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OSLO: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly yesterday to 17-year- old Pakistani Malala Yousafzai, who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban, and to India’s anti-child labour activist Kailash Satyarthi for their championing of children’s rights. Malala, the youngest ever Nobel lau- reate, heard the news while at school in Birmingham, England, where she was taken from Pakistan to receive life-saving treatment two years ago. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said the duo had been chosen for their strug- gle against the repression of children and young people and “for the right of all chil- dren to education”. Malala, who had fought for years for the right of girls to go to school in her home region, leapt to global fame after the Taliban — who oppose women’s edu- cation — tried to gun her down in October 2012. Satyarthi, who founded a campaign in the 1980s to combat child labour in the carpet industry, said he was “delighted”, calling the Nobel prize “recognition of our fight for child rights”. See also pages 6,12 & 13 Ebola joke sparks alert on plane THE ISSUE NEW YORK: Jitters in the US over Ebola were underlined yesterday after an air passenger’s joke sparked a full- The road accidents last week significantly. Studies done recently suggest many. “The fine for traffic violations is on alert, while another plane was quar- have once again brought the that the use of mobile phones while driving very high in Qatar, but still people are not antined at Las Vegas airport because and exceeding speed limits are the major obeying rules, so only education and change someone vomited onboard. In the joke issue of road safety to the fore. traffic violations and causes of accidents in in mindset will help reduce accidents,” a incident, a Hazmat (hazardous mate-

The mishaps, in which nine the country. person commented on a social networking Design: Abraham Augusthy rials) team in blue suits boarded a US “Number of accidents will fall sharply in website. Airways Flight from Philadelphia to the persons lost their lives, dented Qatar if drivers develop a little patience. If immediate steps are not taken to con- Dominican Republic on Wednesday. the mood of Eid celebrations in Drivers honking and flashing headlights trol road accidents, things will only get A passenger was reported to have said: Qatar. Citizens and expatriates to go ahead is now a common sight. These worse. “Hey, I’ve got Ebola, you’re screwed.” people also do not hesitate in overtaking A study, funded by the Qatar National After the flight reached its destination, said these lives could have been from the wrong side. This kind of behaviour Research Fund and conducted in collabora- a member of the cabin crew requested all saved if the motorists drove increases the chances of road accidents,” tion with the Traffic Department and the passengers sit down before the Hazmat more responsibly. said an expatriate living in Al Wakra. Qatar Statistics Authority, has predicted squad arrived. “It’s going to look worse A recent study by the Department of that the number of traffic accidents in the than it is,” the attendant spoke over the Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at country will be about 220,000 annually by intercom as she sought to calm nerves. ncreasing population and rise in Hamad Medical Corporation on driving in 2015. “I’ve done this for 36 years. I think the number of vehicles in Qatar has led Qatar has found that those who used mobile However, authorities continue efforts to man that has said this is an idiot,” she to a spike in accident cases. According phones while driving had a higher number bring down traffic violations and road acci- added. Footage of the incident went viral Ito statistics by the Hamad Medical of fines for not obeying traffic lights (45.3 dents but more steps are needed. on the Internet, and was viewed nearly Corporation, every year more than 4,000 per cent) and for exceeding the speed limit Around 120 radars were installed across 3.3 million times by late afternoon yes- vehicle crashes occur in Qatar that causes (48.2 per cent). the country and more policemen were terday since it was uploaded to YouTube. over 600 major injuries resulting in around Another study by Qatar University indi- deployed to identify traffic violators. Speed 200 deaths. Road traffic injuries are identi- cated that Qatar has the world’s highest detecting radars were installed every 2 to 4 scribe fied as one of the leading causes of death in fatality rate from traffic accidents consider- kilometres on busy roads. The cameras will IS kills Iraq the country. One out of eight deaths (12.5 ing its population. identify drivers who exceed speed limits, SAMARRA, IRAQ: Islamic State percent) is caused due to road accidents. The menace of rising accidents can be and those who overtake from the wrong militants executed an Iraqi news cam- A change in driving behaviour can tackled by people’s cooperation and stricter side. eraman, his brother and two other bring down the instances of accidents implementation of traffic rules, believe See also page 2 civilians in public yesterday in a village north of Baghdad, the journalist’s rela- tives said. AGENCIES See also page 9

Saturday 11 October 2014 • 17 Dhu’l-Hijja 1435 • Volume 19 • Number 6215 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 02 OCTOBER 11, 2014 ON SATURDAY www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Home Call to curb violations Some believe stricter enforcement can reduce number of accidents; others want more awareness

oncern about reckless travelling was hit by a Land Cruiser driving and irresponsi- from the rear. The force of the colli- ble motorist behaviour sion was so strong that the car went has come to the fore once up in flames. again, after at least nine In another incident, three per- Cpeople died in three road accidents sons — a Qatari, a Bahraini and an in the country during the Eid Al Iranian — died on Corniche Road in Adha holidays. a crash involving four cars. Though isolated incidents, they In one more incident, a man driv- have evoked concern about danger- ing a saloon car died on the spot ous driving, triggering fear among when he crashed into a trailer on some that they could become vic- the Airport-Al Wakra Road. tims of the adventurism of a reckless “I saw the charred remains driver. of the car on the way to Hamad Citizens and expatriates have International Airport around 2.15pm called on authorities to enforce on Monday. Never knew there was stricter laws against erring driv- such a tragic loss behind the scene,” ers and pedestrians. Others suggest said a Facebook comment. that creating more awareness will Another commentator said: “It’s prevent road accidents. Another sad that in seconds, reckless driv- key suggestion is for heavy vehicles ing takes the lives of many innocent to follow lane discipline and being people. It just happened that they allowed to ply during the stipulated were at the place, at the time and time. One of the fatal accidents dur- when it’s your time, then it’s your ing Eid involved a trailer. time. You were destined to die in a “Everyone is responsible for traffic car accident, so no matter what pre- violations. Drivers as well as pedes- cautions you take, it will happen.” trians must act more responsibly,” Some suggested that more aware- said Ahmed Lafeer, a long-time ness programmes would help reduce Doha resident. the number of road accidents and “Recently, I saw two children traffic violations. who would be around five, trying to “Start a campaign against these cross the road in front of the Qatar kinds of (reckless) drivers and sub- Pic: Salim Matramkot Volleyball Association in the New ject them to strong legal action. Let’s Salata area. They were almost hit start now to stop accidents in the Also, several others said that ROAD ACCIDENTS IN AUGUST 2014 by a speeding car. The driver and the future,” said a commentator. overtaking vehicles from the right parents have to be blamed,” added Another said: “The fine for traf- is a very common violation. Lafeer. fic violations is very high in Qatar, According to 2013 figures, the Another Arab expatriate, born but people are still not obeying rules, number of accidents dropped by 9.5 and raised in Qatar, said: “Many so only education and a change in percent in 2012 as compared to 2011. 19 drive recklessly at the cost of the mindset will help reduce accidents.” And the number of pedestrians other’s fear. They assume that other However, others disagree with who died in mishaps dropped to 56 drivers will give way to a carelessly the suggestion and say that reckless during the year from 61 in 2011 and driven car, but they don’t realise driving could be curbed only through a high of 74 in 2010. PEOPLE DIED they risk lives until an accident responsible behaviour of motorists. However, data from different occurs.” “Drivers who consider themselves research studies indicate varying “Road accidents take place eve- above the law; who drive recklessly, findings about traffic violations. rywhere, but if we are careful every flashing their headlights to get ahead A recent study by the accident can be prevented,” she of everyone and show off; who put Department of Medical Statistics added. one foot on the window and use and Epidemiology at Hamad 43 According to statistics provided mobile phones while driving expen- Medical Corporation on driving by the Hamad Medical Corporation, sive cars to show that they are cool; in Qatar found that those using every year more than 4,000 vehicle who use the hard shoulders to get mobile phones while driving had a MAJOR ACCIDENTS crashes occur in Qatar. This causes ahead in the queue should learn les- higher number of fines for disobey- over 600 major injuries resulting sons to avoid doing it.” ing traffic lights (45.3 per cent) and in around 200 deaths. Road traffic Some others suggest more inclu- for exceeding the speed limit (48.2 injuries have been identified as one sive surveillance of vehicles. per cent). of the leading causes of death in the “I think every car should have Another study by Qatar University country. One out of eight deaths a dash camera. Driving in Qatar indicated that Qatar has the world’s 536 (12.5 percent) is caused by road has not improved,” a commentator highest fatality rate from traffic accidents. suggested. accidents considering its population. Research and statistics sug- Some were especially concerned The study, funded by the Qatar gest that the use of mobile phone about heavy vehicles and trucks, National Research Fund and con- MINOR ACCIDENTS while driving and exceeding speed since one of the accidents that ducted in collaboration with the limits are the major traffic viola- took place during the Eid holidays Traffic Department and the Qatar tions in the country. Speeding has involved a trailer. Statistics Authority, predicted the been identified as a major cause of “It’s not just the SUVs. Some number of traffic accidents in the accidents. trailer and truck drivers also drive country will near 220,000 annually However, the ‘Safety and Security very carelessly, they act as if only by 2015. Strategy’, which is part of the their vehicle is on the road,’’ said a However, the latest data by the 140,000 National Development Strategy comment on social media. Ministry of Development Planning 2011-2016, has said the Ministry Several others on a Qatar-based and Statistics show that 19 people of Interior should bring down the social networking site suggested died in road accidents in August number of traffic accidents from 300 stricter laws and deployment of 2014, and the number of major and TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS to 250 and the number of fatalities more traffic policemen on the roads. minor accidents stood at 43 and 536 from 14 to 10 per 100,000 persons “A strict new law has to be respectively. There were 140,000 annually. enforced so that drivers and pedes- traffic violations in August. In the most recent incident, five trians fear violating rules,” said a Road accidents claimed 15 lives Filipinos including an infant were Qatari commentator. in July, a marginal drop from 16 killed and one person was injured Another said: “There should be in June. The Madinat Khalifa area in an accident close to Hamad traffic police deployed at all places, recorded four deaths — the maxi- International Airport (HIA). The most drivers drive safely once they mum in road accidents. small car in which the victims were see a policeman.” There were 66 major road mis- haps during the month while minor accidents totalled 565. The number of traffic violations reported in the month stood at 124,230, a decrease of 30.4 percent over June. A total of 8,437 new vehicles were registered in July. However, 165,572 traffic violations were recorded in June, with 96,575 of these for speeding. To curb traffic violations, the Ministry of Interior’s Traffic Department has taken several steps in the recent past. Around 120 radars were installed across the country and more policemen were deployed to identify traffic violators. Speed-detecting radars were installed every 2 to 4 kilometres on busy roads. The cameras identify drivers who exceed speed limits and those who overtake from the right. According to the Traffic Department, around 100 vehicles had been caught overtaking in the wrong way. THE PENINSULA Home OCTOBER 11, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 ON SATURDAY Malls see record Eid visitor turnout Week-long festival ends with a spike in sales in various outlets; Souq Waqif witnesses 300,000 visitors

Stilt walkers entertaining huge crowds in Souq Waqif and (RIGHT) children in queue for face painting at Hyatt Plaza mall yesterday. KAMMUTTY VP

BY RAYNALD C RIVERA was of the same view on the people visited Souq Waqif on the increase in the number of mall last day of its Eid Al Adha festival. DOHA: As the week-long Eid goers and sales. “The rise in the The souq saw 300,000 visitors Al Adha shows and activities number of visitors was due to the during the festival, the manage- in shopping centres ended yes- fact that people stayed in Qatar ment said yesterday. terday, managements of malls during Eid Al Adha compared to The final staging of the musi- expressed satisfaction over visi- last Eid Al Fitr when they pre- cal play Cinderella drew applause tor turnout during the holidays. ferred to spend vacation in other from the crowd at Al Rayyan Over a dozen shows in major countries,” he said. Theatre as well as the last concert malls, including City Center Doha, Fifteen shows and activities, of Sout Al Rayyan’s music festival. Lagoona, Hyatt Plaza, Landmark, many of which were brought to Games for children attracted The Mall and Al Khor Mall, led Qatar for the first time, were pre- a large number of families while to an increase in footfalls which sented as part of Qatar Tourism stilt walkers entrained visitors also spiked sales in shops. Authority’s (QTA) Eid Al Adha in the alley. The circus which “We had on an average 25,000 celebrations. featured acts such as Flying tra- visitors daily during the week They included Dora’s Ballet peze, Russian swing, magic and which increased sales,” Fuad Adventures, freestyle foot- illusionist, Amazing Cycles, Globe Shaqadan, Leasing and Marketing ball, traditional Arda dance, of Danger and Wheel of Death, Manager, Hyatt Plaza, told this Fritters show, Shaun the Sheep, was also a crowd-puller. daily yesterday. “Compared to Adventure Time, Steve Kaos, Folk music performances by other days, footfalls increased by Bubblez and Balloonz show, Dan local bands and a traditional at least 30 percent which spiked Druff Circus, Mr. Potato Head, Arab wedding celebration also sales in various outlets,” he said, Sweets for Kids show, Tanoura witnessed a large number of spec- adding that visitors had been dancer, speed painter, oriental tators keen to experience Qatari happy with the shows. parade and face painting. and Arab culture. An official from Lagoona Mall Meanwhile, a large number of THE PENINSULA A traditional wedding celebration in Souq Waqif as part of Eid Al Adha festival.

Preparations begin for National Day Philippine aid for relatives of accident victims BY JONAS REYES DOHA: Schools, ministries and lone survivor, is recovering including airport assistance, mandatory social benefits to the Secretary asked the POLO offices in government departments have in hospital. The Rivera fam- when the remains arrive,” families of its members Cal, Geli Qatar and Saudi Arabia to contact started preparations to cele- MANILA: The Department ily hailed from Gingoog City, Baldoz said. and Bencris Rivera. the employers of the three overseas brate the National Day. of Labour and Employment Misamis Oriental province, According to Baldoz, proc- “Their legal heirs will receive Filipino workers. The Supreme Education (DoLE) of the Philippines while Cal was from Camarines ess has begun to repatriate P200,000 (about QR16,258) in death “This will determine the particu- Council (SEC) has sent circu- has said that the govern- Sur province and Bacor is the remains of the nurses who benefits and P20,000 in funeral ben- lar benefits (their companies) will lars to Independent schools, ask- ment would provide neces- from Cagayan De Oro. worked in a specialized medi- efits,” Baldoz said. provide to their families,” Baldoz ing them to start preparing for sary assistance to relatives The nurses were vacation- cal centre in Saudi Arabia. The Labour and Employment added. THE PENINSULA the National Day which falls on of the five Filipinos who died ing in Doha during the Eid Al Baldoz said the government December 18, Al Sharq said. in a car accident in Qatar on Adha holidays. would also bring home the The panel at SEC, responsi- Monday. Labour and Employment remains of the Rivera family. ble for organising celebrations Bencris Rivera, wife Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz Bencris, an engineer, worked and events, has asked schools to Joycelyn and their one-year- said the Philippine Overseas for Qatar-based Louise Berger nominate students to take part old son Arclian Zirc, along Labour Office (POLO) and the Company and lived with in contests and send their details. with nurses Marilou Cal and Philippine embassy in Qatar Joycelyn and Zirc. It has also asked schools to Joyce Lozada Geli, were burnt were completing formalities to The government will also nominate supervisors for the alive after their car caught fire repatriate the remains which provide counselling and contests and name the types of as it was hit from behind by would arrive in the country livelihood assistance to the contests they wish to participate another car on Corniche-Al soon. bereaved families. in. Schools have been given a week Wakra road near the turn to “We will provide the The Overseas Workers to prepare the lists. Hamad International Airport. bereaved families with appro- Welfare Administration THE PENINSULA Suzette Rivera Bacor, the priate repatriation assistance, (OWWA) plans to extend Councillors unhappy as internal road works, maintenance given to Ashghal BY SIDI MOHAMED daily that if the idea is to put all road projects Ashghal has stoked a controversy and many (construction and maintenance) under a CMC members want it reviewed. DOHA: Not many in the Central single umbrella (of Ashghal), then maybe it Councillors are also demanding that senior Municipal Council (CMC) are happy that makes sense. Ashghal and ministry officials are summoned internal road maintenance and construc- But that would mean that the work of to the CMC for a discussion on the issue. The tion has been entrusted with Ashghal Ashghal would be doubled, said Fraish. CMC, which is always critical of Ashghal, has (Public Works Authority) vide a decision Another councillor, Mohamed Hamoud Al asked its public services and facilities com- by the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Shafi, said he welcomed the move because mittee to study the issue and come up with Planning recently. whenever civic authorities made an inter- recommendations, said Al Sharq. Internal roads were a responsibility of nal road, Ashghal would come into picture Meanwhile, to execute internal road con- municipal authorities earlier while Ashghal six months or a year later and make drastic struction and maintenance works, Ashghal was concerned construction and mainte- changes. So if internal road works are with has divided Doha into three areas and Qatar nance of major road projects like arterial civic authorities, there should be close coor- into two: Doha north, Doha south and Doha roads, highways and expressways. dination among them, Ashghal and other west; and Qatar north and south. Some in the CMC feel that the latest agencies like Ooredoo and Kahramaa (utility There are 233 internal road projects in responsibility entrusted with Ashghal will providers). If not, it is better Ashghal han- these areas. Some 61 will be executed in put extra burden on it as it is already saddled dles these projects, he said. future, while work on 172 is on. At least 129 with so much work. Al Shafi said he didn’t think that Ashghal’s are at the design stage, and 24 are ready “There was no problem when internal work would double with internal roads for execution. Some 16 projects are being roads were a responsibility of civic authori- becoming its responsibility. “After all, inter- implemented and three are almost complete. ties. They were doing a good job,” said nal roads do not entail major work,” he said. These 16 are major internal road projects, Mubarak Fraish, a CMC member. Al Sharq, meanwhile, said the decision of the involving QR3.7bn, which is a little more He, however, added in remarks to this ministry to assign internal road works to than $1bn. THE PENINSULA OCTOBER 11, 2014 ON SATURDAY 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Home Qatar calls for framework to deal with disarmament Political will of UN members key to global stability, security: Envoy

NEW YORK: Qatar has of disarmament, the stale- weapons is one of the challenges Sheikh Ahmed said Qatar is underlined the importance mate and the inability of the facing the world in the field of keen to strengthen the Treaty of a multilateral framework Conference on Disarmament disarmament, which requires on Non-proliferation of Nuclear to address issues of disarma- since 1996 on adoption of the from all parties, especially Weapons and the pillars on ment and non-proliferation agenda of the conference, reflect manufacturing and export- which it is based, including non- and renewed its commitment a lack of political will, which is ing weapons, restrictions and proliferation, disarmament and to cooperation to strengthen the cornerstone for reaching adequate control to prevent the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. international peace and secu- the goals. proliferation as well as full com- He also stressed the right of rity and rid humanity of He said lack of progress pliance and implementation of member states to use nuclear www.swiss-belhotel.com weapons of mass destruction, in deliberations of the the UN programme to prevent, technology for peaceful pur- including nuclear arms. Disarmament Commission combat and eradicate the illicit poses in accordance with the Tel This came in a statement by since 1999, and in nuclear dis- trade in small and light arms international law. Fax Sheikh Ahmed bin Mohammed armament since the first ses- and weapons. The goal of building a world Al Thani, Third Secretary, sion of the General Assembly Sheikh Ahmed said Qatar of stability and security cannot Qatar’s Permanent Mission to on the issue in 1978, require believes that the only way to be achieved without the politi- the United Nations, at the 69th specific objectives that should prevent an arms race in outer cal will of the member states, he Tel session of the first committee of be achieved by each session space and the maintenance of said, adding that there was no Fax the UN General Assembly on of the assembly to come up international peace and security doubt that reducing budgets for disarmament and international with recommendations to help requires a multilateral treaty. arms and military equipment security. achieve a qualitative leap in He said the Conference on and fulfilling all international Sheikh Ahmed said that the field of disarmament and Disarmament has the pri- obligations in the field of dis- despite the importance attached non-proliferation. mary role as the sole multi- armament could achieve the Tel by the international com- He said the proliferation lateral negotiating forum on objectives. Fax munity to address the issues of small and light arms and disarmament. QNA

Tel + 974 44298888 Fax Minister likely to visit Independent Tel schools tomorrow Fax DOHA: As Eid Al Adha holidays ended and Independent Schools reopen tomorrow, the Education Tel Minister is likely to make sur- Fax prise visits to some schools. The aim is to see how his direc- tives to crackdown on student absenteeism are being followed and Tel whether school managements are Fax prepared to act tough on absentees. Alarmed, many schools have sent www.doha.hilton.com text messages on mobile phones to parents, urging them to ensure Tel 44233333 974+ their children don’t miss out on school on the day its reopens. Fax 44233000 974+ The Minister of Education and Higher Education H E Dr A picture from the Twitter account 7amadS2 shows rains falling in northern parts of Qatar yesterday. Mohamed bin Abdul Wahed Ali Al Hammadi is likely to make surprise visits to some Independent Schools tomorrow. Al Sharq reported that it had More rains, thunder likely today learnt from reliable sources that the Minister’s visits aim at ensur- DOHA: Some areas in the humidity levels are expected to places receiving rains, accom- ing his instructions to schools to north are expected to wit- be between 45 and 90 percent panied by thunder. Tel curb student absenteeism are being ness rains today as well, the today, with the day being partly The bureau said offshore followed. weather bureau said. cloudy and relatively hot. weather would also be partly Fax Al Hammadi is also ex-officio Rains will be accompanied The wind will be northwest- cloudy with chances of scat- Secretary-General of the Supreme by thunder at places. erly, gradually changing to tered rains. The deep sea could Education Council (SEC), the regu- Yesterday, several northern northeasterly with speed from be a little choppy with waves lator of all government and private and southern areas in Qatar five to 25 knots. jumping up to four to five feet. Tel schools. witnessed rains and some resi- Visibility could be affected. Day temperatures are fore- Fax He issued directives early last dents posted pictures on local Initially, it will be between cast up to 37 degrees C, while month that students of grades four social networking sites. four and eight kilometres, but at night the mercury level will to 12 of Independent schools who According to the forecast, is expected to drop to 3km in dip to 28. THE PENINSULA are absent for unjustifiable reasons Tel for a specified number of days must Fax be punished. They are not to be allowed to take periodical assessment tests in all subjects if they are absent with- Haj season successful: Mission out any acceptable reasons. Tel School managements, according DOHA: Qatar’s Haj mission returned home conveying its message to pilgrims, which in turn, Fax to Al Sharq, have adopted zero- last night after supervising pilgrims during reflected on the smoothness of the whole experi- tolerance policy towards student rituals for this year. ence. “Pilgrims from Qatar had a great deal of absenteeism. Ali Al Faihani, Head of the mission, said this awareness and understanding” of the religious, School operators have also asked year’s Haj season was a success by all standards health and regulatory aspects of Haj, which made Tel teachers to be punctual and be “thanks to cooperation of all concerned sides,” the season successful on all levels, he added. present on the first day after the which were keen to put all facilities at pilgrims’ He praised the role of the Qatari pilgrims’ Fax schools reopen. Student absentee- disposal. service centre at the mission’s headquarters, ism has been a major problem in Speaking to journalists accompanying the saying it had acted as a link between pilgrims Independent schools. mission, he said the Ministry of Endowments’ and Haj contractors on one hand and the mission THE PENINSULA campaign ahead of the Haj season succeeded in on the other. QNA Tel Fax Qatar ‘top tourist destination during Eid’ DOHA: Eid Al Adha shows Qatar will become one of the culture and entertainment. celebrations. “I usually come to and activities organised by countries to attract tourists He thanked the Ministry of Qatar to visit Souq Waqif and Qatar Tourism Authority from across the world to enjoy Culture, Arts and Heritage for Katara because of their activi- Tel (QTA) made the country a its musical and cultural shows,” its efforts in creating a new cul- ties and ability to attract people. Fax major tourist destination said Nasser. tural movement in Qatar and These cultural activities raise during Eid, say tourists from “I prefer Katara because the Heritage Department at cultural awareness of communi- neighbouring countries. of educational and historical the ministry for organising the ties and tourists,” he said. All cultural and entertain- activities. I learned some geo- celebrations. Another tourist, Naji Tel ment activities delighted visi- graphical and historical facts,” Mustafa Al Mamari from Abdullah, said Katara had suc- Fax tors, especially families, they said Kuwaiti Salah Ghanim Al Oman came to Qatar to enjoy ceeded in becoming a major told the local Arabic daily Mutairi, who came to Qatar for Eid activities as well. destination for those seeking Arrayah. the first time. “This is the first time I visited knowledge, culture and tradi- www.marriottmarquisdoha.com Souq Waqif and Katara were He said he decided to visit Katara and I was surprised with tion because it was providing two of the most preferred des- Qatar when he heard about what I’ve watched. I hope these new activities to the public. Tel + 974 44195000 tinations of tourists during the various shows and activities and shows would continue every Dr Yacoub Anadabi from Fax + 974 44195100 festival. the tourist spots such as Katara year. What I’ve seen has made Oman said celebrations were Khalid Nasser, a visitor from and Souq Waqif. me proud as an Arab,” he said, excellent and he was keen to Saudi Arabia who came to spend Hussain Haddad, another adding Qatar has all elements visit Qatar with his family dur- his Eid vacation in Qatar for the tourist who visited Heritage to become a cultural tourist ing Eid occasions. “I feel very first time, said he enjoyed Eid Village, said he was satisfied destination. much comfortable visiting Doha activities. “Qatar has succeeded with all activities his family Hassan Abdullah Al Yavi, because it has the combination in providing entertainment and members liked because they another tourist, praised the of tradition and modernity,” he activities to the public this Eid. were unique and combined excellent organisation of Eid said. THE PENINSULA OCTOBER 11, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 ON SATURDAY

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ALALA Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi, a Pakistani and an Indian, and both child rights campaigners, have shared this year’s Nobel Peace MPrize. More than the recognition and the financial reward it brings to them, the award will give a huge boost to Kobane’s fall a symbolic setback their cause. Secondly, the bestowal of this prestigious award on a Pakistani and an Indian has a political connotation. At a time when the armies of both countries are firing across the for Obama’s Syria strategy border, causing a heavy toll, the Nobel Committee is sending a message of peace, telling them that exemplary humanitarian work carries more rewards than flexing muscles on the border. BY PHIL STEWART and ARSHAD MOHAMMED of London’s Royal United Services US officials say putting so much Malala needs no introduction, having reached the pinnacle Institute. “But I think it will dent emphasis on a single city misrepre- of publicity even before the award was announced. But overall confidence in the coalition sents the US-led air campaign, which Satyarthi, who established the Bachpan Bachao Andolan T’S NOT a particularly strategic and it will concern many people as to will take time. Much also depends (Save Childhood Movement, also known as BBA) is relatively location, the United States and its whether the US can really stop this on moderate Syrian rebels that unknown, and the Hindustan Times called him ‘little known’. allies never pledged to defend it, movement.” A Kobane victory would Washington will train and equip, as and few people outside the region also provide valuable propaganda for well as US-backed Iraqi security forces. But this was a man whose organisation rescued nearly I had even heard of it before this month. the Islamic State, which has proved ”To hang Kobane around the mili- 80,000 child slaves and developed a successful model for their But the symbolism of US-led air- adept at providing packaged video tary’s neck represents a fundamental education and rehabilitation. Two of BBA’s activists have even strikes failing to stop Islamic State footage of its fighters in action, while misunderstanding of the elements of been killed: One was shot and another beaten to death for militants from overrunning the Syrian the United States can only produce the strategy we’re pursuing and lim- raiding and preventing employers from exploiting innocent city of Kobane could provide an early fuzzy pictures of air-launched bombs its of military power in pursuing that children. Satyarthi had won several awards, including from the setback to US President Barack and missile blowing up often uniden- strategy,” said a US official, speaking Obama’s three-week old Syria air tifiable objects on the ground. on condition of anonymity. US government, and if he is still not popular, it speaks volumes campaign - far beyond its battlefield Jeff White of the Washington US officials, echoed by defense ana- about the skewed priorities of Indian media. Humanitarian importance. Institute for Near East Policy said lysts, point out that Islamic State’s work seldom gets space in the print and electronic media, If Islamic State seizes full con- Islamic State will “claim it has been siege of Kobane has forced the group to whereas, even undeserving trol of the city - which US officials able to do this in the face of a US-led bring its military hardware out in the politicians are glorified. acknowledge is possible in coming bombing campaign.” The group’s sup- open, where warplanes have attacked The road ahead The award would give a days - it would be porters ”will find that uplifting” and it daily. able to boast its opponents depressing, White said. ”They seem to really want Kobane for Satyarthi huge boost to children’s rights that it has with- The city’s fate also holds importance and have their flags flying over it,” a around the world. Taliban, who stood American for Syria’s Kurds, who have enjoyed a second US official said. “They are pay- and Malala is sent assassins to kill Malala, Inevitable air power. A semi-independent region that includes ing a very heavy price.” The US gov- excruciatingly felt humiliated after she gained US-led coalition Kobane after President Bashar Al ernment says there will be no change strength from their dastardly act. questions has launched 50 Assad’s grip on his country loosened. in Obama’s strategy - which rules out strikes against For Turkey, the loss of Kobane would US troops in ground combat in both long. They Her struggle has given courage to would arise militant positions appear to be a mixed blessing. Iraq and Syria - if Kobane falls. need to focus girls in Pakistan. In India, child around the city, Ankara opposes both Assad and But if it turns out that coalition on covering as labour is a major issue, which hasn’t over Obama’s most of those in Kurdish independence, and has done air power alone was unable to help received the attention it deserves. the last four days. nothing to aid in Kobane’s defense. But the Kurds hold Kobane, that “might much distance as In a 2011 interview with Wall pledge to keep Islamic State if the city falls, Islamic State will have prompt a redefinition” of Obama’s Street Journal, Satyarthi gave some also would be able stitched up a 250-kilometer stretch “no boots on the ground” pledge, said possible. US ground to free up thou- of territory along the Turkish border, retired veteran US diplomat James astounding numbers: 50 million sands of fighters according to some analyst estimates. Dobbins. Indian children work as child troops out of to pursue terri- Kobane has riveted international Dobbins, now at the Rand labourers of which, about 10 million the fight and torial gains else- attention largely because of its proxim- Corporation think tank, predicted are bonded labourers. That means he hasn’t even touched the where in Syria ity to Turkey - and television cameras the limits of air power around Kobane tip of the iceberg, and the award will help bring the issue to the strength of and Iraq, analysts there have captured the fighting just would accelerate a debate within the the fore, especially when India has a polished global image with said. across the border. administration over deploying advis- his international Inevitable On Friday, Kurdish forces and ers and forward air controllers on the the success of its Mars mission. questions would Islamic State fighters were reported ground - but in Iraq, where they would According to reports, the winners spoke by phone and said coalition. arise over to be engaged in street battles within partner with Iraqi security forces, they would seek to use the award as a means of bringing their Obama’s pledge the city. A UN envoy said he feared rather than in Syria. two countries closer and said they would invite their prime to keep US a massacre of thousands of people if White, of the Washington Institute, ministers, Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan and Narendra Modi of ground troops out of the fight and the Islamic State was victorious. said Obama’s lengthy timeline for bat- strength of his international coalition. While Obama has said his aim is tling Islamic State might also come India, to the award ceremony in Oslo in December. There is Turkey, whose border abuts Kobane, to degrade and ultimately defeat the into question. plenty of scepticism on the progress they could achieve on this has declined to join military action Islamic State group, his first prior- “They’re fighting the war on their front as India-Pakistan enmity is deep-rooted and will take against Islamic State. ity appears to be limiting its advance terms,” he said of Islamic State. huge political will to be addressed. ”Judging the overall coalition from in Iraq. The air strikes in Syria are “Their timeline and our timeline don’t The road ahead for Satyarthi and Malala is excruciatingly a single town in northern Syria ... is designed in part to deprive the group coincide.” long. They need to focus on covering as much distance as slightly unfair,” said Shashank Joshi of safe haven there. REUTERS possible. The other side Quote of Understanding Hong Kong the day

HESE historical accounts — tinge this movement as being akin of countries that were once part of of its size and international renown, with several of these events to the ‘occupy’ mass and sponta- the former USSR. This too is incor- Hong Kong’s is a diverse society that are etched in popular neous mobilisations of 2011 in the rect, for many (if not all) of these so- which also means that political, reli- Tmemory having occurred USA. This is a mistaken analogy, for called popular uprisings were found gious and social leaders rarely speak The EU remains in the last century — seldom fail Hongkongers are protesting not the to be the product of long and careful with a single voice. Hence while the to celebrate the role of student rapaciousness of Wall Street bankers manipulation of the societies from protests have been a student-led committed to play activism that defended and saved (and the system that protects such whence they emerged. It is for this movement, or one that flowered from communities, such as the May 4 banks) but the heavy hand of the reason that the authorities in Beijing student action (in the best Chinese its role to the movement of 1919 and the May 30 Communist Party of China in select- have periodically, and with character- tradition), there are members of a movement of 1925. ing who will run their city. istic bluntness, warned away other variety of social groups that joined full in the fight And so it has been with Hong Attempts have also been made to countries from interfering in matters in. This too is tradition. In Chinese against ISIL and Kong, the city (a special autono- find a suitable label for the protests between Hong Kong and Beijing. society that preserves memories of mous region, in the administrative in Hong Kong which would connect There is no doubt that this view former struggles, students are seen in solidarity with scheme of things) whose struggle events there with the series of so- is perhaps the only one that those as intellectuals in the making, with to find democratic balance brought called pro-democracy movements have spent so many nights and days intellectuals being expected to serve all people suffering its citizens out on the streets for collectively known as ‘Arab Spring’, on the streets of Hong Kong would as the conscience of the country or from ISIL actions. Catherine Ashton days on end. Media has tended to and to the various ‘colour revolutions’ agree with. Like many large cities community. Khaleej Times EU Foreign Policy Chief OCTOBER 11, 2014 Views www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 ON SATURDAY Syria’s disaster threatens war in Turkey The hard truth is that the Syrian Kurds and their main Democratic Union party militia were always vulnerable and unable to defend Kobani alone, puncturing a moment of Kurdish hubris after a summer of impressive progress.

BY HUGH POPE international law by crossing a border would weaken Turkey’s international urkey feels as if it’s reliv- position (as with Russia in Ukraine), set ing an old nightmare. Each off angry regional reactions from backers morning television present- of Damascus such as Iran and Lebanon’s ers and newspaper headlines Hezbollah, and could lead to Syria itself glumly round up news from firing missiles at Turkish cities. Turkey Tthe Islamic State (IS) siege of the Syrian may be a member of Nato, but the air Kurdish town Kobani, and its spillover strikes are not a Nato operation; Nato is into Turkey. Three Riots, tear gas, and supposed to be a defensive alliance, and live fire this week have killed more than is unlikely to back a unilateral Turkish 20 people in cities in Turkey’s Kurdish move. south-east. There have been multiple Turkish action around Kobani would arson attacks on cars, buses and trucks, also mean armed confrontation between ethnic tensions, street corner nationalist Turkey and IS. The Turkish armed forces gangs, curfews and armed troop deploy- are absolutely unprepared for any long- Protesters throw stones as they clash with Turkish riot police during a pro-Kurdish demonstration at a university in Ankara on Thursday. ments unseen since the miserable years term foreign operation. of all-out Turkish Kurd insurgency in With its porous, 570-mile long Syrian the 1990s. border, Turkey has everything to lose in Kurdish national movement should Kurdish middle classes, laid new roads Still, progress remains much more of At the same time politicians have such an open-ended conflict, and Turkish therefore discuss what they can them- and brought new prosperity all over an avalanche of initiatives than a struc- begun shrilly pouring doubt on the vital, soldiers would certainly die on a mission selves do, not what they would like oth- Turkey. tured process. Neither side trusts each nine-year-old peace process between the that most Turks would not understand ers to do. It has not been easy to dispel mistrust. other enough yet. Ankara sometimes Turkish government and the Kurdistan let alone support. Where would Turkey’s Both sides actually identify IS as their From the 1920s to the 1980s, Turkey seems to be regally granting small con- Workers’ Party (PKK) insurgents. This military have to stop in Syria to make its deadliest enemy, abhor IS tactics, broadly denied the existence of Kurds, calling cessions to the Kurds and resenting legit- reached an apex of absurd conspiracy border secure? Do jihadi sleeper cells lurk favour friendship with the west, and them “mountain Turks”. Police torture imate demands. And the PKK finds it when both sides began labelling each among its 1.5 million Syrian refugees, adhere to an ideal of secular governance. in the 1980s and death squads in 1990s very hard to commit publicly, as it must, other as being “the same” as IS, a group ready to target the tourist industry that Both sides’ favoured scenario is a part- killed and traumatised Kurdish activists. to eventual disarmament within Turkey; which is actually their mutual enemy. powers 10 percent of Turkey’s economy? nership between Turks and Kurds. They Even in 2009, nationalists in the Turkish to a wish to join the whole country and A tragedy has indeed engulfed Kobani, Would taking sides against IS – the share a long common history, a common judiciary undermined the government’s act through the political capital, Ankara; but little fundamental has changed just principal Sunni militia in the Syrian Sunni religious tradition, and are inter- efforts by arresting thousands of Kurdish or to state clearly whether, as its actions because, unusually, TV cameras lined up war – risk a reaction from Turkey’s own connected in a way that would be hard, political activists, including elected may- on the ground often suggest, it retains a on the border are able to record first- Sunni heartland, which has already sent if not impossible, to unravel. ors, on terrorism charges. secret urge to push for an independent hand one scene within the larger epic hundreds of Turks to fight in IS ranks? The only way to make this partnership Subtler discrimination in workplaces, state under PKK control. of the Syrian disaster. The hard truth Turkey cannot order the ethnic, sec- happen is to complete the peace process public spaces and house lettings remains A Turkish-Kurdish partnership is is that the Syrian Kurds and their main tarian and political faultlines of the fitfully under way since 2005. All the nec- rife. achievable, and should not be put at risk Democratic Union party (PYD) militia Middle East to stop at the Turkish bor- essary elements are in place for a break- But since direct talks started between by political grandstanding over the ruins were always vulnerable and ultimately der. Certainly, Turkey made mistakes: through to end a 30-year conflict that has the jailed Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan of Kobani. If its defenders are doomed, unable to defend Kobani alone, punctur- betting too big on the quick ousting of already killed 30,000 people. and the Turkish state in late 2012, there the town’s remaining population should ing a moment of Kurdish hubris after a Bashar Al Assad, and opening its border A ceasefire has held since March 2013. has been improvement. Reform laws have be safely evacuated to the Turkish border, summer of impressive progress. Their to all who would fight against Damascus Strong leaders on both sides could imple- brought legal protection to the peace like the 150,000 who have already passed isolation is partly because PYD and the – a policy it is only beginning to reverse. ment a deal. Popular support is signifi- process. Delegations of Turkish Kurd through. PKK, with which it is umbilically linked, But these policies are similar to those cant. Notorious south-eastern jails are MPs travel from Ocalan’s prison island But whatever happens to Kobani, it is have insisted on a level of autonomy that of western actors. It is not fair to make now being made into remembrance in the Marmara Sea south of Istanbul to only by sorting Turkish and Kurdish dif- is controversial, both in Turkey and with Turkey both the viewing platform and museums. The Kurdish language, pre- the PKK’s mountain headquarters. On ferences inside Turkey that the two sides the Syrian mainstream opposition. the sole scapegoat for the dysfunctional viously prohibited, is spreading in the 1 October the government announced a can begin thinking the unthinkable about Nor is Turkey free to drive its tanks international system that has exacer- media and public life. proper framework, a cross-ministerial facing IS together. And the time to begin down the hill to save Kobani, as demanded bated the Syrian war. And above all, a decade of normalisa- board under the prime minister with 11 negotiating that compromise is now. by Turkish Kurd politicians. Breaking The Turkish government and the tion has empowered both Turkish and sub-commissions. THE GUARDIAN Avoiding another MH370 mishap UK still not ready to Even if the plane is eventually lower voting age to 16 found, the circumstances of its BY ANDREW MYCOCK he case for lowering the voting age to 16 in the UK would appear to have been strengthened by the resonance of young disappearance won’t change. And people in the Scottish referendum. But excitement over this Tissue masks a deeper problem. Young people are disengaged if the mystery lingers, demand to from politics for many reasons, few of which will be resolved simply by allowing them to tick a box at the polling booth. During the Scottish referendum, 16- to 18-year-olds were enfran- improve the tracking of flights is chised for the first time. They showed themselves to be highly engaged with the campaigns, making a positive contribution to the public debate sure to intensify. about Scotland’s constitutional future. Scotland’s first minister, Alex Salmond, was so impressed, in fact, that he declared there was “not BY ADAM MINTER confidence might impact the avia- a shred of evidence for arguing that 16- and 17-year-olds should not tion business. be allowed to vote”. he search for Malaysia Thus far, there’s no reason to And support for lowering the voting age extends beyond Scotland Airlines Flight 370 believe that the fallout from Flight across the rest of the UK, with most political parties, youth organi- resumed Monday 370’s disappearance has been sations and even some newspapers supporting the proposition. Ed Troughly 1,100 miles off anything but local. According to Miliband restated at the Manchester party conference that a Labour the Australian coast. The task is the International Civil Aviation government would introduce votes at 16 to allow us to “hear the voice daunting: Searchers are focusing Organisation, scheduled air pas- Malaysia Airlines planes at the runway of a Malaysian airport. of young people in our politics”. Only the Conservatives continue to on 23,000 square miles of sea- senger traffic should grow by 6 oppose demands to lower the voting age. But the growing momentum bed that had never been mapped percent in 2014. Board meeting on plane-locator on board Flight 370 manually could make reasonable discussion on this issue difficult. It could end in detail before this summer, Even if the search is eventually technology that opened Tuesday deactivated the plane’s flight up being politically damaging for opponents of votes at 16 to seek to at depths of up to four miles. abandoned, it’s unlikely that the in Washington. transponder once it was in the air. quell the democratic appetite of those young Scots who voted in the Nonetheless, the Australian news would have big repercus- Mobile satellite communica- In other words, even if the air- referendum and those elsewhere in the UK who looked on with envy. Transportation Safety Board, sions on global traffic. tions provider Inmarsat is offer- liner had been equipped with the Before we talk about lowering the voting age, we need to start offer- the agency leading the hunt, as Indeed, even Malaysia Airlines ing airlines a free service that world’s best and most advanced ing young citizens more opportunities to acquire political knowledge, well as airline safety experts have is unlikely to be hurt: By that would ping an plane every 15 min- flight tracking system, it could skills and experience. The potential for votes at 16 to make British polit- expressed cautious optimism that point, the airline will have been utes, and would require no new still have disappeared. ical culture more youth-centric and youth-sensitive is also debatable. It the plane will ultimately be found. restructured and might even be equipment. Pilots, who are accustomed to may indeed redress some demographic imbalances in the electorate, but But what if it’s not? The ques- operating under a new name. Other tracking systems capa- having complete control of every it is unlikely to have a dramatic effect on the attitudes and behaviour tion is awkward and uncomfort- But that’s not to suggest air- ble of more frequent check-ins via instrument in their cabin, have of most politicians or political parties towards younger voters. able, in part because it implies lines, regulators and passengers satellite will require additional already expressed reservations Proponents of votes at 16 argue that the voting age should match that friends and families of lost should exhale quite yet. The pub- equipment and expenses that about such a proposal. the age at which citizens get other adult rights. If 16- and 17-year-olds passengers might never receive lic’s anxiety about Flight 370 has some airlines may not be will- But those concerns shouldn’t can join the army, get married or pay tax, why shouldn’t they be able the closure that they seek. always centred on the idea that ing to bear. (Iridium, a rival to be allowed to block what might to vote? But these rights are not universally realised at the age of 16 Yet it’s important to ask, not a Boeing 777 can apparently fly Inmarsat, estimates that outfit- be the most important safety and the age of responsibility is increasingly being delayed. The inverse least because of the potentially for hours into the night without ting an plane properly could cost upgrade that comes out of this problem is therefore also possible. We could start to see young people corrosive effect an unsolved mys- being tracked. more than $100,000.) tragedy. being able to vote before they can do other things. They could be free tery could have on the aviation Even if the plane is eventually Nonetheless, several airlines Ultimately, whether or not to vote at 16 but still need their parents’ permission to marry or join industry’s well-deserved reputa- found, the circumstances of its have started using new technolo- Flight 370 is found, the real threat the armed forces. This would essentially introduce a two-tier citizen- tion for safety. disappearance won’t change. And gies already, and others are likely to the global aviation industry will ship, making young voters feel even more excluded. One need only look at the pan- if the mystery lingers, demands to to join soon. arise if a similar accident happens Votes at 16 may well arrest the decline in electoral turnouts in the icky abandonment of Malaysia improve the tracking of flights are Improved tracking should in the future — especially if noth- short term, but will not fix the problem of youth disengagement with Airlines by passengers (com- sure to intensify. be mandatory. Equally impor- ing has been done to prevent it. politics. Parties need to do more to involve young people in the whole pounded by the loss of another There’s no lack of options tant, those systems must be Taking steps to make sure that political process or they could actually encourage disconnection at an Malaysia Airlines jetliner, shot in terms of improved tracking tamper-proof. never happens should be a global earlier age. Lowering the age of enfranchisement to 16 without discuss- down over Ukraine) to get a technology, as revealed at a US According to the Malaysian aviation priority. ing its wide-ranging implications could prove a dangerous rather than sense of how drastically a loss of National Transportation Safety government and others, someone WP-BLOOMBERG radical step. THE GUARDIAN 08 OCTOBER 11, 2014 ON SATURDAY www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Middle East

Ban in Tunis Algerian army Cairo to host kills 5 suspected militants Gaza donor ALGIERS: Algerian soldiers killed five gunmen during anti- militant operations, the defence ministry and army said yester- day, a day after raiding the sus- meet tomorrow pected hideout of jihadists who beheaded a French hostage. Three suspected militants were killed yesterday in the area About 50 countries to participate of Bouria, 120km east of Algiers, the ministry said in a statement. CAIRO: Envoys from dozens than a quarter of Gaza’s popula- Two Kalashnikovs and a semi- of countries will gather tomor- tion of 1.7 million was displaced. automatic rifle were seized, row for a conference that aims Even so, a Western diplomat, it added. The fourth militant to raise billions of dollars to speaking on condition of anonym- were killed in a separate raid on rebuild conflict-battered Gaza, ity, warned there was “consider- Thursday in the Tiaret region, despite fears of renewed vio- able donor fatigue.” 340km southwest of Algiers. lence and “donor fatigue”. “We have seen infrastructure A separate statement from the The United Nations’ Palestinian projects that we have contributed army said troops killed a fifth refugee agency has described to which have been destroyed,” the militant in the Tiaret region and the financial needs as “unprec- diplomat said, adding that scepti- that soldiers had also seized an edented” ahead of the Cairo meet- cism had existed even before the assault rifle in the operation. The ing, which follows the Gaza Strip’s recent conflict. army also announced Thursday third war in six years. But it is Money raised in Cairo will that it had destroyed a camp in unclear how generous the world also go towards getting Gaza’s the Djurdjura mountains, 150km is willing to be given the intrac- economy back on its feet. Gross UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon addressing journalists after his meeting with Tunisian President Moncef southeast of Algiers, believed to tability of the Israeli-Palestinian domestic product is expected to Marzouki (right) at the Carthage Presidential Palace in Tunis yesterday. The United Nations chief is on a two- have been used by militants who conflict and other priorities in the be down 20 percent in the first day official visit to Tunisia before heading to Egypt today. beheaded French hiker Herve region such as the fight against three quarters of 2014 compared Gourdel last month. AFP jihadists in Syria and Iraq. with the same period last year. About 50 countries will be Unemployment stood at 45 per- represented in Cairo for talks cent before the war, and 63 percent that will include UN Secretary- among young people who make up Rape in war-torn South Sudan worst: UN envoy General Ban Ki-moon, US a large part of the population. Secretary of State John Kerry, Without immediate action to 30 foreign ministers and vari- revive the economy, a return to BENTIU: The levels of rape in war-torn bodies from streets and buried them.” extremely distressing,” Bangura said. “These ous international monetary violence “will remain a clear and South Sudan are the worst the UN special Speaking in the South Sudan town of are not conditions and circumstances under and humanitarian bodies. The present danger,” the World Bank’s envoy on sexual violence has ever seen, she Bentiu, which has repeatedly changed hands which women can live. I heard a story of a Palestinians have called for more Palestinian territories director said yesterday, after meeting scores of sur- in the war, she said both government troops woman who had just given birth who had been than $4bn (¤3.2bn) in aid, and Steen Lau Jorgensen warned last vivors of attacks. and rebels were committing rapes. raped, I heard a story of an old woman who the Palestinian refugee agency month. The Palestinians sought to “In all my life and experience of nearly 30 Thousands of people have been killed and was raped, children as young as 10 or 11 years UNRWA for $1.6bn. present a united front ahead of years in public service and in the UN and as a almost two million have fled fighting between who are being raped on daily basis.” Other estimates suggest up the meeting to assuage donor con- government minister, I have never seen what government troops, mutinous soldiers and Fighting broke out in the oil-rich country, to $8bn will be needed to repair cerns that reconstruction mate- I have seen today,” Zainab Bangura, Special ragtag militia forces divided along tribal lines. also the world’s youngest nation, in December damaged infrastructure and rials might fall into the hands of Representative of the Secretary-General on Almost 100,000 people are sheltering in 2013 following a clash between troops loyal to homes, and ensure healthcare, militants. Sexual Violence in Conflict, said. squalid UN peacekeeping bases fearing they President Salva Kiir and his former deputy education and clean drinking The unity government on Bangura, who comes from Sierra Leone, will be killed if they leave the barbed wire Riek Machar. water. The bloody 50-day conflict Thursday held its first cabinet said she had witnessed brutal violence during protection. The war spread rapidly across the country between Israel and Gaza militants meeting in Gaza, months after a the civil war there, but conditions in South “It’s unbelievable. It’s painful. It’s chal- and has been marked by widespread human left almost 2,200 Palestinians dead reconciliation deal between rivals Sudan after almost ten months of conflict lenging to see the conditions under which rights abuses and atrocities by both sides. along with 73 on the Israeli side. Fatah, which dominates the West were worse in terms of attacks on women these women live, the harassments and sex- Bangura is visiting South Sudan in a bid to The war, which ended with a Bank-based Palestinian Authority, and girls. ual violence that take place at check points, persuade both sides to end the violence and ceasefire on August 26, also left and Hamas, which is in de facto She said she had been in the Sierra Leone and when the women go out to get food, and rekindle stalled peace efforts. 100,000 Gazans homeless. More control of Gaza. AFP capital Freetown when it fell. “We picked when they go out to get fire wood. It’s really AFP

Protesters take part in a rally calling for the removal of Libya’s internationally-recognised parliament which is based in the eastern city of Tobruk, in central Martyr’s Square in Tripoli yesterday. Clashes in Libya drive 287,000 from homes: UN

GENEVA: A spike in clashes to several families at a time to between rival militias in Libya Car bomb kills meet the growing need for shelter, has pushed the number of peo- Edwards said. ple driven from their homes one in Benghazi Those unable to stay with to an estimated 287,000, the relatives or host families were United Nations’ refugee agency BENGHAZI: A car bomb sleeping in schools, parks and said yesterday. killed one person and non-residential buildings con- UNHCR spokesman Adrian wounded another yester- verted into emergency shelters. Edwards told reporters that day in Libya’s eastern city Host communities were finding some 100,000 people had fled of Benghazi, hospital and themselves swamped, Edwards over the past three weeks from military sources said, with said, giving the example of the Warshefana, on the outskirts of neither the authors nor the small town of Ajaylat, some 80 the capital Tripoli. motive immediately clear. km west of Tripoli. Another 15,000 people were The car blew up outside the The community of around estimated to have been displaced Tibesti hotel in a square pop- 100,000 people had taken in 16,000 around Libya’s eastern city of ular as a gathering place for more who fled fighting, placing a Benghazi, he said. demonstrations in support of massive strain on health facilities. The oil-rich North African Libya’s army, in a city almost “As well as the impact on the nation has been in turmoil since entirely controlled by Islamists. local population, the fighting is an uprising toppled longtime AFP also affecting refugees, asylum- leader Muammar Gaddafi three seekers, and migrants in Libya years ago, with interim authori- — many of them from Middle ties facing powerful militias that said Edwards. He said aid agen- Eastern countries and Sub- fought to oust him. cies were working flat out to help Saharan Africa,” Edwards noted. A total of some 287,000 people those in need but faced “major Lawlessness and spiralling food are estimated to have fled conflict constraints in funding for the prices have made some of them and are scattered in 29 towns and internally displaced, while the desperate to leave. cities countrywide, many of them security situation over recent “Libya’s policy of detaining ref- in dire straits, he said. months has posed challenges in ugees and migrants has pushed “The need for healthcare, reaching those in need.” many to put their lives in the food, and other basic commodi- Most displaced people are hands of smugglers to try to get ties — plus for shelter ahead of living with locals who in some to Europe,” said Edwards. winter — has become critical,” cases have opened their homes AFP OCTOBER 11, 2014 Middle East www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 ON SATURDAY IS seizes Kurdish HQ in Syria’s Kobane Group controls 40pc of border town 31 killed in

SURUC, TURKEY: Islamic attack to the west of the Kurdish State (IS) militants captured headquarters, the Observatory Turkey ‘spiral the headquarters of Kurdish said. There were no immediate fighters defending the battle- details on casualties. of violence’ ground Syrian town of Kobane US planes conducted nine new yesterday as a UN envoy airstrikes in Syria on Thursday ISTANBUL: At least 31 people warned of a looming “massacre” and yesterday, the US military have been killed and 360 oth- by the group. said. Two IS training facilities ers injured in demonstrations Outgunned Kurdish militia were destroyed while several during a four day “spiral of vio- were struggling to prevent the vehicles and a tank were hit in lence” led by pro-Kurdish pro- jihadists closing off the last escape the raids, in which planes from testers against Turkey’s policy route for the thousands of civil- the UAE and Saudi Arabia par- on Syria, officials said yesterday. ians still in or near the town, ticipated, it said. A correspondent But Turkish President Recep prompting an appeal for urgent on the other side of the Turkish Tayyip Erdogan pledged that military assistance. border saw a cloud of white smoke despite the violence, the authori- US-led warplanes have inten- rising above Kobane after coali- ties would press on with efforts to sified air strikes against IS tion strikes yesterday. make peace with Kurdish rebels fighters who have been attack- UN envoy for Syria Staffan de who have a waged a 30-year ing Kobane for three weeks but Mistura appealed to Turkey to insurgency for self-rule in east- the Pentagon has warned that, take any action it could to pro- ern Turkey. without a force on the ground tect the 12,000 or so civilians still Interior Minister Efkan Ala to work with, there are limits to in or near the town, warning they told reporters that 31 people had what can be done. “will be most likely massacred” if been killed in the demonstrations, Neighbouring Turkey has so far captured by IS fighters. which left a trail of destruction held back from any action against The coordinator of the US-led and prompted the army to impose the IS on its doorstep, despite four campaign against IS, retired US a curfew in parts of southeast straight nights of protests among general John Allen, was to hold Turkey. its own large Kurdish minority a second day of talks in Ankara In addition, two policemen were that have left 31 people dead. after the Nato ally insisted it shot dead in the southern city of The militants’ advance has could not be expected to take Bingol late on Thursday while brought the front line to just ground action against the jihad- Smoke rises after strikes from the US-led coalition in the Syrian town of Ain Al Arab, known as Kobane by the inspecting the scene of a dem- 1.3km from the border. ists alone. Kurds, in the southeastern village of Mursitpinar, Sanliurfa province, yesterday. onstration, he confirmed. Bingol IS now controls 40 percent of Kobane activist Mustafa Ebdi province’s police chief was seri- Kobane, according to the Britain- said the IS militants were using for the extremists. Kurdish fighters defending the three-decade insurgency for self- ously wounded in the attack. based Syrian Observatory for civilian cars with Kurdish flags The situation has been compli- town and the outlawed Kurdistan rule in southeastern Turkey. Five “terrorists” suspected of Human Rights. to avoid coming under attack by cated by the close ties between the Workers Party, which has waged a AFP gunning them down were them- “The capture of the headquar- coalition aircraft. selves killed by the security forces, ters will allow them to advance He said the risk of Kobane fall- Ala added. “This spiral of violence on the border post with Turkey to ing to the militants was high, and should immediately be stopped,” the north of the town,” its direc- described the town as a “symbol he said in a statement in Ankara. tor Rami Abdel Rahman said. of resistance to IS in Syria.” Kobane could be another “Everyone should do their part “If they achieve that, they will “Every Kurdish fighter is will- to put an end to these incidents. have the Kurdish forces inside ing to die,” he said. We should all stand in solidarity Kobane completely surrounded.” With the world media gathered with each other.” As fighting raged in the stra- just across the border in Turkey, Srebrenica, warns UN Ala said that clashes broke out tegic town, an IS militant yester- the conquest of Kobane would be in 35 cities, and 221 civilians and daycarried out a suicide car bomb a highly visible symbolic victory LONDON: Turkey came people beheaded.” Thousands them and kill five, they send in 139 security officials including under new pressure yesterday could die if Kobane were taken, 50 new fighters.” police were wounded. to help defend the Syrian town he said. Fighters had been issued with Over 1,000 people were detained IS executes nine in northern Iraq of Kobane from Islamic State The group is already in con- knives in case their bullets ran and 58 people have formally been (IS) fighters, with a warning trol of more than half of the out. No one expected to leave arrested for their involvement in KIRKUK, IRAQ: Islamic State group fighters executed nine peo- from the UN that its fall risked border town and if its defend- alive if they could not push back the protests which caused dam- ple yesterday in two northern Iraqi towns on suspicion of ties to another Srebrenica — the 1995 ers do not get more ammuni- the militants. age to 212 schools, he said. The anti-miltant Sunni grassroots organisations, security sources and massacre that symbolised the tion and food it could fall within De Mistura said 500-700 civil- violence, which has been concen- witnesses said. In the town of Azzab, 90km west of the oil hub of failure of international efforts days, a local activist told The ians were still trapped in the trated in south-eastern Turkey Kirkuk, six people were executed in public. to stop Bosnia’s war. Guardian. town, while 10,000 to 13,000 oth- but also flared in Istanbul and “IS executed four residents of the lower part of Azzab and two from Staffan de Mistura, the UN “The Turkish government is ers were stuck close to the bor- Ankara, has been among the villages near Azzwiya,” a few miles further to the west, a local security special envoy for Syria, spoke not allowing supplies across the der. “You remember Srebrenica. worst rioting seen in the country official said. Witnesses said the six were accused of being involved in after IS overran the head- border and they are running out We never forgot and we prob- in years. efforts to organise Sunni resistance to IS in the Hawija region. They quarters of the Kurdish militia of everything, even weapons, that ably never forgave ourselves for The official toll has already well were executed on a marketplace, they said. defending Kobane. “Everybody is why Isis are taking over more that,” he said. “When there is an exceeded the number of eight peo- It was in the same area that residents of the village of Tel Ali burned should do whatever they can to and more territory,” Mustafa imminent threat to civilians we ple confirmed to have been killed an IS flag last month. In retaliation, the militant group abducted 50 stop this,” he told reporters in Abdi said. cannot be silent.” in the May-June 2103 nationwide residents and put up flags across the region, even booby-trapping some Geneva. “I hope we will not see “When the air strikes attack GUARDIAN NEWS protests against the ruling party. of them to stop locals from removing them. AFP AFP Iran nuclear Al Qaeda claims responsibility talks could be extended again for Sana’a suicide bombings TEHRAN: One of Iran’s top SANA’A: Al Qaeda’s wing nuclear negotiators signalled in Yemen yesterday claimed yesterday that talks with world responsibility for a suicide powers could be extended bomb attack on Yemen’s pow- beyond November’s deadline, erful Shi’ite Houthi group given big barriers standing in that killed at least 47 people. the way of a deal. On Thursday, a suicide With both sides speaking of bomber detonated a belt packed wide gaps in what limits should with explosives at a Houthi be placed on Iran’s nuclear pro- checkpoint in the centre of the gramme, the next round of talks capital Sana’a where Houthi will take place in Vienna on supporters were preparing to Tuesday and Wednesday. hold a rally. But Iran’s deputy foreign min- Body parts were scattered ister Abbas Araqchi, quoted by across Tahrir Square and pools the Fars and Isna news agencies, of blood formed on the asphalt said there was already an accept- after the blast, which also ance that a November 24 deadline wounded at least 75 people. could be missed. The bomb attack was car- “Time passes quickly, we are ried out by a man called Abu not still disappointed but if we Mouwaia Al Sanaani, al Qaeda cannot get a good enough result in the Arabian Peninsula from this round of talks, it is (AQAP), the Yemeni branch of obvious that we will not reach an the movement, said in a state- agreement by November 24,” he ment on its Twitter account. said. “Everything is possible even Thursday’s bombing occurred to extend the talks,” he added, just hours after a showdown noting that Iran “expected some between the Houthis and progress” during discussions on President Abd-Rabbu Mansour the issue in New York on the side- forced Prime Minister- lines of the UN General Assembly designate Ahmed Awad bin last month. Mubarak, whose appointment Next week’s Vienna round will on Tuesday under a power- centre on the two biggest areas sharing deal signed last month A gunman loyal to the Shia Houthi movement stands guard at the of contention, Iran’s enrichment had angered Houthi leaders, to main gate of the old city of Sana’a yesterday, one day after a powerful of uranium and the lifting of turn down the post. suicide bombing, targeting a gathering of the group, ripped through US, European and UN sanctions The Houthis have emerged the capital, killing at least 47. imposed on Iran in recent years, as Yemen’s main power brokers Araqchi said. “The two sides of since their paramilitary forces as heretics. A southern seces- states. Western and Gulf Arab the negotiations are serious,” he seized the capital on Septemebr sionist movement and the countries are worried that insta- added. On Thursday, Iran said 21, following weeks of anti-gov- AQAP onslaught on security bility in Yemen could strengthen it had held “constructive” talks ernment demonstrations. forces has already stretched Al Qaeda and have supported a with a visiting delegation of the AQAP, which has targeted the resources of Yemen, an UN-backed political transition UN nuclear watchdog, regarding state institutions, including the impoverished country of 25 mil- since 2012 led by Hadi meant to outstanding issues in Tehran’s armed forces, sees the Houthis, lion, and alarmed neighbouring shepherd the country to stability disputed atomic activities. who are members of the minor- Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil after decades of autocracy. AFP ity Zaydi sect of Shi’ite Islam, exporter, and other Gulf Arab REUTERS OCTOBER 11, 2014 ON SATURDAY 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com International

Farage calls Tory defector for ban on immigrants wins parliament carrying HIV

LONDON: HIV campaigners yes- terday said British political leader seat for Ukip Nigel Farage, whose party has just won its first seat in parlia- ment, should be “truly ashamed” after calling for an immigration Support for anti-EU party soars ban on people carrying the virus. The Terrence Higgins Trust, CLACTON-ON-SEA: Britain’s Ukip’s support for leaving the Britain’s oldest HIV and Aids charity, anti-EU UK Independence EU is central to its appeal. said comments made by the leader of Party won its first seat in the While Cameron has prom- the anti-EU UK Independence Party House of Commons yesterday, ised a referendum on leaving as polls were closing in the Clacton sending jitters through Prime the EU if he is re-elected with by-election — won by his candidate Minister David Cameron’s a majority next year, he is Douglas Carswell — displayed a “new Conservatives seven months opposed to the move if he can level of ignorance”. before what is likely to be a renegotiate Britain’s terms of “The idea that having HIV tight general election. membership. should be used as a black mark Conservative defector Douglas Carswell turned his previous against someone’s name is ridicu- Carswell’s victory in Clacton came majority of 12,068 for the centre- lous and shows an outrageous lack as Ukip also narrowly lost out on right Conservatives in 2010 into of understanding of the issue,” said a shock victory in a second by- one of 12,404 for Ukip this time the charity’s Rosemary Gillespie. election on Thursday in Heywood around, winning 60 percent of the “In bracketing those living with and Middleton, traditionally a votes cast in Clacton, southeast the condition with murderers, stronghold of the main opposition England. and suggesting there is no place Labour party. In Heywood and Middleton, for them in his vision of Britain, Support for Ukip, which wants part of Greater Manchester in Mr Farage has stooped to a new Britain to leave the European northwest England, centre-left UK Independence Party parliamentary candidate Douglas Carswell (right) giving a speech after winning the level of ignorance. He should be Union and to restrict immigra- Labour slumped from a major- Clacton-On-Sea by-election in eastern England yesterday. truly ashamed,” she added. tion severely, has soared in the ity of nearly 6,000 in 2010 to one When asked by Newsweek last two years amid increasing of just 617, with Ukip in second “These results show the fight we Some experts said the results riddled with by-elections that Europe who should be allowed disenchantment with mainstream place. face over the next seven months, indicated that next year’s election were supposed to break the to enter Britain, Farage replied: political parties. Carswell called it the night’s but I passionately believe that would be a fight unlike any other mould — only for constituen- “People who do not have HIV, to The party once dismissed by “really significant” result as it Labour can change this country.” in Britain, where three parties — cies to return to their tradi- be frank. That’s a good start.” Cameron as “fruitcakes, loonies showed Ukip could prosper in Cameron warned voters leav- the Conservatives, Labour and tional parties like shamefaced He refused to retract the com- and closet racists” came top in Labour heartlands, piling further ing the Tory party that they the centrist Liberal Democrats husbands slipping home after ments in a later interview with May’s European elections. pressure on Miliband. risked “getting a Labour gov- — have traditionally dominated a dirty weekend in Clacton BBC radio, saying that the coun- Its leader Nigel Farage now His party is only narrowly ernment with Ed Miliband as politics. with the secretary,” historian try’s public services couldn’t cope claims it could win enough seats ahead in most opinion polls while prime minister and Ed Balls as “We have to accept that Tim Stanley wrote in the Daily with the extra demand. to hold the balance of power if his personal popularity ratings chancellor,” after the general the battle in England for May Telegraph. “We want people to come who next May’s general election pro- lag well behind those of Cameron election. 2015 is not going to be a battle In his Clacton acceptance have got trades and skills but we duces no overall winner. and Farage amid suggestions A by-election after the defec- between simply three parties; speech, Carswell urged Ukip to don’t want people who have got “In our target seats, if you vote from experts that his geeky per- tion of another Conservative MP, it’s going to be a battle between “show humility when we win, criminals records and we can’t Ukip you get Ukip,” Farage said sona fails to connect with many Mark Reckless, is due to be held at least four parties,” elections modesty when we are proved afford people with life threatening during a celebratory tour of the voters. in Rochester and Strood, south of expert Professor John Curtice of right. diseases,” he said. “I do not think seaside town. “I know people voted for Ukip Clacton, in November. Strathclyde University told the “We must be a party for all people with life threatening diseases “They’re realising that as a in this by-election, but I do not While the by-election results BBC. Britain and all Britons: first and should be treated by our national result of EU membership the believe Ukip is a party that can have handed the party momen- Others suggested that Ukip’s second generation as much as health service and that is an abso- British government is impo- represent the interests of work- tum, Farage would not be drawn by-election successes could be every other. Our strength must lute essential condition for working tent over vast areas of our ing people,” said the embattled on whether Ukip had further short-lived. lie in our breadth.” out a proper immigration policy. lives.” leader. defectors lined up. “British political history is AFP AFP

Slovenia names Minister Bulc Police, protesters clash at St Luis ahead of weekend rallies ST LOUIS, Montana: Police Dozens of protesters had met to disperse. St Louis Police Chief The St Louis area is bracing for killed Brown, and want to draw for EU job clashed with protesters in St earlier at the site in the Shaw Sam Dotson told local television further unrest over the killing of attention to police treatment of Louis for a second night after neighborhood where 18-year- station Fox 2 that at one point Brown by a white police officer black Americans. Protest organ- LJUBLJANA/BRUSSELS: an officer killed a black teen- old Vonderrit Myers Jr was shot during the tense protest, someone two months ago, with Myers’ izers said they are planning only The Slovenian government ager, ahead of a weekend of dead on Wednesday by an off-duty behind the massive crowd threw a death on Wednesday expected to peaceful activities, but fear that named yesterday an entre- planned rallies in the area over white officer working for a pri- knife that struck an officer’s body add fuel to the fire. Wednesday’s killing of the black preneur and newly appointed the August killing of unarmed vate security firm in what police vest at the shoulder. Several civil rights organisa- teen might trigger violent out- minister, Violeta Bulc, as its black teenager Michael Brown. described as a firefight. He added that a police car and tions and protest groups, includ- bursts. “We never advocate vio- candidate for a post in the new Throughout the night, as many But demonstrations grew several businesses and residences ing Hands Up United, planned to lence ... But I do know that people European Commission after its as 400 demonstrators spread out increasingly chaotic. At one point had been damaged and that US mark the weekend with marches were angry last night and they original nominee was rejected across several city blocks in south early yesterday morning, a line flags were burned. Two people and rallies in St Louis and the will be out this weekend,” said by the European Parliament. St Louis, angrily shouting and of police pushed towards a group had been arrested by midnight suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, Tory Russell, a leader of Hands The announcement gives Jean- chanting at rows of police offic- of several dozen protesters who local time, Dotson said, during where Brown was killed. Up United. “I don’t know what Claude Juncker, President-elect ers, many of whom were clad in jeered and cursed at them, pep- which one officer suffered minor The groups are demanding they are going to do.” of the incoming Commission, a riot gear. per-spraying those who refused injuries. the arrest of the officer who REUTERS chance to complete his team before a confirmation vote in the legisla- ture scheduled for October 22. However, a spokesman for Queen honours Angelina Jolie Juncker said the timetable would still be “very tight” for the new US Air Force probed for EU executive to be fully in place for November 1, when it is due to take over from the Commission led by Jose Manuel Barroso. scrapping costly planes Slovenia’s new prime minister, Miro Cerar, only brought Bulc, WASHINGTON: A US gov- raised questions about funds founder of a telecoms firm, into ernment watchdog agency is wasted on the planes. government last month as a dep- asking the Air Force to explain The US government spent uty premier. Juncker will inter- why it destroyed 16 aircraft $486m to buy and refurbish 20 view her early next week to decide initially bought for the Afghan older C-27A airplanes from Alenia, which portfolio she might take. air force and turn them into a unit of Italy’s Finmeccanica Bulc, 50, will have little time $32,000 of scrap metal instead SpA, but later canceled the pro- to prepare for a parliamentary of finding other ways to salvage gram because a lack of spare parts committee hearing for her new nearly $500m in US funds spent was severely limiting their avail- job and may well face resistance on the programme. ability for military use. from some of the major parties. John Sopko, special inspec- Instead, the Pentagon decided Cerar’s predecessor, Alenka tor general for Afghanistan to buy four larger C-130 planes Bratusek, who nominated her- reconstruction, asked Air Force built by Lockheed Martin Corp self to Slovenia’s seat on the Secretary Deborah James to doc- to do the work. Commission after losing an elec- ument all decisions made about Pentagon spokesman Major tion in July, had been assigned the destruction of the 16 C-27A Brad Avots said the US military to be vice-president for energy aircraft that were stored at Kabul decided to destroy the planes “to union. US actress Angelina Jolie (right) is being presented with the Insignia of an Honorary Dame Grand Cross of International Airport for years, minimise impact on drawdown REUTERS the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II in the 1844 Room and what the service planned to of US forces in Afghanistan,” but at Buckingham Palace in central London, yesterday. do with four additional planes would provide more information now in Germany. after a review. “I am concerned that the offi- Avots said the Pentagon and cials responsible for planning Air Force would consider vari- and executing the scrapping of ous options for the remaining Spanish medics blame budget cuts for Ebola infection the planes may not have consid- four planes, including possible ered other possible alternatives in sale to other parties. “Working in order to salvage taxpayer dollars.” a wartime environment such as MADRID: Doctors and nurses disease. But healthcare work- the Federation of Associations for system, with Carlos III cutting Sopko said in a letter to James Afghanistan brings with it many blame the shock Ebola infection ers complain that the hospital’s the Defence of Public Healthcare, its medical staff by 12 percent that was dated October 3 and challenges, and we continually seek in Madrid on Spanish govern- sixth-floor isolation ward was told AFP. last year, according to figures released Thursday by his office. to improve our processes,” he said. ment cuts that closed a top dis- shut down last year — only to be A 44-year-old nurse, Teresa published by the regional health Sopko also asked if any other He said the US military was ease isolation unit. urgently reopened this summer to Romero, caught the disease from ministry. parts of the planes had been sold also working to help Afghanistan The government has denied treat two missionaries repatriated the second missionary. She is the The cuts were made by the before they were destroyed by the “improve accountability and help claims that staff at the Carlos from west Africa after catching first person known to have been ruling conservative Popular Defense Logistics Agency. instill sound financial manage- III hospital where the infected the virus. infected with Ebola outside of Party to stabilise public finances Sopko’s office has been investi- ment practices in daily operations woman worked were under- “The fundamental reason Africa. to try to pull Spain out of eco- gating the matter since December while reducing the risk of fraud, trained and ill-protected for was the spending cuts,” Doctor Spain’s painful austerity drive nomic crisis. 2013 after numerous non-profit waste and abuse.” treating patients with the deadly Marciano Sanchez, president of has taken a toll on its healthcare AFP groups and military officials REUTERS OCTOBER 11, 2014 11 Asia / Philippines www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ON SATURDAY Hong Kong protesters regroup after government rejects talks

HONG KONG: Hundreds of blocked major roads in and out leader, Leung Chun-ying, while Admiralty is home to govern- mainland and specifies universal universal suffrage, which she protesters regrouped in cen- of the financial centre, causing in office. ment offices next to the Central suffrage as an eventual goal. said was not in accordance with tral Hong Kong yesterday to traffic and commuter chaos with Australia’s Fairfax Media this business district, giving the name But Beijing ruled on August 31 the city’s mini-constitution, and push their call for democracy, a tail-backs stretching for miles. week revealed the business pay- to the “Occupy Central” move- it would screen candidates who because of their “illegal” occupa- day after the government called Police said they would take out to Leung by an Australian ment, which has combined with want to run for the city’s election tion of parts of the city and calls off talks with students aimed action at an appropriate time, engineering company. the student protests, pushing the for a chief executive in 2017, which for people to rally. at defusing a two-week stand- without specifying what. “For sure it will be jam packed government to introduce univer- democracy activists said rendered China has also branded the off that has shaken communist The government’s decision with people later today in sal suffrage. the notion of universal suffrage protests illegal and yesterday China’s capitalist hub. to call off the talks yesterday Admiralty after people get off work China rules the former British meaningless. criticised the US Congress for Scores arrived with tents, came as democratic lawmak- and students finish school,” said colony through a “one country, Hong Kong Chief Secretary sending the “wrong message” to suggesting they were in for the ers demanded anti-graft offic- Joshua Wong, a 17-year-old who two systems” formula which Carrie Lam said the talks with demonstrators with its encour- long haul despite a call by police ers investigate a $6.4m business heads the group Scholarism that allows wide-ranging autonomy the students were off because agement in a “deliberate attack” to remove obstacles that have pay-out to the city’s pro-Beijing represents secondary school pupils. and freedoms not enjoyed on the of the strident demands for on China. REUTERS

Japan begins North, South consultations on N-plants SATSUMASENDAI: As part of a plan to restart its nuclear Korea trade industry, Japan began a con- troversial consultation process with local residents near idled reactors that was criticised for failing to give everyone a say. More than a year after Japan’s border fire last reactor was shut down in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima dis- aster, officials began a series of town hall meetings to explain the Kim skips mausoleum ceremony approval process that cleared the Sendai plant in the southwest of SEOUL: The two Koreas heavily-militarised land frontier the country for restart. traded heavy machine-gun fire has been extremely rare. But local authorities set strict across their border yesterday, as In 2010, the North shelled the ground rules for the first meeting “missing” North Korean leader South Korean border island of in Satsumasendai, the coastal city Kim Jong-un’s failed to attend a Yeonpyeong, killing four people of 98,000 people 1,000 kilometres key political event, fuelling fur- and briefly sparking fears of a full southwest of Tokyo that hosts ther speculation about his phys- scale conflict. the two-reactor Kyushu Electric ical health and political future. The balloon launch from Power Co facility. No casualties were reported in Hapsuri was one of several “As we saw in Fukushima, once the exchange of fire which South planned to coincide with North there’s an accident, the impact is Korea said was triggered by the Korea’s celebration of the 69th felt across a large region,” said North Korean military trying anniversary of its ruling Workers’ Makoto Matsuzaki, an anti- to shoot down balloons carrying Party. South Korean activists prepare to launch balloons into North Korea carrying 200,000 anti-Pyoanyang leaflets, nuclear legislator for Kagoshima anti-Pyongyang leaflets that were Seoul allowed the exercises to dollars and DVDs in Gyeonggi-do Province, South Korea, yesterday. prefecture, where Satsumasendai launched by activists in the South go ahead, despite prior warnings is located. around 2.00pm. from Pyongyang of “catastrophic” “They face that risk but have Some rounds fell on the South consequences. of his father and grandfather think-tank in Seoul, said his dis- spokesman Lim Byeong-Chul no rights and no say,” said the side which then responded with Some of the balloons carried -- an annual show of respect to appearance was almost certainly noted numerous reports in the Japanese Communist Party high-calibre machine gun fire messages denouncing North mark the party anniversary. down to a health problem that North Korean state media of Kim assemblywoman. “It’s like going “towards the North’s guard Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who Kim was last seen on September would have little impact on his exercising his authority. to get a risky surgery at a hospital posts,” a defence ministry spokes- has not been seen in public for 3 and his absence yesterday was leadership. “Judging from these, it seems without giving your consent.” man said. more than a month. considered significant as he had “But if he’s forced to stay away that Kim Jong-un is ruling nor- More than 160,000 people were There was a further exchange Competing theories for his dis- attended the ceremony each year for an extended period, it could mally,” Lim said, adding that the forced to flee their homes after the of fire 10 minutes later, he added. appearance range widely from an since coming to power following cause murmurings within the government had no specific intel- triple meltdowns at Fukushima, Local residents of Hwangsan-ri extended rest period to a leader- the death of his father in 2011. political elite and weaken Kim’s ligence on Kim’s health. the worst nuclear accident since Township in the border area of ship coup, via a long list of possible A heavy smoker, Kim has control,” Cheong said. In a front-page editorial on Chernobyl, and towns closest to Yeoncheon were evacuated to illnesses and ailments including shown striking weight gain over South Korea, which has largely yesterday, the Rodong Sinmun the Tokyo Electric Power Co plant shelters as a precaution. broken ankles, gout and diabetes. the past year and recent TV foot- distanced itself from the disap- described Kim as the symbol of remain off limits. While confrontations along the Yesterday, Kim was not listed age had shown him walking with pearance rumours, said it saw no the ruling party’s “dignity and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Koreas’ disputed maritime bor- by the state KCNA news agency a pronounced limp. indication that Kim was no longer invincibility”, and said his author- wants to bring reactors back der occur from time to time, any among the officials who visited the Cheong Seong-Chang, an in charge. ity should be protected by all online once they pass tougher military engagement across the mausoleum housing the remains analyst at the Sejong Institute Unification Ministry means necessary. AFP security checks. REUTERS Rally in Jakarta Manila may send health workers to West Africa

MANILA: The Philippines is considering deploying substan- tial numbers of health workers to West Africa amid a global appeal to deal with the Ebola virus, Health Secretary Enrique Ona said yesterday. The United States and United Kingdom have both specifically asked Manila to provide “human resources”, Ona said, adding that the nation’s high number of qualified health professionals make it well-placed to provide help. The United Nations has meanwhile called for a 20-fold increase in the world’s response to the Ebola epidemic, which Members of the Islamic People’s Forum and Islamic Defender Front stage a rally in Jakarta yesterday has killed nearly 3,900 people in West Africa since the beginning against the Governor of Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama. They protested the appointment of the ethnic of the year. Chinese to replace Joko Widodo who has been elected President. “I think it is also something of a responsibility for our coun- try... to respond to that global call for assistance,” Ona said at a S Korea coastguard kills China fisherman joint news conference with World Health Organization Western SEOUL: The South Korean Mokpo Coastguard Station. reacted angrily to the incident Pacific director Shin Young-soo. coastguard shot and killed “It was a dangerous situa- and urged immediate action. “We (Philippine officials) are the Chinese skipper of a fish- tion. One officer fired a warning “We are deeply shocked and meeting on this issue and should ing boat yesterday in a con- shot but they did not stop. So he strongly dissatisfied with this be able to make a firm decision... frontation in the Yellow Sea, fired several more rounds,” Choi violent law enforcement activ- maybe in a week or so.” triggering an angry protest said, adding that five coast- ity,” ministry spokesman Hong The Philippines is expected to from Beijing. guard officers needed treatment Lei told reporters. decide after President Benigno A coastguard spokesman said for injuries. “We urge (South Korea) to Aquino meets key officials to shots were fired as the vessel The Chinese captain was immediately investigate this discuss the specific US and UK was boarded for illegally fish- taken to a hospital in Mokpo case, bring those accountable requests, Ona added. ing in South Korean territorial on the mainland where he was to justice, and inform China of Shin said the Philippines was waters, around 130 kilome- declared dead on arrival. the result of the investigation in a unique position of having “so tres off the western island of An emergency room staffer in a timely fashion,” Hong said. many qualified health workers” Wangdeung. at the hospital said that X-rays The South Korean foreign and wanting to express its grati- “Dozens of Chinese sail- had shown a bullet lodged in his ministry sent its condolences to tude for the global rescue and ors attacked our officers with chest. “His lungs were full of the victim’s relatives and prom- rehabilitation effort after it was knives and beer bottles,” said blood”, the staffer said. ised it would take all necessary struck by Super Typhoon Haiyan Choi Chang-Sam, chief of the The Chinese foreign ministry “follow-up measures.” AFP last year. AFP 12 OCTOBER 11, 2014 ON SATURDAY www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Pakistan / Afghanistan Malala dedicates Nobel to ‘voiceless’ kids ‘I felt more powerful and courageous ... this is encouragement for me to go forward’ BIRMINGHAM: Education told a press conference at the end because this award is not just Former British prime minister Development Secretary Justine rights campaigner Malala of the school day so she wouldn’t a piece of metal or a medal you Gordon Brown, the UN special Greening congratulated the win- Yousafzai dedicated her Nobel miss class. wear or an award you keep in envoy for global education, voiced ners saying the prize was “richly peace prize yesterday to “voice- She arrived in Britain from your room. This isencouragement delight at the Nobel victory for deserved”. less” children around the world, Pakistan for treatment after for me to go forward.” Malala and Satyarthi. In Islamabad, Prime Minister and called on the Indian and being shot in the head by a The Norwegian Nobel “They are two of my best Nawaz Sharif hailed Malala as Pakistani prime ministers to Taliban fighter in October 2012, Committee gave the award friends and two of the greatest the “ride of Pakistan”. attend the award ceremony for an attempt to silence her vocal to Malala and Indian activ- global campaigners who deserve “She is (the) pride of Pakistan. the sake of peace. advocacy of the right of girls to ist Kailash Satyarthi for their the prize for their courage, deter- She has made her countrymen The 17-year-old, who heard the go to school. struggle against the repression mination and vision that no child proud. Her achievement is unpar- news while she was in a chemistry Standing on a box so she could of children and young people and should be left behind,” Brown alleled and unequalled. Girls and lesson at school in Birmingham, reach the podium at Birmingham’s “for the right of all children to said in a statement. After visit- boys of the world should take the central England, said she was main library, she joked that win- education”. ing her in hospital, Brown took lead from her struggle and com- honoured to be the youngest ning the Nobel would not help her Malala said she had spoken to up Malala’s cause with a petition mitment,” Sharif’s office said in Malala addressing a press person and the first Pakistani to in her upcoming school exams. Satyarthi — she joked that she for universal primary education a statement. conference in Birmingham yesterday. receive the accolade. But she told the audience that could not pronounce his name — handed to Pakistan on a day he The 17-year-old is Pakistan’s “The award is for all the chil- included her parents and two to discuss how they could work named Malala Day, and arranged second-ever Nobel laureate after shunned for being a member of dren who are voiceless, whose younger brothers: “I felt more together, and try to reduce ten- for her to speak at the UN. Abdus Salam, who won the phys- the country’s persecuted Ahmadi voices need to be heard,” Malala powerful and more courageous sions between their countries. Britain’s International ics prize in 1979 but was widely minority. AGENCIES International Day Against Death Penalty More floods predicted Islamabad high court ‘a thorn in in Pakistan until 2022 the govt’s side’ ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan lamenting that the incumbent ISLAMABAD: Following the government has sought help of government had converted the retirement of former Pakistani international community for Climate change ministry into a chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, the rehabilitation of people dis- division. an age of ‘judicial activism’ at the placed by floods but critics are Finance Minister Ishaq Dar Supreme Court came to an end, of the view that floods happened had made the appeal for rehabili- according to experts. due to sheer negligence which tation of around one million peo- During his term as the top converted a natural calamity ple affected by floods and military judge, the apex court was known into a man-made disaster. operation in North Waziristan at for taking suo motu notices on “The 2014 floods are classi- a donors’ conference attended by nearly all matters deemed to be cal example of bad government representatives of foreign dip- ‘in the public interest’ and was response which converted a nat- lomatic missions, aid agencies, often the source of breaking news. ural disaster into a man-made development partners and UN Often, decisions on these mat- one,” said Halim Sheikh, chair- agencies. ters, including high-profile cases man Pakistan Relief Foundation Citing reports, Sheikh said such as the missing persons’, (PRF). Pakistan would be facing similar Karachi law and order and the Sheikh, who had also served floods due to global warming and privatisation of the Pakistan Steel as minister for relief for Sindh, changes in climate until 2022 and Mills to name a few, were consid- underlined the need for a national there was dire need of a consoli- ered a thorn in the government’s Pakistani NGO activists carry placards during a demonstration to mark International Day Against the Death climate change policy while dated policy. INTERNEWS side. But after his exit, suo motu Penalty in Islamabad yesterday. A court postponed for almost a month the hanging of a murderer in what would notices have been few and far have been Pakistan’s first civilian execution for six years. between. As the apex court led by a new chief concentrated its ener- gies on purely legal matters, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) Disgruntled PPP workers refuse to attend meeting emerged as the successor to the Supreme Court of old, handing out RAWALPINDI: After sen- meeting successful and ensure the Asif Ali Zardari at the Bilawal He said, the party’s candidates differences with the provincial verdicts that often went against ior workers in the garrison city presence of the old party work- House in Lahore on Thursday. in the 2013 elections were also PPP president, Manzoor Wattoo. the wishes of the government. refused to attend the October 18 ers there, the PPP has also asked A senior leader of the PPP said directed to bring two buses each On the other hand, old work- public gathering of the Pakistan the party’s former election candi- that the party formed a team, led and also arrange train tickets for ers of the PPP said Asif Zardari US repays $371m People’s Party (PPP) in Karachi, dates in the district to bring the by former prime minister Raja the workers. wanted them to attend the party the party leadership has asked old workers to Karachi. Pervaiz Ashraf, to visit all the four He added that, the old work- public meeting in Karachi where Coalition Support the local chapter to convince This was decided at a meeting districts of the Rawalpindi divi- ers did not want to attend the he would Bilawal Bhutto Zardari them within a week. of workers from the Rawalpindi sion and convince the old workers meetings of the party’s local and in active politics. Fund to Pakistan To make the Karachi public division with former President to attend the public gathering. Punjab chapters due to their INTERNEWS ISLAMABAD: The Obama administration has reimbursed Anti-Indian protest $371m to Pakistan on account of pending instalment of Coalition Support Fund (CSF), official sources here said. The amount was reimbursed before Eid Al Adha for the serv- ices rendered by Pakistan’s mili- tary to flush out militants from tribal areas adjacent to the war- torn Afghanistan. “Yes, we have received $371m from USA on account of CSF,” advisor to finance ministry Rana Assad Amin says. However, the official sources said that two instalments were pending for period from Jan- March and April-June 2014 of which the Obama administration reimbursed one pending instal- ment for Jan-March 2014 period on September 30, 2014. According to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), Pakistan’s total liquid foreign reserves held by the SBP stood at $13.4008bn on October 3, 2014. This includes $8.857bn held by the State Bank and net reserves held by banks US$4.543bn, total- ling the reserves up to $13.4bn. During the week ending 03 Supporters of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat burn an effigy of Indian Premier Narendra Modi as they shout slo- October 2014, SBP’s Liquid FX gans during an anti-India protest in Pakistan yesterday. Officials from India and Pakistan issued threatening Reserves increased by $247m to $8,857m compared to $8,610m in statements as the armies of the two nuclear-armed neighbours exchanged heavy fire across the border. the previous week. AGENCIE S 50 couples tie the knot in mass ceremony BAHAWALPUR: About 50 All the couples were given Trust has solemnised Nikah of established schools where orphan and poor couples have necessary domestic appliances 500 boys and girls who are poor computer education was being been married under a collec- by the trust. and from downtrodden families, imparted to the children from tive marriage ceremony in Faiz Al Qaim Trust he added. poor families. Hatheji, Tehsil Ahmadpur Chairman Agha Afzal Ali Fazal He vowed that Faiz Al Qaim This collective marriage East in central Pakistan while congratulating the newly Trust would also arrange for ceremony was also addressed by a Karachi-based Faiz Al wed couples said that Faiz Al 1,000 more collective marriages by local PML-N MNA Mian Qaim Trust in a big gather- Qaim Trust started this col- for the deserving boys and girls Najeeb-ud-Din Awaisi, local ing of local dignitaries includ- lective marriage programme of this part of the country dur- MPA Khalid Mehmood Waran ing parliamentarians from for the boys and girls, who ing the next 16 years. and MPA from Khairpur Bahawalpur district. were orphans or were from The chairman also revealed Tamiwali Mian Kazim Ali The couples were selected poor families, in year 1999 in that the Trust was also striv- Pirzada who specially joined through a lucky draw by the view of backwardness and pov- ing for the promotion of edu- this ceremony to pay tribute Trust chairman and its other erty of Tehsil Ahmadpur East, cation in this underdeveloped to the Trust chairman and his members. particularly Hatheji. So far the area of South Punjab and had team. INTERNEWS OCTOBER 11, 2014 13 India www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ON SATURDAY Kailash Satyarthi, champion of child rights NEW DELHI: Kailash struggle of child labourers. rights”. The Nobel Committee Satyarthi, India’s best known “This award is a dedication regards it “as an important point face against child labour, was to all those people and activists for a Hindu and a Muslim, an yesterday awarded the Nobel fighting for the cause of children. Indian and a Pakistani, to join in Peace Prize along with Pakistani I hope this will give strength to a common struggle for education teenager Malala Yousufzai “for the struggle of children working and against extremism”. their struggle against the sup- as labourers,” Satyarthi said. It said there were 168 million pression of children and young Satyarthi’s Bachpan Bachao child labourers in the world now. people”. President Pranab Andolan (BBA, or Save Childhood In 2000, the figure was 78 mil- Mukherjee and Prime Minister Movement), has for years not just lion higher. The world has come Narendra Modi led a proud campaigned against child labour closer to the goal of eliminating nation in congratulating the but raided factories as well as child labour. Satyarthi’s group Delhi-based 60-year-old activist, sweat-shops that employ children has so far freed about 80,000 who pledged to keep fighting to illegally, turning them into virtual children from servitude, includ- secure freedom for the hundreds slave labour and often paying them ing bonded labourers, and helped of thousands from poor families a pittance for hours of hard toil. in their successful re-integration, who slog away as child workers The Norwegian Nobel rehabilitation and education. in pitiable conditions. Committee said it was awarding Officially, there are only Satyarthi is the fifth Indian Satyarthi and Malala “for their about five million child work- to win a Nobel prize after struggle against the suppres- ers in India. But activists say Rabindranath Tagore (1913, sion of children and young people the actual figure is ten times Literature), C V Raman (1930, and for the right of all children to as much. President Mukherjee Physics), Mother Teresa (1979, education”. said: “The prize should be seen Peace) and Amartya Sen (1988, It said that showing great per- as recognition of the contribu- Economics). Rajendra K Pachauri sonal courage, Satyarthi, “main- tions of India’s vibrant civil soci- accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for taining Gandhi’s tradition, has ety in addressing complex social the Inter-governmental Panel on headed various forms of protests problems such as child labour Climatic Change (IPCC) in 2007. and demonstrations, all peaceful, and the important role played Born in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, focusing on the grave exploitation by them in collaboration with Satyarthi, who gave up a promis- of children for financial gain. He the government in the nation’s ing career as an electrical engineer has also contributed to the devel- efforts to eliminate all forms of Children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi waves to the media at his office in New Delhi yesterday. Satyarthi, when he was 26, expressed hope this opment of important interna- child labour in the country.” 60, and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai were picked for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for their struggle against the recognition would strengthen the tional conventions on children’s IANS oppression of children and young people, and for the right of all children to education.

Ignore rules in times of disaster, Firing eases after days of fighting Apex Court to insurance firms Respect truce, war not the answer: Pakistan; border firing claims 20 lives NEW DELHI: The Supreme SRINAGAR: Fighting in the respect a 2003 ceasefire along the on the Indian side this week. his swearing-in ceremony in June. in Kashmir to put on a show of Court yesterday said that the disputed Kashmir region eased Kashmir border to end clashes Meanwhile, India threw the India called off peace talks last force ahead of the polls. rules and regulations govern- yesterday after days of cross- “without indulging in blame-game ball in Pakistan’s court, saying month after Pakistan consulted Fighting between Indian forces ing the payment of insurance border strikes by Indian and and point-scoring”, the Pakistani de-escalation is now entirely with Indian Kashmiri separatists, and rebels seeking independence claims could not come in the Pakistani forces left at least 20 government said yesterday. in Pakistan’s hands. “It is for in a move some saw as a sign of a or a merger of the territory with way of people of Kashmir who civilians dead and forced thou- Pakistan concluded yesterday Pakistan to either escalate or tougher stance under India’s new Pakistan has killed tens of thou- lost their properties in the sands more from their homes. that war against India was “not de-escalate. We will respond right-wing government. sands — mostly civilians —since recent devastating floods that The lull in fighting followed an option” after a meeting of top as appropriate to what will be Modi said last month that 1989. The two countries have gone had hit the state. some of the worst violence in a security officials chaired by Prime their efforts in this regard,” for- Pakistan needed to show more to war over the territory twice, A bench of Chief Justice H L decade in the region, which is Minister Nawaz Sharif. eign ministry spokesman Syed “seriousness” before dialogue in 1947 and 1965, and fought a Dattu, Justice S A Bobde and divided between the nuclear- “The Committee stressed the Akbaruddin said at a press con- between the historic adversar- smaller scale conflict in 1999. Justice Abhay Manohar Sapre armed neighbours. fact that both countries are aware ference in New Delhi. ies could resume. Modi upped Violence has fallen in the region said this as it declined to interfere “The firing last night was less of each other’s capabilities. War is The lull in fighting came the rhetoric on Thursday, saying since 2004, when the countries with the Jammu and Kashmir intense than the previous night not an option. It is shared respon- after UN chief Ban Ki-moon’s India’s soldiers had “responded to began a peace process a year after High Court’s order directing the and confined to a smaller area,” sibility of the leadership of both spokesman urged the two sides the aggression with courage,” and signing a ceasefire agreement. insurance companies to pay 95 said an official with India’s Border countries to immediately diffuse to engage in dialogue to find “a describing Pakistan as “the enemy”. While the agreement has percent of a claim up to `.2.5m Security Force on condition of the situation,” an official state- long-term solution for peace and He made the comments at largely held, minor clashes occur and 50 percent in respect of anonymity. An Indian police offi- ment said. Pakistan confirmed stability in Kashmir”. Hopes of an a campaign rally for elections regularly along the disputed bor- claims above `2.5m . cial said that 10 civilians were late on Thursday that three more early resumption in peace talks due to be held in Maharashtra der known as Line of Control “Sometimes we have to ignore injured overnight on the Indian civilians had died on its side of the between the two countries were and Haryana states next week. (LOC) as well as along the inter- the rules and regulation (for paying side of the border due to the fight- disputed Kashmir region and in raised when new Prime Minister Some analysts have suggested nationally recognised frontier insurance claims) in the interest ing, but there were no deaths. Punjab province, taking the toll Narendra Modi invited his Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata dividing Indian Kashmir from of the people suffering from natu- Pakistan and India need to up to 13. Seven civilians have died Pakistani counterpart to attend Party may be using the violence Pakistan’s Punjab province. AFP ral calamities,” the court said. It refused to accede to repeated submissions by Attorney General Facebook chief meets PM Mukul Rohatgi and senior coun- Chautala told to sel M N Krishnamani seeking a month’s time to carry out the surrender today survey of the insurance claims by the people who lost their belong- NEW DELHI: The Delhi ings in the unprecedented floods High Court has directed that hit the state. former Haryana chief min- “The chief justice of the high ister Om Prakash Chautala court has seen the tragedy with to surrender to Tihar Jail his own eyes and he is justified in authorities here today and passing the order. Not one shop discontinue his political can be opened at Lal Chowk. rallies. There is no shop in Lal Chowk,” Justice Siddharth Mridul, Chief Justice Dattu said, justify- in an order, also asked the jail ing the high court order on the authorities to take Chautala payment of the insurance claims to the All India Institute of without carrying out mandatory Medical Sciences (AIIMS) verification of the claims. here, if they consider it neces- “We are not going to change sary, as he complains he has even a word from the high court fractured his leg. order,” he said, brushing aside all Chautala, who is also the submissions seeking a hold on the Indian National Lok Dal chief, high court order. appeared before the court yes- terday. IANS Mark Zuckerberg (left), Founder and CEO of Facebook, with Prime Report about Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi yesterday. Sunanda’s death inconclusive: Police BJP may not get majority in

NEW DELHI: The latest forensic evidence available in Maharashtra, Haryana: Survey the death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress MP Shashi NEW DELHI: The BJP is independents, says the tracking Navnirman Sena has been Tharoor, is “not conclusive”, predicted to emerge the single poll. In the 2009 assembly elec- given a seat range of 8-14 seats. Delhi Police said yesterday. largest party in Maharashtra tions in Haryana, the Congress Smaller parties and independ- “The forensic report at the and Haryana but may fall had won 40 seats, the INLD 31, ents may win 3 to 9 seats, says moment is not conclusive, our short of majority in the final BJP four, HJC and HJP six, and the opinion poll. inquest status is pending,” Delhi outcome, says an IndiaTV- “others” nine seats. In 2009, the Congress-NCP Police Commissioner B S Bassi CVoter opinion poll. Voteshare wise, the BJP this United Progressive Alliance told reporters here. Pushkar’s In the 90-seat Haryana time may get 33 percent votes won 144 seats, the BJP-Shiv latest post-mortem examina- assembly, the BJP is projected followed by the INLD (28 per- Sena won 90 and others got tion report, leaked on Thursday, to bag 34 seats, closely followed cent), Congress (21 percent), 54 seats. The survey says that stated “poisoning” as the cause of by Om Prakash Chautala’s HJC-HJP (10) and others eight if the BJP gets a four percent her death. Bassi said investigators Indian National Lok Dal with percent. In Maharashtra, the swing on polling day (October would draw their conclusion once 27 seats. The Congress, ruling India TV-CVoter poll gives a 15), its seat range may increase they get conclusive evidence. the state for the last 10 years, 132-142 seat range to the BJP in within 176-186 seats. “We believe in the quest for is projected to come third with the 288-seat assembly, followed Voteshare wise, the BJP is truth and whatever is required in 16 seats. by the Shiv Sena (50-60 seats). going to get 28 percent votes, the quest for truth... we have been The Haryana Janhit The Nationalist Congress followed by Shiv Sena (19.7), doing and will continue doing,” he Congress-Haryana Jan Chetna Party has been given a seat NCP (13.7), Congress (21.2) and said while answering a question Party alliance may win nine range of 31-41 seats, and the MNS 7 percent. Others may get about the role of the investigating seats, with the remaining four Congress 38-48 seats. 10.4 percent votes. officer. IANS seats going to other parties and Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra IANS 14 OCTOBER 11, 2014 ON SATURDAY www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Business Saudi tells Opec it raised output in September China campaign against high pricing Gold rally Cartel leaves demand forecast steady stalls as firmer dollar hits LONDON: Top oil exporter this week for comment due to the Saudi Arabia told Opec it raised Eid holiday. its oil production in September by Saudi Arabia, supported by Kuwait commodities 100,000 barrels per day, adding to and the United Arab Emirates, has signs it has yet to respond to a boosted supply informally to cover LONDON: Gold edged lower drop in prices well below $100 a for unplanned outages in other Opec yesterday as a rise in the dol- barrel by trimming output. members in recent months includ- lar capped four days of gains, In a monthly report issued on ing in Libya, which is now seeing its though the metal remained sup- Friday, the Organisation of the production recover. ported around the $1,220 level Petroleum Exporting Countries No sign of a significant throt- by the prospect of a widespread (Opec) said Saudi Arabia reported tling back of the extra crude and economic slowdown that could September production of 9.704 mil- Saudi Arabia’s decision to lower the keep interest rates low. lion barrels per day (bpd), up from official selling price of its oil have Strength in the US currency 9.597 million in August. sparked talk of a change of tack. drove commodities lower across The lack of a Saudi cut could “The Saudis are not responding the board, with Brent crude oil add to perceptions of traders and to lower prices. They’re defending futures earlier tumbling more analysts that the kingdom is look- market share,” Gary Ross, chief than one percent towards a four- ing to defend market share, not executive of PIRA Energy Group, year low, while worries about the prices. Oil in September fell below who has been consulting with world economic outlook hit stock $100 a barrel, a level endorsed by Opec members for decades, said markets. Saudi Arabia, for the first time in on Thursday. Spot gold was down 0.3 per- 14 months and hit $88.11 yesterday, Opec also issues production fig- cent at $1,219.94 an ounce at 1405 its lowest since 2010. ures from secondary sources, a GMT, while US gold futures for Opec’s report said the more than legacy of past Opec disagreements December delivery were down $20-a-barrel price fall since the end about countries’ reported output Customers look at cars at an Audi dealership from the Baoxin Auto Group in Shanghai yesterday. A govern- $4.50 an ounce at $1,220.60. of June reflected weak demand and figures. The sources include con- ment campaign in China against the high pricing of luxury cars is hitting the profit margins of auto dealers. “We saw a great bounce from ample supply, but it echoed the view sultants and industry media. the triple bottom, but once again of core Gulf Opec members in say- According to these, Saudi Arabia momentum faded,” Sharps Pixley ing winter demand would revive the cut output by 50,000bpd to 9.60 mil- CEO Ross Norman said. market. lion bpd in September but overall “Gold is now at the top end of “This increased demand would Opec output rose to 30.47 million the range $1,183-$1,240 at the lead to a higher crude intake by bpd, due to a recovery in Libya and Oil falls to lowest since 2010 moment tracking sideways, look- refineries, thus also supporting higher exports from Iraq. ing to see whether the US dol- the crude oil market in the coming Details on the amount of oil that LONDON: Brent crude oil hit Carsten Fritsch, commodities economic data from Europe and lar should weaken ... but at the months,” the report from Opec’s Saudi Arabia supplied to the mar- its lowest since 2010 yesterday, analyst at Commerzbank. “The Asia, that has pushed Brent moment we don’t see it getting Vienna headquarters said. ket, which may differ from produc- falling below $90 a barrel as rout will probably continue until more than $25 lower since hit- through resistance at $1,240.” Opec meets on November 27 in tion depending on the movement Saudi Arabia said it increased Opec says enough is enough.” ting a year high of $115.71 in Gold hit a 15-month low of Vienna for what will be one of its of barrels in and out of storage, in production last month, fanning Brent crude for November June. Brent is on track to record $1,183.46 on Monday after strong most important meetings in years. September is not yet available. speculation of an Opec price war. delivery was down 70 cents at the third straight week of losses. US jobs data fuelled talk that US The group has not cut output collec- The supply figure is watched Fast-rising oil output in $89.35 a barrel by 1404 GMT, Global shares fell to a six- interest rates could rise sooner tively since the 2008 financial crisis by traders. In August, Saudi pro- North America and tepid eco- after earlier touching $88.11 — month trough as concern about a rather than later. Gold has since and so far comments from officials duction fell but supply was lit- nomic growth had raised expec- its lowest since December 2010. recession in Germany deepened rebounded, however, and remains suggest it is no closer to any collec- tle changed, according to figures tations the Organisation of the US November crude dropped early on Friday after sources in on track to post its biggest weekly tive steps to support the market. in Opec’s report last month and Petroleum Exporting Countries 60 cents to $85.17 a barrel. The the ruling coalition said Europe’s gain in four months. Iran’s oil minister this week, in a industry sources in Saudi Arabia. will cut output when it meets in contract, also known as West largest economy would cut its The gold recovery gained comment that appeared to be a ref- In the report, Opec left its fore- November to stem a near-25- Texas Intermediate (WTI), hit growth forecasts for 2014 and momentum after minutes of the erence to Saudi Arabia, said Opec casts for global oil demand growth percent price slide since June. a session low of $83.59, its lowest 2015 next week. Fed’s September meeting, released would tolerate the price fall until unchanged in 2014 and 2015. It still But yesterday Saudi Arabia said since July 2012. China, the world’s second- on Wednesday, showed that officials “Opec majors” cut their output. expects an acceleration of demand it had boosted its oil production Oil output has also risen in largest oil consumer, is also were struggling with how to deal Following those remarks, an growth in 2015. by 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) Opec members Iraq and Libya, seeing signs of a slowdown. with the dual threats of a stronger Opec delegate said it looked unlikely Rising supply outside Opec, par- in September, raising doubts the the group said in its monthly oil Data due next week is forecast dollar and a global slowdown. Opec would agree to reduce supply ticularly in the United States due to world’s top exporter would be pre- market report yesterday, despite to show that softer domestic The minutes prompted inves- in November and that it was up to its shale energy boom, has squeezed pared to take unilateral action to violence and instability in both demand probably slowed growth tors to bet that the US central the Saudis to cut. Opec’s market share. Opec fore- cut in the near future. countries. Total Opec output in China’s imports, investment bank is in no rush to tighten “The question should be posed casts global demand for its crude “It’s panic mode. Panic and grew by 400,000bpd to 30.47 mil- and retail sales to multi-month policy after years of monetary to Saudi Arabia,” the delegate said. will fall to 29.20 million bpd in 2015. capitulation. We are now in lion bpd. or multi-year lows in September. stimulus. Saudi officials could not be reached REUTERS uncharted territory,” said Combined with disappointing REUTERS REUTERS India’s weak industrial data dims recovery hopes

NEW DELHI: Indian industrial produc- expansion a few years ago. “The data is indeed harbinger of future investment intentions. tion was unexpectedly weak in August, disappointing,” said Debopam Chaudhuri, Patchy consumer demand was under- official figures yesterday showed, suggest- chief economist at ZyFin Research. scored by a 6.9-percent shrinkage in produc- ing that recovery of Asia’s third-largest Manufacturing production, which rep- tion of consumer goods such as fridges and economy may still be some way off. resents three-quarters of the Index of stoves. “The fall in manufacturing growth Output of factories, mines and utilities Industrial Production, contracted by 1.4 has not yet bottomed out,” FICCI’s secre- grew by a marginal 0.4 percent in August percent in August. tary general said. “It is more worrisome to from the same month a year earlier, far “Sectors continue to reel under the slow- see negative growth in consumer and capi- undershooting a consensus market force- down,” said A. Didar Singh, secretary gen- tal goods especially when we were hoping cast of 2.2-percent growth. eral of the Federation of Indian Chambers demand would pick up,” he said. The slack output was a dampener for the of Commerce and Industry. The gloomy data came after the HSBC right-wing government of Prime Minister July output growth was revised downward Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Narendra Modi, who took office in May fol- to 4.4 percent from 4.5 percent, according Index, keenly watched as a portent of indus- lowing a landslide election win. to the data. trial expansion and overall economic health, Modi has promised to revive an economy Factory output was hit in August by a suggested factory activity expanded at its that grew by 4.7 percent in the last financial 11.3-percent decline in production of capi- slowest pace in nine months in September. year to March, down from near double-digit tal goods such as plant equipment — a AFP

Canada real estate business rises Malaysia bank giants eye merger KUALA LUMPUR: Two of Malaysia’s largest financial insti- tutions, CIMB Group and RHB Capital, said they plan to merge along with a property lending firm to create a “financial pow- erhouse” that will become the country’s biggest bank. The three institutions are seek- ing central bank approval for the merger, according to documents submitted with Malaysia’s stock exchange, and aim to sign a defini- tive agreement early next year. CIMB and RHB Capital — the second- and fourth-largest banks, respectively — and the Malaysia Building Society announced in July they were in early talks on creating an entity with total assets estimated at around 614bn ringgit ($189bn). That would top current leader Maybank, which had total assets of about 578bn Condominiums under construction in Toronto. Canadian housing starts rose modestly in September ringgit as of July. as builders broke ground on more multiple-unit dwellings. AFP OCTOBER 11, 2014 15 Business www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ON SATURDAY Etisalat eyes Eurogroup chief first sukuk, proposes new say bankers LONDON: Abu Dhabi- based telecoms firm Emirates Telecommunications Corp (Etisalat) is planning its first ever ‘growth deal’ sukuk issuance in a follow-up to its debut conventional bond ear- lier this year, bankers told IFR. Plan to link ECB, govt policies The firm, rated Aa3/AA-/A+, is in talks with banks for the WASHINGTON: The chair- “Let’s try to interconnect potential Islamic bond issuance, man of eurozone finance minis- them and make them work proceeds of which are set to go ters proposed yesterday a new to strengthen each other,” towards infrastructural improve- growth deal for Europe which Dijsselbloem said of monetary ments of its telecommunications would reward governments policy, investment, structural network. reforming their economies reforms and budget consolidation. The company will have the with cheap European funds Dijsselbloem, who is Dutch documents ready in the com- for investment and leeway on finance minister, chairs monthly ing weeks, but the deal is more budget consolidation targets. meetings of the powerful group likely to be launched in early 2015, The proposal comes at a time of eurozone finance ministers, the added the bankers. as Europe is on the brink of Eurogroup, which sets economic “This issuer is going to be another recession and is desper- policy for the 18 countries that opportunistic as it is pretty cash ate to boost economic growth to share the single euro currency. generative, and the way the mar- reduce almost record high unem- “It is going to take a political ket is, I can’t see them coming ployment and huge public debt. breakthrough to look at these An all-wheel-drive version of the Tesla Model S car up for test drives in Hawthorne, California, yesterday. this year,” said one Gulf-focused The European Central Bank strands together,” he said. “Some banker, referring to a recent wid- has already cut its interest rates say let’s do more investment, ening of credits in the region. to almost zero and will start asset others let’s do more budget disci- Tesla unveils electric car for bad weather “But the docs are pretty much purchases to inject cash into the pline and structural reforms are ready so if there is a massive moribund economy and reduce left in the middle. If we connect turnaround, they have the capa- the risk of deflation. these three, it could be a strong LOS ANGELES: Electric speed to comply. its Japanese partner Panasonic bility to hit the market very “We should try to formulate mechanism.” car giant Tesla on Thursday The top of the line model will will make battery cells destined quickly,” he added. a new Growth Deal for Europe,” Because of weak growth in unveiled a new two-engine be able to reach 250 kilometers for the plant and invest in equip- The initial indications are that Jeroen Dijsselbloem said in an France and even a recession in vehicle designed to perform in (155 miles) per hour, with accel- ment and machinery. the company will not raise much interview. Italy, the eurozone’s second and bad weather, featuring four- eration that Musk described as Panasonic and Tesla said the more than $500m from the trade, The plan would link monetary third-largest economies have been wheel drive and anti-collision “insane”. It can go from zero to plant should drive down the cost said one Dubai-based debt capi- policy of the European Central pushing hard for more leeway on technology. 100km in 3.2 seconds, he said. of batteries and eventually help tal markets banker. “It is going to Bank, the evaluation of budget budget consolidation targets set Performance in inclement That top-line new version will popularize electric vehicles. be a small deal, probably around policy of eurozone governments, for them by EU finance ministers, conditions was considered one of increase range by about 16km While Tesla produces relatively benchmark . Certainly nothing progress on structural reforms arguing that cutting government the weak spots of Tesla’s exist- over the current version, to about few vehicles, it has become a star like the last trade,” he said. and investment plans. spending would hurt growth even ing models and with the new 470km. The price will start at in the sector due to keen demand The telecoms firm completed a “We look at budgets, reforms, further. car, the company is trying to win about $120,000. and a reputation for high quality. US$4.25bn-equivalent dual-cur- what the ECB is doing, we are But Dijsselbloem defended the over drivers in regions where the Musk said having two engines A surge in its share price over rency four-tranche deal in June, thinking how to strengthen rules. “They become an important weather is not the nearly year- will not slow the car down. the past year has pushed its value a trade that was launched to sup- investments. Now these policies political reflection of trust, not round sunshine that its California “You can dynamically shift the over $30bn. port the acquisition of a majority are separate, I would like to link just the trust of the outside world base enjoys. power from rear to front and Tesla’s Model S, which came stake in Maroc Telecom. them” Dijsselbloem said. “It would in the euro zone, but the trust Founder Elon Musk said the constantly be at the optimal effi- out in 2012, sells for around Etisalat wanted to raise the be worthwhile to bring those between countries,” Dijsselbloem new version of the Model S will ciency of both motors, so we actu- $75,000. Maroc funds by issuing sukuk, but four strands together and have a said. feature the letter D for dual ally overcome the penalty of the The company is working on a the Islamic market did not have political agreement on how they “It is crucial that if you have motor, one of which will be in the increased mass,” Musk said. 4x4 crossover model that is sup- the same depth as the conven- interconnect.” a monetary union and stronger front and one in the back of the The P85D will be delivered posed to come out next year. It is tional market, the bankers said. He said that governments economic cooperation that you vehicle. in North America beginning in also working on a less expensive The fact that euro investors that embark on reforms which preserve the trust and over the Musk unveiled the new car at December, while the 60D and Model 3 that is expected to cost were bullish on emerging markets bring back trust in the econ- course of the sovereign debt crisis an event at Hawthorne airport 85D will be delivered starting in between $35,000 and $40,000. at the time helped convince the omy, make it more competitive, we have invested heavily in that,” in Los Angeles where Tesla has a February. Deliveries in Europe Musk had created a frenzy of issuer to issue a conventional bond attract investors, raise the level he said referring to those gov- design studio and engineering lab. and Asia will come in the months speculation with a tweet earlier in denominated both in US dollars of research and development ernments that had to implement Musk said the new car will to follow, Tesla said. the day, which read: “about time and in euros. However, it remains and the quality of the workforce painful reforms. come in three versions: 60D, 85D Electric cars represent only 3.5 to unveil the D and something keen to establish a benchmark in should be rewarded with more “Many countries have invested and the top of the line P85D, with percent of sales in the US but that else.” He did not elaborate. the Islamic bond market. wiggle room with budget consoli- heavily in this monetary union. progressively higher engine power stake is growing. At Thursday’s evening event he Deutsche Bank, Goldman dation targets. My role is to make sure we do not and speed. Tesla last month announced said, “since I’ve tweeted about the Sachs, HSBC and RBS were the They should also be given access damage that trust.” The car’s anti-collision features plans to build the world’s larg- D I’ve learnt a lot including things active leads on the conventional to cheaper funds for investment, Dijsselbloem said that more include forward-looking radar. “It est lithium-ion battery plant in I didn’t think were physically pos- bond deal, while Mitsubishi UFJ, for example from the European government spending now would scans the car in front of you in the Nevada, as part of an effort to sible.” He was joking about all the Morgan Stanley, Natixis and Investment Bank, for concrete not fix the problems that France fog, snow and sand,” Musk said. bring down costs and boost popu- speculation as to what the D could National Bank of Abu Dhabi were projects that would help economic and Italy were facing. The car can also read speed- larity of electric vehicles. mean. passive bookrunners. recovery. REUTERS limit signs and adjust the car’s Tesla will run operations while AFP REUTERS Malaysia targets more subsidy cuts

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s premier emerged as a top economic priority. inherit a country burdened with govern- said yesterday his government would con- Subsidies have already been reduced on ment debt.” tinue to make unpopular cuts to subsidies items including fuel and sugar, and the gov- Malaysia has one of Asia’s highest debt- that have kept prices of key consumer ernment plans to introduce a Goods and to-GDP ratios, hovering just below a 55 per- items in check but which have helped Services Tax (GST) from next April that cent red line that the government says will fuel worryingly high levels of debt in it says will boost coffers by improving tax not be crossed. The finance ministry report Southeast Asia’s third-largest economy. collection. said the ratio was at 52.8 percent in June, The lower subsidy outlays were contained A Finance Ministry report submitted but gave no forecast for the year ahead. in a budget tabled in parliament by Prime along with the budget said subsidy alloca- Last year Fitch ratings agency warned Minister Najib Razak that also forecast solid tions would be reduced to 37.7bn ringgit Malaysia to get its house in order or face a economic growth of between 5-6 percent ($11.6bn) in 2015, down 7.1 percent. possible sovereign-debt downgrade. this year and next. “Consolidating the fiscal deficit is a moral Malaysian consumers have come to After years of massive populist spend- responsibility of our generation,” Najib, who expect the subsidy cushion, and reducing it ing leading up to general elections last year, also is finance minister, told parliament. has triggered public anger. the task of corralling a growing debt has “We do not want future Malaysians to AFP

China-Australia coal tariffs Orange weighs IPO of Africa, Mideast units

PARIS: French telecom opera- tor Orange is studying whether to float its African and Middle Eastern units as a way to raise money to cut debt and reinvest in Europe, the company said yesterday. The news was first reported on Thursday by financial newspaper Agefi. Orange, which has 91.8 mil- lion customers in about two dozen African and Middle Eastern countries, said in a statement the fast-growing regions remained a “key part” of its strategy. “No decision has been taken regarding the exact details of any such project and no calendar has been defined,” it said. Revenues in Africa and the Middle East climbed 7.4 percent to ¤2.1bn ($2.65bn) in the first half of A worker unloads coal at a storage site in Shenyang, Liaoning province in China. Australia must hold this year, compared with a decline urgent talks with China to exempt coal producers from new tariffs in a free trade agreement due to of 4.6 percent to ¤9.6bn in France. be completed this year, an industry body said. REUTERS OCTOBER 11, 2014 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Classifieds ON SATURDAY 16

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MUMBAI: India’s new football Serb beats Ferrer in straight sets, Simon ousts Berdych league with its cast of celebrity owners, experienced foreign managers and a sprinkling of SHANGHAI: Two-time cham- high-profile players will kick off pion Novak Djokovic thumped today, igniting hopes of waking Spain’s David Ferrer 6-4 6-2 to the country from its football march into the last four of the slumber. Shanghai Masters yesterday Italian World Cup winners and set up a semi-final show- Alessandro Del Piero and Marco down with third seed Roger Materazzi, Spain’s Joan Capdevila Federer. and Luis Garcia, and French stars The Serbian world number one, David Trezeguet and Robert Pires who won the China Open title for have all signed up to play in the a fifth time last week, hit 26 win- Indian Super League (ISL). ners against the Spaniard’s 11 Cricket-obsessed India, with to stretch his winning streak in its population of 1.2bn, is ranked China to 29 matches. 158th in the world, leading FIFA Djokovic took control early by President Sepp Blatter to call breaking Ferrer’s serve in the it the ‘sleeping giant’ of world second game and then saved two football. break points at 5-4 to serve out The national league has failed the first set. to inspire youngsters to take up Spanish footballer Luis Garcia World number five Ferrer did the sport, which remains popular (centre) participates in a training not have another opportunity to only in certain areas of the coun- session with his Atletico de break the top seed’s serve and was try, while the appetite to watch Kolkata team-mates in Kolkata broken twice in the second set as televised games is restricted to yesterday. he lost his seventh consecutive the English Premier League or meeting against Djokovic. Spain’s La Liga. former international coaches Zico, “Roger is one of the best play- Modelled on cricket’s popular Peter Reid and Ricki Herbert in a ers ever in the game,” Djokovic Indian Premier League, the ISL, managerial capacity. told reporters. “There is no clear with its franchise-based model, In its inaugural season, the ISL favourite. I think every time we slick promotion and branding, and will feature eight city-based fran- play against each other, it’s a the presence of stars from cricket chises taking part in the October thriller. Novak Djokovic of Serbia reacts during his quarter-final match against David Ferrer of Spain at the Shanghai and the country’s film industry, is 12-December 20 tournament. “It’s really a big challenge for Tennis Masters in Shanghai yesterday. aiming to change all that. There will be lots of glamour both of us. We need to bring our “Indian football had somewhat and entertainment on display ‘A’ game in order to win.” in the first set but the 17-times Federer converted three out Mikhail Youzhny 5-7 6-4 6-4. stagnated,” All India Football during today’s opening ceremony Frenchman Julien Benneteau grand slam found a new level in of four break point opportuni- Simon’s win was his second big Federation (AIFF) Vice-president in Kolkata. matched Federer shot for shot the second to win 7-6(4) 6-0. ties in the second set to canter upset of the tournament follow- Subrata Dutta said. The match between Atletico to victory. ing his second round victory over “Nothing great was happening de Kolkata, owned by a consor- The Swiss, who served 11 Australian Open champion Stan and we were not progressing at tium including Spanish champi- aces, won 91 percent of his first Wawrinka. the desirable rate. We have been ons Atletico Madrid, and Mumbai serve points and smashed 34 Berdych is currently seventh in hovering between 140 and 160 in City FC is expected to draw more winners, double the number the the ATP Race To London stand- rankings for many years now and than 100,000 people at Salt Lake Frenchman could manage. ings, with five singles spots left up we needed something big to push Stadium, the world’s second-larg- Unseeded Frenchman Gilles for grabs at next month’s season- us forward. est by capacity at 120,000. Simon also moved into the semi- ending event. “We at the AIFF felt that an The tournament, to be played finals after ousting sixth seed The Czech will compete in next explosion is needed in Indian foot- in a round-robin format, will then Tomas Berdych in three sets, week’s Stockholm Open to try to ball. We felt the ISL would give move around the country to the leaving the Czech sweating about book a spot in the eight-man field the necessary push to Indian foot- seven other cities. a place at the ATP World Tour for London. REUTERS ball, it would make a difference.” The top four sides will qualify finals. Bankrolled by India’s Reliance for the semi-finals, which will be Simon, ranked 29th in the Industries, Rupert Murdoch’s played over two legs, with the world, earned a 7-6(4) 4-6 6-0 Shanghai Masters Star India and sports manage- winners advancing to a one-off win after a two-and-a-half hour ment group IMG, the ISL has final. slugfest to set up a last four meet- Results welcomed former cricket greats While the inaugural season will ing with Spain’s Feliciano Lopez. Men’s Singles Quarter-finals: Gilles Simon Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav have a novelty factor and has all The tall left-handed Spaniard, (FRA) bt Tomas Berdych (CZE x6) 7-6 (7/4), 4-6, Ganguly, as well as current cap- the ingredients to be a commer- Roger Federer of Switzerland gets ready to serve during his quarter-final who knocked out compatriot Rafa 6-0; Feliciano Lopez (ESP) bt Mikhail Youzhny tain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, cial success, critics believe it will (RUS) 5-7, 6-4, 6-4; Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) bt match against Julien Benneteau of France at the Shanghai Tennis Masters Nadal in the second round, fought among the team owners. be the quality and intensity of David Ferrer (ESP x5) 6-4, 6-2; Roger Federer in Shanghai yesterday. back from a set and a break of In addition to the veteran play- play that will be crucial in sus- serve down to beat Russian (SUI) bt Julien Benneteau (FRA) 7-6 (7/4), 6-0. ers, the competition will also see taining the appeal. REUTERS

Mayweather’s father says Ryder Cup players toil in Pacquiao fight PGA Tour season opener will happen NAPA, United States: South Korea’s Bae Sang-Moon plun- LOS ANGELES: The long dered the par-fives to join -anticipated fight between American Andres Gonzales in unbeaten American Floyd the lead after the first round Mayweather and Filipino ring at the $6m Frys.com Open in icon Manny Pacquiao will “defi- Napa, California, on Thursday. nitely” happen, Mayweather’s Bae birdied all four of the father predicted in an interview. par-fives at Silverado Country Speaking to fighthype.com this Club in the wine country north week, Floyd Mayweather senior of San Francisco in an ideal voiced confidence that the bout start to the 2014-15 PGA Tour that has been many times in the season. making but never actually mate- They headed Martin Laird rialised would eventually occur. by one stroke, while fellow “That fight’s going to happen, Briton Lee Westwood began trust me,” he said. “That fight’s slowly with a 73, barely a week definitely going to happen. It’s a after being part of the victori- Andres Gonzales hits his tee shot on the eighth hole during round fight for the world, man, right ous European Ryder Cup team. one of the Frys.com Open at Silverado Resort and Spa in Napa, there.” Defending champion Jimmy California, on Thursday. Ring fans the world over have Walker, who played on the been baying for a mega-fight losing American team at starting that way,” Gonzales, between two of the world’s great- Gleneagles, started even more a third-year tour player US PGA Tour Frys. est boxers but previous talks have poorly with a 75. from Washington State, told always broken down before a deal His team-mate Hunter reporters. com Open Scores could be signed. Mahan was considerably bet- “I really feel good about it Pacquiao, 35, has held world ter with a respectable 70, while because I don’t think I was as Leading first-round scores titles in eight separate weight Matt Kuchar carded 71. sharp as I could have been, but on Thursday in the US PGA divisions. He is training to defend The 28-year-old Bae, a as far as ball-striking, I scram- Tour $6m Frys.com Open his World Boxing Organization 12-times international winner bled well and got up-and-down. (USA unless noted) welterweight title against another before joining the PGA Tour, “When I did miss fairways, I 66 Andres Gonzales, Bae Sang-Moon undefeated American, Chris captured the Byron Nelson missed them in the right spot. (KOR) Algieri, in Macau in November. Championship in 2013, but is There’s definitely a lot of room Mayweather junior, the World coming off a mediocre season to improve, but I’m pleased 67 Martin Laird (SCO) Boxing Council and World Boxing in which he finished 122nd in with the way I’ve started.” 68 Charlie Beljan, Luke Guthrie, David Association super welterweight the ranking. Australian Jarrod Lyle, in his Lingmerth (SWE), Colt Knost, Brooks champion, pushed his record to He put all that behind him, first tour event since overcom- Koepka, Aaron Baddeley (AUS), Kyle 47-0 with a lopsided points vic- though, with five birdies on his ing leukemia for the second Reifers, Jon Curran, Tyrone Van tory over Marcos Maidana in a outward nine. time, double-bogeyed the 17th Aswegen (RSA) rematch in Las Vegas last month. Gonzales, who played on a hole for a 72. Mayweather senior acknowl- crisp morning that quickly “It was obviously a little dis- 69 Stuart Appleby (AUS), Tim Clark edged that he hadn’t received warmed to an ideal autumn appointing to finish that way, (RSA), Cameron Tringale, Jim Renner, any special word from his son on day, matched Bae’s seven bird- but even par, I haven’t shot Cameron Percy (AUS), Zachary Blair, a potential Pacquiao fight. But he ies and one bogey. myself in the foot, so it’s a good Marc Leishman (AUS), Retief Goosen believes public interest is so high “It’s definitely a confidence start to the week,” Lyle said. (RSA), Chad Campbell, Jerry Kelly, that it must happen. AFP builder getting out here and REUTERS Justin Thomas, Tony Finau 20 OCTOBER 11, 2014 ON SATURDAY www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport Russian Dazzling Hamilton back on rookie makes strong debut SOCHI: Teenage Russian top at Russian GP practice rookie Sergey Sirotkin made his Formula One debut for Sauber in yesterday’s opening free prac- Briton completes second lap in 1min and 39.630secs on practice day tice and immediately said he felt ready for a full-time seat. Sirotkin, 19, replaced Mexican SOCHI, Russia: Championship Esteban Gutierrez to the delight leader Lewis Hamilton put aside Second Free of his compatriots in the crowd at his concerns for Jules Bianchi the inaugural Russian Grand Prix and produced a dazzling lap to Practice Session and completed 22 laps on his way top the times in yesterday’s sec- 1. Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes 1:39.630 to the 17th best lap time during ond free practice session ahead 2. Kevin Magnussen (Denmark) McLaren the first session. of this weekend’s inaugural 1:40.494 “It was a surprise to me that it Russian Grand Prix. was a bit easier than I thought,” 3. Fernando Alonso (Spain) Ferrari 1:40.504 The 29-year-old Briton, who he said. was second fastest behind his 4. Nico Rosberg (Germany) Mercedes 1:40.542 “I feel myself more than ready Mercedes team-mate and title 5. Valtteri Bottas (Finland) Williams-Mercedes for this step – I just need the rival German Nico Rosberg in the 1:40.573 chance. morning’s opening session, wound 6. Jenson Button (Britain) McLaren 1:40.718 “Motorsport in Russia is pro- up quickest in the afternoon with 7. Felipe Massa (Brazil) Williams-Mercedes gressing quite well. This weekend a dominant lap in one minute and 1:40.731 made a big step forward and it 39.630 seconds. 8. Daniil Kvyat (Russia) Toro Rosso - Renault helps to attract the people and This was eight-tenths of a 1:41.108 make them interested,” said the second faster than the chasing 9. Sebastian Vettel (Germany) RedBull - Renault excited driver. pack led by Danish rookie Kevin 1:41.396 “We’re working to get the seat Magnussen of McLaren and made next year. There’s nothing I can 10. Jean-Eric Vergne (France) Toro Rosso - Hamilton the only man to break Renault 1:41.531 say now officially, but we are the 1:40 barrier at the newly built working.” track in the Olympic Park close injuries when his Marussia car He added: “It took a bit of time to the Black Sea resort. collided with a recovery vehicle, to get into it, but after that we “It wasn’t easy to get into the all of the drivers wore ‘Tous Avec British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes AMG GP in action during the second practice session took it easy. I didn’t try to beat car this morning,” he said, refer- Jules’ stickers on their helmets in at the Sochi Autodrom Circuit, in Sochi, Russia, yesterday. any records, just to build the lap ring to his and the paddock’s support of the absent Frenchman. time slowly. sombre mood and feelings for Bianchi, 25, remained in inten- “Unfortunately on my quick injured Frenchman Bianchi, who sive care in hospital in Yokkaichi event as “the worst race of my when Australian Daniel Ricciardo didn’t hurt, as a whole day, as I run I was really unlucky with the remained in intensive care in and his Marussia team chose not life”, was seventh in the second suffered an engine failure on his still got a lot of laps in FP2. traffic,” he said. hospital in Japan. “But this after- to run a second driver in his place Williams ahead of Red Bull-bound Red Bull car. He finished 13th. “In fact we drove more in that The quickest lap was the last noon, I felt more comfortable.” at Sochi in a sign of respect as he local hero Russian Daniil Kvyat of Bottas also survived an extraor- session because of the problems one in the run so the tempera- Two-time champion Spaniard battles for his life in Japan. Toro Rosso. dinary early setback before recov- in the morning and we completed ture of the tyres was quite a bit Fernando Alonso was third for “Of course, it is tough,” added Job-hunting Frenchman Jean- ering to finish up fifth fastest for the same number of laps for the too hot.” Ferrari ahead of Rosberg, Finn Hamilton. “But it was good. It felt Eric Vergne was 10th for Toro Williams. The tyres on the Finn’s whole day as planned. Sirotkin’s compatriot Daniil Valtteri Bottas of Williams and good and the grip improved as the Rosso, turning in another impres- car burst during the morning’s “But I think we still need to Kvyat has impressed with Toro Briton Jenson Button in the sec- track ‘rubbered’ in. The car felt sive day’s work as he seeks a new opening practice session due to a investigate it a bit more.” Team- Rosso this year and last week- ond McLaren. Five days after good today and for me the track seat for 2015 after being released malfunction with the use of tyre mate Massa had a more straight- end was confirmed as successor Bianchi’s shocking accident at the had a nice flow. I really enjoyed it.” by his current outfit. ‘blankets’. He said: “It’s the first forward day and finished seventh. to four-time champion German rain-lashed Japanese Grand Prix, Brazilian Felipe Massa, who had The session was interrupted time that’s happened, but I sup- “I think it was a good Friday for Sebastian Vettel at Red Bull in where he suffered severe head described last Sunday’s Japanese with seven minutes remaining pose those things can happen. “It us,” Massa said. AFP 2015. AFP Marquez struggles as Dovizioso West finishes on 25th, Ramos ends at 35th leads in Japan GP practice MOTEGI: QMMF Racing session today. “This morning I Team riders Anthony West was one second faster than last and Roman Ramos finished year, which is good even though MOTEGI, Japan: World cham- day one of the Japanese Grand it is not enough,” said West. pionship leader Marc Marquez Prix on 25th and 35th position “I managed to almost match struggled to regain his top shape respectively. my best time from this morning yesterday during practice ahead But these positions in the clas- with this tyre and I think with the of tomorrow’s Grand Prix of sification don’t reflect their true softer one, we would have been a Japan, as his team scrambled to potential, since both riders got lot faster and right on pace with find the correct set-up. caught out testing the harder other top contenders,” he added. The Spaniard’s first match- rear tyre option in the afternoon Ramos said: “Motegi is another point for this season’s title began session. new circuit for me, so we have on a rocky footing, as he went Whereas many of the Moto2 been back to the challenge of through a minor crash early in contenders did their best lap time going out and finding the best practise when he attempted to with the softer compound, the lines and the best base set-up,” turn a corner with issues also obvious choice on the 4.8 kilome- he said. with shaking of his machine. tre Twin Ring Motegi, West and “In the afternoon, I was highly The 21-year-old Honda man Ramos decided to use the harder motivated and was really looking got up quickly after the fall and option in order to save the lim- forward to ride, because I like the hopped on a scooter to confer ited amount of softer tyres for the track a lot, its unique with its with his team before going out remainder of the weekend. twists and turns, its up and down- again to Motegi’s Twin Ring cir- After clocking 17th and 30th hill sections and the two tunnels. I cuit, known for its stop-and-go time in the morning, both West know that I can go faster with the design with lots of hard braking and Ramos lost ground in com- other tyre option. I am convinced and acceleration points. parison to their rivals, but are we’ll be stronger tomorrow and “I was not able to work well confident to be able to fight back that we’ll be able to make up some with the set-up,” Marquez said when it counts in the qualifying positions.” THE PENINSULA after practice. Marquez can retain his FIM Asia, FIM Europe Initiate Cooperation MotoGP title with a victory at Motegi, home to Honda. Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso submitted shining performance Friday, benefiting from an extra soft rear tyre to set the best time of the day with a 1min45.140sec, leaving a 0.440sec gap ahead of former world champion Jorge Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso of Italy rides during a free practice session for tomorrow’s Japanese Lorenzo, winner at Motegi last Grand Prix at the Twin Ring Motegi Circuit in Motegi, north of Tokyo yesterday. Dovizioso clocked the fastest year. time in the first day’s free practice. They were followed by Stefan Bradl on LCR Honda, Dani Pedrosa on Honda, and Yamaha rivals. Pedrosa, who Marquez has rider Valentino Rossi. to beat in order to claim the sea- Japan GP Free Practice Times Marquez clocked sixth, 0.799sec son crown in Motegi, showed off Overall standings after the first two MotoGP free practice sessions slower than the leading Italian. superb braking moves and said yesterday ahead of Sunday’s Grand Prix of Japan: Dovizioso also marked faster was happy with the practise. practice time than Marquez in “Today we did some runs with MotoGP Grand Prix of Aragon two weeks a good pace, but we have to work 1. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/Ducati) 1min 45.140sec, 2. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Yamaha) 0.440sec, 3. ago. Marquez complained about harder to improve our lap times Stefan Bradl (GER/Honda-LCR) 0.497, 4. Dani Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) 0.587, 5. Valentino Rossi (ITA/ shaking of his machine during the and be very focused on setting a Yamaha) 0.750, 6. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) 0.799, 7. Pol Espargaro (ESP/Yamaha Tech3) 0.901, morning practise session, when he good time in qualifying,” Pedrosa 8. Bradley Smith (GBR/Yamaha Tech3) 0.965, 9. Andrea Iannone (ITA/Ducati Pramac) 0.967, 10. Cal could not brake in time at turn said. Crutchlow (GBR/Ducati) 1.081. From (left) Qatar Motor and Motorcycling Federation (QMMF) President five. Teams were watching local Moto 2 “When I arrived at the brak- weather carefull as another Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah, President FIM Europe Dr. Wolfgang Srb and ing point, there was no brake, typhoon approaches southern 1. Esteve Rabat (ESP/Kalex) 1min 50.990sec, 2. Johann Zarco (FRA/Caterham Suter) at 0.323sec, President FIM Asia Wan Zaharuddin Wan Ahmad pose for a group photo zero. Then I tried to brake in Japan, days after a horror crash 3. Maverick Viñales (ESP/Kalex) 0.583, 4. Dominique Aegerter (SUI/Suter) 0.603, 5. Julian Simon on the occasion of the recent meeting of the FIM Board of Directors in two, three, four times. But it was left a Formula One driver fighting (ESP/Kalex) 0.890, 6. Thomas Luthi (SUI/Suter) 0.905, 7. Mika Kallio (FIN/Kalex) 0.966, 8. Axel Pons Geneva, in which an agreement concerning the cooperation between FIM becoming too late,” he said. for his life. (ESP/Kalex) 1.078, 9. Sandro Cortese (GER/Kalex) 1.179, 10. Takaaki Nakagami (JPN/Kalex) 1.235. Asia and FIM Europe was initiated. FIM Europe consists of 47 National Motorcycle Federations, while FIM Asia is comprised of 25 National With a margin of 75 points over The typhoon might bring some Moto 3 second-place team-mate Pedrosa, rain tomorrow although largely Motorcycle Federations. Both Continental Unions organise a large number Marquez could use the Motegi overcast sky is generally expected 1. Danny Kent (GBR/Husqvarna) 1min 57.317sec, 2. Alex Rins (ESP/Honda) at 0.058sec, 3. Miguel of events and Championships in their respective areas and will work race to lock the championship for the race day. The storm was Oliveira (POR/Mahindra) 0.101, 4. Brad Binder (RSA/Mahindra) 0.313, 5. Enea Bastianini (ITA/KTM) together in promoting and developing the growth of all disciplines related with a win or even worse depend- expected to hit the Japanese 0.368, 6. Niccolo Antonelli (ITA/KTM) 0.490, 7. Alex Marquez (ESP/Honda) 0.548, 8. Isaac Viñales (ITA/ to motorcycle sports as well as international non-sporting events. ing on the final placement of his mainland on Monday. AFP Calvo KTM) 0.559, 9. Efren Vazquez (ESP/Honda) 0.626, 10. Jakub Kornfeil (CZE/Calvo KTM) 0.659. OCTOBER 11, 2014 21 Sport www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ON SATURDAY

Blatter calls for end to Australia thump Pakistan away goals rule

ZURICH: FIFA president Sepp “The idea dates back to a time Blatter (pictured) yesterday when away games were often an called for an end to the away adventure, involving journeys that to secure one-day series goals winner rule in clashes with could be long and arduous,” said two matches. the 78-year-old FIFA leader. Blatter said the rule favours “As well established as the Johnson, Maxwell shine in five-wicket win in second ODI clubs who play away in the sec- rule is, it can be viewed critically ond leg because extra today,” because it favours time can give an extra the team playing away in DUBAI: Australia continued Pakistan’s defence of a modest opportunity to get a goal the 2nd leg.” their dominance over Pakistan target tough. with double value. The system is no longer with a hard fought five-wicket Maxwell took advantage of the “It is time to rethink used in the semi-finals of win in the second day-night let off, reaching his eighth half- the system,” Blatter said promotion play-offs in international, taking an unbeat- century off 56 deliveries. in a column for the FIFA the English League. US able 2-0 lead in the three-match Maxwell continued to punish publication The Week. Major League Soccer series. the bowlers after Bailey was run Australian Away goals are notably and the CONCACAF Pakistan blew an opening stand out. With 38 needed off 81 balls, batsman used in the Champions Champions League in the of 126 through openers Sarfraz he holed out off Zulfiqar Babar. George League knockout stages and Americas only count goals scored Ahmed (65) and Ahmed Shahzad He hit nine boundaries and a Bailey other European club competitions in the 90 minutes of regulation (61) and were bowled out for six to anchor the chase. where it was introduced back in time. (right) 215 in 49.3 overs with paceman James Faulkner (26 not out) the 1965. “Football has progressed since runs Mitchell Johnson taking 3-40. and Brad Haddin (17 not out) Where two sides are level the 1960s so the away goals rule Glenn Maxwell then punished ensured Australia didn’t lose between after two legs, the team which may now be questioned,” said the sloppy Pakistan fielding with trackand secured the win. wickets has scored more goals away from Blatter, who did not propose an an 81-ball 76 as Australia reached It was Johnson who derailed as home go through. alternative. AFP the target in 43.2 overs for their Pakistan’s innings with some fiery Pakistani fourth consecutive one-day series bowling. bowler win over Pakistan. Ahmed and Shahzad who put Zulfiqar Claiming Germany scalp Maxwell added an invaluable 85 on a rare 126-run stand for the Babar for the fourth wicket with skipper opening wicket but Australia hit watches George Bailey (28) steadying the back to take the last nine wickets on during bigger motivation: Loew chase after Pakistan dismissed for a mere 89 runs. their Aaron Finch (14), David Warner Johnson, who took 3-24 in second (29) and Steven Smith (12) to Australia’s 93-run win in the ODI in BERLIN: Joachim Loew says acknowledges, the world champi- leave Australia wobbling at 72-3. first one-day, put the brakes on Dubai Germany must adapt to their ons are now the team to beat and But Pakistan spurned a good the innings dismissing Ahmed, yesterday. status as world champions when he expects Poland to give their chance of dismissing the danger- Umar Akmal (five) and Shahid his new-look side face Poland in all in chasing a maiden win over ous Maxwell on five when Umar Afridi (two) in a destructive Saturday’s Euro 2016 qualifier, Germany at the 19th attempt. Akmal dropped him in slip off 10-over spell. with opponents increasingly “Opponents are giving that lit- debutant Raza Hasan. Pakistan, who won the toss eager to topple them. tle bit extra against us in the hope Hasan was also unlucky in the and batted, cruised to their first Nearly three months after of beating the world champions early overs when Fawad Alam century stand in 44 innings as lifting the World Cup in Rio de and neither of these games will let off Warner on ten, making Ahmed and Shahzad batted with Janeiro, Loew brings a very dif- be easy for us,” said Loew. ferent squad to Poland from the Poland’s coach Adam Nawalka authority against a spin-cum- Pakistan couldn’t recover from one which triumphed in Brazil. says his team are desperate to Scoreboard pace attack. the jolt as Asad Shafiq (29) and Injury and retirements mean break their German duck follow- PAKISTAN Faulkner 7-0-27-1; Lyon 10-0-40-1 (1w); Max- Ahmed, promoted to open the Fawad Alam (20 not out) laboured only 15 of Germany’s 23-man ing 12 defeats and six draws in 18 Ahmed Shahzad c Smith b Doherty ...... 61 well 3-0-19-0. innings in this series, reached his through their innings. Pakistan World Cup squad are currently encounters. Sarfraz Ahmed c Maxwell b Johnson ...... 65 AUSTRALIA maiden half-century off 60 balls managed just 29 runs in the final available and the absence of “We have respect, but no fear,” Asad Shafiq c Johnson b Lyon ...... 29 D Warner c Irfan b Hasan...... 29 while Shahzad needed 63 balls ten slog overs. Arsenal’s attacking midfielder he said. “We are eager to show Misbah-ul Haq (run out)...... 15 A Finch c Ahmed b Irfan ...... 14 for his eighth such 50. He hit five The third and final one-day Mesut Ozil has thrown Loew’s our best and will do everything to Umar Akmal c Smith b Johnson ...... 5 S Smith c Ahmed b Babar ...... 12 boundaries and a six off 72 balls. match will be played in Abu Dhabi plans for the match at Warsaw’s achieve an historic victory.” Fawad Alam (not out) ...... 20 G Bailey (run out) ...... 28 Shahzad hit five boundaries in on Sunday. National Stadium “into disarray”. Even with veterans Philipp Shahid Afridi c Smith b Johnson ...... 2 G Maxwell c Shafiq b Babar ...... 76 his 82-ball knock. “It’s always a nice time to come Germany take on Group D lead- Lahm, Per Mertesacker and Wahab Riaz b Richardson ...... 2 J Faulkner (not out) ...... 26 Pakistan’s last opening stand back here,” said Maxwell hoping ers Poland, then host the Republic Miroslav Klose retired, plus Raza Hasan (run out) ...... 0 B Haddin (not out) ...... 17 century in a one-dayer was his team make a clean sweep. of Ireland in Gelsenkirchen on Bastian Schweinsteiger, Sami Zulfiqar Babar c Maxwell b Faulkner ...... 6 Extras (LB-3, W-12) ...... 15 between Mohammad Hafeez and “Hopefully we can make a clean Tuesday and Loew has said he Khedira, Marco Reus and Mario Mohammad Irfan (run out) ...... 0 Total (for 5 wkts in 43.2 overs) ...... 217 Nasir Jamshed against India at sweep. I was just playing my role. wants six points to make sure Gomez injured, Loew can still Extras (LB-2, W-8) ...... 10 Fall of wickets: 1-22, 2-39, 3-72, 4-157, Kolkata in January 2013. Today I came in a different situ- they finish October top of their rely on an experienced core. “Our Total (all out in 49.3 overs) ...... 215 5-178. As Pakistan tried to build on ation with the ball spinning.. Just qualifying group. losses are a bitter blow, but we Fall of wickets: 1-126, 2-130, 3-159, 4-168, Bowling: Hasan 10-0-68-1 (2w); Irfan 9.2-0- the opening stand, out-of-form tried to play to the situation and But as the 54-year-old still have a good axis.” AFP 5-185, 6-199, 7-203, 8-204. 42-1; Babar 10-1-52-2 (7w); Afridi 10-0-36-0 skipper Misbah-ul Haq was run get close to the total. I hope I put Bowling: Johnson 10-0-40-3 (3w); Richard- (2w); Riaz 2.2-0-7-0 (1w); Shahzad 1.4-0-9-0. out by a brilliant throw from cov- in enough performances here and son 9.3-0-43-1 (4w); Doherty 10-0-44-1; Result: Australia win by five wickets. ers by Maxwell after making just hope to get noticed when Test 15. selection comes in.” AFP Pietersen admits he’s ‘potentially’ played his last match for England

LONDON: Kevin Pietersen I just get on and do what I need conceded yesterday he may to do.” “potentially” have played his last Meanwhile, Pietersen insisted match for England as the con- even he had been surprised by the German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer warms up during the team’s training troversy surrounding his auto- scale of the media storm gener- session in Warsaw, Poland, yesterday. Germany will face Poland in the biography continues. ated by a book which only went UEFA EURO 2016 qualifying match today. During an intensive publicity on sale on Thursday but which campaign, South Africa-born was widely publicised beforehand, batsman Pietersen – England’s saying “it’s gone mad”. all-time leading run-scorer – One area in which Pietersen, Diploma-less Zidane has indicated a wish to resume often accused by his detractors an international career abruptly of being unwilling to accept his cut short in February following mistakes, acknowledges he erred the team’s return from their 5-0 was in sending “provocative” texts threatened with ban Ashes thrashing in Australia. concerning then England captain That has long appeared a slim Andrew Strauss to opposition MADRID: France legend practice hours with the French hope while England and Wales South African players during a Zinedine Zidane (pictured) has Football Federation to obtain the Cricket Board (ECB) chairman home series against the Proteas been threatened with suspension promotion to level three. Zidane Giles Clarke and managing direc- in 2012. from his current role as Real was elevated to reserve team tor Paul Downton remain in post, Pietersen, who had not long Madrid’s reserve team coach coach at star of this season fol- with Pietersen admitting as much been told at the time that some because he has not validated his lowing a single campaign as Carlo Thursday when he said “Clarke of his England team-mates were coaching badge, according to a Ancelotti’s assistant during their would have to go” if he was to play involved in a parody Twitter club source. famous “decima” season that cul- for England again. account mocking him, again “We’ve received a notification minated with May’s Champions Allegations in his book of a expressed his regret on the (from the Spanish Federation) League triumph. “bullying” culture led by senior Norton programme for an inci- detailing a possible suspen- However, the former playing England bowlers such as James dent that saw him briefly dropped sion. We have 10 days genius has hardly set Anderson, assisted by wicket- from the England side. to present our defence, the world alight, losing keeper Matt Prior and severe “We all make mistakes, and I Snubbed England batsman returns to the pavilion after being dismissed which is what Real will five of his seven games criticism of the methods of former certainly made them,” Pietersen do,” said a spokesperson in charge. during the last Ashes Series in this December 2013 file photo. coach Andy Flower are one thing, said. for the 10-time European A Spanish coaching but given Pietersen did not play “One of the biggest mistakes I champions. school, the Cenafe, has County Championship cricket made was with Andrew Strauss set-up to focus on the upcoming head round it - he seems like he’s Zidane holds a UEFA also submitted a com- for Surrey last season, there is just before he played his 100th pre-World Cup tour of Sri Lanka just not enjoyed it for however ‘A’ licence level two plaint to the Spanish no way of his returning to the Test match. rather than rake over the past. long.” However, Anderson said coaching badge but needs Federation against Real England set-up on form grounds “I was involved in the text mes- “We’ve got cricket to play – Pietersen’s case was unusual. a level three licence to over of Zidane’s coach- any time soon. saging scandal, and there was a more important things to worry “This is not an ideal situation, operate in the Spanish ing, claiming that they However, in an interview on bit of mix-up that meant one of about than someone’s book,” but it’s different with Kev,” he third tier, in which Real Madrid are using his assistant Santiago with BBC television chat show my best friends -- who was a fan- said Anderson, who admitted to added. Castilla, play. Sanchez’s name on the teamsheet host Graham Norton, to be broad- tastic captain and great cricketer being perplexed by the depth of “He never got a chance to Yet since the beginning of the to bypass the regulations. cast later yesterday, Pietersen – had his whole week tarnished, a Pietersen’s feelings. stand up for himself in the dress- season the two-goal star from The case has sparked contro- asked how likely it was he would week that should have been one of “The issues that have been ing room, because the opportu- France’s 1998 World Cup success versy in Spain with national team play for England again, said: the great moments of his career. brought up are sad really – the nity to be in the dressing room on home soil has been nonethe- coach Vicente del Bosque telling “Potentially not, no. I’ve got to “I regret that and am so sorry dressing room for the last seven was taken away from him by the less coaching the team. He risks Cope radio station that “everyone accept that.” The former England for that.” or eight years when we’ve been powers-that-be. a three-month suspension for the should have a coaching badge”. captain added: “What I’ve been Meanwhile fast-medium bowler winning has been amazing. “He is now venting his frustra- offence. Rayo Vallecano coach Paco lucky to achieve, I’ve got to be Anderson, in an interview with “You don’t achieve what we tion through a book. You never The 42-year-old, a former Jemez used tougher language, grateful for and happy with. Friday’s Daily Telegraph, urged have without guys pulling in the get a team where everyone gets world player of the year, has describing Real’s actions as “There’s more to life now, and all concerned with the England same direction. I can’t get my on together.” AFP yet to complete the full quota of “shameful”. AFP 22 OCTOBER 11, 2014 ON SATURDAY www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Sport Qatar notch up stunning victory over DPR Korea Gulf state wins AFC U-19 Championship Group D opener

NAY PYI TAW: Three goals in In the second-half the flow of the final 16 minutes gave Qatar the game remained, with DPR England’s Wayne Rooney (left) celebrates after scoring a goal during a a stunning 3-1 comeback win Korea content to allow the Euro 2016 qualifying match against San Marino at Wembley Stadium in over three-times champions Qataris the bulk of the possession London on Thursday. DPR Korea in their AFC U-19 and look to the counter-attack as Championship Group D opener an attacking outlet. at Myanmar’s Wunna Theikdi But just past the hour-mark, Stadium yesterday. the Koreans were themselves DPR Korea had been leading almost caught on the break as Spain crash, until the 74th minute of the game, substitute Afif broke through into courtesy of Jo Kwang-Myong’s the penalty area but after beating fifth minute goal, but a penalty- Cha his shot crashed off the right kick from Almoez Ali and strike post and deflected to safety. England cruise in from Ahmed Al Sadi in the 79th And with Qatar continuing to minute flipped the tie on its head. attack, the pressure finally paid And with just four minutes of off with 16 minutes remaining as the game remaining DPR Korea Al Sadi cross was handled by Jon Euro qualifiers conceded a second spot-kick Kum-dong to concede a penalty, which substitute Akram Afif suc- which Al Sadi himself took, coolly PARIS: Defending European sprinting back to win the ball cessfully converted to ensure his sending Cha the wrong way to champions Spain suffered their back. That type of desire is very side moved up alongside Iraq at bring the scores level. first qualifying defeat in eight commendable.” the top of Group C after the 2012 Qatar then took the lead them- years on Thursday when they Switzerland’s campaign went runners-up defeated Oman 6-0 in selves after five more minutes had slumped to a 2-1 loss against from bad to worse as the team the day’s earlier fixture. passed on the clock when Al Sadi Slovakia while England made it which made the last-16 at the “The first game is the most burst into the penalty area before two wins in two. World Cup slumped to a 1-0 important one in a tournament cutting the ball back for Ali who Spain, who had opened their defeat in Slovenia. like this, so I am very happy with A Qatari player (left) vies for the ball with a North Korean player during slotted home. Euro 2016 campaign with a 5-1 Milivoje Novakovic grabbed the the result,” said Qatar coach Felix their AFC U-19 Championship Group D match at Myanmar’s Wunna A shell-shocked DPR Korea mauling of Macedonia, exhib- winner from the penalty spot in Sanchez Bas, who will next face Theikdi Stadium yesterday. side then conceded a third goal ited all the faults which had led Maribor in the 79th minute after Iraq on today. on 86 minutes as Al Sadi again got to their World Cup humiliation Johan Djourou had brought down “Even though we conceded But from Kang Nam-gwon’s Qatar’s target-man Ali then the better of Jon, as the defender as Slovakia went top of Group C Kevin Kampl. early, the team reacted very well resulting corner kick the ball fell went close from Abdullah Al rashly brought the Qatar forward with a perfect six points. The Swiss pressed for a point and showed they wanted to get to midfielder Jo and he prodded Ahrak’s deep corner, but the down inside the area for another Former Chelsea midfielder but were denied by a string of fine back into the game. home past Hassan to open the striker could only stab his slid- penalty which Afif fired home to Miroslav Stoch, now plying his saves from Slovenia goalkeeper “We were quite comfortable scoring for the young Chollima. ing shot at the back post into the cement all three points for the trade at Al Ain in the UAE, Samir Handanovic. with the conditions, especially Qatari heads did not drop after side netting. Gulf side. struck three minutes from time Lithuania also made it two wins in the second half as we enjoyed going behind, though, and they DPR Korea always bore a “The game didn’t go as we in Zilina to condemn Vicente Del in two in the group with a 1-0 win more possession and were able to began to take control of the game threat on the break in the first expected and we didn’t think we’d Bosque’s team to a first qualifying over Estonia in Vilnius. play in a more dynamic style.” as DPR Korea looked to defend period, though, and with seven lose,” said DPR Korea coach An defeat since 2006, a streak lasting Group G favourites Sweden and DPR Korea tried to stamp and maintain their lead. minutes of the half remaining Ye-gun, whose side will now face 36 matches. Russia fought out a 1-1 draw in their mark on the game early and And on 23 minutes, Al Sadi Kim Chol-min beat the offside Oman today. “Our players were They trailed to a 17th-minute Solna but Fabio Capello’s Russians inside the first four minutes of the had a great chance to draw par- trap to go through on goal but his still not physically recovered from Juraj Kucka free-kick before Paco stay top on goal difference from game Kim Yu-song latched on to a ity when he sneaked in at the far shot was blocked well by Hassan our travel from Pyongyang and Alcacer’s strike eight minutes Montenegro and Austria. long ball and forced a smart save post but DPR Korea custodian with Abdulaziz Al Khalosi then there was also some miscommu- from time appeared to salvage a Ola Toivonen scored a second- from Qatar goalkeeper Yousof Cha Jong-hun was equal to his pulling off a goal-saving tackle to nication among our defenders point. half equaliser for the Swedes Hassan who tipped the low shot driven shot with a one-handed prevent Kim from pouncing on that meant we lost the match.” But with just three minutes who were missing injured striker around his near post. save to avert the danger. the rebound. THE PENINSULA left Slovakia launched a counter- Zlatan Ibrahimovic. attack as captain Marek Hamsik The Rennes forward cancelled played substitute Michal Duris out Dynamo Moscow forward down the inside right to cross for Alexander Kokorin’s first-half Japan edge Jamaica, Aussies held in UAE Stoch to head home at the back opener as Sweden drew for the post. second time in as many group PARIS: Asian champions Japan for the Asian Cup continued At a subdued Wembley, England matches. gave Javier Aguirre his first with a 3-0 over Thailand thanks made it two wins from two with Sweden should have claimed win with a laboured 1-0 victory to a second-half own-goal from a routine 5-0 defeat of whipping all three points but they missed over Jamaica yesterday while Thai goalkeeper Sinthaweechai boys San Marino. a first half penalty awarded after Australia struggled to a 0-0 Hathairattanakool, Sun Ke and Wayne Rooney took his inter- Igor Smolnikov fouled Jimmy draw in sweltering Abu Dhabi. Yang Xu. national goal tally to 42 and forced Durmaz in the area. Japan, like Australia, build- In Muscat, World Cup quarter- Alessandro Della Valle into a late Russian goalkeeper Igor ing towards the Asian Cup in finalists Costa Rica edged Oman own goal, while Phil Jagielka, Akinfeyev parried Sunderland January, squandered several 4-3 with Alvaro Saborio, John Danny Welbeck and substitute midfielder Sebastian Larsson’s chances against Jamaica in Jairo Ruiz, Juan Bustos and David Andros Townsend also found the spotkick. Montenegro were held Niigata but an own goal from Ramirez on target while Saleh target. to an embarrassing 0-0 draw by Nyron Nosworthy in the 16th Raed, Mohammed al-Seyabi and Having won 2-0 away to Liechtenstein, playing their 100th minute proved decisive. Emad al-Hosani replied for the Switzerland in their Group E international, in Vaduz. Japan were beaten 2-0 by Gulf state. opener, England have now pre- Liechtenstein held on despite Uruguay and were held 2-2 by Uli Stielike’s first game as vailed in what are likely to be having to field two goalkeepers Venezuela last month in their UAE’s Mohammed Abdulrahman (right) fights for the ball against South Korea coach saw a 2-0 win their hardest and easiest fixtures — first-choice Peter Jehle pick- first two games under Mexican Australia’s Mathew Leckie during a friendly match in Abu Dhabi yesterday. over Paraguay in Cheonan with of the campaign. They play away ing up an injury and having to be coach Aguirre, who took charge goals from Kim Min-Woo and to Estonia today. replaced by Cengiz Bicer. following the side’s World Cup “We won’t get as many oppor- Alex Wilkinson needed to clear Nam Tae-Hee in the space of five “Job well done,” said England Austria edged Moldova 2-1 in flop in Brazil. “I feel calm, relaxed tunities against Brazil as we did Ali Ahmed Mabkhout’s attempt first-half minutes. manager Roy Hodgson. “The Chisinau despite playing the last as always. We created five or six today,” added Aguirre. “We will off the line in the first half Later yesterday Luis Suarez crowd were fantastic. They’ve 10 minutes with 10 men. more chances to score, which was have to be more clinical when while Trent Sainsbury missed was scheduled play his first inter- had an enjoyable night. We could Marc Janko scored Austria’s pleasing,” said Aguirre. chances come our way.” Australia’s best chance late in national for Uruguay since his have had more, but I can’t fault winner but was then sent off Japan will need to improve In humid Abu Dhabi, Australia the game after being teed-up by competitive ban was imposed for the players. I’m really pleased. after David Alaba and Alexandru before a glamour friendly against were held 0-0 by fellow Asian Cup Tim Cahill. biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini at “At 5-0 when we lost the ball, Dedov had swapped first-half Brazil in Singapore on Tuesday. finalists United Arab Emirates. In Wuhan, China’s build-up the World Cup. AFP we had three or four players penalties. AFP First round of Qatar International Aqua Bike Championship

Participants take part in the first round of the Qatar International Aqua Bike Championship at Al Wakra Port in Doha yesterday. The championship, organised by Qatar Marine Sports Federation (QMSF), will be contested in five categories and will have participants from Kuwait, Oman, UAE and France, besides local drivers. PICTURE: BAHER AMIN OCTOBER 11, 2014 23 Break Time www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ON SATURDAY

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Gibraltar’s Hacking clans undergo image makeover notorious 30 SAN FRANCISCO: Hackers are shak- said. Coleman traced the roots of Anonymous monkeys to ing off their reputations as nerdy, loner to 4Chan, where bonds forged over sharing basement dwellers and rebranding them- the funny, offensive or grotesque grew from selves on the world stage as members of “trolling” to underground activism. land in Scotland Internet age tribes with offbeat codes of “There is a sense of being in the trenches conduct and capricious goals. together, battling,” Coleman said. GIBRALTAR: Britain’s tiny Clans of hackers such as Anonymous, Anonymous evolved into a platform for outpost of Gibraltar said yes- LulzSec and Lizard Squad have caused launching political operations, with high- terday it has rounded up its havoc — and made news — in recent years, value targets related to censorship, corrup- 30 most troublesome Barbary but the legacy of the online community tion and privacy. macaque monkeys and will stretches back decades. The group “was known for pranking and send them to a safari park in “People think of hackers as non-social hell-raising, and now it is known for activ- Scotland. people who live in the basement; that is not ism,” Coleman said. The macaques, Europe’s only true at all,” said Nico Sell, chief executive of It combined technical prowess with wild population of monkeys, are the encrypted messaging service Wickr and Hollywood presentation, and adopted the a popular tourist attraction but the longtime organizer of the DEF CON Guy Fawkes mask — seen in the film “V for their numbers have risen to hacking conference. Vendetta” — as its symbol. around 200 and some have started “To be good at hacking, you have to Hackers often run in groups but tend to roaming into town, looting bins, understand how society and people work. be a giving community — as apt to teach foraging for food and scaring These geeks are not your normal geeks.” visitors to pick locks or create educational locals. Rebels united by their hacking prow- games as they are to hack a major firm’s Officials identified the 30 worst ess and identified by sassy pseudonyms network to prove it is flawed. offenders by tagging the animals have been divided into “white hat” groups A file picture shows a person claiming to speak for activist hacker group Anonymous issuing a “You don’t have the same posturing you with GPS collars to monitor how that use software skills for good and their warning through a video circulated online to “go to war” with the Singapore government over do in other societies, because you are judged far they ranged in search of food “black hat” rivals intent on anything from recent Internet licensing rules. on your merits,” Sell said. and if they ventured into built-up pranks and political upheaval to espionage “The rock stars are the ones who have areas. The monkeys were then or crimes of profit. brought great things to everybody — for trapped over a three-week period Hackers share their stories and skills event — considered the world’s biggest taking the name for oneself. There is a high free.” in August and September and will at forums like DEF CON and in Internet hacker conference — was started by Jeff value placed on weirdness. DEF CON hacker creed includes not be flown to Scotland on Tuesday on chat venues such as privacy-guarding Moss, known by the handle Dark Tangent, Taboos include being an informant. DEF hurting anyone needlessly, and giving a chartered cargo plane accompa- 4Chan, according to Gabriella Coleman, as a farewell party for a hacker friend CON has long had a “Spot The Fed” game software makers time to patch chinks in nied by two experienced keepers. who holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific about to leave the country. with prizes to those who finger undercover their armour before making vulnerabilities “It was the group that was giving and Technological Literacy at McGill In hacker groups such as Anonymous, police infiltrating the gathering. public. us the most problems,” Gibraltar’s University in Canada. “There are many amazing code or stunning exploits are Working for the computer security “Hackers don’t always follow the rules, Environment Minister, John reasons one can call hackers a community,” revered and personal glory-seeking industry is not frowned on, but doing but that is different from having integrity Cortes, told a news conference. said Coleman, whose book “Hacker, Hoaxer, abhorred, according to Coleman. shoddy work certainly is. and ethics,” Sell said. “It is sad to see them go, but Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Humour — cracking jokes, pulling pranks The pseudo-anonymous nature of Defenders of the hacker culture main- they will be going to an excellent Anonymous” will be released in November. and even embedding jokes in source code Anonymous allows for a diverse array of tain a defining credo is to push systems home and it is so much better “One layer is just their craft: they are — is common. people to belong — some in roles with noth- until they break and then find compelling than culling them.” building stuff or breaking stuff. The tech- “There is a love of craftiness and clever- ing to do with coding, such as tweeting, new ways to put them back together. The monkeys will be taken to nology is so complex you rely on the help of ness, and displaying it is a marker defining making videos or organising rallies. Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg Blair Drummond Safari Park near others to get things done in a serious way,” their identity and binding them together,” “There are people from radically different made the hacker mindset a theme at the Stirling in central Scotland where she told AFP. Coleman said. Ritualised ways of displaying classes and ethnic backgrounds, and a strong leading social network’s campus in Silicon staff have prepared a large enclo- Next year will mark the 23rd annual humility in hacker tribes include leaving it ethic not to seek fame and recognition for Valley, where the street address is One sure for them including trees and DEF CON gathering in Las Vegas. The to others to brand one a hacker — never your actions is heavily enforced,” Coleman Hacker Way. AFP a large rocky mound for climbing. “Our aim is to make their lives as natural as possible,” the head of the macaque section at the pri- vately-owned park, Craig Holmes, told the news conference. The 30 monkeys — 11 males Sheepdog nurses abandoned lion cub at Polish zoo and 19 females — have spent the past few weeks in quarantine WOJCIECHOW: A lion cub abandoned him, and a father who gave him one lick and And then she left.” him, licking him, nursing him. His brothers in a purpose-built holding area at birth by his parents has been cuddling then walked off. “Animals sometimes aban- Zerdzicki entrusted the black-spotted and sisters have also accepted him as one tucked away in a quiet corner of up to a shaggy-haired sheepdog and don their young, as do humans from time to cub to his pet dog Carmen, an Old English of their own.” Gibraltar’s nature reserve. mother-of-five at a private zoo in Poland. time,” zoo owner Krzysztof Zerdzicki said. Sheepdog that had just given birth to her But there are differences. More ravenous Local folklore has it that Parys was born last week at the small “When I picked up the little guy, the own litter of five a few days before. “She than the puppies, Parys has been getting Gibraltar would cease to be zoo in the eastern town of Wojciechow to a lioness came over to me and tapped me was surprised at first, but she took it well,” extra meals and will be put on a meat diet British if the monkeys were mother who showed no interest in nursing with her head as if to say, ‘take care of him’. Zerdzicki said. “She’s been taking care of next month. AFP to leave. AFP