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FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 • 25 Shaaban 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6459 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 GCC seeks aid for Rohingyas Qatar opens patent Foreign ministers slam 2022 slur campaign against Qatar registration office DOHA: The GCC foreign min- DOHA: Qatar became the first GCC country to open a Patent isters, at a meeting in Riyadh Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Registration Office, making proc- yesterday, condemned what ess of international patent application filing easier and more they said was a policy of rac- efficient. ism and discrimination against The Ministry of Economy and Commerce has opened ePCT Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar in collaboration with WIPO (World Intellectual Property and said atrocities being perpe- Organisation) to protect intellectual rights in Qatar. trated on them were a flagrant In May 2011, WIPO launched ePCT, a new online service, to violation of human rights. make international patent application filing easier and more The ministers called on the efficient, and offers users and national patent offices many international community, the UN advantages. Security Council and civil organi- The office was inaugurated in a two-day workshop on PCT sations the world over to look for which concluded yesterday at the ministry’s headquarters. It was a quick and effective solution to organised by the ministry in collaboration with WIPO. the plight of the Rohingyas within Khalifa Al Hitmi, from Intellectual Property Rights Department the framework of UN and OIC at the ministry, said the ministry wants to increase awareness resolutions and the UN Human about protection of intellectual rights by opening the office. Rights Charter. The opening of the office is a major step for Qatar as this “We demand that urgent system is currently used by select countries. WIPO is one of 17 humanitarian aid be provided to specialised agencies of the United Nations and was created in the suffering Rohingya people,” 1967 to encourage creative activity and promote protection of the ministers said in a commu- intellectual property throughout the world. niqué at the end of the meeting, PCT assists applicants in seeking patent protection interna- reports QNA. tionally for their inventions, helps patent offices with their pat- The ministerial council also ent granting decisions and facilitates public access to technical deplored what it called was a vili- information relating to those inventions. fication campaign against Qatar By filing one international patent application under PCT, appli- and its right to host FIFA World Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah addressing the meeting as GCC Secretary-General Dr cants can seek protection for an invention in 148 countries across Cup 2022. Abdullatif Al Zayani looks on. the world. In its communiqué, the council Dr Amir Ali, Senior Adviser, Arab Unit, WIPO, said the office reiterated that it full support for Ushtar’ were taken to Iraq where Riyadh, also attended by GCC security and economic repercus- will also facilitate online marketing of patent rights. and solidarity with Qatar since they were given military training, Secretary-General Dr Abdullatif sions can’t be ignored. He praised the ministry for adopting latest techniques in the Doha won the bid in a fair com- training in the use of weapons and Al Zayani. The agenda of the meeting field of patents rights. petition to host the event. making explosives. Dr Al Attiyah told the opening included issues and projects Dr Ali said the office will ease the process of registering pat- The ministers praised Bahrain Foreign Minister and President session that the meeting is being related to GCC work and topics ent rights. for cracking down on terrorists of the current session of GCC held amid continuing challenges, pertaining to strategic dialogue The workshop was attended by representatives from Qatar who were threatening its secu- ministerial council H E Dr Khalid risks and threats engulfing the between GCC states and other University, Qatar Foundation, Qatar Scientific Club, and rity and said they belonged to a bin Mohamed Al Attiyah chaired Middle East, particularly terror- blocs. See also page 22 Intellectual Agent and Advocate. THE PENINSULA terror outfit called ‘Saraya Al the council’s 135th session in ism and violence whose political, THE PENINSULA Egypt adjourns Illegal liquor-making unit busted, three held Al Jazeera DOHA: Law-enforcement The policemen searched the agencies have busted an illegal vehicle and to their horror dis- scribes’ retrial liquor-making unit functioning covered some 350 plastic bottles, from a house in the northern each of 1.5-litre capacity, filled CAIRO: A Cairo court yester- areas of the country and seized with what was suspected to be day adjourned the retrial of Al large quantities of the danger- illicit liquor. Jazeera television journalists, ous brew that was stocked up The policemen asked the driver, charged with aiding a terrorist for sale. an Asian, about it and he con- organisation, until June 25 for A police patrol from Al Shamal fessed the illicit liquor stock was further closing statements from Public Security Department was meant for sale and that he was the defence team. on a routine round in the area involved with two fellow Asians in The charge refers to the when they sighted a vehicle and distilling illicit liquor in a house. Muslim Brotherhood, which became suspicious. The man was taken into cus- was outlawed in Egypt after the The team approached the vehi- tody and a little later, after tak- army ousted Islamist president cle and thought they would ask its ing legal recourse, a police party, Mohamed Mursi during mass driver to show his ID as a routine in coordination with Al Faza and protests against his rule in 2013. check. CID sleuths, raided the place and Mohamed Fahmy, a natural- So they waved at the driver to busted the liquor-making den. ised Canadian who has given up stop, which he did, but instead of There, a distilling unit was seen his Egyptian citizenship, and waiting for the policemen to come functioning and stocked up were Drums filled with illicit liquor and (right) equipment used to brew it, seized during a police raid on a house. Egyptian Baher Mohamed were near him, he took to his heels. 1,220 plastic bottles filled with the released on bail in February after The policemen, now sure that brew. Also kept were big barrels, of the driver were taken into distil illicit liquor. The trio had investigation and action, accord- spending more than a year in cus- there was some foul play, gave the each of 200-litre capacity, filled custody. been brewing illicit liquor in large ing to a news item on the website tody. Australian Peter Greste was driver a chase, caught up with with the illicit liquor. Also seized were equipment quantities for sale. They were of the Ministry of Interior. deported in February. The jour- him and overpowered him. The two Asian accomplices and raw materials for use to referred to Public Prosecution for THE PENINSULA nalists were sentenced to between seven and 10 years in prison on charges, including spreading lies Al Sadd unveils Xavi to help a terrorist organisation, which they have denied. Erdogan pushes Ashobaa cyclone ‘not for coalition govt likely to impact Qatar’ ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yester- DOHA: Cyclone ‘Ashobaa’ Visibility could be as low as day called for swift formation expected to hit Oman’s coast two km in the morning due to of a new coalition government, today is unlikely to have an slight dust hanging in the air, ending almost four days of impact on Qatar except that and will improve as the day unusual silence after legisla- it might lead to cloudy condi- progresses. tive polls seen as a blow to his tions, according to the weather The maximum temperature authority. bureau. forecast is 41 degrees C (in Erdogan’s comments added In Oman, the cyclone is being Doha) and the minimum for the weight to expectations of a coali- feared as it may see 100km/ country is expected to be 27. In tion government after the ruling hour wind and bring along heavy Doha, night temperature will be Justice and Development Party rains. It was 160km away from 30 degrees. (AKP) he co-founded lost major- the Omani coast at the time of The day will be cooler in Al ity in Sunday’s polls. “Everyone going to press last night. Ruwais where the maximum should put their egos aside and Meanwhile, the bureau has temperature has been forecast a government must be formed as forecast a slightly dusty and at 34 degrees, while the night soon as possible, within the con- windy day today with northwest- will be relatively pleasant in Al stitutional process,” Erdogan said erly wind moving from 18km to Khor, Abu Samra, Al Wakra and in his first public comments since Former FC Barcelona’s player Xavi Hernandez with young fans during his presentation as new Al Sadd Club 36km/hour by noon. Mesaieed, where the minimum the vote. See also page 5 player at a press conference yesterday. The 35-year-old has signed a two-year contract. Report on page 22 At some places, the wind could temperature is expected around AGENCIES blow up to 52km an hour. 27. THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Safe fasting tips, screening for diabetics DOHA: Action on Diabetes with recommendations on how and educate them on benefits managing it properly and has partnered with Al Meera to fast safely during Ramadan. of eating well and fasting safely staying healthy. We encour- Consumer Goods Company They are also supporting this Ramadan and beyond. age people to get screened for for a second year to screen visitors by providing advice “We’re committed to helping a happy, healthy Ramadan at shoppers for diabetes and on how to reduce the risk of tackle one of Qatar’s greatest participating Al Meera stores,” offer diabetics advice on developing diabetes in the health challenges by backing Thomsen added. healthy lifestyles and safe future and answering ques- the initiative.” This year’s partnership fasting during Ramadan. tions related to diabetes, Herluf Nis Thomsen, is one of several education, It is putting up screening healthy eating habits and Programme Manager, Action awareness and screening pro- booths at three of Al Meera’s exercise. on Diabetes, said, “During grammes led by Action on stores — Airport, Mansoura Brochures and educational Ramadan, people that choose Diabetes during Ramadan. and Muraikh — for shoppers information are to be distrib- to fast will alter their eating Action on Diabetes is col- during the pre-Ramadan rush. uted at each location to pro- patterns and regular exercise laborating with many lead- Staffed by nurses and edu- vide shoppers with information routines. It is vital to maintain ing organisations, including cators, the booths were set up on diabetes, the importance a balanced diet to avoid com- Hamad Medical Cooperation, near the stores’ entrance from of early detection and healthy plications that may arise, par- Primary Healthcare 4pm to 8pm on Thursday, fol- lifestyle tips. ticularly for those at high risk Corporation and Qatar lowed by Saturday, Sunday and Dr Mohammed Nasser Al or diagnosed with diabetes. Diabetes Association to hold Monday and from 2pm to 6pm Qahtani, Deputy CEO, Al “The earlier Type 2 diabe- on events to educate patients tomorrow (Friday). Meera, said, “We are delighted tes is diagnosed, the better on precautions while fasting Nurses and educators offer to team up with Action on the chance there of reducing and manage their condition screening and provide person- Diabetes for a second year in the risk of developing dia- and medication effectively. www.swiss-belhotel.com alised analysis of results along a row to screen our customers betes-related complications, THE PENINSULA Tel Fax Deputy PM meets Russian official

Tel India invites Fax applications for agriculture fellowship Tel Fax DOHA: The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), an autonomous body Tel + 974 44298888 under the Ministry of Agriculture of India, Fax has invited applica- tions for Netaji Subhas- ICAR International Tel Fellowships (ICAR-IFs) for 2015-16, the Indian Fax embassy said yesterday. ICAR-IFs are available to pursue doctoral degrees Tel (PhD) in agricultural and Fax allied science in the identi- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud fied priority areas. Thirty yesterday met Member of Federal Republic of Russia, Republic of Ingushetia, Ahmed Blankov, and his delega- fellowships are available tion, including Ingushetia President’s Advisor Dr Louay Youssef. Talks dealt with means of enhancing relations for a programme leading between both countries. Russian Ambassador Noor Mohammad Julov was present. Tel to PhD under the scheme, Fax the embassy said in a statement. www.doha.hilton.com Fellowships are avail- able to Indians for study Tel 44233333 974+ abroad in the identified overseas university/insti- Al Jazeera English Fax 44233000 974+ tutions having strong research and teaching capabilities; and to over- seas (non-Indian) candi- dates for study in the best online wins 3 awards Indian agricultural uni- versities in the ICAR-Aus DOHA: Al Jazeera English system. online has won three awards, Guidelines, including including Best Technical application proforma, eli- Innovation, Best Use of Tel gibility criteria, priority Photography and Outstanding areas for study and fellow- Digital Team at Online Media Fax ship amount are available Awards in London. on ICAR website www. The Best Technical Innovation icar.org.in. and Outstanding Digital Team of Applications should the Year went to the Palestine Tel be submitted online/by Remix project which was a net- Fax post (two hard copies and work wide initiative that allowed one soft copy online) to users to access some of Al the Assistant Director- Jazeera’s best documentaries on General (EQR), Education Palestine. The project also had Tel Division, ICAR, Krishi interactive maps and timelines Fax Anusandhan Bhawan II, which allowed users to under- Pusa, New Delhi – 110012. stand the Palestinian cause and Email: [email protected] contextualise it. Officials at the event. Deadline at the ICAR is “Winning two awards for the June 30. best digital team and best techni- Review for the outstanding digital to photography which had added Tel THE PENINSULA cal innovation is a privilege for Al team award, Al Jazeera beat Vice to users’ experience when they Fax Jazeera. Palestine Remix weaves News, Channel 4 News online, the visited the site. latest HTML5 video technology Huffington Post, the Guardian and “The recognition by our peers Minister meets with informative videos to involve BBC News Online. is a testament to our efforts to our audience in the storytelling For best technical innovation, find new ways of storytelling and Tel GCC delegations process. The interactive team and Palestine Remix was awarded explain complex issues to a global our journalists constantly try and for demonstrating how technol- audience. Fax DOHA: Minister use new ways to tell a story. ogy was applied in a creative and Our team is small but passion- of Administrative “Winning the awards has mould-breaking way. ate about what they create, and Development H E Dr shown Al Jazeera is ahead of Best Use of Photography was it’s great that our peers agree that Issa bin Saad Al Jafali the pack for original journalism given to Al Jazeera for its por- they are the best digital team in Tel Al Nuaimi yesterday and using innovative tools,” said trait of a yogi, which was a photo- the world. We will continue to Fax met heads of delegations Mohammed El Haddad, Senior graphic exploration of the power push the boundaries of original participating in the 16th Producer and Lead, Palestine of yoga to unite people across journalism and innovative design,” meeting of the directors Remix technical Project. cultural and physical divides. The said Imad Musa, Head of Online, of GCC institutes of pub- Judged by an independent photo gallery was praised for its Al Jazeera English. lic administration. QNA panel from the British Journalism innovative and dynamic approach THE PENINSULA

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Tel close for corridor works Fax DOHA: The Public Works City, Religious Complex, and Authority — Ashghal — has Industrial Area. announced that Al Hadarma The diversion is necessary www.marriottmarquisdoha.com Road between Al Wukair to enable works on the project Street and Al Wakra Main which encompasses develop- Tel + 974 44195000 Road, will remain closed on ment of a road with five lanes Fax + 974 44195100 both directions from tomor- in each direction from Barwa row to facilitate works on the City to Al Matar Street. East West Corridor Project. The road will also connect Vehicles driving on Al to the West Corridor project, Wukair or Al Wakra main forming a direct link to Hamad roads must use the newly- International Airport and the opened F-Ring Road as an Industrial Area. alternative to reach Barwa THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Bahah thanks Emir for helping Fish, vegetables Yemeni people become expensive DJIBOUTI: Yemen’s Vice- President and Prime Minister Khaled Bahah expressed his thanks to Emir H H Sheikh as summer sets in Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani for his urgent assistance to Yemeni DOHA: With the onset of Qatari cucumber was avail- brothers. summer, some popular fish able at the central market for This came when Bahah visited and vegetables are becoming QR4.47 a kg on average, and the centre for Qatari assistance expensive. Jordanian ‘khoosa’ and capsicum in Yemen. Average central market prices were sold for QR5.16 and QR6 a He was briefed on Qatar’s aid, released by the Ministry of kg, respectively. which included 50 truckloads of Economy and Commerce for the The ministry said prices of food stuff for more than 60,000 past month (May 8 to June 8) other vegetables were stable. people, coolers to solve the prob- show sharp fluctuations in the Saudi green peas (whose sea- lem of drinking water, and gen- prices of some fish species and son being winter is over) were erators and fans for the displaced vegetables. the costliest of all vegetables (at Yemenis at camps in Djibouti. For example, small Qatari the central market) and sold for Over seven Qatari aircraft car- Balul fish was sold for QR67 a QR10.3 per kg. rying foodstuff and tents have kg on average in the month, and Lettuce was sold for QR4.8 a been distributed in Aden and Qatari Hamour, popular among kg and Indian onions QR2.5/kg. neighbouring regions. locals, was available for QR62 Australian carrots retailed for Minister of Labour and Social Affairs H E Abdullah Saleh Mubarak Al Khulaifi interacts with officials after inaugurating a kg. QR6/kg but those from Saudi FM honoured an exhibition to mark International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, under the theme ‘Don’t Destruct Small Qatari Rabib fish was Arabia were cheaper, at QR2.8/ yourself’ at Villaggio yesterday. QASSIM RAHMATULLAH retailed for QR39 a kg, big kg on average. with GCC award Fasker fish was the cheapest The ministry said fruit prices at QR9/kg and Shery sold for were stable in the month. MANAMA: Qatari QR10/kg. American apples were available Ambassador to Bahrain Sheikh 317 drug smuggling bids foiled last year The month also saw shortages for QR5.8 a kg on average and Jassim bin Mohamed Al Thani of some popular vegetables like Egyptian lemon was sold for yesterday received the GCC DOHA: Customs authorities bids are foiled in collaboration The event at Villaggio contin- tomato and cucumber so their QR6.2 per kg. Humanitarian Work Award on foiled 317 bids to smuggle drugs with law-enforcement agencies. ues until tomorrow. prices went up slightly. Qatari Chinese apples were mar- behalf of Foreign Minister and into the country last year, a “Our cooperation is close Major-General Saad bin Jassem tomatoes were not available last ginally cheaper at QR5 per kg, Qatar Development Fund Board senior customs official said with the Anti-drug Trafficking Al Khulaifi, Director-General, month as the growing season while African orange was sold Chairman H E Dr Khalid bin yesterday. Directorate,” Al Mohannadi said. Public Security, jointly opened the ended and tomatoes were mostly for QR3.4 a kg. Mohamed Al Attiyah, in a cer- According to him, almost Meanwhile, Minister of event with the Minister. The expo imported from Jordan and sold Philippines banana and pine- emony in Manama, held under every day at least one smug- Labour and Social Affairs H E aims to raise awareness against for QR4.5 a kg on average. apple were sold for QR6.2 and the patronage of Bahrain’s gling attempt is foiled and is Dr Abdullah Saleh Mubarak Al drug use. Al Mohannadi said all The ministry tracks prices of QR6 per kg on average, respec- Supreme Council for Islamic investigated. Khulaifi opened an exhibition to customs checkpoints have ultra- fruits and vegetables daily and tively, according to the ministry Affairs President Sheikh Ahmed Eisa Al Mohannadi, mark International Day Against modern and sophisticated sys- it is mandatory for retailers to figures. Abdullah bin Khalid Al Khalifa. Deputy Chairman, Customs Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking tems to foil drug smuggling bids. announce prices on a daily basis. THE PENINSULA QNA General Authority, said smuggling which falls on June 26. THE PENINSULA New Orbital Highway and Truck Route ‘key part of Expressway’

DOHA: Public Works road parking bays, storm water grade-separated interchanges Authority (Ashghal) yesterday drainage, intelligent transporta- consisting of seven lanes in each announced that the new Orbital tion systems, control systems, direction. It is on the west and Highway and Truck Route green landscape and metal beam north of Doha City, starting at forms a fundamental part of its guardrails on both sides of roads. Salwa Road, passing through Expressway Programme which Designed with road users in Dukhan Road and North Road involves construction of a high- mind, the highway and truck up to North Relief Road. The new way network that will trans- route provides heavy vehicles road forms part of New Orbital form road travel in Qatar. with a separate roadway, allow- Highway that connects the south The ‘Orbital’ (a reference to ing traffic to flow freely and safely and north of Qatar. Work on the Orbital Road and Truck route) along main expressways, Ashghal contract started in Q2, 2014. is a vital addition to the road said. Orbital will become signifi- Contract 3 includes about network as it will facilitate a free cant in the movement of people 55km of dual carriageway, five flowing traffic route without the and goods. It aims to manage up two-level interchanges with seven need to travel through Doha City, to 1,500 heavy goods vehicles per lanes in each direction. helping alleviate congestions and hour in each direction and can Located to the southwest better manage the movement of cater for general traffic volumes of Doha, it starts at Mesaieed heavy vehicles. at about 8,000 vehicles per hour Industrial City Interchange, The project will relieve traf- in each direction. reaching Salwa Road, connect- Al Mayeda TBM at work at Musherib station yesterday. fic congestions in Doha and offer Contract 1 for the project ing side roads Mesaieed Road people an alternative route with includes about 45km of road net- 1, Wukair Road 1 and Wukair faster journey times between Al work and represents 25 percent Road 2, and East-West Corridor Khor in the north and Mesaieed of the 200km Orbital highway. to New Orbital Highway. 30km of Greater Doha Metro in the south. It will be a safe, The project is on the south- The contract provides a vital swift, efficient and high quality west of Doha and provides a new connection between contracts 1 highway that will provide bet- dual carriageway connecting New and 2. Work on this part of the ter connectivity to Mesaieed Doha Port and Al Wakra bypass, project commenced in Q2, 2014. Rail tunnelling completed Industrial City and Ras Laffan with other phases of New Orbital Contract 4 involves 42km of Industrial City. Highway, and construction of a new dual carriageway, includ- DOHA: Qatar Rail yesterday breakthrough yesterday, having According to Qatar Rail engineers, Providing the backbone of the road linking Mesaieed Road to ing five grade-separated inter- announced that 30km of tunnel- dug 1.6km of tunnel. excavation is equivalent to the growing road network, Orbital East/West Corridor. The cross changes. It is on the west and ling out of 113km for the Greater It will be transported to Al length of Burj Qatar, and the land will see construction of around section of roads will provide four north of Doha City, providing Doha Metro Rail project has Qassar station for work. area is equivalent to five football 200km of new dual carriageway lanes in each direction with the connection between Contract been completed. The breakthrough was subject pitches. The excavated soil weighs and 22 multi-level interchanges, provision of two future lanes. 2 of New Orbital Highway and When Qatar Rail last reported to a few days’ delay at the end of 500,000 Toyota Land Cruisers. typically four and five lanes with Work on the contract started in Truck Route at Dukhan Highway progress in April, the figure was its journey. Shortly before break- Hamad Ibrahim Al Bishri, the capacity of two more on either Q1, 2014. to North Road and Al Khor Link 18.5km. Entire tunnelling work is through, the machine encountered Deputy CEO, Qatar Rail, said: side. Infrastructure of Orbital Contract 2 encompasses Road. Work on this part of the expected to be over in 2017. a water source which had to be “During the past year, we have Road will include passways for about 48km of new dual car- project commenced in Q2, 2014. Some 21 tunnel boring machines dealt with properly and safely achieved significant developments camels, weighing stations, side riageway that includes eight THE PENINSULA are deployed for the project and prior to its appearance into the on the project, thanks to efforts are operational, Qatar Rail offi- open air in Msheireb. of the company and its contrac- cials said. Al Mayeda is one of 21 TBMs tors. While the excavation phase Qatar Railways Company assigned for the project. All Qatar is making good progress at all (Qatar Rail) overseeing construc- Rail TBMs are on track to com- stations under the supervision of tion of the integrated railway plete tunnelling by 2017. our skilled team, we are happy network, announced the break- Msheireb station, the flagship to celebrate a new breakthrough through of one of Doha Metro station which will be the central at Msheireb. “Mining through tunnel boring machines (TBMs) hub of Doha’s public transpor- ground layers that vary under at Msheireb station. tation system, will be the major highways and road facilities with The breakthrough is the first at interchange for Red Line, Green a large-diameter TBM is a feat in this main metro station, marking Line and Gold Line. Excavation at itself. The short delay at the end progress of the underground tun- Msheireb is about 40 metres below shows how unpredictable our work nelling works. ground. Construction works are can be sometimes and how impor- The TBM named Al Mayeda, scheduled for completion by 2018. tant is our engineers’ skills and belonging to Doha Metro Red Line, Msheireb station is seeing quality of planning. It is not always was launched at Al Corniche sta- important milestones in the possible to know when these inci- tion last November and achieved delivery of its foundation works. dents might happen, but it is cer- tain that they will occur at some point and we plan on this basis.” So far, Qatar Rail has had over 70,000 lorry movements for excavation at Msheireb Station. Chris Haskell, Senior Project Manager, Msheireb Station, said: “If all trucks were lined up, the queue would stretch from Doha to Makkah. Each day, we de-water the equivalent of an Olympic-sized swimming pool. When we put our project into such perspective, we realise the sheer scale of the project and how much we have accomplished up to now.” Hamad Ibrahim Al Bishri, Deputy CEO, Qatar Rail, speaks to reporters. Work on a concrete underpass at an interchange in progress. THE PENINSULA FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ISLAM Fasting: Meaning and rules

BY DR MUZAMMIL H SIDDIQI 2) Deliberately causing oneself to vomit. asting during the month of 3) The beginning of menstrual or Ramadan is one of the five pil- post-childbirth bleeding even in the last lars of Islam which is of para- moment before sunset. Fmount significance. The Prophet 4) Ejaculation out of sexual excitement (peace and blessings be upon him) said: from kissing, hugging, etc. “Islam is built upon five pillars: Testifying 5) Eating, drinking, smoking or having that there is no god except Allah and that sexual intercourse after Fajr (dawn) on Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, mistaken assumption that it is not Fajr performing Prayer, paying the Zakah, time yet. Similarly, engaging in these acts making the pilgrimage to the Sacred before sunset on the mistaken assump- House (Haj), and fasting the month of tion that it is already sunset time. Ramadan.” (Reported by Al Bukhari and Sexual relationship during fasting is Muslim) forbidden and is a great sin. Those who engage in it must make both qada’ (make 1. WHAT IS FASTING? up the fasts) and kaffarah (expiation by Fasting is called sawm in the Quran. fasting for 60 days after Ramadan or to The word sawm literally means “to feed 60 poor people for each day of fast abstain”. In Surat Maryam, Allah tells broken in this way). According to Imam us about Mary the mother of Jesus that Abu Hanifah, eating and/or drinking she said, (I have vowed a fast (sawm) deliberately during fast also entail the for the sake of the Merciful, so today I same qada’ and kaffarah. shall not speak to anyone. ) (Maryam 19: 26) The meaning is “I have vowed to D) Things that do not invalidate abstain from speaking to anyone today”. fasting: According to Shariah, the word (sawm During fast, the following things are means to abstain from all those things permissible: that are forbidden during fasting from 1) Taking a bath or shower. If water the break of dawn to the sunset, and to is swallowed involuntarily it will not do this with the intention of fasting. invalidate the fast. According to most of the jurists swimming is also allowed 2. PURPOSE OF FASTING in fasting, but one should avoid diving, The Quran says: O you who believe, fast- because that will cause the water to go ing is prescribed for you as it was prescribed from mouth or nose in the stomach. for those who were before you, in order that 2) Using perfumes, wearing contact you may learn taqwa. (Al Baqarah 2: 183) lenses or using eye drops. Taqwa is a very important spiritual 3) Taking injections or having blood and ethical term of the Quran. It is the test. sum total of all Islamic spirituality and 4) Using miswak (tooth-stick) or ethics. It is a quality in a believer’s life toothbrush (even with tooth paste) and that keeps him/her aware of Allah all the In the second year of Hijrah, Muslims were commanded to fast rinsing the mouth or nostrils with water time. A person who has taqwa loves to in the month of Ramadan every year. The Quran says: O you who provided it is not overdone (so as to avoid do good and to avoid evil for the sake of swallowing water). Allah. Taqwa is piety, righteousness and believe, fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those 5) Eating, drinking or smoking unin- consciousness of Allah. Taqwa requires tentionally, i.e. one forgot that one was patience and perseverance. Fasting who were before you, in order that you may learn piety. fasting. But one must stop as soon as one teaches patience, and with patience one remembers and should continue one’s can rise to the high position of taqwa. (Al Baqarah 2: 183) fast. The Prophet (PBUH) said that fasting 6) If one sleeps during the daytime and is a shield. It protects a person from sin mankind and the clear signs of guidance Ramadan to complete the missed days. for sahur is the last half hour before dawn has a wet-dream, it does not break one’s and lustful desires. When the disciples and distinction. Thus whosoever among Those who are sick with incurable illness or the time for Fajr prayer. fast. Also, if one has intercourse dur- of Jesus asked him how to cast the evil you witness the month must fast.... ) (Al and expect no better health, such people 2) Take iftar (break-fast) immediately ing the night and was not able to make spirits away, he is reported to have said, Baqarah 2: 185) are also allowed not to fast but they must after sunset. Shari’ah considers sunset ghusl (bathe) before dawn, he/she can “But this kind never comes out except The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) pay the fidyah, which is giving a day’s when the disk of the sun goes below the begin fast and make ghusl later. Women by prayer and fasting.” (Matthew 17:21). explained this further in a number of meals for each fast missed to a needy per- horizon and disappears completely. whose menstruation stops during the According Imam Al Ghazali (d. 1111 CE), his statements reported in the books of son. One can also give instead the money 3) During fast abstain from all false night may begin fast even if they have fasting produces a semblance of divine Hadith. It is reported by Imam Bukhari for meals to a needy person. Women in talks and deeds. Do not quarrel, have not made ghusl yet. In all these cases, quality of samadiyyah (freedom from and Imam Muslim on the authority of Ibn their menses and post-natal bleeding disputes, indulge in arguments, use bad bathing (ghusl) is necessary but fast is want) in a human being. Imam Ibn Al ‘Umar that the Messenger of Allah said, are not allowed to fast, but they must words, or do anything that is forbidden. valid even without bathing. Qayyim (d. 1350 CE), viewed fasting as “Islam is built upon five pillars: testifying make up later after Ramadan. Pregnant One should try to discipline oneself mor- 7) Kissing between husband and wife a means of releasing the human spirit that there is no god except Allah and that women and mothers who are nursing ally and ethically, beside gaining a physi- is allowed in fast, but one should try to from the clutches of desire, thus allow- Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, babies, if they find it difficult to fast cal training and discipline. One should avoid it so that one may not do anything ing moderation to prevail in the carnal performing Prayer, paying the Zakah, they can also postpone their fasting to also not make a show of one’s fasting by further that is forbidden during fast. self. Imam Shah Waliullah Dahlawi (d. making the pilgrimage to the Sacred a later time when they are in a better talking too much about it, or by showing 1762 CE) viewed fasting as a means of House (Haj), and fasting the month of condition. dry lips and hungry stomach, or showing E) Requirements for the validity of weakening the bestial and reinforcing Ramadan.” Journey according to the Shariah is bad temper. The fasting person must be fasting: There are basically two main the angelic elements in human beings. The Muslim Ummah is unanimous any journey that takes you away from a pleasant person with good spirit and components of fasting: Renowned scholar Maulana Mawdudi that fasting in the month of Ramadan your city of residence, a minimum of 48 good cheer. 1) The intention (niyyah) for fasting. (d. 1979 CE) emphasised that fasting for is obligatory upon every person who is miles or 80km. It is the same journey that 4) During fast one should do acts of One should make a sincere intention a full month every year trains a person capable (mukallaf). allows you to shorten (qasr) your prayers. charity and goodness to others and should to fast for the sake of Allah every day individually and the Muslim community The journey must be for a good cause. It increase his/her worship and reading of before dawn. The intention need not be as a whole, in piety and self restraint. 4. RULES ABOUT FASTING: is a sin to travel in Ramadan in order the Quran. Every Muslim should try to in words, but must be with the sincerity to avoid fasting. A Muslim should try to read the whole Quran at least once dur- of the heart and mind. Some jurists are 3. FASTING IS OBLIGATORY A) Who must fast? change his/ her plans during Ramadan ing the month of Ramadan. of the opinion that the intention can be In the second year of Hijrah, Muslims Fasting in the month of Ramadan is to be able to fast and should not travel made once only for the whole month and were commanded to fast in the month obligatory upon every Muslim, male or unless it is necessary. The traveller who C) Things that invalidate the fast: does not have to be repeated every day. of Ramadan every year. The Quran says, female, who is adult (i.e. has reached misses the fasts of Ramadan must make One must avoid doing anything that It is, however, better to make intention (O you who believe, fasting is prescribed puberty) and sane and who is not sick up those missed days later after Ramadan may render one’s fast invalid. Things every day to take full benefit of fasting. for you as it was prescribed for those or on a journey. as soon as possible. that invalidate the fast and require 2) Abstaining from dawn to dusk from who were before you, in order that you Sickness could be a temporary sick- qada’ (making up for these days) are the everything that invalidates fasting. may learn taqwa(piety). ) (Al Baqarah 2: ness from which a person expects to be B) Fasting according to the Sunnah: following: 183) Further Allah says, (The month of cured soon. Such a person is allowed not 1) Take sahur (pre-dawn meal). It is 1) Eating, drinking or smoking deliber- Dr Muzammil H Siddiqi is President of the Fiqh Ramadan is that in which was revealed to fast during the days of his/her sick- Sunnah and there is a great reward and ately, including taking any non-nourish- Council of North America. the Quran, wherein is guidance for ness, but he/she must fast later after blessing in taking sahur. The best time ing items by mouth, nose or anus. www.onislam.net Ramadan may be challenging, but its advantages are immense During the month of Ramadan the Quran was sent down as a BY DR HOJJAT RAMZY measure. So every one of you who is present is also recommended in order to stay guidance to the people with Clear during this month should fast.” (Quran hydrated. Eating foods that are high in Signs of the true guidance and as nce more, the holy month of 2:185) Fasting is not a new phenome- water content, such as fruit, is also a the Criterion (between right and Ramadan is fast approaching. non, it has been practised by believers good idea. Children before the age of wrong). So those of you who live The time is coming for throughout the ages. puberty are exempt from fasting and to see that month should fast it, OMuslims to fast from dawn All prophets had to spend time in should not be forced to fast a full day. and whoever is sick or on a journey to dusk for a whole month. fasting and seclusion before receiv- Many children, however, love to be should fast the same number of The month of Ramadan is the holiest ing guidance from Almighty God and part of the spirit of Ramadan and may other days instead. Allah wants month of the Islamic calendar. It was in were asked to encourage their follow- try fasting from breakfast to lunch ease and not hardship for you so this month that Muhammad (peace be ers to practise fasting also. This year, to feel involved. As well as fasting, that you may complete the number upon him) was appointed to be the final Ramadan falls in June and July and Muslims are encouraged to spend this of days required, magnify Allah prophet and messenger of Almighty coincides with some of the longest days month in different acts of worship and for what He has guided you to, and God, and it is the month in which the (18 hours) of the calendar in the UK, spiritual purification, so that they leave give thanks to Him. first revelation of the Quran took place. and whilst British summer may be the month refreshed and with their This is a time of great blessings and unpredictable, there are likely to be at faith strengthened in preparation for rewards, cherished by Muslims around least a few hot days. the coming year. the globe. There are several recommendations These acts include prayer and read- Almighty God commanded in the on how to approach the challenge of ing the Quran. Muslims believe there is focus on the many other functions it has the blessings of this month with those Quran that all those who are healthy fasting in Ramadan effectively. no greater blessing for mankind than beside digestion, and has been proven around us. We invite people of all faiths and able should fast, and those who People are recommended to practise the Quran, a book filled with guidance, to improve overall physical wellbeing. to join in the blessings of this month, by cannot, for example due to illness or fasting for few days before the arrival mercy and reassurance. Thus Muslims Social wellbeing and care for the com- participating in acts of fasting, charity travelling, are exempt until they regain of the holy month, in the example of are encouraged to spend much of their munity are also promoted in Ramadan. and promoting community bonds. the ability to fast. the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). time in this month in contemplation of Muslims are encouraged to look to “Ramadan is the month in which was This will aid in establishing an effec- Allahs words. the needy, and the giving of charity and Dr Hojjat Ramzy is Imam and director of the sent down the Quran, as a guide to man- tive schedule for eating and sleep. This month offers great physical ben- the feeding of others is of great impor- Oxford Islamic Information Centre. kind, also clear signs for guidance and Drinking often throughout the night efits also. Fasting allows the body to tance. We are also encouraged to share www.islamcity.com FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Iraqi forces battle IS; US troops heading to Anbar US mission could expand to more bases in Iraq: Pentagon

BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces bat- The area has seen relentless help Iraqi forces eventually recap- tling Islamic State (IS) group fighting over the past year and ture Ramadi, which fell to the militants on several fronts yes- loyalists in recent days achieved IS last month. The advisers and terday were poised to receive some progress in pushing IS fight- other US troops headed to Anbar the help of 450 extra US troops ers out of the town of Baiji as well will operate out of Taqaddum Air slated for deployment near as from the nearby refinery, the Base, which is located only 37km Ramadi. country’s largest. from Ramadi. Washington’s decision to send Anti-IS forces launched a wide- Pentagon spokesman Colonel more advisers and trainers to ranging military operation early Steven Warren told reporters Iraq has failed to silence critics Thursday to clear “the last Daesh that the new hub at Taqaddum who say the White House lacks (IS) pockets along the Tigris could be the first of a number of a strategy to combat the Islamic River” around Baiji, an army new bases across the country for State group. major general said. US military advisers, depending A year after a militant offen- Establishing firm control over on how things turn out in the bat- sive saw the government lose Baiji is seen as key to isolating tle to retake Ramadi. swathes of Iraq, military opera- IS in the vast western province “What we’re doing in Al tions to weaken IS were experi- of Anbar, whose reconquest is Taqaddum is something we’re encing mixed fortunes. Baghdad’s declared priority. considering doing elsewhere,” The autonomous Kurdistan The militants beat the govern- Warren said. Shia fighters launch a rocket towards Islamic State militants on the outskirt of Bayji yesterday. region’s peshmerga forces pushed ment to the punch, seizing pro- Asked how many new bases south and west of Kirkuk on the vincial capital Ramadi on May might be set up, Warren said: back of intensive bombing by Iraqi 17 and dealing Baghdad its worst “Several I would think.” IS releases Mosul capture film and US-led coalition warplanes, setback in almost a year. Prime Minister Haider Al security officials said. One of the The Pentagon said yesterday Abadi vowed to swiftly retake targets was a bomb-making work- that the United States was con- Ramadi but operations have BAGHDAD: The Islamic State freed and soldiers desperately that IS forces were heavily out- shop IS had set up after their sidering setting up additional been sluggish and questions are (IS) group yesterday released attempting to flee in vehicles. numbered. The plan was to “con- main car bomb factory in nearby bases in Iraq similar to a new still being asked about the secu- a propaganda documentary “It was unthinkable that the trol neighbourhoods on the right Hawijah was completely levelled hub planned in Anbar province rity forces’ ability following their marking a year since it cap- advance would be so much greater side of Mosul to be a starting in a coalition air strike, one offi- to help Iraqi forces battle the chaotic retreat from the city. tured Mosul and recounting its than was planned,” said the nar- point for the mujahedeen (holy cial said. IS. Establishing more bases to On Wednesday, US President surprise at how easily it took rator of the video, which was pub- warriors) to conquer the remain- The June 3 strike caused an get US military advisers closer Barack Obama approved the over Iraq’s second city. lished on social media yesterday. der of the city.” explosion that was heard 50km to the battlefront would likely deployment of 450 more troops The film glamorises the found- “The operation began with cut- But “the right side of the city away and destroyed what some require yet more American troops to Iraq, in what would nudge the ing moment of the “caliphate” IS ting the supply lines of the members of Mosul was conquered and the officials said was IS’ largest to deploy to Iraq beyond the 450 ranks of Washington’s “train, proclaimed less than three weeks of the Safavid army,” after which the left side was empty of Safavid such plant in Iraq and Syria. reinforcements announced by the advise and assist” mission above later as an epic conquest but it attack was announced, the narra- soldiers before the men of the Federal troops and the Popular White House on Wednesday. 3,500. also further documents the col- tor says, using a term meaning that Islamic State arrived.” The jihad- Mobilisation — an umbrella for The Pentagon raised the pos- The new contingent will be lapse of Iraq’s security forces. Iraqi soldiers are beholden to Iran. ist group’s offensive in Iraq began mostly Shia militias and volun- sibility of more bases a day after based at Taqaddum Air Base, The 29 minutes of often pre- “Three convoys of military on June 9. By the following day, teers — also continued operations President Barack Obama’s admin- nestled along the Euphrates River viously unreleased footage shows vehicles entered the outskirts of IS-led forces had overrun Mosul aimed at securing Baiji, north of istration unveiled plans to send between jihadist-held Ramadi and the militants being welcomed by the city coming from the Jazeera — a city of two million — under Baghdad. dozens of advisers to Anbar to Fallujah. AFP Mosul residents, prisoners being area,” the narrator says, noting their control. AFP

IS blows up two warplanes at Erdogan calls for swift creation of government Libyan base ANKARA: Turkish President say ‘I’. We must say ‘We,’” he said. Western foreign policy in Syria, Recep Tayyip Erdogan yes- Erdogan’s relatively concilia- saying while war planes bombed TRIPOLI: The militant group terday called for the swift tory comments helped support Arabs and Turkmen the West Islamic State said yesterday it formation of a new coalition the Turkish lira reverse early allowed “a terrorist organisation” had blown up two warplanes at government, ending almost four losses against the dollar to gain like the Kurdistan Workers Party an air base it seized near the days of unusual silence after 0.5 percent in value. On the (PKK) to move in. central Libyan city of Sirte. legislative polls seen as a blow Istanbul bourse, the BIST 100 “How can we look at this posi- The group published pictures to his authority. Index was up 0.9 percent. tively? How can we look to the on social media that it said Erdogan’s comments added The president — known for West sincerely?” he asked. showed the two destroyed two weight to expectations of a coa- his raucous speeches and omni- He also accused the West of military aircraft parked in front lition government in Turkey presence on Turkish television leaving refugees to “drown” in the of a hangar. The Islamist rebel after the ruling Justice and news channels — had not spoken Mediterranean. “We cannot allow fighters seized Sirte’s military and Development Party (AKP) he in public since he cast his vote this,” he said. Erdogan warned civilian airport two weeks ago, co-founded lost its majority in in Sunday’s polls. According to a that all those “who pinned their expanding the area it controls Sunday’s dramatic polls. “ticking clock” set up by bloggers, hopes on Turkey entering into a by exploiting a security vacuum “Everyone should put their egos he had been “off air” for three climate of crisis or chaos will be in oil-producer Libya, where two aside and a government must days, 22 hours and one minute. disappointed once again”. governments are vying for power. be formed as soon as possible, Reports have suggested that The election results meant The militants had earlier this within the constitutional process,” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaking at a graduation some in the AKP were unhappy the AKP will have 258 seats in week seized a power plant in a Erdogan said in his first public with Erdogan’s aggressive conduct the hung 550-seat parliament, ceremony in Ankara yesterday. western suburb of Sirte, complet- comments since Sunday’s vote. of the campaign, where he lashed the Republican People’s Party ing a gradual takeover of the city In a message to investors rat- out at enemies in all directions. (CHP) 132, and the Nationalist that it began in February. tled by the political uncertainty, Although the AKP won the who has dominated Turkey However in yesterday’s speech, Movement Party (MHP) and the Forces loyal to a self-declared Erdogan insisted that the election biggest share of the vote in the first as premier from 2003-2014 the combative leader showed no pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic government that controls the result “certainly does not mean elections, it lost its majority for and now as president. Erdogan sign of retreating into a corner. Party (HDP) 80 apiece. capital Tripoli had pulled out of Turkey will remain without a the first time since it came to wanted the AKP to win a super- He lashed out at the Western Analysts have said an AKP- the plant and air base. government”. power in 2002. Prime Minister majority to push through a new media following a series of “ugly” MHP coalition is the most likely Since the start of the year He said he hoped political Ahmet Davutoglu said Wednesday constitution that would give him articles critical of his con- option, with the AKP sharing a militants in Libya loyal to Islamic parties would “prefer a solution that the AKP would lead coali- reinforced powers as president. duct as president. “It is hard to conservative and nationalist voter State have claimed responsibility rather than crisis. “We cannot tion talks with other parties but But this plan has now been scut- understand their intolerance. It base with the MHP. for killing dozens of Egyptian and leave Turkey without a govern- warned that snap elections were tled for the foreseeable future. means, thank God, we are on the But such a partnership could Ethiopian Christians and attack- ment, without a head. Those who not ruled out should the discus- Erdogan said the election result right path. I would doubt about also spell trouble for the peace ing Tripoli’s luxury Corinthia are condemned to their egos will sions fail. was “the people’s will” and must myself if they had praised (me),” process with Turkey’s Kurds, hotel, embassies and oilfields. neither be able to give account to The elections were also seen as be respected. “Nobody, no matter Erdogan said. which is opposed by the MHP. REUTERS history, nor to our people.” a huge personal blow to Erdogan, which politician, has the right to Erdogan also lashed out at AFP

Saudi condemns Morocco leader greeted foreign criticism in blogger case Loyalist of Bouteflika named chief RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yes- terday condemned foreign criti- of ruling coalition party in Algeria cism of a 1,000-lash sentence that the kingdom’s highest ALGIERS: Algerian President the nationalist movement that court upheld against a blogger, Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s cabinet has dominated Algerian politics rejecting “interference” in its director and loyal backer Ahmed since it was born out of the 1962 internal affairs. Ouyahia (pictured), was elected independence from France. The kingdom “has expressed as the new leader of one of the “Ouyahia is a statesman. He strong disbelief and condem- two ruling parties, confirming could become Algeria’s next nation” at statements about his status of potential presiden- president,” political analyst Farid the case of Raif Badawi, the tial successor. Ferrahi said. “But the list is open Saudi Press Agency said, citing Speculation over Bouteflika’s for other candidates.” an official source at the foreign health since he suffered a stroke Analysts say that short ministry. two years ago, and whether he will list includes Prime Minister Rights groups fear he could be able to end his fourth term in Abdelmalek Sellal, who has just be flogged again today, despite 2019, is fuelling debate over who joined the FLN to encourage sup- appeals from the United States, might replace the independence port for his candidacy. He is close European Union and France for veteran who has been in office to Bouteflika as he served as his his sentence to be rescinded. since 1999. election campaign leader three Saudi Arabia’s judiciary “enjoys The North African Opec state times. Another potential candi- independence and the kingdom is at a delicate juncture after a date could be United Nations vet- does not accept any interfer- collapse of oil prices cut into establishment, including several eran Lakhdar Brahimi. A former ence in its judiciary and internal energy revenues that make up 95 terms as prime minister, Ouyahia UN negotiator and envoy, Brahimi affairs from any party,” the min- percent of its exports and more is on the short list of potential has been received several times istry source said. Morocco’s Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkiran (left) is greeted by his than half the state budget. successors to Bouteflika. by Bouteflika at the presidency in The kingdom’s legal code is Tunisian counterpart Habib Essid upon his arrival in Tunis for a two- Political sources and analysts Ouyahia’s RND party is part of the past two years, fuelling more based on Islamic Shariah law. day official visit yesterday. said that with more than 20 a ruling coalition with the Front political speculation. AFP years inside Algeria’s political de Liberation Nationale or FLN, REUTERS FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 06 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HE annual meet of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) in Miami came at a time when the airline industry is passing through a flux. The Tglobal association of commercial carriers with its 260 members represents most of the industry and the Miami conclave attended by about 1,000 executives weighed immediate Fewer elections could improve concerns. Time was when passengers were carried on relatively ill- equipped aircraft. The comfort of the passenger was the last thing on the mind of the owner of the plane. During the infancy voter turnout and interest of commercial air travel, nurses,instead of flight attendants, were present on board to care for passengers who fell ill. Today, BY CHARLES LANE Some jurisdictions squeeze local ballot- Richard Boyd of Wesleyan University comfort of the air traveller is on top of the mind of the typical ing — for sheriff, school board, judge, found that the introduction of presi- airline CEO. The passenger now has onboard Wi-Fi, can use he United States is notorious for coroner, you name it — into the years dential primaries in northern states a phone to dial his family by swiping his credit card and has a having one of the lowest voter between midterm congressional and after 1968 accounted for a 10 percent- slew of entertainment options at his fingertips. Tparticipation rates in the indus- presidential elections. Of course, these age-point drop in those states’ general- trialised democratic world, and there are often twice-a-year exercises, since election voter turnout by 1980. The IATA meeting took up the subject of passenger comfort. is no shortage of proposals for increas- a primary precedes the general election. In a country with frequent elections, How to please the modern passenger has been a question faced ing it. Sometimes primaries have runoffs! voter fatigue might even outweigh a by airlines even as they cut costs, downsize their work force, President Barack Obama recently The United States and Switzerland law requiring you to vote. Switzerland reduce baggage allowance and slash the distance between floated the idea of compulsory voting. don’t have much in common, but they had compulsory voting prior to 1975, two seats. While one airline executive thought of showing the Hillary Rodham Clinton, running to both have (a) frequent elections, with but turnout for national parliamentary traveller the journey of his baggage from the check-in counter succeed him, has a plan for national Switzerland holding at least three or elections declined from 71.7 percent of automatic voter registration and four national votes per year, in addi- registered voters in 1947 to 56.4 percent to the aircraft, another preferred something different for every expanded early voting. tion to cantonal elections, and (b) rela- in 1971. passenger. What needs to be seriously taken up by IATA is the To the extent that Democrats are tively low voter turnout. A mere 49.1 In one Swiss canton, non-voters still decreasing seat pitch — the distance between two seats — that targeting actual discrimination against percent of registered Swiss voters cast face a $6.60 fine today but turnout rates led to nasty onboard clashes and African-Americans and other minori- ballots in the 2011 national parliamen- remain lower there than in the rest of inconvenience to passengers last ties, more power to them, and shame on tary elections. Western Europe. Airline industry year. those Republicans That was admittedly higher than To be sure, none of this matters to who would raise the 41.6 percent rate in the 2010 US those who think relatively low turnout body IATA’s IATA Director General Tony obstacles to turn- midterm election, but both figures is not a problem or, possibly, beneficial. Tyler insisted flying has never out in a purported were below the rates recorded in other As conservative commentator Tucker bid to address been safer, with just one jet lost for In a country with fight against Western European countries, which Carlson put it recently: “You wouldn’t passenger every 4.4 million flights. Going by frequent elections, phantom fraud. typically exceed 75 percent for their want to be governed by people who are the figure, one would think that air voter fatigue might As for substan- less-frequent elections. too uninformed or lazy to make it to the tially increasing In theory, frequent elections enhance polls on Tuesday.” comfort is travel is the safest option. However, even outweigh a law overall participa- the ordinary person’s influence over gov- As it happens, though, decreasing the laudable, but only statistics do not a safe airline requiring you to vote. tion rates, how- ernment and give him or her a strong frequency of elections is one of the few industry make. The IATA chief Switzerland had ever, there’s only incentive to stay abreast of the issues. reforms that would increase not only much more should take into account the fact so much that No less a political genius than James the quantity of political participation needs to be that three big aircraft tragedies in compulsory voting can be achieved Madison thought biennial elections for but also its quality. a little more than a year has made prior to 1975, but through measures the House of Representatives would Suppose we convened the electorate done. like those Obama ensure that body’s “immediate depend- only once every four years and dramati- fliers wary and the organisation turnout for national and Clinton rec- ence on, and an intimate sympathy with, cally raised the stakes — asking voters should think about a strategy — like parliamentary ommend. If we the people.” to pick a president, Congress and state a public relations campaign — to elections declined really wanted Similar notions lay behind various governments all at once. people to vote electoral reforms in our history, from People would have a much stronger fight scepticism among travellers. It is important to take into from 71.7 percent of account that all the three tragedies are just not crashes — but more, we would direct election of US senators to wide- incentive to vote, and to do so after a “extraordinary events,” as Tyler put it. registered voters in have to ask them spread use of referendums to the sub- careful study of the candidates and the 1947 to 56.4 percent to vote less. stitution of primaries for state party issues. The drop in fuel prices is bringing down operational costs One of politi- nominating conventions. Obviously, that would entail a sweep- thus making airlines more profitable. The outgo on fuel is one in 1971. cal science’s bet- In practice, it’s costly — in time, effort ing transformation of the US politi- of the top expenses of a carrier and it is hoped the benefit will ter-established and, indeed, money — to stay politically cal system — with equally sweeping, be passed on to the passenger in the form of reduced ticket findings is that “the frequency of elec- informed and active. but totally unpredictable, prices. tions has a strongly negative influence Those costs must be weighed against consequences. on turnout,” as Arend Lijphart of the the potential benefits of participating Or to put it another way: Current Fixing the size of a carry-on bag is another significant step University of California at San Diego in an election whose results might voter turnout patterns may be woven taken by the industry body. Air congestion has been a source put it in a 1997 article. last no more than a couple of years, much more tightly into the fabric of of worry for IATA and airlines as it affects safety, but nothing Yet in the United States, we constantly to the extent they affect you person- American society than we generally significant has come about on this front. Moreover, the airline hold elections: Every two years, we elect ally at all. Frequent elections there- admit, or even comprehend. trade body needs to expedite the implementation of aircraft a new Congress and, in many states, a fore bring on what Lijphart calls Lane is a member of The Washington tracking in cooperation with the International Civil Aviation new legislature. Every four years, that’s “voter fatigue.” Post’s editorial board. combined with a presidential election. In a famous paper nearly 30 years ago, WP-BLOOMBERG Organisation (ICAO). The other side Quote of On democracy’s front lines in Ukraine the day N THE past several months, Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who vis- the U.S.-based Franklin Templeton Ukraine the financial support it des- Ukraine’s freely elected government ited Washington this week, see them- firm, are refusing to cooperate with a perately needs — not to mention the has taken dramatic steps to reform selves as fighting on the front line in debt restructuring, sanctioned by the defensive weapons it has repeatedly Iits economy, fight corruption and defence of Western democracy against International Monetary Fund, that is requested. Even symbolic measures rebuild democratic institutions. It has Vladimir Putin’s imperialist autocracy. needed to save the country $15 billion of political support have been lack- imposed painful austerity on average “This is about the core values of the over four years. ing. While Japanese Prime Minister Ukrainians, stripped oligarchs of free world,” he told us. “If we fail, this The United States and European Shinzo Abe visited Kiev last weekend Terrorism has no political and economic privileges will be a failure for the entire free world.” Union have, meanwhile, provided only and promised more aid, President frontiers and it must, and rewritten laws to encourage free In spite of the government’s exer- paltry amounts of help, including $3 Barack Obama, who, like Abe, was enterprise and foreign investment. It tions, the odds of a Ukrainian collapse billion in U.S. loan guarantees spread in Germany for the G-7 meeting, has because of the great has done all this even while fighting a remain alarmingly high. In addition over two years. While leaders of the not visited Ukraine. Yatsenyuk said he implication for regional low-grade war against Russia, which to the ongoing Russian-led military Group of Seven nations agreed at a renewed his request for U.S. military has deployed an estimated 10,000 assaults, waged in blatant violation summit meeting this week to continue aid in meetings at the White House and global peace and troops to eastern Ukraine and, with its of a peace deal Moscow agreed to in sanctions against Russia until it imple- and in Congress, which already passed security, be defeated. local proxies, attacks Ukrainian forces February, Yatsenyuk’s government is mented the peace terms to which it with a large bipartisan majority a bill on a near-daily basis. struggling to meet staggering financial agreed, the Obama administration and authorizing arms deliveries. Muhammadu Buhari Ukrainian leaders such as Prime obligations. Private creditors, including its European allies continue to deny The Washington Post Nigeria’s President FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 How Jeb Bush campaign ran off course

ability to command huge amounts of cash Bush’s first six for his allied Right to Rise super PAC was emerging as the dominant characteristic months as an of his potential candidacy. His team laid out presidential-style goals for fundrais- ers, asking them to hit goals of $50,000, all-but-declared $100,000, $250,000 or $500,000 by April 17. The money was flowing into the super candidate have PAC so rapidly that his advisers issued an edict — no contributions of more than $1m, for now. been defined “He was more of a super-PAC candi- date than a retail candidate,” said one by a series of Republican close to the Bush operation. “The candidate hasn’t been out stumping for a while. When was the last time he’s miscalculations, asked anyone for a vote? It’s been quite a few years.” leaving his standing Those concerns, simmering under the surface, finally boiled over one week in mid-May with a series of interviews considerably focused on the most obvious issue imagi- nable for a Bush: the Iraq war. diminished ahead Starting with an interview aired on Fox News on Monday, May 11, Bush strug- of his formal entry gled over four days to answer whether he would have authorised the war begun by his brother given what is known now into the race on about bad intelligence. He first said yes, then said “maybe,” and then refused to Monday. answer altogether. Finally yesterday he attempted to set- tle the issue at a campaign-style event BY ED O’KEEFE and ROBERT in Arizona. “Here’s the deal,” he said. “If COSTA we’re all supposed to answer hypotheti- cal questions — knowing what we know hen asked to pinpoint now, what would you have done — I would where Jeb Bush’s presi- have not engaged. I would not have gone dential effort began run- into Iraq.” ning into trouble, many Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida, speaks with Angela Merkel, Germany’s Chancellor, right, during the Wirtschaftsrat conference in The episode served to crystallise some W Berlin, Germany, last Tuesday. He also spoke to the business group affiliated with Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party. confidants utter a single word: Dallas. of the key concerns about Bush — his Mike Murphy, Bush’s political alter reluctance to criticise or distance himself ego, decided early on to hold regular His operation’s ability to rake in large place atop the field. donors. At the same time, Bush’s inner from the unpopular policies of George senior staff meetings at an unusual loca- checks also fuelled inflated expectations. “The Bushes have always underesti- circle operated on the theory that there W Bush, and his tendency toward prickli- tion: a Hyatt hotel inside the terminal at Supporters acknowledged this week mated the depth of the base’s dissatisfac- was little that could be gained by try- ness if pushed. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. that an allied super PAC was likely to tion with their policies, and they take the ing to speed up the political clock and “We should have had that answer The idea was that it was a central and fall short — perhaps substantially — of criticism personally,” Laura Ingraham, a that most voters in early states would nailed down,” one donor said. “There relatively inexpensive gathering place predictions that it would bring in $100m conservative talk-radio host, said in an not begin paying attention until later in were people who were really shaken by for a team scattered from Los Angeles, in the first half of the year. interview. “Jeb has to try to understand the year. that.” where Murphy lives, to Miami, where the On the stump, Bush has stuck to his the reasons why conservatives have prob- Bush revived a 650-member alumni By the time major party donors gath- would-be candidate resides. pledge not to shift to the right to win the lems with him instead of crowing about network of aides who worked for him ered in Dallas in late May for a meeting of It went fine at first but quickly became primary, but his middle-of-the-road posi- how principled he is.” as governor and recruited 21 veterans the Republican Governors Association’s an awkward routine. Donors and other tions on immigration and education have Aides bristle at what they consider of his father and brother’s administra- executive roundtable, the overwhelming Republicans found the setup ungainly for come off more as out of step with the base the media’s relentless focus on Bush’s tions to advise him on foreign policy. He sentiment was that Jeb Bush was less a campaign-in-waiting that was supposed of his party than shrewdly pragmatic. His personal and professional past. They say hired state directors in the first four early formidable than many thought he was to be based in Florida. wonky question-and-answer exchanges that out on the campaign trail, in visits states, aides for outreach to evangeli- going to be, according to several partici- Older Bush hands also grew unhappy with voters sometimes resemble college cals and Hispanics, and a spokeswoman pants. Some flatly stated that they did with rapid hiring by new advisers, and lectures rather than a friendly appeal for dedicated to fielding questions from the not believe he could win the nomination. relationships frayed, according to Bush votes. Spanish-language press. People close to Bush started getting associates. And as the former Florida gov- The troubles have eroded the image As Bush travels the country, he has anxious, according to a top party fun- ernor began to founder on the trail and Bush has sought to present as the one fielded more than 900 questions from draiser with close ties to his advisers — in the polls, the discussions flared into Republican uniquely ready for the presi- donors, reporters and voters, according and things began to deteriorate inside arguments about how to divvy up money dential stage. He has slipped in polls from to aides. He has maintained a busy sched- the Bush team. and resources between Bush’s allied super presumed front-runner to one of several His wonky question- ule that stretches from the early-voting David Kochel, an Iowa-based strate- PAC and his official campaign. candidates jumbled toward the top of an and-answer exchanges states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South gist and former Romney aide, had been “These things are always tug of wars,” increasingly crowded field. with voters sometimes Carolina and Nevada — where conserva- brought aboard in January as a de facto Thomas Rath, a Bush family friend in “We’ve learned that the prospect of a tive Republicans remain sceptical — to campaign manager. As the months wore New Hampshire, said of the initial ses- big financial advantage is not going to resemble college places visited less frequently at this early on, Bradshaw and Murphy became jittery sions. “It’s almost like the first day of keep people out of the race and that the lectures rather than stage by presidential candidates, includ- about Kochel’s concentration on staffing school, everyone trying to get to the right notion of a new face is stronger than we ing Denver, Seattle and Puerto Rico. issues rather than deflecting the shots place and find the right seats.” might have thought,” Vin Weber, an out- a friendly appeal for Despite those efforts, recent surveys being thrown Bush’s way. The airport huddles were just one sign side Bush adviser, said in an interview. votes. The troubles have put Bush in a five-way tie for the lead. Meanwhile, Bush was growing among many of a political operation going “That requires modest adjustments in eroded the image Bush Recent polls touted by his advisers give chummy with Danny Diaz, a 39-year-old off course — disjointed in message and strategy, not wholesale changes.” him a wide lead in New Hampshire, but Washington native and onetime plumber, approach, torn between factions and After weeks of bad press, “donors were has sought to present others taken nationally and in the early who was spotted several times on the more haphazard than it appeared on getting a little edgy,” Weber said. “No one as the one Republican states put him behind Rubio and Walker. trail while Kochel ground away at head- the surface. Bush’s first six months as is ready to jump ship. Nobody has lost uniquely ready for the Sensing Bush’s vulnerabilities, Ohio quarters near the Miami airport. an all-but-declared candidate have been heart. But they have watched other can- Gov John Kasich this week hired two By late May, Kochel’s grip on power defined by a series of miscalculations, didates rise in the polls.” presidential stage. veteran GOP operatives as he prepares had eroded. Bradshaw and Murphy leaving his standing considerably dimin- Speaking Wednesday in Berlin during to launch a bid and make a play for the moved with the candidate’s blessing to ished ahead of his formal entry into the an overseas trip, Bush expressed con- same donors Bush has already wooed. push Kochel into a lesser role and ensure race on Monday. fidence. “It’s June, for crying out loud, “I didn’t think I was going to be back they alone had final say about the alloca- In interviews this week, dozens of Bush so we’ve got a long way to go,” he said, to more than a dozen states, he has been up here again, because frankly I thought tion of resources. The candidate, urged on backers and informed Republicans — adding later: “I’m going to compete eve- doing exactly what he should. Jeb was just going to suck all the air out by his allies and donors, suggested that a most of whom spoke on the condition of rywhere. If I’m a candidate, there’s no “Interacting with people on the road of the room, and it just hasn’t happened,” more aggressive approach was necessary. anonymity in order to comment candidly fifth-place, you know, kind of mentality who deal with real issues . . . that’s what Kasich told New Hampshire business On Monday, just as Bush prepared to — described an overly optimistic, even in my mind.” brings true joy to Jeb,” Sally Bradshaw, leaders last week. leave for Europe, Diaz was named the haughty exploratory operation. Strategic Forced to make up lost ground, Bush, a longtime consultant, said in a Bush dispatched one possible rival campaign manager. errors were exacerbated by unexpected his aides and his super-PAC allies are now recent e-mail. early when Mitt Romney decided not Friends and donors are hopeful that stumbles by the would-be candidate and preparing plans to attack the records and Bush started with an aggressive series to run again. His fast entrance also Bush has corrected course and that his internal strife within his team, culminat- experience of his GOP competition, espe- of steps late last year and early this year bruised the chances of New Jersey Gov substantial resources will carry him fur- ing in a staff shake-up this week. cially Sens Marco Rubio of Florida and — a kind of “shock and awe” entry that Chris Christie, who is still pondering a ther than others. “He’s going to try to do it The original premise of Bush’s can- Rand Paul of Kentucky and Wisconsin caught fellow contenders by surprise. bid. They did not regard Rubio as a likely his way without acting with every change didacy — that a bold, fast start would Gov Scott Walker. A summer originally The moves were designed to send an opponent but were proved wrong when in the wind, without doing full face-plants scare off potential rivals and help him envisioned as a season of slow and warm unambiguous signal to fundraisers and the young, telegenic Cuban-American on the pandering,” said Tallahassee lobby- overcome the burden of his last name — introductions to voters is now poised to party activists and to reinforce a natural jumped in the race. ist John “Mac” Stipanovich, a Bush ally. has proved to be misguided. be a battle as Bush tries to recapture his advantage Bush had with establishment Early on, there were signs that Bush’s WP-BLOOMBERG Mystery of the brain and time: Why the return-trip feels shorter

BY ANA SWANSON report each time they thought three minutes had “return trip effect,” you need to know that you’re Another common explanation has to do with passed. They watched two movies, and then were taking a return trip. familiarity. On the way there, you don’t yet know or complex beings, humans aren’t that great asked to rate which one was longer. It’s not clear why this happens, though psycholo- the route; on the way back, you recognise landmarks at perceiving time. We’re especially bad at One group “took” a round-trip and back again. gists have several theories. and other familiar sites, which makes the trip seem Fmeasuring time in the short term — seconds, The second group took two one-way trips. One explanation is that the return trip effect has to go faster. It’s true that people don’t experience the minutes and hours. Our sense of how much time is The study was set up to examine how we per- to do with paying attention to time itself. When you return trip effect on journeys they take often, like passing is subjective, easily biased by other things ceive time in two ways: how we perceive time as it pay more attention to time passing — let’s say you’re their daily commute. That offers some evidence for that are going on around us, our mood or what we’re is going along, and what we think retrospectively late, and keep checking your watch or phone — time the idea of familiarity. doing at the time. once a period of time is over. And the results were seems to take forever. But when you’re distracted by There is some evidence that time seems to slow This leads to a lot of odd phenomena, including different for these two scenarios. other, more interesting things, time passes quickly. down when we confront the unfamiliar, and whiz the “return trip effect.” You’re probably familiar The researchers found that the two groups did a This idea is certainly present in old adages — “a by when we’re engaged in routine. This is why time with the sensation: When you go to an unfamiliar roughly equal job at predicting how time was pass- watched pot never boils,” and “time flies when you’re appears to go by faster as we get older, and we con- destination and come back again, it often seems that ing during the experiment. But when they recalled having fun.”’ It also helps to explain the phenomenon front fewer new experiences. the way back takes less time than the initial trip, the experiment afterwards, the people who did the of time seeming to slow down when our lives are at But this may not be the whole explanation for the even though you travelled the same distance. return trip remembered the second leg to be shorter, risk. This also apparently happens in our memory: return trip effect. Some research has found that Now, new research published in the journal PLOS while those who took two one-way trips did not When we devote more attention to a period of time, people can experience the effect even when they’re ONE adds weight to the idea that the return trip experience the phenomenon. we tend to remember that period of time as being in unfamiliar territory. In a 2011 study, psychologists effect actually exists. As Joseph Stromberg of Vox writes, the study longer. asked a group of cyclists to ride to a fair. They then To carry out their study, the researchers, from suggests that the return trip effect has something This leads to an interesting idea: That by being split the group in half; one half rode home by the Japan, had people sit in a dim room and watch a to do with hindsight and storytelling -- the way “mindful,” or paying attention to the here and now, same route, while the other group took an equidis- 20-minute movie recorded while the cameraman was people use language to look back on an experience we can actually slow the brain’s perception of time tant, unfamiliar route. Both groups reported feeling walking around a city. Some subjects were asked to and remember. The idea is that, to experience the and make our lives seem longer. the return trip effect. WP-BLOOMBERG FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST

Ashobaa expected to hit Muscat today Court upholds Syria rebels jail term for son of ex-president seize most of Rafsanjani

ANKARA: An Iranian appeals court upheld the jail sentence military airport of Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, son of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, on cor- ruption and security charges, State TV denies fall of Sweida airport state news agency Irna quoted a judiciary official as saying BEIRUT: Syrian rebels seized into Al Thaala airport comes yesterday. most of a military airport in a day after the alliance, which Rafsanjani appealed three sep- regime-controlled Sweida prov- groups moderate and Islamist arate sentences issued in March ince yesterday and shot down a rebel forces, seized the 52nd by a Tehran Revolutionary Court warplane nearby, a spokesman Brigade base in Daraa province. that amounted to 15 years in jail said. Abdel Rahman said many of the on charges involving national “The Southern Front has liber- regime forces who fled the 52nd security and embezzlement, ated Al Thaala military airport Brigade as it was captured had Iranian media reported. and is carrying out mopping-up withdrawn to Al Thaala, which “The appeals court has con- operations against remaining lies some 10km away. firmed his initial sentences but forces,” the alliance’s spokesman, Sweida province has been under Iranian law he will only Major Essam Al Rayes said. spared much of the fighting serve the longest of the three, that The Syrian Observatory for in Syria, and remains almost is 10 years,” said judiciary spokes- Human rights also reported the entirely under regime control. man Gholamhosein Mohseni-Ejei, rebel advance into the airport Most of its residents are Druze, Irna reported. He was also fined, in the Druze-majority southern followers of a secretive offshoot of ordered to return unspecified province. Shia, who made up around three assets and barred from hold- “They have control of parts of percent of Syria’s pre-war popula- ing political office, Mohseni-Ejei the airport, which is used by the tion of 23 million people. High waves caused by the tropical cyclone Ashobaa crashing along the coast of the Omani capital Muscat said. No further information was regime for aircraft that bomb The community has been some- yesterday. Meteorology officials expect the cyclone to reach Muscat by this morning. immediately available. Daraa and Damascus provinces,” what divided during the country’s The 45-year-old businessman’s said Observatory director Rami uprising, with some members father is chairman of the powerful Abdel Rahman. But Syrian state fighting alongside the government unelected body, the Expediency television denied the claims, and while others expressing sympathy Council, and served two terms interviewed the provincial gover- for the opposition. Egypt jails cop for 15 years as president from 1989 to 1997. nor, who accused media of spread- Mostly, the Druze have taken He supported President Hassan ing lies. up arms only in defence of their Rouhani’s election campaign in “There is no truth to claims areas, and have kept out of the 2013 and is a close ally of Supreme that terrorist groups have occu- fighting more broadly. over death of woman protester Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. pied Al Thaala in Sweida prov- In a statement yesterday, the Khamenei has in the past ince,” state television said, citing Southern Front sought to reas- CAIRO: An Egyptian court The trial, however, was the a small leftist party. months ordered authorities to its reporter in the area. sure Sweida’s residents. yesterday sentenced a police- first time a policeman has been Marchers had been carrying a tackle corruption and Rouhani “We’re used to the criminal “We stress that the people of man to 15 years in jail over the referred to trial in connection wreath to a monument in Cairo’s has renewed a campaign to eradi- media and their falsehoods; the Sweida are our brothers and our fatal shooting of a woman dur- with the violent death of a pro- Tahrir Square to commemorate cate it. Mehdi Rafsanjani is the information being reported is people, and we... will not fight ing a peaceful leftist rally, a tester since then army chief and the deaths of protesters dur- third high-profile figure to be baseless and life continues as them,” Rayes said in the state- court official said. now President Abdel Fattah al- ing the 2011 revolt that toppled jailed on corruption charges this normal in the province,” Governor ment. “We are ready to con- Shaima Al Sabbagh, a 34-year- Sisi ousted his Islamist predeces- Mubarak. Tahrir Square was the year following two vice-presidents Atef Al Nadaf said. front hand-in-hand all threats to old mother of a five-year-old, was sor Mohamed Morsi in 2013. epicentre of the uprising and the under former president Mahmoud Rayes also said Southern Front Sweida province if we are asked struck by birdshot in January as Part of the shooting that lead scene of violent confrontations Ahmadinejad. forces had shot down a warplane to do so.” police dispersed a small march to Sabbagh’s death was captured between police and protesters. in the border region between The statement also con- on the fourth anniversary of the on film, prompting Sisi to publicly Dozens of policemen were tried Sweida and neighbouring Daraa demned “in the strongest terms” uprising that toppled president demand that the perpetrator be for protester deaths after the Bahrain summons province. the deaths of at least 20 Druze Hosni Mubarak. brought to justice. revolt against Mubarak, which The Britain-based Observatory residents reportedly killed by Al Her death triggered outrage The policeman, who was not had been partly fuelled by police Iraqi envoy over reported the same, and state tel- Qaeda affiliate Al Nusra Front in in Egypt and abroad, and anger named, can appeal the verdict. abuses. evision acknowledged that “a war- Idlib on Wednesday. also spread after the officer was Sabbagh suffered the fatal Most have been acquitted, banned Shia group plane went down in the southern The deaths in Qalb Lawzah not charged with murder or man- wounds when the officer fired including the former police chief region and an investigation into sparked condemnation from slaughter but with “battery that birdshot to disperse the peaceful and other commanders who stood ABU DHABI: Bahrain’s for- the causes is underway.” Druze leaders in Syria and led to death” and “deliberately” protest that had been organised trial with Mubarak. eign minister summoned the The Southern Front advance Lebanon. AFP wounding other protesters. by her Socialist Popular Alliance, AFP Iraqi ambassador to the coun- try to hand him an official letter of protest over a banned Shia group that the kingdom said received training in Iraq. Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa summoned ambassador Probe into ‘cyberattack’ on Iran N-talks venues Ahmed Rasheed Al Dalimi after it was proven that the Saraya Al GENEVA/VIENNA: Swiss aforementioned house search was suspected cyberattack and was there are some cases, which are talks will sufficiently restrain Ashtar group received training authorities have searched a to seize respective information as reviewing it. just incidents.” the Islamic Republic’s atomic on the use of arms and explosives house in Geneva and seized well as the malware,” the Swiss He declined to give more details Israel, Iran’s arch-enemy and a programme. in Iraq, a message posted by the computer material in connec- attorney-general’s office in Berne about which locations were being strong critic of the talks between The US State Department — ministry on Twitter said. tion with a possible cyberattack said. scrutinised by the agency. The Tehran, the United States, Russia, on the front lines of the sensitive The minister urged Iraq to put on nuclear negotiations between “It was of particular interest talks have been held in Vienna, China, France, Britain and Iran nuclear negotiations — said an end to “terrorist groups” that Iran and major powers in the to investigate whether the mal- Geneva, Lausanne, Montreux and Germany, yesterday dismissed as it was confident there had been no use Iraq to threaten the safety city, Switzerland’s attorney- ware infected the respective IT Munich. baseless reports that it may have security breach, after Swiss and of Bahrain. Bahrain had said general said yesterday. systems.” “You know that there are ene- had a connection to the computer Austrian investigators launched on Sunday it had broken up the Austria is also investigating Criminal proceedings have been mies of these talks and they will virus. probes into alleged cyber-spying. banned anti-government Shia the case, which came to light opened against unknown persons do whatever they can, so it’s not a Both Kaspersky and US secu- Spokesman Jeff Rathke told group behind a series of attacks when Russian computer security “on suspicion of political espio- surprise to us,” Reza Najafi, Iran’s rity company Symantec said the reporters that the US govern- and arrested several of its mem- company Kaspersky Lab said on nage”, it added in a statement, ambassador to the UN nuclear virus shared some programming ment was aware of the investi- bers. It said it had arrested 12 Wednesday a computer virus was without elaborating. A spokes- agency, told reporters in Vienna. with previously discovered espio- gations that had been opened, members of the group while two used to hack into locations includ- man declined to give any further “We continue to take precau- nage software called Duqu, which and that Washington had “close of its leaders were in Iran. ing three luxury hotels that had information on the investigation. tionary measures not to let any security experts believe to have working relationships” with both Bahrain also said the two lead- hosted negotiations between Iran In Vienna, an Interior details of the discussion go to the been developed by Israelis. countries. ers in Iran had facilitated travel and six world powers. Ministry spokesman said the public,” he added on the side- Israel, widely believed to be the “We’ve taken steps throughout to Iraq for three other mem- “On 12 May, 2015, a house Federal Office for the Protection lines of an International Atomic Middle East’s only nuclear power, the negotiations to ensure that bers of the group for training search took place in Geneva of the Constitution and Energy Agency board meeting. has denounced the negotiations confidential details and discus- in weapons use, hostage-taking and IT hardware as well as soft- Counterterrorism was aware “I should say we have been suc- with Iran, saying it doubts any sions remain behind closed doors,” and bomb-making with the Shia ware was seized. The aim of the of the information about the cessful in that regard ... Of course agreement arising from the Rathke said. REUTERS/AFP Hezbollah Brigades. AGENCIES Over 20 million in Yemen need humanitarian aid: Unicef

DUBAI: Eighty percent of gas-powered pumps providing schools by the warring sides. Yemen’s population, or more water for drinking and sanitation Even before the conflict, than 20 million people, need now lie mostly inoperable. Unicef said around 10 mil- some form of humanitarian “20.4 million people are now lion people in Yemen needed assistance as Arab air strikes estimated to be in need of some humanitarian assistance, a and civil war ravage the impov- form of humanitarian assistance, product of decades of underde- erished country, aid agency of whom 9.3 million are chil- velopment in the mountainous Unicef said yesterday. dren,” Jeremy Hopkins, Deputy and barely governed Arabian The figure is up by almost 5 Representative of Unicef, said Peninsula state. million people since the organi- from the capital Sana’a. Mohammed Shabeek fled his sation’s latest report last week. “The de facto blockade on house with his wife and three For over 11 weeks, an Arab mil- Yemen’s ports, though there is children due to gun battles and itary coalition has been bombing some easing, means fuel is not worsening sanitation in his home the Houthi militia, the dominant coming into the country, and district of Crater in the southern group in Yemen at the moment, since pumps are mechanised city of Aden. in a bid to restore the country’s that means over 20 million people “The scene around my house exiled president to power and don’t have access to safe water,” is catastrophic. There’s no water, support local fighters resisting he added. electricity or food. Trash piles the Houthi advance in battlefields Other urgent humanitarian up in the street and we’re afraid War-affected Yemenis wait to receive used clothes provided by local relief groups at a shelter inside a school nationwide. needs, he said, include malnu- of disease. Aid agencies need to turned temporary evacuation centre in Sana’a, yesterday. The alliance’s de facto blockade trition, shortages of medical get to these areas by any means of Yemen’s air space and ports has supplies, mounting civilian casu- necessary,” he said while seeking A local medical official in the due to a sudden uptick in dengue rubbish collection as tempera- cut off supplies of food and fuel alties in air strikes, recruitment refuge in a relative’s house in the city said dozens of people have fever and malaria brought on by tures soar. to the parched country, where of child soldiers and damage to city. died in the city in recent weeks the shortage of water and lack of REUTERS FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 EUROPE / AMERICAS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09

Protest in Santiago New Ramadan US envoy raps rules to help Nordic Muslims Russia for in midnight sun STOCKHOLM: Muslims in the Nordic region can expect new guidelines for coping with a ‘outright lies’ sun that never sets ahead of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, a Swedish Muslim association said yesterday. Two soldiers killed in Ukraine Ramadan begins on June 18 this year — three days before the KIEV: Washington’s UN envoy The Kremlin strongman has longest day of the year — when accused Russia yesterday of called armed Russians discovered the sun blazes around the clock spinning “outright lies” on in the war zone “volunteers” and above the Arctic Circle and only Ukraine designed to hide the patriotic off-duty soldiers who were sets for a few hours further Kremlin’s direct involvement answering “a call of the heart”. south, presenting a problem for in a war it launched to thwart That message has been rejected Muslims who are meant to fast Kiev’s pro-Western drive. by Washington and its EU allies. Students and teachers protesting against what they call inadequate education reforms, are dispersed by until sunset. Samantha Power’s address to a Leaders of the G7 group of the the police with a water cannon during clashes in Santiago, Chile, yesterday. The demonstrators condemned “We’ve got two difficult ques- crowd of hundreds in Kiev deliv- world’s richest nations threatened tions, not just when you can President Michelle Bachelet’s reforms, claiming they fall short of overhauling an unequal education system ered one of Washington’s tough- on Monday to toughen their eco- break the fast in the north but inherited from the 1973-1990 dictatorship of late ruler Augusto Pinochet. est messages to Moscow since the nomic sanctions on Russia should also when you should start fast- warring sides grudgingly signed the bloodshed grow any worse. ing,” Mohammed Kharraki, a off on a loosely-defined truce in But Moscow had viewed a rare spokesman for Sweden’s Islamic February that threatened to col- meeting between Putin and US Association, said. lapse last week. Secretary of State John Kerry — “You’re supposed to start fast- Her emotional 70-minute held in what both sides described ing before the sun rises, at dawn. speech also came a year into a as a constructive atmosphere last UK Nobel laureate resigns over But there is no real dawn in the presidency Petro Poroshenko has month — as a sign of the West summer months in Stockholm.” used to try to wipe out decades gradually softening its tone. In previous years Muslims in of crippling corruption and anae- Power’s public appearance worked remarks about ‘girls’ in labs sub-Arctic towns like Kiruna mic economic growth that left in part to dispell that specula- were advised to break their fast Ukraine reliant on Russian help. tion and reassure increasingly- at the same time as people in the Power said Russia launched disenchanted Ukrainians that LONDON: British Nobel Prize- students on equal terms to men, burst into tears it means that you south but a meeting of Swedish the war in Ukraine’s vital eastern Washington remained firmly on winning scientist Tim Hunt and the university believes that tend to hold back from getting at and European imams in northern industrial heartland 14 months their side. has resigned from his post at this outcome is compatible with the absolute truth. Anything that Sweden this week recommended ago in order to drain the new “You are still living in the revo- University College London over our commitment to gender equal- gets in the way of that diminishes, a new approach. government’s remaining finan- lution, and delivering on its prom- controversial comments he ity,” it said. Hunt shared the in my experience, the science.” “Now you should go by the cial resources and undermine its ise will require all the resilience, made about female scientists. 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology Dorothy Bishop, professor of last time the sun clearly set and public support. smarts and compassion you’ve Hunt, who holds other posts, or Medicine for the discovery of developmental neuropsychology rose,” said Kharraki, adding that She charged that the Kremlin got,” said Power. “And that was has apologised for causing offence protein molecules that control the at the University of Oxford, said: detailed guidelines were still being then tried to disguise its agenda before Russian troops occupied after suggesting that female sci- division of cells. “In one short speech he has set worked out and could also involve through a torrent of media propa- Crimea (in March 2014) — some- entists could not take criticism “Let me tell you about my trou- back the cause of women in sci- breaking the fast in the early ganda and disingenuous speeches thing the Kremlin denied at the without crying, and that relation- ble with girls,” Hunt was reported ence. The comments get at the evening to be more in line with at global venues such as the time, but has since admitted, and ships between men and women as saying in South Korea. “Three heart of bias against women in the rest of the world. United Nations Security Council before Russia began training, in the laboratory disrupted work. things happen when they are in science: The notion that we can’t The new rules being drawn up — messages that helped President arming, bankrolling, and fighting The 72-year-old said on the lab: you fall in love with them, be serious contenders because we by a pan-European association — Vladimir Putin’s domestic sup- alongside its so-called separatist Wednesday that his comments, they fall in love with you, and are too emotional — and, even the European Council for Fatwa port touch record highs. proxies in eastern Ukraine, some- made at a lunch for women when you criticise them they cry.” worse, we distract the men from and Research — are expected to “The focus on Ukraine in the thing the Kremlin continues to attending the World Conference Speaking to BBC radio, he their science by our sexual allure.” apply across the continent and Security Council is important deny,” Power added. of Science Journalists in South admitted making the comments The most recent figures from will include advice on situations because it gives me the chance — Last week’s fighting killed more Korea, were intended to be light- but added: “I’m really sorry that I Unesco reveal that although where Muslims can break the fast on behalf of the United States — to than 30 people and rattled the hearted but also “honest”. said what I said. It was a very stu- women outnumber men in uni- to avoid collapsing from lack of lay out the mounting evidence of nerves of EU powers Germany University College London said pid thing to do. What was intended versity science courses, by 55 per- food and water. Russia’s aggression, its obfuscation, and France. But a quiet spell at that Hunt had resigned from his as a sort of light-hearted, ironic cent to 45 percent, relatively few “People can try to fast for 19 and its outright lies,” said Power. the start of the week was followed unpaid, non-teaching position as comment was apparently inter- pursue careers in research. Some hours but not handle it. That’s not Putin has resolutely denied by a new day of fighting that offi- honorary professor with the UCL preted deadly seriously. 47 percent of doctoral science stu- the idea... If you don’t manage to sending special forces into cials from both sides said claimed Faculty of Life Sciences. “It’s terribly important that you dents are women, and this falls do your work or stay on your feet, Ukraine’s battle-scarred Donetsk the lives of two soldiers and four “UCL was the first univer- can criticise people’s ideas with- to 38 percent among researchers. then it’s time to break the fast,” and Lugansk provinces. civilians. AFP sity in England to admit women out criticising them and if they AFP said Kharraki. AFP

Unseen Waterloo Germanwings pilot saw 41 doctors US teen facing in five years, says prosecutor 15 years in PARIS: A Germanwings pilot who ploughed his plane into the French Alps saw 41 doctors in five years, seven of them in the month before the crash, a prosecutor said yesterday in Paris. prison for Speaking after a meeting with some 200 relatives of the victims in the French capital, prosecutor Brice Robin also announced the Net aid to IS probe into the crash was being expanded to see if anyone could be held liable for manslaughter. Grieving relatives were shown WASHINGTON: A tech-savvy three different reconstructions of what had happened in the US teen pleaded guilty yester- cockpit on their trip to Paris to seek answers about the doomed day to using social media to aid flight, said the head of a disaster support group who attended the Islamic State group, a crime the meeting. “The French penal code forbids me from opening punishable by up to 15 years in a judicial enquiry for murder because the perpetrator is dead,” prison, the Justice Department explained Robin. Investigators say that 27-year-old German co- said. Ali Shukri Amin, 17, a resi- pilot Andreas Lubitz intentionally downed the plane en route dent of Virginia, admitted to from Barcelona to Duesseldorf on March 24. He is known to have providing advice and encourage- suffered severe depression. Robin said Lubitz, who suffered from ment to IS and its supporters, “psychosis” and was terrified of losing his sight, consulted 41 dif- US prosecutors said. ferent doctors in the past five years. Under the Twitter handle @ Amreekiwitness, the youth pro- UK issues online spying report British photographer Sam Faulkner adjusts one of his portraits as he poses during the press day of the vided IS supporters instruction on photographic exhibition ‘Unseen Waterloo: The Conflict Revisited’ at Somerset House in London yesterday. using the virtual currency Bitcoin LONDON: The man responsible for reviewing Britain’s anti-ter- Faulkner’s exhibit showcases portraits of people taking part in a re-enactment of the 1815 Battle of Waterloo to conceal financial donations to rorism laws called yesterday for greater judicial oversight over the radical Islamist group. data interception as ministers prepare legislation firming up the dressed in historical uniforms. The teenager also offered guid- powers of security services following leaks by Edward Snowden. ance to IS supporters seeking to The move would be a way of “helping build the relationship” with travel to Syria to fight with the US technology giants and could make it more likely they would radical Islamist group. comply with requests from British law enforcement agencies, “Around the nation, we are senior lawyer David Anderson said. Launching a government- Three astronauts return to Earth seeing ISIL use social media to commissioned report into the issue, Anderson, the independent reach out from the other side of reviewer of terrorism legislation, said security services were in a the world,” said John Carlin, US “cat and mouse game” with criminals. He added that changes to MOSCOW: Three astronauts astronauts after Russia was in The Twitter account of the ISS Assistant Attorney for National the current “fragmented” laws were needed to build public trust. landed in Kazakhstan yester- May forced to delay their return, said the trio were to be “checked Security, using the acronym day, safely returning to Earth as well as the departure of their by docs, depart to Karaganda most frequently employed by Escaped US killers still evade police after their flight back home replacements, because a supply then split up to US & Russia”. Washington officials when refer- was delayed for a month by a ship had crashed back to Earth The austronauts ended up spend- ring to IS. NEW YORK: Schools and a state highway shut yesterday as law Russian rocket failure. following a rocket failure. ing nearly 200 days on the station, “Their messages are reaching enforcement chased a new lead in the manhunt for two convicted Russia’s Anton Shkaplerov, Upon landing the trio emerged with Cristoforetti, 38, breaking America in an attempt to radical- killers who cut their way out of a maximum security New York Italy’s Samantha Cristoforetti and out of the capsule with the help of the record for the longest single ize, recruit and incite our youth prison six days ago. The public has been warned that Richard Terry Virts of the United States recovery teams, giving the thumbs stay by a woman in space. and others to support ISIL’s vio- Matt, 49, and David Sweat, 35, could kill again after using power landed on schedule on the steppes up and smiling under a setting The Italian air force pilot lent causes,” he said. tools to cut through walls at the Clinton Correctional Facility in of Kazakhstan and appeared to be sun. Seated in a chair to allow him has gained world-wide popular- The Justice Department said Dannemora on Saturday. New York State Police said a section in good health. to adjust to gravity, Shkaplerov ity — and nearly half a million Amin also facilitated travel for of the state highway 374 east of Dannemora would stay shut in Both Russian mission control said he hoped such “joint work” followers on Twitter — posting another young ISIS recruit, Reza order to investigate a lead in the search for the two murder- and Nasa reported no glitches, would continue in the future. “It dramatic pictures from space Niknejad, 18, who traveled to ers. All schools in the Saranac Central School District, which but Shkaplerov, the commander was a textbook homecoming,” a and even giving cooking classes. Syria to join the group in January. includes the village of Dannemora, were also closed. of the Soyuz spacecraft, said their Nasa commentator said. “So long... and thanks for all the Niknejad was charged landing was “hard and quick.” A spokesman for the Russian fish!” Italy’s first female astronaut Wednesday in federal court in Draft package climate text by October “For some reason, we were mission control said that the wrote on Twitter before starting Virginia with conspiring to pro- spinning,” he said in comments Soyuz descent module landed the journey home, using a quote vide material support to ter- BONN: UN talks ground to a close in Bonn yesterday, having broadcast on national television southeast of the town of Jezkazgan from Douglas Adams’ cult science rorists, conspiring to provide made little headway in crafting a world climate pact but with and cited by Russian journalists. in Kazakhstan, after detaching fiction novel “The Hitchhiker’s material support to ISIS and a new tactic for pushing the process over the December finish No other details were provided. from the ISS more than three Guide to the Galaxy”. conspiring to kill and injure peo- line. After 11 days of technical wrangling by negotiators, the co- The 43-year-old cosmonaut added hours previously. “Everything is Their 199-day mission included ple abroad. Carlin, in a statement, chairmen of the 195-nation parlay said they had been asked to however that “everything worked fine, everything is okay,” he said. several spacewalks, technology issued a warning to parents to take matters in hand. “You will have by the end of October the accurately.” The Roscosmos space agency demonstrations, and hundreds of closely monitor their kids’ online draft package,” co-chairman Ahmed Djoghlaf of Algeria said. All eyes were trained on said separately that the three scientific experiments, Nasa said. interactions. AGENCIES the flight back home for the crew members were “feeling well”. AFP AFP FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / AFRICA China’s former security chief jailed for life Zhou Yongkang highest ranking official to be sentenced in court for corruption in secret trial

BEIJING: China’s former secu- illegal business activities, Xinhua rumours, the Communist Party video testimony from Zhou’s wife rity chief Zhou Yongkang was reported. Zhou was convicted of announced in July that Zhou was and son. jailed for life yesterday after a taking bribes of about 130m yuan, being investigated before he was Xinhua said the court linked secret trial, state-media said, it said, adding that he would not arrested in December. Zhou to former China National the highest ranking ex-official appeal and the court will confis- The party closely controls Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) prosecuted by Beijing for cor- cate his personal property. China’s courts, which have a near- head Jiang Jiemin, but did not ruption in decades. He also passed on five “top- perfect conviction rate, meaning mention Bo, who Chinese media He admitted to charges of secret documents” to Cao Zhou was virtually certain to be had linked with Zhou. Zhou rose “bribery, abuse of power and leak- Yongzheng, who is described in found guilty. Charges of bribery in from comparatively humble ori- ing state secrets” at a closed hear- reports as a fortune-teller and China can in some case carry the gins to prominence in the state- ing in the northern city of Tianjin, practitioner of a Chinese martial death-sentence, but analysts said run petroleum industry. the official Xinhua news agency art known as “Qigong,” it said. that had been an unlikely scenario He become a central figure in said in a surprise report. China’s President Xi Jinping given Zhou’s status. what analysts termed the “oil fac- Zhou, 72, is a former member has vowed to clamp down on By investigating such a promi- tion” — linking politicians with of the ruling Communist Party’s corrupt officials in a campaign nent official, Xi had demonstrated the lucrative sector — and is all-powerful Politburo Standing against endemic corruption, with his clout and “did not have to go sometimes described as “China’s Committee who wielded vast power a number of former high-fliers that far to sentence him to a death Dick Cheney”. as head of the police and courts placed under investigation since sentence,” Willy Lam, an expert In 2002 he ascended to the until his retirement in 2012. he came to power in 2012. on Chinese politics at the Chinese upper echelons of Chinese leader- State broadcaster CCTV But critics say that lack of University of Hong Kong, said. ship, gaining a place in the ruling showed a humbled Zhou bowing systemic reforms, such as sepa- Joseph Cheng, professor of party’s 25-member Politburo and his head and saying he “admitted rating the judiciary from govern- political science at City University the role of minister of public secu- his crimes” in a wood-panelled ment control or allowing media to of Hong Kong, said the sentence Zhou Yongkang attends his sentence hearing in a court in Tianjin yesterday. rity. Five years later he stepped court, his black hair now white report freely on graft, mean the was widely expected and the main up to the Politburo Standing and his previously fierce expres- drive is little more than an excuse aim was “there must be an end to not open because Zhou’s crimes Xilai did, to take back the con- Committee and was responsi- sion gone. “I acknowledge that the for political witch-hunting. his political life”. involve state secrets. fessions he has made, to issue an ble for China’s internal security, facts of my crimes have caused Zhou is the highest ranking A court statement cited by The secrecy of the proceeding open challenge to the authori- including police, courts, jails and great damage to the Party’s Chinese official to be sentenced Xinhua said Zhou’s leaking of contrasted with the corruption ties”. The trial marked “a ret- domestic surveillance. His tenure work,” he said, surrounded by in court since the infamous Gang state secrets “did not have serious trial of former Politburo mem- rogression of both the rule of was marked by the brutal use of dark-suited court officials. of Four — including former leader consequences” and his guilty plea ber Bo Xilai in 2013, when edited law and the independence of the force in response to civil unrest The court said Zhou and a Mao Zedong’s widow Jiang Qing and remorse constituted grounds transcripts of court proceedings judiciary,” he added. and increased surveillance and number of associates received — were put on trial and blamed for lesser punishment. The date of were released online. The length of the trial, which repression of anyone perceived as more than 2.1bn yuan ($338m) for the chaos of the Cultural the sentencing was not announced Lam said that officials likely began May 22, was not given by challenging the Communist Party. in profits from various Revolution. After months of in advance, and Xinhua said it was feared Zhou “might do what Bo Xinhua, which said it included AFP

Filipino police free eight kids in Nigeria, neighbours forge online abuse raid anti-Boko Haram force MANILA: Filipino police have freed eight children from a ABUJA: Nigeria and its neigh- office, Buhari has focused on lit- house in Manila where they bours agreed yesterday to set up tle else, travelling to Niger and were allegedly sold for prostitu- a joint military force to counter Chad and shifting the military tion and forced to have sex for Boko Haram, a sign of President command centre from Abuja to an online audience, authorities Muhammadu Buhari’s intent Maiduguri, the capital of north- said yesterday. to crush the Islamist militant east Borno state and birthplace of Two people, including the group early in his tenure. the insurgency. alleged mastermind of the abuse At a one-day summit at Abuja In his absence, cracks have started Christopher Villanueva and the airport, the 72-year-old former to emerge in his All Progressives mother of three of the children, military ruler, who was inaugu- Congress, a loose alliance of pow- have been arrested after the rated just two weeks ago, wel- erful Nigerians with little binding raid in the Philippine capital on comed the leaders of Chad and them together apart from a shared Wednesday night. Niger, and the defence minister desire to eject Jonathan’s People’s Villanueva is accused of forcing of Cameroon. Democratic Party from power. the children, all but one of them A statement afterwards said Buhari, an ascetic northern girls aged between 13 and 17, and the joint force, based in the Chad Muslim, has named Yemi Osinbajo, another 18-year-old girl to have capital Ndjamena, would be up a southern Christian lawyer from sex with him and each other in and running by July 30 with a Lagos, as his vice president but front of web cameras for watchers permanent Nigerian leader, a has failed to give any clarity on his in Asia, the US and Europe. concession to Buhari’s opposition eventual cabinet line-up. Police, acting on a tip-off from to rotating commanders. Although such delays are com- the US Department of Homeland Changing the force’s leadership mon in Nigeria’s convoluted Security, found toys, web cam- would hamper “the military capac- politics, analysts say it suggests eras and laptops during the raid ity to sustain the push against disagreements and horse-trading on his rundown house in Taguig. the insurgents, who also have between Buhari and Bola Tinubu, The mother of three of the abused the uncanny ability to adapt and the Lagos political godfather who China’s President Xi Jinping shakes hands with Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during their children who lives nearby was rejig their operational strategies,” provides much of the APC’s muscle. meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing yesterday. also arrested, accused of forcing Buhari said before the meeting. In another early setback for her children to engage in sex for Chad and Cameroon have dep- Buhari, his choice for Senate pres- money. The other five children uty commander and chief of staff ident — the third most important are also thought to come from posts in the force, whose mission position in the country — failed China, Myanmar cement ties the local area. is to crush Boko Haram, which to win election after party rival Villanueva allegedly charged has killed thousands and dis- Bukola Saraki broke ranks and BEIJING: Myanmar’s Aung the West while in recent months situation changes.” Xinhua did customers in the United States, placed 1.5 million people in its six- secured enough PDP support to San Suu Kyi met Chinese an ethnic insurgency in the not immediately report Suu Kyi’s Britain, Australia and Japan year fight to establish an Islamic secure victory. President Xi Jinping here yes- Kokang region of Myanmar has remarks. between $50-100 to watch the state in Nigeria’s northeast. Saraki’s move provoked mark- terday, state media said, during spilled over the border into China. Suu Kyi arrived on Wednesday children having sex, Nuqui said. Squashing the insurgency was edly conflicting responses from her closely watched first visit The visit comes as Suu Kyi’s with an NLD delegation and met The 33-year-old Filipino was one of Buhari’s main campaign the APC. “The president took the that China hopes will establish National League for Democracy with a senior Communist Party caught after a US agent, posing promises, in contrast to his pred- view that a constitutional process a line of communication with (NLD) party is expected to per- official Wang Jiarui, Xinhua as an online customer, struck a ecessor Goodluck Jonathan, who has somewhat occurred,” Buhari the influential opposition leader. form strongly in elections later reported. It is rare for China to deal to sleep with one of the girls was accused of dithering and spokesman Femi Adesina said, Suu Kyi met Xi at Beijing’s this year and China looks to invite an opposition leader to at his house for 5,000 pesos ($111). incompetence, particularly after a comment at odds with party Great Hall of the People, accord- develop a rapport with the 1991 visit, given its policy of avoiding His arrest is the second time the kidnapping of more than 200 spokesman Lai Mohammed, who ing to the official Xinhua News Nobel Peace Prize winner. involvement in what it calls the in three months that US assist- girls from a school in the town of accused Saraki of “the highest level Agency, which did not immedi- Suu Kyi came to China at the internal affairs of other countries. ance has led Filipino authorities Chibok in April last year. of indiscipline and treachery”. ately provide details on what was invitation of the Communist Since launching reforms in to cybersex suspects. AFP In his two weeks since assuming REUTERS discussed. Party, of which Xi is the general 2011, Myanmar President Thein Beijing was a key backer of secretary. “China and Myanmar Sein has reached out to the United Myanmar’s former military junta are close, friendly neighbours,” States and other countries. But while it was under Western sanc- Xi said, according to Xinhua. the 69-year-old Suu Kyi is una- South Korea MERS death toll rises to 10 tions — most of which have been “China always looks at the China- ble to stand for president herself lifted since 2011 — and a much- Myanmar relationship from a because of a law scripted by the needed international ally for a bru- strategic and long-term perspec- junta forbidding people who have tal regime that crushed dissent and tive,” he added. been married to foreigners. kept Suu Kyi under house arrest “We hope and believe that the China’s foreign ministry said for more than 15 years. Myanmar side will also maintain that China hopes the visit will bol- But China-Myanmar relations a consistent stance on China- ster “mutual understanding and have cooled as the country has Myanmar relationship and be trust”. Suu Kyi will also travel to introduced democratic reforms committed to advancing friendly Shanghai and the southwestern and opened up economically to ties, no matter how its domestic province of Yunnan. AFP

Landslides after rains kill 21 in Nepal KATHMANDU: Landslides triggered by heavy An army helicopter airlifted eight injured villag- rains have left at least 21 dead and dozens miss- ers to a local hospital. Koirala said landslides were ing in northeastern Nepal, prompting officials continuing in some areas and families in risky loca- to evacuate villagers living in the riskiest areas, tions have been evacuated to safety. “We will work police said yesterday. on search and rescue until dark and continue our Rescuers struggled to reach affected villages in operation early tomorrow,” Koirala said. mountainous Taplejung district after the landslides, Scores of people die every year from flooding and which hit just weeks after twin quakes killed 8,700 landslides during the monsoon season in Nepal. people, damaged roads and bridges, and swept away Taplejung escaped serious damage in the April 25 Workers in full protective gear disinfect the floor of a subway station in Seoul. A South Korean man with houses. “We have found the bodies of 21 people and and May 12 earthquakes, which triggered landslides terminal lung cancer who had been infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus died around three dozen more have been reported miss- and destroyed half a million homes, leaving thousands yesterday, South Korea’s health ministry said, the 10th fatality since the country’s outbreak began last month. ing,” said Shanti Raj Koirala, the district’s deputy without shelter just weeks ahead of monsoon rains. superintendent of police. AFP FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Suicide bomber kills two policemen Tehreek-e-Taliban claims responsibility

PESHAWAR: A Taliban sui- government hospital. Peshawar in December. cide bomber targeted a sen- Hayat said the vehicle was Yesterday’s deadly incident ior police officer in northwest destroyed in the blast, also happened on the outskirts of Pakistan yesterday, killing at wounding two passersby. Mingora, around 180 kilometres least two policemen and wound- A spokesman for the Tehreek- (110 miles) northeast of Peshawar. ing five other people, officials e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed “Majid Khan, a teacher at the said. the attack in a statement on the private Sangota Model School Malik Tariq, the deputy group’s website. was cleaning his pistol in the staff commandant of the Frontier Pakistan has been battling a room when it fired a bullet by Reserve Police (FRP) was criti- homegrown Islamist insurgency accident, hitting a student pass- cally wounded in the attack in for over a decade following the ing through the corridor,” local Peshawar, the capital of troubled late 2001 US-led invasion of police official Fazl Rabi told AFP. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Afghanistan. He said the student died on the “The bomber was on a motor- The Pakistan army began a spot. cycle and he rammed it into the major campaign against Taliban Saleem Khan Marwat, the area vehicle of Malik Tariq who was on and other militant strongholds in police chief, confirmed the inci- his way to the office,” Mian Saeed, the North Waziristan tribal area dent and said the teacher had a senior police official told report- in June last year and authorities been arrested. ers at the scene. have now vowed to intensify oper- Northwestern Khyber He said one policeman was ations both in the border regions Pakhtunkhwa province allowed killed on the spot and another died and across the country. teachers to carry guns -- and later from his injuries. Another In another incident, a teacher began giving them firearms train- four officers were wounded. in northwest Pakistan acciden- ing -- in January, saying it could The FRP is an auxiliary force tally shot dead a 12-year-old pupil not provide police guards for that can be called up to help the yesterday while cleaning his pistol every school. regular police in times of need. in the staff room, police said. The move was part of efforts to Rana Umar Hayat, another Teachers in northwest Pakistan beef up school security after the Mourners look at the coffin of a policeman killed in the suicide bombing attack in Peshawar, senior police official confirmed were given permission to carry Peshawar massacre, the deadliest yesterday. the attack and causalities firearms in the classroom after terror attack in Pakistani history. and told AFP that Tariq was Taliban militants massacred 132 Heavily armed militants army-linked school, eventu- people. But teachers’ associations it was not their job to fight off in a critical condition in a students at a school in the city of went from room to room at an ally gunning down a total of 150 objected to arming staff, saying militants. AFP PPP being ruined, but leaders don’t care Pakistan urged to train

ISLAMABAD: Once the most But in almost all the subse- government elections, of total there. But he was not allowed to popular political entity in the quent election contests whether 978 district council seats the PPP do that. country, the Pakistan People’s in cantonments, KPK, Gilgit secured less than 10. Some circles believed that teenage workforce Party (PPP) is presently on the Baltistan or elsewhere except The PPP’s pathetic rule in Zardari-Bilawal alleged differ- fast track of ruination with its interior Sindh, the PPP badly lost Sindh in particular is considered ences have also negative impact LAHORE: Experts have 1996, including increase in school top leadership failing to correct at all levels. the major reason for its downfall. on the popularity of the party. urged the economic planners enrolment of children, closing of its wrongs that are badly hurt- Not only has it lost to the PTI It is generally believed that the Sources close to Zardari, how- to focus more on adolescents in gender gap better immunisation ing the party. its position as the second largest PPP lost the 2013 general elec- ever, stressed that difference in Pakistan, 2.5 million of whom and reduction in child mortality. The downslide of the PPP after political party, in local govern- tions because of extremely disap- approach is natural but there are join the labour force annually The adolescents of present the 2013 general election, when ment, cantonment and GB elec- pointing performance during its no differences between father and without any clue about the job era are from the generation that it was reduced to interior Sindh tions, the PPP is close to complete previous tenure, massive corrup- son. they would get in the already benefitted from this progress in only as it could not secure even a elimination. tion and bad governance. Bilawal’s return to Pakistan saturated labour market. human development. Most of single national assembly seat out- In the latest Gilgit-Baltistan It was expected that after has belied the propaganda of They said that adolescents are them, she added could be trained side the province is, continuing. elections, the party failed to having been voted out from the PPP rivals about the alleged dif- commonly referred to as the ‘next and nurtured to become produc- Results of the post-May 2013 secure a single seat despite the Centre and restricted to Sindh ferences between father and sons, generation’ of adults, the ‘future tive workers. repeated by-elections, canton- fact that it had decisively won only, the PPP would perform well they claimed. generation’ or simply ‘the future’ She said investing in adoles- ment boards’ pll, local government the previous elections there and in Sindh in its present stint. The situation in Sindh is such of the nation. cents can accelerate the fight elections in KPK and elections in formed its government. Sadly, this has not happened. that the chief minister Qaim Ali However, they regretted that against poverty, inequity and Gilgit-Baltistan proved again and According to media reports, the In terms of corruption and bad Shah is remote controlled and all this most energetic human gender discrimination. Poor ado- again that the PPP is fading out. PPP might win one seat but it is governance, the Sindh govern- key decisions and major appoint- resource is exposed to the mar- lescent girls give birth to impov- In the 2008 general elections, not yet confirmed. In the 2009 GB ment is rated on top with tales ments are made in the Bilawal kets based on free market econ- erished children, particularly in the party was the largest politi- polls, the PPP had won 13 seats. of massive corruption, violation House. omy principle without proper segments of societies where edu- cal party in Pakistan and except In the KPK local government of merit, mismanagement, politi- Instead of focusing on the preparation. cation level is low. Punjab it had coalition govern- elections, the PPP was nowhere cal interference in civil adminis- development of Sindh, improving Adolescents are not only our She said that it has now been ments at the Centre and in all amongst the top winners but tration and policing continue to service delivery for its people and future but also firmly part of the established that literacy rate other provinces. In 2013, the was even lacking far behind the make headlines. checking corruption, the media present economic system as most among women in Pakistan is party had won the second larg- ANP, JUI(F), Jamaat-e-Islami Bilawal Bhutto was said to be reports present upsetting sce- of them contribute economically much lower than males. This is est number of seats in Parliament and PML-N. The same has been trying to bring in an efficient nario, which is not being changed and help to reduce the miseries of particularly true among adoles- after the PML-N, which won the the party’s fate in the canton- chief minister in Sindh and check for the better. their poor families. cents with low levels of education. polls. ment elections. In the KPK local corruption and bad governance INTERNEWS “The reason pro adolescent She said adolescent males and policies are essential for the well- females in rural areas, where being of the nation is that that most poor live, lack quality educa- they are physically and mentally tion, thus they also lack the com- Cyclone Ashoba awaited the most energetic and productive petencies to acquire skills. “This force in the economy,” said social skill deficit is contributing to the Leopard pair worker Dr Kishwar Dhingra. bleak youth employment trends,” She considers it a crime to she added. at Lahore Zoo expose this raw but most produc- Another Social Worker Sofia tive workforce to market forces Asif said that the adolescent girls gets new home without any skill or preparation. are more prone to the threat of “Entering the market without any intergenerational transmission LAHORE: Kavo and Nidara, skills, they lose their enthusiasm of poverty. These girls, besides a leopard pair, got a new home and urge to work in a very short having educational disadvantage, at the Lahore Zoo on yester- time,” she said, adding that the also suffer from gender discrimi- day. The animals were shifted nation then ends up with unwill- nation, which forces them into to a newly constructed big- ing and disheartened workers. isolation and exclusion. ger enclosure following a cer- At least 80 per cent of these Another downside of poverty, emony attended by Wildlife adolescents have a right to gov- she added is that poorest adoles- Department director general ernment support under many cent girls are forced into early Khalid Ayaz, Lahore Zoo direc- existing international treaties. marriage. She said the rate of tor Shafqat Ali and deputy These include the Convention birth among these girls is three director Mudassar Hassan. on Rights of the Child (United times higher among their peers Kiran Saleem, an education Nations defines adolescents as from the richest quintile of house- officer at the Zoo, said the enclo- individuals aged 10-19: in effect, holds. This also pushes them into sure had been built keeping in those in the second decade of the negative cycle of premature mind the natural habitat of the their lives) and the convention childbearing, high rates of mater- leopards. of Elimination of all forms of nal mortality and morbidity, and “It has a hilly terrain to pro- discrimination against Women high levels of under nourished vide the leopards with topography (almost 50 per cent of the adoles- children. She said empowering kept as close as possible to their cents belong to the fair gender). these adolescent girls with skills natural habitat,” she said. She said some historical gains and jobs is the duty of the state. A man sitting on a beach in Karachi yesterday. The tropical cyclone Ashoba was forecast to make its Saleem said the earlier enclo- in education were achieved after INTERNEWS impact along the coast of Sindh and Balochistan late yesterday but was likely to lose intensity by the sure for leopards at the Zoo lacked enough space for leopards time it hits the coast. to freely move around in the open. The construction of the new leopard house had been com- pleted in 2012 under a master Eight soldiers, plan initiated in 2005. Other Extreme monsoon weather may cause floods facilities added to the Zoo under ISLAMABAD: The rising sea these extreme weather events will to moderate rain showers are He said though it is a bit early 33 militants die the project were a monkey house, surface temperature impact the occur but as precautionary meas- expected due to which the to forecast the intensity of the a reptile house, a walk-through upcoming monsoon due to which ures there is a need to take pre- temperature in the month of up-coming monsoon however the in Afghanistan aviary and a café. The project few extreme weather events emptive steps. Ramazan will drop and remain current weather patterns suggest had been completed at a cost of are likely to occur in Pakistan They said that recent cyclone cool, he said. that heavy showers are expected KABUL: Eight soldiers and 33 Rs125m. potentially causing floods. occurring in the Arabian Sea Meanwhile the PMD is closely during the season. Therefore it militants were killed in new- Saleem said the Zoo had only Environmental experts said is one of the examples of the monitoring all the changes in is not possible to rule out heavy est military operations across one leopard at the completion of that on-going widespread changes extreme weather events. the weather patterns around the flooding, Rasul added. Afghanistan, ministries of the new enclosure. She said two in the weather patterns are caus- Pakistan Meteorological clock. If India will receive heavy rains defense and interior announced female and a male leopard were ing increase in the temperature of Department (PMD) Director They will hold a meeting then it will release water in the yesterday morning. General acquired a few months after the sea surface. General Dr Ghulam Rasul said with the National Disaster River Jhelum and Chenab which Zahir Azimi stated in a tweet that completion of the enclosure but Hence chances are that pre-monsoon is going to begin in Management Authority (NDMA) will cause floods in Pakistan, he eight soldiers were killed in past none of them were shifted there. Pakistan may receive heavy Pakistan in the last week of June. probably on the 15th of June. They said. He stressed on the need to 24 hours. The agency added that She said the administration first showers during the peak season The monsoon will follow in the will discuss the monsoon season start taking precautionary on- 33 militants were killed and nine wanted to let them get along with of monsoon which may result in first week of July which will con- and the necessary precautionary ground measures rather than sit- others wounded in separate mili- one another. severe floods. They said though it tinue till August. measures to be taken ahead of any ting in office and just forecasting. tary operations eleven provinces INTERNEWS is not possible to exactly tell when During pre-monsoon light untoward situation. INTERNEWS in past 24 hours. AGENCIES FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Myanmar denies Indian Threshing rice forces crossed border Yangon ready to co-operate with Delhi to fight terror

YANGON: Myanmar has ground for attacks. Indian Army’s Special Forces rejected assertions that Indian “Myanmar will never accept on Tuesday carried out a cov- armed forces entered the coun- any foreign rebels using its ter- ert strike involving two attacks try earlier this week in pursuit ritory and border area as a base,” along the Indo-Myanmar border of separatists, saying foreign it said. “Myanmar is willing to on camps located in Myanmarese fighters would never be allowed negotiate and cooperate with the territory, and inflicting substan- to use Myanmar territory to Indian government to handle the tial casualties on terrorists. stage attacks. problem.” The strike drew a sharp India’s junior minister for The statement said that India’s reaction from Pakistan, but information and broadcasting, Ambassador to Myanmar had Roychowdhury was unperturbed. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, said met with the Deputy Minister “India-Pakistan relations are not India’s army attacked rebels just of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday to good and whatever tensions are over the border with Myanmar on “explain the situation,” but gave no there, they will continue to exist. Tuesday, underlining New Delhi’s further details. The Indian Army “The situation in Pakistan is resolve to fight terrorism beyond has sent out a “strong message” not good and there is no chance the country’s borders. However a with its operation against mili- of improvement. So I don’t statement from the presidential tants along the India-Myanmar think there is any need to read office in Myanmar, citing infor- border, and “it can be other coun- much into what personalities in Farmers thresh rice by hand near a paddy field on the outskirts of Siliguri yesterday. India commands over two mation from troops in the north- try in the future”, its former chief, Pakistan are saying,” he said. percent of earth’s land area and about four percent of its fresh water resources, but feeds about 17 percent west border region, said fighting General Shankar Roychowdhury “The strike may or may not act of its population, putting tremendous pressure on natural resources. had only broken out on the Indian said here yesterday.“We always as a deterrence for Pakistan, that side. had the capability, but this I cannot comment, but person- The strike was carried out time India has displayed that it ally I welcome this strike,” added in response to the killing of 20 also has the political will,” Gen. Roychowdhury. Indian soldiers in an ambush in Roychowdhury told IANS. Reacting to the Indian Army’s Manipur last week. The India “We will strike if there are offensive, Pakistan Interior Troops trade fire across LOC army said in a statement that provocations from those who Minister Chaudhry Nisar had it received intelligence that have taken shelter across any said India should not mistake his JAMMU: Indian and Pakistani Colonel Manish Mehta told IANS small arms and automatics. Our rebel forces were plotting more international border,” he said. “If country for Myanmar, assert- troops traded fire yesterday on here that Pakistan resorted to troops have responded with equal attacks. The statement from it was Myanmar this time, it can ing that “Pakistan Army is fully the Line of Control (LoC) in “unprovoked firing” across the calibre weapons. the Myanmar presidential office be other country in the future. capable of responding to any Jammu and Kashmir, the mili- LoC in Poonch sector. “No casualties or damage has denied that any outside forces Yes, we have sent out a strong adventurism”. tary said. “Since 9.15 am, Pakistani troops been reported,” the officer said. were using Myanmar as a staging message,” the general said. The REUTERS Defence ministry spokesman have been intermittently firing IANS

Home ministry Delhi Police rejects transfer Nestle challenges ban on noodles in court MUMBAI: Nestle said yes- would return to the market “as security for of Delhi official terday it is challenging a ban soon as the current situation is imposed by India on its hugely clarified”. NEW DELHI: The home popular Maggi instant noodles Maggi noodles grew increas- Bharti’s wife ministry yesterday rejected brand after tests showed they ingly popular as more and more NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has the Delhi government’s order contained excessive levels of Indians moved away from their provided security to senior Aam transferring Home Secretary lead. homes to study or seek work. Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Dharam Pal, but Chief Minister Nestle said it had approached It emerged as one of India’s five Somnath Bharti’s wife, Lipika Arvind Kejriwal maintained the high court in the western most trusted brands in a con- Mitra, the authorities said here that the transfer was valid. city of Mumbai seeking a judicial sumer survey conducted last year. yesterday. The AAP government trans- review of a June 5 order from the Several celebrities have Mitra was provided security ferred Dharam Pal for signing a government’s food safety regula- endorsed Maggi over the years, following her apprehensions about notification that appointed Delhi tor banning the product. including Bollywood superstar her safety. Police Joint Commissioner MK “Nestle India Limited has today Amitabh Bachchan. “She had expressed her appre- Meena as the chief of the govern- approached the Hon’ble Bombay Nestle said it was also chal- hensions to us and we have pro- ment’s Anti-Corruption Branch High Court raising issues of inter- lenging a separate order from the vided her full security,” Delhi (ACB), official sources said. pretation of the Food Safety and state government of Maharashtra, Police Commissioner BS Bassi The home ministry said the Standards Act 2011,” said a state- of which Mumbai is the capital. said. Aam Aadmi Party government, ment posted on the company’s Shopkeeper places packets of Maggi noodles Faridabad yesterday. The Mumbai court will hear Bharti’s wife had met Delhi which does not control Delhi website. submissions from both sides on Police officers on Wednesday Police, did not have the jurisdic- Nestle had already announced to the kidneys and the nervous last Monday, said it would seek June 18, according to a listing on evening regarding a domestic tion to remove Dharam Pal from it was pulling the product from system. damages from Nestle for false its website. violence case. the post. But Kejriwal has told the sale when the Food Safety and The safety scare is a huge blow advertising of the product -- The US Food and Drug A First Information Report home ministry that the transfer Standards Authority of India to the company, which has been marketed as a quick and healthy Administration (FDA) is testing (FIR) has not been filed as of now of officials was in the domain of (FSSAI) imposed a ban follow- selling its Maggi brand for over snack. samples of a Nestle instant noo- in this connection, police said. the Delhi government. ing similar moves by some state three decades in India, and has 80 The scandal led to renewed dle brand that was recalled from Earlier on Wednesday, she had The sources told IANS that governments. percent of the country’s instant scrutiny of packaged food prod- stores across India last week, a approached the Delhi Commission Kejriwal, in a communication to Yesterday the company, which noodle market. ucts in India, where Unilever spokeswoman for the Swiss food for Women (DCW) alleging that the ministry, had cited constitu- says the noodles are safe to eat, Shares in Nestle India, a sub- this week said it was pulling its group said yesterday. Nestle, the the AAP leader has been abusing tional rules to back his claim. said it would keep the product sidiary of the Swiss-based giant, Knorr Chinese instant noodles world’s largest food company, her ever since their marriage in Meena was appointed the new off store shelves despite the court fell more than 9.0 percent on the from sale. is seeking to defend its reputa- 2010. ACB chief by Lt Governor Najeeb action. Bombay Stock Exchange last week Hindustan Unilever Limited tion in India after it pulled Maggi DCW issued summons to Jung superseding Kejriwal’s hand- The regulator announced last as the controversy escalated. (HUL), the company’s Indian instant noodles from stores Somnath Bharti and asked him picked department chief, SS week it was banning both the pro- Global chief executive Paul branch, said it had taken the following reports by regulators to appear before the commission Yadav. duction and sale of Maggi noodles Bulcke flew to India last week to decision because its application that some packets contained on June 26. The conflict over who controls after tests by some states found try to reassure consumers over for approval for the product range excess lead. The AAP legislator, who was a the bureaucracy in Delhi has been lead levels above statutory limits. the safety scare, telling a press from the FSSAI was still pending. A spokeswoman for the Swiss- law minister in the earlier AAP a major source of confrontation It said the presence of lead conference today that the noodles Nestle, which markets a huge based company said the United government that came to power between the AAP government beyond permissible levels could were “safe for consumption”. range of food items from Nescafe States’ FDA was now also looking in Delhi in December 2013, has and the Lt. governor. make the product “unsafe and But the move failed to con- instant coffee to KitKat bars, into the issue. termed the charges “baseless”. IANS hazardous”, citing risks of damage vince India’s government which, said last week that Maggi noodles AFP IANS

End of the road Court defers Tomar bail hearing

NEW DELHI: A court here The court directed the investi- claiming that the AAP leader was yesterday refused to grant gating officer to appear in person “implicated in a false case”. interim relief to former Delhi with records of the case on the Gupta questioned the urgency law minister Jitender Singh next date of hearing. of Tomar’s arrest by Delhi Police. Tomar, accused of having a fake Delhi Police arrested the Aam “Why was there such an law degree, and deferred the Aadmi Party leader on Tuesday urgency to arrest Tomar? He hearing on his bail plea till June and slapped a case of cheating, was abducted by police so that he 16. forgery and conspiracy against could not move for anticipatory Additional Sessions Judge him over his alleged fake law bail,” he said. Sanjeev Jain deferred the bail degree. A magistrate sent Tomar The counsel said the objective hearing while observing that the to four days in police custody. of the arrest was to “tarnish the investigating officer of the case Police, while seeking Tomar’s image” of his client. was out of Delhi with the accused custody, told the court that the Delhi Police opposed the bail and that the progress report and probe was in its initial stages and plea. documents related to the case the documents pertaining to the Public Prosecutor Tarunvir were not available with the court. law degree obtained by Tomar Singh Khehar requested the court “It is in the interest of all were fake. to defer the hearing saying police the parties that the bail plea is Challenging the magisterial were now “handicapped” as the decided after considering the court order that granted the investigating officer in the case records on expiry of the police four-day custody, Tomar’s coun- was out of town with the entire remand. Put up the bail applica- sel Ramesh Gupta alleged that his case records. tion for June 16 before the court client’s arrest was illegal. The court asked police to con- of competent jurisdiction,” the Gupta, however, withdrew his duct a thorough probe to ascer- judge said. plea yesterday after the sessions tain the truth after counsel Gupta The court said the matter judge granted him liberty to file a submitted before the court that A coachman in a ‘Victoria’ — horse-drawn carriage — as he waits for passengers in Mumbai. The ornate car- requires “objective consideration” fresh and proper plea against the “negative evidence” cannot be riages are nearing the end of the road after a court ruled them illegal, saying owners must wind up operations after going through the records. magisterial court order. reliable evidence. within a year. The silver-coloured Victorias, styled on open carriages used during Queen Victoria’s reign, have “Order for interim bail will fur- Arguing for bail, Gupta Gupta said that if someone said been plying the streets since British colonial times, and have been a tourist attraction. However, the Bombay ther complicate the matter and requested the court to grant Tomar was not the student of the High Court agreed with animal welfare groups, who had petitioned for a ban citing poor treatment of the horses. the same is neither appropriate Tomar interim bail till the final institute, it cannot be taken as nor desirable,” the judge said. disposal of his regular bail, reliable evidence. IANS FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 IEA: World oil demand rises after price fall QE market cap shrinks by QR13bn in a week DOHA: Qatar Exchange (QE) benchmark percent from 77.66 million shares exchanged shares declined 1.38 percent. Barwa was the index fell by 1.76 percent or 212.7 points the previous week. The number of transac- value leader. 2015 demand growth forecast raised in the past week to close the market at tions fell by 45.7 percent to 17,836 from 32,819 Meanwhile, most Gulf stock markets 11,879.56 points, compared with 12,092.25 the previous week. closed lower as oil prices pulled back after a LONDON: World oil demand will half of the year, the IEA said. The points the previous week. Out of the 43 listed securities, 13 moved rally, and heavy profit-taking hit the Dubai rise much more than expected supportive impact of these factors Barring two sectors, the entire sector indi- up, 29 moved down, and one remained bourse after speculative buying earlier in the this year, the International could wane in the rest of 2015. ces ended red. The telecoms and banking unchanged. Banking major QNB led activi- week, Reuters reported. Energy Agency (IEA) said yes- “Recent months have seen a sectors were the worst hit the past week. ties in terms of turnover, accounting for 11.97 Saudi Arabia’s main index slipped 0.2 terday, in the latest sign that the steady acceleration in global oil Telecoms plunged 3.07 percent and Banks percent of the market’s total value, followed percent and Saudi Basic Industries edged collapse in oil prices is helping to demand growth, but due to the edged 2.48 percent down. As industrials lost by Industries Qatar with 10.42 percent and down 0.3 percent. Dubai’s index dropped 2.7 boost fuel use. temporary nature of many of the 2.17 percent, transportation and insurance Barwa Real Estate with 8.84 percent. percent as two stocks, Amlak Finance and The Paris-based agency also factors that contributed to the sector fell1 percent and 0.42 percent, respec- Banks led the trading value, accounting for Arabtec, both tumbled by the daily 10 per- pointed to “exceptionally high” upside, annual growth may subside tively. Meanwhile, consumer sector rose 1.91 34.2 percent, followed by industrials sector, cent limit. Some Abu Dhabi blue chips also growth in global supplies, forecast- in the second half of 2015.” percent and real estate gained 0.22 percent. real estate and consumer goods. Real estate gave up gains made earlier this week, with ing Opec crude production would Market capitalisation which fell by 2 per- sector led the trading volume, accounting developer Aldar Properties down 3.2percent. remain near May’s multi-year high SUPPLY STRONG TOO cent to QR631bn, down from the previous for 31.19 percent, followed by banking sector, That emirate’s index fell 0.8 percent. and boosting its projection of supplies The IEA also pointed to week’s QR644bn, means the market missed industrials and consumer goods. Egypt’s benchmark slipped 0.2 percent this year from other producers. strong supply. Production by the QR13bn in a week. Yesterday, the market edged up 0.36 per- with most stocks in the red before a monthly In a monthly report, the IEA Organisation of the Petroleum Traded value last week decreased by cent. Of the 40 traded stocks, 20 advanced, meeting of the central bank to discuss inter- raised its forecast for global oil Exporting Countries rose to 31.33m 56.76 percent to QR1.24bn. Traded volume 19 declined and one remained unchanged. est rates. Most analysts expect it to keep demand growth in 2015 by 280,000 b/d in May, its highest since August amounted to 27.29 million shares, down 65 International Islamic was the worst hit. Its rates on hold. THE PENINSULA barrels per day (b/d) to 1.40m 2012, and is likely to stay high in b/d, bringing demand this year to coming months, the agency said. almost 94m b/d. “Barring unforeseen outages, “Recent oil market strength of Opec is likely to keep pumping at Kuwait pavilion at Expo 2015 course partly stems from unex- around 31m b/d during the coming pectedly strong global oil demand months as Middle East producers Egypt approves growth,” said the IEA, which sustain higher rates to preserve advises industrialised nations on market share and meet summer proposal to set energy policy. domestic demand,” the agency said. Oil prices have recovered this year Opec, meeting last week for up sovereign after hitting a near six-year low close the first time since its landmark to $45 a barrel in January. Prices col- decision in November not to prop investment fund lapsed from $115 in June 2014 in a up prices, kept its output policy decline that deepened after Opec unchanged for the second half of refused to prop them up and chose the year. This year’s oil-price jump CAIRO: The Egyptian govern- instead to defend market share. has been partly driven by signs that ment said yesterday that it had The IEA’s upward revision lower prices will slow growth in US approved a proposal to set up makes it the most bullish on 2015 shale oil and other production with a sovereign investment fund to oil demand growth of the three relatively high costs, such as a drop support economic development government forecasters closely in the number of US drilling rigs through returns on the state’s watched by the oil market. The operating. assets and resources. two others — Opec and the US But the IEA does not expect that The fund, called Amlak, will be government’s Energy Information process to happen overnight. The state-owned through the National Administration — issued reports agency raised its forecast of supply Investment Bank. It will act as earlier this week. growth from non-Opec producers the state’s investment arm and Oil initially rose after the release this year by 195,000 b/d to 1m b/d, aim to encourage diversification of the IEA report and later slipped. citing an upward revision to US and support sustainable economic Brent settled down 59 cents, or data and fewer summer mainte- and social development, the cabi- about 1 percent, at $65.11 a barrel, nance shutdowns in other regions. net said in a statement. after plumbing an intraday low at With forecasts of demand The state “would not man- $64.50. US crude settled down 66 and non-Opec supply both being age these investments directly”, cents, or 1 percent, at $60.77, after increased, the IEA said the mar- according to the statement, citing a session low at $60.21. ket would require 29.4m b/d of the planning minister. As well as lower prices, economic crude from Opec and inventories A child is seen as she visits the Kuwait pavilion at the Expo 2015 global fair in Milan, northern Italy. “The aim is to set up a highly recovery and a relatively cold win- this year, up 100,000 b/d from the The Milan Expo opened in May. Officials are counting on some 20 million visitors to the six month- effective investment fund that is ter helped lift demand in the first previous estimate. REUTERS long exhibition of products and technologies from around the world. able to participate with financial institutions and sovereign Arab and international funds in mega- projects”, the planning minister said. The statement did not give details on when the fund would be created or how much money Foxconn in talks to build first Apple plant in India it would manage. A 2011 uprising that toppled MUMBAI: Foxconn Techn- “Foxconn is sending a delega- as global sales. Apple representa- India, under Prime Minister name for Hon Hai Precision Hosni Mubarak hit the coun- ology is in talks to manufacture tion of their officers to scout for tives in India did not respond to a Narendra Modi, has sought to Industry Co Ltd — which also try’s economy hard, discouraging Apple’s iPhone in India, govern- locations in a month’s time,” request for comment. reboot manufacturing, but the makes components for companies investors and tourists and slash- ment officials said, in a move Subhash Desai, Industries Apple’s iPhone 6 with 16 GB sells country is yet to rival China, such as Xiaomi, Acer and Sony. ing growth to below 2 percent in that could lower prices in the Minister of India’s western state for around Rs44,000 ($687.82) in particularly in technology where “The smartphone boom in India the 2010/2011 fiscal year. world’s No.3 smartphone mar- Maharashtra, said. India, versus Samsung’s Galaxy most factories will likely be indicates the time is just right Egypt’s current government ket where the US firm trails Foxconn has said it is aiming S6 with 32 GB which sells for assembly units to begin with. to focus on expansion plans and has since embarked on a series of Samsung Electronics and local to develop 10-12 facilities in India, around Rs40,000 ($625.29). But local businessmen are bet- increasing volume in India to a reforms and hosted a high-profile players. including factories and data cen- It has 10 percent market ting that as global companies comparable level with the China investment conference in March India could help Foxconn miti- tres, by 2020, but had given no share in India, trailing Samsung invest in the country, suppliers market in the next five years,” where deals worth some $32bn gate accelerating wage inflation in detail. The Taiwan-based tech and local manufacturers such as will follow. said Sky Li, vice president of were signed. China, where it makes the major- giant, the world’s largest contract Micromax, which dominate the A lack of good infrastructure phone manufacturer OPPO. Economic growth has begun to ity of iPhones, and base produc- maker of electronic products, market, according to Counterpoint and suppliers are the biggest hur- India has the second-highest pick up and shaky state finances tion sites closer to markets where declined to comment on detailed Research Market Monitor. dles to making technology prod- number of mobile phone accounts are strengthening since former its key clients want to grow. plans on Thursday, citing com- A return of Foxconn — which ucts in the country, forcing most behind China. According to net- army chief Abdel Fattah Al Sisi Lower production costs could mercial sensitivity. was forced to shut up shop in of India’s more than 100 differ- working solutions company Cisco became president in 2014, over- also help Foxconn keep hold of Desai said Foxconn had yet to India last year after client Nokia ent phone companies to get their Systems, there will be 650 mil- seeing the implementation of Apple orders amid intensifying make any firm commitment, but closed — would be a major victory products from the mature mar- lion smartphones in the country some economic reforms while competition with nimble manu- he said the group was looking to for India, which badly needs to kets of China and Taiwan. by 2019. The number of tablets securing aid and investment from facturing rivals such as Quanta manufacture iPhones, iPads and turn its tech boom into a manu- Apple is among the biggest will rise 9 percent to 18.7 million rich Arab Gulf allies. Computer Inc. iPods, both for domestic as well facturing and employment boost. clients for Foxconn — the trade by then. REUTERS REUTERS Murdoch setting exit from media empire

NEW YORK: Rupert Murdoch will The company — which includes the Fox British market. He went on to buy The Sun, step down as chief executive of his Hollywood studios and a range of television a daily which he turned into a popular and media-entertainment conglomerate 21st entities — was created two years ago when big-selling tabloid. Century Fox and hand the job to his son Murdoch broke off the struggling publishing The success of his London-based newspa- James, his news channel said yesterday. operations of his News Corp empire from pers helped finance his 1981 purchase of The Fox News confirmed the succession plan the faster-growing media and entertain- Times and Sunday Times, both prestigious shortly after other media reports, starting ment operations. broadsheets, in an acquisition that met with with CNBC television. Rupert Murdoch and his family remained intense opposition from parts of Britain’s The 84-year-old tycoon will remain in control of both companies after the split. establishment. executive chairman of the group with his The Australian-born Murdoch is execu- He relocated to the United States where other son Lachlan as co-chairman in the tive chairman at News Corp with his son more bold acquisitions followed and where move. No timetable was given, but CNBC Lachlan listed as co-chairman. he became a naturalised US citizen in 1985. said the change would take place later this At Fox, Murdoch holds the title of chair- The empire came under pressure in year or in early 2016. The New York Times man and chief executive, with Chase Carey recent years from the slump in newspaper said the board would take up the transi- president and chief operating officer and revenues, and a scandal in Britain which tion plan next week. James Murdoch the co-chief operating led to the shutdown of News of the World James Murdoch, 42, will take over day to officer. According to CNBC, Carey was after the revelation the tabloid hacked into day management at Fox, working “in tan- expected to step down from his role while the phones of a murdered teenager and the dem with his 43-year-old brother Lachlan remaining an adviser to the company. families of dead soldiers. News International Chairman, James Murdoch (left) and his father Rupert leave and his father,” according to CNBC. Rupert Murdoch has spent a lifetime In the latest quarter, Fox reported net the Stafford Hotel in central London in this July 10, 2011, file photograph. Rupert Fox News, the cable channel which com- building his News Corp empire from a single income of $975m on revenues of $6.5bn. Murdoch, the 84-year-old Chief Executive of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc, is petes with CNN and MSNBC, will con- Australian newspaper he inherited. News Corp — which also owns Wall Street preparing to step down and has named his son James successor, CNBC reported, tinue to be run by its president Roger Ailes, He moved to London where his purchase Journal parent Dow Jones — for the same citing sources close to the Murdoch family. “reporting directly to Rupert Murdoch,” of the weekly News of the World in 1969 period reported a profit of $23m on $2bn in according to the network. gave him a high-profile foothold in the revenues. AFP FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS IMF, EU pour cold water on Greece hopes Athens told to stop ‘gambling’; creditors pile pressure

BRUSSELS: Greece’s creditors it could crash out of the euro- union protesters occupied the piled pressure on cash-strapped zone despite benefitting from two finance ministry in the landmark Athens yesterday as the IMF international bailouts since 2010. Syntagma Square, hauled down pulled its team out of talks and The crisis is now set to go to the EU flag and draped a huge the EU warned Athens to stop the wire with a Eurogroup meet- banner over the building. gambling with the possibility of ing of eurozone finance ministers in “We have bled too much, we default and a messy exit from Luxembourg on June 18 seen as the have paid, stop the new measures,” the eurozone. last chance to seal a deal in time to said the banner. Unions called for The International Monetary get it through national parliaments further protests against a govern- Fund said an agreement remained by the end of the month. ment “that no longer understands far-off after a five-month stale- EU President Donald Tusk the real need of workers,” a state- mate with Greece’s anti-austerity issued an unprecedented warn- ment said. government, which faces being ing to Tsipras, telling the Greek The situation remains dire unable to pay huge debts at the government to stop “gambling” for Greece, with ratings agency end of the month. and saying the Eurogroup meet- Standard & Poor’s on Wednesday Eleventh-hour talks in Brussels ing would be “really crucial” and further cutting its junk rating between Greek Prime Minister “decisive”. “There is no more time for Greek government bonds Alexis Tsipras and European for gambling. The day is coming, after it delayed a debt payment Commission chief Jean-Claude I am afraid, that someone says to the IMF last week. The head Juncker, meanwhile, broke up the game is over,” he told a press of the German central bank, Jens without reaching a deal on reforms conference. Weidmann, warned that the dan- in exchange for bailout cash. The Tsipras-Juncker talks, gers of contagion from a possible “There are still major dif- the second set in as many days Greek insolvency could not be ferences between us in most and the third in a week, ended “underestimated”. key areas,” IMF spokesman almost exactly as the IMF issued Greek officials had indicated a Gerry Rice told reporters in its statement, with both sides say- possible willingness to compro- Washington. “There has been no ing there was still no deal. mise on Wednesday on the issue progress in narrowing these dif- “We are working in order to of budgetary targets, adding that ferences recently. Thus we are bridge the main differences, espe- they were discussing a possible well away from an agreement.” cially the differences on fiscal and extension of the bailout until Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is seen on a TV monitor (centre) at the control room during the news broadcast The fund said its Greek financial issues,” Tsipras said March 2016. of state television ERT in Athens yesterday. talks team had returned to after the talks on the sidelines of AFP Washington from Brussels and an EU-Latin American summit that the “ball is very much in in Brussels. Greece’s court right now” — The EU said Juncker had although it added that “the explained to the Greek leader Tears as Greek state TV returns to air IMF never leaves the table and Tsipras “a possible process with remains engaged.” It said the key the three institutions that would ATHENS: Employees at talk show. Ahead of the pro- a slimmed-downed broadcaster source of patronage jobs for politi- disagreements were on pensions, still allow finding mutually Greece’s state television ERT gramme, the channel played out called NERIT, which is expected cal parties but were shocked by taxes and financing. acceptable solutions in time”—but hugged each other and cried yes- footage of some of Greece’s most to be merged or absorbed by ERT. the abruptness with which the The Greek government, for admitted there was no agreement. terday as the channel aired its famous landmarks and scenery, as Workers climbed to the top of government pulled the plug. its part, said it would “intensify” Late-night talks between first broadcast in two years, after the national anthem blared out. the broadcaster’s headquarters Hundreds rallied outside the efforts to resolve differences with Tsipras, German Chancellor it was shut down under one of “It’s a special day for all Greeks, earlier this week to remove the building in daily protests, as its creditors, “including in the Angela Merkel and French the previous government’s most for philhellenes, for those who letter’s “N” and “I” from its logo. teary-eyed musicians from ERT’s next 24 hours”. President Francois Hollande on drastic austerity measures. love Greece and for those who Tsipras’s Syriza party called national symphony orchestra per- The IMF is the most hard- Wednesday also ended without a Leftist Prime Minister Alexis love freedom of information,” its reopening “a great victory for formed songs. Laid-off journalists line of Greece’s three bailout deal, producing only a pledge to Tsipras, who is racing to reach a anchor Nikos Aggelidis said at the democracy”. A concert to celebrate had defied management orders to monitors — the others being “intensify” their efforts. cash-for-reforms deal with the start of the show. “We’re nervous. its launch was planned outside its leave the headquarters and for the European Commission and European Union and IMF, had We’re very touched.” headquarters for the evening. weeks broadcast a bootleg news European Central Bank — who PROTESTS IN ATHENS called ERT’s closure “a great Visibly moved, his co-presenter The closure of ERT on June 11, channel over the Internet. have demanded tough reforms Tsipras, whose radical-left wound” of his country’s bailout. Vasiliki Haina added in a shaky 2013, with newscasters cut-off The government has said all of in exchange for unlocking the Syriza party won elections in He made its reopening one of his voice: “It’s a special day for us, mid-sentence, set off a firestorm the roughly 2,500 staff who were remaining ¤7.2bn of its ¤240bn January with a promise to end priorities as part of efforts to roll a difficult day.” The news ticker of protests, brought thousands to made redundant, including 600 rescue package. five years of austerity, has refused back cuts demanded by the lenders. at the bottom of the screen read: the streets and led to the with- journalists, would be rehired at Without fresh external funding to back down on the reforms Employees gathered on the “The return of ERT two years drawal of a partner from the coa- a cost of about ¤30m a year, cov- when the bailout expires on June demanded by Greece’s creditors. set in the early hours yesterday since the black.” lition government at the time. ered through an existing monthly 30, cash-strapped Greece is set Fresh protests erupted in in tears as anchors prepared to ERT, which cost ¤300m a The move divided Greeks, many charge on electricity bills. to default on its debts, meaning Athens as Communist trade present the first early-morning year to run, was replaced with of whom regarded it as a wasteful REUTERS

New BMW 7 limousine Kazakhstan World Bank warns to join WTO after 20 emerging economies years of talks to ‘fasten seat belts’ GENEVA: Kazakhstan has completed the negotiations WASHINGTON: The World “We are advising nations, espe- needed to join the World Trade Bank warned emerging econo- cially emerging economies, to fas- Organization, the Geneva-based mies around the world yester- ten seat belts,” said Kaushik Basu, trade body said in a statement, day of a rocky road ahead as the the World Bank economist. and is on track to become the US moves toward tightening Basu took the view of his coun- 162nd WTO member by the end monetary policy as the dollar terparts at the International of the year. strengthens. Monetary Fund that the US and Kazakhstan has spent the But the development lender’s global economy would be better entire life of the 20-year-old chief economist also urged the off if the Fed holds its benchmark WTO trying to join the body, and US Federal Reserve to put off any federal funds rate at the zero level its candidacy gathered pace after rate hikes until next year so as to until early next year. its neighbour and close trade give more breathing room to the “If I were advising the US Fed, partner Russia joined in 2012. slow-growing global economy. I would recommend that this hap- Kazakhstan is part of the In an update of the prospects pens next year instead of late this The new BMW 7 limousine is presented at the BMW World in Munich, southern Germany. First versions of Eurasian Economic Union, a for world growth, the World Bank year,” he said. the new BMW 7 will be delivered in autumn 2015. regional trade grouping that trimmed its forecast for 2015 to The Bank was relatively opti- includes Russia, Armenia, 2.8 percent, compared to the 3.0 mistic beyond 2015, sticking to Kyrgyzstan and Belarus and has percent expansion predicted in its forecast for 3.3 percent world common tariffs for imports from January. growth in 2016. outside the bloc. That downgrade was due For this year, it cut its forecast Discrepancies between its mainly to the US contraction for the United States by a half- membership of the bloc, exist- in the first quarter, slow turna- percentage point to 2.0 percent; European stock markets climb ing bilateral trade deals and the rounds in Europe and Japan and raised its outlook for the euro to WTO membership terms agreed China’s deceleration. 1.5 percent; trimmed Japan to 1.1 LONDON: European stocks 1.43 percent, or 78.10 points, to 4,928.81. Mumbai fell 1.75 percent, with Russia were the last main But it has increased the chal- percent and held its China view rose yesterday, with Greek 5,556.70. Seoul ended 0.26 per- or 469.52 points, to 26,370.98. Tata stumbling block, but a deal was lenges for emerging and poor stable at 7.1 percent. shares soaring on optimism that cent higher, adding 5.29 points to Power fell 4.88 percent to Rs70.15 finally agreed on Wednesday, the economies, many hit by low The South Asia region got a 1.0 Athens was finally close to a deal 2,056.61, after the central bank while miner Vedanta Limited rose WTO said. commodity prices and capital percentage point upgrade to 7.1 with its creditors before the IMF cut its key interest rate in a bid 1.54 percent to Rs187.70. The WTO’s attempts to deepen outflows. percent, but for developing coun- announced they were still “well to boost the economy. Wall Street stocks rose on global trade reforms have made And though the plunge in oil tries as a whole, the outlook was away” from an agreement. Shanghai reversed morning US retail sales in May increas- very little progress since it was prices has lowered costs for net cut by 0.4 percent of a point to Athens’ main index had shot losses to close up 0.30 percent, ing by 1.2 percent, according to founded in 1995, but efforts to energy importers, because of the 4.4 percent. up 8.16 percent to end the day or 15.56 points, at 5,121.59 while Commerce Department data, broaden its membership and sign stronger dollar the benefits of The prospect of greater mar- at 823.16 points. Europe’s main Hong Kong tacked on 0.83 per- better than the 1.1 percent gain more countries up to the existing cheaper oil have not registered ket volatility and higher financing markets were a bit less optimistic. cent, or 220.21 points, to close at projected by analysts. Around rules have proceeded apace. deeply on their economies, accord- costs requires vulnerable coun- London’s benchmark FTSE 100 26,907.85. Gold fetched $1,179.55 mid-day in New York, the Dow The next joiners may be ing to the World Bank report. tries to strengthen their finances, index of top companies rose 0.24 compared with $1,188.80 late on Jones Industrial Average was up Afghanistan and Liberia, which These challenges could become diversify from dependence on percent to close at 6,846.74 points. Wednesday. 0.30 percent at 18,054.05 points. are both on the brink of agreeing tougher as the US economy commodities and build their In the eurozone, the CAC 40 In other markets: Taipei was The broad-based S&P 500 their membership terms, WTO rebounds and the Fed mulls rais- competitiveness and efficiency in Paris climbed 0.74 percent to flat, edging up 3.99 points to advanced 0.22 percent to 2,109.74, Deputy Director-General David ing interest rates, it said. through reforms, the Bank said. end the day at 4,971.37 points, 9,302.49. Wellington rose 0.94 per- while the tech-rich Nasdaq Shark said earlier this month. As that happens, there will be “Unless emerging markets and Frankfurt’s DAX 30 rose cent, or 54.55 points, to 5,858.41. Composite Index gained 0.11 per- Economies still outside the club more volatility in global markets have taken the prudent policy 0.60 percent to 11,332.78 points. Manila closed 1.62 percent, or cent to 5,082.15. include Iran, Iraq, Libya, Algeria, and weaker economies will suffer, steps to be fiscally and externally In foreign exchange activity, the 119.45 points, higher at 7,503.72. On the corporate front in Belarus, Serbia, Bosnia and the report said. resilient, they may face signifi- euro fell to $1.1230 from $1.1324 Bangkok closed up 0.72 per- Europe, shares in Royal Bank of Herzegovina, Ethiopia, Lebanon Those economies will pay more cant challenges dealing with the late on Wednesday in New York. cent, or 10.77 points, at 1,514.81. Scotland gained 1.89 percent to and Uzbekistan. To join, a country to borrow and incoming invest- turbulence and other fallout that Greek hopes earlier had also Singapore closed up 0.66 percent, close at 361.50 pence after the has to agree terms bilaterally with ment will be harder to attract, could be associated with a Fed boosted Asian stock markets. or 21.90 points, at 3,347.67. Kuala British government announced every interested member, giving all effectively adding more downward tightening,” said Ayhan Kose, Tokyo climbed 1.68 percent, or Lumpur fell 0.05 percent, or 0.87 late on Wednesday that it would existing WTO members an effec- pressure on currencies that have the World Bank Director of 336.61 points, to 20,382.97 thanks points, to 1,734.76. Jakarta ended begin selling its stake in the tive veto on any new membership. already fallen significantly against Development Prospects. to a weaker yen and Sydney added up 0.10 percent, or 4.74 points, at bailed-out lender. AFP REUTERS the dollar over the past year. 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Rising cost on US rate Dimon wonders whether Warren swaps raises worries understands global banking BY KIM CHIPMAN certain businesses. after the crisis. complimenting the bank’s prod- BY RICHARD LEONG Dimon, who runs the largest “The problem was never that uct: “By the way I have your PMorgan Chase & Co. US bank by assets, said he would I didn’t understand what the credit card, and I love it.” widening gap in the costs to hedge interest rate risk Chief Executive Officer meet with Warren any time she finance guys were doing,” she Later on Wednesday, when between platforms based in London and Chicago is gen- Jamie Dimon took aim wants. A spokeswoman for the said in April. “The problem was asked about his biggest worries, erating losses for Wall Street dealers and creating con- at US Senator Elizabeth lawmaker declined to comment. that I understood exactly what Dimon voiced concern that the A cern about how well this corner of the bond market will Warren, a critic of large In an April speech, Warren, a the finance guys were doing. I US eventually may be hurt by respond when the Federal Reserve raises rates. Jbanks, as he expressed broad former professor, chided “finance knew it, and they knew it.” ideological decisions made in In the last month, dealers have frequently been forced to pay a concerns about leadership in guys” who assert she and others Dimon and Warren have Washington. While the 59-year- costly premium on London’s LCH.Clearnet to offset their risk for Washington. can’t grasp their business. crossed paths before. In a new old said he won’t run for office, facilitating interest rate swaps on smaller rival Chicago Mercantile “I don’t know if she fully “The finance guys argue that afterword for the paperback he repeatedly returned to poli- Exchange on behalf of their clients. understands the global bank- if you’re never in the club, you version of her book, “A Fighting tics in his remarks, calling for The higher costs may further exacerbate bouts of extreme illi- ing system,” Dimon, speak- can’t understand it, but I think Chance,” she recounted a visit immigration and tax reform quidity and swings that have recently plagued the bond market, ing Wednesday at an event they have it backward,” she said. by the CEO to her office shortly and improvements to inner-city such as the “flash crash” in bond yields last October, an event in Chicago, said of the “Not being in the club means not after she was sworn in. She said education. that has alarmed and baffled regulators. It could test the resolve Massachusetts Democrat. Still, drinking the Kool-Aid.” their conversation heated up Warren’s tactics have been a of dealers to provide liquidity in a pinch. he said he agrees with some of after Dimon complained of stiff- growing topic of debate in the US “Everyone is concerned about it,” Jonathan Rick, an interest rate her concerns about risks. ‘FINANCE GUYS’ ening regulation, and that she this year. Last month, President derivatives strategist at Credit Agricole in New York, said about Warren, a Senate Banking Such bankers are smart, warned him CFPB rules might Barack Obama accused her and the price disparity. Committee member, has won but no smarter than people in take effect that would spell trou- other fellow Democrats who The rate swaps, in which parties exchange the cash flows from popular support and gained many other professions, she said. ble for the bank. opposed his trade agenda of different types of bonds, are an integral part of the fixed-income influence in her party by When their mistakes led to the playing politics and misleading market, amounting to $381 trillion in notional value. Investors and openly challenging the size of financial crisis, they “took care QUOTING WARREN the public. Billionaire Warren dealers use swaps as another way to bet for or against bonds as large lenders and their politi- of themselves and their bonuses Warren said Dimon “leaned Buffett, who profited from well as to hedge their portfolios. cal power. She has said it was a while millions of people lost back and slowly smiled,” and investing in banks while fault- Due to their importance, regulators required dealers and inves- mistake for the US government everything.” then replied, “So hit me with a ing the industry’s lapses, said in tors by 2014 to book their interest rate swaps with clearinghouses to refrain from breaking up big Warren led the congressional fine. We can afford it.” March that her approach to Wall or centralized counterparties (CCPs) like those operated by the banks, such as Citigroup Inc., oversight panel for the Treasury A bank spokesman denied Street is too confrontational. CME Group and its larger rival LCH Clearnet. after the 2008 financial crisis. Department’s 2008 bailout of the in April that Dimon made the “She would do better if she was The clearinghouses take on the risk of these trades so they Last month, as firms includ- financial system. She also pro- remark. less angry and demonized less,” require the swap parties to post margins on them. ing JPMorgan pleaded guilty posed the creation of what even- On Wednesday, Dimon Buffett, who leads Berkshire There has been a “basis” or pricing differential to clear between to resolve probes into market- tually became the Consumer recalled meeting with Warren Hathaway Inc., told CNBC at LCH and CME, the main CCPs for dollar swaps, because of such rigging, she criticized regulators Financial Protection Bureau during the CFPB’s founding to the time. “I believe in ‘hate the things as differences on required margins and costs to finance the for granting waivers that let the to help shield Americans from discuss credit cards. He quoted sin, and love the sinner.’” margins. companies continue operating predatory financial products her during the encounter as WASHINGTON POST Until recently, it hasn’t been a problem. The price of a swap cleared at CME or LCH was miniscule, roughly 0.15 basis point more on CME for a 30-year swap. But since early May, the spread widened nearly 17 fold at one point. It has eased somewhat recently but remains stretched. It’s unclear what has caused the LCH-CME spread to widen so dramatically. Some analysts reckoned it might be due to the recent surge in corporate bond supply. Others speculated it might stem from a dealer reaching a threshold on its swap exposure. Either way, it has occurred at a time when bond yields have risen as investors grow more confident that the Fed will raise rates this year for the first time since 2006. That could be enhancing demand among bond managers to swap fixed rates for floating rates, putting the dealers who facilitate those trades largely on the same side of the market. The price disparity means that on a $25m 30-year swap trade, for example, a dealer could be on the hook for about a $100,000 loss if he is paying a fixed rate on a CME swap and has arranged to receive an offsetting fixed rate on a LCH swap. With this potential loss, a dealer might raise how much he charges a fund to receive fixed-rate payments on a CME swap, traders said.

PREFERENCE AT A PRICE A fund manager who buys interest rate futures or a fixed-rate corporate bond typically offsets the position by entering into an interest rate swap with a bond dealer. And the swap is often cleared through the CME. Then, the dealer enters into a swap with another dealer, often cleared through, LCH in an effort to lower his interest rate risk. Asset managers prefer swaps cleared via CME, while dealers do more through LCH so there has been an imbalance. “When this imbalance is large enough, hedging flows related to the basis risk can cause the kind of cross-CCP spread we are currently seeing in the market,” J P Morgan analysts wrote in a research note last month. CME said it cleared a third of swaps between investors and dealers. But it has a much smaller share in total swap clearing, which LCH dominates. For dealers, the jump in swap clearing cost has become a trading loss. In response, dealers may pass on the higher cost to asset man- agers and other clients, analysts said. Barring that, they may limit their participation, potentially contributing to a liquidity drought. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

George Osborne talks tough on debt – so why not on banks? BY SIMON JENKINS inheriting the largest government reduction of the national debt” is in claims for the PPI mis-selling for the values of hard graft and jobs and tens of millions saw debt in peacetime history and, as himself. scandal. But the worst that hap- oligopolistic capitalism, such as their living standards collapse. hock horror. A chancellor yet, of failing seriously to dent it. Meanwhile what of the cause pens to those leading the banks China. We await the budget to Whole nations were plunged into of the exchequer thinks we Labour can mock him, but reduc- of all this woe? Conventional involved in the crash has been see if Osborne is ready to call the penury from which they have yet should not spend beyond ing such monumental debt is not wisdom is increasingly putting early retirement, the loss of bankers’ bluff. to escape. In the case of Greece, Sour means. The habit ignoble, and there is no harm in the blame for the recession less a knighthood or a reduced As with data surveillance and even now Europe’s bankers are must end. The Micawberish cli- the occasional reminder. on government debt than on bonus. Osborne may set up a football corruption, so with glo- denying the essence of bank- che, respun by George Osborne’s Yet the flaws in such pre-Key- the antics of the banking sector. Dickensian commission to curb bal finance, it is America that is ruptcy, that lenders too should aides before his Mansion House nesian ideas have long been the Osborne’s Treasury boss, Nicholas public debt, but I see no British now acting as the world’s police- accept risk and write off debts. speech tonight, is hardly new. Jim stuff of economics essays. Indeed, Macpherson, recently agreed with bankers are on their way to the man. (Indeed it is a tragedy of This is the economics of the Callaghan shouted it at a rally in Osborne’s success as chancellor is the American economist Paul Marshalsea. our age that such worthy polic- middle ages. 1976, as did Margaret Thatcher to know when he is talking rub- Krugman that the crash was “a This week Britain’s biggest ing by Washington is not confined Britons still find it mystifying at her party ad nauseam. Gordon bish. Mercifully he does not prac- classic banking crisis pure and bank, HSBC, pulled off a trick to non-military interventions.) that there has been no general Brown had his 1997 “golden rule” tise what he preaches. His public simple”. While the regulators of pure blackmail. Hardly a Prosecutors are seeking account- inquiry into what happened in and America its Gramm-Rudman spending rises each year to meet were dozing, it was bankers who week passes without that com- ability and retribution for past 2008-9, despite the Queen asking act. Such homespun mantras are promises to pensioners, schools, went berserk. pany facing new accusations of misdeeds. Bankers involved in economists the question directly recited by treasuries round the hospitals and aid. He knows no So what does Osborne say to the money-laundering, market rig- subprime scandals, market rig- on her 2008 visit to the LSE. world, but they are dust blown growing business – let alone a splendid ones arrayed before him ging or aiding tax evasion, usu- ging, Libor fixing and insider There has been no allocation of away by the hurricane of politics. growing economy – refuses to at the Mansion House looking, as ally from across the Atlantic. Yet dealing are hauled in handcuffs responsibility so as to stop it hap- Like all voodoo economics, they borrow to invest. Hence his tax Baldwin said of their predeces- in 2012 David Cameron actually before the courts. Massive fines pening again. From the US, the are both right and rubbish. breaks, incentives, grants and sors, “as if they have done very gave its boss, Stephen Green, a are imposed. message is that never again must Osborne wants to reduce gov- skills programmes that must hold well out of the war”? Not much. peerage and a job in, of all places, As of March, US banks are a bank or linked group of banks ernment debt. He thinks the the key to Britain’s limping pro- London’s financial community the department of trade, charged required to prove they are small be so big that its fall can cripple state should balance its books “in ductivity. Hence his price-inflat- is in denial. It believes the past with bank regulation. enough to collapse without bring- an entire economy. normal times”. Borrowing should ing subsidies to house buyers. is best forgotten. The Treasury In an attempt to recoup some ing down the system, as in 2008. Osborne half understands. occur only “in exceptional cir- Osborne is a politician before and its regulatory agents have of the money HSBC and others They must break into separate In his speech he singled out for cumstances”, and such discipline he is an economist, and a soft settled back to doing what have contrived to divert from the operations, rid themselves of “junk applause the financial stabil- should somehow be “entrenched”. touch for any vanity project that they know best, taxing and Treasury, Osborne has steadily DNA”, expose poor debts and gen- ity of Sweden and Canada. Not The chancellor is even to revive a crosses his desk. When he returns micro-regulating. increased the 2010 bank levy to erally get their acts together. The all small countries have proved Victorian commission to ensure to his office tomorrow he will fur- In Britain almost no one has an estimated £700m on the bank banks are howling. Their lobby- stable – witness Iceland. But it happens. ther boost his debt with aircraft been prosecuted, fined or struck this year. HSBC’s response is to ists are in full cry. Complicated on the whole, small works. The Cynics may dance with glee at carriers, nuclear reactors, high- off for actions involved in the announce, in effect, that unless though it is, it will happen. This is Americans understand. Why not his get-out phrases. They point speed trains, wind turbines, sci- credit crash of 2008-9 – a point there is an end to attacks on its a form of “national security” that Britain? HSBC is arrogant, rack- out that all economics is about ence parks, garden bridges and finally made by Bank of England profits and its integrity, it will up matters. ety and above all big. I say good abnormality and exceptions. the rest. The only proper chair- governor Mark Carney tonight. sticks and leave London. It might When the world banking sys- riddance. But Osborne bears the scars of man for his “commission for the The banks have faced some £26bn go somewhere with more respect tem failed, millions lost their THE GUARDIAN FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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Hockey: Arab Nations Cup at Aspire Academy

Action from the Friendship Festival match between Air India and Pakistan International Airlines at Aspire Academy Indoor Court in Doha yesterday. RIGHT: Action from the Arab Nations Cup match between UAE and Sudan at Aspire Academy Indoor Court in Doha yesterday. Hockey lovers will get an opportunity to watch legendary hockey players playing an exhibition match with a Qatari team at Aspire Academy today at 7pm. Shahbaz Ahmad, former Pakistan captain and five-time recipient of the world’s best player award, Shahid Ali Khan, recipient of best goalkeeper award in the 1982 World Championship and 1984 Olympics, Khalid Bashir, renowned penalty-corner specialist, Dhanraj Pillay, a top forward of his time and former captain of the Indian Hockey team, Khlaid Hameed, a renowned Olympian, and other superstars will be participating. PICTURES: ABDUL BASIT Saad lifts Hawks to series-tying win Chicago’s goaltender Corey Crawford also stands tall as Tampa Bay go down 2-1

CHICAGO: Brandon Saad Blackhawks coach Joel Vasilevskiy made 17 saves as scored the go-ahead goal and Quenneville praised Saad’s “great he stood in for Ben Bishop, who the Chicago Blackhawks made power move to the net.” was scratched with an unspeci- it stand up for a 2-1 victory “He’s dangerous,” Quenneville fied injury. over the Tampa Bay Lightning said of the forward who notched Vasilevskiy, who had relieved on Wednesday that levelled the his eighth goal of the 2015 play- Bishop in the Lightning’s game Stanley Cup final. offs. “Very good performance.” two victory, was able to ease into The Blackhawks knotted the Corey Crawford provided a solid his first post-season start as the NHL’s best-of-seven champion- performance in the Blackhawks Blackhawks mustered just two ship series at two games apiece. net, making 24 saves. shots on goal in the first period. Game five is in Tampa tomor- Captain Jonathan Toews scored Cooper said he thought row, when the Blackhawks will his first goal of the series for Vasilevskiy did a “hell of a job” try to take another step toward a Chicago, opening the scoring with in giving up just two goals in a third championship in six seasons. 13:20 left in the second period. pressure-packed situation. Saad gave the Blackhawks a 2-1 Five minutes later, Alex Killorn “We’ve had a lot of success lead with 13:38 to play, backhand- provided the Lightning’s lone goal when we’ve only given up two,” ing a shot under Tampa Bay’s off a pass from Valtteri Filppula. Cooper said. “That kid gave us a 20-year-old Russian goalie Andrei Crawford then withstood a chance to win the hockey game. Vasilevskiy, who was making his bevy of shots in the final minutes, We just scored one, we’ve got to first playoff start. as Tampa Bay pulled Vasilevskiy score more than that.” “I was really pretty lucky,” said for an extra attacker. However, Cooper also said that Saad, who drove the puck up the “I’ll be honest with you, I don’t he expected Bishop to play again left side after a faceoff, lost it in know how one of those didn’t go in the series, although he’s not front of the net but recovered in,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper sure if it will be on Saturday. it to backhand his shot through said of his team’s late barrage, “Bish is going to play again in Vasilevskiy’s pads. which included a point-blank this series, there’s no question,” “I just saw space going to the blast from Lightning captain Cooper said. “I just don’t know net, tried to drive and create some Steven Stamkos and a deflection which game.” chaos,” Saad said. “Goalie made a by Killorn that sailed over the net. The one-goal decision was the good play with poking the puck, “You can definitely expect their fourth straight in the series, the bounced around my feet. team to come at us hard and first time since the Canadiens’ “I finally found it to my stick, press when they are down a goal,” sweep of the Blues in 1968 that Brandon Saad (second from right) of the Chicago Blackhawks celebrates with team-mates Brad Richards (#91) just tried to get some wood on it Toews said. “It’s going to get crazy the first four games of a title and Patrick Kane (#88) after scoring a goal in the third period against the Tampa Bay Lightning during Game and get to the net and found a in some moments, and I think we series were decided by just one Four of the Stanley Cup finals at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on Wednesday night. way through his legs.” did a good job of handling it.” goal. AFP Mayweather beats Nadal battles past Baghdatis in Stuttgart STUTTGART, Germany: changed from clay in time for this Rafael Nadal began the diffi- edition. Pacquiao again cult annual transition from clay Tomic concluded victory with a to grass yesterday, taking more love game to advance to the last LOS ANGELES: Floyd — the top 100 earned a total of than two-and-a-half hours to eight in just over an hour and a “Money” Mayweather (pic- $3.2bn over the last 12 months. advance to the quarter-finals of quarter. tured) has beaten Manny Real Madrid forward the Stuttgart Open. “I was down 6-4 in the tie- Pacquiao again: the undefeated Cristiano Ronaldo edged The top seed, whose ranking break and managed to hit an US boxer leads his Filipino Barcelona rival Lionel Messi for has fallen to 10th after a terrible unbelievable pass,” said Tomic. rival atop Forbes’ latest list of third on the list,with Ronaldo clay season in which he failed to “That was the turning point. the world’s highest-paid sports coming in at $79m and Messi win a European title, overcame “I managed to hit the right figures. $73.8m. Marcos Baghdatis 7-6 (7/5), 6-7 shot at the right time. In the Mayweather tops the list Swiss tennis great Roger (4/7), 6-2. second set, I felt like I played the for the second year in a row Federer rounded out the top Nadal managed to win the right tennis and played really with the majority of his $300m five with total earnings of $67m. opening set as he began the pre- well. in earnings over the past 12 Woods remains in the top 10 Wimbledon season at the venue “Match by match I’m getting months coming from at number nine ($50.6m), where he claimed 2005 and 2007 better, which is the most impor- his May mega-fight with despite the decline in his titles on clay. tant thing I think.” Pacquiao. game that has seen his Nadal will next face fifth Tomic’s win gave him bragging Thanks to his take world ranking slide to seed Bernard Tomic after the rights in Germany after losing to from the fight, Pacquiao 181. Australian overpowered Tommy Haas three years ago on grass in is second on the list The 14-time major Haas 7-6 (8/6), 6-2 to end the vet- Halle when the Aussie retired in released on Wednesday champion’s old rival Phil eran’s comeback after a year on the first set due to an abdominal with $160m in earnings, Mickelson is the high- the sidelines following his fourth injury. joining Mayweather and est-paid golfer at eighth shoulder surgery. “Losing the first set mentally Tiger Woods as the only ($50.8m) — with reigning Second seed Marin Cilic, the put me in a bad mood,” said Haas. sportsmen to earn nine world number one Rory US Open champion, was making Rafael Nadal of Spain waves to fans after winning the round of 16 match “I thought about it probably figures in a 12-month McIlroy of Northern his start on grass later Thursday against Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus at the Stuttgart Open yesterday. for too long. Then I got broken period. Ireland coming in at 12th. as he faced German Matthias right away in the second set and The highest-grossing fight The top 10 also features three Bachinger. a tough opponent on this surface. in the 10th game of the second he took off from there. in history, which generated NBA players: LeBron James at Nadal was pleased to escape an “I need to play more aggres- before the 63rd-ranked challenger “I felt my shoulder was getting $400m in US revenue, accounts sixth, Kevin Durant at seventh upset at the hands of Baghdatis sively if I’m to improve on the levelled at a set each by winning a bit tight, which didn’t help, but for much of the $460m earnings and Kobe Bryant at 10th. just over a week after crash- grass. This was an important a tiebreaker. overall I’m pleased with the way increase on the 2015 list, Forbes Once again, Russian tennis ing out the French Open as a victory for me, it’s good for the Nadal gathered his powers in I played.” said. star Maria Sharapova is the 39-match win streak at the venue confidence. the third set, breaking for 3-1 to Mischa Zverev assured at least According to the financial highest woman on the list at 26 was ended by Novak Djokovic in “I have great memories of win- eventually run out the winner. one local in the quarters as he magazine’s calculations — which — with total earnings of $29.7m. the quarter-finals. ning here when Stuttgart was Tomic had to battle to close defeated Italian Andreas Seppi take into account salaries, World number one Serena “I’m very happy to win this clay, but I’m going to try my best out victory, with former world 6-2, 6-4. bonuses, prize money, appear- Williams is the only other match, it’s good to be in the quar- to win it on grass now.” number two Haas saving three Zverev, ranked 502, will be ance fees and estimated licens- woman in the top 100 at number ter-finals,” said the 29-year-old Nadal won the opening set match points in the penulti- playing in his first quarter-final ing and endorsement income 47 ($26.4m). AFP Spaniard. after more than an hour and mate game on the new grass of since Halle in 2013 when he lost “Marcos made it difficult, he’s saved two Baghdatis set points the Weissenhof club, which was to Roger Federer. AFP FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Qatar Open Kiteboarding Championship at Fuwairit Beach

A kite surfer gets ready for action in the Qatar Open Kiteboarding Championship at Fuwairit Beach, Qatar, yesterday. The three-day Championship kicked off yesterday at the Qatar National Kiteboarding Centre, Fuwairit Beach. Around 24 sailors are taking part in the Freestyle, TT Race and Formula Race. The event ends on Saturday Rain washes out second day Australia recover from early of India and Bangladesh Test setback against West Indies FATULLAH, Bangladesh: Heavy rain forced the second day’s play to be abandoned with- out a ball being bowled in the Visitors reach 91 for two on first day of the second Test at Sabina Park one-off Test between Bangladesh and India in Fatullah yesterday. Umpires Kumar Dharmasena KINGSTON, Jamaica: Jerome with vice-captain Steve Smith. and Nigel Llong called off play at Taylor struck two early blows None of the other bowlers got 1.40 pm (0740 GMT) after inces- but pace partner Kemar Roach’s anywhere close to Taylor’s miser- sant rain since early morning no-ball woes proved costly again liness and the runs flowed freely left the outfield and the covers as Australia recovered to 91 throughout the rest of the morn- water-logged at the Khan Shaheb for two at lunch on the open- ing session in a third-wicket part- Osman Ali stadium. ing day of the second and final nership that had already realised Just 56 of the stipulated 90 Test against the West Indies at 75 runs by the interval. overs were bowled on the first day Sabina Park yesterday. Smith matched his skipper due to bad weather, with India Put in to bat on a pitch offer- shot-for-shot, especially tak- making 239 for no loss after they ing considerable assistance to ing a liking to left-arm spinner won the toss and elected to bat. the fast bowlers, the visitors lost Veerasammy Permaul, and will Shikhar Dhawan was unbeaten David Warner for a duck in the resume in the afternoon on 38, on 150 and Murali Vijay was on first over, caught by Shai Hope with Clarke looking well set on 35. 89. at third slip, and fellow-opener In the wake of the second More rain has been forecast for Shaun Marsh lbw for 11 shortly innings capitulation in Dominica the next three days, raising fears afterwards, both to Taylor, to that resulted in a nine-wicket of the match ending in a draw. stand at 16 for two after just 20 defeat inside three days in the first India and Bangladesh are due minutes’ play. Test a week ago, the home side to play three one-day internation- Taylor was not only effective suffered further setbacks before als in Dhaka following the Test. but miserly, his opening five-over the start of play with their most AFP spell completed without conced- experienced batsman, Marlon ing a single run. He would return Samuels, ruled out because of ill- for a sixth maiden in the penulti- ness while leg-spinner Devendra Mubarak back mate over of the session. Bishoo’s badly-bruised finger on his bowling hand did not heal suf- in Sri Lanka Scoreboard ficiently for him to be considered. Taking their places were debu- Jerome Taylor of West Indies appeals successfully for the wicket of Shaun Marsh of Australia during the first Test squad Australia (I Innings): tant opening batsman Rajindra day of the second Test in Kingston yesterday. D ItWarner should c Hope have b Taylor been ...... 0 22 for three Chandrika, which allows Hope to butS Marsh Michael lbw b Taylor Clarke, ...... 11 who popped move to a more familiar position COLOMBO: Left-handed bats- upS Smith(batting) a catch back ...... 38 to Roach off his in the middle-order, and Permaul. retained the same team that won second Test against West Indies month, Clarke looked back on a man Jehan Mubarak’s nearly ownM Clarke bowling (batting) when...... 35 on just three, Fast bowler Shannon Gabriel so convincingly at Windsor Park in Kingston, six months after tumultuous period in his life when eight-year wait for a Test recall wasExtras granted (B4, LB1, NB2) a ...... 7reprieve when was also ruled out with a fever, to extend their unbeaten run in thinking his career might be over his grief for team mate Hughes finally ended with Sri Lanka theTotal request (28 overs, by 2 wkts) presiding ...... 91 umpire paving the way for Roach, the Test matches against the West in the wake of another injury to and struggle for fitness played out naming him in their squad for RichardTo bat: Adam Kettleborough Voges, Shane Watson, for a Brad tel- most experienced and successful Indies to 13 spanning more than his problematic hamstring. in the full public glare. the three-match series against evisionHaddin, replayMitchell Johnson,confirmed Mitchell that Starc, the of the current crop of Caribbean 12 years. Clarke’s comeback from sur- “I think my main focus at the Pakistan starting on Wednesday. fastNathan bowler, Lyon, Josh not Hazlewood. for the first time bowlers, to return to the final Meanwhile, Australia captain gery to help his team win a fifth time was getting through the The 34-year-old, who played inFall his of wickets:international 1-0 (Warner), career, 2-16 (Marsh). was eleven after he was dropped for Michael Clarke had little time World Cup triumph on home soil passing of Phillip and supporting the last of his 10 Tests at home in deprivedBowing: Taylor of a6-6-0-2, wicket Roach because 7-0-40-0 he a loss of form after two matches to reflect on a “tough summer” was a fairytale finish for his one- his family as much as I could,” December 2007 against England, overstepped(2nb), Holder 7-1-16-0, the front Permaul crease. 8-2-30-0. of the preceding three-Test series battling injury and grieving the day career and a decisive answer Clarke told reporters in Jamaica. was rewarded for his rich domes- WestAustralia’s Indies: Kraigg captain Brathwaite, almostRajindra against England. death of his friend Phillip Hughes to critics who had written him “And then when I was doing tic form, having scored over 1000- immediatelyChandrika, Darren addedBravo, Shane insult Dowrich, to Needing just a draw for their but took satisfaction in defying off as a physical and emotional that I guess I made the decision plus runs in the last two seasons. injuryShai Hope, for Jermainethe Barbadian Blackwood, bowler,Denesh first series success away from the doubters who thought him a wreck. to have surgery on my hamstring The Washington, DC-born smitingRamdin (captain), him over Jason long-offHolder, Jerome for Tay-six home since prevailing in a three- spent force. Though preparing Australia’s to give myself any chance, in my former national swimming andlor, Kemar unfurling Roach, Veerasammy a succession Permaul. of match duel with top-ranked South The 34-year-old batsman bid to sweep West Indies 2-0 and opinion, of making it back to the champion also impressed Jonty attacking shots in partnership Africa 15 months ago, Australia is leading Australia into the retain the Ashes in England next World Cup.” AGENCIES Rhodes in a recent training camp arranged by his board with the South African fielding great say- ing Mubarak’s agility could be an asset for the test side. Former England wicketkeeper Prior retires Left-handed batsman Kusal Perera and fast bowler LONDON: Former England has proved impossible, and I have “I also feel privileged to have cricket, paid tribute to his former Dushmantha Chameera will be wicketkeeper Matt Prior (pic- now had to reach this decision.” been involved in an era of such team-mate. hoping to make their test debut, tured) announced yesterday Prior made his England debut success for English cricket.” “Matt has had a wonderful while paceman Suranga Lakmal that he has retired at the age of against the West Indies at Lord’s Prior thanked his “family, career as a wicketkeeper-batsman was also named in the 16-mem- 33 due to injury. in May 2007 and marked the team-mates, coaches and the peo- for both Sussex and England,” ber squad despite still recovering Prior made the last of his 79 occasion with a maiden century. ple behind the scenes”, as well as Strauss said. from a groin injury. Test appearances against India He went on to play a key role “cricket fans both at home and “During a period where the Galle hosts the first test, fol- at Lord’s 11 months ago before in three Ashes triumphs and hit a abroad”, and said he had cre- Test team won three Ashes series lowed by matches in Colombo and undergoing surgery on his further six Test centuries during ated “friendships that will last and achieved the world number Pallekele before the teams lock Achilles tendon. a period that saw England climb forever”. one ranking, Matt’s contribu- horn in a limited-overs series He had hoped to return to to the top of the International “I have always tried to play tion both on and off the field was featuring five one-day and two action with Sussex in this season’s Cricket Council ranking in 2011. with pride and passion, and have immense. Twenty20 Internationals. County Championship, but having In total he scored over 4,000 a deep belief that the team will “It is a huge shame that his Squad: Angelo Mathews failed to recover full fitness, he Test runs and claimed 256 dis- always come first -- a value that career has come to an end in this (captain), Lahiru Thirimanne, has decided to walk away. missals, putting him second will never leave me whatever I go way, although his athletic wick- Kaushal Silva, Dimuth “Today is a very sad day for me, behind only Alan Knott (269) on to do,” he continued. etkeeping and counter-attacking Karunaratne, Kumar Sangakkara, as I am forced to announce my among England wicketkeepers “Although I haven’t achieved all batting will live long in the memo- Dinesh Chandimal, Kithruwan retirement from the game I love,” and ninth on the all-time world- the goals I had set out to, I feel ries of both his team-mates and Vithanage, Jehan Mubarak, Prior said in a statement released wide list. immensely proud of what I have England supporters.” Kusal Perera, Rangana Herath, by the England and Wales Cricket “I feel honoured to have played done in my career. Sadly it is now Prior will now be able to chan- Dilruwan Perera, Tharindu Board (ECB). for Sussex and England as many time to move on.” nel his energies into his profes- Kaushal, Nuwan Pradeep, “I had been hoping and expect- times as I have, and shared so Andrew Strauss, Prior’s cap- sional cycling team, ONE Pro Dammika Prasad, Dushmantha ing to be fit for the start of the many great times with both tain during his time with England Cycling, which he set up earlier Chameera, Suranga Lakmal (sub- 2015 season. Unfortunately, this teams,” Prior added. and the ECB’s new director of this year. AFP ject to fitness). REUTERS FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 USA stun world champions Germany Wood scores late match winner for Klinsmann’s side in 2-1 victory in Cologne

COLOGNE, Germany: Jurgen as they look to claim top spot in Herrmann finished a blistering Klinsmann’s USA shocked their group. run by cutting in from the right Brazil legend Germany with a 2-1 victory But after their Dutch win, it wing and rolled a pass across the in Wednesday night friendly was a confidence booster for the box for the unmarked Goetze to as the Stars and Stripes fol- USA as they prepare to host fire home on 13 minutes. Zico to stand lowed up their win over the the CONCACAF Gold Cup next But the Stars and Stripes Netherlands by beating the month. deservedly drew level on 41 min- for FIFA world champions. “Our energy levels dropped as utes when midfielder Michael Bobby Wood, who plays for the game went on and we couldn’t Bradley, a former Borussia Germany’s third division side respond so well,” rued Germany Moenchengladbach player put in Presidency Erzgebirge Aue, scored the win- coach Joachim Loew. a superb diagonal pass. ner just before the final whistle “If we had taken our chances It found Oslo-born Diskerud in RIO DE JANEIRO: Former to seal the Americans’ deserved at the start of the game, the space and the winger fired past Brazil star Zico yesterday con- victory. USA would certainly not have Germany’s second-choice goal- firmed he will stand in the elec- It capped a dream few days come back from two or three- keeper Ron-Robert Zieler with tion to succeed Sepp Blatter as for the 22-year-old who also hit nil down.” Manuel Neuer rested. president of FIFA, although he the winner when the USA fought Mario Goetze’s first-half goal Loew made changes soon after admitted he may struggle to back to stun the Netherlands 4-3 for Germany in Cologne was can- the break with Sami Khedira, find enough support. in Amsterdam last Friday. celled out by Mikkel Diskerud’s whose transfer from Real Madrid “I would like to confirm the Again the USA fought back equaliser just before the half-time to Juventus was announced decision to be a candidate,” from a goal down to cap a strong break before Wood struck the on Tuesday, taking over from the 62-year-old told a news display as Germany suffered their decisive blow late on. Germany captain Bastian conference. third defeat since winning the “That was inconvenient, we Schweinsteiger. “I feel I am capable. For sure, World Cup last year. must play better football on The USA, who reached the certain rules need to change,” not “That was a fun little game Saturday, then we won’t get into last 16 of Brazil 2014, fin- least the constant “horse-trad- with a good end for us,” beamed trouble again,” said Goetze. ished the stronger with only a ing” necessitated by the need to Klinsmann, who has coached It was Klinsmann’s sec- reflex save from Zieler deny- gather the support of at least five the USA since 2011 and steered ond win over his former side ing Bradley’s thunderbolt strike federations. Germany to third at the 2006 Germany, coached by his former from the edge of the area with “That need to have five federa- World Cup. assistant Loew, after America’s ten minutes left. tions behind you, I think that is “My players are very happy and friendly win in Washington in Bradley started the move where the corruption starts” as the way things developed in the 2013. which led to Honolulu-born favours are offered, asked for or second half, the victory was well But Loew’s team won when in Wood’s winner as he held off called in, Zico said. deserved. mattered in the group stages in Shkodran Mustafi’s challenge “Much needs to change and “This success will give Brazil last year. to beat Zieler from outside the much is going to happen” American football even more After a bright start, especially area just before the whistle as He pointed out he had come to attention.” from debutant Patrick Herrmann, the Hawaiian-native punched his the conclusion he ought to make The defeat was not what Germany took the lead when shot home. a formal bid to stand after talking Germany needed before their Bayern Munich’s Goetze hit his Khedira hit the crossbar in Mix Diskerud (centre) of the USA celebrates his 1-1 goal with team- with former Portugal star Figo, Euro 2016 qualifier on Saturday third international goal since net- injury time as Germany chased mates Aron Johansson (left) and Gyasi Zardes during the international who briefly expressed his own when they face bottom side ting the winner in the World Cup in vain for an equaliser to spare friendly match in Cologne, Germany, on Wednesday night. desire to stand for the post before Gibraltar away in Faro, Portugal, final. their blushes. AFP pulling out last month. “I was asked if I had talked with Figo about his being a can- Brazil survive didate for FIFA. I said I had and 2018 World Cup: Guam claim historic that set me thinking.” scare to make Blatter has already announced he will stand down from the job U-20 quarters after the organisation he has win, Philippines surprise Bahrain 2-1 headed since 1998 was engulfed in a series of corruption allegations. WELLINGTON: Five-time Zico, who has experience of the champions Brazil limped into DOHA: Tiny Guam beat Hong Kong had it even easier game at managerial level having the FIFA Under-20 World Cup Turkmenistan 1-0 to record World Cup Asian at home to Bhutan, who they Euro 2016 notably coached Japan, said he quarter-finals yesterday after a their first ever World Cup Qualifying thrashed 7-0 in a ridiculously Qualifying Fixtures believed the game had to undergo penalty shoot-out with Uruguay, qualifying victory, while the lop-sided Group C contest at the wide-ranging reforms. Singapore: FIFA World Cup 2018 - Asian Fixtures (all kick-offs 1845 GMT unless while fellow heavyweight Philippines surprised Bahrain Mongkok Stadium. But he added he believed it Qualifying results yesterday stated) Germany eased through without 2-1 as the second round of Asia’s Jaimes McKee opened the was right that Blatter be allowed Group A even hitting top gear. preliminaries for Russia 2018 floodgates in the 19th minute and Today to stay in place prior to a vote Host nation New Zealand gave began yesterday. Malaysia 1 (S. Sali 34) Timor Leste 1 scored again in the second half Group A on a successor due to be elected (Ramon 90) two-time tournament winners Hosting their first ever World while five of his team mates were At Almaty (1600 GMT) between December and March. Group B Portugal an almighty scare before Cup qualifier, having lost two also on target. Kazakhstan vs Turkey “This will allow him to make Bangladesh 1 (Kichin 32-og) Kyrgyzstan 3 succumbing to a late goal, and away fixtures, Guam were gifted In other matches, Laos were At Reykjavik an orderly handover,” Zico told Uzbekistan eliminated Austria the only goal on the artificial turf (Zemlianukhin 4, 41, Bernhardt 29-pen) held to a 2-2 draw by Myanmar, reporters in Rio. Iceland vs Czech Republic 2-0. at the National Training Centre Group C Thailand beat Vietnam 1-0 and Zico, nicknamed the “White Germany maintained the omi- after Serdar Annaorazov turned Hong Kong 7 (McKee 19, 57, Annan 23, Lo Malaysia played out a 1-1 draw At Riga Pele” during a playing career nous form that saw them score 16 into his own net in the 14th Kwan Yee 30, Ju Ying Zhi 42, Lam Ka Wai with East Timor. Latvia vs Netherlands which never yielded a World goals in the group stages to com- minute. 49-pen, Karikari 67) Bhutan 0 Only the eight group winners Group B Cup triumph, joked that contro- fortably down Nigeria, one of the Guam host India in their second Group D in the 39-team stage are guaran- At Andorra la Vella versial Argentine legend Diego tournament favourites. match in Group D on Tuesday. Guam 1 (Annaorazov 14-og) Turkmenistan 0 teed a place in the next round. Andorra vs Cyprus Maradona might be a potential In contrast, Brazil looked The Philippines, cheered on The second round of Asian World vice-president. Group E At Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina unconvincing against Uruguay, by a home crowd, put up a gritty Cambodia 0 Singapore 4 (Khairul Amri 9, Cup action also doubles as quali- Maradona, a World Cup win- Bosnia and Herzegovina vs Israel eventually advancing 5-4 on pen- show to overcome Bahrain in a Safuwan Baharudin 21, 35, Fazrul Nawaz 55) fication for the 2019 Asian Cup. ner in 1986, was banned for alties after the both sides failed Group H contest. Group G Meanwhile, current and former At Cardiff doping eight years later and a to find the net in 120 minutes of Philippines substitute Misagh Laos 2 (Khampheng 81-pen, 83) Myanmar Australia players have taken legal Wales vs Belgium previous drugs ban while playing football. Bahadoran struck in the 50th 2 (Zaw Min Tun 41, Kyaw Zayar Win 87) action against the national gov- Group H in Italy would suggest he has lit- They began slowly against a minute before Javier Patino Group H erning body over a festering pay At Split, Croatia tle chance of joining the game’s familiar South American oppo- increased the advantage 10 min- dispute days before the team is to establishment. Philippines 2 (Bahadoran 50, Patino 60) Croatia v Italy nent, who also held them to a 0-0 utes later. Bahrain 1 (Al Malood 90+3) open its qualifying campaign for But he is a football name -- stalemate during the tournament Midfielder Abdulwahab Al the 2018 World Cup. At Ta’Qali, Malta and he has every right therefore qualifiers in January. Malood reduced the deficit three later when Sunil Chetri’s spec- Football Federation Australia Malta vs Bulgaria to “put his name forward” if he There were glimpses of bril- minutes into second-half stoppage tacular curling left-footer from (FFA) said the dispute related At Oslo wished to do so, Zico said. liance when Brazil finally went on time but it was too little too late inside the box hit the inside of the to payments dating back to 2010 Norway vs Azerbaijan He stressed that his own -- the attack in the second half, but for Bahrain. post on its way into the net. and slammed the players’ union Tomorrow albeit brief -- experience two dec- they lacked a killer touch in front Oman downed India 2-1 in Oman were soon dictating for making it public in the leadup ades ago of serving as Brazilian Group D of goal despite the dazzling pass- Bangalore after dominating a terms again and Amad Al-Hosni to the June 16 opener against minister of sport was an extra ing and movement in the build up. match they could have won by a put them ahead when he con- Kyrgyzstan. At Warsaw (1600 GMT) string to his bow. Captain Danilo somehow hit greater margin. verted a 40th-minute penalty. “The PFA’s decision to make Poland vs Georgia “I bring to the table experience high just metres from an open Before the 19,000-plus crowd In Dhaka, Kyrgyzstan beat public statements about a confi- At Dublin (1600 GMT) and knowledge,” he insisted. goal and was also unlucky to see had time to settle into their Bangladesh 3-1, with all four goals dential and independent dispute Republic of Ireland vs Scotland While underlining his interest a dipping long-range shot hit the seats at the Kanteerava Stadium, coming in an action-packed first resolution process days before a At Faro, Portugal in standing for a revamped FIFA, crossbar. Qasim Said capitalised on a defen- half of the Group B match. FIFA World Cup qualifier is inap- Gibraltar vs Germany Zico said he would first insist on Uruguay, who lost the 2013 final sive lapse to drill the ball through In Group E, Safuwan propriate and unnecessarily dis- a simplified voting system which Group F to France on penalties, took their goalkeeeper Subrata Paul’s legs in Baharudin’s double helped ruptive,” FFA CEO David Gallop is less open to “horsetrading and chances with spot kicks, but paid the opening minute. Singapore beat Vietnam 4-0 in said in a statement yesterday. At Helsinki (1600 GMT) exchanging of favours.” the price when Rodrigo Maral India equalised 25 minutes Phnom Penh. REUTERS Finland vs Hungary And he added he would also call sent his over the bar. At Belfast for a system of “one re-election The Brazilians, who are hoping Northern Ireland vs Romania at most,” noting that Blatter to match Argentina’s record of six At Torshavn, Faroe Islands and predecessor, Brazilian Joao trophies, will face Portugal in the Havelange, had held the post Faroe Islands vs Greece last eight. between them for the past four The Portuguese also looked Group I decades -- his own entire career shaky against a plucky New Philip James At Yerevan (1600 GMT) as player and coach. Zealand side cheered on by an Younghusband Armenia vs Portugal He also said current UEFA eager crowd in Hamilton. (centre) from team At Copenhagen president Michel Platini would The Europeans went ahead on Philippines in action Denmark vs Serbia make a good leader of the game’s 24 minutes after a piece of wiz- world body. against Sayed Dhiya On Sunday ardry from Raphael Guzzo, who Shubbar (left) and Zico added that the Brazilian Group C spun away from his defender then Abdulwahab Ali Alsafi Football Confederation (CBF) At Kiev (1600 GMT) unleashed a snap shot past the from team Bahrain also needed a total overhaul keeper. during their match of Ukraine vs Luxembourg with former president Jose The hosts clawed back an the 2018 FIFA World At Minsk Maria Marin one of seven top equaliser mid-way through the FIFA officials arrested in Zurich Cup Asian Qualifiers at Belarus vs Spain second half, when substitute late last month as part of an FBI the Philippine Stadium, At Zilina, Slovakia Stuart Holthusen swooped on a probe into corruption in the loose ball in the Uruguay box, set- Bulacan province, Slovakia vs Macedonia sport. ting up a tense finish. north of Manila, the Group E “But that is even more difficult” New Zealand threatened their Philippines, yesterday. At Tallinn (1600 GMT) than reforming FIFA, Zico sug- more fancied opponents but, just Philippines won 2-1. Estonia vs San Marino gested, in wearily acknowledging as the match appeared headed for At Ljubljana (1600 GMT) that Brazilian football politics has extra time, Gelson Martins netted long been a murky business. Slovenia vs England an 87th-minute winner, evading He added he did not have close two defenders to send a curling At Vilnius links with the CBF top brass. shot into the corner. AFP Lithuania vs Switzerland AFP FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015 SPORT 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Gulf states attack ‘hateful campaign’ against Qatar

RIYADH: Foreign ministers Doha urged media to “counter all from the Gulf states yesterday FIFA to decide election date on July 20 those who seek to question the hit out at the “hateful cam- right of the State of Qatar to host paign” directed against Qatar’s LAUSANNE: FIFA will meet on July 20 to decide the date on the 2022 World Cup”. hosting of the 2022 World Cup. which Sepp Blatter’s successor as President will be selected, the Meanwhile, soccer chiefs in the In a strongly-worded state- embattled body said yesterday. developing world have said that ment following a meeting of “The extraordinary FIFA Executive Committee meeting to set a German proposal to change Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) the date for the extraordinary elective Congress will take place on the one country, one vote sys- foreign ministers in the Saudi 20 July 2015 in Zürich,” said a statement. tem within FIFA would not only Arabian capital Riyadh, Qatar’s “During the meeting, the agenda for the elective Congress will be undemocratic, but also deal a neighbours affirmed their full be finalized and approved. The extraordinary elective Congress will major blow to nations struggling support for the tournament, take place in Zurich between December 2015 and February 2016 as to develop the game at home. which would be the first World announced by the FIFA President on 2 June 2015.” The views of officials in Asia, Cup hosted in the Middle East. Blatter, who has been in charge of FIFA since 1998, has already Africa, Latin America and the “The ministerial council has announced he will quit after the organisation was engulfed by a Caribbean reflect a broad back- expressed great condemnation of series of widespread corruption allegations. AFP lash against proposed reforms put the hateful campaign that is try- forward by Germany this week ing to discredit the merit of Qatar allegations of wide scale bribery Qatar has maintained that its to give soccer power-houses a in hosting the 2022 World Cup,” could be proved. bid remains unaffected by the lat- greater say in who runs FIFA read the statement. “If evidence exists that Qatar est allegations. as it grapples with allegations of “It has insisted that the GCC and Russia received the (World Yesterday’s statement from the bribery. countries stand with Qatar in Cup) awards only thanks to GCC — comprised of Bahrain, “If tomorrow one member asso- solidarity and with full support to bribes, then the awards could be Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, the ciation is going to be more equal the hosting of this International annulled,” head of FIFA’s audit- United Arab Emirates as well as than the other, then of course that sporting event, a hosting that ing and compliance committee Qatar — followed a call 24 hours is going to raise serious issues, Qatar has won with great merit Domenico Scala told the Swiss earlier for media in the region to and that would not be good for and through a honest competition Sonntagszeitung weekly. “counter” criticism of the 2022 world football and that would not as testified by everybody.” Scala added, however, that no tournament. be good for FIFA,” said Pakistan Qatar’s Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah presides On Sunday, a FIFA official said such evidence had been provided GCC Information Ministers soccer chief Faisal Saleh Hayat. over a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) meeting in Riyadh yesterday. Qatar could lose the World Cup if so far. meeting in the Qatari capital AGENCIES

Former FC Barcelona player Xavi Hernandez wears his new Al Sadd club jersey during a news conference in Doha yesterday. RIGHT: Xavi (left) poses with Al Sadd’s manager Hussein Amotta during his presentation in Doha yesterday. ‘Proud’ Xavi unveiled by Al Sadd Former FC Barcelona skipper reiterates support for 2022 World Cup Qatar beat

DOHA: Barcelona legend “I hope I will be able to lift him,” said Mohammad Sailfiti, a Maldives in Xavi Hernandez was officially all titles with this very impor- 22-year-old Jordanian fan, wear- unveiled by Al Sadd yesterday tant club and continue with my ing the Catalan club’s shirt. 2018 qualifier and said he was “proud” to now achievements,” Xavi added. His friend, Khaled Marridi, also be playing for the Qatari side. “I would like to thank Al Sadd 22 and also wearing a Barcelona MALE: Qatar left it late to Mobbed when he arrived in Sports Club and all the Qatari shirt, said Xavi would be a big pick up all three points from Doha on Tuesday, the legendary people.” success. their opening match in Group midfielder was again greeted by Xavi said he would like to end “I think he will be the (Qatar) C of the second round of joint hundreds of fans as he was offi- his career in Qatar and then go coach for the 2022 World Cup,” qualifiers for the 2018 FIFA cially unveiled by club officials. on to coach. he said. World Cup/2019 AFC Asian A packed room applauded him He did not rule out returning Those two fans were among Cup, with the 2022 FIFA into the press conference, young to Spain as a coach. the first to turn up for the early World Cup hosts scoring the fans pressed against the glass “I would like to continue as a evening press conference, but a winner against the Maldives windows to get a better look of coach, after that I will see what big crowd, some even wearing deep into second-half stop- their new hero and Xavi even happens.” Real Madrid shirts, had assem- page time. managed to raise a laugh when He also defended his role as an bled by the time Xavi’s appear- The match at the Ramsee he said the Arabic word for thank ambassador for the 2022 World ance was due to start. Dhandu National Stadium you, “shukran”, after being asked Cup after the bidding process In truth, Xavi would have had seemed destined for a goalless if he intended to learn the local became engulfed by the ongoing to have done something dramatic draw until Ahmed Mohamed language. FIFA corruption scandal. not to get a good reception. El Sayed struck nine minutes “Shukran... Shukran is the first “There’s no doubt it’s an amaz- Barcelona are extremely popu- into time added on by the ref- [word]. I’ll try to learn it. My wife ing project and all the Qatari peo- lar in Qatar, not only because of eree at the end of the second wants to learn it too. We have ple are working to achieve great their recent successes but also half. The victory sees Qatar time. We are going to try to learn results,” he said. because of the shirt sponsorship level on points with Hong it. We’ll start with ‘Shukran’ and “I would also like to learn a new deals with Qatar Foundation and Kong at the top of the table then we’ll see,” he said. culture of football and I hope that then Qatar Airways. after the East Asians ham- As in the majority of his career, I will be able to learn so many He is also not the first Spaniard mered Bhutan 7-0 to bring the Xavi did not put a foot wrong. things not only football but also to play in Qatar — Raul and Himalayan kingdom crashing He thanked Al Sadd club, the about Arab culture.” Fernando Hierro played here down to earth after stunning Qatari people, praised the 2022 By the time he had finished briefly as well. Sri Lanka with home and away World Cup bid and even found speaking — and was mobbed again And it is clear some fans do not wins in the first round of joint time to acknowledge Qatar’s suc- on the way out of the press room want the Barcelona connection to qualifiers. The teams in round cessful Spanish handball coach — Xavi number six shirts were stop with Xavi. two will compete according to Valero Rivera Lopez, who was already on sale downstairs in the “I dream about Lionel Messi a double round robin format, among the crowd. club lobby for QR180 ($50). to come here to Qatar but maybe with the qualification matches “I am very, very proud to be part “I am here to see Xavi after 10 years. I would like to see Xavi Hernandez holds his new Al Sadd club jersey during a press held between June 11, 2015 to and parcel of Al Sadd Football Hernandez, because I am a big fan more players here,” added Sailfiti. conference in Doha yesterday. March 29, 2016. 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TOKYO: A huge reptile is on toise isn’t doing anything very the streets of Tokyo’s Tsukishima the prowl through Tokyo’s quickly. district, as he and owner Hisao streets — but unlike Godzilla, The metre- (3-feet-) long Mitani take their snail-paced who stomped across Japan’s African spurred tortoise, which daily walk. capital in a blaze of destructive tips the scales at 70kg (150 “My wife just fell in love with energy, Bon-chan the giant tor- pounds), is a regular sight on him when she saw him at a pet

Bon-chan, a 19-year-old male African spurred tortoise weighing about 70kg, walking with his owner Hisao Mitani on a Tokyo street. Bon-chan loves fruit and vegetables and is often offered carrot and cabbage pieces by cheering neighbours when he is out.

shop, so she brought him home,” Bon-chan prefers cabbage and a frilly coat during the chillier Mitani, who runs a funeral home, carrots, gently taking them out months — have made him quite said. That was 20 years ago, when of the hands of children who rush a celebrity in the neighbourhood. Bon-chan was small enough to to greet him. Tortoises are symbols of lon- fit into the palm of your hand. The tortoise lives in a pen at gevity in Japan, where local myth “I sort of knew he would become Mitani’s funeral home, where says they can live for 10,000 a good size tortoise but did not he greets callers. “Some people years. That has rubbed off on his think he would be this big.” may say it’s absurd to keep such owner, who is known in the area And like Godzilla, Bon-chan a big tortoise at the entrance as “kame sennin” (“immortal can also stop traffic — though of a funeral service. But even tortoise man”), although Mitani generally it is so motorists can in their time of sadness, people cheerfully admits he’s not likely take a look at him, rather than smile when they see him, so I to be here for eternity. because he has crushed their don’t think it’s a bad idea to have “I hear this kind of reptile lives vehicles. While his fictional fore- him,” said the undertaker. for about 80 years, so it’s certain A young child playing with Bon-chan on a street in the town of Tsukishima in Tokyo. runner fed — in some incarna- Bon-chan’s size — and the that I will go before him,” said the tions — on nuclear power plants, fact that Mitani dresses him in 62-year-old. AFP

Mediterranean diet at risk as Horror legend Christopher Lee dies at 93 globalisation LONDON: Tall, pale and with a deep reso- nating voice, British bites: Report actor Christopher Lee, whose death was con- ROME: Eating a firmed yesterday, will Mediterranean diet has long forever be remem- been a byword for healthy bered for his spine- living, but the very people chilling performance who coined it are straying as Dracula in the from sun-kissed fruits and cult Hammer Horror legumes and their waistlines movies. are paying the price. The 93-year-old The region is undergoing appeared in more than a “nutrition transition” from 250 films and television traditional, sustainable foods shows, including “The towards more meat and dairy Lord of the Rings”, products, a new report by the “Star Wars” and “The UN and International Centre Man with the Golden for Advanced Mediterranean Gun”, but could never Agronomic Studies said. shake off his image The bottom line is that many as the bloody-thirsty in southern Mediterranean vampire. countries, from Egypt to Lee died in his Lebanon, Morocco and Turkey, home city of London are piling on the kilos, strug- on Sunday, the local gling increasingly with obesity authority which issued and chronic diet-based diseases, his death certificate said. the UN’s food agency said. According to The “Globalization, food market- Daily Telegraph news- ing and changing lifestyles — paper, he died in hospi- including changes in the roles tal, where he had been women play in society — are treated for respiratory altering consumption patterns problems and heart fail- in the Mediterranean,” the ure over the preceding report said. three weeks. British actor Christopher Lee with his wife Gitte Lee during a photo call at the 8th edition of Marrakesh The famous diet is based The Hammer films international film festival. Right: Lee, famous for his portrayal of Count Dracula, talks to reporters on a film on cereals, vegetables, pulses opposite Peter Cushing and a moderate intake of fish in the 1950s launched set in the port city of Karachi in this March 10 file photo. and meat, but tourism, urban Lee’s movie career, and development, depletion of nat- although he later expressed frustration a hard-rocking Christmas carol in 2014. countess, and attended the elite schools of Woodward, one of the great cult films of all ural resources and a loss of tra- at being typecast, he entrenched his Lee’s “Lord of the Rings” co-stars led Eton and Westminster. time. “That’s the story of my career really, ditional knowledge are altering image by playing a succession of exotic the tributes. He served in the Royal Air Force in making cult movies,” Lee once said. the menu. villains. Elijah Wood, who played Frodo Baggins, World War II, at one point being attached In a rare break from type, Lee hosted Products are being increas- “They’re more interesting, because said he was “an icon and a towering human to the special forces. a one-off episode of US television show ingly sourced from outside the there’s a greater variety you can apply: you being”, while Dominic Monaghan, who After the war, Lee had bit parts in “Saturday Night Live” in 1978, which he region — only 10 percent of the can be very cruel or charming, amusing or played Meriadoc Brandybuck, said he was film, theatre and radio, although at six said he had relished because it showed he local crop varieties cultivated dangerous,” Lee said. a “fascinating person — (he) threw a Bic feet four inches (1.95 metres), he said could be funny. in the past are still grown However, he criticised the gratuitous pen into a tree in front of me”. he suffered from being “too tall and too Lee considered his portrayal of Pakistan’s today — which affects not only violence of many modern films, arguing Roger Moore, who played 007 opposite foreign-looking”. founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah in the lit- local food producers but also the power of suggestion was more terri- Lee’s villainously brilliant Scaramanga in His big break came when he signed with tle-seen “Jinnah” (1998) as his “best per- the environment. fying — something he mastered early on, the 1974 James Bond movie “The Man With Britain’s legendary Hammer studios to formance, no question”. “The Mediterranean diet is scaring the wits out of viewers with his the Golden Gun”, said they had first met make “The Curse of Frankenstein” in 1957. But for many young fans he will be best nutritious, integrated in local piercing gaze. in 1948. He and Cushing went on to make cin- known as Count Dooku in the “Star Wars” cultures, environmentally sus- Lee was recognised for his achievements “It’s terrible when you lose an old friend, ematic history with a variety of sinister prequels and as Saruman in the films based tainable and it supports local with a knighthood in 2009, when he admit- and Christopher Lee was one of my oldest,” tales, including “Dracula” (1958), “The on J R R Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” economies,” said Alexandre ted his pleasure in a long career. he said. Mummy” (1959) and “The Hound of the and “The Hobbit”. Meybeck, Coordinator of FAO’s “What’s really important for me is, as Prime Minister David Cameron Baskervilles” (1959). As Saruman, Lee used his voice and Sustainable Food Systems an old man, I’m known by my own gen- described him on Twitter as “a titan of Lee later returned to the Hammer brand steely gaze to maximum effect as the wiz- Programme.“This is why it’s eration and the next generation know me the golden age of cinema and a distin- opposite Hollywood actress Hilary Swank ard corrupted by power. essential that we continue to too,” he said. guished WW2 veteran who’ll be greatly in thriller “The Resident” (2010). Lee married former Danish model Gitte promote and support it,” he Lee also had a sideline as a heavy metal missed”. Other memorable films included the Kroencke in 1961 and had one daughter, said. AFP singer. His last album, “Metal Knight”, was Lee was born in London on May 27, 1922, Fu Manchu series and the terrifying 1973 Christina. released on his 92nd birthday, followed by to a decorated army colonel and an Italian movie “The Wicker Man” with Edward AFP