. If simply continue to be in a mire of rather than in the Bible where to know better about the religion. still others walked out of my life Quran,” Rhodes said. people worldwide, of all walks misconceptions, anger and point- they tend to waffle.” “I also did some research into altogether.” “They can improve this by of life, are more open-minded less wars.” Britain is home to a Rhodes, from Norwich, was Islam as a whole and felt that The young Briton complains being more open-minded to other perhaps we can move forward,” Muslim community of nearly 2.5 among scores of non-Muslims it was an inclusive religion that that many Muslims fail to reach interpretations, because it is not Rhodes said. “But if not, we will million. www.onislam.net FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 06 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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ENSION on the Korean Peninsula has reached a new high with the North’s latest bluster targetting the United States with the threat of a nuclear strike. The Brazil’s Rousseff popular, but TUS cannot completely ignore the threat as it involves a question of national security. Pyongyang has reportedly moved a missile with ‘considerable range’ to the east of the country in what is being perceived as a threat to the US state faces re-election challenges of Alaska and some other Pacific island territories. The sudden belligerent posturing of North Korea’s maverick regime has BY BRIAN WINTER created a flutter in East Asia with US allies South Korea and historic boom, lifting some 35 million manual for where it’s headed. Solid wage Japan squirming, and Pyongyang’s closest ally China sitting up people — equivalent to the population growth has come even as gross domestic to take note. It would be naïve to believe that the North has he’s one of the world’s most of California — out of poverty. product grew just 2.7 percent in 2011 the capability to mount a nuclear attack on the US. Though popular presidents with an That past and present success best and 0.9 percent in 2012. Projections for approval rating that is the envy explains why Rousseff’s approval rating 3 percent GDP growth this year are the country of 24 million has nuclear devices, it is hard to Sof her peers in richer countries ticked up to 79 percent in a nationwide starting to look optimistic. believe that it possesses the wherewithal to miniaturise struggling with debt crises and political poll sponsored by industrial lobby group Rousseff’s popularity proves that them for being installed on missile systems. The Obama deadlock — 79 percent and rising. CNI last month. 63 percent of respond- Brazilian voters do not care one whit administration is closely watching the developments in the last She presides over a country with ents rated her government as good or about GDP. But business leaders do, and post of the Cold War. Reports yesterday said that Washington record-low unemployment, a can-do very good. they’re the ones who provide most of optimism that invites comparisons to If those numbers hold, Rousseff will the jobs. To that end, several gauges of has moved its missile defence systems to the Pacific territory the post-war years in the United States, be virtually impossible to beat. Castro business sentiment are looking shaky. of Guam in anticipation of a strike by the belligerent regime of and a chance to showcase its progress Neves cited a study by polling group Brazil’s stock market tumbled 7.55 Kim Jong-un. when it hosts the soccer World Cup Ipsos that looked at more than 200 elec- percent from January to March, the After Kim took over, North Korea has been trying to assert next year. tions around the world over the past two worst first quarter in 18 years, at a itself in the wake of the West’s increasing pressure on the And yet, it’s entirely possible that decades, and found that leaders with an time when markets in the United States regime to make it come out of its Dilma Rousseff could fail to win re-elec- approval rating above 60 percent have were soaring to new highs. Industrial tion as president of Brazil in October a nine-in-10 chance of being re-elected. output fell 2.5 percent in February, its It is for the secretive stupor. The opacity of 2014. The 65-year-old leftist remains Yet, not far beneath the surface, there worst performance since the depths of the country makes it all the more the clear favour- are clear economic problems that could the global financial crisis in late 2008, North Korean difficult for world powers to break ite but the threat jump up and bite Rousseff, and erode dashing hopes that Rousseff’s numerous regime to realise into the mould of aggression and of rising inflation those enviable ratings, just as her re- stimulus packages might have helped hubris which the North has built and unemploy- election bid gets underway. manufacturers turn the corner. the futility of around itself over the years. The ment, a trio of The most likely villain — though not Another core truth about Rousseff is attractive oppo- the most dangerous one — is inflation. that, while she’s widely respected and its bluster and expectation of the international Not far beneath sition candidates, Prices rose 6.43 percent in the year even admired, she is not beloved — at community from the young Kim has and the possibil- through mid-March, and look set to least not to the same extent as her pred- avoid military been belied and he is now being seen the surface, there ity of an embar- creep even higher in coming months. ecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who confrontation as a leader only working to take are clear economic rassing logistical Brazil’s central bank said last week it governed Brazil from 2003 to 2010. the country more into the abyss of debacle at the sees a one-in-four chance that inflation The emphasis on administrative com- with the US, an problems that World Cup mean could finish this year above its target petence as Rousseff’s primary job skill isolation. The latest standoff proves could jump up that Rousseff is ceiling of 6.5 percent — double the odds leaves her especially vulnerable to a unequal power. that the North believes in keeping less of a shoo- it saw three months before. snafu at the World Cup, which will be the ‘air warm with bellicosity’ and bite Rousseff, in than many Brazilians are extremely sensitive to held just three months before the presi- even in the wake of strong counter currents. One of the most and erode those observers think. rising prices, mainly because of past dential election. World soccer body FIFA impoverished countries in the world, North Korea can hardly enviable ratings, “It’s probably horrors. Hyperinflation spiked over has voiced concerns that stadiums won’t feed its entire population. It often leans on China, much to the going to be the 2,500 percent just two decades ago, and be ready on time, and Brazil suffers ter- just as her re- most competitive people appreciate that the country’s rible bottlenecks at airports, roads and consternation of Washington allies in the region. election bid gets election in Brazil recent success was possible only because public transport networks even on its But even the government in Beijing has slowly become in a decade,” said it got that problem under control. best days. A major logistical meltdown disenchanted with Pyongyang’s controversial actions. China underway. João Augusto de Most voters aren’t mad about rising could be used by the opposition to under- doesn’t want Kim’s regime to fall. Beijing fears a deluge of North Castro Neves, an prices yet, because wages have been ris- cut Rousseff’s main perceived strength. Koreans seeking refuge in China once the regime in the North analyst for the ing even faster — by an average mar- As for the opposition itself, it has crumbles. Moreover, Beijing does not want American influence Eurasia Group gin of about 3 percent last year. So, a improved. There are two candidates think tank. “If tiny plurality in the CNI poll said they who could campaign well against to rule the peninsula by the South getting an upper hand. you look, most of the ingredients for a approved of Rousseff’s handling of infla- Rousseff. Aecio Neves, a senator from North Korea upping tension in the region with provocative tight race are in place.” tion, by a margin of 48 percent to 47 the vote-rich state of Minas Gerais, is pronouncements is leading to brinkmanship. If Kim decides The main ingredient is the economy. percent — a result that was a positive the likely candidate from the PSDB to shoot a missile at any US territory, the reaction will be In some ways, it’s Rousseff’s biggest surprise to some in the presidential party, which ran Brazil from 1995 catastrophic for the North. It is likely to lead to a fusillade from strength. Unemployment was 5.6 per- palace. Can it last? To quote a member to 2003. Pernambuco state governor cent in February, the lowest ever for of Rousseff’s economic team: “Anybody Eduardo Campos, if he runs, could take the US, jolting the regime and likely leading to its downfall. It is that month. Real wages continue to rise, who tells you they know is lying.” supporters from Rousseff’s main power in Pyongyang’s interest to avoid military confrontation and keep just as they have for most of the past That’s because Brazil’s economy base in the relatively poor northeast. its differences with the US at the policy level. • decade as Brazil’s economy enjoyed a is behaving strangely, and there’s no REUTERS The other side Quote of Bloodied in Myanmar the day

HE political liberalization in 20 in the central city of Meiktila, when a last year. Some 180 people were killed violence. Human Rights Watch reports Myanmar is far from complete, dispute between a Muslim jeweller and and 100,000 made homeless in sev- that “some well-known members of the but already it is displaying a dark a customer led to rioting and clashes eral waves of rioting. The Rohingya, Buddhist monkhood have given ser- Tside. In Myanmar, as in many between Buddhists and Muslims. who have been denied citizenship by mons and distributed anti-Muslim tracts other countries where dictatorships According to Human Rights Watch, the government, now are crowded into and directives that call on Buddhist resi- We need our have crumbled, a new freedom is an estimated 40 people were killed; in squalid refugee camps, where they live dents to boycott Muslim businesses and being exploited by religious and ethnic addition, several residential areas were under curfew and are barred from enter- shun contact with Muslim communities.” nuclear deterrent as extremists — including some who were burned to the ground. Satellite pho- ing the state’s capital city, Sittwe. The UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar lauded for their opposition to the military tographs analysed by Human Rights The majority population of the coun- human rights, Tomas Ojea Quintana, much today as we regime. In several parts of the country, Watch showed more than 800 build- try is the ethnic Burmese and Buddhist, said he had received reports of “state Buddhist extremists are targeting ings destroyed, in what appeared to be but many Muslims immigrated to the involvement” in some of the violence, did when a previous Muslims with hate propaganda, calls deliberate acts of ethnic cleansing. The country from South Asia during British adding that “police and other civilian law British government for boycotts and waves of violence. United Nations reported that 12,000 rule. enforcement forces have been standing Both the government and democratic people were displaced. Both the government and the by while atrocities have been commit- embarked on it over opposition parties have been slow to The rioting resembled attacks on Buddhist monkhood, famous for the ted before their very eyes, including by six decades ago. respond. Muslims of the Rohingya ethnic group 2007 “saffron revolution” against the well-organised ultra-nationalist Buddhist David Cameron The latest bloodshed began March in the western Burmese state of Rakhine dictatorship, have been complicit in the mobs.” THE WASHINGTON POST British Prime Minister FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Is N Korea’s new Kim Mali insurgency same as the old Kims? may hit French Washington is still pullout plan BY JOHN IRISH trying to gauge how Hollande has made it clear France’s history of propping up rance wants to cut its African leaders indefinitely is far the untested forces in Mali sharply by over. He was quick to intervene the year-end and is urg- against the militants who he 30-year-old leader Fing its ex-colony to hold argues could emerge as a global elections in July, but an Islamist jihadist threat, but stresses the insurgency is threatening that longer-term military, political and might go to prove timetable. economic solutions must come Many people in northern Mali from Malians and Africans first. himself to his people, who lived under the rebels’ brutal But the clock is already against form of Islamic law last year are him. The UN will vote this month apprehensive about French plans to turn the current French and and his generals. to leave just 1,000 of the current African mission into a UN peace- 4,000 troops by December, with keeping force by July. If security BY MATT SPETALNICK and MARK UN peacekeepers filling the gap. does not quickly improve, French HOSENBALL “The Islamists are waiting for diplomats acknowledge it could be the French to leave to open the hard to justify an early winding orth Korea’s young leader Kim gates to hell. Let’s hope the UN down of troops. Jong-un is using his forebears’ will take over quickly because “The fear is that the jihadists time-tested “crazy-guy-in-the- the Malian army alone cannot that have spread out will return neighbourhood” strategy, sen- face the terrorism threat,” said when we leave,” said one French ior US officials say, but with a Alhassane Maîga, a teacher in the diplomatic source. Nprovocative new twist — aiming Pyongyang’s ancient trading post of Timbuktu. Caretaker Malian President threats directly at the US. Last weekend Islamist militants Dioncounda Traore’s announce- There are indeed signs of an earlier method North Korean leader Kim Jong-un waves during a military parade in Pyongyang last year. launched their second attack on ment in late-January of presiden- in what might seem like Kim’s rhetorical mad- Timbuktu in a fortnight, shortly tial elections on July 7 and the ness, which US policymakers say is patterned philosophy his late father, Kim Jong-il, periodically tried to do. after French President Francois parliamentary vote by July 31 after more than a half century of rule over the preached to justify use of impoverished North Obama offered food aid to North Korea last Hollande insisted the elections answered a demand of Western reclusive state by his father and grandfather. Korea’s scarce resources to build a 1.2 mil- year, under stringent monitoring terms to must take place as scheduled and governments which backed But with a large degree of uncertainty sur- lion-strong army and a nuclear weapons pro- ensure it wouldn’t be diverted to the military, unveiled the plan to slash troop France’s intervention. rounding Kim and limited US intelligence on gramme, Asia experts say. in return for a moratorium on nuclear and numbers. Launched in January, Despite the attack in Timbuktu, North Korea’s leadership, Washington is still Still, the Obama administration insists long-range missile tests. The deal imploded the French-led offensive quickly Paris remains sure a good por- trying to gauge how far the untested 30-year- there is no cause for alarm. less than three weeks later when Pyongyang succeeded in pushing a mix of tion of the military work has been old leader might go to prove himself to his Pyongyang’s assertion over the weekend announced plans for what it called a satellite Islamists out of their northern accomplished and that the with- people, and his generals, or to make a bellig- that it had entered a “state of war” with South launch and US officials said was a missile test. strongholds and remote mountain drawal plans can be kept. It has erent point to South Korea’s new president Korea over its joint military drills with the Some US officials believe Pyongyang’s bel- bases, hitting the local leadership promised to keep a rapid inter- and the world. US, has not led to corresponding movements licosity is aimed primarily at a domestic audi- of the Al Qaeda linked groups. vention force to fight militants if North Korea’s surprise announcement on of North Korean forces, the White House said. ence. They see Kim trying to keep his vast, But new clashes have followed needed. “From a security perspec- Tuesday of plans to restart a long-shuttered And while Pyongyang’s bluster may be poorly paid army motivated with anti-US a handful of suicide attacks and tive things are better, but now we nuclear reactor, while not issued by Kim per- unsettling, images of Kim posing in front of propaganda and improve his status among raids on towns won back from the have to reinforce this improve- sonally, could further raise the stakes in his maps portraying missile targets on the US North Korea’s largely dirt poor population by rebels, underscoring the task of ment by extending that politically standoff with the West. mainland require a stretch of the imagina- standing up to foreign enemies, even as he securing the country as France and through economic develop- “All bets are off on whether this guy rec- tion, given that North Korea has yet to prove seeks to cement his grip on power. prepares to hand over to the ment,” Fabius said. “We need ognises where the off-ramps are,” one senior it has mastered ballistic technology capable of But there is growing concern that Kim’s Malian army and a 7,000-strong democratic legitimacy... Malians administration official said. “We don’t have reaching American shores. inexperience coupled with his drive to prove regional African force. must express what they want for enough history with him to know whether US officials insist they are anything but himself could lead to a limited strike on a The nightmare scenario is that their future,” he said before his or not he has the sophistication that his nostalgic for Kim Jong-il, who was seen by South Korean target, such as a ship or border of a repeat of the Afghan war, visit to the capital Bamako, which father displayed in dealing with diplomatic Washington as dangerous though at least pre- post, or that the two sides could stumble into where Taliban insurgents have lies in the country’s south. confrontation.” dictable. He issued threats and even acted mil- military confrontation. prevented a full pullout of Nato- The French diplomat put the This official and others spoke on condition itarily to get the world’s attention but would “The greater likelihood is miscalculation,” led troops after a 13-year conflict message more bluntly: “We have of anonymity to discuss months of North draw the line at open armed conflict, using former US defence secretary Leon Panetta that has cost tens of thousands pushed forward the calendar to Korean threats and actions, including mis- crises he provoked as leverage in international told CNBC on Monday. “And if they do some- of lives. Presidential and legisla- shake the Malians up a bit... It’s sile and nuclear tests, that pose a challenge to negotiations. thing that escalates quickly, that’s the greater tive elections due in July are vital easy for them to let us do all the President Barack Obama’s policy of “strategic The younger Kim, little known to the danger.” steps to stabilising the gold and work, but at some point they need patience” toward Pyongyang. West when he took power in December 2011, US officials and independent Korea watch- cotton producer after a military to move politically.” That policy — a refusal to offer new incen- appears intent on stretching the limits of his ers alike acknowledge, however, they are so coup a year ago left a power vac- Officials believe the technical tives to Pyongyang until it suspends its dis- family’s playbook. short on personal information about Kim that uum which the rebels exploited to side of holding elections by July is puted nuclear programme — has yielded little He has taken the spotlight not only to issue predicting his behaviour remains a guessing make gains. possible as long as political par- but defiance since Obama took office in 2009. some threats in person but has gone a step game. The Obama administration’s origi- “We’re doing everything we ties agree to certain concessions, Joseph DiTrani, formerly the US intelli- further, hurling them at his country’s super- nal hopes that Kim would turn out to be a can to ensure the elections hap- such as accepting that it may be gence community’s top expert on North Korea, power foe. reformer have yet to materialise and seem pen in that time frame,” said a too complicated for all refugees or said the “cadence change” displayed by Kim’s “There are clear differences in style and unlikely to any time soon, US officials say. senior Malian government official displaced Malians to vote. tough talk and military gestures, such as this tone (between father and son),” another senior Despite that, most Korea watchers believe speaking on condition of anonym- French officials also say that year’s nuclear test, indicate he is under heavy US official said. “He is much more personally Kim is a rational actor who understands his ity. “But if you ask me what could any later than July would delay pressure from the country’s military elite. involved in the forefront... and these threats military is no match for Seoul and its US ally stop them (pulling out), I’d say: elections until the end of the year “He’s got to present (an image of)... strength are more specific and more directly oriented and that straying too far from historic North Security, security, security.” due to heavy rains. to those elements,” DiTrani said. at the US this time around.” Korean practices could jeopardise his own French Foreign Minister But a sporadic insurgency and Though Kim has fired or demoted some But this official insisted that even with political survival. Laurent Fabius travels to Mali a slow process in negotiating with generals since taking power, Pyongyang’s mili- this new variation of what he called North Kim dialed down the harsh rhetoric in on Friday to make sure the disenfranchised Tuareg separa- tary leadership remains a political force to be Korea’s “crazy man strategy,” Kim would not his latest speech this week when he avoided main political players know what tists in the north, who have vowed reckoned with. succeed in getting Washington and its allies repeating recent threats to attack South France’s priorities are and that to remain armed until they have He has sought to placate them by paying to “buy them off” with aid, fuel or other con- Korea and the US. they are doing all they can to keep certain guarantees, may scupper homage to the “Military First,” or Songun, cessions, as previous US administrations have REUTERS the political timetable on track. Hollande’s plans. REUTERS Tunisia and Egypt need Arab revolutions to spread BY SEUMAS MILNE the assassination of the leftist Politics has become increasingly Mustapha Ben Jafar, secular has started to reverse the explo- — while new IMF and European leader Chokri Belaïd in February polarised around a dysfunctional speaker of the constitutional sive rise in unemployment — offi- loans risk locking Tunisia and rom the first eruption of brought to a head a rising tide of standoff over religion and secular- assembly, thinks the opposition’s cially now about 17 precent — and Egypt into policies that will make the Arab revolutions in conflict between secular groups ism: Between the centrist Islamist determination to go into “cam- shift spending to the poorer recovery more difficult. Tunisia, it was clear that and Islamists (punctuated with Ennahda party — which was the paign mode” as soon as they regions. But it has yet to break Tunisia’s government is nev- Fpowerful forces would a few violent incidents involving main target for violent repres- were defeated is the source of the with the IMF-endorsed policies ertheless trying to diversify do everything possible to make Salafists). sion under Ben Ali’s dictatorship polarisation. inherited from the former regime. trade and investment away from sure they were brought to heel, Whoever ordered the killing, and won the 2011 elections — and Either way, there’s a danger Ennahda leaders talk about dependence on crisis-blighted or failed. which provoked large-scale pro- opposition parties, right and left, that, as in Egypt (where the divi- a “social economy” somewhere Europe and the dominant former Those included domestic inter- tests, riots and demands for the which accuse Ennahda of seeking sions are deeper), politics gets between free-market capital- colonial power of France. ests which had lost out from the dissolution of parliament and the to introduce a theocratic state by diverted into US-style culture ism and socialism, but details As the new Prime Minister overthrow of the old regimes, overthrow of the government, the back door. wars about religion and identity are sketchy and pressure is now Ali Larayedh puts it: states that feared the contagion was clearly out to destabilise the If it’s a fight about the protec- — at the expense of the battle for growing to cut food and fuel sub- “Revolutions strengthen national would spread to their shores and country. tion of women’s and civil rights, social and economic justice and sidies and resume privatisation. independence”. Western powers that had lost Two months on, and Tunis has that’s essential. national sovereignty. That clearly won’t meet the In January, officials confirm, strategic clients — and didn’t like just hosted tens of thousands of But what makes the conflict It’s a conflict that suits forces aspirations of the disinherited the Tunisian government refused the idea of losing any more. international activists for the often seem contrived is that that backed the old regimes (in youth who spearheaded Tunisia’s France overflight rights for its So after Tunisia and Egypt had World Social Forum, first launched Ennahda has long been committed Tunisia grouped around the or Egypt’s revolutions. military intervention in Mali fallen in quick succession, later in Brazil 12 years ago to challenge to coalition with secular parties main opposition party, “Call of In current circumstances that — certainly not something the uprisings were hijacked, as in corporate globalisation, with the and women’s rights (the Ennahda Tunis”) and leads to paradoxical needs a move in the direction former dictator would have done. Libya, while sectarian toxins were aim of supporting radical change Deputy Speaker of parliament, alliances. taken by progressive govern- How far the Arab revolutions pumped throughout the region, in North Africa and across the Meherzia Labidi, describes her- Both Saudi Arabia and the ments in Latin America, such will go — and whether they deliver escalating the bloodshed in Syria world. self as a feminist, for instance), UAE support elements of the as Ecuador’s, which have already to their people or lapse back into in particular, and help was poured For all the reports of insecurity, rejected attempts to introduce liberal and secular opposition in turned their back on a failed eco- Western clientalism — evidently into destabilising or co-opting the they found a city now strikingly Sharia and a reference to the Egypt and Tunisia. nomic model, expanded the tax isn’t settled. post-revolutionary states. calm and unthreatening, with “complementary” roles of men and But it doesn’t suit the majority base, slashed poverty, renegoti- It will depend on social pres- It seemed only Tunisia was Salafist fundamentalists thin on women into the constitution, and of Egyptians or Tunisians. ated multinational contracts and sure at home, but also whether small and homogeneous enough the ground and vibrant networks insists there is no conflict between It was, after all, the impact used publicly-owned banks and they reach the Western-backed to be spared a full-scale coun- of social movements, trade union- Islam and secularism. of Europe’s crisis on a Tunisian enterprises to drive the develop- autocracies now trying to control ter-revolutionary onslaught, its ism and protest campaigns. But Kacem Ataya, from the influen- economy stripped naked by the ment of the economy. the process. newly elected Islamist leaders the crisis of unemployment and tial UGTT trade union organisa- dictatorship’s neoliberal reforms Instead, the European Union But one thing is clear: The fur- pluralist enough to lead a suc- poverty that sparked the Tunisian tion, blames the Islamists for the that triggered the revolution — is demanding that Tunisia lib- ther democratisation spreads, the cessful democratisation and offer uprising is now worse than in schism and says social pressure and its central demands for dig- eralise its banking system — the greater the chance the Arabs can a progressive model for the rest 2010, and corruption in police and has been the key to the defence nity, jobs and economic justice. very process of financial deregula- take control of their own future. of the region. That was until bureaucracy remains dire. of civic rights. Two years on, the government tion that led to the crash of 2008 THE GUARDIAN FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INTERNATIONAL British couple Hollande vows to clean up French politics RABAT: French President Francois Hollande insisted yesterday that he would go all the way to clean up politics in the state after jailed for killing an ex-budget minister was charged in a tax fraud probe linked to his secret foreign bank account. He stressed that the French government itself was not involved in the scandal but “one six children man who failed”. “I will go all the way on these questions because I have nothing to fear from the strict application of the laws that exist and the application of the new laws” announced, House fire plot was wicked: Judge Hollande said at a news conference here. “To be clear... it is not the government that is LONDON: A British man was shows. Philpott’s 29-year-old live- being challenged, it is one man who failed.” The jailed for life and his wife and in girlfriend had left the marital man in question, Jerome Cahuzac, was charged accomplice were given long home three months before the fire. on Tuesday with “laundering the proceeds of tax prison sentences yesterday for She took five children with fraud” after he admitted to having an undeclared accidentally killing six of their her — four of which he fathered foreign bank account containing some ¤600,000. children in a bungled house fire — leaving just six youngsters in Adding to Hollande’s woes, Le Monde newspa- plot aimed at getting custody of the house for whom Philpott per reported yesterday that his campaign treas- five other children. could claim welfare payments. urer for last year’s presidential vote had joint To the rare sound of applause in Prosecutors said the Philpotts ownership of two firms registered in the Cayman the court, Mick Philpott, 56, was torched their home during the Islands, a well-known tax haven. jailed for life, while his 32-year- night in a bid to frame his ex- Hollande, who is on a two-day visit to Morocco, old wife Mairead was jailed for 17 girlfriend and claim custody of denied any knowledge of Jean-Jacques Augier’s years in a case that has horrified her offspring. private business activities. “I know nothing about Britain and sparked a national Philpott was supposed to rescue French President Francois Hollande (centre) is applauded as he arrives to deliver a speech at the these activities, and if they do not conform to debate about welfare culture. the remaining children through a French tax law, I will ask the administration” to Moroccan parliament in Rabat, yesterday. Judge Kathryn Thirlwall said bedroom window — but the pet- make the “necessary corrections,” he said. AFP violent, jobless ex-convict Mick rol-fuelled fire spread faster than Philpott was a “disturbingly dan- planned and the window would gerous man”. “You have no moral not open. Judge Thirlwall said the compass,” she told him. plot was “wicked and dangerous” Paul Mosley, who joined the and “outside the comprehension couple for sexual encounters and of any right-thinking person”. She Connecticut okays tough gun law Hillary Clinton helped carry out the plot, was said the children were subjected also jailed for 17 years. A jury on to a terrifying ordeal. to pen ‘ultimate Tuesday found all three guilty of “Their terror was the price they NEW YORK: Connecticut’s to an existing, but now vastly failed and even Obama’s push for manslaughter following an eight- were going to pay for your callous governor signed tough new gun expanded ban on military-style extra background checks is meet- week trial. selfishness. In fact, they paid with ownership rules into law yester- weapons. In addition, ammuni- ing serious resistance. book’ on world Philpott was told he would their six young lives.” Outside court, day, four months after a deranged tion clips holding more than 10 Malloy said polls showed that serve a minimum of 15 years and Philpott’s sister Dawn Bestwick loner opened fire on an elemen- rounds must now be registered, while politicians are divided over NEW YORK: Hillary Clinton, his wife and Mosley at least eight- told reporters that justice had been tary school in the state, killing 20 while new sales of the large clips background checks, “the country whose every move is being scru- and-a-half years over the deaths done for the children. “Victory to children and six adults. are banned. is not divided itself”. “There is tinised for signs that she might at the family home in Derby, cen- them,” she said. Governor Dannel Malloy put The law, which raises the mini- no excuse for representatives or make a 2016 presidential run, tral England, on May 11 last year. The six youngsters could his signature to the bill, noting mum age for purchasers from 18 senators who don’t come to the announced yesterday that she’s All six children, aged from five to now “rest in peace”. Senior that the state’s ability to reach to 21, tightened the procedure for assistance of those whom they’re penning a book outlining her 13, died from smoke inhalation. investigating officer Detective a bipartisan accord on the issue background checks. It also cre- elected to represent,” he said. views on the United States’ role The Philpotts’ own family mem- Superintendent Kate Meynell at a time of rancorous debate in ated the first state registry in the “We can never undo the sense- in the world. bers applauded as the judge fin- said the defendants had never Congress was “something quite United States of people convicted less tragedy that took place The ex-secretary of state’s first ished her sentencing. “Die, Mick, shown remorse. “They have lied different in our nation”. of gun-related crimes. on December 14,” Malloy said, book since leaving office will be die,” one shouted, while another throughout the investigation and The measure passed in the state President Barack Obama, “but we can take action here in published by Simon & Schuster called out: “Your own babies.” In court case. There were plenty of assembly in the early hours of the who campaigned in Colorado on Connecticut”. Senator Richard in the summer of 2014, mid- response, Philpott smiled and made opportunities to admit their guilt morning, making Connecticut the Wednesday for a national tighten- Blumenthal, a Democrat who way through President Barack an obscene gesture. but they never did and persisted third state after New York and ing of gun laws, was set to drive represents Connecticut in Obama’s final term, the pub- With 18 children in total by six with their denials,” she said. Colorado to tighten gun laws in the home his message with a visit to Washington, also hailed the lisher said. “This will be the ulti- different mothers, Philpott was The case has triggered a debate wake of the December 14 massacre Connecticut on Monday. “model of bipartisanship.” mate book for people who are already a nationally notorious in Britain about welfare culture as at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Malloy called the passing of the The new Connecticut law will interested in world affairs and figure, dubbed “Shameless Mick” the government, trying to rein in More than 100 makes of rifles — law a “very emotional day” and be in effect by August 1, once law America’s place in the world by the press for his feckless life- the budget deficit, brings in a major including the Bushmaster AR-15 chastised politicians in Congress, enforcement bodies have had time today,” said Jonathan Karp, style funded by hefty state welfare shake-up of the system this week. used by killer Adam Lanza in the where attempts to enact a to organise, Malloy said. publisher of Simon & Schuster handouts which he flaunted on TV AFP Newtown school — were added national ban on assault rifles have AFP Publishing Group, and who is set to edit the work himself. No title was announced, nor details of how much former presi- Royal game dent Bill Clinton’s wife would be Desmond Tutu paid. The publisher’s CEO Carolyn Cameron in coalition rift Reidy said Hillary Clinton would “bring readers worldwide her wins $1.7m unique insights into the most dra- over Trident system matic events and critically impor- Templeton Prize tant issues of our time.” LONDON: Prime Minister unpredictable and aggressive Topics covered will include the LONDON: Anti-apartheid David Cameron reopened a rift in regime in North Korea recently killing of Osama bin Laden, the US icon Desmond Tutu, the former his coalition government over the conducted its third nuclear test,” pullouts from Iraq and Afghanistan, archbishop of Cape Town, was future of Britain’s nuclear deter- Cameron wrote in The Daily the Arab Spring revolts, and the yesterday awarded the $1.7m rent yesterday, saying potential Telegraph newspaper. rise of China. Broad issues includ- Templeton Prize for his life- threats from countries such as Cameron’s intervention coin- ing the role of women and girls, long work to promote “love and Iran and North Korea meant it cided with a visit he made to climate change, and human rights forgiveness”. could not be scaled back. Scotland, where the submarines will also be addressed, the pub- The 81-year-old Nobel peace Cameron’s comments put him are based, to welcome the crew lisher said. “And she will share her laureate, who rose to fame in the at odds with his Liberal Democrat of one vessel back from a patrol. views as to what it takes for the 1980s as a vocal opponent of South coalition partners who want He used the trip to explain why United States to secure and sustain Africa’s white-minority apartheid to find a cheaper alternative to he thought Scots should vote to prosperity and global leadership. regime, will be presented with the Britain’s multi-billion pound stay part of Britain in an inde- Throughout, Clinton will offer vivid award at a ceremony in London submarine-based Trident nuclear pendence referendum next year, personal anecdotes and memories on May 21. missile system to try to save but the Scottish National Party of her collaboration with President The Templeton Prize, one of the money at a time when the nation’s accused him of scare-mongering Obama and his National Security world’s largest annual awards, is finances are mired in debt. after he said Scottish defence jobs team, as well as her engagement given each year to a living person Cameron, the leader of the were more secure while Scotland with leaders around the world,” the who has made “an exceptional Conservative Party, the senior was part of Britain. statement said. contribution to affirming life’s member of the two-party coalition, The SNP has said it does not Clinton has stayed coy about her spiritual dimension”. Last year’s said he had not seen any evidence want nuclear weapons in an plans in 2016, but she is seen as a winner was the Dalai Lama, there were cheaper ways of pro- independent Scotland. A Trident clear frontrunner this time, hav- Tibet’s spiritual leader, who gave viding a credible alternative to the renewal decision will not be taken ing lost the Democratic nomina- the money to charity. “ultimate weapon of defence”, say- until after the next 2015 general tion in 2008 to Obama, who went Tutu thanked “all the won- ing the nuclear threat had grown election, but the fact that Britain’s on to become America’s first black derful people who accepted me since the end of the Cold War. four Vanguard class nuclear sub- president. Polls show that Clinton, as their leader at home” for the “Iran continues to defy the will marines reach the end of their who would be 69 in 2016, has strong prize, which is administered of the international community in service lives in the 2020s means support among Democrats should by the US-based Templeton Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, plays table tennis during its attempts to develop its nuclear it cannot be put off for long. she bid to become the first woman Foundation. “When you are in a her visit to the Donald Dewar centre in Glasgow, Scotland, yesterday. capabilities, while the highly REUTERS elected to the White House. AFP crowd and you stand out from the crowd it’s usually because you are being carried on the shoulders of others,” he said. The Templeton Foundation hailed Tutu’s “deep faith and com- mitment to prayer and worship”. At 93, Red Army veteran searches for lost French love The prize was set up in 1972 by the late investor and philanthro- MOSCOW: “Her name was Jeanne.... into the Red Army soon after Hitler Vasenin was wounded in the leg, his to 15 years in the Gulag “for treason” but pist John Templeton. Its first win- A brunette, nothing special. But I must invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. commander, Gerard Monot, took him was released early after a few years and ner, in 1973, was Mother Teresa. find her at any cost.” On July 9, 1941, his regiment was encir- to his home where his daughter Jeanne, confined to internal exile in Siberia. Tutu spoke out vigorously At 93, Nikolai Vasenin, a former Red cled near Minsk, in present-day Belarus. four years his junior, nursed him. When At the end of his prison term, Nikolai against apartheid during the Army soldier and Gulag prisoner who Wounded, Nikolai — just like 400,000 other British-American troops arrived in married Zinaida, a geologist who visited years when Nelson Mandela was fought for the French Resistance in World Soviet soldiers — was taken prisoner by September 1944, Nikolai had to go to the mine where inmates worked. Since in prison. He won the 1984 Nobel War II, is searching for the love he says he the Nazis. Paris and appear before the Soviet mis- Zinaida’s death five years ago, the old Peace Prize for his work, which lost 60 years ago in France. “I am 93, there Following a failed attempt to escape sion’s general staff. man and father of three lives alone in a he said has always been moti- is no reason to wait any longer.” from prison in Nuremberg, he was sent “Before leaving, I asked Gerard for small apartment in Novoberezovsky, near vated by religion. When Mandela Vasenin’s extraordinary nine decades of to a labour camp in the Drome region Jeanne’s hand,” Nikolai recounted. The Yekaterinburg. became president he chose Tutu life have seen him captured by the Nazis, of southern France, which he managed three had a tough talk as the “captain was In 2005 he was made Chevalier of the to chair South Africa’s Truth and escape from German captivity, join the to flee in October 1943 to join a group of categorically against”. The Russian had to Legion d’Honneur, France’s highest deco- Reconciliation Commission, which French resistance and then be arrested Maquisards, rural fighters of the French go. “Probably, because I was poor,” Vasenin ration, after his story was made public for investigated crimes committed by on his return to the Soviet Union. Resistance. said. “And Jeanne... she was sad, but she the first time. Vasenin said he will live at all sides during apartheid. It is believed that Jeanne — the daughter Fairly soon, the young Russian became was afraid of her father.” least until he sees Jeanne again. “Je t’aime” Tutu’s New York-based foun- of a top Resistance commander — is still a commander of a 25-strong guerilla In the spring of 1945, just before the end (I love you) are the only words he still dation said the prize was “extra- alive but so far Vasenin has been unable to detachment dubbed later “the group of of the war, Vasenin arrived in the Soviet remembers in French, but “it will suffice,” special” because it recognised his realise his final life’s mission of meeting her. Nicolas.” Vasenin fought against the Nazis Black Sea port city of Odessa where he was he said. Will his life have a fairy tale end- spirituality. AFP Born in 1919, Vasenin was conscripted in the north of the Drome region. When immediately arrested. He was sentenced ing? It remains to be seen. AFP FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 PHILIPPINES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09

US minesweeper sailors relieved Manila prints 52m ballots PEARL HARBOR: Four officers of a US Navy mine- sweeper that ran aground on coral reef are being relieved Poll commission chief hopes the dispute over the source code will be resolved soon of their duties. The US Pacific Fleet said initial findings MANILA: The printing of will principally go to the NPO,” one-tenth of one percent of all because the deployment has Brillantes also said they hoped indicate all four sailors failed more than 52 million official Brillantes said in a speech. the ballots. He said mishandling security features. No schedule of to see the dispute between to adhere to standard naviga- ballots to be used in the May NPO completed the printing 21 of the printed ballots may have deployment yet,” Brillantes said Smartmatic International Corp. tion procedures at the time 13 elections was completed in days before the April 25 deadline caused the spoilage. when asked about the schedule and Dominion Voting System over of the January 17 ground- “record time” yesterday or in set by the Comelec. NPO direc- Based on procedures, a ballot of distribution. the source code resolved soon. ing of the Guardian. They’ve less than two months, accord- tor Emmanuel Andaya called it rejected by the precinct count Brillantes admitted that the He said the Comelec is pre- been reassigned. Workers ing to Commission on Elections a “record breaking accomplish- optical scan (PCOS) machine is Comelec had “reservations” when paring a draft agreement that recently finished disman- (Comelec) Chairman Sixto ment.” With Brillantes at the tested four more times. If it still the NPO outsourced the contract he hopes the two groups will tling and removing the ves- Brillantes. NPO yesterday were Comelec fails the test, it is cut into pieces for the printing machines. embrace. “We are already winding sel from Tubbataha National Brillantes performed a symbolic commissioners Lucenito Tagle and disposed of. “In the 2010 elec- “At first, we were thinking up with the specific provisions in Marine Park. Officials said switch-on of the printing machine and Elias Yusoph, Parish Pastoral tions, we finished printing 10 days ‘why give it to the NPO which the agreement. Right now, we are the grounding damaged about that churned out 712 ballots com- Council for Responsible Voting before election day. Printing now will in turn bid it out?’ But ulti- just discussing some little details,” 4,000sqm of reef. The US prising the last batch of 52,333,801 chair Henrietta de Villa, and is faster because of the machines mately I think they actually he said. could face a fine of more than printed by the National Printing Presidential Communications used,” Nagrampa said. showed that they can do it. This He said a final draft would be $2m. Office (NPO) in Quezon City. The Operations office head Herminio Ballots intended for Metro is a government agency that will sent to the two companies’ offi- last batch was for Barangay 186 Coloma. Manila polling precincts shall now start the entire election cials in the US. 5.4 magnitude of Pasay City. “It seems like only “We hope we satisfied you with remain at NPO headquarters process. Without the ballots, we The Comelec is mediat- yesterday when we were here to our performance. To our part- until instructions are issued for won’t have an election. It’s the ing between Smartmatic and quake hits Luzon start the printing.” ners, congratulations for a job their distribution. NPO and the Holy Family,” he Dominion to ensure the release “Now, we are here again to well done,” Andaya said, referring Those for polling precincts in said. “This is the evidence that we of the certified source code before MANILA: A 5.4 magni- see the last of the ballots being to Holy Family Printing Corp and the provinces would be stored are ready for the elections. The the May 13 midterm polls. He said tude earthquake hit parts of printed. This is really surpris- Canon Marketing Philippines. at the Comelec’s warehouse in entire country owes you. This is there is a “97 percent” possibility Luzon yesterday morning, ing for us that in just 57 days or NPO deputy director Raul Marikina prior to their distribu- the first and the most important that the two firms will reach an the Philippine Institute of less than two months, we finished Nagrampa revealed spoilage of tion to polling centres. phase of our electronic elections,” agreement. Volcanology and Seismology printing all the ballots. Kudos some 55,000 ballots, or about “We cannot ascertain when he added. THE PHILIPPINE STAR said. The epicentre of the tectonic quake was recorded at Baler, Aurora, at around Peace talks 10.30am. Nueva Ecija, Isabela, cities of Tarlac, Cabanatuan, Dagupan, Cauayan, Infanta, areas in Metro Manila such Abu Sayyaf activist as Quezon City, Taguig City, Mandaluyong City, Pasay City and Antipolo City, Aglipay and Madella in Quirino, captured after raid Malolos, Bulacan, Clark, Pampanga and Makati also ZAMBOANGA CITY: A mid-level leader of the Abu Sayyaf group felt it. was captured by joint police intelligence units and commandos dur- ing a raid yesterday morning in his safehouse in Basilan, a security Top officials official said. The suspect, which has a $24,000 bounty reward on his head, was appointed identified as Abdulla Kallitut, according to the Regional Intelligence Unit 9 (RIU) in its report to Chief Superintendent Juanito Vaño. MANILA: President Aquino The joint personnel of RIU under Task Force Sanglahi, backed by has appointed 61 members the police commandos of the 53rd Special Action Company of the of the judiciary. Malacañang Special Action Force (SAF), Basilan police and National Bureau of also announced reappoint- Investigation (NBI) cornered Kallitut in his hideout at Barangay ments and new appointments Riverside, Isabela City about 8.55am yesterday. at the Development Bank The suspect has a standing warrant of arrest for nine counts of of the Philippines and the murder issued by the Regional Trial Court Branch 1, 9th Judicial Land Registration Authority. Region, Isabela City. The suspect, who did not resist during the raid, Aquino appointed 26 regional was immediately brought to the Regional Intelligence Unit headquar- trial court judges, 20 munici- ters for further tactical debriefing. pal (circuit) trial court judges, Officials at the Regional Intelligence Unit headquarters will deter- 14 metropolitan trial court mine his other participation in the terrorism attacks in Basilan prov- judges and one Sharia Circuit Mohagher Iqbal (left), Moro Islamic Liberation Front chief peace negotiator and head of the 15-member transition ince. THE PHILIPPINE STAR Court judge in Jolo, Sulu. commission, answers media queries after a commission meeting. Government officials and the largest Muslim separatist group began drafting legislation on Wednesday to end the 40-year-old conflict. Foiled heist: one dies, two held MANILA: Police shot dead ‘Swindler’ denies Aquino orders Burgos probe a suspected armed robber in Muntinlupa City, the National MANILA: President Aquino The NBI was also instructed so as to obviate any suspicion Capital Region Police Office ordered yesterday Justice to pursue other possible leads, of partiality or whitewash. The said. Rodel Margallo Dela detaining witness Secretary Leila de Lima to con- collect further evidence and take clear objective is to ferret out the Tore, believed to be a mem- duct a focused, dedicated and all other necessary steps to ferret truth and bring the perpetrators ber of the bolt cutter rob- MANILA: A businesswoman Jean-Paul Acut said the charges exhaustive investigation into out the truth and determine who to justice.” bery syndicate, was killed in earlier implicated in the P728m of illegal detention filed by Luy’s the disappearance of activist may be criminally charged. Malacañang said military intel- a shootout with police dur- ($18m) fertiliser fund scam parents against his client were Jonas Burgos. De Lima told reporters the ligence chief Brig Gen Eduardo ing a follow- up operation in yesterday denied allegations “false and untrue” since Luy De Lima directed the National pending Amparo case in the Ao, one of main suspects, would Bayanan, Muntinlupa. Police that she illegally detained a stayed in her residence of his Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to Supreme Court and Court of not be placed under preventive arrested his companions, possible witness in the corrup- own free will. In fact, Luy stayed create a special team to probe Appeals does not involve liabilities suspension. Silvio Janiola Ligas, 45, and tion case. in Napoles’ place while on a four- the enforced disappearance that of alleged perpetrators. Presidential spokesman Edwin Rodello Santiago Lopez, 42. Janet Napoles, owner of JLN month “spiritual retreat.” the Court of Appeals has attrib- “We don’t have yet the whole Lacierda said part of the investi- The three were believed to be Group of Companies who was “He stayed there of his own uted to the military and police. truth about the disappearance of gation will cover the forces and responsible for the attempted dragged into the controversial free will to atone for the wrong- Burgos has been missing for six Jonas,” she said. PNP. robbery at Cubea Internet graft case as one of the suppliers doings he committed during years. “This is why the Court of “As chief executive of the Shop along Pasig Boulevard of fertilisers to the Department his tenure at the JLN Group of “The special team is directed Appeals in its recently promul- country, as commander-in- Extension in Barangay of Agriculture, said she and her Companies, for which he was to conduct a thorough and inde- gated decision precisely directs chief, there is no doubt as to the Caniogan on March 29. brother Reynald Lim did not investigated by management,” pendent evaluation of all available pursuit of investigation and noth- cooperation of the hierarchy,” detain Benhur Luy, who was Acut told reporters at the information and evidence thus ing in the said decision precludes Lacierda added. Two killed in reportedly rescued by National Department of Justice in Manila. far gathered by various offices, a probe by the NBI. Lacierda said the public must Bureau of Investigation agents The lawyer also stressed that the including the Commission on “The President, as chief execu- avoid jumping to a conclusion shootout from her condominium unit last case was a simple internal family Human Rights, Armed Forces of tor of laws, deems it best to assign and let the investigation run its March 22. problem. the Philippines and the Philippine the NBI to undertake a speedy, course. MANILA: Two people Janet Napoles’ lawyer THE PHILIPPINE STAR National Police (PNP),” she said.. exhaustive and independent probe THE PHILIPPINE STAR were killed in a shootout at a checkpoint in Barangay San Dionisio in San Rafael, Iloilo. They were identified as Rex Belgira, 24, a village watchman of San Dionisio, and Gilbert Italia, 34, a resi- Marcos trust faces scrutiny dent of Barangay San Antonio in Barotac Viejo town. Italia’s MANILA: A Philippine gov- uprising topped Marcos in 1986 The Philippine Centre for cousin, Hernani Pulmones, 45, ernment body said yesterday it and he died in US exile three years Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) a retired soldier was wounded. would investigate an allegation later. His famously extravagant said the work looking into the Belgira and three watch- that the eldest daughter of late wife, Imelda, has always denied Marcos trust was collabora- men set up the checkpoint at dictator Ferdinand Marcos was she and her husband were corrupt. tion with the International their village after his father the beneficiary of a secret off- The Presidential Commission Consortium of Investigative Remy, the barangay captain, shore trust. on Good Government, which Journalists, which includes major received reports that crimi- A report published by the Bautista heads, has recovered foreign media groups. nals were lurking in the area. Philippine Centre for Investigative $4bn in assets that the Marcoses It said the research had uncov- Journalism alleged 57-year-old illegally acquired, including ered “scores of documents” show- F/A-18 planes Imee Marcos, now a provincial money from Swiss bank accounts ing Imee Marcos was a financial governor, had failed to declare the and US properties. adviser for, and beneficiary of, the for military drills trust in the British Virgin Islands But Bautista said in January secret trust although it was not as legally required. that, with Imee, Imelda and known what assets it held. MANILA: The US is deploy- Andres Bautista, head of a Ferdinand Jr having reestab- Interviewed on ABS-CBN tel- ing a dozen F/A-18 fighters to presidential body tasked with lished political influence in the evision yesterday, Imee Marcos the Philippines, the first time recovering the billions of dollars Philippines, the commission was referred enquiries to her lawyers. it has sent so many of the the Marcos family stole during his considering giving up the chase “Let’s leave that aside for now and aircraft there, to take part 20-year rule, said his office would for billions more believed to be let the lawyers take care of it,” she in annual military drills with look into the allegations. hidden. said curtly. a close security ally amid “We are duty bound to inves- “It’s been 26 years and people Calls to Imee Marcos’s office rising tension in the Asia- tigate and, depending upon you are after are back in power. went unanswered earlier yester- Pacific region. “These exer- informed preliminary findings, At some point, you just have to day. The PCIJ said she had failed cises were planned more than decide whether to pursue the say, ‘We’ve done our best’, and to respond to its requests for Former first lady Imelda Marcos (right) with her daughter Imee attend a a year ago,” an army spokes- matter,” Bautista said. that’s that. It is really difficult,” comment. man said. AGENCIES campaign rally in Paoay, Ilocos norte. An army-backed popular he said at the time. AFP FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA

Suu Kyi to visit US boosts Pacific missile defence Japan next week TOKYO: Myanmar’s pro- democracy icon Aung San Hagel says N Korea’s threats and military capabilities present real danger to US and its allies Suu Kyi will visit Japan from April 13 through 19, according SEOUL: The US has scrambled to rein- Shortly afterwards, the North Korean A provocative missile test-fired into the said the latest nuclear threat was similar to a Japanese statement. It force its Pacific missile defences as North military said it had received final approval sea over Japan is one scenario that ana- to one issued a month ago, but with the will be her first visit to Japan Korea pushed more global alarm buttons for military action against the US, possibly lysts have said the North could opt for as a added weight of “approval” -- presumably in nearly three decades since yesterday by announcing it had author- involving nuclear weapons. relatively low-risk way of exiting the crisis by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. her previous stay as a visiting ised plans for possible nuclear strikes on “The moment of explosion is approach- with a face-saving show of force. “The problem is whether Kim, who is researcher at the prestigious US targets. ing fast,” the Korean People’s Army gen- The new nuclear threats drew fresh still young and inexperienced, knows how Kyoto University from 1985 Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said eral staff said, responding to what it called concern led by UN chief Ban Ki-moon, to handle this escalation,” Yun said. “Where to 1986, the foreign ministry Pyongyang’s increasingly bellicose threats the provocative US use of nuclear-capa- who said on a visit to Monaco that he was does it end? That’s the worrying question.” said in the statement. She is combined with its military capabilities rep- ble stealth bombers in war games with “deeply concerned and troubled” over the North Korea blocked access to its expected to visit Kyoto to give resented a “real and clear danger” to the South Korea. The US aggression would be escalating rhetoric. “At this time, I think Kaesong joint industrial zone with South speeches at universities, meet US and its allies South Korea and Japan. “smashed by cutting-edge smaller, lighter all the parties concerned in the Korean Korea yesterday for the second day run- Myanmar nationals and hold The Pentagon said it would send ground- and diversified nuclear strike means,” it peninsula, in particular the Chinese gov- ning, and threatened to pull out its 53,000 talks with Japan officials. based THAAD missile-interceptor bat- said in a statement. ernment, can play a very important role workers in a furious reaction to the South’s teries to protect bases on Guam, a US While few of the North’s threats have to calm down the situation,” said Ban, a airing of a “military” contingency plan to Separate flag territory some 3,380km southeast of North been matched with action, South Korea former South Korean foreign minister. protect its own workers there. Korea and home to 6,000 American mili- said it appeared to have moved a medium- The European Union also called on “The full closure of the complex is protest in Aceh tary personnel. range missile capable to its east coast — Pyongyang to stop stoking tensions and set to become a reality,” a spokesman “They have nuclear capacity now, they prompting fears of a strike against the instead re-engage with the international for the North’s Committee for Peaceful INDONESIA: Thousands have missile delivery capacity now,” Hagel South or Japan. “It could be aimed at test community. Reunification of Korea said. The North says of demonstrators rallied in said Wednesday. “We take those threats firing or military drills,” South Korean Yun Duk-Min, a professor at the Korea the South Koreans in Kaesong can leave Indonesia’s Aceh yesterday in seriously.” Defence Minister Kim Kwan-Jin said. National Diplomatic Academy in Seoul, whenever they want. AFP support of local leaders’ bid to adopt a separatist flag as the Islamic province’s official Farewell emblem. The crowed, includ- ing women, waved the flag — a white crescent and star on a red background — in Bangla bogs blacked the provincial capital Banda Aceh, police said. Soldiers and tanks were deployed as the Indonesian Interior out after arrests Minister Gamawan Fauzi met local leaders to demand they DHAKA: Operators of top Khan on Wednesday said the gov- reverse the local parliament’s Bangladeshi blogs said yester- ernment had identified 11 blog- decision allowing use of the day they had blacked out their gers, including the four detainees, flag in the only province with sites to protest against a gov- who had hurt religious sentiments Sharia law. The flag was used ernment crackdown on atheist of the majority Muslim popula- Free Aceh Movement which bloggers in the face of pressure tion. There has been vociferous fought a 30-year separatist from radical Islamists. debate between staunch athe- war against the Indonesian The move by eight sites comes ists and fundamentalists in state until a peace deal in after the arrests of four online Bangladesh’s social media for 2005, and the row over the writers this week on charges years, but it took a deadly turn emblem is being seen as a test of hurting religious sentiment in February when an anti-Islam of the accord. through their Internet writings blogger was murdered. against Islam. Both secular and Islamist pro- 8,000 of family Their secular supporters have testers have taken to the streets blasted the crackdown, accusing over the war crimes trials of lead- sweep tombs the government of kowtowing ers of the Islamic Jamaat-e-Islami to Islamists who are planning a party in cases related to the 1971 TAIPEI: Around 8,000 mem- march on Saturday towards the liberation war against Pakistan. bers of the same family trav- capital Dhaka to demand a blas- The government has blocked elled from across the globe to phemy law and the hanging of about a dozen websites and blogs gather in Taiwan yesterday anti-Islam bloggers. to stem the unrest. It has also set for the traditional “tomb- “Bangla Blogosphere begins up a panel, which includes intel- sweeping festival” paying blackout in protest against har- ligence chiefs, to monitor blas- tribute to their ancestors. assing and cracking down on blog- phemy on social media. Descendants of the Yeh fam- gers,” reads a notice on the home Under the country’s cyber laws, ily massed in Miaoli county in pages of the protesting sites. All a blogger or Internet writer can the north where they burned were inaccessible since yesterday. face up to 10 years in jail for incense and kneeled in front Home Minister Muhiuddin defaming a religion. AFP A Buddhist monk blesses a Cambodian military police officer, who will serve with the United Nations of a five-storey tower hous- Interim Force in South Sudan, during a farewell ceremony at Pochentong Air Base in Phnom Penh ing their ancestors’ remains, yesterday. the United Evening News said. People visit the graves of their ancestors and burn incense and paper money in the hope of ensuring a comfortable A clean chit for Yingluck Forces shot dead after-life for the deceased. Moderate quake BANGKOK: A Thai anti-graft able to continue in her posi- came to power in 2011 and the body said it had found no irreg- tion as normal. There will be country has since enjoyed a 4 prisoners: Army hits Myanmar ularities in an asset disclosure no impact on her political posi- period of relative stability after by Prime Minister Yingluck tion,” he said after giving the years of sporadic violence that JAKARTA: The Indonesian army yesterday admitted that its spe- YANGON: A moderate Shinawatra, effectively remov- statement. pitted royalists and support- cial forces stormed a jail and shot dead four prisoners who were 5.7-magnitude earthquake ing any question that she might The commission had inves- ers of the establishment against awaiting trial accused of killing their superior officer. struck southern Myanmar have to step down, a prospect tigated possible inconsisten- the mostly poor supporters of Nine members of the Special Forces Command confessed to carry- yesterday, the US Geological which unsettled Bangkok mar- cies in Yingluck’s declaration of Yingluck’s brother, ex-premier ing out the revenge killings shortly after midnight on March 23 at a Survey said. The quake hit kets yesterday. assets involving a 30 million baht Thaksin Shinawatra. central Java jail, said Brigadier General Unggul Yudhoyono, who led at a shallow depth of 3.5km, “The National Anti-Corruption ($1.02m) loan she had given to a Thaksin, a billionaire former a probe into the killings. with its epicentre about Commission has found no dis- company run by her husband. telecoms tycoon, is a divisive The prisoners were accused of beating and stabbing to death the 65km southwest of the capi- crepancies in its initial investiga- The benchmark SET stock figure, revered by the rural and soldiers’ superior officer, Heru Santoso, at a nightclub in Yogyakarta, tal Naypyidaw, at 9.46am. tions into these allegations but we index fell as much as 2.6 per- urban poor but seen as corrupt central Java, several days earlier as he reportedly tried to break up Earthquakes are relatively will keep evidence as background cent during the morning when and authoritarian by the elite. He a fight. Rights groups hailed the admission of guilt, as the army has common in Myanmar. Six for any future investigations,” it became clear the commission was ousted in a military coup in rarely made such confessions despite being regularly accused of the earthquakes struck between Klanarong Chanthick, a member was about to hand down its deci- 2006 and now lives in self-imposed killing and abuse of civilians, particularly in restive eastern Papua. 1930 and 1956 near the of the committee, said in a tel- sion, with some investors worried exile to escape a two-year sen- The military probe “deserves applause but also comes as a surprise Sagaing Fault from north to evised statement. about the implications. tence for abuse of power handed because in the history of the military such findings are rare,” said the south through the centre of “The Prime Minister will be Yingluck’s Puea Thai Party down in 2008. REUTERS head of the Setara Institute of Peace and Democracy, Hendardi. AFP the country. AGENCIES Najib seeks strong mandate to rule KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian corruption, the rising cost of living Prime Minister Najib Razak said and high crime under the Barisan yesterday he is “cautiously opti- Nasional coalition which has ruled mistic” of victory on election day if Malaysia since independence in 1957. his party can overcome its internal Najib has worked hard to rebrand woes. UMNO, which dominates the Najib, who dissolved parliament 13-member Barisan coalition, by Wednesday in preparation for a launching a series of reforms to general election seen as the ruling strengthen the economy and grant coalition’s toughest challenge after greater civil liberties. 56 years in power, has urged voters The election date has yet to be set to give him a strong mandate to rule. by the election commission, but the “We are cautiously optimistic that vote must be held within two months. we will be able to win big, which Najib is facing his first test at the means two-thirds majority,” he said. ballot box since taking over in 2009, “We have to work hard towards it after the coalition lost its traditional and we have to make sure we mini- two-thirds parliamentary majority in mise all internal problems within a shock 2008 election result. the party,” Najib said, in an appar- The resurgent opposition, led by ent reference to factional struggles charismatic former deputy premier within his United Malays National Anwar Ibrahim, has gained traction Organisation (UMNO). by pledging to tackle authoritarian- Malaysian youth show their support to Prime Minister Najib Razak during a Malaysia Patriotic Cycling event in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur. The vote is tipped to be the clos- ism and graft and is equally confi- est ever, driven by concerns over dent of victory. AFP FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 New lease of life for Surrender of arms death row Christian Lahore High Court acquits 34-year-old blasphemy convict LAHORE: A Pakistani court that Masih be acquitted,” Shakir The deputy prosecutor general has acquitted a Christian man said. “I argued the case in confirmed the acquittal. who was sentenced to death for February and put to the court Nadeem Anthony, a law- blasphemy six years ago in the that there is no direct evidence yer working for the independ- country’s second largest city, against Younis Masih and that ent Human Rights Commission lawyers said yesterday. the case was based on hearsay,” of Pakistan also confirmed the Younis Masih, 34, a labourer, he said. acquittal and hailed the high was arrested in September 2005 Blasphemy is a very sensitive court decision. Last month, in the low-income Qenchi Amar issue in Pakistan, where 97 per- more than 3,000 furious Muslims Siddhu neighbourhood of Lahore cent of the 180 million population rampaged through the Joseph after local residents accused him are Muslims, and even unproven Colony area of Lahore, looting of interrupting a gathering of allegations can spark a violent property and burning buildings Sufi singing to make blasphemous public backlash. Rights campaign- after a Christian was accused of remarks. ers argue the blasphemy laws, for blasphemy. Masih’s lawyer, Naeem Shakir, which the maximum penalty is Surrounding Punjab province said his client was sentenced death, are often abused to set- was also the scene of one of the to death in May 2007 and fined tle personal scores and should be worst outbreaks of anti-Christian 100,000 rupees ($1,000), but reformed by the government. violence when a mob burned 77 appealed to the high court in Shakir said his client would be houses and killed seven people in Lahore. “The high court on freed “in a couple of days” after the town of Gojra in 2009 after Wednesday decided to overturn he obtained a written copy of the rumours that a Koran had been the death sentence and ordered decision and a detailed judgement. desecrated. AFP Former Taliban militants surrender arms during a ceremony held under a US-backed amnesty programme, in Laghman, Afghanistan.

UK warning on Taliban ‘staged room-to-room court massacre’ additional aid

FARAH: Taliban gunmen who their explosive-laden vehicle, sto- The governor of Farah, those treated for injuries. statement celebrating a “success- LONDON: Britain should killed 46 people at a courthouse len from the Afghan army, drove Mohammad Akram Khpalwak, The attack in Farah, a prov- ful martyrdom attack”, and said it not increase aid to Pakistan in western Afghanistan in a into the entrance of the court in said 36 civilians were killed, ince that borders Iran, was the was a carefully-planned operation unless it tries to make its bid to free insurgents moved Farah city early in the morning. including four lawyers and four deadliest for more than a year in launched after receiving intelli- wealthy elite pay more taxes, ruthlessly from room to room, The vehicle detonated in a judges. Ten security force person- Afghanistan and comes as Nato gence about the trial. British lawmakers said yes- shooting everyone they found, huge blast when they refused to nel were also killed and 95 to 100 forces who have fought the Taliban “ANA and ANP (army and terday. Britain is due to dou- officials recounted yesterday. stop and police opened fire, dep- people wounded, he added. since 2001 start to pull out. police) forces tried to raid the ble its assistance to £44m Defenceless civilians, judges, uty governor of Farah province “Many people were stranded The Afghan police and army buildings multiple times but were ($675m) in 2014-2015. But lawyers and court staff were Mohammad Younus Rasouli said. in the buildings. After they were are being handed responsibility repelled by mujahideen, inflict- parliament’s International left dead after nine militants Six other attackers entered the rescued, the police and army for quelling the insurgency before ing heavy losses on the enemy,” Development Committee said disguised as Afghan soldiers court buildings and the attorney started the operation to hunt Nato combat missions finish at the Taliban said in an Internet it was unfair to fund health launched an eight-hour assault general’s office next door. down the attackers,” Khpalwak the end of next year, with many statement. and education projects unless on Wednesday which only ended “They had 10 hand grenades said. “Ten security force person- observers predicting the country Much of the international mili- Pakistan’s new government, after security forces killed the last each and lots of bullets. They nel died during the day.” could tip into further instability. tary effort to defeat the Taliban due to be elected in May, tack- surviving gunman. smashed down each door and The court was due to put President Hamid Karzai con- has concentrated on the south les “rife” corruption and tax Taliban fighters frequently tar- shot anyone in each room, one by Taliban militants on trial when demned the assault as a “massa- and east of the country since the evasion. “We cannot expect get government compounds, but one,” Rasouli said. “Everybody, the attack took place. The mili- cre” and said Afghans would “not Islamist extremists were ousted the people in the UK to pay the unprecedented massacre at a all the attorneys and judges and tants claimed to have freed 13 of let such killings of Muslims by the from Kabul in 2001 after the 9/11 taxes to improve education courthouse in the remote prov- anyone else. All were unarmed, its members, but Khpalwak said Taliban go unpunished”. attacks in the US. and health in Pakistan if its ince of Farah raised new fears defenceless.” that 12 Taliban prisoners at the Karzai, in the official English But the bloody Farah attack elite is not paying income tax.” about the insurgency’s strength Television footage and photo- court were taken back to jail. translation of his state- has added to concerns that the as Nato forces withdraw from the graphs showed badly damaged Wakil Ahmad, a doctor at Farah ment, described the killings as militia is increasingly widening Parties shy over battlefield. buildings, walls reduced to rub- hospital, said on Wednesday that “genocide”. its attacks outside its main pow- Three attackers died when ble and wrecked cars at the scene. one court prisoner was among The Taliban released a erbases. AFP Musharraf ISLAMABAD: Although fuming and seething Nato strike claims with anger over General Musharraf’s return and his Islamabad expels plans to contest elections six in Afghanistan from several constituencies, three suspected PPP and PML-N appear GHAZNI, AFGHANISTAN: A Nato air reluctant to take the former French jihadists strike killed four Afghan policemen and army chief to the Supreme ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has two civilians yesterday, officials said. Court for abrogating the deported three Frenchmen who A spokesman for the US-led Nato force constitution. They said h av e b e e n h el d i n s e c r e t s i n c e t h e y said the military was checking details. they considered Musharraf entered the country illegally 10 The attack happened after Taliban insur- guilty of committing treason months ago to fight Nato troops gents attacked a local police post in eastern under Article 6 for abrogat- in neighbouring Afghanistan, Ghazni province before dawn and Nato planes ing the constitution, but officials said yesterday. were called in to support the officers under want the judiciary to take Investigators are expected attack. suo motu action against him. to question the men in France, “The Nato planes went there to assist the PPP asked why PML-N, where the case is likely to draw police, but the post was bombed and four which always criticised the parallels with Mohammed Merah, policemen were killed. Two civilians were also PPP government for allow- 23, who shot dead seven people in killed,” Fazul Ahmad Tolwak, chief of Ghazni’s ing Musharraf to leave the southwest France in March 2012 Deh Yak district, said. country was doing anything. after returning from Pakistan. Ghazni provincial administration spokes- Investigators said Pakistani man Fazul Sabawoon confirmed the incident. Lawyers boycott police arrested the trio on May The issue of civilian casualties in coalition 28 last year after they entered the operations is sensitive in Afghanistan, where Quetta court country illegally from Iran. the US and its Nato allies have been fighting They were held along with the Taliban for 11 years. ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Naamen Meziche, a Frenchman In the past they have provoked harsh criti- lawyers boycotted court pro- of North African origin previously cism from President Hamid Karzai, who is ceedings in Quetta, the capi- known to Western security serv- due to step down at elections next year, which tal of Baluchistan province, ices as a presumed member of Al A policemen frisk a man in Ghazni province yesterday as security was intensified following Nato coincide with the scheduled withdrawal of in protest against the kid- Qaeda. “They said they came to airstrikes at a police checkpost in Deh Yak district. an estimated 100,000 foreign combat troops. napping of Supreme Court Pakistan to deepen their knowledge AGENCIES lawyer and former advo- of Islam and fight in Afghanistan,” cate general Salahuddin an official said. AFP Mengal, Geo News said. The Baluchistan Bar Association condemned the kidnapping 4 rebels killed in and said the future of course checkpost attack De-mining threatened by pullout of action will be decided by its general body meeting ISLAMABAD: Four militants today. Mengal was kidnapped were killed and two security SANGAW: Since Haji Abdul Samad lost than 4,000 people have been killed and 17,000 the future development of the country. on Wednesday when he was officials injured when militants his leg in a minefield more than 20 years injured by mines, not including devices laid in De-mining of some description continued returning home from the from Afghanistan attacked the ago, he has unearthed at least 1,000 explo- the current conflict, according to an estimate even through the civil war and the 1996- High Court, with his brother. Bhitai checkpost in the Kurram sives and become one of Afghanistan’s most by the UN’s Mine Action Coordination Center 2001 Taliban regime, and huge progress has tribal region near the Pakistan- experienced de-miners. of Afghanistan (MACCA). been made in recent years since the Islamic Quake hits Afghanistan border yesterday. “After my accident, I told myself that I had Afghanistan remains one of the most heav- extremists were ousted by a US-led invasion Officials said the attack on to do work to save lives. I had to clean the ily mined countries in the world and an aver- in Afghanistan. border areas the checkpost in lower Kurram’s rivers, hills, villages,” Samad, who was fight- age of 42 civilians -- most of them boys under Sangaw hill, where Haji Abdul Samad works Shabak area in the Alizai sector of ing against the Soviets when he stepped on a 18 -- are killed or injured each month by mines for the Danish Demining Group (DDG), was ISLAMABAD: A 5.9-mag- the tribal district of Kurram on the mine in 1989, said. and other leftover war explosives. a forward position for Soviet soldiers, who nitude earthquake shook border with eastern Afghanistan “But I’m not afraid of mines,” he added, at But as the Nato-led combat mission ends protected themselves with several belts of Afghanistan and Pakistan began at 5.30am and lasted until a site being cleared outside the capital Kabul, next year and international attention towards meticulously hidden mines. yesterday, with tremors felt 7am. “Terrorists carried out fire ahead of the UN International Day for Mine Afghanistan fades, donor funding for mine After the Soviets retreated, the Taliban in Kabul and Islamabad. raid from across the border fol- Awareness yesterday. clearing is already drying up despite the huge took control of the strategic position, located The epicentre was on the lowed by a physical attack on “I will continue to work as long as even just amount of work still to be done. halfway between Kabul and Bagram airbase, Afghan-Tajikistan border at Bhittai post. Forces retaliated and one remains in the country,” he vowed. “We are doing our best. We are appealing and laid their own explosives in the rough, a depth of 225km. The quake killed four militants.” Samad, a father of eight children originally for more help,” said Mohammad Sediq Rashid, rocky landscape. was felt across northwest- Kurram is one of seven districts from the southern city of Kandahar, is part the head of MACCA, which is $25m short of Over the last 30 years at least 13 people ern Pakistan, Islamabad and in Pakistan’s semi-autonomous of the huge de-mining effort taking place in its $84m annual fundraising budget. have died and 22 have been injured by mines parts of central Punjab. There tribal belt, where Taliban and Al Afghanistan, which is dotted with minefields “Donors are aware of the situation. Now it on Sangaw hill alone, the latest casualty los- were no reports of damage or Qaeda-linked militants have carved after decades of conflict. is up to them to respond,” he said, describing ing a leg while herding cattle six months ago. casualties. AGENCIES out strongholds. AGENCIES Since 1989, when the Soviets left, more the countless remaining mines as a threat to AFP FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Controls on Not in race to be PM, says Rahul sugar industry Empowerment my focus, growth must help poor, Congress VP tells business leaders partially lifted

NEW DELHI: Congress vice partner the government in push- NEW DELHI: The govern- president Rahul Gandhi yester- ing development and urged the ment yesterday decided to par- day denied he was in the race to business community to go for tially decontrol the Rs800bn be the prime minister and said “smart interventions”. (around $15.5bn) sugar industry his aim was to “give voice to a “I believe in you. I want to forge in line with the suggestions of a billion-plus Indians” and fight a partnership with you to take panel headed by C Rangarajan, for inclusive growth. India forward,” he said. chairman of the prime minis- Rubbishing speculation that To facilitate that, he assured ter’s economic advisory council. he might be the ruling United them a “fair and rule-based gov- “There will be no levy on sugar Progressive Alliance coalition’s ernment system. for two years. There will be no nominee for prime minister, He took a dig at the Hindutva change in the PDS price of sugar. Gandhi said: “It’s an irrelevant ideology and showed his socialist There will be no burden on the question. It’s all smoke. The only side. “I don’t like to keep people consumer,” Food and Consumer relevant question is to give people out. You can’t keep Biharis out of Affairs Minister K V Thomas told their voice.” Mumbai or the Muslims of the reporters after the cabinet com- Gandhi was speaking to indus- system. This is not sustainable,” mittee on economic affairs, headed trialists and businessmen at he said. by Prime Minister Manmohan the national conference of the The corporate figures greeted Singh, cleared the proposal that Confederation of Indian Industry Gandhi with a lot of applause. seeks to balance the interests of (CII). “It was a path-breaking speech. farmers and sugar mills. Prime Minister Manmohan He talked of involving the com- Information and Broadcasting Singh addressed the forum on mon man,” CII president Adi Minister Manish Tewari said the Wednesday. Godrej said. gap between the provisional cap of In his first interaction with “His thoughts on inclusive Rs 32 per kilo issue price of sugar industry leaders after becoming growth are in alignment with in the Public Distribution System vice president of the Congress on ours,” CII vice president Ajay and the market price will increase January 19, the 42-year-old Gandhi Shriram said. the subsidy burden from around talked of the need to change the Rahul Gandhi, a lawmaker of the ruling Congress party, speaks during the 2013 annual general meeting and The Bharatiya Janata Party Rs25bn to Rs50bn. political system, but he was short national conference of Confederation of Indian Industry in New Delhi, yesterday. called Gandhi’s speech “lack- According to Thomas, the on policy detail. luster” and “without direction”. existing sugar export policy will “Many people predict the prob- Party leader Yashwant Sinha continue. ability of me becoming the prime formal address, chose to expound accident that he comes from a expect the prime minister to solve said the Congress leader did not The Rangarajan panel had rec- minister, when will I get married on his political philosophy on the chain of people “with a particular all the problems, you are going to address the problems of Indian ommended lifting all controls on etc. etc. But these are all irrel- “structural” and “systemic” prob- DNA”, he said no single individual keep expecting,” he said amid tit- economy and only shared a set of the sugar industry, among the evant issues and what we should lems of the nation as he answered would be able to resolve all the ters from the audience. platitudes. most regulated sectors in India. focus on is finding voice for a bil- a couple of questions while pacing problems facing the country. Gandhi questioned the top- Congress spokesperson P C India is the world’s second larg- lion people. We have to channelise up and down the dais. “If you think there is a guy heavy system of governance and Chacko said: “When he said that est producer of sugar at nearly our attention to more important Gandhi’s speech was laced with who will come on a horse charg- said the majority of peoples’ lead- he is not attaching much impor- 340 million tonnes, and the annual issues like corruption, underde- anecdotes, his personal experi- ing through and set everything ers, like village council chiefs, tance to who is going to be the output is worth around Rs800bn. velopment and the inept political ences gathered from interfaces right, this is not going to happen,” were denied any say or had no prime minister that does not The livelihood of 50 million structures,” he said. with common people and his per- said Gandhi. inputs in the political process that mean that he is not going to be farmers depends on the industry, Although he had a prepared ceptions on the future course of He said miracles should not be goes into decision-making. the prime minister or that he is which employs 500,000 people text, he often extrapolated and development for India. expected from Prime Minister “This is very frustrating,” he going to be the prime minister.” directly at the mills. deviated from it and, after his Noting that it was a fate of Manmohan Singh either. “If you said, and called upon industry to IANS IANS Man kills nine in axe rampage RAIPUR: A villager axed to “The accused Nagesia first had gone to work in a nearby Schools shut, roads blocked in death four women and five attacked a 25-year-old woman mine, the Press Trust of India young girls yesterday while and her two-year-old child and (PTI) news agency reported. apparently mentally disturbed axed them to death, subse- Another police officer investi- Bengal over student’s death after his wife left him, police quently killing his neighbours gating the case, said the accuse said. one after another,” the police had locked himself in a room Pandu Nagesia, 35, killed chief said. after killing the women and KOLKATA: Students largely Tuesday after he took part in an to a head injury sustained after nine of his neighbours during “The accused seems to be refused to open the room when stayed away from schools and agitation. crashing against a lamp post his rampage through Behratoli mentally disturbed after his wife police reached the village. colleges while traffic came to a Commuters had a difficult time while being taken to Presidency village in the central state of deserted him,” he added, after Villager elders have told the virtual standstill in many cit- due to the protests during the day Correctional Home following his Chhattisgarh, district police Nagesia was taken into custody police that Nagesia rarely ven- ies of West Bengal yesterday and there were long traffic snarls arrest. The opposition Left Front chief Govardhan Singh Darroh and the axe recovered from the tured out of his home and never as Left youth groups protested on major roads, particularly in alleged he had succumbed to inju- said by telephone. village, 625 kilometres north of allowed his neighbours to enter over the death of a student Kolkata, following blockades put ries sustained during a heavy The victims were five girls state capital Raipur. the house. activist in police custody. up between 11am and 11.15am by lathi-charge by police. aged between two and nine, a An eyewitness said the inci- Local officials have announced Classes in educational institu- slogan shouting student activists. State Chief Minister Mamata 25-year-old and three women dent happened in the early compensation of Rs25,000 each tions were hit across the state Students of Calcutta University Banerjee called the death of over 60, he said. afternoon when some women ($460) for the families of the following a strike called by the staged a demonstration in front of Gupta “unfortunate” and pledged “A total of nine females were and children had assembled at a deceased, PTI said. Students Federation of India the College Street campus, while to help his family. axed to death,” Darroh said. house after their male relatives AFP (SFI), the students wing of the blockades were organised in sev- Left activists said Gupta, Communist Party of India- eral parts of the city. a post-graduate student of Marxist, and other leftist student In other districts, blockades Rabindra Bharati University, was organisations. were organised in major towns. “mercilessly beaten” while he and Haryana IAS “Students protested sponta- Shops and commercial estab- other students who had staged a Airtel 3G roaming stopped neously against the oppressive lishments remained closed in protest seeking elections in col- and outrageous assault by the south Kolkata’s Tollygunge, leges were being taken in a bus officer Khemka NEW DELHI: The Delhi High March 15 notification restraining state government on a demo- Dhakuria and Garia areas. to the Presidency Correctional Court yesterday set aside its Airtel from providing 3G intra- cratic movement,” SFI’s all-India where the Left Front organised Home. transferred again earlier order allowing telecoms circle roaming facilities. general secretary, Ritabrata a 12-hour general strike, Gupta reportedly fell from the operator Bharti Airtel to con- The DOT had asked Airtel to Banerjee, said. Gupta’s death has triggered bus and collapsed after hitting a CHANDIGARH: Senior IAS tinue providing 3G intra-circle stop intra-circle 3G roaming in Sudipto Gupta, 24, an SFI activ- outrage across the country. lamp post, said an SFI member. officer Ashok Khemka, who had roaming facilities with other seven circles where it did not ist, died here in police custody on Police claim Gupta died due IANS ordered a scrutiny of land deals service providers. have the telecoms spectrum and of United Progressive Alliance A division bench of Chief imposed a penalty of Rs3.5bn for chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s Justice D Murugesan and Justice violating the licence terms. son-in-law Robert Vadra last V K Jain set aside an order The division bench’s order Eight kids die in bus accident year, was yesterday shunted by that had lifted curbs imposed came on a plea filed by Reliance the Haryana government to an by a single-judge bench on Communications challenging the 20 injured in SRINAGAR: Eight schoolchildren were killed and 12 others inconsequential post. March 18 on the Department March 18 court order. injured when their bus rolled down into a gorge near here yester- Khemka, who is manag- of Telecommunications’ (DoT) IANS day. A senior police officer said a school bus carrying children back ing director of the Haryana Jaipur clashes home from school fell into a 300 feet deep gorge near Kandivari Seeds Development Corporation village, 70km from here, after the driver lost control of the vehicle. (HSDC), will now be posted as the JAIPUR: Over 20 people, The bus was going from Dialgam to Kokernag town. Five children secretary of Haryana Archives, Power play including a dozen policemen, died on the spot while 15 others were injured and were taken to which is responsible for preserv- were injured in the Rajasthan hospital. Three kids later succumbed to their injuries. ing public and private records in capital following a violent clash the state. between two communities yes- Maoists kill five policemen The latest transfer came after terday, officials said. Khemka highlighted irregulari- People hurled stones at police- RANCHI: Five policemen were killed yesterday in a gun battle ties in the HSDC, leaving the men trying to control the situ- with Maoist guerrillas in Jharkhand, police said. The incident Bhupinder Singh Hooda govern- ation, torched a factory and took place at Chainpur town of Gumla district, some 170km from ment embarrassed. damaged over a dozen cars. here, when Maoists attacked a police party while it was patrolling Khemka has been transferred A police officer said the clash a weekly market. They also took away three rifles from the police- almost 45 times in his two-dec- started over a dispute over park- men. Four police personnel were killed on the spot while one died ade-long career as an Indian ing in the city’s Sanganer area. in hospital, an official said. Administrative Service officer. “Some people from two com- He had hit national headlines munities got into a verbal fight. Rape accused seeks nod for test last October when he cancelled Soon, hundreds of people from the mutation of a multi-million- both sides started gathering. NEW DELHI: Vinay Sharma, one of the accused in the rupee land deal between Vadra’s After pelting stones at houses, December 16, 2012 gang rape in Delhi, yesterday sought permis- company, Sky Light Hospitality, some groups of people went on sion to appear in an exam for a clerk’s job in the Indian Air and realty giant DLF. The officer the rampage and torched a fac- Force. Sharma’s counsel moved an application before the fast- had even ordered a probe into all tory. They smashed the windows track court of Additional Sessions Judge Yogesh Khanna, seeking land deals done by Vadra and his of several cars,” said the officer. two days’ interim bail to appear in the exam scheduled for April companies in Haryana’s Gurgaon, In the stone pelting, Jaipur’s 7. Court told police to file their reply on the application by today. Faridabad, Mewat and Palwal dis- acting Commissioner of Police, tricts since 2005. Biju George Joseph, an additional Six die in house collapse After Khemka’s action, the deputy commissioner of police Hooda government went into and an assistant commissioner MUMBAI: At least six people died and up to 15 were injured overdrive to undo it. Within days, of police sustained injuries. when an unauthorised building under construction collapsed the district authorities of four “Police had to resort to mild on the outskirts of Mumbai, police said. “A section of an under- districts in the national capital baton-charging. Over 500 police- construction, seven-storey building collapsed suddenly at around region gave a “clean chit” to the men have been deployed in the 6.30pm,” an official at the Shil-Dayghar police station in the Thane land deals done by Vadra and his One-year-old tigers play in a small pond at the Nandankanan area to restore law and order,” region of Maharashtra state said late yesterday. Police said at least companies. Zoological Park in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, yesterday. the officer said. 20 people had been rescued from under the debris. AGENCIES IANS IANS FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Al Sada lays QP complex foundation stone

DOHA: The Minister of Energy and Industry and Chairman and Managing Director of Qatar Petroleum H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada, laid the foundation stone for the new Support Campus Complex of QP Gas Operations at Mesaieed, yesterday. Dr Al Sada was accompanied by a number of QP Directors and members of QP top management team. Addressing the event, the min- ister highlighted the contributions of QP Gas Operations towards Qatar’s development by being the principal supplier of fuel gas and hydrocarbon feedstock to a wide array of industries and power plants in Qatar. Highlighting QP Gas Operations’ commitment to sustainable development, he explained various initiatives being taken by the company. The Director of QP The Minister of Energy and Industry H E Dr Mohammed bin Saleh Al Sada with other top QP officials at the Operations Said Al Mohannadi Mesaieed complex, yesterday. and Operations Manager Eid Mubarak Al Muhannadi, were the retired long-serving ex-Gas managers. Dr Al Sada also inau- Gas Operations. He also took the also present. Operations staff. The minister gurated an exhibition showcas- opportunity to interact with the Later, Dr Al Sada presided also gave away “Gas Operations ing achievements and activities Qatari trainees. over a recognition ceremony for 2012 Awards” to the department of various departments of QP’s THE PENINSULA Qatari equities take slight beating The Chairman of the Administrative Control and Transparency Authority DOHA: Qatari equities fell that can move the market. It was presented last Monday he According to Al Kahloot, the H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah addressing the 14th International Oil last week, albeit marginally, can at best have a psychological said: “Well, huge allocations have reason for the marginal index loss Summit in Paris yesterday. although investors hoped they impact,” said Bashir Al Kahloot. been made for public projects but is because most companies have would make some gains as the “What is actually the market that’s all planned expenditure already distributed dividends. state budget, with very high mover it liquidity,” he said in (investment). The money isn’t in The first quarter (Q1) is over. spending figures, was presented remarks to this newspaper. the market yet”. “I would say the first phase of the in the week. Talking of ordinary investors, The main index of Qatar year is gone. Investors are now But a prominent stock and the analyst said the trend largely Exchange shed a meagre 9.4 looking at the current quarter Attiyah: Qatar financial analyst said he wasn’t is that when people have money points (0.11 percent) to 8,576.86 at (Q2) and how the market plays surprised by Qatar’s main index at the end of a month, they put the end of last week, with liquid- out in this phase would decide taking a slight beating in weekly in stocks. ity indicators—trading value and whether investors would put their trading as dividend payouts by And people don’t have much volumes — both showing a decline. money into equities or not,” said most companies for 2012 are over. cash due to rising costs. More stocks fell (20 of the 42) Al Kahloot. THE PENINSULA a competitive “The state budget isn’t a factor With regard to the budget that than those that showed gains (19). See also page 14 LNG supplier GOIC offers $62m ECB to help Saudi investment Global oil summit opens in Paris opportunities languishing PARIS: The Chairman of the gas-to-liquids facility is capable Administrative Control and of producing four times as much DOHA: The Doha-based Gulf Transparency Authority H E GTL as the world’s current larg- Organisation for Industrial eurozone Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah est plant, Oryx GTL, which is also Consulting (GOIC) has offered yesterday said Qatar is emerg- in Qatar,” Al Attiyah said. five investment opportunities ing as a new competitive global The most important funda- worth SR232.5m ($62m) in Saudi LNG supplier. mental trend affecting the future Arabia. economy Al Attiyah said this at the of energy is the rising energy These investments will provide opening session of the 14th needs driven by expansion of glo- nearly 500 job opportunities. GOIC FRANKFURT: European International Oil Summit, which bal economic activity coupled with made this announcement during Central Bank President Mario kicked off in Paris yesterday. population growth. the 3rd Industrial opportunities Draghi opened the door yes- “Qatar, backed by strong tech- “Demand for fossil fuels and forum at the Park Hyatt Hotel terday to an interest rate cut nical and financial resources as other natural resources is likely in Jeddah organised by the Saudi as soon as next month, saying well as possessing a world-class to grow in absolute terms as more Industrial Property Authority, a his bank stands “ready to act” gas hub, has emerged as the new energy will be needed to satisfy press release said. to boost the recession-hit euro- competitive global LNG sup- growing demand for energy sup- The GOIC announced during zone economy. plier, declaring a new era for the plies. It is expected that world a workshop organised in collabo- Speaking at a news conference country where its energy export primary energy demand will ration with Jeddah Chamber of after the ECB held rates at a portfolio starts to shift to natural increase by 35 percent during Commerce and Industry that the record low 0.75 percent, the high- Euro currency logo in front of the European Central Bank headquarters in gas and moves away from heavy the next two decades,” Al Attiyah investments will provide job oppor- est level among the world’s major dependence on oil,” Al Attiyah said. Frankfurt yesterday. tunities for over 721 workers. GOIC central banks, Draghi said discus- said. Al Attiyah said climate change stated that the job opportunities sion at the monthly meeting had He said Qatar has become the and its political implications is are compatible to the Saudi market been extensive and the consensus in the Frenchman’s era it more comments laid the ground for a flagship in the international LNG another fundamental trend that due to the availability of essential was to hold fire. often presaged an interest rate rate cut in coming months. industry. “We are now by far the will shape the future of energy, raw materials in the Kingdom and But he added that the ECB rise two months’ hence. “In a nutshell, a rate cut or largest supplier of LNG in the noting that concern for the envi- Gulf countries. was studying the economic cli- Draghi also opened the way additional non-standard meas- world with 77 million tonnes of ronment and efforts to combat

The investments are in the field mate closely because there was no for the ECB to take fresh ‘non- ures cannot be ruled out in May,” annual capacity. Our LNG sup- the threat of CO2 emissions may of basic metal, chemical, plastic certainty the euro zone economy standard measures’ — steps other said Annalisa Piazza at Newedge plies are reaching all markets affect the production and con- and food industries. would pick up. than classic rate moves, such as Strategy. in the world. With a huge fleet sumption of fossil fuels. Secretary General for GOIC, “In the coming weeks, we government bond purchases or The ECB is mandated to deliver of tankers, we can efficiently He said eight out of the 10 Abdual Aziz Al Aqeel said that will monitor very closely all the funding operations like the twin inflation just below 2 percent. transport LNG supplies to these countries that own 80 percent such investments is but one of incoming information on eco- 3-year loans it offered banks just In March, it fell to 1.7 percent. markets and can dynamically of the world’s oil reserves are many investment opportunities nomic and monetary develop- over a year ago. Draghi said inflation was “edging divert cargoes from one market Opec members, which, he said, which “the Industrial Map,” aim- ments, and assess the impact on “We are considering both down, well below 2 percent”. to another as and when needed,” requires them to “place substan- ing at analysing the present sta- the outlook for price stability,” he standard and non-standard A survey released earlier yes- he said. tial amounts of capital investment tus of industries in the GCC, had said. Draghi’s predecessor, Jean- measures and we are thinking terday showed the eurozone’s Qatar has also reached sig- throughout the oil industry value reached to. Al Aqeel cited Jeddah, Claude Trichet, used a stock of 360 degrees on the non-standard economic decline dragged on una- nificant milestones in several chain. as the important sea and land port coded phrases to signal future measures,” he said. bated in March, marked by a huge gas-based industries, becoming a Qatar’s Ambassador to France for the Kingdom where industrial policy actions something his suc- German government bond and drop in French business activity leader in terms of plant scale and Mohammad bin Jaham Al Kuwari investments stimulated especially cessor has not previously indulged eurozone interest rate futures that outstripped even the down- production size. “For example, attended the session along with with the future vision of Saudi in. One of those phrases was extended gains with market turns in Spain and Italy. Qatar now has the world’s larg- other members of the Qatari del- Economy 2025. QNA “monitor very closely” although participants saying Draghi’s REUTERS est aluminium smelter. The Pearl egation. QNA Oman, UAE firms to help meet domestic cement needs DOHA: Cement production poor wages in the construction industry consolidation and high key focus areas,” the Global 4Q12 from 13.4 percent in 3Q12. contractors continue to be the in the country is forecast to sector, the companies in Qatar competition. Investment House’s Q42012 GCC Overall, GCC companies wit- largest in terms of order backlong. be inadequate to meet Qatar’s are unable to source workers “Qatar’s construction market Construction sector analysis said. nessed a solid recovery in the GCC contractors witnessed profit future demand, and is likely from other regions, such as Asia, has been growing on the infra- The construction sector con- construction activity throughout of $52m; down 43.7 percent YoY to result in supply shortage of a latest market analysis of GCC’s structure wave as a result of tinues to face hurdles in the form 2012, with rising project awards and up 89.7 percent QoQ. Majority almost 3mn tones per year by construction sector noted. the country’s 2030 vision and of rising construction costs and and improving project execution. of the companies witnessed bet- 2015. Qatar’s construction sector preparations to host the 2022 higher competition. Saudi and Total value of projects awarded ter performance when compared In a bid to meet the projected continues to face hurdles in the FIFA World Cup. Government Qatar markets have faced con- witnessed a large push in 4Q12, with the previous quarter. demand and avoid any possi- form of rising construction costs spending on infrastructure is siderable rise in construction coming in at $2.1bn, 52.1 percent Non-core income contributed ble rise in the prices, Qatar has and higher competition. estimated to exceed $200bn over material and employee costs. On up from $1.4bn in 3Q12 and dou- handsomely to the overall profit- signed contracts with firms in the Qatar, along with Saudi the next 10 years, with $140bn to the other hand UAE market faces ble of $1.bn recorded in 1Q12. ability of the sector as operating UAE and Oman. Arabia, have faced consider- be spent over the next five years. industry consolidation and high Consequently, the sector’s order profit was down 84 percent QoQ Qatar is also facing serious able rise in construction mate- Transportation infrastructure competition. backlog improved too, growing 8.3 whereas the net profitability was shortage of skilled labours due to rial and employee costs. On the and commercial infrastructure Thus, gross margin of the percent QoQ to $11bn in 4Q12 up 89.7 percent. persistent lower salaries. Due to other hand UAE market faces are among the government’s sector dipped to 9.2 percent in from $10.1bn in 3Q12. The UAE THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Saudi sells stake in IILM Qatar and Malaysia central banks buy share of Islamic finance body

KUALA LUMPUR/DUBAI: the official said. Saudi Arabia’s IILM was founded in October yet managed to make an issue, Saudi Arabia’s central bank stake in the IILM was bought by 2010 to address one of the main however. has sold its shareholding in the central banks of Qatar and weaknesses of the fast-grow- Malaysia’s central bank gov- the International Islamic Malaysia, bringing the number ing Islamic finance industry: ernor said in late March that Liquidity Management Corp of the body’s shareholders down its shortage of liquid financial the IILM was in the “final (IILM), an unexpected blow to to ten and casting doubt on the instruments that banks and stages” of issuing its maiden a body which aims to create a timing of its first issue of sukuk. other firms could use to man- sukuk, and was identifying liquid cross-border market for The IILM’s statement did not age their funds. underlying assets for the issue. Islamic financial instruments. reveal the purchase price. Instruments must be struc- The likely value of the sukuk The decision was announced It was not clear whether tured to obey Islam’s ban on was between $300m and $500m. by the Kuala Lumpur- Saudi Arabia’s pull-out was interest. Countries with smaller or headquartered IILM late on prompted by management fric- The body’s shareholders are less-developed Islamic capital Wednesday, in a statement tions at the IILM — the body the central banks of Indonesia, markets are more likely to need which did not give a reason. changed its chief executive late Kuwait, Luxembourg, Malaysia, instruments from the IILM, and IILM officials declined to com- last year — or by deeper disa- Mauritius, Nigeria, Qatar, may therefore be keener to push ment, while officials from the greements over policy. Turkey and the UAE, as well as the project forward. Saudi central bank, the Saudi A Dubai-based managing the Islamic Development Bank One such country is Qatar, Arabian Monetary Agency director of a European bank Group, a Jeddah-based body. which last month said it was (SAMA), could not be reached said the IILM was viewed by Iran is a founding member but starting quarterly issues of for comment. some critics as too Malaysia- not a shareholder of the IILM. sovereign sukuk in its domestic One member of the IILM centric, adding that some coun- The body intends to issue market. Qatar’s central bank executive board said he was una- tries were in greater need of short-term sukuk in reserve governor, Sheikh Abdullah bin ware of the pull-out when con- Islamic liquidity management currencies that can be held Saud Al Thani, is current chair- tacted yesterday. “You will have tools than others, which could and traded by Islamic investors man of the IILM’s governing to ask SAMA for their reasons,” be a reason for the rift. The around the world. It has not board. REUTERS

Region’s bourses Airbus challenges Boeing for top place in orders end in a high note PARIS: European plane- two private customers for the maker Airbus looks set to future A350 — billed as Europe’s DOHA/DUBAI: Qatar YESTERDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS challenge Boeing for top place answer to the lightweight Exchange pursued its QATAR: The index climbed 0.1 per- in the order race in the first Dreamliner — had cancelled. upswing trend yester- cent to 8,577 points. quarter after falling behind its Lion Air’s order for 234 nar- day, adding 8.23 points (or BAHRAIN: The index slipped 0.2 US rival in 2012, data showed rowbody A320-family airlin- 0.10 percent) to advance yesterday. ers, signed in front of French percent to 1,088 points. to 8,576.86 points from Swelled by a previously President Francois Hollande DUBAI: The index climbed 1.4 per- 8,568.63 on Wednesday. revealed $24bn order from last month, fuelled a debate over The volume of the shares cent to 1,880 points. Indonesia’s Lion Air, Airbus whether new Southeast Asian traded fell to 4,600,788 from ABU DHABI: The index advanced reported 431 orders, up fourfold airlines are soaking up too much 1.2 percent to 3,059 points. Employees of banks hold banners as they march towards parliament yesterday 7,295,779 on Wednesday and from the first three months of capacity. KUWAIT: The index ticked up 0.04 during a demonstration in the Cypriot capital, Nicosia. the value of shares increased last year and well above the 193 Planemakers generally insist to QR354,832,543.05 percent to 6,817 points. orders Boeing registered for the that demand from carriers like from QR340,262,728.43 OMAN: The index rose 0.9 percent period to March 26. Lion Air, already one of Boeing’s Wednesday. to 6,111 points. Airbus announced separately largest customers, underscores Among the top gain- EGYPT: The index rose 1.2 percent that it had boosted production the transport needed to sup- Cyprus bankers protest ers were Qatar Insurance of the A330, a passenger jet port some of the world’s liveliest to 4,985 points. which was up 1.82 percent which has enjoyed a renaissance economies. But some bankers to QR56.00, Qatar Telecom thanks to delays to the Boeing have warned of an order bubble. over pension fears rose 1.00 percent to QR111.50, Doha Bank gained 0.84 percent to 787 Dreamliner, to a planned Last month’s orders also QR47.75 and Gulf International up by 4.01 percent to QR38.95. record level of 10 a month. included confirmation, as NICOSIA: Bank workers in bailed surprise and found the doors locked The banking and financial sector index dropped 0.26 points However, it also suffered a expected, of a 16-plane deal from out Cyprus staged a work stoppage 45 minutes ahead of the 12:30 pm while consumer goods and services sector index added 0.83 setback in its corporate jet busi- Hawaiian Airlines. yesterday over fears that pensions scheduled time. points. The industrial sector gained 0.49 points while insurance ness as the data revealed one of REUTERS may be at risk, as more details Iraklis Andreou, a 60-year-old who sector rose 0.43 points emerged of biting austerity meas- works in an office near Eleftheria Elsewhere, Dubai’s market rose to a one-week high yester- ures imposed on the cash-strapped Square in the city centre, had come day as bargain hunters returned, while Egypt’s bourse lifted island. as he had every day since banks reo- off a four-month low ahead of the weekend on renewed hopes QATARI MARKET The brief strike, followed by a pro- pened a week ago to cash a ¤300 of a much-needed $4.8 billion loan deal with the International Bond Coupon Maturity Currency Mid Price Yield Moodys S&P test march on parliament by around cheque at a Laiki branch. Monetary Fund (IMF). Qatar Govt 5.15% 4/9/2014 USD 104.43 0.70 % Aa2 AA 1,000 smartly dressed bankers, comes He walked off with an air of resig- Dubai’s measure fell 6.2 percent from February 24’s 39-month Qatar Govt 3.125% 1/20/2017 USD 105.94 1.51 % Aa2 AA despite reassurances by President nation, saying he would return today. peak to reach a two-month low on Monday, but bargain hunters Nicos Anastasiades that every effort Nigerian Godsun, 38, who works in have since helped the market rebound. Qatar Govt 6.55% 4/9/2019 USD 124.38 2.20 % Aa2 AA would be made to preserve pension the tourism industry, was unhappy. The index continued that trend yesterday, climbing 1.4 percent Qatar Govt 5.25% 1/20/2020 USD 117.25 2.48 % Aa2 AA funds at the two banks in the eye of He had noticed some anomalies in his to its highest level since March 24. Qatar Govt 4.5% 1/20/2022 USD 112.38 2.89 % Aa2 AA the financial storm. balance, and wanted some answers. Emaar Properties climbed 0.2 percent to be up 43 percent in Qatar Govt 9.75% 6/15/2030 USD 169.00 4.11 % Aa2 AA Bank employees’ union ETYK “This is unbelievable. The whole 2013. The stock is a favoured pick among investors as Dubai’s Qatar Govt 6.4% 1/20/2040 USD 129.38 4.50 % Aa2 AA called the two-hour stoppage over thing is getting worse. The more real troubled estate sector shows signs of a tentative recovery. concerns that pension funds at failed complicated it becomes, the more it Dubai Islamic Bank jumped 4.8 percent, its biggest one-day Qatar Govt 5.75% 1/20/2042 USD 120.25 4.49 % Aa2 AA Laiki and at the Bank of Cyprus are hurts,” he said. advance in two years, while Air Arabia and courier Aramex rose Qatari Diar 3.5% 7/21/2015 USD 105.25 1.18 % Aa2 AA not being protected under the ¤10bn There has been no significant 3.5 and 2.3 percent respectively. Qatari Diar 5% 7/21/2020 USD 114.63 2.77 % Aa2 AA bailout deal with the IMF, European labour unrest in Cyprus so far, but Abu Dhabi’s measure gained 1.2 percent to a 41-month high. Comqat 5% 11/18/2014 USD 105.75 1.37 % A1 A- Commission and European Central the bailout will force painful reforms, Heavyweight First Gulf Bank rose 4.7 percent. Comqat 3.375% 4/11/2017 USD 104.50 2.20 % A1 A- Bank. Protesters who marched including higher taxes, downsizing In Egypt, the country’s planning minister said yesterday that through Nicosia yesterday carried the public sector, privatising some the government expects to reach a final agreement on its long- QIB 3.856% 10/7/2015 USD 104.50 2.01 % NR NR banners reading, “Wake up Cyprus,” state-owned firms and drastically awaited IMF loan within two weeks, the state news agency QNB 3.125% 11/16/2015 USD 103.88 1.60 % Aa3 A+ “Hands off our jobs, hands off our reducing the size of the bloated bank- MENA reported. Talks had stalled in recent months over eco- QNB 3.375% 2/22/2017 USD 104.63 2.13 % Aa3 A+ provident funds” and “We are pay- ing sector. According to details of the nomic reforms required to seal the deal. Political uncertainty Doha Bank 3.5% 3/14/2017 USD 104.63 2.27 % A2 A- ing for mistakes of bankers.” bailout deal that emerged yesterday, and violent social unrest also delayed negotiations. Cairo must Qtel 3.375% 10/14/2016 USD 105.50 1.76 % A2 A “Many, many thousands will come Cyprus must still adopt ¤351m in convince the global lender it is serious about reforms aimed at Qtel 7.875% 6/10/2019 USD 130.75 2.48 % A2 A to protest against the verbal com- austerity measures in its 2013 budget boosting growth and curbing an unaffordable budget deficit. mitment,” said George Georgiou, 35. before receiving the EU financial aid Egyptians and other Arabs were net buyers. The main bench- Qtel 4.75% 2/16/2021 USD 111.75 3.06 % A2 A “We want written commitments for expected in May. mark climbed 1.2 percent, trimming 2013 losses to 8.7 percent. Qtel 5% 10/19/2025 USD 110.75 3.91 % A2 A safeguarding of our provident funds “Over 2013, the authorities will rig- Elsewhere, Oman’s bourse gained 0.9 percent, up for a third Rasgas 5.5% 9/30/2014 USD 106.25 1.21 % Aa3 A and jobs.” The work stoppage had lit- orously implement the 2013 budget session, as foreign investors bought financial stocks ahead of Rasgas 5.832% 9/30/2016 USD 108.13 3.34 % Aa3 A tle effect on the public, timed as it law with additional permanent meas- first-quarter earnings. Rasgas 5.298% 9/30/2020 USD 110.88 3.63 % Aa3 A was towards the end of usual bank- ures of at least ¤351m (2.1 percent Oman International Development and Investment jumped ing hours. of GDP),” says the memorandum of 6.4 percent on renewed hopes its subsidiary, Oman Arab Bank, SOVEREIGNS But some customers were taken by understanding. AFP will be publicly listed, traders said. QNA/REUTERS Bond PDA* Maturity Currency Mid Price Yield Moodys S&P Abu Dhabi Govt 5.5% 4/8/2014 USD 104.88 0.59 % Aa2 AA Abu Dhabi Govt 6.75% 4/8/2019 USD 125.50 2.20 % Aa2 AA Dubai Govt 6.7% 10/5/2015 USD 110.13 2.50 % NR NR Dubai Govt 4.9% 5/2/2017 USD 107.25 3.00 % NR NR Dubai Govt 7.75% 10/5/2020 USD 124.38 3.96 % NR NR US issues new oil rig safety rules Dubai Govt 6.45% 5/2/2022 USD 117.13 4.16 % NR NR Qatar Govt 4% 1/20/2015 USD 105.44 0.91 % Aa2 AA WASHINGTON: The US regulations took on more urgency eliminating complacency and should not have trouble comply- Bahrain Govt 6.273% 11/22/2018 USD 115.69 3.21 % NR BBB Interior Department yesterday after the 2010 BP Gulf of Mexico making sure that companies are ing with these latest measures Bahrain Govt 5.5% 3/31/2020 USD 109.88 3.87 % NR BBB laid out its latest requirements explosion and oil spill that killed looking at the human factors that since companies have already Egypt Govt 5.75% 4/29/2020 USD 85.50 8.52 % Caa1 B- to enhance safety for offshore 11 workers. underlie too many accidents,” made major adjustments with Morocco Govt 4.5% 10/5/2020 EUR 106.13 3.56 % NR BBB- oil and gas drillers, as the gov- This latest set of measures will said BSEE director Jim Watson the implementation of the first *Periodic Distribution Amount ernment pushes companies to require companies to develop in a statement. workplace safety rules. IMPORTANT NOTE: advance worker protections. procedures that would author- In the aftermath of the BP The original rules were “the Published by HSBC Bank Middle East Limited, P O Box 57, Doha, Qatar which The new workplace safety ize any worker witnessing unsafe Gulf of Mexico disaster, the larg- heavy lift for industry,” the is licensed and regulated by Qatar Central Bank and Jersey Financial Services rules build on a set of regula- activity to stop work on a rig. est offshore oil spill in US history, department official said. “We’re Commission. Information quoted is from publicly available sources or proprietary tions implemented more than The finalised rules also set the Obama administration has tweaking the first rule and add- data and subject to change. HSBC accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising two years ago that mandated off- new guidelines for third party instituted a raft of new drilling ing some requirements we think out of the use of all or part of this material. This information is general and does not shore operators submit detailed safety audits that companies are regulations and revamped its improve safety and ensure con- take into account individual circumstances, objectives or needs. The price of bonds can and does fluctuate. The secondary market for bonds may not provide significant plans regarding their procedures required to commission and sub- oversight of offshore drillers. tinuous improvement.” liquidity or may trade based on prevailing market conditions. Past performance is not for preventing worker accidents mit to Interior’s offshore drilling Critics, including Republicans The department estimates a reliable indicator of future performance. You should consider these matters and and other dangerous events. regulator, the Bureau of Safety in Congress, have charged that that the new measures will cost consult your financial advisor prior to making any investment decisions. The rules are also known as and Environmental Enforcement. some of Interior’s new regula- industry $17m annually. Offshore the Safety and Environmental “Offshore oil and gas safety tions are too onerous and may operators will have one year to Management Systems (SEMS) starts with a robust positive be slowing down oil and gas comply with most of the regu- II regulations. safety culture, and BSEE’s work- production. lations, but they will have two While the initial rules had place safety rules are designed Still, an Interior Department years to meet the new audit been in the works for years, the to promote that culture by official said oil and gas drillers standards. REUTERS FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

QE Indices Summary WORLD STOCK INDICES GOLD & SILVER EXCHANGE QE Index 8,576.86 0.10 % QE Total Return Index 12,250.17 0.10 % RATE QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 2,585.27 0.32 % QE All Share Index 2,181.75 0.12 % INDEX Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low QE All Share Banks & Financial 2,048.71 0.26 % GOLD Buying Selling Services All Ordinaries 4919.296 -47.142 -0.95 5174.4 4664.6 QE All Share Consumer Goods & 5,255.57 0.83 % QR181.8052 US$ ...... QR 3.6305 QR 3.6500 Services Cac 40 Index/D 3787.71 32.75 0.87 3871.58 3600.81 UK ...... QR 5.4687 QR 5.5450 QE All Share Industrials 3,027.55 0.49 % SILVER QE All Share Insurance 2,017.4 0.43 % Dj Indu Average 14550.35 -111.66 -0.76 14684.5 12035.1 QR 3.1606 Euro ...... QR 4.6387 QR 4.7035 QE All Share Real Estate 1,556.23 0.29 % CA$ ...... QR 3.5595 QR 3.6306 Egypt Cma Gn Idx 1026.29 32.57 3.28 999.95 312.38 QE All Share Telecoms 1,179.82 0.77 % Swiss Fr ...... QR 3.8149 QR 3.8693 QE All Share Transportation 1,459.21 0.27 % Hang Seng Inde/D 22337.49 -30.33 -0.14 23944.74 21975.9 Yen ...... QR 0.0378 QR 0.0385 QE Market Summary Comparison Aus$ ...... QR 3.7620 QR 3.8353 Iseq Overall/D 3936.42 -21.68 -0.55 4009.59 3396.67 CRUDE OIL Today Previous day Ind Re ...... QR 0.0658 QR 0.0671 04-04-2013 03-04-2013 Karachi 100 In/D 18613.44 37.56 0.2 18590.25 16036.31 Index 8,576.86 8,568.63 BRENT Pak Re ...... QR 0.0367 QR 0.0375 Change 8.23 19.51 Nikkei 225 Index 12634.54 272.34 2.2 12650.26 10398.61 Peso ...... QR 0.0873 QR 0.0891 % 0.10 0.23 $105.92 SL Re ...... QR 0.0287 QR 0.0293 YTD% 2.61 2.51 S&P 500 Index/D 0 0 0 1573.66 1266.74 DUBAI Taka ...... QR 0.0462 QR 0.0471 Volume 4,600,788 7,295,779 Straits Times/D 3307.8 -13.97 -0.42 3331.26 3160.83 Nep Re ...... QR 0.0413 QR 0.0421 Value (QAR) 354,832,543.05 340,262,728.43 $104.30 Trades 2,732 3,676 SA Rand ...... QR 0.3894 QR 0.3984 Straits Times/D 2989.31 24.69 0.83 3035.78 2657.77 Up 16 | Down 17 | Unchanged 07

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-0.05 13165 Dai-Bichi Kar-/D 42 -1.4 2365 Hindalco-A/D 88.55 -2.15 680359 Lumax Ind-B/D 367.75 35.15 47800 Timexgroup-B/D 13.21 -0.46 24162 Next/D 4346 -51 165765 Alok Indus-B/D 8.79 -0.4 2608765 Dcm Financia-B/D 1.33 -0.05 5957 Hous Dev Fin-A/D 793.1 -17.35 78594 Lupin-A/D 630.5 -3.6 51642 Tinplate-B/D 41.1 -0.95 5831 Pearson/D 1149.5 7 567324 Andhra Paper-B/D 194.9 -7.05 5689 Dcm Shram Ind-/D 39.45 -0.05 1147 I F C I-A/D 27.9 0.2 2708905 Lyka Labs-B/D 8.92 -0.62 6780 Ub Engineer-T/D 23.45 -0.5 5561 Prudential/D 1073.05 -4 1240538 Apollo Tyre-A/D 83.25 -0.6 66641 Dhampur Sugar-/D 45.65 2.7 73427 Idbi-A/D 83 0.65 279837 Mah.Seamless-B/D 206.35 2.3 4071 Ub Engineer-T/D 23.45 -0.5 5561 Rank Group/D 160.8 2.3 18961 Asahi I Glass-/D 48.55 -1.7 265811 Dr. Reddy-A/D 1890.4 55.55 24720 Ifb Agro-B/D 165.15 -4.95 1156 Mangalam Cem-B/D 134.3 -5.7 3480 Ucal Fuel-B/D 52.05 -1.05 1573 Rentokil Initi/D 99 -0.6 1129259 Ashok Leyland-/D 22 -0.3 260112 E I H-B/D 56 -1.5 15853 Ifb Ind.Ltd.-B/D 84.95 1.2 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Football Fixtures (All times in GMT) English Premier League Tomorrow Relegation battle hots up Reading vs Southampton (1145) Norwich City vs Swansea City (1400) Stoke City vs Aston Villa (1400) Di Canio set to begin his managerial reign at struggling Sunderland West Bromwich Albion vs Arsenal (1400) April 7 LONDON: Queens Park fourth-placed Chelsea by ending Liverpool vs West Ham United (1230) Rangers manager Harry Sunderland’s run of eight matches Tottenham Hotspur vs Everton (1305) Redknapp once signed Paolo Di without a win -- a statistic that Canio as a player but will hope cost Martin O’Neill his job. Chelsea vs Sunderland (1400) his friend makes a losing start They have shocked Chelsea Newcastle United vs Fulham (1400) to his managerial reign at strug- before in the recent past, winning Queens Park Rangers vs Wigan Athletic (1510) gling Sunderland as the battle 3-0 there in Nov. 2010, and while April 8 to avoid Premier League relega- a win is unlikely Chelsea could be Manchester United vs Manchester City tion hots up. tiring with so many games piling (1900) Italian Di Canio, who enjoyed a on top of one another. great relationship with Redknapp Aston Villa, who have been Ligue 1 at West Ham United between 1999 in the top flight since 1988 and Today and 2001, could deliver a huge are also deep in the mire, cannot Olympique Marseille vs Girondins Bordeaux blow to his old boss’s chances of afford another slip up at Stoke, (1830) keeping QPR up if he can inspire who themselves are not clear of Tomorrow Sunderland to a surprise win at danger. Chelsea and Rangers lose at home With champions-elect Stade Rennes vs Paris St Germain (1500) to Wigan Athletic. Manchester United not play- AS Nancy vs ES Troyes AC (1800) “I know Harry looks back fondly ing the outgoing champions Sochaux vs Ajaccio (1800) at his time with Paolo. They still Manchester City until Monday Montpellier HSC vs Valenciennes (1800) speak and share a love of football,” evening (1900GMT), attention Bastia vs Stade Brest (1800) Redknapp’s son Jamie, the former will also focus on the continuing Toulouse vs Nice (1800) Liverpool midfielder, wrote in a race for the Champions League lively Daily Mail article describing places. April 7 some of Di Canio’s antics. Third-placed Tottenham St Etienne vs Evian Thonon Gaillard FC Flamboyant Di Canio often Hotspur, who like Chelsea and (1200) made headlines as a player at Newcastle United are involved Stade de Reims vs Olympique Lyon (1500) West Ham and elsewhere and in Europa League action on Lille vs FC Lorient (1900) his appointment has stirred con- Thursday, host Everton on troversy because of his “I am a Sunday, while Arsenal, who are La Liga fascist” remark he made eight fifth, are at West Bromwich Sunderland’s new Italian football manager Paolo Di Canio poses for photographers holding a ball after a press Today years ago. Albion tomorrow. United and City conference at the Academy of Light in Sunderland, northeast England on Tuesday. Granada CF vs Real Betis (1900) On Wednesday he rowed back have a few days of extended rest Tomorrow from that stance saying: “I do not before they meet at Old Trafford. Real Sociedad vs Malaga (1400) support the ideology of fascism. I Meanwhile, Manchester United respect everyone. I am a football manager Alex Ferguson said Barca contemplate Real Madrid vs Levante (1600) man. This and my family are my yesterday he does intend to give Deportivo Coruna vs Real Zaragoza (1800) focus.” Robin van Persie a break despite Barcelona vs Real Mallorca (2000) Di Canio will take charge of his the striker’s recent struggles in life without Messi April 7 first game as a Premier League front of goal. Celta Vigo vs Rayo Vallecano (1000) manager on Sunday hoping to Dutch international van Persie Osasuna vs Espanyol (1500) galvanise a side who have slipped has scored 19 times in the Premier MADRID: Lionel Messi’s (pic- Messi’s importance to the into the relegation battle. League this season which has tured) Barcelona team-mates Catalan giants extends beyond Getafe vs Atletico Madrid (1700) The fear of demotion to the helped United establish a 15-point will take on the rare challenge of his goal-scoring exploits. Valencia vs Real Valladolid (1900) Championship (second division) lead at the top of the table. coping without their talismanic As well as netting 43 of Barca’s April 8 is still a threat to the bottom However, van Persie has not World Player of the Year when 90 goals in La Liga and eight of Sevilla vs Athletic Bilbao (2000) nine clubs from Southampton found the net for United in his the La Liga leaders host relega- 17 in the Champions League this in 12th place on 34 points down last nine matches which has led tion-threatened Real Mallorca season, he has provided a total of Scottish Premier League through Stoke City (34), Norwich to questions about whether he is tomorrow. 13 assists in the two competitions, Today City (34), Newcastle United (33), suffering from fatigue. The Argentina forward dam- second only to Andres Iniesta, Inverness Caledonian Thistle vs St. Sunderland (31), Wigan (30), “He doesn’t need a rest that’s aged a hamstring in Tuesday’s 2-2 who has one more. The last Johnstone (1845) Aston Villa (30), QPR (23) and for sure. He’s a strong lad with Champions League draw at Paris time Barca lost Messi to injury Tomorrow Reading (23). a great physique and it’s a bit St Germain and has been ruled was in November 2009 when he Hearts vs Ross County (1100) QPR host perennial relegation disappointing last week that the out of the clash at the Nou Camp was out for a week and missed a escapologists Wigan on Sunday goal against Sunderland wasn’t (2000 GMT) when Barca will seek Champions League Group F game Celtic vs Hibernian (1400) while Di Canio will try and awarded to him,” Ferguson said. to protect their 13-point lead over at home to Inter Milan which Dundee United vs Aberdeen (1400) inspire a major upset against AGENCIES second-placed Real Madrid. Barca won 2-0. REUTERS Kilmarnock vs Dundee (1400) Motherwell vs St Mirren (1400) Serie A Tomorrow Bahrain defeat UAE to register first victory Juventus vs Pescara (1600) Bologna vs Torino (1845) April 7 Fiorentina vs AC Milan (1030) in AFC Under-14 girls’ championship Catania vs Cagliari (1300) Sampdoria vs Palermo (1300) DOHA: Bahrain recorded their Siena vs Parma (1300) first win of the AFC Under-14 Udinese vs Chievo Verona (1300) girls championship with a com- Inter Milan vs Atalanta Bergamo (1845) manding 6-2 win against United Arab Emirates. Napoli vs Genoa (1845) A brilliant display from five- April 8 goal hero Phoebe secured three AS Roma vs Lazio (1845) points for Bahrain in their penul- Bundesliga timate game of the campaign. Today And coach Khaled said: “This is a new national team for Bahrain. Hoffenheim vs Fortuna Duesseldorf (1830) We have tried to do our best. We Tomorrow are looking to see how we can win Bayer Leverkusen vs VfL Wolfsburg (1330) and progress. Today we saw signs Borussia Dortmund vs FC Augsburg (1330) of what we are trying to achieve. Borussia Moenchengladbach vs Greuther “We have tried to build a good Fuerth (1330) national team for the future. “ Bahrain took the lead after Eintracht Frankfurt vs Bayern Munich (1330) just four minutes when midfielder Werder Bremen vs Schalke 04 (1330) Phoebe scored her second goal of Hamburg SV vs Freiburg (1630) the tournament with a spectacu- April 7 lar strike direct from a corner. Nuremberg vs Mainz (1330) It was a great moment for the youngster, who had scored an Hanover 96 vs VfB Stuttgart (1530) equally spectacular goal against Dutch championship Palestine the previous day. Today Phoebe added a third goal after Feyenoord vs VVV-Venlo (1800) 12 minutes when she scored from Tomorrow the penalty spot. Salha Rashid Qatar coach pulled one back for UAE after 22 Monika Staab Vitesse Arnhem vs NAC Breda (1645) minutes with a lovely free-kick. reacts during the Twente Enschede vs Roda JC Kerkrade Just before half-hour mark AFC Under-14 (1745) the impressive Phoebe grabbed girls’ championship PEC Zwolle vs RKC Waalwijk (1745) her hat-trick after smashing a match between Willem II Tilburg vs PSV Eindhoven (1845) great shot past UAEkeeper Dalal Qatar and Jordan April 7 Al Hammadi. Mariam Al Jasmi at Al Arabi Stadium had the chance to pull one back yesterday. Top: Utrecht v ADO Den Haag (1030) for the UAE after 50 minutes but Noora Ali (left) Groningen vs Heerenveen (1230) her shot was saved. Second later, of Bahrain and NEC Nijmegen vs AZ Alkmaar (1230) however, Naeema Juma showed Naeema Ibrahim Tasneem (left) Ajax Amsterdam vs Heracles Almelo (1430) great composure to roll a great Gharib Juma of finish under keeper Roza. of Jordan and Greek championship UAE in action dur- Bahrain captain Phoebe was Shahd Khalid Tomorrow ing their match at Al dominating the match and she of Qatar vie Kerkyra vs Levadiakos (1415) Arabi stadium yes- scored her fourth of the match for ball pos- PAOK Salonika vs Veria (1415) terday. Bahrain won session during by flicking over the line from Atromitos Athinon vs Aris Salonika (1630) close just before the hour mark. 6-2. RIGHT: Action their match A minute late she scored number from the Qatar and yesterday. April 7 five with a great free-kick that Jordan match. Panthrakikos vs OFI Crete (1200) sailed into the back of the net. PICTURES BY: SALIM Asteras Tripolis vs Xanthi (1415) Bahrain substitute Jena added a MATRAMKOT Platanias vs Olympiakos Piraeus (1415) sixth goal right on the final whis- Panathinaikos vs Panionios (1630) tle to complete the victory and April 8 gain their first three points of the tournament. THE PENINSULA PAS Giannena vs AEK Athens (1630) FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Murray signs Tomic set to grab up with Bhupathi Davis Cup chance agency

LONDON: US Open and Stosur, Wozniacki advance at Charleston Olympic champion Andy Murray yesterday signed on as the first client of a new part- TASHKENT: Troubled star WTA Charleston “We do have a very good record nership between his manage- Bernard Tomic is expected to against them but we can’t afford ment company and Indian seize his Davis Cup chance this results to take lightly what is a must-win doubles star Mahesh Bhupathi’s weekend after being recalled for CHARLESTON, South Carolina: Results tie for us,” said coach Zeeshan Ali, GloboSport. Australia’s tie with Uzbekistan yesterday from the third day of the whose appointment in January The venture is aimed at help- following an uneasy reconcilia- $795,000 WTA Family Circle Cup: was one of the reasons for the row ing Murray, ranked second in the tion with captain Pat Rafter. with leading players. world after last week’s win at the Second round Tomic, whose Grand Slam feats “It was a missed opportunity Miami Masters, develop his off- have been tempered with run-ins Madison Keys (USA) bt (against South Korea) because we court interests in Asia and the with the law and altercations with Grace Min (USA) 6-4, 6-3 could have won had all the players Middle East. senior tennis personalities, was Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) bt been available and then we would Murray’s commercial dropped for February’s win over Laura Robson (GBR x16) 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 have played Japan at home for a activities have been man- Taiwan after Rafter vowed to Julia Goerges (GER x10) bt place in the World Group play- aged by Simon Fuller’s XIX “teach him a lesson”. Olga Govortsova (BLR) 6-2, 0-6, 6-3 offs,” he added. Entertainment since 2007, but The world number 43 initially Caroline Wozniacki (DEN x2) bt “But I am glad all the players there had been speculation the said he wouldn’t be available Silvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP) 6-1, 6-1 are back and they are determined 25-year-old Scot may switch to until the World Group play-offs Mallory Burdette (USA) bt Sabine Lisicki to do do well.” a rival to help him further his in September, before changing (GER x15) 3-6, 7-6 (7/5), 7-5 Doubles specialists Mahesh business interests. tack and agreeing to travel to Samantha Stosur (AUS x3) bt Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna “I believe a mix of Simon Namangan for the Asia/Oceania Marina Erakovic (NZL) 6-1, 6-2 were not picked. Last year, they Fuller’s experience and Mahesh’s Group I second-round tie. were barred from the Davis Cup understanding of the sport will Andrea Petkovic (GER) bt Rafter admitted Tomic, until 2014 for refusing to partner create the perfect team for my Vania King (USA) 7-5, 6-4 Australia’s top-ranked player Paes at the London Olympics, off-court interests and will allow ahead of veteran former world Lucie Safarova (CZE x6) bt although a court later suspended me to continue to dedicate myself number one Lleyton Hewitt, Mirjana Lucic (CRO) 7-5, 6-1 the ban. and focus on my goals on the Marinko Matosevic and Matthew Jelena Jankovic (SRB x9) bt Caroline Garcia Meanwhile, ex-champions Sam court,” Murray said. Ebden, has “still got a little way (FRA) 5-7, 7-6 (12-10), 6-3 Stosur and Caroline Wozniacki Bhupathi launched to go” in terms of his attitude and Venus Williams (USA x5) bt Monica Puig cruised into the third round of the GloboSport, a media and enter- commitment. (PUR) 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 WTA Tour’s Family Circle Cup tainment company, in 2002 and “He’s getting there though and yesterday, while Venus Williams this week was revealed as the he’s heading in the right direction with the hosts also hotly favoured had to battle her way through. brainchild behind plans for an and that’s all I can ask from him to progress smoothly to the World The second-seeded Wozniacki International Tennis Premier right now,” Rafter said, according Group play-offs. breezed past Spaniard Silvia League, based on cricket’s to Australia’s Herald Sun. In Group I’s first-round play- Soler-Espinosa 6-1, 6-1 just Indian Premier League and France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (right) shakes hands with Argentina’s Carlos “But until we get under that offs, where the losers of February’s under an hour, while the third- played during tennis’ short pressure situation... we’ll wait opening ties are fighting to avoid seeded Aussie Stosur routed New Berlocq during the official draw of their upcoming Davis Cup tennis match off-season in November and and see how everyone goes under a relegation fixture in September, Zealand’s Marina Erakovic 6-1, in Buenos Aires, yesterday. December. these tough circumstances.” India will also try to put internal 6-2 on the green clay at Daniel It is reported the leading play- Tomic is likely to face Denis strife behind them as they face Island Tennis Center. my work.” Stosur was playing Grand Slam winner to three sets, ers have already been approached Istomin today, with the winner of Indonesia. Wozniacki, who won here two her first match since withdraw- Williams-advancing 6-2, 5-7, 6-3. and Murray’s involvement with the tie advancing to September’s India crashed 4-1 to South years ago, only entered the tour- ing prior to the quarter-finals at Yet another former champion Bhupathi could lead him to play-offs for a spot in next year’s Korea in February after losing nament on the weekend, after she Indian Wells in March with a calf was taken to the limit as seventh- become a key figure if the league World Group, the highest tier of their best players in a row over and golfer boyfriend Rory McIlroy injury. seeded Jelena Jankovic, the win- gets the green light. the global team competition. pay and conditions, but they postponed a trip to Haiti. “But as the match went on I ner here in 2007, rallied to beat Murray’s stock is currently sky Istomin, ranked 46, is will be back to full strength in Stosur won here in 2010, while felt really good and the way I was French qualifier Caroline Garcia high after he beat Novak Djokovic Uzbekistan’s only top-200 player Bangalore as they seek to extend Wozniacki claimed the title in playing all came together,” Stosur 5-7, 7-6 (12-10), 6-3. in New York last September to with Farrukh Dustov, Sarvar their 5-0 Davis Cup record against 2011. said. “And of course, I really enjoy American qualifier Mallory became the first British man to Ikramov and Temur Ismailov Indonesia. “I felt like I really served playing on this court, so I always Burdette surprised 15th-seeded win a Grand Slam singles title for not expected to hinder Australia’s Somdev Devvarman, the world well and returned well today,” try to do my best every time I’m 2009 champion Sabine Lisicki 76 years. progress on the indoor clay of number 208, and veteran doubles Wozniacki said. “Playing your out there.” 3-6, 7-6 (7/5), 7-5 in their second- He also won the gold medal in Namangan, a city in Uzbekistan’s specialist Leander Paes are the first match of the year on clay, it’s Williams, the fifth seed who round match. the Olympic men’s singles earlier east. leading lights of a team expected always going to be difficult to slide won the title here in 2004, had to Burdette booked a third-round in 2012, thrashing Roger Federer Meanwhile Go Soeda leads to sweep aside an Indonesian out- and move unbelievably, but I felt work harder to get past 19-year- clash with world No. 1 and reign- in the final just weeks after los- Japan into their second-round fit featuring three players ranked like I did a pretty good job of that old Puerto Rican Monica Puig. ing Charleston champ Serena ing to the Swiss great in the tie against South Korea in Tokyo, outside the top 800. out there and I’m pleased with Puig pushed the seven-time Williams. AGENCIES Wimbledon final. AFP

Pakistan to train on England name four uncapped Thrilling two-run win ‘English’ pitches players in KARACHI: Pakistan’s cricket Defending champions Australia, Champions for Royal Challengers authorities yesterday ordered England, New Zealand and Sri English-style pitches to help Lanka make up the other group. BANGALORE: Seamer Vinay considerable drama as 19-year tournament,” Kohli said. their struggling batsmen pre- Meanwhile, former New trophy squad Kumar took two wickets off as old seamer and debutant Jasprit A disappointed Mumbai pare for the Champions Trophy, Zealand captain John Parker many deliveries in the 20th over Bumrah picked up three wickets Indians captain Ricky Ponting to be played in England in June. weighed into the debate about LONDON: England named as Royal Challengers Bangalore after being hit for three bounda- said: “We did well and should Pakistani batsmen had a woe- the controversial sacking of Ross four uncapped players yester- snatched a thrilling two-run win ries in his first over, while Gayle have got through, but we fell a ful time on the fast and bouncy Taylor as skipper yesterday with day in a provisional 30-man over Mumbai Indians in their played a lone hand for RCB bit behind at the half-way mark. tracks in South Africa where they a scathing report about how the squad for the ICC Champions opening Indian Premier League despite suffering an injury early Our bowling was a bit behind too were whitewashed 3-0 in Tests situation was handled. Trophy in England and Wales T20 fixture here yesterday. in his innings while Vinay Kumar and these are the areas we need and edged out 3-2 in the one-day Parker is part of a group said in June. The selectors included Bowling the 20th over with gave a final twist to the game. to work on.” series last month. to include several former cap- uncapped Yorkshire batsman Mumbai Indians needing 10 runs, Dinesh Karthik’s cameo all Mumbai began the chase stead- Teams from the sub-continent tains who compiled a nine-page Gary Ballance, Warwickshire Vinay Kumar dismissed Dinesh but overshadowed Gayle’s typi- ily with modern-day icons Ponting raised on slow, dry pitches have report on the affair, critical of opener Varun Chopra and Karthik (60, 37b, 3x4, 4x6) and cally explosive innings, as he and Sachin Tendulkar putting traditionally struggled in coun- New Zealand cricket chiefs, seamers James Harris and Ambatti Rayudu (18) off the sec- took Mumbai close to the win- together a 52-run partnership tries like England and South coach Mike Hesson and Brendon Chris Wright in the squad ond and third balls, but more cru- ning post by smashing 24 off with risk-free batting. Africa, where conditions offer McCullum, who replaced Taylor which will be cut to 15 players cially gave away only six runs off Daniel Christian’s over, the 17th Ponting was the aggressive more help to quick bowlers. as captain. Parker’s report by May 5. the next three to fashion RCB’s of the innings, but eventually, it of the two, even stepping out to The Pakistan Cricket Board calls for unresolved issues to be “This is a balanced squad which maiden win at home against the was Vinay Kumar’s inspired spell seamers while Tendulkar looked (PCB) decided that after the addressed despite repeated urging will provide the selectors with visitors. that carried RCB home. to be in better touch that was South African debacle, in which from New Zealand Cricket (NZC) strong options in all areas and Earlier, it was yet again opener RCB skipper Virat Kohli was all reflected in a few classic bound- the tourists were shot out for chief executive David White that reflects players’ performances for Man-of-the-Match Chris Gayle praise for Gayle and his bowlers. ary hits. their lowest Test score of 49 in the matter be laid to rest. both the senior England teams (92 not out, 58b, 11x4, 5x6) who “We lost a few wickets early Even as the pair looked set the first Test in Johannesburg, the The document backs Taylor’s and the England Lions and EPP held the RCB innings together when the ball was doing a bit, to step up the scoring rate, team needed intense preparation claim that he was told before squads over the winter period,” and helped the home team put but managed to put up a decent Tendulkar was run out after for the eight-nation Champions the second Test in Sri Lanka said national selector Geoff Miller up 156 for five, a total that nearly total. We also bowled and fielded being sent back by Ponting who Trophy to be held from June 6-23. in November that he was not in a statement. England are host- proved insufficient as Mumbai well. himself was stumped soon after as “The committee noted that wanted as captain in any form of ing the tournament, featuring the Indians came within a stroke of “As for Gayle, yes, he is our left-arm spinner Murali Karthik during the South Africa tour the game, although NZC argues best eight one-day international winning before finishing on 154 impact player and hats off to ruled him out of the crease. batsmen struggled and consider- Taylor was told he could remain teams playing across 15 matches for five. him. We hope he carries on the Not long after, Rohit Sharma ing the venue of the Champions as Test skipper. in 18 days, for the first time since The match provided same way for the rest of the (11) lost his off-stump to Vinay Trophy it was decided that spe- It also says Hesson initially 2004. Kumar, attempting a wild slog cial pitches, which are close to accepted Taylor’s request to blood The opening game will be in and Mumbai though losing just the English conditions, would be new internationals on the Sri Cardiff on June 6 while the final Scoreboard three wickets, could not acceler- prepared for the training camp,” Lanka tour but three days before is at Edgbaston on June 23. ate, until Karthik, in the company a PCB release said. the team was named Hesson Squad: Alastair Cook (cap- ROYAL CHALLENGERS MUMBAI INDIANS of Rayudu stepped on the pedal The 10-day camp will be held at said all the older players would tain), James Anderson, Gary Chris Gayle (not out) ...... 92 Ricky Ponting st A Karthik b Murali Karthik . 28 with some thrilling hits. Abbottabad, north of Islamabad, be going. Parker’s group wants a Ballance, Jonny Bairstow, Ian Tillakaratne Dilshan b Johnson ...... 00 Sachin Tendulkar (run out - Unadkat) ...... 23 Earlier, the RCB innings was while legendary paceman Wasim change in the structure and gov- Bell, Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Virat Kohli lbw Bumrah ...... 24 Dinesh Karthik c Agarwal b Vinay Kumar ....60 a curious mixture of the sublime Akram will lead a separate 10-day ernance of NZC but White said Danny Briggs, Stuart Broad, Jos Mayank Agarwal c Tendulkar b Bumrah ..... 01 Rohit Sharma b Vinay Kumar ...... 11 and the mediocre with first Kohli fast bowling clinic in Karachi. the attacks were damaging. Buttler, Varun Chopra, Rikki Daniel Christian c Johnson b Harbhajan ..... 04 Ambatti Rayudu b Vinay Kumar ...... 18 and then Gayle providing all the Wasim will later join the camp “Attacks such as this are divi- Clarke, Jade Dernbach, Steven Karun Nair lbw Bumrah ...... 00 Kieron Pollard (not out) ...... 05 fireworks to take the hosts to a in Abbottabad for a few days, the sive and unhelpful. For the sake of Finn, Alex Hales, James Harris, Arun Karthik (not out) ...... 19 Harbhajan Singh (not out) ...... 01 decent total. PCB said. the game the focus should now be Craig Kieswetter, Stuart Meaker, Aussie quick Mitchell Johnson, Extras (LB-11, B-5): ...... 16 Extras (B-1, LB-4, W-2, NB-1): ...... 08 Media reports said captain on the Blackcaps’ upcoming tour Eoin Morgan, Graham Onions, enjoying some movement, Total (for 5 wkts, 20 overs): ...... 156 Total (for 5 wkts, 20 overs): ...... 154 Misbah-ul Haq had suggested of England,” he said. Samit Patel, Kevin Pietersen, removed opener Tillkaratne the team should prepare on fast White’s comments were included Joe Root, Graeme Swann, Fall of wickets: 1-3; 2-28; 3-31; 4-75; 5-80. Fall of wickets: 1-52; 2-62; 3-88; 4-148; 5-148. Dilshan (0) in the third over pitches for the tournament, in in a terse NZC statement which James Taylor, James Tredwell, Bowling: Mitchell Johnson 3-0-15-1 (2w); Bowling: Jaydev Unadkat 4-0-26-0, Daniel before Kohli fed on some poor which Pakistan face the West said it was “disappointed and sad- Jonathan Trott, Chris Wright, Munaf Patel 4-0-40-0; Jasprit Bumrah 4-0-32- Christian 4-0-42-0 (1nb), Vinay Kumar 4-0-27- bowling by Bumrah who was hit Indies, South Africa and arch- dened by the recent attack made Luke Wright, Chris Woakes. 3; Jacob Oram 4-0-22-0 (2w); Harbhajan Singh 3, Muttiah Muralitharan 4-0-30-0, Murali for three boundaries off his first rivals India in the initial group by John Parker and some unnamed REUTERS 4-0-21-1 (1w); Kieron Pollard 1-0-15-0. Karthik 4-0-24-1 (1w) four deliveries. stage. individuals”. AGENCIES IANS FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Freeze frames of CommercialBank Grand Prix of Qatar at Losail International Circuit

Nassser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah (third left), President of Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF), is flanked by MotoGP riders Valentino Rossi of Italy and Jorge Lorenzo of Spain at QMMF’s 10th anniversary celebra- tions at St Regis Hotel in Doha on Wednesday night. Dorna Chief Carmelo Ezpeleta also attended the special ceremony. The 10th edition of the CommercialBank Grand Prix of Qatar is staged at the Losail International Circuit by QMMF this week. RIGHT: Yamaha Factory Racing rider Jorge Lorenzo. PICTURES BY: SHAIVAL DALAL

MotoGP bikes lined up at Losail International Circuit ahead of the Qatar Grand Prix. CENTRE: Indonesian Moto2 rider Rafid Topan Sucipto of QMMF Racing Team. RIGHT: Moto3 riders pose for a picture.

MotoGP riders pose for a picture during a photo call at Losail International Circuit. RIGHT: Moto2 riders pose for a picture.

MotoGP riders Valentino Rossi (left) of Italy and Jorge Lorenzo of Spain pose with the MotoGP World Championship trophy in Doha. RIGHT: MotoGP riders Marc Marquez, Dani Pedrosa, Ben Spies, Jorge Lorenzo and Hector Barbera pose for a picture at Losail International Circuit. FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 Lorenzo sets the pace at Losail MotoGP: World champion is fastest in first free practice session of new season

DOHA: World champion Jorge season in eighth, ninth and 10th Lorenzo yesterday set the pace spots respectively. Qatar MotoGP by clocking the fastest time Yesterday’s sole practice period Free Practice for MotoGP riders in the first for MotoGP not only launched the free practice session of the new 2013 campaign, but also helped to Jorge Lorenzo (Yamaha) 1m56.685s season. mark the tenth weekend for the Cal Crutchlow (Yamaha) +0.058s Lorenzo, who waited for the sport in Qatar. Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) +0.071s 16th lap for his top time, clocked For the first time ever, the Marc Marquez (Honda) +0.591s 1min 56.685secs around Losail session will have a direct bear- International Circuit bathed in ing on qualifying; the combined Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati) +0.853s artificial light. top 10 from across the open- Alvaro Bautista (Honda) +0.916s The 25-year-old Yamaha rider ing three practices will go on to Stefan Bradl (Honda) +0.985s from Spain was in the shadows make up the Q2 qualifying line-up for the first 15 laps as nine-time tomorrow. Dani Pedrosa (Honda) +1.064s world champion and team-mate It looked as though Crutchlow Aleix Espargaro (ART) +1.158s Valentino Rossi looked indomita- was to retain the top spot yester- Nicky Hayden (Ducati) +1.241s ble for most of the first free prac- day, having also led the final pre- tice session. season test in Jerez, but Lorenzo Bradley Smith (Yamaha) +1.684s However, Rossi eventually moved ahead with a last-gasp Andrea Iannone (Ducati) +1.874s settled for the third fastest effort in the last lap. Ben Spies (Ducati) +1.890s time (1’56.756) as Britain’s Cal That separated the top three Crutchlow clearly emerged as a riders by just 71 thousandths of a Hector Barbera (FTR) +2.923s man top watch out for in the new second with Rossi looking highly Randy de Puniet (ART) +2.948s season that commences with the confident after leading the way Karel Abraham (ART) +3.073s opening round on Sunday. halfway through. Crutchlow, the Monster Reigning Moto2 world cham- Colin Edwards (FTR Kawasaki) +3.073 s Yamaha rider, clocked 1’56.743. pion Marquez and Dovizioso Yonny Hernandez (ART) +3.741s The Briton recorded his fastest – now riding for Ducati Team – Hiroshi Aoyama (FTR) +3.878s time on the 14 lap around the completed the top five. Claudio Corti (FTR Kawasaki) +4.542s 5.38km race track. Due to the extremely dusty Spain’s Marc Marquez, riding track surface and riders pushing Danilo Petrucci (Ioda-Suter) +4.753s for Repsol Honda, touched his to find the limits, an assortment Jorge Lorenzo of Yamaha Factory Racing during the first MotoGP Free Practice of the Commercial Bank Bryan Staring (FTR Honda) +5.257s top speed of 338.7km/h on way of names found the run-off area Grand Prix of Qatar at Losail International Circuit yesterday. Lorenzo clocked the fastest time of 1’56.685. Lukas Pesek (Ioda-Suter) +5.394s to claiming the fourth spot with at Turn 1. PICTURES BY: SHAIVAL DALAL an impressive time of 1’57.276. However, this was nothing Michael Laverty (PBM) +5.450s Italian Andrea Dovizioso, the compared to Yonny Hernandez’s Ducati rider, was fifth fastest, just accident, as the Colombian lost Bradl. Behind, a low-key start for Oxford newcomer Bradley 19th places for Avintia Blusens. practice sessions. All three were .853secs adrift of the time set by the front end of his PBM-run expected title challenger Pedrosa Smith – team-mate to Crutchlow Between them were Aspar’s riding Kalex bikes. In Moto3, Lorenzo. ART bike which flipped across saw the Repsol man end up in at Tech 3 – was just outside the Randy de Puniet, Cardion AB Spain’s Luis Salom powered his Germany’s Stefan Bradl - the the gravel less than 10 minutes eighth place, having run off the top ten, but ahead of Pramac Motoracing’s Karel Abraham, KTM for the fastest time reg- 2011 Moto2 world champion - was into the session; fortunately, the track twice. Racing duo Andrea Iannone NGM Mobile Forward Racing’s istered in the second free prac- seventh fastest (1’57.670), a notch 24-year-old was able to walk As Hayden confirmed a double (who steps up from Moto2) and Colin Edwards and the aforemen- tice session. Salom clocked 2min below Alvaro Bautista who was in away and ended his day in 18th top-10 finish for Ducati Team, Ben Spies, still carrying an injury tioned Hernendez. 07.341secs. sixth spot (1’57.601). place. Espargaro raised eyebrows by from his Malaysian Grand Prix In Moto2, Takaaki Nakagami In second place was Germany’s Spain’s Dani Pedrosa (1’57.749), It was an encouraging start ending his evening ninth quick- crash of last year. of Japan was the fastest rider Jona Folger who was .292secs compatriot Aleix Espargaro to the campaign for GO&FUN est on the leading CRT bike of The rest of the 24-bike field (2’00.924) followed by Spain’s slower than Salom. Spain’s Alex (1’57.843) and 2006 world cham- Honda Gresini’s Bautista, com- Power Electronics Aspar, just was filled by CRT representatives, Esteve Rabat (2’01.016). Rins was third fastest, just pion Nicky Hayden (1’57.926) of peting the night in sixth spot 1.1 seconds off Lorenzo’s leading with Hector Barbera and Hiroshi Spain’s Pol Espargaro (2’01.110) .627secs adrift of Salom. the US finished the first practice from the LCR Honda MotoGP of time. Aoyama in respective 14th and was third fastest over two free THE PENINSULA QMMF Racing Team eyeing top-10 finish in every race, says West

DOHA: Riding high on con- way he eats. He’s inexperienced. I fidence following two impres- think he has talent. He just needs sive podium finishes last season, someone to guide him in some QMMF Racing Team rider direction otherwise it is going to Anthony West is eyeing a top- be a tough season for him. But he 10 finish every Moto2 race this seems to be a tough kid and he is year. funny. But we get along okay. West, the architect of QMMF Question: It is a win-win situ- Racing Team’s top show at Sepang ation for him. All he has to is just and Phillip Island in October last learn from you, isn’t it? year, yesterday said: “Last year Answer: Well, I can always we were trying to get good results. help him. But he’s got a good I just need to be consistent in the opportunity. He needs to relax front and my goal is to arrive in and learn as much as he can. top-10 every race. I need to fight Hopefully someone can guide him. more for podiums.” But he needs to work on small The 31-year-old former things to speed up the process. MotoGP rider said: “I feel I need By the end of the year, he could to step it up from last year. I be competitive. feel I have a lot more confidence. Question: What are your goals Mentally and physically I feel so in the new season? Valentino Rossi waves to the camera prior to a photo call at Losail Answer: much better. I feel I am stronger Anthony West of QMMF Racing Team during the first Moto2 Free Last year we were International Circuit, yesterday. than I was last year. I just need trying to get good results. In 2012, Practice of the Grand Prix of Qatar at Losail International Circuit to get better as weeks go on. I I was just trying to give back what yesterday. should be fighting in the front. It QMMF gave me. I am happy to will be good for me, the team and continue with QMMF. I just need Qatar always a bit special QMMF.” last year when we just jumped I trust the guys (in the team). It to be consistent in the front and West, known as ‘The Rain on the bike and started racing. makes a difference because you my goal is to arrive in top-10 every Man’ because of his ability to ride The whole season worked out can just focus on riding and not race. I need to fight more for podi- well in extreme wet conditions, great towards the end (in 2012). worry about small things like ums. I feel I like I need to step it to me, says Edwards said the confidence to better The bike was working good. I am that. I just do my job. I really feel up from last year. I feel I have a last year’s performance was the happy to continue with the same that this year is going to be a good lot more confidence. Mentally and DOHA: American MotoGP Valentino Rossi. On the other result of having a ‘reliable team of bike, same team. year. We’ve done good work dur- physically I feel so much better. I rider Colin Edwards has arrived NGM Mobile Forward Racing mechanics’ in the QMMF camp. Question: Last season you had ing pre-season testing. Mentally I feel I am stronger than I was last at the $75m Losail International bike, Como’s Claudio Corti makes “I feel more relaxed. There’s no said you would do better as the am not stressed where I am going year. I just need to get better as Circuit with the hope of clinch- his full-time debut in the top tier stress. Now I can just concentrate season wore on. to ride. It have been great to be weeks go on. I should be fighting ing top CRT spot at this of the sport. on riding the bike,” West said. Answer: It was good to finish with QMMF. They looked after in the front. It will be good for me, Sunday’s Commercial Bank “Finally the season begins,” the “I have the same team, the strong in both conditions. We me in the winter and brought me the team and QMMF. Grand Prix of Qatar, just as he 25-year-old Italian said. same mechanics, the same bunch were getting to the front and I here to do some riding. So instead Question: Would it be safe to did one year ago. “We have worked very hard of guys handling the side. That felt more comfortable compet- of sitting at home and doing noth- say you feel liberated now after At the start of 2012, the from the very first test to the makes a big difference. This is ing against the other riders. All ing, I have done lots of rounds of being on the podiums twice? American’s pleasing result in last one and I can’t wait to get something I haven’t had in the through the (pre-season) tests, this track. I never really like this Answer: Yes. QMMF helped Qatar proved to be the only time on-track and see where we are past. I feel comfortable like this. I felt strong and tough without track because it is long, fast track. me out. They keep me comfort- in the year that he would steal at in terms of the other CRTs. I trust the guys (in the team). It doing anything silly on the bike. But the last few times I came able. I feel really good. That’s a CRT honours. We know we still have a lot of makes a difference because you We tested many different set-ups here, I had a lot of fun. I found big relief compared to my previ- Having now traded in his Suter- work head of us, but right now can just focus on riding and not on the bike. I feel superb. I think some new lines which I think is ous stints. Even last year, I was BMW for an FTR-Kawasaki, the I want to feel the adrenalin rush worry about small things like we should be competitive (in going to help the Moto2 bikes. So relaxed. It’s going to make things 39-year-old’s optimism has risen. that you only get during a race,” that. I just do my job,” he added. 2013). It is good to start the sea- I am looking forward to it. easier. It is never easy but this “I’m looking forward to getting Corti added. Excerpts from a chat with son with this feeling. Hopefully, Question: How good is your is a better way to start a season. to this first race with a new pack- At the final pre-season test in West, the former ‘dirt track’ we will be strong as the season new young rider? Question: A word about your age,” Edwards said in a report Jerez, Corti and Edwards finished rider, at Losail International goes on. Answer: Well, he is a bit young, new bike. posted on motp.com. 16th and 24th quickest amid gen- Circuit yesterday. Question: How different do you not enough experienced. He has Answer: They will get speed. “Qatar is always a little bit erally poor weather conditions. Question: How do you look feel now compared to the start of no fear which is a good thing. He More or lessm the bike is same. special to me, being a night race Leading the way for the CRT back at the last season? the season in 2012? seems pretty motivated which is We still need to fix small issues. and having had good results here runners was Frenchman Randy Answer: Looking back I would Answer: I feel more relaxed. also good. It’s going to be really I know what it can do and what in the past. I’m looking forward de Puniet, riding an ART for say it was a great season. It was There’s no stress. Now I can difficult for him mentally and it can’t do. I know where it is to it and ready to get the year Power Electronics Aspar. good to finish like that. It has just concentrate on riding the physically (because) he’s small. strong and where it weak. The underway,” the 39-year-old from Today is the first official free given me a lot of confidence going bike. I have the same team, the He needs to bulk up a bit. I have speed is good. They set up the Texas said. practice followed by tomorrow’s into this year. The podiums kept same mechanics, the same bunch been baby-sitting him (laughs), things that I ask them to do. Edwards is one of just three official qualifying for the opening me motivated for winter train- of guys handling the side. That trying to make him eat. He just Even other riders like our set- riders to have competed in all race of the season on Sunday. Since ing. I just worked harder. We makes a big difference. This is wants to eat fruit and then he’s tings. I guess we won’t be shar- Qatar MotoGP races staged 2008, Losail Circuit has been staged have already started better than something I haven’t had in the left with no power on the bike. ing our secrets (laughs). since 2004, with the others being the only night race on the MotoGP how we did last year. It’s not like past. I feel comfortable like this. I’ve been trying to change the THE PENINSULA compatriot Nicky Hayden and calendar. THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 5 APRIL 2013 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Qatar National Hockey League Al Arabi edge past Qatar SC begins today at Heir Apparent Cup winners Al Rayyan register third straight victory Al Rayyan DOHA: The sixth edition of the BY DANOTZKI SANTOS Qatar National Hockey League will commence today at Al DOHA: Al Arabi tamed Qatar Rayyan Hockey Stadium. Sports Club 99-87 in the Group This year seven teams will be 2 match of the Emir Cup bas- competing for the top prize in the ketball at the Al Gharafa Indoor single leg round-robin matches. Arena. The final is scheduled for Al Arabi were in control at the May 24, informed Qatar Hockey onset finishing the first period Association. ahead at 27-23 and leading the Gateway Qatar, Shabab Qatar, half at 49-43. Doha Hockey Club 1 and 2, Jalloh Abdullah spearheaded Mesaieed Hockey Club, United a 7-0 run in the first 2 minutes Hockey Club and Wanderers of the third period to peg a 57-43 are the seven teams which will advantage for the white shirts. be seen in action in the weekend Leslie would however lead a matches. Qatar SC 9-1 counter-offensive Besides locally based players, a to cut the lead at 52-58, midway few teams are expected to bring in in the third stage. outstation players from Pakistan Mathew Rogers hit a long bomb and India to play in the League. from the left flank to ignite a 5-0 Gateway Qatar won the title Arabi spurt but Leslie and the last year ending the three year black shirts kept surging back to reign of Wanderers. stay in contention at 63-59. The former champions who Al Arabi sped up the tempo won the Residents League this and went on a 13-4 finishing run year are hoping to regain the for a 76-63 cushion going into the title after having won in 2009, final stage of the match. Eugene 2010 and 2011. Moliva scattered 6 quick mark- Today’s action begins with ers and Augustin Okuson added a Shabab Qatar taking on Mesaieed slam to trim Arabi’s lead at 76-71 Hockey Club. early in the fourth. Doha Hockey Club which is Moliva turned in 5 more points fielding two teams will clash in in the next possessions as Qatar the second match of the day today SC inched closer at 79-76 until In the last match of the day, Jalloh and William Byrd doused Wanderers take on United the attack with a 9-2 assault to Hockey Club. make a double-digit advantage, THE PENINSULA 88-78, for Al Arabi going into the 2 minutes of the game. Meanwhile, Al Rayyan had an Qatar National Hockey easy time against Al Wakra ear- League lier in the evening, winning 98-71 to fortify their hold of top spot Today’s matches in Group 2 with 3 straight wins Shabab Qatar vs in as many outings. The Heir Mesaieed Hockey Club, 3.00pm Apparent champions coasted to victory versus the lethargic white Doha Hockey Club 1 vs Doha Hockey Club 2, 5.00pm shirts, leading all the way 16-14, Al Arabi’s Jalloh Abdulai (left) and Qatar Sports Club’s Anderson Antonio vie for the ball during their Emir Cup basketball match at the Al Gharafa 38-32 and 62-50 en route to the Indoor Arena yesterday. RIGHT: Al Wakra’s Ayeni Olatukombo (centre) scores a basket while being challenged by Al Rayyan’s Saeed Erfan during Wanderers vs United Hockey Club, 7.00pm 27-point margin at the end of the their Emir cup match yesterday at Al Gharafa Indoor Arena. PICTURES BY: ABDUL BASIT match. THE PENINSULA Venue: Al Rayyan Hockey Stadium

QVA, Salam International sign deal

Hussein Imam Ali (left), Technical Director at Qatar Volleyball Association (QVA), and Majdi, Media Coordinator Salam International, during a press conference at QVA headquarters in Doha on Wednesday. Salam International signed a sponsorship contract with QVA as a Gold Sponsor for the Volleyball Open League. QVA Assistant Secretary General, Yusuf Ahmed Kano and Abdul Salam Issa Abu Issa, Member of the Board of Directors of Salam International inked the contract in the presence of Imam and Majdi. PHOTO BY KAMMUTTY VP

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19 20 21 22 1 Extremely pale 58 Robert who played Mr. 2 Capital city whose name Chips 23 24 25 26 means “place of the gods” 60 Czech city 27 28 29 30 3 Rain checks? 62 Mata ___

31 32 33 4 Oscars org. 63 Poly- follower 5 Popular German beer, 65 Pond denizen 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 informally 67 Blockade 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 6 Voting day: Abbr. 69 Trim 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 7 Salt Lake City player 70 John Irving title character 56 57 58 59 60 8 The Enlightened One 71 Winger of “Urban Cowboy” 9 Manischewitz products 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 72 Texting alternative 10 1975 Wimbledon winner 73 Tortoise’s opponent after 68 69 70 11 Turn in many a kids’ game finishing second? 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 12 Layers 76 Coil

79 80 81 82 83 84 13 R.N.’s work in them 77 List-ending abbr. 14 Gingerbread man’s eye, 78 Depend 85 86 87 88 89 90 Yesterday’s answer maybe 81 “Bus Stop” playwright 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 15 Photo finish 83 Ring-tailed animal How to play Hyper Sudoku: 98 99 100 101 16 Flock after a rainstorm? 87 German article A Hyper Sudoku Puzzle is solved by filling the numbers from 1 to 9 into the blank cells. A Hyper 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 17 Caleb who wrote “The 88 Say “cheese,” say Alienist” 89 Not so genteel Sudoku has unlike Sudoku 13 regions (four regions overlap with the nine standard regions). In all 110 111 112 113 114 115 regions the numbers from 1 to 9 can appear only once. Otherwise, a Hyper Sudoku is solved like 18 Subtracting 92 Polished 116 117 118 119 120 a normal Sudoku. 24 Hiccups, so to speak 94 Stated 121 122 123 124 26 ___ different tune 96 Part of songwriting 29 Edmonton N.H.L.’er 125 126 127 128 100 Synchronized (with) How to play Kakuro: 32 See 50-Down 101 Earth and beyond The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any 33 Lo-cal 103 Persephone’s abductor size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells ACROSS 71 Forlorn, say 35 Produce an egg 106 “___ to Be You” like in a crossword. And, just like in a crossword, 1 Lady Bird Johnson’s middle name 74 Turner of Hollywood 36 Evangeline, for one 107 “I Was ___ War Bride” some of the dark cells will contain numbers. Some 5 Butt 75 Chicken for dinner 37 Cabo da ___, westernmost 108 Columbus called it home spot in continental Europe cells will contain two numbers. 9 Wolf 79 Actress de Ravin of “Roswell” and 109 Was over “Lost” 38 Robert Louis Stevenson title However, in a crossword the numbers reference 15 Year the emperor Frederick II died 110 Logician’s word 80 Showy coat? character clues. In a kakuro, the numbers are all you get! 19 Phony 111 High schooler 82 ___ Red Seal (classical music label) 40 Trunks They denote the total of the digits in the row or 20 Dancer’s duds 112 God with a day of the week 41 Ivanhoe’s creator column referenced by the number. 21 Last word of Kansas’ motto 84 Score component named after him 42 ___ prof. Within each 22 Wings on an avis 85 Blast 113 Son or daughter, typically 43 Nautical pole collection of cells 23 Tempo for a stringed instrument? 86 Royal of 27-Across 114 Luxury 44 Law office worker, - called a run - any 25 Nine Muses after dieting? 88 Mushroom-to-be 117 Suffix with pay informally of the numbers 1 27 Madrileño’s home 90 Ambition 119 Symbol of simplicity 48 Taking out to 9 may be used 28 Cartonfuls of eggs 91 Forcibly divides 120 Indian state once owned by 50 With 32-Down, first lady but, like sudoku, 30 Indian musician’s collection 93 Soul singer James with the 1990 #1 Portugal hit “I Don’t Have the Heart” who graduated from each number may 31 Stop on many a Caribbean cruise Harvard Law 95 “I got ___ …” only be used once. 32 River forming the borders of parts of 52 End-of-semester event five states 97 Work at Yesterday’s 33 Maid’s supply 98 Stout, for one answer 34 Alien attackers’ goal? 99 Choice of the right door on “Let’s DEBT S IMP ZAPS 39 22 of the 26 letters of the alphabet, Make a Deal”? VAL ID USER EURO in D.C. 102 Lorelei’s locale DRONE CASE AR I A 42 Part of an Egyptian headpiece 104 “The Time Machine” people WA T CH T HE C L OCK 105 Battlefield activity 45 The Destroyer, in Hinduism ADO EAT EMU RES Sherman’s Lagoon by Jim Toomey 46 Part of a presidential motorcade 110 Hawke and Allen 47 Kind of committee 112 Word before “a will” and “a way” COVERTHESPREAD 49 Many unopened letters 115 “The Sopranos” roles TREX SAL TEL 51 Birthplace of cuneiform writing 116 Like tuned-in listeners? SARAN TOT SLUGS 53 Is heartbroken 118 Orlando team water boy, e.g.? MO E P A L E NY A 55 Architect Saarinen 121 Roberts’s “Pretty Woman” co-star WA SH T HE L AUNDRY 56 Draped item 122 Fictitious Plaza resident SAD ICU LIL EOS 123 A reed 57 Poor, as security TURNTHECORNER 58 Decisive time 124 Medicinal plant 59 Most likely to succeed 125 Billfold fillers AS I A EVEN ANWAR 61 Windpipe 126 Just missed a birdie RAFT ROLE STAND 64 Étienne’s mine 127 Accident reminder RUTS SSTS SYNS 66 Falling apart 128 No longer carrying current ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE 68 Rush hour control?