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PM meets Japanese officials Israel okays UAE accuses prisoner deal to clear way Qatari citizen of for peace talks

JERUSALEM: Israel’s cabi- net on Sunday approved the Islamist links release of 104 Arab prisoners to help restart US-brokered peace talks with the Palestinians after nearly three years of diplomatic No charges yet against Al Jaidah stagnation. Thirteen ministers in Prime DOHA: The Qatari who was ACCUSATION Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s detained in the UAE late last coalition cabinet voted in favour February is suspected by the Dr Mahmood Al Jaidah of the prisoner release, seven UAE authorities of having is also accused of voted against and two abstained, links with a social organisation a government official said. (Dawat Al Islah) there, which is accepting an envelope “The cabinet has author- alleged to have connections to containing Dh100,000 ised the opening of diplomatic the Muslim Brotherhood. from a UAE national talks between Israel and the Dr Mahmood Al Jaidah is also which was to be Palestinians...,” said a statement accused of accepting an envelope issued by the prime minister’s containing Dh100,000 (close to handed over to a office. QR100,000) from a UAE national, UAE citizen in Qatar. Netanyahu had urged divided Abdul Wahid Al Baadi, which was rightists in his cabinet to back the to be handed over to a UAE citi- prisoner deal. zen in Qatar. been extended until July 17. And, The Prime Minister and Minister of Interior H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani met the “This moment is not easy for However, despite having been despite July 17 having passed he is Honorary Chairman of Chubu Electric Power Company, Fumio Kawaguchi, and Chairman and Director, Toshio me, is not easy for the cabinet arrested more than five months still being held in remand as some Mita, in Doha yesterday. Talks covered cooperation and investment. ministers, and is not easy espe- ago, on February 26, in the UAE, forensic laboratory report is being cially for the bereaved families, while he was on his way to Doha awaited, Taher tweeted on July 19. whose feelings I understand,” he from Bangkok, no formal charges Is it a big crime accepting an said when the cabinet met, refer- have yet been filed against Al envelope containing cash to be ring to families who have lost Jaidah. given to someone else, asked members in militant attacks. According to Qatari lawyer Taher in a previous tweet. Ministry seizes over 15,000 “But there are moments in Abdullah Taher, Al Jaidah is still “He (Al Jaidah) should have which tough decisions must be in judicial remand in Abu Dhabi. been released a long time ago and made for the good of the nation His remand was extended for a if at all, a travel ban should have and this is one of those moments.” month by a court that met quickly been imposed on him,” said the counterfeit building materials Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, on June 17. lawyer. who is set to head Israel’s nego- Taher tweeted yesterday say- “That’s (accepting an envelope DOHA: The Consumer provisions of the Qatari law on especially for building materials tiation team, told her cabinet ing that Paris-based International with cash) no justification to Protection Department of the consumer protection. and electrical appliances, adding colleagues that resuming talks Federation of Human Rights, detain someone in solitary con- Ministry of Business and Trade The Director of the Consumer that the counterfeit and adulter- with the Palestinians was a vital known as FIDH, has in a com- finement for so long,” Taher said has seized as many as 15,000 Protection Department, Sheikh ated materials will cause damage national interest. REUTERS munication urged the ruler of the in his tweet yesterday. ‘counterfeit building materials’ Jassim bin Jabor bin Hassan Al to human life and warned compa- UAE to release Al Jaidah. In previous tweets, he said that that had labels of Stanley, an Thani, said the ministry would nies and stores from selling such Taher talked in his tweet about Al Jaidah’s UAE lawyer had not Italian brand, the Qatar News take all procedures against any- materials. the above accusations against Al even been allowed to take a copy Agency reported yesterday. one who does not adhere with its He said that the fraud section at Jaidah and said he was still being of his case file. Inspections were carried out provisions stipulated by Law No. the ministry will carry out inspec- held in solitary confinement with- Launching a blistering attack on stores of two companies in the 8 for the year 2008 on consumer tion campaigns so as to seize such Karzai plans to out being formally charged. on Qatar’s National Human Industrial Area in which more protection and its executive regu- counterfeit materials and to refer “Where in the world judicial Rights Committee (NHRC), he than 15,000 counterfeit goods were lations for the protection of the anyone who violates the law to the visit Pakistan remand is for four months,” Taher said it had done nothing so far on seized, the Ministry of Economy consumers rights. authorities, Qatar News Agency asked in a previous tweet, talk- the issue of Al Jaidah. and Trade said. The companies He said that consumers should (QNA) reported. KABUL: Afghanistan’s presi- ing of Al Jaidah’s remand having THE PENINSULA were found to be violating the choose high-quality goods, THE PENINSULA dent will make his first visit to Pakistan in more than a year in an effort to mend strained rela- tions between the two countries and in the hopes that he can enlist the support of the new $22.5bn deals Pakistani government to help Brotherhood supporters remain defiant end the nearly 12-year Afghan awarded for war, an official said yesterday. CAIRO: Thousands of sup- Saturday’s bloodshed, smiling by former military officers for six that Mursi, Egypt’s first freely The two nations have had tense porters of Egypt’s Muslim before television cameras at decades before Mursi’s election elected president, be reinstated. ties for years, and Afghanistan Riyadh metro Brotherhood stood their ground a police graduation ceremony, in 2012. Saturday’s dawn killings, Mursi has been in mili- has accused Pakistan in the past outside a Cairo mosque yester- recruits decked out in starched following a day of rival mass ral- tary detention since his July of supporting the Taliban in the RIYADH: The Saudi Arabian day a day after at least 72 were white uniforms. lies, triggered global anxiety that 3 overthrow and the military- movement’s fight against the government awarded $22.5bn gunned down by security forces, He received a standing ova- the Arab world’s most populous backed interim government has Afghan government. in contracts to three foreign- braced for a move against them tion and was hailed by Interior and influential country risked placed him under investigation Full report on page 13 led consortia yesterday for the by the army chief behind the Minister Mohammed Ibrahim as broader conflagration. on charges including murder. design and construction of a overthrow of Islamist president “Egypt’s devoted son”. Fawning The Brotherhood accuses the Authorities also say they will move metro rail system in the capital Mohammed Mursi. coverage in state and private military of turning back the clock soon to clear the Brotherhood’s Train driver in court as Riyadh. General Abdel Fattah Al Sisi media reflected Sisi’s rising on the 2011 uprising that toppled tent vigil. The project, which will involve made his first appearance since political star, in a country ruled Hosni Mubarak, and demands “It’s a source of terrorism that’s Spain mourns victims six rail lines extending 176km threatening the whole society, and and carrying electric, driverless that’s being confirmed by the COMPOSTELA: The driver trains, is the world’s largest public day,” Mostafa Hegazy, adviser to of a train that hurtled off the transport system currently under interim President Adli Mansour, rails killing 79 people in Spain development, Saudi officials said. told reporters. Army vehicles sur- faced questioning by a judge US construction giant Bechtel rounded entrances to the square yesterday, as the pilgrimage Corp heads a group which won outside the Rabaa al-Adawiya city of Santiago de Compostela a $9.45bn contract to build two mosque in northern Cairo on mourned the dead. Flowers and lines, the government announced. Sunday, where Brotherhood candles were placed at the crash A consortium led by Spain’s supporters used pictures of the site and at the gates of the city’s Fomento de Construcciones y bearded Mursi to shelter from the cathedral, a year-round destina- Contratas won a $7.82bn con- fierce sun. tion for Roman Catholic pilgrims. tract for three lines, while Italy’s “We are right, legitimacy is on Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, the Ansaldo STS heads a group that our side and hopefully at the end 52-year-old driver, refused to won a $5.21bn order. God will lead us to triumph and answer police questions and the Design work will start immedi- we will not give up,” said Mostafa case was passed to the courts. ately and construction will begin Ali, 29, from the Nile delta town Full report on page 11 in the first quarter of 2014. The of Mansoura. project would be completed in The Interior Ministry has 2019. Flush with cash after more rejected eyewitness accounts RAMADAN TIMING than two years of high oil prices, that police opened fire on the Todays Iftar Saudi Arabia is pumping billions crowds and a public prosecutor 6:23pm of dollars into infrastructure has launched a probe into the projects designed to improve liv- violence, investigating 72 suspects Tomorrow’s Imsak ing standards and ease social dis- for an array of crimes including 03:25am content in the wake of uprisings Supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi shout slogans during a protest at the Rabaa Adawiya murder and blocking streets. elsewhere in the Arab world. square, where they are camping, in Cairo, yesterday. REUTERS REUTERS See also page 7 MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 HOME 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

QA to mark end of PHCC turns more patient-friendly Ramadan with ‘Eid Initiatives launched to boost patient experience by meeting their needs on time ticket giveaway’ DOHA: The Primary Health Care DOHA: Qatar Airways will mark the Corporation (PHCC) has launched end of Ramadan with a special ‘Eid ‘Front Office Improvement Project’ ticket giveaway’ for all citizens and res- — a first-of-its-kind initiative at Al idents of Qatar through the microsite Rayyan Health Center. www.qatarairways.com/eidmubarak. It aims to enhance front office work The new ‘Sharing the World with you by redefining roles and tasks to bolster this Eid’ site will take online users in patient experience. Qatar to an interactive, animated Qatar Developments in Al Rayyan include Airways route map where they can the launch of ‘Hayyak’, a customer browse and familiarise themselves with service team which will be available the airline’s global destinations. to patients and staff to help manage After entering their name, QID number enquiries, provide information and direct and email address, Qataris and residents patients to ensure their needs are met. seeking adventure or time to relax this Initial feedback on changes has been Eid will be able to select the destina- positive, with staff and patients feel- tion to gift their family member or loved ing these will have a positive impact on one with a chance to win a pair of Qatar the centre. New and revised roles have Airways tickets. been implemented at the centre such Every individual that registers online as patient access leads, patient registra- to win tickets for others will also be tion clerks, appointment clerks, medical entered into a raffle draw to win a pair records clerks, telephone operator clerks of tickets to any of Qatar Airways’ global and, cashiers and health aides. destinations. The clerks were re-allocated across Vice President Commercial – Qatar, the new roles, with the exception of the Ehab Amin, said: “We take this opportu- aide role, and have worked to retrain in nity to wish all Eid Mubarak in advance. IT systems, improve skills and under- ‘Sharing the World with you this Eid’ stand new systems and processes. Some of the staff during a training. campaign gives the opportunity for the Al Rayyan went live with the changes airline to spread traditional sentiments last month and will spend the next three Khalidi, Regional Chief Western Region, by improving the patient attendance appointment system to optimise its use associated with Eid. months testing, reviewing and imple- Al Rayyan spent the past three months registration process, organising medi- across all specialist clinics and allocating “With this campaign, we strive to cre- menting them for patients. preparing to implement the scheme. cal records to ensure timely transfer of staff to handle enquiries and patients’ ate a new way of giving back to the people Under the leadership of Khamis Al The project’s objectives will be achieved files to clinical areas, centralising the problems. THE PENINSULA of Qatar to show our gratitude for their support. “In keeping with traditions of this aus- picious time of year, we want to give all that we can but also allow our custom- ers in Qatar to give to their families and CMU-Q prepares 68 high school students for college admission loved ones. “With such a diverse range of inter- DOHA: Sixty-eight high school jun- developmental workshops give students against Georgetown, which we won,” said Carnegie Mellon Qatar’s majors — bio- national destinations, we share the glo- iors and seniors were steered through an edge on their college applications, a participant from International School logical sciences, business administration, bal network Qatar Airways has to offer a four-week programme to prepare while English classes train them in of Choueifat. computational biology, computer science with travellers from the airline’s hub and for college admissions, during the admission interviews, application essay This year, CMU alumni from or information systems. home.” Summer College Preview Programme and personal statement. Pittsburgh took on the role of instruc- Students who enrolled in the business Recipients of the gift will get an auto- (SCPP) at Carnegie Mellon University Every Saturday, student-led fun activ- tors in biological sciences and business administration project worked together generated email advising of their nomi- in Qatar (CMU-Q). ities took place, immersing them into administration and offered first-hand to develop a business plan and expe- nation. If they accept the destination The programme, in its seventh year, Carnegie Mellon University traditions insight into life at the university. rienced roles and responsibilities that gift, they will confirm their details and offers an all-round experience of what such as a trivia quizzes, football matches SCPP project leader in biological sci- real life business executives encounter. be entered into a draw to win a pair of life is like at an elite institution and and Carnegie Mellon carnival activities. ences, Bertrade Mbom, said: “I partici- Others got a taste of computer science tickets to that destination. exposes prospective students to college- “I applied for the programme because pated in a similar programme when I through working on the theory of design At this stage the nominated individual level courses to strengthen their aca- I wanted to get a deeper understand- was in high school, it’s a really great and programming. SCPP has proven it will be able to take on the role of entering demic backgrounds. ing of biological sciences major taught at opportunity for students to be exposed can guide students through the admis- the site and gifting to another loved one Participants are taught university- CMU-Q and to improve my score on the to college-level academics and get a real sion process, with more than 40 per- or family member in the same process of level maths and academic writing, pre- SAT exam. “I really enjoy working in the sense of what life is like at a high-level cent of SCPP participants enrolling at ‘sharing the world’. paring them for the SAT exam. lab and taking part in extra-curricular university.” Each participant selected Carnegie Mellon Qatar after completing THE PENINSULA Personal and professional activities. And we had a football match a practical project aligned with one of the programme. THE PENINSULA HOME MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Tourism sector maintains growth momentum QTA strives for a record year as hotel occupancy, revenue and visitor number rise in second quarter

DOHA: Qatar’s tourism industry at five-star hotels. the largest single source of visitors with In June, QTA launched its upgraded drive interest and visits to Qatar, includ- maintained its growth momentum The total number of hotels under con- 144,491 travellers. Overall tourist arrivals website, providing tourists and those ing the Eid Festival next month, and the with significant increase in hotel occu- struction increased to 121 in the second from other continents rose by 6.6 percent, planning visits to Qatar with easy access return of Cirque du Soleil in September pancy rate and revenue in the second quarter, from 110 at the end of last year, with particularly impressive growth of 12 to important information. Earlier this to Aspire Dome. quarter of this year, figures released with 20,955 rooms expected to be ready. percent on visitors from Asia. month, QTA signed an agreement with “Our events, promotional campaigns by the Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) “We are seeing strong growth in all The leisure tourism sector saw a 10 the UN World Tourism Organisation to and unique and developing offers are showed yesterday. aspects of Qatar’s tourism sector. QTA percent increase from international mar- collaborate on the development of a con- having the desired effect of increasing QTA’s second quarter 2013 report is proud of these developments and the kets, aided by a diverse range of events sistent and locally relevant monitoring interest within the region and interna- revealed all key indicators of the tour- strides being made towards a record year and activities in Qatar during the second and quality control system across a wide tionally for Qatar as a destination,” added ism sector demonstrated growth from of tourism. quarter. range of tourism activities. Al Mohannadi. April to June compared with the same “As tourism becomes increasingly They include the first Middle East per- Recently QTA recognised six hotels The scene is set for infrastructure to period last year. important to diversifying the national formance of Disney on Ice, as well as the with the first awards as part of the aid the growth of the sector, with Doha Hotel occupancy rate rose from an economy, we look positively on these sold-out performances of the Broadway ‘Hotels Quality Rating Programme’ to Exhibition and Conference Center under average of 58 percent to 67 percent, developments,” said QTA Chairman Issa hit show STOMP at Qatar National improve the quality of services in the hos- construction and Hamad International despite a 4.5 percent increase in the Mohammed Al Mohannadi. Convention Centre. pitality and tourism industry and create Airport opening by year-end. number of rooms. The number of visitors from most cor- During the period QTA achieved a a national benchmark of high standards. QTA is also set to unveil its new strat- Total revenue in four- and five-star ners of the globe increased, especially range of accomplishments and agree- “Looking to the third and fourth egy to serve as the road map for national hotels increased by QR155.9m, with a from GCC. Overall, GCC tourist arrivals ments to continue the sustainable growth quarters of the year, offerings and pro- tourism sector development. staggering 20 percent increase in revenue were up by 15 percent, with Saudi Arabia of the tourism sector. grammes underway should continue to THE PENINSULA WCMC-Q honours four Qatari biomedical research trainees DOHA: Four outstanding Qatari be able to hire Qatari nationals within a career based on that,” Professor research trainees were given gradua- our research department who will Machaca said. tion awards by Weill Cornell Medical stay with us for the long term,” said The programme is open to talented College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) for the Professor Machaca. Qatari Nationals from all walks of sci- annual Biomedical Research Training “The reason for the success of this ence who as a minimum are recent uni- Programme on Saturday. programme is largely due to the high versity graduates interested in pursuing Dr Najla Al Haj, Consultant Clinical quality of the candidates and the train- careers in biomedical research-related Psychiatrist at Hamad Medical ees who spend six months with us. fields. Corporation, Shaikha Al Qahtani, Noor “It takes people who are interested It is a six-month training programme Faisal and Fatima Fakhroo were hon- in biomedical research no matter how from January to July that offers a oured for their achievements. small it is, and exposes them to a broad stimulating experience to partici- WCMC-Q Associate Dean for spectrum of what research is all about pants who seek to be actively involved Research, Professor Khaled Machaca, — from being in the lab to administer- in biomedical research projects in a presented them with certificates. ing research, to doing basic and clinical challenging and knowledge-rewarding “The programme is not aimed to research and learn about what compli- environment. train a large number of trainees, the ance is, what is involved in grants and The training programme consists of programme’s goal is to train a small contracts and how to manage them. aspects of research, including laboratory number of well-qualified trainees who “This is an opportunity for young training, writing and communication for will fit well into a research environment. scientists to find their niche or that research, biostatistics, clinical research, “The other very important goal of the particular area of research they are and research administration. Professor Machaca presents Dr Al Haj with her award. programme is to use it as a pipeline to comfortable in and hopefully to build THE PENINSULA Rota home joy for needy family

DOHA: Reach Out To Asia (Rota) volunteers have rolled up their sleeves to give a home of a disadvantaged family in Al Shamal a makeover as part of Rota’s Ramadan 2013 project. The volunteers worked six hours a day from July 21 to 23 for renovation, sponsored by Oxy Qatar. A well-established activ- ity of Rota’s seventh Annual Ramadan Project, the Rota Home Makeover saw volunteers carry- ing out essential maintenance and repairs, painting and assembling and installing new furniture to transform the house into a new family home. Rota collaborated with Qatar Foundation’s Facilities Management Directorate which provided expertise from engi- neers, architects and contractors to repair the house. The local family involved explained how excited they were by the pros- pect of their ‘new’ home. “We can never repay the generosity shown to us by Rota. Our family could not afford to do the work Rota volunteers are doing. Now we will have a home to be proud of.” Rota volunteers started at 8am each day, cleaning walls and repairing roofs and floors. They painted the walls and decorated Rota volunteers painting the walls and ( b elow) a carpet is being delivered the house. Finally as new furni- at the home. ture was delivered, they assem- bled and installed them. Sara Karim, a volunteer, said: for volunteers for its project, I was and redecorating a home is a great “I have always believed in giving ready to take on the challenge of opportunity for us to do something back to our communities and was renovating a home for a deserving that makes a difference to the qual- excited to help a family in need of family.” Rota Executive Director ity of life for people who are less a better home. When Rota asked Essa Al Mannai said: “Renovating fortunate.” THE PENINSULA MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 HOME 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 700 Qatari females benefit Ramadan projects in African countries from health insurance plan DOHA: About 700 Qatari received 183 inpatients and 505 advantage of greater choices when females aged 12 years and above outpatients. selecting their provider for their are receiving maternity, obstet- The NHIC call centre has maternity, obstetric and gynae- rics, gynaecology and related received over 500 enquiries. The cological healthcare services,” healthcare services in phase 1 of NHIC also has information booths said acting CEO of the NHIC the National Health Insurance at each hospital in the current and Assistant Secretary General Scheme launched by National network to advise and educate for Policy Affairs at the Supreme Health Insurance Company Qatari women on benefits of the Council of Health (SCH), Dr (NHIC). scheme. Access to the scheme Faleh Mohamed Hussain Ali. The services are being provided has been kept simple. All Qatari The Manager at Health at HMC Women’s Hospital, Al females aged 12 and above are Financing and Insurance at SCH, Emadi Hospital, Al Ahli Hospital automatically enrolled as a result Husein Reka, added: “We will and Doha Clinic Hospital. of joint work with the Ministry continue to expand the number of The scheme’s network will be of Interior. All they need to do participating hospitals and clin- expanded to include Al Khor is show their Qatar ID to access ics and we look forward to con- Hospital, Al Wakra Hospital, and services at their choice of pro- firming these soon. Our hotline Cuban Hospital. General and spe- vider from the network. and public education booths have cialist clinics will also be included “The first week of the scheme helped boost admissions and we at later stages. has been successful in terms of encourage booking appointments According to statistics for the in- and outpatient admissions by phone with providers where first week (until July 24), par- and we are encouraged by the fact pre-booking of appointments is The Islamic Da’wa Organisation in Qatar has spent more than QR8.159m on various projects, including iftar, ticipating hospitals and clinics that Qatari women are taking available.” THE PENINSULA in 22 African countries.

Emir, PM, greet Seven in 10 kids Peru president DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday sent a cable of congratulations to Peru’s have dental decay President Ollanta Humala on his country’s Independence Day. The Prime Minister and Minister of Interior H E First survey aims to prepare strategy, database Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent a DOHA: More than half the problem was also found to be Dr Al Thani said that as per similar cable. children between 12 and 15 more prevalent among Qatari the goals set by WHO, at least years in Qatar suffer from children compared with non- 50 percent of children aged six Diabetes at tooth decay, a health survey Qatari children. have to be free from caries and has found. Sheikha Al Anoud bint the rate of prevalence of car- schools surveyed The first National Oral Mohammed Al Thani, Manager ies to be no more than three DOHA: The Executive Health Survey conducted by of Health Promotion and among children aged 12. Director of Qatar Diabetes the Supreme Council of Health Noncommunicable Diseases He said that the survey Association (QDA) at Qatar (SCH) shows that the percent at SCH, said that the cases of showed that Qatar still has to Foundation, Dr Abdullah Al of caries in children is very tooth decay were higher among achieve the first goal as only Hamaq, has said that the high, with seven out of 10 chil- girls than boys. 30 percent of children aged association has prepared a dren aged six affected by it. The number of children six are free from caries in the four-year study on the seri- The survey was conducted as affected by caries was also seen country. ousness of diabetes at schools per standards set by the World higher among students in gov- The SCH plans to work with to find out who are suscepti- Health Organisation (WHO) ernment schools than those in all concerned government enti- ble to the disease. In a press and aimed to find the status of international or private schools. ties on the issue and launch a yesterday, he said that the oral and dental health in the Sheikha Al Anoud added that dental examination within work was underway to map country. the high percent of cases with school admission requirements out an annual plan to support Dr Mohamed bin Hamad gum infections reflects lack of and review the status of dental diabetics and educate them Al Thani, SCH Public Health proper oral and dental health. clinics in the country. on how to immune them- Director, said that a sample The survey was conducted Sheikha Al Anoud said that selves against the disease and of 3,248 out of 4,200 students in collaboration with SCH, the survey is very important as the plan will be approved and aged six, 12 and 15 in govern- Supreme Education Council, it will contribute to achieving launched soon. He said the ment and private schools was Ministry of Development the National Health Strategy hotline had received a large selected to be included in the Planning and Statistics, Hamad and creating an accurate number of inquiries about survey, which had a response Medical Corporation, Primary healthcare database based on diabetes and how to overcome rate of 81 percent. Healthcare Corporation, in scientific surveys conducted in the problems patients face More than 50 percent of addition to WHO and its Centre accordance with international during Ramadan. those surveyed were found for Studies at Copenhagen standards. AGENCIES to be affected by caries. The University. QNA & THE PENINSULA

BlackBerry enterprise service for Mideast DOHA: EMS and BlackBerry have announced their mobility solutions, while putting the device at that the companies are growing the core the centre of everything they do,” said Babar Khan, BlackBerry enterprise mobility solution for cus- CEO at EMS. BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 is tomers in the Middle East with BlackBerry an enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution Enterprise Service 10. that builds on more than a decade of BlackBerry’s EMS is one of the largest distributors of enterprise mobility expertise and is the most widely BlackBerry smartphones and accessories in the deployed mobility solution in enterprises today. region. It is supporting 100 mobile phone opera- It offers mobile device management, mobile appli- tors in 56 countries in the Middle East, Africa, CIS, cation management and secure mobile connectivity Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia. for BlackBerry10 smartphones, as well as iOS and “In high penetration markets like the Middle East, Android devices through the ‘Secure Work Space’, it makes sense for enterprises to find ways to drive which separates work and personal apps and data. efficiency, scalability, flexibility and transparency in THE PENINSULA

MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 06 Thoughts www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Take a minute to think BY SELMA COOK might come to mind; after all, we are so busy and have schedules to Jarir (may Allah be pleased with follow. The streets are crowded him) reported that the Prophet said: and every one is overworked, not “Allah does not show mercy to who- just the other person in his or her ever does not show mercy to people.” car. (Bukhari) How clever we are at justifying aybe we have all the way we treat people poorly! heard this hadith at How easy it is to say about others some time, but it is “They aren’t my problem!” But, be Mreally something to sure that if Almighty Allah has think about during the blessed put that person or those people month of Ramadan. in your way, then they are your One of the reasons we fast problem, your test. The next time is that we want the mercy of you are feeling safe and comfort- Almighty Allah; we want His help, able, try to direct your thoughts His guidance, and His forgiveness. (and your heart) to those who We do without food and drink around you. during the day and pray more Start with your mother or at night and give charity and try sister who might be still in the to control our anger, all in an kitchen washing up the dishes, attempt to receive Allah’s mercy. and try and give a helping hand. However, maybe there is some- Sit with your mother and ask her thing we have forgotten! Maybe about her day; make her feel that the answer to our prayers lies you care. When you are at the within the words we speak and checkout paying for the shopping the things we do. Almighty Allah and the cashier looks grumpy and is letting us understand the way tired, say a few nice words and to receive His mercy. It is through smile. being merciful to others. Take a minute to give someone Now, what springs to mind? you love a hug and let them know Are you thinking about massive you appreciate and care about humanitarian efforts or giving them. The next time you are lots of money in charity? But praying and asking for Almighty what about your family, your Allah’s mercy, remember the neighbours, and the strangers words of Prophet Muhammad who pass you by every day? Who (peace and blessings be upon are the people we should being him): merciful to? Maybe it would be a “Those who show mercy will be good start if we turned to those shown mercy by the Merciful Lord.” around us right now. (Tirmidhi and Abu Dawud) It might be an annoying “Show mercy to those on earth, brother or sister, a very tired- and He Who is in the heavens will looking mother, an overworked show mercy to you.” (Tirmidhi) father, or an elderly grandmother. “You can never be (true) believ- Sometimes, the people we see the ers until you show mercy to one most often become less important another.” The Companions said, to us as we seek what lies beyond “We all show mercy, O Messenger our usual playing field in life. How of Allah.” The Prophet replied, “It do we know, however, that these In this blessed month, we have such a great chance is not the compassion that any very same people are loved by one of you shows to his friend. Almighty Allah and may be our to make new habits and cast off bad ones. If you are It is the compassion and mercy gate to Paradise? that you show the people in gen- Being merciful is not just a eral [that I mean].” (At-Tirmidhi) word or an action; it is an atti- usually not a merciful person, just take a minute to Remember the angels register tude to life. Mercy is something what we do all the time, not just we take with us when we go to think how difficult it would be to face life without the in Ramadan. university or work or when we go However, in this blessed shopping or out with family and mercy of Allah, and then reach out to those near you month, we have such a great friends. It is the way we smile at chance to make new habits and people, the way we stop and lis- and be a mercy to them! cast off bad ones. If you are usu- ten when they talk, the way we ally not a merciful person, just say “thanks and have a nice day!” take a minute to think how diffi- and the way we apologise when cult it would be to face life with- we are wrong or forgive when we someone has just cut us off with annoying child who keeps nagging Allah placed these people in our or rudely? Did you pass the mercy out the mercy of Allah, and then are wronged. his or her car or bumped into for something or insisting he or lives? Then again, did you ever test Almighty Allah gave you? Did reach out to those near you and The test of our mercy usually us when we are trying to carry she is not wrong when we are pos- think how many times you have you pass it today? Yesterday? Last be a mercy to them! comes at a heated moment: When lots of things; it might be that itive it is! Did you ever think why responded arrogantly, flippantly, week? Now, a number of excuses www.onislam.net What the Prophet said Islam : Basic Facts

Compulsory man, but God. Acquisition of wealth for its own sake, or so that it may increase a man’s worth, is condemned. Mere acquisition of wealth counts for nothing in the sight of charity or Zakat God. It does not give man any merit in this Charity is not just recommended by Islam, life or in the hereafter. Islam teaches that it is required of every financially stable people should acquire wealth with the inten- Muslim. Giving charity to those who deserve tion of spending it on their own needs and it is part of Muslim character and one of the the needs of others. Five Pillars of Islamic practice. Zakat is a “‘Man’, said the Prophet, ‘says: My wealth! compulsory charity; it is an obligation for My wealth!’ Have you not any wealth except those who have received their wealth from that which you give as alms and thus preserve, God to respond to those members of the wear and tatter, eat and use up?” community in need. Devoid of sentiments The whole concept of wealth is considered of universal love, some people know only in Islam as a gift from God. God, who pro- to hoard wealth and to add to it by lend- vided it to the person, made a portion of it ing it out on interest. Islam’s teachings are for the poor, so the poor have a right over the very antithesis of this attitude. Islam one’s wealth. Zakat reminds Muslims that “The best of those amongst you is the encourages the sharing of wealth with others everything they have belongs to God. People one who learns the Quran and then and helps people to stand on their own and are given their wealth as a trust from God, become productive members of the society. and zakat is intended to free Muslims from teaches it to others.” In Arabic it is known as zakat which lit- the love of money. The money paid in zakat erally means “purification”, because zakat is not something God needs or receives. He is considered to purify one’s heart of greed. is above any type of dependency. God, in His “Nothing is harder for Satan to Love of wealth is natural and it takes firm boundless mercy, promises rewards for help- bear than a person who recites the belief in God for a person to part with some ing those in need with one basic condition of his wealth. Zakat must be paid on dif- that zakat be paid in the name of God; one Quran.” ferent categories of property — gold, silver, should not expect or demand any worldly money; livestock; agricultural produce; and gains from the beneficiaries nor aim at mak- business commodities — and is payable each ing one’s names as a philanthropist. The “The most honourable and noble year after one year’s possession. feelings of a beneficiary should not be hurt from amongst my Ummah are the Like prayer, which is both an individ- by making him feel inferior or reminding memorisers of the Holy Quran ual and communal responsibility, zakat him of the assistance. Zakat, which devel- expresses a Muslim’s worship of and thanks- oped fourteen hundred years ago, functions and those who stay awake for giving to God by supporting those in need. as a form of social security in a Muslim worshipping.” In Islam, the true owner of things is not society. MIDDLE EAST MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 EU’s Ashton heads to Cairo as crisis deepens Human rights body denounces police violence; minister speaks against excessive force CAIRO: EU foreign policy chief backed the army, expressed alarm Catherine Ashton headed to Egypt’s violence at an announcement by the inte- Egypt yesterday, as the coun- Security forces killed dozens of supporters of deposed rior minister that he was reviving President Mursi during the weekend, in a new phase in try’s political crisis deepened the army's confrontation with the Muslim Brotherhood. the feared secret political police with a deadlock between the shut down after Mubarak was interim government and sup- toppled. Republican Cairo Int’l porters of the ousted president. Nile Airport Saturday’s killings took place River Guard barracks Ashton’s visit, confirmed by CAIRO the day after mass rallies called Egypt’s vice presidency, comes a by military chief Abdel Fattah Cairo Tahrir International Garden day after 72 people were killed at University Square Al Sisi, who said he wanted pub- Rabba al-Adawia mosque a protest in support of deposed At least 65 pro-Mursi lic backing for a crackdown on supporters were shot dead Islamist leader Mohammed on Saturday. “terrorism”. Mursi. GIZA The Brotherhood saw the Port Said The bloodshed prompted defi- Fifteen people were hurt when demonstrations as an attempt backers and opponents of the ance from Mursi’s supporters, ousted Islamist president to justify an imminent onslaught who pledged to continue their pro- clashed on Sunday against itself. tests calling for his reinstatement. Helwan district Confrontation was reported The presidency said it was Cairo on Sunday between marching ‘DEVOTED SON’ Brotherhood supporters and “saddened” by the deaths, but angry residents. In an apparent endorsement of EGYPT that they came in a “context of 2 miles the police, a smiling Sisi turned up terrorism”. 2km at a graduation ceremony yester- Source: Reuters Sporadic violence continued Staff, 28/07/2013 day broadcast live on state televi- throughout the country yester- sion, receiving a standing ovation day, with two killed in separate cannot decouple this from context from the recruits, all decked out clashes, a security source said. of terrorism”. in starched white uniforms. Ten gunmen were also killed The violence has deeply polar- Interior Minister Mohamed during an operation by security ised Egypt, with its secular and Ibrahim hailed him as “Egypt’s forces in the Sinai Peninsula, the liberal elite so far showing little devoted son”. official Mena news agency said. sympathy for the Brotherhood The military says it does not Egypt’s vice presidency said or reservations about the return want to retain power and aims to Ashton would meet with interim to power of a military which hand over to full civilian rule with president Adly Mansour and vice ruled for 60 years before the 2011 a “road map” to parliamentary Supporters of deposed President Mohammed Mursi shout slogans as they gather outside the Egyptian embassy president for international rela- uprising. elections in about six months. in Sana’a yesterday to show solidarity with his supporters in Egypt. tions Mohamed ElBaradei. However, in one of the first But the very public role of Sisi Mena said she would also hold signs of doubt from within the as face of the new order has led Ali, 29 from Nile delta town of days and months,” she said in a Younes Makhyoun said. talks with members of Mursi’s interim cabinet installed after to speculation that the next presi- Mansoura. statement. Close to 300 people have died Muslim Brotherhood and the the military takeover, Deputy dent could again be a military Authorities have said they The United States, which pro- in violence since Sisi deposed Tamarod group that organised Prime Minister for Economic officer, like all of Egypt’s rulers want to clear the activists off the vides more than $1bn a year in Mursi. Besides the Cairo blood- the protests that preceded his Affairs Ziad Bahaa El Din said between 1952 and Mursi’s election streets and local residents have military aid to Egypt, urged its shed, some of the worst violence ouster. the government must not copy last year. complained about the camp. Middle East ally to pull “back has been in the lawless Sinai The visit comes amid polarisa- the “oppressive” policies of its Yesterday morning army vehi- New York-based Human Rights from the brink”, telling the secu- peninsula, which borders Israel tion in Egypt, with Mursi sup- foes. cles still surrounded entrances Watch said Saturday’s killings rity forces to respect the right to and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, porters accusing security forces “Our position must remain to the square in northeast Cairo suggested a “shocking willing- peaceful protest. where Islamist militants have of firing on unarmed civilians fixed on the need to provide legal where thousands of Muslim ness” by police and politicians to Egypt’s Salafi Nour party, the targeted government forces on and the presidency denouncing guarantees not only for the mem- Brotherhood supporters have ratchet up violence against back- country’s second-biggest Islamist an almost daily basis. “terrorism”. bers of the Brotherhood, but for camped out for a month. Some ers of Mursi. UN human rights movement which has sup- The apparent revival of the “We are saddened by the spill- every Egyptian citizen. Excessive people used pictures of the chief Navi Pillay said confronta- ported the army road map, said political secret police is a move ing of blood on the 27th,” Mansour force is not permitted,” El-Din bearded Mursi to ward off the tion was “leading to disaster”. Saturday’s bloodshed showed a that could shake the enthusiasm adviser Moustafa Hegazy told wrote on Facebook. fierce sun. “Egypt stands at a crossroads. political solution was needed. of some secularists who have oth- reporters. And in another sign of unease, “We are right, legitimacy is on The future of this great country “The crisis will not be resolved erwise seen little to object to in But he dubbed the protest area the Tamarud youth protest move- our side and hopefully at the end that gave so much to civilization with crowds and counter crowds a government campaign against where the deaths occurred a “ter- ment, which mobilised millions of God will lead us to triumph and depends on how its citizens and and neither will it be solved their Brotherhood enemies. ror originating spot” and said “we people against Mursi and has fully we will not give up,” said Mostafa authorities act over the following through violence,” party chief AGENCIES

Taksim Square scene

Riot police cordon off Taksim Square during an anti-government protest in central Istanbul, yesterday. Bahrain orders tougher penalties ahead of protests DUBAI: Bahrain ordered attacks on a Bahraini lawmaker’s recommendations were “outside tougher penalties for what it house and on a mosque in a dis- the constitutional framework”. called terrorist acts on Sunday trict where many members of “What parliament issued ahead of planned anti-govern- Bahrain’s royal family live. (shows) that authorities want to ment protests next month. Inspired by the “Tamarrod” have popular cover in order to Bahrain’s lawmakers agreed (Rebel!) protests in Egypt which issue its decrees,” Marzouq said. at an extraordinary session on led to the military overthrow of The sectarian makeup of Sunday to proposals including Islamist President Mohammed Bahrain is a sensitive issue in the stripping those who commit or Mursi earlier this month, a small country, which is home to call for ‘terrorism crimes’ of their protest movement in Bahrain the US Navy Fifth Fleet. While nationality and preventing any has called for demonstrations many Bahrainis disagree on the protests from taking place in the against the government on number, about 60 percent of capital Manama, the state news August 14. Bahrainis are Shia, while 40 per- agency BNA said. The Bahraini government has cent are Sunni. King Hamad ordered authori- warned against the planned pro- Many of Bahrain’s Shias com- ties to put the recommendations tests, saying anyone participating plain of discrimination in jobs and into effect as soon as possible in them would face the “force of have been calling for a constitu- “through the available constitu- the law”. tional monarchy. tional and legal channels”, BNA Yesterday’s recommendations Under criticism from human said. call for a general “toughening of rights groups, the government US-allied Bahrain was rocked sentences on all violent and ter- invited a commission to examine by protests in 2011 by the coun- rorist crimes in all shapes and its handling of the trouble. Its try’s majority Shias, calling for forms”, but do not elaborate. report in November 2011 said the more freedoms in the kingdom Lawmakers also proposed giv- authorities had used widespread ruled by the minority Sunni Al ing security forces the authority and excessive force, including tor- Khalifa family. to “protect people from terrorist ture, to extract confessions. The government, backed by acts,” and said political groups The Bahrain government says Saudi Arabia, quickly crushed that “incite and support acts of it has taken steps to address the the protests but near daily clashes violence and terrorism” should brutality of security forces by still take place between security face unspecified legal measures. dismissing those responsible and forces and protesters. Khalil Al Marzouq, an offi- introducing cameras at police sta- The clashes have escalated in cial with the largest opposition tions to monitor abuses. recent weeks, culminating with group Wefaq, said the lawmakers’ REUTERS VIEWS MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HERE is Iraq headed? The renewed conflict in the country gained attention last week after a spectacular attack by Al Qaeda on two prison Egypt must get back on the Wfacilities, including the Abu Ghraib facility near Baghdad. Killings and explosions are the only news – or constitute most of the news – coming out of the country. Sectarianism is still spilling blood, the economy continues to path of democratic change be in a shambles with no serious breakthrough in any area and the government of Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki has proved BY WADAH KHANFAR used innovative means to spread aware- jihadist movements, which culminated itself incapable of finding lasting solutions to the problems the ness and to network among activists. in the emergence of al-Qaida. country is facing. HE military coup in Egypt this The deep state was surprised by these The Arab spring confirmed that peace- The situation was dire even before the prison attack, but month and the bloody attacks methods of expression and strategies for ful change is possible and so reinforced the incident made it chillingly clear that the country could Tsince, perpetrated by the military change. The ageing systems in Tunisia the vision of political Islam. The impact and police against supporters of consti- and Egypt quickly collapsed, and the of this went beyond the Brotherhood to plunge into chaos in a matter of days. The coordinated attacks tutional legitimacy, will form an impor- process toward democratic institutions include the Salafist tendency in Tunisia, led to the escape of hundreds of security prisoners, including tant turning point in the political history began. Parliamentary elections were Egypt, Yemen and Libya that had ques- a number of top Al Qaeda leaders. Their escape has huge of the Middle East. Its impact will be held and transitional structures put in tioned the democratic path. This weak- consequences not only for Iraq but for neighbouring Syria felt beyond Egypt, marking a decisive place. As a result the jostling for power ened the argument of the jihadists, and where Al Qaeda is actively involved in the uprising against moment between continuing with the in these countries began. It was a diffi- pushed their leader, Ayman al Zawahiri, difficult option of transitioning towards cult process. Various political forces had to attack the democratic transforma- the government of Bashar Al Assad. Interestingly, it is Al democracy, and pursuing a course whose been barred from political participation tion. Today, Zawahiri is smiling as he Qaeda’s presence in Syria which has created problems for focus would be violence and chaos across for decades. They now had to engage sees the coup against constitutional anti-Assad rebels. Western countries, which are open to the borders. in dialogue to reach a social and politi- legitimacy in Egypt. idea of supplying arms to the rebels, are hesitating due to the Since independence from western cal contract that would lay the founda- The Arab masses now see the bloody fear that those arms can end up in the hands of terrorists – colonialism in the 1950s and 1960s, Arabs tions for a future of freedom, dignity and violence of the army against peace- including Al Qaeda. The prison have suffered from decades of harsh peaceful political coexistence. ful demonstrators in Egypt, the most dictatorships. The Arab nation states Meanwhile, particularly in Egypt, the strategically important Arab state. The recent attack will confirm those fears. managed to justify their crimes with deep state – represented by the army, Meanwhile, the US administration Bloodshed in Iraq has been various explana- security and judiciary – allied with big wonders aloud whether what happened attacks on escalating in the past several tions. Some were business, began to recuperate. The Arab was a coup or not. Similarly obscure prisons in months. According to the United pan-nationalist, spring was not as radical as the French statements emanate from other west- Nations, in the past four months, using the excuse or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out ern countries, which equate the victim Iraq show the nearly 3,000 people have been killed of confront- the deeply entrenched roots of the state. with the executioner. All Egypt’s political ing Israel with Instead, it was satisfied to replace the Many people in the Arab world now government of and more than 7,000 wounded. players must act calls to liberate top of the pyramid with newly elected, feel that they have been deceived. This is Nouri Al Maliki Most of them are either victims of Palestine; others but inexperienced, leaders. After a dangerous. It is no longer possible for the Al Qaeda bombings or sectarian to curb the deep were nationalis- period of turmoil the deep state was Arab people to submit to a security state. has failed in its riots. The Syrian uprising has state’s attempts to tic, with claims able to breathe again, and it portrayed As for those who believe in armed vio- aggravated sectarian tensions in of safeguarding the transition to democracy as an abject lence, the region is poised to fulfil their duties. reinstate the past, national unity. failure. Ordinary citizens were angered needs. The continuing armed struggle Iraq. Extremists belonging to both or face the violent The interna- by the deterioration of services and grew in Syria, the sectarian clashes in Iraq, groups are out on the streets to kill one another, while the consequences. tional climate tired of the political crises, fuelled by the security tensions in Lebanon, the government watches helplessly. enabled these doses of misinformation. The result was security crises in Sudan and Somalia, The deterioration in Iraq and the escalation in Sunni-Shia states to con- a military coup that had political cover and the proliferation of weapons in Libya tensions primarily represent the failure of Maliki. He has been tinue with their and support from sections of the popula- and Egypt together provide the perfect unable to instill confidence among Iraqis and has failed to be tyrannical policies, due to the cold tion, as well from regional states affected opportunity to establish a wide area of war balances of power or because the by the Arab spring. chaos and violence across borders. seen as an impartial and independent leader who works for all west preferred stability over freedom. Reformist political Islam, considered Today we face two choices. The first Iraqis irrespective of their sectarian affiliations. The Sunnis Meanwhile, the Arab world remained the greatest beneficiary of the Arab is that we can surrender future gen- are especially unhappy with him. Iraq will continue to be stuck under the rule of despots – most from a spring, managed to make big gains over erations to bloody conflicts in which in a quagmire as long as the prime minister refuses to change military background. They used repres- the past three years. In dealing with the killer would not know why he was his policies. It’s true that Maliki has recently taken some small sion, torture and exclusion. They formed despotic regimes, Islamists had split killing. This chaos would affect all the steps toward healing the country’s sectarian wounds, but they alliances with business interests that during the middle of the past century countries in the region and go beyond, benefited from the absence of transpar- into two sections. The first saw the need to reach Europe and affect US interests. are not enough. He opened talks with Kurdish authorities ency and accountability, giving birth to for a peaceful and evolutionary change The second choice is that we boldly who control an autonomous area in the northern part of the a deep state that ravaged public facili- of the political reality. The second saw and decisively restore the process of country and also allowed delayed provincial elections in Sunni- ties and dominated political and social the need for a fundamental change that democratic change in Egypt and rein in dominated provinces to go forward. He needs to act more activity. could occur only through a decisive the deep state and its repeated attempts vigorously and sensibly. He needs to call the leaders of both The Arab spring that began in 2010 confrontation and the use of force. The to reinstate the past. This requires the was driven by the educated youth who Muslim Brotherhood adopted the first full political participation of the differ- sects for a meeting and enlist their help in confidence building were connected to the outside world. approach, establishing what is referred ent forces. All those truly concerned measures. Also, regional and international leaders must exert They had visions of liberal politics to as political Islam. Other organisations should endorse the second choice before pressure on him to act more seriously • derived from social networks. They opted for the second, founding armed it is too late. THE GUARDIAN The other side Quote of Scores killed in Cairo the day ESPITE WARNING from Army pro-and-anti Brotherhood supporters military so far is one of maintaining the control, someone has to take an initia- chief General Abdel Fattah might give the military a mandate for status quo after having lent support to tive. The fact that the military is eager Al Sisi, Egypt seems to be intervention. Though the army is at the the interim administration of President to transfer power to an elected dispen- Dbracing itself for the biggest helm of affairs, the good point is it hasn’t Mansour Adli. If peace and sanctity sation is quite promising. But that can showdown in history. Independent taken on the role of fighting pitched bat- has to settle in Egypt, the Muslim only happen if the panel of experts that reports say that more than 100 people tled with the opposition elements on Brotherhood has to come forward in has been named to draft a constitution The political lost their lives in a daylong protest at the the Tahrir Square. What is happening political essence and make a point. This is provided with a level-playing field and hands of security forces and opponents in Cairo and elsewhere is swift political culture of protests and standoff at the the new law of the land is written and solution is the of former president Mohammed Mursi. reaction to statements and policies of landmark Revolution Square will help adopted in consensus. Without that This is quite despicable, and could pro-and anti-government supporters. neither the opposition nor the govern- Egypt’s governance pendulum would only option to end snowball into many more episodes in Thousands of pro-government men are ment. According to rough estimates, continue to swing between insecurity the (Egypt) crisis days and weeks to come. The Muslim also rallying at the Tahrir and it is quite thousands have lost their lives in Cairo and chaos. It’s time for political parties, Brotherhood was out to protest against obvious that they would rub shoulders since the uprising began against former especially the Brotherhood, to see rea- in order to stop the dismissal of its government earlier and clash with Mursi men out there. president Hosni Mubarak, and unfortu- son in dialogue and forcefully present this month, and had not adhered to cau- A glance at the crisis in Egypt reveals nately it had led to more destabilisation its point of view before the constituent bloodshed. Ahmad Al-Jarwan tions. General Sisi, in a timely brief, had that it has no political solution in sight. than what was Egypt under the iron fist panel. President of the Arab warned that continued clashes between The response that has come from the rule of the dictator. To bring things under Khaleej Times Parliament VIEWS MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 How can a lawyer defend them?

hot-headed and lacking in judgment, or There’s something of not having the mental wherewithal to know what they were doing. There about cases in is always a story. Castro lawyers Craig Weintraub and Jaye Schlachet were typi- which everyone is cal in insisting, after meeting with their client for several hours, that he isn’t the “monster” he had been made out to be. calling for blood If knowing our clients makes it too easy to explain how we can represent that makes it easier them, maybe it’s better to ask whether we would represent other people’s clients. Defending Castro would be especially to fight for people difficult for me. Although I have never turned down a court appointment based like Tsarnaev and on the nature of the case, there are crimes I find especially abhorrent: child abduc- tions that feature sexual abuse and hate Castro. Maybe crimes of all sorts. With the allegations of kidnapping, sexual assault and torture, there’s a contrarian Castro’s is exactly the kind of case I find hard to stomach. It’s distressing to read fiction about these kinds of crimes — such streak in all good as Alice Sebold’s “The Lovely Bones” or Emma Donoghue’s “Room” — let alone criminal lawyers. grapple with the real thing. I don’t envy the lawyers representing BY ABBE SMITH Serial kidnapper and rape accused Ariel Castro appears in court for his initial appearance in Cleveland, Ohio yesterday. RIGHT: Boston Tsarnaev. He is young — I can under- stand why those nurses were instinctively bombing suspects Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (left) and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died later, in a video grab. he trauma nurses who took kind to him — but there is overwhelm- care of Boston bombing sus- ing evidence that he killed, maimed and pect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after replies about how the system can’t work of the most notorious criminals of the who, for a variety of reasons, have com- terrorised innocent people in the place This arrest have a straightfor- without good lawyers on both sides, or the past two decades, including “Unabomber” mitted crimes but who are not evil. where he grew up. I would want to say to ward explanation. “I don’t get to pick and harshness of punishment, or the excessive Ted Kaczynski. “Even if it’s the smallest My car-thief client was only 16 when him: “What the hell were you thinking?” choose my patients,” one told the Boston number of people — especially minori- sliver of common ground, Judy’s going he killed his neighbour. He was imma- But good defence lawyers resist the urge Globe. ties — locked up in this country. Capital to be able to find that,” said Kaczynski’s ture and impulsive, and he’d had a hard to pile on; it isn’t a useful way to form The three public defenders assigned to defenders such as Tsarnaev lawyer Judy brother, David. “There’s no doubt in my time fitting in. He’d never been in trou- a relationship. There’s something about Tsarnaev would have been similarly con- Clarke tend to cite their opposition to the mind that Judy saw my brother’s human- ble with the law, but on that day he got cases in which everyone is calling for blood strained. But what about the two promi- death penalty. ity despite the terrible things he’d done.” in trouble at school and was trying to that makes it easier to fight for people nent defence lawyers who have offered But our motivations are usually per- We may even come to develop affection escape his dad’s wrath when he grabbed like Tsarnaev and Castro. Maybe there’s a their services? Why choose to represent sonal and sometimes difficult to articu- for our clients — as did the Boston nurses, a gun to frighten his neighbour into giv- contrarian streak in all good criminal law- a man accused of turning the Boston late. I often say I was inspired by “To Kill who caught themselves calling Tsarnaev ing him her car. Thirty years later, he yers. Frankly, the uproar over the image Marathon finish line into a war zone? a Mockingbird.” There is no more com- “hon.” “There are very few clients I have still can’t believe he pulled the trigger. He of Tsarnaev on the cover of Rolling Stone Likewise, how can the lawyers repre- pelling figure than Atticus Finch defend- had who I didn’t like,” Miriam Conrad, has grown up in prison and is more than made me want to stand up for him — or senting Cleveland’s Ariel Castro fight for ing a wrongly accused poor black man. another Tsarnaev lawyer, has said. sorry for what he did. I’ve been endeav- at least for the editors of the magazine. the alleged serial kidnapper and rapist? Innocence, though, is not a chief driver Criminal lawyers are sometimes ouring to get him released on parole. I confess that I gravitate more to And what about the attorneys for the for me. To the contrary, I often call my accused of investing all our sympathy in My baby-killing client has no recol- Trayvon Martin — the young black man recently acquitted but still controver- life’s work “the guilty project.” Criminal our clients and having none for victims. lection of harming her 18-month-old. unfairly targeted — than neighbourhood- sial George Zimmerman? Do they really defence is, for the most part, defending But we are human beings; we have feel- She accepts that she must have done it watch volunteer Zimmerman. But that believe he is completely innocent of any the factually guilty — people who have ings. Over the years there has been a and feels regret and shame. In prison for doesn’t mean I couldn’t have defended wrongdoing in shooting an unarmed teen? done something wrong, though maybe handful of cases that tested me: sympa- more than 26 years, she has shown her- Zimmerman. I have been a criminal defence lawyer not exactly what is alleged. thetic victims, unspeakably cruel crimes, self to be a woman of faith and service, Prominent criminal lawyer Edward for more than 30 years, first as a pub- That works for me because, as it hap- clients who seemed to lack any conscience. working in the prison hospital and the Bennett Williams once noted that he lic defender and now as a law professor pens, I like guilty people. I prefer people I once represented a young man accused Catholic chaplain’s office. I took her case took on difficult cases for unpopular running a criminal defence clinic. My who are flawed and complicated to those of an armed rape of a recent college grad- because she has served her sentence and clients “not because of my own wishes, clients have included a young man who who are irreproachable. As legendary uate who was an AmeriCorps volunteer. been a model prisoner, yet she has been but because of the unwritten law that I gunned down his neighbour in front of American lawyer Clarence Darrow put She could have been me at that age — full repeatedly denied parole. might not refuse.” That unwritten law her 5-year-old daughter while trying to it more than 80 years ago: “Strange as it of passionate idealism. It was hard to face My drug-dealing client knew the still motivates criminal lawyers, along steal her car, a man who beat a young may seem, I grew to like to defend men her in court. I represented a man accused woman he killed — he once bought with the knowledge that none of us would woman to death for failing to alert drug and women charged with crime. . . . I of child abuse who seemed to hate every- presents for her kids. He wishes he had want to be defined by the very worst associates that police were coming and a became vitally interested in the causes one, especially women. I admit I derived made different choices on that day and thing we ever did. woman who smothered her baby for no of human conduct. . . . I was dealing with some satisfaction from the fact that his at other points in his life. Released from We represent “those people” because apparent reason. These are the kinds of life, with its hopes and fears, its aspira- defence lawyer, prosecutor and judge were prison after 20 years, he is grateful to we can always find aspects of them that cases that prompt people to ask: “How tions and despairs.” all women — even though I did everything have a second chance. represent us. can you represent those people?” All Defence lawyers try to find the human- I could on his behalf. I realise this may be what every Abbe Smith is a professor of law and the criminal defence lawyers are asked this; ity in the people we represent, no matter The people I have in mind when I say defender says: My clients, no matter what director of the Criminal Defense & Prisoner it’s such a part of the criminal defence what they may have done. We resist the “I like guilty people” are not those who they may have done, aren’t wicked. They Advocacy Clinic at Georgetown University experience that it’s simply known as “the phrase “those people” because it suggests commit acts of such depravity that it’s are damaged, deprived or in distress. and a co-editor of the forthcoming “How question.” too clear a line between us and them. painful to read news stories about them. Their crimes can be understood as the Can You Represent Those People?” Most of us have a repertoire of stock Clarke has managed to do this with some I mean the vast majority of my clients, products of awful lives, or of being young, WP-BLOOMBERG Need to heed new age of anxiety End bulk collection BY DARIAN LEADER As human beings are increasingly school or a work deadline can gen- erate this feeling, as can a fruitless of US phone data f the postwar age of anxiety visit to a jobcentre. There is the was supposed to have ended identified with units of energy in pervasive sense of an expectation I30 or 40 years ago, a swath or impending judgment. The fact BY MARK UDALL and RON an open debate about the federal of media articles now suggest a that human beings have become WYDEN government’s dragnet collection of dramatic comeback. A new and the marketplace, is it so surprising what Nina Power calls “walking Americans’ phone records under widely reported study claims a CVs” can only exacerbate such resident Barack Obama the USA Patriot Act. massive increase in anxiety dis- that they fall ill, refusing the values problems. We are obliged to list recently welcomed a public Our view of this programme orders in the UK (total popula- and magnify our abilities to meet Pdebate about how to protect is shaped by our experience with tion 60m), with an estimated 8.2 the impossible demands of the both national security and pri- the NSA’s bulk e-mail records col- million sufferers compared to 2.3 of productivity and efficiency that marketplace. Added to this is the vacy rights in the context of the lection programme. Concerned million in 2007. The pressures of ever increasing pressure to con- National Security Agency’s domes- about this programme’s impact modern life, we are told, must society imposes on them? form to a norm of physical and tic surveillance activities. Congress on Americans’ civil liberties and play a large part here, with job mental health. should not squander this opportu- privacy rights, we spent a sig- stress aggravating the difficulties for both mental and neurological the marketplace, is it so surpris- The imperative to remove nity to have an open, transparent nificant portion of 2011 pressing of urban populations. illness”. Disorders are listed in ing that they fall ill, refusing the anxiety may do more harm than discussion about the limits of exec- intelligence officials to provide evi- The focus on socio-economic terms of their cost to the economy values of productivity and effi- good. Freud noticed the protective utive power and the surveillance of dence of its usefulness. They were conditions is surely a good thing. rather than to individual lives, ciency that society imposes on function of anxiety as an indica- Americans. We believe that, when not able to do so, and it was shut In the 1980s, Thatcherism encour- families and communities. them? tion of danger. He distinguished presented with all the facts, most down that year. This experience aged a redrafting of work-related The monetary equation The pressures and expectations it from shock, the encounter Americans would agree with us demonstrated to us that intelli- problems as psychological ones. explains the press the report of the market weigh heavily on with a violence or sexuality that that the White House should end gence agencies’ assessments of the As each person became a unit of received. In this accountancy of everyone. The erosion of long- we had not been prepared for. the bulk collection of Americans’ effectiveness of particular collec- economic competition, it wasn’t distress, anxiety disorders are term stability in employment The first question to ask is less phone records and instead obtain tion programmes are not always the market’s fault if they didn’t reckoned to cost (the UK) around means that people are expected “How can we get rid of anxiety?” this information directly from accurate, and it led us to be scep- get a job but their own. Injustice £10bn a year, with about a half of to throw themselves into any job than “What function does anxi- phone companies, using regular tical of claims about the value of in the marketplace was glossed this due to lost productivity and they find. Every minor task or ety have?” Take the example of court orders. collecting bulk phone records. over as individual failure. early retirement. training exercise must be met childhood phobias. Clinicians We have had concerns about The federal government’s collec- Hundreds of books and arti- The subtext to human suffer- with absolute enthusiasm, as if know that the protracted pho- domestic surveillance authori- tion of phone metadata under the cles have questioned this without ing here is of course the economy. motivation were something that bias that occur between the ages ties for several years. Through Patriot Act sucks up records on gaining media exposure, so why Getting people back to work is could be turned on or off at will. of three and six are usually best our oversight work on the Senate millions of law-abiding Americans the visibility of the new research? what matters, with interven- Such behaviour is impossible left untreated. They show that intelligence committee, we have daily. We believe that large-scale One is puzzled to find not a single tion aimed at excising unwanted to sustain, and exacts its toll: the child is reorganising their become convinced that the gov- collection of personal informa- sentence in the report linking the symptoms that get in the way of depressive feelings, physical and world, creating new limits and ernment needs to scale back overly tion by the government seriously supposed increase in anxiety to maximum productivity. Rather emotional exhaustion at the boundaries through the animal intrusive surveillance activities to infringes on Americans’ privacy. social causes. In fact, there was than seeing such symptoms as expenditure of energy on projects or place they are afraid of. When better protect Americans’ consti- The details of whom Americans no explanation at all, and the signs that something is wrong at a we care little about. Motivation this is done, the phobia will disap- tutional privacy rights and that call, when they call and where headline-grabbing prevalence rate more fundamental level, they are loses its roots in our childhood pear. The child has transformed this can be done while protect- they call from is private infor- for the UK was estimated from read as local disturbances that interests and ideals, and becomes anxiety into fear. Fear is always ing US national security. We have mation. In our opinion, the gov- Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. cutting edge drugs will get rid of. something external to us. Hence fear of something, but anxiety not been able to fully engage the ernment’s ongoing, overly broad Here, we find a perfect expres- Aside from the absurdity of the oscillation between hyper- involves a more nameless dread. public on these issues because the collection is not authorised under sion of the new mental hygiene seeing anxiety as a brain disorder, motivation and depletion char- The causal diagnostic approach executive branch insisted on keep- a straightforward interpretation movement. Anxiety is grouped the logic here is circular. It may acteristic of the contemporary lumps fear and anxiety together, ing its interpretation of the law of the Patriot Act or any other law. together with dementia, stroke be the very equation of human worker. yet if someone has succeeded in secret. Although we would have The White House ought to and neuromuscular conditions worth with economic productiv- Anxiety can play a similar role. becoming afraid of something it preferred that this discussion had end this dragnet and sharpen its as a “brain disorder”, and the ity that frames the problem. As At its most basic level, anxiety is means that they have been able been sparked by a more transpar- focus on the terrorists and spies authors urge an approach that human beings are increasingly the sensation that something is to treat their anxiety. ent executive branch, rather than who truly threaten our nation’s uses “comparable methodologies identified with units of energy in demanded of one. An exam at THE GUARDIAN by unauthorised leaks, we welcome security. WP-BLOOMBERG MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 MIDDLE EAST 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Regime forces, Hezbollah set to retake Homs Probe into collective execution of captives by rebels

DAMASCUS: Government strongholds in the Old City, the force in Lebanon and whose mili- forces bolstered by Lebanese Britain-based Observatory said. tary wing has been blacklisted by Shia militiamen were poised “The army and Hezbollah con- the European Union as a terror- yesterday to retake the larg- trol a major part of Khaldiyeh ist group, also helped the army est rebel-held district of Syria’s after having gained ground (over retake Qusayr. That town is like- third city Homs, a watchdog the past 24 hours) and fighting is wise strategic, standing on the and state media said. now concentrated on the north- border with Lebanon and linking The Syrian Observatory for ern and southern outskirts of the Damascus to the coastal strong- Human Rights said troops now district,” Observatory chief Rami hold of Assad’s minority Alawite controlled most of Khaldiyeh Abdel Rahman said. community. after a month-long assault and But the opposition National Meanwhile, the opposition were battling insurgents on its Coalition dismissed the army’s National Coalition condemned the outskirts. reported advances in Khaldiyeh as reported “collective execution” by The complete fall of Homs, “fictitious victories” and accused rebels of prisoners and said it had dubbed by rebels “the capital of the regime of having dumped set up a commission of inquiry. the revolution” against President “tonnes of bombs” on the area. At least 150 Syrian regime Bashar Al Assad’s regime, would Al Mayadeen, a Beirut-based forces died in fighting for control be a major coup for the govern- satellite television channel con- of Khan Al Assal in the northern ment as the city straddles a key sidered close to the Damascus Aleppo province, the Observatory route linking Damascus to the government, broadcast footage said on Friday, adding that more Mediterranean coast. of Khaldiyeh showing massive than 50 of those killed were exe- State television said the army destruction. It also showed the cuted by rebels after the town fell now controlled most of the interior of the famed Khaled last Monday. Khaldiyeh district and broadcast bin Walid mosque which troops The opposition said measures footage of the destruction, includ- seized on Saturday. The ancient must be taken “against those ing rubble-strewn streets and place of worship noted for its whose implication in the crime is bodies it reported were of fighters. Ottoman and Mameluk architec- proven.” An officer told the channel: tural style is where Khaled bin Both sides have traded accu- “Only the northern sector is left Walid, a prominent Arab warrior sations that chemical weapons (under rebel control), and that and companion of the Prophet used in earlier fierce fighting at will be liberated within 24 hours.” Mohammed (peace be upon him), Khan Al Assal in March killed Some seven neighbourhoods in is said to be buried. about 30 people. A spokeswoman the Old City also remain in rebel The mosque was a focal point for UN chief Ban Ki-moon said hands, but troops appear deter- of the uprising now in its third late on Saturday he would review mined to dislodge them as they year, and had been the launch- an accord struck with Syria on did in the Homs province town pad for several anti-government investigating the use of chemical of Qusayr, which they seized in demonstrations. Bin Walid’s weapons before any details are June with help from Lebanon’s mausoleum has been destroyed announced. Ban will meet in New Hezbollah militiamen. in a rocket attack, according to York on Monday with one of the Yesterday afternoon, regime the Observatory and militants. two envoys who struck the accord, forces also shelled rebel Hezbollah, the strongest fighting she said. AFP Syrian government forces patrol in the Khalidiyah neighbourhood of the central city of Homs, yesterday.

Tunisian opposition Liberals, smaller may set up rival government tribes win seats TUNIS: Tunisia’s secular oppo- sition said yesterday it might set up an alternative “salvation government” to challenge the in Kuwait vote Islamist-led ruling coalition and show its anger at the assassina- KUWAIT: Liberals and can- member of the ruling family to tions of two leftist politicians in didates from some of Kuwait’s form a new cabinet. six months. more marginalised tribes have Kuwait has the most open Opposition leaders, who have won seats in a parliament which political system in the Gulf Arab also been emboldened by the may prove more cooperative region but parliaments have been Egyptian army’s overthrow of an with the ruling family after repeatedly dissolved over proce- Islamist president this month, opposition Islamists and popu- dural disputes or for challenging said they had no interest in rec- lists boycotted the election. the government in which mem- onciliation with the dominant Saturday’s ballot was the sixth bers of the ruling Al Sabah family Islamist Ennahda party. since 2006 in the major oil pro- hold top posts. “We will meet this evening ducer, where political upheaval and “The large number of new to discuss creating a new salva- bureaucracy have held up the vast MPs gives hope that a National tion government and will study majority of projects in a KD30bn Assembly with greater popular the possibility of nominating a ($105bn) economic development backing can find a way of improv- new prime minister to replace plan announced in 2010. ing relations with the govern- this failed government,” said Government resigned yester- ment,” said Gulf expert Kristian Candidate Rakan Youssef Al Nesif (right), celebrates with supporters following his victory, at his campaign Jilani Hammami, a leader of the day in line with the constitution Ulrichsen, at the US-based Baker headquarters in Kuwait City, yesterday. Salvation laFront coalition and after parliamentary polls, the Institute for Public Policy, refer- Tunisian Workers’ Party. “There country’s second since December, ring to a 12 percent higher turn- of Ramadan was still lower than capita. Newly-elected Kamel Al politicians said this would pre- is no longer any doubt that the and the ruling emir asked the out than last time. in several elections before 2012 Awadi said he would “work on all vent them forming a majority in time for it to go has now passed.” cabinet to stay on in a caretaker “The increased turnout signals when about 60 percent of voters projects that move the economy parliament. Tunisians are bracing for what role. A day after the elections, that many Kuwaitis are ready to cast ballots. The US ally has seen forward” including housing and Shias — estimated at 20-30 many worry may be one of the the ruler H H Sheikh Sabah Al put the recent past behind them street protests in the past two infrastructure projects. Many percent of the population —won most tumultuous periods in their Ahmad Al Sabah accepted the and move forward,” Ulrichsen years, including over changes to of these were touted in the 2010 just eight seats in the 50-member transition to democracy since the resignation but asked Prime said. In accordance with Kuwait’s the voting procedures, but its gen- development plan and have not parliament compared to 17 in the toppling of autocratic President Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak legislation, the outgoing cabinet erous welfare system and relative been delivered. last election in December, after Zein El Abidine Ben Ali in 2011, Al Sabah and his ministers to stay approved a draft decree inviting tolerance of dissent have helped The mainly Islamist and popu- Sunnis in their districts ramped a revolt that inspired uprisings on until a new cabinet is formed, new lawmakers to hold their first to shield it from more serious list opposition boycotted the poll up a campaign to win seats. across the Arab world. state news agency Kuna reported. parliamentary session on August Arab Spring-style unrest. Voters in protest against a new voting Political parties are banned so Cabinet ministers are set to After consultations, the emir 6, Kuna said. also complained about a lack of system announced last year, which candidates campaign independ- meet today to discuss the grow- may tap the outgoing premier, the The turnout in searing heat development in Kuwait — one of cut the number of votes per citi- ently or with links to political ing political crisis, a government likely scenario, or another senior and during the fasting month the world’s richest countries per zen to one from four. Opposition movements. REUTERS official said, and a message from the prime minister to the nation is also expected. On Thursday, assailants shot dead leftist politician Mohamed Brahmi using the same gun, according to the government, as Explosions rock Benghazi was used to kill secular oppo- sition leader Chokri Belaid on February 6. TRIPOLI: Explosions rocked said the building, and others to let them escape the fire, Justice The opposition holds Ennahda the eastern Libyan city of nearby, had sustained significant Minister Salah al-Marghani told responsible for Brahmi’s kill- Benghazi yesterday in what damage. Pieces of glass and rub- reporters in the capital Tripoli ing, which the government has appeared to be attacks on judi- ble were scattered on the ground. after visiting Benghazi. Residents blamed on hardline Salafist mili- cial buildings, a security offi- “It was very loud and I saw the had helped guards to arrest some tants. Some violent protests have cial said, a day after more than smoke,” resident Hassan Bakoush escapees. erupted in the capital Tunis as well 1,100 inmates escaped during a said. “Some balconies of nearby Mohammed Sharif, head of as provincial cities since Brahmi’s prison riot there. buildings are damaged.” security in Benghazi, said some assassination. Ten people were slightly Armed violence and lawless- prisoners had turned themselves Yesterday, competing pro- and wounded in one of the blasts ness, caused in part by militia in and others had been captured. anti-government protesters wav- which targeted a court in the groups who often do as they “The prison is back in opera- ing red Tunisian flags assembled north of the city, said Mohammed please, has hobbled governance in tion as of this morning,” he told on opposite sides of a square Al Hijazy, a spokesman for large areas of the oil-producing Reuters. “Seventy prisoners were outside parliament, as dozens of Benghazi security operations. North African state following the brought in initially. Another 30 black-uniformed security men “Assailants threw an explosive 2011 war that toppled Muammar were caught in the town of al- stood guard. device under a car as it was park- Gaddafi. Marj and seven in Ajdabiyah. There was no immediate vio- ing in front of the court,” he said. Earlier officials said that They will be brought back to lence, but the interior minis- He added another explosion about 100 inmates out of 1,117 Kuafiya,” he said, referring to try called on one of the protest occurred in front of an office who escaped during a riot in towns in eastern Libya. groups to move to another area belonging to the justice ministry, Kuafiya prison on the outskirts Officials said the escapees in order to prevent clashes. but it was not immediately clear of Benghazi on Saturday had been included criminals from other Hundreds of opposition sup- exactly what had happened in recaptured. African states. porters sang the national anthem that incident. Officials said there had been an Prime Minister Ali Zeidan con- and shouted “Get out” on their Hijazy said there had been two attack on the jail compound from firmed the incident but gave no side of the square. A smaller blasts in the city, which occurred outside as well as a riot inside numbers. He said residents had crowd of dozens of pro-Ennahda around the time families were after which some prisoners set carried out the attack because demonstrators chanted back: People gather to look at the damage caused by explosions at judicial breaking their Ramadan fast. their cloths and bed sheets on fire. they did not want the jail near “Respecting government legiti- buildings in the Libyan city of Benghazi, yesterday. Residents living near the court Guards then opened the gates their homes. REUTERS macy is a duty.” REUTERS INTERNATIONAL MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Train driver in US House to vote on court as Spain tough Iran sanctions WASHINGTON: Lawmakers exports could harm the economies in the US House of of US allies. Wendy Sherman, the Representatives are due to State Department official leading vote on a tough Iran sanctions talks with Iran over its nuclear mourns victims bill this week that seeks to programme, told a Senate hear- squeeze the Islamic Republic’s ing last month it is not in the US oil exports to a trickle. interest to cause any importer The Republican-led House is economy to tank because of Reckless homicide charges over crash due to vote on Wednesday on stronger sanctions. the bill that seeks to cut Iran’s The House bill’s goal of slashing SANTIAGO DE for note paper so they can write oil exports by another 1 million Iran’s oil exports to a trickle risks COMPOSTELA: The driver messages and put them on the barrels per day within one year, antagonising China and India, the of a train that hurtled off the cathedral gates.” congressional aides said. biggest buyers of Iran’s crude, and rails killing 79 people in Spain A memorial service is sched- The bill, expected to pass easily could push global oil prices higher. faced questioning by a judge uled to be held in Santiago de in the House, would not become Some supporters in the US yesterday, as the pilgrimage Compostela today. law immediately as no compan- of stepped-up diplomatic efforts city of Santiago de Compostela Forensics police on Saturday ion legislation has yet passed in with Tehran worry that passing mourned the dead. identified the last three vic- the Senate. The Senate Banking a House bill before Iran’s elected Flowers and candles were tims, including that of 35-year- Committee could consider its ver- president Rouhini takes office on placed at the crash site and at old French veterinarian sion of a bill in September and August 3 could send the wrong the gates of the city’s cathedral, Jean-Baptiste Loirat. then the legislation would move to message ahead of nuclear talks. a year-round destination for “He was a very happy young the full chamber for a vote. “The House must not snuff Roman Catholic pilgrims. father, adorable, very loving and If the House acts this week it out hopes for Iranian modera- Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, family oriented,” his aunt Marie- would highlight a divide between tion before Rouhini even gets a the 52-year-old driver, refused Anne Loirat said in his hometown lawmakers in Congress and chance,” General Joseph Hoar, a to answer police questions on of Nantes in western France. the some in President Barack former commander in chief of US Friday from his hospital bed, and The president of the Spanish Obama’s administration. Central Command, and Lawrence the case was passed to the courts. rail network administrator ADIF, Many lawmakers are anx- Wilkerson, a former chief of staff Garzon was taken to a police Gonzalo Ferre, said Garzon had ious to appear tough in trying to to General Colin Powell, wrote in station on Saturday after being been warned to start slowing the slow Iran’s disputed nuclear pro- an opinion piece in The Hill news- discharged from hospital and was train “four kilometres before the gramme, but Obama’s administra- paper last week. due to appear before a judge yes- accident happened”. tion acted last week to partially Still, Robert McNally, the terday who will decide whether El Pais newspaper, citing inves- A crane raises the locomotive of the train that derailed in Santiago de ease sanctions on Iran, which last president of energy consultancy to press formal charges, court tigation sources, reported that he Compostela, early yesterday. It took more than nine hours for officers to month elected president a rela- the Rapidan Group and former officials said. told railway officials by radio that raise the last piece of the wreckage left after the accident. tive moderate, the cleric Hassan White House energy advisor to Interior Minister Jorge the train had taken the curve at Rouhani. The US Treasury President George W. Bush, said Fernandez Diaz told reporters 190kmph — more than double the Department last Thursday that in effect Washington is work- on Saturday that Garzon Amo 80kmph speed limit for that sec- firm for 30 years, including 13 Renfe said the train — a model expanded the list of medical ing on a two-track strategy on faced possible charges of reckless tion of track. years as a driver, and had driven able to adapt between high- devices that can be exported to Iran that could pay off. “For diplo- homicide over Spain’s deadliest A resident who rushed to the trains past the spot of the acci- speed and normal tracks — had Iran without special permission, as macy to have any chance of suc- rail accident since 1944. scene said in a television inter- dent 60 times. no technical problems and had the administration sought to show ceeding, it must be coupled with The train was reported to have view broadcast yesterday that El Mundo newspaper yesterday just passed an inspection on the support for humanitarian needs in the threat of increased sanctions,” been travelling at more than twice the driver told him minutes after printed extracts from the train’s morning of the accident. the country, which has been hit McNally said. the speed limit on a bend when it the crash he had been unable to route plan, indicating that ahead But the secretary general of hard by Western sanctions. Iran’s Supreme Leader tore off the rails on Wednesday brake. of the bend the train passed from Spain’s train drivers’ union, Juan The State Department has long Ayatollah Khamenei has the final and slammed into a concrete wall. “He said he had to brake to 80 a stretch of track with a speed Jesus Garcia Fraile, told public cautioned that moving too fast in say on the country’s nuclear pol- A passenger who was criti- and couldn’t, that he was going limit of 220kmph to one with a radio the track was not equipped using sanctions to cut Iran’s oil icy. REUTERS cally wounded in the crash died fast,” Evaristo Iglesias, who along limit of 80kmph. with braking technology that in hospital, health officials said with another man accompanied The newspaper said it was “sur- would slow the train down yesterday, bringing the toll to 79, the driver to a stretch of flat land prising” that it was left entirely automatically if the driver including eight foreigners. where other injured people were up to the driver exactly when to failed to so when required. “We are really feeling the being laid out after the accident, brake as the train entered the Many of the passengers impact. People are praying. It is told Antena 3. curve. were said to be on their a great tragedy,” said Marlen de “He kept saying ‘I want to die! Some media reports described way to a festival in honour Francisco, a woman of 70 who I want to die! I don’t want to see Garzon Amo as a speed freak of Saint James, the apos- sells souvenirs in the cathedral this!”. who once posted a picture on his tle who gave his name to square. State railway company Renfe Facebook page of a train speed- Santiago de Compostela. “All day people are asking me said the driver had been with the ometer at 200kmph. AFP Malians flock to vote BAMAKO: Malians turned out in large numbers to vote yesterday in a presidential election they hope will provide a fresh start for the West African nation after more than a year of turmoil, war and an army coup. From the lush, bustling riverside capital, Bamako, to the northern desert town of Timbuktu, voters crammed into schools turned into polling stations for the day, protected by Malian, French and United Nations forces. A successful vote would mark a major step towards recovery after a March 2012 coup fol- lowed by the occupation of the desert north by sepa- ratist Tuareg rebels and Al Qaeda-linked fighters. Months ago the Islamists were marching south, until French troops arrived in January and defeated them, scattering them into the deserts and mountains. Mandela still critical after operation JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s presidency yesterday said Nelson Mandela was still critically ill in hospital but improving slightly, declining to comment on a report the anti-apartheid hero had undergone an operation. The former statesman underwent a “surgical procedure to unblock a dialy- sis tube” on Friday just before marking his seventh week at a Pretoria health facility, according to US news network CBS. The operation was “minor”, the network reported. But presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj would not confirm that the procedure took place. “He is critical, stable, but there is some improvement,” he said. Maduro, Fidel Castro meet in Havana CARACAS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met aged Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Havana on Saturday, Venezuelan state news agency AVN reported. Fidel Castro, who turns 87 next month, rarely appears in public and pictures of the historic leftist leader are unusual. The two men met fol- lowing celebrations marking the 60th anniversary of the capture of the Moncada barracks, the event that began the Cuban revolution. AVN published four photographs of the leaders, including one in which Castro is shown with a book about the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez written by a Spanish journalist. No ceasefire with FARC: President BOGOTA: Colombia will not agree to a ceasefire with FARC rebels, the country’s president stressed on Saturday ahead of a resumption of peace talks. Juan Manuel Santos said that, since the start of the talks last year, his government has put Latin America’s longest-fighting insurgency on notice that there would be no truce until a five-point agenda had been agreed. “So (now, too) the military offensive is maintained, it is strengthened because that is what is going to get us to the end of this conflict fastest,” Santos said. AGENCIES MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 ASIA / PHILIPPINES 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Hun Sen’s party wins Cambodian election Popular leader’s return helps opposition increase tally PHNOM PENH: Cambodia’s merger of two main opposition and reconciliation,” he said. ruling party won yesterday’s parties plus the return from self- Military police blocked off a general election but with a imposed exile of popular long-time road leading to the home of Hun much-reduced majority, accord- opposition leader Sam Rainsy. Sen, who has been in power for 28 ing to the government, a result While not formally conced- years, and one going to the offices that will be seen as a setback ing defeat for his Cambodia of the CPP and the NEC. for authoritarian leader Hun National Rescue Party (CNRP), Trucks carrying soldiers were Sen, one of the world’s longest- Sam Rainsy was conciliatory and seen going into the city but by late serving prime ministers. called for calm after what were evening the streets were calm. Khieu Kanharith, government significant gains for the party. Voting was for the most part spokesman and information min- “We want to thank all peaceful despite anger at alleged ister, said on his Facebook page Cambodian people ... regard- electoral fraud. the Cambodian People’s Party less of their political affiliation, Sam Rainsy’s party claimed (CPP) won 68 seats in parliament Cambodians who support all electoral lists were manipulated to the opposition’s 55, adding that political parties, for their digni- to give the CPP more votes and Cambodian National Election Committee officials count ballots at a polling station in Phnom Penh yesterday. was the final count. fied participation in this election, complained about the disruption The National Election for their contribution to make of meetings and campaigning by Committee (NEC) gave a list of democracy move forward,” he told the security forces. junior commander in the Khmer month, Sam Rainsy had faced a the electoral authorities rejected results from each polling station a news briefing. The United Nations organ- Rouge who broke away dur- jail sentence handed down in 2010 his request to do so. but no tally for parliamentary The CPP had 90 of the 123 seats ised an election in 1993 that ing their rule, Cambodia has for spreading disinformation and But the charismatic former seats. in the outgoing parliament and put Cambodia on a rocky path been transformed into one of falsifying maps to contest a new finance minister had attracted Backed by a compliant media the parties that united to form towards stability after decades Southeast Asia’s fastest-grow- border agreed with Vietnam, large crowds to rallies, appealing and with superior resources, the the CNRP had just 29. of turmoil, including the 1975-79 ing economies, helped by gar- charges he called politically to younger voters with no mem- CPP was confident of victory, but Sam Rainsy appealed to his “Killing Fields” rule of the com- ment exports plus aid money and motivated. ory of the turmoil before Hun Sen analysts had predicted a reduc- youthful supporters not to cause munist Khmer Rouge. investment from China. He returned too late to run in helped restore stability. tion in its majority after the any trouble. “We call for peace Under Hun Sen, a former Before a royal pardon this the election or even to vote, and REUTERS Japan, China could hold summit soon Philippines on high TATSUNO: Japanese Prime September when a territorial row long (before they meet),” he said summit stemmed from the Minister Shinzo Abe could soon over tiny islands in the East China on the sidelines of a speech in his “atmosphere” of his meetings. He hold a summit meeting with Sea flared. Concern that the con- hometown in central Japan. said he did not discuss matters alert after blast China’s president, Xi Jingping, servative Japanese leader wants Iijima, who made a surprise related to North Korea. MANILA: The Philippines “According to the doctors who an adviser to Abe said yester- to recast Japan’s wartime history visit to North Korea in May, On Friday, Japan’s Defence ordered troops and police on did the autopsy report, there were day, adding that he had met with a less apologetic tone has declined to identify the people he Ministry issued a policy report heightened alert yesterday after no shrapnel that can be attrib- senior officials close to the added to the tension. met in China or give details of the repeating concerns about China’s a restaurant attack killed six in uted to a grenade explosion,” Chinese leader on a secret visit While Abe’s call last week drew discussions he said were held over military build-up and its activities its restive southern region, but Roxas said. to Beijing this month. a cool reaction from Beijing, his two days in mid-July. near the disputed islands. said there were no clues yet to “It is also not an IED (impro- Abe, whose ruling bloc adviser, Isao Iijima, said Chinese “I went there to ask them what Iijima also reiterated his belief the culprits. vised explosive device) made from cemented its grip on power with leaders were considering the they really think,” Iijima said, that leaders of Japan and North Interior Secretary Mar Roxas mortar or artillery shell,” he said. a win in upper house of parlia- call and he believed they would stressing that the visit was private. Korea should hold a summit, and said investigators were recon- Ordnance experts have found ment elections a week ago, called respond positively. China, in responding to Abe’s that pressure on North Korea structing the bomb site to gather wires and a battery that could on Friday for an unconditional “I feel they are troubled by it, call, said its door was open for without diplomacy would not help more clues on Friday night’s have been used as a trigger but meeting between his country and they are deeply thinking about it,” talks but Japan should “stop using Japan solve the issue of citizens attack in Cagayan de Oro, a rela- not much else. China as soon as possible. Iijima told reporters when asked empty slogans about so-called dia- kidnapped by the secretive regime tively peaceful city in Mindanao Roxas’s statement suggested the Sino-Japanese ties, often fragile, about the summit call. logue to gloss over disagreements”. decades ago. island, where various rebel groups attack may not have been the work have been seriously strained since “I don’t think it will take that Iijima said his hope for a REUTERS and armed gangs operate. of Muslim militants who operate “We are doing everything (to in other parts of the south and are determine the suspects). We have known to use mortar bombs rigged placed the police in Mindanao, the to a timing device. intelligence community and the Asked whether investiga- army on heightened alert to pre- tors were looking at any specific vent a similar attack,” Roxas said group behind the blast and what Seoul proposes ‘final’ talks over Kaesong over DZBB radio. the motive could be, he said: “If Investigators have yet to deter- it’s business rivalry, fighting over SEOUL: South Korea yester- Ryoo Kihl-Jae, Seoul’s unification Ryoo reiterated that the South The North has said it was not mine the explosive used in the land, or terrorism we could not day proposed “final” talks with minister in charge of cross-border wants the North to accept respon- responsible for the shutdown, attack, which hit a bistro packed say yet until we know all the facts the North over the fate of a affairs, told reporters. sibility for what Seoul insists was arguing that its hand was forced with at least 100 people. Most and details.” shuttered joint industrial zone, Seoul will send a formal pro- the unilateral closure of Kaesong by hostile South Korean actions were doctors and pharmaceuti- Cagayan de Oro has been rela- suggesting it may permanently posal across the border today, he by Pyongyang, and give a written and intimidation — in particular, cal representatives who had just tively unscathed by a decades-old close the estate if the negotia- said, without elaborating on when guarantee that it will never hap- a series of joint military exercises attended a national convention at Muslim and communist insur- tions fail. the talks would be held. pen again. with the United States. a nearby hotel. gency that have plagued parts of The latest offer came after Production at the estate, built “We want a clear answer from Meanwhile, in an apparent ges- Forty-eight others were the south in the country. six recent rounds of talks aimed 10 kilometres over the border in the North on preventing a recur- ture to lure Pyongyang to a fresh wounded in the blast, police said. Moro Islamic Liberation Front, at reviving the Seoul-invested 2004 as a rare symbol of cooper- rence,” he said. round of negotiations, Ryoo said Contrary to earlier reports, the country’s largest Muslim Kaesong complex in North Korea ation, has been suspended since “Otherwise, we will be left with Seoul would approve today five Roxas said investigators had not insurgent force, said yesterday — suspended since April — pro- North Korea withdrew its 53,000 no choice but to make a grave shipments of humanitarian aid found shrapnel or metal frag- it had no forces operating near duced little signs of progress. workers from the zone in April decision to prevent even bigger for the North worth 1.4 billion ments at the blast site, which Cagayan de Oro and condemned “We are offering the final talks at the height of soaring military damages on our companies in the won ($1.25m). would have indicated an explosive the attack as un-Islamic. to discuss the issue (of Kaesong),” tensions with the South. future,” he said. AFP device made from a mortar bomb. AFP

Landslide Taiwan coastguard raid vessel, arrest Manila to relocate military nine Indonesians TAIPEI: Taiwan’s coastguard camps near disputed sea raided a fishing vessel thousands of miles offshore, arresting nine MANILA: The Philippines Point in Cavite province, south of world-class runway and aviation Indonesian crew suspected of plans to relocate major air force Manila. facilities. murdering their Taiwanese and navy camps to a former US The first US Coast Guard Relocating about 250 air force captain and chief engineer, offi- naval base northwest of Manila cutter was relaunched as the officers and men to Subic, along cials said yesterday. to gain faster access to waters Philippines’ largest warship in with “increased rotational pres- Armed with rifles and hand- being contested by China in the 2011. President Benigno Aquino ence of foreign visiting forces” guns, 10 Taiwanese coastguards South China Sea, according to III will lead ceremonies on August would bolster business and trade conducted the raid early on the country’s defence chief and a 6 to welcome the second ship at at the port, the document said. Saturday when the fishing boat confidential government report. Subic, the Philippine navy said. Subic’s international airport was sailing nearly 4,500 nautical Defence Secretary Voltaire A confidential defence depart- has been underutilised since US miles (8,300 kilometres) from the Gazmin said yesterday that as ment document says Subic’s courier giant FedEx transferred island’s southernmost tip. The soon as relocation funds were location will cut reaction time its regional hub from Subic to pre-dawn raid came after the ves- available the government planned by fighter aircraft to contested China in 2009, officials said. sel’s owner reported to the author- to transfer air force and naval South China Sea areas by more The Philippines plans to grant ities on July 18 that for three days forces and their fleets of aircraft than three minutes compared visiting US forces, ships and air- the Taiwanese skipper had not and warships to Subic Bay, which with flying from Clark airfield, craft temporary access to more responded to his satellite call. has become a busy free port since also north of Manila, where some of its military camps to allow for A coastguard patrol boat in the the 1992 departure of the US Navy. air force planes are based. a larger number of joint mili- Pacific intercepted the Te Hung “It’s for the protection of our “It will provide the armed tary exercises than are currently Hsing No. 368, a 98-tonne fish- West Philippine Sea,” Gazmin said forces of the Philippines strategic staged each year. ing vessel. The coastguards said from South Korea, where he was location, direct and shorter access A larger US presence could they could not find skipper Chen on a visit, using the name adopted to support West Philippine Sea be used for disaster response Te-sheng, 55 and chief engineer by the Philippine government for theatre of operations,” the docu- and serve as a deterrent to what Ho Chang-lin, 67 onboard and the the disputed South China Sea. ment said. Philippine officials say have been nine Indonesian crew were tight- “We’re looking now for the The report said the cost of recent aggressive intrusions by lipped about their whereabouts. funding,” he said. repairs and improvements for an China into its territorial waters. “We fear they’ve been murdered Subic Bay is a natural deep air force base in Subic would be at The Philippines has backed and tossed overboard,” a coast- harbour that can accommodate least 5.1 billion pesos ($119m). It Washington’s efforts to reassert guard spokesman said. two large warships acquired said that compares with an esti- its military presence in Asia as The nine Indonesians were Rescue workers carry children out of a village after a landslide hit recently by the Philippines from mated 11 billion pesos ($256m) a counterweight to China’s rise. being shipped back to Taiwan for Tianshui in China’s Gansu province. The rescue team yesterday entered the United States, a defence that it would cost to build a new The Philippines has struggled to investigation, with their arrival the village, which had lost contact with the outside world after the treaty ally, he said, especially air force base, because the vast upgrade its military, one of Asia’s scheduled around August 20. landslide on July 25. At least 21 people were killed in the landslide. compared to shallower harbour Subic complex about 80 kilome- weakest. AFP at the naval fleet base at Sangley tres west of Manila already has a AP PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13

Protest Toxic liquor kills Karzai to 18 partygoers LAHORE: At least 18 peo- ple died and around two dozen others suffered serious health issues after partygoers at two separate events consumed toxic soon visit drinks, officials said yesterday. Victims were rushed to hospi- tals in the central Pakistani city of Faisalabad when they fell uncon- scious after drinking the alcohol at a birthday party and another Pakistan gathering. Both the events were held in private homes. “The death toll from the two Hopes of Islamabad helping end war parties has reached 18. Around two dozens others are heavily KABUL: Afghanistan’s presi- Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif we affected by the toxic liquor and dent will make his first visit to will be able to open a new page battling for consciousness,” Javed Pakistan in more than a year in between both countries.” Ahmed Khan, a senior police offi- an effort to mend strained rela- “We don’t want this trip to be cial, said. tions between the two countries only a visit, but we want the trip “The incidents took place in and in the hopes that he can to have good result for both coun- Batala colony. Five people were enlist the support of the new tries,” he said. killed at a birthday party on Pakistani government to help Mosazai added that the govern- Thursday and 13 others died in end the nearly 12-year Afghan ment hoped the new relationship another get-together in the same war, an official said yesterday. will be “based on mutual respect, area on Friday,” he said. The two nations have had tense honesty and to the benefit of both Public sale of alcohol is banned ties for years, and Afghanistan countries, especially in the strug- in conservative Islamic Pakistan has accused Pakistan in the gle and fight against terrorism Protesters shout slogans against the shelling of a Syrian shrine to Sayida Zeinab, during a protest in Karachi and many people prepare cheap past of supporting the Taliban and extremism in the region.” yesterday. Protests were held in several Pakistani cities against the attack on the shrine outside Damascus. liquor at home. in the movement’s fight against In an effort to improve frayed AFP the Afghan government. But ties, the new government in the election two months ago of a Islamabad sent its special adviser new prime minister in Pakistan on national security and foreign has raised hopes in Kabul that affairs to Kabul a week ago. Islamabad will be more open to Sartaj Aziz brought an invitation Firms pitch GM crops in Pakistan helping start peace talks with the for Karzai and said Pakistan was Pakistan Railways Taliban than the previous govern- willing to help start long-stalled ISLAMABAD: Three mul- the assessment of environmental Meanwhile, Dr Jawad Chishtie, ment — which it perceived to be peace talks to try to end the war tinational companies and a impact of these companies.” a public health and environment cuts fares by up to more hostile to Afghanistan and in Afghanistan. number of national firms have Asked to comment on the management specialist, said: its president, Hamid Karzai. Karzai’s office also said yes- approached the Ministry of genetically-modified food prod- “Genetically-modified products 57 percent Afghan Foreign Ministry terday that he met with General Food Security seeking licences ucts, he said: “It’s a long debate have been rejected in Europe, spokesman Janan Mosazai Lloyd J Austin, commander of US to grow genetically-modified as research is still continuing and most recently in France, for LAHORE: Except for told reporters that Karzai had Central Command, and discussed (GM) crops in Pakistan. internationally whether geneti- damaging crops and endangering Karakorum Express, com- accepted an invitation delivered progress on drafting a bilateral A senior federal government cally-modified products have an human health.” muters opting to travel in AC by Pakistan one week ago and security agreement with the official, refusing to give his name, impact on human health.” He warned that effects of Sleeper and business classes of that a date for the visit would United States and the progress said that “a request in this regard A number of Pakistani compa- genetically-engineered organisms all trains will be paying 17 to 57 soon be set. Karzai last visited being made by the Afghan secu- has been received by the Ministry nies have also approached Pak-Epa were not yet known to research- percent less for three months, Pakistan in mid-2011. rity forces since they took the of Food Security a few weeks back for launching genetically-modified ers and “they are suspected of Minister for Railways Khwaja “Afghanistan in the past 10 lead for security around the coun- and it is being reviewed.” food products, but “we have not causing dangerous allergies and Saad Rafiq said yesterday. years very honestly tried to try last month. He added that the ministry had given a no-objection certificate to even cancer.” The minimum fare for branch strengthen cooperation and rela- Details of Saturday’s unan- received the request to grow GM any of them,” Shuja said. He said GM seeds had termi- line trains has also been reduced tions with Pakistan,” Mosazai said. nounced visit were not made maize and cotton. He identified “Many of the local companies nator genes which did not allow to Rs20 from the present Rs35 “Afghanistan tried to establish a public, but Karzai’s office said in a the firms as Monsanto, Pioneer want to import genetically-modi- the same crop to be planted again per passenger per journey, Rafiq trust-building effort between both statement that they also discussed and Syngenta. fied food products from China and from harvested seeds. “Once a said at a news conference at the countries, unfortunately we didn’t regional issues. According to the When approached, the director we have not given any approval in genetically-modified agri-product PR headquarters in Lahore. get what we expected from the statement, Austin gave assurances general of Pakistan Environment this regard,” he added. is planted, the farmers are trapped A decision to grant the con- former governments of Pakistan, that his government will cooperate Protection Agency (Pak-Epa), Shuja said the Ministry of into buying the seed and its related cession on train fares was taken so we are hopeful that with the and assist in the equipping of the Asif Shuja, said: “The three com- Climate Change had also estab- pesticides each and every year after “fare rationalisation” and establishment of the new gov- Afghan army and air force. panies have also approached us. lished a committee to review the from the same company,” he said. an increase in revenue, said the ernment under the leadership of AP But we are only concerned with requests from these companies. INTERNEWS minister, who claimed that the daily deficit of the Railways had come down to around Rs90m from Rs100m some five weeks ago. A number of special trains would be operated on the occa- Pakistani farmers turn to non-conventional energy sion of Eid Al Fitr, said Rafiq and added that punctuality of trains ISLAMABAD: Mohammed fields of tomatoes and other veg- cattle dung to run diesel pumps. of mostly mountainous terrain, community-based organisa- would be improved to 85 percent Kamran, a farmer, went almost etables,” Kamran said while giv- Both the technologies are with only 25 percent of the area tions the locals have been able by the end of the year. bankrupt last year when he ing instructions to his younger reducing dependence on electric- consisting of plains. The average to recover from their losses by “Railways has yet to overcome could not harvest any produce brother to set the sprinklers and ity and diesel. elevation of the valley is 2,297 feet. changing farming patterns. shortage of locomotives and other due to prolonged power cuts. check the drip irrigation system “Besides, the gas is combustible The area has salt deposits that “To improve groundwater rolling stock — coaches and wag- “All this land was almost noth- for any rupture or other damage. for domestic use too. This is an make groundwater brackish. resources through recharging, ons. We spend $50 for the daily ing but dust due to lack of water Rising oil prices, unavailabil- additional benefit for our women- Residents of Soan Valley, farm- the NGOs have helped develop repair and maintenance of a loco- as there was no electricity and we ity of electricity and inflationary folk, who until last year depended ers in particular, suffered a heavy infrastructure like check dams, motive while $500 is utilised for could not afford to operate tube pressures have forced several on firewood,” he said. blow in 2002 when all the 3,500 delay action dams and rainwater the purpose the world over,” said wells with diesel pumps,” he said, farmers to turn to local resources The most serious problem wells in the valley went dry fol- harvesting ponds,” said Malik the minister. sitting in his fields in Soan Valley, to generate electricity and run in Soan Valley and the rest of lowing a five-year-long drought Rehmat Ali of village Siddiqabad. He said railways had got Khushab. their tube wells. Khushab district is lack of water. that started in 1997. “But the most important thing is Rs1.57bn back from the Chinese “But this year I, like other The rural economy in Soan Situated at the western end Due to efforts by Soan Valley that we communities are main- firm that was to be used for pro- farmers, have adjusted to new Valley is turning to solar power of the Salt Range, Soan Valley is Development Programme taining these structures.” curement of 75 locomotives. techniques, hence the lush green to operate tube wells and gas from spread over 737 square kilometres (SVDP), an NGO, and other INTERNEWS INTERNEWS Business booms for asylum middlemen in Afghan exodus KABUL: In a brightly lit travel a package might mean a new foreigners to buy property in and hopes to get to Europe. He agency in a gloomy Kabul mall, identity, a visa and flight to a new Turkey have made that coun- says while countries like Australia business is booming for Naser life, while for lesser sums it could try an attractive destination for have tightened border controls, Gulzad. But all he can think secure a flight to a third country Kabul’s middle class. nothing could be worse than life about is shutting up shop and and a risky asylum journey by boat Much of the high cost, Gulzad in Afghanistan. following his customers out of or land at the other end. says, goes to Afghans working in “It’s not just the Taliban,” says Afghanistan. Gulzad does not see his work as major Western embassies who Malang. “The sons and daugh- Like many Afghans watching illegal. He arranges tickets, as well are able to issue under-the- ters of the warlords are back. the exit of Nato-led troops and as pointing people to others able to counter visas, although foreign We thought warlordism had gone fearing a comeback by the Taliban provide fake identity documents, diplomats scoff at the possibil- away when Nato came. But the or the country’s notorious war- invitation letters and even pass- ity of that happening given strict new generation is bullying us, lords, Gulzad wants desperately ports, to either underpin asylum controls in place. shooting us or stealing our land. to join an exodus gathering pace bids or secure precious visas. Western countries have “tight It’s not getting better.” ahead of what is expected to be a While he does not set the prices, controls in place to prevent fraud A Germany-based middleman tumultuous 2014. and takes only a cut of money paid in the issuing of visas”, says David said on condition of anonymity “People are really worried about to traffickers who send work his Lewis, Australia’s deputy head of that he would prepare and send their own future and the future way, Gulzad says that as the dif- mission in Kabul. invitation letters to Afghanistan of Afghanistan. I want to leave as ficulty of getting people through People are warned they get no by courier, charging €2,100 soon as I can,” the quiet 25-year- foreign borders has increased, so refund if their visa is refused, ($2,773) for a document backing old says, stroking a thin beard. has the cost. Gulzad says, although many take visa applications for Romania, “Nato soldiers are leaving, A few years ago, people were the risk. Italy or Germany. there will be elections, a new asked to pay $16,000 to secure The package cost is lower for “We receive half of the money in president, maybe the Taliban. passage to Europe. That has now Naser Gulzad, 25, conducts business on the phone in his Kabul home. people willing to get on boats after advance. It is our profession here People are ready to do what- risen to about $25,000, a huge travelling to another country, and in Germany. There is no guaran- ever they can to seek asylum in amount in a country where many years ago no one wanted to leave. With Western countries then risking final passage as an tee if we make the invitation and Europe or other countries like live on only a few dollars a day. If they had money they were swamped with visa applications, asylum seeker after waiting two you reject it,” the contact said in Australia, the United States, For countries like Canada, investing here. But now Afghans Afghans are opting to seek asylum, or three months. an email. Canada,” Gulzad says. where there are opportunities for with any money are not ready to helping drive the number of dis- People with more money pay Efforts to get peace talks going These days, most of his work education to build a better life, invest even $1,000.” placed people globally last year to a higher sums to get legal visas — have done nothing to reassure is as a coordiNator for shadowy the price has shot up by almost Afghanistan is the world’s top 20-year high of 45 million, accord- often using a false identity — and people. people traffickers based largely half, from $35,000 to as much source of refugees, with 2.6 million ing to the UN High Commissioner fly direct, with the highest chances “(Afghans) don’t trust the in neighbouring Pakistan and as $50,000. The United States is by the close of 2012, according to for Refugees. of success in Turkey and Germany, government or its international employing Afghan middlemen generally seen as too difficult an the United Nations. Almost 37,000 left last year, Gulzad says. Canada is also pos- backers,” said Gulzad. “They don’t to aid their business. Demand option to pursue. That number is on the rise, as the highest level since 2001, and sible, and is usually done from think too much about how to go to leave is so strong that prices “Every day, 10 to 20 people are Nato’s departure deadline draws outstripping the number return- Pakistan using fake ID. and what might happen. They of “packages” paid by Afghans to coming to our office and asking for nearer and US-Afghan talks stall ing. The rich buy property in Hedayat Malang, 25, has already just want asylum, they just want seek asylum elsewhere are soaring. a visa to leave, to go, to Europe, over the size and role of a US troop Dubai, but changes last year to paid thousands of dollars saved to leave, at any cost.” For those that have the money, to anywhere,” says Gulzad. “Five presence beyond 2014. legislation making it easier for working for Nato as a translator REUTERS MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 INDIA 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Kin of Delhi rape victim want ‘juvenile’ hanged Relatives of woman call standard three-year term for under-18s ‘totally unacceptable’

NEW DELHI: The family of the juvenile court in Delhi where friend, semi-conscious, in a layby and this week on a new bid for a “fresh the 23-year-old woman who the juvenile’s trial was held. died 10 days later. The 18-year-old, interpretation” of who can be died of injuries sustained when A cover story in the local India whose trial in a court for juveniles considered juvenile. raped by six men last year in Today magazine called the suspect has now ended and who cannot be There has also been also wide- the capital has called for the “India’s most hated”, though, named under Indian law, has denied spread criticism of the “fast-track youngest of the alleged attack- describing his poverty-stricken all charges against him. court” set up to specifically to ers, a juvenile who can only be upbringing in the chaotic and law- Ranjana Kumari, a women’s ensure rapid justice in the case, given a three-year sentence, to less state of Uttar Pradesh, the activist and director of the Centre which is one of the most-high be hanged “whatever his age”. magazine said he was “as tragic for Social Research, a Delhi-based profile in India for many years. The attack on the physiother- as he is terrifying”. think-tank, said she and others The trial of the adult defend- apy intern returning with a friend Badri Singh, father of the vic- had suggested the “nature of the ants started in January but no from a cinema in south Delhi last tim, said the standard three-year crime” should be considered. verdict has yet been reached. The December provoked outrage and term for the man, who is now 18 “It would not be right to lower accused deny all charges against grief in India, with protests across and will be sentenced next week, the age limit for adulthood but them. “The whole judicial process the country. It led to an unprec- would be “totally unacceptable”. when it is a very horrible crime as is now being questioned. It takes edented national discussion about “It has to be the death penalty ... in this case then it could go to adult so long that when justice is deliv- sexual violence and calls for wide- The fight will go on. Right up to the courts. We are absolutely very ered it has caused more pain for spread changes in cultural atti- Supreme Court and internationally upset about this,” Kumari said. the victims,” said Kumari. tudes, as well as policing and legal after that,” Singh, 48, said. Earlier this month, the juve- Singh, the victim’s father, said reform. The five adult men, aged The father of the victim, Badhri Singh (left) and her brother Gaurav, at a nile was found guilty of robbery. the idea of a fast-track court was a However, the debate is now between 19 and 28, who were press conference. All those accused of raping the “farce”. “This case should’ve wound focusing on India’s punishment of charged with the rape and mur- woman are also charged with rob- up within a month after it started under-18s. There have been fiery der of the woman, face the death prison while awaiting trial. assaulting her with an iron bar, bing another man earlier in the … We’ve waited so long. We don’t debates in the media about the penalty. The alleged ringleader of The six were accused of repeat- causing massive internal injuries. evening of the incident. want it to be for nothing,” he said. issue, as well as protests outside the group, 35, hanged himself in edly raping the woman and violently She was then dumped with her The Supreme Court is to decide THE GUARDIAN DU eases norms for failed students Ignou invites Bomb blast injures NEW DELHI: First and sec- Deputy Registrar (Academics) year as I was not able to give my applications ond year students from the Ram Dutt said in the statement: political science exam, but now I Delhi University’s (DU) three- “The decision is a purely transi- am happy,” said Swati Sharma, a for research seven in Guwahati year programmes will be tory measure and the students student of Miranda House. allowed to attend classes in the will take the examinations for the Rajiv Mathur, a student of Dyal next academic session irrespec- failed semester along with exami- Singh College, said: “It will be a programmes GUWAHATI: A bomb blast responsibility for the explosion. tive of their failure in any pre- nation of the semester they are little stressful when you have near the busy Paltan Bazaar Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi vious semester exam, an official part of.” to give exams for two semesters NEW DELHI: The Indira area in Guwahati yester- had recently stated that ULFA said yesterday. The university decision follows a together, but at least we are not Gandhi National Open day evening left at least seven militants were trying to carry out The decision would help stu- request from the Delhi University losing a year.” University (Ignou) has invited people injured, including two subversive activities in the run-up dents to reappear in the previ- Students Union (DUSU) to pro- The university has this year, applications for admission to policemen, an official said. to Independence Day. The chief ous semester’s exams, which tect the interest of the three-year for the first time, introduced the research degree programmes in Guwahati’s Senior minister cancelled his official visit they failed to clear, and complete programme students. four-year undergraduate pro- various disciplines, said a var- Superintendent of Police A.P. to South Africa, scheduled earlier their course within the stipulated Arun Hooda, DUSU president, gramme under which the students sity statement yesterday. Tiwari said seven people sus- this week, after violent incidents three years, said Dean - Students’ said: “The request by the DUSU will be granted the bachelors with “A candidate seeking regis- tained injuries in the blast that elsewhere in the state. Welfare J M Khurrana. and the National Students Union honours degree only after the tration in the research degree occurred close to the railway On Tuesday and Wednesday The student will have to appear of India has finally been accepted.” completion of four years. programmes (M.Phil/PhD) for station in an area that is usually last, militants had triggered three in the previous semester’s papers, in “It will now help students to The students who took admis- January 2014 cycle must hold a crowded. Tiwari said the blast blasts in Lakhimpur and Karbi which he failed, along with those of complete their graduation within sion under the previous three- master’s degree in the relevant took place around 7.55pm. Anglong districts of the state, the new semester, said Khurrana. three years,” Hooda said. Students year programme would continue discipline with minimum 55 per- The high security Paltan Bazar killing one person and injuring The varsity issued a notification on welcomed the decision. “I had to complete their course as per cent marks,” the statement said. police station in the city, a popu- several others. the issue on Saturday. thought that I would be losing a the old scheme. IANS An entrance examination lar market place, is also close to The spurt in violence is attrib- would be conducted on all-India the Guwahati Railway Station, uted to the anti-talk faction of basis and candidates who qualify which normally remains crowded. the United Liberation Front of will have to appear for an inter- However, the area was not as Assam (ULFA), and the Assam view at the Ignou headquarters crowded at the time of the blast. Police has subsequently sounded in Delhi. “According to witnesses, two an alert across the state. Candidates holding masters youths came on a motorcycle and Police had earlier received of philosophy (M.Phil), having lobbed a grenade. However, we can information that militants cleared the University Grants confirm this only after a detailed would be targeting police and Commission’s National Eligibility investigation,” the police said. security forces in the run-up to Test (UGC-NET) or state level No one has yet claimed Independence Day. IANS eligibility test (SLET) or hav- ing relevant professional experi- ence may be exempted from the entrance examination, it added. The last date for applying is August 8, and along with the form, applicants are required to submit their research proposal, as per the guidelines. Without the proposal, the application would stand rejected. The application form can be downloaded online and has to be submitted with a demand draft of Rs1,000. Ignou is the world’s largest open university system with a pan-India and international reach with flexible entry qualifications and a wide range of academic pro- An ice cream vendor who was injured in the grenade blast, is being taken grammes at affordable cost. to a hospital in Guwahati yesterday. IANS Over 617 sanctuaries get just Rs1 lakh each per month

NEW DELHI: How’s this for conservation reserves — including “It is a lose-lose situation for skewered priorities: Over 617 43 tiger reserves — and four com- us. We are able to focus neither on national parks and wildlife sanc- munity reserves. maintenance of protected areas tuaries that are home to several “Even if we leave the 100 pro- nor on species conservation. State critically endangered species like tected areas in the Andaman governments do contribute some the Great Indian Bustard and and Nicobar region — for most amount for upkeep of protected the Snow Leopard get a mere of them being islands — there areas but that is not something Rs75 crore or Rs1 lakh each per are still around 517 which need substantial,” the official added. month, on an average, while the sufficient investment for main- During a meeting of the National 43 reserves for the big cat get a tenance, upkeep and smooth run- Board for Wildlife last year, Prime whopping Rs165 crore. ning,” the official said. Minister Manmohan Singh, who Going by the financial allocation The ministry official said that heads the board, had emphasised for management of protected areas, during meetings to finalise the the need to focus on the conserva- each of the 102 national parks and allocations for the 12th Five-Year tion of other endangered animals 515 wildlife sanctuaries get only Plan (2012-17), the Planning com- and not just tigers. The much cel- around Rs 12 lakh annually — mission had promised to double ebrated tiger conservation pro- around Rs1 lakh per month. the Rs75 crore allocation. “The gramme covering 43 tiger reserves According to the environment Planning Commission has given us gets over Rs160 crore per year. ministry, this is despite a Planning Rs150 crore per year on paper but Divyabhanusinh Chavda, presi- Commission promise to double the when it came to allocation, Rs75 dent, WWF-India, said: “This is allocation from the present Rs75 crore only came,” the official said. a meagre amount to protect the crore annual to Rs150 crore. What adds to the ministry’s last remaining habitats of India’s India’s network of 664 protected woes is that it has not just to man- most critically endangered species areas extend over 4.9 percent of the age the protected areas but has such as the Jerdon’s Courser, the country’s geographical area. The to take up wildlife conservation Great Indian Bustard, the Snow network comprises 102 national programmes of other endangered Leopard, the Kashmir Stag and parks, 515 wildlife sanctuaries, 47 species from the same amount. the Manipur Deer.” IANS INDIA MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

Monsoon woes Hectic parleys Poor monitoring, in Delhi over possible Kerala graft plague cabinet reshuffle

KOCHI: Kerala Congress chief Ramesh Chennithala has meal scheme been in Delhi for the past two days, and state Chief Minister Oommen Chandy is poised to ‘Children getting low-quality food’ reach the national capital soon, as parleys are on over a possible NEW DELHI: The mid-day Rai said “huge corruption” at all reshuffle in the state cabinet. meal tragedy in Bihar, which levels was destroying the scheme. The Chandy government, which killed 23 children who ate con- “Children are getting low completed two years in office in taminated cooked food, has quality and insufficient food; May this year, is now embroiled in turned the national spotlight on hence there is lack of nutrition. the “solar scam”, where a fraudster problems affecting the flagship Corruption is involved in the couple that cheated several peo- government scheme — with lack delivery system. Fake enrolments ple of large sums of money on the of monitoring and hygiene, as are being done to embezzle money. promise of providing solar panels also huge corruption, discrediting These rackets are killing this very at subsidised rates was found to what is called the world’s largest important scheme, and the main have close links with members of school feeding programme. reason is lack of guidelines and the chief minister’s personal staff While reports of insects or institutionalisation,” he said. and some Congress ministers. lizards being found in the meal Mohammed Irfail, who is People move their shelters from the banks of the Ganga yesterday as the water level of the Ganges and A member of Chandy’s personal keep cropping up, unhygienically attached to the Right to Food Yamuna rivers rise in Allahabad. staff has been arrested in the case. cooked and under-nutritious campaign and is working in the As he prepared to take the flight food are the other issues dog- field of mid-day meals in West to Delhi, the chief minister said: ging the scheme. The mid-day Bengal, said lack of monitoring “We are all bound by the decision meal scheme provides children in is the biggest problem. of our party high command. All of over 1.2 million government-run “Government agencies are us will abide by it.” schools a hot and nutritious meal not doing the monitoring. Even Kerala targets 3,000 new IT firms Chennithala, who has been the every day, which besides encour- if there are committees at some president of the state unit of the aging attendance and improving places, they are not functional. KOCHI: Kerala aims to have with all facilities required for a The government has also allo- Congress for the past eight years, nutritional levels, also helps to They submit reports sitting at at least 3,000 IT companies by world class innovation ecosystem cated Rs1.5m for Startup Village’s had made an attempt to enter the arrest dropout rates. their tables without having visited 2020 under the state’s new Seed and will nurture startup compa- flagship programme SVSquare, state cabinet some months ago. Experts say the scheme suffers schools. How would the govern- Support System for early-stage nies across a number of sectors to “build a bridge between Kochi However, a faction of legislators who from structural problems, the ment ever know what is happen- investment to assist new entre- including IT and biotechnology. and California”, enabling young owe allegiance to Chandy thwarted biggest being the lack of a proper ing in the name of mid-day meal preneurs under the new IT pol- The government’s flagship aspiring businessmen and women that attempt, as they refused to monitoring mechanism. scheme?” Irfail said. icy of nurturing “one product Student Entrepreneurship Policy to experience first-hand the grant Chennithala the prized home “The mid-day meal scheme “The government says it is taking startup a day”, Chief Minister giving 20 percent attendance renowned entrepreneurial culture portfolio that he sought. was adopted on the pattern of the all the steps, but it is an eyewash. Oommen Chandy said yesterday. allowance and five percent grace of the global technology capital at Chandy has been forced on the Madras Municipal Corporation There is no infrastructure in schools; Speaking via video link at the marks for student entrepreneurs Silicon Valley. back foot by the solar scam. The school lunch scheme. The prob- many of them have no running Weekend@Startup Village cel- has taken effect in two Kerala Industries and IT Minister P K opposition has demanded that the lem is there is no clear structure water; hygiene is not maintained; ebrations, he also announced the universities. Similar regulations Kunhalikutty reiterated that no chief minister should quit over the defined, and every state func- and in addition, the money provided setting up of a state-of-the-art will be introduced by other uni- startup with a potentially great scam, and alleged that even mem- tions according to its wish,” said fills the pockets of those who arrange Kerala Technology Innovation versities within a month. and innovative idea will have to bers of his family are involved. Ambrish Rai, convenor of the for supplies,” Irfail said. Zone at the Kinfra Hi-Tech park “All student entrepreneurs will suffer for funding. Chennithala might be wary of Right to Education Forum, an Irfail went on to allege that where India’s first telecom busi- be able to avail of these benefits “We have money and we have joining the cabinet at a time when umbrella body of NGOs working he smelled a rat in the govern- ness incubator, Startup Village, is this current academic year. We investors who eagerly want to Chandy’s government is in the thick in the field of education. ment’s treatment of the scheme. currently located. don’t want our students to aim support such ventures,” he said. of a controversy. If Chennithala “In most places, it is a mat- “Perhaps the government does Startup Village is the first for a job or a visa after they com- Infosys co-founder and chief enters the cabinet, other changes ter for the teachers to manage. not want the scheme to function public-private partnership incu- plete education. We want them to mentor of Startup Village Kris would be in the offing too — the In some places, NGOs or pri- properly. They want problems bator in the telecom sector of become job creators and trans- Gopalakrishnan called Startup state would need a new chief of its vate contractors do the job. The to be created so that people ask the country located here and has form our economy that way. The Village a “mass movement that Congress unit. Among those con- scheme is better managed in them to stop the scheme alto- already an innovation zone set up government will provide every will change Kerala” and praised sidered front-runners for the post south Indian states, but in the gether. Maybe they want to hand by Blackberry (RIM). possible support for any entrepre- the government for its support for are V M Sudheeran and present northern part of the country the over the scheme to some corpo- The new hub will have a built- neurial venture that has poten- the venture. Speaker of the Kerala assembly G situation is pathetic,” Rai said. rate organisation.” IANS up space of 500,000 square feet tial,” said Chandy. IANS Karthikeyan. IANS Rs20,000-crore bonanza for two daughters of former maharaja

CHANDIGARH: It is a royal not in a very good condition. The officials and servants of the ex- bonanza for two daughters of a erstwhile ruler was allowed to keep ruler at a time when he was in former maharaja, one they had these properties after the country’s depression. The will, which gave to wait for over two decades. independence in August 1947. all his properties and assets to A court here has declared a The legal battle for the assets the Meharwal Khewaji Trust, 32-year-old will “forged” and started in 1992 after the ex-maha- was registered in 1982. The illegal” and granted inheritance raja’s daughter Amrit Kaur filed trust had some of his servants of properties and assets worth a a case in a court here. Following on board, while his two daugh- whopping Rs20,000 crore ($4.4bn) a 21-year-old legal battle, the ters were appointed chairperson to the two daughters of the erst- court of the chief judicial magis- and vice chairperson for a mere while Maharaja of Faridkot, trate Rajnish Kumar, ordered on Rs1,200 and Rs1,000 per month. Harinder Singh Brar. Thursday that the 1981 will, pur- Following the death of the erst- The properties and assets portedly drawn up by the maha- while ruler in 1989, the trustees include the palatial Faridkot raja, was “forged and fabricated”. took control of all the properties House on New Delhi’s Copernicus With the court judgement, and assets. Marg, a royal palace complex Amrit Kaur and her Kolkata- Amrit Kaur challenged the will, and a fort in Faridkot, a fort in based sister Deepinder Kaur will saying that the trust members Mani Majra area of Chandigarh, inherit the properties and assets had forced her father to sign it at vintage cars (including a Rolls of the erstwhile ruler. Their third a time when he was in depression. Royce), an aerodrome in Faridkot sister, Maheepinder Kaur, who was She had claimed that he was not spread over 200 acres, properties not married, died under mysterious in a “fit state of mind” when the in Hyderabad and Delhi, gold and circumstances in Shimla in 2001. will was drawn up. She pointed jewellery worth nearly Rs1,000 Brar had three daughters and out that the will had completely crore with Standard Chartered a son, Harmohinder Singh, who excluded his wife, Narinder Kaur, Bank in Mumbai and more. died in a road accident in 1981. and mother, Mohinder Kaur, who Real estate experts and account- Following this, Brar went into were alive in 1981-82. Following ants put the total worth of the depression. the court order decclaring the will properties and assets at over In her suit, Amrit Kaur, who “illegal and void”, the trustees are Rs20,000 crore. The Mani Majra lives in Sector 10 here, alleged likely to appeal to a higher court. fort, which is over 350 years old, is that the will was forged by IANS

Andhra festival Stunt biker shot by Delhi Police

NEW DELHI: Stunt biking by around 100 young men led to a tragedy in the heart of Delhi early yesterday when police opened fire killing a teenager riding pillion, police said. Inspector Rajneesh Parmar of the Police Control Room fired from his revolver in a bid to punc- ture a motorcycle’s rear tyre but it instead hit the victim, Karan Pandey, on his back, police said. The bike rider, Puneet Sharma, also fell off the bike and suffered A female devotee in trance walks over a man during the annual Hindu bruises. Both Sharma and Pandey religious festival of Bonalu at Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, yesterday. were taken to a hospital. The The main ritual in the month-long festival consists of offering cooked other bikers sped away. rice, jaggery, curd, water and other dishes brought by women in earthen A medical examination revealed pots to deity Kali. Devotees believe that the offerings will ward off evil that biker Sharma was under the influence of alcohol, police spokes- and epidemics during the monsoon period. man Rajan Bhagat said. IANS MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 MORNING BREAK 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

PRAYER TIME Happiness News in Numbers QATAR REAL ESTATE peaks at ages REPORTCHART: 1 2 8 Fajr (Dawn) 3:34 Shorook (Sunrise) 4:59 23, 69: Study Zuhr (Noon) 11:40 LONDON: We enjoy life Asr (Afternoon) 3:07 the most during our young adult lives and again when we Maghrib (Sunset) 6:23 are on the cusp of becoming Isha (Night) 7:53 septuagenarians. However, the long years in between appear to present many emotional peaks and valleys. WEATHER That’s according to a new study, which finds that the two happi- Weather est years of a person’s life are 23 Today Tuesday Wednesday Conditions: and 69. The results of the study Macro Economic Overview 2 Clear Partly cloudy Partly cloudy are being published this week Very hot during by the Center for Economic the day with Performance at the London In 2012, real estate credit reached to QR 85,561.5m School of Economics. High: 40° slight dust to High: 43° High: 42° “One theory is that the U-shape Low: 34° Low: 33° Low: 33° dusty and some which is around 18pc of total domestic credit of clouds. is driven by unmet aspirations which are painfully felt in midlife but beneficially abandoned later QR476,885.7m. Within Q1 2013, around QR7.61b worth in life,” Princeton researcher DOHA - SUN & SEA Hannes Schwandt, who led the of transactions were recognised. Where the Real Estate London School of Economics SUN TIDE SEA study, told the Daily Mail. Index is concerned, it is 5.71pc higher than Dec 2011 SUNRISE | SUNSET HIGH | LOW WIND Other recent studies have attempted to track happiness to 05:02 18:18 10:30 & 21:15 03:45 & 15:30 10-20 / 30 KT economic security. For example, a 2010 Princeton study found that THE REGION TODAY TOMORROW personal wealth does affect one’s Real Estate respective happiness but only up HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER Credit Facilities to about $75,000. Beyond that, Price Index MUSCAT 33/28 Partly cloudy 33/28 Partly cloudy other studies have found that per- KUWAIT 44/30 Clear 44/30 Clear sonal relationships and physical 165 600,000,0 QRm 25.0% health are more intricately tied 8% BAHRAIN 44/30 Partly cloudy 44/29 Clear to happiness. SANAA 30/19 T-storms 29/18 Chance of storm 160 6% Another article published RIYADH 44/31 Partly cloudy 43/30 Partly cloudy 500,000,0 today looks at the “10 Habits of 155 4% 20.0% DUBAI 39/31 Partly cloudy 39/32 Partly cloudy Happiness,” which include grati- BAGHDAD 41/27 Clear 41/27 Clear tude lists, getting enough sleep 2% 150 400,000,0 and spending time outdoors. 0% 15.0% For the study, Schwandt and 145 THE WORLD TODAY TOMORROW his team compared happiness lev- -2% 300,000,0 HI/LO WEATHER HI/LO WEATHER els for 23,161 Germans between 140 the ages of 17 and 85. -4% 10.0% Schwandt said individuals 135 ATHENS 33/25 Clear 35/26 Clear -6% 200,000,0 WASHINGTON 29/20 Partly cloudy 29/23 Partly cloudy enter a lowered state of happi- ness at around age 55, when they SYDNEY 22/12 Clear 21/13 Partly cloudy 130 -8% begin to negatively analyse the LONDON 24/15 T-storms 22/18 Chance of rain 5.0% various unrealised accomplish- 125 -10% 100,000,0 PARIS 26/17 T-storms 25/18 Mostly cloudy

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Wolverine claims British minister slams Kate’s Jewels worth €40m weekend box office crown post-labour weight coverage stolen in Cannes CANNES: An armed man stole LOS ANGELES: LONDON: Society and the media jewels with an estimated value The Wolverine, star- are putting new mothers under of ¤40m ($53m) in a brazen ring Hugh Jackman appalling pressure to lose their heist in broad daylight at a dia- as Marvel Comics’ baby weight, according to a gov- mond exhibition in the French sharp-clawed super- ernment minister who has also Riviera resort of Cannes yester- hero, slashed its way criticised the “disgraceful focus” day, investigators said. to $55m in ticket sales on the Duchess of Cambridge’s The hold-up, at the Carlton at the weekend box body following the birth of her Hotel on the promenade in office in a summer son. Cannes, famous for its annual film that hasn’t been kind Jo Swinson, the minister for festival, would be the second larg- to some other big- women and equalities — who is est ever in France if the value of budget action films. expecting her first child — said the the jewels is confirmed. The Conjuring, a low- media needed to rethink its attitude Authorities said the robbery budget horror film, was towards birth and women’s bodies. took place around 11:30am local second with $22.1m in “At a time when new mums are time and targeted an exhibi- ticket sales in theatres focused on building bonds with tion entitled “Extraordinary in the US and Canada. their newborns, the media unhelp- Diamonds” by the Leviev jewel- The film has generated fully churns out a set of impossible lery house. nearly $84m in overall standards on losing baby weight However, prosecutors later ticket sales and cost within ridiculous timeframes,” she said the figure of ¤40M should only about $20m to told the Sunday Times. be treated with caution. A police car outside the Carlton make. Despicable Me “We need to move away from the “The estimate of ¤40M is not Intercontinental Hotel in Cannes, 2, featuring the voice idea that women have to shed their confirmed. It was given out in southern France, yesterday. of comic Steve Carell, baby weight quickly and that they’re the beginning but an inventory was third with $16m failing somehow if they don’t. is in progress. It’s a preliminary in ticket sales in its Surveys show this is a concern for estimate. It is not reliable,” pros- every piece on display at a jewel- fourth week in movie two-thirds of new mothers.” ecutors from the nearby town of lery exhibition in Paris with an theatres, according Swinson said coverage of the Grasse said. estimated value of ¤85m to studio estimates. duchess’s weight showed just how According to prosecutors, the Cannes has fallen prey to The film was made extreme society’s obsession with gunman was wearing a “bandana thieves several times recently, by Universal Pictures female physical perfection had or scarf” and a cap and was bran- notably during this year’s film and has collected more become, and criticised OK! maga- dishing an automatic weapon. festival, which attracts a glitter- than $306m in domestic zine for featuring an “exclusive He escaped with several ing array of celebrities from the ticket sales. duchess diet and shape-up plan” satchels of jewels as well as dia- movie world. Wolverine kicked off and running an interview with her mond-encrusted watches, the In a pre-dawn heist at a hotel with a much stronger fitness trainer, who claimed “her prosecutors’ office added. during the festival in May, thieves start than some of the stomach will shrink straight back” “Everything happened very stole jewellery worth $1.4m due to summer’s other big- after the birth. quickly and without violence,” the be loaned to movie stars. budget action films. “Publications like OK! magazine prosecutors said. That robbery took place in R.I.P.D., Pacific Rim, need to get some perspective,” she Police detectives from the the hotel room of an American The Lone Ranger and said. nearby city of Nice were at the employee of Swiss jeweller White House Down each “Fitting back into pre-pregnancy hotel and traffic had been stopped Chopard while she was out for started with $37m or jeans is not the priority after near the scene of the heist. the evening, police said. less in their opening childbirth.” Britain’s Minister for Women and Equalities, Jo Swinson, has criticised the OK! The management at the five- In a scene straight from a weekends in North Swinson, who chaired the all- magazine for featuring an “exclusive duchess diet and shape-up plan” and running star Carlton Hotel declined Hollywood film, a strongbox con- American theatres. party parliamentary group on body an interview with the fitness trainer of the Duchess of Cambridge, who has claimed to comment, saying they had taining jewels was ripped out of REUTERS image and was a co-founder of the “her stomach will shrink straight back” after the birth. “instructions not to say anything.” the wardrobe and carried off, they Campaign for Body Confidence, is The Carlton was the loca- said. working with the Department of tion for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 In a second theft during the Health on measures to help new Health visitors would be trained that physical appearance was the Oscar-winning thriller To Catch festival, robbers made off with a mothers deal with such pressure. to look out for depression caused by largest cause of bullying in schools. A Thief, starring Cary Grant and diamond necklace with an esti- “The government’s body confi- baby weight anxiety and to reassure Its inquiry also revealed that half Grace Kelly. mated value of $1.9m. dence campaign has put together a new mothers that losing weight did of girls and a third of boys had been The diamond heist was one The world’s biggest diamond steering group of midwives, health not need to be a priority. on a diet to change their shape by of the largest in recent years in theft occurred in February 2003 visitors and other experts to look The parliamentary group, which the age of 14, and that one in three France. in the northern Belgian city of at how to raise awareness of the is working to prevent negative body men would sacrifice a year of life to In the country’s biggest ever Antwerp, when robbers got away issue among health professionals,” image and promote healthier atti- achieve their ideal body. robbery, which took place in with jewels worth an estimated she said. tudes towards people’s bodies, found GUARDIAN NEWS 2008, three men stole almost ¤100m. 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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Energy City to be mixed-use facility Whitehill starts role as Huge demand from non-hydrocarbon sector leads to change of plan Vodafone Qatar CEO DOHA: Kyle Whitehill Director in the UK and BY SATISH KANADY will be housing headquarters of at least 15 real (pictured), the newly- Chief Operating Officer estate companies, four leading IT companies, appointed CEO of in India. DOHA: Energy City Qatar (ECQ), the esti- branches of many leading banks and insurance Vodafone Qatar, has “I am delighted to be in mated $3bn project launched to create a companies. The corporate offices of several big taken up his role. Qatar and am thoroughly hub of the region’s hydrocarbon companies names will also be moving to the ECQ, he said. Commenting on his looking forward to my in Qatar, has revised its original plan and is The project work is fast progressing in appointment, Vodafone new life here along with set to turn the entire project into a ‘mixed- keeping with the original schedule, despite Qatar’s Chairman my family. I truly admire use facility’. the initial hitches. Sheikh Dr Khalid bin Qatar’s 2030 National It is some of the target energy companies’ “We have now finished the infrastructure Thani Al Thani said: Vision and Vodafone reported lack of interest in bifurcating their phase and are focusing on the project devel- “The entire board of Vodafone Qatar is committed to providing corporate offices from their respective head- opment stage. We see a lot of development in Qatar would like to welcome world class telecommunications quarters and the huge demand from non- the coming years. We have a target to com- Kyle and look forward to working infrastructure to support this hydrocarbon sector firms that have forced the plete the project in the next five years and be with him to take Vodafone Qatar forward looking vision,” said Kyle. ECQ to compromise with its original vision. operational by 2018”, he said. to new strengths. I am sure that “During Vodafone’s short Talking to The Peninsula yesterday, ECQ Hesham said the company might raise more Kyle’s long telecommunications time in Qatar, the competition CEO Hesham Al Emadi said: “We are inves- capital if needed. experience, especially his deep we have brought has undoubt- tors and we look for the value of projects and “We have already closed a $200m IPO last experience in Enterprise and edly led to better value products investments. We saw a huge demand from the year. We were able to pay all our debts. We Fixed Line Services, will ensure and improved services for cus- construction sector and we reconsidered our might go for another $100-$200m fund. We the continued success of Vodafone tomers. In the next phase, our decision to go for both business and energy are coordinating with some local banks for in Qatar.” relentless pursuit of network sectors rather than solely going for the lat- structuring this loan”. An experienced CEO with excellence continues, as we plan ter. However, we will be hosting a few energy Launched in 2006, the project forms part of more than 30 years’ experience, further capacity and coverage companies too”. the major new city development, Lusail. Kyle joins Vodafone Qatar from improvements and the roll out ECQ’s original vision was to create Middle The ECQ project is divided into two phases. Vodafone Ghana where he was of 4G services. Additionally, we East’s first energy business centre catering to The first phase, ECQ1 will house corporate Chief Executive Officer. Under will promote our capabilities as commercial, technical and human resources offices and other business related infrastruc- his leadership, Vodafone Ghana a business services provider giv- Energy City Qatar CEO Hesham Al Emadi. needs of the oil, gas and hydrocarbon business . ture while the second phase, ECQ2 will provide became the second largest tele- ing businesses in Qatar an alter- (SHAIVAL DALAL) It is anticipated that the occupants will residential facilities to corporate members uti- com operator in Ghana and grew native. Ultimately, we want to be organisations primarily connected to the lising the ECQ1 facilities. its subscriber base from 2 million deliver great returns to Qataris energy business, although it is likely that those Structures will be constructed at the highest ECQ1 will consist of 92 corporate buildings, to over 5 million. who own more than 70 percent companies involved in a secondary or tertiary standards complying with US Green Building able to house approximately 20,000 people. The Kyle has worked for Vodafone of the company, building a sense role will also favour the location. All buildings Council LEED Certification requirements for plot extends over an area of approximately Group since 2001 and has held of pride in having invested in are supposed to adhere to the building guide- energy efficiency. 721,584 square metre. a variety of senior roles includ- Vodafone Qatar,” he added. lines defined by ECQ. According to the revised plans, the ECQ THE PENINSULA ing Enterprise Business Unit THE PENINSULA MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 BUSINESS 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Qatar bourse Maersk Oil releases Sustainability Report DOHA: Maersk Oil Qatar, 2012 Maersk Oil Qatar spent Operator of Qatar’s larg- more than $475m with local ven- est offshore oil field — Al dors, and over the past four years, Shaheen — has released its the company has spent approxi- sheds 0.41pc; 2012 Sustainability Report that mately 58 per cent of its total shows a 92 per cent reduction in procurement turnover with local daily average flaring since 2007. vendors. The report also underscores Human development — Almost the company’s best annual safety 25 per cent of the company’s performance; more than $475m employees are Qatari — around Kuwait rises spent with local vendors; crea- 180 persons— with nearly 50 per tion of a National Development cent in technical and engineering Committee comprising senior positions. Maersk Oil has a com- Orascom pulls down Egypt index representatives from across the prehensive programme of activi- business to support and guide ties to recruit, retain and develop DOHA: The Qatar Exchange Amr Reda, assistant vice-presi- its Qatarisation strategy; and its Qatari workforce: Qatarisation was down yesterday 40.15 points dent for the foreign sales desk at the launch of numerous social is considered of utmost impor- (0.41pc) to 9,654.55 points from Pharos Securities. investment partnerships that tance and remains an area of the previous closing of 9,694.70 “The violence was expected are contributing to the sustain- Al Shaheen, Qatar’s largest offshore oil field, operated by Maersk Oil Qatar. focus. points. and the main driver is the stress able development of Qatar. Sheikh Faisal bin Fahad The volume of shares traded from the army they will go ahead Speaking at the launch of the 2030),” said Affleck. “The QNV 2012. This significant flaring Al Thani, Deputy Managing fell to 6,296,827, from 7,068,621 with the set roadmap,” he added, report, Lewis Affleck, Managing 2030 provides a framework for the reduction has also helped Maersk Director of Maersk Oil Qatar, on Thursday. referring to the military’s tran- Director of Maersk Oil Qatar nation’s sustainable development Oil Qatar cut greenhouse emis- said “Beyond the responsible Among the top losers were sition plan, which aims to hold said: “Working closely with our and Maersk Oil is committed to sions from its operations, which development of Qatar’s natural Barwa Real Estate that lost 1.3pc parliamentary elections within partner Qatar Petroleum (QP), playing an active role in helping are now at less than 50 per cent resources, the development and to close at QR26.65; Commercial about six months. Maersk Oil produces around Qatar achieve these goals. Our of 2007 levels. training of Qatari people and the Bank of Qatar that loast 1.44pc to The factor which pulled the 300,000 barrels of oil per day, new report highlights some of our Health and Safety — The com- use of local businesses, Maersk close at QR68.40 and Masraf Al market down yesterday was a that’s over one-third of Qatar’s many activities and achievements pany recorded its best safety per- Oil contributes to the sustaina- Rayan that was down by 0.53pc slide in Orascom, the most heav- daily oil production. As a respon- from 2012 that demonstrate this formance in 2012, and although ble development of Qatar through to close at QR27.95. ily weighted stock, which fell sible and reliable operator we commitment.” employees and contractors its comprehensive social invest- The Qatar Banking and 5 percent to 238.50 Egyptian are committed to conducting our Environment — By working worked a total of 7.5 million work ment programme. This has been Financial sector lost 0.63 points pounds as a tender offer for its activities in a sustainable manner in close partnership with QP, hours, there were no fatalities founded on a commitment to while the Service sector fell 0.25 shares by Dutch-listed affiliate that delivers long-term value for Maersk Oil Qatar has reduced and a lost-time injury frequency deliver high quality projects and points. The Qatar industrial sec- OCI NV expired. our business, our partners and for flaring from the Al Shaheen (LTIF) rate of 0.27 per million robust partnerships that deliver tor lost 0.03 points and Insurance During the tender period, our host nation Qatar.” field by around 92 per cent since work hours was achieved — sig- real, long-term, sustainable sector was down bny 0.03 points. priced at 255 pounds, investors “Maersk Oil Qatar is fully com- 2007 – earning both parties an nificantly lower than the industry impacts that benefit Qatar and Among other markets in the had been buying Orascom to mitted to supporting the Qatar ‘Excellence in flare reduction’ average of 0.48. Qatari citizens.” region, Egypt’s bourse fell yes- make a profit by selling into the National Vision 2030 (QNV award from the World Bank in Economic development — In THE PENINSULA terday but the main reason was offer, but that incentive disap- a tumble in the shares of heavy- peared yesterday. weight Orascom Construction Foreign investors were net Industries, not the deaths of doz- buyers yesterday, exchange data ens of supporters of ousted presi- showed. dent Mohammed Mursi. In Kuwait, the index edged up Woqod’s H1 net profit falls by 1.4 percent Cairo’s index opened higher 0.2 percent, rising for a ninth but then retreated to close 0.7 consecutive session to its highest percent lower in thin turnover. closing level since June 3. DOHA: Qatar Fuel’s (WOQOD) net profit Announcing the results, Vice-Chairman The project of Saudi Arabia is in the stage of Last week, it hit a two-month Sentiment was positive after for the first half of 2013 (H1 2013) has and Managing Director, Mohamed Turki Al tendering and will be launched in the second high after rallying 20 percent liberals and candidates from declined by QR8m or 1.4 percent, compared Sobai said the company’s total assets reached half of 2013. since late June because of hopes some of the country’s more to the same period in 2012. WOQOD’s H1 QR8.4bn, up by 11 percent from H1 2012. Total Eleven expansion projects for existing for better economic management marginalised tribes won seats 2013 net profit, after excluding minority equity recorded a growth rate of 14 percent to petrol stations, and other locations, are in under Mursi’s successor. in Saturday’s parliamentary interest, is QR553m against QR561m for reach QR5.6bn for H1 2013. progress at Al Thayen, Al Hilal, Industrial Security forces shot dead doz- elections. Many Islamists and the first half of 2012. Al Sobai added that WOQOD is currently Area, Dukhan, Muaither, Bu Fasila, Al ens of people at the weekend, populists boycotted the polls, Despite the increase in capital base through involved in implementation of more than 37 Gharrafa, West Bay, Seylia, and Mesaimeer. and there was potential for more so investors are optimistic that issuing 25 percent bonus shares in 2012, earn- different projects. On the petrol stations’ Most of these expansions are nearly complete bloodshed as thousands of Mursi the new parliament will adopt ing per share (EPS) amounted to QR8.50 as projects, he said : “In addition to the open- and expected to be opened during the second supporters continued to protest a cooperative approach to the compared to QR8.63 for the same period of ing of Roda Al Hamam station at the North half of 2013. in the streets. But analysts and cabinet, permitting progress on 2012. Highway, 4 petrol stations: Abu Samra, Two technical inspection centres located traders said many investors were long-delayed economic develop- WOQOD’s Board of Directors meeting, Mesaieed West, Mesaieed North and the Pearl at Mesaimeer petrol station and Wadi Al willing to accept such violence as ment plans. chaired by H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al are completeand are expected to be opened Banat (North University) petrol stations are long as they thought it would not Dubai’s index slipped 0.5 per- Attiyah, Chairman of the Administrative when the Civil Defence permits are issued. complete and are fully equipped. Soft open- derail Egypt’s transition to civil- cent, down for a second session Control and Transparency Authority and the Sixteen other projects are either undergoing ing is going on and official inauguration will ian rule in coming months. in the last three from Tuesday’s Chairman of the Board of Directors, yesterday the process of approval, or are in the tender- take place when the software is completely “People are optimistic the army near five-year peak. discussed the financial results of the first half ing stages and are expected to be complete tested. got rid of the fascist regime,” said AGENCIES of 2013. in 2014.” THE PENINSULA

Alfardan Automobiles records 28pc rise in BMW sales Mashreq posts 40 percent DOHA: Alfardan Automobiles, reflection of the company‘s excep- third best performing Middle company’s sales achievements. the official BMW Group tional standards across all areas East market in terms of sales Other models that showed posi- importer in Qatar, has regis- of the business. Our aim is to growth for BMW and MINI. tive double digit sales increases rise in first tered a 28 percent and 9 per- continue on this success path by Demonstrating the continued included the BMW X3 (129 cent growth in BMW and further investing in our facilities growth of Qatar’s premium auto- percent), the BMW X5 Sports half net profit MINI sales respectively during and staff in order to exceed all motive industry, the company’s Activity Vehicle (110 percent) the first half of 2013 compared customer expectations and fuel impressive first half year numbers and the BMW X6 Sports Activity DOHA: Mashreq, the lead to the same period in 2012. the ongoing growth of the BMW also highlight Qatari customers’ Coupé (61 percent). financial institution in the Testament to the strength of Group brands in Qatar. Looking appetite for luxury vehicles. The 9 percent growth of the Middle East & North Africa with the Qatari market, these figures ahead to the rest of the year, we The BMW 6 Series was one of MINI brand is an impressive a strong presence in Qatar, has unserscore the high demand for have some exciting new models to Alfardan Automobiles’ bestselling achievement in a market that reported a 40 percent increase BMW Group vehicles. launch, that together with ongoing model ranges, with a 235 percent favours large, luxury vehicles. in net profit for the first half of Commenting on the sales great customer service, makes us increase compared to the same Contributing to these outstanding 2013, climbing to AED828m as growth, Mohammed Kandeel confident that our impressive per- half year period in 2012. The all- results were the MINI Hatch and compared to AED591m in the (pictured), General Manager formance will continue throughout new BMW 6 Series Gran Coupé, MINI Roadster, the first open-top first half of June 2012. of Alfardan Automobiles, said: the remainder of 2013.“ launched in Qatar last year, two-seater MINI. The bank’s total operat- “Our first half results are a direct Alfardan Automobiles is the was a driving force behind the THE PENINSULA ing income for the period grew to AED2.3bn as compared to AED1.9bn a year earlier, an increase of 19.1 percent, driven by both net interest income and QNB Group starts net fee and commission income The bank’s net interest income in the first half ending June 2013 China operations was up by 14.8 percent as com- pared to last year. On a quarter- to-quarter basis, the net interest DOHA: Qatar National Bank (QNB) income increased by 14.4 percent Group has officially started operating its to reach AED556m in Q2 2013. “Qatar National Bank S A Q Shanghai Mashreq’s best-in-class net fee, Representative Office” after receiving all the commission and other income to required regulatory approvals. operating income ratio remained QNB’s representative office will now take high at 53.8 percent led by 19.6 on the role of extending intermediary serv- percent growth in net fee and ices in the field of investment and trade with commission income and a 45.2 Middle Eastern companies that are looking to percent growth in other income. establish their business in China or looking to Earnings per share strength- invest money in the country. ened to AED4.90 in the first half The Bank will also act as a liaison with of 2013 as compared to AED3.50 Chinese companies that are looking to expand in June 2012. into the ever-growing Middle Eastern market Commenting on the financial and facilitate investments. results, AbdulAziz Al Ghurair, QNB Group has established its presence in CEO of Mashreq, said: “Our Asia’s largest market as part of its continued robust bottom line growth of 40 international expansion strategy. percent was powered by a strong As the world’s second largest economy, China top line growth, perhaps the best has one of the highest growth rates globally. indication of the rest of the year’s The country has just released its second quarter performance. We are pleased that Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures which the half yearly results are built on although down from 7.7 percent to 7.5 per- a solid performance by all parts of cent are directly in line with the government’s our bank — Corporate, Retail and growth target. the International divisions. After Having experienced an investment boom in the deleveraging of the past two- recent years, China is now refocusing from an three years, we are also pleased export-led economy toward a consumer-led to report that our advances economy. have grown handsomely.” THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA BUSINESS MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Publicis, Omnicom announce merger Big companies to form largest advertising group in the world; deal labelled as ‘merger of equals’

PARIS: Publicis and Omnicom have combined 2012 revenue of $22.7bn, with Levy said the merger would boost announced merger plans to create more than 130,000 employees, and they adjusted earnings per share and that the world’s biggest advertising group, would overtake WPP, worth $24.1bn. the new company would keep its BBB+ worth $35.1bn, a tie-up that could put The deal would bring together Publicis debt rating. pressure on rivals to do deals to keep brands such as Saatchi & Saatchi and The head of rival agency Havas ques- pace. Leo Burnett with Omnicom’s BBDO tioned the logic of the merger earlier The transaction marks a return of Worldwide and DDB Worldwide. yesterday, saying digital business and jumbo-sized M&A among the world’s Wren and Levy will be joint CEOs for technology had made scale irrelevant, ‘Big Six’ advertising groups, which have an initial integration and development and that the uncertainties associated spent the past few years buying up much period of 30 months, after which Levy with large mergers would distract staff smaller targets in emerging markets and will become non-executive chairman and away from clients. among web marketing specialists. Wren sole CEO, Publicis said. “I’m not sure this is in the best inter- The French and US company pre- Publicis shareholders will receive one ests of their clients or their talent,” David sented the deal as a “merger of equals” newly-issued ordinary share of Publicis Jones said. “Clients today want us to be in which Publicis and Omnicom share- Omnicom Group for each Publicis share faster, more agile, more nimble and more holders will each hold about 50 percent they own, plus a special dividend of entrepreneurial, not bigger and more of the new company’s equity. ¤1 per share. bureaucratic and more complex.” Publicis said the transaction was Omnicom shareholders will receive The CGT union said the merger would expected to create “significant value for 0.813 newly issued ordinary shares fly in the face of the government’s ambi- shareholders”, with expected synergies of Publicis Omnicom Group for each tions to preserve French brands, adding of $500m. The merged group would keep Omnicom share they own, together with that the merged group would be domi- its head offices in Paris and New York, a special dividend of $2 per share. They nated by the US in many areas. it said. will also receive up to two regular quar- The union called on the French gov- “(Omnicom head John Wren) and I terly dividends of $0.40 per share. ernment and competition authorities to have conceived this merger to benefit The companies said the transaction avoid a monopoly situation being cre- our clients by bringing together the most would be a cross-border merger of equals ated, adding that it would mobilise to comprehensive offering of analog and dig- under Netherlands-based holding com- protect jobs. ital services,” Publicis Chief Executive pany Publicis Omnicom Group, with Levy said he did not expect resistance Maurice Levy said in a statement. Levy stock market listings in both New York to the deal from the French government. also said the French government was Maurice Levy (left), French advertising group Publicis Chief Executive, and John Wren, and Paris. “We don’t expect that the French govern- supportive of the merger. head of Omnicom Group at a joint news conference in Paris, yesterday. Publicis said the deal, which had been ment will have anything else other than The deal is likely to push the remaining unanimously approved by the boards of great support,” he said. advertising agencies to consider merg- France’s Havas or Japan’s Dentsu, said “What would have been unthinkable both companies, was expected to close Moelis is acting as financial advisor to ers to keep up. Current leader WPP may Pivotal Research analyst Brian Weiser previously would now make sense,” he in the fourth quarter of 2013 or the first Omnicom, while Rothschild is advising make a move for US-based Interpublic, in a note. said. Together, Publicis and Omnicom had quarter of 2014. Publicis on the deal. REUTERS

Chinese firm Kabul hopes for Iran denies interest Indian firm locks horns with Gap NEW DELHI: An Indian recy- its name for registration purposes Gap’s name was an environmen- cling company which uses junk but must remove any mention of tal reference. “We wanted to ask deal to boost exports in Israel’s Clal to create accessories is fighting Gap in their labelling and on their people is it possible to consume a legal trademark suit launched website, Jha said. less and can we consume green? KABUL: Afghanistan hopes an which has closed its border with Insurance by US clothing giant Gap Inc “Gap said our company is We upcycle trash which means agreement with Iran to use one Afghanistan at least twice over demanding that the firm change infringing upon their branding we add value to junk by creat- of its ports will help boost exports recent years, cutting US military JERUSALEM: Chinese its name. and that we are riding on their ing a new and useful product,” to Europe and India and reduce supplies to Afghanistan, as well investment firm Hang Lung Green the Gap, an Indian com- goodwill to create confusion in the he said, adding that the idea of its dependence on neighbouring as routine trade. “If the Pakistani Group denied it was in talks pany which runs three stores in minds of buyers,” Jha told AFP. competing with Gap was nowhere Pakistan’s ports for trade. government’s relationship with to buy a stake in Israeli insur- the country, mainly sells accesso- “We were shocked and angered in their minds. “For us ‘gap’ is a Iran will allow land-locked the United States goes bad, this ance company Clal Insurance ries and home decor items made that a company of that size and word in the English language that Afghanistan to use the port to impacts our traders,” Ghazikhel from holding company IDB out of waste including beer cans, stature and supposed respect- means void, absence. How can you export goods like fruit and car- said. In the most recent disrup- Development, saying it was rubber tyres and fruit cartons. ability is getting threatened by a monopolise a common English pets to India and other coun- tion on the Afghan-Pakistani bor- not interested in buying busi- Vimlendu Jha, founding owner small business,” he said. word? tries, according to the spokesman der, private transport companies nesses outside of Hong Kong of the firm, which also sells cloth- The legal notice, a copy of “Next we will hear we can’t use for Afghanistan’s Ministry of were banned from moving Afghan and China. ing for other brands, accused Gap which was seen by AFP, said Gap apple and orange in our lexicon. Commerce and Industries. goods to Karachi, delaying con- IDB said last week it was in in an interview last Friday of was “seriously concerned” about This is plain ridiculous.” “We want to export to central tainers for about three months. advanced talks to sell a 30 percent seeking to “bully” a small Indian the adoption of its “well-known He said the company was now Asia and Europe, India wants Not only did the contents, stake in Clal Insurance to a group company. trademark” by the Indian entity. in verbal negotiations with Gap to to use the port to send goods including milk and eggs, spoil, of investors based in China, a deal In March, the owners were K&S Partners, the law firm try to settle the dispute. to Afghanistan,” Wahidullah but companies were also charged valued at 4.6bn shekels ($1.3bn). slapped with a legal notice by Gap that issued the notice on behalf of Jha launched Green the Gap Ghazikhel told Reuters. a total of $10m for renting storage IDB did not name the potential asking them to change their name Gap, was not immediately avail- five years ago as part of Swechha, Afghanistan currently relies on space for their delayed containers, buyer but Israeli newspapers said and remove any reference to the able for comment. an Indian advocacy group he set the port of Karachi in Pakistan he said. “We are very interested it was Chinese investment firm company from their labels within But Gap said it “does not com- up to pursue environmental sus- for the bulk of its sea exports. in exporting to European coun- Hang Lung Group . 14 days. ment on pending litigation” in tainability and proper pay for But that leaves traders vulner- tries and working on other ways “Hang Lung Group and Hang A month later, the US retailer response to an email query from workers. able to political disputes between (that avoid Pakistan’s port),” the Lung Properties would like to told the Indian firm it could keep AFP. Jha added that Green the AFP the United States and Pakistan, spokesman said. REUTERS set the record straight and state that the two companies have no knowledge of the aforesaid talks or deal,” it said in a statement. Oiled wheels “They have neither approached IDB Development for the pur- China orders audit of chase nor have they had any intention to take up shares in Clal Insurance.” “The market rumours are government debt groundless and not based on any information from Hang Lung. BEIJING: China has called for suspended all other projects to Hang Lung Group and Hang Lung an audit of all government debt, prepare for the undertaking and Properties are not interested in the national auditor announced would dispatch personnel to prov- pursuing business opportunities yesterday, as concerns grow inces and cities in coming days. outside Hong Kong and mainland over official liabilities in the China’s debt problem is consid- China,” it said. world’s second-largest economy. ered to be a serious potential drag A Tel Aviv court set a “In line with a demand by the on its economy unless steps are late August deadline for State Council in recent days, the taken to rein it in. indebted Israeli conglomerate National Audit Office will organ- The International Monetary IDB Holding, parent of IDB ise auditing agencies nationwide Fund earlier this month esti- Development, to sell its stake in to carry out an audit of govern- mated that the combined obli- Clal Insurance. ment debt,” the office said in a gations of both central and local IDB said it had received a one-sentence statement on its governments stood at 45 percent number of other offers during website. of China’s gross domestic product. the process to sell Clal Insurance. The powerful State Council, Concerns about the debt bur- Many of the companies IDB China’s Cabinet, is headed by den centre on trillions of dollars owns have been hit by slowing Premier Li Keqiang. of government borrowing, espe- economic growth and increased The demand for the audit was cially by local authorities. competition. “urgently” issued on Friday after- While such debt has helped IDB Holding owes bondholders noon, the People’s Daily, news- the investment-based economy 2bn shekels and IDB Development paper of the ruling Communist expand strongly, economists and Men walk past Ford’s stamping operations plant in Dagenham, east London. Glistening chains on the turnstyles owes a further 5.8bn shekels. Party, said on its website citing the government itself believe it is at the plant illustrate how, even when companies unveil positive news about their European operations, it may REUTERS a source. It said the audit office unsustainable. AFP not mean things are picking up in the economy. Ford told investors this week that its European operation was performing better than expected and that its turnaround on this side of the Atlantic was on track. US Treasury Secretary warns Congress against repeat of fiscal logjam

WASHINGTON: US Treasury create economic gains for the middle 2011 between Obama and congressional in 2011, reiterated the president’s stance or face a shutdown. Secretary Jack Lew yesterday warned class over spending cuts, Lew said. Republicans sparked wild stock market that he would not consider short-term Republicans have eyed this budget Congress against manufacturing a cri- “We have already done a lot of deficit swings and cost the United States its top- spending cuts, nor would he offset defence deadline as a way to roll back steep sis over federal spending in the months reduction,” he said in an interview on tier AAA credit rating. spending cuts with reductions in other spending cuts for defence programmes. ahead, as looming deadlines set the NBC. Lew spoke on four TV talk shows, “We need to get the debt limit extended government programmes. But that is not an option, Lew said. stage for a repeat of the political dead- setting out Obama’s priorities ahead of in a way that doesn’t create a crisis,” Lew “The president has made crystal clear, “The across-the-board budget cuts lock which two years ago triggered an expected showdown this fall. said. he’s not going to negotiate over the debt that kicked in are not good policy,” Lew worldwide financial market turmoil. By early November, Congress must Republicans see the debt ceiling as the limit,” Lew said in an interview on ABC. said in a Fox News interview. In coming negotiations with raise the legal limit on the country’s their best leverage in winning a deal with The debt ceiling is one of two fiscal “We think they should be replaced by Republicans, who control the House of borrowing authority or risk an unprec- Obama that would cut federal govern- deadlines facing Obama and Congress. By sensible, alternative entitlement and tax Representatives, Democratic President edented default on the government’s debt. ment spending to lower the deficit. October 1, they must agree on a stop-gap reforms.” Barack Obama will focus on ways to A debt ceiling showdown in August Lew, who was Obama’s budget director measure to keep the government funded REUTERS MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 MARKET 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

QE Indices Summary QE Index 9,654.55 0.41 % WORLD STOCK INDICES GOLD & SILVER EXCHANGE QE Total Return Index 13,794.13 0.41 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 2,854.3 0.44 % RATE QE All Share Index 2,435.39 0.43 % INDEX Day’s Close Pt Chg % Chg Year High Year Low QE All Share Banks & Financial 2,307.54 0.63 % GOLD Buying Selling Services All Ordinaries 5018.298 -3.461 -0.07 5229.8 4610.6 QE All Share Consumer Goods & 5,709.02 0.25 % QR154.9842 US$ ...... QR 3.6305 QR 3.6500 Services Cac 40 Index/D 3939.78 -22.97 -0.58 4072.24 3575.17 QE All Share Industrials 3,218.33 0.03 % SILVER UK ...... QR 5.5675 QR 5.6489 QE All Share Insurance 2,228.77 0.03 % Dj Indu Average 15542.24 -25.5 -0.16 15604.2 12471.5 QR 2.3578 Euro ...... QR 4.7979 QR 4.8888 QE All Share Real Estate 1,868.61 1.32 % CA$ ...... QR 3.5077 QR 3.5823 QE All Share Telecoms 1,422.52 0.48 % Egypt Cma Gn Idx 1026.29 32.57 3.28 999.95 312.38 Swiss Fr ...... QR 3.8832 QR 3.9717 QE All Share Transportation 1,700.84 0.31 % Hang Seng Inde/D 21900.96 -67.97 -0.31 23944.74 19426.36 Yen ...... QR 0..3658 QR 0.0375 QE Market Summary Comparison Aus$ ...... QR 3.3341 QR 3.4187 Iseq Overall/D 4109.76 -6.83 -0.17 4121.06 3396.67 CRUDE OIL Today Previous day Ind Re ...... QR 0.0608 QR 0.0622 28-07-2013 25-07-2013 Karachi 100 In/D 23573.68 -202.54 -0.85 23944.99 16036.31 Pak Re ...... QR 0.0357 QR 0.0363 Index 9,654.55 9,694.70 BRENT Change 40.15 44.58 Nikkei 225 Index 14562.93 -168.35 -1.14 15942.6 10398.61 Peso ...... QR 0.0827 QR 0.0853 % 0.41 0.46 $ 104.70 SL Re ...... QR 0.0274 QR 0.0280 YTD% 15.50 15.98 S&P 500 Index/D 0 0 0 1698.78 1329.24 Taka ...... QR 0.0464 QR 0.0473 Volume 6,296,827 7,068,621 DUBAI Nep Re ...... QR 0.0386 QR 0.0393 Value (QAR) 271,100,933.02 305,136,397.06 Straits Times/D 3235.68 -39.08 -1.19 3464.79 3065.42 SA Rand ...... QR 0.3675 QR 0.3748 Trades 2,699 3,524 Straits Times/D 2971.47 22.7 0.77 3035.78 2657.77 $ 103.20 Up -- | Down -- | Unchanged --

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Markets speculate a change in US interest rates

he Federal Reserve is on showed that manufacturing in the JPY opened the supply and held off from purchases during from June’s number of 48.6. track to keep its $85bn- 17-nation currency bloc expanded week at 100.65, increasing rates the recession, giving the United UNITED KINGDOM Ta-month bond-buying in July, encouraging demand for strengthen- for mortgages States’ economy a boost. program in place at its next the region’s assets. The market ing against jeopardized Unemployment Claims GDP Accelerates policy meeting. Federal Reserve then reversed its trend, as the US a weaker US the real estate Higher UK economic growth acceler- Chairman, Ben Bernanke, has Dollar gains on a rise in US yields, Dollar at the Weekly Money Market Review market in the More Americans than fore- ated in the second quarter as the been stating since May that pushing the Euro down to 1.3165. beginning of world’s largest casted filed for first-time claims country’s major industries showed the central bank expects to The Euro then regained its losses the week. The Japanese Yen economy. Purchases of existing for unemployment last week, as solid expansions for the first time begin winding down its bond- and hiked all the way to 1.3297 rose against most major peers houses decreased by 1.2 percent annual auto-plant shutdowns con- in three years, signaling that the buying program later this year, after solid economic data that after Japan’s ruling party failed to 5.08m homes. The figure came tinued to hamper the labor mar- British economy is gaining trac- if the economy strengthens. showed that manufacturing out- to win an independent major- short of the forecasted 5.26m, and ket. The number of Americans tion. Gross domestic product Accordingly, the Fed intends to put in the Euro-area unexpect- ity in upper-house elections. lower than the previous months’ filing applications for unemploy- increased 0.6 percent from the first keep short-term interest rates edly risen, supported by a strong The Japanese Yen dropped from revised figure of 5.14m. It is the ment benefits unexpectedly rose quarter. Threats to growth remain, near zero at least until the job- consumer confidence figures 100.50 per US Dollar, to 99.60. second strongest demand since by 7,000 to 343,000. The figure both domestically from the govern- less rate drops to 6.5 percent or from the area’s biggest economy, Shinzo Abe’s victory in the elec- November 2009 following May’s came higher than the expected ment’s fiscal squeeze, and interna- unless inflation rises to a 2.5 per- Germany. The single currency tions to the upper house of par- revised rate of 5.14m. 340,000. tionally from the tensions in the cent. While good economic num- closed the week at 1.3279. Cable liament opened a window for New Home Sales Rise EUROPE euro area and a slowdown in China, bers from the Eurozone and the opened the week at 1.5267, only to him to deliver on promises for The US new home sales rose the world’s second largest economy. United Kingdom boosted confi- rise after Prime Minister David structural reforms, stating that more than expected last month German Manufacturing dence in their respective econo- Cameron stated that “an improv- these steps will revive the coun- to the highest level in more Rises COMMODITIES mies, pushing their currencies ing economy might allow the gov- try’s economy. The Japanese Yen than five years, adding to signs German Manufacturing higher, the USD is being pres- ernment to cut taxes,” pushing continued to strengthen against that homebuilders are gaining Purchasing Managers Index Oil sured, as speculation arises ahead the Pound to 1.5386. The Sterling the USD on speculation that the from a lack of supply of exist- unexpectedly rose more than fore- West Texas Intermediate was of the Fed meeting on the 31st of Pound then collapsed against the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben ing properties. New Home sales casted this month, as output hits poised for the first weekly drop in this month. US Dollar, in coherence with the S. Bernanke will not rush to rose 8.3 percent to an annualized the highest mark since February more than a month, amid rising The Euro started the week on Euro as US Yields rise. The Pound increase interest rates after the rate of 497,000, the highest level 2012, while service providers crude output in the United States a positive note, opening at 1.3143, fell to touch a low of 1.5264 on US central bank winds down its since May 2008, against a fore- pointed to the steepest rise in and speculation that China’s plans as worse than expected housing Thursday, as GDP figures met bond-buying stimulus program. casted 484,000 and higher than business activity for five months, to cut excess manufacturing data in the US is putting pressure estimates. The British Pound then The Japanese Yen closed the week May’s revised figure of 459,000. a sign of hope that the Eurozone capacity will reduce fuel demand. on the US Dollar. The single cur- rallied to a high of 1.5435, aided at 98.21. Growing employment and the is pulling out from its record long WTI crude slid as much as 4.3 rency then rose to 1.3218 against by a weaker USD that was over- Existing Home Sales Drop historically low borrowing costs recession. The Manufacturing percent in the week, touching a its American counterpart. The whelmed by strong manufactur- Sales of previously owned will add more gains to the hous- Purchasing Managers’ Index high of 108.79 on Monday, only to Euro continued its climb against ing data from the Eurozone. Cable American houses unexpectedly ing market and home values, and rose to 50.3 in July, exceeding fall for the rest of the week to a the US Dollar, after a report closed the week at 1.5382. The dropped last month as constricted hike demand for Americans who estimates of 49.2. The figure rose low of 104.08.THE PENINSULA SPORT MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21 Archer leads Snedeker leads in Canada Rays past Yankees Overnight leader Mahan withdraws to attend birth of his first child NEW YORK: Chris Archer pitched a two-hitter and the OAKVILLE, Canada: Brandt record-equalling 62 on Saturday Tampa Bay Rays continued Snedeker fired a nine-under par with a 72 thanks to an eagle at Open Scores their tear with a 1-0 victory 63 yesterday to take the lead the last. over the New York Yankees at at the Canadian Open, where England’s Greg Owen (67) and OAKVILLE, Canada: Yankee Stadium. overnight leader Hunter Mahan Americans Kyle Stanley (66) and Leading third-round scores Archer retired the first 10 withdrew to be at the birth of Charley Hoffman (67) were also yesterday in the US PGA Yankees before Ichiro Suzuki his first child. in the group on 205. Tour $5.6m Canadian Open reached on an error by third base- Mahan, who led the $5.6m PGA Snedeker, who won at Pebble (USA unless noted, a-denotes man Evan Longoria. Tour event by two strokes after Beach in February but has bat- amateur, par-72) Kelly Johnson hit an RBI single Saturday’s second round, was on tled to regain his form after a rib 202 Brandt Snedeker 70-69-63 in the sixth for the Rays, who are the practice range prepping for injury that followed, didn’t know 21-3 in their last 24 games and his weather-delayed third-round Mahan had pulled out until he 203 David Lingmerth (SWE) 67-71-65 remained ahead of Boston in the start when he received word that reached the seventh tee, when he 204 Matt Kuchar 66-74-64, Jason Bohn AL East. his wife, Kandi, had gone into noticed Mahan’s name had disap- 70-68-66 New York was blanked for the labor. He departed right away peared from the leaderboard. ninth time this season while los- for Dallas. “That just kind of left the 205 Dustin Johnson 75-67-63, Kyle Stanley ing for the 11th time in 17 games “Kandi and I are thrilled about tournament wide open,” said 68-71-66, Greg Owen (ENG) 70-68- since starting July with a six- this addition to the Mahan family Snedeker, the reigning FedEx Cup 67, Charley Hoffman 69-69-67, John game winning streak. and we look forward to return- champion who had already birdied Merrick 71-62-72 The Yankees are a season-high ing to the Canadian Open in the four of the first six holes thanks 206 Mark Wilson 70-69-67, Roberto Castro eight games out of first place. coming years,” Mahan said in a in large part to solid putting on 69-70-67, James Hahn 69-68-69, Elsewhere, Max Scherzer statement released after he had the course’s rain-softened greens. Patrick Reed 68-68-70 advanced to a 15-1 record with six already left Glen Abbey. He arrived at the par-five innings of one-hit ball on his 29th In his absence, Snedeker 18th needing a birdie to match 207 Trevor Immelman (RSA) 68-73-66, birthday, and Miguel Cabrera stepped up with a bogey-free the course record of 62 -- most Fabian Gomez (ARG) 72-68-67, William marked his return to the lineup round that gave him a 14-under recently equalled by Merrick a Brandt Snedeker of the US tips his hat at the 18th green during the third McGirt 71-69-67, Jeff Maggert 72-67- with a home run and three RBIs par total of 202 and a one- day before. round at the Canadian Open golf tournament at the Glen Abbey Golf 68, Alistair Presnell (AUS) 72-67-68, to power the Detroit Tigers to a stroke lead over Sweden’s David A tee shot into the left rough Club in Oakville, yesterday. Jim Furyk 72-67-68, Bubba Watson 10-0 victory over the Philadelphia Lingmerth. ended his record bid, but a par 68-67-72 Phillies. Lingmerth recovered from an was enough for the lead. 208 Vijay Singh (FIJ) 69-73-66, Greg Scherzer gave up a booming opening bogey to post a seven- “I had a couple of good chances great shots and the bad ones I Snedeker, a father himself, Chalmers (AUS) 73-68-67, Chris Kirk two-out double to center in the under 65, capped by an eagle at coming down the stretch,” got away with.” didn’t blame Mahan for abandon- 68-69-71 second inning, but that was the the par-five 18th. Snedeker said. “I just kind of had Snedeker said his solid show- ing the tournament. only baserunner he allowed as Americans Matt Kuchar (64) a couple of loose drives. Eighteen ing on the weekend of the British “I wish them the best,” he said 209 Charl Schwartzel (RSA) 73-70-66, Chad he retired the final 13 batters he and Jason Bohn (66) were tied for -- you hate to miss that fairway Open last week had carried of the Mahans. “I know they’re Campbell 71-72-66, Matt Every 71-71- faced sending Philly to a seventh third on 204, while a group of five because it’s such a beautiful par- forward. probably both a little distraught 67, Chez Reavie 68-73-68, Jason straight defeat. players on 205 included Dustin five today. “At the British Open I felt that he’s not here, but this is the Kokrak 72-68-69, Hideki Matsuyama Jered Weaver began the 2012 Johnson -- who climbed up the “All in all, I can’t complain really, really good about every- best part of their lives ... The next (JPN) 69-69-71 209, James Driscoll season 15-1 for the Los Angeles 69-69-71, Aaron Baddeley (AUS) leaderboard with a 63 -- and John too much,” added the affable thing I did,” he said. “It kind of 72 hours is going to be so much Angels, Ubaldo Jimenez had the 68-68-73 Merrick, who followed up a course Tennesseean. “I hit a bunch of built over to this week.” fun for them.” AFP same record in 2010 for Colorado and Roger Clemens was likewise for the 2001 New York Yankees. REUTERS Australia’s Elkington in Twitter racism row Baseball Results LONDON: Steve Elkington Friday in which Elkington said: frustration over what had hap- presenter and president of rival Tampa Bay 1 NY Yankees 0 (pictured) became the latest “Things about Southport -- fat pened to a colleague.” club Collingwood. Houston 8 Toronto 6 Australian sports figure to be tattooed guy, fat tattooed girl, Earlier the European Tour, McGuire’s remarks came Oakland 3 LA Angels 1 at the centre of a racism row trash, Pakistani robber guy, s**t which is overseeing the Senior just days after Goodes was when the golfer insisted late on food.” Open, said it had spoken to racially abused on the pitch by a Atlanta 2 St Louis 0 Saturday he’d no idea ‘P***i’ A statement in Elkington’s Elkington about his “inappropri- Collingwood fan who called him Washington 4 NY Mets 1 was an abusive term as he name was issued 20 minutes ate and regrettable comments” an ape. Minnesota 4 Seattle 0 apologised for offensive Twitter after he teed off in a third round and that they would be reviewed Racism has long been a thorny Boston 7 Baltimore 3 messages. where he shot a one-over par by officials before disciplinary topic within golf, with many Cleveland 1 Texas 0 The 1995 US PGA champion is 71 on Saturday in which the action was considered. leading clubs, such as Augusta Detroit 10 Philadelphia 0 competing at the Senior British golfer explained he had no idea “Steve has expressed his regret National, the home of the US Open at the Royal Birkdale ‘P***i’, long regarded in Britain at his comments and wishes to Masters, once having a policy Kansas City 1 Chicago White Sox 0 course in Southport, a coastal as a highly offensive term, was an apologise to the Championship of banning non-whites from Pittsburgh 7 Miami 4 town near Liverpool in north- objectionable word. and the people of Southport becoming members. At the 1997 Milwaukee 7 Colorado 5 west England. “I am prepared to adhere for any offence caused,” said a Masters, former winner Fuzzy San Diego 12 Arizona 3 But Southport, often con- to any disciplinary action that European Tour statement. Zoeller found himself having to Chicago Cubs 1 San Francisco 0 sidered ‘posh’ in relation to the Championship sees fit,” Elkington’s remarks followed apologise for remarks about Tiger LA Dodgers 4 Cincinnati 1 Liverpool, many of its inhabitants Elkington’s statement said. May’s controversy involving Woods ordering fried chicken for and indeed the local cuisine all “In my tweet I was referring to Adam Goodes, an Australian the champions’ dinner. failed to meet with the 50-year- an unfortunate incident involv- Rules footballer. Meanwhile this year’s Senior old Elkington’s approval. ing a caddie earlier in the week. regret the use of that terminol- The Sydney Swans star, a British Open saw German great Pacquiao says “Couple caddies got rolled by Being Australian, I was una- ogy. “Southport is a beautiful member of Australia’s indige- Bernhard Langer, on nine-under some P***is (Pakistanis), bad ware that my use of language in place and I have enjoyed playing nous Aboriginal community, was par, establish a three-shot lead he will consider night for them”, Elkington posted relation to the Pakistani people at Royal Birkdale, as my positive suggested as a good person to over South Africa’s David Frost Saturday. would cause offence, but having content on Twitter has shown. promote the musical King Kong heading into the final round in running for This followed a Twitter post on been made aware I now deeply My comments were born out of by Eddie McGuire, a television Britain. AFP presidency post

MACAU, China: Philippine Ennis-Hill still boxing great Manny Pacquiao Britain’s Farah might compete in Semenya to is harbouring thoughts of run- ning for president in his beloved unsure about homeland when he finally hangs miss world up his gloves, he revealed. worlds event marathon at Olympic Games Giving his strongest hint yet championships that he will push to the top LONDON: Britain’s Mo Farah of the political tree when he LONDON: Britain’s Olympic indicated late on Saturday he JOHANNESBURG, finally retires from the ring, the heptathlon champion Jessica might compete in the marathon Gauteng: South African “Pacman” -- a hero and con- Ennis-Hill (pictured) was far at the 2016 Olympics in Rio Olympic silver medalist gressman in his home country less confident about her Moscow rather than defend the 5,000 Caster Semenya missed a -- admitted he had considered prospects after running a solid and 10,000 metres titles he won place at the 2013 world cham- the presidency of the 95 million- 100m hurdles and finishing at last year’s London Games. pionships by 0.36 seconds in strong nation. well down Farah is set to run in both the Belgium late on Saturday. When pressed on whether he in the long 5,000 and 10,000m at next month’s The 800-metre runner, who had thought about shooting for jump on World Championships in Moscow collected gold and silver at the the top job, the softly-spoken Saturday. but will then turn his attention to last two world events, won her 34-year-old replied “Yes”. The the marathon for the remainder Flanders Cup race by clocking Drawing parallels between his 26-year-old of the 2013 season. 2:01:86 in Ninove. pugilism and politics careers, the is trying to The 30-year-old Farah, after But the 22-year-old needed former world champion in eight overcome showing his form with a comfort- 2:00.00 or better to match the weight divisions said: “When I an Achilles able 3,000m win in the London A-standard time and at least started boxing, of course I was tendon Anniversary Diamond League Britain’s Mo Farah wins the Men’s 3,000m event during the IAAF Diamond 2:01.50 to squeeze into the team planning, you know and thinking injury and meeting at the Olympic Stadium League meeting at the Olympic Stadium in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic via a B-standard time. about getting to become a cham- is unsure if on Saturday told Sky Sports that Park in London, Britain on 27 July 2013. It was the second, belated pion. So when I enter politics it’s she will be Moscow would mark the end of attempt by Semenya to force the same thing. fit in time to his track running programme her way into the South Africa “But, you know, it’s far away,” take part in this year. he burst clear with just over a the stadium. At the Olympics my squad for the August 10-18 he said, later adding: “It’s God’s Russia. “For me, this will be it. No more lap left to finish first in a time of wife was almost giving birth in championships in Moscow. will.” “It’s frus- on the track. I’ll be doing the seven minutes 36.85 seconds. the stadium and they are here She won a July 18 race at the Before that, however, Pacquiao trating, Great North Run half-marathon There had been speculation he today. Finnish Lathi Games by clock- whose record stands at 54 wins, because I (in September) and then I’ll take might attempt to break David “It was nice for them to come ing 2:06.58 in her first outing five losses and two draws, must always want a break, hopefully somewhere Moorcroft’s 31-year-old British out here and see daddy win.” since finishing second in the concentrate on his latest bout -- a to be at my nice, and then get ready for the record for the distance of 7:32.79 Earlier Fara said he was getting London Olympics 800m final. post breakfast-time tear-up with best and I’m marathon.” secs but with the world champi- used to life as the man to beat. Her long post-Games lay-off US fighter Brandon Rios, kicking obviously not As for switching to the mara- onships looming on the horizon, “There’re always new guys and was caused by rehabilitation off at the Venetian resort-hotel in at my best at the moment,” she thon permanently in the run-up Farah said he’d no such plan sometimes they are more hungry designed to correct an imbal- Macau at 10:00 am on November said. to Rio, Farah said: “We’ll see, it Saturday. than anything else,” Farah said ance in her leg strength follow- 24. “It’s that difficult decision of depends. If I’m good at the mara- Instead, as was the case at last when asked about breaking the ing childhood surgery. The unconventional start time whether I am ready enough to go thon and it works well, you could year’s Olympics, he was cheered European 1,500m record eight Semenya shot to interna- is for the benefit of the lucrative and contend.” see me in the marathon (in Rio). to the echo by a capacity crowd. days ago. tional prominence by winning US pay-per-view audience, who She added: “And I hate making If it doesn’t work out, you could “It brought back great memo- “My experience helps me a the 2009 world title in Berlin will be settling down to watch the the decision as well. I think I am see me back on the track.” ries of 2012,” Farah said. “The lot, but at the same time there’s and triggering a gender storm fight mid-evening on Saturday, going to have to sit down with my Farah, returning to the scene crowd was similar to what it was always someone new. It’s impor- that led to a temporary ban. as top US promoter Bob Arum coach (Toni Minichiello) and have of his superb double triumph, at the Olympics. tant to stay focused and win AFP attempts to elbow his way into the a chat and see what’s best.” AFP won the 3,000m Saturday when “I’ve got my twin girls here in races.” he added. AFP China market. AFP MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 SPORT 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com F1 teams Isner edges Hewitt to book reluctant to go more than 20 races title clash with Anderson BUDAPEST: Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone could have 22 races jostling for Isner fires 21 aces in three-set victory; Anderson beats Harrison a slot next season but teams have made clear they want the calendar limited to 20. ATLANTA, GEORGIA: Top seventh game but rescued them The current championship has seed John Isner and second- all with service winners and held. Radwanska 19 rounds but Austria is return- seeded Kevin Anderson set up Hewitt forced another break ing in 2014 after an 11-year an Atlanta Open final billed point in the ninth game but Isner reaches absence while new races in New as the tallest in ATP tour his- saved it with a serve and volley Jersey and Russia’s Black Sea tory with semi-final triumphs winner and held for a 5-4 edge on Stanford final resort of Sochi have also been yesterday. the way to the tie-breaker. pencilled in. Isner fired 21 aces in a 6-4, 4-6, Isner, with the ATP’s most tie- Some have question marks over 7-6 (7/5) victory over Australian breaker wins this year at 23-6 STANFORD, United States: them, however, and Ecclestone veteran Lleyton Hewitt, while and wins in both of his prior tie- Top seed Agnieszka Radwanska saud at the Hungarian Grand South Africa’s Anderson saved breakers against Hewitt, opened booked her third final of 2013, Prix that 20 races would be “a two set points in the 12th game with a 140-mph ace and ripped a routing Jamie Hampton 6-3, good amount”. of the second frame to force the forehand winner for a 2-0 lead. 6-2 at the WTA Stanford event That said, the 82-year-old tiebreaker en route to a 6-3, 7-6 Hewitt fell and Isner hit an to set up a title clash with added that “everything is pos- (7/3) victory over Ryan Harrison. easy backhand for a 3-0 advan- Dominika Cibulkova. sible” and the calendar could go In a rivalry that dates back tage but the Aussie, who entered The last time Poland’s above 20 “if we have to”. to their US university days, the 5-5 in tie-breaks this year, swat- Radwanska and Cibulkova Formula One has never had 2.06 metre tall Isner and 2.03m ted a cross-court forehand win- met was in the final in January more than 20 rounds - and in the tall Anderson have met eight ner but then netted a forehand in Sydney, Australia where 1950s there were as few as seven times previously, but never in a to hand Isner a 4-1 lead. Radwanska crushed the Slovakian - and team principals indicated final. Isner has won five of those Hewitt fought back to level at 6-0, 6-0. further expansion could be a step meetings, most recently in the 4-4 when Isner netted a backhand Radwanska doesn’t think the too far at a time when their per- quarter-finals at Delray Beach volley. The American answered rematch will be so easy. sonnel and resources are already this year. with his final ace only to have “She’s not the type of player stretched. “John’s very tricky to play. Hewitt respond with a forehand that I can beat again by a dou- “There are locations that may Obviously he’s got one of the best volley winner for 5-5. ble bagel,” said Radwanska, who be in doubt and therefore I think serves probably in the history Isner reached match point is 4-0 lifetime against Cibulkova. having some backups isn’t a bad of the game, and he really uses with a backhand volley winner “I just hope I can play the same idea,” said McLaren’s Martin it well,” said Anderson, another and hit a service winner to take tennis that I did today.” Whitmarsh. big server who fired 14 aces past the victory after two hours and Cibulkova also cruised to vic- “I don’t know whether the cal- Harrison. 23 minutes. tory Saturday, winning 6-4, 6-0 endar will grow to 22. Twenty Isner, a two-time Atlanta “I wanted to play that point over Sorana Cirstea in the other two would certainly be incredibly runner-up seeking his seventh aggressively and I did,” Isner said semi-final of the hardcourt tough on the teams...we used to career ATP crown, improved to of the volley that gave him match John Isner of the US celebrates after defeating Lleyton Hewitt of Australia tournament. think going beyond 16 was tough 4-2 against Hewitt and avenged point. “I hit a fantastic volley. It during their semi-final match at the BB&T Atlanta Open at Atlantic Station Radwanska has 12 career titles and it is.” two losses to the Aussie this year was a huge point.” in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, yesterday. having won back-to-back tourna- Much of the recent expan- -- in the second round at Indian Meanwhile, Ukrainian seventh ments to start the year. She beat sion has been outside of Europe, Wells and earlier this month in seed Elina Svitolina yesterdayo- Yanina Wickmayer 6-4, 6-4 in the with the return of Austria a rare the semi-finals at Newport. vercame unseeded Israeli Shahar Auckland final before destroying exception, and that has put added “I thought I played very well,” Peer 6-4, 6-4 in 98min to lift the Results Cibulkova a week later. strain on staff away from home Isner said. WTA Baku Cup. ATP Atlanta Open World number four Radwanska for long periods. “It’s a case where I’m getting Svitolina, 18 and ranked 71 in Semi-finals: John Isner (USA x1) bt Lleyton Hewitt (AUS x7) 6-4, served magnificently Saturday More than 20 races could force more comfortable, now that it’s the world, landed her first Tour 4-6, 7-6 (7/5); Kevin Anderson (RSA x2) bt Ryan Harrison (USA) night, especially in the second set teams to hire more people. my third match out there. I was crown three years after turning 6-3, 7-6 (7/3). where she won 11 of 12 first-serve “That’s a big concern to us - 22 able to go for my shots more in pro. points. races - because it changes staff WTA Bank of the West Classic this match than I was in my pre- Peer, ranked 149, has won five She fired two aces and won 78 levels dramatically, as well as vious matches.” crowns but her last came in 2009. Semi-finals: Dominika Cibulkova (SVK x3) bt Sorana Cirstea (ROM percent of her first-serve points (more) in-season testing,” said In the third set, Isner went The Israeli was playing in her first x5) 6-4, 6-0; Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x1) bt Jamie Hampton overall in the 71-minute match Marussia principal John Booth, down triple break point in the final since 2011. AFP (USA x4) 6-3, 6-2. against Hampton. AFP whose team have the smallest budget. “It’s okay having new races, but maybe one or two will fall away.” We will get new Benzema leads Sauber’s Indian-born principal Liverpool’s Steven Monisha Kaltenborn, whose Swiss Gerrard (centre) team has recently acquired new players in, says poses for the media Real Madrid Russian partners, said that the sport needed to beware of diluting with his team-mates its impact with too many races. United coach and Thailand’s past PSG I think these are issues we have national team to look at clearly,” she said. “Going HONG KONG: Manchester members during the GOTHENBURG, Sweden: above 20 would be too many.” United manager David Moyes prize ceremony after Carlo Ancelotti enjoyed a slice Mercedes principal Ross Brawn yesterday said he was confident their friendly match of enjoyment against his former agreed the 20 races held last year of getting new players in before at Ratchamangkala club as Real Madrid edged had been challenging enough. the end of the transfer window Stadium in Bangkok, Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in a “I think you reach a point despite the impasse over Cesc yesterday. Liverpool pre-season friendly played at where, if you go beyond it, you Fabregas. won 3-0 with Gothenburg late on Saturday. have to look at rotating people, Barcelona have turned down Philippe Coutinho, The Italian coach, who led PSG crews and that gets very difficult two bids -- the latest reportedly of Iago Aspar and to their first French title since particularly with engineers who more than £30m ($38m) -- from Gerrard on the 1994 last season before contro- are very closely linked with their United for the Spanish midfielder, scoresheet for the versially leaving for the Spanish drivers,” he said. 26, and new Barca boss Gerardo EPL giants. capital, saw his side control the “With some of the others, Martino on Friday insisted he was match on their way to a morale mechanics and technicians, we not for sale. boosting win. can do that. So 20 races I think “I couldn’t tell you at the Former Lyon striker and is the sensible limit.” moment and can’t tell you if there French international Karim Drivers, many of whom would will be another bid. Obviously we First Bayern defeat doesn’t faze Guardiola Benzema did the damage on 23 happily race every weekend and in will take stock of it and consider minutes after picking up a pass the old days used to fill in periods what we are going to do next,” BERLIN, Germany: Bayern Munich boss Pep at Borussia’s Westfalenstadion. Bayern were with- from German international between grands prix by competing Moyes said in Hong Kong, ahead Guardiola said the European champions were out key midfielders Franck Ribery and Bastian Mesut Ozil and stroking the in other series, also fell into line. of his side’s friendly today against unconcerned despite their 4-2 defeat to Borussia Schweinsteiger andGuardiola said the errors will purest of shots past PSG ‘keeper “Twenty is enough races,” said local side Kitchee. Dortmund in the German Super Cup -- a repeat be fixed. Salvatore Sirigu and into the bot- Red Bull’s triple world champion “What we’ve got here is a really of May’s Champions League final. “Overall, I am happy with the performance,” said tom right hand corner. Sebastian Vettel, who is close to good squad of players already so It was the Spaniard’s first loss since taking the 42-year-old ex-Barcelona coach. Argentine forward Ezequiel Ecclestone. “Maybe for us it’s pos- you mustn’t forget about the over from Jupp Heynckes, who last season steered “We played well and what happened came down Levezzi should have equalised six sible to have another one here or quality that is already here at Munich to become the first German team to win the to individual situations. minutes before half-time when there but especially for the teams, Manchester United. treble of European, league and cup titles. “Even though we lost, I didn’t get the feeling that he was played in alone by Zlatan in terms of logistics and for team “Undoubtedly we are hoping to Dortmund’s Germany midfielder Marco Reus Dortmund were better than us. We still have ten Ibrahimovic only to mess up his staff, I think it’s already a big add to it (the squad) and I am scored the second of his two goals in the 86th- days to get ready for the Bundesliga restart and to control and fumble the ball wide. effort. confident we will do, certainly minute to settle Saturday’s Super Cup showdown correct our minor errors.” AFP AFP “Very little time, very few before the (transfer) window weekends to spend at home with shuts. their families, with their kids. I On the so-far failed Fabregas Sheikh Jassim Cup think you mustn’t forget about bid he added: “I never at any that.” time said I knew we would get Whitmarsh would not discuss (Fabregas), just that we had made Mobarik Obaid Al Saeedi which races might go but there offers that had been rejected. (in yellow) of Al Gharafa have been doubts about New We’ll take stock of the situation is dispossed of the ball Jersey and India while Germany’s and see where we go from there.” by an Al Arabi player dur- alternating circuits have had The United boss, who has only ing the Sheikh Jassim their financial difficulties. South been in the hot seat for four Cup match at Qatar Korea’s Mokpo, a shipbuilding weeks, was tight-lipped about the Sports Club, yesterday. centre hours from Seoul, draws future of Wayne Rooney, who has few fans and would not be missed RIGHT: Iman Jumaa asked to leave the club and is cur- by many paddock insiders. Al Saadi (in white) of rently injured. “There have been some ques- Rooney is on schedule to return Markhiya and Ahmed Ala tion marks,” added the McLaren for a friendly in Stockholm, said Abdulmutal of Al Rayyan boss. “That’s why I don’t person- Moyes, who was at pains to stress vie for ball posses- ally think there are going to be he was happy with the squad he sion during their Sheikh more than 20 next year.” inherited from Alex Ferguson. Jassim Cup match at New Jersey was supposed to “That’s the squad that finished Al Gharafa Stadium, be on the 2013 calendar but was 15 points clear at the top of the yesterday. postponed to give organisers more Premier League. I’m confident PICTURES BY: KAMMUTTY time to sort out the street circuit with that squad, from what I’ve VP/SALIM MATRAMKOT and obtain permissions but lin- seen. They’ve got a great squad gering scepticism remains within of players,” he said. AFP the spor t. REUTERS SPORT MONDAY 29 JULY 2013 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 23

Scoreboard

ZIMBABWE 7-0-24-1; V.Kohli 1-0-7-0; R Jadeja 10-2-39-1 Dilshan, Sangakkara lead V Sibanda c Dhawan b Vinay Kumar ...... 0 (w3); S Raina 2-0-4-0; A Mishra 10-0-47-4 Sikander Raza c Karthik b Mohd Shami ...... 1 (nb2, w1). H Masakadza c Karthik b Mishra ...... 38 INDIA B Taylor c Mohd Shami b Unadkat ...... 23 R Sharma b Taylor b Chinouya ...... 14 S Williams (run out) ...... 45 S Dhawan c Sibanda b Chatara ...... 35 M Waller lbw Mishra ...... 0 V Kohli (not out) ...... 68 Sri Lanka to series victory E Chigumbura lbw Jadeja ...... 3 A Rayudu c&b Vitori ...... 33 P Utseya c Karthik b Mohd Shami ...... 10 S Raina (not out) ...... 28 T Chatara b Mishra ...... 23 Extras (LB-2, W-7) ...... 9 Dilshan hits unbeaten century in the eight-wicket win B Vitori c Karthik b Mishra ...... 17 Total (for 3 wkts in 35.3 overs) ...... 187 M Chinouya (not out) ...... 6 Fall of wickets: 1-27 2-67 3-131. Extras (LB-5, W-10, NB-2) ...... 17 Bowling: B Vitori 8-0-53-1 (w1); M Chinouya PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka: Zulfiqar, Afridi Total (all out in 46 overs) ...... 183 7-0-36-1 (w2); T Chatara 7.3-1-34-1 (w2); P Tillakaratne Dilshan and Fall of wickets: 1-0 2-2 3-67 4-80 5-80 Utseya 10-0-41-0; E Chigumbura 3-0-21-0 Kumar Sangakkara pulverised 6-89 7-125 8-133 9-167 10-183 (w2). South Africa’s bowling as Sri lead Pakistan Bowling: R Vinay Kumar 7-0-32-1 (w1); Mo- Result: India won by seven wickets Lanka took a decisive 3-1 lead hammed Shami 9-0-25-2 (w1); J Unadkat Series: India lead the five-match series 3-0. in the one-day series with an to last-ball win eight-wicket victory in Pallekele yesterday. Dilshan returned unbeaten on KINGSTOWN, Saint Vincent 115 and Sangakkara made 91 dur- and the Grenadines: Zulfiqar Kohli stars as India ing a record partnership of 184 Babar completed a dream debut runs to steer the hosts past South by striking the final ball of the Africa’s 238 all out in the 44th match for six to give Pakistan over of the day-night match. a two-wicket victory over the crush Zimbabwe Dilshan’s 17th one-day cen- West Indies in the first Twenty tury and the second against 20 international at the Arnos ZIMBABWE: An unbeaten The stand-in captain added South Africa was studded with Vale Stadium late on Saturday. half-century from captain Virat yesterday: “I didn’t think we had 16 boundaries. Sangakkara kept Having taken three wickets for Kohli spurred India to a seven- to seal the series today, we just pace with his partner with eight 23 runs with his left-arm spin- wicket victory over Zimbabwe had to play good cricket, if we fours and two sixes. ners in helping to restrict the at Harare Sports Club yester- execute properly we are going to The pair put on Sri Lanka’s world champions to 152 for seven, day and earned the world cham- end up on the winning side more highest one-day stand for any the 34-year-old newcomer then pions an unassailable 3-0 lead in often than not. wicket against the Proteas after made the winning hit off Marlon the five-match, one-day series. “I have been hitting the ball opener Mahela Jayawardene had Samuels with the scores level to Kohli, who scored 115 in the sweetly for the last couple of been removed for 12 in the 10th hand the home side their first first one dayer, never looked trou- months. It’s all about taking over. defeat in this format of the game bled as he compiled 68 from 88 responsibility, I am not worried Left-handed Sangakkara since they lifted the world title balls and led his team past their about how much I score, I am missed his second hundred in the last October against the hosts Sri victory target of 184 with 87 balls more concerned about if I have series when he holed out in the Lanka. to spare. put the team in a good position deep off Morne Morkel when just Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Batting at number three, he to win the game.” 10 more were needed for victory. Afridi, was named man of the was involved in successive 50-run India won the toss and elected Ragged South Africa paid match for his knock of 46 runs partnerships with Ambati Rayudu to field, hoping to get the most out dearly for conceding 20 extras off just 27 balls. AFP (33) and Suresh Raina (28 not of the early-morning moisture in that included 17 wides and a out) that ended Zimbabwe’s hopes the wicket. no-ball. Scoreboard of defending the modest 183 they Zimbabwe were soon in trouble, The emphatic victory by the had posted in their innings. losing two wickets with the same 2011 World Cup finalists reduced WEST INDIES “With our early breakthroughs number of runs on the board, but Wednesday’s fifth and final match J Charles b Mohd Hafeez ...... 1 with the ball and consistent bowl- a third wicket stand of 65 between in Colombo to a formality. C Gayle lbw Mohd Hafeez ...... 5 ing throughout the innings, we Hamilton Masakadza (38) and But Sri Lankan captain Angelo M Samuels c&b Zulfiqar Babar ...... 25 did not let them get away with Brendan Taylor (23) got them out Mathews said he was unlikely to L Simmons b Z Babar...... 6 anything,” Kohli said. of the early doldrums. REUTERS make many changes for the last D J Bravo c S Ajmal b Z Babar ...... 25 Sri Lankan cricketer Tillakaratne Dilshan leaves the pitch after winning game. K Pollard (not out) ...... 49 “We want to make it 4-1,” the fourth ODI match against South Africa at the Pallekele International D Sammy c H Azam b Mohd Irfan ...... 30 Mathews said. “I think we did well Cricket Stadium in Pallekele, yesterday. Dilshan scored an unbeaten 115. S Narine (run out) ...... 0 Ton-up James Taylor to restrict them after the good Extras (B-2, LB-3, W-6) ...... 11 start they got. And then Dilshan Total (for 7 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 152 and Sangakkara showed how good Scoreboard Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-13, 3-33, 4-42, makes Ashes case they are.” 5-98, 6-151, 7-152. Earlier, JP Duminy hit 97 and SOUTH AFRICA 31-0; Mendis 9.4-0-51-4; Perera 3-0-22-0; Bowling: Mohammad Hafeez 2-0-4-2; Mo- LONDON, England: James Taylor underlined his England cre- a fit-again Hashim Amla made 77 H Amla lbw Dilshan ...... 77 Herath 10-0-38-1; Dilshan 10-0-40-2. hammad Irfan 3-0-39-1; Zulfiqar Babar 4-0- dentials with an unbeaten century for Sussex against Australia to lift South Africa to 238 after Q de Kock b Malinga ...... 8 SRI LANKA 23-3; Saeed Ajmal 4-0-23-0 (1w); Shahid on the final day of the tour match at Hove. the tourists won the toss and J P Duminy b Mendis ...... 97 T Dilshan (not out) ...... 115 Afridi 4-0-24-0; Junaid Khan 3-0-34-0 (1w). Taylor’s dominant innings of 121 was perfectly timed just hours elected to bat. A B de Villiers c Sangakkara b Dilshan ...... 4 M Jayawardene c Amla b Tsotsobe ...... 12 PAKISTAN after learning he had been included in the England squad for the But the Proteas undid a good F du Plessis st Sangakkara b Herath ...... 23 K Sangakkara c Kleinveldt b Morkel ...... 91 Nasir Jamshed c Simmons b Gabriel ...... 6 third Ashes Test as cover for the injured Kevin Pietersen. start by losing eight wickets for D Miller b Mendis ...... 1 L Thirimanne (not out) ...... 1 Ahmed Shehzad c Pollard b Badree ...... 3 The Nottinghamshire batsman proved he is ready to play at Old 87 runs after cruising at 118-1 in F Behardien c Thirimanne b Mendis ...... 0 Extras (LB-2, W-17, NB-1) ...... 20 Mohd Hafeez c Gabriel b Narine ...... 13 Trafford on Thursday if Pietersen doesn’t recover from a calf injury. the 22nd over. R Peterson c Sangakkara b Malinga ...... 13 Total (for 2 wkts in 44 overs) ...... 239 Umar Amin st Charles b Samuels ...... 47 Taylor spent more than five and a half hours at the crease and “We were about 30 runs short,” R Kleinveldt c Dilshan b Malinga ...... 8 Fall of wickets: 1-45, 2-229. Umar Akmal (run out) ...... 9 was the mainstay of the Sussex innings. South African captain AB de M Morkel lbw Mendis ...... 0 Bowling: Morkel 10-1-62-1 (w7); Tsotsobe Hammad Azam c Pollard b Gabriel ...... 10 Australia pace bowler Mitchell Starc enhanced his prospects of Villiers admitted. “It was a great L Tsotsobe (not out) ...... 3 7-0-48-1 (w1; nb1); Kleinveldt 8-0-33-0 (w5); S Afridi c D.J Bravo b Gabriel ...... 46 playing at Old Trafford by ripping out the leg stump of Chris Jordan knock there by JP because there Extras (B-4) ...... 4 Peterson 8-0-46-0; Duminy 10-1-34-0 (w2); Zulfiqar Babar (not out) ...... 13 for 47 in an impressive spell. was a lot more turn in the pitch. Total (all out in 48.4 overs) ...... 238 Behardien 1-0-14-0 (w2). Saeed Ajmal (run out) ...... 0 Ed Cowan then made an unbeaten 77 as Australia, missing sev- “But credit to both Dilshan and Fall of wickets: 1-17, 2-118, 3-126, 4-172, Result: Sri Lanka won by eight wickets. Junaid Khan (not out) ...... 0 eral of their regular Test players including captain Michael Clarke, Sangakkara for the way they bat- 5-173, 6-173, 7-191, 8-203, 9-205, 10-238. Series: Sri Lanka lead five-match series 3-1. Extras (LB-2, W-9) ...... 11 reached 152 for two in their second innings. ted. Our boys have fought hard Bowling: Malinga 9-0-52-3; Mathews 7-1- Next match is on Wednesday. Total (for 8 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 158 Meanwhile, controversial Australian batsman David Warner said and we want to win the last Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-10, 3-45, 4-77, yesterday that heated on-field exchanges with a South African rival game.” 5-86, 6-116, 7-145, 8-152. in Pretoria were “friendly banter”. Duminy lashed seven bounda- Mendis finished with four for while fielding in the only other Bowling: Gabriel 4-0-44-3 (6w); Badree Play had to halted twice as sledging between Warner and Thami ries and two sixes before he was 51, while sling-arm fast bowler game he played, anchored the 3-0-27-1; Narine 4-0-24-1; Best 4-0-24-0 Tsolekile in a drawn four-day ‘A’ international reached boiling point. last man out in the 49th over, Lasith Malinga claimed three for start with a fluent half-century. (1w); Samuels 4-0-33-1; Sammy 1-0-4-0. “Great to be back playing cricket, had lots of fun this week and bowled by unorthodox spinner 52 and Dilshan took two wickets. Duminy shared a second-wicket Result: Pakistan won by 2 wickets. a bit of friendly banter from the wicketkeeper. Was very funny!” Ajantha Mendis three runs short Amla, batting for the first time stand of 101 with his team-mate Series: Pakistan lead 2-match series 1-0. Warner tweeted. AGENCIES of a century. in the series after being injured Amla. AFP

Sweden Franklin grabs first gold as triumph at the Junior World USA win 4x100m freestyle Championship BARCELONA, CATALONIA: Elsewhere, Jeremy Stravius freestyle at the London Olympics, Missy Franklin captured her produced a scintillating final leg produced another superb per- SARAJEVO, Bosnia and first gold of what she hopes will as France stormed from behind to formance over the shorter dis- Herzegovina: Sweden ended be an eight-title haul at the see off the United States, Russia tance in Barcelona as she clocked a six-year wait for the IHF world swimming champion- and Australia and steal 4x100 3mins 59.82secs to claim her first Junior World Championship ships when she led the United relay gold. world title. title when they defeated Spain States to victory in the wom- Olympic champions in London Costa Schmid claimed the silver 28-23 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and en’s 4x100m freestyle relay, last year, the French were fourth in 4:02.47, while Boyle took bronze Herzegovina, yesterday. yesterday. when Stravius dived into the in 4:03.89, but Ledecky touched Sweden started the game at a Led off by the 18-year-old, water but he hauled in American the wall a full body-length ahead blistering pace, racing to a 6-2 the USA won in a time of 3min James Feigen, Russia’s Danila of her rivals. lead within the five minutes. 32.31sec. Izotov and James Roberts of Olympic champion Sun Yang of The Spaniards found them- Australia finished second at Australia to touch in three min- China claimed men’s 400m free- selves on the back foot and their 3min 32.43sec -- just 0.12 behind utes 11.18 seconds. style gold to complete the set of FROM LEFT: Megan Romano, Shannon Vreeland, Natalie Coughlin and agitated coach Alberto Suarez -- while the Netherlands finished The United States matched major titles in the event. Missy Franklin of the US pose with their gold medals at the women’s 4x100m Fernandez called for two time- back at 3min 35.77sec. their silver from London in a Just as he did in the London freestyle victory ceremony during the World Swimming Championships at outs in two minutes. It was Megan Romano, swim- time of 3:11.42 and Russia pipped 2012 final, the 21-year-old Chinese the Sant Jordi arena in Barcelona, yesterday. The game often got rough and ming the final freestyle leg, who Australia to the bronze in 3:11.44. dominated early on in Barcelona six yellow cards were dished out managed to hold off Australia’s Fabien Gilot’s contribution to add the 400m world title to the in the first half. Spain recovered Alicia Coutts to give the USA on the third leg was also signifi- 800m and 1500m freestyle gold “I have been training for this reconciliation with Zhu, Sun from the initial fumble and ended women their second gold of the cant as he was the only man to medals he won two years ago in for the past 10 years and it has has been training in Hong Kong the first half with just a two-goal night after Katie Ledecky’s win go under 47 seconds, recording Shanghai paid off.” under former Chinese head coach deficit (12-10). in the 400m freestyle. a split time of 46.9 compared to Sun clocked 3min 41.59sec, fin- Sun has had a turbulent 12 Zhang Yadong. The Swedes were up 16-12 by Victory comes exactly a dec- Stravius’s 47.59. ishing more than three seconds months since his London triumph “Over the last year, I have expe- the 39th minute. Spain equal- ade after the USA women’s relay Teenager Katie Ledecky of ahead of Japan’s Kosuke Hagino, after a row with his coach over rienced a lot of new things and ised for the first time in the 43rd squad last won world gold in this the USA won the women’s 400m who swam 3:44.82, while Connor the giant swimmer’s love affair I still managed to win the gold through Victor Saez. event -- also in Barcelona at the freestyle gold at swimming’s world Jaeger of the USA finished in with an air stewardess. medal,” said Sun. Sweden again went ahead by 2003 championships. championships yesterday with 3:44.85 to claim third. Sun, the tall distance special- “I have overcame many prob- three goals (22-19), but Anton Natalie Coughlin, 30, who swam Spain’s Melanie Costa Schmid “I give thanks to my coach and ist from Zhejiang, rejected coach lems and proved myself tonight. Lindskog was given a red card in the second leg yesterday, is the second and New Zealand’s Lauren my parents,” said an emotional Zhu Zhigen’s demand that he stop “I am very satisfied with my the 50th. But Spain failed to turn only member of the 2003 squad Boyle third. Sun, who has moved his training seeing his new girlfriend and con- performance and I hope to have it to their advantage and could who tasted relay victory a decade The 16-year-old Ledecky, who base to Hong Kong in the last centrate on his swimming instead. an even better performance in my not reduce the deficit. later. claimed a shock gold in the 800m year. 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BUDAPEST: Britain’s Lewis temperatures reached 50 degrees Hamilton seized his first win Celsius to secure the 22nd win of for Mercedes in the Hungarian his career. Mikhail Youzhny of Russia heat yesterday while Red Bull’s “I was hungry for it today, I was celebrates on the podium with Sebastian Vettel forged 38 going all out,” said the Briton, who the trophy after winning the points clear in the Formula One joins now-retired predecessor final against Robin Haase of the championship after finishing Michael Schumacher as the only British Formula One Netherlands at the Swiss Open in third. drivers to have won four times in driver Lewis Hamilton Gstaad, Switzerland, yesterday. “This is probably one of the Hungary. of Mercedes AMG most important Grand Prix wins The Briton had started on pole (right) celebrates with of my career,” Hamilton told the for the third race in a row and the team after the crowd after his fourth win at made a good start while team Hungarian Formula Youzhny the Hungaroring circuit in seven mate Nico Rosberg, who retired One Grand Prix at years but his first with a team with flames shooting out of the the Hungaroring race triumphs at other than McLaren. rear of his car four laps from the track in Mogyorod “I could not be happier. I hope end, plunged from fourth to 12th near Budapest, there is plenty more to come. We after one lap. Hungary, yesterday. have to work hard but if we can There were two occasions when Swiss Open BOTTOM RIGHT: make the tyres last here we can Hamilton could have become do it anywhere.” stuck behind Vetttel’s team mate Hamilton gives two GSTAAD, Switzerland: World Kimi Raikkonen, who could be Mark Webber after pitstops but thumbs-up on the No. 33 Mikhail Youzhny became Vettel’s team-mate next season, he dealt with the situation aggres- podium. the first Russian champion in took second place for Lotus - 10.9 sively to make sure of Mercedes’s 18 years at the Crédit Agricole seconds behind Hamilton - after third win of the season. Swiss Open in Gstaad yesterday. doing one stop fewer and holding Vettel had slotted in behind The Moscow native lifted his off the German in the tense clos- Hamilton in second place at the ninth ATP World Tour trophy as ing laps to the delight of thou- start with Raikkonen’s team he defeated Robin Haase 6-3, 6-4 sands of Finns in the crowd. mate Romain Grosjean third and in the final. “I told Kimi I was not happy Alonso muscling up to fourth. It is the 12th time this year but he was laughing. That’s rac- Grosjean’s forceful treatment that a player aged 30-over has ing,” Vettel, who had complained of Ferrari’s Felipe Massa, running Results won an ATP World Tour title. The over the radio after one failed off track to keep position, left him BUDAPEST, Hungary: Results from the Hungarian Formula 31-year-old Youzhny captured his attempt to pass that Raikkonen with a drive-through penalty and One Grand Prix in Budapest yesterday. first trophy since February 2012, had not given him enough room, the Frenchman ended the race when he was victorious at the said with a smile. under investigation after another 1. Lewis Hamilton (GBR/Mercedes) 1hr 42min 29.445sec, 2. Kimi PBZ Zagreb Indoors. Hungary marked the midpoint incident with McLaren’s Jenson Raikkonen (FIN/Lotus) at 10.938sec, 3. Sebastian Vettel (GER/Red He has a 9-11 record in finals. in the season and after 10 of Button. Bull) 12.459, 4. Mark Webber (AUS/Red Bull) 18.044, 5. Fernando Yevgeny Kafelnikov was the last the 19 races Vettel goes into the Vettel then lost time behind Alonso (ESP/Ferrari) 31.411, 6. Romain Grosjean (FRA/Lotus) Russian to conquer Gstaad in August break with 172 points to Button after a pitstop while 32.295, 7. Jenson Button (GBR/McLaren) 53.819, 8. Felipe Massa 1995. Raikkonen’s 134. Hamilton pulled away at the front (BRA/Ferrari) 56.447, 9. Sergio Perez (MEX/McLaren) 1 lap, 10. “I’m very happy,” said Youzhny. Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso lost and was able to control the race Pastor Maldonado (VEN/Williams) 1 lap, 11. Nico Hülkenberg (GER/ “When you win a tournament, it ground and now has 133 after fin- and manage the new Pirelli tyres Sauber) 1 lap, 12. Jean-Eric Vergne (FRA/Toro Rosso) 1 lap, 13. doesn’t matter how you’ve played ishing fifth. Hamilton is on 124. that had been his biggest concern Daniel Ricciardo (AUS/Toro Rosso) 1 lap, 14. Giedo van der Garde or who you beat. My last title was Hamilton, the 2008 world before the start. (NED/Caterham) 2 lap, 15. Charles Pic (FRA/Caterham) 2 laps, at the start of last year in Zagreb, champion who won in Hungary Australian Webber finished 16. Jules Bianchi (FRA/Marussia) 3 laps, 17. Max Chilton (GBR/ so it’s been quite long. I’m trying for McLaren last season, led from fourth for Red Bull, after start- Marussia) 3 laps, 18. Paul di Resta (GBR/Force India) 4 laps, 19. everything to try and play more pole position on a day when track ing 10th. REUTERS Nico Rosberg (GER/Mercedes) 6 laps consistently at a high level.” Former World No. 8 Youzhny earned 250 Emirates ATP Rankings points and €74,000. He had saved three match points to beat Juan Monaco in Pietersen in as England recall trio to Ashes squad the quarter-finals before defeat- ing Victor Hanescu in straight sets in the semi-finals. LONDON: Kevin Pietersen He needed 68 minutes to get was included in a 14-man squad Stats of the three past Haase, converting his third for next week’s third Ashes match point. Test against Australia at Old new additions The right-hander broke serve Trafford despite concerns over twice and won 76 per cent of his James Taylor his calf injury, the England and service points. Youzhny improved Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Age: 23 to a 5-0 FedEx ATP Head2Head announced yesterday. Is 5ft 6in tall record over Haase, having also Star batsman Pietersen will Has only made two Test beaten the Dutchman last month be given time to prove his fitness appearances, scoring 34, 10 and in the Wimbledon first round. for the match, which starts at the four against South Africa last “When you see the score, it Manchester venue on Thursday, summer looks easy, but it wasn’t,” said with Nottinghamshire’s James Has scored 6,266 first-class Youzhny. “It was only one break FROM LEFT: England’s Monty Panesar, James Taylor and Chris Tremlett. The trio have been recalled to the Taylor added to the squad as runs at 47.83 in each set and I didn’t have many cover. Ashes squad for the third Test match against Australia at Old Trafford that begins on August 1. chances to break him again. The Monty Panesar England have also altered last game on my serve was also their bowling options by bring- Age: 31 very close.” ing in Monty Panesar as a second 64 on Saturday’s second day of in James Taylor who has been in Tests: 48 The No. 57-ranked Haase was spinner and recalling fast bowler three. good form for Nottinghamshire Squad Wickets: 164 at 33.78 bidding for his third ATP World Chris Tremlett in place of seam- Taylor played two Tests against this season,” said England England’s 14-man squad Match figures of 7-138 in his Tour crown, having won back- ers Steven Finn and Graham South Africa last year but didn’t national selector Geoff Miller in a announced yesterday to play last Old Trafford Test (against to-back titles at the bet-at-home Onions. make the England squad for the statement announcing the squad. Australia in the third Ashes Test New Zealand in May 2008) Cup Kitzbühel in 2011-12. Pietersen, who has been side- tours of India and New Zealand, Meanwhile left-armer Panesar at Manchester’s Old Trafford He now looks to defend his title lined for much of this year, suf- falling behind the likes of Nick has been included in the squad Last home Test was in July at the Austrian ATP World Tour starting on Thursday: 2009 (against Australia in fered his latest fitness setback in Compton and Joe Root in the alongside Graeme Swann on 250 clay-court tournament that Alastair Cook (captain), Joe Cardiff) England’s crushing 347-run sec- England pecking order. account of Old Trafford’s repu- features Philipp Kohlschreiber Root, Jonathan Trott, Kevin ond Test win at Lord’s last week However, he has been in good tation for providing spin-friendly Chris Tremlett and Juan Monaco. Pietersen, Ian Bell, Jonny Age: 31 and could not field in the second first-class form this season, pitches which has endured despite Bairstow, Matt Prior (wicket- “I didn’t feel well last weekend innings. scoring 824 runs in 15 County the ground not having staged a keeper), Tim Bresnan, Stuart Tests: 11 and had some problems with my Taylor always looked the most Championship appearances, Test for three years because of knee which was pretty swollen. Broad, Graeme Swann, James Wickets: 49 at 26.75 likely candidate to be called up as including an unbeaten double extensive redevelopment. And now I’m here as the runner- Anderson, James Taylor, Chris Has only made one Test cover after the ECB sought spe- century against Sussex in June. Panesar last played a home Tremlett, Monty Panesar. up and that’s great,” said Haase. cial dispensation for the diminu- “Kevin Pietersen is continuing Test four years ago when he held appearance in the last two He added: “I think that the alti- tive batsman to guest for Sussex his recovery from a calf strain out with the bat to help guide Remaining Fixtures years (against Pakistan in tude fits my game and that I can Dubai, January 2012) in their ongoing tour match and he will be assessed by the England to a draw in the 2009 Third Test: August 1-5 handle it well. It’s tough to play against Australia at Hove. medical team closer to the start Ashes opener at Cardiff but has Has faced Australia in Three against Mikhail. He’s a great Fourth Test: August 9-13 The 23-year-old Taylor of the Test and we have there- featured abroad in recent years. Tests (Perth, Melbourne and player and I never beat him.” responded by making an unbeaten fore included an extra batsman AFP Fifth Test: August 21-25 Sydney on 2010-11 tour) AGENCIES